#Trans-Atlantic

[vox-anglosphere]

Titanic's 1st class staterooms were the ultimate in ocean-going luxury

[nomilkinmyteaplease]

Endurance in a new 3d scan by the Falkland Maritime Heritage Trust

[vox-anglosphere]

As grand as Titanic, Olympic outlasted her sister ships by many years

The Old Reliable, RMS  Olympic at the end of her service

[windybluebelles]

All of Fawcett has a trans-Atlantic accent, cause they’re all weird magical freaks.

‘Oooo that’s not a real accent’ how bout you stfu? It’s fawcett, I’m shocked they even speak any Earth common language

Am I saying this just because I’m English and it’s easier for me to write them talking like this than standard American-English?

…Maybeeee

Consider that it also sounds old fashioned and funky.

Also how funny it is for street kids to be talking like that. Hilarious

[laurelxs]

Sweet..💋🍆

[papertowness]

genuinely love that columbo has this thick ass bronx accent in the middle of california

[rabbitcruiser]

The 12.9 km (8 miles) Confederation Bridge, joining Borden-Carleton, Prince Edward Island and Cape Jourimain, New-Brunswick was completed on November 19, 1996 and became the longest bridge over ice covered waters in the world.  

[rosielav]

My favorite genre of media is This Absurd Thing Is Real and No One Questions it in Any Way

Here are some of my favorite examples of this:

Dimension 20: A Court of Candy (I watched one episode and was enamored by the food stuff, like yum yum yum I'm eating it up thank you chefs)

The Amelia Project (a delightfully morbid interview style podcast, where the absurdity ramps up more and more each season, and although there is a Straight Man or two, the whimsy never dies down)

Monstrous Agonies (a write-in advice show style podcast, where monsters are as commonplace as pens in an office supply store. Monsters write in needing advice, and that advice is of course monster related, but coded in many different ways: queer, bipoc, abused, privelidged [some people need a wakeup call] , etc like if you've ever felt like a monster or had someone call you a monster this podcast is for you)

Victoriocity (steam punk meets the 1890s meets modern day meets detective audio drama, really can't explain it but the whimsy and the silliness and the seriousness is all there, really recommend this one for the voice acting)

Wooden Overcoats (imagine if Victoriocity, which I just described, wasn't steam punk at all, but Ambiguous Time, and instead of a detective drama, it's more like an interpersonal drama, with the very same energy, and that absolutely incredible level of detail in the voice acting; simply tremendous and I'm only on the second season)

If anyone has their own favorite whimsical, weird, 'yes and' type of podcast/webcomic/novel(like Hitchhiker's Guide!!!!) , please please please recommend it to me!! And if you like any of the aforementioned podcasts, please yell at me about them!! I love podcasts! I love audio drama! I love to consume content!!!

[jinxed-sinner]

The funniest thing about Alastor having a trans-Atlantic accent to me is that people apparently don’t know the historical context behind trans-Atlantic accents. Alastor probably has a Louisiana accent too (or at the very least did at some point), because trans-Atlantic accents are (usually) completely learned by being part of the media industry as a mix of a generic higher-class American accent and a higher-class British accent (so it’s actually not unheard of for someone to develop a trans-Atlantic accent naturally if their parents are American and British).

Historically, trans-Atlantic accents have been used in radio, film, and television to make American radio, film, and television stars more relatable to a general audience, as well as make them easier to understand (because if Alastor did speak with his normal accent, depending on how thick it is, he might be harder to understand through a carbon microphone, the standard microphone of his time period). In fact, because of the historical context, it’s entirely possible that Vox also used a trans-Atlantic accent at some point whether that be in life, death, or both, and eventually abandoned it after he died.

