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50 Terms of Endearment

This selection of words used as terms of endearment over the past thousand years shows several items that have stood the test of time, notably darling and dear, and some recurring motifs, such as those from the semantic fields of taste and the animal kingdom. But several belong to their own time: bawcock and bully, for example, are encountered in Shakespeare.

darling (c. 888) ⚜ dear (c. 1230) ⚜ sweetheart (c. 1290)

heart (c. 1305) ⚜ honey (c. 1375) ⚜ dove (c. 1386)

cinnamon; love (c. 1405) ⚜ mulling (c. 1475) ⚜ daisy (c. 1485)

mouse (c. 1520) ⚜ whiting (c. 1529) ⚜ fool (c. 1530) ⚜ beautiful (1535)

soul (c. 1538) ⚜ bully (1548) ⚜ lamb (c. 1556) ⚜ pussy (c. 1557)

ding-ding (1564) ⚜ lover (1573) ⚜ pug (1580) ⚜ mopsy (1582)

bun (1587) ⚜ wanton (1589) ⚜ ladybird (1597) ⚜ chuck (1598)

sweetkin (1599) ⚜ duck; joy (1600) ⚜ sparrow (c. 1600)

bawcock (c. 1601) ⚜ nutting (1606) ⚜ tickling (1607)

bagpudding (1608) ⚜ dainty (1611) ⚜ flitter-mouse (1612)

pretty (1616) ⚜ old thing (c. 1625) ⚜ duckling (1630) ⚜ sweetling (1648)

pet (1767) ⚜ sweetie (1778) ⚜ cabbage (1840) ⚜ prawn (1895)

so-and-so (1897) ⚜ pumpkin (1900) ⚜ pussums (1912)

treasure (1920) ⚜ sugar (1930) ⚜ lamb-chop (1962)

Source ⚜ More: Word Lists ⚜ Notes: On Love ⚜ Love Advice ⚜ "I love you" Word Lists: Love Pt. 1 Pt. 2 ⚜ Physiology of Love ⚜ Synonyms ⚜ Kinds of Love

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late s5-early s6 “firmly best friends but would individually vehemently deny that fact for vastly different reasons if asked” spuffy 🥰🥰🥰

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not a wolf, not a dog, but a secret third thing

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 4.04, "Fear, Itself"

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Cordelia Chase from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

propaganda contains spoilers for angel the series and is under the cut.

Propaganda: She was fridged. She ended up getting impregnated by various demons. All the canon ships for her (which were all m/f) felt very unenthusiastic to me. And she had great tension with a lot of the woman characters.

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hey if you're trans in the us i love you. hey if you're queer in the us i love you. hey if you're a person of color in the us i love you. hey if you're a woman in the us i love you. hey if you're disabled in the us i love you. i love you i love you i love you

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when you dress up your librarian dad for halloween

[image ID: a five panel sketched comic in greyscale of buffy summers, willow rosenberg, xander harris, and rupert giles from buffy the vampire slayer. panel 1: giles stands in front of willow, buffy, and xander with his arms crossed and a stern look, saying “no, absolutely not.” panel 2: the teens lean their faces together and make pleading pouts, and buffy says “pleeeeease?” panel 3: giles moves his hands to his hips and stares at the teens, considering. panel 4: giles rubs his forehead and sighs, saying, “fine.” the teens perk up excitedly, and discreetly buffy holds up a deerstalker hat, and xander holds up a pipe. panel 5: giles stands with the hat and pipe, dressed as sherlock holmes, saying “I feel silly.” from out of frame, one of the teens says, “say the line!” giles replies, “elementary, my dear buffy,” and the teens cheer. as an aside, giles says, “the things I do for you children…” end ID.]

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victor frankenstein had post partum depression

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joint slay (literally)

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This might be a bit controversial 👀 but being negative to real people over a fictional character ain’t it. Sorry not sorry.

A fictional character is absolutely no reason to treat someone disrespectfully unless it’s doing genuine harm 👍🏾 shaming writers for fictional characters is distasteful

Lets be respectful to writer’s and everyone in general!

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I mean surely we all grew up feeling like there was a wrongness inherently deep inside us that will endure for the rest of our lives

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I hate buses so much. Trains are easy, reliable, straightforward. No nonsense. You can trust them. Buses are evil, deceitful creatures who delight in your suffering

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i always forget how much of a hell getting up in the morning during the cold months is until im trying to get dressed taking frost damage like ough augh ugha oagh uagh

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I used to think 'Lies My Parents told me' was a poorly written episode. Spike did not apologize to Robin. Robin is the victim, his mother was chosen to fight monsters and she put her life at risk to do so. Spike killed her not as food but as Spike says as a game. Which makes sense for Spike as the Slayer of Slayers who likes a good fight would hunt Slayers.

Spike with his soul is not sorry.

Meaning the soul is not an instant morality-good-person now. The ability to apologize comes from a strong sense of self and Spike as a vampire with a soul is not there yet. He's trying, and that means something to Buffy. Robin sees the goodness too in Spike or he would not have tried to regress the vampire with playing 'Early one Morning.'

From what I've seen in various recovery centers, the first amends/apologies are made to those we love, those we want to have a relationship with. They are not simple or easy (usually super ugly), but the effort is made because the perpetrator wants that relationship to be safe and strong. Spike does that with Buffy.

Robin is well within his rights to kill Spike, I kinda wished he did that episode. I also wish Spike said he was sorry and regretted killing Nikki, but I don't think Spike had a strong enough sense of self with his new soul for that to be believable.

But just because I wish something was kinder, softer, gentler, does not mean it was poorly written.

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Juliet Landau in Femme Fatales Magazine Vol. 7 No. 5

October 1998

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Angel the Series | 5x22 "Not Fade Away"

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Since the booping has returned, reblog if it's okay to spam you with boops!

I wanna be polite and not spam random people without permission , ,