I read Ovid when I was ten. I do not recommend letting your child read Ovid when they are ten.
I’ve been finding eyepatches very compelling lately, I dunno why.
Sketches of character concepts I came up with a year or so ago.
There’s information in the picture captions, but I’ll paraphrase here: The first picture showcases the political parties and their leaders from left to right: Nationalist Party (hég Knaschun): Suzie Schriber; Liberation Party (hégir Freimtante): Reinhard Pol; the Party (hég Reitd): Osgood Oswell; Workers’ Party (hége Arbeime): Sylvia Yulman; Independent Party (hég Selbstin): Helga Holstein. The following pictures have a few facts (and they are facts, entirely devoid of opinion) about the parties, going in the same order.
As for the political parties, here’s the skinny version, if you don’t want to read all that crap:
I’m sorry about rambling about this stuff, but it’s a lot of fun and this is my blog, so. Yeah. There’s so much more to these parties, especially hég Reitd, the oh so beloved and exalted official government political party. I’d call Argrea a utopia, but I’m not much for understatement.
This is a verb chart of a regular -et verb. Murgzt has three genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter. It also has four forms of second person and declension with five cases. There’s this complicated rule about capitalization, too, but I’m not going to get into that right now because I have a burning need to ramble about fake accents to a fake language:
Murgzt inflection differs wildly between regions and nations. „Houi!“ (“Hello!”) can sound more melodic or guttural depending on the speaker. In Argrea, Murgzt is more melodic in urban areas. In the high mountain towns and most of Arria, where they speak a more guttural dialect, it sounds horribly crass and uneducated to murgs who are more used to a “softer” dialect. Guttural Murgzt as known as a fast-talking, clipped accent that is mocked as sounding “phlegmy.” Softer Murgzt is generally accepted to be „Huut-Murgzt“ (proper/educated Murgzt), though the Argrean government takes a weirdly obsessive nationalistic pride in their country bumpkins’ funky accents. (The great Thomas Malthus would have approved, surely!) The guttural accent is not widely spread. Nations like Villich, for example, have a higher instance of the softer appearance of words because they use the front of the pallet, rather than the middle/back. Despite the general preference for Villichian accents, it is not considered proper Murgzt, as the language is supposed to be pronounced using primarily the middle of the mouth.
Despite the amount of thought I’ve put into this useless topic, I am still somehow academically successful. No, I don’t understand it, either.
Behold, Sofia Piper: first Great Leader of Argrea, and founder of the Church of Thomas Malthus. Piper has led us to greatness. Piper has made Argrea the proud nation that it is today. Piper will go down in history for her all-encompassing benevolence and prowess in assassinating any who defied her. Hail Piper. Malthus rest her soul.
Traditional uniforms of the regions of Argrea.
This is the standard Murgzt alphabet. It’s equivalent to most Latin-derived alphabets for the most part. Certain words also have their own individual symbols. (All words describing murgs subscribe to this, as seen in the term “Murgzt,” which combines the symbol for “murg” with an additional symbol for “language,” but otherwise it’s pretty rare. Every word has an alternate, more common regular “simplified” form.) The language is primarily Germanic in structure. I tried to make something that looks nice and isn’t overly complicated. Most murgs don’t write with weighted lines, so it looks less calligraphic in practice. The subtitle below the heading in simplified Murgzt represents a more accurate usage.
If this isn’t the thug life, I don’t know what is.