My name is Randolph and I've been a member of the furry fandom since 2020. Since 2022 I'm fairly active on Discord and I'm mainly on there.

Being autistic I've got my fair share of weird interests, which does make it hard sometimes to find someone else to share things with :) Either way eventually I'll set up a YouTube channel where I can talk about them as much as I want.

I can fluently speak English as well as Italian. I can speak some Sicilian but I don't consider myself that good at it. But I definitely do love Sicilian as a language, in all its aspects. I'd definitely stand for a serious re-evaluation of it.

National Anthems (Anthemist). Nothing better on a summer day than sitting down to play something as your Youtube playlist full of anthems goes off on shuffle. I mostly like extremist anthems, like communist, n@zi/fascist, Soviet (SSR anthems rock!), Eastern Bloc, and other controversial ones, but contemporary ones are just as good. Also, all kinds of political music is good (propaganda!), especially if historical.

Flags, geopolitics, recent history and mapping. Decided to group these four together. I love flags and can remember 80% of them by heart (people find it oddly terrifying how I can remember and tell out a flag just from memory). Geopolitics is nice, I like thinking about the relations between countries and international stuff and whatnot, and thinking about the past century, current dictatorships, and the alt hist ideas that come with that. Mapping, I get excited by the shapes of countries and feel proud when I draw one seemingly perfectly. I remember 60% of country shapes by heart too.

Music. I like analyzing music (mainly anthems I like) so much, I refuse to use the methods and notations everyone else uses. I must understand everything totally, not use shortcuts devised by other people before me. So I have my own system of music notation and my own theoretical doctrine, which are both incomplete and constantly being worked on. I'm not putting anything out until I'm finished though.

Languages & Conlanging. Since the first two interests heavily involve language, it's obvious I've got to like languages. There are MANY languages that I'm obsessed with for seemingly no reason, among which Slavic, Turkic languages, and other random stuff like Afrikaans, Tajik and Mongolian. I've set it for myself that each summer I'll be studying one of these languages in this long list– first summer I did this (last summer as of me writing this) I did Kyrgyz and enjoyed it quite a lot. This summer I'm doing Bulgarian and I'm quite excited. Even if I don't always achieve anywhere near fluency, I find it fun. Conlanging is another kind of story where there are some ideas that I juggle around from time to time, but I never really get around to make a change anymore. I do have my first conlang I'd worked on about a year before writing this, but I've been greatly renovating it and I'm unsure currently where I'll be taking it.

Writing Systems and ancient letters (Epigraphy), particularly Cyrillic, Latin and Greek, but I also know the Armenian script. It feels really pleasant to look at the shapes in certain letters, and to write them out with perfect elegance and legibility. My non-cursive writing is in fact very orderly and regular, almost as if every character came out of a printing machine drawing each character in one specific way. I also know how to write old letters, obviously- and sometimes I just think in stupor about Cyrillic yat, or the fact "Ꙑ" once existed as a different rendering of "Ы" in Old Church Slavonic. I also quite like the history of these alphabets. I'd like to learn the Arabic and Khmer scripts, but I just can't get around to doing that these days.

IPA/Phonetics. Languages rely on speech sounds, and to speak a language properly you must know how to pronounce everything. So that's why I know how to pronounce even sounds I most likely won't even need to pronounce in my entire life. Not much to say about this one other than, I just know pretty much everything there is to the theory of phonetics, ranging from anatomy, way of articulation, place, voicing, vowels, and many things. But I'm not a linguistics student, so I wouldn't say I'm exceptionally knowledgeable.

C#. I've been fiddling with C# since I was 12 and I'd consider myself proficient enough for a job in it today. I love C# and using it, and feeling smart and using inheritance with classes, and stuff. I'd use C# for gamedev one day.

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