#cipher language

[multiversetravelingjournalist]

Vyeshal Cryptolang String

I decided to make the Vyeshal cipher language from the Tooth and Tales game into an actual cryptolang string a la @cryptolangsguy.

AIEOAw#_EeOo_UAhYaw#_UhYe#_OyYoo#_ErAl#_AiYo#_AeYa#_GD_MV_FH_PB_RL#_WVw#_ZZh#_ThShCh{Zh}J{Y}Z#_IngEeng#_AwngOng#_UhngOong#

Additional Rules:

Add "ye" between certain translated consonant clusters (unspecified in the Reddit post) when they become difficult to pronounce.

Add "ye" to the end of word-final consonant clusters.

Insert between certain clusters of a consonant and when finding them difficult.

Exclude "the" and "a".

Replace "that" and "those" with "this" and "these". Due to the unfortunate translation of the former word.

Sample text:

Wee Ruhn this bizness! Vwoo loyen shes pezhyenoss!

The original Reddit post says that Vyeshal "replaces Phonemes" instead of letters. So, I try to keep the English source spelling as accurate to the pronunciation as possible.

Unfortunately, <oo> was used to transcribe /ʊ/ and /u/ with different transformations for each. So, I had <oo> represent /u/ and <u> /ʊ/. <a> was also used to transcribe /æ/ and /ɑ/ with one being the transformed and the other the result. I decided to transcribe them as <a> and <ah> respectively. Vyeshal also had <I> and <A> represent <ai> and <e> respectively. This felt confusing and made the string text confusing as to how they should be handled. Not to mention that it would mean writing capital vowels in the middle of words. So, I changed those to <ai> and <ae> respectively.

All in all, this was a fun exercise and I am thinking of expanding this project into other cryptolangs with, respectively, more alien twists on each one. Keep a look out for that.

With that said,

Zhengyek zah heel loogeeng!

[akubaras-gf-au-collection]

All about that hustle, baby.

Stan was a bit hesitant about exploiting Buck right away - It'd be one thing if he was just making a fool of himself... Not to mention he blames himself for ripping this poor, helpless, little alien out of his otherworldly home...

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[noxiousmelody]

“I love you” ASL billford comic !

happy national deaf awareness month!

You all are lovely little beans.

I will be spending the month trying to learn ASL myself. (I should have a long time ago)

If this is insensitive i apologize I just wanted to do a small little thing to contribute

[heshmmity]

i cant even fully explain how much i love bill and mabel's friendship. they paint their nails pink together. throwing sleepovers with candy and grenda, he is like a girl dad but uncle to all of the girls. (including pacifica, shes also a guest on parties when she isnt busy)

bill gives mabel dating tips (poorly. these tips suck.) and all these tips suck bc bill is a pathetic dude. he literally whines to mabel every time ford is busy with researches and ignores him for five minutes. mabel knitted like a million sweaters for him with personal designs (sooo much doritos jokes)

and they dont allow ford, stan or dipper on their sleepovers. bill teaches girls how to play all sorts of gamblings and at first he was like doing all sorts of giveaways to girls but then he realizes that he cant actually win them in damn poker. he lost a lot of sweets that day. sweets and dignity

i have so much headcanons for them helppppp

[bum-tan]

The reason Bill hates Stanley so much is because of how similar he is to Bill.

And yet, unlike him, Stan won. He got his good ending together with his live loved ones.

Even though Bill is so much greater than he will ever be. Why does Stanley, the liar, deadbeat, good for nothing, husk of his own self. Why does that pathetic miserable man has it all ?

But Bill has nothing.

It's not fair.

[elemain]

I don't have the imagination to make long and elaborate comics, so take these scenes:

Bill: Okay, secrets of the universe, how do you take care of a baby?

"AHORA TIENES BRAZOS!!!"

Typical Steve

Intentado vestir un triángulo chubby (el tema de su corbata y bombín lo veré mas adelante-)

Bill: Ohh, you're liking your new play ground now, heh?

(Quadrangle of Qonfusion from Journal 3)

Steve: Here I brought your king's cape, Bill

Bill: Perfect! That painting will look great!

-

Bueno, mi mente prefiere que Steve siga siendo un niño, asi que hasta ahí nos va el asunto familiar de Bill y Steve 🤷🏻‍♀️

Un "aprendiz" gratuito, adorable y casi obediente / A gratuitous, adorable, and almost obedient "apprentice"

Y una gran escusa para olvidar por un momento que mataste a toda tu familia y la del escuincle que estás cuidando / And a great excuse to forget for a moment that you killed your entire family and that of the kid you're babysitting

Bonus:

"Everything is going wonder"

[renae-the-turtle]

continuation of this

the boys (and Renet) have snuck in! and it seems they already know what shenanigans they're going to get up to!

