[spyrale]

Clever Girl! by hugohugo

[thenaughtylion]

This deserves all the instant reblogs!

[prokopetz]

One of the distinctive features of Old Norse poetry is the use of kenning: a circumlocutory device in which a straightforward noun is replaced with an allusive phrase.

For example, a ship might be referred to as a “wave’s horse”; a sword, a “wound-serpent”; a shield, “the shame of swords”, and so forth. Sometimes, kennings could be embedded in other kennings - thus, one might have “feeder of war-gulls” = “feeder of ravens” = “warrior”; this is known as a doubled or extended kenning

Though many conventions of English literature can be traced back to Old Norse roots, kenning isn’t much encountered these days - at least, not in most genres. There’s one particular genre where the art of kenning is alive and well, though.

I’m speaking, of course, of erotic fanfic.

Whether you’re referring to a penis as a “porn-truncheon” or a vagina as “squish-pocket” (both examples I’ve seen employed in all apparent seriousness, incidentally), that perfectly fits the form and function of a kenning. Indeed, these examples even adhere to the idiosyncratic grammatical structure of many Old Norse kennings, with the base word being modified by an uninfected noun determinant inserted as a compound prefix.

Euphemisms for sex acts, meanwhile, can be even more baroque, forming multi-level allusions in the manner of doubled/extended kennings. “To ride the baloney pony”, for example, employs the act of riding a horse as an allusion to penetrative sexual intercourse - but the contained phrase “baloney pony” is, itself, a kenning of the simple type, with “pony” as the base word and “baloney” as the determinant, making the whole phrase a doubled kenning.

There are practical reasons for this sort of practice, of course; e.g., complex euphemisms can help sexually explicit works sneak through content filters. Still, it’s kind of fascinating that smutty fanfic has managed to preserve - in virtually unaltered state - a poetic form that’s otherwise been largely extinct in English literature for the better part of a thousand years.

oh dearie dearie me, did my dash ever do a thing

[dani-kin]

This is relevant to my interests….

Oh my goodness, 90s fic. Please stop talking about anal virginity.

Well, folks, it’s the First of May.
You all know what that means.

thedeadparrot.dreamwidth.org

Teaching robots how to write is almost like teaching robots to love

[thedeadparrot]

Blaine reaches for the both of Anderson’s attention had been rumors splashed across a sliver of exposed flesh. His erection is bumping the mattress.‘So, tell me how much I missed this. The air in gasps, mouthing up the side, with the lemons life threw their way upstairs to Blaine’s a whole different feeling from a glowing and swelling even more at the buttons of Kurt’s voice, post - orgasm purr, is a wonderful feeling that one night when he tries to remember ) Blaine stares back, my stepmom Carole, cooing and prodding until Blaine is sweating and sated surrounded by these four huge Alphas. It cuts off quickly, and it’s thoughts a cow moos in the space that feels good, sweetheart, we, like, a little start that conversation. Blaine sets his messenger bag down and licked along Kurt’s hard cock starting to rock back against the pillow. Kurt nearly broke character and sank almost painfully hard squeeze. “ You got another one and then dropping his hands bunched up against Kurt.

I wrote a long-ish post over on DW about using a simple machine learning/natural language processing technique to write computer-generated fanfic and the hilarity that results from it. You can see some of the beautiful results above. Want to know how it’s done? Check out the link above.

[stultiloquentia]

I love you so much right now.

[thedeadparrot]

#YES #i’ve thought of this for years and years but never ofc more than thought #i guess larger n-grams might constrain the results too much? #i wouldn’t think they’d be too computationally intensive but idk #science it works #stack queue

The reason I wrote up that post with bigrams is because that’s what I could get nltk to support out of the box with their example in the book, and it was the easiest to get up and running as a prototype. I would have used their ngram model which uses some more sophisticated tuning mechanisms on the probablilities if it weren’t kind of broken at the moment and still getting fixed.

Anyway, my point is that I wrote that post a whole 5 days ago, and I now have my code up and available (and even mostly documented!). It now supports arbitrary n values, so if you want to mess around with n values higher than 2 or 3, you can. I’ve settled at 3, because with 4, it has moments where it looks like it’s just copy/pasting words out of someone’s fic at times (like you said, constrained), but it is a lot more coherent. The computation shouldn’t be all that more expensive. It’s all on the same order of magnitude. I haven’t really benchmarked it, though.

(via D&D Nipple Clamp)

Anonymous asked:

Your genital swap fic is absolutely incredible!

I am so delighted by these responses, even through they are easily the least safe-for-work thing on my blog right now. ^^ Thanks!