image of a pixelated and simply shaded scarlet rose flower sat atop a darker red crystal. Dark green leaves surround the gem in a 'v' shape so as to hide its bottom. In the background is a light green egg-shaped blob implied to be a spiraling stem, and behind it is a yellow-orange light radiating from the rose head that loses saturation as it furthers from the rose, and creates a cornerless square, separating it as the logo from writing on the right of it. On the right, there are the letters 'D' 'u' 'm', and 'p' arranged in a square. They are colored in a backwards gradient from the 'p,' which takes the light orange colour of the main text below, to the 'd,' which is a ghostly yellow. The rose logo and letters have a purple background which matches the background colour of the rest of the website

--Short Little Writings--

REDESIGN DAY! 28/03/2025!!!

YEAGH THAT'S RIGHT IT'S ALL PRETTY AND COOL AND AWESOME NOW!!!!!!!!!!!! And more readable. And just generally more appealing to look at. I also redid the logo which I didn't think that I was gonna have the time to do today but I managed it! Overall I'm very excited and pleased with the new colours and logo hoo boy it's awesome. I mean, I'm heavily biased but still!!!!

I need to go to bed, but...

2245, 26/03/2025, I did the thing that I said that I was gonna do and reformatted the languages pages so that it's not just one very long page, and I added another sentence breakdown thing! Unfortunately, I'm beginning to enjoy writing explanations of goofy grammar. This will surely not end well for me. (/j) Also I swear I'll fix the colours for everything I swear trust I will I know that some of the pages are kinda ugly rn. Anyways, goodnight, good morning, and goodbye for now!

Updgrades, people, upgrades! (25/3)

If you look at the languages portion of the website, you may notice that I did, indeed add that grammar section I mentioned yesterday, as well you may notice a silly little image at the end of the page! That's right! I've added a dictionary for Anshens! Surprise! Really though, I had written the dictionary a week or two ago on google docs, and now it's here on not that! Very exciting! It's like 700-800 words long so far, but that number will only increase with time (yippee), so stay tuned! Also, you may notice that the colours of the dictionary differ greatly from the rest of the webpages, I'm gonna change the rest of the pages to match. The bright purple and orange hurts a friend of mine's eyes, so I imagine that it does the same for others, so I'm gonna change it all to be a bit easier to look at lol. Back to Anshens though, because now you can use the vague knowledge of how the grammar works that you obtained from the messily-written explanation of it to piece together some sentences kind of maybe a little bit! Such fun! Speaking of that grammar page, I know that it's not exactly the best, but I also genuinely can't explain how to speak things so I think that I'm gonna add more sentence breakdowns in the future to try to compensate for my lacking explanitory skills. I hope that what explanations exist currently can help whoever might want to learn the language in their pursuits :)! Anyways, it's 23:36 as I write and I'm very tired, so have fun, dear reader, have fun.

I am, in fact, not dead

Yes, it's true, I, Toldrone of USA do live, and I am actually doing completely fine. I'm aware that it doesn't matter much, my absence, but I do like to keep my being alive in some sort of constant knowledge. I haven't updated the site in like a month because I've been quite busy with school and work and such, and I simply haven't much had the time to write anything for this (I've actually written quite a lot this month, but mostly just one project that I had an idea for that's going alright). I will likely continue not having time to update the site as much as previous, but updates will come. Actually, I wrote out a grammar page for Anshens, but I was thinking about redesigning the languages page so I didn't put it up. I'll put it up today, but I'll redesign the page and make it not so cluttered and terrible later when I have time for learning how to do that lol.

Speaking of updates, I have gotten so many cds as of late! I now have all of Kendrick Lamar's discography except for Section 80 and GNX, I have Cherry Peel, Aldhils Arboretum, The Sunlandic Twins (and the bonus EP that comes with it), Satanic Panic In The Attic, and White Is Relic / Irrealis Mood from of Montreal, Scaled and Icy and Clancy from twenty one pilots, That Handsome Devil, A City Dressed In Dynamite, and Your Parents Are Sellouts from That Handsome Devil, Smash by Offspring, Own Your Ghost by 13 & God, Sublime by Sublime, a Greatest Hits album for Cat Stevens, a The Essentials album for Billy Joel, and In Utero and From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah from Nirvana. Oofta that's a lot! I'll try to go through the ones that I've listened through quickly, but it will take a second lol

For Kendrick: all of Kendricks albums are really good, I thoroughly enjoyed every one, especially To Pimp A Butterfly and DAMN, I still need to listen to his original Kendrick Lamar EP and get my hands on Section 80 and GNX, but damn they weren't lying his music is really like no other.

