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And so wonderful seeing #wearetheunion! #watu #badtimerecords #niletheater #nileunderground #ska #indierock #mesaaz #phoenix #arizona #phx #az #concert #concertphotography #galaxys22ultra
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My #petsnails seem to be Up To Business when they’re awake. They make important decisions like whether to crawl across the side of their little hideaway or across the sides of the tank. I am considering adding a third stick to their terrarium but am also wondering…what sorts of things beyond twigs and sticks and their water dish do they consider toys? I put a dry leaf under a stick and Niles’s eyes bugged out a lil when he saw. Now I’m obsessed. #snailposting #2AMThoughts #highthoughts
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My #petsnails seem to be Up To Business when they’re awake. They make important decisions like whether to crawl across the side of their little hideaway or across the sides of the tank. I am considering adding a third stick to their terrarium but am also wondering…what sorts of things beyond twigs and sticks and their water dish do they consider toys? I put a dry leaf under a stick and Niles’s eyes bugged out a lil when he saw. Now I’m obsessed. #snailposting #2AMThoughts #highthoughts
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https://www.fogolf.com/1156266/hoka-mach-7-a-versatile-training-favorite-fined-tuned-for-performance/ HOKA Mach 7 | A Versatile Training Favorite Fined Tuned For Performance #AdidasShoes #AsicsShoes #BestHokaRunningShoes #Favorite #fined #GolfEquipment #GolfEquipmentVideos #GolfEquipmentVlog #GolfEquipmentYouTube #GolfShoes #GolfShoesVideos #GolfShoesVlog #GolfShoesYouTube #Hoka #Mach #NikeShoes #Performance #running #RunningShoeReviews #RunningWarehouse #SpikedShoes #SpikedShoesVideos #SpikedShoesVlog #SpikedShoesYouTube #TrailRunning #TRAINING #tuned #versatile
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https://www.fogolf.com/1156266/hoka-mach-7-a-versatile-training-favorite-fined-tuned-for-performance/ HOKA Mach 7 | A Versatile Training Favorite Fined Tuned For Performance #AdidasShoes #AsicsShoes #BestHokaRunningShoes #Favorite #fined #GolfEquipment #GolfEquipmentVideos #GolfEquipmentVlog #GolfEquipmentYouTube #GolfShoes #GolfShoesVideos #GolfShoesVlog #GolfShoesYouTube #Hoka #Mach #NikeShoes #Performance #running #RunningShoeReviews #RunningWarehouse #SpikedShoes #SpikedShoesVideos #SpikedShoesVlog #SpikedShoesYouTube #TrailRunning #TRAINING #tuned #versatile
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Well I've just been down a rabbit hole for #TuneTuesday on this week's theme of #WindowsAndDoors. I was going to go with "Go from my window" by Steeleye Span, a classic folk tune for a fella that just won't take no for an answer.
Looking for a link I came across a Joan Baez cover of this, "Go 'Way From My Window", originally by John Jacob Niles who transcribed a lot of Appalachian folk music, but composed this little beauty himself. https://youtu.be/-7gU7UH7NJM
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Well I've just been down a rabbit hole for #TuneTuesday on this week's theme of #WindowsAndDoors. I was going to go with "Go from my window" by Steeleye Span, a classic folk tune for a fella that just won't take no for an answer.
Looking for a link I came across a Joan Baez cover of this, "Go 'Way From My Window", originally by John Jacob Niles who transcribed a lot of Appalachian folk music, but composed this little beauty himself. https://youtu.be/-7gU7UH7NJM
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@punkpaleo @PTR_K The #Spelljammer Monstrous Compendium credits the Hadozee, Rastipede, and Syllix entries to Doug Niles, who worked on the #StarFrontiers line, so it's pretty clear what he was doing. (I actually disagree with the conventional wisdom about the Plasmoids, partially because Niles didn't create them.)
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Well I've just been down a rabbit hole for #TuneTuesday on this week's theme of #WindowsAndDoors. I was going to go with "Go from my window" by Steeleye Span, a classic folk tune for a fella that just won't take no for an answer.
