#particular nickname

[darlingdarkly]

A few of you have been encouraging me to perhaps write some purely self indulgent one shot Deimos smut on the side while I still work on “FWTD” and I was just washing dishes when an absolute toe curling idea came to mind but I am…. Well…. unsure if any of you will be able to look me in the digital eye anymore after I post it.

[brainrotcharacters]

"Listen here, peanut..."

"Logan. Only he gets to call me that."

camera cuts to Deadpool as he does a little finger wave

[rearviewghost]

"Well, I'm Alex, from The Last Shadow Puppets, and I play the 'awoooo!'"

"And I'm Miles, from The Last Shadow Puppets, and I play the midnight moon"

[aroaceleovaldez]

Hey, I'm writing a PJO fanfic, and I'm trying to come up with a nickname that can be given to Percy (ocean/Poseidon-related) that isn't Seaweed Brain. It's iconic, but personally, it makes me a little uncomfortable as someone who was also bullied for my (lack-of) intelligence. Do you have any suggestions?

Hm, this is difficult only because I am not someone who particularly uses petnames/nicknames often. I have considered what Percy might call other people (usually fish puns - like calling people different fish species as a pun based on something about them. Like flying fish for Jason, etc etc). I do think it's interesting that with how the series censors swears in-universe there is some implication that "Seaweed Brain" and "Wise Girl" may just be stand-ins for "Dumbass" and "Smartass" so you could potentially play off of that with Percy just having another cuss nickname but most potential ones with that don't fully solve your problem/still be negative-leaning though not necessarily related to his intelligence.

"Water Boy" i can see being one that people jokingly call him as like a teasing insult, a la Jason being called "Golden Boy/Weather Boy" or Nico being called "Death Boy." I personally like the hc of him taking up a job as a lifeguard in New Rome during college so maybe something related to that? Pop culture references - Aquaman, Ariel, Jaws, Aquamarine, any character from h2o, Baywatch, etc. Maybe superhero jokes along the lines of Jason's "blond superman" nickname.

I could see him getting little cutesy sea-themed nicknames particularly from Sally - starfish, cuttlefish (or "cuddlefish"), scallop, "lil barnacle" (if he's being clingy), "lil clamshell," pearl, etc etc. Tbh fish/aquatic/marine stuff in general is an easy one. Maybe even branching out to waterfowl and similar/other water-adjacent animals. Also anything based off his name itself is easy (just referring to him as "Jackson," Perce [pronounced "Purse"] - though he kind of already has "Percy" so shortening that further feels redundant, etc etc). Maybe anything specifically about him being the son of Poseidon, depending on who is saying it ("Mini-Poseidon" / "Lil' Poseidon" etc etc).

Edit: actually, addendum - any of the silly nicknames from 50% Off used on literally any character. Especially ones directed towards Rin.

If anyone else has suggestions feel free to comment them!

[lorillee]

in honor of kakashis birthday i thought i might as well finally release my half finished mini concept of "inverse lost tower where baby kakashi comes to hang out with shippuden era team 7. Badly" because obviously baby kakashi seeing his older self have relationships and happiness that baby kks doesnt think he can or deserves to have pisses him off on such a fundamental level hes so filled with rage he barely knows what to do with himself. not to mention that adult kakashis general outward lackadaisical demeanor also makes him angry because how can they have gone through all the same things and yet he still doesnt take anything seriously etc etc u already know all this. regardless the issue more than anything else was that im not much of a writer so i could never get the words to feel right so it'll probably stay unfinished forever, but take these anyways

[rat-rosemary]

I want to write a fic about Dream moving into a frat mid college for some reason and he has the surgery scars he has and every single time a frat bro sees him without a shirt on their reaction is "Dude, cool scars!! ... is it a trans thing?" "Uh... no, they're like, surgery scars" "Cool cool... you're still going with he/him right? Just to check" "yeah"

[the-jellyfish-graves]

It’s such a turn on when I’m allowed to be sweet to someone just because I want to.

Let me help you feel good; it’s so hot to me.

[carriehobbs]

I keep thinking about @/fauville’s tags (“#literally no one else calls the detective by a nickname #not their mom. not tina or verda”) on this post and how it's just another example of the way that the constraints of interactive fiction as a storytelling medium (e.g., limitations in what the writer knows how to code, inability to account for all players' (and player characters') reactions to the text, nuanced conversations reduced in-game to multiple choice answers, etc.) inadvertently provide characterization for the game's characters.

