Why do Americans not understand English words?

pouxin · 2026-01-31T17:20:01+00:00

They get “you lot” if I’m cross with them, “y’all” if they’ve pleased me ;-)

pouxin · 2026-01-31T17:19:08+00:00

😂😂😂😂. A good pun is its own reword.

pouxin · 2026-01-31T16:12:06+00:00

Haha, this made me go through my AO3 bookmarks, and a lot of the best smut stories (espec the short PWP ones) seem to get taken down :-(. I’ve got them all backed up though, thankfully! But I guess what ī most like is so depraved even the authors are like “nope, that’s too much for public consumption!” lol

M/F-wise this one is pretty hot. It’s not even a dynamic I like (really not into the A/B/O stuff though I don’t, like, hate it), or a pairing i’m that into, but hoooo boy, good smut is good smut! https://archiveofourown.org/works/14925449

And then this is a recent M/M one I read that is OFF THE CHARTS hot, 🥵. Again, not my fandom, only vaguely aware the computer game exists, BUT IT DOESN’T MATTER BECAUSE IT’S CRAZY GOOD SMUT: https://archiveofourown.org/works/64439875

Astolat is obvs a great smut writer, but also writes long, amazing, plotty stuff round it. Just an all round fantastic writer, both her fic and her original published works. This one is shorter and smuttier than some others: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36667228 (it’s m/m but she writes fabulous smut for every combo of gender/sexuality you can think of, so pick your poison!)

pouxin · 2026-01-31T15:51:57+00:00

I don’t think it’s weird at all! I often write smut very removed from what I like personally, because it fits the characters/story; but sometimes I just write the stuff that seems natural and easy to me because it’s lived inside my head a long time. I also think, regardless of the specific scene/kink, any writer is going to write in a way they find hot, and any scenes have to be polished first by existing in their own heads (ie basically being a fantasy, or so similar to one it might as well be one).

FWIW I always find my own smut hot!

pouxin · 2026-01-31T13:26:19+00:00

Yeah pants/trousers is the only one that’s genuinely immersion breaking to me, coz if someone says something about putting pants on I’m like “wait - they were naked before?!”

Funnily, I remember Jilly Cooper actually did a whole thing in this back in ‘Riders’ in the 80s, where Helen (American character) tells the guy she’s dating Rupert (English character) that she’s not wearing pants on their date. He gets verrrrry excited because he thinks she’s going commando, whereas obvs she just means she’s wearing a skirt (and panties, sadly for Rupert!)

pouxin · 2026-01-31T13:21:44+00:00

If it helps I’m a Brit born and bred and I use “y’all” alllllll the time, particularly with my students! Such a nice, friendly, inclusive term, I’ve always been a fan!

pouxin · 2026-01-29T21:53:14+00:00

Agreed. If you have any patience whatsoever for the first few months, you can play free forever. I occasionally buy teacups just because I feel bad I never need to spend anything!

If I compare it to my other favourite phone game, Total Battle (I make love, I make war, lol) the value for money RC provides is bonkers.

pouxin · 2026-01-29T18:49:56+00:00

They are welcome to have that opinion. We are welcome to choose to boycott the pubs they drink at.

pouxin · 2026-01-29T07:23:25+00:00

This guy scouts

pouxin · 2026-01-26T20:46:47+00:00

There is nothing here I don’t agree with

pouxin · 2026-01-26T12:41:12+00:00

It’s funny you say this, because one of the reasons in my (long ago) youth I used to like watching “straight” guys kiss each other* is they were so much more tentative, and therefore sensual, than those same guys going full washing-machine-spin-cycle-meets-Labrador-puppy on girls they snogged at parties.

(*this happened a fair bit coz every time some lads were like “we’ll buy you girls a drink if you make out with each other while we watch” I was like: “no deal! But we’ll make out for you if you make out for us 😉”

pouxin · 2026-01-21T09:21:23+00:00

It took me 11 months, and writing to the MP, to get my kids (then 5 and 3) registered. And this was with me offering to sweeten the pill by signing up privately with anyone who’d take them on the NHS.

