#put him the blender kind of design but also i would die for him do you understand

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what did u think abt talentless nana chapter 78.

Thank you for reminding me to look for it 👀, since you sent a message I'll just do my impressions here!

I love Kyouya so much he's just out there enjoying life. It's just somehow really endearing to see he was like a productive member of society after we watched him mostly play sherlock and struggle to make friends. Knowing he's probably well over 20 in the current timeline puts a weird spin on him entering as a high schooler but also like...it's Kyouya of course he would just single mindedly use his immortality to infiltrate a high school and look for a sister he barely remembers.

Also I think we can summarize from this that Kyouya's invulnerability also protects him from alcohol lmaoooo

This is just a real nice shot of Kyouya lets appreciate it for a second.

The way my heart clenched.

They are too damn alike ;-; hiding their pain from each other because they want to protect the other ;-; I mean there's really no other solution here, Kyouya is doing his best because nobody else is able to do it, but also i understand how the knowledge that he might be suffering for her is weighing heavy on Rin along with her sickness.

Tiny shocked Rin for your tiny shocked Rin needs

KYOUYA IM GOING TO PUT YOU IN A BLENDER

The art of Rin in this chapter is heartbreaking.

FUCKING SCREAMING AND CRYING

I am on the fucking ground I didn't think we'd be dealing with the topic of suicide in these chapters but god, Rin wanting to die and knowing the only thing keeping her alive is the fact that Kyouya would grieve her and have to bury her and instead of trying to live for him, devising a plan to alter his journals so eventually the price for his talent would erase her from his memories completely. She feelsl this is a kindness, because Kyouya is struggling so hard, working so hard for her and she's in pain and she's sick and she feels like she's horribly burdening and torturing the only person who she cares about. She knows she's hurting and confusing him with her actions, taking things away from him, things he cherishes greatly, but still proceeds on anyway because she is convinced that is the best she can do.

IM GOING TO FUCKING LOSE IT

This is not fucking okay

THIS IS NOT FUCKING OKAY IM LITERALLY CRYING

RIN IS CATBOY JIN I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD I SWEAR TO MOTHERFUCKING GOD LOOK AT THIS LOOK AT THIS RIGHT HERE IVE BEEN SAYING SINCE THE FUCKING BEGINING KYOUYAS SISTER IS CATBOY JIN AND HERE YOU FUCKING HAVE IT (not canon yet) I WANT TO DISSAPEAR AND BECOME SOMEONE ELSE WHAT ELSE COULD THAT MEAN CMON CMON CMON

I have more thoughts on this but will make a separate post but GOD THIS CHAPTER WAS HEARTBREAKING WHAT THE FUCK, Talentless Nana really doesn't fuck around when it comes to angst and this was just so hard and emotional to read. Rin's feelings accompanied by Kyouya's expressions as he slowly lost all memory of his sister BY HER DESIGN, the pain and the struggle that brought him and her, even though she was doing it do make sure he could live without her acting as a burden, without slowing him down and preventing him from achieving her dreams. Her asking her 'who are you?' signifying she managed to do what she had intended that she could now disappear without her brother suffering just utterly broke me. This is some of the best and most interesting sibling dynamics that ive read in manga in a good while and its utterly breaking me.

Stay tuned for conspiracy theory bullshit in a sec

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Making a Fictional Language

So you’re writing a story where you want to create a fictional language. That’s great. Only problem is, you’re not quite sure how to go about it. Fear not, I have a few tricks up my sleeve that I use myself when constructing a language. Now of course, before we can discuss how to build a conlang, it’s worth mentioning what a conlang is.

The term “Conlang” is short-hand for Constructed Language. What this means is that the language is fully realized and fully formed with proper grammar, an expansive dictionary, and could theoretically be learned and used in day-to-day conversation. A Conlang is not a real language. It doesn’t exist in our real world. But it’s well formed enough that it could be learned and spoken with a wide reach of use. Examples of Conlangs include Klingon, High Valyrian, Dothraki, and Na’vi. There are some lesser forms of Conlangs such as Functional Languages. That is, languages that exist only to say a few words. Before being turned into an official language for the show, Valyrian had very few words. It was the job of a linguist to construct a language around the fundamentals that George established in his books. Another example is Atlantean from the Disney movie Atlantis: the Lost Empire. There is just as much Atlantean as needed for the script and nothing else, and if you wanted to learn the Atlantean word for fire, you’ve gotten your hopes up for nothing. Some are also simply text-based, such as Hylian in the Legend of Zelda. It uses different symbols, but it all directly translates to the Japanese language, making it just a re-skinned version of Japanese.

So, how does one actually build a conlang? Honestly, a good first step is to do some research on Phonetics. But the crash course is this: a Phoneme is the simplest sound you can make. There’s an international phoenetic alphabet (IPA) that you can find tons of online. Every distinct sound made by human language has a specific symbol to represent the sound. Learning to read these symbols and the sounds they make will make it easier to find sound links between words. Now, let’s get to the actual methods and the steps involved.

