#lmao forgive me

[mackani]

what do the kanji on izuku's shirt(s) in your to die (and retry) fanart mean?

It says “body bag” haha

[mint-chocolate-rooibos]

who taught her that

[shwarmii]

(tumblr put this under my Recommended Posts; so im sorry if this is too late, i just saw it)

maybe something Shakespearean? ive heard "Romeo" be used demeaningly and sweetly specifically towards men. Shakespeare used several terms if endearments in both ways too, like "lambkin" which is unisex ("Sir John, thy tender lambkin now is king." - Henry IV, Part 2; which the context of the line was it being Pistol's way of saying "uhh guess who died") but he also had others (another one of mmmmyyyyyyy favorites is "ducky")

one of my favorite ones "time-based insults that a story turned into a term of endearment" was "hellkite". i think Lestrade could be a good candidate for one of those, perhaps (you would know better than i). this was another line from Shakespeare, but i took it for a Regency era story to have be a insult-turned-affectionate that is still unfinished and you are more than welcome to use it if you want (it was used in Macbeth if you want a quotation; Macduff said it as a kind of pun, about how Macbeth killed Macduff's wife and kids "in one fell swoop"). it just means someone is "devilish (in the sense of being cruel)". it could work with a Sherlock that is obsessed with birds additionally, as it is referencing being a hellish bird of prey if you were to look at the etymology's meaning. it is also unisex

historically, "boy" has been used in both "sexy and demeaning" settings coming from another man. it does have some racial tension to it though, as it was more often used against Black men from White men, but it is a racially-unilateral term to address young adults in demeaning and "sexy" ways though, of course, it all depends on context. i know people were suggesting things like "pretty boy" and whatnot, and thatd be a good direction to take as adding an adjective in front of "boy" helps lessen the potential racial charge significantly while still upholding 'boy''s historical usage as "both demeaning and sexy". i think "my dear boy" is probably the most famous usage otherwise? at least, its famous enough to be a book title for the "My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through The Centuries" anthology from Rictor Norton, it goes over about 2,000 years of gay love letters (alas, the book is out of print (it originally came out in 1998) and is now worth hundreds of dollars so i have never read it in full. but a friend did introduce me to this website last week https://rictornorton.co.uk/dearboy.htm which has all the letters as far as i know? i havent sat down and read it yet, but i will skim through the 1800s and up to 1914 for you), along with its variants of "my darling boy" and "dearest boy" and so on. i also found record of Henry Greville to Frederic, Lord Leighton in that aformentioned anthology, dated in the 1850s, featuring the line "You are rather a bad boy not to have given [my sister] or me a signe de vie [aka: the title of a document that is proof a person is still alive, so he's cheekily saying 'wRITE TO US MORE' to his lover]". so. "bad boy" is definitely demeaning yet sexy, or at least so i assume (im asexual lmao). (this may not count, but i do personally have a lot of affection for this one moment in "Gilmore Girls" where Rory is comforting Jess by cooing something along the lines of "Aw, sad boy. What's wrong?". also i have a young boy in my family often cooed at with the pet-name "shy boy" and "shy guy". anyway i digress) a lot of these love letters in "My Dear Boy"'s link features "boy" in some capacity being used throughout the timeline i am skimming through. it's probably your best bet for a "sexy but demeaning" pet-name from the period, but, again, i would recommend doing "[adjective] boy" to lessen the racial-based historical connotation of just straight-up "boy". but you get it

there's also "kid" (most famous in Casablanca's "Here's looking at you, kid") for a more unisex term, which has been used for a long time as well (i couldn't find exactly when it started being used romantically; but its been used for goats since 1200s, and started being well-known for it to informally be used to refer to children by the 1840s (earliest accounts are apparently from the 1590s, so it took a while), it started being used to refer to young thieves since approximately 1812, and it was used as a verbage to "tease playfully" since 1839. this is all cited from Etymonline, btw. highly recommend that site, very reliable, not good for linguistic professionals as its pages aren't complete but it is great for amateurs who just want an idea of things)

theoretrically, "young man" could work too. quite patronizing, but not very romantic. but the meme on tiktok going around with the audio "Oh, you're such a handsome young man. Can you give us a big smile?" with lots of people making the trend be about their ships gives me some hope that it could be made romantic. idk

