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itsamenickname · 1 year

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Luigi: Can you pass me the salt for me, please daddy?

M&L’s Dad and Bowser: *all reaches for the salt*

Dad:........

Bowser:.......

Extended family:.......

Mario: *fainted in Italian*

Dad, look at Luigi, wide eyes: Son......

Luigi, sweating and freaking out: DAD, WAIT, I CAN EXPLAIN!!!!

Peach, confused af: *look at Bowser* Why did you grab the salt? You’re not his daddy.

This ask is one of those times where I really wish I had the ability/skills to draw out this scene because I can easily imagine Bowser having either of these two reactions:

He's either just as mortified as Luigi is.

OR

While Luigi hides his face in embarrassment (while also turning as red as Mario's hat), Bowser stares at everyone with a dumb smirk on his face like he's proud of the fact that Mario and Luigi's entire family now knows that he and Luigi are banging.

And I honestly do not know which reaction I like better. 😂

Also, Peach, my girl, you are literal BFFs with Daisy (the person who would most likely ask you whether you and Mario did it after every date you two have), how has she not already told you about the other definition of "daddy?"

#ask nickname #anon ask #you gotta love those fun awkward dinners with your family #I can imagine this dinner being the last time Luigi ever takes Bowser out to have dinner with his family #if Luigi thought this was embarrassing just wait until everyone finds out that he has a hidden bite mark on his neck #or if you want to make it really awkward/embarrassing; make Bowser have the bite mark on his neck instead of Luigi #it probably wouldn't be all that noticeable since Bowser has tough skin #but I bet whoever is sitting next to Bowser during dinner would probably see the bite mark and ask Bowser what's on his neck #leading everyone to stare at Bowser as he debates on whether to admit that he and Luigi are banging or come up with a ridiculous lie #poor Luigi just wants to have one normal dinner with his family #although that kind of went out the window when he brought his 10-foot turtle dragon boyfriend to a family dinner #luigi #luigi nintendo #bowser #bowser nintendo #mario #mario nintendo #princess peach #princess peach nintendo #bowuigi #bowser x luigi #mario x peach #mareach #mario family #super mario #super mario bros #super mario movie #super mario bros movie #the super mario bros movie

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cor-lapis · 15 days

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"If we must fight, Sethos... I shall defeat you with the power of my friend group of employed adults who miraculously have regularly scheduled meet-ups, and also my daughter!"

[redesigns]

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p0ssym1lker · 2 months

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Damian: where did the name Robin even come from?

Dick: oh it's what my mother called me but then Bruce just decided to call Jason it without asking

Jason, who very much did not know that:

Tim, who had his own theories:

Bruce, who is getting death stares from everyone: well-

#dc #dc comcis #dick grayson #jason todd #tim drake #damian wayne #bruce wayne #yall ever think bout a mother who unintentionally named many sons #yall think bout dick seeing his mothers nickname for him being used without being asked over and over again #yall think bout dick giving damian the name #imagine giving up a piece of family to family

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yeoldenews · 2 months

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While we’re on the subject of names, is there an explanation for how traditional nicknames came about that are seemingly unrelated to, or have little in common with, the original name?

ie- John/Jack, Richard/Dick, Henry/Harry/Hank, Charles/Chuck, Margaret/Peggy/Daisy, Sarah/Sally, Mary/Molly, Anne/Nan, etc

I am actually over a week into researching a huge follow-up post (probably more than one if I’m being honest) about the history of nickname usage, so I will be going into this in much, much more detail at a hopefully not-so-later date - if I have not lost my mind. (Two days ago I spent three hours chasing down a source lead that turned out to be a typographical error from 1727 that was then quoted in source after source for the next 150 years.)

As a preview though, here’s some info about the names you mentioned:

The origins of a good portion of common English nicknames come down to the simple fact that people really, really like rhyming things. Will 🠞Bill, Rob🠞Bob, Rick🠞Dick, Meg🠞Peg.

It may seem like a weird reason, but how many of you have known an Anna/Hannah-Banana? I exclusively refer to my Mom’s cat as Toes even though her name is Moe (Moesie-Toesies 🠞 Toesies 🠞 Toes).

