Subject: I like inventing Creative Curses.
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Posted on: 2022-05-20 18:56:39 UTC
I think i may just have invented the expression "Tom Riddle in a top hat!"
Subject: I like inventing Creative Curses.
Author:
Posted on: 2022-05-20 18:56:39 UTC
I think i may just have invented the expression "Tom Riddle in a top hat!"
I see "Glaurunging" used a lot, but does anyone else invoke the name of another, much more well-known dragon?
I curse in rot13 nine times out of ten. My characters are more interesting lol.
My "oh my God" is "oh my gods!" I will occasionally say "In Odin's name!" I'm not much more creative than that lol.
-kA
And therefore not in my stories either.
With Winfrey, I tend to use a very Asimov-inspired (Stars! Galaxy!) swear set (I am aware that in her home canon, people do not swear like this and in English translation it's more like 'Geez`, but I can wiggle away here - perhaps she speaks a regional dialect). With Noman, he's usually cut off before he can complete the swear.
Winfrey: "SWEET GALAXY, WHAT IS THAT!?"
Noman: "SON OF A-" [BEEEEEEEEP]
The question is: how does your character's backstory and home continuum play into things?
We all know (probably) by now that O'Ryan curses in rot13, not necessarily because he's always done so, but because he had been in the PPC longer than Agent!Kittyauthor. As for the others, their home canon affects how they curse:
I think that's it of my characters?
-kA, still waking up.
We boarders tend to use creative curses too. I think I've invented "Fëanor on a barbecue".
I think i may just have invented the expression "Tom Riddle in a top hat!"
Which mostly boils down to “flibbergibbit”, “curses!”, [profanity], and “Canon!” So stuff like “Oh, flibbergibbit!” “Curses!” “You [profanity]ing piece of [profanity] and “Thank Canon for that!”
I think you can see what words they’re euphemisms for. ;)
No reason “Smauging” is bad, though.
— Ls