happy hump day tfln

[folkie]

Texts From Folknight

Welcome to Folkmore's Texts From Last Night meme!

Because it's still April and Thoth is still amused, consider this round two of the Initial Misfire Edition. Initial messages maaaaay go to the wrong person! So not all hell breaks loose, replies carry forward with whoever you've reached, but you might be texting your innermost intoxicated or sleep deprived secret to someone you don't even know.

If you'd like to opt out of misfires, please include this in your top level (by prompt or overall). Otherwise, enjoy indulging Thoth's amusement and building some new CR.

This meme can be used as a branch off from our Test Drive Memes and be used as game canon or just for casual fun in the setting! You do not need to be in our game or be invited to play on our TFLN. This can be a great way to meet current players for future invites, get a feel for the setting, or just have some fun.

This can be used for samples on our applications and as spoons for players accepted into the game.

TFLN Generator
(exact use is not required, you can modify them for your character, you can use other sources/random text generators/shower thoughts!)

Comments

[ihadstrings]

I'm like Jesus. Or a cockroach. You think I'm dead and then I just rise up from the grave somewhere along the way.

[fistofvengeance]

Figures. You here for the chat, or to tell me I SHOULDN'T kill that barista who spelled my name as Murk?

[ihadstrings]

Oh no, that is definitely a killable offense.

.....Is that a real word? Killable? It feels like it should be even if it isn't.

[fistofvengeance]

Oh sweet. My conscience gave me permission to kill. This is gonna be a great day, I can tell.

Killable is a word for sure. Heard it in movies before.

[ihadstrings]

Good. Go forth and cause havoc!

How DO new words even get invented? Do a bunch of people just start all saying 'totes' or 'dox' or other stuff until it just turns in a majority rules situation or something?

[fistofvengeance]

My guess is every year the people in charge of the dictionary get together for a meeting with coffee and sandwiches, and discuss the hot new words that have popped up. And then they vote about whether to add it to the dictionary or not.

Probably not a unanimous vote, or words like "shrinkflation" wouldn't have made the cut.

[ihadstrings]

I would LOVE to be a fly on the wall at that meeting just to see how they decide which ones are worthy of reaching the status of 'official word'.

Blech. DEFINITELY not a unanimous vote. Amazing. In 500 years we've gone from Shakespeare inventing the words bedazzled, majestic, and swagger to twerk, jorts, and YOLO ending up as actual official words. If ever there was evidence the human race is devolving, there you go.

[fistofvengeance]

Wait. Shakespeare invented "swagger"???

That sounds like bullshit. I'm calling bullshit. There's no way.

[ihadstrings]

He did! It's in King Lear and everything!

It obviously just had a different meaning back then.

[fistofvengeance]

That is wild. It's gonna keep me up at night.

What else came from Shakespeare that sounds like it shouldn't have come from Shakespeare? He didn't invent "hipster" did he?

[ihadstrings]

Bandit, green-eyed, and lonely apparently also came from him. Really, it's starting to look like what DIDN'T he invent?

[fistofvengeance]

No way, what did people call "lonely" before then? Alone? Lonesome?

Missing the company of one's fellow?

[ihadstrings]

That's what happens when a language is in flux at the same time everyone is writing all the words down. Why do you think English is such a weird language as it is?