#so now wheneve I type it it autocorrects to caps

[octoooo]

Decided to make a height chart for Sabibun & Catyuu

& I’ll use Giyuu as reference for how big Sabibun is (he’s very small <3)

ALSO color palettes for both, and a lil frame of sabibun’s backside because he has a heart shaped fur patch

[nowoyas]

@pupkou I'm going to assume this is in reference to my tags on that post asking if anyone wants to hear about The Schism(TM). 👀 I'll try to keep this explanation short.

The simple cliffnotes of what you need to know: any Harvest Moon game published after 2014 is made by a different company capitalizing on the name, rather than the people who made Harvest Moon before 2014.

The long answer: Bokujou Monogatari (lit. Farm Story) is a game series that's been published by a few different publishers over the years. In like 2003 it settled into Marvelous; the few games before that didn't quite have a home, but eventually it would all be Marvelous Interactive. Back in the day, localization of games to English was less refined, but it wasn't uncommon to see localization outsourced to a different publisher than its Japanese publisher. Funnily enough, the early Harvest Moon games were localized and published in English-speaking regions by Natsume, also a Japanese company.

Early localized games were charming, but you could always expect there to be mistakes. (Most notably, Natsume once misspelled their own name during localization as Nastume.) In the Wonderful Life games, this meant two different items called the Matsutake (a type of mushroom), but mostly this meant typos. This in itself isn't that bad! The older games are super charming, and it's easy to overlook those little tetches in favor of fun gameplay.

In 2014, Marvelous, the company that Harvest Moon has settled into, decides it wants to stop outsourcing localization to another publisher. This is, first and foremost, just a correct business decision: if you have the ability to perform a task yourself and do it well, you probably shouldn't be paying someone else to do it for you and allowing them a share of the profits. They want to move forward making Bokumono (the nickname for the bokujou monogatari/harvest moon series in Japan) and localizing it using XSEED, their subsidiary.

Here's where the issue arises: since Harvest Moon has been being published technically by Natsume, Natsume owns the rights to the name Harvest Moon, NOT Marvelous, even though Marvelous has been making the actual games. This means that, barring a peaceful split where Natsume hands over the rights to the name, Marvelous can't actually publish bokumono in English under the name they've been using, and just to rub salt in the wounds and make sure Marvelous can't continue using the name, Natsume begins making farm sims and publishing them as Harvest Moon, using the Harvest Moon logo and (as I understand it) some key elements of previous Harvest Moon games, which is why in the new Story of Seasons remake "Harvest sprites" are now called "nature sprites", for example.

Natsume, however, is not experienced in making farm sims, just in translating those farm sims to English and spelling things wrong in the translation. They miss marks when making New Harvest Moon, and confuse the shit out of English-speaking fans who havent heard the news. Seven years after Marvelous decides to start publishing their games themselves and Natsume starts capitalizing on the name of games it didn't make, we get the worst farm sim ever made, HM: One World, a game I feel so strongly about that autocorrect changes it to be in all caps whenever I type it.

That's basically the rundown of it. Generally speaking, some of the New Harvest Moon games are probably good. One World is not. I will admit that I have held off on playing the others, because One World burnt me so bad and I'm afraid to install the ones I own in case they ALSO completely ignore what draws people to the genre.

[shaonsim]

There are so many of these tropes...! Enemies to lovers, soul mates (major weakness for this one), second chance.

You choose!

@medhasree

The amount of attention this game has gotten can be understood from me forgetting what this was before I had a light bulb moment and remembered that I had created a game for this. Because I love talking about tropes and story ideas, and because I love you, all three of these are answered bellow the cut ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Enjoy the wild ride that is me discussing tropes, talking to you and talking to myself, all in one place. 👌🏽

Enemies to Lovers

Do I enjoy this trope?

Well, I don't know, there is this show called Dhrubatara and I used to love it.. In one word, yes. I do enjoy this trope. Of course, there are some lines I would not cross, I have a comfortable limit and I stay inside that Laxman Rekha, if you will. Physical assault/abuse is usually a big, glaring NO, and everything that is perceived as worse than that goes hand in hand with this rule I have made for myself. In short, I don't like borderline abusive people, especially if becomes a common occurrence whenever the two people come face to face. I especially LOVE it if the enmity comes from both sides, and I have an odd taste for a enemies-to-lovers trope that ends with unrequited love [ the ANGST, the BEAUTY ]

Do I write fics (and/or original works of fiction) with this trope (enemies-to-lovers)?

