First Song ♫ Video/Text (cw: nsfw language)

[hasitsthorns]

[ The video starts in a modest (albiet startingly neon pink) bedroom. Rose's legs are kicked up onto a chair, sunglasses on despite the time, and has her very own theme music playing low in the backgrounnd. ]

What uuuuuupppp, my dudes. [ A grin at the camera. ] I've only been here for a little bit, but it hasn't escaped my attention - like many - that we're all from different times. So I realized that some people from simpler times don't know the joy of things like textspeak and slang. Not to worry.

[ A gesture to herself. ]

I am here to enlighten you. Welcome to Rose's Textspeak 101 course. Your lesson begins now.



Texting isn't nearly as easy as people make it out to be. It's basically like learning a whole new language. I'm here to teach you some of the basics and general internet lingo. I'm going to condense a bit but, please, those of you out there more familiar feel free to contribute what you know as well.

Shorthand

Texting is meant to be fast. For that reason, we've come up with a lot of 'shorthand' ways to say things. I'm going to cover some of the basics.

bbl - be back later
ttyl - talk to you later
fyi - for your information
lol - laughing out loud
lmao - laughing my ass off
lmfao - laughing my fucking ass off

These are some of the most common, but there are some... specific ones people here I think will benefit from.

dtf - down to fuck
lhu - let's hook up
nfs - need for sex
j/o - jerking off

And so on! It's incredible the fastest ways we find to say we're horny, isn't it?

Emoji/Kaomoji

Now this is a fun one: Emojis! They say that a picture says a thousand words and that can be true for emojis too. Sometimes it's as easy as substituting and image for a word like

What 🕒?
Did you get the 💵?

Some are just to convey emotion like.

😘 Mwuah!
😀 Happy
🙃 Sarcasm

But don't be fooled! Sometimes emojis have double meanings.

Take this innocent 🍆 (eggplant), for example. Nine times out of ten, it will not mean eggplant. To help with any confusion or embarrassing situations, I've defined some below.

🍆 - that's a penis
🍑 - a nice butt
👀 - attraction
💦 - sweating/thirsty
🔥 - hot

You can also mix and match emojis to get different points across. Like so:

🍑👀💦
(That is a nice ass.)

💯🔥🔥🔥
(You're MEGA hot.)

And that's just an overview, there are WAY more ways to use emoji but somehow I feel like those were the most important for people here to know.

Kaomoji are more my style and are basically using a lot of symbols, numbers, and letters to make cute little faces to express different feelings.

Excitement - Ｏ(≧▽≦)Ｏ
Love - ✿♥‿♥✿
Shrug - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Angry - （；¬＿¬)
Sad - (ఠ్ఠ ˓̭ ఠ్ఠ)

Reaction Images/Gifs/Memes

Last, but definitely not least, my personal favorite: reaction gifs and memes. Memes, by definition, are "an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by Internet users, often with slight variations." Some of my favorite classics are:

• popcorn.gif for when drama is popping off or that UST between your friends is getting really good
  
  
• slowclap.gif for when you want to commend someone in the most passive aggressive way possible
  
  
• surprise.gif for when you can't quite believe what you're seeing
  
  
• blink.gif for when you also can't believe what you're stupid (and think it's stupid/ridiculous)
  
  
• mathlady.gif in case you're super stumped by something someone just said

And that's just a few. There's hundreds of memes. But since this is just a glance at textspeak, I'll leave it brief.


If you have any questions, feel free to ask me! I'll be here all week.

Comments

[hasitsthorns]

anytime, dude

[sometimespawnskillkings]

I suppose this means Klaus was right about my social awkwardness being endearing.

[He is amused by that since this is not all how he imagined that being proven, and because, quite honestly, he thought it would turn out that Klaus was wrong about that.]

[hasitsthorns]

that he was!!
you should definitely use it to your advantage
some people love the cute, innocent types
just be careful you don't get eaten alive

[sometimespawnskillkings]

I’m awkward and easily embarrassed, not innocent.

I mean, I haven’t had sex or been in a relationship before but I’ve been to war sooo... I don’t think I would describe myself as ‘innocent.’

[Sure, the war was fake but the aftermath sure wasn’t.]

[hasitsthorns]

well
there are different types of innocence, I think

like, yeah, I'm not innocent either by some standards
but when it comes to sex, I'm probably... more innocent than most people would give me credit for
I talk a big game but

[sometimespawnskillkings]

Well, I suppose the Internet does make it easy to do that.

Like, for one, no one can really see any more of how you’re feeling on there than what you decide to show them.

And secondly, it gives you the ability to learn about and watch and read about all sorts of things you’ve never tried and may not even want to try. That’s not really a substitute for actually doing anything but I suppose it does give us people with Internet a leg up over everyone who doesn’t have it.

[He takes a break from writing this to sigh.]

Though, of course, this only occurs to me after I show off just how socially awkward I naturally am.

[hasitsthorns]

one of the many perks of online communication for a lot of people, yeah

and hey!
better later than never
besides, I think nothing can really beat hands-on experiences

[sometimespawnskillkings]

Yeah, probably not.

[Though, as Temple hasn’t had any sexual experiences at all, he can’t really compare the hands-on kind with the Internet kind.]

[hasitsthorns]

[ Fake it 'til you make it, dude. ]

just give it time
you'll figure it all out

[sometimespawnskillkings]

Thanks for the advice and the support.

I really appreciate it.

[hasitsthorns]

no problem, dude
and if you ever in the market for a wingwoman
I'm happy to help hook you up

[sometimespawnskillkings]

Well, if the time ever comes, I’ll call you up. Or message you. Or talk to you about it in person.

Whichever of those options works best.