#endangered language archiving

[amanufacturedheaven]

Rare Language Learning: Polari

If you have ever used the words:

- Naff

- Butch

- Camp

You have unknowingly been speaking the sociolect known as Polari, the language of queer people primarily used in the 30s to the 70s. Polari is now an endangered language, as labelled by the University of Cambridge

Something of note: Many resources out there imply (or state) that Polari was a language invented and used solely by white cis gay men, which is decidedly untrue. Many words of Polari come from drag culture, lesbians, and the Romani people and their language. The use of ‘the language of British gay men’ may be a more palatable title to the general public, but it is not to me. I did my best to curate a variety of resources, but unfortunately much of queer history has been lost many more decades than I’ve been alive, if you have any other resources for studying Polari I would love to read them, message me or leave a link in the replies.

Articles

Learn Polari, the Secret Language of the Gays ⚢ Out Magazine

Polari: The code language gay men used to survive ⚢ BBC

Polari and the Hidden History of Gay Seafarers ⚢ National Museums Liverpool

The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language ⚢ Fabulosa!

Polari People ⚢ Fabulosa!

Polari: a language born from prejudice ⚢ Englishpanish

The secretive gay language that gave LGBTQ people a voice ⚢ GAYTIMES

A brief history of Polari: the curious after-life of the dead language for gay men ⚢ The Conversation

Study Material

The Polari Bible ⚢ Internet Archive

Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang ⚢ Internet Archive

Sociolinguistics / Polari ⚢ StudySmarter

FlashCards ⚢ Quizlet

New Polari Translator ⚢ LingoJam

Polari: A sociohistorical study of the life and decline of a secret language. ⚢ Dissertation, University of Manchester

Polari: a language born from prejudice ⚢ Englishpanish

Simon Bowkett: a short blog in Polari for LGBT+ History Month ⚢ Civil Service LGBT+ Network

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Around 10 years ago, a linguist with experience in Haudenosaunee languages, Karin Michelson, was invited by three Oneida women to assist them in going through the archives of one of the world’s best-known museums. The Oneida women went to the Smithsonian Institution as part of a program known as Breath of Life, which enables Onkwehón:we to bring linguistic works back to their home communities. Michelson, who co-authored a dictionary for the severely endangered Oneida language, came along to help them sift through the archives. She first forged connections with the Oneida when she was at the Centre for Research and Teaching of Native Languages at the University of Western Ontario. “I think I would not have stayed in school if I had not met some of the people I got to work with,” she said. She went on to teach at Harvard before finally settling into a role at the University of Buffalo. But Michelson, a non-Indigenous woman who grew up in Chateauguay in the 1950s and 60s, encountered something else in the Smithsonian’s archives that caught her interest and surprised her – an unpublished manuscript called Notes to a Mohawk Dictionary.

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[gothhabiba]

For centuries, scholars’ understanding of sub-Saharan Africa derived from the written records of European colonialists, who gave the impression that sub-Saharan Africans had no native written languages of their own. In fact, says Fallou Ngom, who grew up in Senegal, people in sub-Saharan Africa have used a written system derived from Arabic to record the details of their daily lives since at least the 10th century.

That script, Ajami, is still flourishing; people throughout Africa use it to write phonetic renderings of about a dozen languages, including Swahili, Wolof, and Hausa. But because texts written in Ajami are often passed down through families where they can be lost over generations, many are inaccessible to scholars, few of whom can read the script anyway. Those who know about Ajami texts often dismiss them as mundane, with little scholarly value. Ngom, director of Boston University’s African Studies Center, disagrees. He is digitizing more than 18,000 of these indigenous texts—including those in Ajami, Arabic, and Ajami-Arabic—and making them widely available to offer scholars new insight into African history, literature, culture, medicine, and everyday life.

The BU College of Arts & Sciences professor of anthropology partnered with the West African Research Center in Dakar, Senegal, on a 15-month project funded by the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme. Ngom gained access to the documents through an elder in the Casamance region of Senegal who helped him compile a list of locals with Ajami manuscripts. The elder made introductions and facilitated approvals for the research team.

[ID: a page of Ajami handwritten text above a large red and black geometric decoration. The text, which is written with full diacritics, looks like classical Arabic script with several extra or different letterforms and diacritics. End ID]

“It’s human knowledge,” Ngom says. “It’s everything. And it’s a grassroots tradition. They’re handwriting these materials, making copies, and sharing them in the community. In many cases, this is the only form of literacy they have. So that’s what they use to document their lives.” The texts reveal “the interests of these people, their preoccupations.”

