Y'all I'm gay as hell

Michaela, 26, she/they

[nessa007]

@staff

[susiephone]

so frustrating to be a skeptic with a sense of whimsy because like. I want there to be cryptids. I want there to be magic. I want there to be evidence of something we don't fully understand and can't explain. but then 99% of the "proof" out there for that stuff is like. the most obvious scam you've ever seen in your life.

[cartoonrival]

im completely addicted to Open Link in New Tab

[cartoonrival]

if Open Link in New Tab is wrong then baby i dont want to be right

[starrynet]

what’s the point of posting on tumblr if you can’t even see the tags people add. the tags are the best part

[sapphling]

if you make a UI change so bad that you accidentally ddos yourself via support ticket and negative reply activity load is that good

[sapphling]

i ❤️ my 37 reblog post

[sapphling]

so what's weird is that the true note count on this seems to be irretrievably concealed from me now. i know this had, like, above 100 reblogs before my mobile browser dash was affected; now here are the notes on 1. the original post and 2. my reblog (the only other comment reblog has no notes when checked).

where did they go? how can they be viewed? where is the shareholder benefit of making people believe that they and all other users are receiving Profoundly Less engagement than in reality? you are very intentionally making your website appear vastly more dead than it is in reality

[flurgehbla]

Did they forreal nuke sapphling for this?

[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

[tsundernova]

Domestic dispute in public

[televisionenjoyer]

"girlmath" "girldinner" girl help overthrow the fascist regime NOW

[dragon-in-a-fez]

if you washed any clothes recently this is a friendly reminder to put them on the chair and then on the bed and then on the chair and then on the bed and then on the chair and then

[catcrumb]

[capacity2]

People who talk about the last 15 years like they remember what even happened and it wasn’t all just a grey fog or pain and fear and loneliness

[lleyksie]

let’s be primitive horses with mama

[good-4-her]

[good-4-her]

simply dont monday

[thememedaddy]

[iced-coffee-chronicles]

can someone recommend some beginner normal behaviors for someone looking to become normal

[tesria]

Needed to make sure everyone saw my favourite reply from the notes:

[lyriumrain]

Another wonderfull secret

[justsomequeer]

Top 1% poster

[starlit-meadow]