#It warms the Cockles of my heart

[magnificent-winged-beast]

[frances-kafka]

nature is healing

[mistressemmedi]

Have you watched Conclave it has the most cunty Italian cardinal in it and I'd think you would enjoy it

Absolutely love the fact that you saw a show with a cunty member of the church and your first thought was "May would love this"

[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.

[explorersaremadeofhope]

@hadrianblackwaters BUT FOR FUCKS SAKE

[eudaimonia83]

I am so. profoundly. obsessed. with this collaboration. It’s been, what, two years in the making? and now the earworm is born 🥰

Like…it has a chokehold on me.

Both Julien and TORRES can rock so hard and wound so deeply…this warm, inviting country love song (that talks about love that could be dangerous but feels like a long drive into an early summer sunset) is just what my midwinter depressed soul needs.

[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🤍🖤

[leonsliga]

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

[dinosaurwithablog]

I was in the mood for stew because it's snowing outside, and stew is a hearty and warming dish. I didn't have any beef so I made chicken stew for the first time. It's delicious 😋 I added all the vegetables that I could find here, seasonings, and a lot of chicken. I made the sauce extra thick because I love it that way. It clings to everything in the bowl. I'm gonna make some bread and I'll be good to go for several days!! I made some bread, but my roommate has already eaten half of it. 😁🤣 That's what is there for, so it's all good, but I better get some before it's all gone. A big bowl of stew with a hunk of crusty bread that I can dip into the stew. Mmmmmmmm. That sounds delicious 😋 I'm gonna go eat. I'm the words of Julia Child... bon appétit!! 😁😍😋

[snottly]

I found you through your poolverine drawings and the way you draw them is among my absolute favorite.

They are cozy, they get to be soft together. I like how you draw them packing a bit more, very biteable, good for them. They deserve it. And the body hair on Logan is also very good, keep the hair, the abs can go, as god intended. I love how you draw the noses in particular, its very distinct and along with the softer colors and lineart i can just look at your art and go !!! My boy snottly !!! Also a big fan of the details you put into clothing like the flannel details or the goofy text wade wears. Anyway hi hello I love you have a nice day goodbye.

ACTUALLY CRYING IN THE CLUB BC THIS IS THE KINDEST MESSAGE ABOUT MY ART OH MY GOD. thank you so much this is honestly so sweet and i seriously appreciate this so much im glad you enjoy my art so much, and the boys!!’ <333 i love u thank you so so much

[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

[the-most-beautiful-duwang]

Hand made

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This taste warms the cockles of the heart.

:)