Yee Haw

professional weirdo since 500 BCE. pronouns are whatever my gender is nonexistent. I'm an adult 👍.

[yippeykayyikes]

what do I even say here. Hi hello I'm a freak with an ao3. Read my fanfiction boy.

Warning for explicit material. And stupid material. And cracky material.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[yippeykayyikes]

id be a much happier person if i was able to raw a robot at least once

[chalicechipper]

yes waiter one toxic thighfucking premature ejaculation crying yaoi please

[and-fishing-equipment]

"i don't comment on ao3 because i don't wanna be annoying or weird" skill issue + you greatly underestimate the power dynamic here, writing multi paragraph comments is like feeding a bunch of deeply insane and possibly starved ducks at the park and watch them go completely mad over having received a piece of bread

[neophytepagan]

VAMPIRE ARCADE...

do you think he'd be very self deprecating about his eating habits because he feels it's immoral EXCEPT with caesar. Do you think he'd suck that bitch off without a second thought while he's straight up comatose from his brain tumor.....

or would he still feel bad regardless because he is taking advantage of an old terminally ill man (putting aside he's literally his slave)

very self conscious about feeding yeah, but people he has to kill with the courier and willing people are fine. people like fiends and legionaries are free game. i was thinking of vampire arcade more of like, he wakes up after his suicide attempt from his ending with the legion under caesar but he came back wrong. his wounds have mysteriously stitched themselves back together but he still looks half dead, and hes so hungry but nothings helping. and even thinking about the sun is painful. and caesar is so elated hes back that hes just babying him and not really worrying that arcade is super fucked up? and then one day arcade snaps and grabs a praetorian and tears him open and eats him sloppy style and the other praetorians are screaming and trying to get him to stop but they cant attack arcade because caesars treating him like delicate tissue paper now, so they watch as arcade gorges himself and ripping and splattering and moaning with ecstasy completely covered in the guys blood and caesar storms in and sees that and is like. (malfunctions)

[vonclosen]

you know caesar is calling arcade some shit like the son of apollo (portrayed often as a beautiful blond, a healer/physician, appreciates education, known man-liker,) and arcade is like can you shut up.

[aggravatetheaxe]

caesar: my beautiful asclepius, in your eyes I find sanctuary more healing than any temple under your father's sun. there is no remedy i crave more than your body and your company; your touch is a balm to my weary spirit. my cherished healer, divine above all others, lathe your golden tongue against my wounds, for when I bleed, I bleed for you

arcade: i'm going to beat your skull into a meaty pile of paste

[jennieplanet]

[gecskeleton]

we don’t make fun of vulpes’ spy misadventures in vegas enough honestly because i just know the first time he realised he’d have to Partake of the Wicked Substances to throw off suspicion because he literally cannot look inconspicuous in disguise for shit it ended with him taking eight shots of tequila slipping on a slice of lime he was supposed to use as a chaser and hitting his head on the edge of a chair. wakes up the next day in his hotel room after blacking out for nineteen hours straight with the nastiest crustiest hangover imaginable. he was due to report back to his undercover subordinates to get a message to the fort a day ago. he’s pretty sure someone stole his shoes and hat

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Mindless Musings 01: What the fuck is a ravenette?

If you grew up on Wattpad, you are likely intimately familiar with the type of prose you’d find on your typical, front page recommended young adult novel. Though overuse of attributing physical attributes to descriptors (ie, eyes to orbs, skin to foods) is an expected trope, one that runs rampant is that of the -nette. You know. The ravenette, the greenette, the onenette twonette rednette bluenette. Apparently brunette was not enough, and for some reason this evolved into using “ravenette” as an apt descriptor for someone with dark hair, particularly like that of a raven’s feathers. But where on earth did this come from? When examining the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, brunette is quoted as meaning “a person having brown hair; usually used of a woman or girl and usually spelled brunette in that use; when used of a man or boy usually spelled brunet.” (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brunette). 

Though it’s rare to see the proper usage of the descriptor “brunet” rather than “brunette” for a masculine leaning character, at least in modern fiction, we still see this interesting shift where “-nette” grew into being a suffix used in describing the hair colors of characters- sometimes just “-ette”, in the case of the rarely used “pinkette” as a descriptor for a character with, you guessed it, pink hair. But why have we shifted into using these words, and how did we start correlating “-nette” as a suffix relating to hair coloration? Let’s take a quick look at the origin of the word “brunette”. 

When examining the Online Etymology Dictionary, we are given a brief description of the word’s history as an adjective. We see it being attributed to being the feminine version of the Old French word “brunet” meaning “brownish, brown-haired, dark-complexioned”, which then is a diminutive of “brun”, meaning “brown”. This itself is of West Germanic origin, originating from the Proto-Germanic word “brunaz”- which is then from the root “bher-“, meaning “bright; brown”. This, supposedly, dates back to the 1400s-1600s. (https://www.etymonline.com/word/brunette). So now we have the answer of where this supposed “-nette” suffix came from, being the feminine version of the diminutive version of a word that literally means “brown”. In that case one could raise an interesting argument of describing masculine black-haired characters as “ravenets” and feminine blue-haired characters as “ravenettes”, but as much as I love going off on tangents, that is a rant for another day. Which means, never.  

So now we know where “brunette” came from. We know what it means, why it’s written that way, and generally when it’s used. But we still don’t know why it is that people have started using “-(n)ette” in order to describe a whole host of hair colors. In French, “-et(te)” typically means something small or tiny. It’s an affectionate term that isn’t linguistically all that uncommon; for example in some Spanish dialects you might see the ending “-cito” (pobrecito, jefecito), which is both a diminutive and an affectionate nickname. From there you can come up with any number of theories as to how or why this evolved into using it to describe different hair colors. Using the Wayback machine I could see instances of the word being used as far back as 2001, but with little context behind them. 

I’m saddened to say I believe that I have hit a dead end. While it's easy enough to say that the word “ravenette” came about the same way the word “brunette” came about, through the description of a physical attribute through a cutesy diminutive, what I really wanted to know was when did ravenette first start being used? When did BLUENETTE first start being used? Did the word “bluenette” originate in fandom spaces, or in non-fandom spaces? My curiosity will never be satisfied, it seems, unless someone else out there decides on a whim to research this as well. 

One more note: it seems like, for some fucking reason, this page on TV tropes manages to accurately attribute “ravenette” and “ravenet” to their appropriately feminine and masculine counterparts. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HairColors. I wish I knew WHO wrote that specific part so I could ask them where in the goddamn they managed to find it, because I haven’t seen them be properly used otherwise. 

In conclusion: blame the French.