#kylarflynn

[squirrelofdoom]

72 and 143 =)

72: Can I touch my nose with a tongue?

No, I can not and I looked pretty damn weird when I tried just now.

143: Favorite pizza topping?

Cheese in as many varieties as possible. Quattro Formaggi FTW!

[feder-costumes]

smokinconduit hat gesagt: whats this zelda card thingy?

It's the Wind Waker prologue screenprinted on sackcloth - which was said both decoration <3 <3 <3

kylarflynn hat gesagt: Ich hab dich leider nur ganz kurz am Sonntag gesehen, als wir zur Bahn gehetzt sind :/ Aber sehr schicke Sachen! =)

Arw, schade. Vielleicht klappts ja bei nächsten mal! :)

[linguafandom]

Hello there, I am currently writing a text for university dealing with the language of fandoms. While I managed to find a lot fandom-terms, what I did not yet manage to find is where all those terms (especially word formation processes) come from and I just wanted to ask if you could possibly help me a bit with that - like.. is there any sorce of historical information when these terms have been first used and why they spread among the fan communities?

Ah, this is a really, really great question! 

The short answer is: No, there is no really great academic-y, official, top-down resource on fandom etymology. It’s slang of a very niche population that only occasionally spreads beyond fandom and the Internet.

Notice how “my feels!” has been around for a few years in fandom, but you don’t see it said outside of inner fandom circles or by celebrities who have been exposed to inner fandom circles via social media.

An example of a term that spread beyond fandom and was noticed by etymological resources is “slash,” as in slash fanfiction, which made its way into the Oxford English Dictionary online in 2003. 

But there are some places to go to look for crowd-sourced etymologies and definitions of fandom terms. My go-to for a lot of my research on wibbly-wobbly fandom terms back in grad school was UrbanDictionary.com. I would argue that it functions as an accurate portrayal of word usage due to its system of upvotes and downvotes. The community could visibly demonstrate its support for one particular definition or usage. Occasionally (very occasionally), a UD entry will include some sort of origin, but whether these are incorrect folk etymologies or actual fact is really impossible to determine. UD was more a quick reference for something I wasn’t sure was actually fandom-related, to see how popular it was among users.

Probably the best authority on fandom lingo is KnowYourMeme.com. It functions much like a fandom-based OED. For example, it includes the earliest known popular culture usage of “doge” in its entry on the meme along with examples of its usage out in the wild.

It also includes an origin for “feels” as a noun:

Off to the right, see that box with “Meme” as the title? This entry has been tagged with #internet slang, of which fandom slang is a subdivision. Generally, if you see something used a lot that hasn’t made it to KnowYourMeme, it will be on UrbanDictionary.com.

Finally, if you want to check a term’s usage over time, you can look at google.com/trends to see how often a given term was searched for over the last decade. This tends to show fandom terms after they’ve exploded, as you get a) in-crowd people searching for meme pictures/gifs associated with the term (like “my feels” on a gif), and b) more importantly, out-crowd people searching for the meaning of the term they’ve been exposed to by fandom (see the Yahoo! Answers above of a parent asking what their daughter means by the term “shipping”). 

I hope this helps.

If anyone else knows of any other resources, please chime in!

[feder-costumes]

I think you're such an awesome cosplayer! I unfortunately never really dare to talk to you when I spot you at conventions - buuuuut I still wanted to tell you that I really love your work!

Thank you very much! °_°~<3

But you don’t have to be afraid of me. Just come over and say hi, I really love to talk to people I meet at conventions.

Even trough I problably always look busy and on the run, I always have time for a little chat, actually. I’m just some of a nervous and exicted kind. :’D

[fuckyeahannibal]

bathosphere replied to your post: “hannibal is obviously a 'successful' and published psychiatrist but how is he so wealthy? i thought he lost all his parents inheritance...”:

i always assumed it was money he earned as a surgeon...

kylarflynn replied to your post: “hannibal is obviously a 'successful' and published psychiatrist but how is he so wealthy? i thought he lost all his parents inheritance...”:

I always thought it was mainly to himbeing such a successful psychiatrist. They are quite expensive, after all and he had a busy schedule.

I think it mainly is just money from this. However, in the books someone questions how he has so much money, enough to live comfortably without work, and they basically say that he has enough stashed away from his old patients that he could hide forever just on those funds.

So I think his work now affords him the lifestyle he has that everyone is aware of, but that extra money is what allows him to live his other life, so to speak, because he knows he has the extra to fall back on someday.