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Wildwalk Alphabet

The Wildwalk alphabet is unique in that it is centered around how a word is pronounced, rather than how it’d be spelled in another language or if it had a pictogram to represent it. Words they heard would be spelled phonetically, allowing the reader to be able to pronounce it correctly when read back aloud even if it was something from a language they didn’t natively speak. This was especially useful for a crossroads town, whether it be learning how to speak new names/languages or recording something that someone with a purely oral language had said. (Needless to say, it was pretty popular among the village’s musicians and bards)

Numbers were admittedly added into the alphabet later, and thus follow a more ‘visual’ logic than a phonetic/audio based one. They function similar to English numbers, with the 0 written differently whether it was used an actual zero or as a placeholder (10, 100, etc).

A couple examples of names spelled in the phonetic Wildwalk alphabet:

Daniel (D A* N Y L)

Toadie (T O D EE)

Chyth (Ch IH TH)

N (E N)

Valentine’s commissions for @thedovahcat

Aahh thanks again for commissioning me and being so patient. I love your characters! :3

trying to trick myself into feeling something again by drawing a doofy mordesh

it almost worked

This might seem fun for some people, but for us it’s not. 

You see, Palawan is known for its non-commercialized islands and untouched beaches. There are only a few resorts in there, and the government limits tourism population there. Here are some pictures of our beautiful islands:

Nickelodeon, however, wants to capitalize the island of Coron, Palawan. They’re going to build a resort and theme park there. They claim that they want to “spread environmental awareness” but they’re really not. Building this resort will disrupt the marine ecosystem; thus destroying the environment there. Also, Palawan is our last ecological frontier in the Philippines. If they’re going to continue to do this, more and more big companies will cash-in to commercialize Palawan- and I really do not want that to happen.

I know petitions won’t do much, but at least we can prove a point that Palawan should not be disrupted. Please sign this petition, so that it will not only show that us Filipinxs don’t want this, but people from different countries as well. Please spread it around as well, so that people from different countries can be aware of what Nickelodeon is doing.

I CAN ONLY HOPE THE PETITION IS GOING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. I SIGNED IT SO FAST.

Another old person from outer space.

canvas: open

references: ready

idea: thumbnailed

Ravenous Feast - (all meat, cubacon, dawngrazer, girrok, some kind of weird pepperoni and tentacles)

Arborian Harvest - (flamefrond, glowmelon, goldeaf, heartichoke and julienned veggies in a rich marinara sauce)

Granok Gutbuster - (gravel mixed in with the dough, healthy mix of meat and lichens, heavy bourbon bbq sauce)

Ikthian Invasion - (seaweed baked into the base, all the seafood they could muster dredged out of the lake in Whitevale)

Big Buggy Crunch - (golden roasted bugflesh, augmented spider legs (the nanites are for flavor!), boiled barkbiters and… yes… the roaches are supposed to be there, all on a bed of greens and white sauce)

Cheese - (… what? It’s cheese.)

Whitevale White - white pizza, snoglug glaze, frozen. (suggested by bricktits)

Mechari Oilslick - Thickened motor oil sauce with exanite crunchies baked into the crust. (suggested by bricktits)

Cassian Caprese - Finely milled flour flatbread, aged cheese made with the tears of Exiles, wine sauce. (suggested by bricktits)

Chua Surprise - Garbage? Wait… is the pizza for chuas or made of chuas? (suggested by bricktits)

And uh… I can’t think of any others. Can you?

You place an order on the datachron and if they’re not there in half an hour you get 3% off of your next pizza purchase.

If you’ve been following me for the last couple months, you’ve probably seen me make several posts gushing over this game. I get to play a space-cowboy, I love space cowboys - it was a pretty easy draw for me. But personal bias aside, I’ve been left wondering just how a game like this didn’t take-off at the hands of us creative rp-types. Thinking upon it further, I realized that before I started actually playing I had virtually zero idea of just how much this game would/could cater to my rp desires. So I’m thinking… that maybe people just don’t realize how robust of an rp platform Wildstar is. In lieu of this, I'ma point out five things about Wildstar that really f*cking rock if you enjoy in-game RP. Ready? Here we go.

