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40 something married bookseller/lover 📚 | Sapphic Fiction Writer | Big Time Geek Girl | Gamer 🎮🎲 | Tattoo enthusiast | Cat Mom #ND

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@alexfromawen.bsky.socialOct 13, 2026, 2:50 PM

Happy belated, Lady Elizabeth!

@isaacxisaac.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 3:08 PMReposted by @alexfromawen.bsky.social

Today is the birthday I picked for Lady Elizabeth Hartweald! She's 16 in 1660. Alexander develops a crush on her, which she thinks is whatever—she's mostly just glad to have a male friend who will do shit. She's off-page but mentioned in 1661, then comes back in 1662 as a major character.

Astrological birth chart generated by AstroDienst with art of Lady Elizabeth on top. She's a slightly chubby aristocratic girl in 1660s garb: a pink back-closing pair of bodies (bodice) with a very low point in front and short pink sleeves slashed to show the chemise underneath, plus a white silk petticoat with gold embroidery to match gold embroidery on the bodies. Her neckline is very wide and low, but a sheer white scarf covers up her chest. She's carrying a painted Japanese-style fan and wears a pearl necklace, and tawny-gold shoes with a much narrower toe than the men's style just peek out from underneath her skirts. Her auburn hair is up in a sort of spaniel-ear, horizontally extended side-bun style with numerous ringlets hanging down.

There's also a doodled headshot, chibi-style, emphasizing long eyelashes and pink cheeks, in which she smiles blandly.

Her chart features things like a Sun in Libra (Scorpio cusp), Moon and Mars in Cancer, Mercury in Scorpio, Venus in Virgo, Ascendant Virgo, Sun square Moon, Moon trine Mercury, Mercury opposition Jupiter, Sun trine Mars, Venus trine Jupiter.
@alexfromawen.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 7:22 PM

That's just...🤬

@alexfromawen.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 6:54 PM

OK, I admit, they're better cooked and iced.

My ugly ass cinnamon rolls looking a bit better cooked and iced.
@alexfromawen.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 6:50 PM

for individuals still living (aka in possession of a physical body) whereas someone could refer to the living or the dead. For things, you would start with rud (from rudar aka thing). Being things, they are not as important as the living beings, so you would put the rud first as discussed days ago.

@alexfromawen.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 6:50 PM

The one in this instance would be more internal than that. The sense of self. So we get cur'gus (essentially all selves) or cur'gin (some selves). They would differ this with some/every/nobody with nu' (from nu’n, their word for person aka the physical body). They would only use a word like somebody

@alexfromawen.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 6:50 PM

They become reflexive by adding 'cur', from the root word 'curbha' (cure-vah), which means 'the self' We see it again in the universal/indefinite pronouns. Something like everyone or someone I initially wrote using the actual number 1 (an) but thinking about it, Istemorians wouldn't see it that way

@alexfromawen.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 6:50 PM

male (b'tan) & non-binary/without-gender (t'pan). Shifting from an a to an e changes them to her/him/them. (Note: not everyone does this, but if you want to specify that your 'they' means multiple, you can say beo'te). As we established in the possessive pronouns, adding l makes them hers/his/their.

@alexfromawen.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 6:50 PM

#Conlangity Day 11

Think I'm going to mostly go off cards today as pronouns is one thing that I have pretty well established. I'll add a bit of explanation to some.

So, the basic she/he/they pronouns (they being singular or plural) are ne/be/te. These come from the root words for female (n'van), 🧵

Pronouns

Personal, Reflexive/Emphatic, Possessive

1. Ne/Nas/Nal/Nacur: She/Her/Hers/Herself
2. Be/Bas/Bal/Bacur: He/Him/His/Himself
3. Te/Ta/Tal/Tacur: They/Them/Theirs/Themself
4. Mi/Imi/Mil/Imicur/Mis: I or Me/My/Mine/Myself/I’m or 'I am'
5. Di/Dis/Dicur/Di’eri: You/Your/Yourself/You’re
6. Syn/Le/La/Lacur: We/Us/Our/Ourselves
7. Ve/Ves/Vecur: It/Its/Itself


Universal & Indefinite

1. Nu'gus/Nu'gin/Nu'arbh/Nu'nil: Everybody/Somebody/Anybody/Nobody
2. Cur'gus/Cur'gin/Cur'arbh/Cur'nil: Everyone/Someone/Anyone/No one
3. Rudgus/Rudgin/Rudanil/Rudarbh:Everything/Something/Nothing/Anything
4. Gus/Elgin/Arbh/Anchu: All/Some/Any/Both
5. Eohaela/Aleoh/Cupali/Uila: Another/Much/Few/EachDemonstrative & Relative/Interrogative

1. Brach/Brodh: That/this
2. Aca/Aeca: These/Those
3. Svor/An: Such/One
4. Lir/Lirl/Etha: Who/Whose/Which


Distributive

1. Uila/Ni’do/Do’gus/Gus/Nil: Each/Either/Neither/Every/None
@alexfromawen.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 5:21 PM

That remains to be seen. 🤣

@alexfromawen.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 5:04 PM

My last name is Baker. The irony of this? My wife is sooo much better than I am at baking. Cooking? I probably have her beat, but she kicks my ass at baking. I'm making cinnamon rolls for my family get together this evening while she's at work at...gawds, it's just night & day hers vs mine. 🤣❤️

My ugly ass cinnamon rolls. 👌
@vashperado.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 8:17 PMReposted by @alexfromawen.bsky.social

Pre-Oders are now open for physical copies of my comic 88 issue 4! www.88inspace.com 40 pages! Also available as a digital download. So much love, work, and time went into making this book, I really hope you enjoy reading it! #88inspace

Cover art for the 4th issue of my comic series 88. It shows the main character floating in a circular pattern with a pink alien mirror of her.
@alexfromawen.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 10:37 PM

Ooo, I wouldn’t have called that! Good job, Nicole!

@karamoonauthor.comOct 10, 2026, 7:18 AMReposted by @alexfromawen.bsky.social

#pretendpanel
Terry Pratchett will always inspire me. With his dedication to his craft, his humanism, his way of making things humourous and not didactic while still going deep on his themes. I aspire. I’ll never be funny like him, so instead, my goal is stated in this meme I want to share with you:

On the Sue Sylvester meme template

Top text: Me planning Ao Rakona

Bottom text: I am going to create a discworld that is so horny
@alexfromawen.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 10:02 PM

Oooohh...oh, this is actually kind of a tough one. With the caveat that I never completed DA2 (because I got it late on steam and tried to play it with keyboard and was very frustrated), so I'm leaving it out, I guess these days I'd say A - Origins.

@freya.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 6:50 PMReposted by @alexfromawen.bsky.social

"why can you not just enjoy AI art?"

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@alexfromawen.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 9:52 PM

It's a Sam!

@alexfromawen.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:41 PM

My one partner is originally from the states. She's been in Canada for like 10 years, but still gets surprised when they turn out to be the evilest creature in any given situation.

@arthur.baron-clement.comOct 10, 2026, 4:50 PMReposted by @alexfromawen.bsky.social

The Aqueduct (2025)

Random digital landscape painting of an aqueduct surrounded by mountains, woods and rocky, grassy and flowery fields.
@klpwrites.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 5:16 PMReposted by @alexfromawen.bsky.social

You didn’t know I was crazy?! I landed in A TIGER ENCLOSURE! BITCH!!! This my enclosure now! Stay on yo side!!!

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