He/Him, History nerd,
see pinned post (in Dutch and English) for more info
Voor zeer lange Nederlandse rants over geschiedenis;
https://geschiedenisish.wordpress.com/
For fandom stuff: @inspecteurcooperwashotactually
[Voor de Nederlandse versie van deze post; zoek ff op "Dit blog 101"]
"Enchantée! You found a nerd of the Victorian, Edwardian and history at large, mainly Dutch history. Look around, you may find some fun stuff. :)
I mostly use this blog to reblog or to dump stuff here I found in old Dutch books. Normally I'd annoy my friends with that, but they didn't like it. Hopefully Tumblr is more fond of my findings. ;)"
That was the original intention of this blog. Now it has turned into a rando Tumblr blog about all kinds of things! But I'm not planning on doing anything about it. EMBRACE THE RANDOMNESS OF TUMBLR!!!!!! And scroll down far enough and you'll actually find some real fun stuff from Dutch history.... ;)
If you speak Dutch, I also highly recommend checking out my Wordpress;
Tiko's rants over de geschiedenis van de Lage Landen
On there, I write longer articles about historical rabbit holes I have fallen into. There is some really cool stuff on there! Especially about the formation of Dutch culture and Dutch society. Real tin foil hat stuff, but it's all true and historical! Real fun. ;)
Profile pic on here is my great-greatgrandfather Cornelis Hendrik Herman Wisse (1877 - 1954).
Here's my basic tag system because there is a bit of order in the chaos (but I am absolutely one of those "my tags are a mess" type of people);
rant = longer text posts
NS = stuff about trains
Christianity = stuff about christianity
religion = stuff about religion in general (also for esotericism and spirituality)
(Dutch) history = stuff about history, also tagged usually with the period in question
hot people from the past = self-explanatory
Tumblr = for fun Tumblr stuff, especially posts I never thought I'd encounter in the wild (seldom used though lol)
[soms others I forgot about and I'll add in the future]
That's it for now. Hope you enjoy my blog! :) <3
Oh, I don't have any DNI's, I just don't really like confrontation. For example, I'm an atheist with a fascination for religion, especially christianity. But please don't try to convert me. That's never gonna happen, no matter what you say. I have heard it all. But if you're willing to look past my atheism, we can have some real fun and cool conversations about theology or ecclesiastical history. (Or make a tier list of Bible Books or whatever. It doesn't have to be deep.)
Same with politics. I hope the fact my DNI is at the end tells you enough about me. As long as you're nice, I'm pretty sure we can get along. Even if we disagree on, like, fundamental moral things... Don't let that stop you from exchange ideas with me. <3
also, i know this might sound corny but like.... please be nice to other people online. not even trying to say this in a like a, 'oh because you never know what they might be going throughhhh' kind of way just like. be nice man. stop hate following along with things. be more patient with strangers. stop trying to get off cunty one liners for your five seconds of smirking like a dreamworks poster protag.
ive said it before but as a tool and a 'place', i really love the internet, genuinely. i dont like the resignation that it has to be, and stay, a place thats full of misery and fighting. ive met a lot of really wonderful people here, and i think we could all have a nice time together if everyone did their part to make it so that was possible. im not speaking down to you as someone whos never made these mistakes, im asking as someone whos also made them alongside you.
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?
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.
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.)
“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.
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.
