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Anti AI post
The game is on. (I wanted to delete this but that'd be too much work so)
"AND THERE WILL BE MORE" Me to @moroniccats in regards to sideblogs because she thinks that one should have like. A negative one amount atp. I say the sky is not the limit but rather you should be so fast that even the black holes can't get to you. A very big safety thing you see.
And also these are not all my blogs. It's like 16 pages of scrolling atp so Imma have to get the energy to put the rest of them in at some point.
@aradiasattic describing me as if I was a book character 😍
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Because it was mentioned by a user: I love two dead gay men (James and Sirius) and ship them together. I don't want trans people dead or anything like that.
do you ever think about how a series of tiny choices like “I guess I’ll watch that show” can like totally and entirely change huge aspects of your life
I like that in s8 when Wilson is giving himself the cancer treatment in House’s apartment, the pain brings out the worst in him and he says pretty mean things to House (admittedly it was a bit deserved) and then once he recovers he’s like “Is this how you always feel?” And it’s such a moment of sheer understanding, that yes pain really does bring out the worst in people — it means so much to me that they reached a deep raw understanding of each-other even if it was through pain.
Yup! Calling him just Doyle feels like I'm disrespecting him. I either need to say sir Arthur conan Doyle or conan Doyle or something along those lines. When I wrote just Doyle in the last post it did make me feel a bit uncomfortable, but it was for making a point so ehhh!! It's okay ig...😁
is middle name a UK thing?? I have a middle name and I'm not from UK. 🤷♂️🤷♀️ like is it a western thing do you mean? (Infodump here please!!😊)
And yeah the transition from being totally against seance and anything to do with the belief in the spiritual world to actually becoming an avid believer himself later in life is definitely an ironic and humorous thing to do. 😂
My classmates talk about Holmes and Watson a lot, it's hilarious. And this joke that acd intentionally made Holmes and Watson gay-er, was actually started by our seniors (who have already graduated from school), we are keeping the tradition alive—of blaming acd (a tiny bit) for no reason at all.🤣😂
This is how the crime documentary will start after our murder-
In the shadowy corners of the internet, devotion isn't just a hobby—it’s a religion. But what happens when a community's fierce loyalty curdles into something deadly?
For years, they were just fans, safely obsessed from behind their screens. But the game changed forever when two of their own were found brutally murdered. Plunged into grief, this digital fandom did the unthinkable: they turned to the dark side, aligning themselves with a mastermind of pure malice—James Moriarty.
As Scotland Yard scrambled for answers, the evidence began to paint a terrifying, impossible picture. Every breadcrumb, every forensic anomaly, and every chilling clue led straight to the city's ultimate protectors: John Watson, Mycroft Holmes, and the great detective himself, Sherlock Holmes.
Now, a war has been declared on the streets of London. Will the lives of the fallen fans be avenged by an army of the obsessed? Or will the world's most brilliant minds prove to be its most untouchable culprits, roaming free in the shadows?
What do ya think...😂 (gosh it took me 2hrs to write just that much, how you manage to write your fics is just beyond my comprehension!!!!)
-Young Sherlock ANON (AKA prodigal son)
One day I'll be maling exam schedules trust. You won't be in school by then but I shan't let the next gen suffer as we did!
And yeah I could feel your discomfort through the screen because I too felt so weird!!
Yaey perms to infodump 😍😍
It's under the cut tho bc tis gonna get long
Historians believe middle names came from Roman naming culture (for men (that were free)): Given name, Clan name, Nickname— the only people that used given names were family and close friends, and you were instead referred you by your clan and nick name. Over time, however, a nickname for an ancestor began being used theough out the chain so they became surnames instead, like how Julius Caesar's surname was actually a nickname of some ancestor's of his, Julius was his clan name and his given name was Gaius.
Nyway, the Western Roman Empire collapsed, and the three name system faded for a while.
In the Middle Ages, nobility and wealthy people would use multiple surnames to show that they're maternal family was also powerful— and on top of that, the church had people using the names of the Saints as "added protection" which led to confusion without the added names. People also used this as a way to prove that they were related to royalty even if they had different surnames, by adding Fitz (meaning Son of) in their names; but middle names (and even surnames, at times) weren't allowed for the common and middle class people.
