[ SECRET POST #2790 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2790 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Words that have lost meaning to you?

[nyxelestia]

Most of the words other people said here are ones that have lost meaning for me, so the only other one I can think of that hasn't been said is "drabble".

I longingly remember the days when it specifically meant a 100-word fic. Exactly 100 words - writing a good fic within that exact 100-word range was half the challenge of writing it. For lee-way, there were double/triple/5x/10x drabbles/etc. drabbles (200/300/500/1000), but again, that wordcount was supposed to be exact - at most, a five or ten word leeway in either direction to account for different word processors' different ways of counting words, but otherwise you were supposed to stick that number of words as much as possible. That was the fucking point of it in the first place.

But now it just means any short-ish, non-plotty fic. The drabble tag was one a good filter for quality - in that anyone who used it was trying to write a short fic with parameters, so they put more thought into it. Nowadays, whatever someone pumps out in the middle of the night and posts without editing is a drabble.

The other word I can think of us "policing". Like, apparently any attempt to, say standardize a messy system or tell off some crappy behavior is policing, which - even as someone sitting here in righteous fury over all the stuff going on in Ferguson and police corruption across America, I still say that ultimately, we have cops and the police for a reason and I want them to be better, not to go away.

I don't care what anyone says, it should be common decency to tag usefully. And I don't even mean extensively, every trigger warning every, etc. - I mean, if you post a porn gif, you could at least tag it as porn. Or NC-17. Or something, so that when I browse Tumblr in a public space, I can block certain tags to avoid having that stuff show up on my screen where other people can see it.

If I can block your bothersome posts, then I'll just avoid the risk and not even bother following your blog.