#Chonny lives in Australia

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I’m starting to realize that my nostalgic YouTuber and my current favorite YouTuber are basically the same 😐

[thespianinthebackcorner]

PSA for the CCCC fandom

this isn't anything serious- I'm just making light of something I noticed and can explain that's pretty widespread from what I've seen. It's more of a nitpick than anything else, but as a writer spelling mistakes bug me, so I'm making a callout post about it lmao.

If you've listened to The Soul Eclectic and looked up the lyrics, whether you found them with google or genius or Spotify or whatever, you'll notice one of Soul's last lines is "Tridential regicide". Of course, that's the killing of a king via a trident, but the meaning isn't what I'm here for. It's the spelling.

All the sources I've seen relating to the lyrics- including Chonny himself, interestingly- spell it as "Tridential". But when you find the word individually for a definition or in a dictionary, it's spelt Tridental, no i. So why is it spelled wrong in relation to the song?

Simple- it's a spelling of a mispronunciation caused by accent. Let me explain (gods that sounds corny).

Chonny Jash is Australian and has an Australian accent. I have a very similar accent, despite being from a different side of the country, but that also means I know how to tick accent-specific sounds. And one of the things an AU accent does- British accents also do this, which is where it comes from- is turning sharp "t" sounds into soft "ch" sounds. British accents don't do this type of thing as much from what I know, but Australian accents soften almost every sharp sound in the English lexicon, it's part of why the accent is so distinctive. We're lazy, we soften sounds and shorten words. And part of that softening turns a lot of sharp Ts into "ch" sounds instead. You can hear it at the beginning, too- instead of "Tridental regicide", he says something more like "ch-ri-den-chal re-chi-side". it happens to the g in regicide too.

When translated into proper English grammar, "-chal" becomes "tial", because in English that's the easiest and most common way to verbalise the sound, and because the t to ch is derived from the British English accent, it's been around and integrated into the spelling system for a very long time. Even writing it as a "ch" sound feels a little strange, because it's been written differently for so long that the ch letter combination has become associated with a slightly different sound most of the time, unless you've grown up hearing the sound verbalised like that like I have- not only do I live in Australia where a lot of people I know have a similar accent, but one of my deadnames began with that "ch" sound, so for my entire childhood I heard ch verbalised like that. Childhood itself is a good example of the resulting sound when you put "Tridental" through an Australian accent.

So the word is spelled "Tridental", but Chonny says it "ch-ri-den-chal" and that gets misspelt as "Tridential" because that's the natural conclusion of spelling the sound that's made. I actually say it the way he does too! I do the same thing to a lot of my t sounds, and that's why I clocked the spelling mistake so quickly after analysing the lyrics for something I'm working on. It's not technically a mispronunciation- it's just accent leading to a misspell.

There you go, I guess. Moral of the story? It's spelled Tridental. Use that spelling going forward.

[44-mr-midnight-44]

Heart and Mind are at peak iPad kid age in my AU (they both spawned in December of 2013), and despite the fact that their species ages RAPIDLY once they're civilised (they're fully mature at three years old, both physically and psychologically) they spawned at a time where it would've been much easier for Cameron (Whole) to hand them iPads and be done with it.

…And he's right. He did give them iPads. Though they had strict screen times and also he restricted the websites they could go on, especially after the fact that while Mind's search history was just seventy Google searches of the same sentence with slight variations about Bionicle Heart's erm… lemme just show this meme drawing I made a month or two ago

…Ya.

Anywho, Heart and Mind as idfants were dumb and impressionable and would probably be extremely easy to kidnap considering they were so full of love they would run up to a random stranger and immediately place their hand on their shoulder and stare into their soul (ha I just capitalised "soul" instinctively) and Cameron would have to rush over frantically and go "STOP NO!!! STOP TELLING EVERYONE YOU LOVE THEM!!! I'm sorry that's how they tell people they love them they're very weird–"

As a result, the idfants played inside for the most part or at a relative's house and were always supervised when they played outside.

However, once Heart and Mind reached juvenid age, per an id's life cycle they developed mouths! And now they could talk and more importantly bite people.

