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they only have like a 3 inch height difference in post covid but i thought this would be funny

#pc creek

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#I don't have a glee blog anymore so my sp blog will have to do #this is the funniest au possible

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My pip plush arrived! I'm so excited

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t4t kendy transmasc wendyl x transfem kenny oh god im gonna explode for realsies

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Fans, last call for your “Tweek + Craig” fan art!  We’re looking to include your original Yoai fan artwork in THIS Wednesday’s episode!!

Specifics: Slash/Yaoi/Tweek + Craig/Creek ONLY

You must submit by TODAY (Oct 26) @ 6PM Pacific Time!  Then tune in Wednesday night to see if your art made it into the show.  We’ll try to use as much as we can!

Click here for more info.

#god i so wish i was in the fandom at this time

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there is something wrong with me probably

#PC CREEEEK #post covid #creek

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i miss pip

#south park #pip pirrip #pip pirrup #f slur #i can reclaime #but its used in the usual south park way #mourning him especially hard today as i am in s1 of my rewatch </3

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finding a dip wip i wrote like a year ago, man, i miss them :,)

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So hard to be a fan of Damien/Pip/Cristophe/Gregory/Herbet/Estella while also not liking/never reading(?) hellpark. And I never will get into it haha

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butters beating up pip LMAO

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How was the Barbie Movie?

#creek

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i am now an owner (well, pip is not in my possession, YET!) of two pieces of south park merchandise.. one is tweek, and the other is pip. hah. sums me up!

i.... may have ordered something

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i.... may have ordered something

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The Origins of "DeLorne": An Update, A New Mystery, and Fandom History

So I've had this little thing among my pinned posts for a while, but basically, I've been curious where "DeLorne" (Christophe's almost universally agreed upon last name in the fandom) comes from. Previously, the earliest instance I'd found was on a dA art post in 2006, but I've since done more research and uncovered incredible pieces of fandom history, as well as a mystery! It's a pretty long story, but if you're interested in South Park fandom history at all (especially pertaining to Gregory and Christophe), I think you'll find it all fascinating. Let me rope you into the journey I've found myself on.

While I've been curious about "DeLorne" for a while, this particular phase of my research initiated from another pet project of mine— that being to read and archive all Gregstophe fics on FFN should the site go down someday. The oldest Gregstophe fic you can find just using filters was published in August 2005 and is called There's Always Tomorrow by Bagatelle. While this is the only Gregstophe fic on their FFN account, I've come to learn through sources I'll mention later that Bagatelle was a prolific Gregstophe author.

Anyway, the important thing to know for now is that I thought There's Always Tomorrow might actually be the true originator of "DeLorne" for a bit, as it uses it for Christophe's last name.

The author's intro of the first chapter cites two fics as inspiration for their own: Fierte Dedans (supposedly by KyleBroflovskiFan) and Parable of a Boy Named Gregory (supposedly by someone named either Oyaji or Zidane 2003). They also refer to Qindarka, aka the author of the famous Creek fic Aisle 10, as "my love" which is just an extra fun piece of fandom history to me.

With these other fics serving as a reference to There's Always Tomorrow, I figured they might also have "DeLorne". I went looking and discovered Fierte Dedans, which turned out to have been published in May 2005 by Saboteuse (their deviantArt name was KyleBroflovskiFan which is likely why they were called as such earlier). It's an unfinished fic, only getting two chapters and one sect of the love quadrangle(?) in (the fic was set to be a Gregstophe/Tophlovski/Style fic). In the first chapter, however, during a role call scene, it used "DeLorne" as Christophe's last name.

This was very exciting— I'd found a new origin point!

The author hadn't uploaded a fic since early 2014, but I decided "fuck it" and sent them a PM on FFN, asking if they were the first to use "DeLorne" or if they'd gotten it from somewhere. Miraculously, I got a message back!

So, not an origin, but at least it was a definitive answer! It also raised a new question, that being about Gregory's old fanon last name "Thorne". The aforementioned fic There's Always Tomorrow also uses "Thorne" as Gregory's last name and mentioned taking it directly from one of their inspirations— Parable of a Boy Named Gregory. I mentioned this to Saboteuse, who said that fic was definitely what they associate "Thorne" with but they weren't sure if it was the originator or simply popularized it.

