#language cipher

[dedalvs]

Hey! I'm David Peterson, and a few years ago, I wrote a book called Create Your Own Secret Language. It's a book that introduces middle grade readers to codes, ciphers, and elementary language creation. The age range is like 10-14, but skews a little bit older, as the work gets pretty complicated pretty quick. I think 12-13 is the best age range.

Anyway, I decided to look at the Amazon page for it a bit ago, and it's rated fairly well (4.5 at the moment), but there are some 1 star reviews, and I'm always curious about those. Usually they're way off, or thought the book was going to be something different (e.g. "This book doesn't teach you a thing about computer coding!"), but every so often there's some truth in there. (Oh, one not 1 star but lower rated review said they gave it to their 2nd grader, but they found it too complicated. I appreciate a review like that, because I am not at all surprised—I think it is too complicated for a 2nd grader—and I think a review like that is much more effective than a simple 10+ age range on the book.) The first 1 star rating I came to, though, was this:

Now calling a completely mild description of a teenage girl who has a crush on another girl controversial is something I take exception to, but I don't want to pile on this person. Instead I wanted to share how this section came to be in the book.

The book is essentially divided into four parts. The first three parts deal with different ciphers or codes that become more complicated, while the last part describes elementary language creation. The first three sections are each built around a message that the reader can decode, but with language creation, the possibilities are too numerous and too complicated, so there isn't an example to decode, or anything. It would've been too difficult.

For what the messages to decode are about, though, I could do, potentially, anything, so at first I thought to tie them into a world of anthropomorphic animals (an ongoing series of battles between cats and mice), with messages that are being intercepted and decoded. My editor rejected that. Then I redid it so that each section had an individual story that had to do with some famous work of literature. My editor rejected that as well. He explained that it needed to be something that was relevant to kids of the target age range. I was kind of at a loss, for a bit, but then I thought of a story of kids sending secret messages about their uncle who eats too many onions. I shared that, my editor loved it, and I was like, all right. I can do this.

The tough part for me in coming up with mini-stories to plan these coded messages around was coming up with a reason for them to be secret. That's the whole point of a code/cipher: A message you want to be sure no one else but the intended recipient can read in case the message is intercepted. With the first one, two kids are poking gentle fun at a family member, so they want to be sure no one else can read what they're writing. For the last one, a boy is confessing to a diary, because he feels bad that he allowed his cat to escape, but no one knows he did it (he does find the cat again). For the other, I was trying to think of plausible message-sending scenarios for a preteen/teen, and I thought of how we used to write notes in, honestly, 4th and 5th grade, but I aged it up a bit, and decided to have a story about a girl writing a note to her friend because she has a crush on another girl, and wants her friend's opinion/help.

Here's where the point of sharing this comes in. As I had originally written it, the girl's note to her friend was not just telling her friend about her crush, it was also a coming out note, and she was concerned what her parents would react poorly.

Anyway, I sent that off with the rest of my draft, and I got a bunch of comments back on the whole draft (as expected), but my editor also commented on that story, in particular. Specifically, he noted that not every LGBTQ+ story has to be a coming out story, the part about potential friction between her and her parents because of it was a little heavy for the book, and, in general, not every coming out story has to be traumatic.

That was all he said, but I immediately recognized the, in hindsight, obvious truth of all three points, and I was completely embarrassed. I changed it immediately, so that the story beats are that it's a crush, she's not sure if it'll be reciprocated, and she's also very busy with school and band and feels like this will be adding even more busy-ness to her daily life as a student/teen. Then I apologized for making such a blunder. My editor was very good about it—after all, that's what drafts and editors are for—and that was a relief, but I'm still embarrassed that I didn't think of it first.

But, of course, this is not my lived experience, not being a member of the LGBTQ+ community. This is the very reason why you have sensitivity readers—to provide a vantage point you're blind to. In this case, I was very fortunate to have an editor who was thinking ahead, and I'm very grateful that he was there to catch it. That editor, by the way, is Justin Krasner.

One reason I wanted to share this, though, is that while it always is a bit of a difficult thing to speak up, because there might be a negative reaction, sometimes there is no pushback at all. Indeed, sometimes the one being called out is grateful, because we all have blindspots due to our own lived experiences. You can't live every life. For that reason, your own experience will end up being valuable to someone at some point in time for no other reason than that you lived it and they didn't. And, by the by, this is also true for the present, because the lives we've lived cause us to see what's going on right before our eyes in different lights.