Looking for a link I came across a Joan Baez cover of this, "Go 'Way From My Window", originally by John Jacob Niles who transcribed a lot of Appalachian folk music, but composed this little beauty himself. https://youtu.be/-7gU7UH7NJM
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Well I've just been down a rabbit hole for #TuneTuesday on this week's theme of #WindowsAndDoors. I was going to go with "Go from my window" by Steeleye Span, a classic folk tune for a fella that just won't take no for an answer.
Looking for a link I came across a Joan Baez cover of this, "Go 'Way From My Window", originally by John Jacob Niles who transcribed a lot of Appalachian folk music, but composed this little beauty himself. https://youtu.be/-7gU7UH7NJM
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Well I've just been down a rabbit hole for #TuneTuesday on this week's theme of #WindowsAndDoors. I was going to go with "Go from my window" by Steeleye Span, a classic folk tune for a fella that just won't take no for an answer.
Looking for a link I came across a Joan Baez cover of this, "Go 'Way From My Window", originally by John Jacob Niles who transcribed a lot of Appalachian folk music, but composed this little beauty himself. https://youtu.be/-7gU7UH7NJM
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https://www.europesays.com/videos/11712/ STRAßE VON HORMUS: Hoffnungen geplatzt! Pressesprecher der Hapag-Lloyd AG über Frust und Ärger #2026 #aktuell #ärger #Blockade #crews #düngemittel #fernsehen #frachtschiffe #frust #geopolitik #handelsschiffe #HapagLloyd #InternationalePolitik #Iran #KriseNahost #lieferketten #n24 #nachrichten #NachrichtenAktuell #news #NielsHaupt #ölhandel #schifffahrt #seehandel #seemänner #sicherheit #StraßeVonHormus #Tanker #tv #versicherungen #video #welt #WELTNews
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https://www.fogolf.com/1197578/hoka-cielo-flyx-elite-and-flyx-lite-spikes-distance-spikes-to-fly-human-fly/ HOKA Cielo FlyX Elite and FlyX Lite Spikes | Distance Spikes to Fly Human Fly #AdidasShoes #AsicsShoes #cielo #distance #Elite #FLY #FlyX #GolfEquipment #GolfEquipmentVideos #GolfEquipmentVlog #GolfEquipmentYouTube #GolfShoes #GolfShoesVideos #GolfShoesVlog #GolfShoesYouTube #Hoka #human #lite #NikeShoes #running #RunningShoeReviews #RunningWarehouse #SpikedShoes #SpikedShoesVideos #SpikedShoesVlog #SpikedShoesYouTube #SPIKES #TrailRunning
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https://www.europesays.com/fr/924814/ Les notes de Toulouse-OL : Iaremtchouk effacé, Maitland-Niles débordé – L'Équipe #Actualités #football #FR #France #HuguesSionis #Ligue1 #Lyon #News #NotesEtTopsFlops #Payant #RépubliqueFrançaise #Retour33eJourn?e #Saison20252026 #SyanieDalmat #toulouse #ToulouseLyon
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I'm all for arts festivals including food as a focus of their exhibitions 😋
And it looks like the 2026 NSW Biennale will deliver:
"The Biennale will expand its footprint in Western Sydney this year, including Penrith Regional Gallery for the first time and bringing back Campbelltown Arts Centre. There will also be public programs across inner city and greater Sydney, including Centenary Square in Parramatta, Fairfield City Museum & Gallery and Redfern Town Hall. White Bay Power Station, a popular addition to the Biennale last year, will this year feature large-scale sculptural and installation works by artists including Nikesha Breeze (US) and painter Nancy Yukuwal McDinny (Garrwa/Yanyuwa).
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"Highlights announced on Tuesday include a giant functioning clay oven at White Bay Power Station in Rozelle, created by Argentinian sculptor Gabriel Chaile, which will be activated for the Biennale’s opening weekend and at key moments through the festival to serve visitors Peruvian cuisine. Also for food lovers is a large vat of tabbouleh, created by Lebanese artist Mounira Al Solh as part of a community-based performance in Granville.