Naturally, I had to find what I could about this Parable fic. Google was mostly a dead end though, only giving me its shoutout in There's Always Tomorrow and a mention of it in the Tropedia article on Celebrity Paradox. I learned it was a Pip/Gregory fic, that it was "of epic length", and there was a plot point involving a North Korean invasion. Put a pin in Parable, we'll circle back around to it.

Back on the trail of the origins of "DeLorne", thanks to @/stankvle's help, there seemed to be a new potential origin point:

February 2005 was now the earliest Christophe had been given the last name "DeLorne". This made me curious and I searched "christophe delorne" on deviantArt. This sketch was the earliest published thing in the search results, but I decided to check out other works and came to a fic from Jan 2006 called Brimstone by BassistArtistLoser. In the description, I found this:

This to me seemed to imply that "Twitch" could've been the first to use the name and everyone else copied them. I had to find Twitch.

Among the comments was a user named "twitchablewiz", who I assumed to be the same Twitch. Their deviantArt was mostly empty, seemingly wiped clean, save for a few posts including a poll asking what their final fic they published to FFN should be. I went searching and found one of those fics mentioned in the poll. I didn't care about that fic; instead I was more interested in another fic on their profile: a Tophlovski fic from December 2005. I had hoped to find "DeLorne" there, concrete evidence that they indeed used that last name.

Sadly, this fic with almost completely gutted because it was a smut fic and FFN was apparently cracking down on those back then. Twitch claimed they would reupload the fic on "FOSFF dot net" aka Freedom of Speech Fan Fiction Archive but apparently that entire site was wiped clean in 2013.

The interesting takeaway, however, was this bit:

There was another mention of Oyaji, the supposed author of Parable of a Boy Named Gregory, aka the possible origin of "Thorne"! I had tried searching "Oyaji" and "Zidane 2003" before to no avail, but now I had a new name to try. With this, I was able to find Oyaji's deviantArt. In scrolling through their past posts, I discovered this:

So here we have it: the reason why Parable was impossible to find before was because Oyaji intended on publishing it! This fic that might be the origin of "Thorne", Gregory's old fanon last name, might have been turned into a real novel. Oyaji says nothing in any of their other posts about whether or not they were actually able to publish. What they did provide though, as you can see, is their email.

So I emailed them, asking about Parable— if it got published, if I could read the original, if it truly was the origin of "Thorne". And, since Gregory and Christophe have been intrinsically linked to one another since their inception in 1999, I also asked if Oyaji might know anything about the origin of "DeLorne". I had hoped that I could get a response like I had when I messaged Saboteuse but, sadly... it seems that email account has been deleted.

As of March 12th, 2023, this is where the story ends. I feel like I'm so close to solving this fandom mystery, but there's still so many questions remaining. Is me-ladie the one who originated "DeLorne" as Christophe's last name, or was it Twitchy, or was it someone else entirely? Is there even an origin at all, or was it just collectively agreed upon by all the Christophe fans back in the early 2000s as Saboteuse supposes? Does "Thorne" come from Parable of a Boy Named Gregory, and did it actually get reworked and published as an original novel? Does anyone out there have a copy, or is it lost to time forever? I still don't know, and may never, but I wanted to get what I have thus far out there.

In looking for the origins "DeLorne", I came across this: the very first fic to tag Christophe on FFN.

It was published in October 2003, less than five years after Bigger, Longer, and Uncut premiered. It's mindblowing to me that people were loving Christophe and writing about him all the way back then! And yet... this is only the idea of history, since the author gutted the fic. I appreciate it remaining up in a way, though I wish there was a way to find and read this honestly historic fic.

So much of fandom history is forever lost to time as the web and vibe of the fandom evolves, especially something as little as popular fanon last names of one-off characters from South Park. Even if some of it isn't relevant anymore ("Thorne" hasn't been popular for Gregory in years), to let it be lost or pretend current fandom is all that matters feels sad to me. Even if what we have now might be better, I think it's important to appreciate or at least take the time to really understand where what we have came from.

