#Ashwin Pember
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Been a while since we drew much of anything. Especially to ink it. Not quire sure which of us worked on this one tonight:
This is Ashwin Pember, from our upcoming book The End of the Tunnel.
Nem is one of the Pembers, a system of tens of thousands who live aboard the Sunspot. Myra Pember, Ashwin's headmate, is one of the heroes of our first book, Systems' Out! Both Myra and Ashwin look a lot like their vessel, with only minor differences.
Ashwin's book takes place 297 Sunspot years after Myra's book, after their vessel has passed away and they've both ascended to the Network of the Sunspot with all of their headmates.
People on the Sunspot tend to pursue something they call their Art. It's a lot like an autistic special interest, but distinctly not human. It can be anything. And it typically changes over time, but usually in a logical way that relates to their past interests and work. Some people, however, never find theirs.
Ashin never found nems Art. So, when it was declared that a planet inhabited by aliens (humans) was discovered through the use of the Tunnel Apparatus, Ashwin is the first to volunteer to cross through the Tunnel and reach out to them.
What nem encounters on the other side (Portland, Oregon) is nothing any denizen of the Sunspot could ever have imagined.
In the course of exploring Earth and translating the Sunspot Chronicles into English, Ashwin sort of discovers that nem is very, very good at linguistics and really particularly enjoys working with English, as awful as the language is in many ways.
Nem has also discovered the joys of garlicky stir fried green beans, salt bagels with cream cheese, and watching the penguins at the Oregon Zoo.
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"Now let's see Ashwin Pember's avatar. Look at that subtle fur-like feathering. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh, my God. It even has a boop-able nose."
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People! (Phage, Ni'a, Ashwin Pember, and Metabang at Mau Rro) - https://sunspot.world/people-phage-nia-ashwin-pember-and-metabang-at-mau-rro/ Excerpt: click on this thumbnail to see a larger version of this image: posted by: Inmara Ktletaccete Fenumera
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Ashwin the maybe not so Artless
Oh. Oh, wow. Oh.
Maybe I am the Linguist.
Maybe it's because I'm just strongly coconscious with a couple of my headmates, but it doesn't feel like I am. But I woke up today fronting strongly and I've got all these memories I'm reminiscing over as if they are mine.
Memories of writing our languages, Fenekere, Mäofrräo, and Inmararräo.
Memories of skulking r/conlangs with @fenmere while at work.
Memories of writing posts about our languages.
Memories of interjecting into @your-tutor-abacus' book with nerdery about our languages for it.
Shit. I even remember our first attempts at making a conlang in middle school, and studying up on Irish Gaelic, German, Korean, and Spanish around high school and college.
Just as strong and present and feeling like mine as my recent memories of writing my own book and living its events in our head.
So, I'm writing here in our system's blog instead of my own, because my own is dedicated to the kayfabe we created for my book.
In that blog, I write as if I'm living in a much, much smaller system with Sarah, Goreth, and @ohthatphage (who are real people, btw!) having traveled an uncounted number of parsecs across the universe through the Tunnel Apparatus, in a different part of Portland than we actually live. (If you go looking for the house we describe, you're not going to find it.)
I don't want to break that kayfabe there (@ashwin-the-artless). But, here? That's what this blog is for.
Honestly, it makes sense that I'd be the one to come forward and take the name Ashwin. The whole point of my book, The End of the Tunnel, is to tell the story of how our translation team got here to Earth to publish the Sunspot Chronicles for you.
But this explains why I've got such a strong handled on English idioms and my own colloquial U.S. English dialect and voice. I've actually been speaking this language for nearly 40 years, maybe longer.
In my book, I handwave it off as sharing the linguistic centers of Sarah and Goreth's brain, of course. Because that's actually a plausible and very common thing among systems.
In our actual system, the Inmara, that's how it works. Maybe with some active help from other headmates, even. All of the girls, who live in the right hemisphere of our brain, think in wordless thoughts, and get help from us dragons for translating them into English words.
Sarah and Goreth's fictional system was made to work the same way, but with 4 million fewer headmates.
Anyway. Hi!
Nice to meet you!
How are you?
~ Ashwin Pember, maybe not really the student of Metabang, maybe actually very much older than Metabang
#Ashwin the artless#plural gang#the End of the Tunnel#Sunspot Chronicles#personal history#headmate introduction
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Welcoming some new(ly identified) headmates
So, we just furiously wrote an 87k word novel in 11 days, and we have brought forward a new cast that deserve a round of introductions. These are not all of the characters in the book, mind you. But they are the handful who may have been members of our system for a lot longer than the book has existed.
Ashwin Pember (nem/them) - the narrator of the book and owner of @ashwin-the-artless. We're not sure how long they've been around, but it's possible that nem is two system members of the same name, one nestled in next to Fenmere (me!) and another who lives amongst our Tutors and AI-kin on the Dragon side. Or, Ashwin is just on the Dragons' side and works closely with Fenmere (me). This isn't clear yet. They feel older than the project, but haven't served us any memories from before it, and that sense of age may be inherited from Fenmere (me) and possibly Breq. Anyway, very cool person! We like having nem front and wish them well. They are not AI-kin, nem just happens to live amongst them. Similar neural affinities and skills.
Goreth (they/them) - An old, old dragon of ours! They've been fronting a lot lately, and didn't have a name until now. And we've been trying to figure out who they were for quite a while. We thought they might have been one of the Jonathans, but though they helped us mask before our transition, they kept denying that name. They volunteered to be one of Ashwin's two hosts for the novel, and we all went, "Oh, it's you!" Goreth likes to front and represent the whole system, even though they have a habit of saying "I" instead of "we", a holdover from doing a lot of masking. They are also very, very dragony. Because they're a dragon.
Sarah (she/her) - Seems to be our Liaison (fictive introject) of Sarah from Labyrinth. We named the character after our cousin, actually, but this Sarah came forward instead of our factive Liaison, and has been acting much more like the movie character. But, she's also really grown into her own person while living in our system and especially while helping to write the novel. Definitely very much a girl, and proud of it.
Rräoha (it/gem) - In the book, its pronoun is gem/gemself, and it'll accept that, but gem is absolutely one of our id monsters and proudly uses it/its as well. Like most of our id monsters, it leans toward the girls' side of our brain, but isn't actually a girl. Like Ashwin, gem has a sense of being very old, but can't seem to dig up any memories older than the book we just wrote. The thing its happiest about in life is gems name. It means "the shouted backwards", as in "a backwards" that has been shouted. In Inmararräo, it is a nonsensical word that has only ever been used as a person's name. Harräo is the word for "palindrome", which is something that doesn't actually appear very often in Inmararräo, so it's a special and notable thing. So Rräoha gains some connotations from that.
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