Since my main fandom is Dhrubatara, of course I do. I have about three or four AUs and nearly all of them explore this same trope in various ways, so yes, my fics make full use of this trope. My original works are very bones and I am very ashamed to admit that I do not know if a enemies-to-lovers dynamic exists in them.

Is this trope a part of my current project?

Presently I am bouncing between two projects, and while the second project, a ON [cliché Bengali TV shows will always have their audience in me, at least for an episode or two, and this one toh I am following semi regularly, so obviously I need to give in to the writing bug] fanfiction lightly touches this trope, I don't think it meets the requirements of this ask. The other one though, my latest Dhrubatara fanfic... Depends. Is it an enemies-to-lovers trope if they have already done this dance before? Enemies-to-lovers-enemies-to-lovers, is this even a thing? You be the judge of that. And let me know if it counts.

Do I plan on writing this trope in the future?

Since many of my fanfictions depend on this trope, I guess yes, I do plan on writing it out, but the important thing is to write instead of daydream, and that's a battle I fight everyday.

SOULMATES

Do I enjoy this trope?

No, the all CAPS is not a symbol of my love and fascination for this trope. In truth, it isn't anything except I am using this phrase somewhere else and my phone autocorrected it here too, but I made the choice to leave it that way because I have a lot of opinions about this trope. For me, the beauty, the charm, the allure lies in the game of chance, the hit and miss, the ambiguity. The lack of surety that you have, indeed, found your soulmate. And, as an angst lover™, I need there for something to be at stake. Time, happiness, a sense of belonging. For me, the trope alone holds no charm, but the beauty is in the possibilities. The layers, the various directions this can go. What it means to have a living, breathing person complement you, what it means to know that there is a part of yourself you haven't found yet. I like how it is a gamble, a roll of a dice, how all you can trust, is your instincts, and how love might fool you into believing that you have found your soulmate, because at the end of the day, the voice putting the stamp on the person? It is yours. I loathe soulmate AUs and tropes where there are numbers involved, or writing on the skin, or injuries. Nearly not enough room for doubt chaos, if you ask me. And if it is not chaotic, what's the point of that, right? Right? I did a role play with someone where people got tattoos when they reached adulthood but they faded if one didn't find their soulmate within a year. That's the kind I like. But the kind I love, which one is close to my heart, the one I consider to be the true soulmate trope? There are no signs. Or maybe, there are plenty. It is everything and nothing, beauty and chaos and it thrums with the force of life.

Do I write fics (and/or original works of fiction) with this trope (soulmates)?

Few months ago, I would have answered in negative. But now I have a RP we never got to finish and a fanfiction in the making, so there you go. I have bitten the bullet and I have started planning things for a trope I used to hate so much, and I was only able to do it when I realised that my Soulmate AU does not have to follow the conventional ideas surrounding that trope.

Is this trope a part of my current project?

Well, I always have multiple projects in multiple stages, mostly inspiration and planning rather than in the drafting stage. I have one in the planning stage and oh I have so many plans for it, you can thank @litchicake for that <3

Do I plan on writing this trope in the future?

Yes. First for the thing I am planning, and if it opens up possibilities I hadn't considered before or if there are ideas I cannot properly explore in this fanfiction, then sure, I'll write more.

Second chance

Do I enjoy this trope?

Yes. Second chances are everything, and they have room for the features of both established relationships and a fresh love story, and the more I [ or other writer/creator(s) ] can play around, the better it is. Of course, the relationship and the things that destroyed the first chance should be within limits (same as the enemies to lovers one, but I am usually slightly lenient about emotional manipulation and such with second chances).

Do I write fics (and/or original works of fiction) with this trope (enemies-to-lovers)?

Fic Which Must Not Be Named is based on this same trope, and I also have other fanfiction and things planned for character redemption as well as entire stories and relationships getting a second chance, so it is a yes for this one too.

I wonder what you will have to send to get a no out of me. I like playing with possibilities.

Is this trope a part of my current project?

Throwback to naive Shaon who had thought that anything vaguely resembling 'current project' will exist in her life. Pass the glass of milk. I guess the answer is pretty clear from the above points, I simply hate repeating myself so I wrote nonsense.

Do I plan on writing this trope in the future?

