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a caricature of yourself that went out of date years ago, though nobody around you seems to have noticed.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

Addleworth

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Nighthawk

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Wellium

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Altschmerz

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Mcfeely

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Malotype

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The Giltwrights

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Desanté

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Trueholding

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Nementia

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Viadne

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Keep

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Fool’s Guilt

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Hiddled

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Maugry

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Elsing

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Ioia

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Vicarous

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Falesia

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Spinning Playback Head

silhouette of a person looking out a window

Archimony

a person looking at broken furniture

Flichtish

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Heartmoor

a campfire with a kettle many small logs

Malotype

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Etherness

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Scrough

a person working on the sidewalk

Achenia

a close-up of a bottle with an organic object inside