#swearing

[rryurei]

Happy holidays to all those who celebrate

[prokopetz]

On consideration, I can't really blame folks for not realising that Seven Deadly Sins Squidward was apparently meant sincerely by its creator, because who the fuck picks Squidward to represent the voice of reason in that scenario? His literal role in the show is to be a sanctimonious twerp who's wrong about everything.

[mewdoodles]

Yeaaaaaah!! Happy Let Papyrus Say Fuck Day!!!

[effinbirds]

[marlynnofmany]

@evilwizard tagged this with "merlin’s FUCKING beard!" and I think that's a strong contender.

the biggest problem with writing fantasy in english is that there's really no alternate universe phrasing that carries the exact tone and context to the reader as "jesus fucking christ"

[insanelyadd]

Let Papyrus Say Fuck Day Discussion

I will occasionally see comments from people saying that swearing does not equal maturity (it doesn't) or that Papyrus wouldn't swear because of how he acts (we almost exclusively are around him while piloting the body of a possible elementary schooler, this is like believing kindergarten teachers never swear).

That all misses the point of the holiday, which is to vaporize people who think Papyrus shouldn't be allowed to swear, or if he does swear Sans has to "punish" the person who taught his adult brother a swear word. Just earlier today, a friend of mine got a comment on their post for this holiday saying that Papyrus would be lectured for swearing if Sans saw it, so obviously, even though people say things have improved for Papyrus' characterization and perception in the fandom, the infantilization still exists.

This is mostly a fun event that exists to psychologically torment people who love flat characterization so much that they feel the need to impose that view on people who push against it. If you don't like the swearing or think there should be a more nuanced take on maturity then you are fully free to contribute in the spirit of that, I like seeing unique takes on the premise. <3

[copper-skulls]

i come late but I come bearing the time honored tradition of tag-team quoting dumb shit

[prokopetz]

Now, that's not fair – I don't just play time loop VNs about characters trapped in hells of their own making. I'm also into self-consciously meta RPG Maker games featuring protagonists who ontologically aren't supposed to exist and survival horror titles about children fighting their weird monster dads.

[dedicatedfollower467]

transformers hot take:

"fuck" is a better swear word than "frag", but "slag" is a better swear word than "shit".

[effinbirds]

[electricpentacle]

Same for Scottish people. "Fuck" is like the mustard of language for the Scottish side of my family, just slap some on when it needs a wee bit of zing.

You know what really fucking Annoys Me about internet censorship is stuff like swear words being heavily censored because that's entirely an American cultural hangup being forced on the rest of us. I don't know a single country where swearing is as taboo as it is in America. In fact most languages have swear words that would have the same effect on an American as giving a Victorian chimney sweep a pepsi max cherry.

[idiopathicsmile]

let the record show i am all in favor of "shit" and "damn" and "fuck" but at the same time, "oh brother" is just an extremely funny way to express consternation. i tried to look it the etymology and nobody seems to even know the origin. like, what brother? whose brother? my brother? your brother? all we know is that somewhere out there, A brother is going through it, apparently.

[foldingfittedsheets]

Did you know guinea pigs are born just like. Tiny adults? They’re fully cooked. They come out, eyes open, fully furred, ready to do the whole array of guinea pig activities.

I learned this as a child. I was perhaps ten when this story took place. Our female guinea pig was pregnant, but she’d gotten mites and needed a bath. She was wildly pregnant. Bulging at the seams with babies. Ready to burst at any moment because all the babies needed to stay in there long enough to be full pigs. But we wanted to avoid the babies all getting mites and needing baths. We failed, they all needed baths. Mites are a bitch.

We knew she had three babies cooking in there. How did we know? We could feel each individual bulge in her belly. My mom was overseeing the pig bath but I was pretty much just doing my own thing, scrubbing her gently, rinsing the soap carefully.

After the bath our mother pig was not in the best mood. I was carrying her back to her freshly made mite free bedding when she’d had enough.

I was acutely aware that I was holding four lives in my childish grip, and I bore her along as if she were made of precious jewels and spun glass. Balanced in my hands I could feel the bulge of each of her babies slithering wetly around under her skin.

Which is why when she hauled off and sank her teeth into the meat of my hand I didn’t flinch. I didn’t drop her. I bore her as carefully and steadily as if I weren’t now bleeding freely, and I set her gently into her pig palace.

As I drew my hands away I screamed:

“FUCK!!!”

I then turned to look at my mother, who’d been watching the process intently.

I was fully aware that I had just done the worst possible swear directly in front of an authority figure and was very probably going to be punished. My mom was looking at me with a blank expression that I was waiting to turn stormy or disappointed.

“That must have hurt a lot,” was all she said.

She helped me throughly clean and bandage the bite. All the babies were born healthy and sound, looking like someone had used a shrink ray on trio of a guinea pigs.

Years later my mother confided in me that contrary to my belief that she’d be angry for swearing what she’d felt for me in that moment was overwhelming pride that in the face of pain and shock I had refused to let harm befall my little charges.

[insanelyadd]

Happy fifth Let Papyrus Say Fuck Day, everyone! This year I am selling my art as a set of stickers and a post card bundle. The stickers are 2.5" and the postcard is 4"x6", and the bundle all together is $12.99. It's all on pre-order and it should be shipped by early July.

Credit to @birdsareblooming for the "BLINK MOTHERFUCKER" quote used in the gambling sticker. :>

Order the LPSFD merch here!