#if this term is derogatory then i do not use it and will not

[ajcrawly]

for all the excellent meta going around about the nine houses and linguistics and cultural homogeneity and so on, I am still desperate for more wildly divergent linguistics between the Houses

holding out for fourth house rhyming slang and seventh house ironic double-verlan and ninth house sign language (for communicating via mute skeleton constructs across snow fields) and third house fan language and handkerchief codes

what slang terms do criminals use in the Dominicus system and where have they bled into common parlance? Likewise what Cohort slang has become commonplace in Second and Fourth that’s totally incomprehensible to the Sixth? What Latin phrases (“fiat lux!”) are a commonplace part of the Sixth vernacular, archaic but comprehensible to Eighth, mystifying to Third? Did Dulcie’s letters to Cam and Pal include glossaries and marginalia explaining synonyms and divergent definitions? Did they develop their own shared vernacular, tempering Sixth House academic prose with Seventh poetic styles, their own shared slang and inside jokes?

What John-isms are retained in the Fifth and Second House (I don’t even mean memes here I mean idioms like “dime a dozen” and “burning the midnight oil” and “snug as a bug in a rug” and “the ball’s in your court”) but not the others? Conversely, what new idioms and aphorisms confuse the hell out of John with each new Cohort intake? Has “needle in a haystack” been replaced with “hyoid in an ossuary” where hydroponic farming is the typical means of agriculture? Instead of “every cloud has a silver lining” is it “even rusty blades have an edge” where weather is no longer as notable an influence on day to day life?

Do they still give each other peace signs? Flip the bird? Stick two fingers up? Is crossing one’s fingers still a hope for good luck or a threat (indicating crossing swords)? Which Houses are known to talk with their hands (🤌)?

I could think about this all day but the main image I have is of Gideon doing this (👌- Ninth House sign language, emulates a skeleton’s eye socket: “I see you/acknowledged”) to, say, Babs (from Third where the same gesture, “the pinch”, emulates gathering of fabric and/or skin to test quality and fragility and is typically deemed a derogatory gesture) and starts an inter house diplomatic fracas

[madamestephanie]

@winters-on-the-wing Harassing? Ma'am you have some audacity. I don't know who called us crazy first. Yes, we're talking about fiction, but that doesn't mean people can't be passionate about what and who they like.

With all due respect, you insulted us first. You used derogatory terms, not us. OG simply put out a statement about James, but you came directly for the FANS of Snape who are real people.You can't just walk in a room full of Snape lovers wearing a "I love James Potter" badge and insult the people there without receiving a few nasty looks.

Yes, if you insult us, we ARE scary.

Rude? No. Just giving back the exact same treatment we got. So again, please select your words more wisely. I don't like arguing with people, but if I'm insulted, I will stand up for myself and the fandom in general.

P.S. I do have a job, and I'm super passionate about the fandom. If that's a problem for you, well, you know where to stick it. 🤗

Have a great day!

Im not a James Potter apologist cause he did nothing to apologise for

[shalom-iamcominghome]

Jewish women and folks who feel this also applies to them, I want your thoughts and opinions.

I ask this because I hold jewish women's thoughts and feelings in high regard, and am genuinely curious about their thoughts on this. I do not use this term for anybody, and do not plan to ever, this is solely to see the opinions of you all because I have seen this term defined as derogatory by plenty of sources, and I also notice some jewish women embrace jewess as a term. I am interested in the potential nuances of this conversation.

This poll is for anybody who feels it applies to them. However, please don't vote just to see the results when it doesn't apply. I'm queueing this post for after the poll has concluded, as even I won't know the results until this poll is concluded. I genuinely want to have somewhat of an idea about the diversity of jewish women's thoughts.

This poll is inclusive to jews of trans and/or intersex experience, or experiences that aren't solely in the binary womanhood sphere. Those who genuinely are in the process of becoming jews, feel free to weigh in if this applies to you. This poll will not be used to judge or shame jewish women or justify what terms you should or should not use for yourself or what terms you ought to be comfortable with. Anything that is derogatory to jewish women and their feelings is not tolerated and you will be Banished.

Feel free to share this post if you'd like. If you want to see the results but cannot vote, please queue this post, like this post, or wait for this blog to reblog this poll. I cannot emphasize this enough.

And if nobody has told you: jewish women, you are amazing. You deserve love and respect, and your thoughts matter in every conversation you are in.

