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I’ve been compiling a smutwordlist and other handy tools, so I thought I’d share them in case they’re useful for other smutwriters💜

Tumblr resources:

The Smut Writer’s Dictionary by @maybeeatspaghetti

Smut Thesaurus [18+/NSFW] by @prurientpuddlejumper

smut guide by @iguessweallcrazyithinktho

A list of terms for smut by @thebleedtheory

Writing Smut 101: Overcoming Smut Shame by @slightlyrebelliouswriter23

🌈Is it okay for a straight writer to write smut for lgbtqia characters? Anonymous question answered by @thatspookyagent 🌈

🌈Gender Identity Resource List by @pocunion 🌈

🟡🟤⚫️Praising Beauty Without Fetishizing PoC Anonymous question answered by @writingwithcolor 🟡🟤⚫️

🟡🟤⚫️The skin tone guide part 1 by @writingwithcolor🟡🟤⚫️

🟡🟤⚫️The skin tone guide part 2 by @writingwithcolor🟡🟤⚫️

AO3 guides:

The Ultimate Guide to Writing Smut Fic by QuinnAnderson

The Fic Writer's Guide to Formatting by AnisaAnisa

The Fic Writer's Guide to Writing by AnisaAnisa

External articles/glossaries:

The Sexy Thesaurus 1

The Sexy Thesaurus 2

The Sexy Thesaurus 3

BDSM glossary

Dictionary of Sexual Terms

How to Write Smut

Here’s Your Everything-to-Know Guide on Erogenous Zones

🌈Gay Foreplay 101🌈

🌈Bottoming 101 🌈

🌈Gay Sex 101: A Comprehensive List of Queer Erotic Terms and Their Definitions🌈

🌈How to Write LGBT+ Characters🌈

TW->Thoughts on the Depiction of Rape in Fiction<-TW

Funny/Lighthearted:

70 Weird and Wacky Words for Vagina

A Definitive Ranking of 30 weird (And Funny) Words for Penis

If you have any recommendations please comment so I can include them!💜🤭

Also, please let me know if any of the sources I use are outdated, not working or problematic in any way so I can remove them or replace them💜

Last updated: October 2025

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

this used to be a common knowledge

THE MOVIE BROTHER BEAR EXISTS AND IS STILL INCREDIBLE.

Kenai's journey is largely about what it means to be a man

At the beginning of the film, Kenai is trying to prove himself to his older brothers especially Sitka. He thinks to be a man he has to prove his worth by being tough and macho even when it's unhelpful (like riding a mamooth instead of fishing). That is how the whole conflict of the movie comes up

Kenai does a poor job of tying this basket

Why? Because weaving and tying baskets isn't as manly as getting a fierce totem and therefore he isn't interested in stopping and doing a good job of it. He brushes it off

He then gets a totem of love which he hates and even more, is embarassed by (because love is not 'manly') and discovers the salmon laying on the floor were stolen by a bear.

Kenai could (and should) have acknowledged his fuckup and maybe said "my mistake, I'll weave a new basket and catch more" even if it'd take a while

Instead, he decides to go after the bear. Which is stupid (there is zero chance the fish and basket are intact). And sure enough he gets so frustrated when he sees that they are gone that he taunts the bear, which is doubly stupid, but he thinks he's being a man by not letting the bear get away with it.

Then he loses his eldest brother in the ensuing struggle.

And again, Kenai could have acknowledged his mistake and learned from it, but in his grief he only doubles down on 'being a man' by avenging his brother by killing the bear. Which is not gonna fix anything or bring Sitka back, obviously. His living brother even tells him that.

And you know the rest

But here's the cool thing: Kenai was never cowardly as far as the usual meaning of the word goes. If manliness was defined as being macho, he'd have been one from the start! He did have the guts to fight a grizzly bear with nothing but a a spear! But the movie makes it clear that that's not what it is about. Just fighting the bear when nobody is gonna be helped by doing so isn't being responsible, isn't being kind, isn't taking the weight of his actions seriously and THAT makes a man.

Kenai only grows and gets to be regarded as a man by the narrative, when he starts taking responsibility and having more empathy by realizing that his actions have consequences and weight not only for him, but for others.

And I think that's a banger message against toxic masculinity. I think this movie would've gotten a lot more love if more people looked at with care when it was released