#distinguished voice

[worldwide-blackfolk]

[jaggybotexe]

chonny when he’s charming or something idk (RAHHHH I LOVE CHONNY JASH I WISH AUSTRALIANS WERE REAL‼️‼️‼️)

[writingwithfolklore]

Specificity, Voice and Backstory

                Today we're talking about character voice, backstory, and writing with specificity. I’ve talked about all these elements separately, but combined these three are the most important elements of your description. Why? Because describing something is the best place to learn not only what the character is experiencing, but more about them and their backstory.

                We do that through drawing comparisons not to abstract ideas, but to specific moments the character has witnessed. Okay, consider these two examples:

The room smelled of warm spices and herbs like a fancy restaurant kitchen.

Vs.

The room smelled like the thyme and basil that clung to my mother's hair when she had finished making dinner, kneeling to hug me after I came in from school.

                They convey the same information, but we learn so much more about the character in the second example.

                In my Differentiating between Perspectives post, I talked more about attitude in character voice. What your character compares things to is a great tell for voice. Here’s the example from that post:

                “The bar was filled to the brim with sweaty drunks falling over each other, barely cognizant of the drinks they were spilling--much less so the people around them.”

                Versus

                “Upbeat dance music filled the bar. A crowd had formed in the middle of the floor, people cheering and dancing together like the rest of the world hardly mattered.”

                Right?

                Check out the full post here:

                So when you’re describing something and reaching for a metaphor or something to liken it to, try to make it personal, in the character’s voice, and specific. We can learn a whole lot more that way.

[erial-c]

am i losing my mind or has aaron's voice gotten deeper these recent balance audios . he's gotten a more distinct tone to him bcz he used to just sound like erik but deeper

[kurithedweeb]

Ru’aun is the region with the most dialects, but it doesn’t have its own sign language. In Ru’aun, you have the Common language, the Yggdrasil forest language, the Eastern dialect, the Western dialect, and three different werewolf dialects, plus the old tongue is still fairly common among scholars and religious peoples and is used in schools in O’khasis and Scaleswind.

In Tu’la, you have the overarching common language, the desert dialect, the jungle dialect, and a fairly widespread sign language. It’s very common for meif’wa to communicate using sub-vocalizations but humans and some meif’wa hybrids can’t do this. It’s highly debated on whether or not the local werewolf population can understand sub-vocalizations. As a compromise for when meif’wa go non-verbal or when they can’t risk being overheard, the sign language is used. Tu’la sign doesn’t use many big motions, the hands are usually kept close to the chest and the angle of the hand and positioning of the fingers is very important. Many signs look similar, so it’s easy to get mixed up if you’re a beginner and it’s hard to distinguish which is which in the dark if you don’t have good night vision.

Gal’ruk sign is the complete opposite. Very expressive motions, lots of waving in patterns, and very few specific hand shapes. The snow and ice and all the layers you’re wearing eats up a lot of sound so communicating at a distance can be difficult. The hand shapes are limited to what you can manage with mittens, so it’s basically open hand with or without thumb sticking out, closed hand with or without thumb sticking out, and pointing. With such a small population, basically everyone knows at least the basics. Galenk is the local spoken language among the Enki Warrior Tribe, but some also speak Ru’auni Common, usually taught by whoever gets shipwrecked there.

[spocks-kaathyra]

Cardassian conlang (part 1?)

Finally started making my Cardassian conlang and I'm having so much fun already. Get this:

There's a distinction between alienable and inalienable possession, something that occurs in many natural languages. An example is, like, "my nose" vs "my hat". My nose is inalienable because it will always be mine, while my hat is alienable because it can stop being mine. So in languages with this distinction, you'd use different words for "my" in those two situations.

In my Cardassian language, possession is indicated with suffixes attached to nouns and people's names. People are "possessed" in the sense that, y'know, they're your mom or your friend or your orthodontist or whatever. Generally, you'd use the alienable form for people. Your orthodontist might not always be your orthodontist, your friend might not always be your friend. The exception is that you always use the inalienable form(s) for family. Your mom will always be your mom.