"The Biennale will also include a rare presentation of the landmark 80-square-metre Ngurrara Canvas II, made by the Ngurrara artists of the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia in support of their 1996 native title claim. The spectacular painting, created by more than 40 artists, toured Australia in the decade after it was created and has been exhibited internationally – but its Biennale presentation, at the Art Gallery of NSW, will be its final outing before returning to the artists’ country permanently."
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/feb/03/sydney-biennale-2026-hoor-al-qasimi-unveils-expansive-program-for-25th-edition
#art #arts #NSW #Sydney #Campbelltown #Parramatta #Penrith #food #Granville #ausart #ausarts #auspol -
I just ran across these pictures from my last #shure prototype. This was an #rf #pll board. We needed a shield and I decided we could use #kicad and some brass sheet stock from #mcmaster to build a custom shield. I drew it in kicad on the am and had a shield cut on the #laser #lpkf machine in our #Niles #illinois office by afternoon and I bent and soldered it straight away. #electronics #freecad
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This is the sort of negligent #journalism that hinders #ClimateAction. Not only does Niles Bijoux ask the wrong question, the answer he does provide is incorrect and based on lazy assumptions (see 🧵 ).
Tl;dr: In #NZ, a #Tesla Model Y #EV is cheaper to run than a hybrid Toyota RAV4, even when factoring in Road User Charges (#RUC), but more importantly (and omitted completely) produces an eighth of the #GHGemissions.
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This is the sort of negligent #journalism that hinders #ClimateAction. Not only does Niles Bijoux ask the wrong question, the answer he does provide is incorrect and based on lazy assumptions (see 🧵 ).
Tl;dr: In #NZ, a #Tesla Model Y #EV is cheaper to run than a hybrid Toyota RAV4, even when factoring in Road User Charges (#RUC), but more importantly (and omitted completely) produces an eighth of the #GHGemissions.
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This is the sort of negligent #journalism that hinders #ClimateAction. Not only does Niles Bijoux ask the wrong question, the answer he does provide is incorrect and based on lazy assumptions (see 🧵 ).
Tl;dr: In #NZ, a #Tesla Model Y #EV is cheaper to run than a hybrid Toyota RAV4, even when factoring in Road User Charges (#RUC), but more importantly (and omitted completely) produces an eighth of the #GHGemissions.
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This is the sort of negligent #journalism that hinders #ClimateAction. Not only does Niles Bijoux ask the wrong question, the answer he does provide is incorrect and based on lazy assumptions (see 🧵 ).
Tl;dr: In #NZ, a #Tesla Model Y #EV is cheaper to run than a hybrid Toyota RAV4, even when factoring in Road User Charges (#RUC), but more importantly (and omitted completely) produces an eighth of the #GHGemissions.
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This is the sort of negligent #journalism that hinders #ClimateAction. Not only does Niles Bijoux ask the wrong question, the answer he does provide is incorrect and based on lazy assumptions (see 🧵 ).
Tl;dr: In #NZ, a #Tesla Model Y #EV is cheaper to run than a hybrid Toyota RAV4, even when factoring in Road User Charges (#RUC), but more importantly (and omitted completely) produces an eighth of the #GHGemissions.