@tmntaucompetition

[gnazche]

i made a baby bill phone charm

[dedalvs]

Hey! I'm David Peterson, and a few years ago, I wrote a book called Create Your Own Secret Language. It's a book that introduces middle grade readers to codes, ciphers, and elementary language creation. The age range is like 10-14, but skews a little bit older, as the work gets pretty complicated pretty quick. I think 12-13 is the best age range.

Anyway, I decided to look at the Amazon page for it a bit ago, and it's rated fairly well (4.5 at the moment), but there are some 1 star reviews, and I'm always curious about those. Usually they're way off, or thought the book was going to be something different (e.g. "This book doesn't teach you a thing about computer coding!"), but every so often there's some truth in there. (Oh, one not 1 star but lower rated review said they gave it to their 2nd grader, but they found it too complicated. I appreciate a review like that, because I am not at all surprised—I think it is too complicated for a 2nd grader—and I think a review like that is much more effective than a simple 10+ age range on the book.) The first 1 star rating I came to, though, was this:

Now calling a completely mild description of a teenage girl who has a crush on another girl controversial is something I take exception to, but I don't want to pile on this person. Instead I wanted to share how this section came to be in the book.

The book is essentially divided into four parts. The first three parts deal with different ciphers or codes that become more complicated, while the last part describes elementary language creation. The first three sections are each built around a message that the reader can decode, but with language creation, the possibilities are too numerous and too complicated, so there isn't an example to decode, or anything. It would've been too difficult.

For what the messages to decode are about, though, I could do, potentially, anything, so at first I thought to tie them into a world of anthropomorphic animals (an ongoing series of battles between cats and mice), with messages that are being intercepted and decoded. My editor rejected that. Then I redid it so that each section had an individual story that had to do with some famous work of literature. My editor rejected that as well. He explained that it needed to be something that was relevant to kids of the target age range. I was kind of at a loss, for a bit, but then I thought of a story of kids sending secret messages about their uncle who eats too many onions. I shared that, my editor loved it, and I was like, all right. I can do this.

The tough part for me in coming up with mini-stories to plan these coded messages around was coming up with a reason for them to be secret. That's the whole point of a code/cipher: A message you want to be sure no one else but the intended recipient can read in case the message is intercepted. With the first one, two kids are poking gentle fun at a family member, so they want to be sure no one else can read what they're writing. For the last one, a boy is confessing to a diary, because he feels bad that he allowed his cat to escape, but no one knows he did it (he does find the cat again). For the other, I was trying to think of plausible message-sending scenarios for a preteen/teen, and I thought of how we used to write notes in, honestly, 4th and 5th grade, but I aged it up a bit, and decided to have a story about a girl writing a note to her friend because she has a crush on another girl, and wants her friend's opinion/help.

Here's where the point of sharing this comes in. As I had originally written it, the girl's note to her friend was not just telling her friend about her crush, it was also a coming out note, and she was concerned what her parents would react poorly.

Anyway, I sent that off with the rest of my draft, and I got a bunch of comments back on the whole draft (as expected), but my editor also commented on that story, in particular. Specifically, he noted that not every LGBTQ+ story has to be a coming out story, the part about potential friction between her and her parents because of it was a little heavy for the book, and, in general, not every coming out story has to be traumatic.

That was all he said, but I immediately recognized the, in hindsight, obvious truth of all three points, and I was completely embarrassed. I changed it immediately, so that the story beats are that it's a crush, she's not sure if it'll be reciprocated, and she's also very busy with school and band and feels like this will be adding even more busy-ness to her daily life as a student/teen. Then I apologized for making such a blunder. My editor was very good about it—after all, that's what drafts and editors are for—and that was a relief, but I'm still embarrassed that I didn't think of it first.

But, of course, this is not my lived experience, not being a member of the LGBTQ+ community. This is the very reason why you have sensitivity readers—to provide a vantage point you're blind to. In this case, I was very fortunate to have an editor who was thinking ahead, and I'm very grateful that he was there to catch it. That editor, by the way, is Justin Krasner.

One reason I wanted to share this, though, is that while it always is a bit of a difficult thing to speak up, because there might be a negative reaction, sometimes there is no pushback at all. Indeed, sometimes the one being called out is grateful, because we all have blindspots due to our own lived experiences. You can't live every life. For that reason, your own experience will end up being valuable to someone at some point in time for no other reason than that you lived it and they didn't. And, by the by, this is also true for the present, because the lives we've lived cause us to see what's going on right before our eyes in different lights.

