“This particular Space Hobo Code has its roots in “Stowaway My Heart,” a self published gay romance e-book by Old Earth author April Wednesday. No manuscripts of the full text exist today, and little is known about Ms. Wednesday.
Inexplicably, the book’s appendix, (which contains a code used by space pirate and starship stowaway Hale McDonald to communicate with his lover, Galactic Federated Navy Officer John Hanada), has been circulated amongst outer rim colonists and travellers for over a century.
Use of the code is surmised to have started as a joke, but there are now numerous instances of the glyphs being used in earnest. The code has evolved past the original 18 glyphs to over 80, and now includes alphanumeric symbols, as well as many glyphs intentionally specific to the life of outer space nomads.”
More world building for the Last Apothecary installation project, although over 80 unique glyphs later, I’ll gladly admit that this one got a bit out of hand. The .ttf file will be made available once I fix some problems with it.
lmao i’m so happy and surprised to see how this thing blew up. this style of poetry is actually an entire genre in hindavi literature. it is a type of folk poetry called kahmukarni, and it involves two playful female speakers seemingly speaking about their lovers and ending in a wordplay. they’re very earthy-sounding in their folk performances, and they are traditionally sung by women. here’s another one by khusrow that i like:
p.s. these are all from sunil sharma’s translations (which is prob as good as it gets in translation)
does anyone else follow people who don’t even have the same interests as you, but you’ve followed them for years and you can’t imagine unfollowing them?
it’s like, no that’s joan the dolphin lover? she’s practically your neighbor on this website? you’ve never talked, you’re not even mutuals, but damn she loves dolphins. And every time you see her on your dash, you’re just like, oh wonderful, joan’s still alive, just doing her thing. she’s getting into golden age russian cat literature, good for her!
this person doesn’t even know they’ve been on your dash through the ups and downs of your life. Their presence and cactus obsession is just something kind of familiar and almost comforting to you?
kototyph 