Brutal Obsession

She/They. LGBT+. Multifandom. (literally too many to count idek anymore). I come on here every time I fall into a new rabbit hole. Could be every second day or once a year. Who knows.

[holllanov]

zoro: going to dedicate my lifelong love loyalty to him now

[haunted-xander]

gayasses

[inilein]

He's a little upset

[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

[ohara-n-brown]

Xenk after fixing the parties entire problem and being the best thing about the movie for the past 30 minutes

[antiparticular]

ok but xenk totally overheard edgin talking about how he's walking in a straight line (this fucker apparently has an insane perception modifier) and walked over that rock to mess with him

[solemnpancake]

While the idea of Xenk in Honour Among Thieves being a DMPC or an NPC is funny, I’m much more a fan of the idea that he’s actually a PC controlled by somebody else who played a full campaign with the same DM. Because meta textually, I can clearly imagine the conversation between the DM and Xenk’s player:

DM: “…So yeah I kinda fucked up the CR’s of the Underdark encounters but my current group is super excited and determined to head down there and since Xenk was already down there before…dude please help me, one session.”

Xenk’s Player: “I dunno, Xenk’s character arc felt pretty complete to me…”

DM: “Wait…The Red Wizards are the bad guys of this campaign too! You can finally settle the score with that asshole Dralas!”

Xenk’s Player: “…You sonnuvabitch, I’m in.”

DM: “YES! Oh also, Edgin’s-the Bard’s-backstory has him being a former Harper, so I have some ideas on how you could drive him nuts…”

[out-there-on-the-maroon]

Xenk Yendar is Autistic

- super sensitive hearing (in the caves)

- strong sense of justice 

- doesn’t use metaphors or colloquial phrases 

- very funny in a particular way

- “I find irony is a blade that cuts he who wields it most especially” (who amongst us hasn’t tried to make a joke and ended up being accused of being rude/mean/etc.)

- “weird” way of walking (people have been saying I walk “weird” since I was a kid) 

- the bridge explanation 

and most importantly 

- because I say so

[liamfaoisidhe]

I just think that Xenk

As a fellow ∞ he gives some ∞

Just saying, my neurodivergent headcanons for this movie are popping off

[ohara-n-brown]

Favorite part of Honor Among Thieves is Edgin being the sole ADHDer in a party of autistic people

[hawkogurl]

Yeah Chris Pine definitely should have kissed the Paladin full on the lips

[singleplayerproductions]

my favorite thing about the dungeons and dragons movie was how autistic-coded the entire party was, save for edgin (who was adhd-coded)

[thebluetemple]

i love him your honor

[offonaherosjourney]

“Average character in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves rolls 3 nat 20s per campaign" factoid actually just statistical error. Average character in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves rolls 0 nat 20s per campaign. Xenk Georg, who has the favor of the Dice Gods™ & rolls over 10,000 nat 20s every session, is an outlier and should not have been counted

[27vampyresinhermind]

So we’re all in agreement that Boss is Venice because he looks like an impossible lovechild between VegasPete/BibleBuild? And we’re also in agreement that Fort as Prapai could pass for the impossible lovechild of KinnPorsche/MileApo? Right? Right!

Now hear me out!

Net as King is the impossible lovechild of KimChay/JeffBarcode!

While I’m on the subject of impossible lovechildren! James as Uea looks like the impossible lovechild of YiDiao/MaxNat!! Or!!! If we want to keep it in the mafia circus, he could also pass for the impossible lovechild of TimeTay/JJUs!

This is the shit that goes through my head nowadays.

[manadreams0]

Joongdok AU where YJH is an idol and KDJ is his makeup artist

[wonderlandmoonrose7]

If there’s one thing I’m gonna do, it’s consume oddly similar pieces of media