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[muddygoblins]

pegasus?

pegasus: ever had a recurring dream?

Definitely-- I have a lot of themes that come up in dreams, very often survival scenarios like zombie apocalypses (but never about the apocalypse, always about the reforming community in the face of it). 

[shipburner]

true friendship is making the Main Alien Species from each others’ novels alien carp in your own

[dailyau]

Fog? (I hope this didn't send twice; I think my phone crashed it last time)

only sent once! 

fog - how well do you think you’d do in a zombie apocalypse scenario?

i have actually put a lot of thought into this. i think it depends on a lot of things. i think if i make it past the initial ‘humans go crazy and take this chance to kill everyone’ bit i will make myself useful enough to be included in a group somewhere with protections. every crusty dude ive ever met has said i would be used for breeding purposes so id always be armed and might sterilize myself ~Lucy

[dedalvs]

Heya slengheda! Thank you for all of the awesome work! I started watching the 100 for it because I loved Defiance so much. You said that Azrán is 500 years from Spanish, but Trigedasleng is 100. How do you put a calendar to how fast a language changes? I tried looking at glottochronology for my language family, but everything I read referenced debunked ideas. Thank you!

Languages do not change their sounds at the same rate. Many different factors come into play. In fact, individual sounds themselves also may change at different rates in a given language. Consider what’s happened to /k/ in English over the centuries (very little) vs. all the vowels of English (the opposite of very little). We haven’t gotten it down to a science yet—i.e. x phoneme is y% likely to change to a, b…n in z number of years. As a conlanger, then, you just have to do your best and try to get something you’re happy with. When judging it, a conlanger has to do the same thing: Just kind of take a look at it and see what they think, based on their own experience with studying language change. There may come a day much later where we know a lot more and a lot of the stuff we do now will be all wrong and look goofy, but unless we perfect time travel, we can’t really worry about that. Just have to do our best.

Oh, and don’t worry about glottochronology. Pretend it doesn’t exist.

[incorrectimperialradchquote-blog]

Are you accepting submissions for Provenance, or are you planning to after a spoiler period? I have an idea. Thanks!

Hi! Thank you for the message.

It’s probably gonna sound selfish of me, but since I haven’t read Provenance yet (booo @ myself), I would rather you wait until November to submit things. Afterwards it’s all good!

[darling-child-tisarwat]

Kalr 5, Tisarwat, High Fantasy

“Your Highness,” Kalr Five said evenly as she proffered the brocade of silk out to Princess Tisarwat, “if you would only consider--”

“No, I can’t! Anything but that! How awful, my own Lady-in-waiting, torturing me with such--such... oh!” Tisarwat said, throwing herself dramatically on the bed in a fit of fresh tears. 

“But your Highness,” Kalr Five huffed, though she knew she’d lost the battle, “purple is the color of royalty.”

[annleckie]

I'm reading (and loving) She Commands Me an I Obey, and, thinking of it in light of the rest of the series, I wonder: Does this mean Sister is a Supreme Court Justice?

Ha! :D

Did you know that once I put the Spanish title through a translation program and it told me that Justicia Auxilliar meant “Assistant Attorney General”? 

[muddygoblins]

silk?

silk: what’s your favorite type of tea?

Mint! It’s the clearest and the most likely to make me feel like I’m treating myself right, which I think is what tea is about.