one of my favorite things to do is read letters, esp love letters, (if that wasnt already evident by my interst in "My Dear Boy") and it is rather unfortunate that i cannot think of a single time a letter ive read from a gay man in the 1800s used a term of endearment not already popular with straight couples. they use "dear/est", "dear heart", "[Forename] dear", "darling", "sweet", "precious", "beloved", "adored", and so on. i looked through the "My Dear Boy" anthology link above for any more from the 1800s - early 1910s. i skimmed them for this post (again, haven't read things in full. just skimmed to attempt to be helpful), so feel free to look more in depth. but there was "Sir" being used rather coyly by John Church in his 1809 letter. im ignoring Beethoven's love letters to Karl because that is his nephew that he was the legal guardian of (needless to say: ew) especially since they called one another "father" and "son/child" (again: ew), so im ignoring almost of those "pet-names" between them. i will say "(Little) rascal(, best little rascal)" is kind of cute to call your hypothetical partner, if we just ignore my source of it being era-accurate is Beethoven towards his nephew. i digress. Franz Schubert and Anselm Hüttenbrener made "friend" feel very cute, though it was also used in several OTHER of these letters as a term of endearment between the pair of letter-writers (i still assume you will not be using it due to contemporary understandings of the word, and i dont blame you for that, esp since it isnt demeaning). but yeah! i skimmed through a lot and those were the best o found from doing that. i skimmed through the letters from "1807 - William Beckford & Master Saunders" and up until the end of "1912 - Rupert Brooke & Denham Russell-Smith", as google told me Sherlock Holmes is generally between 1880 - 1914 (i read all of the 1800s in case of precendence, since there otherwise there would have been only 8 letter exchanges to look through and that seemed too small a sample) and my dumbass wasnt exactly sure when your Holmes story takes place, and the next section was in 1917-1918 for the love letters in "My Dear Boy". most of it was "friend", "boy", or one of the Also Famously Used By Straight Couples pet-names. "comrade" was also used in smattering amounts, but i dont assume youll use it

also, because im me and i love our pet bird, i would also like to submit "pidge" as a pet-name (yes, it is short for "pidgeon"). it is rather archiac, and is most famous for its usage in Disney's "Lady and the Tramp". i couldnt find anything about the pet-name, but i did find three people from the early 1900s who had it as a personal reference (Noah Berry Jr, Pidge Browne, and George Browning). i know "dove" and "turtledove" would also technically work as they are types of pidgeons, but yeah. a bird-based nickname for the bird-nerd is a fun idea to me and i had to shout it out before i continued further

i think you could get the "demeaning but sexy" from most effeminate terms of endearment. but i also understand if you want it to be "a demeaning term anyone could call you, not just an effeminate term only a romantic partner would use". in which case, id circle back to insults-turned-endearments personally, like "wiseguy" or "smart alek" or something (i got a migraine from skimming, so im too tired to research at the moment if those are period-accurate lol). i also know you dont want to use "sweetheart" for all genders, despite it being a genderless term, as it is specifically demeaning to women under certain contexts and you want a term demeaning to each Sherlock gender option — but i think you could make a case for it being a genderless term of patronizing in your game. youd just have to preface its place, i think. but. like. we're already allowed to be a queer Sherlock and specifically are already allowed to be a nonbinary Sherlock in the 1880s - 1914 era of England and have everyone refer to us with they/them pronouns (and i say this as someone who also uses they/them pronouns): giving a preface that "sweetheart" was used demeaningly across genders under certain contexts from men to be very easy suspension of disbelief for your audience. however, it is your game, not mine. if you dont want to, then i wont push

personally, i do otherwise wonder how youre going to also include an option for nonbinary Sherlock Holmes? do they just get to pick which they prefer out of the two? or do they get their own? it is unclear to me (you dont have to answer this element. or reply to any of this reblog. i am babbling uselessly at this point. my dyslexic ass really shouldnt skim lol i did my best, fam, i don't know)

im gonna take a nap is all i know ♡ hope this helped

lmaooo it's hilarious that you've previously said that for Lestrade "the height of their intimacy is using a term of endearment" and then their first use of one (only if Sherlock is a woman which I will say is a little unfair) is when they want to figuratively spread Sherlock's viscera across the seedy bar floor. Thanks so much for your hard work. Good luck from here on

You might think them using your first name is intimate, but the height of their intimacy is using a term of endearment (you won’t hear it much outside of the privacy of the bedroom and in letters though!)