#still my favorite sp fandom-related post on this site

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first post on this blog, kinda nervy. im going to be watching every south park episode and doing a review? analysis? whatever it is i'll do.

S1 E1: CARTMAN GETS AN ANAL PROBE

First episode of the show, not the pilot or the numerous shorts made before this; the actual first episode. This will be slightly different than others I'll do, I think, considering it's the first first episode. I'm pretty sure in my reviews I'll go more into the analysis

The first scene sets up the boys dynamic in a perfectly serviceable way. Including our introduction to Kyle's little brother, Ike. Whom Kyle tells to leave, leading to Cartman calling him a dildo. Kyle gets mad. Basically the first glimpse of the Kyle and Cartman dynamic -- as well as a bit of Stan & Kyle's friendship after.

This first scene also shows a slight innocence to the boys, even if they're already talking about dildos. Showing that even if they're pretty crass, they're still kids.

We get our first Kick the Baby, too!

Cartman then explains his nightmare, which was actually real -- about his probing from the Visitors. Cartman doesn't believe his friends, doing his regular Cartman-isms. And then there is Chef.

Chef is just a really nice character. I'd go into detail, but there are coming episodes that likely will do a better service than my rambling on episode 1.

Kyle makes fun of Cartman being fat, which we see before Cartman makes fun of Kyle for being jewish. Which I think is both funny and surprising. The alien plotline continues with Chef's conversations with the children.

We also see the most forgettable character in South Park history; Mrs Crabtree! She's also one of the more annoying ones, too.

Ike gets abducted by visitors. While it's obviously stated in this episode, despite Kyle's annoyance with his younger brother and his running gag of doing 'kick the baby', he still genuinely loves his brother and wants him safe. His concern could also come from his parents wanting to blame it on him, but I think that's a cynical approach and goes against the previous dialogue between him and Cartman and Ike.

Some things I'll probably skip over in this episode, scenes that don't add anything to the analysis/meta of the characters or the review, and also the sideplot with the cows.

Mr Garrison and Mr Hat are in the scene, showing his incompetence as a teacher and his other things.

We also get a bit of Kyle's character, with his complaining about his father always putting pressure on him and blaming him for things. He's also pretty aggressive, lashing out at Mr Garrison not allowing him to go to save his brother. Aggression is a key part of Kyle's character, and it's already introduced in episode 1.

Pip's first appearance, as well as Clyde, Tolkien, Butters, and Wendy in the background. And he gets set on fire. Poor boy, lol.

We get an establishment of Stan's crush on Wendy, with an adorable frame. Wendy is basically not a character here. She's basically just a girl. A prop to add something to Stan's character and give him something to do, which is why I can't particularly comment on her.

Surprisingly, Stan is the one who gets fed up with Chef - rather than Kyle. Which is a pretty interesting choice, considering in this episode, both the aggresive outbursts and the concern for Ike comes from Kyle. Just an interesting note.

Half way point! And our first Kenny death. Make the Death Counter 1

Cartman's refusal of having been probed is very interesting - just like Cartman! Could it be that he doesn't want to seem emasculated, and thinks having an anal probe would do just that to him, so he denies it? Possibly. It could be linked with a relationship towards masculinity. Or I could be reading too deep. I'll go into Liane & Eric's relationship later, but I think the set up this episode gives us is nice and encapsulates their dynamic pretty well.

Stan/Wendy/Kyle's dynamic here could lend itself to a Style reading, as I do really enjoy them. It could be jealousy, annoyance, and concern for his little brother all piled up into one initially. Wendy is super cute in the early seasons though, and the Wendyle crumbs are there!

And while I didn't mention it here, this episode is funny. I enjoyed it. This is the awkward ending of the analysis here.

RATING: 7/10

STANDOUT: Kyle

#Scott's South Park Rewatch

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sideblog just for those kids in colorado

rewatch / reblogging

tyler - he/his - bisexual - yes my username is a non-south park shipname. shh

im big into fandom history / old fandom works. i have bad taste and bad takes ✨ mentally in 2015-2017