These everyday interests and writings expand scholars’ comprehension of the region’s people beyond the history and traditions emphasized in postcolonial literature, which Ngom says gave “the false impression that only oral traditions exist in sub-Saharan Africa.” In Senegal, the official language is French, in which only half of the population is literate; French literacy is restricted to a minority educated group in urban areas. The absence of Ajami in the history of sub-Saharan Africa “makes invisible centuries-old traditions of producing knowledge.”

Lara Ehrlich, "Digitizing Ajami, a Centuries-Old African Script." The Brink. 2020.

[linguisticdiscovery]

A digital archive for Cherokee

A digital language archive that’s been successful in the Pacific called PARADISEC is now serving as a model for Cherokee language revitalization. The tribe plans to record every current Cherokee speaker!

You can explore the PARADISEC archive here:

(Want to learn more about the world’s languages? You’re in the right place! Hit Follow for more!)

[flockofdoves]

help. one of the internships that most has anything to do with my dream future job (archives internship where youre actually doing archival processing AND its an endangered languages archive that prefers a linguistics background and doesnt require or even prefer currently being enrolled in a MLIS program!!) also randomly involves having to be a moderator of a forum and bring engagement to that forum. thats way more tolerable than any other internship also requiring doing social media marketing so whatever. but since part of what theyre looking for in the job description is explicitly ‘experience as an online group moderator’ how the fuck do i put my genuine experience with that in large online groups without being willing or able to give any evidence of that because its all of the social media pages of local/student communist organizations and long dead and deactivated stupid leftbook groups….

[dhr-ao3]

Stand Down

Stand Down https://ift.tt/0emDZUL by PollyFairy123 Six years after retreating from the wizarding world in the wake of the war, Hermione Granger makes the bold decision to return, accepting a challenging new role as an Auror. Unbeknownst to her, this choice thrusts her into a partnership with Draco Malfoy—the last person she expected to see again, especially given their last encounter during the chaos of the Battle of Hogwarts. As Hermione and Draco plunge into their high-stakes case alongside their team of fellow ex-schoolmates, they find themselves ensnared in a web of deception and betrayal. Those they once considered allies emerge as the very threats endangering their safety, as the case becomes increasingly personal. With danger closing in and trust in short supply, their partnership becomes their only hope for survival and success, building the very foundations for something more to blossom. Words: 2073, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling, Harry Potter - Fandom Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/M Characters: Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, Narcissa Black Malfoy, Harry Potter, Ginny Weasley, Ron Weasley, Blaise Zabini, Theodore Nott, Pansy Parkinson, Astoria Greengrass, Daphne Greengrass, Lucius Malfoy Relationships: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fluff and Angst, Aurors, Auror Harry Potter, Auror Draco Malfoy, Auror Hermione Granger, Auror Blaise Zabini, Slow Burn, Enemies to Lovers, Ex-Death Eater Draco Malfoy, Neo-Death Eaters (Harry Potter), Co-workers, other minor relationships - Freeform, Aurors are trying to solve a case, Everyone needs a little healing, mildly heavy themes, Draco Malfoy Needs a Hug, Hermione Granger Also Needs a Hug, Everyone Needs A Hug, Head Auror Harry Potter, Fluff, Draco Malfoy & Harry Potter Friendship via AO3 works tagged 'Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy' https://ift.tt/rGybIKP August 29, 2024 at 02:51AM

[ao3feed-spirk]

the fine print and other things james t. kirk doesn't read

read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/53042665 by onlyafterhours After the destruction of Vulcan, many members of the endangered species are left without bondmates. To prevent any further unnecessary deaths, a program is set up to match volunteers with Vulcans entering pon farr alone. It’s a simple contract: complete a mental compatibility exam, and when a Vulcan enters pon farr with a high enough compatibility score, you drop everything to spend a night on New Vulcan, then go your separate ways. There are definitely no weird ancient bonds in play that can get you accidentally-Vulcan-married to that person. …Right? Words: 2427, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: James T. Kirk, Spock (Star Trek), Leonard "Bones" McCoy, Christopher Pike Relationships: James T. Kirk/Spock Additional Tags: Trans James T. Kirk, Bottom James T. Kirk, Top Spock (Star Trek), Possessive Spock (Star Trek), Rough Sex, Pon Farr (Star Trek), Accidental Bonding, Cadet James T. Kirk, Professor Spock (Star Trek) read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/53042665

[edithhaimbergernotebook]

Tibetan Uprising Day 2024 and a Half-Forgotten Human Rights Disaster

Protesters on Tibetan Uprising Day at Pariser Platz. Berlin, March 10, 2024. Photograph by me (Edith Haimberger). All rights reserved.