Skipping forward to victorian era rq, btp Europeans royalty and nobility used it a lot, and using middle names was an easy way to distinguish people who at times had the same first and last name; honour relatives in the form of having middle names reflect their mother's maiden names, be their grandparents names or be the names of their godparents without needing it to be their first name (or changing the first name, in cases with the want of honouring came after the child was already born and named). It also added a sense of higher-class feel, because again European aristocracy so when middle class gave the names to their children it added a sort of distinguished feel to them; and it also indicated parentage in the worling class people by adding the Father's first name as the middle name, especially in cases of illegitimate children.
Middle names were also very helpful when population swelled extensively, and so it became necessary and stopped being an elite thing.
When it comes to America, early colonist (British, esp) didn't have middle names, but then it started being used around the 19th century for much the same reason as everywhere else— showing lineage once population boomed and the middle class mimicing the European trends, and they really increased when people came from Europe to America with middle names, such as the Germans who came to Pennsylvania who are credited to the beginning of middle names in USA. It became even more important when in WW1, people joining the military needed to have middle names— it was basically a European custom (round Italy first) that other's started following, either because they wanted to, or because it was forced upon them (for example, Native Americans had to adopt middle names at some point, though I can't remember exactly when, and the WW1 soldier thing again)
But, onto your other q; is Middle name a purely western thing? For the most part, yes.
I say for the most part because many places have what Western world might call middle names, but they aren't.
Around Asia, Africa, and South America, people often have more than one surname or more than one given name, but these are not middle names, and if for example they had to fill a form using their full name, the middle name would be black but either the surname or given name would have more than one name— this of course is not to say that middle names are entirely non-existent, but they aren't as prevelant or common.
In the Arab world, for example, names tend to be one long chain showing family lineage, but none of it is a "middle names". It's not the easiest to understand if you haven't encountered Arabs/Arabic names so here's an example with the full name of Ibn Sina (the Father of Medicine): Abu Ali al-Husayn Ibn Abd Allah Ibn Al-Hasan Ibn Ali Ibn Sina Al-Balkhi Al-Bukhari
You might be wondering: Uh what? That's a name? And I can't blame you tbh, but let me simplify it. (Point I am adding now (aka afterwards): Abd Allah is one name, oft written as Abdullah, so that's also not someone in the family having middle name either)
Abu means father (of), so Abu Ali means he is the father of Ali, which was something Arabs added to their names a lot. The next name, Husayn (I am aware that there are other variation, I'm just using the one I found online in Ibn Sina's name) is his given name, the way John is John Watson's given name. And the rest of it is showing his family lineage all the way up to Ibn Sina (his great great-grandfather), the Ibn meaning son of and Al meaning the (so the son of); and then Al-Balkhi and Al-Bukhari both denote places (Balkh and Bukhara) that Ibn Sina is from (Bukhara) and where is Father was form (Balkh)
So if we were to translate the name, it would end up being: Father of Ali, Husayn, the son of Abdullah, the grandson of Hasan, the great-grandson of Ali, the great great-grandson of Ibn Sina, of Balkh and Bukhara. (Or you could add in the son of between the names for more accuracy, but I wanted to explain the name so I went for grandson, great grandson, and great great grandson instead).
Now, which of those is his middle name? None of the above.
I actually follow a youtuber who now lives in Japan and she has mentioned that she has struggled because Japan doesn't have middle names, which make it harder for her to do some stuff as some systems crash due fo her middle name. Similary, China, the two Koreas, Taiwan and Veitnam (and Japan, as I alr mentioned) don't have middle names, but instead have a family name (surname) followed by given name (first name).
South Asia also doesn't have traditional middle names, though some people to have it (especially due to westernisation)— but instead of that there sometimes is a family name in front of the given name that you'd write besides your first name when filling a document asking for your name in; and these family names tend to be what people call you in professional environments instead of your actual given name. Some tend to put in their village/place of birth, father and grandfather's name as an abbreviation before their given name, and then they don't have a surname to speak of. Other's have middle name, per se, that's just their religion, caste or community of orgin.
