alyssa @alyssa@cat.family

one time my mother-in-law used the comparison "Buenos Aires is the West of Argentina" to clarify that the rest of the country dislikes it.

solaris is kind of an underwhelming film

girl-like-substance’s writing really makes one wish you had stories you needed to tell.

(balance! how!)

how indeed, lothian

backwoods redoubt
carrion pride
persephone

i was forgetting to look at the chapter titles but now that i am, they really look like alternate-universe mountain goats song titles

i recommended it last night and she's already finished it

i forgot how good ghost town is wow

recommended ghost town to my wife after she finished the fic she was reading and now i'm rereading ghost town
(she is also reading ghost town but not re-reading it for obvious reasons)

mawile is such a cutie

due to backer rewards having been delivered for the far roofs i now have jenna moran's poetry game about farmland financialization. hype

a problem: how to keep track of the fact that the analogue to the reconstructed proto-indo-european sky-god in this conlang's speakers' ancient religion is (loosely speaking) a trans woman when i'm not currently really recording facts about the culture of its speakers (except insofar as they might be inferred from the lexicon or sample texts)

solution:

nobihél (b-h-l): nf. a sort of priestess to Bihêl that will be so popular among tw if this setting ever develops a tumblr-analogue

uhhh i think i'm just gonna change the phonotactics lol

awkward moment where i realized that a bunch of my derivational patterns violate my phonotactic rule against having a coda in syllables with long vowels

just saying that was not the best choice of examples to follow with the comment about some languages utilizing both

«English places adjectives before nouns, as in black cat, while a language like Spanish places adjectives after nouns, as in gato negro, literally “cat black.” There are a number of languages that utilize both orderings.»

yes, like, spanish. and english.