eternity in a moment, iridescent

they/she. linguistics fanatic & conlanger. occasional artist. mostly fandom stuff. :) [avatar id: art of gerry keay from the magnus archives. credit: nxctern] [header id: landscape shot taken from the film howl's moving castle]

[theoneinakrillion]

hello :) i've finally gotten around to making an intro post so. here goes

i'm gonna go by the name iridescent on here. they/she :3

languages: russian & english (fluent); german, japanese, irish, toki pona(learning, at varying levels)

current main fandoms: • the magnus archives • the silt verses • malevolent • critical role (particularly campaigns 2 & 4) • jujutsu kaisen • witch hat atelier • tgswiiwagaa (green yuri <3) • lotr & the silmarillion • pokemon (especially vgc) • the mechanisms • the locked tomb

other major interests: • linguistics (especially conlanging & historical linguistics) • dungeons & dragons • music • art/drawing

tags: • fandoms will mostly be tagged with abbreviations where applicable • conlang stuff will be tagged with #conlang • main worldbuilding & conlanging project i'm working on atm: #altau • #post in a krillion - original posts • #art in a krillion - my art • #ask in a krillion - asks

thanks for reading and enjoy :)

[image id: a series of userboxes, arranged in rows of two except for the last one, that state the following, in order: "this user is deeply abnormal about the magnus archives" "this disciple is deeply abnormal about the silt verses" "this user is an avatar of the lonely." "this uses is an aligned with the eye." "this user just hasn't learned how to be human as you are yet." "this user is anti ai" "this user [static noises]" end id.]

userbox credits: tma & tsv - @/james-spooky / the lonely & the eye - @/glamrock-beauty-salon / against the kitchen floor lyric - @/songuserbox / anti-ai - @/user-boxes-idk / [static noises] - i fear i do not remember where i have it from :/ if anyone knows lmk

[blabbinbab]

HI I LOVE YOUR ART OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

can i have a doorkeay art? pls 🥹

he accidentally smoked the gay blunt

[valeriapryanikova]

THE BUTCHER / THE BUTCHERED

[dubiousdisco]

[oneheadtoanother]

You have nothing to lose but your hurt; you have a world of comfort to win

[volant-endeavor]

The communist manifesto, on ao3

[whirling-ghost]

[ID: a screenshot from archive of our own. its The Communist Manifesto posted by music_kid67 in the history-fandom category. it's tagged: creator chose not to use archive warnings, hurt no comfort, everyone is gay, found family.

the summary reads "so many people don't know what the communist manifesto is or they didn't learn ab it in school so I'm putting it on ao3 so it's accessible to a lot of people".

it's in english, has 11,447 words in 5 chapters, 3 comments, 87 kudos, 21 bookmarks and 2,155 hits. end ID]

[digihowl]

more ppl need to get hooked on this drug called album in order. not enough people on album in order these days

[sstrawbearri]

walk until you are lost to me

my contribution to the @zineoftideandflesh

[terpsikeraunos]

ancient greek word of the day: κακοθερής (kakotherēs), unfitted to endure summer heat

[aphilologicalbatman-deactivated]

this literally means “bad at summer” pass it on

[zipstick]

Reblog if you, too, are bad at summer

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[catwyk]

... and PEOPLE turn into FUCKING SHRIMP

this is my submission for the @zineoftideandflesh !!! if you saw it before no you didnt!!! i may not be posting that much about it these days but if ever there were a series to make its home inside me, its the silt verses. thanks to the wonderful organizers and the talented community that make zines like this so much fun to be a part of :]

[birdcantthink]

The phrasing of “the universe believed us…for a while” when Jonny talks about the mech’s immortality is really cool because it’s phrased as if it was something they willed into existence, something they forced. They tricked the universe into allowing them to control their lives for a bit. And that is saying something with the whole Narrative thing they have going on. it’s cool

[real-language-facts]

lorem ipsum is a lesbian and shes dating etaoin shrdlu

[morphmaker]

the silmarillion bride

[star-h0pper]

i'm finally getting caught up on cr4 e31 and man. the clear influences of the player's real life culture in their characters (and in the worldbuilding in brennan's case) is amazing and adds such a richness. like thaisha is so clearly influenced by like. black american folk culture Especially with the orcish revolutionaries. idk if liam is irish but he's at least running with a lot of the irish american working class stuff brennan injected into the world in terms of the hal and the culture of the round. and azune's whole bit about not having anyone to speak his native language to and his disconnect to his own identity (diaspora narrative). i Love when real world cultures are reflected in fiction it's so good.

