u/Knight_of_Rohan1964

Basically, I'm looking for xenobiology projects that, instead of exposing their content and creature designs from a "present day" perspective, as if from the perspective of a hypothetical explorer, instead take their time to track the development and evolution of life from the very beginning, and also explore more thoroughly the world's geological ages and their impact on biology, ecosystems, etc. In short, something more akin to an actual speculative evolution project.

I don't have anything against the more common approach. I'm just looking for inspirations for developing my own private project, to see if it sparks some new ideas (I'm currently in the process of brainstorming the evolution of multicellularity and eventually more complex animal-like forms). As of this post, the only project having this form of presentaions I'm aware of is Lapis Exobiology Project by Kandy Eggs on Youtube, which I'm currently catching up to.

Any suggestions?

It's been almost an year since I created and refined my writing system, which I've been using mostly for journaling, as well as transcribing random quotes and sentences for fun. So I decided to share it here in this sub.

For the aesthetic, I tried taking inspiration from Avestan, Mkhedruli and Armenian, but guess it ended becoming it's own thing. I'm still not sure whether I'm fully satisfied with resulting look, but I'm still proud of it. The system has quite a personal value for me at this point.

The translation of the provided sample is:

"Pra não dizer que não falei das flores

Caminhando e cantando e seguindo a canção
Somos todos iguais, braços dados ou não
Nas escolas, nas ruas, campos, construções
Caminhando e cantando e seguindo a canção

Vem, vamos embora, que esperar não é saber
Quem sabe faz a hora, não espera acontecer
Vem, vamos embora, que esperar não é saber
Quem sabe faz a hora, não espera acontecer

Pelos campos há fome em grandes plantações
Pelas ruas marchando indecisos cordões
Ainda fazem da flor seu mais forte refrão
E acreditam nas flores vencendo o canhão

Vem, vamos embora, que esperar não é saber
Quem sabe faz a hora, não espera acontecer
Vem, vamos... (etc.)

Há soldados armados, amados ou não
Quase todos perdidos de armas na mão
Nos quartéis lhes ensinam uma antiga lição
De morrer pela pátria e viver sem razão

Vem, vamos... (etc.)"

If this gets enough interest, I'll eventually post a full key. But it's possible to make a few guesses from this text. Any thoughts?

NOTES:

• The language represented is Portuguese. The system would need some significant adaptation to work for English, because of its complex syllabic codas.
• It functions as a mix of a syllabary and an abugida, and a semi-abjad. For its logical structure, I took ideas from Paleohispanic scripts, Sumerian cuneiform and Pahawk Hmong, as well as an initial premise of "if you wrote down only some vowels and left others to context, could you register a non-Semitic language with sufficient phonetic precision?" On average, therefore, every syllable takes one or two letters (very rarely three, when it ends on a diphthong + coda)
• The system is mostly (like, 80-90%) phonetic, but a few elements are taken from historical spelling/older Portuguese phonology just for fun. It's still very predictable if you know enough about modern Portuguese orthography

(Originally posted in r/Neography , but I'm interested to see how far can people go trying to decipher it)

It's been almost an year since I created and refined my writing system, which I've been using mostly for journaling, as well as transcribing random quotes and sentences for fun. So I decided to share it here in this sub.

For the aesthetic, I tried taking inspiration from Avestan, Mkhedruli and Armenian, but guess it ended becoming it's own thing. I'm still not sure whether I'm fully satisfied with resulting look, but I'm still proud of it. The system has quite a personal value for me at this point.

If this gets enough interest, I'll eventually post a full key. But I'm leaving several scattered clues in the samples here shown. Hope you enjoy it!

NOTES:

• The language represented is Portuguese. The system would need some significant adaptation to work for English, because of its complex syllabic codas.
• It functions as a mix of a syllabary and an abugida, and a semi-abjad. For its logical structure, I took ideas from Paleohispanic scripts, Sumerian cuneiform and Pahawk Hmong, as well as an initial premise of "if you wrote down only some vowels and left others to context, could you register a non-Semitic language with sufficient phonetic precision?"
• The system is mostly (like, 80-90%) phonetic, but a few elements are taken from historical spelling/older Portuguese phonology just for fun. It's still predictable if you know enough about modern Portuguese orthography
• I'll only be providing the translation for Sample 4. It's a quote from a classic romance of Brazilian literature, which reads: "Inocência, coitadinha... Exatamente nesse dia fazia dois anos que o seu gentil corpo fora entregue a terra, no imenso sertão de Sant'Ana do Paranaíba, para ai dormir o sono da eternidade." Samples 11 and 12 also contain quotes from the same book.
• Also, Sample 14 contains numbers.
• V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf

It's been almost an year since I created and refined my writing system, which I've been using mostly for journaling, as well as transcribing random quotes and sentences for fun. So I decided to share it here in this sub.

For the aesthetic, I tried taking inspiration from Avestan, Mkhedruli and Armenian, but guess it ended becoming it's own thing. I'm still not sure whether I'm fully satisfied with resulting look, but I'm still proud of it. The system has quite a personal value for me at this point.

If this gets enough interest, I'll eventually post a full key. But I'm leaving several scattered clues in the samples here shown. Hope you enjoy it!

NOTES:

• The language represented is Portuguese. The system would need some significant adaptation to work for English, because of its complex syllabic codas.
• It functions as a mix of a syllabary and an abugida, and a semi-abjad. For its logical structure, I took ideas from Paleohispanic scripts, Sumerian cuneiform and Pahawk Hmong, as well as an initial premise of "if you wrote down only some vowels and left others to context, could you register a non-Semitic language with sufficient phonetic precision?"
• The system is mostly (like, 80-90%) phonetic, but a few elements are taken from historical spelling/older Portuguese phonology just for fun. It's still predictable if you know enough about modern Portuguese orthography
• I'll only be providing the translation for Sample 4. It's a quote from a classic romance of Brazilian literature, which reads: "Inocência, coitadinha... Exatamente nesse dia fazia dois anos que o seu gentil corpo fora entregue a terra, no imenso sertão de Sant'Ana do Paranaíba, para ai dormir o sono da eternidade." Samples 11 and 12 also contain quotes from the same book.
• Also, Sample 14 contains numbers.

Title and images are self-explanatory. Not a spoiler because the footage is in the promo (0:35). Probably most have already spotted it, I just had some fun trying to find it

EDIT: ok, so it most people *didn't* spot it before, and it's a lot more controversial than I imagined. Yes, it could be a compositing error, but given that we see seagulls in the Backrooms (implying there *must* be a null zone mid air for them to reach the Complex) and given how careful Kane tends to be with details both in the Youtube series and in other parts of the movie, I just find hard to believe it's all just a coincidence.

Also, why not both? What if Kane and the team behind the movie decided a compositing "error" was the easiest way to visually convey the idea of a mid air null zone?

On X: https://x.com/glitch\_prod/status/2062565176570720347/video/1?s=46