of Montreal time: None of their albums that I have I feel are as good as False Priest, but Satanic Panic In The Attic is a pretty damn close second in my eyes. The rest of their albums are pretty alright, The Sunlandic Twins I found to be a pretty fun listen, but they're overall perfectly cromulant albums. Except for White Is Relic / Irrealis Mood, which I just don't like that much idk what they were thinking with that one. I actually do, they were trying to sound like extended dance mixes for some reason and I don't really like it that much. But also I could be being annoyed at the fact that it doesn't sound like their other music or something who could know.

twenty one pilots time: I really like Clancy, especially songs like Navigating because the instrumentals are insanely cool, the drums are awesome, and the singer, Tyler Joseph, is only decent at worst. Though the lyricism is maybe a 7/10 at best, I still enjoy the energy of the music overall. Just about the same goes for Scaled and Icy, though admittedly I only like some songs on the album like Never Take It because I was already aware of the overarching story/lore of twenty one pilots by way of my friend who has an obsession with them. Also because the instrumentals are actually so incredible idk why they enamour me so but it's like crack cocaine sometimes.

That Handsome Devil time: Holy wack am I a massive That Handsome Devil enjoyer. Of the three of their albums that I have in my physical possession, my favorite is probably A City Dressed In Dynamite, but their eponymus albums is a clost second. I don't have a ton to say about any of them (I have too much to say actually) but I like the vocals of Godforbid, the lead singer, and Naoko Takamoto, the backup singer, so much and the instrumentals are so good and the drums are so awesome. Also the lyrics. They exist. The lyricism of THD isn't really the best, I'd say that it's usually better than that of twenty one pilots, but it's not the worst and some of their newer songs especially have a very strong "modern hippy" aesthetic to their lyrics that I think can be a little silly at times but ultimately unharmful.

Smash is.... Fine. I think that I wouldn't mind it if I were listening to it live, but even then, that's mostly because of the instruments. The lyricism was not the greatest, to say the least, but y'know, drums and guitar.

Own Your Ghost is actually alright, I enjoy the vocals and some of the words being said are pretty cool at times, and the instrumentals go from being very pretty and light to being pretty hard and fun. Overall, I don't mind this album, but some instinctual part of my brain absolutely despises whenever the singer raps for some reason, so I can only listen to every other song.

Out of the rest of the list, I've only gotten through In Utero by Nirvana, but I'll have time to listen to the rest at some point. Anyways, In Utero is a great representative of an interesting aspect in my taste in music, as I actually like the album, but I will probably never listen to it (outside of a few songs) in the car or on a playlist. I'm sure that there's some reason (my current theory is that the songs oft tip the instrumentals/vocals balance towards the instrumentals, which just isn't the type of music that I listen to generally), but who really knows. I would absolutely go to a Nirvana concert if those were possible anymore, but idk it's just not car music.

As they say somewhere surely, ¡FINALMENTE!

That's right, I finally did it! On this here 4th of February I got around to making that one table and writing that one bit on the languages page! Now I can finally actually say that I'm done with the rominization/cyrillization section of the Anshens section! Next up is grammar, which will certainly be very interesting to explain, as the grammar of Anshens has been very much influenced by the fact that I write it more often than I speak it (which makes sense, when would I speak a language known only to myself?), and then after the grammar, I reckon that I'll start writing about Ektari Tai, which will be kind of easier maybe a little bit. Who really knows?

Anyways, did you know that of Montreal apparently has released 18 (19*) full albums? That band has insane output and I strive to listen to as much of their music as I can get my hands on cds of. Also I've started to watch twenty one pilots music videos because a friend of mine really likes them and suggested that I do, and I've unfortunately come to very much enjoy them. I fear what may come of this, but ah well, what happens happens, I suppose.

21st day of 2025

Wowza, what a doozy that was amirite? As someone who regards themself as strongly american, I am a bit shaken. I want this country to succeed, but I believe that we are bearing witness to the beginning of its ultimate downfall.

In other news, I got more cds :D! Also I forgot to write about The New Congress's Everybody Gets Up!, which I thought was alright, overall a pretty chill album that I would describe as completely tolerable at the worst; so basically, another great addition to the master-playlist that is slowly beginning to resemble a mediocre radio station that you leave on because you're completely fine with listening to the least-best music on it.

