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2022 in Books: Worst to Best

January 31, 2023January 31, 2023 Jeff Lilly

This past year was mostly filled with professional work, but I made some progress on personal projects as well. Axon, Inc.’s revisions are coming along slowly but surely. I took November to make progress on Return to Sagaia, which now is well over 40K words, and I’m super excited about it. I’m also continuing to… Continue reading 2022 in Books: Worst to Best

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The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine. -Anonymous
In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, no disgrace, no calamity… which nature cannot repair. - Emerson
Poker Face is such an amazing show. file:///var/mobile/Library/SMS/Attachments/84/04/01A7EA20-048C-4FE3-8F8A-97CB485FFFD7/tmp.gif
fi yó/fɪ joʊ/From Classical Sagaian *fé yó*, Old Sagaian *fwé yó,* Irish *faoi dhó.*Twice; two times. Lit. "under two".Compare *fi hé,* "thrice," but *wá awa,* "once" (lit. "one time, one hour").#conlang https://axonfirings.com/category/sagaia/
Drawing of a lion with castle in the background. #art #pencil
Kitten watching her first coming of spring #catsofmastodon #blackcat #springequinox
Napping with my sweet boy, Cu Gwyn. #catsofmastodon #catnap #blackcat
Né haléaa rilt rúdh a balatsha céana fi yó.NEG happen PL-nonsapient thing on way-DET-nonsapient same under twoThings never happen the same way twice.#conlang https://axonfirings.com/category/sagaia/
Carkeek Park, Seattle, March of 2018. A picnic with a glorious view over the green, over the Sound, to the Olympic Mts.#photography #SeattleParks #seattle
New blog post on words and names in Sagaia (#conlang). This conlang is for a Narnia-inspired fantasy, and it attempts to "explain" the "actual" words and names in Narnia (including the true meaning of the names "Narnia" and "Aslan").https://axonfirings.com/2023/03/15/on-words-and-names-in-sagaia/
Kittens assuming the “yang-yang” position#catsofmastodon #taoism
Mt Baker Wilderness, Washington. Afternoon sunlight splashed across the cliff face. #photography #mountains
Our kitten Pangur Ban, resting after a long morning of mayhem. #catsofmastodon #kittensofmastadon #blackcats
Cu Gwyn warily eyes a fuzzy interloper outside. #catsofmastodon #squirrel
Gas éša, ne a ta má a hodhla, bas má. Aghat madiasha da qil, ne a dúšia má, rúgha âéš má.Lit. Each night, when COMP am I to sleep, die I. And morning-DET to-us come, when COMP wake I, born again I.“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.” - GandhiSagaian: https://axonfirings.com/category/sagaia/#conlang (thanks and apologies to @higekieiyu for inspiration)
Selfie portrait generated by the “Wonder” app. Way more handsome than I am in real life. It looks like I’m ready to take command of my first starship here. #AIArt #AISelfies #selfie #thirsttrap
Snow on mossy stones, Edmonds, WA. #snow #moss
The phoneme /b/ in my constructed script. The backwards “c” indicates a bilabial stop; the horizontal bar with the downstroke indicates voicing. #conlang
Eye contactExperimenting with AI art for my fanfic. Here we have Gormenghast castle and the ancient Saxon wizard who's been holed up in it for over a thousand years.(Fanfic available here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-launch-73463520. It's not really Gormenghast fanfic -- they're more of a cameo before the real Harry Potter / Oz crossover action begins. :) )#AIart #fanfiction #Gormenghast #HarryPotter #Oz #Patreon #fantasyart
Snow in the garden, Feb 2021.#photography #snow