"Tibetans inside Tibet: We are with you!"

— sign at Berlin protest on March 10, 2024

The red, yellow and blue colours of Tibet's flag flew across the Pariser Platz square behind Brandenburg Gate on Sunday as some 80 protesters gathered for Tibetan Uprising Day.

Reeducation camps for Uyghur Muslims in China, more rarely developments in Hong Kong, and controversies around the Dalai Lama who is the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, may dominate international news headlines.

But the plight of inhabitants in the Tibetan region that the protestors portrayed in signs, speeches, and information panels yesterday is no longer common knowledge.

A youngish man in jeans and a puffer jacket, who was walking across the square on Sunday, asked the police officer beside him who had mentioned Tibet, "Was ist das?" ('What is it?') The police officer, at least, knew the answer.

Miniature History In 1950 the Chinese People's Liberation Army invaded the remote region bordering Nepal. Ever since then, the autonomy or even the independence of Tibet has been hotly disputed, as well as the measures through which the ruling Chinese Communist Party governs the country. Tibetan Uprising Day marks the anniversary of a revolt in 1959.

Image: "Tibetexpedition, Kloster in Samada." (Tibet Expedition, Convent [or Monastery] in Samada.) Photo taken by Ernst Krause in 1938. Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by the German Federal Archives.

'Many of us standing here today,' a speaker wearing traditional embroidered clothing told the crowd in Berlin, 'have never been in Tibet.'

Instead the protesters on Sunday were often exiles, many second-generation.

Their relatives in Tibet face systematic repression.

"Menschenrechte für Tibet" "Freiheit für Tibet"

— 'Human rights for Tibet' and 'Freedom for Tibet.' Signs at the Berlin protest on March 10, 2024.

The Berlin speakers accused the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of cultural genocide. Children as young as 5 years old are sent to residential boarding schools where they are educated as Chinese, while Tibetan language and culture are forbidden.

Monasteries and convents that were destroyed in the mid-20th century and only partly rebuilt in the 1980s remain vulnerable.

The Chinese government has been building massive hydroelectric dams in Tibet. Permission from Tibetans is not asked, a reporter from Tibet.tv said at the protest in Berlin. Instead, entire villages and monasteries, dating back even to the times where Europe was in the Middle Ages, are destroyed.

Local Tibetans who protest mega-dam projects are arrested and, at times, beaten.

A-Nya Sengdra, a nomad in Qinghai province, is in the middle of a 7-year prison sentence on charges like 'provoking trouble.' In a 2020 press release from the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, experts say that he had been active for example against "illegal hunting and poaching of endangered animals."

As his prison sentence continues, friends are worried for his health.

Outside Tibet, in his Indian exile of Dharamshala, the Dalai Lama has also spoken enigmatically about his successor as spiritual leader. He is 88 years old. The reincarnation of the Dalai Lama has a spiritual dimension for Tibetan Buddhists, but the Chinese Communist Party — a secular body —wants the next Dalai Lama to be approved by them first.

But, also explaining why Tibet is seldom in news headlines, it is difficult to obtain information from within the region. Writing for the Human Rights Watch website in 2022, an expert spoke of

draconian controls on the flow of information between Tibet and the outside world *

The Heyday of International Awareness of Tibet In the 1980s and 90s and early 2000s, Tibet was a cause célèbre. Actress Sharon Stone and actor Richard Gere, who are Tibetan Buddhist, spoke out in favour of its independence. The Tibet-inspired American fantasy film The Golden Child (1986) earned $149.4 million at the box office. In 1997, two films followed: Kundun, directed by Martin Scorsese, and Seven Years in Tibet . When this reporter arrived in Germany in 2006, a string of Tibetan prayer flags crossed above a neighbourhood street. Tourists were drawn to Tibet — this has not changed: it is estimated that 15 million of them visited in 2015. But Tibet was not just famous in cultural spheres. In 1989, the Dalai Lama won the Nobel Prize for Peace.