Oh yeah, about those new cds: I got three— An Innocent Man by Billy Joel, False Priest by of Montreal, and Destroy All Astro-Men!! by Man... or Astro-Man?. These all are actually great ngl. I thoroughly enjoy False Priest, and Destroy All Astro-Men!!was a great bit of fun to listen to, even though there's no lyrics (I personally enjoy listening to people saying words because then I can also say the words along). I surprisingly haven't gotten around to listening to An Innocent Man, because I managed to busy myself just enough that I don't have the most amount of time to listen to music always. As well as that limitation, the sleeve of False Priest (which was put together like a sleeve for a vinyl, which I thought was really cool) contained a piece of paper that had a website and code, "ESSENTIALS", to get a free album called Winston's Essentials. There was also a different url for another page on the website with a different code, "FALSE", but they both now link to the same page, on which only one of the codes, "ESSENTIALS", works. Though about this, I cannot complain, as said free album has on it 15 songs from various artists with a similar style to of Montreal in high quality mp3s! This is a lovely reminder of a time before mine when people used to get cool free things along with their purchases, a time when mp3s reigned supreme and people owned their music. Way back then, in like 2010 (which, now that I think about it, it was technically within 'my time', but far from when I could start to purchase anything so eh. Hell, I doubt I even knew what money was then). I haven't completely listened through Winston's Essentials yet, but halfway in, I've been having my fun.

It's The 24th And I've Finally Gotten Around To Writing About Концерт!

Ok so, I really like it. Actually a huge fan, as it's exactly what one would expect from a live album of Billy Joel from performances in the USSR— a collection of his songs recorded live with applause and a translator for the song introductions. As it turns out, I think I like Billy Joel's music! I've never really listened to it much, but I was pleasantly surprised with it! I'm definitely adding it to the master playlist that I've been making for whenever I end up getting a dedicated music player. Speaking of, I've changed my mind on what I'll get— I've been thinking about the Mechen M30, as it plays flacs and has quite the aesthetic.

In the meantime, I've recently (today) obtained some more miscellaneous music cds! I got Silver by Leep 27, Everybody Gets Up! by The New Congress, Hello On The Go by The Music Workshop For Kids, Mozart: Klavierkonzerte Nos. 20 & 12 performed by the London Symphany Orchestra, and then a cd of the music of Love's Fowl which is a musical by Susan Vitucci (as far as I can tell with my limited research skills), and the music of West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein.

I've already started to listen to the Leep 27 album, and hoo boy is it ever pop-rock. I don't hate it, but it's very reminiscent of what one would hear on the radio in the mid-2000's to early 2010's. Great for driving I'm sure, but I find it quite borish to listen to it without something else to do, which is generally how I feel about a lot of that era's pop that I've listened to (do take my opinion with a large bit of salt; I haven't really listened to that much music generally, and especially not of that era, so I haven't the largest of sample sizes). Apparently though, Leep 27 is from and in Minnesota, which is pretty cool! Not much of anything comes from Minnesota, so it's always neat to see literally anything even somewhat interesting coming from it; even if it's middling 2003 pop rock

Waowza, It's Already The 14th??

I recently went to a thrift shop to buy some gifts for some friends, and ended up with two new cds that I've never heard of before— Swing by The Manhattan Transfer, and Концерт by Billy Joel. I enjoyed listening through Swing, as it's, as the name implies, a bunch of swing jazz music. I'm a passive fan of jazz, I don't usually seek it out but find it to always be a treat to my ears, so that album was a neat bit of proverbial rock candy. I haven't gotten to Концерт yet, though, but I'll make sure to write up some sort of review one I have. I'm quite excited to give it a listen, as it's apparently a collection of live recordings from a part of one of Billy Joel's tours in which he performed in the USSR, which is a pretty interesting bit of history.

Two cd albums on a brown floor, on the left is Swing by The Manhattan Transfer, and on the right is Концерт (Kontsert) by Billy Joel. Swing's album art is of two loopy cartoon figures dancing together with The Manhattan Transfer written on the top, and Swing written on the bottom, both in whimsically unserious fonts. Camera flash obscures the right third of the art, but barely misses any text. Концерт's album art is a pure red, the title of the album and Billy Joel's name is written on it in a very similar red, making it hard to read. There is a black rectangle on the upper right corner of Концерт as a censor bar covering a barcode and store label.

This obtaining of new cds is soon to become a bit of a habit as I begin to listen to music more and more, and have a stronger and stronger desire for physical media. I'm actually planning on buying an old iPod (probably the 5 or 6) and slapping RockBox on it so that I can listen to music that I own more genuinely. Also; I've meant to update this site with a bit more frequency, but I've been rather tired lately due to the drowsy weather, so I haven't been. I'll be sure to update it more now that my schedule allows me to sleep a little more lol, and I'll definitely try to write the second part of whatever I have going on in the Languages section of this website.