[fluentisonus]

wait can I just complain for a second bc this is kind of pissing me off a little but the only available editions you can find online of jj grandville's les metamorphoses du jour (1829) are 1850s and 1860s editions, which afaict are Not the original lithographs but rather engraving reproductions of them (which is touched on briefly here). which I had assumed just meant it would be a slightly different quality or have other slight differences, which would only be mildly frustrating to me except for the fact that I've been comparing the versions in this 1854 edition of the book on gallica with what (as far as I know) are original lithograph prints here in the british museum collections because some of the ones in the gallica edition were striking me as like Noticably not 1820s-30s in vibe and. they seem to have been straight up 'modernizing' the clothing in these 1850s reproductions??

(first version (1829) vs later version (1854))

hi hello what happened to the entire shape of her dress & sleeves??? and to his fall front & trouser straps??

(first version / later version)

this is literally a different dress?

😐.

this wouldn't annoy me so much (and in fact I would actually enjoy comparing & find it really interesting) except for the fact that as far as I've been able to tell there's no place (online at least) where you can see all of the original illustrations -- the british museum only has a few, & same with other places -- so some/most of these images seem to only exist (digitally I mean) in their 'updated' 1850s versions. and in fact some sites list the later version as being the the 1829 versions! I just want to see 1829 clothing is that too much to ask

[gimmethemprimals]

🌊 wavecrest-confessions  Follow

whenever I see someone making fun of the tidelords disappearance I get SO angry. Its just so insensitive to water dragons, and it ALWAYS comes from a wind, earth, or ice dragon. Like I don’t think you have any ground to stand on guys, your deities are still more neglectful than the tidelord and he’s not even here

❄️ ice-ice-baby  Follow

Dude your god has been gone for so long his long lost children came back before him

🪨 freshpebble-deactivated

Aren’t you the one who carved your fanart of femboy Icewarden into the side of the pillar.

❄️ ice-ice-baby  Follow

???? You’re literally a shade apologist

💫 see-the-stars  Follow

HOW ARE THERE SHADE APOLOGISTS ON DRUMBLR IN THIS DAY AND AGE I THOUGHT THEY WERE ONLY ON DRITTER

🍃 riding-high  Follow

are we gonna just brush over the femboy icewarden thing

🦅 talonafan2477  Follow

@ see-the-stars the Arcanist is the ORIGINAL shade apologist what are you talking about

🦅 talonafan2477  Follow

btw “ice ice baby” is apart of from clan froststep that has a history of supporting the gaolers during the freezeflash war and thus the destruction of the banescales

🌑 walkingshadows Follow

Yeah but what about the femboy icewarden thing

🔥 its-gettin-hot  Follow

you can excuse genocide but draw the line at femboy icewarden?

🌑 walkingshadows Follow

im not drawing the line i just wanna see it myself

🌺 bug-claws Follow

thats fair

[act2drama]

I truly was not expecting this post to become an in-depth discussion/analysis of Harry Kershaw’s acting and improv choices but I’m certainly not complaining…

I don’t have much to add to things at this point except for saying that as much as we all love to mock his failures (which are often undeniably spectacular), it's very easy for us to forget/ignore that a frankly surprising number of those failures are down to other people, whether it's Jon-Oscar pausing or misunderstanding something or just choosing to pick on Harry in that moment, or something like Delta Von Tassel (which was largely forced on him both by the initial audience suggestion and the fact that clearly no one else in the cast was going to do it) - even the initial "failure" of Delta where Jon started getting at Harry for forgetting the name of Niall's character was simply Harry continuing the running gag from the start of the show that occurred due to Mike forgetting the name first - or someone else picking up on a little mistake and running with it - as is what happened with the whole peacock penis thing. In fact, 'From Russia With Gloves' is quite probably the only instance of a series of truly spectacular failures where said failures are entirely down to Harry and Harry alone.

The other thing I noticed on my most recent MMNI binge (and it ties into @gcballet's previous comments about Harry appearing to be the one most willing to take bigger risks) is that the MMNI cast individually all have very clear indicators of having reached a breaking point with the silliness - either through increasingly blatant corpsing, directly or indirectly questioning the direction the thing is going in, or just pulling a very obvious "WTF" expression, (or, for the ultimate, Dave in the latest run just flopping on the floor) - and when these breaking points are reached, the silliness is at least attempted to be reined in or twisted round to make some kind of narrative sense even without any prompting from Oscar/Emmy. Harry, on the other hand, will pretty much go with anything that's thrown at him - yes, he'll start corpsing if it gets ridiculous enough but he'll generally still just go with whatever's been set up for him without much argument; I think Croydonosaurus and the list of "non-branded products" is the only real exception to this, where Harry's the only one trying to get the scene back on track, which is why Jonathan immediately calls it out as being hypocritical. Josh is the same way (in terms of just going with anything and everything that comes up) which is why I think he's the other "non-core" cast member that tends to stand out in people's heads and garner a lot of attention.

