#names and naming

[aeide-thea]

okay, question: are nicknames that shorten someone’s full name to one of its unaccented syllables ever actually a thing outside of badfic, or…?

[rrcraft-and-lore]

You want to up your fantasy naming game and just come up with stuff that SLAPS, goes HARD, and chills?

Read more mythology and study the naming.

Vaikartana - Sanskrit: The Son of whose Rays Cut the Darkness (HARD!)

Sun Wukong (the monkey king): The Monkey Awakened to the Emptiness. (Slaps)

Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli - Mesoamerican: The Lord of the House of Dawn (Hard)

[yeepof]

I understand that tall men are our POV characters, but surely being like a foot taller than everyone around them would have some occasional consequences

[fangirlinginleatherboots]

Being 30 is fun. I was discussing anime with a teen at work and asked her how much of bnha she had watched. She had trouble answering and wasn't sure how to approach it. I said "better question was who was your husbando" and she turned bright red before mumbling an answer. They never expect me to know how deep their love of anime boys runs....

[housederiva]

My housemate's cat came into my room while my dictation was on...

(here's the fic btw)

[tawnysoup]

Found my fav Slay the Princess route recently. Dragon my beloved. Your horrifying beak mouth was an impossible-to-refuse lip syncing challenge 💖

Shoutouts to @blacktabbygames for making such a cool game!

[sabertoothwalrus]

Let's try this again

[juunipupu]

Knight and the enemy within

[mias-back-from-the-dead]

tbh i think the funniest phenomena that's been happening in the last couple years is "youtuber, having gone too deep into the research hole, has been made an investigative journalist against their will"

[eriochromatic]

lazy mornings at the Last Drop ☕☀️

[aeide-thea]

so i googled kristin sue lucas and it turns out she's an artist and the name refresh thing was something she actively conceptualized as an art piece:

Refresh in all its various forms, is a meditation on the technologically-mediated body. Lucas' appropriation of the language of everyday experiences of the web highlights a shift in the relationship between the internet and embodied experience. Lucas's 'refresh' signals that the two are no longer simply intertwined, but that the logic and mechanisms of the internet structure the offline world.

which has me a little 🧐 at the way we're all passing around that decontextualized transcript of the hearings as though she were just some wacky lady with a goofy idea?? like obviously the line between 'performance piece' and 'living yr life in a way that's unusual' is a potentially fuzzy one and at some level any maverick is behaving that way on purpose, and wacky ladies with goofy ideas also deserve serious respect for the vision and courage of their self-actualization, don't get me wrong! but i guess i just do think it does artists a disservice to act as though their art is just, like, an inevitable uncurated expression of their personal emotions and impulses, rather than a deliberate creative work??

[hussyknee]

If I tell you this is a horror dance number it still won't prepare you. That last move was so terrifying even the judge was like "Let go! Let go!" If you told me they're actually possessed I'd believe you.

The music is a remix of the song Mere Dholna from the Bollywood movie Bhool Bhulaiyya, a remake of the classic Malayalam horror-comedy Manichitrathazhu. It's about a young bride that seemingly becomes possessed of Manjulika, a dancer of the ancient royal court whose tragic death has turned her into a vengeful spirit, one who evokes the wrath of the goddess Durga Kali. In the iconic scene that is repeated across remakes, the groom and his family discover his bride dancing in the dead of night in a manic, disassociative fugue, wearing a moth-eaten dancer's costume and a face smeared in kohl, ash and vermilion. She's hallucinating that she's Manjulika dancing carefree for the court with her lover. The upbeat music is deliberately incongruous with the pathos and creepiness of the scene in reality, especially as it crescendos in the bride's head to the moment when the king decapitates Manjulika's beloved in a fit of jealous rage.

This specific number is by the all-male troupe B Unique, performed for the Indian reality talent contest Hunabaarz. It's a modern fusion based on Bharatnatyam that turns up the creep factor by 200% and is basically a showcase of contortionism and synchronicity. One of the most perfectly choreographed and executed dances I have ever seen. Truly incredible!

The group is still taking their work across the world's talent shows. And yes, that guy is hypermobile enough to do that with his neck. XD

[dandylion-s]

Bastille was right. How am I gonna be an optimist about this. Also right about eh eho eho.