Only a fangirl

She/Her | multifandom trash (main: Haikyuu!!, Detective Conan, Harry Potter, Boboiboy, Ejen Ali, ATLA) >>BEWARE OF SPOILERS<< | loves anime, manga, books, cartoons, science, theories, fictional boys, aliens, night sky, the Earth, cute things, puns, doodles, baby animals, beautiful sceneries, and much much more | write things, but only when I'm in the mood to | tracking the tag by-lavendragon | do say hi!

[jobomyy]

happy birthday oikawa :)

[molly-ren]

hey what's up with the "!" in fandoms? i.e. "fat!" just curious thaxxx <3

I have asked this myself in the past and never gotten an answer.

Maybe today will be the day we are both finally enlightened.

[molly-ren]

woodsgotweird said: man i just jumped on the bandwagon because i am a sheep. i have no idea where it came from and i ask myself this question all the time

Maybe someone made a typo and it just got out of hand?

[stevita]

I kinda feel like panic!at the disco started the whole exclamation point thing and then it caught on around the internet, but maybe they got it from somewhere else, IDK.

The world may never know…

[molly-ren]

Maybe it’s something mathematical?

[michaelblume]

I’ve been in fandom since *about* when Panic! formed and the adjective!character thing was already going strong, pretty sure it predates them.

[hosekisama]

It’s a way of referring to particular variations of (usually) a character — dark!Will, junkie!Sherlock, et cetera. I have suspected for a while that it originated from some archive system that didn’t accommodate spaces in its tags, so to make common interpretations/versions of the characters searchable, people started jamming the words together with an infix.

(Lately I’ve seen people use the ! notation when the suffix isn’t the full name, but is actually the second part of a common fandom portmanteau. This bothers me a lot but it happens, so it’s worth being aware of.)

[nentuaby]

“Bang paths” (! is called a “bang"when not used for emphasis) were the first addressing scheme for email, before modern automatic routing was set up. If you wanted to write a mail to the Steve here in Engineering, you just wrote “Steve” in the to: field and the computer sent it to the local account named Steve. But if it was Steve over in the physics department you wrote it to phys!Steve; the computer sent it to the “phys” computer, which sent it in turn to the Steve account. To get Steve in the Art department over at NYU, you wrote NYU!art!Steve- your computer sends it to the NYU gateway computer sends it to the “art” computer sends it to the Steve account. Etc. (“Bang"s were just chosen because they were on the keyboard, not too visually noisy, and not used for a huge lot already).

It became pretty standard jargon, as I understand, to disambiguate when writing to other humans. First phys!Steve vs the Steve right next to you, just like you were taking to the machine, then getting looser (as jargon does) to reference, say, bearded!Steve vs bald!Steve.

So I’m guessing alternate character version tags probably came from that.

[raincityruckus]

100% born of bang paths. fandom has be floating around on the internet for six seconds longer than there has been an internet so early users just used the jargon associated with the medium and since it’s a handy shorthand, we keep it.

[sassafrassarah]

Absolutely from the bang paths–saw people using them in early online fandom back in 1993 for referring to things.

[taraljc]

I had been doing it for a very, very long time but never actually knew the actual name for it. This is exciting! I like learning things.

[akiyty]

Most of the characters used like this have their genesis in the pre www internet tbh

[drst]

Know your history, fandom young’uns.

[by-lavendragon]

Uhhh... after one year...

Hello? I am backkkkk lol

[showerthoughtsofficial]

There is probably someone out there who only knows of you only though word of mouth. Their version of you is practically a different person, to the point that, you aren’t even recognizable to them in character, even though you have never met.

[by-lavendragon]

How lazy are you?

I took the wrong flavor of milk but decided to buy the wrong one anyway because I’m too lazy to open the fridge in the convenience store

[by-lavendragon]

Back to real world

Bye Tumblr

[by-lavendragon]

Has anyone noticed that Inuoka changed position from a middle blocker to a wing spiker, as the opposite of Hinata’s? Has anyone ever realized that Inuoka is not some throwaway or trial character made by Furudate-sensei before Lev made an appearance? Has anyone realized Inuoka is one of the taller players in Nekoma?

Inuoka is awesome.

[by-lavendragon]

Calmgeyama

Literally as the name suggests, it’s a calm Kageyama.It’s the same situation as when I [Hinata] pull off a quick attack without closing my eyes, or when Tsukishima’s spike point has been raised higher, those kind of agility-based clutch plays.

A cool and calm exterior, but his passive facial expression doesn’t alter his innate brutal nature so caution must be exercised.

This particular scenario is only liable to occur when powerful opponents lie ahead of us [Karasuno].

-Hinata Shouyou, Spring High 2nd round during Karasuno VS Inarizaki match, 2nd set

[cutefunnybabyanimals]

A Mother’s love via /r/aww http://bit.ly/2W1BTTL

[shaniaxloren]

[by-lavendragon]

Anyone else got fooled by the first impression of Sugawara Koushi as The Reliable Senpai™ but he’s actually the first of Karasuno third years willing to jump into their wild kouhais’ shenanigans?

Because I did

[aravenclawsramblings]

Ravenclaw Ramblings No. 2

It takes a Ravenclaw to get lost in Wikipedia searching anything related to the random thought in his or her head.

[haikyuu-is-madness]

Remeber this?

Current Concern: He gets the feeling that animals dislike him.

He has some animal friends now!❤

[by-lavendragon]

Karasuno’s final round in Miyagi Qualifiers for Spring High is wild

And you can’t convince me otherwise.

Reason? If you pay attention to the timeline, they got three players subbed out because of an injury, in three days in a row.

Kageyama accidentally blocked a ball with his face during Johzenji game, causing a nosebleed. Daichi collided with Tanaka and had to sit out the rest of Wakunan match. In finals against Shiratorizawa, Tsukki nearly had his pinkie tore apart.

Yes, from us viewers they seem like a long time (no less than 10 episodes in anime and around 90 chapters in manga!!) unless you’re binge reading/watching and had it all in one go but that besides the point. In-universe wise, all these accidents happened in the span of only three days. THREE DAYS.

Yikes, be careful guys.

[by-lavendragon]

You know what? I feel like HQ fandom didn’t talk enough about Chigaya Eikichi being The Only Player™ from Shinzen who gets invited to the All-Japan Youth Training Camp. HE IS SKILLED, PERIOD. And he’s only a first year at that.

Forgot who he is? Well he’s as Kags put it the Broccoli #2

[showerthoughtsofficial]

Spiders are web designers that want to find bugs in their work.

[alynnl]

Iroh’s Backstory (Part 1 of 3)

This is a very large meta-post, almost world-building involving Avatar the Last Airbender. It covers my head-canons surrounding Iroh, who is one of my favorite characters in the series and starts off already completing his redemption arc. These posts, which I plan at least a series of three go into detail as far as what happened during one of Iroh’s great battles for the Fire Nation, and the long journey he took around the world before arriving home. A great deal of these posts will contain spoilers, as well as heavy amounts of speculation. I am going solely off animated show canon, so any information from comics or additional wiki pages will be left out!

With that out of the way, let’s delve into Book 1!

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