Zompist Bboard Again

https://youtu.be/tfqk_LCpKzs?si=cWJd6NY7AGmgGR0q Yi Scripts Interesting, thanks for the info. I think I saw this script during travels around Guangxi Province, but it might actually instead have been at a theme park called Splendid China Folk Village in Shenzhen, which had some beautiful calligraph...

A good exemplar would be Le Guin, who can bend time so easily as to look effortless. One paragraph details the nitty gritty of a singular action, and the next spans six months of its repercussions, perhaps among a whole group of characters, and then you're right back in media res for the next parag...

Writing question: is there a written counterpart to an activity montage sequence in a movie? Suppose that in a work of fiction, there are some people in a place, and then something spurs them into action. Something has happened, or they got the news that something has happened elsewhere, or they've...

Not much to comment but this is beautiful euphonious prose and I like that you have baked textual ambiguity into it for your conpeople to quibble over in translation. It's a long in-world text, too; with your poetry included it would be interesting to see such a large compendium of in-world religiou...

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, tr. Ivan Morris. Chapter titles include “When I make myself imagine”, “Depressing things”, “Hateful things”, “Things that make one’s heart beat faster”. To be so closely inside a 9th century lady’s head is rather amazing.

I'm truly struggling right now. I lost my job recently and it's not been easy to find a new one. If anyone wants to help me out, i can DM a Gofundme, but it's not a demand from me or anything. I guess this whole situation has depressed me a lot. When you're broke, you're just not a complete person....

FB_IMG_1790460236217.jpg A taster, because I can’t find the full documentation. A conscript involving CVC blocks, consisting of mirrored consonant elements (i.e. the coda form is a mirror image of the onset form) and diacritics for vowels. This example says kip at djom suz ‘book of the ways to ador...

alice wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2026 2:52 pm Err... part of me would like them to stay private unless there are any lyricists/vocalists out there with nothing better to do.

I have things to do, but not necessarily better...

I need more poetry for practicing my revised script. I've got one good line for a hymn that's very different from the last hymn ... linn a beth inaiyeor' allos ad, filtahwenna. be.heard.IMP ABS.PL people law-ABS.PL god-GEN.M strong, prophecy-ABS.PL Hear, O people, the mighty god's Laws, the prophec...

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I do think it’s important to remember that making videos takes a hell of a lot of time, and someone making 60 videos for a community is in my opinion entitled to set up a paid tier to appreciate their work, and to promote it. No one is obliged to part with money, but I think it should be fine to ask...

alice wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2026 2:23 pm All four outstanding songs now have workable arangements. This means that not much remains beyond merely playing the bits over and over again until they sound right.

That’s great!

Any chance of hearing them, or are these private enterprises?

1. The main in-world text I've written about from my conworld is the Teotsaeun , ‘The Hive of Being’ in Peoppaeq (and widely translated). Part grammar, part philosophical treatise, it explains the secret ritual language of the Caebaeq priesthood, whilst introducing the reader to fundamental aspects ...

I have another worldbuilding question. Is it really necessary for the Laulai to be so evil towards other humans? There's a risk of that coming across as gratuitously grimdark. I think as you've expressed it thus far, I'm struggling to see why they require an enslavement model of this nature when a l...

It's not like anyone's going to read this anyway. Wrong, fortunately. Here's what I have so far: https://snapshotsofthelabyrinth.photo.blog/2026/08/08/laulai-or-neo-arcadian-language-of-the-breakaway-civilization/ ... Advice? Questions? This is a fascinating piece of work, and a particularly intere...

তার ভুরুর ধনুক বেঁকে ওঠে তনুর তলোয়ার, Furrowing the bow above her eyes, her body a scimitar, সে যেতে যেতে ছড়ায় পথে পাথর-কুচির হার। While dancing by she scatters over the path a necklace of sharpened pebbles. The first line is still confusing me. It says something like: Her brow's bow gets furrow...

I wonder how the residents of (the unfortunate Ukrainian cities which are currently under more or less constant bombardment by Russian missiles) feel about their country "winning", however. What do you think the Ukrainians feel about their country being invaded by a fascist power? War is,...

I don't really know that much about art. I think in most arts, I would probably be able to tell if someone is really bad at the art in question, but I couldn't tell a good and talented amateur from one of the world's best. Now, that makes me wonder: is there really that much of a difference there? ...

I've updated the page with examples ( here ). I think I need a third form of <r> that will flow more smoothly into a following plosive or fricative (e.g. last word <annimirtha>). Also <l> before <f> or <v> looks awkward (e.g. line one word three <e-lf'>). I haven't looked yet at your further though...

Are we all doing scripts? Here's the original Laulai script: https://i.ibb.co/pB9Knphw/PXL-20260924-164030537.jpg I think I was going for a flickering flames vibe. It probably didn't come across at all. I don't have the inspiration to redo it right now, so any advice is appreciated. I’m pretty into...