Gnidorisms and Beyond Ever After
Recently I’ve had a few conversations with people about the world I’ve built with my Beyond Ever After series, and specifically around the use of the exclamations and expletives that I use in the series. Or more specific, Gnidori uses in the series (though a few characters use some of the others). Many of these are alterations of phrases that we use every day in America or other countries and some of them I straight up invented and inserted in areas that I felt were appropriate.
Regardless I wanted to actually keep a list of them in some way and what they tend to be used for or how you would use them and what they might mean. It’s a fun little exercise and the biggest problem I actually had was trying to come up with a name for the phrases. I really wanted to credit Gnidori (My main character), since she is the one that comes up with most of them, so I ended up going with Gnidorisms, though I considered faerisms since many of them involve faeries.
As time goes on, I’m sure to expand upon this list and add more as I come across them, but for now this is a small list of some fun words and phrases.
The List
Once Upon My Time! – An Exclamation, like Egad! or Eureka! Often said due to surprise or alarm, especially when seeing someone you hadn’t expected.
Faeries be damned. – A phrase slipped into a sentence that is pretty much the equivalent of ‘no fucking way’.
Faerie Fudge – An expletive that actually ended up coming to replace ‘shit’ more than ‘fuck’ but technically can be used interchangeably much like those two words.
Midnight Magic! – An exclamation used where a moment of pause my sit as you evaluate a situation that just occurred. Sometimes also used to denote a new discovery in thought. Similar to ‘Eureka!’ but not as exciting, more often terrifying.
Where in the Seven and Seven Lands…? – A phrase used here in place of ‘where the fuck…’.
Happy Ever After – A goodbye phrase used to wish someone good luck or a safe life, sometimes used ironically or sarcastically like if you had tacked ‘bitch’ onto the end.
Faerie Follies – A phrase here that is the equivalent of ‘idiots’. Used to refer to more than one idiot. Folly would be used for the singular, though is less common in this world.
What the Fey? – An expletive that just means ‘What the fuck’. Possibly the most common phrase uttered by people.
Flying Troll Piss – Used more as a replacement for a noun, like ‘what is this flying troll piss?’ Can be used to mean ‘shit’ when shit is representing a noun.
Oh My Faerie Lord! – An exclamation of pure excitement. Could be used in place of areas you would say ‘Oh this is so exciting!’
Fey-blasted – A adjective phrase here that is used in place of ‘new-fangled’ or to explain that something is a piece of junk.
Oh Fey… – A simple phrase that is equivalent to the use of ‘Oh shit…’.
___ Flipping ____ – Used as a replacer for phrases you might supplement in ‘fucking’. Always surrounded by other phrases and words that are often also expletives such as ‘Faerie Flipping Fudge!’.
Fey – The original replacer for ‘shit’, that has quickly come to replace ‘Fuck’ more than anything, but not ‘fucking’.
