Typifice

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Typifice

n.
a caricature of yourself that went out of date years ago, though nobody around you seems to have noticed.

Italian tipi fissi, “fixed types,” the stock characters in commedia dell’arte masked improvisational theater. Pronounced “tip-uh-fis.”

Lyssamania

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Endzoned

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Candling

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Wellium

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Elsing

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Fool’s Guilt

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Viadne

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Flichtish

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Hiddled

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Fitching

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Rubatosis

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Tarrion

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Nighthawk

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Bareleveling

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Vaucasy

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Ioia

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Typifice

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Povism

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Anti-Aliasing

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The Meantime

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Heart Of Aces

a person covering their eyes with their hands

Fensiveness

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Knellish

a blurry image of a person lying on a bed

Offtides

close-up of a chromed metal object

Starlorn

snow flakes in the dark

Proluctance

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Harke

a dreamlike image of a person's face over water