Every year the emoji language constantly grows, making it increasingly easy to have conversations without ever using text. This week, the Unicode Consortium announced its annual list of potential new emoji to be added in the next edition of Unicode (9.0). For 2016, there are currently 67 candidates (a few of our favorites are pictured).

As with any new batch of emoji, the best ones are always in the food and drink categories. Finally, we could have a tumbler filled with whiskey, an avocado, a baguette, and a croissant. There are also new animals being considered, such as a bat, deer, duck, and shark. (Still waiting for a dinosaur.)

There are some weird emojis in the face and people categories, though, such as “selfie,” “clown face,” and “lying face” (picture Pinocchio). There’s also a pregnant woman, a person doing a face palm, a person imitating the shrug emoticon, and a dancing man (who pairs with the dancing woman emoji). There's even a wilting flower that is oddly reminiscent of the rose from Beauty and the Beast.

While all new emoji options are welcomed, the Unicode 9.0 emoji class may not be as game changing as its predecessor based on this initial glance. This past June, Unicode 8.0 saw the consortium finally add skin tone modifiers for face emoji. That brought much needed diversity to the selection after Apple lobbied for such changes more than a year earlier.

Final decisions for what emoji are bundled with Unicode 9.0 won't be announced until June 2016. That's the end of a long journey for would-be emoji, a process that begins with submitters making sure any proposed Unicode addition isn't already in the expansive list of existing characters, the list of characters on track for inclusion, or the list of characters that have been rejected (among the forever deceased: Klingon script). You've then got to fill out a proposal form authoritatively establishing your character's significance, any relationships to current Unicode characters, and "the name and contact information for a company or individual who would agree to provide a computerized font... for publication of the standard." These proposals are then screened, sent to committee, and finally defended and revised by the original submitter as needed until they are accepted or rejected.

It's a process that can take several years even when big companies are involved. It doesn't necessarily end annually in June either, as inclusion in a new Unicode set also means waiting for various software makers to implement the changes.

You can check out the full list of possible emojis for 2016 on the Unicode website.