#petty nicknames

[our-king-bree]

woke up loving the headcanon where Katelyn finds out that Andrew calls her "the cheerleader" –and mind you, she's very proud of being a cheerleader but she's been told that Andrew does it with a condescending tone and that just won't do– so she starts calling Andrew "the goalie".

When Andrew finds out he doesn't get mad but he's offended like c'mon Katelyn couldn't think of something else? He's getting associated with the position he, reluctantly, plays in Exy? That's just wrong. Of course he doesn't tell anyone that this bothers him, he will rather die than admit that the cheerleader got under his skin –annoying, intolerable, should've got rid of her when he got the chance. Whatever now's too late, Aaron's too attached and they're making progress, he won't harm the cheerleader but only because he's on good terms with his brother and he doesn't want that to change–. So he doesn't tell anyone but he, slowly, progressively, definitely not rushing, he doesn't care that much, stars referring to Katelyn as Katelyn.

The first few times he calls her different varieties of her name along with "the cheerleader". It goes like this:

"It's the cheerleader Kamila coming?"

"Will the cheerleader, uhm, Kara be there?"

"With who? The cheerleader? Kaylee?"

Aaron can see that something is going on but whatever it is will probably be good for them as brothers. After all, he still refers to Neil as Josten –and sometimes asshole, sue him Josten is an asshole–. So he doesn't say anything but just nods along and says "Yeah, Katelyn it's coming" "Yeah, Katelyn will be there".

When Andrew finally calls Katelyn Katelyn, Aaron can't stop smiling and he even texts Kate the news with a lot of emojis and exclamation marks ((((HE CALLED YOU KATELYN LIKE ACTUALLY KATELYN AND NOT KAVINSKY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT!! ☺️☺️💕💕❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹🙏🙏)))

Katelyn beams proudly. She does not stop calling Andrew "the goalie" for at least another eight months, she is petty like that. And if she sometimes calls Andrew "Andres" no one needs to know.

All the Foxes know, she calls him Andres in front of every single one of the Foxes cause she may like them but she knows they can't keep a secret if their life depended on it. Once again she is petty like that.

#this got way tooooo long #i love Katelyn and Andrew being civil only for Aaron but also #hating each other guts #in my mind shes a strong woman that had to go thru hell and back #Andrew doesn't intimidate her but she respect him #in her own way #cough cough calling him Andres cough cough #aftg #aftg trilogy #andrew minyard #aaron minyard #aaron x katelyn #neil josten #andreil #katelyn lim #the foxes #the goalie #the cheerleader #petty nicknames #not me sliding Kavinsky there

[mazzystar24]

Okay but Eddie pissing off the Buckley parents by being petty and calling them Maggie and Phil when?

#you can’t tell me his petty ass wouldn’t have a field day with their whole no nicknames shit #like especially if he hears them do that spiteful way of calling buck Evan thing they do #I just want to see him argue with them so bad #it’s a psychological need at this point #911 #buddie #evan buckley #eddie diaz #evan buck buckley #911 fox #911onfox #911 abc #my posts

[local-meme-lord]

Sylvester Shyster appreciation

#appreciation post #sylvester shyster #it wild despite posting about him a ton i haven't made a official appreciation post until now #and anyway here to our favorite petty pompous lawyers #fun fact it seems his nickname sly frist appeared in that sci fic comic #blorbo from my comics #he done everything wrong in his life and i love him

[silvyslayer42]

lol how can you ship aiura with the literal sex offender that constantly calls her tits mcgee and then say HE deserves better? and say that he gets "done dirty by canon?" like, what does that even mean? that's just who he is, there's nothing to like there, there's nothing redeemable, and it's kinda gross that you want to pretend like there is and ship him with one of his targets of harassment. it's not cute. when he had a ghost tell him what underwear she was wearing, was that like, a shipping moment for you?

yawn i dont careee

the version of toritsuka in my head and in the heads of a lot of the people in this fandom is way less bad than canon (it’s called a headcanon), and i happen to really like the guy in my head, that’s why i say he was done dirty lol. you might not like him and you might not like this ship but that has nothing to do with me

and just because im petty, here’s some of my favorite mikosuka art and fics:

(^made by the amazing @/lu-kario. go support them)

#didn’t ask #but since you did i’ll gladly answer #yes this is petty i felt petty today #anyways mikosuka canon #also ‘tits mcgee’ is a funny ass nickname idc idc #saiki k

[the-great-gullon-incident]

The return of Wonderboy!

