#dude? really??

[dramaism]

so wednesday and xavier right?

#what can i say i watched 4 episodes and i decided that my soul belongs to wednesday and xavier #tayler was good until he said she was giving him fucking signal #dude? really?? #i want the noody guy give me the moody guy #i see that this show is not going to provide me my ship but whatever #also wednesday can just be alone writers how about that? #anyway it's 1am i need to sleep #wednesday #jey talks

[roninkairi]

You can only reblog this today.*

*PLEASE READ THE TAGS

#adventure time #finn the human #if you are reading this #please be aware this is a joke #this was a random thing tound on Facebook #and no finn really didn't say that #so go ahead and reblog it #just don't take it seriously #some of the people who reblogged this overreacted #so I feel compelled to add these tags to call them out on it #like seriously #chill out dudes #maybe eat a taco or two #tacos are life #so are burritos #ok this is running its course #david zaslav can suck it #i just felt like adding that because he is a douche

[moomoorare]

I love nautical and seaside town horror stories. Tell me more about the fog and water that eats people

#living by the sea also is an experience #cus i love th3 sea so much dude swimming is my fav activity ever #but since tahts my reality i dont experience the horror of it #and some fics and stories really puck a punch #OHHH #rare rambling

[chloesimaginationthings]

The Aftons tried to kill Mike for being eepy in the FNAF movie

#myart #chloesimagination #comic #mike schmidt #fnaf vanessa #vanessa afton #william afton #steve raglan #springtrap #fnaf #fnaf movie #fnaf fanart #five nights at freddy's #Haus of Decline #William saw this sleep dude and wanted to destroy him #leave him alone he’s just doing his best #Vanessa was really hoping they wouldn’t have to kill this one #William wears the mask at home I know it

[prokopetz]

"DILF", a word which here means "the only male character with a speaking role in this piece of media who's actually old enough for me to be horny for him".

#media #tropes #dilves #is he really a smoking hot daddy or is he just the only dude who's visibly over 30?

[dozydawn]

chemist unsettling normies compilation

#nilered #really just making them laugh. no idea who the other dudes are i watched this for nigel lore #the whole purple light anime figure set is nightmarish

[mintypsii]

i can't believe one piece invented gay people

#HELP??????? #WHAT #one piece #op #one piece live action #opla #spoilers #min watches one piece #I WANNA MAKE A SEPERATE POST FOR THE NAMIKAYA MOMENTS #DUDE THE LIVE ACTION IS LEGITIMATELY GOOD?? #im enjoying it a lot so far #idk what others are saying but it doesn't matter cuz im having fun #even if the characters act a little different than they do in the show #it's something new though! i think that's really cool #lusopp #zosopp #^_^<- insane #monkey d luffy #roronoa zoro #usopp #iñaki godoy #jacob gibson #mackenyu

[asspinkie]

durge accidentally double-booked the boys

#durge and astarion rolling up to baldurs gate with plans to take over the netherbrain #gortash is immediately killed by intense jealousy #they are just two freaky little dudes who want the same person #durge getting dragged into plans with a new dude that they forgot they even had with someone else #like they don't even really want to do it. it's just about a pretty boy asking not so nicely #bg3 durge #durgetash #enver gortash #astarion #bg3 #durgestarion

[noodlescoopus]

heading off to my job where I sexualize completely average men

#noodlepost #I love monsters and I love prettyboys #but by golly do I also REALLY like totally normal dudes

[wasyago]

RECKS ETHO IS HERE WOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!

( etho's design changed slightly over time, but this is the current version. just a heads up because i will eventually post older drawings where he looks a bit different )

#first of the new characters that you guys haven't really met! he's a guy alright? just a dude :) #there's uhhhh nothing suspicious going on yep. he's just your ordinary normal person #recks au #recks!etho #my art #sketch

[0yorixu]

etho sketch, don't have time to color cuz then I'll spend hours on it and I won't have time to do my school work that I've been procrastinating on

#ethoslab #etho fanart #hermitcraft #hermitcraft smp #hermitcraft fanart #hermitblr #mcyt #mcyt fanart #digital art #sketch #doodle #fanart #my art #i hate doing school work #i hate school i genuinely just want to stay home watching and drawing minecraft ppl #i played batminton with 4 dudes in pe today #we passed it on each other in 5 different spots it was really fun #my right arm is so sore tho #and im physically exhausted cuz im not a sport person #yea thats it now time to cry and do travel work and my eng lit summary

[cacaocheri]

pumpkin carving :^)

#dude we are SO back #i keep drawing dca content holy shit i missed these guys #also i love drawing sun with his rays spinning #its pretty much the only reaction he has to anything #he's very excitable in his defense #my art #security breach #sun fnaf #fnaf sun #sundrop #sundrop fnaf #charlie daydreamers #sun x y/n #the daycare attendant #dca fandom #also i really like how ive been drawing sun recently #i finally figured out how to draw him from 3/4 view

[yeoldenews]

While we’re on the subject of names, is there an explanation for how traditional nicknames came about that are seemingly unrelated to, or have little in common with, the original name?

ie- John/Jack, Richard/Dick, Henry/Harry/Hank, Charles/Chuck, Margaret/Peggy/Daisy, Sarah/Sally, Mary/Molly, Anne/Nan, etc

I am actually over a week into researching a huge follow-up post (probably more than one if I’m being honest) about the history of nickname usage, so I will be going into this in much, much more detail at a hopefully not-so-later date - if I have not lost my mind. (Two days ago I spent three hours chasing down a source lead that turned out to be a typographical error from 1727 that was then quoted in source after source for the next 150 years.)

