#language of affection

[absolutebl]

Hii

What are some of the thai nicknames that lovers use between them??? Like honey,sweetie, beloved,etc.

I don't know many of the them but the most common in BL are:

แฟน faen - lover (boyfriend/girlfriend gender neutral)

ที่รัก teerak - kind of like dear/darling (rak = love) sounds like tea-lak, also translated as sweetie, sweetheart, beloved

เมีย meeha - wife/wifie (slang for sub/bottom/whatever tf they are doing)

ผัว puher - husband (slang for dom/top/whatever)

p/nong - complicated but it can apply (like hyung) See Boss & Babe

also use of a different or affectionate pet name - See Daonuea ดาวเหนือ Star in My Mind who uses Nuea with friends but Dao with lovers and close family.

Others we don't hear as often in BL include: จอมใจ, พนิต, ยอดสร้อย, จอมขวัญ (this one shows up in UWMA when Pharm is describing a pastry and "seduces" Dean during the red thread tour), น้ำผึ้ง (honey). Like most languages there are lots of affectionate words in Thai. Plug em into Google translate and you can hear kinda what they sound like.

You'll also hear cute/cutie a lot: น่ารัก nahrak (sounds like nahlak)

(source)

#asked and answered #thai language #language of affection #diminutives #cute names #pet names

[floralcavern]

#Poll #poll time #polls #tumblr poll #tumblr polls #my polls #physical affection #I love physical affection #My love language is physical contact lol

[vroomvroomwee]

If I ever give you an interesting rock without uttering a word, you should know that that is the highest form of love I am capable of displaying and the highest honour I can bestow upon you

#words of affection #acts of service #quality time #gift giving #physical touch #no bro #rock giving #love languages #autism #autistic things #actually autistic #actually audhd #audhd #audhd things #adhd #neurodivergence #neurodivergent #neurodiversity

[classycookiexo]

#intamacy #affection #love language #honestly #love #relationships #dating

[k-wame]

James Bligh & Henry Fox | A Place to Call Home 2016 ‧ 1950s ‧ Period Drama ‧ S04.E05

#nature #a place to call home #james x henry #david berry #tim draxl #kiss #queer #couple #gay #lgbt #lgbtq+ #henry x james #lgbtedit #james bligh #henry fox #perioddramaedit #gay couple #aptch #affection #1950s #lake #intimacy #desire #lgbtqia #love language #period drama #queer media #romancegifs

[yujateaandpi]

Bless rottmnt for remembering that Splinter is an Asian dad.

#His love language is fruit like all Asian dads #Splinter your touch starved kids are desperate for affection #But no they get strawberries #save rottmnt #unpause rottmnt #rottmnt #rise of tmnt #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt fanart #rottmnt comic #rise of the tmnt fanart #rottmnt leo #rottmnt splinter #rottmnt donatello #rottmnt michelangelo #turtle tots #rottmnt raph #tmnt 2018 #rise tmnt #rise fanart #rise splinter

[buggiewhump]

I just think they're neat ❤️✨

#captain laserhawk #ramon #rayman #bullfrog #rayfrog #buggiedraws #bullfrog's love language is physical affection and I'm dying on this hill

[f1-stuff]

ahmadezzrinloy Golfer in arms, Having @.carlossainz55 to watch my back! Nice try @.charles_leclerc 👊🏻🤣

+Bonus: back slaps

#they are soo.... #carlos' love language is violence #aggressive affection i'll call it #they're really in 'don't take him from me' mode #carlos sainz #charles leclerc #charlos #Chinese GP '24 #2024 #gifs #mine #formula one #f1 #ferrari #shanghai gp 2024

[mumblesplash]

heartbreaking: this viral post is saying things you completely agree with in the most irritating way possible

#mumbling #goD #thinking about that one cringing = pearl clutching post i saw a while ago #legitimately good points and the only time i’ve ever seen someone point out the linguistic shift #of ‘cringe’ going from verb to adjective and how that takes the blame off of the people DOING the cringing #like yeah! that’s it that’s the thing i’ve been trying to figure out how to say!! #the insidious shift from cringe as an action of the beholder to a property of the beheld is not only worth examining #but demonstrates a seriously important way our brains can be affected over time by language #that was something i didn’t even notice! sure it bothered me but i didn’t know how to express WHY #and i think it’s so cool to see someone finally manage to articulate smth that’s been pissing me off for years #HOWEVER #my god was op’s phrasing annoying the hell out of me for some reason #just written in such a grating writing style i couldn’t bring myself to reblog it even though i really wanted to

[skialdi]

Sometimes, you just need a hug (whether you realize it or not)

If you’ve seen Stargate Atlantis, you may recognize this scene. I just had to draw it with Quinlan and Obi-wan. It was too perfect.