Plans toh... My ideas thread has so many things that I put the deadline at December 2030, and no, that is NOT a typing mistake. I have plans Medha, I have so many plans and someone needs to (softly) scream at me to work on my WIPs. Which is why I made distapata but I have zero content to post there to pull people's interest towards my projects because I myself don't know the details... Shaon why are you like this 🙄

[modestmuses-a]

//ok so bc i’ve been having some fun writing text messages from my muses, here’s the full list of texting headcanons:

Akali: Terrible. Just absolute fucking dogshit at texting. If Mayym allowed her to have a phone in the dojo, it was a simple flip phone just so that she could be reached whenever she was out of her mother’s sight, and Akali got rid of it when she left so she couldn’t be tracked down. Now that she can text people proper, she sucks... Sporadic capitalization and punctuation, will drop a period in a middle of a sentence or ask 3 questions in a row with no question marks between them. Terrible at spelling, prone to autocorrect “fixing” her mistakes (like typing “garage” as “garbage” or “bitch” as “birch”). Types “you” as “u” pretty consistently, it’s the only consistent thing about her texts. Tries not to send too many texts in a row, tries to fit as much information as she can into one, much to the chagrin of anyone who has to read her nonsense.

Amumu: All emojis all the time. On the rare occasions he does break from emojis, types in all lower case, abbreviates quite a bit (”you” to “u”, etc.), makes simple spelling/grammar mistakes typical of... y’know... little kids... since he is one.

Brit: Lets autocorrect take care of capitalization for her. If autocorrect doesn’t get it, it’s not getting capitalized. Otherwise, types in pretty decent syntax. Will occasionally shorten words, but it depends on her mood, and she has been known to use “you” and “u” in the same sentence. Uses emojis fairly regularly, likes to send her friends (or people she’s trying to manipulate) the winking kissy face.

Cindy: Hates texting, the notorious one-word texter ‘cause she wants to get this conversation over with as soon as possible because she hates your guts. Gets mad at autocorrect for correcting “fuck” to “duck” and will scream about it in all caps. (”*DUCK. *DUCK!! *FFFFFFFUCK STUPID PHONE”)

Cyborg: Is unable to use a phone because her circuits mess with the signal. Anyone who wants to be Cyborg’s friend, have fun not having cell service for the duration of your time with her. But if she could use a phone, she would probably Type Like This Because It Looks Right To Her. Otherwise, proper syntax.

Ekko: Sends very short texts but may send many of them in a row. Capitalizes the beginning of sentences and “I” mostly because his phone sorts those out for him, but nothing else, not even his own name. Very rarely uses punctuation outside of exclamation and question marks. No emojis, but uses emoticons pretty regularly. Partial to the winking one when he’s planning something terrible ;) Abbreviates literally as much as he can while having the text still be legible. (”Can I ask u a q?” “Can I ask u smth?” “Do u have the hmwk 4 2mrrw?” “oic”)

Ivy: Nearly perfect syntax, save for too much punctuation and too many smiles/frowns on her emoticons. (“Nice!!!!!!!!” “Well, applesauce..... :((((” “Please???”)

Maggie: Writes in entirely lowercase for the ~aesthetic~. Prone to simple grammar mistakes, like mixing up their/there/they’re and writing “should of” instead of “should’ve,” so on and so forth. Like Brit, abbreviations are entirely mood-dependent, although she tends to shorten words more often than not. Only uses the heart and flower emojis, as she thinks the rest of them are ugly or useless. However, she will occasionally use 💋 when flirting via text.

[news-mashable-yahoopartner-blog]

Why so many people type 'lol' with a straight face: An investigation

There's a deceitful act I've been engaging in for years—lol—but it wasn't until recently, while texting a massive rant to a friend, that I became aware of just how bad it is. 

I'd just sent an exhaustive recap of my nightmarish day when a mysteriously placed "lol" caught my eye. Not a single part of me had felt like laughing when I typed the message, yet I'd ended my massive paragraph with the words, "I'm so stressed lol."

I had zero recollection of typing the three letters, but there they were, just chilling at the end of my thought in place of a punctuation mark. I hadn't found anything funny, so why were they there? Unclear! I scrolled through my conversations and noticed "lol" at the end of nearly every message I’d sent — funny or not. That's when I realized how frequently and insincerely I use the initialism in messages. I was on auto-lol.

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The next day, I arrived to work with a heightened sense of lol awareness and took note of my colleagues' behavior on Slack. They too, overused "lol" in conversation. Chrissy Teigen tweeted about the family hamster again? "Lol." Someone's selling a jean diaper? "Lol." Steve Buscemi's name autocorrected to Steph Buscemi? "Lol."

It was ubiquitous. And though some made audible chuckles at their desks throughout the day, the newsroom remained relatively silent. People were not laughing out loud whenever they said they were. It was all a sham!

As I'm sure is true with everyone, there are times when I'll type "lol" and smile, chuckle, or genuinely laugh out loud. But I'm also notoriously capable of assembling the three letters without moving a facial muscle.

