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she means everything to me AHHH

"And so we hanged her, as she requested. All because of that most insidious of emotions: Hope."

ITS LITERALLY NEEDLES.

NEEDLES????

(sculpture is Capacitor II by Antony Gormley)

WAKE UP TUMBLR, MAG PROTOCOL EPISODE 11 JUST DROPPED!!!!!

Come along tall goth husband we must pretend we aren’t in love

perhaps some will disagree, but i think the world got worse when we changed the colour of the night

I wrote a song from the perspective of Jolie Ruewen

You guys voted for a song to Brant after her death, so here it is! I’ve been looking for an excuse to use this chord progression (which is ironic, cause I actually messed up the piano on the last chorus in this recording). Anyway, I hope you enjoy it! Thank you all for your support!

Lyrics under the cut:

I knew I was playing with fire

I shouldn’t be shocked I got burned

I understood you when no one else did

And I know my love was returned

I know I felt dangerously guilty

I should have known you were acting strange

The world wasn’t kind to you, it wasn’t fair

But I can’t forgive how you’ve changed

I still see our shadows on the walls

Of every place we’ve been

And I still hear the sweet, sweet words

That flowed to me from your pen

But our end was the beginning

Of something I can’t ignore

The scars are not the reason

I don’t recognize you anymore

She is one way that I haunt you

I know you see me on her face 

I hope that you also see all that I stood for

And think of the past you’ve erased

I still see our shadows on the walls

Of every place we’ve been

And I still hear the sweet, sweet words

That flowed to me from your pen

But our end was the beginning

Of something I can’t ignore

The scars are not the reason

I don’t recognize you anymore

I hope you never forget me

Cause I know that you’ll always care

I hope you imagine what I’d say to you

Doing all these things if I was there

I’d say I still see our shadows on the walls

Of every place we’ve been

And I still hear the sweet, sweet words

That flowed to me from your pen

But our end was the beginning

Of something I can’t ignore

The scars are not the reason

I don’t recognize you anymore

Odd reblog, but my friend would love this. Also, support Palestine.

i wanted to show everyone my favorite tiktok

Everyone vote for Fintan.

Fintan Propaganda

>He can pull the most handsome men and the most prettiest women.

>He protected his mind with a FIREWALL

>He is loyal

>He is a plant guy.

>He talks to plants.

>He is like a angry wet cat✨

>He CONTROLS FIRE

Vote for Fintan!

<I voted for Fintan btw 🥺>

sooooo true. vote for me, everyone <3333

Haha. You’re so funny.

[This is hilarious.]

How you feeling on this completely normal day (15th of March)?

gutted.

Forcing my friend to celebrate this.

Entering Tumblr today

Happy Ides of March everyone!!!! Hope you've remembered to bring your knives to the senatorial meeting today ^^

First time I get to join in on the fun.

This is amazing.

Made a cake for Tumblr's favourite holiday ☺️

Happy Ides to those who celebrate 🗡️🗡️

jonah's insistance that everything he does is of his own accord and that he's in complete control of his actions vs. his literal role in the universe. as the eye's prophet and acolyte. did you want to do it, or did your god want you to do it. is there a difference, if the only thing you truly want is to serve your god. are your wants the same as its, by definition. how much free will can any avatar at all have. sure, you can stop any second you want, but what's even left of you without this. you say you want to do this, because if you don't, then all of this has been for nothing. you have to want this. were you silent or were you silenced. ykwim.

first 5 faceless emojis are how your summers gonna go

tumblr has an AI toggle you should turn on to prevent your work being shared with training models/etc! it's under settings & visibility.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday, dear Jo-on.

Happy birthday to you. 🎵

I always forget to reblog my roots, KOTLX and specifically pyros. So here. KOTLC.

THE 'ENLIGHTENED SCRIPT'

Warning: This will end up becoming a VERY LONG post. Also it turned out to be vaguely academically phrased — so warning for language too formal for how not-normal I am about this

Disclaimer:

This isn't for the 'actual' Enlightened Language — only to write stuff out in English with a different set of symbols in art (or, let's be honest, just for fun).

