The Courtesan (page 40)
Added 2021-05-31 09:55:37 +0000 UTCThe Infernal alphabet! I don’t have time to actually create a language, so this is more of a cypher! I studied cyphers code breaking at Oxford in college one summer... did i mention that? Well this is nothing close to the hardest stuff we tackled! It’s only 26 letters, I’m sure that if you wanted to you could figure it out, but nothing said in the language will be important to the plot!
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Seriously? Artists don’t owe us anything
Pears
2021-06-02 11:41:59 +0000 UTCOOoooh, I bet it was Song!
Zari
2021-05-31 23:10:59 +0000 UTCThere is some stuff up on AO3!! ♥️♥️ and yes our love for Whiteley’s art is why we’re here! 🌈
pyracantha
2021-05-31 19:25:19 +0000 UTCI second what everyone else is saying here - I came for your Good Omens stuff (which is incredible and I love everything that comes on here) but I was so surprised by how much and quickly I loved your Mansong stuff, I really am quite obsessed. Really surprised myself. Just every day I can’t wait to see something new. You’ve created something really special.
Clare
2021-05-31 19:01:46 +0000 UTCCame for the Good Omens. Stayed for the original content. Love Mansong stuff, and looking forward to buying the first physical book, when time and life permits you to do so.
Lemaris Designs
2021-05-31 18:05:33 +0000 UTCI’m not much of a commenter normally but I just have to say how invested I am in this story!
Lyn Anspach
2021-05-31 17:38:57 +0000 UTCOh you said above that Song is one of the few that can speak the language. At least he can understand what Etty is singing! I'm still heartbroken that he's not supposed to learn about his own people's religion and magic. It's kind of an added benefit that he should learn something about his people's history when no he choses to become a celestial scholar to be "worthy" of Mansa (as if he isn't already).
Atelerix
2021-05-31 17:38:20 +0000 UTCAhhh! I love the world building we're getting here! Etty looks so beautiful and I'm sure Song is doing something equally gorgeous. 🤩 I am just in love love LOVE with this story and these characters.
Ellen Pauline
2021-05-31 17:32:40 +0000 UTCIt's heartbreaking that Etty, a human, gets to learn and sing the Infernal language while Song, an Infernal, isn't allowed to learn about his own culture.
Atelerix
2021-05-31 17:28:35 +0000 UTCThis makes me scared for Song. I assume Mansa is even more grateful for his chosen profession when he learns what Song decided to do as a career.
Ana
2021-05-31 17:07:36 +0000 UTCYour Mansong content is quite honestly the highlight of my day ❤️ thank you so much for sharing these characters with us!
Gabriel Wolfe
2021-05-31 17:03:01 +0000 UTCIm sorry if that sounded a little rude, I will repeat that I never meant to offend Whiteley or someone else here) Her art is beautiful whatever she posts)
Janet
2021-05-31 16:38:19 +0000 UTCGentle reminder that most of us LOVE these precious characters of yours and are honored that you continue to share their story with us (and let us be gremlins who gently pester you for more through Tiny Song). I, for one, am ridiculously eager for the day you release their full story onto the world so 1- more people can fall in love with them and 2- we hopefully get a a bunch of fanworks inspired by them so I can quench my endless thirst for more of Song and Mansa ❤️ Please don’t let the rude people get you down who don’t understand what a gift you’re giving us. (Easier said than done!)
Ash S.
2021-05-31 16:26:24 +0000 UTCThis is INCREDIBLY rude, just FYI.
Ash S.
2021-05-31 16:15:05 +0000 UTCI love your Good Omens content, but I love Mansong MORE! ❤️
Amy Diane Short
2021-05-31 15:27:48 +0000 UTCI would have just thought you took the infernal alphabet from dnd honestly haha
strawhat4life
2021-05-31 14:45:01 +0000 UTCI'm so friggin in love with your original content 😭 my first thought every morning is the Mansong update ❤️ thank you for sharing with us, it always makes me feel better even on rough mornings. I'm REALLY excited to see what Song is gonna do here! Though I'm very hopeful the nerves don't end up being his downfall. Performance anxiety is no joke and even though I know Mansa's feelings won't change one iota if it goes pear-shaped, Song's gonna have a crisis over it lol
Phantasmal Owl
2021-05-31 14:28:26 +0000 UTCOh Etty looks so beautiful here😍😍😍
Marta
2021-05-31 14:26:35 +0000 UTCI’ve posted 19 GO drawings/videos in the last month, more than one every two days if you break it down. I know I post Mansong daily (instead of in page bursts like I did with my good omens comics) but I certainly have not stopped posting GO! If Mansong is not something you enjoy that is totally fine! I definitely don’t expect everyone to enjoy it, but if you’re just here for GO try to just see my originals as bonus content 💕
Whiteley Foster
2021-05-31 14:13:05 +0000 UTCI kinda like Song and Mansa but Im missing your Good Omens content so much....😥 I miss CrowleyxAziraphale... 💔 No claims but Im feeling like 80% of what you post is SongxMansa and GO is something... additional. Just wanted to ask, are you going to leave your Patreon like that? MansaxSond and sometimes CrowleyxAziraphale? Again, no complaining, love your style and everything, just a question.
