I don't know whether this stylistic practice originated on Tumblr, but that and AO3 are where I see it the most: an alphabet soup of things like accent marks, dingbats, and characters foreign to the language of the context to convey a pictorial impression of swirling miasma of chaos--either alone or interspersed with conventional lettering as ( Read more... )

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I thought this was a pretty awesome resource.
http://home.earthlink.net/~dlarkins/slang-pg.htm#A

-ski, -avous: these are two suffixes (derived from Russian and French, respectively) used in flapper parlance to “dress up” normal words. The suffix could be added to ( Read more... )

So, what slang terms would be common in San Francisco, circa 1980-1997? I've googled 90s slang, 80s slang, nothing. Preferably from someone coarse, gay, immoral, runs a whorehouse-masquerading-as-a-strip-bar guy. Gay terms and gay slang would be LOVED.

Thanks!

location: near-future New York (with irrelevant magic), research: none, no idea how, it's kind of subjective. I could probably look up a list of phrases, but they won't give me a feel for what's papercut vs broken limb levels of severity and so forth ( Read more... )

Googled: FCC Guidelines, FCC Guidelines for Television, FCC Regulations, Communications Decency Act, Morality in Media
Setting: now-ish, but I'm not sure that a lot has changed in the last six years

I'm a big fan of matching tone and style, and right now, I'm tackling a series of stories based off of Friends. Since a big part of the show's style ( Read more... )

Everyone was so helpful with my last question! Thank you guys so much. I am need of a little more help now, though. In my story, Ron is living in Florence and working at a gelato shop. One of his costumers (a young Italian man) asks him to go to a disco with him. He talks to Ron in Italian, but I'm only including certain phrases said in Italian ( Read more... )

Time: present day, contemporary fantasy novel ( Read more... )

time: early 1940s, place: Somewhere in Europe (near the western front), though the person in question grew up in the US and went to college in England. The same character that 4 of my last 5 posts have been about (she's eating my brain ( Read more... )

So. I'm doing some worldbuilding for a story. Hugely simplified, It's a alternate history story where there was a major global zombie outbreak, coupled with a sudden mini ice age, occurs during the 1960's. The story takes place 50 years after the initial outbreak, when civilization has re-established itself. The story takes place in Northern ( Read more... )