Subject: Also, emoticon trivia. {= )
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Posted on: 2010-07-22 19:38:00 UTC

Every once in a while, I get asked why my emoticons have hats, and I'm sure the number of people confused by this far outnumbers the number who actually ask. So, here's why:

Mainly, this guy, the Pilot of Moya, from Farscape. You see, lo these many years ago, before I'd even heard of the PPC, I was a member of a message board rather like this one in terms of friendliness and free-for-all geekdom, only it was centered around Pilot. We were, in fact, the Friends and Defenders of Pilot, or FaDoP, which when pronounced is a play on the word for how we felt about Pilot's general neglect and occasional outright mistreatment by the rest of the crew. To show our love for our gentle navigator, we did various things, such as write fic, or role-play, or use fancy emoticons with a curly bracket to represent Pilot's carapace. After Farscape was canceled, the forum slowly disbanded, but the carapaced emoticon lives on with me. Basically because I got into the habit and never bothered to break it.

So, there you have it. {= D

~Neshomeh

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