A particular scene in the FL RP group I’m involved in ended up with me making up a bunch of these, so…
"The Callousness of an Empty Room."
"A Sacrificial Vessel that Cannot Drain."
"An Ocean Sunk Only with Holes."
"The Delight of Once Again Being Home"
"The Breaking of Every Sinful Stone."
"The Gap Between the Hand and the Mountain"
"An Absent Mercy of the Chain."
"Drowning in Glory."
"The Pit Before You."
"Greeting the Night with a Smile."
"Without Excuses Leaping Toward the Blade."
"The Uncountable Terrors of Success."
"Seeing The Doom Before You and Leaping."
"A Festival Only for Toys."
"People That Look Like Dreams"
"Dreams That Look Like People"
"Hunger That Breaks Bones"[li] edited by deadcrystal on 5/8/2014[/li][li] edited by deadcrystal on 5/8/2014
I didn’t create this, but I’d urge anyone fascinated by these lyrical symbols to bookmark it and, where possible, update it as new content unfolds. Even if the wording isn’t a direct quote of a symbol, but an allusion to what one seems to stand for, it’d be nice to have it documented.
Even if for no other reason than delicious head-canon! edited by Shalinoth on 12/29/2014
I just couldn’t resist coming up with a few myself. I love this kind of thing.
Biting the Inside of One’s Cheek, to Remember the Sensation of Pain
The Sudden Awareness of a Life other than Your Own
The Slow and Unnoticed Decomposition of Hope over the Span of a Lifetime
The Panic of a Soul, upon Finding Itself Imprisoned within a Body.
The Preference of an Uncaring God over a Nonexistent One
The Moment of Fear upon Waking and Discovering the World Anew
The Infinitesimally Small but Crucial Difference between Death and Freedom
Destruction for the Sake of Nonexistence
The Cruel Satisfaction one feels when Witnessing an Atrocious Misdeed
The Desire of Something For the Sake of Depriving Others
A Lie that Upon Closer Inspection is merely a Particularly Malicious Truth
Kindness for the Sake of Concealing Ill Intent
The Crumbling Roar of a Slowly Decaying Universe
The Gift of a Scar that Will Not Heal
The Light of a Star that has been Extinguished
The Morbid Anticipation of One’s Own Death
The Murder that All Men are Capable of
Also, I’m working on a way to translate english words into correspondence sigils and vice versa, because I love doing that kind of thing. Unfortunately, the Correspondence is slowly eating away at my sanity and I worry that I have little hope of completing my work before I loose my mind completely. Also, I need to buy less flammable computers.
Lasting Ennui Resultant of a Failed Endeavour
A Desire Concealed out of Kindness/Fear (ambiguous)
The Wisdom of a Hanged Man
The Violent Death of an Inferno
Silent, Sombre Regret
A Tiny Spark Of Light in Darkness
A Bending Of Reflected Things (toward some) Singularity
The Inevitability of Choice
I humbly submit to this fine list a handful of the sigils whose meaning I fancy I’ve deciphered. While I’ve no doubt the Ministry shall redact from this post the exact form of the symbols being referenced herein (and truly, one can scarcely fault them for such, if so!), I include the most specific definitions possible in hopes they might aid the serious scholar regardless.
*(1) secrets superstitious (fish?) bury in the ears of (witches?) in order to forget (the context of this sense is somewhat obscure; further research required)
*(2) general term for any species belonging to an order of very large Loricifera with soft pelts woven from shed eyelashes lost in the Zee (as illustrated in detail most unsettling in the late Mr. P. H. Gosse’s unpublished Liber Saeta - manuscript pages available in the University library with written permission of faculty. To my knowledge, no recorded sightings of these beasts are extant.)
**(1) a sentient ambulatory mycoid (e.g., a blemmigan)
**(2) the sound a fruit makes whilst rotting, or being gradually crushed (as inside a slowly closing fist or beneath a slightly heavier object)
***(1) the interrogation by torture of a guilty subject
***(2) the conflict of will and intent present between a forensic investigation & a civilization of flies burning the evidence for fuel [possibly a specific poetic extension of sense (1) - as attested most notably in Prynne’s ‘First-city Homilies’ collection, Tablets 3 and 46]
*****(1) a doppelganger, an avatar, ones dream-self considered separately, or conceptual objects of bodily dysphoria in general
*****(2) a contrivance, idiom, or artificial replacement which has come to supplant its original referent in perceived authenticity
*****(3) a lie which has gained sufficient cultural currency to attain the resonance of truth
*****(4) the sum of a charlatan’s accolades
May the Lord defend us all, in His great mercy, who would seek true understanding, from the perils that gird all pearls of Neathy wisdom, here amidst the palimpsest of fouled cities that are and were.
"The desire to win when one knows one has lost"
"The sound of a bone being pushed back into place"
"The anger at having a choice taken away by forces beyond ones control" edited by RoboticaBirdie on 5/14/2015
‘The acquisition of a valuable and needful thing at suspiciously little cost.’ ‘Locked redundantly and recursively by obsessed hands.’ ‘A number of alarming frequency and prevalence.’ ‘An unexpected loss to an inferior opponent.’ ‘An undertaking at another’s behest with no investiture in the outcome.’ ‘A secret that seems worth knowing only before it is understood in detail.’ ‘The act of drawing up the corpse of an old friend from the place where it had been left.’ ‘The moment of understanding that comes only after it is too late to prevent the outcome.’ ‘A belief held earnestly but in no nobler spirit than the appeasement of those around oneself.’ ‘The crossroads between popularly-defined heroism and the necessities of personal conviction.’ ‘The seemingly amorphous emptiness left by the loss of a thing promptly forgotten.’ ‘Insurmountable hunger to exist in a capacity beyond one’s means.’
‘The coldness that comes in realizing that one has done all that one can but that none of it has influenced the conclusion.’ edited by Amyntas on 12/3/2015
"the terror felt when confronted with an unassailable truth"
"the even greater terror felt upon realizing that there are no unassailable truths"
"to be convinced of being watched by someone who can never be seen"
"to be executed for a crime of passion when that passion was only feigned"
"the assumption of being loved back by someone when that assumption is wrong but that wrongness never revealed"
"the taste of a lie"
"the sound of extraction"
"the paralyzing uncertainty felt while waiting for news of a missing loved one"
"the relief felt upon realizing that a terrible accident has just been avoided"
"the relief felt upon realizing that a terrible accident is about to occur to someone else"
"the span of time in which a judgement’s egg hatches"
"the death-cry of a galaxy"
"the maximum number of sentient beings that can possibly fall in love within the same nanosecond without destroying the universe" edited by Amélie Vaincœur on 11/11/2015
Sorry, I’ve never seen this thread before and I just have to post this: Thank you, Elias Phillip! This will be my answer from now on when I’m asked what Funeral Doom sounds like:
[quote=Rupho Schartenhauer]Sorry, I’ve never seen this thread before and I just have to post this: Thank you, Elias Phillip! This will be my answer from now on when I’m asked what Funeral Doom sounds like:
:music:[/quote]
I feel like it deserves mentioning that a handful of these would be killer MMORPG guild names.