Jack likely evolved from the use of the Middle English diminutive suffix “-chen” - pronounced (and often spelled) “-kyn” or “kin”. The use of -chen as a diminutive suffix still endures in modern German - as in “liebchen” = sweetheart (lieb “love” + -chen).

John (Jan) 🠞 Jankin 🠞 Jackin 🠞 Jack.

Hank was also originally a nickname for John from the same source. I and J were not distinct letters in English until the 17th Century. “Iankin” would have been nearly indistinguishable in pronunciation from “Hankin” due to H-dropping. It’s believed to have switched over to being a nickname for Henry in early Colonial America due to the English being exposed to the Dutch nickname for Henrik - “Henk”.

Harry is thought to be a remnant of how Henry was pronounced up until the early modern era. The name was introduced to England during the Norman conquest as the French Henri (On-REE). The already muted nasal n was dropped in the English pronunciation. With a lack of standardized spelling, the two names were used interchangeably in records throughout the middle ages. So all the early English King Henrys would have written their name Henry and pronounced it Harry.

Sally and Molly likely developed simply because little kids can’t say R’s or L’s. Mary 🠞 Mawy 🠞 Molly. Sary 🠞 Sawy 🠞 Sally.

Daisy became a nickname for Margaret because in French garden daisies are called marguerites.

Nan for Anne is an example of a very cool linguistic process called rebracketing, where two words that are often said/written together transfer letters/morphemes over time. The English use of “an” instead of “a” before words beginning with vowels is a common cause of rebracketing. For example: the Middle English “an eute” became “a newt”, and “a napron” became “an apron”. In the case of nicknames the use of the archaic possessive “mine” is often the culprit. “Mine Anne” over time became “My Nan” as “mine” fell out of use. Ned and Nell have the same origin.

Oddly enough the word “nickname” is itself a result of rebracketing, from the Middle English “an eke (meaning additional) name”.

I realized earlier this week that my cat (Toe’s sister) also has a rebracketing nickname. Her name is Mina, but I call her Nom Nom - formed by me being very annoying and saying her name a bunch of time in a row - miNAMiNAMiNAM.

Chuck is a very modern (20th century) nickname which I’ll have to get back to you on as I started my research in the 16th century and am only up to the 1810s so far lol.

#names #nicknames #onomastics #history #asks #nicknames are really hard to research you guys #there is so much info out there and it's almost all nonsense #and I'm talking academic books with listed sources not buzzfeed listicles #some guy in the 18th century forgetting to mention Bill on a list of common nicknames does not mean it wasn't in use at the time ma dude #i've had to get very creative with sources #god bless word for word murder trial testimony

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pinetreevillain · 3 months

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Timothy and Donatello

#donnie si the nicknames guy #ask box #my art #rottmnt #fanart #timothy #rottmnt timothy #comic #donatello #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt donnie #unpause rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles

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kiksniko · 11 months

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more of this cursed braces!dazai AU. he needs to re-evaluate all his nicknames now

#bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #dazai osamu #chuuya nakahara #soukoku #skk #sketchy #i think he would still call him slug but he would have to say it so slow it becomes so comedic it loses its effect #if anyone asks him why he calls chuuya a dog exclusively as a nickname. no they didnt

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originalartblog · 4 months

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He calls him small and little all the time, but when no one's looking, an old mocking nickname fondly makes a comeback

#i though about reusing this nickname and now i'm obsessed with it hope you get to be half as enamoured with this idea as i made myself be #last panel is from the back because dazai's softness with chuuya when chuuya is unconscious is SECRET and PRIVATE #tiny skk adventures #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd fanart #bsd dazai #bsd dazai osamu #bsd chuuya #bsd nakahara chuuya #skk #soukoku #nawy's comics #ask answered

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stealingpotatoes · 5 months

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I get the feeling if cal and merrin have kids of their own, cal would definitely be buying ponchos for them for like the next ten years or so of their lives lol

but the drama when they get to teenagerhood...

(commission info // kofi support!)