Let’s start with the big gun first: Housing. You know all those ‘territory disputes’ you hear about in WoW, where X group wanted to host an event at such-and-such location only to find other people already using the space? That doesn’t happen in Wildstar, because every character gets their own phased housing plot at level 14. You can set your plot to public so that anyone can come visit, or you can keep it so that only you and folks you select as neighbors can go. You can even keep it completely private if you like. As for what you can build there? Anything. I’m not kidding. I’ve seen haunted houses, a mini-golf course, dive bars, strip clubs, sports clubs, jungles, a super-advanced spaceship, even a full-on recreation of the Lion’s Pride Inn from Goldshire. Objects you buy for the plot are both resizable and infinitely rotatable. Hell, even just plot hopping around to see what other people have made is an adventure in its own. It’s incredible seeing how off the wall creative people get with it. Like really there’s an art gallery out there where someone shrank down the objects to make little diorama paintings and it’s just… mind-blowing. I would have thrown my hat into this game for the housing system alone, but as it turns out that’s not the only outstanding thing about this game.

Three words: Cross. Faction. RP. This is a brand new feature of the game that gives us exactly what people have been asking for in WoW for years. You can talk to people on the opposing faction. You can group up and play with them even. And your housing plot? You can make it cross-faction friendly too, just don’t be too surprised if a bar fight breaks out. ;3

I’d be hard-pressed not to talk about the rp community itself - which is relatively small in comparison to WoW but far more active in terms of inciting involvement. The Wildstar RP forum keeps a calendar of events (which are quite frequent), but even without relying on that you can pop into the WSRP chat channel, ask if there’s any rp going on, and odds are someone is going to be like “Yeah! _____’s bar is open for the night!” or “We’re all rolling at ______’s bathhouse!” Those who are there are active and friendly towards new players. I’ve been incredibly impressed with the amount of rp I’ve gotten to witness and be a part of so far. On Tuesday, I got to go to a class lecture about splorgs. Then the splogs escaped and people had to find them. It was great. These people are great.

Here’s one I’ve waxed poetic about already but folks. Folks. The Holo Wardrobe. Imagine NOT having to run to a transmog location every time you get new gear. Imagine being able to change your outfit anytime, anywhere. Imagine getting to use any armor category for a costume piece no matter what your class is. Imagine clothes that look like CLOTHES and not just beefy or overly-intricate armor. And if ALL THAT isn’t enough for you (because I was won over by that alone tbh), you can collect dyes that you can use to customize your outfits. Often times the clothing items have multiple areas that can be color changed. It’s hella addicting just sitting in the window and playing dressup with your character. You know, if you like that sorta thing. I really like that sorta thing.

It’s FREE. Super free. And while there is an in-game store you can opt to spend actual money in, the game also GIVES you currency you can use in the store just for playing. Not just piddly amounts of the currency either - I’ve been able to buy myself 4 extra costume slots and three decor packs just from what I earned as a free player. And while yes, I did eventually sub - it was more because I wanted to support the game and less because it gave me any real advantage. There’s no real push to pay for a sub - you can have all the rp fun-times without it.

Really, there are many, many more things that make Wildstar a fun time. As someone coming from being sorta burnt out by WoW’s level grind, I was surprised at how refreshing my PVE experience felt on my way up to level cap. Not to mention you get hoverboards - which, don’t even get me started on just how fun it feels to zip around performing constant melon-grabs and gliding across water like it’s no big deal. There are hoverboard racetrack plots, by the way. Just saying. Juuusssst. Saying.

I doodled this back during my summer vacation with my family (hence why it’s so unseasonal) and there is a small story behind it. My mother, sister and I were out shopping for clothes one day, when I, while idly browsing, found this very dress hanging. 

OH MY GOD, IF THIS IS NOT ZURI I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS, I thought.

Though ît was slightly outside of what I would guiltlessly afford, and I cannot pull it off nearly as well as Zuri does, I just couldn’t resist. I had to have it.