#serulean

[ryb3838]

my dark soul 3 character,, his name is Serulean

#dark souls

[basingstokemercury]

I love Rou and would be devastated if I lost her but also my backup character looks amazing

(she's a yuan-ti-like race but instead of the green stuff she's based on a kingsnake with red, black, and yellow accents)

“Greetings. Syrano Serulean Maldis, sorcerer and spellbinder spectacular. Shall I assist you sensational strangers on this sunny day? I trust you’ll find me satisfactory.”

Still working on her backstory, it involves a son or husband who betrayed her. She hides her very serious quest under a mask of eccentric/unstable travelling magician (think J. W. Wells but super over the top).

[seru-lean]

happy pride month everyone!! since i made my first post in june i thought what better cover to do than a song by the lesbian jesus! I hope y’all enjoy this cover and are safe and happy this amazing month

#girls like girls #hayley kiyoko #girls like girls hayley kiyoko #lesbian jesus #cover #song cover #serulean #youtube #first video #guitar #electric guitar #pride month #pride #lgbtq community #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqai #lgbtpride

[tinyzombeh]

Today’s warmup... KIGUS! Maaaatching Kigus. c: Featuring, of course, @serulean-art ‘s Ruu

Just something quick and cute before setting to work. Have more plans for the kigus cause heck I love this idea, dammit. I want a Ruu kigu in my life so bad. :CCC

#ruu #serulean #lelou #kigurumi #couple #furry #teenedoodles #handholding #warmup

[collateral-daverage]

happy birthday @serulean-art!!!! 

a very good fluff boy =w=

#my art #serulean-art #furry art #i was gonna upload much sooner but i kept forgetting hhhhhh

[burdmom]

$@~ 💜

omg tysm...

#serulean-art #maya replies

[doughfox]

Have u ever had the sex :o

Oh yesss

#serulean-art

[bodhisatta]

First generation Vietnamese immigrants are like time machines that hold knowledge of Vietnamese culture up to a certain point without ever updating their databases.

Second generation immigrants like me only hold a part of the culture as we have never seen or experienced it on Vietnamese soil. We wonder what it was like to be Vietnamese then. We wonder what it's like to be Vietnamese now. Whether we're 1st gen or 2ng gen, we're nearly clueless about how Vietnamese people are raised today, and they are even more clueless about their history.

"Post-75" is a phrase that is often used by my family members. It is used to refer to anything from Vietnam that evolved after 1975, the end of the Vietnam War. There is post-75 music, post-75 currency, post-75 fashion, and post-75 language.

Something I like to say about Vietnamese kids in Vietnam is "I bet they spell ly like li." Ly is the Vietnamese word for cup, and it is often spelled "li" by people who learned post-75 Vietnamese spelling.

To build on the time machine bit I mentioned before, I am a time machine that holds the pre-75 Vietnamese language. My dialect and vocabulary will never change. The language in Vietnam has changed, however. Words are spelled differently, like ly and li. Words are pronounced differently in an evolution of a new dialect constructed and taught by the people who oppressed my family. Viet kids know it as their language, but we know it as a form of silencing.

After the war, people in Vietnam were not to show the striped flag. It's a symbol of resistance to oppressors. They were to adopt the political views of the north. They were to speak like northerners. Viet people were to either flee the country or succumb to their rule, abandoning southern Vietnamese culture.

It became more than speaking "like northerners". "Pre-75" and "post-75" aren't just synonyms of "souththern-like" and "northern-like". If we hear some northern Viet people speaking here in the U.S., they could be refered to as "pre-75". So what is "post-75" when referring to northern Vietnamese?

North Vietnam is pretty close to China. Like right next to it. It's only natural that Chinese people immigrate to north Vietnam, but after the Vietnam war, the case was different. China and north Vietnam fought together during the Vietnam War, and since the north won, Chinese influence began to spread, and the Viet language was affected especially in the north.

