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This Town is Haunted👻👻

Oh no, don’t tempt me to look into the formspring. But I don’t think even I am brave enough/ have enough free time to tread the festering pits of information that can be found on the formspring. On another note, I’m so glad you gave Vliegeng bigger mouths haha

Ahhhh I just finished reading this entire tumblr! So informative! I love you and your story even more now! So, do I get a medal for this feat of obsession-driven lore consumption? Or how about just vliegeng facts, as they are probably the best mythical creature to be created since dragons became a thing in like, BC 800 or whatever. Please seduce me with inessential minutia about vliegengs Ms. Cope~

Most impressive! Before tumblr I used a site called Formspring for Q&A, so as humongous as this archive of useless information is, imagine it four times longer with an even less intuitive UI :)

Since you’ve read all of tumblr though, I’m not sure what more to offer when it comes to vliegeng. Their original conception was in my roleplaying days. A certain horrid demon could only interact with humans (without driving them insane) by possessing the body of a notoriously hearty burrowing subterranean goat-snake. The demon’s master, a Lich named Lord Nihil, kept the poor critter chained up in his lair for the demon’s convenience. I believe Bastion killed it towards the end of the game. Bastion was always killin’ interesting monsters.

But that’s the reason for this illustration, and why the vliegeng looks so glum. It was not a happy captive.

Of course it was repurposed and altered for Unsounded. Instead of gliding through the earth like a Graboid, I moved it skywards, and added its unique relationship with the khert lines. And it’s such an ugly thing I liked the idea of making it distinctly Aldish, to clash with Aldish elegance. This simple contrast helped define Duane’s brother’s character somewhat. Duane had a brother in RP as well, a completely different character who was much more like him. Lemuel is quite a bit different: earthier, less pretentious, less cerebral. His role as a vliegeng handler influenced that development, I think.

What does Shaensigin's voice sound like in human tongue? Is she better at speaking spider-paw words or the language of two-toes? And what is her natural tongue/sounds, if any?

Shaensigin is very good at spiderpaw talk and something of a mimic. In a time long past, she and Ilganyag had a game they’d play, where they’d start with one word, and go back and forth repeating it, adding a new word of their own every round. Whoever couldn’t repeat the entire string of words first lost the game.

Shaensigin kept up with the bird pretty well.

More impressively, Shaensigin helped the Inak create their language. She’s not only good at it, but responsible for large parts of it. Of all the senet beast gods the two-toes have and still do worship, she has the longest history with them.

Humans can’t speak the two-toe tongue; we can’t make the right sounds. I’m not even going to try and type them out, but there are clicky knocks they make in their snouts, a growled consonant, and little gruffs :3 When I imagine Ruffles squeakily gruffling to her nanna I wish to slightly die.

This year’s election looks great.

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SO HEY WHO WANTS TO HELP ME PRINT BOOKS if you would that would be really cool uh maybe have a look at this here thing! It’s the kickstarter for Volume 2 of The Property of Hate! Y’all wanted it, and Make That Thing are helping me to make… well, that thing.

We got badges and stickers and all kindsa stuff but most of all we gon’ get more delicious readable books! Oh, and if we get enough and then enough again? We get another print of the FIRST volume of TPoH with a new front cover to match this second one! Oh me oh my.

Also if you don’t know what the heck The Property of Hate is maybe go over here and read the whole thing for free? And then tell your grandma about it! Maybe your friends too, and your dog. I love dogs.

SO yeah it’s happen folks let’s make it go

I HAVE BEEN FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGED BY YOUTUBE FISHING VIDEOS

What's the difference in pronunciations between the Ss in Ssael and the S in Soud? Are they, perhaps, pronounced the same, but spelled so as an artefact from Old Tainish? What about the Mm in Mmatont- how's that pronounced?

Double S is a z. Double m is an m with a stop after, treat the mm like its own syllable. So it’s mm-atont. Like, yum, delicious traitors. Mm-atont.

Double n works the same. ssh- is the same. Double L I borrowed from Spanish, and is an english y, with the interesting New Tainish tweak of becoming a separate syllable if it’s at the end of a word. So sshupall (friend) is pronounced probably nothing like you’d imagine! It’s four syllables. ssh-oo-pah-yeh.

Originally I considered using more apostrophes and diacritics in Tainish but fantasy languages are always tattooed up with marks like eighty year old bikers. If French can have utterly unintuitive orthography, so can Tainish, by gum.

Second in the series. I’m really proud of how this turned out, I kind of let go and painted nonstop until this was done, really late last night. I guess you could call it vent art.

utterly obsessed with this right now