Anyway, this is a story that wouldn't have come out otherwise, so I wanted to be sure to let everyone know that Justin Krasner ensured that my book was a better book. An editor's job is often silent and thankless, so on Thanksgiving, I wanted to say thank you, Justin. <3

[elosiahq]

THE BOOK OF BILL (DECODED) (Spoilers) (P1)

First of all: here is your handy dandy substitution chart!

(Yes, I know. It is sadly UNFINISHED. You'll just have to wait until this gets updated!)

(I'll give candy to everyone who finds out what BILL CIPHER is saying.)

Second of all, a big thanks to my 3DS XL (Used as a paper-weight) and my FLASHLIGHT (I had to decode this thing in the dead of night.)

And now the thing you all came here for:

THE BOOK OF BILL DECODED!

OKAY, YOU CAUGHT ME! I DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW HOW TO SOLVE THIS. BUT ACCORDING TO THIS POST, IT SAYS BLACK AND WHITE. Their words, not mine.

Code(s) used: Runes (Left) and BILL 2.0 (Right)

O_af was here/ Praise the fallen angle

(no, that's not a typo.)

(Also, I'm just gonna ASSUME it says Olaf or something. Lmk if it's wrong and I'll change it)

Code(s) used: Fordese

Let him in and break the seal between

Code(s) used: Fordese

Whats fiction and whats real

(What's fiction and what's real)

Code(s) used: Fordese

Glutto_ Slotheny

(Not sure what that last symbol is tbh)

Code(s) used: Fordese

Paper is book skin

Code(s) used: Fordese

LOVE PAIN

Code(s) used: Fordese

LIES

(THAT'S SADLY IT FOR THIS POST SINCE I HAVE A 10 IMAGE LIMIT, BUT IF YOU WANT MORE, PART 2 IS HERE)

(If this was JUST posted, then part 2 is not out yet and 3DS XL and I are still working on it!)

If you want something to work on while I decode the rest of this book, LOOK AT THIS POST!

IDK, GO FIGURE IT OUT YOU BRAINIAC!

Seriously! Help another flesh bag out! We're supposed to work together, you know!

You can even use THIS playlist to "LOCK IN," as the younger ones say.

[arrimorr]

This is it I wrote a billford fanfic. Have a read before they take me to a mental asylum!

Description: Bill Cipher, stuck in a time loop that restarts every time his portal plan fails. Probably.

Word count: 7,597

[ckret2]

Obsessively studying your recently-resurrected arch-nemesis isn't, like, any kind of mental health red flag, is it? Like that's probably fine right?

[1v31182m5]

[fynori]

crazy? i was crazy once. they locked me in a room with chapter 30 of monkey wrench.

[bum-tan]

Okay, but hear me out.

An alternative universe where Bill discovers that someone broke the shaman's curse and has the ability to make a portal for his plans. So he goes on earth to find said person (only knowing their face), and he somehow mistakes Stan for Ford.

But wait ! There's more. He manages to enter the dimension, but unfortunately, his powers couldn't transition with him, so he is just a normal triangle who can occasionally float now.

At first, he tries to trick Stan to make a deal with him using his usual tactics, but you can't con a conman, so Stan is completely unaffected to Bill's utter dismay.

Therefore, in a desperate attempt to somehow convince Stan to make the portal for him and having no other choice if he wants to regain his powers, Bill stays with him.

Shenanigans ensues, and they end up going on adventures together. Slowly starting to get along well with each other due to their similarities.

What started off as dislike of Stan's guts on Bill's end because how could a pathetic human be this infuriating ? And annoyance on Stan's end who didn't care much about this weird one-eyed triangle, turned to tolerance, then mutual understanding and bonding.

They develop a sort of friendship to the point where Bill even grows attached to Stan only to later realise the one he was looking for was actually his twin brother, Ford.

[fearoftriangles]

@itwouldeatyoualive per your request-

This is the Spanish version of the karaoke night page! Not much is different, but I find it really funny that Ford's writing is actually readable here. he was fuckin GONEEE in the English version 💀

Translation:

"I probably shouldn't be writing this, but I had a very weird? Well, it was a night! And now it's day? Cill Bipher. He did a dream? Karaoke? And afterwards one thing led to another, and normally I try to be sober, but...he mixed a dream drink and??? I should say it. I just should say it. Look it's just me and my journal here. I should say: this guy, Bill, he really has it all figured out. Also the rats were his idea? I get it now. I'm gonna, we're gonna, what times. What a hangover. I'm gonna sleep. All day. Ad aspera aspirin

- Stranfrord Pi"