#quinlan vos #obi wan kenobi #obi-wan kenobi #star wars clone wars #star wars #star wars fanart #skialdi art #;; my art #digital artwork #digital art #anime art #I love Quinlan and a lot of times the interaction that is written in fanfics between him and Obi #Quin being more touchy and his love language being physical affection makes me happy #Obi-wan needs all that love and affection #Plus hugging is good for the health #touch is powerful okay #my first time drawing Quinlan #I kind of mixed him between his comic versions and the clone wars version #hopefully I did him justice #if you read all that then please accept a hug 🤗 #you’re the best

[biracy]

Once u learn to be critical of rhetoric that relies on associating [supposed bad thing] with some form of psychological and/or neurological "damage", u really notice just how prevalent it is on here. Everyone you don't like is delusional, they're insane, they have brain damage, they need to Check The Carbon Monoxide Detectors, they need to Get Help and Go To Therapy, [form of media and/or communication] is literally brain poison, they've had their attention spans destroyed, they're "small brain" or "smooth brain" or "brain dead" or whatever. So many people on here remain seemingly incapable of criticizing someone's actions or views without needing to insinuate that the "problem" is neurological, "in the brain", unchangeable, fundamental. I should not have to explain why it is insensitive, nonconstructive, and oftentimes straight-up ableist to tell someone that they must have "brain damage" because you got into an argument with them online.

#this is what i'm criticizing when i criticize how people on here talk abt tiktok btw. bc eeeeveryone likes to ignore that #i have never said that tiktok does not affect society. it is the specific language of 'brain poison' that i need to call out #open mick night #beck and i have been talking abt this a bit and i think it's important #so many discourses lately but particularly a lot of 'anti ai' posting seems to rely so heavily on the rhetorical employment of #'brain dead' or even that one post that called people who use chatgpt essays 'mentally slow'. and i cannot ignore that

[vivianvivvia]

a universal sign

#yubisaki to renren #a sign of affection #yubiren spoilers #fymanganime #shoujoedit #mine #mine:yubiren #mine:coloring #yuki itose #itsuomi nagi #usergojoana #userinahochi #usernao #kilruas #userdabiluna #this manga makes me wanna learn sign language #it's so cute and wholesome weeps

[britcision]

So I’ve been thinking about cultural Christianity lately and how people tend to get very upset about it without really understanding what it is, so here is a primer

Cultural Christianity is not a choice you make. It does not mean you are Christian, or even that you remotely like Christianity; a lot of people who vehemently hate the religion do so because of their own cultural Christianity

It is not a shortcoming, or a moral failing, or a sin. It just means that the culture you were raised in was predominantly Christian.

Note: I did not say “majority Christian”. Christians don’t need to be a majority to have a dominant cultural influence

Cultural Christianity means you inherently understand and probably use swearwords like “damn”, “hell”, or a variation on the name “Jesus Christ”

It means when I say cultural Christianity is not a sin, you understand exactly what I mean without needing to have it explained - and you probably know the phrase “original sin” or “seven deadly sins”, even if not in full detail

It means hearing about Hades, god of the dead, wealth, and volcanoes, and assuming he’s the bad guy of Greek mythology… y’know, like Satan

(EVERYONE went to Hades when they died. The Elysian Fields, where the best heroes went, was in Hades’ underworld. The Eleusinian mysteries, a cult to Demeter and Persephone, was basically about asking them to tell Hades to give you a cool afterlife

And he would cuz he drank his “respect wife” juice if not all of his “respect women” juice. Did still kidnap her. But she is a major feature and often makes the decision herself or influences his when they’re mentioned together

Meanwhile, people try and cast Zeus as a good parent)

It means having to have a dreidel, a menorah, or a kinara explained to you at a time when you already knew about Christmas trees and Santa