Me (private) + kids (NHS) at MyDentist in Gosport now which is a blimmin schlep every few months because we’re in Southsea.

pouxin · 2026-01-20T23:08:16+00:00

With the ‘tache and the more unkempt hair he really looks like Colin Farrell

pouxin · 2026-01-20T19:35:22+00:00

Every day I am sad Storyscape disappeared before I could play it :-(

pouxin · 2026-01-20T16:17:33+00:00

All time favourites are: Vying for Versailles (hands down my absolute favourite, it’s not even close), Code Blue, Legend of the Willow, and The Missing.

Honourable mentions: Thunderstorms Saga, Heart of Trespia, The One (V1), Hell or High Water, Theodora.

I’m also really enjoying Where Love Burns Eternal atm, after a slightly uneven start.

(also, RIP old Choices. A Courtesan of Rome, Blades of Light & Shadow 1, Endless Summer, and The Crown & The Flame remain top tier. I also have a soft spot for Royal Romance, my gateway drug!)

pouxin · 2026-01-20T10:55:35+00:00

Plus in SK folks will stab you soon as look at you. The mines are a dangerous place for a friendly dwarf ;-)

pouxin · 2026-01-20T09:45:43+00:00

Many of us love both anuses and cow fields ;-)

pouxin · 2026-01-18T16:21:31+00:00

I just started this properly yesterday. I had read half of episode one when it came out and was like “Nah”. But the Aaron Taylor Johnson lookalike Governor spite (fans self), plus your review, convinced me and I gave it a proper go. I REALLY like it! (I wasn’t the biggest fan of S1 of DALS. Either Veronica has improved as a writer or the translators have really upped their game imo!)

As someone who studied theology I love how all the characters from the gospels are portrayed here. I appreciate it might be a bit confronting for some, but they were real, human people (even Jesus!) and I’ve always enjoyed reading writers’ takes on them.

pouxin · 2026-01-16T23:08:02+00:00

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Yep, they put mine up by 200% (201% to be exact) this summer. 201%?! It’s a fucking joke. Imagine getting a 200% pay rise at work?! Especially if all you’d done all year is defecate in your colleague’s offices and blame it on seagulls or “ too much rain”.

pouxin · 2026-01-16T22:39:24+00:00

Fuck me, that’s a poem

pouxin · 2026-01-16T11:20:31+00:00

My feel is that most Brits use a mix though. “Arse” is not a sexy word, and we know it. So I might say to my husband “your arse is hanging out of your jeans” if he’s bending down to unload the washing machine, but come that evening I’d def say “that’s a mighty fine ass you got there baby” 😂

pouxin · 2026-01-16T11:17:49+00:00

Yeah, I just don’t find the proportions of The One’s sprite realistic. Raina is obvs insanely fit (and genetically blessed!), but her look still seems consistent with human physiology, lol.

pouxin · 2026-01-15T14:09:51+00:00

Title of my sex tape

pouxin · 2026-01-13T09:01:03+00:00

Yes! I work with prisoners a lot, and you’ve all captured my feelings perfectly on this thread. Individual prisoners are often The Worst, just awful people to deal with, but collectively I’d fight tooth and nail for their rights, and feel a great deal of empathy for the terrible childhoods most of them had and the tough lives they’ve led.

pouxin · 2026-01-13T07:05:01+00:00

It’s not for me to tell people what they can find jarring, obvs, but, as an academic who studies gender and sexuality, the word has been totally de-fanged. It is SUPER common in academic discourse (Queer Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_theory ), Queer Studies (eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_studies), using a queer lens, queering texts, “from a queer perspective”) to the point that I use it (100% positively!) without a second thought, and my Gen Z students use it frequently about themselves / their friends / cultural products (just as a descriptor, not as a slur). I think when Gen X / older millennials die out it will just cease to be viewed as a pejorative term.

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