Post by @art_of_goulwenr@mastodon.art

2026-09-25 11:56 UTC

@simplyxtata@c.im also, did you have read the novel Julian, by Charles Robert Wilson? I just noticed that the presidency isn’t in Washington anymore, yet another point the author has foreseen right As an English speaker, French is probably easier than Czech or Ukrainian (that adds the Cyrillic alphabet): as Georges Clemenceau said, “L'anglais, ce n'est jamais que du français mal prononcé.” (“English is nothing more than French badly pronounced.”)

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@simplyxtata@c.im 2026-09-25 18:42

@art_of_goulwenr@mastodon.art y'know, I haven't and it looks fantastic. I actually have been trying to finish writing a Greenpunk/Steampunk novel for 15+ years that has a similar premise of the US being a neo-victorian oligarchal system. The capital in this sense moves to New York instead and it's set 300-400 years in the future. There's a complex "casta" system and language that is a mix of Chinese and Russian characters/alphabet with English and Spanish grammar and syntax with variants in regions. I have old art and sketched maps it was absolutely an insane project of mine as a teenager but it just never went anywhere I guess... I was inspired by books like Golden Compass, Brave New World, Leviathan series, the original Twilight Zone, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and just general pulpy steampunk and sci-fi. I kinda want to get back into this but I have so many other lore pressing projects now 😅

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@art_of_goulwenr@mastodon.art 2026-09-25 11:56

G. Clemenceau was a politician and journalist of late 19th early 20th centuries, known for his harsh yet funny punchlines. And he actually spoke English since he spent several years in the USA as physician when his political career was down

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