#FollowUp

[annoyangle]

https://www.reddit.com/r/FilmTheorists/comments/1f8yj2o/addressing_the_concerns_of_the_rgravityfalls/

Film Theory apologizes for lack of credit to the GF community. Well. Good.

[sessakag]

NaruHina Month Day 28 Prompt: Stolen Glances

Short but sweet, enjoy!

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[buckaroo627]

Ryan Guzman Instagram Story

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[upxpert]

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[janet35moore]

Here to brighten your Tuesday morning 🤡✨

[hatsampixie]

Sorry if this scares you, but remember a post you made? Well, I saw it and HAD to make this art for it!

Nice. XD

[dddragoni-drabbles]

Despite her bravado, Korenna couldn't help but feel a twinge of apprehension as she approached the cruiser. Gorst had a point- something had to have destroyed all those other ships. She kept on her course, though- she wasn't about to turn back after all it took to get here.

Back at Hopkins Station, Gorst was reading through the data from Korenna's ship uplink. "These readings..." he said, half to himself. "This doesn't make any sense. Ganymede's been derelict for decades, but the energy profile it's givng off is almost like..."

A flashing light on Korenna's dashboard caught her attention. "A target lock? From who?" She looked around, but couldn't see any new ships- but her eyes went wide when she realized the source. Ganymede itself, the plasma railgin on its front starting to glow with power.

Gorst's voice came over the speaker, "Korenna, MOVE!" but she was already slamming on the control stick, upper thrusters bursting to life as her ship dove, just in time as a lance of plasma shot forth from Ganymede, blazing through the spot she'd been moments before. She threw her ship into reverse and shot back towards the debris field as smaller cannons sprung to life, filling the area with laser fire. She wove between the bolts as best she could, but with the sheer volume of lasers, she wasn't going to last long. "Gorst, give me something!"

"Shit! Uh..." He frantically scanned through the data output. "There's a big cluster of wrecks at these coordinates," he said, sending her a telemetry. "Take cover there!"

"That plasma cannon's gonna punch right through! I know you've got that bet with Louis, but trying to get me killed is a bit much!"

"Trust me, I have a plan!"

She groaned, but headed for the cluster, firing her retrorockets to come to a stop. The wrecks absorbed the bulk of the laser fire, but her sensors picked up the plasma cannon recharging. "Now what?"

"The logo, on your dashboard- right before the cannon fires, press it and dive."

"What?"

"Just do it!"

"This better work or I'm haunting you." Korenna hovered one hand over the logo, keeping the other on her control stick while she watched the plasma cannon's readout. 70 percent charged. 80 percent. 90. Now!

The plasma cannon fired, obliterating the first wreck it struck and sending the rest scattering into space. Ganymede's sensors made a sweep of the area. Detecting no active ship signals, it reentered standby mode.

No active signals detected. Entering standby mode.

Just below the now-destroyed cluster, Korenna's heart pounted in her chest as she watched Ganymede's guns power down. After a few tense moments of quiet, she reached for the communicator. "Gorst, what the hell was that?"

"Prototype cloaking device. It was supposed to be a birthday surprise- we were gonna install the full version when you got back. So, uh." He shrugged. "Happy birthday."

[ponds-of-ink]

*Leans around doorway*

Remember how I came in looking for help with angsty "William being the worst" thoughts? Heh... yeah I just wrote 800 words of Evan and Mike talking about it. Except this time it wasn't distressing for me so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ better headspace?

(Not sure why I'm even saying this here, but I guess it's a follow up?)

Well, venting through art is a thing iirc. Maybe writing what Mike and Evan would think helped you get your own thoughts out there?

My attempt at explaining aside, I’m glad that you’re in a better headspace! That’s great to hear! :D

[leoluvn]

Aftermath

Glenn: I guess it’s just, time to let him be. I think I’ve done enough. Endy, I hope you’re well, or at the very least, alive.

[bloodswapkinfessions]

this is the jade that had locked away memories that shares a brain with rose now :D

i got her to drink tea with me so that’s progress!!!!!!! SHE WVEN LET ME HOLD HANDS WITH HER IT WAS AWESOME :D

ahhh that sounds so fun!!! tea is so tasty and that sounds like a good time :D

[thescoobyscholar]

Like, Wow! The Results (Study)

Followup post to "The History of Zoinks." Includes methods, results, discussion. Page break after the first section.

Methods

This exploratory study will examine how accurately the catchphrases in Scooby-Doo reflect the language of the time. Based on their historical usage, we hypothesize that “jinkies” will be the most commonly occurring phrase, followed by “jeepers,” then “zoinks.”

We sampled the first 25 episodes of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! These episodes aired from September 13, 1969, to October 31, 1970 and make up the first two seasons of the show. The third and final season would not air until 1978 and had different writers, so it was omitted. Qualitative analysis was conducted in NVivo from episode transcripts obtained online. 

Results

The most used catchphrase was “zoinks,” at 87 occurrences across 25 episodes, averaging 3.48 “zoinks” per episode. Some episodes had no “zoinks”, with a notable 3-episode consecutive gap mid-season 1. Overall, “zoinks” usage trended positive; season 1 averaged 3.12 “zoinks” per episode while season 2 averaged 4.25. “Jeepers” was used once and there were no “jinkies”.

