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    Mindy Park is rapidly realising that the first intelligent extraterrestrial to make contact with the human race thinks they’re fucking stupid. She’s pretty sure that Dr Grace isn’t accurately translating half the things Rocky is saying, but most of what he is telling her is that Rocky has a better way of doing what NASA wants them to do, and honestly, it seems like Rocky is mostly right. She probably doesn’t want to know what the other half of what Grace’s new alien friend is saying, if the things that are making it through what she’s calling the “middle school teacher filter” are “why would you do something the dumb way when you could do it the right way”.

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    Mindy has a headache, Grace has trauma, Mark is confused and Rocky is wondering how humans made it in to space when they're all so, so dumb.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    Ryland Grace is pretty sure ships aren’t supposed to act like this.

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    Sentient!Mary AU

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    18 May 2026

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    This is the various conlang dialogue I translated for HBO's Game of Thrones. The languages I created that are featured in the show Dothraki, High Valyrian, Astapori Valyrian, Meereense Valyrian, and Mag Nuk. All languages are technically a posteriori artlangs based on either words or ideas that come from George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, but the languages are probably better understood as a priori with some input from a second author.

    The season is now complete, but as a note, there's a lot of material that I need to sift through for accuracy. My methodologies have improved as I've worked in Hollywood, and much of what I did in seasons 1 and 2 was unused. I'm fairly certain what's here is mostly accurate, but I need to go through and curate it a bit to be sure.

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    16 Nov 2025

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    Yennefer doesn’t know much about Jaskier, but she had assumed that of their little ragtag group he’d be the most agreeable.
    Oh how wrong she was.
    Or, 4 times Jaskier defends his family plus 1 time his family defends him
    a.k.a, my feral bard Jaskier fic

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    08 Aug 2025

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    This is the Accidental Warlord and His Pack series, reorganized in an order that makes a little more sense. It's not precisely chronological, since some of the backstories are set well before With a Conquering Air, but it should flow nicely.

    If you're interested in talking about this series, please come join the Discord server!

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    21 Jul 2025