*

Tenuous links exist between Tibetans in countries like Germany and Tibetans in the Tibetan Autonomous Region. But the CCP's surveillance extends beyond international borders. Telephone calls may be monitored, participation in protests by Tibetans in exile become a problem for relatives.

Young women at the Tibetan protest in Berlin, Germany, speak out against the Chinese Communist Party's gathering of DNA as part of a surveillance programme. Photograph taken by me (Edith Haimberger), on Sunday, March 10, 2024. All rights reserved.

Surveillance within Tibet is so severe that human rights organizations and activists reported in 2022 that the CCP are gathering DNA on a large scale — of hundreds of thousands of people, including schoolchildren — to track dissidents.

*

The Tibet Initiative Deutschland and the Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker, two non-governmental groups, co-organized the Berlin protest on March 10.

The Gesellschaft noted on their social media that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will travel to China in April.

In Tibetan communities in the country and abroad there are conflicting opinions on how to resist the Chinese Communist Party. Peacefully, through classic forms of protest? Through self-immolation?

"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

— Quoted during the March 10 protest. From Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963) [Wikiquote]

A speaker from the Tibet Initiative Deutschland described his group's campaign to persuade municipalities across Germany to raise the flag of Tibet over their town halls for Tibetan Uprising Day in solidarity. Over 400, he said, had agreed.

Efforts at the federal level by the German chancellor, foreign minister, and others on behalf of minorities' civil and political rights, however, are apparently often undermined by German corporations.

A representative of the Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker told the crowd in front of the German Foreign Ministry yesterday:

Corporations doing business within China — the German foreign ministry reports in its China-Strategie publication that there are 5,000 of these — lobby for silence, fearing financial losses.

[ao3feed-sambucky]

Kindergarten Tracker

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/KzeZFdm by SunsetMaiden “Are you mad at me, Mr. Wilson?” Judging by the way Jay’s voice broke, it was the worst possible outcome in the world. Bucky could suddenly relate, the thought of facing disappointment in the man’s umber colored eyes making his stomach clench. What the hell?! “Nah, you know we’re cool,” he answered, suddenly shifting as if feeling the attention. He glanced up and around, locking eyes with Bucky when he settled on the source. One side of his mouth quirked up in a tentative smile as his warm gaze shifted across Bucky’s face. Bucky sucked in a breath, completely floored at what felt like a defining moment. One he couldn’t explain. Didn’t understand. But still felt a little life changing. He probably just needed to get laid. It’d been a damned long time, after all. What else could explain the instantaneous connection he felt with this pretty, bright-eyed man? Or: A Kindergarten Cop/Tracker mash-up AU where rewardist Bucky crosses paths with teacher Sam, while on the hunt for an endangered woman and child. Words: 3376, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Series: Part 4 of SamBucky at the Movies Fandoms: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/F, M/M Characters: Sam Wilson (Marvel), James "Bucky" Barnes, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Sharon Carter (Marvel), Brock Rumlow, Nick Fury, Maria Rambeau Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson, James "Bucky" Barnes & Natasha Romanov, Sharon Carter/Natasha Romanov Additional Tags: Getting Together, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Alternate Universe - Teachers, Teacher Sam Wilson (Marvel), Rewardist Bucky Barnes, Tracker AU, Not Beta Read, Good Cat Alpine (Marvel), Based on movie Kindergarten Cop, kindergarten cop au, Alpine the Cat, Mutual Pining, Fluff and Angst, Secret Identity, younger MCU characters making cameos as cute little kids, MJ Peter Ned Kate Tyrone and Tandy to name a few, Past Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Domestic Violence, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, last two tags is briefly referenced and does not involve main characters, Minor Violence, Not Brock Rumlow Friendly, like at all, Other Additional Tags to Be Added read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/KzeZFdm

[philosopherking1887]

I initially put the following in a reblog comment on this post by @arabriddler, but I'm putting it in its own post because I wanted to add something but don't want to keep derailing that post, which was making a different point. Here's what that post said:

The way Ed’s sin is Pride and Oswald’s sin is gluttony, and the way Gluttony will always feed on The Other and Pride will always starve The Other, and for them to exist in the same space they have to feed and starve each other at the same time.

(This idea is discussed in their fic Philophobia, which I have been enjoying greatly.)