I have no proper knowledge of how to make scripts (such as if there are any common conventions to follow). If anything here offends you in terms of its accuracy or correctness, please don't come at me with pitchforks :)

I've done my best to make this explanation simple and thorough, but obviously there may be things that I have forgotten to mention (or things that I've perhaps not even considered). If you want clarification on anything or just have questions about the script, asks are welcome! (any discussion of the script will be tagged '#the enlightened script')

If you wish to use this script, feel free to do so! (I only request that you credit me (@/worldsunlikemyown) if you do). I would prefer it that you do not repost this to other social media sites, but if you do, please credit me clearly.

Introduction

The term 'Enlightened Script' (ES from now on) is technically a misnomer, because we know nothing about the Enlightened Language (EL from now on) and thus cannot make a script 'for' it. This script is, however, built upon the little we know about the aesthetic appearance of the actual script of EL, and contains the same twenty-six letters as the Latin Alphabet. It is made primarily for use in writing Modern English (it contains no diacritics, and will thus have little utility for writing in many other languages that use the Latin Alphabet). ES can be used to simulate the actual writing of EL, and represent this simulation in art and inscriptions where desired.

The Enlightened Script

This script has been designed with a view to the aesthetic of the actual script for EL, modelled somewhat from the unreliable example of Vespera's signature. It features heavy use of curls for this reason in the alphabet, with numerals and punctuation marked out by their relative lack of curls and embellishments. Note that symbols may vary from example to example in some small ways, as they are hand-written. If you wish to write ES in any of its forms, follow the general form of symbols from the three examples below).

**Click for a better resolution**

LETTERS

PUNCTUATION

(yes, I'll explain the square-bracketed symbols later)

NUMERALS

Modern ES

'Modern' ES refers to the version of ES that would be used in the modern day by elves and the other Intelligent Species in their daily writing — what we might call the 'normal' version. It is written with the same writing conventions as English, keeping the same spelling and orientation (left to right, then top to bottom). For example:

Here in the top-right of the image, the word 'suldreen' (chosen because it is the only real EL word we know) has been transcribed into Modern ES. It can be seen that the letters have been written out without joining or cursive elements in the manner of an English word. In the bottom half of the page is a quote: 'No reason to worry' (yes I used an Alden quote — it'll be easier to remember and was the first typical Keeper thing I thought of). This has also been written out in keeping with the conventions of writing in English.

NOTE ON PUNCTUATION: You will notice that in the PUNCTUATION section, some forms have been given in red square brackets. These are to be used for Modern ES (such as the colon represented in the image above, as well as the dash in the example). The version of the form outside of the red square brackets is to be used for Traditional ES. Symbols with no variant form remain the same in both versions of ES.

Traditional ES

Traditional ES is the oldest version of ES currently in use. It is the 'old' writing of the elves, which is used in the modern day mostly for adding a sense of grandeur to the atmosphere through its use on signboards, meaning that only its display version, which will be in the next section, is still well-known. I shall explain the proper form of Traditional ES first, however, because it is commonly used by the Ancients and as a basis for many of the codes and ciphers of the Elven world.

You may have noticed in the LETTERS section that the vowels (a, e, i, o, u) of ES are represented by symbols that open to the left, while the consonants are represented by symbols that open to the right. This is a 'remnant' (hush I don't know how to model change in writing systems and besides this is a simulation) of the system of Traditional ES, shown below.

Here is the word 'suldreen' again, transcribed in Traditional ES. The change in orientation is at once apparent, for Traditional ES, unlike Modern ES, is written from top to bottom, then from right to left. As seen in this example, letters branch out from a trunk that forms the word, with each letter's connection to the trunk referred to as a branch. Consonants are written on the right of the trunk, and vowels are written on the left, resulting in all symbols opening outwards. The topmost branch on a trunk is to be read first.

An example of longer text in Traditional ES:

Note that the punctuation orientation for the quotation marks has changed, and now uses the symbols given outside the red brackets. The question-mark remains unchanged, and is written in the same way in both Modern ES and Traditional ES (along with the comma, full-stop/period and exclamation-mark symbols). The sentence starts on the right, and the second line is the next one to the left, which is to be read from the top again.

