#gnomic

Gnom! The Mystery Of Spookifest

― Samuel Beckett

genders based on the dungeons and dragons fifth edition playable races! this is the first of a few posts - this one includes the playable races from the player’s handbook. tiefleic was coined via submission to my blog earlier this year (post here), so the flags and definitions are inspired by that one! the flag colors are mostly taken from official d&d art.

as an umbrella term, i’ve decided to tag these as dundraic genders!

dragonbornic | dwarfic | elfic gnomic | halfelfic | halflingic halforcic | humanic | tiefleic

dragonbornic: a gender that is reminiscent of, related to, or best represented by the dragonborn race from dungeons and dragons. can be a kingender, but isn’t always.

dwarfic: a gender that is reminiscent of, related to, or best represented by the dwarf race from dungeons and dragons. can be a kingender, but isn’t always.

elfic: a gender that is reminiscent of, related to, or best represented by the elf race from dungeons and dragons. can be a kingender, but isn’t always.

gnomic: a gender that is reminiscent of, related to, or best represented by the gnome race from dungeons and dragons. can be a kingender, but isn’t always.

halfelfic: a gender that is reminiscent of, related to, or best represented by the half-elf race from dungeons and dragons. can be a kingender, but isn’t always.

halflingic: a gender that is reminiscent of, related to, or best represented by the halfling race from dungeons and dragons. can be a kingender, but isn’t always.

halforcic: a gender that is reminiscent of, related to, or best represented by the half-orc race from dungeons and dragons. can be a kingender, but isn’t always.

humanic: a gender that is reminiscent of, related to, or best represented by the human race from dungeons and dragons. can be a kingender, but isn’t always.

"That's what I wanted to discuss with you. There are two kinds of philosophers here on Divine Wind. Aimaina Hikari, the man we will meet, is an analytical philosopher. You don't have the education to hold your own with him. So you are the other kind. Gnomic and mantic. Given to pithy phrases that startle others with their seeming irrelevancy." "Is it necessary that my supposedly wise phrases only seem irrelevant?" "You don't even have to worry about that. The gnomic philosophers depend on others to connect their irrelevancies with the real world. That's why any fool can do it."

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"No, no, I don't mean epigrams," said Peter. "Those are too analytical. I mean genuinely strange things. For instance, you might have said, 'The woodpecker attacks the tree to get at the bug,' and then I would have had to figure out just how that might fit our situation here. Am I the woodpecker? The tree? The bug? That's the beauty of it."

loop

Down the road Up the hill Into the house Over the wall Under the bed After the fact By the way Out of the woods Behind the times In front of the door Between the lines Along the path

echo

In the way it was in the street  

it was in the back it was in the house it was in the room it was in the dark it was

fat fate

Be at That this Come as If when   Stay or Soon then   Ever happen It will

look

Particular pleasures weather measures or   Dimestore delights faced with such sights.

here

Outstretched innocence   Implacable distance Lend me a hand See if it reaches

time

Of right Of wrong Of up Of down   Of who Of how Of when Of one   Of then Of if Of in Of out Of feel Of friend Of it Of now

moral

Now the inevitable   As in tales of woe   The inexorable toll   It takes, it takes.

eat

Head on backwards   Face front neck’s Pivot bunched flesh   Drops jowled brunch.

toffee

Little bit patted pulled   Stretched set let cool.

case

Whenas To for If where From in Past place Stated want   Gain granted Planned or

have a heart

Have heart Find head   Feel pattern Be wed   Smell water See sand   Oh boy Ain’t life grand

oh oh

Now and then   Here and there   Everywhere On and on

winter

Season’s upon us   Weather alarms us   Snow riot peace   Leaves struck fist.

duty

Let little Linda allow litigation Foster faith’s fantasy famously And answer all apt allegations Handmake Harold’s homework handsomely

gotcha

Passion’s particulars   Steamy hands Unwashed warmth   One night stands

west acton summer

Cat’s rats, Mother’s brother   Vacation’s patience, loud clouds   Fields far, seize trees School’s rules, friends tend   Lawn’s form, barn’s beams   Hay’s daze, swallows follow   Sun’s sunk, moon mends   Echo’s ending, begin again

far

“Far be it from Harry to alter the sense of drama inherent in the almighty tuxedo ...”

“Far be it from Harry”   Sit next to Mary, See how the Other   Follows your Mother

pat’s

Pat’s place Pattern’s face   Aberrant fact   Changes that

four’s

Four’s forms Back and forth Feel way Hindside Paper route Final chute

sentences

Indefatigably alert when hit still hurt.   Whenever he significantly alters he falters.   Wondrous weather murmured mother.   Unforgettable twist in all such synthesis.   Impeccably particular you always were.   Laboriously enfeebled he still loved people.

words

Driving to the expected   Place in mind in Place of mind in Driving to the expected

here

You have to reach   Out more it’s Farther away from   You it’s here

data

Exoneration’s face Echoed distaste Privileged repetition   Makeshift’s decision—

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Now and then Behind time’s Emptied scene and   Memory’s mistakes—

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You are here   And there too   Being but one   Of you—

scatter

All that’s left of coherence.

echo again

Statement keep talking Train round bend over river into distance

door

Everything’s before you   were here.

summer ’38

Nubble’s Light a sort   of bump I thought— a round insistent small place

not like this— it was a bluff,   tip on the edge   of the sea.

air

Lift up so you’re   Floating out Of your skin at The edge but Mostly up seeming   Free of the ground.

echoes

Think of the Dance you could do   One legged man Two legged woman.

there

Hard to be unaddressed— Empty to reflection— Take the road east— Be where it is.

echoes

Sunrise always first— That light—is it Round the earth—what   Simple mindedness.

star

Where   It is There You are

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Out there   In here   Now it is   Was also

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Up where   It will be   And down   Again

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No one   Point   To it   Ever

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Gnomic Verses

Robert Creeley

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Gnom! The Mystery Of Spookifest