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puwumats

critical role c3e64 || the last supper - leonardo da vinci

agreeing

readthedream

jurassic-cunt

this whole "job thing" is rlly starting to get in my way. i need to watch made up people falling in love on tv, and then i need to read more extensively about it online. why is that so hard to understand

readthedream

Yes exactly can't you see my emotional stability is hinges on what happens in my shows!

#selfiie #vampire #snapchat #horror #spooky bitch

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.

word-for-today

Word for today: bang path

The use of exclamation points to distinguish between variations of a character or name

readthedream

keikomivra

y yo a ti

bowie-boy

pauliedraws

Another clip I animated from the Harry Potter audio books for fun.

qusm

Omg this is freaking amazing 😱😱😱😱🤯

readthedream

Bloody brilliant

multifandog

When I’ve given up fighting those demons in my head and started to get along with them:

kvotheunkvothe

Stephen King: hey, remember that book you liked?

me: yes?

SK: remember the main character, the really cool kid with the special powers?

me: yes!

SK: would you like to read a sequel about them?

me: YES

SK: a whole new adventure. and now they're all grown up!

me: YESSSS

SK: and everything is sad now!

me: ye-wait, what?

SK: yeah, remember all that amazing potential they had?

me: y-yes?

SK: WASTED! haha, but srsly, their lives are a mess

me: no

SK: most the people they knew in the last book are dead!

me: noooo

SK: and they're still REALLY fucked up about that stuff I put them through. y'know, where things kinda looked like they turned out okay? haha, SURPRISE, no, that shit was traumatizing.

me: whyyyy

SK: look, do you want to read it or not?

me: just take my money, you sick bastard

homunculus-argument

Story idea: The most wanted woman in town has announced that she’ll only marry the one who can open her front door with the key around her cat’s neck. Many men try to hunt the cat down, chase and trap it, but to no avail, the cat is simply too quick, smart and clever, and always finds a way to evade and avoid them.

You are the first one to figure out the obvious: Do not chase the cat. The cat is befriendable. Get the cat to trust you, to genuinely enjoy your company, and you can hang out with the cat. You may eventually be allowed to touch the cat. The cat will freely let you take the key.

Secondary plot twist: The woman is a shapeshifter. She is the cat.

browntiger15-deactivated2020110

That’s some legit fairy tale level shit right there.

magicurl

Having a pet is so weird. Like neither of you speak each other’s language and yet you form some strong bond by rubbing against each other and sleeping together and you might accidentally kick them in the face or step on their tail once in a while but at the end of the day you two are best buddies from entirely different species.

woulddieforgabriel

Someone make this a gif set

Gif of Mary that says “My mother was a genius”

Gif of John preferably looking like a badass holding a gun that says “My father commanded respect”

Gif of Mary on the ceiling that says “When they died they left no instructions”

Gif of smol Sam (season one or flashback child Sam) that says “Just a legacy to protect”

devilsss-dyke-deactivated202202

Way to make me emotional over a gifset I can’t even see

woulddieforgabriel

There’s absolutely no reason for me to find that response as funny as I did

cloudswithsecrets

woulddieforgabriel

THIS IS EVEN BETTER THAN I PICTURED IT OMG THANK YOU FOR EXISTING

marichromatic

Wait for it…

woulddieforgabriel

IT GOT BETTER

timelessromcom

““You would set a crotchety, sixty-year-old celibate to ward a Servant of Naamah… an anguisette, no less?” ……… “Phedre no Delaunay,” he said formally, “ I am Joscelin Verreuil of the Cassiline Brotherhood. It is my privilege to attend.” He neither looked nor sounded as though he meant it; I saw the line of his jaw harden as he closed his mouth on the words. It was a beautiful mouth.”

—

Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey

(Cue fangirling cause OTP meeting and I be like, AHHH OF COURSE THE COURTESAN SHIPS WITH THE MONK LIKE KNIGHT)