Cameron decided to start letting them walk around the neighbourhood on their own (well, with each other) and would hand them about forty or fifty bucks and let them roam free and go on little adventures. This meant that while Heart and Mind were definitely acclimated to technology and associated phone screens with curing boredom, most of their childhood memories were spent walking around town, eating at restaurants, playing in parks, walking through malls, having fun at block parties, hunting small animals (they still have instincts), exploring forests, going to friend's houses, helping around the neighbourhood, etc. and they became very well known around the community for being total sweethearts that were unusually docile and polite for being little kids.

Cameron would regularly get calls from local businesses that they were some of the best customers they've gotten, and Cameron was very awkward and nervous about it but it had to have felt good to know he raised them well.

And yes this is a Chonny's Charming Chaos Compendium AU, it's seriously canon-divergent but these are HMSW still. Heart and Mind in my AU are anomalous wild animals that became sapient upon being raised alongside humans, and Cameron (Whole) raised them after they spawned from him… …well, at the very least this is the SEPARATION AU of @nkgrimmie and my's CCCC AU, technically speaking in the Main AU they live in a mindscape per usual but I personally prefer the idea of HMSW just being strange nonhuman weirdos going about life in a sleepy Christian town in semi-rural Australia.

Yes I will explain my AU in every CCCC post I make I GOTTA LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT THIS IS BARELY CCCC

[therealsouleclectic]

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(OOC: This is only a Roleplay account! Don't be fooled. So, DNI if you don't like Chonny Jash or Tally Hall, and just basic DNI criteria.)

[thespianinthebackcorner]

Thespian's Masterpost!

hi! Thought I should make this since it's pretty essential to most blogs.

I'm Thespian, although I go by Mirika on other parts of the internet. I'm an Ao3 author, writing for whatever fandoms I'm into at the time, and occasionally dabbles in crossovers with other fandoms with my friend Zhelday there. I live in Australia, so if I take a few hours longer than usual to respond, that'll be why. If I complain about the god-awful heat in December, that's also why.

On here I post about three things: Fandoms, Writing, and occasionally Personal. Okay I used to try and mark my posts with specialised tags but uh I've realised that I cannot remember for the life of me to do that so... sorry. A note, if I talk about my original story, there may be mentions of dysphoria.

I'm an aspiring voice actor and also have a YouTube channel where I make edits! It's quite dry now but I'll have MVs and other things on there later- I'm currently working on a few different videos.

I also have a discord, backcornerwriter. It's a little bland, and I don't have notifs on for it, so sorry in advance. :)

posts I'm pinning for both you guys and my personal reference:

My ongoing conversation with an Ao3 author

Alternate ideas to catboy AUs

Albedo AU I don't have the time for but would love to see if someone else would like to

Side dialogue from my life (feel free to use!)

My fandoms:

Genshin Impact (one of my more common ones!)

Sonic the Hedgehog (another more common one)

Splatoon, its manga included (my third most common)

Chonny's Charming Chaos Compendium/CCCC

Sanders Sides

The Amazing Digital Circus (although you won't see much of this.)

Symbiosis/Silver Thread (thanks to my good friend @monards)

Death Palette (if anyone ever wants to hear me)

Cookie Run Kingdom (though I haven't played in a while)

Ghost and Pals/Qualia Automata

ENA

Monster High

Ever After High

Splatoon

The first three Skylanders games

I dabble in Tintin, Red Dwarf and Star Wars thanks to Zhelday so if I mention Zhel I'll be mentioning them too

Things you Don't Talk About Around Me

Disney (I have no respect after they ripped off Ever After High and killed it)

Politics (sue me but its boring and I'm not here for reality)

AI (just. No. I'm a writer.)

Not really sure what else to add- I am a minor for now, so please be careful how you treat me. I will not tolerate disrespect or just general bad treatment. That also means you can't commission me for stories or oneshots just yet, but if you do put in an ask that gives me inspiration you will get yourself a oneshot. I just can't be paid yet. (And a reminder that paying for/making money off fanfiction is extremely illegal and removes the one legal defence of fanfic writers as a whole, so please don't take us all down!)

I do sometimes write fanfics on this site, but not often as I'm not good at tagging them and I don't want to make anyone uncomfortable.

The ask box is open, but unfortunately not for donation asks due to personal reasons, please come in and talk if you like!

Thank you for getting this far, sorry for the lack of graphics, and have fun!