Tag: somebody write me a thing

Code Words For “Gay” In Classic Films

copperbadge:

sorrynotsorrybi:

hybridic:

hubblegleeflower:

Has a silk bathrobe

Avowed bachelor

Wears a hat of someone else’s choosing

@dayglopirate relevant to your interests

 Here’s the list: 

  • Curious
  • Extraordinary
  • Eccentric
  • Wears a hat of someone else’s choosing
  • Inconsistent
  • A sunset lover
  • Smooth elbows
  • A man with specific mannerisms
  • Sleeps diagonally
  • A perplexment
  • Rides the carousel
  • An evening botanist
  • Classically athletic
  • Fraternally-minded
  • Wears a light wristwatch
  • Gives a careful handshake
  • Gives too much change for a dollar
  • A fluent swimmer
  • A keen-eyed birdwatcher
  • Fond of his mother
  • Elegant
  • Built on an uncertain foundation
  • Fluttersome
  • A real jackdaw
  • Avowed bachelor
  • A gentleman of the piers
  • Born with the caul
  • Limber
  • An aesthete
  • In the way of uncles
  • He throws a party with an open guest list
  • Son of the moon
  • A boy from Eton
  • Always rings twice
  • Has a silk bathrobe
  • Not quite up-to-code
  • He hitchhikes instead of taking the bus
  • Stays ahead of the game
  • A skillful mountain climber
  • Salutes another flag
  • An upside-down chimney-sweep

tag yourself I’m “a perplexment”

Years ago I once mentioned to a coworker at a theatre where I was interning that my boss was bi (he was out, I wasn’t doing anything I shouldn’t) and she said “Oh! He sometimes shops at the other market!” 

I almost fell over laughing at the expression, and I reported the conversation to my mum later. She picked it up and would joke about it for like, YEARS after. It became a running joke in our family, the expression “He shops at the other market.”  

This ended up being REALLY funny about five years later when we were trying to find a grocery store on a family road trip and ended up buying what we needed from a grocery store with a big sign out front reading BI-MART. We pulled into the parking lot and I leaned over to my mother and said, “This is the other market he shops at.”

OK someone write me a fic where Steve uses some of these in conversation and nobody figures it out until someone (Natasha?) has a Classic Movies marathon. (you’re fond of your mother? um, me too?  I ought to warn you that hitchhiking isn’t as safe as it used to be, by the way.  OH, THE POSSIBILITIES FOR CONVERSATIONAL MISUNDERSTANDINGS.)

Code Words For “Gay” In Classic Films

dnd character concept

teachimera:

animatedamerican:

orfs:

barbarians named in the fashion of early puritans

cleave-the-shield-of-the-coward-in-twain peters

sharpen-your-axe-on-your-foes michaelson

suffer-not-the-blood-of-the-unworthy abrams

and those famous three barbarian brothers: crush-the-enemy howard, see-them-driven-before-you

howard, and hear-the-lamentation-of-their-women 

howard

Me: hear-the-lamentation-of-their-women howard was, interestingly enough, a barbarian feminist leader. He was just unfortunately named.

Snakewife: No, it fits. He was like, “I will hear the lamentation of your women–and I will do something about it.”

bigmammallama5:

dinuriel:

…I would read the hell out of a series of a chosen eighty-five-year-old woman who goes on epic journeys throughout a dangerous and magical land, armed only with a cane and her stab-tastic knitting needles, accompanied by her six cats and a skittish-yet-devoted orderly who makes sure she takes her pills on time.

Battle Granny Gertrude with Phillip and co.

feathersmoons:

star-anise:

feathersmoons:

star-anise:

Sometimes I wonder if my obsession with elaborately tiled floors is a natural consequence of my upbringing in Freemasonry.

Now I want stories about kitchen witches who have their most work-patterns plotted right out in their kitchen tile.

It’s actually called “Mystic Tile”.  The point of the tile in Masonic temples is LITERALLY to show people where to stand and turn at Mystically Important Times.  The angles and proportions are Deeply Symbolic and Significant.  It’s not even a stretch, just putting actual magic into pretend magic.

Oh yes. I just want it with kitchen-witchery type stuff again, rather than more “high” oriented stuff.

roachpatrol:

littlepinkbeast:

so a lot of fantasy settings do the thing where there’s one or two or maybe three human societies, all based on European cultures unless they’re bad guys, and then the non-human cultures are all based on non-European cultures, like orcs will be loosely based on Mongols and there’ll be an animal race with superficial Native American trappings.  And for many reasons this can get really annoying.

But what if we turn it around?  There’s an awful lot to explore if we stick a different angle on it.  I want to see a thing where the human kingdoms are based on, say, imperial Mali around the time of Mansa Musa and the Mughal empire, and then maybe the orcs are based on pre-Roman Gaul, and the marauding beastfolk raiders look like Polish winged hussars, and your secretive-and-xenophobic but wise-and-spiritual elves or whatever are based on all the most alien and unfamiliar bits of medieval Catholicism.

can you even fucking imagine how insufferable a bunch of catholic elves would be

shadowofaseraph:

everbright-mourning:

nixhouseofcards:

eeddis:

rosequuuartz:

I want someone to do a production of a midsummers night’s dream but instead of it taking place in a forest it takes place in ikea

#*squints* you make a compelling argument actually#shakespeare#I want this#I want one where the audience moves with the actors#all around ikea#& the play is stretched out#super long#around & around ikea#until you have lost sense of#direction & time & even language#then back out to the exit#for the very end#puck makes the speech#‘think but this and all is mended’#& then finally you are free#free to step out into the light again#into the mortal realms#or you go for meatballs idk (x)

This is what Shakespeare was meant for.

PLease tell me there’s a lit. theory paper on Ikea stores as Liminal Spaces.

@echolalaphile

incurablenecromantic:

eccentricmisseclectic:

autisticdorumon:

Give me a heartwarming Christmas movie about Satan traveling around the world every Christmas to deliver presents to all the young kids and kids with learning disorders and disabilities who misspell “Santa” on their Christmas letters every year

And Santa’s all like, “You know, I can handle a few spelling mistakes, I got this,” and Lucifer is like “They’re addressed to me, fuck off, I’m doing it.”

Lucifer being protective of his fanmail is ceaselessly entertaining.