ninanna

mainly fan fiction. some politics. a lot of pondering and endless tea talk. sometimes nsfw. nin: person of colour, fluff connoisseur, elderly and rambling fan.

[raveneil-deactivated20220513]

fanfiction is so wild cause im like…..ugh im not in the mood to read a book…..i’ll just read an 82k word fic instead……

[brawltogethernow]

Look…. To start a book… You have to make room in yourself for new characters and worlds. Do I look like I have the emotional energy for that? Do I look like I can trust like that right now? Just show me the things I already know pay good returns on my investment, except I also want to read something new so I guess they can be in a coffee shop this time.

[justgot1]

This - this is it, you’ve put it into words

[norrington-hell]

[transformativeworks]

[image description: an image of the Hannibal Buress “You did it!” meme. The caption has been edited to read: You did it! You broke fanfiction down to its bare essentials! end of description]

[allophobia-archive-deactivated2]

what society needs to understand is that friendship and romance are not ranks, tiers, or levels. they are not above or below each other. romance is not a promotion. friendship is not a demotion. romance is not “more than” being friends with someone. friendship and romance are concepts that exist on equal terms, side by side. sometimes they happen to coincide. other times they never intersect at all. how relationships are classified is up to the individuals involved but like?? neither is inherently more or less valuable is the thing

[nekkoara]

[furekami]

i could fix him

[yayee-prsp]

A man who fell for a star

[lesbianchikorita]

[The constellation ‘Demon-like Judge of Fire’ doesn’t wish for your death!]

[The constellation ‘Demon-like Judge of Fire’ doesn’t wish for your death!]

[The constellation ‘Demon-like Judge of Fire’…]

[magickitt]

i ded like kdj…

[mogtoe]

The Entombment of Kim Dokja

[ twitter: mogtoe ]

[miryul]

[Enemy of the Story wishes to be understood by you.]

[absolem0]

Kim Dokja energy

[ninannarambling]

Writing for a new fandom is always so... upsetting? :’)) It gives a peculiar kind of stomachache for me. Especially now, when there’s no active Tumblr fandom for it, I’m not on its Twitter fandom for irl reasons, and discord server is a general server with hundreds of people and thus very hard to make any connections with.

I’ve also not felt this vulnerable with a piece of media in a long, long time so I feel a bit out of my element. A lot more fragile and a lot less certain. It is like starting a new journey and it will either be a stone thrown in a lake at night that nobody heard and will never know of, or beginning of a new path with new companions along the way. Either way, I’ll be there with the story that I crafted, so I guess, that’s good enough in itself too.

[antigonick]

Whatever you think, I have scarcely             thought of you. Whatever you imagine, it never really happened. Only a few     evenings of nonsense. Whatever you believe—         dear one, dear one—             do not believe this letter.

Mary Oliver, excerpt of “Letter to ____”, in Thirst (via antigonick)

[ceallachs]

I lost sight of what I wanted to do with this comic but happy bktd halloween :”)

[superlinguo]

New draft emoji include 3 proposals I co-wrote!

A draft list of proposed emoji were recently passed through Unicode. This set included three emoji that I co-wrote proposals for: Palm Up Hand, Palm Down Hand and Face With Peeking Eye. These three proposals were written with Gretchen McCulloch and Jennifer Daniel.

These proposals came directly out of the work I did with Gretchen looking at the way emoji act as digital gestures. A palm up gesture means you’ll be able to offer someone cake, a palm down means you’ll finally get a mic drop. And a peeking eye offers an interpersonal meta-commentary we felt was missing from the current set.

You can see details on the full set of 35 recommended emoji and the proposals in this PDF document (Unicode do a lot in PDF rather than on websites!).

For each of the proposals we wrote, you can see the PDF here:

Palm Down Hand/Palm Up Hand (submitted as a single proposal)

Face With Peeking Eye

From here these emoji will be added to the draft candidate list on the Unicode website, and if they pass muster they will be on devices as part of Unicode 14.0 in 2022. Things don’t move fast when you’re implementing permanent standards!

I’m also looking forward to seeing the hands heart, as well as the heart fingers/money gesture, and the pointing at you emoji. I also feel like I’m going to get a lot of use out of melty face and flat battery.

See also:

Lingthusiasm Episode 34: Emoji are Gesture Because Internet

New Publication: Emoji as Digital Gestures in Language@Internet [Open Access]

BECAUSE INTERNET (Gretchen’s book, which features this work)

Emoji Grammar as Beat Gestures (Paper with Gretchen at Emoji2018)

Emoji aren’t ruining language: they’re a natural substitute for gesture 🔥🔥🔥 (The Conversation)

[allthingslinguistic]

I’m excited to be working on proposing more hand and face emoji along with Lauren Gawne and Jennifer Daniel! 

Previously: New emoji are so boring – but they don’t have to be (article in Wired). 

[totheone-deactivated20210814]

sorry i was willing to be vulnerable with you do you still think i'm hot

[yaketchup]

my hero

[weltenwellen]

Velimir Khlebnikov, Collected Works, Vol. 3: Selected Poems, tr. by Paul Schmidt