And then here's my comment:

I'm not sure whether Ed's sin (or vice, in less religious language) is Pride or Vanity -- a difference I think we don't recognize enough these days. The difference is in whether your feeling of self-worth depends heavily on being recognized and praised by others (Vanity) or not that much (Pride). Both Ed and Oswald believe in their own greatness, at least to some extent, even when it isn't recognized by others, and both are bothered by the lack of recognition. But I think Ed is a better candidate for Vanity and Oswald for Pride (in addition to Gluttony -- for money, power, and material luxuries) because Ed seems to crave attention for its own sake, while Oswald only wants certain kinds of attention, from specific people, and/or for specific purposes.

1. Oswald is showy when he needs to be, to demonstrate that he's someone to be reckoned with, but is also happy to operate covertly when that better suits his purpose. For Ed, the show IS the point, and he'll sometimes endanger or undermine his other goals for the sake of making a particular kind of show. Oswald, of course, also sometimes undermines his own long-term goals, but usually to satisfy a momentary emotional impulse.

2. Ed enjoys receiving praise from people in a position of authority, even if he considers himself superior to them (at least in intellect). He doesn't mind being in a subordinate position, serving someone else's aims, as long as he receives regular recognition and praise for his skill and usefulness (from Essen or Gordon in s1-2, Strange in late s2, Oswald in s2 and early s3, Lee in s4, or Lucius in s5). Oswald, by contrast, resents being treated as subordinate in any way, including being praised for his usefulness by Fish, Maroni, or Falcone in s1. Not all recognition is good, as far as he's concerned; he mostly wants recognition, in the form of respect or fear, as a sign of or a means to power. He also wants love from certain people; in s1 he does seem to want the kind of praise for usefulness that might reflect a subordinate position from Gordon specifically, which suggests that he regards that relationship as more than just a means to his own advantage.

What I wanted to add, because thinking about Oswald as Pride and Ed as Vanity really reminded me of it, was a link to this fic:

Here's an excerpt that sums up the basic thesis of the fic:

Ed wears layers, sure, but beneath them, he’s less of a person and more like a living reflection. Terrified of his own inconsistency. Fluid, yet in danger of shattering. And hellbent on glinting back at whatever faces him.  Over and over, Oswald finds pieces of this shimmer in Ed, and is more captivated by it as time goes by. Attracted to it, almost, in a delicately odd way. How Ed slithers out of the world’s grasp, even seems to slither out of his own grasp as he pours himself into the mould of the day, reluctant to stay in one shape for too long, too uncertain of his own identity to construct a permanent home and yet beautifully talented at building temporary shelters out of what he aspires to be at any given time. It’s a struggle Oswald has never experienced (–Oswald struggles more with the opposite, already knowing precisely who he is and where his beastly heart lies, being despised for it, and turning that shame inwards on himself–), so it’s a bit of a sad privilege to see Ed twist into so many forms, stolen and borrowed and handmade, just hoping to represent something worthy. Hoping to cast it out into the world and make it true, convincing everyone else of what he is as a detour to finally convincing himself.

The rest of the fic is just as gorgeous and insightful (and so is the rest of the author's work; all Gotham Riddlebird shippers should read all of it). It so beautifully captures the difference between Oswald's "vicious self-sufficiency" and Ed's existential need for an image to project and an audience to project it to -- made most starkly apparent in the fact that his Riddler aspect at first only appears as a reflection in mirrors. Ed is someone who exists only in being perceived, a reflection who desperately wants to be a real boy, while Oswald has more reality, more being, than he knows what to do with. That can be a beneficial symbiotic relationship if Oswald gives Ed enough attention, praise, and opportunities to shine, but it can also become a problem if Ed feels like he's hidden in Oswald's shadow... or if one of them is taking advantage of the other to get what he needs without giving enough in return.

There's another fic by that same author that illustrates a point similar to @arabriddler's about Vanity and Gluttony with heartbreaking incisiveness:

Summary: Ed craves the feeling of being needed, of being valued, more than anything. Only Oswald can give that to him.

And here's an excerpt:

He’s stuck on the way Oswald’s love feels: overwhelming, suffocating, and somehow complete despite all its missing parts. Their arrangement feels less like sex and more like holding each other underwater, spurring each other on because it’s the only way to feel what they want to feel. Ed is not quite ashamed of all this, but he’s not proud either. His idealised self wouldn’t be reaching for Oswald over and over just to feel whole, to add more fuel to his obsessive fantasies because he can’t even touch himself anymore without a fresh imprint of Oswald in his mind. He can’t feel good unless he feels wanted, and no one in the world pines for him like Oswald. No one ever could.  When it comes to their relationship, Oswald’s motivations are reassuringly transparent. He cares for Ed to the point of pain. He’s in love. Ed is unconcerned with love. All he really wants is to feel... The heat of Oswald’s gaze and the spark in his eyes that means he sees Ed, really sees him down to his core; the soft-hard press of his body against Ed’s own when Ed seeks him out and pleads to be held; the scratch of Oswald’s fingernails clasping like he’s clinging onto treasure.