Curious to know why so many of us insist on typing "lol" when we aren't laughing, I turned to some experts.

Why so serious? Lol.

Lisa Davidson, Chair of NYU's Department of Linguistics, specializes in phonetics, but she's also a self-proclaimed "prolific user" of "lol" in texts. When I approached Davidson in hopes of uncovering why the acronym comes out of people like laugh vomit, she helpfully offered to analyze her own messaging patterns.

On its surface, Davidson suspects "the written and sound structure" of "lol" is pleasing, and the symmetry of how it's typed or said likely adds to that appeal. The 'l' and 'o' are also right next to each other on a keyboard, she notes, which makes for "a very efficient acronym." In taking a deeper look, however, she recognized several other reasons one might overdo it with the initialism.

Davidson often sees "lol" used in conjunction with self-deprecating humor, or to poke fun at someone in a bad situation, like "if someone says they're stuck on the subway, and you text back 'lol, have fun with that.'" And in certain cases, she notes, "lol" can be included "to play down aggressiveness, especially if used in conjunction with something that might come across as critical or demanding."

"For example, if you're working on a project with a co-worker, and they save a file to the wrong place in a shared Drive, you [might] say something like, 'Hey, you put that file in the Presentations folder, lol. Next time can you save it to Drafts?'" 

Extremely relatable.

Admitting we have a problem

After hearing from Davidson, I set out to analyze a few of my own text messages. I found several of her interpretations applicable and even discovered a few specific to my personal texting habits.

When telling my friend about my stressful day, for instance, I realized I'd included the lol that anchored my message for comfort, like a nervous giggle. In my mind, it meant I was keeping things light, which must mean everything's OK. In many cases, I also add "lol" to a message to make it sound less abrasive. Without it, I fear a message comes across as cold or incomplete.

On occasion, I'll send single "lol" texts to acknowledge I've received a message, but have nothing else to add to the conversation. And as much as it pains me to admit, the lol is sometimes there as a result of laziness. I experience moments of pure emotional exhaustion in which I'd rather opt for a short and sweet response than fully articulate my thoughts. In those cases, "lol" almost always delivers.

A poor soul removing his "lol" mask after a long day of pretending to laugh.

Image: bob al-greene / mashable

The realization that "lol" has become a sort of a conversational crutch for me is somewhat disturbing, but I can take a shred of solace knowing I'm not alone. As previously noted, many of my colleagues are also on auto-lol. (If you need some proof, 3,662 results popped up when I searched the term in Mashable Slack, and those are just the lols visible to me.)

When I brought up the topic of lol addiction in the office, offenders quickly came forward in an attempt to explain their personal behavior. Some said they use it as a buffer word to fill awkward silences, while others revealed they consider it a kinder alternative to the dreaded "k."

Several people admitted they call upon "lol" in times when they feel like being sarcastic or passive aggressive, whereas others use it to avoid confrontation, claiming it "lessens the blow of what we say." 

"I've also noticed a lot with my friends that if they say something that creates a sense of vulnerability they'll use 'lol' or 'haha' to diminish its importance," another colleague noted.

While there are a slew of deeper meanings behind "lol," sometimes the lack of audible laughter simply comes down to self-control. You can use the term to communicate you genuinely think something's funny, but you might not be in a physical position to laugh about it — kind of how people type "I'M SCREAMING" and do not scream.

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Understanding the auto-lol epidemic

Nearly everyone I spoke to believed the auto-lol epidemic is real. But how exactly we as a society arrived at this place of subconscious laughter remains a mystery.

Though "lol" reportedly predates the internet, a man named Wayne Pearson claims to have invented the shorthand in the '80s as a way to express laughter online. As instant messaging and texting became more popular, so did "lol," and at some point, its purpose pivoted from solely signifying laughter to acting as a universal text response.

Caroline Tagg, a lecturer in Applied Linguistic and English Language at Open University in the UK, favors emoji over "lol," but as the author of several books about digital communication — including Discourse of Text Messaging: Analysis of SMS Communication — she's very familiar with the inclusion of laughter in text.

"Over time, its use has shifted, and it has come to take on other meanings — whether that's to indicate a general mood of lightheartedness or signal irony," Tagg confirms. "These different meanings emerge over time and through repeated exposure to the acronym."

In some cases, the decision to include "lol" in a message might be stylistic — "an attempt to come across in a particular way, to perform a particular persona, or to adopt a particular style." 