Anyway, this is a story that wouldn't have come out otherwise, so I wanted to be sure to let everyone know that Justin Krasner ensured that my book was a better book. An editor's job is often silent and thankless, so on Thanksgiving, I wanted to say thank you, Justin. <3

#conlang #language #code #codes #cipher #ciphers #thanksgiving #thank you

[muppetable]

bill ciphers announcement

audio by @itsapmseymour

og post by @awakefor48hours

#cw language #gravity falls #animatic #bill cipher #disney #my art #video

[sweetiespider]

no wonder the episode took so long, the little nerd was making his own cipher x

#for etho uts actually quite quick #and for most of the youtubers i like #i iust wanted to make a joke #listen to how happy he is about his little geeky language #average 40yo 4yo #hermitcraft #ethoslab #i edited it to say cipher and not language #video #1k

[ckret2]

Obsessively studying your recently-resurrected arch-nemesis isn't, like, any kind of mental health red flag, is it? Like that's probably fine right?

#bill cipher #human bill cipher #grunkle ford #stanford pines #gravity falls #gravity falls fanart #bill goldilocks cipher #about my writing #my art #(i just wanted to make a headcanon post about Bill's weird body language)

[ask--invaderzim]

How to speak Irken? I've tried writing it and even looking up ASL (American Sign Language) for Irken, but I forgot it all! <=(

#invader zim #zim #dib membrane #i took liberty with what characters to use to asnwer that but next time please specify who youre asking </3 #[ ask: dib ] #[ ask: zim ] #iz fanart #ask characters #character ask #zade #GET PUSHED IDIOT !!!!! (at zim) #if thats a genuine question tho i dont think you can speak irken out loud? as far as i know it's only a written language. like a cipher #grimnlucky

[cissyenthusiast010155]

Degradation Kink with Cipher ~Kinktober 2023

Happy October 14th!!! It’s officially two weeks of October and Kinktober, wohoo! 🖤🩸Today’s kink is the Degradation Kink. And it’s with the ruthless, precisioned Cipher from the Fast and Furious Saga. Enjoy!! 💜🎃

Previous Day <—found here!

Kinktober 2023 <—Here!!

Mommy… Master List

Requests & Prompt-List

Warnings: NSFW, 18+!!!, degradation kink, smut, just filth, d!ck sucking, strap-on d!ck, fake cum, heavy degradation, teasing, pet names, derogatory name calling, implied praise kink, implied future smut, etc…

Enjoy (;

“Such a desperate cock slut aren’t you…?” The blonde sneered, as she held onto your hair in a vice grip and roughly pushed your face down on her plastic dick.

You gagged at Cipher’s actions, but her words and movements only desperately turned you on. You moaned loudly and nodded as you took the woman strap-on deep in your throat. You desperately tried to remember to breathe through your nose, as she bobbed your head up and down in a swift and ruthless pace.

“Look at me, bitch… Look at me as you take my dick like a professional slut…!” Cipher demanded in a sneer.

Your eyes watered as you looked up and met the blonde’s gaze. Her eyes were dark and filled with pride and dominance. She had that evil little smirk plastered on her face, as she shoved your head and throat down only further on her cock. You gagged relentlessly at that action, and the woman just chuckled wickedly on response.

“Your drool’s dribbling down your chin like such a little whore…” The blonde tauntingly hissed.

Tears started falling down your cheeks to your chin and neck. You worked overtime to take the woman’s cock to her satisfaction. Cipher was not an easy woman to please… And that only turned you on even more.

“Crying like a baby slut… Maybe it’s too much for you… Maybe you can’t handle a proper dick,” she taunted jeeringly, “just a little whore who needs to be taught how to please her masters.”

You whimpered desperately in response and gagged again and again, as Cipher was constantly pushing you to your gagging point.

“You look so good with your face full of my cock… That’s where sluts like you belong” she sneered lustfully.

Finally, the blonde dispensed the fake cum all over you and down your throat. After a couple more rough thrusts, Cipher seemed to decide that you had had enough. She pulled out of you.