Hahahaaaa 🤣 I suppose I can clarify... Their exceptions from that are in a partly-sexual/partly-demeaning way while they are mad or annoyed or used ironically. They reaaaally think back on using that word later while trying to sleep and hate themselves a little (a lot) extra. Trust me.

(only if Sherlock is a woman which I will say is a little unfair)

Believe me, I looked far for a good word with the same vibe that I could use for MMCs and/or NBMCs. I even asked my discord, and we tried to think of a word that had the same demeaning/sexist/flirty balance, and the closest I think I got was "sport"... which... no.

The word was Sweetheart, in the middle of the rant, if anyone is curious. If you are FMC and have romance points. If anyone can think of a word that strikes that balance of demeaning/sexy vibe for MMCs or NBMCs, send it to me! And if I find it fits, without assuming too much of the player MC, fits the setting, and L's character, I'll add it ❤️😘

[hinamie]

corvidae

[fincherly]

my gf was looking through wesker's wiki page (as you do) and sent me this

and i lost my shit bc it just seems like they're looking at him like girls look at a weird bug

[dapper-lil-arts]

and somehow, that only makes her fall in love more

[purrgilpawkins]

Companion Sexuality Headcanons

a/n: I saw people doing some of these and thought I’d share mine. 🥰

Shadowheart

Bi/Pan! This is, of course, influenced by the fact that she is canonically bi/pan.

Lae’zel

Bi/Pan! This is, of course, influenced by the fact that she is canonically bi/pan.

Karlach

Bi/Pan! This is, of course, influenced by the fact that she is canonically bi/pan.

Astarion

Bi/Pan! This is, of course, influenced by the fact that he is canonically bi/pan.

Gale

Bi/Pan! This is, of course, influenced by the fact that he is canonically bi/pan.

Wyll

Bi/Pan! This is, of course, influenced by the fact that he is canonically bi/pan.

Halsin

Bi/Pan! This is, of course, influenced by the fact that he is canonically bi/pan.

Minthara

Bi/Pan! This is, of course, influenced by the fact that she is canonically bi/pan.

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omggg thanks for reading I hope you enjoyed ❤️

[gearbroth]

Repairs

[hyperkitten224]

the ragdoll is a lesbian: my little dumb personal compilation

[cultivateme]

Ep. 47

[okaioh]

chat is this anything

[ilynpilled]

it frankly pisses me off that what is essentially “rapists and abusers should be depicted as monstrous caricatures because humanizing them is inappropriate” is considered a very moral and enlightened position to have on art by so many people. a rapist can feel pain, have moments of vulnerability, be amiable and charming, express remorse and compassion at times, be a victim themselves, and so on in real life. they are even capable of doing good things. they can have different sides to them and have individuals in their lives that they are kind to or have a decent relationship with. they will be a human being, and that fact encompasses a lot. conflating that with the claim that they are entitled to and deserve forgiveness or absolution is an issue. nurturing a mindset that believes they need to be one note and uncomplicated to be a correct and tasteful depiction of a rapist inadvertently falls in line with the logic of “how could they have possibly raped you? they are so normal and kind to me. they did all these good things here and there.” ok that doesn’t change that they are a rapist.

[wild-magic-oops]

Durge looking at an ambitious Chosen of another god with dark hair, dark eyes, and expressive hand gestures: I can't not fuck him

[starry-bi-sky]

Blood Blossom Au: Baby's First Commissioner Meeting :)

TL:DR This Post: Danny (orphan) gets poisoned with blood blossom extract by Vlad. He runs away from him and ends up under the care of one Pre-Robin Battinson Batman! Starry is loudly pushing her batdad agenda.

(Also known as "Late At Night, When The Nightingale Sings" on my ao3!)

This was a fun rough idea I've been sitting on for weeks, thinking about how Commissioner Gordon and Nightingale's first meeting might go.

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Commissioner Gordon likes to think that he's adjusting to the new normal of Gotham very well, -- the new normal being grown men running around dressed like bats, in military-grade strength body armor, committing acts of vigilantism, -- and slowly, little by little, he was no longer being surprised when this new normal pops up out of the shadows like the world's most terrifying daisy. His shaving lifespan thanks him for it.

....

The kid is a surprise though.

Granted, he seemed to be a surprise to the Bat too.

