#the cockles are warm

[magnificent-winged-beast]

[cirilee]

i have a feeling our main audience on webtoon might be teens and not the usual tumblr gremlin who is already well versed in the appreciation of middle aged babygirls

i love spreading the old man yaoi gospel <3

[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.

[nameuserlee]

Oh Davrin, please never stop teasing our dear Emmrich. Anything to hear you say something as funny as "tugging at the old bone" or "hand-to-bone combat" again.

And rest assured, Emmrich can handle Rook just fine. These hips aren't that old.

[wigglebox]

🌊

[official-penis-posts]

https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/hellsitegenetics/743627367944273920

Thank you for the link to the white strawberry cockle debacle!

@hellsitegenetics is my favorite new gimmick blog btw and everyone should definitely check it out.

The “debacle” is that three posts in a row that they analyzed to find DNA resulted in the same organism: the white strawberry cockle.

I do not think this is a coincidence.

I think someone very carefully made three separate requests designed the get the same result

But I am wondering what y’all think:

[echofromtheabyss]

nature is healing

[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🤍🖤

[magnificent-winged-beast]

Getting warm Jensen? 🥵

[4th-make-quail]

You know what I love? I love it when people follow me and then after a while start to use my old man bone zone tag 🥰🥰🥰 spreading the old man fucker agenda, one convert at a time

[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

[theyarebothgunshot]

thinking fondly of misha telling that story about not being able to sleep so his first instinct was to call jenneel. you just know they must talk a lot to feel like kind of comfort -- long distance besties making it work!

yessss that was sooo sweet!! i just know that they are still calling each other all the time <3

[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