Your mascara had run all down your face with your tears, and your chin, neck, and shirt were covered in your drool. Your face and neck were splattered with the excess cum that you hadn’t managed to collect with your mouth. So you knelt in front of the woman, a mouth full of cum, awaiting her instructions.

“Swallow, my little slut.” Cipher ordered you.

You immediately swallowed all of her fake cum and grimaced slightly at the taste. You then looked back up at the woman. Cipher brought her hand down and took you chin, grabbing you and bringing you to your feet.

“You did good for your master.” She said.

You smiled at her praise.

“Thank you.” You breathlessly panted.

“I bet you’re a dripping and aching bitch right now…” Cipher taunted.

Your breath hitched and you blushed hard. You averted her gaze while nodding. She squeezed your chin tightly.

“Look at me.” The blonde commmanded, “And say it.”

You gulped, returned you gaze to hers, and nodded.

“I’m a dripping and aching bitch…” you whimpered.

At your words, Cipher smirked wickedly in satisfaction.

“Well, why don’t we fix that…” she husked lustfully, “Fuck that achy mess right out of you…”

Your eyes widened at the sound of a reward. You nodded eagerly.

“Yes please Master…!” You squeaked.

“Such a cute little whore…” Cipher chuckled.

~~~

Next Day <—Voyeurism Kink!!

Cipher Masterlist

Kinktober 2023 Masterlist

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[mechanical-rat]

Basically I'm watching a lot of Doctor Who (Jodie Whittaker is so cuuute) and I noticed Gallifreyan looked similar to something else...

#haven't made up a cipher language since high school but it was fun! #my art #sotha sil #clockwork city

[tswwwit]

Consorts/concubines/wife turning out to be backstabbers being really common in the demonic world, especially the ones higher in the social ladder, and some demons expecting dipper to be a traitor/backstabber. So demons that had a grudge against bill tried to communicate with Dipper that they're on his side for the betrayal, and dipper who is just starting to learn demonic writing doesn't understand all the subtext and metaphors.

Random Demon:"yes.. With someone so close to bill on our side, our plan will be complete!"

Dipper trying to decipher who is this guy that keeps sending him these cryptic letters and what does he mean by saying "To kill a no leg lizard with fangs is to make a trap with big mouth bird beak and the anger of mice thousands":

Very true! Lovers and partners turning out to be backstabbers is likely pretty common in the demon realm. And idioms and cultural references are super confusing, if you don't have the reference point!

Dipper's left reading about his opportunity to "Be the Urk'lagash of toe tickling' and immediately being

#answers #Dipper picks up the language pretty quick as these things go #But if you've never seen Spongebob you wouldn't have the faintest idea what acting like Squidward means #And if you aren't a demon you *certainly* don't know about the drama with the Charishmiore and the Gh'knalkik #Oh boy that was a whole thing #Dipper obviously goes to Bill to figure out what the fuck #And Bill bursts out laughing #If he's in a generous mood he might even explain what they meant. Not like he has to worry about Dipper getting betrayal ideas in his head #Though Dipper might make a sarcastic comment about it from time to time he *really* doesn't want Bill's job #Which reminds Bill. He should really get Dipper up to speed on some of demonic cultural stuff #A few of them aren't even that gory! He'll love it #Frankly 'the spouse backstabbed them' is likely so much of a trope in demon culture #It's honestly surprising to see Bill Cipher with a cute less-powerful thing on his arm that's *loyal* #Like running into a mother-in-law who's delightful or a royal advisor who puts their whole heart into helping their king #Plays against the common stereotype and surprises many

[genspiel]

auughhh so if you translate thelxie's morse code and caesar cipher it, he legitimately speaks french

#4.2 spoilers #tre plays #genshin impact #thelxie #freminet #there's a video about it........... #i only managed to catch the “ca va” that he says when you talk to him at the camp lol #tried to screenshot the stuff that came up when the event screen was loading but i was too slow ahaha #alsooooo!!!!! if you read freminet's notes around the camp!!!!!! #we learn that he based thelxie's language output on the house of the hearth's cipher #so like. does that mean that they use morse code...??? or?????? #and also that in thelxie's case the offset for the caesar cipher is just 1 #so perhaps the house uses different numbers for that usually or something idk #but ALSO also #freminet's helmet has a transcription module for this too??? #can he send and receive signals while diving or something???? dude that would be so cool;;;;; #just fic thoughts #and it sounds like freminet can understand thelxie if he has his helmet on............... #nobody else can. but helmet freminet can...................... #beloved boy talking with his penguin fren. i love him. so much.........................