Ultimately, Tagg believes everyone perceives "lol" in text differently, and makes the conscious decision to use the initialism for various reasons, which are usually influenced by "conversational demands."

As for the increase in frequency over time, she noted that if you engage in conversation with someone who's a fan of saying "lol," you could wind up using the term more often. "Generally speaking ... people who are in regular contact with each other do usually develop shared norms of communication and converge around shared uses," she said. 

Think of it like a vicious cycle of contagious text laughter.

Embarking on an lol detox

Now that I'm aware of my deep-seated lol dependency, I'm trying my best to change it. I encourage anyone who thinks they might be stuck in an lol rut to do the same.

The way I see it we have two options: Type lol less, or laugh out loud more. The latter sounds pretty good, but if you're committed to keeping your Resting Text Face, here are some tips.

Try to gradually wean yourself off your reliance on lol by ending messages with punctuation marks instead, using a more specific emoji in place of your laughter, or making an effort to better articulate yourself. Instead "lol," maybe, "omg that's hilarious," for example. 

At the very least, try changing up your default laugh setting once in a while. Different digital laughs carry different connotations. If you're ever in doubt about which to use, you can reference this helpful guide:

LOL/HAHA — I really think this thing is hilarious as shown by my caps!

Lol — Bitch, please OR I have nothing to say.

lollllllllll — Yo, that's pretty funny.

el oh el — So unfunny I feel the need to type like this.

haha — Funny but not worth much of my time.

hahahaha — Funny and worth my time!

hah/ha — This is not amusing at all and I want to make that known.

HA — Yes! Finally!

Lmao/Lmfao — When something evokes more comedic joy than "lol" does.

LMAO/LMFAO — Genuine, impassioned laughter, so strong you feel as though your rear end could detach from your body.

Hehehe — You are softly giggling, were just caught doing something semi-suspicious or sexting, or are a small child or a serial killer. This one really varies.

heh — Sure! Bare minimum funny, I guess! Whatever!

In very special cases, consider clarifying that you are literally laughing out loud. As someone who's received a few "Actually just laughed out loud" messages in my lifetime, I can confirm that they make me feel much better than regular lol messages.

One of the major reasons we rely so heavily on representations like "lol" in digital interactions is because we're desperately searching for ways to convey emotions and expressions that can easily be picked up on in face-to-face conversations. It works well when done properly, but we've abused lol's polysemy over the years. After all the term has done for us, it deserves a break.

If we make the conscious effort to scale back, we might be able to prevent "lol" from losing its intended meaning entirely.

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[bubbakanoosh]

B(•Y•)BS 😝

You truly cannot go wrong with boobs, ever. Never ever, as I stated in that earlier post: boobs is always the right answer. Though, as I am writing this I’m witnessing something quite disturbing on my train to work. There is a woman on the train breast feeding her child, and before you all jump down my throat for being a sexist pig and being against something so natural, let me explain what is going on. If you noticed, I didn’t say “baby” I said “child”, uh yeah this kid is like six years old. I’m a firm believer in the fact a child shouldn’t remember getting breast fed for one, and secondly shouldn’t be old enough to ask for it. When he grows up his future girl friend better like nipple play because I think he’s going to be into that big time. I fear he’ll be on a Maury style show where he likes to dress up as a baby and shit himself and what not. If he has a future GF, she will most likely be killed by the mom because I’m detecting some strange attachment issues going on here. Quick change of topic, do you all remember typing 58008 on a calculator as a kid and turning it upside down to see boobs? That’s what your note reminded me of. That joke never ever gets old. When I get to work I’m so going to do it. I’m actually laughing on the train to work thinking about it. I think showing my assistant the 58008 trick may be classed as sexual harassment so I’ll ignore that idea and just going to enjoy the boobs myself, which is how boobs be enjoyed. I’m greedy when it comes to boobs. And pizza. I want pizza now, goddammit. Mushrooms, bacon, green peppers, and extra cheese. Serious homer drool is happening right now. Pizza and boobs, boy that’s how you start a Hump Day. My phone auto capped Hump Day, I didn’t realize that’s a thing my phone would know, how odd. Wanna know something? Whenever I type “do it” my phone autocorrects it to “donut” because donuts. My phone also autocorrects “corn” to be spelled with a “k” like the band, I really don’t think I should be bragging about that one. So yeah, boobs. And my train is delayed yet again. Stuck on a train without pizza, but at least the weird child boob feasting is done. The kid is now on a boob high and running up and down the isle. I want to trip him because that’s annoying, but I get that excited when I see boobs also so I can relate. Mmm. Boobs.