There's been a string of murders lately, -- which, in Gotham, is kind of like saying there's been another storm during monsoon season. And there's just been another; in some dilapidated building down in south Gotham, with the broken, boarded-up windows and mildew-crawling walls to match. The victim is a man in his thirties, multiple gunshot wounds to the chest, left in the center of the room for the blood to pool out around him.

The place is already secured when he arrives, the building swarmed with officers and the forensic detectives. The Bat emerges shortly after he does -- or, he might've been here the whole time, hiding someplace dark and shadowy. For his own sanity, Gordon doesn't think about it too hard.

The kid is a surprise, and he appears like a bolt of lightning.

He shows up in the middle of a conversation Gordon is having with the Bat.

A whistle, sharp and loud, slicing through the air, meant for open air rather than a confined space. Gordon's ears pierce and protest the sound, and the solemn, murmured chatter floating through the room abruptly cuts off like the swing of a gavel. As he turns towards the sound -- as they all do -- he swears, up and down, that he sees Batman's shoulders jump, just slightly.

At the source, perched on the window, is a boy. A boy in a gray-blue scarf and an oversized black hoodie, one that hangs off his frame and has ace bandages wrapped around the wrists in some attempt to cinch the sleeves. The hood is up, big like the rest of it, and threatens to swallow the upper half of the boy's face whole in the fabric. What upper half Gordon can see, is smeared with some kind of opaque, black face paint. He's holding onto the side of the frame with one hand, on his hip is a grappling hook. A familiar grappling hook.

Gordon has multiple questions, and his officers tense up.

Martinez puffs up, brows furrowing as his face shapes into a frown. Shoulders rolling back. "You can't be here, kid--"

The reaction is immediate, like a spark to gunpowder, the boy yanks his fingers from his mouth and his mouth twists into a scowl. Head snapping over to Officer Martinez, his hood manages to stay on but Gordon swears that as he bares his teeth, the glint makes them look sharper than they should be. His voice is rasp and quiet and harsh; snappish in its hissing; "Put a fuckin sock in it, Martinez. I'm not stayin."

Martinez reels back, and the boy immediately veers his attention off him. Like a switch, his demeanor drops. Despite half his face being covered, his mouth twists into a cringing, apologetic smile. Slanted and off-beat, embarrassed. It'd be disarming if this wasn't Gotham, and if he didn't just hiss at Martinez like he was about to bite his head off.

"Sorry." He whispers, voice deceptively polite and softer now. Gordon has to strain his ears to hear him. "I was looking for him."

He points his finger towards-- Gordon? No, Gordon follows the direction, and finds himself looking at -- the Bat.

The Bat, who always looks stiff as a pole, now looks even stiffer. Somehow. Well, the explains the grappling hook attached to the boy's waist.

"What are you doing here?" The Bat says, gruff and unable to completely smother the stumble of surprise in his tone.

The boy still holds a sheepish smile, and slips off the window ledge. His feet hit the creaky boards with a near-silent thud, the Batman finds his feet and rapidly begins crossing the room.

Gordon notes the slight tremble in the boy's legs as he straightens. He adjusts his scarf, which droops close to his knees now that he's standing, and slings a backpack -- how long has had that? -- off his shoulders. When the Bat reaches his side, he does as he always does, and looms over the boy like a spectre. A threatening mass of shadows cloaked in all-consuming black. Standing next to him, the boy looks teeny in comparison.

The Bat is a man who terrifies even the most hardened criminals, Gordon has seen grown men shiver in fear at the mention of his name. And yet when the boy looks up at him, he doesn't even flinch.

Instead, his sheepish smile melts away like ice under the sun, holding only traces of his previous embarrassment. It remains as a shadow on his face, a small upturn at the corners of his mouth. The boy pushes his hood back just enough to reveal glinting, ice-flint eyes surrounded in tar-black face paint. He holds the backpack up with one arm. "You forgot this."

[dragonlikeleaves]

An idea I had forever ago after seeing Zuko getting ice cream/sherbet for Mai and wondering how that would translate with Sokka.

[peach-moths]

Michael you sweet boy there's not a thought behind your eyes, such an oblivious turtle

Part of @junoinouterspace Rise Teacher AU if you didn't read the first fic in the AU "Slipping Through My Fingers" it provides context with Miles Morales (yes that Miles Morales) and his role in the AU

(Hera and I added the ShellShocked ship to the au because we like that ship and we do what we want it's our au lmfao)