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Ranbir Kapoor confirms he will play both Rama and Parshurama in Ramayana, revealing intense preparation and epic visuals for the ambitious film. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/movies-music/news/is-ranbir-kapoor-playing-a-double-role-in-ramayana-actor-reveals-ppp3c10b?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #RanbirKapoor #Ramayana #Bollywood #NiteshTiwari
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Ranbir Kapoor’s speech introducing Lord Ram from Ramayana Part 1 goes viral after a Los Angeles event. The Nitesh Tiwari directorial releases Diwali 2026. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/movies-music/news/the-conscience-keeper-ranbir-kapoor-sparks-ramayana-frenzy-with-la-speech-c45yprqw?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #RanbirKapoor #Ramayana #BollywoodBuzz #ViralVideo
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‘Ramayana’ Aims to Set New Global Benchmark for VFX, Director Reveals at WAVES Film Bazaar
#Variety #Asia #Global #MarketsFestivals #News #Hanuman #IFFI #NiteshTiwari #Ramayanahttps://variety.com/2025/film/news/ramayana-global-benchmark-vfx-1236592303/
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Fantasy with Friends: Underrated Fantasy Books
Briana and Krysta at Pages Unbound are hosting a fantasy discussion meme this year called Fantasy with Friends. Since fantasy is my favorite genre, I thought it would be fun to take part. This week, their question is:
What is an underrated fantasy book you would recommend?
Considering I tend to read off the beaten path, most of the fantasy I’ve read is probably underrated. I’ve been reading fantasy for over 20 years, so probably a lot of the books I read back when I was a teen? It’s kind of amazing to see how fantasy has evolved since the 80s and 90s.
One of the early fantasy series I read has always felt like one of the more underrated of the author’s series. Readers tend to think of the Alanna when Tamora Pierce is mentioned, which I enjoyed as long as I read the first and last books. But I adored her Circle of Magic quartet, even to this day. My copies are probably close to falling apart, but I can’t bear to part with them. While I’m pretty sure Lark and Rosethorn, the two women caring for four orphaned and abandoned children with particular magics, were lesbians, there’s no focus on romance, which makes sense since these were written for children! Instead, it focused on the friendship between these four very different kids from different walks of life and the siblinghood they formed.
Jumping forward a bit, well, it’s probably most of the books I read. When I was in high school, there was no Goodreads and I definitely hadn’t even heard of Amazon yet. I didn’t even really start using the Internet until college in the early 2000s, so I literally had no clue what books were out there unless they were stocked in the bookstore and library. There were no reviews to peruse, and none of my peers were reading adult fantasy (some years ago, I did share the books that were popular when I was in high school…that I mostly didn’t read). My favorite turned out to be the The Watershed trilogy by Douglas Niles. Today, I don’t actually remember a whole lot, but it felt like quintessential fantasy. There were dark lands and evil beings and magical waters. There was romance and friendship. There were adventures and danger. I loved these books. They were so much fun to read. I remember the story and world building being relatively easy to follow, so, if you’re looking for old underrated fantasy, this series might be fun.
I ended up taking a long break from reading fantasy between college and when I became a mom for the second time, basically when I started book blogging. I had grown dissatisfied with fantasy and nothing was really piquing my interest. But, thanks to book blogging, I’ve enjoyed so many different kinds of fantasy books, from indie authors to traditionally published books.
I can’t fail to mention two fantasy authors I absolutely love (and, no, it’s not just because I’ve been a faithful reader of their blogs and have been following their author journeys for years!).
Jennifer M. Zeiger’s Hidden Mythics series only has two books so far, but she’s hard at work on the third. They’re perfect for YA and adult readers, with friendship and romance and family drama. But it’s the world building that gets me every single time. I’m in complete awe of how beautiful it is and how it manages to transport me. I normally see the settings in vivid color no matter what book I read, but these make me feel like I’m literally standing there with the characters. The attention to detail is incredible, and I always think these books are worthy of being traditionally published.
Lucia Damisa’s A Desert of Bleeding Sand series gets me in the heart every time. The third book is due to be published soon, and I am on pins and needles after the way the second book ended. I have a soft spot for African-inspired fantasy, and these books absolutely live up to every expectation. The romance is gorgeous, and yet these aren’t romantasy novels. There’s danger and war and enemies infiltrating. There’s friendship and family and loss. There are tenuous ties that are tested at every turn. These characters are stunning. And, yes, I know I mentioned Lucia’s books last time with the religion question, but, like Jennifer’s books, I’ll take every opportunity to mention them.