[svtskneecaps]

my biological peer reviewer (sibling) called this theory “fun” and said i should send it, so here goes

my personal theory is the feds ((”federation”)) created the eggs because they decided the best way to enforce “you can never leave” was to give the people something they couldn’t lose, like in the post by tumblr user alexaloraetheris (no relation to the smp) where their friend who might be a deity had said,

"When you die you descend to the underworld with nothing to lose. To keep you, they give you something to lose. When you want to return, they will demand it back. That's why nobody ever leaves. The only way out is to never enter."

i’m thinkin that on egg D-Day, at the end of the countdown, the feds weren’t gonna give the eggs back. they were just gonna hide them forever, or do something else, anything else, just keep them away from their surrogate parents, because then the people would just be STUCK, because people could theoretically take their eggs and leave, but if the eggs are missing, gone without a trace, then the residents CAN’T LEAVE, because presumably the eggs are STILL THERE, SOMEWHERE, IN NEED OF HELP AND RESCUE, if only the residents could find them ON THE ISLAND. if they leave the island while the eggs are missing, they are abandoning these things that have become their children.

but then in came the brazilians. and shit went south. because see, the spenglish (spanish / english) streamers were INVITED, but the brazilians CRASHED; the feds didn’t INVITE THEM, they weren’t EXPECTING THEM, but they can’t let these guys leave either, so they PANIC, and they scramble to give the brazilians the same thing--something to lose. the new egg had a brazilian jersey, homie was TAILOR MADE for them to pack bond with. the feds didn’t have time to send out multiple eggs, it was all or nothing, so they picked something they could reasonably assume all five of them would find endearing because they don’t know shit about these guys--they had a week to observe the OG batch, but all they know about these newbies is the brazilian flag on their boat--and so they sent the little egg out to become THEIR THING, the thing they couldn’t afford to lose.

it leaves open why the eggs are cracked too, bc idk what’s going on there lol, either 1: the eggs cracked because they’re hatching and the feds picked that date bc they wanted to yoink the eggs before they got Too Powerful, or 2: the feds were the ones to crack the eggs as an excuse for why they vanished--returning the eggs untouched would open too many questions the feds don’t want them asking; this way, instead of being concerned specifically with “why were the eggs missing”, the residents presume they know the answer--the cracks.

but yea i’m just gonna add as an aside that personally i think cucurucho / osito bimbo / the white fucker is way more active again because the feds are still scrambling to keep up with the brazilians (which, again, the feds weren’t expecting), and the binary fuckwad came in to put the fear of god into the newbies--maybe so they didn’t get too focused on the morse code transmissions; iirc max was theorizing that both osito and binary were part of the federation ? and if so it does make sense that the binary entity went to fuck with cellbit immediately after cellbit was introduced to the conspiracies of the island, yknow, a warning shot. i think they want them to be focused on the eggs.

BUT THAT’S JUST A THEOr

#i'm spitballing into the void bc i'm losing my mind lol if you read this send me some luck thank you #qsmp #someone send me to a nice farm with plenty of space to run i have lived too long #can't wait until someone smarter than me cracks the code #data and network security tried to teach me cryptography but HOO BOY it didn't do shit to help me here #i popped some of the words into a brute force caesar cipher #and also a tool that could roughly check for substitution ciphers #and yeah didn't find shit so uh #im gonna leave it to the one who's an ARG master yknow i think he's got it handled #(i thought about using an online tool to translate this but then realized i Do Not trust translators i can't verify) #(like i've definitely used google translate on my french assignments but the thing is i speak enough french to verify that) #(duolingo spanish + english/french cognates doesn't leave me confident and im not asking my unconnected spanish speaking friend to check it) #((i refuse to admit to her face that i've sunk so deeply into this hell-)) #(like spanish is such a common language for english speakers to learn that i'm sure they've honed the eng/span trans pretty well BUT) #(i don't trust it lol and id just prefer not to put something on my blog that i can't verify) #(so apologies and uh translate at your own risk k love you byeee) #shut up vic

