#It warms the Cockles of my heart

[magnificent-winged-beast]

[echofromtheabyss]

nature is healing

[whinlatter]

Are “prat” “git” and “berk” common British terms that people actually use or is it just a HP thing? If people do use it is it regional or class dependent? Why do you think it’s used so often in the HP world?

back at it with the ‘british nonsense’ series, is it! you know i live to oblige.

i can confirm, anon, that these are all words that british people could plausibly have used when HP was published. they’re all quite deliberately cross-class and multi-regional (perhaps a bit southern english, if anything). whether that’s by design or happy instance, i don’t know. they’re all very mild and look a bit dated now, though. ‘prat’ is still knocking about some extent, ‘berk’ remains one of my mother’s favourites, but ‘git’ has largely fallen out of use except for among those being deliberately archaic and whimsical (i can imagine boris johnson using it with little issue, as a case in point).

the reason they’re used so often in HP because they’re all considered a step below actually swearing, and so would be able to get past the very genteel bloomsbury press children’s book editor who would otherwise censor real profanity. in britain this used to be called the watershed test: there were words that were deemed unsuitable to be used in television programmes before the ‘watershed’ of 9pm (so after children are presumed to have gone to bed), so watershed words would be very much off the table in tv and most media either marketed at children or which children could plausibly consume. so all HP swearwords tend to be words that would have been allowed pre-watershed to comply with these pretty strongly held cultural norms.

it’s quite interesting to track the point at which HP becomes a bit more ok with meatier british swear words and insults. the movies were always ahead of the books on this - “bloody hell” in film 1! the scandal! - and i can vividly remember the gasps of mothers everywhere when ron dropped that infamous ‘piss off’ in GoF in 2005. when it comes to the books, OotP in 2003 has vernon saying ‘effing’ and harry is strongly implied to be dropping the f word in narration on several occasions (he’s in his feelings, angst ridden and foul mouthed to boot); by HBP, we get the first use of ‘slut’, and then of course we have our infamous ‘bitch’ drop in DH, which no doubt reflected a view of the editors that the audience was probably old enough to hear at least one good expletive.

(of course, the most accurate british insult wielded in the books is actually when ron, at the ripe old age of thirteen, canonically calls snape a cunt: ‘D’you know what that’— (he called Snape something that made Hermione say ‘Ron!’) — ‘is making me do?’’. it’s enough to make a girl feel deeply patriotic…)

[jaehwany]

When we were his age, we ran away from home, didn’t we? Really? If we had lived there, we would have both been farmers like our grandparents.

[serenity-black]

Just some of the lovely (spoiler free) comments I've received about Ch 18 of my Season 3 Good Omens fanfiction

🖤🤍 I'm very proud🤍🖤

[slimewad]

it’s so lovely that princess bubblegum and marceline are essentially IMMORTAL it makes me want to cry… queer couples classically have tragic endings in media (bury your gays etc) but our two gals get to just be in love forever and ever and ever and ever and ever. and ever. mwah 💋

[leonsliga]

Manuel Neuer | FC Bayern München vs. SV Darmstadt | 28.10.23

[inv3ga]

i love the old masks they look like they have doggy noses

HOW DID I MISS THIS!? AND HOW DID I NEVER MAKE THE DOGGY NOSE CONNECTION!?

Thank you for enlightening me🙏

[disgruntled-lifeform]

@dangerphd sent me some lovely 3D printed turkish spindles along with what I'm calling an Inspiration Token that I discovered is magnetic enough to work as a needle minder ^_^

I now need to learn to use a Turkish spindle and that means I should find some wool to suit

[oakthcrn]

i am WEAK when someone compliments lark, like makes me weak in me knees.

[bardnuts]

oh just look darling, another pair of twinks in love

[coquelicoq]

behind the news but in case you are still down with the horrid virus i wish you a speedy recovery <3

thank you my love <3 i am indeed down with the sickness and it is very boring. pretty much all i can do is watch tv, so if anyone has any shows to rec to me, please do! due to my specific setup, i also can't really use the computer for very long, so piracy is out...so specifically recs for things that are on the apps i have on my roku (hulu, viki, tubi) preferred. i have so many other things i would prefer to be doing, it's very annoying 😫 but we must persevere !

[the-most-beautiful-duwang]

Hand made

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This taste warms the cockles of the heart.

:)

[beneaththebrim]

my sha po lang fan artbook came in and it's sooooo pretty

got hiyu's changgu charm next to dee's jiling on my keychain now uwu

[doublydaring]

apparently all my irl friends are subscribed to my ao3 so ive gotten several texts like "just read your monkees pornography man. epic :)" like oh my goodness. um thank you. thumbs up.

[themirokai]

Aw the dude who founded my company and is a lawyer but is now semi-retired just asked me for the Word version of contract I drafted and he signed off on because he wants to use it as a template for a personal matter.

My little lawyer heart just went pitter patter.