So, to use the inalienable possessive for a friend would be to say that they are as close to you as family, that you trust that they will always be your friend. This is often, like, a milestone in dating. To start saying "my girlfriend (inalienable)" marks that your relationship is serious. (Traditionalists will say that you shouldn't use the inalienable form until you're properly betrothed, but kids these days have their own ideas.) In this way, it becomes a pretty straightforward term of endearment (or, rather, grammatical particle of endearment).

Since there's no equivalent in Federation Standard, the translator often renders it as "my dear."

Here's a table of the 10 different words for "my"

So, presuming that the speaker is a man, and the person they're referring to is also a man who they don't have to use the honorific form with...

/alʊk/ - "friend"

/alʊkɬei/ - "my friend"

/alʊkxa/ - "my dear friend"

/ilɨm̥xa/ - "my dear Elim"

[gayalanwake]

that one time the hotel tv volume didn’t work so me and oomf (shadowsolosurfav on the gram) tried to dub gta v

[adriancatrin]

i think zhao is the best thing in natla. like there’s a lot of stuff in there that i really like but a lot of it is tied up with complicated feelings or worry about the future of the show. but zhao? he’s just rock solid from start to finish. what an amazing adaptation of his character, with an even more amazing performance on top to sell it

[73647e]

spoken in affirmation: the dps boys are teenagers and they talk like them. the dps boys are teenagers and they talk like them. the dps boys are teenagers and they talk like them.the dps boys are teenagers and they talk like them. you can use fuck in your fanfiction because they are disgusting and sixteen come on zombie not everything has to be poetic i believe in your abilities king now say it again.

[svtskneecaps]

kenny is fucking incredible and i gave myself a headache wheezing at him playing remixed rave classical music while going mad with power in french over mining sand. amazing. actual Art. him and ethan bonding over loving the sand grind is also amazing. 10/10 seriously thrilled to know of him.

[marchsage]

i see the dad lance content and raise you: mentor/older sister figure (auntie) clair

[freckliedan]

i feel like phil made his mew video just for you to put in ur audhd tag

SCREAM so true. @ phil i love you autism king. huge win for phil is psychic truthers too why does their home have a ghost

[calf-cover]

Maybe it's just my weakness for Witchouse, but this song sounds like disturbed SCP-6624. Well, more disturbed than this collection of screaming and potentially still sentient bodies of women and children (probably to hit higher notes?) usually is.

I haven't been able to break away from this song for a week now, so you have to suffer too.

[miodiodavinci]

i wish mixing was just a math equation so i could just solve it once and be free of this hell

[youngestdaughtersyndrome]

Going to bed so its catch up time.... not much has happened but i mean its also only been like three days. Which guaranteed one of the most defining events ever was three days long (death of jesus) so that's irrelevant but for people who arent blood related to god three days isnt that long. Did have a brief discussion with my mother about what wouldve happened if i had grown up in a small town and she insisted i wouldve gotten into drugs and i had to keep a straight face and like not laugh at her because i did more drugs in the city than i ever did outside of it. We did both agree that i kind of do whatever i want with very little regard for rules so thats something. Saw how much got donated to ao3 and was so disgusted i had to go run around in the woods for a while. Of course disgust can be a useful emotion but in this situation it wasnt so i was better off abandoning it to the trees. Drank lots of peppermint tea. Earlier today (last night technically) i fell asleep at 7.30 pm because i felt nauseous and woke up at 11 pm just in time to make a burger without disturbing anyone. Weathers not so bad and not so good either. And im really not supposed to be online right now (mother took both my phone and computer) but as previously mentioned i kind of just do what i want so love (being online with my friends) finds a way (im logged on through her work computer). Beginning to start a mental ranking of sufjan stevens banjo parts right now widows in paradise is taking the lead. Life is beautiful slow and gray but thats perfect... gray is my favorite color as u all know. And thats all folks

[mellow-elbow]

not now kitten they’ve messed with mommy’s comfort character