#goddammit there's 2 posts. now we have a merrical kids tag #merrical kids #cal kestis #thanks for the ask!#this one's called cere (or cece as a nickname) i have no idea what to name the other kid i drew last time #jfo #jedi survivor #jedi fallen order

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somerandomdudelmao · 11 days

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OKAY SO GENERAL THOUGHTS AND SOME HYPOTHESES BASED UPON THE INFORMATION WE HAVE:

Holly is from Teegarden; a place where either all of his species can shapeshift or he himself is some kind of priest of whatever god they worship that has given him the ability to shapeshift. If ALL of the Teegardenians have innate shapeshifting, this makes the bird hunting Inherently More Sinister, but it makes far more sense to me for Holly to be special, because he says he's from a temple and attributes his shapeshifting to god. It also makes sense for Holly to be special amongst his species because Sculptor asked Oscar and Ward 'Which of you is smarter?'

They're keeping higher quality/more unique specimens in The Vault and maintaining them for some reason.

When Ward is still Very Much Ravaged by whatever the fuck the Science Scrapers were doing, we see probably-Sculptor saying they should put him specifically with 'someone peaceful'. We don't know why they have taken this consideration beyond determining he's not going to be a danger to a more peaceful inmate, but we do know Holly is also missing an eye, which means that must be part of the 'forcibly extracting information from a creature's body and brain' process. Ward was not doing any talking, they got the information about Oscar's laptop via stealing it out of his brain. Sculptor was not separating the dangerous smart one from the harmless stupid one. The Echolocators (this will be my shorthand for the rest of the Q) fully believe themselves to be above both these weird little dudes, but they know from experience they can get more, better information about humans out of the smarter of the two.

Holly sighs sadly and says 'they've found another civilization to destroy', and he's been kept alive alone in the vault for an indefinite period of time while the general ecosystem of his planet appears to be intact enough for regular hunting excursions. Either the Echolocators circle around regularly between planets they've previously colonized to keep the base resources on each planet fresh, or they are in the middle of ravaging specifically Teegarden beyond livability, and will move on to Earth next now that they've conveniently found some fun new pets. I believe the use of 'civilization' is significant enough to suggest it's the former, which is Way Scarier because they've also noted humans are edible and taste good.

A species of colonizer aliens being set up in an ant-like colony is delightful by the way. Also I saw someone in the notes saying 'oh no she doesn't know about The Incident' over Ecliptica being like 'I didn't really check on Ward, science is boring to me' and would just like to say No. Ecliptica absolutely knows about the unethical Whatever That Was and The Vault. She just doesn't know if Ward survived or is any semblance of okay. Because Oscar is a cute fun novelty and Ward is some guy she does not particularly care about.

Oh, my God, I want to express my thoughts on your hypotheses so bADLY. But that would be the wrong way to present information that should be shown in a story. But I still want everyone to see it, because carefully analyzing a story is one of the greatest forms of art that amazes me every time🧡

#marble sky ask #should I....maybe...#marble sky theories #okay why not #congrats Stars-in-a-jam-jar you made me to establish the new tag for you haha #really cool nickname btw I love it

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baenuit · 3 months

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iooiu · 1 year

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sister of four younger brothers = violence at every corner

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itsamenickname · 10 months

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So you know how in the Frog Prince story, the prince got turned into a frog and the only way to break the spell is for the princess to give him an kiss of true love on the lip. So imagine that tiny Bowser, locked up in the cage, threw a tantrum and hurt his nose against the bar so Luigi decided to kiss his boo-boo on the tip of his nose just like how his mom kissed his boo-boo and…

BAM!

Bowser returned back to his normal size.

So I think part of the reason why it took me a while to answer this ask (besides irl personal stuff) is because while I do really like this idea, the main concern I have with this particular idea is that it conflicts with the movie’s idea that people can to return back to their normal size if they get hurt (whether someone else hurts them or they intentionally hurt themselves).

Now obviously, this is purely based on the assumption that this idea would take place in the same timeline as the movie (most likely after the events of the movie based on the context clue that a tiny Bowser is locked in a cage). You certainly don’t have to include the events of the movie in your idea/au and you can always make a completely new timeline where the events of the movie either just flat out don't exist (like the Yoshi's Island series for example) or change 1-2 details of the movie (i.e., Peach telling Mario that he returns back to normal size if he gets hurt) enough to where you can then include your ideas with the movie timeline.

