dislexicauthorwannabe

Latest Posts by dislexicauthorwannabe

I have always felt that David was a very "normal" name to appear in the grishaverse so Mark also being canonically in there strangely fits for me.

But it does raise the question of language in the books. So everyone in SoC is speaking Kerch (unless the book explicitly tells you otherwise) so that means the word "mark" and the name "Mark" must be the same in Kerch like they are in English. I also wonder how this joke translates into other languages when publishing the book.

(Not really relevant but I'm in the zone) The other scene that makes me think of language is near the start of the book when Jesper says about shooting the words "please forgive me" into someone's chest and someone (I think Kaz) points out that "I'm sorry" is shorter. But like... It must be shorter in Kerch too for that to be a true statement and for Kaz's joke to land.

As someone who is thinking of publishing Fantasy work I do wonder how much thought goes into wordplay in fictional languages.

just realized Wylan question of “who’s mark?” means the name Mark is like a,,, thing in the grishaverse, like that’s actual name people have. Can imagine living in a pseudo-Victorian/Edwardian world where people literally have magical powers and being named fucking Mark??? No hate to anyone who has that name but like it’s odd to think of that name in the context of the grishaverse. Like the name Marcus has existed for a long time so it’s not hard to believe the nickname could exist it’s just odd. This is like the male version of the Tiffany problem 😭

Spiders outside my window

There are spiders outside my window,

They are hanging on their webs.

I know there are at least three,

Though one from my view ebbs.

They look as if they are floating,

Sat against the Belfast sky.

And here I sit and watch them.

My spider friends and I.

I have just seen a fourth one.

That’s one for every pane

Within my little window,

It’s like little picture frames.

Do you think they see me,

Looking at them all?

Do they wonder what I’m doing?

To them do I look tall?

Am I the only person,

That they have ever seen?

My room is on the third floor,

So where else could they have been?

I usually don't like Spiders,

But these onesa have made me think,

Have they seen me crying?

And do they know I think?

If they could write,

Do you suppose,

That they would write of me?

Some short songs or short prose,

That they had spun,

Like glorious webs

Born, like this poem,

From thoughts in their heads?

There are spiders outside my window.

Now I’ve counted five.

Do they know I watch them?

Do they know I’m alive?

But the thought that scares me most,

Terrifies me to no end,

Is that I think I see more spiders,

Then there are people I call ‘friend’.

This is just all wrong.

Frist, in Biblical Hebrew the ending 'im' (ימ) is MASCULINE plural. Which could be its own discussion but the Scholarship is split so I won't go into that here.

Second, the word Elohim (אלהימ) is not "the name for the creative power in Genesis" it is a noun meaning 'god' or 'gods' and can refer to either the God of the Hebrews or false gods. It appears continuously in the Old Testament not just Genesis.

Thirdly, YHWH (יהןה) IS the name of God. And it doesn't appear much later it appears in Genesis 2 (and there are some suggestions as to why these chapters use different words for God but that's a different post).

'Al Shaddai' is actually 'el Shaddai' (אל שדד) the 'el' coming from 'elohim' and it means 'God Almighty'. While it does come later it is not a name for the God of the Bible.

The origin of the word Jehovah is very long but basically Jewish people would not say YHWH out loud and so would substitute the word 'adonai' (אדני) which means 'Lord' or 'Master' and can also refer to humans. Jehovah comes from the Latin of the Hebrew word that is produced when you take the vowels of 'adonai' and place them over the Hebrew letters YHWH. It is not a "mispronunciation" it is an evolution of a reading tradition.

(Edit: added tags.)

First post!

I don't know what people do for their first posts on here so I'll just say some things about myself:

I'm 20 years old

I am currently in Uni studying Theology.

I like reading (primarily fiction) and have been writing for fun since I was about 13 or 14.

I don't think anything I've written is really publish-worthy so this is just a way to maybe get some feed back on things I have written, or just share for the sake of sharing (IDK).

I don't really know if this will reach anyone and I kind of feel like I'm talking to no one but that's fine. Anyway, I hope to be more active on this app than I have been and actually post something at some point.