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[dont-offend-the-bees]

Hi there! I have a UK specific question for Dead Boy Detectives. Something I see a lot in fic is the hc that Charles is working class and Edwin is rich. Do their different accents (like in the post you just reblogged) support this hc or is there other cultural context that I’m missing? I thought their differences in presentation were just down to era, but I’d be interested to hear what you think!

Yes! Charles' accent is far more commonly associated with working classes and Edwin's is much more common in the upper/middle classes (and Edwin's accent is more the type of accent you're taught to emulate if you have a regional/working class accent and want to be taken seriously in your career etc.). It's not the only indicator, Charles' involvement in the ska/rudeboy/skinhead subcultures would also make more sense for a working class lad, but it's a very strong indicator.

I'm afraid I'm personally not an accent buff (I just live here etc) so I couldn't tell you *exactly* what variation of working class London accent Charles has but yes, it's quite a major hint. Not to say someone middle/upper class COULDN'T have that accent but it's definitely not the norm — and any working class kid who talks like Edwin is liable to get picked on in school for being posh (speaking from experience — I wasn't posh but my parents sure talked like they were and I absorbed it like a sponge lmao. My mum actually ditched her working class Manchester accent when she moved to London and became an opera critic among other things, to this day she talks more like a posh southerner, sounds Completely different to her brothers who never left Manc).

In the comic I *think* the school basically takes in the kids of people in active military service, so Charles or anyone being there isn't necessarily a sign of being rich, idk if show Paul Rowland is meant to be military but if not it seems likely to me that Charles' family lived in the school's catchment area so he got in as a day boy (non-boarder) by virtue of it being his closest school.

[javelinbk]

The fans of Shea Stadium, 15th August 1965

The parents

The police/support staff

[konmics-n-stuff]

*hitting the DC fandom over the head with a textbook*

STOP SAYING THE KENTS HAVE A SOUTHERN DRAWL

Kansas is in the CENTER of America, not the South! What you think of as an American Southern accent is usually found in places like Appalachia, the Deep South, and Texas, not Kansas!! Not every rural American agricultural community has the same accent! Kansans typically have a more midwestern accent.

it makes me nope straight out of fanfic sooooo fast

[swifty-fox]

Okay I apologize profusely if I'm wrong, but I thought I saw a post where you said you were British? If yes, I'm totally obsessed with the history of British accents and how you can tell someone's class and where they grew up and how an accent can change every mile. It makes me curious then about Callum's accent. I first clocked it when hearing that him and Eddie Redmayne grew up very close to each other yet their accents, while similar, also sound totally different? I understand it has a lot to do with class and to my ears I can hear the kinda more posh RP intonations of Eddie and sometimes Callum almost sounds like stereotypical cockney but not? And then every time he imitates his mom he puts on an even more exaggerated cockney (?) accent so what would you consider his accent to be? Does he sound cockney? Or has growing up in Chelsea make his accent a little bit more posh?

Feel free to ignore this, I just find it SO fascinating.

tagging resident brit @sig-nifier to confirm

i am NOT british, I'm new england haha. I just dated a South East London gal for a couple years and was raised with British friends online (got adopted by a bunch of 14 year old nice jewish boys when I was eleven)

I think Britian is definitely unique for how many dialects and accents there are in such a small place. Especially London, some people can tell what borough you're from from the accent.

From my understanding (and the fact my Ex could clock a Chelsea boy in 20 seconds flat) Chelsea is a pretty middle-class area. So still got some rough to it but it's pretty solidly a 'nice' area (not going to touch on how race plays into socioeconomic politics in London. i don't live there, never had, not my monkeys not my circus)

I don't think he sounds cockney and my ex was cockney. But she was SE London Cockney, Second gen indian immigrant cockney. There's so much nuance to it.

he DID grow up on a council estate which is essentially public/subsidized housing in the UK. So they also weren't growing up especially wealthy. So his accent isn't cockney, but it isn't that refined either. He's just kind of your average guy??? Like new yorker grew up in brooklynn has the accent sorta vibes.

You sound like what you grow up hearing. A pittsbugh accent is very familiar to me cause that's where my family is from even though I grew up 10 hours away.

*terms and conditions to 'nice' apply. They were fourteen year old boys in the mid to late aughts.

[blasphemousclaw]

underrated rykard aspect: he's still got the carian accent. yeah its kind of hard to hear in most of his dialogue because of his weird snake voice, but you can definitely hear it in his defeat dialogue

so first of all you’ve actually touched on a really interesting subject of elden ring’s worldbuilding which I’ve mentioned a few times… all of the Liurnian characters were deliberately and consistently cast as Welsh voice actors! This includes: Rennala, Ranni, Blaidd, Iji, Seluvis, Sellen, Thops, Jerren, Pidia, and Old Albus. I love that they did this, because every time you talk to a Liurnian native in the game, their accents make Liurnia feel like a more cohesive and unique and separate region from the rest of the continent.

However, regarding Rykard, I’m pretty sure his voice actor is not Welsh and it doesn’t especially seem to me that he’s doing a Welsh accent... listening to his dialogue, I thiiiink I can hear what you mean about his accent, but I still personally can’t really pinpoint it as Welsh like the other characters I’ve listed. I would guess that the casting team thought it was more important to cast someone who could sound like a grotesque amalgamation between human and snake, rather than someone who had a Welsh accent… it’s not like that accent would especially come through anyway when you’re choking and wheezing and slurring your words as much as Rykard is lmao.

Lore-wise though, it does make sense that the old Rykard would have also had a Welsh accent and I’ve always interpreted him as such… unless, as praetor, he adapted his speech to match the Erdtree capital? I also wonder if the Carian royal family might have spoken the Lands Between equivalent of the Welsh language with each other? I like to think so!