But regardless of how you would incorporate this idea into the Super Mario universe, I do want to reiterate that I do really like the idea of a retelling of the Princess and the Frog featuring the one and only Bowuigi. I can definitely see this either go into a wholesome route where Bowser develops feelings for Luigi while he's a prisoner and officially becomes a good guy after he returns to normal size or more towards the angst(ish) route where Bowser immediately escapes and forcefully takes Luigi with him back to the Dark Lands after he returns to normal size (or you could even do a little bit of both).

But either way, Luigi kissing tiny Bowser's nose is 100% absolutely adorable and I thank you for the cute imagery anon. :)

#I do want to apologize again for taking so long to respond to your ask anon #hopefully the beginning and middle parts of my answer make a little sense #if not be sure to let me know and I can clarify on the things you're still confused about to the best of my ability #ask nickname #anon ask #luigi #luigi nintendo #bowser #bowser nintendo #bowuigi #bowser x luigi #super mario #super mario bros #super mario movie #super mario bros movie #the super mario bros movie #yoshi's island

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shrimploverart · 5 months

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i've been drawing a lot of my latest dnd pc :) this is Angel!! her race is arachne which is homebrewed. she's got anxiety and two moms. in the campaign she's had a crisis recently because she didn't know one of her moms used to be a cat and also leader of a rebellion LMAO

also funny thing her god is a siamese cat and this was decided literally years before i met our dm

#how do people talk abt their ocs #anyway ive been having SO much fun playing as her #dungeons and dragons #my ocs #angel #her name is in quotes bec that's technically her nickname #spiders #bugs #feel free to ask abt her btw teehee #dnd #crpg #katenta

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arrowsperpetualcringe · 6 months

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Ness calling Mike "sugar"

anon you are so fucking REAL FOR THIS AAAAAAA!!!

So canon so real so true so—

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oneluckydragon · 8 months

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BREAKING NEWS!!! Local idiot ghost absolutely blown away when boyfriend gives him a nickname for the first time, more info after this broadcast.

Bonus pet-name edition:

(Yeah I know it's ooc for grovyle to EVER use the term "babe" but lets go ahead and assume he's done it accidentally a few times rather than intentionally. He's deeply in love with the dumb ghostman, ok. Sometimes it just slips out.)

Dusknoir is still recovering from hearing it. And when he finally calls grovyle "love" himself on accident a few days later, he falls deathly ill for two weeks cause his body couldn't handle the aftermath and started rapidly shutting down on a molecular level.

#dusknoir he is dying pls for the love of god just give him the heal seed already #i headcanon that grovyle starts to call dusknoir just “noir” simply because it's less effort but dusknoir is legitimately touched by it #he's never had a nickname before so he cried happy tears for only 2 hours after this interaction #celebi thinks noir's drama over the entire thing is very funny so she starts calling him “beloved” even more and he has a meltdown #and dusknoir being a literal functional storage unit is my favorite thing he is so good at HOLDING stuff for his BF and GF #he carries water bottles and snacks for them like a total mom when they go exploring #(he got the habit after hanging out w/ echo and sora. those are his kids so of course he's gonna have treats!!!)#what's in the void you ask??? who knows probably a pocket universe or the elusive pmd2 remake #i had way too much fun drawing this is it obvious?#and i really like the new brush i've been using lately so i'm happy #also first comic i put decent effort into!!!! yay #actaeonshipping #future trio #dusknoir #grovyle #celebi #pmd #pmd2 #pmd eos #explorers of sky #my art #tw blood

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tojisun · 29 days

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OMGGG just saw this tiktok and and and all I could think of was bimbo!reader posting this on her acc with simmy!!! https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSFCFJaEN/

AWW THAT IS SO CUTE!! and ur right!! thats absolutely bimbo!reader posting about simmy in her account 🥹

instead of a dog, it’s mittens (her girl cat!) and goddd imagine mittens looking at the camera like “mom help” because this absolute tank of a man is cuddling her with his big muscles :’>

or mittens snoozing too because simon, for all his bulk, is a comfy pillow/bed for your kitten?

god thats so adorable!!

#anon #god ive missed the nickname simmy #its so adorable. intimate. v much in her character #‘simmy’ RAH #bimbo!reader #simon ghost riley x reader #ask

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