(Yes, Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas, major host of the Mass of Christ, is culturally Christian. Even though Coke invented his aesthetic - that’s the “cultural” part)

It’s when you go to make up a new non-religious or pan religious winter celebration… that is centred around a day with family and gifts which is obviously the 25 of December. Maybe counting down 12 days before

It’s defaulting to calling a place of worship you don’t know the name of a “church”

Cultural Christianity is not something people have a choice in; you don’t pick where you’re born, and there are so many other cultures in places like Canada, America, and Britain that are culturally Christian out the ass! But… you will catch Contact Christianity in any of these places

It’s damn near impossible to consume any American or most Western media without brushing across it; cross imagery is everywhere, Christian demons and devils sneak into media all around the world

Western (and some other) Gothic fashion leans heavily on gothic architecture and, yeah, heavily Catholic imagery

Now, brushing across the media in other parts of the world does not impart the same level of cultural Christianity as growing up in a city with four churches on a single block and a Santa Claus parade

And you can grow up heavily in an entirely different culture even in the Bible Belt (but you know what Bible Belt means); you don’t have to abandon all other culture just because Christianity has a chokehold on your home

But when December (or fucking November these days) hits and you hear Mariah Carey in 3/6 stores, yes, you probably have some cultural Christianity

You sure as hell don’t need to be able to name half the denominations (can you name more than 4?), you may never set foot in a Christian church in your life, and still have a cultural Christian influence

If your street names have “saint” in them

If there are crosses or angels on more than half the graves in a cemetery

If you know how to cross yourself but aren’t really sure when you learned; you didn’t look it up or do research to find out

Now note: none of these have an inherent moral judgement attached to them

It’s just about what the culture you live in has taught you about the world, and there’s no culture that is magically the Right One or better than the others

There’s no reason to expect even specifically Christian culture to be the same around the world; it isn’t. It has the same root, but what flowers from the soil is another matter entirely

There is nothing wrong with acknowledging that you have culturally Christian influences and biases; being human is 90% absorbing information from the world around us and half processing it at best - there’s just too much input, and intentionally filtering out Everything Christian Ever?

Well unless you started at 2 years old, odds are pretty good it’s not really a personal choice kinda thing

And you cannot compensate for these influences unless you acknowledge that they exist, that you did not choose to form them, and that you do get to choose how they affect your actions going forward

Christmas stuffed a bunch of other religious traditions into a single package to make itself popular, but if you learned them as Christmas traditions first… do I even need to say it?

#cultural christianity #especially at this time of the year #it just bothers me when people try and deny it #like they’re ‘too good’ to be formed by the society they grew up in #no friend #your deadass brain formation is affected by your first language

[k-wame]

вrυno мonтaleone & joнnny мaѕѕaro verdadeѕ ѕecreтaѕ (нιdden тrυтнѕ)  |  ѕ2.e24 · (2021)

#verdades secretas #lgbtedit #bruno montaleone #johnny massaro #gay #giotto x matheus #gay couple #hidden truths #romancegifs #lgbtq+ #affection #lgbt #brazil #love language #beautiful men

[jojo-schmo]

"We told our friends they were beautiful and recorded their reactions!"

Click the "read more" for the rest of the Waddle Dees' video :)

I misremembered the Waddle Dee camera crew's broadcast as Channel DDD when it's actually Channel PPP. Sorry... blame the anime for planting the wrong name in my head haha :'D

#king dedede #meta knight #kirby #bandana waddle dee #familial affection #art #Kirby series #waddle dee #channel ppp #can you tell who's love language is Words of Affirmation? hehe #they all appreciate it they just process it differently :P #I had this idea during my lunch break and I SCRAMBLED to finish it before I ran out of time #sometimes ideas come at me out of nowhere it's great #too bad ideas don't always come on command yet lol #team kirby #dream team

[starmocha]

Holding hands... It does help with dopamine production. It can also be relaxing. Thank you for being my stress relief.

#love and deepspace #love and deepspace zayne #he gets annoyed at the homescreen if we're too touchy-feely with him #but!!! #look at this man #his love language is physical touches and affections #god i am so soft for him #🥹 #just know there are more caps but i somehow managed to choose 9 for this photoset #yes sudden rain is always living rent free in my head i will never stop bringing it up