As a preview though, here’s some info about the names you mentioned:

The origins of a good portion of common English nicknames come down to the simple fact that people really, really like rhyming things. Will 🠞Bill, Rob🠞Bob, Rick🠞Dick, Meg🠞Peg.

It may seem like a weird reason, but how many of you have known an Anna/Hannah-Banana? I exclusively refer to my Mom’s cat as Toes even though her name is Moe (Moesie-Toesies 🠞 Toesies 🠞 Toes).

Jack likely evolved from the use of the Middle English diminutive suffix “-chen” - pronounced (and often spelled) “-kyn” or “kin”. The use of -chen as a diminutive suffix still endures in modern German - as in “liebchen” = sweetheart (lieb “love” + -chen).

John (Jan) 🠞 Jankin 🠞 Jackin 🠞 Jack.

Hank was also originally a nickname for John from the same source. I and J were not distinct letters in English until the 17th Century. “Iankin” would have been nearly indistinguishable in pronunciation from “Hankin” due to H-dropping. It’s believed to have switched over to being a nickname for Henry in early Colonial America due to the English being exposed to the Dutch nickname for Henrik - “Henk”.

Harry is thought to be a remnant of how Henry was pronounced up until the early modern era. The name was introduced to England during the Norman conquest as the French Henri (On-REE). The already muted nasal n was dropped in the English pronunciation. With a lack of standardized spelling, the two names were used interchangeably in records throughout the middle ages. So all the early English King Henrys would have written their name Henry and pronounced it Harry.

Sally and Molly likely developed simply because little kids can’t say R’s or L’s. Mary 🠞 Mawy 🠞 Molly. Sary 🠞 Sawy 🠞 Sally.

Daisy became a nickname for Margaret because in French garden daisies are called marguerites.

Nan for Anne is an example of a very cool linguistic process called rebracketing, where two words that are often said/written together transfer letters/morphemes over time. The English use of “an” instead of “a” before words beginning with vowels is a common cause of rebracketing. For example: the Middle English “an eute” became “a newt”, and “a napron” became “an apron”. In the case of nicknames the use of the archaic possessive “mine” is often the culprit. “Mine Anne” over time became “My Nan” as “mine” fell out of use. Ned and Nell have the same origin.

Oddly enough the word “nickname” is itself a result of rebracketing, from the Middle English “an eke (meaning additional) name”.

I realized earlier this week that my cat (Toe’s sister) also has a rebracketing nickname. Her name is Mina, but I call her Nom Nom - formed by me being very annoying and saying her name a bunch of time in a row - miNAMiNAMiNAM.

Chuck is a very modern (20th century) nickname which I’ll have to get back to you on as I started my research in the 16th century and am only up to the 1810s so far lol.

#names #nicknames #onomastics #history #asks #nicknames are really hard to research you guys #there is so much info out there and it's almost all nonsense #and I'm talking academic books with listed sources not buzzfeed listicles #some guy in the 18th century forgetting to mention Bill on a list of common nicknames does not mean it wasn't in use at the time ma dude #i've had to get very creative with sources #god bless word for word murder trial testimony

[nerdpoe]

Radioactive Hero (but not really) au

Danny moves to Gotham, hear him out! There's really good jobs there that pay through the nose and the cost of living is cheap!

Plus, the city is riddled with heroes and vilains! It's so easy to slip under the radar!

Unfortunately, there are so many civilian casualties. Like, all the time. Even in Metropolis!

So Danny, for his first year in Gotham, opens small portals to the Far Frozen and gets schooled on being a field medic. None of his powers can really be used for healing, but they can make people feel better. He just has to be careful to be as far removed from the Phantom moniker as possible, so he can't use any obvious powers.

He gets a bit of a reputation in Gotham; a small time hero of the people, for the people. A hero not invested in fighting, but in dragging civilians away from the danger. He doesn't even have a moniker; people are too busy arguing over the best one for him.

So while aliens are attacking both Metropolis and Gotham, Danny is out in full kit; a gas mask to hide his face, all black, repurposed kevlar from the vests the GCPD did not properly dispose of, no identifying markers.

But one of the clean up crews notices something insanely worrying; the geiger counter they have to point at alien spaceship parts? Yeah. Yeah, it's going off when they point it at the new small-time hero.

That hero's power is radioactivity. Holy shit. It's not at a level that will hurt people, but when he's dodging through fighting the level goes up.

The clean up crew concludes and shares via Twitter that the medic-hero is only a danger to others if he gets too stressed.

Word spreads fast, and pretty soon the absolute second Danny shows up on a scene, all fighting stops.

After all, no one wants to piss off the living Nuclear Bomb.

Basically, Danny's ghost-everything sets off Geiger counters, and now absolutely everyone is convinced that the medic-themed hero only refuses to fight because his meta power is just...being radioactive.

But he isn't.

So now, because it's the perfect cover and completely disassociated from Phantom, he has to play along and pretend like yes; that is his power.

#dcxdp #dpxdc #dc x dp #dp x dc #radioactive hero (but not really) au #did i already post this prompt? #genuinely do not remember #whatever #story prompt #justice league low key terrified of his existence #superman keeps trying to talk him into going off and owning a farm #danny just like #“dude i'm a city kid born and raised i ain't shoveling cow shit”

[chloesimaginationthings]

Matpat was the only jumpscare in the FNAF movie

#myart #chloesimagination #comic #mike schmidt #abby schmidt #ness fnaf #matpat #game theory #fnaf #fnaf movie #fnaf fanart #five nights at freddy's #literally the only part that really made me jump #dudes an enigma

[burgerlabs]

postal 2 response times

#burger labs.txt #burger labs.png #burger labs art #i guess? not really. whatever. #thanks fallenchungus for bringing me this template/format #postal #postal 2 #postal dude #friendful visitor #postal 2 meme