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Canine Asshole Reclamation Project
A poorly funded but longstanding inner city project set up to assist dogs to find their original assholes after the tragic fire that caused them to lose track of their own so long ago.
Many folks are unaware of of the important and selfless work done by the Canine Asshole Reclamation Project which seeks to reunite dogs with their rightful assholes.
Canine Asshole Reclamation Project by Dr Bunnygirl June 30, 2020
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reclama
A kid in highschool tells his teacher what he did for the weekend.
teacher: what did you do over the weekend?
kid: I went and got into a fight with my dad and beat the crap out of him, and that's how I got this black eye.
teacher: reclama. what did you really do to get that black eye.
(you use this in a professional situation when you know someone is lying)
teacher: what did you do over the weekend?
kid: I went and got into a fight with my dad and beat the crap out of him, and that's how I got this black eye.
teacher: reclama. what did you really do to get that black eye.
(you use this in a professional situation when you know someone is lying)
reclama by Cruz Heimer March 11, 2009
slur-reclamation
Slur-reclamation is when a slur is Reconceptualized as an accepted or satirical word. Usually slur-reclamation is used by oppressed groups such as the LGBT community. Some examples of this may include Dyke, Gay Agenda, tranny, Queen, faggot, and many others, all vary in usage.
Homophobe: “Hey, faggot.”
Gay: “Thank You, I was really trying.”
Homophobe: What? How dare you not get offended that was my only way to diminish you.”
Gay: Hahaha, slur-reclamation goes brr”
Gay: “Thank You, I was really trying.”
Homophobe: What? How dare you not get offended that was my only way to diminish you.”
Gay: Hahaha, slur-reclamation goes brr”
slur-reclamation by DrAccius August 7, 2021
Reklamata
noun /reh-klah-MAH-tah/
1. A player—often in games or life—who doesn’t dominate through aggression, but through calm persistence and quiet returns.
2. Someone who reclaims space not by force, but by presence.
Origin:
From the Lithuanian-sounding term "reklama" (advertisement or announcement) with a poetic twist—"Reklamata" implies something not forgotten, but returned to. A presence reclaimed. A player who has been here before, and will be again.
1. A player—often in games or life—who doesn’t dominate through aggression, but through calm persistence and quiet returns.
2. Someone who reclaims space not by force, but by presence.
Origin:
From the Lithuanian-sounding term "reklama" (advertisement or announcement) with a poetic twist—"Reklamata" implies something not forgotten, but returned to. A presence reclaimed. A player who has been here before, and will be again.
Play Reclamation
The intentional restoration of play as an essential human capacity for creativity, connection, learning, healing, and collective flourishing. Play Reclamation recognizes that opportunities for play are often diminished by chronic stress, trauma, rigid social expectations, discrimination, overwork, or systems that prioritize productivity over well-being.
Play Reclamation is the practice of reclaiming play as a lifelong human right and a vital aspect of individual and community health. It challenges cultural narratives that frame play as childish, unproductive, or optional, instead recognizing play as a source of imagination, experimentation, joy, resilience, and social belonging.
Play Reclamation includes creating environments where people of all ages can safely explore, create, move, rest, laugh, imagine, and connect without unnecessary judgment or pressure to perform.
For many people—including those recovering from trauma, navigating disability, embracing neurodiversity, or rebuilding community after conflict—play can become a pathway toward trust, self-expression, nervous system regulation, and renewed participation in community life.
Play Reclamation also extends beyond recreation. It includes reclaiming curiosity, improvisation, wonder, and creative exploration as essential components of education, work, civic life, environmental stewardship, and cultural transformation.
Play Reclamation is the practice of reclaiming play as a lifelong human right and a vital aspect of individual and community health. It challenges cultural narratives that frame play as childish, unproductive, or optional, instead recognizing play as a source of imagination, experimentation, joy, resilience, and social belonging.
Play Reclamation includes creating environments where people of all ages can safely explore, create, move, rest, laugh, imagine, and connect without unnecessary judgment or pressure to perform.
For many people—including those recovering from trauma, navigating disability, embracing neurodiversity, or rebuilding community after conflict—play can become a pathway toward trust, self-expression, nervous system regulation, and renewed participation in community life.
Play Reclamation also extends beyond recreation. It includes reclaiming curiosity, improvisation, wonder, and creative exploration as essential components of education, work, civic life, environmental stewardship, and cultural transformation.
I am sooooo excited that we are living in times that honor and revere play reclamation as a sacred practice and rite of passage! This is the pathway to New Earth frequencies and supports collective liberation!
Play Reclamation by New Earth Ambassador414 June 30, 2026
Noetic Reclamation
Noetic reclamation is the intentional restoration of authorship, provenance, meaning, and creative identity when a person experiences their intellectual or creative contributions as having been appropriated or separated from their source. Through documentation, attribution, symbolic marking, embodiment, boundary-setting, and continued creation, the creator re-establishes their relationship to the work without requiring control over another person's consciousness or property.
And a more mystical formulation:
The energetic essence is not reclaimed by chasing the copy. It is reclaimed by returning to the source.
That could make noetic reclamation a particularly strong counterpart to your concept of noetic appropriation: one describes the extraction of knowing; the other describes the process of restoring authorship, agency, lineage, and creative sovereignty.
And a more mystical formulation:
The energetic essence is not reclaimed by chasing the copy. It is reclaimed by returning to the source.
That could make noetic reclamation a particularly strong counterpart to your concept of noetic appropriation: one describes the extraction of knowing; the other describes the process of restoring authorship, agency, lineage, and creative sovereignty.
Noetic Reclamation has been an important process and practice after leaving cult and trafficking spaces where my energy, essence and ideas were attempted to be packaged for capitalism and exploited to make money. I call and claim all of my creative enterprise, essence, energy and ideas back to me! Noetic reclamation is also about ensuring there are uniqe energetic signatures in all works every completed through time and space - if you know, you know.
Noetic Reclamation by New Earth Ambassador414 August 28, 2026
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Surf Dracula Syndrome
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Surf Dracula Syndrome by AOmundson June 18, 2023
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Northstarring
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
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Plate of Brown
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.
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Larpenomics
When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flex cash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.
Larpenomics by Rbois09 October 21, 2026
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