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Brambonius @brambonius.bsky.social · 1h

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Brambonius @brambonius.bsky.social · 3h

Why the bleep would I be blocked by "Archaeo - Histories" here?
I know some might find me annoying (maybe rightly so), but this one I don't understand...

Brambonius @brambonius.bsky.social · 9h

For the #WIPsnips
These paths aren't made by humans, they're mammoth trails... The old feral megatusker had his own Tolkien's fox moment wondering why there were two little humans in the forest, but I din't give him a POV moment.

Finally they saw the beast itself appear from out of the trees, a huge mountain of tusks and hair with a trunk that moved around like a hyperactive snake, and legs like stomping treetrunks.
‘You idiot, these aren’t paths at all, these are elephant trails!’ Pyra said, grabbing his hand to pull him off the road, and then pressing him to a nearby tree stem. They could feel the ground tremble with every step it made.
‘Mammoth trails,’ Ronan corrected.
The beast relaxedly followed the same trail they were following, and indeed, it had probably even made those weird paths through the wilderness that they were using now.
‘But this is so cool.’
‘This isn’t a game, Pyra. That thing is even bigger than the elephant in the zoo in Ninth city.’ He whispered when the animal almost reached the place where they stood behind a tree.
He almost died of holding his breath while his heart exploded in his chest. Luckily the mammoth just ignored them, as a gentle giant which didn’t care for two little humans. It only looked at them for a second, but clearly had better things to do than bothering with two little humans. It passed them by ostentatiously, and walked off to wherever the trail was going.
They looked at the back of the animal in silence until it finally disappeared into the forest again.
‘What is that monster doing here?’ Ronan said when his heart had calmed down a bit. She let go of his hand to investigate the gigantic tracks the animal had left, and picked up a bit of reddish brown wool from the ground.
‘Oh, it’s just a feral neo-mammoth. But this one looked like an old megatusker.’
‘Only that?

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Brambonius @brambonius.bsky.social · 9h

Eh, for #ConlangNovember
Like our own languages, Nummersil is just sounds that make words and sentences, written down in an alphabet.
Nummerfa are telepathic too, but they transmit their thoughts in language (theirs or others) then.
(they can learn a language fast if they use it telepathically. )

miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 14h

#ConlangNovember 5: Let's start delving into the nitty gritty, with phonemics. What are the basic building blocks that make up words, whether sounds, gestures, pheromones or telepathic brainwaves, that are distinguished by speakers of your language?

#Writing #WritingPrompt #Conlangs #Worldbuilding

Let's start delving into the nitty gritty, with phonemics. What are the basic building blocks that make up words, whether sounds, gestures, pheromones or telepathic brainwaves, that are distinguished by speakers of your language?

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Brambonius @brambonius.bsky.social · 10h

For the #NovemberWorldbuilders
The main purple thing in The Nation seems to be the purple carrots of the outlaws, which are favoured over the standard white carrots by a lot of Nation housewives too.
They(re mentioned several times, this is the closest we come to uncovering their history:

‘Ah, so this is supposed to be food?’ Pyra asked, staring at the weird geometric shapes on the plate.
‘What else would it be, sisterling? And you’re lucky, they’ve given you a whole mix of protein blocks. The red ones are lab-beef, the white ones are lab-cod. The green ones are just watermeal.’ She pointed at the strange cube-like things.
‘Eh, ok? And those tiny white bricks?’ Ronan said, poking a white bar-shaped object.’
‘You don’t even have gnokbok on Nation Island?’
‘I have never heard of anything like gnokbok, or of any of these other abominations.’ Pyra said, trying out the initial gn-sound. ‘Gn…, Gn…, Gnokbok? It’s the carbs I suppose?’
‘It’s made of starch from potatoes and rice. It’s chewy. You best eat it with the tomato sauce.’ Levona said, looking amusedly at the perplexed young Nationers.
‘But why the shapes?’ Ronan asked.
‘I suppose it’s how the machine cuts them? Does’t food always have those shapes?’
‘Eh, not even labmeat looks so perfectly square in The Nation. This is just creepy.’ Ronan said, and then he pointed at the coin-shaped orange things. ‘And what’s that supposed to be?’
‘Those are just carrot slices, manling. Don’t tell me you don’t even have carrots on Nation Island?’
‘Ah, but why are they orange. Carrots should be white.’
‘But those are boring. The best carrots are the purple ones actually. We grow a lot of them in our vegetable patch.’ Pyra added.
‘Well this is where you two completely lose me. Orange carrots are as old as microchips, or even printed books.’
‘Manfred had them banned. I read that in a book. He said that white carrots were more manly I think.’
‘That is the stupidest thing I ever heard.’ Lanova shook her head and Pyra nodded in agreement.

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Brambonius @brambonius.bsky.social · 21h

The inability of the MC Ransom to translate the speech of Weston (who has a weird program of space colonialism) to the Malacandrian language of the Oyarsa (the planetary angel/god) of Mars is also given here, which is also fascinating in several ways:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_...

Out of the Silent Planet - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Brambonius @brambonius.bsky.social · 22h

I've always found the petunias/whale scene in 'the hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy' one of the most intriguing scenes in modern fiction, and I refuse to bow to the people who think 3th omniscient is bad.

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Brambonius @brambonius.bsky.social · 22h

Forget Checkov's guns, what modern literature needs is more random Tolkien's foxes that have zero connection to anything else in the story.