Method 1: The Library

You may have heard of a Sound Library before. For sound technicians, a sound library is a database of sound effects and noises they can Foley into film projects. Building a language can work the same way. In the Librarian method, look through the list of IPA and look for the sounds you want to use in your language. Think about the tone of the language, and whether you’re looking for something softer or harsher, and the kind of culture the people have. Once you have your library of phonemes, it’s just a question of how you want to go about forming words. You could roll die to decide syllables and which sounds to use, you could play it by ear, you could compare to languages you want to sound like. The main appeal of this method is that it creates a great consistency with the sound of a language.

Method 2: The Language Blender

You know you want your language to sound coarse and rough but you’re not sure how to make it sound that way? A good method I like using is taking common words that your world would use, such as Fire or Sun, and translate it into about 3-5 languages that fit the sound you’re trying to invoke. Once you have all of your words translated, you have two paths. Option 1: Find the middle ground. If 3/5 of your words had the letters ma next to each other, chances are, that’s a good pair of letters to carry over to your own language. Option 2: Take your real life languages and put them through the Language Mixer on Chaoticshiny.com. A major benefit of this method is systematically learning words in other languages, and even seeing the etymological roots that tie languages together. The one downside of this language building format is that you may end up with words that don’t mix well together, or as they mix, you find that the sounds of the words don’t tend to mesh well, so it’s important to have a Base Language, the root language you build your fictional language around. No matter what, include at least part of the translation from this language, and you’ll be more grounded in your approach. 

Method 3: The Root System

This is a conlang creating system I learned from Artifexian on Youtube, and I’ll link the video he made right [here] if you want to see it for yourself. He has a lot of great world building videos and I love his content, so don’t be shy about giving him your likes and support because he talks about a lot of the world building aspects people tend to gloss over, myself included. What this method does is it focuses on forming root words that then lead into forming other words.

This is a root system language sheet I designed based on my own fantasy world. In their culture, running water is associated with healing and cleaning because it carries off dirt and other foul things and wipes them away. For this reason, rivers have associations with cleanliness, healing, and life. And this is something worth keeping in mind when building your own language. How does the culture itself interact with the word you are describing? For instance, the reason we say “vandalize” to mean to destroy someone else’s property is because of the Vandal barbarians that plagued Europe during the last legs of the Roman Empire. Heck, the term Flanderize isn’t even that closely linked to the Simpsons, but it emerged as a result of Ned Flanders’ character becoming stock and one-note, which led to the creation of the term. When it comes to actually building the dictionary, this can be a really useful step. So, for example, let’s say the word for River in my language was Asar. A boatman might be Asarii, much like how we have work and worker, fight and fighter, dance and dancer, the suffix of -ii denotes someone who does the root term, in this case, they go on the river. Meanwhile, a fisher could be Asarakii, having Asar mean river, -ak as a suffix for a thing living in the river, and the -ii as a suffix for those who catch the things that live in the river. And for something more abstract like River of Time or River of Stars, you might get something like Asarag Talari.

UNIVERSAL CONLANG TIPS

Keep in mind the people the language exists for. if you’re creating a conlang for dragons, reptiles don’t have lips, so the labial sounds of [p], [b], [f], [v], and possibly even sounds that require lip shaping such as [o], [u], and [w] might not fit the creatures that need to be speaking. Furthermore, if the culture exists before global communication and they live next to the ocean, chances are, they won’t have a word for camel, desert, or sandstorm unless it’s a desert port city. This is why Dothraki has words for every kind of horse and no word for thank-you.

Remember that certain sounds can be switched around. Throughout human language, I’ve learned that certain letters can easily be switched out for each other, and this is in part due to linguistics history. Most of the letters that can be exchanged I actually realized while studying Grimm’s Law and the evolution of language, and by looking at Welsh in particular. In Welsh, the way to write a [f] sound is to write it as ff. When just one f is by itself, it becomes [v]. The sounds of [d], [t], [θ], and [ð] share a similar connection, as do [k] and [g], [ʃ] and [ꭓ], and [b] and [p]. So changing between these similar sounds could prove to be a useful strategy for mixing up your language.

You absolutely have to create a grammar system or you’re going to make a huge mess. That means word order, syntax, suffixes, tense, conjugation, and whatever else is needed. If it helps, learn how another language conjugates its terms. In Sumerian, the phrase “I am your king” is Lugdalzuimen. Lugdal means King, zu is your, and imen means “I am”. So word order is Object Possessive Subject. Then in the phrase Sesguene imes means “they are my brothers”. In actual word order it translates out as “brother my -s they are”. Now we see that the word order is Object Possessive Pluralization Subject. In the phrase Dumuninlagasakak, it becomes child queen Lagas of of. Meaning child [queen of Lagas] of or Child of the Queen of Lagas. By understanding how this language structures itself, something like the phrase River of Stars I made earlier could now be broken down to be something like Asartalariag (River Star -s of). I find it helps in this case to word it as “River star many of” to get “river of many stars” to figure out when the pluralizing suffix would be applied.