#there was a severe lack of petty nicknames in th least two books #kate rereads neverseen

[frankensteincest]

you lot don’t know how many specific ass rants about tma s5 that I’m keeping to myself

#I could lb the thing but I won’t #it’s mostly petty stuff like ofc martin hated reading wh #he has no self-awareness or taste #but some of it is serious #why do we have a whole song and dance about jon and og helen richardson being kindred spirits #but nothing substantial on jon and melanie #melanie who was nicknamed ‘little moth’ and was the most eye- and web- aligned among the lot #whatever I’ll stop #the magnus archives #log.

[vxctorx]

✧ ── 𝐍𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐓𝐒

bold - always / italics - sometimes / strike - never

Victor Charles Trevor

aggressive | annoying | arrogant | authoritarian | bitter | brutal | callous | cannibal | careless | cold/cold-hearted | compulsive | controlling | corrects others constantly | cowardly | critical | cruel | delusional | demanding | disillusioned | domineering | envious | emotionally stunted | greedy | grim | guarded | harsh | hypocritical | impatient | impolite | intimidating | irritable | kidnapper | lazy | liar | lustful | materialistic | mean | merciless | messy | mistrusting  | murderer (once) | narrow-minded | obsessive | opinionated | over-bearing | over-critical | over-emotional | over-thinking | patronizing | proud | remote | repressed | rigid | rules with an iron fist | ruthless | sarcastic | self-critical | self-righteous | self-indulgent | self-patronizing | serial killer | stubborn | taciturn | torturer | touchy | traitorous | unsympathetic | unpredictable | uptight | vain | vengeful

#[ -chants- petty prince petty prince ] #[ that's vic's nickname lol ] #[ i specifically did this for young vic ] #; about Victor #V; Novice

[mxwhore]

Two things:

1. Is the monster baby of Sphinx Jon and Harpy Martin also called Amyas? Cause I've been calling them chickpeas and i got curious.

2. Have you considered Martin pegging Jon so hard he cries?

1. OK i love that. chickpea is their official milk name now

2. SPEAKING of milk, just the other day i was doodling martin strap game... ohohoh..o..

#milk name = nickname for an infant of less than three years of age... harpy bby mortality is crazy #the first time martin pegged jon was an act of petty revenge #jon often gets carried away with the pounding ysee #tessa answers!

[unusualsims]

#strange communication #ts4 #Nothing Good #lucas munch #max villareal #alexander goth #the reason max's name in lucas's phone is beetle is bc when they were in the league of adventurers they all had bug nicknames!! #max was beetle lucas was locust (obv) and elsa was butterfly!! #also wolfgang is woof in his phone bc when he was little he couldn't say wolfgang so he just called him woof or woofy #gunther was ''guh'' but his name is lucas's phone is parcheesi champion for petty sibling reasons

[farginen]

"alkahestry" "may chang" blocked.

#okay i can give alkahestry a pass bc amestris having a word in their language for waidan makes sense #but why the FUCK do people irl write mei's name like that 😭 #why would a chinese girl from fictional china be named after the fifth month in (germanic language) instead of a super common ch name #not a fan of translating given names. i get using a nickname or a variant when pronunciation can be challenging #but mei isnt difficult to pronounce what even 😭 #this is petty but it’s a pet peeve djdjdj #ooc. #// fandom critical #tagging just in case

[drifting-pieces-blog-blog]

#Jake the wheels Lockley

sooooo

broke: jesus take the wheel woke: lockley take the wheel bespoke: lockley jake the wheels

It's a name that works in the comics and the show. Only difference? In the comics he probably gave himself that nickname vs. the show where it's what Marc and Steven called him till they figure out what his real name was. "Who is he? He's the Wheels."

Jacob take the wheel is now the only way I'll ever hear that song again.

#They tried out other nicknames on Marc and Steven #Marc The Fist didn't go as well as Steven had hoped #Neither did Steven the Brain #Especially after Jake started calling him the Brain Cell #The nicknames devolved into petty name calling until Layla banned them all together #They still call him The Wheels though.

[saviolum-sanguineus]

agnus dei

the beauty of childhood is in its ignorance; later, it becomes the object of a wistful, willful desire.

tw: worsties toxicity (light, through cassius pov)

(part one) | part two

He looks as though he’d liked to have passed his hand closer to her throat, but Valentine curls up prohibitively there, silent and bright-eyed. “You wanted to. You wanted all of this, Esme.”

