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my utopia has disability in it. my utopia includes free healthcare and no-questions welfare and state-funded carers. my utopia includes building requirements that centre disabled bodies — ramps and lifts and dimmer switches and braille signs. my utopia has disability in it. because without disability, it’s not much of a utopia at all

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I feel like there's two levels of chronically online. There's like, the variety where you recognize obscure memes and stupid drama and post constantly but have some sort of tether to reality and have friends in the real world and read the news from time to time, and then there's the kind where you genuinely don't realize that your political position or feelings about popular media are not just non-mainstream but actively fringe and that it's not emotional labor to pick people up from the airport.

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#please? #let’s go rent a cabin somewhere in some state park #and go ham

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it is i, the gasping gusper, once more asking for the worst english slang you can think of (mostly so i can force the 141 boys to say them hehe)

gasping anon, you have opened a can of worms that i am only too happy to feed. buckle up, this is going to get long.

so, a fair bit of the slang used in the uk is regional and won't apply broadly for all of the 141 boys, soap in particular would have very different slang compared to gaz, ghost and price as he's scottish. actually, they'd all use different slang terms due to their geographical locations in the uk, age, race and (assumed) class backgrounds.

for example, simon could say something like "oh for fuckssakes that's absolutely 'angin'!" and that would be regionally correct as he's from manchester. "'angin'" or "hanging" (except with simon's mancunian accent he'd drop the 'h' and the last 'g' in the '-ing' sound) means gross / disgusting. it means fuck all in other places in the uk but from where i live you'd switch "'angin'" (hanging) out with "boggin'" (bogging) or "'owlin'" (howling) to indicate grossness.

anyway, that example aside, i do actually have some slang phrases that i want to share with you. they all vary in levels of awfulness and they should all be understood pretty broadly around the uk.

"stop standing around like a spare dick at an orgy!" = don't be useless. (fun fact: my mum said that phrase to me. cheers mum.)

"noshing him off" = "nosh" means eat/food. "noshing him off" means sucking a dick. english is such a wonderful language.

"they're like a dog with two cocks." = they're happy, annoyingly happy actually. bastard.

"off for a slash" = off for a piss, usually not in the provided facilities.

"tighter than a duck's arsehole" = to mean awkward, stingy or small. it's a bit of a weird one. if you call someone "tighter than a duck's arsehole" you're calling them stingy or cheap. if you're referring to a space as "tighter than a duck's arsehole" it's a very cramped/awkward/small. context is everything.

"nonce" = pedophile. yup. don't call someone a nonce unless you know them VERY well and you know they won't get upset if you say it as a joke.

"what an utter cock up" = same thing as "screw up" or saying that something's gone wrong.

"bollocking" = a proper telling off (for example, i got a bollocking off my mum when i accidentally threw a spider at her).

"bell end" = literally the tip of a dick. don't use this for smut writing whatever you do, it's used as an insult here.

and finally, my favourite saying. disclaimer with this one: it's welsh, not english or scottish so the lads from 141 aren't likely to say it but i want to subject you to it:

10. "i'd rather shit in my hands and clap." = literally what it means. the person saying it would rather shit in their hands and clap than do whatever you've just asked them to do. enjoy that mental image.

anyway, let me know if you want to hear some more english slang or insults. i've got years worth of insults built up inside of me.

#I can hear these! #P I think I knew a bunch of these because they’re in your writings! #I love this

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Aww this is so funny lol ♡

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Fuck picking my WIP Wed post was hard.

I swapped out snippets 4 times before deciding on the final version.

#gemma rambles #I’m trying to minimize screen time during the work hours #I am not being successful

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Seeing other writers on tumblr talk about writing is so validating because all of them are basically:

“I hate writing but I love it more than anything but it’s agony but I have a million stories to put to paper but I barely ever write a word”

And like I’ve always felt this way and I worried it meant I wasn’t supposed to be a writer, which tore me to shreds. But no. That’s just the curse of being one, I guess.

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“Under the Oak Tree” by Siana Park

Details below the cut

#inspiration #Feylands WIP #Palace Hallways WIP

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May Writing Challenge

This May I want to get back into writing. I’m not at all consistent. I’m at a point where I don’t feel like I can work on bigger things, because I can’t guarantee myself to keep working on it in a week from now. So I will take this month as a training month to get back into the habit of writing. I will do this by writing (or trying to write) 200 words every day. Topic is irrelevant. How great my writing is that day is irrelevant. Just 200 words written down. A habit taking 21 days to form was debunked, it does take a lot longer, but 31 days are a start I would say. These are already 140 words, so 200 words every day are hopefully manageable. You're more than welcome to join me if you like 😊

#In line with my last post #maybe this? #Idk - tracking word count isn't super useful to me #but this is at most maybe 30 minutes #I get anywhere from 300 to 700 words in that time #depending on how fast I write and how distracted I get #I could do that

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Updated the COD WIP List. Added 3 WIPs, filled a few more out since I've worked on them, corrected some pairings and details, added a few new categories (Hi Ghost and Laswell!).

Folks, we're at 16. All multi-chapter behemoths. (Even the one-shot is probably going to be 2 chapters.)

Goal for May: Finish something. Anything.

#gemma rambles #gemma writes fanfic #gemma talks wips #I'm not ashamed of it really #It's just a lot #and I want to share them

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#where is the cookie dough? #Ugh fine #Rocky Road I guess #Mint Choco Chip second pick

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Norman Lindsay with his wife and muse Rose Soady, 1909

#Horizon Mirages WIP #inspiration

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Blowing a dandelion is basically you helping a weed ejaculate.

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Hello Gemma!

I wanted to spread some positivity to people I follow in the ghoap/cod fandom so this is for you:

You've always given me such a warm and welcoming feeling ever since the beginning. For someone that seemed so popular, I didn't even know why you followed me in the first place. Not to get too kooky, but you've definitely got a special atmosphere around you.

And if you happen to be reading this at work, get back to work!

You're not my boss, Sairee! (Jk, I'm at the end of my day and coasting at this point.)

Thank you so much. This is so sweet to hear from you. 💚 I definitely don't consider myself "popular" by any means, but I followed you because your writing is so good. It always makes me smile when I see your little egg (please tell me your icon is an egg, or else I'm going to scream) in my notifs. 💜

Now c'mon, get in here - we need to giggle about how freakin' goofy Ghoap can be together. (And when you need a brainstorming buddy, my DM's are open!)

#friends are friends #sairee #covering my face at the prospect of being considered “popular” #because...I'm not? #I'm just me? #Idk I'm just doing that blinking where you're processing but it's not processing #Sending you so many big hugs Sairee #You deserve them for being so awesome

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this does not apply if you wear exclusively leggings. Those things tear all the time you need like a million on standby

#I'm down to one pair of pants #and it's been too cold to wear my skorts #so yes I am struggling

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at this point 2 sunny days in a row makes me feel like im on fucking adderall or something

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