#Trans-Atlantic

[vox-anglosphere]

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

[sankofaspirit]

Rest in Paradise and blessings to the Ancestors 🔴⚫️🟢✊🏿

[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..💋🍆

[zigraves]

Iiiiiit's TAFF voting time!

(what's TAFF?)

TAFF is the Trans Atlantic Fan Fund, a fan-run fund that every year helps cover the costs to send someone from Europe to North America to attend the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), or vice versa.

It's been running for 70 years now, with many TAFF delegates writing trip reports so you can read about intercontinental fannish friendships across the decades right here.

Anyone can be a candidate for the funds of TAFF, as long as they've been active in fandom for at least a couple of years and can find five people who'll support their nomination (sorry lurkers), and similarly anyone can vote in the TAFF race as long as they're an active member of the fannish community and donate a small amount to support the fan fund. (sorry again, lurkers). Fannish activity can include going to traditional sci fi conventions, but it also includes vidding, and fanfic writing, and doing podcasts and reviews about the fannish stuff you care about, and running community events like exchanges, and putting out zines.

(why are you telling me this?)

Well, partly, because it's very cool and I think you should know about it, and I think you should have the opportunity to run in future years. I think it's important to keep these cultural ties, and to have a chance to meet new people and go places you might never otherwise have gone. I think this kind of intergenerational friendship support across the decades is an important part of our history as fan communities. I think you should run, and I might even be able to nominate and support you.

...

but also because I'm a candidate this year, and would like you to spend the cost of a small coffee to support the fan fund and vote for me.

You can also vote for one of my competitors if you like, but don't you want to upend my whole summer and send me to Seattle? Sure you do!

[papertowness]

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

[cultivating-wildflowers]

Recently learned about the practice of "careening" ships, a way of cleaning marine growth and performing repairs on the keel without the aid of a dry dock. The usual method required a beach, but the beach had to fit several specifications to be suitable. Alternately, a second ship could be employed for the damaged ship to lean against.

While the subject is fascinating, the image that keeps coming to mind is when a girl leans on a friend's shoulder for balance while she puts on her shoes.

[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.  

[sankofaspirit]

[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.