kat

burnt out musician and student that likes pigeons, will wood, and the magnus archives. i can and will bite. welcome to my humble abode :)

[pigeonsnatcher]

hi there! i'm kat (not my real name but i go by that here), i'm 20 and genderfaunet. generally i use any pronouns but she (they, he, it, etc are all good). sometimes that changes somewhat but as a baseline follow that!

love being silly and horny on the internet but then realized perhaps i should separate those two things so now i have an nsfw sideblog (mostly horny but warning that that does include occasional/slight gore + occasional vent) which is blackcatcorvid ^-^

there will still be nsfw things here sometimes but ones that are funny, the straight nsfw goes on the sideblog

[argumate]

so the opposite of a power couple is a “liability couple” or a “train wreck couple” or a “toxic couple” or a “codependent mess”, that last one is good but they all need a little spicing up

[argumate]

and you shipping reprobates should have a well developed set of terminology for parsing out fine grained degrees of relationship dysfunction surely

[argumate]

oh yeah you think it’s hot 😒

[anais-ninja-bitch]

i've seen some ideas floated, but damned if i can remember them now.

in locked tomb fandom, the author gave us the concept of "the Double Down." give me a sec and i'll find you the quote.

[anais-ninja-bitch]

[byjove]

what drink I think certain characters from Arthurian legend would order at a bar:

Sir Lancelot: Vodka Red Bull.

Sir Galahad: A glass of water, no ice.

Sir Gawain: The most pretentious craft beer.

King Arthur: Any beer. Not pretentious, not picky.

Queen Guinevere: Grapefruit seltzer of some kind.

Sir Kay: Stout of some kind.

Sir Bedivere: Dry martini.

Sir Perceval: The fruitiest, girliest, most whimsical cocktail on the menu.

Merlin: Also a whimsical fruity little drink enjoyer.

Morgan: Espresso martini.

The Green Knight: Absinthe and he genuinely enjoys the taste.

[byjove]

Galahad orders himself a single glass of water with no ice because of his ascetic mindset. Sometimes other knights will order him a Shirley Temple and he secretly enjoys that.

[byjove]

[darnitjack]

Ser Gawain: "My liege, which brewer like you best?"

King Arthur: Whosoever provides it free of charge.

G: My liege, 'tis bartered. None charge you even a sous. Which like you second best?

A: Whosoever provides it fresh and chilled

[byjove]

Arthur will drink the most mid beer ever with far too much gruyt and be like “my compliments to the alewife :)”

[lazer-t]

A pigeon crosses your dash

[depsidase]

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[baronfulmen]

Today on Tumblr:

Is This a New Trend, or Did I Just Not Notice All Those Posts Were From the Same Person?

[roswellsoup]

bonus/proof:

we tipped her well dw. best waitress ever 🍒

[f8-of-the-stars-collective]

whenever i sing 6up 5oh the words always go too fast so i just say “6up 5oh pigcomicopago”

[dogpuppy]

[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.

[realmarysue]

I am very glad this has been going around so folks learn the Lore, but also let’s encourage it because then we get to say “bang paths” more often.

[velvetcloak]

LWENX couture

[sociallyunacceptableart4]

This was my art school’s water fountain. Drink from them wolf tiddies

[mando-lore]

Assignment misunderstood. I have now built a city.

[mando-lore]

[mando-lore]

Give it a day

[alexaloraetheris]

[homunculus-argument]

this is chuck valjean, my stupid pigeon foster son. he heard you werent having a good day and he wants to say he hopes tomorrow is better :) (and so do i)

He looks like he's having a worse day than I am. 10/10.

[pcketking]

bugs when you lift up a rock

[creatures-in-posts]

bugs when you lift up a rock

[beguilingcorpse]

[vergess]

A fun bonus fact for you: those No Longer Buyable DVDs?

They're the ONLY surviving NONDAMAGED form of the show. In the late 90s, the masters from which the show is printed were damaged with a red-pink hazy filter.

So. Good luck buying them even if you find them. They're some of the most valuable collector's items in the entire franchise.

Without piracy, there would be NO UNDAMAGED COPIES OF SAILOR MOON AVAILABLE TO ANYONE ANYWHERE, PERIOD.

ETA: Because these undamaged copies are how you colour correct the uncensored ones.

Piracy Is Preservation.

[pigeonsnatcher]

do you think people get sub-gender dysphoria in the omegaverse