hey hi hello! this is the den of a goblin by name of socket, or a human by name of joey, who may or may not be several dorky arcanists in a trenchcoat
(i can also be found as oddsocket on bsky)
within this den lies an eclectic jumble of fandomposting, wizard appreciation, tabletop and OC yelling, posts that otherwise resonated with me, pretty art, and....just me scrawling on the walls, really (which is to say you will be subjected to my stream of consciousness; i do a lot of introspection and parts work on main, and i also have never been normal about my blorbos or my interests in my life and don't intend to start.) there will be the occasional nsfw post, it keeps the ecosystem healthy.
i draw creachers, monsters, original characters, assorted fanart and a whole lot of pokemon over on my artblog, @electrical-socket ! my tabletop blog is @dark-nat-ones-blessing !
#the my art tag - for when i've drawn things! (i post wips and doodles here that don't always make it to my artblog)
#socket talks - my assorted ramblings, musings, journallings and Original Words
#socketface - my arguably human visage
#socket's ocs - catchall tag for OC text posts and art.
#do people still say gpoy - posts that reflect who i am as a person lmao
character-specific tags and other regular tags under the cut!
OC Blorbo Tags
julian montgomery summerwind, wizard, magibotanist and Blorbo Prime, gets multiple tags because he's my specialest little guy
#julian summerwind - all art and julian-centric textposts
#juliancore - extremely julian aesthetics
#julian.txt - textposts with julian energy. i sometimes bully him with these.
#pepper braidsilver and #pepper.txt - pepper braidsilver, draconic gnome sorcerer
#pale horizon.txt - pale horizon, doomed pale elf junk-mage (body horror warning!)
#nuth.txt - "nothing", tiefling urchin warlock and Certified Little Shit
#sorrel.txt - sorrel pondweed, hexblooded halfling sorcerer
#tiskkin.txt - tiskkin, alchemist kobold artificer
#katja.txt - katja, boisterous beefcake bearlike barbarian
#variel.txt - variel, seasonally unpredictable eladrin druid
#lucienne.txt - lucienne felynas, half-drow wizard and curse nerd (frequently nsfw)
#elias.txt - elias hollyhock, humanish illusionist wizard and Ambiguous Love Interest to julian
#archfey tag - the wisteria fey, hedonistic and sentimental keeper of the gilded garden (frequently NSFW). also catchall archfey aesthetics in general.
also, #hyacinthineposting for anything related to Hyacinthine, my julian/elias/wisteria fey fic. it's a character study and tragic backstory exploration via torrid feywild not-quite-flashback hallucinations. :3c
other recurring tags
#familiars - creachers that appeal to me in a wizard fashion
#wizardposting - wizardly posts of all varieties
#transmutation tag - acts of transmutation, altered materials, Things That Look Like They've Been Turned Into Other Things
#magibotany - magical plants, fungi and plant- or fungus-creatures
#feywild vibes - art and environments that are strange and faerie to me
#wizard fashions - particularly arcane garments and accessories
#beafts - real cool looking monsters, sometimes even cool looking real animals
#significant otters - cute otters! and #seals of approval - cute seals! (i like water mammals.)
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(and also..... "Socket Does Parts Work On Main" tags!
okay okay so listen, i'm not plural but not not plural. it's complicated. i do a lot of parts work and i personify the fragments of myself a lot. sometimes a post will resonate with a specific part of me, and i'll tag it duly!
(previously i just nametagged them, but am recently adding the .exe tags for posts actively tagged from This Part Is Active Right Now)
#ravening beast / #ravening beast.exe - The Beast Behind My Ribs. hungry werewolf imagery, frequent NSFW warning
#bleedingheart / #bleedingheart.exe - The Sopping Wet Creature With So Many Hands. yearning, trauma processing, etc.
