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dragonlady7via http://ift.tt/2d5xbCG:
wrangletangle:
mostlygoesastray:
A drabble is precisely 100 words and I will die on this goddamn hill like the Fandom Old I motherfucking am.
I will join you on that hill.
i don’t get why people are so determined to call other things drabbles. It’s perfectly fine to write short-short stories any length you like! but it’s like writing a sonnet and calling it a haiku. Or baking a cherry pie and calling it a sundae. Like. Those are all fine things, but the point of having a specific word for something is that that word means that specific thing.
I really don’t understand people who absolutely insist on calling things “drabbles” when they are not drabbles. I don’t get it. Like, do what you want, and language changes, sure, but words mean things, that’s kind of the fragile agreement that keeps human society more or less afloat. It’s weird.
wrangletangle:
mostlygoesastray:
A drabble is precisely 100 words and I will die on this goddamn hill like the Fandom Old I motherfucking am.
I will join you on that hill.
i don’t get why people are so determined to call other things drabbles. It’s perfectly fine to write short-short stories any length you like! but it’s like writing a sonnet and calling it a haiku. Or baking a cherry pie and calling it a sundae. Like. Those are all fine things, but the point of having a specific word for something is that that word means that specific thing.
I really don’t understand people who absolutely insist on calling things “drabbles” when they are not drabbles. I don’t get it. Like, do what you want, and language changes, sure, but words mean things, that’s kind of the fragile agreement that keeps human society more or less afloat. It’s weird.
