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since armando iannucci was just on taskmaster is it worth saying that all 6 episodes of his '2030 retrospective on the 2010s', time trumpet, are currently free on youtube. some of thecjokes are a bit. dated. but its still probably one of my favourite comedies. stewart lee is there! richard ayoade! katy wix! mark watson! mathew 'garth marengi' holness! its really really funny and tragically underrated. and only six episodes long! go and watch it!

#the cilla black live autopsy the tesco denmark war and the dragons den pitches are my favourites.#taskmaster #time trumpet #armando iannucci #NO ONE has seen it. even garth marengis darkplace got put back on channel 4.....#theseconddoctor siarad drwy fy ei het #the thick of it #<- i think i use that as a catchall armando iannucci tag? i really need to sort out my tagging system

pokemonstadium2

and i said / what about / the spy who shagged me?

she said i / think i / remember the film

and as i recall / i think / they stole austin’s mojo

and i said / well that’s / only part of the plot

#what a fun combination.

post-troy-stress-disorder

big fan of that trope where like. something really awful happens to Character or someone they love and they manage to catch the bastard who did it and get revenge. and it's righteous at first and everyones on their side but it slowly devolves into abject cruelty as everyone looks on in horror. dude that's enough he's stopped twitching etc etc

#CAPTAIN FLINT

cakesandfail

I also think, like... it's very sweet that whenever Vetinari is, shall we say, not feeling 100%, he likes to just have a chat with whoever's keeping an eye on him at the time. Ah, V- oh NOT Vimes, okay, and you are? Wonderful! Do you like being in the Watch? Well done. Who's that over there doing the shouting? Very good! This all seems in order, if you don't mind too much I'd like to be unconscious again now. Please let everyone know I'm not dead yet. Sorry about the carpet. Thank you so much.

#discworld #<3

newfluffytown

Everyone… Everyone agreed he was right to kill the publisher. And to do it with a flugelhorn was a stroke of genius. ‘Bernard!’ they said. No, Brendan, Brendan. ‘Brendan’ they said. ‘Congratulations! Here, have this basket of stuff and come and stay for the weekend!’

#black books #one of my favourites of the black books dvd extras (and theres some good stuff in there!)

spitzonthefritz

this is going around twitter rn but im also super curious: please tell me your top four comfort movies that you’re always down to watch bc my friend thinks mine are ridiculous and now we’ve realised everyone’s version of “comfort” is hilariously different

#<- velvet goldmine is such a fun film!#hm. withnail and i. everyones favourite cornish horror film enys men<3. jarman's the garden. and. hm. probably rocky horror actually #although i havent seen it since last june.#withnail and i specifically is a great sick day film because theyre *also* miserable and a bit disgusting and being dramatic about it #oh also om shanti om is a very close 5th option. apart from absolutely everything else hearing someone sing in hindi again #is always very comfortibg

santners

Black Sails | 1.01

an-inexplicable-delight

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#black sails

theseconddoctor

would jean genet (the authorconstruct, not necessarily the person) have enjoyed the omegaverse do we think?

theseconddoctor

like. exaggurated mimicary of bourgiouse hetrosexual sexgender ideals and relations etc mirrored exaggurated aspired to and mocked within the subcultures of gay men* that can exist both as critique, an emotional response to exclusion and, in a way that cant be disentangled from it, for sexual gratification like. in his early set of work certainly theres definitely similarities!

#*its complicated

would jean genet (the authorconstruct, not necessarily the person) have enjoyed the omegaverse do we think?

#theseconddoctor siarad drwy fy ei het #in many ways the omegaverse and kate millets sexgender relational analysis of his work in 1970s sexual politics is not dissimilar #jean genet

someone just left a really lovely comment on the fic about notre dame des fleurs i wrote last year im literally going to be riding this high all year

#it was just a really lovely comment! i wasnt expecting anyone to read the damn thing in the first place #to be honest since its not exactly fanfic material but i really wanted to give writing the rhythm of genets prose a try for fun #and im so thrilled that apparently its a halfway decent go #theseconddoctor siarad drwy fy ei het #moral of the story: write niche ambigious vaguely porn stories on the internet and if youre lucky someone #will compare you to your favourite author ever.

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

#save #used this a lot when i was about 16ish and on a one man mission to bring polari back into casual conversation #to my everlasting thrill some of my friends still use having a vada at something or getting dragged up in conversation

sixty-silver-wishes

happy pride month to the fuck tree I guess

#havent been back down south in a while but its one of my favourite of the hampstead heath trees for sure #a real classic

uss-edsall

Does anyone have this picture

But it’s a parody of Master and Commander’s opening title

I swear I have seen this before and I cannot for the life of me find it

kesslersymbolic

This image?

uss-edsall

YES

eddardsharpe

bacony-cakes

PNG'D! (i didn't know the font so this is taken directly from the image)

+ bonus italian navy vessel

catgirl-kaiju

#aubreyad

les miserables was hurting my eyes (ebook copy)(via libby my beloved<3) and i kept losing the rhythm of ulysses so ive started the third wolf hall book (the mirror and the light) AND. genuinely the way she writes. its just SO well done