I said that "hearing northern Viet people speak is like hearing a British person speak", and this was brought to another level after the war. The post-75 northern accent is often indiscernable even to my fluent parents. Sometimes, my parents can't tell if people are speaking Chinese or Vietnamese in a Facebook video. Why can't we even tell Viet people apart from Chinese people? (All Asians look the same joke here)

In addition to the obviously new sound, two other suggestions were recently made to change the dynamics of the Vietnamese language: 1) Change how words are spelled in a major reform. 2) Teach Chinese in schools from a young age.

1) One retired professor had a galaxy brain idea to change consonants in the Vietnamese language to simplify them since they had the same pronunciation. Think like the letter S in silicone and C in cerulean. They make the same sound, so why not change words with that C in it to have the letter S instead? Serulean?

Well, his idea to do this in Vietnamese wouldn't work since the letters he said were pronounced the same were actually different, and native Vietnamese speakers would know this. Pre-75 Vietnamese speakers learned these differences first, so there wouldn't be any confusion. Is spoken Vietnamese taught differently post-75 in a way that makes some sounds obselete?

It's pretty skeevy that the proposed writing system makes Viet words look more like pinyin, romanized Chinese. Our current latin alphabet came from French colonization, and it's pretty new. Even my Grandmother remembers using Chu Nom, the writing system that came from Chinese imperialism, before using the latin alphabet. Why are we going back to Chinese influence? Is this a way of evolving post-75 language to be even less Vietnamese?

Someone on the internet also spotted out that in the new proposed writing system, the word for "difficulty" would turn into the spelling for "dick". Alright.

2) Teaching Chinese (probably Mandarin) in school. My parents told me that they were required to learn either Chinese, Russian, French, Japanese, or English in their time. Some of these have obvious reasons. France and Japan occupied our land. Russia was Communist. China is our neighbor, they controlled Vietnam for 1000 years, is communist, and supported the north in the war, so they had to be an option. English is obvious.

I understand the reasons for having all those languages required at the time. The requirement is no longer needed nowadays, and these nations are not controlling us anymore, but having Chinese and only Chinese required now is, again, skeevy. The spoken dialect in the north already changed so drastically to sound less Vietnamese and more Chinese.

How far is the government willing to change the Vietnamese language now? We've lost so much of our culture after being imperialized that this isn't a "wahh immigrants stealing our jobs and speaking their language instead of mine :((" sort of thing. It's a matter of us, ourselves, having our own language altered and eradicated after being beat down by our oppressors in the present day.

#adminspeaks #i'm white #i wish i could make a comparison to the us but i can't cause i don't think the language changed so drastically #just after 20 ish years my parents can't understand some viet people in vietnam and it's freaky #long post

[shibbabes]

Tag meme!!11!!

I was tagged by flippin @razzdrgn and @captain-chibi-the-cat!!!!!!!!!!

RULES - Copy & paste to your own post, bold the statements that are true & tag 10 people. HAVE FUN!

Appearances

I am over 5′5″ / I wear glasses/contacts / I have blond hair / I wear sweatshirts a lot / I prefer loose clothing to tight clothing / I have one or more piercings / I have at least one tattoo / I have blue eyes / I have dyed or highlighted my hair/ I have gotten plastic surgery / I have or had braces / I sunburn easily / I have freckles / I paint my nails / I typically wear makeup / I don’t often smile (but I try!!!) / I am pleased with how I look / I prefer Nike to Adidas / I wear baseball hats backwards

Hobbies and talents

I play a sport / I can play an instrument / I am artistic(I guess?) / I know more than one language / I have won a trophy in some sort of competition / I can cook or bake without a recipe / I know how to swim / I enjoy writing / I can do origami / I prefer movies to TV shows / I can execute a perfect somersault / I enjoy singing / I could survive in the wild on my own / I have read a new book series this year / I enjoy spending time with friends / I travel during school or work breaks (sometimes) / I can do a handstand