I think especially when you compare that improv style of almost taking "yes, and..." to its extreme and just accepting and going with anything and everything that's thrown at you with little to no pushback with the approach of, say, Lauren or Charlie (and I don't mean this in a derogatory way towards them either because it's just different styles of something that is objectively difficult to do well) who are more willing to call out and, for lack of a better word, "argue" against things getting too out of hand and will fight more to keep things both on track and making some kind of relative sense, it becomes even more clear exactly how Harry manages to end up with an array of moments ranging from "pure genius" to "lost his goddamn mind". And I wasn't kidding in the initial post when I said that sometimes the things he'll come out with will be the best things in the show. I know we always come back to the box in the 'Ashopalypse' trilogy but that truly was a frankly genius move...

Rewatching 'Hull School Musical' and am currently wondering exactly how I missed this absolute gem of a line the first time:

The thing I love about Harry Kershaw in MMNI is that occasionally he'll come out with something that's pure genius (and possibly the best thing in the entire movie for that show) that kind of slips by relatively unnoticed and then the rest of the time it's just...Delta Von Tassel and Christmas Bonanza Boy...

[squirrelno2]

The funny thing about having been that pretentious child who was like "I'm too special and smart for video games, I read classic novels!" (secretly really wanted a GameCube) Is that now as an adult I am in fact reading those "classic" novels in bits and pieces in between dying stupidly in an MMORPG. So you know. These things can coexist, baby me.

[kinnoth]

If I see ONE MORE FUCKING PERSON be like "well I played and finished the dlc, but I'll wait to draw my conclusions about the lore until after the vaati video comes out"

FUCKING WHAT. It's not vaati's fucking lore! That man is just another fan, just like you! He is not your authority!!! Fucking dig up your own lore! All the information you need is there! Walk around the fucking game, open your eyeballs, and draw your own fucking conclusions!!!!!

I swear to fucking God you are all such cowards about "getting it wrong" that you are denying yourself half the fucking experience of the game by refusing to engage with the lore until someone tells you what to think about it.

Get your heads out of your asses!!!!!

[thomas-jopson]

*jopson was already not taking kindly to his ass being grabbed like that, but when @lieut-dundy-le-vesconte had bitten so harshly into him…

he screamed.*

Ghh—

*he hisses under his breath*

Bitch!

*as much as he wants to, craves for it…he cannot give a proper reply— no, no.

His Captain is speaking…

speaking to him directly.

he scoots himself to face the other way, his back to dundy

a horrible idea, but what can he do?

he needs to face his Captain. He needs to see him.

he feels feverish

and the lieutenant still hasn’t let go of his fucking ass.

but that’s trivial now… his Captain is asking things of him. and he looks…

absolutely delicious in the room’s current glow.

his cock looks divine— the way it drips,

hangs low,

flushes… twitches with attention.

the way his hands engulf it…

presenting it as a gift almost, with every pulling back of the foreskin

…and his dirty requests melt jopson’s core,

if he wasn’t ready for action, he sure as hell is now*

*jopson did not realize how long he had been spacing off, and has to wipe some drool that was teetering the line of dropping on the lieutenant’s boot*

Aye…

Can do them both, sir…

but let’s go with the former.

*breaking his adoration away for a moment to turn back to his other companion, he—

without thinking—

without taking into account how much of what the lieutenant had just done, was for the sole purpose of getting him riled up…

like so…

he gets up from dundy’s lap…

to backhand the lieutenant with all the might he can muster up, the impact on his face sending him off the rickety chair

jopson’s hand stings from the aftermath, a very harsh flush envelops his palm*

…

Don’t you ever try that with me,

you understand?

…

*he is pacing by now, arms folded behind him— his back turned to crozier…

all attention on dundy, who lies on the rickety, but decently polished floor of the Captain’s Cabin*

The Captain…

��requested something…

*he sits down in the chair— that the lieutenant had managed to warm up by now… and he turns his gaze downwards at the lieutenant, while keeping his chest puffed, his head high.*

…and because I accepted it—

*a beat*

*then…

jopson leans down in the chair to grab dundy— one hand gathering his cravat, while the other worms its way into the lieutenant’s hair.

and he pulls

using his hand holding the lieutenant’s hair to pull his head backwards whilst using the other on his cravat to pull him fowards, his chin bracing on the chair’s seat… slotted between jopson’s knees.*

Means you gotta do what he wants—

Which is whatever he tells me to tell YOU to do.

