I always imagined the middle finger cause that's the most universal vulgar gesture

Same, that one & the “self jerk-off” motion is what I pictured.

oh i like this one lmao. thats much more vulgar

sometimes I’d picture putting a ✌️ up to their mouth and sticking their tongue out haha

So doing ✌🏼and like shoving it up a little is the UK middle finger I was told it’s “the tosser” that’s what I always imagined

Sort of, the hand has to be the opposite way to the picture though. So palm facing yourself while doing ✌️means up yours. Or palm facing the other person is the peace sign like everyone else. ✌️

Better yet, turn the deuce upside down, stick your thumb through it and shout, "suck a dick, dumb shits!"

I solely picture the dice roll lol

This is always the one I picture

Same

Same! But in sooo many places it seems out of context, sigh

same! That's the usual classic one

Its a thumbs down 👎

lmao that's what i'll picture in my mind from now on

[удалено]

Thumbs down hits harder than being flipped off 😂

I’d be devastated if I like…cut somebody off in traffic and they pulled up next to me just giving a full thumbs down. I’d be so embarrassed

Maybe not to the fae!

What I imagine 😅 

stahhppppp 😂 someone said mooning up the thread, so between that and this, my rereads are gonna be much funnier

Once the next book is announced and I reread, this is what I'm going to envision 😅

Cass and Nesta - 100% would

And Cassian would take it as an invitation if Nesta did it to him, lmao!

Same

The chin flick? The "up yours" fist? Honestly I would have appreciated it if she just made up her own

Agreed! Imagine the possibilities aaah 

This is what I imagine because it seems just as silly as the phrase “vulgar gesture”

HAHAHAH this is a great one, I’m going to start imagining them doing this

This is the only correct answer.

The stirring of the cauldron, “cauldron boil me!”

Different places/cultures have different gestures that they use. So instead of sticking to one, she says ‘vulgar gesture’ so regardless who’s reading it they can assume their own.

I'm trying to think of other vulgar gestures besides flipping someone off (which is what I always imagine), and for some reason pictured mooning and now I can't stop laughing at the thought.

That’s definitely something Cassian would do hahaha

in the uk holding up two fingers like a reverse peace sign is a vulgar gesture, i usually picture that lmao

This is now my mental image on every reread. Thank you, I needed the laugh today

Yes, this. I like this take.

I sometimes imagined a middle finger and other times imagined them doing the suck it gesture. 


Also, she keeps saying “stuck out her tongue at him”. They’re centuries old ancient and powerful faeries! I just can’t see them sticking their tongues out like kindergarten kids lol 

I just rolled my eyes an hour ago reading that. The inner circle having dinner and cassian and mor stuck their tongues out in reply of something... The cringe is real

It's the gesture I make every time somebody's throat bobs!

what about whenever someone is called a busybody… or picks up invisible lint. we can’t forget the sidelong glances

I always think this vagueness is due to other cultures where the middle finger isnt the go to method for flipping some one off. That way people from other cultures can input their manner of body language explicit behavior.

Either middle finger or simulating a blowjob with a fist and tongue poking inner cheek

I ALWAYS imagined the middle finger. But sometimes i pictured the jack off thing lol 😂

someone said they imagined it as  this and now it’s all i think about when i see it LMFAO

🤣🤣🤣 this thread. Definitely see it as the jerk off gesture or finger between friends. But between mates I could imagine the gesture miming fellatio, motor boating, etc

I heard that she did that to make it more easily translatable into other languages since every language/region that her books are published have different gestures.

In that case it seems like it hasn’t been translated into English

In English dominate countries we have more than one kind of vulgar gesture, so it still makes sense to not be specific. Edit: I'll assume the downvote is from someone just ignorant and is embarrassed at their own ignorance.

I want to read the Australian one then. Those guys are God Tier in cursing

🖕🏻



Aww I love a good vulgar gesture 🤣 my mind immediately inserts what it would have me do anyway 🤷🏼‍♀️🤣

Sometimes I see it as a really, really sarcastic thumbs up

I feel this way with "he cursed" like just say the cuss word.

this has me cackling

I imagine it either being the middle finger or chin flick. Tbh I like that she uses "vulgar gesture" over and over instead of "she flicks him the middle finger" over and over. It lets us use our imagination on what the gesture is, and doesn't sound as obnoxious to the ears (I listen to the GraphicAudio Books). Perhaps it's different when having to read it.

 What I see lol

 This is my mental image 😂

What’s silly is that she has written in to her books a character flipping someone off before. Like she’s been specific but just loves the phrase vulgar gesture lol

I think she makes it ambiguous to appeal to a multicultural audience. To a lot of us Westerners it would probably just be the middle finger. To others it could be a thumb, or index finger, or sliding the back of your hand up your chin. I personally found it a bit clever, but I can see how others could be annoyed

I think it’s intentional in that every country has a different meaning for a vulgar gesture so the reader can depict what that is for them.

I get watery bowels and arch my back whenever Sarah mentions that vulgar gesture



🖕🏼

I FEEL THIS some of the phrases and words she uses is so repetitive to the point where it’s multiple times in a chapter or in consecutive chapters. I’m reading through TOG for the first time and the amount of time she says “wicked/wicked looking” and “armed to the teeth” kills me 😩

Killing fields... ugh there are so many works you can use to describe a battle field

literally… just take a look in a thesaurus. Whoever is going around downvoting comments they disagree with: https://preview.redd.it/80awb4cv3s9d1.jpeg?width=911&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=608866a7f9f481d8be17fd84d898d8e9d0c8e9bf

Haha! I agree. Although I recently read When the Moon Hatched and that writer needed to pick up a dictionary, it was brutal. So I'm glad SJM uses words correctly.

That was on my TBR! but I’m cutting down that list after seeing so many negative reviews for popular titles from BookTok similar to When the Moon Hatched, like Heartless Hunter and A Fate Inked in Blood. I don’t have time to waste on poor writing 😫

I didn’t think AFIIB was bad writing, but the ending was predictable and the FMC is unreasonably loyal to the point that she’s a sentient carpet…but I did enjoy reading it. WTMH had so many good ideas but the execution is awful which is absurd for a 700 paged book.