Some of this website is named and written in Teegarden and toki pona — two constructed languages that are, at this point, the most recent to reshape the way I think and communicate.

(I've also been quietly expanding the former a little for personal use. Adding words I need, pulling phonetic shapes from names in Kitty Eden's works, and sometimes meaning from other places. The documentation of this is unstructured, nyoagziryaphol)

I love language. I love conlangs and jargon and dialects and ways it changes and ways it's just starting to be used; ways to play with languages, mix them, break them to fit you better. (There's a fascinating dialogue about disability and poetry and how you change your use of language along with the way you perceive the world and move through it and and and. And a lot of other things. I mean, people are people are people, brilliantly complicated, it's a rare conversation that can be summarised. That's part of why I love them.)

But, really, I create conlangs for the same reason I draw and write. To create something weird and not quite like anything and remind yourself of how a different world feels to inhabit.

Maybe I'll even write those up coherently sometime.