"A fox passing through the wood on business of his own stopped several minutes and sniffed. ‘Hobbits!’ he thought. ‘Well, what next? I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seldom heard of a hobbit sleeping out of doors under a tree. Three of them! There’s something mighty queer behind this.’
He was quite right, but he never found out any more about it."
jrr tolkien, the fellowship of the ring

+ a picture of a red fox

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Brambonius @brambonius.bsky.social · 23h

(the n after language should have been a comma)

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Brambonius @brambonius.bsky.social · 23h

I'm not a fan of some of his Platonist gender stuff in book 2/3 that I find rather sexist but there's a lot of fascinating stuff too world-building wise.
Nummersil has 2 possible loanwords from his Hrossa-languagen the second one being 'nawa' (sentient being), from the Hrossa word 'hnau'.

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Brambonius @brambonius.bsky.social · 23h

Lewis has a trilogy of off-genre adult metaphysical scifi often called the space trilogy even though book 3 is just set on Earth and is a mix of classic dystopia, planetary gods and Arthurian myth. The wikipedia for book one has most of the conlang words he uses:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_...

Out of the Silent Planet - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Brambonius @brambonius.bsky.social · 1d

Grammar has some weird things with word OVS order and often verb/subject agglutination.
Bram esmo. 'I am Bram, es = to be, mo = first person pronoun
Nummerfil onno-esmo, morbut Hmana Orranderuë esmo
(= I am not a Nummerfil, but I am a human from Oranderra)

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Brambonius @brambonius.bsky.social · 1d

For #ConlangNovember
Nummersil is mostly a priori, and partly very randomly a posteriori in a patchwork way.
The root for the verb 'to be' is 'es', and the word 'Anderra' for world/land is a mash-up of terra and handra from C.S. Lewis 'old solar/Hrossa' language in his space trilogy for example.

miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 1d

#ConlangNovember 4: What sources of inspiration did you use to create this conlang? Is it a priori, like Dothraki, or a posteriori, like Atlantean from Atlantis: The Lost Empire?

#Writing #WritingPrompt #Conlangs #Worldbuilding

What sources of inspiration did you use to create this conlang? Is it a priori (with vocabulary and other features not directly based on existing languages), like Dothraki, or a posteriori (taking vocabulary and other elements from existing languages), like Atlantean from Atlantis: The Lost Empire?

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Brambonius @brambonius.bsky.social · 1d

*very distant past

Millions of years ago that is. No-one knows how long. Not even a microbe survived.
Now there's a continent with ancient alien ruins, part of it melted and glazed, and seas that are too acidic to cross, but the air is compatible somehow...

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Brambonius @brambonius.bsky.social · 1d

The story itself is in our time (2017 actually), the Nummerfa fled our world for Nuanderra 10.000 years or so, the Sonbar-dhamue invasion of which the Hmanerfi of Kavanderra are descendants was probably 2000 years after that. All of it before our historical records...

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Brambonius @brambonius.bsky.social · 1d

(except for one small alien animal, origin unknown) and most is found on Hmanerfi Island.
Their ancestors were banned from Nuanderra with an erased memory after a failed invasion from our world into Nuanderra.

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Brambonius @brambonius.bsky.social · 1d

Kavanderra is the parallel world or the planet.
It's unconnected to our cluster of worlds and the original inhabitants were pure aliens, which killed off all life in their world in the equivalent of a nuclear war in a very distant part.
All life there now is either from our world or Nuanderra

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Brambonius @brambonius.bsky.social · 1d

For #Bookvember
It wasn't technically a children's book, but one of the books I liked even before I could even read was a 'flora of Belgium and the Netherlands' field guide, and when I started reading I read it all the way through. That's how I became the kid known for knowing all the plants...

Samantha Breaux @woodenvelt.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to #Bookvember Day 4!

Follow the directions on the prompt card and share your love of the written word with others.

#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity

Bookvember, a book share prompt game for writers and readers by @woodenvelt.bsky.social

Day 4: Share your favorite non-fiction children’s book or series. What topic did you nerd out over? Dinosaurs? Space? Something more obscure? Remember: Quote post using #Bookvember. Use alt text for images. Have fun and interact with others!

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Brambonius @brambonius.bsky.social · 1d

For #NovemberWorldbuilders
The Angel of the Earth, revered by Ghost Town outlaws, is usually shown as a green lady in a long gown.
She embodies life in all senses, wisdom and protection, and some say she will destroy any man who enters her chapels.
Michael's experience says otherwise...

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Brambonius @brambonius.bsky.social · 1d

(The only sort of premise that is more existentially unsettling might be the humans-evolving-to-something-that-isn't-human-anymore from Wells' the time machine, or much more detached Dougal Dixon's 'man after man' speculative biology, but you really found one of the scariest scenarios possibleà

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Brambonius @brambonius.bsky.social · 1d

On the one hand a pure slice-of-life in such a horror world would be fascinating already, but on the other hand it's probably impossible for a writer to not make it much worse than that.
And the implications can really be horrifying, more than a lot of horror premises.

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Brambonius @brambonius.bsky.social · 1d

I could've given Narnia for #Bookvember too, but more did that, and I also should mention (slightly younger age) Astrid Lindgren, not just Swedish kid slice-of-life stuff like Bullerbyn, seacrow or Emil, but also the soft traditional fantasy of Ronja the Robbersdaughter which made a big impression!

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Brambonius @brambonius.bsky.social · 1d

I also remembered for #novemberworldbuilders that the 'ranking badges' for Nationers (Alpha to Epsilon with a 1-10 number for men and A-E for women) are yellow, and gold in case of Alpha, Beta-1-3 and 1-ranked for others ranks.
Michael has a golden Gamma-1 badge in ANOD 1, which is rare...

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Brambonius @brambonius.bsky.social · 1d

Pondering the mythical botaurus...

Brambonius @brambonius.bsky.social · 2d

To be honest, that's one of the creepiest 'cosmic horror' premises I've ever seen. It would be hard to come up with something worse even...

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