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pressworksonpaperblog

from “baths”, 1987.

hollowerror

*echoing down the hall* welcome back to a gaaaame changer

adhdedrn

He’s been here the whole time.

memewhore

gildatheplant

Literally any other colour would’ve been a better choice guys.

minty-mayhem

I’d like to point out that the colour red has more positive than negative meanings.

prescribedburning-deactivated20

im sorry but this reply absolutely killed me

red can mean whatever the heck you want it to mean, that is never going to change that this straight up looks like they DRAGGED A BLOODY BODY ACROSS THE FUCKING FLOOR 😂

elsegame

Hi fun fact, colors do have meaning and there is a legit thing called color theory. Red does has more positive connotations than negative like the @mintymaiden said. Red is associated with more love, lust, passion than blood and death just like the chart shows you but If you want, here’s a link for you to check it out yourself. Also, check out “The Designer’s Dictionary of Color” by Sean Adams. Have fun learning something

Xoxo

-Designer

What isColor Theory? Color theory is a term used to describe the collection of rules and guidelines regarding the use of color in art and de

youngdiasporan

I think y’all are missing the point here.

forlovefromfear

You can theorize to Nebraska and back but that doesn’t change my immediate reaction which is that someone is literally dragging a corpse around

jhenne-bean

I like that the presumption here is that “No One On Tumblr Has Heard of Color Theory, Let Me Explain in Depth” rather than simply acknowledging that the VISUAL EFFECTS of this particular color choice, applied in the manner it was, can still amount to “this is a hospital and that looks like blood”

like, color theory doesn’t exist in a vacuum. If your design of choice for Blood Red Paint is asymmetric splatters and sploches against the wall, or in this case, a snail trail on the hallway’s floor, an infographic won’t override the viewers’ instinct.

eternal-dannation

this post is the perfect summation of tumblr’s reading comprehension and critical thought abilities

uncle-beanbag

wildhaunt

Homicide detectives: why are you dragging that bleeding corpse around?

Me, an intellectual: well you see it’s basic color theory…

stonecrop

I’m both pro herbal medicine and pro vaccination because you can treat burns with aloe vera juice and sore throats with lavender infused honey but you can’t rid a country of polio with plants.

made-of-love-and-stars

THIS.

tr4shpandaa

Don’t forget kids, jewelweed is a natural counteragent to poison ivy rashes but it won’t do shit against whooping cough

dovewithscales

Mint for nausea, valerian and chamomile for sleep, antibiotics for fucking infections.

marithlizard

It's been a while since I said "this person wins the internet", but today it is merited.

(via bsky)

(The classic XKCD comic)

genderkoolaid

hey boy don't kill yourself. green's dictionary of slang is available online and allows you to explore 500 years of english vulgarity. you can search by part of speech, source, time period, etymology, and usage. there's a whole category for gay slang. they even have specific citations listed so you can see the exact context for yourself. boy did you know that in 1927 "to kneel at the altar" was slang for "to sodomize"

genderkoolaid

some other hits:

Princess: an effeminate and relatively youthful male homosexual or lesbian (1931-4)

Daffodil: effeminate young man (1925)

To throw a fuck into: to have sex with (1919)

Top sergeant: a masculine lesbian (1939) [‘she takes command of the girls’ privates’]

Lily: penis (1919)

Wolf: sexually aggressive man (1847); a homosexual top (1918)

Soul kiss: a deep kiss, involving putting one’s tongue into one’s partner’s mouth (1907)

Tom: a lesbian (1909); [in 'old tom'] prostitute catering to lesbians (1966)

Church mouse: a male homosexual who frequents crowded churches in order to fondle any potential sex partners. (1941)

Discover one's gender: to accept or acknowledge one’s homosexuality (1941) / Lose one's gender: To return to living as a heterosexual

Minty: a masculine lesbian (1941)

Also a lot of early 20th century vulgarity is recorded in Letter from My Father, which is a collection of letters published by a man who's dad was, in short, a major slut and human disaster who wrote about his sex life for his son. It's insane. You can find copies of it online & it's a wild fucking read (literally!) and I think a really interesting look at the life of a person who goes against our stereotypes of what people in the past were "supposed" to be like.