[star-h0pper]

#and what Robbie is doing with Katt seems to be very much exploring the unchecked violence against native women and children in the USA

oh fuck you're right. you're totally right that's exactly the allegory.

[quinn-of-aebradore]

@hemisphaericas hope it’s okay to save your tags, Rose, they’re very very good!!!

[baleful-meat-worm]

hello fandom i shan't name. in front of you is a character almost outright explicitly stated by the text to be sex averse or repulsed. your challenge is to not lump them into the homogenous mass comprised of the mean averages of every usage of the word "asexual" in order to argue they would love to shag freaky style for wellbeing, and instead respect representation that does not specifically include your exact demographic. the

[tomirida]

Wake up babe new online game just dropped

Simulate language evolution through sound change; play puzzles or experiment with your own rules

1. The app generates a proto-language with its own vocabulary and phonology.

2. Sound change rules derive daughter languages and cognate sets.

3. You then try to reconstruct the proto-forms, like a historical linguist.

[alx52]

My new fave game

[conlangery]

Looks interesting. I’ll have to check it out when I have more time.

[theoneinakrillion]

trying to organise myself to develop more vocabulary for the conlangs i'm working on atm so i might start posting a lexember-style thing but weekly maybe ? we'll see

[thesiltverses]

Doing a re listen and Inside my pretty little head, Eskew is a city in the Silt Verses universe. You can't help but falling in love with her. It demands your adoration.

That being said, I'm sure Carpenter would burn the whole thing to the ground

Look, I talk a big game about maintaining the integrity and finality of stories, but on the other hand:

[runasulienadanika]

GRIDDLEHARK AND CAMPAL ARE OPPOSITES BUT ALSO PARALLEL TO EACH OTHER AND IT MAKES ME SO INSANE

6th House is on mercury and 9th House is on pluto so they're on the opposite ends of the dominicus system

9 is 6 uspide down and 6 is 9 upside down

the Ninth House and the Sixth House are religion vs science

Gideon and Harrow are (were) childhood enemies, Camilla and Palamedes are (were) childhood friends. Gideon and Harrow had a hard time trusting each other, Camilla and Palamedes trusted each other with everything.

Gideon and Harrow are all about forgetting ("But I don’t even remember about you most of the time", the whole lobotomy situation), Camilla and Palamedes are all about remembering ("I’ve carried you, Warden. And I’ve carried your memory … I’d rather carry you", "Palamedes remembers everything: That was his problem. I always remember him. That’s mine")

Gideon and Harrow are water (the Pool Scene, Gideon being in the "well" in Harrow's mind, Harrow deciding to stay in the River and Gideon "dying" in the River), Camilla and Palamedes are fire (Palamedes's first death, Palamedes and Camilla's lyctoral ascention)

in griddlehark's case the necromancer carried their cavalier's soul, in campal's case the cavalier carried their necromancer's soul

Gideon and Palamedes sacrificed themselves, Harrow then carried Gideon's sword even though it was killing her and Camilla carried Palamedes's bones even though boe electrocuted her for it

Gideon and Camilla are both "devotion's casualties"

Harrow and Camilla risked permanent brain damage to save the souls they carried

Gideon barely had any training for her position and Camilla trained her whole life, but they both didn't normally use their rapiers and were both set on fighting rather than on traditional duelling

the 6th and the 9th are both poor, underestimated, dying houses. Harrow and Palamedes have been leading them since they were very young and they do anything to try to improve the situation

Harrow fell in love with the Body when she was 10, Palamedes began writing to Dulcinea when he was 8. both into old dead chicks (as Gideon phrased it) while also loving their cavaliers

Camilla watched Gideon impale herself to force Harrow's ascention, Gideon watched Camilla light herself on fire during her and Palamedes's ascention

"This was your shell but it was all filled up with me" & "It's not you. It's me wearing you"

"I keep turning around to find you, and there’s nobody there." "I know the feeling." & "You’d touched that letter, and I—you know it was killing me twice that you weren’t there, right? You must know it was destroying me to be there in your body, trying to keep your thumbs on, and I couldn’t even hear your damn voice?"

"Kiriona Gaia was staring politely at the side of the truck, as though there were something really interesting on the paintwork" & "Even Camilla, who had turned away to politely investigate something on the opposite wall, wasn’t there"

"It was just her and Harrow and Harrow’s bitter, high-boned, stupid little face" & "Palamedes said, and now Nona knew he wasn’t speaking to anyone else in the universe"

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there's probably more, that's just from the top of my head. but yeah, they make me insane and i'm foaming at the mouth.