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A selection of strange and cryptic personal ads from The New York Herald, 1860s to 1890s. 14/?
#in the 8 years since I first posted these they have updated from photocopy quality microfilm to scans#the blue veil one sent me down one of the most interesting research rabbit holes I've been down in a long time#which i will definitely be writing about once I have written the 47 other things on my list#writing prompt#victorian#history#personal ads#ny herald personals#1860s#1870s#mysteries#gossip#journalism#writing prompts#writing inspiration#writing
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Here are my favorite of the personal ads from April.
This isn't a personal but I included it anyway
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Went looking for an old photo from when I lived in Tucson and found this instead. It is 100% legit.
#tucson#pirates#wanted ads#personal ads#they discontinued the personals wanted ads shortly after this
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Hop into the Time Machine, kids! It’s time to talk about how to find a date when your only options involved landlines, the postal service, or actually leaving the house.
You had to describe yourself in a short paragraph, usually 100-150 words, which didn’t leave a lot of room to pack in all the info about what made you the perfect choice. So there were lots of abbreviations to make sure you maximized your potential. A BBW (big beautiful woman aka not skinny also euphemised as zaftig or Reubenesque) in search of NFNF (no fats no femmes, common in gay male ads) preferring instead someone who’s HWP (height/weight proportional— gosh we spent a lot of time assuring people we weren’t large). she’s DDF (drug and disease free), with a GSOH (good sense of humor). I learned them all eventually, and I loved to read personal ads, even/especially when I wasn’t interested.
My first college job I worked in an Indian restaurant and became friends with our waiter who went on to be a fairly big time movie and tv actor (he played Principal Figgins on Glee!). But my best and longest-held job was at a used bookstore which also sold used porn. As in, you could buy your dirty mags, leave for a few hours, then come back and trade them for others. I learned so much, I tell ya. Many of the mags had ads in the back and my morbid curiosity made sure I read every one of them. Leg Show was the foot fetish mag, and I remember there was always an ad from a man looking to buy used shoes with the impression of the woman’s foot on the liner inside. He’d pay extra if the footprint was dirty, or if there was a dead bug on the sole of the shoe. One man in a different mag was always advertising to meet a ‘petite, attractive, blonde woman who has been diagnosed medically incontinent’. 1) gross and 2) do you imagine this woman is home and so sad that no man will want her she’s reading the ads in the back of Busty magazine hoping for a last chance?
So, yes, I know all the abbreviations, not that it did me any good.
#lesbian queries#lesbian query of the day#lesbian#lesbian history#gay shit#personal ads#dykes#dyke shit#lesbian love#looking for love#in all the wrong places
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Summary: "Looking for a lady who: likes Chinese food, likes walking in the rain..."
- personal ad in the San Francisco Chronicle , May 1985
Pairing(s): BJ/Peg, BJ/Peg/Hawkeye
Length: 2928 words
And this is for @aahsokaatano who I promised I'd tell when it was done!! 💜
#personal ads#personal ad au core#m*a*s*h#mash#mash 4077#bj x peg#bj hunnicutt#peg hunnicutt#hawkeye pierce#bj x peg x hawkeye#based on the pina colada song
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sexy australian guy on a boat with a huge mustache stock photo
#clip art#clipart#90s#stock photography#stock photos#nostalgia#90s aesthetic#art#photography#bbs#aussie#on a boat#personal ads#mustache#australian#sydney opera house
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René (20, they/he)
Laid back butch and Drag Queen in training looking for people (20-23) to share a connection with. Main interests include the videogame SWTOR, DC comics, The ASOIAF book series, drawing, creative writing and langauge learning and swimming.
I'm upfront from the beginning with the fact I want a relantionship but if later you're not feeling the vibe I'm happy to be just friends!
**Generic questions out of the way**
Fave song: Runs in the Family by Amanda Palmer
Fave movie: The Choir
Fave book: Alice in Wonderland
Fave TV Show: Bojack Horseman
#my post#personal#personal ads#wlw dating#mlm dating#nb dating#nonbinary#bisexual#gay#lesbian#enbian#t4t#sapphillean#sapphic#achillean
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#humans#population#Robert Evans#I am not a ZPG person necessarily#but I do like the idea of taking care of the people we have before we worry about adding more#but rich people have other priorities#Elon musk
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I've finished reading every August issue of GCN. Here are my favorite finds from the personals section.