Janet
2021-05-31 14:01:36 +0000 UTCI love how serene she looks here.
DarlingRose
2021-05-31 13:40:23 +0000 UTCParaphrasing Jim Moriarty here but I just know whatever Song is going to ia going to be awwwesome!
YamiKakyuu
2021-05-31 13:06:26 +0000 UTCAlso, Etty is gorgeous
Hannah Barnes
2021-05-31 12:27:28 +0000 UTCI wonder who that other infernal was!!
Hannah Barnes
2021-05-31 12:26:58 +0000 UTCYEAH, NO WORRIES, NOTHING IMPORTANT IN THE INF LANGUAGE, AS IF WE WEREN’T FOCUSED ON THE IMPORTANT IN THE LANGUAGE WE CAN READ. WHITELEYYYYYYY 😭
Ash S.
2021-05-31 11:33:02 +0000 UTCThis little fact from Thomas is going to give Mansa a whole lot of other things to be scared about when Song leaves
Clare
2021-05-31 11:27:37 +0000 UTCExciting!!
yorick
2021-05-31 11:25:49 +0000 UTCI guess we’ll have to see 👀
Whiteley Foster
2021-05-31 11:23:22 +0000 UTCWait so if only celestial scholars can do magic, and Song, later on, studies to be a celestial scholar -- do they allow him to do magic then even though he's a devil? Is that a way Infernals in general can find a "work around" the rule, so to speak? Or is Song a special case in this regard? 🤔 (sorry for all the questions, btw, this world you've built is just so enticing I can't help myself)
yorick
2021-05-31 11:21:47 +0000 UTC😻
rippingoffmyface
2021-05-31 11:06:26 +0000 UTCYes please assume it sounds like another language! Some infernals can speak their own language but a lot of them don’t. Song is one of the infernals that does speak the language though
Whiteley Foster
2021-05-31 11:04:40 +0000 UTCOr is it just simply that they're not allowed to CONJURE anything?
yorick
2021-05-31 11:01:02 +0000 UTCSo this is another language as well? Can we assume that whatever Etty is saying here doesn't sound like English? If so, does that mean Infernals aren't allowed to speak their own language?? Am I understanding that correctly? Oof 😬
yorick
2021-05-31 10:59:51 +0000 UTCYes, yes, yes! I did it too. Second attempt, but it's done. Thank you for the challenge 😁
Patolozka
2021-05-31 10:45:43 +0000 UTCSo fast right?!
Whiteley Foster
2021-05-31 10:32:25 +0000 UTCHoly crap, well DONE!
gingerhaole
2021-05-31 10:32:04 +0000 UTCYou have it! Looking for those repeating symbols is the easier way to start cracking it 😃
Whiteley Foster
2021-05-31 10:28:02 +0000 UTCI haven't even woken up yet, but I couldnt not even try it, I LOVE cyphers and I'm getting excited to see what Song comes up with!
the.kitsuneko
2021-05-31 10:24:49 +0000 UTC"The song of light from the halls of the ancient Mother"? I think I started freestyling at some point and forgot which Letter was what 🤣🤣🤣🤣
the.kitsuneko
2021-05-31 10:23:32 +0000 UTCI need to decypher it, but I have no Idea how 😅😅
Angela Antis
2021-05-31 10:20:56 +0000 UTCOh the foreshadowing! This is so beautiful
Unashamedly-enthusiastic
2021-05-31 10:13:31 +0000 UTCdisappeared... 😬 now I'm really wondering how Song manages to do it all these years later 🤔 and aaaah! infernal language! always was fascinated by cyphers, took an online class on them! 👀❤️
sick_pineapple
2021-05-31 10:08:50 +0000 UTCMhm me toooooo 🎉🎉🎉
Sarah Marino
2021-05-31 10:01:12 +0000 UTCI think you're looking at him Thomas
Neil K.
2021-05-31 09:58:04 +0000 UTCI dislike Thomas more and more with every panel he's in Also Etty looks so good here!
Arctic Rose
2021-05-31 09:57:19 +0000 UTC