Other than those, I would have to say the Captain Kit Brightling books by Chloe Neill, especially for readers who enjoy Napoleonic and regency era books. Considering this series was basically canceled after 2 books, I’d say they definitely weren’t popular. And yet I had so much fun with them. They were exactly the light kind of reads I needed during the pandemic. These books are light, fluffy fantasy, blending RJ Barker’s The Bone Ships series and Jane Austen’s novels, a really fun blend that spoke to my fantasy and classics loving heart.
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A Monster’s Quest to be Human: Frankenstein Alive, Alive! by Bernie Wrightson
Bernie (formerly stylized as “Berni”) Wrightson rose to prominence in the world of comic books with his work on horror stories for Creepy and Eerie, both published in black-and-white magazine format by Warren Publishing. He co-created DC’s Swamp Thing with Len Wein for House of Secrets 92, and his artwork on the first thirteen issues of Swamp Thing is horrifically beautiful. He won critical acclaim for his lavishly illustrated edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, where his designs for both Frankenstein and the monster seem to be based on his earlier short piece, The Muck Monster.
Bernie returned to Frankenstein’s monster with his friend and collaborator, author Steve Niles, in the four-issue Frankenstein Alive, Alive! Here, the monster is haunted by the specter of his creator and seeks peace for his tormented soul in the lava flow of a massive volcano, where he is encased in stone before being dug up years later.
He makes friends with another “scientist” who happens to be using dubious methods based on old-timey, bunk science to make some kind of elixir of eternal life. This guy has an impossibly massive house full of libraries, laboratories, specimens, and skulls, joined by castle-like cavernous tunnels of stone and wood—all deliciously rendered in exquisite detail as only Wrightson could do.
Eventually, the scientist’s methods bring the monster to a moral dilemma which pits his loyalty to his new friend against his developing sense of ethics, a choice that represents a situation many of us have experienced at least in spirit if not in the sense of the literal facts of this story. While Bernie died before completing the first issue, his hand-picked successor Kelley Jones did a marvelous job working from Bernie’s rough layouts and thumbnails to bring the final issue to life—not with as much intricate detail as Bernie, but certainly with the right mood and compositional style for the occasion.
This visually splendid work has two minor shortcomings. First, it begins with what appears to be a framing sequence apparently set in 1930s-era America during the Great Depression before proceeding to tell the main tale as a flashback. But we never return to the framing sequence at the end, which feels a little off despite the emotionally satisfying ending to the central story. Second, external circumstances relieve the monster of the full duty of resolving his ethical dilemma. While the resolution is dynamic and well-told, I can’t help but feel that having the choice made for him does a disservice to the monster by robbing him of the responsibility of making a tough call on his own.
Regardless, Frankenstein Alive, Alive! is a great work that showcases the talents of an artistic master still working at peak ability right up until his final year, and it’s perhaps the most awesome of many horror collaborations between Wrightson and Niles. You can often find the original single issues or the collected paperback edition, though the digital edition has the advantage of displaying the double-page spreads without any gutter or staples interrupting the incredible artwork.
Collector’s Guide: Enjoy Frankenstein Alive, Alive! in the increasingly rare single-issue format, the more readily available paperback edition, or the inexpensive digital edition.
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Another freaking f-word
I never fully adopted freaking as an intensifier, euphemistic for fucking, partly because I swear fairly freely, and maybe also because fecking was available in my Irish English dialect. But I like having freaking available, and with its hundredth birthday round the corner, it’s a good time to showcase it.1
Freaking substitutes for its ruder cousin in all sorts of lexical and syntactic contexts, modifying adjectives (that was freaking amazing), verbs (let’s freaking go), and nouns (how is it still freaking January?), among other word classes; it’s also used as an infix (un-freaking-real) and in set phrases like freakin’ A – euphemistic, obviously, for fucking A.