…

And he made it very clear

what he wants…

*he lets go suddenly

and jopson shoves dundy back to give him room to get up from the chair.

…still intently focused on talking to dundy*

Since I don’t think you’re quite capable of handling my…

*he makes sure to punctuate the possessiveness

by bringing his boot down on the lieutenant’s chest— pushing him further onto his back*

Captain’s cock…

…

*he is almost stroking dundy’s chest with his boot now,

all the while staring down at the other man with those steady… never shading eyes*

…

You will use some of the oil in his left desk drawer…

…

to finger him.

*stepping forward slightly,

jopson raises his boot to attempt to scoop the lieutenant’s face upwards, from beneath his chin*

…

Is that order clear enough…

or must I repeat it several more times?

…

Hm?

Can you manage…

Lieu-te-nant?

*he bites out every syllable of the last word, like a derogatory term.

pointing out how yes— dundy is the lieutenant here

but look where he stands…

Or more accurately… lies*

Thomas, do you… still want me to bathe you?

*he’s rolled up his shirtsleeves and is awkwardly holding a dripping sponge. He looks younger in this hesitation. Open and vulnerable, mouth twitching, uncertain if he should smile.*

*he offers an… incredibly exhausted smile*

Yes…

*his head lolls back unconsciously— from a lack of motor awareness… to look at his captain*

Wash me… Francis,

…

my love. Wash me… clean me…

I feel so dirty…

*he feels a bone deep tiredness within him, everything lax.

everything attuned to Crozier.*

[wild-at-mind]

In all seriousness, when I was in my 20s I spent way too much time reading tumblr and trying to figure out the right opinions to have on everything. It was pretty soul destroying now that I look back.

[rosemary-bells]

i am SO for mr using nicknames and endearments on cwn, may it be in fanfic or canon. engong-gege? amazing. baby? perfect. baobei? Superb. legit even using wanning or smth. it’s so soft. so tender.

but god. “kitten” makes him sound like a discord mod or smth. y’all please

[deus-ex-mona]

i love you mona♡

[nahare-shin]

I know there was some pushback on Octolings and inklings collectively being called turflings, but I’m gonna be so real, it makes more sense than inkfish.

Like they have ink sure but they ain’t fish they mollusks. I never rlly understood why the fandom used that term.

EDIT: ok apparently inkfish is like a term used about actual cephalopods irl, however

Also allegedly one of the shop characters says it in 2? Idk. I kinda loathed turflings at first but it’s grown on me. I guess realistically it’s probably more likely that both are used.

[ciderjacks]

always “boy moms are sexist enablers” never “boy dads are sexist encouragers”

always “annoying tiktok girls are promoting EDs and unhealthy skincare routines” never “adult men are intentionally using teenage girls insecurities to groom them into this shit”

always “annoying housewife woman putting herself in a dangerous situation where she has no freedom” never “her bigot of a husband who now has control over her and almost certainly lured her into this”

always “teen girls are fucked up for seriously saying they wish they didn’t have rights bc they’d rather be property than deal with college” never “men are literally at fault for this in every single way imaginable. Also she’s probably not actually being serious dude.”

always “ugh annoying entitled Karen being rude to the employees” never “jfc a man harassing female GameStop employees being rude and sexist and then waiting for them to get off work to do God knows what”

always “ugh white women suck they’re so annoying” never “ugh white men are entitled brats and are infinitely more annoying than any white lady”

always “straight girls are the worst” never “straight boys are insane and violent with their homophobia in a way straight girls are not often”

always “women need to be more careful in bars” never “maybe men in bars need to be more monitored or given a different section if they Really just cannot stop fucking raping people.”

always “yoga moms soccer moms boy moms almond moms” never any derogatory terms for fathers.

Like is anyone else seeing a pattern

[essektheylyss]

Okay, actual serious PSA: trash talk is not fun once you start using words like "narcissist" to shit on your opponents, and it will get you blocked, regardless of who you're levying it against.

Don't fucking be that person, alright?

[teddybasmanov]

I say I want a nice guy and don't get me wrong - I do. But when that nice guy gets playfully mean in just the right way in a situation where I can answer him in the exact same tone, mmm... My brains start leaking out of my... ears, yeah let's go with ears.