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Hallowed
It’s finally happening. I’m putting my novel Hallowed up online, to read and to listen. New chapters will go up on the 1st and 15th of each month!
Read: https://hallowed.byanyothername.me/
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhB2qD4_oHoa2pAPkkT2tmhT0mLcYVqMe
Just wanted to note that I have been posting things to my sketchblog, I just don’t reblog them all here. If you’re following me for art, that’s the best place to do it.
A fun fact: the Japanese (also Chinese) name for Three Houses is 风花雪月, which is an idiom that refers to the passing of seasons / passage of time in a way that can be nostalgic and almost wistful. More literally, the four characters each mean wind, flower, snow, and moon, respectively.
Guess what the four paths in this game are named.
Verdant Wind
Crimson Flower
Silver Snow
Azure Moon
(I can’t believe it took me literal weeks to put two and two together.)
The Hamburger Button
Today I learned that the hamburger button (the menu icon with the three horizontal lines) first appeared in the Xerox Star, the 1981 computer that originated the WIMP interface and many other things we consider quintessential to the personal computer to this day. This makes the hamburger icon about as old as the mouse cursor.
It was used again in Windows 1 (1985), and in roughly the same location as where we’d expect to find it today. After that, as screens got larger and screen real estate became less precious, the menu icon disappeared in favor of simply displaying the menu options horizontally across the top of the screen or window.
It resurfaced in 2008 with the advent of early smartphones, when screen real estate was once again at a premium. Since then, it’s become ubiquitous in mobile apps and sites, and has even made a comeback in desktop contexts where it’s preferable for the menu to be hidden. Perhaps this time, the hamburger button is here to stay, particularly in mobile contexts where screen size is limited not by technology, but by the physical size of the human hand.
Winter Robin, but it’s female Robin.
Just realized that I never posted this to this blog, but I’m actually pretty proud of it, so here.
Bonus:
I don’t feel like reading papers. Soraka understands.
So hey, it’s been 5 years since I made this, and I still feel like it’s one of the best things I’ve ever done.
Sometimes life gets in the way of your side projects. Sometimes your other side projects get in the way of your side projects.
Sometimes you realize you’ve bitten off more than you can chew, and your side projects have become more stress/work than they’re worth. Sometimes you gotta re-evaluate which side projects you wanna keep.
I’m working on... something. Several things, actually. I’ll post about them when they’re ready.
Reached the end of Year 1 in Hogwarts Mystery.
Me: “Okay I’m a little short for getting my house to win the House Cup, but--”
Dumbledore: “lol nah fam have 100 points for no reason.”
Good ol’ Dumbledore, rigging the House Cup even before Harry Potter arrived.
PSA: If you’re playing Sona in ARAM, you need to think about your mana. Take Presence of Mind, or at least a mana item. And no, Sheen doesn’t count. If one more Dark Harvest Sona rushing Lich Bane decides to spam ping their empty mana bar, I will be deeply and viscerally upset.
My experience with Hogwarts Mystery
Tutorial: Idk what people are complaining about. Sure, there’s an energy system, but that’s to be expected of a game like this.
Being attacked by devil’s snare: Okay it’s kinda dumb that I have to wait like an hour to save myself from strangulation, but gameplay and story segregation I guess.
Second potions class, where I have to get five stars (meaning spend a lot of energy), but I also have to do it within an hour: THIS GAME IS THE DEVIL.
Honestly I’d be less mad if the game just let you queue up enough energy that I can just complete a single task in one sitting.
Whoops almost forgot to post this.
I also posted this on my Instagram last week.
We found we could bottle laughter. It was a popular commodity for the wealthy and depressed, those who had devoted their lives to the business of getting rich, now finally able to buy happiness with their wealth. They bought laughter by the crate, to sprinkle in their food and to snort off marble coffee tables.
The poor, eager for what seemed like easy money, lined up at the laughter farms like they had never lined up at the blood banks. Just a few minutes of laughter, squeezed in at lunch, between a hastily devoured sandwich and a hurried return to work. But the laughter couldn’t be forced -- it had to be genuine -- and so a second market grew in materials designed to elicit quick, easy laughs.
Finally, we had found a way to commodify memes.
Xayah and Rakan in Chinese
Let’s talk about League’s hottest avian couple and their names in Chinese.
Xayah - 霞 (xiá): The character 霞 is used to refer to dusk or dawn, or more precisely, the beautiful orange/pink/purple colors of the sky and the clouds. This translation probably came about as a combination of the sound of Xayah’s name and color of her feathers, though I do wonder if it was decided upon before or after the Cosmic Dawn/Cosmic Dusk launch skins.
Rakan - 洛 (luò): 洛 is the name of a river (洛河, literally Luo River). More famously, there is a city along the bank of said river called 洛阳 (Luoyang), which is what the character 洛 is most closely associated with. The second character in 洛阳 means “sun”, and 洛 is pronounced the same way as 落, which means “to descend”, and so the city’s name as a whole is a homophone for “sunset”. Again, this association with the sun is probably due to the color of Rakan’s feathers, as well as linking him with Xayah and potentially their launch skins.
More interesting, though, are their epithets. Xayah is known as “The Rebel” in English, but her epithet in Chinese is 逆羽, where the first character means “to go against” and the second character means “feathers”. So “rebel feathers”, but also quite literally “ruffled feathers”. Rakan, meanwhile, is “The Charmer” in English, but in Chinese he’s called 幻翎. The first character means illusion or imaginary, while the second refers to the larger and more vibrant feathers at the end of a bird’s wings or tail -- so, still feathers like Xayah, but more showy. As a bit of a showman and a trickster, perhaps a good translation would be “illusory plumage”.
Fun fact: in Elder Scrolls lore, there’s a god named Xarxes who worked as a scribe/historian for Auri-el, recording major events in Aldmeri history since the beginning of time. Eventually, he took all of his favorite moments throughout history and used them to create his wife, Oghma.
That’s right: there’s a dude in The Elder Scrolls who loved history so much that he found a way to have sex with it.
