tfw when trying to explain to people on the internet that witch hunts and exorcisms were not actually common experiences in the Medieval age and that they would not have been insta-killed by the Church(TM) for autism or epilepsy bc people in the medieval era did have some (deeply flawed) medical knowledge
“If I had time travel I’d kill Hitler” “If I had time travel I’d stop my favourite politician getting assassinated” you’re all thinking way too small. If I had time travel I’d stop Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from dying on the moon due to Soviet sabotage, kicking off the Great Nuclear War and devastating half of the planet.
I finally saw The Odyssey, and one of my takeaways is that Robert Pattinson was tragically born too late to be a queer-coded antagonist in 1930s swashbucklers. That man is clearly meant to strike campy poses and get into his rival's personal space and be in slutty swordfights.
this technically is true but I think this also perfectly encapsulates why I am inherently distrustful of like. “”cozy”” “turn your brain off” fiction lmfao. like okay WHO gets to turn their brain off and who has to suffer through bigoted caricatures of themselves while everyone else is having cozy silly no brain time 😐
does anyone else remember being a hapless american child looking at the prices of books on the inside flap and wondering. do we just hate canadians? this book is $8 here and $13 there, that feels..... mean somehow
its so weird to me whenever a neurodivergent person (usually a young one) insists that neurodivergent all have the same boundaries and understand each other perfectly bc like
I come from a family of neurodivergent people. Some diagnosed, many undiagnosed but pretty obvious and our neurodivergencies clash all the fucking time
i get irrationally angry when people repeat themselves over and over. My sister, my cousin, and my dad all have memory or verbal processing issues that make them repeat themselves all the time.
And my cousins are constantly butting into each other's conversations and making each other re-explain the whole conversation topic.
And half my family has slight hearing issues so there's an almost constant refrain of "HUH? WHAT? Can you repeat that?"
My cousin and i both get stressed out by loud noises. Everyone in my family, including me and my cousin, has volume control issues
i often need alone time and silence to process things. my dad likes being around people and processes by endlessly talking
My parents often miss or misread my social cues. And they sometimes take direct communication as an attack (so dont say its just a neurotypical thing)
I struggle to remember and process verbal instructions. My brother insists on over-explaining every game he teaches me bc he's just so excited about them
Drunk people stress me out. many older family members self-medicate with alcohol
I like being punctual and having clear plans for the day. Otherwise, I stress myself out. My favorite cousin has time blindness, is chronically late, and will often change plans at the last minute
someone almost always gets over emotionally invested in something and starts a fight when they feel someone else is being too flippant about it (usually the second person just underestimated how important it was to the first). then the second might feel like they are being attacked for no reason and get defensive.
In that same vein, someone will insist on cracking jokes/singing stupid songs when some of us are exhausted/overwhelmed/overstimulated bc they think we're sad and need to be cheered up. or bc their an asshole and want to piss us off
basically, neurodivergent people can still piss each other off. It can be on purpose, or it can be accidental. Neurodivergent is a generalized term that describes a variety of disorders (autism, ADHD, PTSD, CPTSD, dementia, NPD, BPD, mental illness, and so on). the symptoms and coping methods of one neurodivergent person could easily trigger a bad reaction in another. there is no secret language or understanding between all neurodivergent people that neurotypical people will never understand. sometimes, neurotypical people are more respectful of my boundaries than other neurodivergents
and none of this is relationship ruining. yeah, repetition annoys me, but I suck it up and let it happen, bc part of being an adult and being part of a family/friend group/society is learning to tolerate nonharmful behaviors from other people. i could tell my cousin to stop repeating himself, but what would that accomplish? it would just make him feel bad about a habit he literally cannot control, which is bullying. More severe neurodivergencies trump less severe ones, and overly direct communication can hurt people's feelings (especially if they're mentally ill or already on defense). And no social interaction is guaranteed. People can always surprise you. Sometimes my parents get defensive when I'm direct with them. But other times, they listen and try to adjust their behavior.
People who still think Helaena marrying Jace would’ve stopped the war or made her happy……
Have y’all not realized she was fucked anyway it was put? Even if she married a Tyrell or Baratheon, they would’ve used any sons as a climb to power 😭
Helaena would also still be Team Black’s hostage, because “if she’s under us her brothers will never attack”. Also with the rumors surrounding Jace and the eventual crisis he would’ve faced, Helaena is still fucked 😭
Not to mention all of these idiots recocngize how messed up it is for Helaena to have to marry her brother, want her to have married Jace, whose her fucking nephew.
Helaena is Jace's aunt. Marrying him would not have fixed the forced incest thing
I do love that somebody tagged tumblr's own frog scientist on this post. chop chop dr scherz, we've got 62 more frogs to discover and you're the only frog scientist any of us knows
GUYS amphibian species of the world is still at 7,994 species of frog BUT amphibiaweb is at 8,008 species of frog, and do you know who is a co-author on the 8,000th species of frog there???? TUMBLR'S OWN FROG SCIENTIST DR SCHERZ
Just realized that the reason I love making friends on tumblr is because it’s exactly how you make friends on the playground as a six year old. No, I don’t know their name but they love mermaids too and built this awesome sand castle. No, I don’t know their age but their imaginary cheetah is friends with mine. You like this show? You like this character?? You can sing the theme song really loud??? Here is a flower crown. Here is a juice box. You can share my time and I might never see you again but part of you stays in my soul forever. In my mind we’re still on the swing set and the sky is blue and nothing will ever be wrong again.
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"
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
#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
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