[papayafiles]

i'm watching the scuffed podcast episode that lando was on in 2020 instead of sleeping (i keep skipping forward/trying to get the lando bits only because it's so awkward/uncomfy 😭 this podcast is definitely not my vibe but i'm pushing through for him) and it's so funny how uncomfortable lando and the one girl on the podcast seem the whole time. like if this were in person they'd definitely be exchanging side eyes and laughing nervously. also the fact that lando clearly didn't know what he was getting himself into when he agreed to come on and the entire first section is just him Realizing and looking increasingly uncomfortable 😭 this poor boy

[mishkakagehishka]

I just . Repeating "characters are tools" you end up erasing so much about arashi's character and motivations and interactions with other characters if you avoid using her pronouns aka avoid showing she's transgender. It's on the same level of frustration with the translators i had when i saw they had Mika speaking standard English, there's a LOT that gets lost if you don't show those little things.

[creepyscritches]

Love that my little cousin (little...shes turning 16 next year.... HA..) grew up in my hometown but no one "corrected" her accent and she speaks so comfortably sounding like our home 🥺 My earliest memories were getting chided for sounding too country but it was so confusing to be born into southern culture and then reprimanded for acting or sounding like it. :/

Idk, I have two accents as an adult: a work accent (no dialect, very bland) and a family accent (appalachian, baby!!! Woohoo!!!!). When I come back from visiting home, I bring the appalachian with me and it shocks a lot of people who only know my work voice.

IDK!! I know it was good intentioned to split my dialect at a young age so people wouldn't prejudge my intelligence, but after taking college placement exams 6 years before my peers, finishing all college english course before graduating high school, student teaching art to the high school and the middle school across the street my senior year, tutoring trigonometry and advanced honors chemistry, enrolling in the honors college on a full academic merit scholarship....GOD how much do you have to do before you're allowed to sound like your home without people assuming you're an idiot

[reputayswift]

Just remembered the dialect coach behind Austin Butler’s lingering Elvis accent was THEE YouTube Accent Expert Erik Singer

[incorrectsibunaquotes]

who do you think has the strongest accent in hoa? because i swear i used to think some of them were fake, they just sounded so funny and dramatic to me

Jade (Patricia) definitely has the strongest British accent, but whether it was somewhat played up I’m not sure. As for American, they all kinda leaned into the nasally overannunciation that a lot of people feel characterize an American accent. Which means they all sounded a bit too over the top. Brad and Bobby (Fabian and Mick) were asked to tone down their accents since they’re (I believe) more Northern and so less of the “traditional” British accent. So honestly idk

[vellichorom]

Hello there! I have a few questions about the paraverse

firstly how do new narrators get there? Do they just get teleported there like in hfjOne hehe or is there a transport of some kind?

also does the paraverse have any kind of structures or different landscapes or is it just a white void? can they influence the landscape in any way or are build permissions off?

Lastly is there any logic to it all or is it just british chaos

sorry if it’s a lot of questions, I’m just so curious about this type of stuff

as MUCH as I would love to answer these questions in fine, excruciating detail, there's not necessarily a set location in which the Paraverse itself takes place. the Paraverse is both- the fun title for the community / " multiverse " of parable designs & AUs to come together for fun shenanigans, AS WELL as the name of a big fat excuse for us all to interact. AS SUCH, the Paraverse can happen wherever you, the artists, want it to!

maybe they all gather in an expansive white void, maybe they gather in the nearest coffee shop, or in a BIGGER rendition of The Stanley Parable office, it's honestly wherever you want it to be or whatever fits best for the interactions you'd like to have!

there's no official structures or any rules to this sort of thing, bear in mind, because it's more of just a moldable idea than anything else, so have fun with it!

& as for HOW they get there? also up to you! i've always left it ambiguous myself, although the idea was discussed once that thierry has customized doorways in his game to invade other, specific people's games / worlds ( i think he had something of a scary ass crawlspace to get through to get to CYM-K's parable rendition, once upon a time & another / just a flight of stairs down to get to the set of title_pending, ), or OTHERWISE just walked in a very specific direction in the void & ended up on The Other Side. OR a glitch in the system happened & oops! thierry's somewhere else now.

it's ALL whatever you make of it really! so hey, if YOU want your parable to get ONE'd into the system, GO for it, you totally not secretly a shattered oil lamp mastermind you!

[articskele]

Hello... pardon me. Excuse my interruption. Can I ask you something? Do you know of VOCALOID? If so, can I show you a site I am working on? It is a wiki.

Oh, hello! I checked your blog and saw that you were working on an english translation for Moegirlpedia? I don't know much about Vocaloid myself, much less wikis and how to edit them, but I wish you good luck! ouo

[hookechoes]

its always a random sunday afternoon where i get fixated on accent/linguistics videos on youtube for hours on end

[kazbiter]

maggie devotes sm time to the relationship between adam's accent and gansey's accent and even comments on blue's accent but then never says a single thing abt known irish patriot ronan lynch possibly having one???? what's up with that

[cosmicdorito]

forgive me for using a plug n play but the tuning sounds good on this and i really just wanted to see what this sounded like

moresampler oto + no edits, 4 pitch

japanese as through a welsh accent: welsh vowels instead of japanese. somehow more nasally and more throaty at the same time but also not really all that different from their core bank. i think. maybe im just used to hearing myself

[awesomeveracity]

On the flip side, I just watched all of The Essex Serpent and Claire Danes’ accent is impeccable. (She’s also in one of my all-time favorite movies Stardust) I thought she was British this whole time.