That’s Mr. Dyke To You

Some AAVE speakers pluralize 'child' as 'childrens'. People get racist about this ("It's already plural!"), but 'children' actually comes from Middle English speakers doing the same thing: slapping their plural marker on word already pluralized by an extinct plural marker.

To oversimplify: in Old English, 'childer' ('ċildra') was the plural of 'child' ('ċild'). Middle English developed an '-en' plural marker, which we see in 'oxen'. Instead of updating to 'childen', people slapped their preferred '-en' onto the end of 'childer' - so now we have 'child-er-en'. AAVE carries on this tradition with 'child-er-en-s'.

"Pure" language is just impurity obscured by the passage of time.

linked tree (includes options to donate to Ghanaian projects)

Smoll comic that's basically just an excuse to draw them smooching lol

+bonus doodle

Curious pebble (1/?)

Curious pebble (2/?)

Curious pebble (3/?)

Part 1 / Part 2

The Makeship plush campaign that we funded back in February is officially live!

This is a limited-time preorder campaign that will only be available until June 6th. If you're interested, please be sure to place your order before this date to avoid missing out! And as a reminder, if you supported the petition back in February your order will be fulfilled automatically.

I'm beyond stoked at how the fella came out, really can't thank y'all enough for making this happen! We'll be hosting a couple of giveaways over the course of the campaign so if you don't have the spare funds for a goofy purchase like this or live outside of Makeship's shipping zones, please keep an eye out as I'll be posting about them on social media (falco_works on Twitter, falco.works on Bluesky!)

Thank you so so much <3

I jumped on the trend of making adoptables based on the LGBTQ flags

(Yes, I know June ended yesterday. Cut me some slack!)

General rules:

First-come, first-served.

Do not claim unless you have the full amount asked for.

Payment must be sent 24 hours after claiming the adopt, otherwise, it’ll be reopened.

Payment only through PayPal.

Paypal has a tax fee that will be added to the total price.

No refunds if the buyer changes their mind after paying.

Prices are fixed and cannot be bargained with.

It is under my discretion to either accept or deny a claim.

After buying, the owner:

Can change the design as they want.

Must credit me for the character at least once (no need to credit me every time the character is used).

Can give/trade with another artist for another adopt.

Can’t be sold to other buyers.