Sundry Sunday :: my urban dictionary: cat flu

Def.: A convenient catchall term for fictional characters experiencing unnecessarily explanatory auditory and/or visual hallucinations or memories in their otherwise normal screen lives. Derived from the film Escape From Tomorrow, which (according to YouTuber Jenny Nicholson) features a fictional disease called cat flu that may be the cause of the main character’s intermittent auditory and/or visual hallucinations or memories.

Usage: Season three of Daredevil was an angst-ridden delight, but both its protagonists and antagonists seemed to have come down with cases of cat flu.

–your fangirl heroine.

Sundry Sunday :: my urban dictionary: to Isabelle

Def.: Casting an actress who is at least semi-prominent in a television series for a role that is presumably meant to recur and then killing her off in the first episode in which she appears. Etymology re: Isabelle Hartley of Agents of SHIELD.

Usage: To hear tell, the new Star Trek definitely Isabelled the character played by Michelle Yeoh.

–your fangirl heroine.

Sundry Sunday :: my urban dictionary: social triggers

Def.: Behaviors (and such) that, when one encounters them in another person, one bristles involuntarily.

Usage: When husbands speak to their wives certain ways (or men to women in general, honestly), regardless of context, or use certain language, it serves as a heavy social trigger for me.

–your fangirl heroine.

Sundry Sunday :: my urban dictionary: heterosexual inevitability

Def.: The commonly held, inaccurate belief that all interactions between men and women must lead to romance.

Usage: Watching most movies feels like witnessing heterosexual inevitability.

Antonym: heterosexual oblivion.

–your fangirl heroine.

Sundry Sunday :: my urban dictionary: heterosexual oblivion

Def.: The state of heterosexual people’s complete unawareness of anything serious pertaining to the problems that anyone not heterosexual might face or even the existence of anyone not heterosexual.

Usage: Heterosexual oblivion has saved my ladyqueer butt at least half as many times as it’s annoyed me.

–your fangirl heroine.

Sundry Sunday :: my urban dictionary: rigorous self-contemplation

Def.: This is a polite way of saying “obsessing about one’s flaws,” essentially.

Usage: Unfortunately, it is more common for girls to be societally conditioned to spend more time partaking in rigorous self-contemplation.

–your fangirl heroine.

Sundry Sunday :: my urban dictionary: the baby animal effect

Def.: The sense of calm and joy that can be attained by looking at puppies, kittens, and other cute baby animals, either in person or real life.  (Can also, honestly, apply to grown animals, but oftentimes the viewer will still refer to them as puppies, kittens, etc.)

Usage: I am always glad to see our family pup, but especially when I’ve been having a day and need to experience the baby animal effect.

–your fangirl heroine.

Sundry Sunday :: my urban dictionary: dumpster fire

Or rather, as defined by my drift partner.

Def.: A situation that is a semi-contained center of chaos and disorder constantly. If you weren’t in the area per se you might not bet aware of it, but if you are, yikes.

Usage: Time to go to the dumpster fire that is my workplace.

–your fangirl heroines.

Sundry Sunday :: my urban dictionary: butt feathers

Def.: Originally a semi-thoughtless description of what peacocks do in courtship, i.e. flashing their “butt feathers” (it was the morning and I wasn’t thinking), in this context used to describe human attempts to assert masculinity (and its subsets prowess, dominance, and capability).

Usage: This morning I watched through the car window as my dad and a roadside attendant argued about tire chains; butt feathers were everywhere.

–your fangirl heroine.

Sundry Sunday :: my urban dictionary: normals

Def.: I should preface this with the fact that this is not my terminology exclusively and this is not even uncommon terminology in my circles.  Basically, “normals” are people who fit some definition of “normal” by societal standards, but I think I should clarify the variety of ways in which I personally might use it, given the circumstances of my being.

• not a nerd
• more specifically, someone who is not so much of a nerd that they catalog details and theories and know
• someone who enjoys things like large parties, beer, football, sitcoms, Top 40 radio, heterosexual subplots, or other things deemed “normal” to like
• someone who fits the general societal default i.e. cishet white guy
• someone whose brain processes typically

I don’t mean “normals” as an insult (usually) but as someone who does not fit many of these categories that I’m told I’m supposed to fit, it’s my way of classifying the mystifying other that I don’t always understand for some reason.

Usage: I work with a lot of normals, so it’s an interesting observational experiment watching them deal with situations.

–your fangirl heroine.