Everyone’s like “those Germans have a word for everything” but English has a word for tricking someone into watching the music video for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up.
English has a lot more words created for very specific phenomena! It’s not just rick-rolling. Language is always evolving and it’s super interesting! Here’s a list of hyper-specific/untranslatable words in English.
Chris’s “Ship of the Day” – 04/??: “Stormpilot”
I think I figured out how to stop the obnoxious notification spam that has been telling me “[name] mentioned you” every time somebody reblogs a post I was ever tagged in, even if they never mention me in THEIR reblog!
1. Go to Account, the little person head and shoulders in upper right.
2. Go to Settings, with the gear icon.
3. Click Notifications.
4. Uncheck the new “conversational notifications” switch.
That should take care of it!
Title: Thunderstruck
Battle of the Bands AU
Dean and his brother Sam have been performing as an AC/DC cover band for far too long and are desperate to break out and be recognized for their own music. Of course, they’re all in their 30s and what might’ve seemed like a one-in-a-million shot in their 20s feels impossible now. Their band mates seem to think the same thing, and just before the first round of their local Battle of the Bands try-outs, half the damn band quits.
Enter Castiel. A punk rocker with a bad attitude but all the spitfire energy they need in a drummer. He agrees to help them out last minute… but he might be more than either Sam or Dean bargained for. Doesn’t matter though. If they want a chance to beat their competition they have to all learn to get along, to compromise, and to remind themselves why the fell in love with music in the first place.
The Will of the Whispers
Brother Castiel has always been a devout man, never giving in to the many temptations thrown in his path. That is, until he’s transferred to an old monastery deep in the remaining forests of Ireland. Thee he finds something calling to him, sweet and soft, like whispers and bird songs. It must be the devil that tempts him, disguised both as a beautiful male fawn with sunkissed skin and a dark maiden with eyes like smoldering embers and skin like the moon.
It can’t be that what they say is true, that he is one of them, lost to time and death and returned for greater purpose. To believe such things is heresy. And yet….
Home or Something Like It – rw_eaden – Supernatural [Archive of Our Own]
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Castiel/Jimmy Novak/Dean Winchester, Jimmy Novak/Dean Winchester, Castiel/Jimmy Novak, Castiel/Dean Winchester
Characters: Jimmy Novak, Castiel (Supernatural), Dean Winchester, Benny Lafitte, Arthur Ketch, Ash (Supernatural), Meg Masters, Balthazar (Supernatural), Bobby Singer, Sam Winchester
Additional Tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Alpha Castiel (Supernatural), Omega Dean, Omega Jimmy Novak, Explicit Sexual Content, Mating Cycles/In Heat, Mating Bond, Incest, Sibling Incest, Twincest, Castiel and Jimmy Novak Are Twins, Anal Sex, Rimming, Panty Kink, Praise Kink, Size Kink, Somnophilia, Claiming, Blow Jobs, Threesome – M/M/M, Polyamory, Past Castiel/Meg Masters, Past Balthazar/Jimmy
Summary:
Dean Winchester wasn’t expecting much when he moved into the dorms on campus. At the most, he’d expected to spend more time with friends and have less of an excuse for missing class. He hadn’t been expecting to meet two of the most delicious smelling men on the planet. Castiel and Jimmy Novak were hot, odd twins, so deciding between the two was nearly impossible. However, when Dean finds out they’re a lot closer than most twins… well… things get interesting.
Home or Something Like It – rw_eaden – Supernatural [Archive of Our Own]
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