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lastsonlost

upgrade

im-in-way-2many-fandoms

I can’t wait till this is on my dash again on December 24th tbh.

cumdumpstiel

honestly bears are how humans should be. bears are an improvement on the human blueprint. they can get up on their back legs like a man.... but they also walk on four legs so they don't get cocky and forget where they came from (the earth). big and hairy and silly. can kill with a single swipe of the paw

shittywizardplush

sleep long time

cumdumpstiel

sleep long time.

wordsebbandflow

Lots of food. A big bear is a healthy bear. Just gotta make sure its high in protien because bears do a shit ton of hiking, running, and climbing.

leupagus

oh my god IT’S TRUE

audible-smiles

wizardlyghost

also much as i hate to mention the solo movie when chewie introduced han to the wookie they found in the mines his first reaction was to pat hans head like you would when you meet a new dog

tiwaztyrsfist

To further the analogy of Han is the Dog, According to various canon sources, a Standard Human in the Star Wars universe has a life expectancy of roughly 100-120 years. A Wookie has a life expectancy of around 400 years. So, caring for Han for Han’s whole life is a commitment of less than a quarter of Chewie’s life. It’s like having a dog that lives to 20-22. A long term companion, but one you know you’re probably going to outlive.

charlesoberonn

When they kill your dog

sinistercinnamon

oh my god

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.

akiyty

Most of the characters used like this have their genesis in the pre www internet tbh

drst

Know your history, fandom young’uns.

lokihiddleston

LOKI SERIES Episode 3

icyxmischief

@lokihiddleston thank you for finding the lyrics!!!!!!!!!!

blurry-low

Look at all those chickens

faheyjespers

# a literal child

ecaloshay

Putting aside that Loki may have been speaking Allspeak, double-first-in-Classics Tom Hiddleston delivered that terrific monologue in reportedly near perfect Latin.

The subtitles also indicated he used the term ‘volcano’, but it was more like “mountain of fire” (mons ignis). The word or expression for ‘volcano’ didn’t exist before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius[1], and I would have loved to have seen more “this guy’s been on the poppy” expressions from the townsfolk as they go from “wtf is a mountain of fire?” to “Ah, that mountain of fire. Cevendum est!”[2].

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[1] Apparently a word for volcano didn’t exist even afterwards because the Romans simply didn’t feel there was a need for a dedicated word for a mountain that explodes in fire.

[2] Roughly (pun intended) “We’re fucked”[3].

[3] I had to look this up[4]. I didn’t have the luxury of studying Classics at Cambridge and haven’t done Latin since I was 12. And it isn’t as though they were going to teach a bunch of prepubescent girls Latin vulgarities no matter how many times we asked.

[4] /r/latin.