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kyofsonder · 8 months ago

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We don't often make up-front posts about our system or the people in it, but we have a sudden desire to say this into the Tumblr void and no good arguments against doing so.

Having your speaking and/or thinking accent suddenly shift at a random moment for no apparent reason is a hell of a specific experience, isn't it? Suddenly, your mouth just wants to take a different shape and your words comes out in a different way and it's not even necessarily an accent you're regularly exposed to or have a reason to mirror or want to practice. It's just there, all of the sudden, and you ride it out until you either feel it fade or have to mask it around others. It's. A hell of a thing, is all we can think to say.

We're always co-con to some degree, too, so we'll feel the ebb and flow of it as the accent-holder is closer to and further from our shared consciousness. It'll warp our accent into something between our usual/default one and whatever the accent-holder has.

Maybe we've posted about this before and forgotten, but it's weird and fascinating to us every time. Speaking patterns changing is already both those things, but whole accent shifts are... another level.

Being plural is wild, truly. We'll probably never stop being surprised, even by aspects/experiences of it we've known a thousand times over.

#sonders speak #sonder speaks #plurality #the mundane wonder of mundane things #well #mostly mundane #contextually mundane #less so to certain categories of singlets probably #this post has been brought to you by Riley's pseudo-Scottish accent #and was joined near the end by Adam's stoic speech style #as we got progressively more nervous about publicly posting plural things and required his emotionally regulatory intervention #that last tag was also him #dissociative identity disorder #or maybe osdd #endo safe #this is about the experience of plurality itself after all #this is about solidarity among plurals who have this experience #and the “wow that does sound wild you've got irl bonus features” from singlets #... we're gonna think of them as irl bonus features next time we're frustrated with JB #he annoys us by playing songs too loudly in our head #which is rough when we already have a song in our head #and his is also playing over it #maybe thinking of it as irl bonus feature background music could help #and the annoyance with having to mask accent shifts too #which was the actual point of the post that got away from us #in our defense we're tired and it hasn't been that long since we took our night meds #sorry for the personal post all the same

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