[ SECRET POST #5793 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5793 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Writing advice

[(Anonymous)]

I guess not really writing advice per se, more of a 'regionalism' question. What the HECK is 'criss cross applesauce' and where does it stem from??

From context I am assuming it means sitting crosslegged, but I have now read it in like... a dozen different Steddie fics and I am so perplexed.

Re: Writing advice

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it means to sit cross-legged on the floor. I dunno where it comes from, but it’s usually used with little kids to get them to sit on the floor and pay attention.

Re: Writing advice

[(Anonymous)]

I'm pretty sure it came into wide-spread use when people started going 'hey, sitting Indian style' is racist. So people came up with a different way to say 'sitting cross-legged'. So people sit 'criss cross'. As far as I know the applesauce is just to rhyme?

Re: Writing advice

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT Which I guess makes sense verbally if you're saying it to kindergardeners, but it's so jarring to read 'he sat criss cross applesauce' in the middle of a fic lol. Pulls me out worse than a typo or bad punctuation.

Re: Writing advice

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT tbh I've only ever seen it when it's referring to kids in kindergarten/grade one... so, yeah. I agree, unless the fic is dealing with small kids it would be super weird.

Re: Writing advice

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know what the context is in the fics you're reading, but I've never heard it in relation to sitting. It was part of this thing you would say while touching someone's back in a particular pattern to make them shiver. There was more to it, something about spiders. It was all the rage in my 6th grade class ca. 1991. Up there with "light as a feather, stiff as a board."

Re: Writing advice

[(Anonymous)]

Most of the fics the sentences were like, "He moved over to the floor and sat cross cross applesauce on the carpet." and I am over here like ??? and trying not to laugh because it's just so childish sounding lol!

Re: Writing advice

[(Anonymous)]

I’m guessing you may be reading fic written by children.