Oswald's love seeks to devour Ed, but Ed feeds on the hunger itself and can't provide anything to satisfy it. It's not only that no one wants or needs Ed the way Oswald does; Oswald himself is a being made of want and need -- no one can want or need anything with as much heat and intensity as he does, so being wanted and needed by someone like that is irresistible to someone like Ed. Oswald is like a massive star with a gravity well that draws in everything around it, and Ed is a shiny planet that orbits to reflect its light but won't let itself be drawn in and absorbed.

[ao3feed-itafushi]

Lonely Path

by mayanaise111 “With great power comes great responsibility” the last words his grandfather whispered on his deathbed still haunted him. It’s been years since the old man passed away, leaving Yuji alone with a promise to keep. His grandfather was the only person who knew his secret. In that moment, Yuji vowed never to reveal his true identity to anyone else, to never endanger anyone again. Words: 2014, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Characters: Itadori Yuuji, Fushiguro Megumi Relationships: Fushiguro Megumi/Itadori Yuuji, Fushiguro Megumi & Itadori Yuuji Additional Tags: Fluff, Eventual Fluff, Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, Light Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Itadori Yuuji is Not Sukuna | Ryoumen Sukuna's Vessel, Fluff and Angst, yuuji itadori is a spiderman, Spiderman AU, Alternate Universe - College/University, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, MJ-Megumi, Barista Fushiguro Megumi from AO3 works tagged 'Fushiguro Megumi/Itadori Yuuji' https://ift.tt/MHtpDal

[ao3feed-dadzawa]

Move Softly and Lay upon the Shore

Move Softly and Lay Upon the Shore by ethereal catharsis

Hizashi carefully gripped the rocks around himself, working on climbing his way down them, and when the boy in the tide pool below him curled back his upper lip and hissed, a long, scaly green tail raising out of the water threateningly, he realized he may have misread the situation. Or… In a world where merfolk are more of an endangered species (if they even still exist at all), Hizashi rescues a merboy named Izuku, and falls into an unlikely friendship. It's all fine and fun until a merman a lot scarier than the kid shows up, demanding to know the human's intentions. If only Hizashi could stop staring at the merman's luscious black hair and toned chest long enough to take his threats seriously.

…this is merman erasermic, heavy on the dadmic and dadzawa.

Words: 4554, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Midoriya Izuku, Other Character Tags to Be Added

Relationships: Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead/Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Midoriya Izuku & Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead & Midoriya Izuku

Additional Tags: Merpeople, Merman Aizawa Shouta | EraserHead, Merman Midoriya Izuku, Protective Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Parental Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Parental Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead | Dadzawa, Quirkless Midoriya Izuku, Found Family, Getting Together, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead Adopts Midoriya Izuku, Cute Midoriya Izuku, Domestic, Fantasy, Fluff, baby's first not-angst fic

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/47807323

[gothhabiba]

While it is true Latin-based orthographies predominate in writing African languages, those scripts that originated in Africa are a matter of special pride that Latin-based or Arabic-based scripts do not [carry].

The N’Ko script, for example, was devised by Solomana Kante in 1949. It is used for the Mande group of languages in West Africa, has spread beyond Guinea and Ivory Coast into the surrounding countries of Mali, Senegal, Liberia, Burkina Faso, and Sierra Leone (Tuchscherer 2007 and Doumbouya, p.c.). Many publications, including newspapers and books[,] have been published in N’Ko, and continue to [be published]. An expatriate in Philadelphia has driven the effort to get N’Ko into Unicode and, more recently, to get rendering engine support for N’Ko.

It is possible that other non-Latin scripts might also become more widely used, like N’Ko has done. The Bamum script in Cameroon, for example, is currently deemed an “endangered” script: there is only one user for whom it is the only means of writing, though the script appears in art and signs. Still, the script represents a powerful symbol of the Bamum cultural achievement – the creation of an original script[ –] though it is true few people actually can read it. Nevertheless, it is undergoing a revival effort (with support from Bamum Scripts and Archives Project), with teaching of the script continuing. It is hoped the script’s use may become more widespread. This may be the case for other non-Latin (/Arabic) scripts as well.

