For Qamar · a proposal, sort of

Eleven letters. One feeling. Bear with me.

shenanigans

/ʃɪˈnænɪɡənz/ · noun, plural

  1. 1secret or dishonest activity
  2. 2silly or high-spirited behaviour; mischief
  3. the one we mean3what you get up to when nobody is telling you how

yes it's a real button. press it. nothing bad happens.

What the word throws off

→ tap any word

explore plain fun mess about curiosity what if I try no reason needed first times pull at it things you've never done before you know how go on then → us.

ok so — why this one:

crafty sounded like a basic, stupid name. boring af.

shenanigans is just fun.

it's me. it's you.

it's literally crazy people.

exactly like you. but fun crazy.

we do shit.

— maki

Think different.

watch this before you go any further

Watch on YouTube ↗

the embed didn't load — open it, then come back

no skipping. the next button unlocks when the video ends.

you see it? that's you.
one of the round pegs
in the square holes.

i see u as a crazy one...

ps: (i hope this doesnt sound weird)

but u are crazy — and thats amazing.

He wasn't being poetic

QAMAR
قمر · the moon
MAKI
the sushi, apparently

Round pegs.
Square holes.

You're a moon. I'm a sushi roll. Neither of us was ever going to fill the corners — one lights the place up, the other holds everything together.

PS — maki actually worked hard on this. i'm not sure why, but he wanted you to enjoy it. he even made me add this PS part.

صُنع في الخليج

MADE IN THE GULF

And the timing is stupid good. The region is finally proud of what it makes — and nobody has made the playful one yet. That look is just sitting there, unclaimed.

It writes its own copy

“Start some shenanigans”

“Weekly shenanigans”

“The Shenanigans Awards”

“Caught getting up to something”

Try writing any of those with the word “Crafty”.

SHENANIGANS

↓ points at

You, having fun.
That's the customer.

MONKEY
BUSINESS

↓ points at

Someone else, tricking you.
That's a warning.

قرد

— and that word is an insult here

tangent (sorry). the document where we picked the name was called:

“Website Shenanoonagens”

Fiddle
Shinanigans
Antics
Horseplay
Monkey business
Proxy
Whim
dopamine
Alchemy
Flux
Leeway
Aha
Burger

we misspelled it in the file name and in the list. neither of us noticed for weeks.

also. Burger.

a brief historical note

Britain left Bahrain
in 1971.

Your boss appears not to have received the memo. Fifty-five years on, he is still claiming your evenings.

مسكينة maskeena.

do you want a hug?

SHENANIGANS

STILL TO FIGURE OUT — THE ARABIC · THE DOMAIN

But before any of that —

haha yes

u mf I kneeeew it....

قمر + maki · shenanigans

i made this out of pure shinangans... sooo yeah