Now it's december (the 3rd)

If you, random website look-at-er, have been looking at the 'languages' section of this here website, you may've noticed a whole lot of changes, some big, some small. You especially might have noticed a lot of small changes in the IPA transcriptions of words and letters. This is because I often write things wrong on accident, and/or simply forget things (like transcribing a vowel's reduction, or writing down alternative pronounciations of letters). Honestly, it's pretty funny to mess up writing the transcription of a letter or word from a language that I literally created the phonology of. It's a good reminder that when you create a language, you have to learn it as well.

I feel like this is especially evident in the last paragraph of the 'phonological oddities' part of the page, in which I couldn't initially explain the pronounciation rules of the letter h and had to explain them through a lengthy example, after which I wrote a conclusion that explained the rule really well. Did I really need to write that whole example? No. Could I have removed everything except the conclusion? Yes. But I actually completely couldn't place what the actual rule was until writing out the example bc I was just so used to it and regarded the differing pronounciations as basically random, because I'm in a unique position in which I am both the creator and speaker of the words that I write, and thus don't notice things becoming natural rules (i. e. phonological rules) while I write up and memorize artificial ones (i. e. grammatical rules). It's quite the interesting phenomenon, I think.

Thanksgiving Day (28/11/2024)

Today is Thanksgiving! My family doesn't really celebrate though, we just eat a Thanksgiving-themed dinner and move on like normal. I would say that it's really sad or something that we don't put much effort into such a celebration, but frankly Thanksgiving isn't really a holiday that I think needs much celebration. I find the holiday as a whole to be quite superfluous, though its celebration being "hang out with your loved ones" and "be grateful for food and your material and ethereal goods" makes it a hard holiday to specifically dislike; I say that as one with a family who holds similar political beliefs to their own, but even if that weren't the case, friends exist, and those with true and good friends are never really without an accepting/supportive family.
Anyways, that was my short little Thanksgiving rant thing, I'm gonna go eat food, drink, and be merry as everyone deserves to one such a fine day as this.

24th!!!

Every day is one closer to something good! Probably, at least. Regardless, I got around to adding a page for the blog aspect of this website!!!! Also I've changed the main page to be more "cohesive", or at least less chaotic. I finished Arcane yesterday!!!! It was very awesome (despite everything feeling a little bit rushed and there being some un-tied ends) and I'm glad to've watched it.

Kendrick also dropped two days ago, and I finally have an opportunity to listen to it! So far, it's as amazing as a Kendrick album should be!

Overall, very chill day to add onto my very chill week (it wasn't actually very chill but that's fine), though my great tiredness the past two mornings tells me that I may start feeling more depressed again. Such is life; though it does annoy me that I lost much of my motivation to do anything as I was just starting to write again :/

Yaowzah it's the 21st and I finally got around to figuring it out!!!!

Yeagh that's right it's all purple now 😎😎 and there's nothing you could do about it 😎😎 heck yeah 😎😎. Anyways, I figured out how to do colours and text effects! I'm gonna also figure out how to format anything properly, as the current state of this site is still a tad rough lol. Also I'm now super not sick at all anymore! I've still had a bit of a cough throughout the day, but it should be gone completely tomorrow! I think, at least; who knows, maybe I have super mega lung cancer and will explode in my sleep 🤷
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woohoo now it's the 15th (best number)!!

yeagh I'm still very much sick :/, on the bright side though, it's payday! I purchased a campsnap camera, so when that arrives, I'm gonna have a field day with photo-taking! I can't wait to take random pictures of stuff more than I do usually! (Granted, I don't often take pictures, but now I'll hopefully start doing so more often!) I actually already have a camera— the FujiFilm SQ40, but it's an instant camera, so it's a little bit expensive to use too much. It's also fairly bulky, so my (at times) limited space for going places isn't adequate for its use. I think that I'm gonna be updating this website mainly on the weekends, as I have much that keeps me busy and away from my computer during the week. I also need to figure out how to actually format anything, as this site currently looks quite bad

A screenshot of this very website as of 15/11/2024. It's a blank white with the middle four of the above images on the left side along with some illegible text. It looks very not good, but hey, everyone starts somewhere!
Bask here in its blank and unfinished horror

today (14/11/2024) I've been a tad under the weather, so I'm think that I'll rewatch Arcane season two, as I only caught half of it the first time while at a friend's.

ok so I must say that I'm quite the fan of this season so far! its good! I would provide any sort of critical analysis but my brain is fried from whatever it is that my body is fighting with a slight fever and a shitty cough. oh the plights of illness. may god or whoever smite my woes (I've been somewhat sickly these past weeks, mayhaps this is the end (jk gang I'm probably just more unlucky than usual))