[...] Five “new” African scripts have appeared over the past 9 years. Unicode 3.0 had Ethiopic (with additional extensions in 4.1), 4.0 had Osmanya, 4.1 had Tifinagh, 5.0 had N’Ko and 5.1 included Vai. A quick survey finds Unicode fonts available for all of these, though Vai is still only included in a few fonts (James Kass’ Code2000 and one by Jason Glavy). However, font availability does not give the full picture of the situation for level of support for these scripts.

[...] Of all the five newly approved African scripts, only N’Ko is right-to-left, and this has been the source of problems. This is particularly unfortunate, given that “the production of published literature in N’Ko probably exceeds the published literature in all the other West African scripts combined” (Tuchscherer 2007). N’Ko has suffered because it is not currently supported in Vista’s Uniscribe rendering engine, and Windows is the predominant platform used by the N’Ko community. An alternative to Uniscribe, SIL’s Graphite rendering engine, has been used in the meantime. Unfortunately, there have been several difficulties in getting Graphite to handle right-to-left correctly, but most problems have finally been rectified. Now I am told that the latest version of OpenOffice using Graphite still has poor letter and accent alignment for N’Ko; a new version of Graphite in OpenOffice, currently being beta-tested, will hopefully solve the outstanding issues.

[...] The case of N’Ko is emblematic of some problems faced by minority groups, who don’t have the economic or business pull to get software support for their script. Still, I hope that in the near future N’Ko will finally be included in Uniscribe.

Shigeaki KODAMA, a researcher at Nagaoka University of Technology in Japan (working with the Language Observatory Project), surveyed 48 country code top-level domains, and discovered that webpages containing only African languages numbered only 2.3% of the total webpages in 2006, and in a smaller sampling in 2007, only 1.2%. (KODAMA forthcoming). While the African languages are scarce in webpages, the colonial languages, such as English and French, predominate: they make up about 70 – 77% of the webpages in Africa.

According to a paper by a RIFAL study on African webpages published in 20036, African languages are found on the Web more as topics of study than as the means of communication; English predominates – even in Francophone areas [–] as the language of communication; African language courses are rare on the Web (Fantognan 2005).

Though the World Summit on Information Society’s “Plan of Action” document, created in Geneva in 2003, repeated the need to develop local content, particularly in indigenous languages, it is clear that the development of local content on the Web in African languages is still in its infancy. The goal of preserving the world’s cultural and linguistic diversity on the Web and elsewhere has still a long way to go.

Deborah Anderson, "Report to JTC 1 Chair and JTC 1/SC 2 Chair Regarding Resolution 34 on African Languages," 2009. Unicode document L2/09-285.

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Lights Camera Action!

Lights, Camera, Action! Link to fic: https://ift.tt/VXoTrNU by SilverHypnos An alternate universe where Hunter x Hunter is actually a reality TV show in the Hunter world. All of the "characters" are either strongly or loosely based on their "actors" just with a different backstory and slightly altered personality for the sake of the plot. This fic primarily focuses on Kurapika, a guy from an endangered clan who was offered this job and is struggling to connect with the other actors. Words: 2199, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Hunter X Hunter Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Kurapika (Hunter X Hunter), Leorio Paladiknight, Kuroro Lucifer | Chrollo Lucifer, Pakunoda (Hunter X Hunter), Shalnark (Hunter X Hunter), Gon Freecs, Killua Zoldyck Relationships: Kurapika/Leorio Paladiknight, Kurapika & Leorio Paladiknight Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Hollywood, Alternate Universe - Reality Show, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Friendship, Friends to Lovers, if you squint real hard your rarepair might be in the background somewhere, No Beta we die like Ging's fatherly responsibilities via AO3 works tagged 'Kurapika/Leorio Paladiknight' https://ift.tt/lr1XSu5 June 30, 2024 at 06:09PM

