aesc | made-up languages; Sunday Drabbleventures, NOW WITH HARDCORE DRABBLEOSITY!

Probably this is

insight2's fault, but while I was brushing my teeth last night it occurred to me that it would be interesting (one word for it) to develop an angelic language, now that Skanr has been my practice run for language construction. What I've been thinking of is a language that is Romance-like in the sense that angels use different forms of the copulative (to be) for the created world and the divine, to express the distinction they'd probably make between essence versus state. Or would they just see the entire world as a collection of things in a state of being or becoming or changing? And how would the near-infinite think about the bounded and contained, anyway? *ponders these things*

In similar SPN news, I wrote one more drabble, In terra aliena (In a Strange Land) for the

deancastiel drabble challenge.

SUNDAY DRABBLEVENTURES
By executive order, I have decided that on a semiregular basis (maybe every other Sunday, or however often I feel like it), I will contribute to weekend sloth and work avoidance by writing drabbles on request. When requests are open, I will note which fandoms I'm writing in; all you need to do is name your fandom, character/pairing, and prompt, and I will write 100 words of something. This post will be the prompt and response post, for purposes of consolidation.

.drabble prompts: Leave me a fandom/character/pairing and a prompt (SGA, SPN, Bones, and I guess I will take Merlin*) and I will see what I can do.

4.26 DRABBLEVENTURES NOW OPEN

In unrelated news, Iron & Wine's The Shepherd's Dog is completely awesome and I have been listening to it obsessively.

* = I like Morgana a lot and wish something heavy would land on Uther. And I like how Arthur is kind of a jerk, but basically a decent guy. Also, I am deeply amused and, dare I say it, somewhat gratified, by the fact that the incantation languages involve Old English. A lot of this is because the Anglo-Saxons really did not like teh magics.

*le sigh* Sunday is over, alas! Drabbles closed for now.

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Or would they just see the entire world as a collection of things in a state of being or becoming or changing? And how would the near-infinite think about the bounded and contained, anyway?

Your head- I would like to take a vacation there some time. Also if I am to be the scapegoat for your fantastic idea then so be it. I have been daydreaming about ~~you~~ somebody elucidating what the angelic culture-psyche comprises- and language is always at the heart of that sort of investigation *daydreams some MOAR*. Although, now I’m tempted to make a Babel-esque joke because let’s face it you’re kind of trying to reveal the FACE OF DIVINITY here, aesc, there’s every possibility that you might get SMOTE BY URIEL *straightfaced*

If you’re still up for one more drabble, Dean/Castiel…uhm ‘bendy legs hooked over shoulders’ :X, or if not that then Uriel and Castiel, ‘party-time’

C'mon, Cas, c'mon. Dean's world is closer and now, he can't wait, not with Castiel's face tucked against his neck, his shoulders slick under Dean's knees, hands on his thighs to keep him from slipping.

Nemyahi Cas whispers as he pushes in deep. Dean arches hard up into him and comes in fragments of fire and perfection that feel like pain, and that word echoes all along his bones and his blood.

After, he asks Cas what it means. Cas looks at him, says it means what it means, I can't explain it.

Try, Dean says.

And Castiel says, or doesn't-say, YouAREbreathlifesoulspiritcreationthatwhichis.

Nemyahi is a hybrid Greek/Hebrew word (pneuma and hayah. In classical and scriptural Greek, pneuma is both "breath" and the breath of life or life-force; hayah is the emphatic verb for "to be." The i is a tacked-on marker for direct address XD

Oooooh, I liked this.

Yay, thank you!! ♥♥

*explodes*

I have such a language kink. Especially when spoken in bed or during sex.

Awesome!

Ooooh, my language kink, let me show u it! :D :D

Please do.

I get hot and bothered when good fic has the Doctor speak Gallifreyan, Castiel/Dean porn is always better with Latin (though, I'm waiting for the bad!fic version so I can laugh to death), I wish they'd had more dead languages for Daniel to speak, Joe Flanigan became fascinating when I learned he could speak fluent French!

awesome!!!
(and reminds me of something I was reading about Targums and how the name of god is translated there *G* so - doubly awesome!)

Thank you so much!

Speaking different languages is a //huge// turn-on for me, so thank you for this fic. =D It was just so subtle and short to be perfect, although I'd love to see more like this from you. <3

Ha ha, yes, I completely understand... I have a language kink myself :D And as for more, I think I will play around with this a bit and see what happens! ♥

I totally saved your drabble as a reward and...fash;ashghas, the genesis curled inside that word-hybrid.

So beautifully told, aesc ♥, and the bridging moment of trying to explain what can't be explained- the inevitable loss in translation- was breath-taking in itself because they're trying so hard to understand each other- OH EPIC INTERSPECIES LOVE *sighsighsigh*

*wriggles happily* Thank you!! In the spirit of the post I definitely wanted to do something with language... and language and sex... well, that was a bonus :D

language kink yay! Thank you for writing these 2 drabbles :D please write more XD

Thank you so much! And there will definitely be more :D

LANGUAGE KINK!!! \O/

And a lovely little drabble ^_^

Heeee ohhh yes, my language kink, let me show you it :D Thank you!

Hiya. I kind of know nothing about languages, but I want to use this word of yours in a fic. And I wondered if you could read the bit where they try to define the term and tell me if it's a conceivable attempt at translation. Clearly, the untranslatability is part of the point, which makes it all the more difficult. But I'd like the attempt to at least be plausible.

Hey there! Of course! I'd be happy to read it :) You can send it to aesc36 @gmail.com ♥

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