#snowclone

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Snowclone

Squeaked this one in on the last day of 2023, but that's officially the last bit of art before '24! Sure drew a lot of clone helmets last year, and surprisingly I'm not sick of them (yet)!

Art taglist: @the-hexfiles @your-slutty-gf @msmeredithrose @lonely-day3636

You can find more of my art by searching my art tag or clicking on my masterlist.

[stan-actias-luna]

in the intervocalic position. straight up "voicing it". and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say. My lenis

[moomoocowmaid]

Turn this shit into a snowclone RN

[captious-solarian]

All my haters become my haters when I map them through the identity function. Of success.

[thicc-astronaut]

Seeing people online get mad about “why are there over 100 genders now!!??” makes me think about how people say “The Eskimos have over fifty words for snow” but actually there’s only one word for “snow” but they add descriptors to it in a way that made a European linguist think they were using different vocabulary words

[pretensesoup]

When a phrase becomes a customizable formula like that, it's called a snowclone.

no x, we die like y

have x, will travel

in space, no one can hear you x

x is the new y

etc.

do you know where "no beta we die like x" comes from and how it is used?

The term "beta" in this context is short for "beta reader" - a person who reads a fic while it's still in the editing stage and helps the writer get it ready to post. Some betas check grammar. Some check canon compliance. Some are sensitivity readers. There are lots of things that betas can do.

So functionally, saying "no beta" means that the writer didn't get this checked by a second person before they posted it. It's a warning that there might be errors or typos etc. It's mostly used when an author has written something quickly and is posting without doing a lot of (or any) edits first.

As for where it comes from? It all started with a bumper sticker.

This image was an internet meme at one point, and it got meme'd on in the form of "no ___ we ___ like men"

Here on tumblr, one of the versions that got really popular was from now-deleted user @grec1a who created this version:

From there, it migrated to AO3 as the "no beta we die like men" tag, and very often the word men is replaced by the name of a character who dies in canon.

[reptilemodernism]

White boy shocks everyone with Energy Cannon

[vimbry-moved]

the pride slogan headline ???

[gravitasfalls]

"I want complex neurodivergent characters" you fuckers could barely handle stanford pines

[mumblelard]

pink blot blight is dead long live blot or happy friday imaginary constructs

[unopenablebox]

making no comments on the nature of the relationships of whichever pairs of fictional men have been attached to this post: how on earth is that not platonic. what could "platonic" possibly be a useful word for if not to describe this exact situation. like i guess if you want for this precise setup you could introduce "familial" but in that case, like, we very much know about "found family". it is NOT secret. absolutely known fourth thing

[darkmetaknightspussy]

You seem to have fundamentally misunderstood me, anon. Go play through all of Kirby and the Amazing Mirror (2004) again.

[moomoocowmaid]

I can be your hello kitty girlfriend I love punk music and anything that woofs and I have autism

[daisukitoo]

elementary particles? I find them quite complex

[phe-purple-parade]

You know 'gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss' (and 'manipulate, mansplain, malewife/manwhore')

Now get ready for:

Slur, slay, slumber

Divorce, disown, dismemberment

Detract, derange, diversity win

Betrothed, betrayed, beloved

Bury, bowdlerise, bestie

Unionise, ugly-cry, underdog

Vilify, verify, verbify

[taperwolf]

I mean, I do understand that, effectively, the Japanese voice acting community is a small town and that you run into actors you know from other roles repeatedly. But it was in looking up where I knew one of the voices from The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You from that I realized I also knew the other ones as well.

Hakari's voice, Hondo Kaede, also voiced Maple from Bofuri and Haruka from Love Live Nijigasaki; Karane's voice, Tomita Miyu, also was Miko from Love is War and Rizu from Bokuben. Nanagawa Maria, who voices Shizuku, was also Kanna in Dragon Maid and the Platelet leader in Cells at Work; Nano's voice, Seto Asami, was Mai in Bunny Girl Senpai and Raphtalia in Shield Hero; Asai Ayaka — Kusuri — was Clara in Iruma-kun and Hazuki from Sound! Euphonium. Hahari's voice, Uesaka Sumire, was Lum in the new Urusei Yatsura, Shaltear in Overlord, Dekomori in Chuunibyou, and Anastasia from Idolmaster Cinderella Girls.

To further demonstrate the interconnectedness, only Sumire hasn't been in a Love Live production and only Miyu hasn't been in a Precure series.

(And again , before looking things up, I didn't realize that one of my favorite voice actors, Ōnishi Aguri — Ayumu in Nijigasaki — had a small role as the librarian in episode 3.)