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Please tell us more about your OCs. Please they seem so cool.

(Also I have an OC named Glimmer too!)

Ah yes! All the OCs I've mentioned in that post and most of mine in general are from DND campaigns I've played with some people I know irl like @blue-rhapsody and @winterotter11 (my gf) amongst others. Sully is my main gal, I played her in a campaign that lasted for more than a year. I've talked about her a bit on my #fate of tirazia tag. She is a dwarf monk who was raised in kinda a cult and has some interesting worldviews as a result. She has a weird maybe romantic subtext thing going on with Mal, my gf's main PC, but neither of them can express their feelings ever.

All the other ones I've mentioned are my PCs from oneshots I've played in! Llorva is an assassin drow who is very chill/laid back. She has a magic cloak that lets her walk on ceilings and one time almost killed Katrina, another one of my gf's PCs! They also have a romantic thing going on before canon, and then they go on an expedition and Llorva gets turned into a mindflayer.

Glimmer (aka Glimmergob) is a really silly goblin PC from a goblin campaign that was very unserious and ran on cartoon logic. I had so much fun with that campaign and I love them dearly. Glimmergob was one of three goblins who dressed up in a trenchcoat with mage hand hands who infiltrated a group of elves. They want nothing more than to start a band and was able to achieve that by the end of the oneshot!

Rhes was a PC from a batshit insane oneshot where we were all members of a murder cult. She was in a extremely toxic lesbian situationship with Seraphine, one of Blue's PCs. They are little freaks and I love them but I want both of them as far away from me as possible bc they are both walking garbage fires of characters.

The King of Nothing is a very interesting character from a oneshot I came in late to (... when we say "oneshot" we usually mean two or three shot...) who is this celestial infiltrator (homebrew race for the campaign, think kinda a small deity/demigod which has a humanoid form) who was stripped of her power almost entirely by another infiltrator. They're just a weird little guy who's trying to understand mortals and what's going on after being tortured for a long time. The King of Nothing is not his real name, but she does not remember it any more and that's what she goes by now.

Oh and all of these oneshots that I've mentioned actually take place in the same universe! Though most take place in completely different places and time periods. We love the Fate of Tirazia universe :)

Other PCs of mine not mentioned in the notes of that post: Poppy, Areth, Hualing, Elia, Annae, and Marijke. (Of these, only Elia and Annae belong to FOT, the others are from other universes, but all run with generally the same group).

Hope you enjoyed the lore dump! And do tell me about your own Glimmer. 👀 Is that where you get your username from?

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Someday when I finally play Deltarune I'll unblock the tag and go through your blog. It will be a good day I think. Hope you're enjoying the new chapter!

Lol apologies for the endless torrents of hidden posts! The Deltarune brain rot will not leave me help...

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Happy birthday!!!! Or late birthday if it was yesterday. Have a good one

Thank you thank you!!! Yes it was yesterday I watched Totoro with friends :)

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Have you seen I Saw the Tv Glow?

I HAVEN'T BUT I WANT TOOO

I'm not trans but I hear it's has a fucking BANGER trans allegory so I'm very excited to see it

Also it's apparently horror and I love horror >:)

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Have you gotten to read 17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future?

Today is quite special in the story and I think you might like it!

Yes! I checked it out a couple years ago but I don't really remember much. I don't think I ended up finishing it, because I think I lost my spot lol. It seems interesting but I haven't engaged with it in a while

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Wait, what do you do for work?

I work as a lab assistant to a professor who has been working on forming a linguistic perspective of a particular Indigenous language (somewhere in North America, I'm not clarifying what language/where exactly because it would doxx me). My lab PI tries to balance doing research with the language (what actually gets money to live other than teaching) and working closely with the Nations who the language belongs to to actually make it more accessible/assist in whatever way he can in the language revitalization effort.

For some background in case you aren't aware, there are an INCREDIBLE amount of languages indigenous to North (and South) America, and essentially all of them have been impacted in some way by the physical and cultural genocides enacted upon Nation after Nation by the various colonizers of this continent. Of course, language is a hugely important part of any person's culture, but it is especially important when there has been an attempt to erase it from this world. So, many Indigenous Nations have taken to trying to revitalize their languages- learn them themselves, teach their children, and keep their culture alive.

For some of these languages, there are certain resources in the form of field notes taken by (oftentimes white) linguists in the past- vocabulary lists, lists of phrases to understand grammar, entire stories, and even audio recordings. The origins of these notes are often ethically questionable- they would often be taken without giving anything in return, and would oftentimes be taken with the incredibly pervasive attitude of "well they're all going to be gone soon..." (as if Indigenous peoples don't still exist to this day, and as if they were passively disappearing instead of being murdered in state-backed genocide). After that, these documents would oftentimes simply be left in abandoned storerooms, completely inaccessible to the Nations who gave the information in the first place (and oftentimes even if they knew where to access them were, they would be denied access anyways). Regardless, these field notes existing *can* in fact be incredibly useful to reference for language revitalization if they are actually made accessible to the Tribe- so it is a complicated situation.

Anyways all that is to give background on the work that I'm doing, which is basically transcribing those archival documents! As of right now for the language I'm working with there's a bunch of publicly available documents filled with vocabulary lists, grammar lists, etc, but they're very inaccessible, because searching up a translation means flipping through any number of them to find what you're looking for- there's no official dictionary or anything like that. So what I'm doing is making a transcribed copy of each of the translations listed in the documents, which is eventually uploaded into a private database which can be accessed by my professor and the Nations who can use it for whatever they like! It mostly involves interpreting a lot of bad handwriting (and not in English.... ) (the archivist didn't even use IPA they just used their own system of bullshit that's vaguely similar...) (help...).

That being said I really love my job- it's such an honor to be able to work on the language! Language revitalization is something I would love to do if I could find a way to do it in a monetarily sustainable way, so we'll see if that ends up happening!