From “Be-bop-a-Lisa” in Simpsons Comics no. 6 (1994). Script & pencils: Bill Morrison; Inks: Tim Bavington; Colours: Cindy Vance. Editor: Steve VanceOrigins and use
The earliest known use of this freaking – the first citation in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jesse Sheidlower’s The F-Word, and the OED – is in the 1928 novel Georgie May, where author Maxwell Bodenheim uses two freakings and a freakin’, including:
“Gawd, ah hate the hull, freaking pack uh you,” she cried, between her sobbing.
The next example those dictionaries list is in Nelson Algren’s The Man with the Golden Arm (1949):
“You point that freakin’ finger at me ’n you’re one dead pointer.”
That 21-year gap doesn’t mean no one was using it in the meantime. I found the line “You freaking fool!” in the 1937 screwball comedy Nothing Sacred, available on YouTube and the Internet Archive at around the 47m 40s mark:
Films and TV, with their heightened emotions and industrious regulators, are a natural home for this expressive but family-friendly expletive. A chart from COCA shows its use concentrated in those media, occurring at over four times the rate in fiction generally and over six times the rate in speech:2
Frequency of “freaking” in different genres. Graph from COCA.As Wiktionary notes, “Freaking (or fricking) is often used in motion pictures as a substitute for fucking so that characters can be shown to swear without the motion picture incurring censorship or a higher certificate than it otherwise might.”
Less discerningly, the Encyclopædia Britannica says freaking is “used to make an angry statement more forceful”. That’s not wrong, but it’s misleadingly narrow: freaking can amplify all sorts of emotions, even joy – ask Ned Flanders.
WikiHow knows this. An article by Wits End Parenting and Elaine Heredia says you can use freaking “to emphasize how great something or someone is” and that it “can be a positive or negative word based on context”. It adds that the word “isn’t a sin to say”, in case you were wondering.
Data
Freaking is on the rise but has been levelling off, according to data in COCA and Google’s Ngram Viewer. Rows under the dates below show frequency (i.e., number of uses), number of million words in the sample, and (hence, by division) per-million figures for direct comparison:
Frequency of “freaking” in five-year segments from 1990 to 2019.That levelling off is despite global use. Geographically, freaking is most popular not in the US but in Singapore, per the GloWbE corpus (freakin has the same top two, reversed). Malaysia comes in third, followed by Canada, Australia, and the Philippines:
Frequency of “freaking” in 20 countries where English is spoken (GloWbE, 2012–2013).Jack Grieve’s eye-catching swear maps of the USA, meanwhile, allow us to zoom in on what States are especially partial to freaking and freakin. Californians’ relative coolness towards them came as a surprise:
Browsing the word’s collocates (freaking/freakin’ ___) in COCA shows the company it keeps. High-ranking +1s include the adjectives awesome, amazing, hilarious, crazy, cool, hot, stupid, hard, and huge; nouns like idiot, mind, thing, break, genius, clue, and deal; and occasional verbs, like love, hate, kidding, and kill.
Some of these invite us to extrapolate the full phrases, or chunks: big freaking deal; give me a freakin’ break; not have a freaking clue; out of my/your/etc. freaking mind; Are you freakin’ kidding?
Other language corpora, such as the 14-billion-word iWeb, show a similar pattern of collocations:
Easily topping the +1s are the preposition out and the pronoun me: a sign of how well freaking [me] out caught on as an idiom, with multiple senses, after being coined in the 1960s. That’s a different usage, of course: not the intensifier freaking but the verb freak (or rather the verb phrase freak out) in the present progressive tense.
This album is the OED’s first citation for intransitive “freak out” in the sense “renounce societal norms, esp. by embracing pacifism, rejecting conservative values, and adopting a nonconformist appearance”.Pragmatics
Zappa fits right in here: freaking offers outsider energy for any self-defined freak (or geek) who cares to use it.3 The word’s gently countercultural flavour is also apparent in dictionary citations, where Tom Wolfe’s name recurs.