And sometimes people have "middle name" per se, but it's actually their actual given name while the "first name" is something of cultural or religious significance and not actually used by itself— Muslim names at times have Muhammad or similar names, and then a "middle name" but if you want to call them, you'd have to use both the "first" and "middle" name or more commonly you'd just call them by their "middle" name. In this case it's, the way I mentioned additional family names in front of their actual given name, and the name Muhammad or whichever is put in front of is more of an additional name, in the sense that (in some regions) another Muslim won't really use just that to call them out as the name has religious significance and it's considered disrespectful (in some regions)
Anyway. This is getting WAYY long, so I'll end it off with one reason some people don't have middle names is because no cultural reasons denoted a need for it. For example, in the 11th century (part of the middle ages), under English common law women were to take their husbands name to represent total absorption of their husbands house and also make them "one in the eye of the law". But now this meant that those who wanted to honour their maternal sode needed to do something, hence the middle names. Again, this is ONE reason, but a reason nonetheless. Also adding that in some parts of the world, such as the Arab world, they frequently use the same names over and over (shown even in the name above, Ali being used by two family members at different times) and all, so they don't need middle names to honour their family members (plus the naming culture spanning a couple gens)
Nyway, a part of me just wants to make another post for this bc Sheesh tis long. But I don't have the energy for that, and this is a very much not a full history of middle names and I know I didn't talk about a lot of cultrures so. Tis stays here.
Anyway, tl;dr is Middle Names are a mostly Western thing, especially in the sense that the Western considers them to be.
British (mostly English from what I've seen) Middle Names are esp hilarious though, and oft there are two names that don't really match the name above; Hero Beauregard Falkner Fiennes Tiffins, for example, and I genuinely would never have guessed his middle names ever. Completely unexpected.
About ACD, because there is something that I didn't mention in the other ask; his full name is Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, and Conan is his second middle name, but he adopted Conan Doyle as a surname after finishing school, hence why people tend to assume it was (always) a surname, but either way you weren't wrong to consider it a surname because he did adopt is as such.
Hey there! Just a friendly reminder/PSA from your friendly neighborhood Pixiemage!
“Dead Dove: Do Not Eat” is too often (incorrectly) used as a cover-all tag, on fics ranging from Vaguely Uncomfortable to Serious Shit, as a replacement for any intense tags relating to the story. People will use it to say “Holy shit guys some INTENSE SHIT happens in this story” without actually saying what that Intense Shit™ is.
In actuality, the “Dead Dove” tag is meant to be used in addition to other warning tags. Pulled from a scene from the show Arrested Development (look it up on YouTube!), it means “Hi! Hey! I labeled this fic to warn you of what’s in it, so you might REALLY want to read those labels! This fic is exactly what it says on the tin! The tags are accurate! Don’t say I didn’t warn you, because this is me warning you! Read the tags!”
So before you accidentally use the “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat” tag without context, here’s your preemptive lesson for next time. Please tag your fics accordingly! Ta!
One entire row of ‘f’s takes 10 seconds to type. There are 45 lines per page, so you take 450 seconds per page. You claim to have typed 184 pages, which would take a total of 82800 seconds, or exactly 23 hours. You are a liar
You forgot that she was holding down the key. This accelerates the rate at which the f’s appear; once the ‘f’s appear at a rapid rate, it’s about 3.4 seconds per line. Also, 45 lines per page is generous - I counted and given that the page is Times New Roman, 12pt font, it’s about 41 lines.
This means that it’s 139.4 seconds per page, times 184 is 25649.6 seconds, and that rounds out to about 7.1 hours, or 7 hours 7 minutes.
big fan of when characters meet another version of themselves and their first instinct is to literally physically kill their doppelganger with their own two hands. which could mean absolutely nothing.
It's been years and I still haven't found a single sentence on Wikipedia I like more than this one. and quickly learned how to breakdance. The simple statement. Action, result, reaction. White boy stuns latinos. Quickly. His white ass got there and said I need to have something to keep me from being All the White People, and I'm clearly not a boy of combative strength. Breakdancing bluelinked as the perfect little punctuation, reminding you that it is a rich art and sport, making you consider the sort of undertaking that would be. I like this sentence more than some Beck songs.
