A. Rowan

Ŝi/Ŝin | 20's Enthusiast of writing, conlanging and vtubing

[ashleyrowanthewriter]

Hi, I'm Ashley!

313 seems a nice number for a self introduction post.

I'm Ashley Rowan. I am an amateur writer and VTuber. My special interests include linguistics and conlanging and I sometimes use my creations in writing. I also enjoy video games and I'd like to one day learn to make them too.

My profile is focused on writing stuff that feels good for Tumblr, poetry and discussing linguistics and conlangs. Also sometimes queer stuff.

If I sound like someone you might enjoy, I post my more serious writing on Scribble Hub and I post audiobooks and stream on YouTube.

I hope you enjoy my stuff!

[deadgenerations]

in more pleasant news: this year is seeing the biggest humpback migration in Australian history, bigger than it was PRE whaling. That's right, there are more humpbacks migrating off the coast of Australia than there were BEFORE industrial whaling started.

A huge, fat W for environmentalists and Greenies. what an achievement

[lumsel]

we did it! we saved the fucking whales!!!!

[the-tao-of-fandom]

These whales were hunted to 150 individuals. Now there are 50,000 of them

Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is

Further info for those interested

[continent-of-wild-endeavor]

from The Memory Palace, by Nate DiMeo

[novella-november]

ID: a photo of a poem, titled "Fifty words written about the Arctic Bowhead Whale after learning that they can live up to two hundred years" and the poem is as follows: There is a whale swimming right now who may have escaped a Nantucketer's harpoon in 1850 and a Japaense whale ship in 1950 who once heard the distant songs of 50,000 of her kind then several thousands then hundreds but who can heart 25,000 again singing in the warming water.

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[alpin-the-floof]

In romance languages you gotta make sure you use the right grammatical gender for certain nouns. Sometimes these nouns are identical but their meaning is wildly different depending on which gender is used.

An example from Portuguese:

a papa (fem) = the porridge

o papa (masc) = the pope

[tropacant]

have some shitty chaotic pride flags ^^

check out the rest of the flags on my profile since tumblr has a 10 image limit lol as well as the fixed versions of a few of these cuz I’m big dumb

[xxtc-96xx]

it's that time again, kids

[ashleyrowanthewriter]

From many places we come.

From many walks of life.

Experience great have some

While some don't know their might.

Some celebrate their freedom.

Some just one more day.

Some among pinetums,

Some between bricks or clay.

The music permeates the night.

It's time for celebration.

Tonight we rest from the fight.

Tonight we send affirmations.

We may seem to be uncommon,

But as we show off our true selves

We all have one thing in common.

Tonight we dance as ourselves.

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Fun fact. At first I didn't want to write anything for the Trans Prom, because I thought it was too late. Not in a self-deprecating way, but in my country the prom-like parties take place in Winter. But it turns out that's the time for proms for high school students. Whereas university students do get proms in May. So it turns out the Trans Prom is actually right on time for me. Yippie!

[azrael-corvidae]

IM DONE. IM FINALLY DONE WITH THIS DUMB BIRDS AFTER TWO MONTHS. KINDA MID BUT IDCCCC

[ashleyrowanthewriter]

Beautiful birds.

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[pubbiboii]

[ashleyrowanthewriter]

I'm sorry, but why did you spell their name with an Ä?

[ageblue-aka-varnah-g]

The four alchemical elements put into one symbol.

Dot represents the bottom of the symbol. Thus, there are (starting from 0 hours clockwise) Earth, Water, Air and Fire.

For reference:

[mewfromshadows]

Reblog if you’re OK with people sending you asks about your OCs, ‘sonas or even about yourself

[ageblue-aka-varnah-g]

Love the letters Ææ and Œœ. It's like you get a 2-for-1 letter deal (great bargain!).

[feefal]

Moon comic!

[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

Remember to check out the Patreon! I'm unemployed at the moment, so subscribing really helps me out.

Webtoons, Tapas, Bluesky, Discord Server.

[ashleyrowanthewriter]

A Haiku about Hyenas

Laughs and smiles and grins

Go together with a kind

Of proud scavengers.

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Written for an acquaintance from a trans Discord server.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

not my tweet but I thought it would be a good psa for artists here too

[sycamorality]

adding this in a text post addition instead of tags: as per some previous tags, malicious things can also be hidden in pdf files.

and: always search up file extensions and what they do if you don't recognise them or they seem weird, and make sure that even if it is a .png, that there isn't actually a hidden .exe at the end (so, basically make sure you have "show extensions" enabled, or whatever the setting is called)

[forcekenobi]

as a child being told "the moon controls the tides" with no additional explanation was like. oh okay. you want me to believe in magic? you're talking about magic right now? okay. fine

[forcekenobi]

sorry. only semi-related but i simply wasn't ready for "the sun is a distant gorilla". thank you NASA

[hyperchaotix]

[icarus-suraki]

[ashleyrowanthewriter]

I'm interested in something weird, so I'm making a Tumblr poll.

When you think of the words "handsome" and "pretty", is there a bias in your mind towards "handsome" being masculine and "pretty" being feminine and does your native language conjugate verbs with genders?

There is such bias, does not conjugate

There isn't such bias, does not conjugate

There is reversed bias, does not conjugate

There is such bias, conjugates

There isn't such bias, conjugates

There is reversed bias, conjugates

Voting ended onApr 20

I come from group 5 and I wonder whether it comes from this or overall my neurodivergence and my views of gender in language.