What makes freaking effective as a minced oath, and attractive to mild and novice swearers, is that it offers proximity to (and thus evocation of) strong swearing while remaining relatively benign. We see this niche exploited expertly by a child in the vampire comic 30 Days of Night: Return to Barrow:
Comic written by Steve Niles and drawn by Ben TemplesmithA little later the boy defaults to freakin’, this time automatically obeying his father’s no-swearing rule, and making the word more casual by dropping the g:
Freaking is not always a straightforward substitute for fucking, however. The particular way that it lands caused slight consternation for slang expert Michael Adams when his son started using it at the age of seven:
. . . he’s not just saying That’s freakin’ cool or No freakin’ way. No, he’s saying things like What the freak?! which is a long way from Oh, my gosh on the euphemism scale. There’s the underlying profanity. There’s the phonetics. There’s the fact — apparently — that What the hell? and What the freak? — while parallel — signify differently.4
Films redubbed for TV broadcast have mixed fortunes with it, as my post “Freak those monkey-fightin’ melon farmers!” shows. “I don’t need full freakin’ forensics” in Die Hard 2 (1990) is passable, if implausible in a police station, while “Freak you!” in Casino (1995) is comically underpowered.
In his 2016 book In Praise of Profanity (which I reviewed here and recommend), Michael Adams discusses how the vowels, consonants, and pragmatics of various “partial euphemisms” for fuck – feck, frak, frick, frig, and their freaky fraternity – do their work:
. . . although people usually think euphemisms work because they substitute for profanity, in fact many euphemisms are themselves partially profane, because they more or less cover up profanities—usually less—that are still inscribed in the situations of their use, and our minds’ eyes see through them to the profanities . . . . what makes profanity and the relevant euphemisms pragmatically powerful and interesting is that the euphemisms are often both euphemisms and profanity, a fact not unknown in linguistic circles but too often overlooked when we calculate the logic of language attitudes.
We’re advocates of strong language here at Strong Language, but we know it’s not suitable for all occasions: sometimes a softball is called for. And among the many euphemisms for fucking, freaking has, in a century or so of use, established itself as a truly effective and useful option. It may be mild, but it’s got freakin’ game.
Tyrese Gibson in Fast Five (2011)*
1 The OED also lists an obsolete, mid-17thC sense of freaking (adj.): “Of a person: inclined to change his or her mind, mood, or behaviour suddenly and unaccountably; given to freakish ideas; capricious, fickle, whimsical.” One of its fans was Samuel freakin’ Pepys: “He told me what a mad freaking fellow Sir Ellis Layton hath been” (Diary, 25 January, 1665).
2 I was unable to separate the verb freaking from the intensifier using part-of-speech tags in COCA, GloWbE, and iWeb, so these uses are combined in the graphs. To fortify the data somewhat I checked 300 examples in each corpus and found that, in COCA, 76% were the intensifier and 24% were the verb (freaking out, or plain freaking with the same sense); in GloWbE it was 74% and 26%, and in iWeb 68% and 32%. So you can consider the graphs broadly indicative but with that significant caveat.
3 We still don’t know where freak came from: origin unknown, the dictionaries say, though the OED offers speculation. Skeat says freak in the sense “whim” is of Germanic origin, being frec “bold, rash” in Old English.
4 Adams has also analyzed the use of freaking in the TV series 13 Reasons Why, tracing a character’s graduation from euphemistic to full-bore profanity.
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Às vésperas da estreia do filme #F1, aguardado longa original do Apple TV+ que chegará aos cinemas no dia 27 de junho, foi realizada a première da produção no #RadioCityMusicHall, em Nova York. Entre as estrelas que participaram do evento estão os astros Brad Pitt, Damson Idris e Javier Bardem, além de membros do elenco como Kerry Condon, Sarah Niles, Tobias Menzies e Kim Bodnia, bem como o diretor Joseph Kosinski.
Na trama, acompanhamos a história de Sonny Hayes (Pitt)… https://www.instagram.com/p/DLBT1idOorB/
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It's a replay! If you missed the Mamalade4Soul' show on Sunday, you can still catch it. TODAY at 5pm ET - 2pm PT - 10pm UK time.
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