Anyway begging people to research trans-Atlantic accents before criticizing Alastor’s for “not sounding Louisiana enough” lmao

[prince-liest]

Hi, loving the new fic so far. Vox pov is so interesting and so very concerning at the same time, it's just so fun to read in general tbh. Vox truly has absolutely no chill in this fic damn. One thing I was wondering is with what accent is Alastor talking in this fic? The manner of speaking seems more modern so I think it's not Transatlantic but I genuinely don't know what it could be. Is it a standard american accent? A New Orleans accent?

Thank you so much! And I actually wrote a full explanation for that into the next chapter, haha, but I don't think it's a huge spoiler to just tell you that he's doing the most generic General American newscaster accent you've ever heard.

My assumption about the trans-atlantic accent he has in canon is that he used it because that was the gold standard for people in his industry who wanted to be respected. So he's using the modern equivalent of that in this fic!

[hussyknee]

"The forced migration of African slaves" motherfucker you mean the genocide of West Africans. Twelve and half million people forced out of their homeland or died before they ever left it. That is a goddamn Holocaust.

Genocide isn't just systematic killing, it's one group deliberately causing the death and displacement of another. It's why colonization and slavery is genocide. It doesn't hinge on whether or not they actually manage to get rid of everybody. We need to start punching assholes who'd rather split hairs and compare numbers instead of using the word.

[jerzwriter]

Watching Mean Girls for the first time EVER thanks to @icecoffee90! I'm glad I'll finally understand the references! lol Running commentary here...

[kny111]

Mayor Eric Adams’ administration is promoting reparations in a bid to curb health and wealth disparities of black New Yorkers — but the effort is being met with accusations that it’s “sowing racial divisiveness,” The Post has learned.

The proposal for federal reparations is spelled out in a bombshell report from the city’s Department of Health and the Federal Reserve Bank entitled “Analyzing the Racial Wealth Gap and Implications for Health Equity.”

“The goal of a [federal] reparations program would be to seek acknowledgment, redress, and closure for America’s complicity in federal, state, and local policies … that have deprived black Americans of equitable access to wealth and wealth-building opportunities,” the report said.

The city’s Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan and his team offered three key recommendations including: a fresh approach to public health policy, how to improve data collections on wealth and health outcomes and getting the community more involved with health care decisions.

But moderate and conservative politicians opposed to reparations accused Adams’ health minions of turning into ideologues and social justice activists instead of doing their jobs.

“Add reparations and sowing racial divisiveness to the list of greatest policy hits by Commissioner Vasan’s and his health department, right alongside the crack pipe vending machine, heroin ‘empowerment’ signs on subways, firing unvaccinated city workers, supporting government drug dens; and banning unvaccinated kids from sports,” fumed Council Republican Minority Leader Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island).

The New York legislature approved a commission to address economic, political and educational disparities by black people in June and follows the lead of California, which became the first state to form a reparations task force in 2020.

New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, the first black person to hold the position, called the legislation “historic.”

Adams has previously expressed support for the commission which is awaiting Hochul’s signature.

“We have consistently brought together experts to discuss a variety of ideas to promote equity in our city and we will continue to do so,” said the Health Department’s spokesman.

“We have an obligation to help New Yorkers lead longer, healthier lives.”

As with most progress in this system, we have to first inspect its ongoing involvement in pro enslavement systems. Not only did the historical ties to the Trans-Atlantic-slave trade leave on going structural residual connections that linger in our society today, it continues to exist in the 13th amendment's clause: slavery illegal unless a crime was found on you. That "unless" aspect made it essentially persist as is under the guise of hyper-criminalization at a system level. This has had adverse, negative effect on everyone including the environment. These are facts that can be proven. Not just social justice counter points. Besides, we are literally (regardless of what we say about it) immersed in politics and social justice through our lived social experiences. Claiming "the social justice advocates are the issue for pointing out what exists" is not helpful and adds to the lack of communal education required to understand these things. We need problack proindigenx reperations and restituion.

[laurelxs]

Put me on call imma pull up...💋🍆

[googlein1942]

alfred talking like this to ivan and then being forced to sleep on the couch