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coollyinterferes · 6 years ago

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A concept: Robert absentmindedly speaking (or maybe humming/singing, most likely to himself) in Polari bc yeah, I’ve mentioned this here before and I’m 100% sure he’s quite good at it. He thinks he's completely alone at the time, so he doesn’t put too much thought into it, but then he hears an "OH! That sounded really good!! What language is it?" from behind him, to which Robert turns around, genuinely pretrified, fully aware who the owner of that voice is.

Jonathan has been there for a bit now, listening to the whole thing, ready to ask Speebs to teach him whatever language it is that he was just speaking/singing in because it sounds really nice and interesting.

#;speedwagon withdraws coolly #speedwagon #[also works with anyone he's not out to yet]#[in short: polari is basically gay slang that can be traced back to the 19th century. 16th even]#[it was used by a few other groups of people but it was mostly part of the gay subculture at the time]#[which has a lot to do with homosexuality being illegal back then and the need for gay men to cover their tracks and all]#[so yeah. robert would most likely be dying inside bc jonathan probably has NO idea about this]#[but also: how could he say NO to anything from him??]#[such a huge dilemma]#[r i p in peace robert speedbaegon]#[edit: also fuck it i'm sending it to his actual tag just bc i can. s u e m e ]#;wishlist #;headcanon #(?

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