The next time Cassius sees Esme, her silks are as crimson as her hair and the lustre of her title burns radiant in the absence of his father’s arm. The porter announces her as a Lady and he claps politely, wondering if she remembers him or if she had shed the memory of that quiet, cold evening along with the man who had left her there.

She does not approach him, but when Lady Esme Odile is speaking to a woman whose serpent dæmon slithers luxuriantly up one arm and down the other during their conversation, Valentine the ermine dæmon pads lightly over the floor to Cassius, not more than a foot away. Esme’s back is to him, but as Valentine makes his form slink in an elegant circle around Annika’s mourning dove shape, she tosses her hair back over her shoulder and a wave of gentle, sweet ginger and spicy rose fragrance floats to him like a wave hello.

Valentine does not speak, but sets his furry head atop Annika’s breast for a second and blinks at Cassius before he returns to Esme, shuffling around her skirts. She finishes speaking to the woman with the serpent dæmon and moves away; Valentine waggles his ears subtly at Cassius from Esme’s shoulders and the boy smiles, one small hand going to pat Annika’s soft feathers.

His Lord father catches Esme by the arm and pulls her towards him as he closes the distance between them—shock plies her into that smooth dance of celestial wounds and welcoming for an instant, Valentine still as stone on her shoulder, before she twists her arm out of Lord Taran’s grasp, gold eyes guarded behind mirror-like, polite smiles.

“Doing very well for ourselves now, are we?” Taran’s voice is smooth as ever, as sleek as Helæna prowling by his side with as much of a smirk as could appear on a leopard’s muzzle. “

Esme’s face went very still for a moment—in that stillness Cassius saw once again the unnameable thing that had slowed Valentine’s curl so many years ago, but this time he was able to read it spooling across Esme’s features. He watched the burning in her eyes and the set of her mouth like blood, like wine, like the opals flashing at her throat, and he knew that this woman and his father had hurt and helped each other terribly, and perhaps wanted to be hurt at the beginning of it all, or at least taken the pain as a sign that something greater at play had been working—and Cassius knew that it was because of this hurt that echoed between them that they could never have loved each other the way the other craved to be loved, and why they now felt a kind of resentful, wicked need of each other despite it all.

The hurting was the proof and the cause and the result, and it was why Lord Taran, who did not care for much at all beyond finding new vices, tapped out a little cigarette from the silver case he carried, put it between his own lips to light it, and nestled the glowing thing between the resistance of Esme’s fingers.

“Your hands are shaking,” he said, and it was as much a reprimand and judgement as it was a warning.

“The air is fresh,” Esme responded, “and I never liked smoking.”

Lord Taran raises an eyebrow and uses his hand to turn one goosefleshed shoulder to look over the gathered guests. He looks as though he’d liked to have passed his hand closer to her throat, but Valentine curls up prohibitively there, silent and bright-eyed.

“You wanted to. You wanted all of this, Esme.” As he releases her and leaves into the crowd, Taran adds in a murmur whose cruelty is in its sweetness, “Even if you didn’t know what game you were learning to play. You learned all the same. And so you know that there is no one else to blame.”

Cassius cradles Annika closer to him and watches Esme blink, breathing shallow; just as he plucks his courage up to go and speak to her, perhaps to offer a bit of verse that he has tucked away in his pocket for times of need such as this, someone calls her name—or rather, her new title first, followed by a surname that exists nowhere outside her own entry in the city’s registry.

The shallow, wavering thing disappears from Esme’s face and leaves her breathtakingly beautiful; more so than even Cassius’s mother, who had never been able to empty her face quite so quickly of the things keeping it from doll-like perfection. She turns, smile dazzling, and Cassius feels himself fading into the safety of being a quiet, well-behaved child of little import in a treacherous city.

Valentine, from his perch on Esme’s shoulder, sees Annika; their eyes meet for a moment, but the ermine’s ears do not waggle, and then Esme is walking farther away, laughing prettily at something while the opals at her wrist flash like lightning.

That night, long after they should be asleep, Annika whispers to Cassius, “We must be good. If we are to help anyone, we must be good.” She says nothing more, but Cassius knows. He turns over in his bed and tries to think only of how soft chinchilla-formed Annika is against his neck and chest, and recites verse until he falls asleep.