#yonder.exe - Playful Little Thing! highly social potentially obnoxious little Gremlinself. )
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I'm probably gonna get yelled at for saying this but sometimes something isn't a real problem in fandom, you just learned a Japanese word describing a general fandom practice and got scared and decided it meant "The Bad Ones" of that practice
Whenever you see someone being like "we don't mind when women enjoy or even create m/m content, we just hate fujoshis" you are being racist. If you mean "I hate the way some female fans treat gay men like fetish objects" then say that, and we can have a conversation based on that, but "fujoshi" is, I cannot stress this enough, just a word for any woman who likes M/M content, for better or worse. It may have started out as a reclaimed insult (by the way, the insult was based on "liking gay shit makes you perverted and sinful," not "please respect the humanity of gay men") but it does not make a distinction between The Good Ones and The Bad Ones. You just decided to No True Scotsman it and that the English word for that should describe The Good Ones and the Japanese word for it should describe The Bad Ones
Same goes for the people I saw just the other day whose discord server explicitly disallowed "Yaoi" but said that M/M content was allowed. What they meant was "M/M content is allowed as long as it isn't pornographic and fetishistic." What they actually said was "M/M content is allowed, but M/M content is strictly forbidden," and expected you to understand that the Japan-Adjacent term has porn/fetish connotations while the English-language term for THE SAME THING refers to the "normal, non-perverted" version.
It'd be like if you used the word "cartoons" to refer to all Family-Friendly animation, regardless of style or country of origin, whether it's Japanese or American or French or whatever, and used the term "anime" to refer to all animated pornography regardless of style or country of origin. There's plenty of animated pornography that isn't Japanese! There's plenty of anime that's not pornographic! But this is the sort of thing you do when you say shit like "obviously women can read stories about gay men, but NO FUJOSHIS"
OP is correct and smart for saying this. this is related to/a subset of how people are about non-fandom foreign words, too, like how people say "Christians worship God (good), Muslims worship Allah (bad and scary)" when gues swh. gu. guess what. gues s w hat Allah mea. guess what the word "Allah" means--!!
You gotta be really publicly passionate about things if you want your friends to text you. Bc people will forget to text you because they’re human. But if you’re really openly the friend who loves identifying ants your friends will think of you when they see ants. And they’ll text you “what ant is this [blurry photo]”. And then they’ll ask you how you’ve been and we should get coffee sometime. But if they don’t know what you love they’ll never know what you like
And then when the ant convention is in town they’ll be like dude… we should go to the ant convention. But they would never think to go if they didn’t know u loved ants
i think we should all start using arabic words and phrases more often because its a beautiful language and also theres not really. english equivalents that have the same vibes
theres also the comedy potential of it. you guys dont know the joy of having your muslim friend text you "hopefully the racists in our city will all get sick and cant go to the protest" and you, as a pasty white guy, responding with "inshallah they get covid"
its a one hit KO every time. its fucking hilarious. theres no english word that has the same effect.
he also once texted me that he got over a mysterious illness he came down with (i think? i cant remember the exact context) and i responded with "subhanallah he is cured"
again, one hit KO. he lost his shit.
what im saying is we gotta normalise arabic. its just a language like any other, and it has some great words. its just like saying "thank god" or whatever, but theres so much variety and nuance. its beautiful
disclaimer i am not arab or muslim and i dont speak arabic but @frogofalltime has explained these words to me and says im using them correctly lmao
inshallah - "if god wills it". like an "i hope this happens" kind of thing. remember the finding nemo poster "inshallah they find him" meme if that helps. used in future tense.
mashallah - "god has willed it", used when something good happened. can be used to denote awe about an event or person. used in past tense.
alhamdulillah - essentially "thank god" or "praise be to god". like mashallah and inshallah but stronger, and can be used in any tense (i think). he will be baked soon alhamdullilah
subhanallah - "glory be to god". like alhamdullilah but stronger. used for when something almost miraculous happens!
those are all the ones i remember off the top of my head im sure binya can add more (and also confirm whether ive got my translations right)
mashaallah robin my faithful student you translated and explained all of this so well :0
there's also astaghfirullah which means "i seek forgiveness in god" which you use when you or someone else does something haram (forbidden / sinful / wrong). tbh we use it in a lot of jokey contexts like if someone swears in a conversation you can call them out like "astaghfirullah haram !"
and bismillah which means "in the name of god" which you can use before doing something, we often use it before doing a difficult thing like when you are struggling to open a bottle or something lmao. or you can say it when someone falls or drops something or gets injured. idk
There’s definitely something to doing a mix-and-match with semantically-similar rural-American colloquialisms. I think “Inshallah and the creek don’t rise” has a nice ring to it.
i miss a lot of new leaf stuff too but like . you cannot be black in new leaf . i dont think this should be considered one bullet point in a list of pros and cons it should at least be underlined and circled like ' you cannot be black in new leaf ' is a major issue
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