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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"

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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

#cool words

mintaii

qifrey...................

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ministarfruit

I love this text post so I drew it

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synthez

WIP⚠️ when you found THAT one song!

should I finish it?🤓

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heynhay

when you are in your teens you will design a set of very generic magical girl OCs based off the 4 seasons. ten years later there will come a time for a redraw.

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annabelle--cane

niche trope I enjoy: person recounting a story of something terrible they did and the way they describe it makes it sound like an active decision where they were completely in control and knew what they were doing and enjoyed it, but if you look at the bare bones facts, it's like. are you sure about that? are you sure you didn't just panic and lash out and do something irreparable? are you sure that's what you wanted and you aren't just retroactively assigning yourself agency to cope? but you as the audience can't really know the answer to that, because the storyteller is the only one who was there and this is how they're choosing to preserve it, and that matters for how they want to be perceived going forward... but you do still wonder.

#tropes to use

karda

the best colors ever actually

karda

for those gradient enjoyers

#cool colors

murkshade

little doodle page from the past week I forgot to post

#cool art styles

snejkha

Redesign commission for @gargoylegirlcock // Thank you so much again//

caballo

Mechanical Spine

PROTOLEPUS - "Haas"

(Haas meaning Hare in Dutch)

One of the bots designed by a company named Harness TECH to replicate more successful models, the Protolepus was built for endurance and speed. To travel long distances. However, it lacked the polish and understanding found in those of which it was made to copy.

Few Protolepus were made but those that were made either broke down or left Harness TECH when the laboratory was over taken by the bots inside.

This Protolepus, known as Haas, has been doing work where he can as an explorer, which is also his hobby/passtime of choice. Always great to make a job something you love.

With his arms that split in twaine, climbing has never been easier. (This is not true)

This is my Fusionsprunt oc !! Fusionsprunt is an original story by @skeletoninthemelonland, please go check their stuff for their stuff and for links to their Fusionsprunt account.

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