Don’t Worry, This Is All Temporary

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
reptile-ruler
vortainz

why are IZ ship names so weird? just making this cus apparently some people don’t know 👍


IZ ship name thingys aren’t necessarily always romance, just the relation the characters have to eachother

they’re formatted “_a_e/f/r” with _ being the first letters of the characters name, for more than two people it’s normally _a_a_e/f/r OR __a_e/f/r (for example praz_ or zadak_), also characters with two words as names have the first letter of both words put in (PM and LN being the most common)

e = enemies

f = friendship

r = romance

simple enough


but why is it like that?


on one of the older fansites (rwam i believe but i may be wrong) OCs were banned from fics so stuff like “zib” or “dim” would be taken down cus they sounded to much like OCs (which is kinda funny now cus zib is a canon character)

thus the _a_e/f/r came into play to still indicate the ship without being taken down, even when the site died the shipping convention stayed

vortainz

“some people” aka me when i first joined the fandom

miniimoose

Og fan here but I wasnt big into the greater fandom culture as a kid, but dabbled and read a fanfic or two.

I always assumed it was because the main cast had such short (and strange) names that crafting a merged together ship name was extremely hard and would make differentiating between ships difficult. Also, if I saw 'zib' anywhere back then it was a fan kid instead of a ship name.

ckret2

Also an old school fan, was consuming and posting IZ fanfic by summer 2002; was it because a fansite that banned mashup names? Because:

1) That doesn't explain why we didn't adopt the pretty-ubiquitous "name/name" slash that most other Western fandoms use to denote ships. Even on sites like FFnet (which had a massive, MASSIVE Invader Zim fic database) where, in the early 00s, most punctuation got stripped from summaries and you might not even have the option to use a slash, something like "ZimTak" is more obvious & clear without an explanation than "ZATR", and FFnet wouldn't be subjected to that "no OCs" pressure; and

2) I saw at least one other fandom briefly using the same format: a mixed-fandom fansite I no longer remember the name of that used the format for Pokémon, AAMR for Ash And Misty Romance and JAJR for Jessie And James Romance; I don't think this system was very popular compared to Pokémon's "------shipping" name format but somebody was out there using it, which suggests there might have been a brief window when other fandoms were using it as well and Invader Zim was just the only one where it stuck.

And if other fandoms were using it, which ones and for how long? Did they learn it from Invader Zim fandom; or did it first originate somewhere else, and IZ was just one of many fandoms that picked it up and the last major one today that's still using it?

invader zim
the-bitch-mob
hemmeinandcallmehome

Here's to the people who weren't abused by their parents, but whose parents sucked anyways. Here's to people whose parents fucked up raising you out of ignorance and not malice. Here's to the kids whose parents didn't know what to do with you so they did nothing at all. Here's to people whose parents are getting better and growing as people but still hurt you. Here's to every mean comment that wouldn't have been so bad if it hadn't come from your mom; here's to awkward family dinners because you're all trying to forget;

here's to you, survivor of a thousand 'not as bad as it could have been' hurts. I see you. You aren't alone.

misterghostfrog
penny-anna

honestly kinda unfortunate that the only spooky library aesthetic is the victorian fancy bookshelves dark academia one bcos like. ok here's some library stories.

  • while i was at the university the library was undergoing a major refurbishment so for a little while the print journals were being stored temporarily down in the basement.
  • basically nobody ever consulted the print journals bcos 99% of stuff undergrads would be looking up is online these days so every time i went down there it was dead fucking silent & empty. you had to walk through what felt like several miles of empty basement to reach the collection, which was in a room w a photocopier shoved in the corner and a bunch of these:
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u turn the handles to move these around (saves space) and every time you had to go and check the aisles first on the offchance that someone was in there so they wouldn't get u know. Compacted.

  • many years ago i did a week's work experience with the National Library of Scotland. here it is:
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but that's just the tip of the iceberg. it keeps going down the side of the bridge, like so:

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i got a tour of the stacks while i was there. it's floor after floor of this:

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the bookshelves are made of metal & i was treated to the 'fun fact' that the shelves are, bizarrely, load bearing. for this reason they have to be constantly vigilant about fire hazards because even a relatively small fire could cause a bookcase to buckle from the heat, which in turn could cause the whole building to collapse in on itself like a house of cards.

this has haunted me ever since!! thank you.

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I went to a bookstore last week that has a load-bearing book. Not as spooky, but a similar vibe

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load bearing book….
idkanameatall
hephaestuscrew

I'm not the first person to say this, but there really is something groundbreaking about the lack of romantic plotlines in Wolf 359.

Wolf 359 is a story aimed at and about adults. It's partly about what it means to be human. It's partly about how we exist in relation to other people. It's partly about interpersonal connection and understanding. It has character relationships at its heart. It features so many moments of love and care between characters. It takes place across just over two years of the characters' lives, with 61 episodes and a main cast that grows to a decent size.

And despite all this, the show doesn't feature a single canonical 'on-screen' romantic (or sexual) relationship. Perhaps that shouldn't be as rare as it is, but it's one of the many things that makes Wolf 359 special to me.

wolf 359 aromantic aspec
chongoblog
thisvegetabledoesntfallinlove

there is, in fact, a "platonic explanation for this" if you're not a coward

thisvegetabledoesntfallinlove

its so fun to see the diversity of tags on this ranging from "they're literally just standing next to each other" to "deep bonds dont have to be romantic/sexual!" to "yeah friends can fuck nasty, platonically. coward." we're all so correct, there are, in fact, a million platonic explanations for this

YEAH BABY aromantic aspec lgbt
dudeiwannasleep
hjartasalt

People are often surprised I speak four languages but I consider it to be fairly average for where I'm from so now I'm curious

how many languages do you speak?* feel free to specify which ones and where you're from in the tags

one

two

three

four

five

six

seven or more languages

See Results

*if you're confused whether a language counts or not, ask yourself if you can hold a basic conversation in it. If not, and you can only understand but not speak it, skip it.

hjartasalt

Did everyone just learn french in school I am seeing so many french speakers in the tags

ruohosta-nauttija

Two, on my way to five

hjartasalt

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I'd love to learn swrosh

velgrauder

Of course the person being weirded out that eveyone knows one to two languages is an european.

hjartasalt

I mean. Yeah??? Learning four languages is mandatory in my country. That doesn't mean I'm "weirded out" by others not knowing as many languages, I'm just curious to see how many languages the average person on here can speak. Peace and love

American. Native English speaker. Learning German und es ist sehr sehr einfache aber ob du kannst mich verstehen dann es funktioniert ramble german posting