[cool-chocolatebouquet]

This episode of the brainrot is brainrotting . . . I memorized the Ninjago alphabet in an afternoon lmao

Plus a Cole drawing bc why not 🫶

(if you translate it you get a thumbs up, I'm not helping lol)

#dont quite have numbers down yet tho #helps that its a 1 to 1 cipher #this is rlly fin why javent i memorized more ciphers lol #if any Ninjago fans wanna talk ninjargon to me hmu agshejdkdk #ninjago #ninjago cole #cole ninjago #ninjargon #ninjago language #bouquet draws #im not sure what facial expression i was trying to convey but oh well

[bijoumikhawal]

NGL I think if you're writing RGU analysis and you call Utena's gender nonconformity sexist you may not be writing good RGU analysis

#cipher talk #RGU #Girl has long pink hair and wears lipstick and she's too butch for you #The problem in RGU isn't masculinity its patriarchy. The problem with Utena trying to be a prince isn't because she's not acting like a gir #(The show is rather direct in this by having Touga degrade Utena to the point where she dresses 'like a girl' and is obviously depressed #While doing so and once she's reclaimed her self worth by kicking his ass dressing masculinely again #And by having Akio comment on how 'girlish' Utena looks after he rapes her) #Her masculinity does not imply other girls are lesser #The problem is that being a prince REQUIRES you to deny agency to others and requires the creation of a villain and a victim for you to #Perform the act of being a prince. In this case a witch and a princess. This is system is still bad when the genders change but in its form #Is a vehicle of patriarchy #The prince is not masculinity itself. It is toxic masculinity/patriarchal masculinity #How ugly RGU would be if Utena's failure to save both Anthy and herself was because of her masculinity! #And not because when confronted by her rapist she tried to claim the language of abuse and power to distance herself from being a victim! #Subsequently casting the girl she loves- another victim- into an objectified role as a tool for Utena to reclaim a sense of power #In the moment of confrontation with the man who abused them both they both slide into toxic but familiar behaviors #Which have little to do with Utena's masculinity or Anthy's femininity and everything to do with abuse

[anonymouspuzzler]

a story about a pumpkin

[Image ID: Four images in sequence, each containing a photo of a small pumpkin with a painting of Lady Trudy from the comic Be Kind My Neighbor on the front. In the first three pictures, there is about a paragraph of text around the photo in the cipher language from the comic, and the photo becomes steadily darker and more saturated. There is also a light chromatic aberration effect on the text in the third image. In the final image, there is a closer crop on the pumpkin photo, which is much darker and has a chromatic aberration effect, with a single line of text in the cipher language along the bottom of the image. End ID.]

#anonymous puzzler art #? technically. we count this #be kind my neighbor spoilers #be kind my neighbor #i was aiming for 'lightly unsettling' with this and think i. overshot. whoops!! #i've spent. a normal amount of time on the cipher language now. #i debated including a translation but decided not to for the sake of not spoiling anyone trying to puzzle it out #but if you HAVE translated the cipher! this entire thing does have a 1:1 translation. and is a True Story #so have fun :)

[ckret2]

I hope I got my Spanish right because I think this joke is hilarious.

#(dialogue in other languages is not subject to S&P) #about my writing #bill goldilocks cipher

[eddiebrockx]

My Cipher design. He has a name but I won’t share just yet.

Also enjoy these whiteboard doodles I made along with my friend @mossyflowers 💚

#it’s very sweet stuff because the ending caused me psychic damage #in a good way #ace combat zero #solo wing pixy #demon lord of the round table #cipher #also context for the one about the degrees #my cipher is mute and uses sign language #this game ate me alive so…expect more ig 😭

[serenofroses]

Ania x Darth Jadus: [13/?] sw:tor Nevrakis legacy.

#swtor #serenscarlett edits #oc: ania nevrakis #darth jadus #swtor screenshots #ch: darth jadus #otp ania x darth jadus #cipher nine x darth jadus #saw the love language act of service prompts had made me think of this caps and Jadus took Ania on surprise vacation away from Sith Empire