I hope I don’t come off as rude, but how come you post every request you won’t be writing for while explaining the reason/s? At this point most of them just amount to ‘anon not realizing yanderes are inherently abusive’/‘darling being too op’/‘darling being too much of a terrible person’.

Because I've made it a principle to answer every ask I get in some shape or form, even if it takes me some time. It has happened all too often to me that I've sent an ask in, only to never get an answer and that is something that I don't want to do to the people sending asks in my inbox.

Personally, I find it a lot better to say "No, this isn't something I write about" than to ignore the ask, and delete it sometime in the far future. If the person doing the asking send it in non-anon, then I answer it privately to them. However, that isn't something I can do with anon asks, so I answer them publicly.

Aside from that, it gives the other people following me, reading my stuff an idea of the stuff I don't write.

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Name/Alias: Kirsti. (like in Hellraiser) But a lot of online friends have just been calling me Izzy for years.

Age group: 30′s

Pronouns: She/Her

Favorite color: Pink! Fav color scheme - Pink and Black

Favorite food: Sushi and Sashimi!!!

Tattoos/piercings?: 5 Tattoos. (Blue Butterfly (Thigh) Rose Tribal Thing xD(Back) Bloodborne Hunters Mark (back of neck) Amor Vincit Omnia (upper arm) Huge black vine w/ thorns (on my side and yes ribs KILL)  2 piercings. (Ears and naval))

Current song stuck in your head?: It was Gravitational Man by Ashbury Heights not too long ago

Pets?: None at the moment but love kitties

Favorite book?: I can’t pick one but I love the Sweet and Terrible beauty series and Shadow and Bone Series.

Do you have a 'prized possession'?: Umm...my FFVII Tarot Card Deck and OG Discs probably xD

Dream job: Singer but do I want to spend my life travelling all over and all the stuff that comes w/ it? Not really. Just love music and love to sing.

Tea or coffee?: Both 

Hobbies: Photography, Modeling, Video Games, Singing, Roleplaying xD

How long have you been role-playing? Since I was 12

Who is your most active muse: Isrieal. Been Izzy from the start.

Significance behind your url?: To Hojo Isrieal is genetic perfection, a jenova human hybrid to recreate her for himself. She is a perfect experiment and its also a line in a song from one of my favorite movies. Repo the Genetic Opera. “And what if you could have genetic perfection? Would you change who you are if you could?”

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a post about some art I posted yesterday

WOW! Looks like people really like my little post with that fanart I did of Robin's fursona. I really like that artwork I did for her fursona, and I'm glad to see some pep's like it too :D

Here are something to get to know Moon more and so i can keep things on track for him since i get confused too sometimes

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"I guess you have changed."

-Husk, Hazbin Hotel Ep. 8

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.

Sneak peeks of some horses I've been posting on Patreon 🐴

You should totally have Jeremy meet the gang if you haven't already!

I definitely should, so far this is the only time I’ve drawn him in the comic!

this whole james somerton thing is really amusing if you, like me, have legitimately never heard of the guy, have never been recommended his videos, and this is your first exposure to him at all. like holy shit did he say that nazis being hot is why americans enlisted during wwii? what the fuck is this smug clown on about and who allowed him to have recording equipment

Heh these two again so ye

Also I wanna want to say something about ships, I will draw with some of the with other people up but do know that those are non canon so yeah. Just wanna so them for fun but have no ties in with who they are actually with. I was asked this in persons one time so yeah I want to make sure it’s clear.

Discord scam alert

If you get messages like this from a discord friend’s account, your friend has just become the victim of a phishing scam and the scammer is trying to get you too.

But my friend got his account back within an hour of this conversation, and your friend can get theirs back too.

The MO: using this scare story, the scammer tricks people into changing the email on their account to give the scammer control of the account. Once they have control, they use the hijacked account to send the scam pitch to all the victim’s friends

The motive: to try to get people who have nitro to bite, so the scammer can steal their credit card

Here’s how to keep your account safe and help your friend

DO NOT follow any of the instructions your friend’s account sends you. The scammer will lie to you and give you instructions to hand over control of your account.

DO:

Keep your cool. The scare story is a lie. The scammer has no power to force you to follow their instructions, they only have lies to try to trick you into it.

Ghost the scammer. It’s what I did as soon as I realised this was definitely a scam (I smelled shit immediately because my friend has a totally different typing style, but it would be harder to recognise coming from a random acquaintance), and they didn’t persevere any further after the end of the screenshot. Scammers target the vulnerable and avoid wasting effort on more difficult victims; if you ghost them they will sense you’re not biting and leave you alone.

Contact your friend on another platform if possible, to confirm that it’s not them and let them know they’ve been hacked

Direct your friend to the discord support ticket platform— my friend got his account back in like 30 minutes by sending a “hacked account” ticket here.

If your friend has nitro, make sure they get going on cancelling any compromised payment methods before the scammer can steal their money

Take this as a lesson to avoid repeated passwords and turn on 2FA on all your accounts, especially ones with any payment info attached— even if you think you’re too smart to get scammed, everyone has moments of not paying attention, and that’s what scammers prey on

The way people are talking about Musk's Neuralink FDA trial approval is so frustrating to me. "Oh haha, Musk fanboys are going to get their brains fried!" But that's.... that's just not how FDA trials work. They're not things that perfectly healthy people can sign up for just for fun. FDA drug/medical device trials are for specific health conditions - I'm having a hard time finding which exact conditions Neuralink is approved to have trials for, but all I can see is they intend to treat neurological conditions in general. When you look at people who sign up for trials though it's pretty much just people who are absolutely desperate for a new treatment because what's available isn't working for them - or they have no medical insurance (medical trials usually cover not only the cost of the trial but the continued treatment with the trial drug for X months/years after) and people just desperate for money (many trials offer financial compensation). And it's like.... Sure maybe a handful of those people might be Musk bros, but they aren't going to make up the bulk of the ones killed and maimed by this. It's going to be disabled people in desperate situations, I'm sure many of whom have no idea or only a vague idea of who Musk is.