As it stands right now, animation in the US (and really, most of the western world, but especially the US) has an image problem. It's also a big part of the reason anime is so popular outside of Japan. People who want serious, mature stories in animation often feel like they have no choice but to watch anime. That being said, there have been attempts to create "western anime" in the past, and while some of them are very good, they don't really press the same buttons as anime.

Ideally, though, I’d like it if someone could come up with a way to market serious adult animation that doesn’t draw comparisons to anime at all. After all, anime was only marketed in the west as something separate and distinct from American cartoons starting in the 1980s. You had anime in the US before then, absolutely, but that was stuff like Speed Racer and Gigantor that was mostly pretty similar to western cartoons. The point is, "anime" is seen in the US as an exotic commodity, which puts domestic attempts to compete with it at an inherent disadvantage. So for a while, I've wondered if American adult animated dramas would be more marketable and competitive with anime if they had their own snappy name they could be sold under, a way of convincing their target audience that they were "more than just cartoons".

That's where the word "PrimalVania" comes in. It's derived from Primal and Castlevania, which are two of the first successful American adult animated dramas. And I feel like it's as good a word as any for the adult animated dramas that are now becoming more common than ever before both on streaming services and on cable networks like Adult Swim. But there's more to a PrimalVania than just its genre. PrimalVania, the way I see it, is a specific genre of adult animation that covers everything from art style to narrative type. In other words, you know it when you see it.

What makes a show a PrimalVania?

• Aimed at a late teen to young adult audience.
• Usually in the action/adventure genre, with heavy emphasis on highly stylized physical violence. Blood is often shown.
• Often has a dark atmosphere, with extensive use of shadows.
• Comedy is usually kept to a minimum, and most dialogue is serious in tone.
• Frequently, but not always, a narrative theme of a seemingly helpless hero or group of heroes being pitted against an insurmountable and often supernatural danger.
• An ongoing story continuing from episode to episode.

What are some examples of PrimalVanias?

• Primal
• Castlevania
• Arcane
• Dota: Dragon's Blood
• Unicorn: Warriors Eternal
• Blue Eye Samurai
• Onyx Equinox
• The Legend of Vox Machina
• Invincible

When a person deliberately provokes a negative reaction and then feigns shock at that reaction.

adj. a whole lot; a hearty amount

e. g. a whelf of information

The recently discovered Nag Hammadi library uncovered a whelf of knowledge for historians and theologians alike. Its presumedly Christian documents contains whelfs of wisdom for seekers of Truth.

weej /wiːdʒ/ informal noun

1. A person who initially demonstrates a lack of intelligence or understanding but rapidly improves their comprehension or skill.

“Despite his early mistakes, he’s a bit of a weej—he’ll figure it out soon enough.”

2. (historical) A term used to describe individuals with a unique learning curve, marked by rapid adaptation despite initial incompetence.

Origin: Early 21st century; coined as a playful term by me to describe fast learners who start off appearing foolish.

Apostrophized is to have added or included an apostrophe in a name or word. A derivative of apostrophe used in the past tense to indicate it has already happened.

Example: My last name O'Malley (not really my last name!!) is apostrophized when I sign things, but often times, it can't be apostrophized in electronic communications or forms.

n. The idea of belief that a newer technology should replace an older technology, even if that older technology still works.

“The way corporate media talks about EVs makes me believe they’ve bought into replacementism—they talk as if gas-powered vehicles will become an obsolete technology and fully replaced by EVs in the future when the truth is each technology has its own advantages and disadvantages.”

adj. ripe for the punning.

n. an avalanche of puns triggered by a single pun or punsome situation.

when you keep checking your phone expecting a notification

A haiku that has the FU! intention - preferably with seasonal element!

Not limey at all

v. To make something into a drug or to treat like a drug (something that’s not conventionally considered a drug).

"The way he will drugify a woman through his manipulative rhetoric and body language…as if the only good thing he sees about them is their ability to make him feel satiated and essentially high, it’s a shame!"

n. person who believes in compassion as the highest moral virtue

"I think he’s a compassionist because no matter the scenario, he will try to sympathize with any person who is expression hurt or suffering. Never have I seen him express any skepticism or doubt about a person’s actions or intentions.

golf -- ee -- oh -- dye -- mem -- oros

unknown connotation. someone said in a dream I had. was just a normal conversation between three people, I think a technical one. someone described someone else's idea as golfiodimemorous. I don't know any more context than that.

when I woke up and thought about it to myself, the definition was already there, despite no other context in the dream.

Apparadox - n

Any statement or conclusion which appears illogical, impossible, or self-contradictory due to its unintuitive properties or construction, but is in fact true, logical, or self-consistent.

(An apparadox is not a paradox, which is something that is self-contradictory or impossible)

Example: The Birthday Apparadox: in a room of 23 random people, there is >50% chance that 2 of them share a birthday

Etymology: Apparent + Paradox / A (not) + Paradox

Hi everyone I am writing a thesis. Topic Neologism and nonce words in modern English internet discourse. Could you write down some new neologism or nonce words

n. Paranoia that people think you're surreptitiously recording

I feel this in public a lot when I'm just carrying my phone in my hand. Especially at the gym. "I bet they think I'm recording them." Meanwhile everyone else in the entire place also has a smartphone with HD recording in their hand, and some of them are recording. Leading to another word that probably exists which is for paranoia of being surreptitiously recorded.

n. Paranoia that someone thinks you're trying to see their smartphone screen.