Experiences

I have had my first kiss / I have gotten drunk(don’t tell the police) / I have told a crush I like them / I have traveled outside of the country / I have flown on an airplane / I have stayed awake for more than 48 hours / I have had a near-death experience / I have set something on fire / I have performed in a talent show / I have shot a gun / I have been on TV / I have gone scuba diving / I have broken a bone(small fracture on the noase) / I have slow-danced / I have gone on a shopping spree

Relationships

I am in a relationship / I have been single for over a year / I have a crush / I have a best friend / I have known a friend for over ten years / I have a brother/ I have dated my best friend / I am adopted / My crush has confessed to me / I have had a long-distance relationship / I am an only child / I give advice to my friends / I have made an online friend(SDFJSADJK) / I met up with someone I have met online

Aesthetics

I have heard the ocean in a conch shell / I have watched the sun rise(everyday) / I enjoy rainy days / I have slept under the stars / I meditate outside / The sound of chirping calms me / I enjoy the smell of the beach / I know what snow tastes like / I listen to music to fall asleep / I enjoy thunderstorms / I enjoy cloud watching / I have attended a bonfire / I pay close attention to colors / I find mystery in the ocean / I enjoy hiking on nature paths /Autumn is my favorite season for this I’m tagging @hhh-rina @lotsandlotsofguns @shibesky @flannelmoone @psionic--drain @wheatley-blogs @purblecat @galaxytale @dazzling-dragon @biologydyke @serulean-art @safilia @taswel @berserchiken @bastardbat @dragonwarrior125 @batfriend !!!! (do these if yall wanna no pressure tbh)

[clovencraft]

Convert all of your friends to the deer side!

From right to left:

Battery, Luna, Tai-lo, @serulean-art​, Minty (Syd), Cordite (Razz n’ Cream), Saxon, Dipp, Daze, Fauna (me!), River Farron, and Dewy

#deer #animal #furry #anthro #moose #red deer #roe deer #fallow deer #white-tailed deer #mule deer #elk #cervine #digital art #oc #fursona #character #Fauna #clovencraft #fluffy #cute #cool #my art

[hensa]

Gave these two away to the best homes ♥ thank you @serulean-art and @kdinjenzen ! If you wanna make a small, soft friend, checkout the Shortstack creator!

#cozy cat studio #art #shortstack

[basingstokemercury]

Should my backup character, a sorcerer named Syrano Serulean Maldis, be a gith or yuan-ti?

Gith already have racial stats ready in our homebrew rules (and they're very good stats for magic), but yuan-ti means I can do the cliche ssssnakey accent and she has the perfect name for it...

[memedogdraws]

some lineart things I did for @albinopenguin-117, @stryrxriki and @serulean-art!

#lineart #my art #furry #dva #mmm tea #kemono

[collateral-daverage]

Kofi is LIVE

>>>https://ko-fi.com/daverage<<<    

 As per celebration of reaching 1000 followers on tumblr I've opened up a Ko-fi for anyone who'd like to support me so I can continue doing what I love most! Donate any amount and if you'd like I'll give you a doodle in return. Just have a Ko-fi account with a reference of something you'd like drawn on your page including where I may @ you =w=

Here’s a couple examples of what yours may look like

@celestial-luxury right; @serulean-art left

Your doodle may be a head shot, something waist-up or a full body sketch. It might be a funny meme reaction image or have a much more serious tone >:3

One thing ill try for sure is to make each one unique/ different. Think of it like a tiny commission but whats done is completely up to me.

If you donate now it could be a while till I cat get to any because of school so you may have to wait till my break begins. uwu 

Thank you all again and have a fantastic day!!

#dav speaks #daverage #collateral-daverage #also hey #my birthday #it approaches #uwu #im also open to any suggestions on how i can make this process smoother

[crazy-wolf-stuff]

@serulean-art this dork is there for me when i get too much depresso in my expresso and deals with my weirdness and other random shite i say, today i just texted him to draw the stickest sticky stick figure and he gave me this, he a coot dork

[doughfox]

So you are the doughfox...what type of dough do you like best (aka pastries)? :O

I do love a really soft, chocolate covered (not glazed) donut

#serulean-art