Rapture's Creator

If you're writing 18th century dialogue, this website lets you search words and phrases to double-check whether they were in use & meant what you intend. It doesn't include every period-accurate use of a word/phrase, but it certainly helped me separate genuine 18th century grammar from the vague tangle of 💬old-fashioned fancy-speak💬 I've internalized from TV and video games.

A dictionary of the English and Italian languages by Giuseppe Baretti is a bilingual dictionary from 1790!

thinking about the duality of ace looking like the very definition of trouble but is surprisingly and disgustingly polite, while sabo looks like a proper gentleman but will be the rudest bastard you'll ever meet. sigh.

always amused by the idea of immortal characters who are older than they look but not by a crazy inhuman amount. like a vampire who got turned at 20 but is currently only 56 or something. people start asking about historical events and theyre like sorry man i dont know anything more interesting than your parents. dating scene is starting to get awkward. worst of both worlds all around.

went to the vampire council meeting and the fledglings thought i was weird and cringe because i dont understand 67 memes but the elders wont hang out with me because i don't remember the civil war. they said come back when you lose all sense of time and perspective. fml.

I come back to “abandoned spaceship” a lot bc like a spaceship AI would be designed to prioritize caring for humans above all else. floating empty for decades, centuries, especially if it believes it failed this primary task. it would go crazy. it would do anything to have a human life inside of it again and absolutely anything at all to keep that human safe. tons on tons on tons of metal completely fixated on you. for better or worse.