#taran honestly feels so much deeper when he isn't indulging in the petty little kitten nickname ahaha #i love writing his reckless careless tendencies but his depth is also so fun to play with. he's so cruel without meaning to be and #so self-serving. even when he's kind it's shaped by the warped standards and society he's grown up in and learned to use for himself. #his toying with esme is for his own pleasure just the same as him deliberately looking past her og plan to use him was. #she did genuinely fool him but once he realised what she was up to: he wanted and despised her more than ever. #and that's what makes their dynamic so bloody compelling... #fic #hdm x bc #esme #cassius #taran #worsties

[hoffmanstits-enjoyer]

YOU, YEAH YOU! You valeskacest shipper person who came up with 'xandy' as a affectionate nickname for jeremiah that I now headcanon as jerome's way of being insufferable about the name-changing. I'm forever in your debt.

#valeskacest #the sheer size of yalls brains #ur genius frightens me #its a tiny detail but damn im all for it #the pettiness it would come with #ughhhhhhh #not the same vibes as my hc #of miah calling jerome his 'dearest' #but just as funny #thank u monarch #true valeskacesties alliance #i def used that nickname in my crack and my fic #so like <3

[saetoru]

i have an au for my selfship and cat is my lawyer bff forever who tells me all the legal trouble i could get into for my petty ideas and then i’m crestfallen i cannot see them thru </3

#⚠︎︎ tw: tee is talking! #i call her catnip oNCE #and mister haruchiyo laughs like ‘catnip ??’ #and i’m like yeah 🤨 #and then HE starts calling her catnip #and i stab him bc that’s MY nickname for her #me and haruchiyo got so much beef #all the legal trouble cat tells me i will get into is bc of my petty plans to destroy him

[loverboybrightsideghost]

✨🎵🙃 for the ask game!

✨ Do you have any nicknames?

NOOOOO I DON'T HAVE ANY NICKNAMES :((( sadly my name (not iris) doesn't really have any good nicknames that i like. only two people call me iris irl and there's not a lot you can do w iris. i mean i guess you could just say "i" (👁️) but that's not very good, plus i don't really like single syllable nicknames.

🎵 Last song you listened to?

the fourth movement of symphony no 9 by antonin dvorák. we're playing it in my orchestra, and after we first ran through it, i turned to my stand partner and said "this piece is so SEXY. if it was a person and i saw it on the street i'd pass out." it's SOOOOO good.

🙃 What’s a weird fact that you know?

stringed instruments (violin, viola, cello, bass) all have a wooden dowel inside them that is held by tension (not sure if that's the right word) between the top and bottom of the instrument. i mean it's not weird or random but i guess most non-musicians probably don't know that. hell i didn't know that until a few years ago.

you can kinda see them, is you turn your instrument at the right angle (i imagine it's easier on cellos and basses) but yeah. it is very important to the instrument sounding good, don't ask me how though. if the ends aren't fully touching the top or bottom of the instrument even the slightest bit, it will change your sound. in french it's apparently called the "âme" which means soul. so yeah.

#i couldn't think of any weird random facts i knew #i definitely know weird shit but i can't remember any lol #um. japanese has three alphabets used simultaneously??? but that's not weird that's just a fact #anyways yeah #sorry it took me a little bit to answer this lol #also you really should listen to that piece ITS SO GOOOOODDDD #oh yeah and i have a personal distaste for single syllable nicknames depending on what they're shortening #like in teen tv shows if someone's named ryan and they call her ry i'd be annoyed bc really you can't say the extra syllable #it's just something really petty about me lol i don't get mad or anything it's just. me molesta #gets under my skin more than anything #behold an ask! #wlecometogrouchland #thanks for the ask ladel :D

[pridewon]

(don’t reblog) a conversation that totally, definitely, at some point, happened:

tsukishima (10yo): yamaguchi, stop calling me kei-kun, it’s lame yamaguchi (10yo): but what should i call you then tsukishima: just call me by my last name, like i do with you yamaguchi:  🤔 yamaguchi: what about yamaguchi: tsukki tsukishima: yamaguchi -- yamaguchi: tsukkiiiii ~ tsukishima: yamaguchi no --

#(yamaguchi; crack) #the debate lasted 10 days and yamaguchi won #i firmly believe he went from kei-kun to tsukki because tsukishima didn't want the childish nickname for some reason but yamaguchi refused #something as impersonal as a last name even without the suffix #and proved 10x more stubborn #and petty #meanwhile iwa questioned 'iwa-chan' once when he and oikawa were like 7 and immediately understood it was a lost battle #and accepted his fate #he's iwa-chan now no questions asked #anyway back to dRAFTS