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BAFTA 2024
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BUDDY you're a BOY you're a BIG BIG BOY you're a BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BOY you got mud on your face you BIG BIG BOY kicking your can all over the place singing WEE wee WEE wee WEE wee WEE wee
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I can't be the only person who immediately looked for the least common ones to try and use them more, right?
Scumwit and dirt goblin are pretty great, tbh.
I'm more interested in the mid-range. People actually call others dipclown, buttgoblin, and poopboy??
Find your favorite mid-range entries:
dickgoblin, twatnozzle, and wankbag
For those curious about how this was put together (including whether people actually USE mid-range combinations), check the author's documentation!
#fwiw this tumblr version of the infographic is a bit of a bastardization of the original#they removed some of the details available in the documentation that make it make more sense imo#and anyway it's good to cite your sources!#reminder to be critical of anything – esp an infographic – that doesn't have a citation!#anyway lol#work blogging#fanfic project#sorta#q
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I still think about during my last semester of undergrad I took comparative religion as an elective and this was during covid and a bad wildfire season so everybody around me was losing their jobs, homes, health. And one day during Zoom class someone explained the word “yeet” to my comparative religion professor as the opposite of yoink
And without any hesitation she said “Ah, so the lord yeetith and the lord yoinkith away”
And when I tell you that kept me going for at least a week
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Okay not only is this a bop but it single handedly raised my self confidence
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never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱
the reviews are in... glad everyone's enjoying song of the worm
[id: tumblr tags reading 'dude This Fucking Rules', 'holy fucking shit! that was legit so cool?', 'holy shit that is fucking metal', 'oh this fucks severely', 'yeah no this fucking SLAPS', 'yo this RULES']
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Next Goal Wins (2023) dir. Taika Waititi
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As promised! I wrote about the illegal fanbinding that's led to writers deleting their works recently, how that connects to the current pull-to-publish wave, and what happens when the rapidly expanding sphere of fic readers starts to get disconnected from *fandom*:
The ever-increasing reach of fanfiction has inched the practice away from text-written-in-community to a more traditional author-reader relationship—and the context collapse that’s come with viral works being treated like any other romance novel has spurred clashes between different types of readers with different sets of expectations. In the past few years, fic authors across all corners of fandom have increasingly complained about shifting attitudes from readers who treat them like any other content creator, demanding the next chapter as you might demand your favorite influencer’s next video. But unlike on creative platforms like TikTok and YouTube, the fic writer doesn’t get revenue from their new installment.
We'll also talk about this in some capacity on the next episode of @fansplaining! (In contrast with today's episode, on the non-monetized, gift-economy practices of many fanbinders, whose hobby is also imperiled by the people selling and buying fic.)
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Some "Did you know"s about AO3 tags from a tag wrangler volunteer
- It takes 3 unique identifiable users (no anons, no unidentified orphans) for a fandom-specific freeform tag to be canonized.
- Relationship tags are primarily alphabetized by last name.
- If you see that something like "- Freeform" or "- Character" has been added automatically to a tag you used, it means it exists in another category already.
- If you use a tag that is marked as a subtag of another tag, it will show up in the search for the metatag as well - so if you tag "Hybrid TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF)" it will automatically show up in "Hybrids"!
- Many larger fandoms have tags show up in odd places because certain fandoms are used as holding bins. For example you may see MCYT tags in 30 Day SMP | Free Trial SMP as we use it as our collective bin for tags we can't do anything with.
- You don't have to use the canonical tag for something if you don't want to. You can tag "BadBoyHalo" and it will still show up under "Darryl Noveschosch | BadBoyHalo" as tag wranglers connect tags together.
- You can report issues with tags by submitting a support ticket using the "Technical Support & Feedback" button on the bottom of any AO3 page.
- The Wrangling Guidelines are publicly available to read here!
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KRISTEN STEWART Rolling Stone Magazine (Feb 14, 2024)
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Highlights from the conference room where they nominated contenders for Word of the Year 2023:
• They put Skibidi Toilet on the projector to explain what “skibidi” means.
• Baby Gronk was mentioned.
• We discussed the Rizzler.
• “Cunty” was nominated.
• “Enshittification” was suggested for EVERY category.
• “Blue Check” (like from Twitter) was briefly defined as “Someone who will not Shut The Fuck Up”
• The person writing notes briefly defined babygirl as “referencing [The Speaker]”. He is now being called babygirl in the linguist groupchats.
• MULTIPLE people raised their hand to say “I cannot stress this enough: ‘Babygirl’ refers to a GROWN MAN”
When technical issues occurred while voting on “kenaissance”, everyone had to reassure the speaker, Ben Zimmer, that he was “benough”
In a stunning upset, the last-minute nomination “(derogatory)” DEFEATS “cunty” as the most useful/most likely to succeed word of 2023.
Someone renominates “babygirl” for word of the year, saying that they have spent the past year trying to figure out if people are “little meow meows, blorbos, or babygirls”. This is in front of a room of hundreds of people.
ENSHITTIFICATION WINS WORD OF THE YEAR 2023
While verifying this was true (it is) I discovered that there is a wikipedia article on enshittification
Even though this means I'm going to end up with a poop emoji on my headstone, I'm ok with it.
UM.
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T KNOW
@mostlysignssomeportents IS THE PERSON WHO COINED THE TERM "ENSHITTIFICATION"
And we are so proud of our babygirl.
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Yeye
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🏳️🌈get to know the members of @gay!🏳️🌈 ↳ favourite canon character by treena ⋆ camina drummer
i never loved you because you were fighters. i loved you because you were builders. i wanted us to build something together.
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You’re a selfish prick. So am I.
Sonya Walger as Molly Cobb FOR ALL MANKIND (2019 - ): Season One
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I Can Eat Glass
I Can Eat Glass was a linguistic project documented on the early Web by then-Harvard student Ethan Mollick. The objective was to provide speakers with translations of the phrase "I can eat glass, it does not hurt me" from a wide variety of languages; the phrase was chosen because of its unorthodox nature. Mollick's original page disappeared in or about June 2004.
As Mollick explained, visitors to a foreign country have "an irresistible urge" to say something in that language, and whatever they say (a cited example being along the lines of "Where is the bathroom?") usually marks them as tourists immediately. Saying "I can eat glass, it does not hurt me", however, ensures that the speaker "will be viewed as an insane native, and treated with dignity and respect".
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This play changed lives