In context, Shaggy used “zoinks” as either an expression of shock on its own or paired with a frightful observation (e.g., “Zoinks! It’s the snow ghost!”). Once, in a witch’s hut, it was used as an adjective: “What zoinky labels… ear of a newt?” The first “jeepers” came from Velma, used more as surprise than fear: “Jeepers! Someone’s going into that old mansion” (season 1, episode 6, “What the Hex Going On?”).

Figure 1. Zoinks Frequency in "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?"

Discussion

Results not only contradicted the hypothesis, but all expectations founded by the literature. Despite their cultural relevance, we observed only one count of “jeepers” (not counting the season 2 episode 4 title, “Jeepers, It’s the Creeper”) and no “jinkies." The slow climb of “jeepers” may be attributed to the aforementioned “cultural time capsule” concept. It is an unwritten law of media that it must wait to capture popular culture until a few years too late. Usage of “jeepers” skyrocketed between DeBeck’s comic in 1928 and Donahue’s musical rendition in 1939, peaking in 1946 (Harper, “Etymology of jeepers”). However, despite Scooby-Doo’s monumental ratings, “jeepers” did not jump again until the movie Jeepers Creepers came out in 2001. Although “jinkies” did not appear in these two seasons, we know it would experience a great jump in The New Scooby-Doo Movies whenever Velma loses her glasses, growing to become her exclusive catchphrase in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo when she cooks up a clue. In the sampled episodes, Velma seemed to be struggling to find a catchphrase that stuck, floating between “gosh,” “golly,” and similar expressions. Why it took until three years into Scooby’s run for “jinkies” to first appear is uncertain, as both it and “zoinks” share similar histories as interjections of fright (and flight).  One potential explanation could be the face value of the characters on first airing. Shaggy boasted the voice of radio celebrity Casey Kasem. The writers seemed to enjoy letting him show off his odd audio skills, as in Shaggy’s “ventriloquism act” in the episode “What a Night for a Knight” and every variation of the “disguise as barbers to fool the monster into getting a haircut” scene that warranted a funny voice. Kasem was the first to say “zoinks” (and “zoink,” in one instance), but certainly not the last. In these first two seasons, Shaggy had a clear monopoly on catchphrases; the first “jeepers” even came from him.  The catchphrases in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? do not reflect the vernacular of the time. Rather, they reflect what pumps the lifeblood of Hanna-Barbera cartoons: money (i.e., ratings). To keep the audience hooked, the writers had to put out only the best voicework. Casey Kasem as Shaggy was a bridge between audiences of children enjoying funny voices and adults enjoying a familiar radio personality (and modern folks enjoying a 60’s caricature). He and Scooby embody the spirit of the franchise strongly enough that they have survived through every series that tried to cut out other members of the gang (Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo) or otherwise split them up (Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!). Despite “zoinks” having no direct predecessors in popular culture, Shaggy quickly spread it with his image as irreplaceable icons of the series across 250 episodes and 45 films. Like with Barney Google’s “heebie-jeebies” and Fred Flintstone’s “Yabba-dabba-doo,” it’s not about the linguistic sense of the catchphrase. It’s about the character who delivers it.

*Excluding Velma (2023) on HBO Max, which featured all of the gang but Scooby-Doo. Shaggy endures.

References

Harper, Douglas. “Etymology of jeepers.” Online Etymology Dictionary, 28 Sept. 2017, www.etymonline.com/word/jeepers.

[devonellington]

Wed. June 28, 2023: Passionate People Sharing Their Work

image courtesy of Bilge Can Gürer via pixabay.com Wednesday, June 28, 2023 Waxing Moon Pluto and Saturn Retrograde Rainy, warm, humid Yesterday was fun, although the wacky weather was something! Today’s Process Muse is about notebooks. Give it a gander here. Have you signed up for the quarterly newsletter? The June one goes out later this week. You can sign up here. Today’s serial episode…

[narukaminigga]

thinking about this

unfortunately this post has been chased down by someone named lambdadelta communism. now i will create a small addendum.

i don’t really have a problem with the term USAmerican whatsoever— my problem actually stems from trying to separate people from the united states, central america, and south america. You are a westerner as much as we are. Oopsie daisies.

It seems that reading is a challenge, but not for me!

(Did you know most communists on this site are American?)

[yaccdawg]

#FollowUp on @mollyqerim ・・・ Thank you to @endofound @padmalakshmi and @seckinmd for a beautiful evening! Congrats @oliviaculpo & @corinnefoxx! (at New York City - Manhattan - Nyc) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqGva7GvtuI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[r-ando-m-w-rite-r]

so i noticed a few ships on the Apex Ships Poll i posted a few days ago that you guys told me about, and mirage x bloodhound was the one brought up the most. im sorry lol i had no idea that was a thing. a few others that were fairly common were mirage x rev, mirage x gibby, bloodhound x rev, fuse x caustic (???), mirage x pathfinder, fuse x horizon, valk x rampart, octane x crypto, and rampart x lifeline. sorry i didnt include any of those...lmao i dumb

there were a few others i wanted to quickly address: rampart x catalyst??? idk abt that one, they just seem to be friends. and i dont see anything in the voicelines or lore to hint at anything. same with mirage x newcastle. and someone also mentioned ash x horizon. uhhh...im so confused, i thought they literally loathed each other. ik ik, seems hypocritical since i added seer x catalyst to the poll, but they arent exactly that pissed at each other, sooo...?

that was all, except i completely apologize for not including wattson x octane, i mustve forgot because i swore i added them 😭😭😭

[thelarryle]

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