I regularly have incidents at public gatherings of walking up behind someone who's looking at their phone and at a single glance I read their entire screen. Or I read it at a glance or see some private photo when they put it down in front of them with the screen still on. I don't mean to do this. I just sort of mentally snapshot the entire screen. I don't want to look at your screen. It makes me feel intrusive. I always think the person noticed and it makes me quite neurotic. For a while when I've registered this feeling I've wondered if there is a word for it.

n. A feeling or attitude that develops when one’s guiding principle or religious presuppositions fail to provide a clear enough path to actionable, practical steps forward into the future

When Nietzche said God is dead, he also probably was trying to convey the directionlessness left in the West following the wake of the Enlightenment’s effect on Christianity.

n. Idea that someone of a certain generation should stick tightly to the values typical of that that generation

"My mom wants me to go to college to get a four year degree, and find a nine to five job with benefits; does she see how her boomer generationalism precludes the possibility of trade school and of other potential creative paths in life? Or even a life of frugality or the lifestyles of millennials like Van Life?

Generationalist

n. One who believes in generationalism as their mode of being

My dad is kind of a generationalist because he judges newer generations who are hasty to adopt any new technologies developed afterward.

It's an extremely specific subgenre of music revolving around a very specific chord progression a lot of bands use to give their songs a dreamy, nostalgic feel.

Strum a Maj-7 somewhere high on the neck for one bar, then bring it down a 4th and strum for another bar, then repeat. You can also just do power chords and add the maj-7thness in the vocals or another instrument.

Once you know it, you'll start hearing it everywhere. It's the music cheat code for nostalgia.

To be clear, I'm not knocking it - a ton of great songs are made with it, but I think it needs to be recognized as its own little subgenre because of how prevalent it is.

Here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NVOawOXxSA

Subjective is when the truth of something depends on the point of view. Objective is when something is true in a mind independant way.

A lot of the time when people say objective they don't actually mean objective, they acknowledge that it's still on some level a matter of opinion but it's something basically everyone agrees on so it might as well be spoken about as if it were objective.

I propose the term conjective, or "consensus-subjective". If something is conjectively true then it's something that almost everyone agrees on so it might as well be objective. Something that is conjectively true is socially true even if you disagree with it.

For example, the beatles are conjectively good. Soap tastes conjectively bad. Gold is conjectively valuable. Nature is conjectively beautiful. Licking a frozen lamp post is a conjectively bad thing to do.

Conjective fills a lexical gap and makes it easier to talk about standards in art without having to appeal to normative claims about the objective value of art. If we speak of conjective art standards, we're talking about things that almost all humans agree without giving them any higher meaning.

(noun)

Definition:
A heightened obsession with tiny countries, often leading to flare-ups that result in quixotic arguments for dividing larger nations.

Example Sentence:
"I think I have an unhealthy case of nanonationitis and tend to use data like poor lawmaker-to-citizen ratios as an excuse to advocate for splitting up large countries, even though I don't really believe that ratio is the key variable."

U.S. population keeps growing, but House of Representatives is same size as in Taft era

/ɪˈlʉs $ ɪˈljʉːs/
As an adjective: Deluded (deceived, upset), illuded. The ethics of modern cybernauts render me illuse.
Latin: Illūsus, suggested by English illusory, illusion, illusive.

There is one variant, from Latin dēlūsus. It is deluse /də- $ dɪ-/.

/pəɹˈmeɪn $ pə-/
To perdure. To be permanent, or barely so.
Latin: Permānō, root of English permanent.

For variants, I accept ⟨permanate⟩ /ˈpəɹ.mə.ˌneɪt $ ˈpɜː-/, comparable to ⟨emanate⟩. I disprefer ⟨permain⟩.

something disgusting and awful

Of someone with Peter Pan syndrome, or who otherwise displays the prominent psychological/physical qualities typically associated with the fictional character.

/ɪnˈstoʊɹ $ ɪnˈstɔː/
To inaugurate, establish. A little more lenient, less formal.
To stock·pile, supply. Also hyphenated, ⟨in-store⟩, in this sense.
From Latin instaurō “renovate, establish” and the idiom in store “in waiting.” Doublet of instaurate.

A skybox—in video games, a prospective texture that circumscribes an exterior.
Firmament is, in principle, a literary, Biblical designation for the sky or heavens as tangible. For me, it suits a skybox, a synthetic sky.

Flopportunity
noun \ flop·per·tu·ni·ty | \ flop-er-too-ni-tee \

A situation in any environment with a policy of a positive outlook that trumps reasonable negative reactions, in which egregious or borderline egregious efforts and outcomes are spun as valuable learning experiences. This term mocks the absurdity of overly cautious corporate policies that necessitate positive framing of obviously poor performance or behavior, often resulting in a feedback loop where such behavior continues without real consequence.

Example of positive spin: "This is a great opportunity to help Joe learn about proper attire for the office," said the manager when Joe showed up to work completely naked.

Usage: “Marcia’s manager had to treat her missed deadline as a flopportunity to teach her about time management, despite the clear stupidity of her actions."