🕷️🎃Profmare on Em Street🎃🕷️

#AwesomeCharacters I mean it's all about the rizz right? 😂 They gotta be having fun, or delightfully stylish, or compellingly complex... something that makes the story come alive when they're in it. Villains who are *just* petty bigots & asshole bullies, without much else going on, are the worst.

#LitHodgepodge 26 #GodsOfAtalantis: Mireia usually prefers blunt truths over lies. She doesn't like being deceptive & hates when others are deceptive with her. HOWEVER, if she's desperate enough she absolutely will lie - to get what she wants, to protect people. She tells a big lie in Book 1...🧵

It's usually a defense mechanism, though sometimes it might be to protect someone/something else, or to achieve some strategic goal. Icozoue pretty much never lies. She hates liars.* Xa'aba lies so often & so well that she has herself convinced half the time. With her, it's usually for power.

#LitHodgepodge 26 #GodsOfAtalantis: Mireia usually prefers blunt truths over lies. She doesn't like being deceptive & hates when others are deceptive with her. HOWEVER, if she's desperate enough she absolutely will lie - to get what she wants, to protect people. She tells a big lie in Book 1...🧵

#Conlangity 25 I AM CAUGHT UP AGAIN MWAHAHA So I mentioned for Day 24 one bit of Na'aqal slang, which is "Yaiaku?" [Catch it?] The root verb "yaaki" means to fish/catch stuff in a net, but the question is used like the way you'd say "understand?" or "get it?" Another is "iidi" ["bumblebee"]...🧵

than "damn" in English. Telling someone "baiaq ki!" is essentially like "go fuck yourself" Ha'utsa - a mutated slang word for someone who um, is a bit TOO fond of goats 😅 Used like "motherfucker!" Keqe - a certain male body part, but with harshness level of "cunt" in America. This one will get you

#Conlangity 25 I AM CAUGHT UP AGAIN MWAHAHA So I mentioned for Day 24 one bit of Na'aqal slang, which is "Yaiaku?" [Catch it?] The root verb "yaaki" means to fish/catch stuff in a net, but the question is used like the way you'd say "understand?" or "get it?" Another is "iidi" ["bumblebee"]...🧵

Literally this translates as "fishes the fish," but it means "the fish swims." People say this to mean that people/things tends to follow their natures - i.e. "fishes gonna swim, whatcha gon do about it" One interesting one is "ni'if," which is the name of the goddess of taboos,

#Conlangity 25 I AM CAUGHT UP AGAIN MWAHAHA So I mentioned for Day 24 one bit of Na'aqal slang, which is "Yaiaku?" [Catch it?] The root verb "yaaki" means to fish/catch stuff in a net, but the question is used like the way you'd say "understand?" or "get it?" Another is "iidi" ["bumblebee"]...🧵

#Conlangity 24 In Na'aqal, because so much is communicated through the inflection & conjugation of nouns/verbs + the strict VSO word order, a lot of times they'll leave out the subject & even the object of a verb. If a regular verb doesn't have a stated subject, it's assumed to be "I"...

Properly written would be "Yaiaku kie ab?" [Catch you it?], but both the subject & object can be left off because the verb is transitive (has an unstated object) and interrogative (asking you a question). So saying "Yaiaku kie ab?" would immediately clock you as someone not from around there 😂

#Conlangity 24 In Na'aqal, because so much is communicated through the inflection & conjugation of nouns/verbs + the strict VSO word order, a lot of times they'll leave out the subject & even the object of a verb. If a regular verb doesn't have a stated subject, it's assumed to be "I"...

If it's a question or command without a stated subject, the subject is understood to be "you" unless it's obviously referring to something else: "Yaioku kie ya ja'api?" [Catch you the fish?] would almost always be instead just "Yaioku ya ja'api?" [Catch the fish?] If there's a transitive verb...

