[brooklyneverywhere]

I can’t even fathom spending the hour-long bus commute to work everyday without P.G. Wodehouse. His stuff is just SO DENSE with the kind fig lang that makes me bark-laugh out loud and startle all the other sorry patrons of Sydney’s mediocre public transport.  Have a brief representative sample: 

"Honoria was a ghastly dynamic exhibit who read Nietzsche and had a laugh like waves breaking on a stern and rock-bound coast."

 

"For a moment I saw my Aunt Agatha for what she was - not, as I had long imagined, a sort of man-eating fish at the very mention of whose name strong men quivered like aspens, but a poor goop who had just dropped a very serious brick."

 

"I can’t say I exactly saw eye-to-eye with young Tuppy in his admiration for the Bellinger female. Delivered on the mat at one-twenty-five, she proved to be an upstanding light-heavyweight of some 30 summers, with a commanding eye and a square chin which I, personally, would have steered clear of. She seemed to me a good deal like what Cleopatra would have been after going in too freely for the starches and cereals."

 

"Aunt Dahlia is one of those big, hearty women. She used to go in a lot for hunting, and generally speaks as if she had just sighted a fox on a hillside half a mile away. […]If all other sources of income failed, she could make a good living calling the cattle home across the Sands of Dee."

 

"If ever there was a kid whose whole appearance seemed to call aloud to any right-minded boy to lure him into a quiet spot and inflict violence upon him, that kid was undoubtedly Sebastián Moon."

 

"When it is a question of a pal being in the soup, we Woosters no longer think of self, and that poor old Bingo was knee-deep in the bisque was made clear by his appearance-which was that of a cat which has just been struck by a half-brick and is expecting another shortly."

 

Flawless.

Autographed Garak paper doll

[mrs260]

A friend of mine gave me this autographed Garak paper doll some time after Andy’s book (A Stitch In Time) came out. I had already been told that he’d particularly liked my review of the book, but I still might have screamed and run around the house in uncontainable glee for several minutes. :) (Andy also signed all the outfit pages!)

The artist is Nancy Lee. I don’t know if she has an online presence.

[nfdystopian]

Now that we’re caught up with DB (and it would be rude to continue withoout him), it’s time to switch gears a bit…

#Can I ship Bashir and Garak?#I think I ship Bashir and Garak

[tinsnip]

ahahhahahhaahahahahhahahaaaaa

[ztacey]

Deep space 9, everybody

[jamiekinosian]

THE CROSSOVER NOBODY EVER WANTED!!

For like the first two weeks of watching Deep Space Nine I could not keep my brain from saying Garrus instead of Garak. Also I know now that Turians exactly reptilian, but also Thane isn’t even partially a fishman despite looking OH SO SIMILARLY to Abe Sapien. PISH POSH WHO CARES.

Somehow watching so much Star Trek gave me the balls to finally get over the insane time commitment to play Mass Effect. 

So this whole thing kinda weirdly came full circle???

The text is totally kudos Nantuket. Garak, don’t be facetious. 

[feltelures]

Hello, everyone! tinsnip has encouraged me to share a project I’ve been working on this month, so, well, here it is: a version of written Cardassian that corresponds to the linguistic rules of the Cardassian language built by tinsnip (and by me, a bit), using the Cardassian font as a base.

Not to make this too long, but as a bit of background, there have been three versions of the Cardassian language that people have put together that I’m aware of: tinsnip’s (which uses Timothy Miller’s version as a base), Greig Isles’, and Esther Schrager’s Simplified Varagasi (more on that in a later post). However, there’s been only one attempt that I know of to put together a written language to match the spoken one—Greig Isles’. (There’s a Cardassian font, but it basically is a letter-to-letter matchup with Latin script […mostly] and has nothing to do with the Cardassian language.) Unfortunately, while it looks as though he put a huge amount of work into building the written Cardassian language, its rules make it essentially useless for the version tinsnip has created.

So, this is where I stepped in—with full permission, of course. I wanted to take the preexisting characters of the Cardassian font and make them correspond to the linguistic rules of tinsnip’s Cardassian language so that any word could be written as well as spoken.

I had a few goals that I tried to keep in mind as I worked:

1) I wanted to maintain Greig Isles’ Cardassian numbering system. This meant that any parts of the Cardassian font where characters had been flipped and mirrored to make the numbers had to be changed.

2) I wanted there to be logic behind the characters I chose to represent each sound, and behind the relationship between the written Cardassian language and its romanization. So while I often left alone anything that didn’t overlap with a number, if I did have to change it, I tried to make similar sounds visually similar as well. (For example, since uppercase X is basically 0 mirrored and flipped and there’s no character assigned to lowercase x in the font, I made it visually similar to k…as far as I could, anyway.)

3) I wanted the language to be accessible (from the point of view of an English-speaker, which is where all my expertise lies). While of course Cardassian is an alien language and thus is likely to be very different from anything spoken on Earth, I wanted the language to be usable by fans without too much trouble. Speaking personally, I’m already trying to learn hundreds of kanji. I don’t need to devote hours to learning how to write in space lizard language. :|

For a few more notes and a usage guide, check below the Read More. I would highly recommend having the pronunciation guide from tinsnip’s language file open as you read along—unless, of course, you’re already familiar with Cardassian pronunciation rules.

Read More

[tinsnip]

Tumblies, this is allll Vyc. Please direct all delight to her, as she is perfection embodied in flesh.

Like… I would never have even tried to do this without her. And she just kind of tilted her head, went oooohkay, and built a written language.

I cannot praise her highly enough. And I can’t wait to write in Kardasi~!

[tinsnip]

#moans about fictional alien architecture

Miles totes dislocated his shoulder just so he’d have an excuse to say goodbye to Julian~~~

[adestroy]

This relationship is healthy.

My thoughts on Star Trek DS9: Far Beyond the Stars

[yourgaytailor]

Amazing writing

Amazing acting, just bravo

One of the best episodes

Beuatiful

Says so much about society

Where the fuck is human!Garak

[ladyyatexel]

I always thought that it seemed really obvious that the part that was eventually taken up by the man who played Martok was meant for Garak/Andy.   I couldn’t think of any reason that Martok’s counterpart would be an artist who dug the idea of certain scaly aliens.

Not that there was any reason that Damar/Casey should have been Ben’s doctor, either, but sometimes, my brain rewrites that tiny aspect of that episode and it’s some slightly eccentrically-dressed and utterly fabulous man named Gary (or Garrett, or something beginning with an E maybe) drawing pictures of space stations and praising the look of the Cardassians.