Signboards in ES

The use of Traditional ES in the modern day remains mostly limited to signboards. To write on a signboard, a line of Traditional ES is, so to speak, rotated 90 degrees anti-clockwise, with the vowels now written on the bottom of a horizontal trunk, and the consonants written on top. It is read from left to right, then top to bottom if applicable (perhaps this may have influenced the left to right orientation of Modern ES). An example below:

The word written in the examples above is 'Everglen', first given in standard Traditional ES, then in the signboard version. In terms of the appearance of this 'signboard version' to elves, it would be read by Ancients as a vertical sign in English is read by us (see the right of the image). To most modern elves, it would simply register as an archaic version of their script, with no particular orientation difference observed.

Numerals and Mathematical Operations in ES

In-universe, the base-ten place-value system was (in my HEADCANON, and I cannot stress this enough) brought to the humans by elves. The writing of their numerals, as may be noted, has some similarities with Roman numerals (which in-universe, the Romans would have learned — again, only as a plausible headcanon — from elves). I have created the numerals to be written somewhat like Roman numerals (with the combination of symbols — I'm not sure of the right term for it). Operations are conducted in the same was as in the base-ten place-value system we use. For example:

In the example on the left (which reads 'Book 9.5'), it can be seen that numerals in Modern ES are written with the same orientation as the letters, with an un-filled dot representing the decimal point. The same applies to Traditional ES, but there is no trunk for numerals (just as there is no trunk for punctuation).

Operations have always been done with a horizontal orientation. Addition, subtraction and multiplication operations are done as shown in the middle-right of the image. The only thing drastically different from our own method of carrying out these operations is that the operation symbol is always to be put in a circle. The same applies to division, which is shown on the far-right. Fractions are written as shown bottom-right. (I don't know about special numbers and stuff okay let's pretend elves can't do math or just use the human symbols and say we got them from elves)

Handwritten examples (for a better understanding of sizing and possibly nicer-looking symbols) have been given under the cut, along with explanations and some interesting notes.

MODERN

TRADITIONAL

Note that the trunks for Traditional ES have been marked on each line. For numerals and punctuation, the portion of a line on which they are written will not be 'dashed through'.

Notes:

It is possible to 'reverse' Traditional ES to read from left to right by using mirror-forms of the letters, resulting in the vowels written on and opening to the right, and the consonants written on and opening to the left. Punctuation may or may not be used.

Modern ES could be 'reversed' in any of the many ways things written in the Latin Alphabet can be 'reversed' (one of these was likely used by Jolie for her mirror-written diary. Do with that as you will).

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My OC, Eric, I totally don’t draw him like 3 times a day- also woah, thanks for tagging me! I hardly ever get tagged in this sort of thing, woo!

@swans-chirping-in-the-distance @graythelunamoth @cel-estria @the-kestrels-feather @elreadsbooks @moonsanoverthinker @rorypoley @theofficialinternetloner @locke-n-k3y

(Sorry if you don’t want to be tagged or weren’t tagged, I’m still figuring out how this works! Of course if I didn’t tag you, join anyway!)

picrew chain! right is one of my characters, left is me. my biggest complaint is that it doesn't have straight hair options, or asymmetrical haircuts

Picrew

something about them

Fullbody character creator I don't care what you do with this, editing the final image is fine and even encouraged @SODAPVNK_ on twitter

@pasta-yy @t0ast-the-gh0st @anton-exe @theearthmagicguy @soupdelegation @araccoonthatlikesmurder

I’ve been thinking sm about Sergey Ushanka and then this popped up and- maybe you’re onto smth…

The myth of Sergey Ushanka isn't true at all. There was no tragic computer scientist with a degenerative brain disease who tried to upload his consciousness to a hard-drive. The Sergey Ushanka video is really just Colin Becher getting so fed up with FR3-d1 that he fucking ate his computer.

Hah. WE ARE BACK, BAYBEEE!!!

This feels like a moment in history.

WE DID IT AROS!!!!

WE NEED TO REGAIN THE TRENDING!

GUYS ALL THREE ARE TRENDING. ABSOLUTE WIN OF A DAY FOR US, ARO, ACE, AND AROACE REJOICE!!!!!

It's official! We got the state of Kansas to formally recognize Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week this year!

February 18-24, 2024 DON'T YOU FORGET!

BREAK OUT THE GARLIC BREAD

ALL THREE AT ONCE LETS GO