Resources:

Wiktionary.com

Chaoticshiny.com

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/definitionlookup (for all of your ancient greek translation needs. Set it to Latin transliteration)

http://www.abair.tcd.ie/?lang=eng (because Google Translate doesn’t sound out Irish words)

https://www.wordreference.com/enfr/ (it’s set English to French, but it has a lot of languages, and it’s great because it also teaches you slang uses of words.)

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The Chat Righting Reflex - Chapter Four

Also on AO3 Chp 1 - Kitty’s New Home    Chp 2 - Taking Care of Business Chp 3 - Hugs and Kisses   Chp 4 - A Well-Fed Chat Chp 5 - Chat in the Night    Chp 6 - Here With You Chp 7 - The Adventures of Mr. Stainless and the Muffin Maiden Chp 8 - New Normal          Chp 9 - Caretaker Kitty Chp 10 - More Normal   Chp 11 - Everyday Miracles Chp 12 - Family by Design     Chp 13 - Contented Chat

This is also the @miraculousfluffmonth  prompt #6, cooking/baking

A Well-Fed Chat

After spending a gorgeous summer day with his girlfriend, holding hands while she showed him some of her favorite parts of Paris, Adrien was already in a good mood.  Sunday was a short day at the bakery, and he was delighted to accept Tom and Sabine's open invitation to family dinner. It was just a perfect wrap up to the day. Eating together as family, laughing at Marinette's tales of their adventure.  Following dinner with some video games.

"Good day, son?" Tom asked, settling beside him on the sofa.

"The best," Adrien agreed.  His cheeks kind of hurt from all the smiling, but he didn't care.  It was clearly a sign that he hadn't been happy enough in the past.

"I'm glad to hear it."  Tom patted his shoulder.

"We have a little housewarming gift for you, sweetheart," Sabine said, coming into the living room with a large wrapped box.

"You really didn't have to," he insisted.

Marinette plopped down beside him on the couch and planted a soft smooch on his cheek.  "Oh no. They really did. These are my parents, you know."

He reluctantly reached out for the package.  "Are you sure?" Sabine placed it in his hands, and it was heavier than he'd expected.  "Um… okay." He could feel their excitement as he peeled away the bright colored paper, red as a token of good fortune to reveal an image pasted on the outside of the box.  He puzzled over it a minute. It was clearly a kitchen device.

"Oooh!" Marinette said.  "You did get it."

"It was really too perfect to pass up, Cupcake," Tom said.  "He's starting with nothing, and that's going to be a huge help if your mom's and my lessons are going to pay off."

He glanced up at them, feeling slightly stupid, but knowing they wouldn't hold his ignorance against him.  "What exactly is a Universal Kitchen Machine?"

Tom grinned.  "So the base is essentially the motor that can power several different kinds of kitchen tools.  You've got the mixing bowl attachment, a blender attachment, and a food processor attachment in there."  He tapped the box.

"Oooh."  Adrien stared at it in amazement.  He'd kind of dreaded having to figure out which devices he really needed.

"Instead of having separate gear for each thing, they all share the same motor," Sabine pointed out.  "It's a nice space saving feature. Plus, it's just a really good piece of equipment, well engineered.  Bosch makes our giant stand mixer downstairs, so we know it'll hold up for decades for you."

"Thank you so much."  Adrien reached out to squeeze Sabine's hand.  "I can hardly wait to try it out." He looked down at the picture again.  "Hey Princess, think we can go grocery shopping tomorrow as my have to?"

Marinette hugged him from the side.  "It's your schedule. We can do whatever you want."

He glanced at Tom and Sabine.  "And you're sure you don't need either of us to help out in the bakery this week?"

"Getting you settled in to your new place is more important just now," Sabine said firmly.  "We won't say no to a bit of help next week though. You're both great with the customers."

Adrien nearly giggled as he watched the dough paddles make quick work of the ingredients.  While he measured and mixed, Marinette had stayed available in case he had trouble. Right now, she was wiping off the island and putting away the boxes of salt and sodium bicarbonate he'd used.  He was almost disappointed to realize the dough was done, which meant he had to turn off the mixer.

"How's it look?" he asked, jiggling the lid a bit to remove it.  He'd followed the steps in the recipe just as Tom had taught him, and the end result looked exactly like he remembered it should.

"Purrfect," Marinette said.  "I can practically taste them."  She turned away to pull his new cookie sheets off the drying rack.  "Do you want help, or should I just watch?"

"I kind of want to do it myself."  He felt his cheeks warm with embarrassment.  "Is that okay?"

"Of course it is."

"I've always had help, and it would be nice to be able to say I made these on my own, even if you were here to prevent huge mistakes."  He shrugged. It made even less sense out loud than it did in his head.

"Hey, I like watching you work."  She grinned, tossing him a wink.

He scooped the first spoonfuls of dough, dropping them onto the parchment-lined tray.  "I'm really happy right now.

"I can see that," she said.  "It's a good look for you. You should wear it all the time."

30 minute speed write.

I have an older model of the  Bosch Kitchen Machine Tom and Sabine gave Adrien, and I'm an enormous fan of it (it's superior to Kitchen-Aid for die hard bread bakers).

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