No puedo creer que pa tener tanta variedad de culturas y comidas, el spic anon no pudo echarle más sazón a su insulto :(
Me insultan mejor en latam. Step up your game, spic anon
throwback to that one time que googlee todos los insultos racistas/xenofobicos hacia latinos, los publiqué y tuve anons preguntándome "no hay slurs para x país? 👀"
El momento menos insano de Latinoamérica
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XW's conversation with Ning-er's dad where dad is like, "You can't seduce my daughter it's inappropriate" and XW is like, "What's inappropriate about it? Theoretically, there would be nothing wrong with me marrying your daughter" while Ninge-er HAS NO IDEA THIS CONVERSATION IS HAPPENING OR THAT ROMANCE WITH XW IS A POSSIBILITY is giving me major "Lizzie Bennet declares to Lady Catherine she could marry Mr. Darcy if she wanted, while he has no idea the conversation is happening and thinks she still hates him" vibes
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for anyone who types out ofmd characters' accents in their fanfic
when you phonetically type out someone's accent in a piece of prose or fiction, i need you to understand that what you are saying, what you are showing in your work, is that:
this person's way of speaking is strange, unusual, and/or funny
this person's way of speaking is uniquely strange, unusual, and/or funny compared to the rest of the cast of characters
that you can't imagine someone speaking "with an accent" unless you're typing it out sound-by-sound
if you have a cast of characters, all of whom with their own unique accents and inflections in the way you speak, which characters do you pick to spell out their speech phonetically, and why them? why is that character The Other?
if you're doing it because you think it's funny, why is it funny? what's funny about that person's accent versus the other characters?
and to bring this back to OFMD, like
if you write Ed and/or Fang's Kiwi accents out phonetically, but you don't write out Stede's, why?
what is it about Stede's Kiwi accent that is less unusual or funny to you? bc Stede does have a posher accent than Ed and Fang, but he still has many of the same Kiwi inflections when speaking English.
think specifically about the fact that Taika Waititi and Dave Fane are Māori and Samoan, and the distinction between rural and more metropolitan NZ accents, and how race and class intersect here
when it comes to Buttons and the distinction between Scots dialect and writing an "accent", just think about what that means - are you actually using different verb and word forms (eg how Buttons uses the pronoun "ye", which is pretty common in a lot of Scottish-English and Irish-English, but isn't so common elsewhere), or are you just sounding out the words you think are funniest to imagine him saying?
do you sound out Buttons' accent, but not Wee John's? why, why not? when you listen to Wee John's accent, do you know where in Ireland he's from?
have you perhaps searched the history of Ireland, and why Ulster accents, especially Northern Irish accents, are mocked and othered in the ways that they are? especially thinking about the typical differences between how Catholic and Protestant northerners talk, and why they're mocked in very different ways? all the class and sectarian implications of that?
if you're taking the piss out of Izzy's accent, do you know literally anything about the North of England and the historical implications of that?
do you know that accents like con o'neill's, let alone ewen bremner's and kristian nairn's, are still looked poorly on by a lot of posh people and english people, to the extent that broadcasters and presenters are pressured to present themselves with more "neutral", "easier to understand", and generally "less poor", "less regional" voices?
i haven't seen anyone take the piss out of Oluwande's london accent or Frenchie's west country one, and none of Jim's, either, which is good, but like, here. ask yourself this.
when you're about to phonetically write out someone's accent, what is the history of the accent that you're pointing out as unusual or funny?
how do race and ethnicity come into it?
how does class come into it?
how does religion come into it? (i don't care if you're an atheist: religious sectarianism is a huge part of class perception, and of how people talk and their accents)
are you mocking the character's perceived lack of education? do you assume any of the characters in the show are poorly educated because of their lower class or regional accent?
are you mocking character's disabilities or signs of neurodivergence? (eg with Pete's lisp)
this applies to basically everything but like, esp in ofmd where we are blessed to see this gorgeous array of accents and styles of speaking, and then i read fic where it's like "Oh well some of these people just talk funny and i'm gonna make the whole thing about that" is uncomfortable
there's nothing wrong with commenting on accent, comparing accents and speaking styles, or having characters tease and comment on each other, etc! there's also nothing wrong with specifically phonetically spelling out one or two words when a character is commenting on it, or having certain characters notice inflections and stuff
but when you write out someone's whole accent, you're basically saying "this person just talks sooo weird compared to everyone else i have to make a whole thing" about it and. feels bad, man
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sculder is a great ship because it’s like if a straight ship were gay. and i don’t even mean that in a bi4bi or t4t way. i mean it in the “the audience sees the subtext everywhere and desperately wants it and the show runner would rather kill themseves than do it but i guess they’ll throw them a bone sometimes” way. the x files made straight viewers feel like a gay person desperately looking for clues. for decades!
literally said “maaaaybe they’ll be romantic,” and dangled it over msr shippers heads, AND TOOK IT BACK like it was lesbian!quinn fabray
it wasn’t even rly a will-they, won’t-they thing. it was “they won’t and fuck you for wanting it.” meanwhile all the ads were both actors pseudo-fucking.
god tier. hilarious. inspirational. we need more underdog het ships.
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