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bc it's handy

#pinned post #writing? me? more likely than you think

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Tokuhiro Kawai

purpurle-iris

Imagine how many great, weird, awesome stories would exist if writers actually wrote instead of scrolling on tumblr

katje-is-writing

u know what i didn't come here to be attacked like this

#now I’m staying even longer out of spite

la-vivienne-roses

I actually love seeing fanart of Thea with her pastel make-up on. I love the idea of her coming out of the nest and being able to express herself with these bright pastel colours 🩷

#thea muldani #aftg

realmothchu

okay people seem to read the thea and jean scene in the worst way possible and i can kinda understand where they’re coming from. but that was just not my interpretation reading it for the first time.

TO ME! it read like thea was trying to joke around with and tease jean (likely an echo of their nest dynamic) it’s clear that she’s fond of him. but it’s just not the right time and jean is not in the mood (like read the room girl..) she’s trying to establish some kind of normalcy for a situation she doesn’t really understand yet. by the end of the conversation though she concedes, tries to appeal to jean by using the correct city/nickname, but by then he doesn’t want to talk to her anymore. she’s seen her friend hurt before and is trying to understand why this time is different but no one is willing to give her the necessary info/context

#aftg #thea muldani #jean moreau

twinyardz

virtually the only person that kevin spent the first decade of his life with dying and leaving him alone….virtually the only person that kevin spent the second decade of his life with dying and leaving him alone….i wouldn’t be surprised if part of kevin’s ‘all that matters to me is the perfect game’ schtick is that he’s never seen any proof that there’s anything else out there - love, happiness, friendship, family - that he’s able to grasp and actually keep

#kevin day #aftg

schnuspi

we don’t talk enough about teenage Kevin looking at Jeremy‘s pictures in magazines

#kevin day #aftg

tactiletelekonesis

sometimes i think aftg fans forget that the point of the foxes is that theyre all assholes with bad backgrounds and bad coping mechanisms. like them being nice to each other isnt a given especially with the way theyre split pretty evenly into their little groups. its especially obvious when people complain about how kevin is treated over others. hes not going to get special treatment because hes traumatized because they ALL have trauma and none of them know healthy ways to cope with it. and hes an asshole to them as well!! everyone points to andrew choking him and calling it unfair and then they completely ignore that andrew also choked allison. they complain about neil pressuring him to tell everyone wymack is his father as if neil hasnt already been established as a manipulative asshole. as if kevin has never manipulated neil to do something he doesnt want to do either (kathy ferdinand show???). it doesnt matter whats fair to kevin, it matters that these are all consistent traits to those around him. theyre not going to be fair to kevin and kevin is not going to be fair to them. the entire point of the team is that they clash and the narrative reason is because neil brings them all together. neil. not kevin. i see no problem with loving kevin and wanting him to be treated well but come on be realistic hes not going to get special treatment

#kevin day #aftg

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.

memorycycle

my moat fucking sucks and i am going to get sieged

#have you at least got some good walls going?

modernmusess

and when kevins books come out and it’s just 300 pages of pure exy with no character observations or plot, then what?

#reblogging this again to say that it’d be actually fun if the book opens and ends with and Exy game and maybe also somewhere in the middle #where it’s like maybe first game with the ravens or something and then either last game against Riko or 1st time picking up a racket again #after he’s with the foxes #and then next book continues the trend of him starting with Exy showing that he’s still so Exy focused and last chapter maybe also Exy game #but you also see the wind down the after stuff and most importantly him leaving the stadium as way to tell the audience that his existence #doesn’t end at Exy anymore that he’s free of being just Exy #like sure it’s still important but he’s free of the shackles that bind him to the sport and he’s there of his own free will bc he loves it #sorry didn’t mean to hijack this but I had a blip of inspiration. based on prevs tags #kevin day #aftg

shitpostingkats

Shoutouts to characters that don't know the facade isn't their real self. Shoutouts to characters who put up a front so long ago that they have now forgotten it's all an act. Shoutouts to characters who no longer know who they are because they think they're being sincere. Shoutouts to performers so good they fool even themselves. Shoutouts to characters who fall for their own lies.

#kebin #aftg