The Giltwrights

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The Giltwrights

n.
the imaginary committee of elders that keeps a running log of all your mistakes, steadily building their case that you’re secretly a fraud, a coward, a doofus, and a douche—who would’ve revoked your good fortune years ago had they not been hampered by their own bitter squabblings over proper grammar and spelling.

Old English gilt, awareness of wrongdoing + wrought, shaped with hammers. Pronounced “the gilt-rahyts.”

Fool’s Guilt

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Altschmerz

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Wellium

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Sayfish

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Flichtish

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Vicarous

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Trueholding

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Solysium

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1202

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Manusia

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Desanté

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Typifice

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Loss Of Backing

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Lyssamania

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Liberosis

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The Giltwrights

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Endzoned

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Viadne

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Anecdoche

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La Gaudière

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Ioia

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Craxis

a tall house of cards

Innity

a neatly made bed with diffused light glowing

Enterhood

adults with stern expressions holding a child

Emodox

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Merrenness

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Foreclearing

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