Anyways feel free to add y'all's favs to this post. & if you use this for gay historical fanfic please share with the class

genderkoolaid

#OH THIS IS EXTREMELY EXTREMELY HELPFUL#writing#resources#saving for later#maybe i should move my 1920s story from '25 to '27 because..... bro..........

note for writers: these are dated to the first time they were recorded, not necessarily to their first use. I imagine for many of these, they came about naturally through spoken language before they were written down anywhere. This is especially true of more underground slang because it's probably being recorded (in ways we still have) the least. So if you wanna use a term but it's a little off date-wise, give yourself some wiggle room.

also gonna take this moment to highlight two more i found recently:

Best boy: a sweetheart, a boyfriend, a husband. (1893) [w the obvious equivalent term 'best girl']

Honeydripper or honeydrips: a sexual partner (1917)

Like. Honeydripper?????? That's so horny I can't stop thinking about it. We need to bring THAT back

the-transgenda-agenda

updates to miscellaneous page - added link to green's dictionary of slang

wholeheartedsuggestions

forgive the version of you that didn’t know any better

wholeheartedsuggestions

forgive the version of yourself that knew better but did it anyway. forgive every version of yourself. we are constantly learning from our mistakes.

wholeheartedsuggestions

forgive the version of you that didn’t know what to do and could not have foreseen what the right choice was, if there even was one. forgive the version of you that made a choice and regretted it.

Having reached the Seekers' table and their Teutonic shenanigans with House Einfasen, and having witnessed the gleeful butchering of the German language therein, I now believe the funniest scenario is Caleb, through some epic planar travel shenanigans, ending up in Aramán, encountering the Einfasen and the culture east of the Dvalmar Pass, and just going

"...Am I having a stroke. Is this what having a stroke feels like."

#critical role #cr campaign 4 #campaign 4 #campaign 4 spoilers #house einfasen #seekers table

animentality

brawltogethernow

*turns off the light*

my cat, who can still see perfectly, watching as I bump into a table: Ah, she has toggled the switch that controls whether she is stupid.

tsfennec

My cat, as I trip over him:

tallymali

what am i being advertised here exactly

zolltraak

ka-di-gan

behindnightmaresanddreams

blazingstar

A matching version for all of the Aussies (and other not-americans) with American buddies :p

robertreich

It’s crucial for Democrats that they hone their economic message for next year’s midterms on affordability, based in fairness. They must focus on fixing an economic system that's been rigged in favor of the powerful (and against regular people) for far too long. What are your thoughts on Tuesday's election results?

ja-khajay

that one extremely homoerotic painting of a babylonian man listening to a babylonian twink playing babylonian harp. that one

ja-khajay

yeah

theotherwesley

this is my favorite painting full stop

adulthoodisokay

that “babylonian twink” is King David

lunoki

The baffled twink composing Hallelujah

theconcealedweapon

rosslynpaladin

Look we have records of Medieval Knights crying out in their sleep, having emotional outbursts or flinching at the sound of clashing metal. We have records of people all through history who were treated badly by people who should have loved them, and having problems knowing who to trust. We have years worth of artists putting their human pain at broken hearts and broken promises into music that makes us cry.

Yes people have been traumatized by awful things for all of history and just like them You didn’t deserve to be hurt either.

nebylitsa

“suffering doesn’t make you better, it just makes you suffer” - maus

shinraalpha

"Pain doesn't make people; it's love that makes people. The pain is inconsequential; it's love that saves them." - caduceus clay

quasi-normalcy

Where's that post about how Van Gogh didn't make art because he had depression, he made art because he had a brother who loved him and tried his best to support him and keep him alive through his depression.

skribblegurl

some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.