Oh-- an explanation for the practice of Adjective!Character. Towards the bottom. References the ways when email addresses had bangs in them.
Also, can I just say, it drives me personally bugfuck when people put it behind just any adjective modifying any word? If your template is Vamp!Willow, Pissy!Buffy, Puffy!Xander, LeatherPants!Angel, x!y, then x specifically refers to a kind of y, or state of being for y. Thus, Competent!Spike works. Willow!girlfriend, as someone on the Buffy thread the other day said was a possibility for Kennedy, does
not! If anything, it makes it sound as though there were a kind of creature called a girlfriend, and this is when Willow is one. I mean, I could be crazy and be seeing a really narrow definition from the context of where I learned it, but it's only recently that I've been seeing these false!bangs and they're driving me crazy. I had to really reason myself around to accepting "wee!lizard" by saying, well, it's not as though she's a form of me!-- well, if you think of Lizardness as being a sort of defined entity, and I as Rebecca!Lizard, and my mother as Mother!Lizard, as though we were all facets of the same being, then my sister could be Wee!Lizard. Although still sort of diminishing, 'cause, I'm not the same person as my mother, or my sister.
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Thanks, Kristen.
... By the way?
I've slowly come to grasph that "TrickyFish" & co are name-splinches in the manner of Clex and Spuffy. Only I'm not seeing the obvious here. Plz advise?
hee Okay, one of Chris's nicknames is Tricky. And Lance Bass. Bass = Fish.
TrickyFish.
Got it, Ple. Thank you kindly.
Aha!
-- The other day, while I was setting the table, I was talking to myself, and I was saying that if some game-show host came up to me in the street and said I could have the prize of a million dollars if I could only recite the names of all the Nsync boys, I probably wouldn't be able to do it.
So I tried. There are five of them, right? Or four. Justin I know. Uh. One's an acronym-- JC. Chris, too, not Carter, that's a last name. Is there one named Bass? That doesn't sound right. Maybe he's a Backstreet Boy.
This is how my sister walked in to hear me going, "Bass. Carter. Bass. Bass? Or one starting with A? Ah, fuck it."
So... now I know that if that situation ever does come to pass, I probably'll fail it. Oh, well, bye college tuition.
I also have a plan for which part of my body I want Alyson Hannigan to autograph, should I ever meet her and she's holding a Sharpie.
It's
good
to know these things in advance.
Justin, Lance, Chris, Joey, JC.
Joey!
See, now I'll win the million dollars.
Joey. Of course I forgot. It also began with J.
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