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what the actual fuck
#speaking!#update: added alt text#and yes this is real. unfortunately(?)#update update: if you can't rb this it's nothing personal#you just post x r/eader lmao#hall of fame
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Oh lord yes. I’ve placed a few and answered many more. Back in the day there weren’t many options, and since I didn’t want to play softball, and bars are too late at night for me, I did what I could.
I have to back up a bit, because my first experiences with personal ads weren’t for dates, they were for friends. Back in the 80s in music magazines people wrote in and placed ads looking for pen pals aka people with whom you could write letters and swap mixtapes etc. I answered plenty. The best ones were in Star Hits (the us equivalent of the British Smash Hits) because the people (girls) who read that one were into the best bands— Siouxsie and Bauhaus etc— and you’d end up in the best zine circles etc. I never got one of mine accepted and published in Star Hits, but I did get one in Bop magazine and got letters for over a year from people wanting to be friends. Most of them were from people far away, but one girl was from a different part of okc and we became pen pals then friends in real life and soon I was at her house every weekend and we were caught up in one of those teen girl all consuming affairs (think Heavenly Creatures). It was my first real love and real step into being a lesbian, but it was just a teen fling for her, so after a few years it ended.
Then later in life when I was looking for love once again, I turned to the lesbian personals. Not many in the local paper, and I was always hoping to be somewhere else, so I was always reading the Deneuve mag ads and answering those. Rarely any luck, most of them went unanswered, though there was an occasional bright spot.
I corresponded with one gal in Vermont for about six months (actual pen and paper letters which took days to go back and forth). We progressed to phone calls (expensive long distance phone calls) and it was feeling very nice. We liked the same books, same movies, she said she liked to be the boss in bed. I fell pretty hard and when she invited me to come visit, I bought a greyhound bus ticket and spend three days getting to Burlington , whereupon she introduced me to her boyfriend. Sigh.
When I moved to London, I placed an ad looking for hot girls and/or Buffy fans, but no luck. By then things were moving online and I was out of the loop for a while. It wasn’t until I was divorced and back in the us before I availed myself of personal ads once again, though by now they were called dating app profiles. I never used those to look for love, though. Just a summertime shag when my daughter was away. That was fairly effective until the last time I tried it, when my quest for sex unexpectedly brought me the love of my life, something I never knew existed and which has been nothing but magic ever since. So it goes to show you never can tell.
#lesbian queries#lesbian query of the day#lesbian#lesbian history#herstory#lesbian artists#lesbian art#personal ads#lesbian love#dykes to watch out for#lgbt#lgbtq#lgbtq community#lgbt love
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me when the emotionally repressed character is revealed to have had something happen in their childhood that was completely out of their control but changed them in a way they can never come back from
#text!#did post this on twt but this belongs on the crying about characters website#and yeah this is about jarchivist and also marc spector in the mk show#idk it hit me yesterday that they were EIGHT AND NINE!!!!!!! when their respective thing happened and that ruined me#like it wasn't their fault but they think it is!!! GOD!!!!!!!!!!#holds those autistic bi men close to my chest#should've never smoked that shit* (*took my brother to a cave/read that book)#now im irrevocably changed* (*tied to the shittest god possible/destined to be the antichrist)#edit: this is getting a bit of traction so pls know that blorbo tagging and oc tagging is SOOO encouraged#thank you to the person who added the flaming text miles edgeworth thats so funny
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#personal#meme#the treachery of images#rene magritte#this is not a pipe#id in alt text#ceci n'est pas une pipe#now that's what I call music#had to make this#just had to#ETA: the bottom right corner looked empty#so I added magritte's signature#I think it balances it out
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#keep hearing all this new shit spotify is adding and it makes me wanna start killing#personal#spotify#edit: @ people asking about videos#at least on mobile itll play the music videos to popular songs and is also rolling out video podcasts#havent looked at them myself but got damm there are ads for it
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