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The Nature of Kings

by SunridersDestiny The Cult of Infinite Death seeks to summon the Ghost King to the mortal plane, endangering everyone's lives! Constantine scrambles the Justice League and it's all hands on deck to stop the cult before they can summon the god that even Death bows to. Except this god is a kid. A teenage ghost who seems just as scared of them as they are of him. What are they supposed to do with that? Words: 1906, Chapters: 1/14, Language: English Fandoms: Danny Phantom, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types, Constantine (Comics), Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Characters: Danny Fenton, Jack Fenton (Danny Phantom), Maddie Fenton, Bruce Wayne, Billy Batson, Tim Drake, Jason Todd, Sam Manson, Jazz Fenton, Tucker Foley, Box Ghost (Danny Phantom), John Constantine, Barry Allen, John Stewart (DCU), J'onn J'onzz, Zatanna Zatara, Clark Kent, Ra's al Ghul, Dick Grayson, Damian Wayne, Frostbite (Danny Phantom), Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain, Barbara Gordon Relationships: Tim Drake/Danny Fenton Additional Tags: Ghost King Danny Fenton, He's NOT Eldritch, Baby God, Vlad Masters mentioned, Bad Parents Jack and Maddie Fenton, Guys in White | GIW Organization (Danny Phantom), Guys in White | GIW Being Assholes (Danny Phantom), Swearing, Cults, Danny Fenton's Ghost Obsession is Space, Blood and Injury, Also Ghost Blood, Summoning Circles, Bruce is an okay dad, Code Robin, Lazarus Pits are Ectoplasm (Danny Phantom and DCU), The League of Assassins (DCU), Not Phantom Planet Compliant (Danny Phantom) via https://ift.tt/Jyt0Tzv

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figure this blog could use a pinned post now

[There's a chance I follow you if you follow me, but it'd be under my main username: @underestimated-heroine]

pfp is some of Mashima's official art of Lucy Heartfilia.

***How to find any post on Tumblr via tags (requires desktop, handy to have in the Fairy Tail fandom imo)***

***Incomplete, informal FT fanfic rec list, and here's another***

***If you make Fairy Tail fan art, here's a reminder that you can tag ft-reboost to get your art more reblogs (they want you to!)***

-i block art reposters and anyone who reblogs them too often to be a mistake. period.

-on why we don't link our kofis etc. specifically on AO3 (idgaf if you make money off fanfic. in fact, have at it...just don't link ur Kofi or PayPal or anything on AO3 because it endangers the archive.)

-This blog is firmly anti-censorship and anti-harassment. This includes being against anyone who throws around words like "romanticize" and "normalize" or "don't like don't read EXCEPT [ship type/sex-related thing you've decided doesn't count as fiction]." I am also defending stuff I personally wouldn't read with this statement. (My own words & more on this, non-graphic cw/tw for basically all the depraved content this discussion entails.)

*tbc I don't like to make DNI's Like This, but due to some personal life experiences, a harassment campaign I went through once upon a time over a (not even sexual) fic I wrote, and some troubling trends and language I now see in this fandom, I feel the need to be clear and also show some solidarity with darkfic writers and enjoyers.

MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY OF THIS THOUGH.

My Writing

*have never opened up my inbox for fic recs. might someday, if anyone's even really interested, but not right now*

-(Mis)Communication: Gajevy week prompt I wrote f o r e v e r ago, it feels like! AO3 Rating M. Basically Levy misses Gajeel on a girls vacation with Lucy, Juvia, and Cana & tries to sext him. shenanigans ensue.

-Chasing Tails: scrungled-ass Next Gen fic. AO3 Rating E. Premise is that the NaLu child, Nashi, wound up on Our Earth as a child then forgot her family, Fairy Tail, and Earth Land by the time she was 17. Then Natsu finally finds her. Lots of the original beloved FT characters are missing in the beginning and there's a mystery as to why that is. Believe it or not, this fic is supposed to be more humor than anything, at least to my heart. Updates are going slow right now but I'm getting better chapter by chapter, and I'm determined to finish.

-Ice and Igni: feral baby mammoth next gen fic based on the Stone Age Omake, which fascinates me. AO3 Rating M. premise is Greige & Nasha "discovering each other" sort of like Natsu and Lucy did, with the necessary premise feature that the male and female tribes were separated long ago under mysterious circumstances (why do i love doing this?)

-Reminiscing on the Hard Road: a Gruvia one-shot where I basically give one version of events that might have led to Juvia and Gray getting together through memories. Couple-angsty, breakup & makeup fic with a happy ending.

-Series I did for Nalu Week 2024 (AO3 Link). Day 1: Cuddling/Nightmare - "Princes to Dragons" (Link for on here). [This is still coming out 😬]

There are others, but i don't feel they're worth mentioning. if you're intensely curious you can find them on ffnet. all fairy tail, for now.