hazbin played straight

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.

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)

This post talks about a new DM feature in youtube. What it fails to mention is that as part of this new feature is that when you send someone a link to a video, and they open it in the youtube app, they will see who sent them the link. Specifically, your channel name.

If your google account name is your real name, so is your channel name by default.

This means the new default behavior is that everyone you send a youtube link to will see your full name if they open it in the mobile app.

To turn this off:

Go to your youtube app settings

Go to Privacy

Turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"

Just realized that by making Thalia a squid demon voiced by Heidi Blickenstaff, I lowkey created a connection between her and Ursula. AU where Thalia’s a deal maker, I guess.

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Carmilla: This is an overlord meeting, Thalia. Why is he here?

Deal maker!Thalia, mask flipping upside down so she can express anger, with Buskin coiled loosely around her 'shoulders' like a boa: How dare you!! This is my emotional support husband!!!

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fineas tries to cheer ondine up with a song about how hell isn't that bad, only for it to go off the rails as the shittyness of hell/v tower become progressively more apparent, ending with tom being like "...yeah okay never mind, let's get you to heaven"

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Thalia: Now, tell your dear old Nana everything

Ondine: I want to go to Heaven, but Daddy won’t let me. And there’s also this cute archangel boy… from the Bible………

Thalia: …ah

Buskin, whispering: ((Winn, we can’t help with that! No one knows how—))

Thalia, also whispering: ((Shhh!! We’ll figure something out!))

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decided to rewatch little mermaid tonight. overlords!thalia and buskin have this creepy as fuck little theater with a 'cast' made up of the souls they own on puppet strings as the equivalent of ursula's garden

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oh fuck, i just got to the scene where triton trades his soul for ariel's and turns into a worm and i just realized... proto........

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Vox, who has a literal cult in his basement that prays to his company logo, looking around at T&B’s creepy collection of contractees on puppet strings: wow you people are freaks

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It's the same beef I have with Fallout. I know they excuse humans being so slow to redevelop society with all "knowledge being lost in the war" but that's just...not how things work. Humans figured out construction and farming very early. There's no way for humans to truly forget how to do this stuff, especially since people survived and could preserve and share what they know. But I just cannot fathom how in 300 years no one's figured out construction or fiber arts or soap making or anything humans have historically figured out super early in the process of being human.

And the only way I can see someone write a world like that is if they either didn't care (fine, it's not real and I get digging the apocalypse vibe) or were so divorced from the process of labor and creation that they actually think those things are way too hard for someone to figure out on their own.

If you think humans couldn't do these things without being taught or helped you have a very warped idea of technological progress and human ingenuity. No one taught humans how to build and create, we figured it out on our own, and it was not just smacking rocks together until something clicked either, ancient humans were just as intelligent as modern ones, they could use logic and reasoning to figure out how to do something new based on what they already know.