Loud Noises Can Be Scary When You’re Just A Little Cat

One of my least favorite mental illness things is "hungry but dont feel like eating" and its companions "hungry but all the food in the house is Illegal," "hungry but can't make anything," and "hungry, want to eat, but why bother"

Truth

I've heard High Valyrian has no words for grandparents, is that right? And what word might exist for that role?

It sure didn't—until I created them.

There are four terms:

kekepa "father's father"

mumuña "mother's mother"

kepāzma "mother's father"

muñāzma "father's mother"

In a conlang, there are always words that aren't there because they're supposed to not be there, and words that aren't there because they haven't been created yet. That latter category is always going to be much, much larger than the former.

I love it when anons/guests find my works and kudo/leave reviews, but given the new revelation that Elon Musk is using bots to mine AO3 fanfiction for a writing AI without writer's permission, my works are now archive-locked and only available for people with an AO3 account.

@frislander

The first suspect

And no, I don't mean Rich!

Unless...

Some white goy: Your Ashkenazi family aren't from the Middle Ea--

Me: I literally can eat za'atar for breakfast. You don't even know what that is. I can eat whole peppercorns for snacks. CUMIN FLOWS IN MY VEINS

I have been on hiatus from this site and will continue to be for a while. Just have no energy to sort out who to unfollow anymore

Well it’s not just any boomers. The guy in the middle is Kevin Chamberlin, a Broadway performing gay powerhouse.

also credits to Austin Archer, who made this song (yourpal_austin on multiple social media, YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaK8y-VmmJG-VXE3-YiQYBA)

I never expected a webcomic artist who writes about peace and love for everyone and the importance of standing up for LGBT rights everywhere would link to a site that calls for the end of Israel's existence and a Jewish group that repeatedly uses undeniably antisemitic imagery in their attacks on Israel as well as homophobia.

So far unfollowed two people over the war in Israel and Palestine. Thought that after the last conflict I had already sorted out who not to follow. At least none of them are mutuals, but one of them is a conlanger and linguist I've admired for so many years whose insights on PIE reconstruction have been of great interest to me.

I suggest that we start using the term ‘creatives’ instead of ‘content creators’ for authors/artists/gifmakers/podficcers for a few reasons, and chief among them are these;

we can’t always be our most productive, but there’s a terrible trend of fandom folks feeling bad if they don’t have something new to post every few weeks

you’re still a creative person even if you aren’t creating something at a given time, for whatever reason

and something it’s taken me far too long to learn myself: making things is not the rent you pay to be part of a community