Y’all I Enjoy The Elder Scrolls

The ol’ bastard’s birthday

It is that old Horrid Phobias Lovecraft’s birthday today. And I am delighted to be seeing his ideas of cosmic horror being torn from his cold, shriveled, horrid hands. That the concepts of the unknown aren’t being co-opted into HP’s own prejudices.

my main ttrpg is Call of Cthulhu i feel like that’s something my haters would also put on callout posts so giving them a heads up

Could you please tell the long and absurd story about the elder scrolls cat term? :3

Okay, if only for the reason that it’s a very absurd story.

You’re familiar with Khajiits if you’ve played the Elder Scrolls series. Cat people, so far so good. There’s a lot the Korean fandom has to say about the series, both in general and in terms of memes, but the meme I’m going to talk about probably has the most traction in the Korean internet.You see, we really like Khajiit merchants. Not just because they have wares if you have coin, but because they invite you to ‘take a look’. Ri’saad’s audio for this phrase is uniquely memetic among Koreans:

To a Korean, his ‘take a look’ sounds mesmerizing. It wasn’t long until people transcribed what that sounds like into Korean and spread it around: 떼껄룩, or ‘t’ekaaluk’. Korean is a very mimetic language; although I’m not enough of a linguist to explain why, the combination of sounds in 떼껄룩 is absolutely hilarious to us. It really sticks in your mind. I don’t know why, but it does.

It’s not surprising to us it gained traction, is what I’m saying.

For some time, 떼껄룩 was just a colloquial term for Khajiits on the Korean internet. But soon the term expanded to cover cat people in other games (e.g. the Miqo'te of FFXIV), and after that, the meaning extended to IRL cats - at which point the meme skyrocketed in popularity.

Not only is Korean very mimetic, we also like to make suffixes out of everything. Turns out the ~껄룩 part of 떼껄룩 (’~kaaluk’) makes a fantastic suffix for describing cats of all shapes and sizes:

Black cats are called 검은 고양이 (’geom-eun goyangi’) in Korean; using the above suffix, it’s 검껄룩 (’geomkaaluk’).

Orange tabby cats are often called ‘cheese[cake] tabbies’ (치즈태비/’chizu taebi’) in Korean; you can now call them 치껄룩 (’chikaaluk’).

The colloquial term for kittens is 아깽이 (’akkaengi’), but with the Khajiits’ blessing, they are now also called 아껄룩 (’akaaluk’).

Stray cats are called 길고양이/길냥이 (’gil goyangi/gilnyangi’) because they live on the ‘streets’ (길 in Korean). The same principle applies to 길껄룩 (’gilkkaluk’).

Tigers/lions/leopards etc. are big cats… hence 빅껄룩 (’bigkkaluk’).

It is very adaptable. It ties in with the first syllable of basically anything, general descriptors or colloquial, native or foreign. You’ll see 떼껄룩 being commonly used with bloggers, youtubers, on insta etc., either as it is or with the variation appropriate to the subject. If you can read any Korean, anyone who might be reading this… I suggest you take a look sometime.

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Everyone complaining about the Castlevania ending, you dirty filthy lot with no taste are few but let me address this anyway: YOU DESERVE TO GET THE FINALE SUPERNATURAL FANS GOT BECAUSE YOU CANNOT APPRECIATE AN ACTUAL GOOD ENDING.

Yes, that's all. You can say what you want but an actual bad ending is so traumatizing you cannot watch the same show ever again. Appreciate the good things in life such as the masterpiece that is Castlevania season 4, you fools.

Anonymous said:

mario going “mama mia” but luigi yelling “HOLY SHIT”

these reactions are pretty accurate, actually

One of my favorite things in existence is Tales From The Gas Station, and my worst fear is that I’ll forget about it before getting myself to listen to everything and to read it fully.

mad at brennan bc he said “gilear wouldn’t have such a sad life if the bad kids didn’t interact with him so much” and yet in The Seven, bad kids nowhere to be found, he has aguefort give him a wedgie. brennan I wanna fucking talk

If anyone hasn’t been following awful fandom twitter things in the past week, you might have missed the horrible racist harassment campaign directed at Krystina Arielle, who is a delightful person I’m sure many of you know from things like “Sirens of the Realms,” Critical Role’s “Honey Heist 3,” Dimension 20′s “Pirates of the Leviathan” and lots of other online D&D content. She’s also a part of “Into the Motherlands,” a great TTRPG stream using the Cortex system.

The harassment was tied to the fact that she’s the wonderful new host of an official Star Wars show on youtube! The first episode came out today and is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5phi7oXDms

Please go and give it a like to shower the first episode with love and show we support Krystina! Give the video a like and, if you’re up to it, join me in reporting the harassing comments. 

Let’s show that the D&D and ttrpg community supports Krystina’s Star Wars adventure!

Forgot to post this here but…

Guys I love Frog Lady 🥺

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