#Conlangity 24 In Na'aqal, because so much is communicated through the inflection & conjugation of nouns/verbs + the strict VSO word order, a lot of times they'll leave out the subject & even the object of a verb. If a regular verb doesn't have a stated subject, it's assumed to be "I"...

unless there's some really obvious other subject it's referring to. For example: Maila due ki ["love I you"] is almost never said; it's usually just maila ki ["love you"] In another context: "The man who loves her" Properly written would be "Ya haajib se maila tie dha" [The man that loves he her]

#Conlangity 23 Gonna be lazy with this one 😅 Food/Eat: "vaaku" Drink: "iijun" Hungry: "adapoue" Satisfied/Full: "ataloue" Meat: "baakni" Water: "boata" Cooking pot: "tafaatsel" Table: "tosen" Spoon: "totzi" Knife: "tzifet" In Mireia's hometown, they eat a lot of ja'api (fish) & habuuk (goose) ☺️ 🧵

#Conlangity 22 I pretty much answered this when I talked about the verb moods! There are interrogative, imperative & subjunctive moods for verbs: Verb: "miira" [see] Miiru? = "Do you see?" Miirats! = "Look!" Ju he miira... = "If I see..." The overall structure of the sentences wouldn't change.

#Conlangity 21 In Na'aqal, the subordinate clauses are structured basically the same as English, with conjunctions like: Ha’ot = “before” Xexe = “after” Sebet = “when/while/as” Yaajif = “because” Ju = “if” Tetla = “although” Besa = “like/as if” Vot = “how” Juniik = “unless” Yaban = “until” 🧵

If you wanted to say "after class" (preposition) or "he was fine before" (adverb), there would be different words for those. For relative clauses, there's the pronoun "sa," which is basically like "that" but can't be used as a determiner. (So if you want to say "that girl" you can't say "sa seda,"

#Conlangity 21 In Na'aqal, the subordinate clauses are structured basically the same as English, with conjunctions like: Ha’ot = “before” Xexe = “after” Sebet = “when/while/as” Yaajif = “because” Ju = “if” Tetla = “although” Besa = “like/as if” Vot = “how” Juniik = “unless” Yaban = “until” 🧵

#Conlangity 20 Oops playing catch up AGAIN! 😅 Na'aqal numbers are base 10 like ours, but because they view 11 as a special number, all multiples & powers of eleven get unique names. 1 - du 2 - ki 3 - ven 4 - xo 5 - peko 6 - sebh 7 - zuka 8 - muun 9 - paala 10 - zue 11 - ninaavi 🧵

Exceptions to the pattern are the multiples & powers of 11, like I said. So 22 wouldn't be "kizue-ki," it would be "ki-ninaavi." Some other special ones: 121 - "ninaavinaavi" (I like that one lol) 12,321 - "faaroninaavi" 1,234,321 - "uutroninaavi" These are sacred bc they're the "pyramid" numbers:

#Conlangity 20 Oops playing catch up AGAIN! 😅 Na'aqal numbers are base 10 like ours, but because they view 11 as a special number, all multiples & powers of eleven get unique names. 1 - du 2 - ki 3 - ven 4 - xo 5 - peko 6 - sebh 7 - zuka 8 - muun 9 - paala 10 - zue 11 - ninaavi 🧵

Other numbers work the same way but for indefinite pronouns: Ven (3) - "a few" Peko (5) - "some/a handful" Zue (10) - "many" Ninaavi (11) - "all/every" [From the Sea Mother's verse:] Duo vari seruwek ninaavi, no bause ninaavi duo va = "From me all things are born, & to me all things shall return"

#Conlangity 20 Oops playing catch up AGAIN! 😅 Na'aqal numbers are base 10 like ours, but because they view 11 as a special number, all multiples & powers of eleven get unique names. 1 - du 2 - ki 3 - ven 4 - xo 5 - peko 6 - sebh 7 - zuka 8 - muun 9 - paala 10 - zue 11 - ninaavi 🧵

As I mentioned on pronouns day, "du" and "ki" are also the 1st & 2nd person pronouns. So in Na'aqal you basically say "One went to the store" (I went to the store), "One got two a present" (I got you a present). However the words tend to get different modifications as pronouns...