to use @/fauville's example of the detective's nickname: tina and verda should, at the very least, know that the detective has a nickname and should use it; however, they use the detective's first name instead. this is speculation (i don't know if mishka has ever gone on-record to say why nicknames were not a part of book 1), but I suspect, from a writing standpoint, that this decision was made because nicknames hadn't been included in book 1 (perhaps because mishka didn't yet know how to code nicknames in choicescript, or because she hadn't anticipated players wanting a feature like optional nicknames) and it would have seemed jarring for someone who has always called the detective by their first name to suddenly start using a nickname midway through book 2. unit bravo can get away with this change because they hadn't known about the nickname previously (doesn't know about the nickname -> learns about the nickname -> uses the nickname) in a way that tina and verda, who have known the detective for years, cannot (doesn't know about the nickname -> learns about the nickname -> doesn't use the nickname for years -> suddenly starts using the nickname with no explanation ??).

just because we, as players, can acknowledge and understand the external factors that influence a game's production (e.g., not knowing how to code a particular feature at the start of the series and later learning how to implement that feature, if this is indeed the case), doesn't mean that I think we should ignore the implications these gameplay (and game-making) decisions have for the coherence of the story and character. perhaps tina and verda's use of the detective's first name was motivated by external factors, but it still says something about the characters that they do so (perhaps it lends to the way that verda can sometimes seem more formal or put-together, or speaks to a past between tina and the detective before the detective started using a nickname, etc.).

even more interesting (to me, at least) are the implications that rebecca choosing to use the detective's full name has for rebecca's character and her relationship with the detective. rebecca will call the detective by their first name regardless of both their past relationship and their current relationship. in a low-approval playthrough, it is pretty easy to come up with reasons that rebecca might not call the detective by a nickname. perhaps she doesn't feel like she's close enough to the detective to use a nickname. perhaps she and the detective are so distant that she doesn't even know the detective would prefer to be called a nickname in the first place.

furthermore, what does it say about rebecca that she still won't use the detective's nickname even if they are close? we've seen through the series that, even on a high-approval playthrough, rebecca seems to feel a lot of guilt for not being around through the detective's childhood (regardless of how that guilt actually informed her actions) - is her refusal to use a nickname she should know about some kind of self-flagellation wherein she doesn't feel as though she deserves to be close to the detective and so she creates an artificial distance between them through the use of their full name? what motivation does rebecca have for not using the detective's nickname, and what does it say about her that she doesn't?

I just find it endlessly fascinating the ways in which the constraints of the medium can unintentionally provide characterization for the game's characters. I don't think that we, as players, should write off these moments of characterization just because they were the results of a constraint. regardless of whatever external factors influence the game's production, why, in-fiction, does a character do a certain thing, and what does that action or decision impact how we understand them?

[arendaes]

Haven't been feeling well today, so naturally I decided that on top of a sleep-deprived headache and menstrual cramps I needed to start a new playthrough of Dragon Age Inquisition 😂 After hours of struggling to get both mods and my controller to work with Frosty, I got everything up and running. IDK if it's just a decade's worth of hindsight, or if I've just played better games in that ten year span (or both), but...while I'm having fun, the game's definitely worse than I remember it being.

More thoughts and some screenshots below the cut

So, the thing that's standing out to me that I can't believe I never realized before is...this is a really raw deal for Dalish character. You're basically pressured into joining an organization that has historically helped oppress your people, all so you can return the world to a status quo that also oppresses people like you, from multiple angles. It's, well, bullshit. I get that the Inquisitor has to agree to actually have a story but the way the game goes about it is just so icky.

So I've decided to lean into that more, so I'm playing Amaris a lot angrier than I have done in the past. Well, in my head she's a lot angrier. I remember how bad this game is at letting the Inquisitor have anything that really resembles an actual personality so it will have to largely be in my head lol

Anyways, onto the screenshots. I decided to give Amaris brown hair instead of white after all, surprising no one I'm sure. I think it suits her better.

[keepthetension]

unbelievably random but:

made me think heck yeah i love that song!

and then:

i feel like pants generally rip in the butt cheek or thigh area, rarely this high up in the crotch area? but i do know of this happening to one person, famously, on live tv

(it's in the first, like, 4 seconds of this clip)

[doctorwhoisadhd]

who in the torchwood team would hate nardole the most.

[chiropteracupola]

fire-carrier!

[flintlock fortress is a collaboration with @dxppercxdxver]

[werewolf-transgenderism]

one of my silliest fanfic icks that will make me back out of a fic immediately is nicknames that do not appear in canon when characters talk to/about each other. They Would Not Call Them That

[moondragon618]

Just though of c!Dream calling c!Tommy his little Nightmare as kind of a playful jab at his (formerly, because he's so much better now with c!Dream's guidance, of course) defiant and chaotic trouble-making nature.

And maybe there's also possibly a small connection to c!Dream's habit of naming all his weapons and armor Nightmare :)

[lifeserieswarriors]

bullfrog / bigbst4tz

[curiositeath]

i've been compiling a list of all the nicknames jason has for his family bat colleagues for roughly 10 months now and it's probably one of the most nonsense things in the world but i'm so fond of the idea