Note: Work in progress! (Version 2.2)
Try the insult generator or curse generator below. Read below for the formulas to create curses in your writing.
And please excuse the grammar of the outputs.
While writing my Seagull comic, I have been wondering and playing with how they might insult each other and or other birds. And how that might sound authentic in the worldbuilding of the seagulls.
I do appreciate and admire a good insult and curse.
I tend not to curse myself (Unless my head meets a very low doorway), but there can be poetry and humour in really creative curses and insults, especially in Irish, and I have admiration for those who can do it well
I started with the insult generator above. It uses three rows of words in the following catagories and outputs the following formula.
You [Expletive] + [Adjective] + [Noun]!
Example: "You bloody wretched turnip!"
Which is seemingly the formula Shakespeare used (But with better words).
But when I saw it in action, I quickly realised I do not want my characters actually to insult or hurt each other. It's not that type of comic.
So I started looking at creative curses and dramatic outbursts instead. Something a character can shout into the either when they stub their toe on a rock or make a dramatic realisation.
Examples in literature are: Merlins Beard, etc.
This resulted in a few possible formulas that I could mix and match.
- "[Expletive] [Descriptor] [Noun]!"
- "Blasted tide-cursed bilge rat!"
- "Storm-wracked soggy boot!"
- "[Mythic Reference], [Outcome]!"
- "Neptune’s wrath, take me now!"
- "The cursed tide, steal my last coin!"
- "May [Noun] [Outcome]!"
- "May a sky rat snatch away my fortune!"
- "May the Kraken’s belly doom my voyage!"
- "[Expletive] [Noun] and [Outcome]!"
- "Cursed gullspawn and doom my voyage!"
- "Blasted sea devil and take me now!"
Which is much closer to what I want. For the next version, I will work on better words, so everyone does not sound like a pirate!
