#i also have a stutter

[the-sword-lesbian]

I might be playing a in pathfinder game that my friend is going to GM in like half a year. But because i have no self control I’ve already fully planned out a character and written a multipage backstory and fic about her.

So umm… enjoy?

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Something felt not right about all of it… it was a bad idea. We should’ve just left her well alone.

“Alright, nice and easy.” Brog said as he approached the strange woman. “You’re that girl what’s on all them wanted posters ain’tcha?”

He had his scattergun leveled on her. Birdie was just coming out the bushes with her carbine off to the side. And I had my pistol pointed at her on the other side.

It was supposed to be an easy ambush, we’d heard that she’d come through a small town a few days ago and thought we’d get the drop on her. Lone woman, big price on her head, easy money. But looking at her now… I wasn’t so sure.

She let go of the pack hanging from the strap on her shoulder causing it to slide to the ground with a small thud. “Y’all b-b-best find someone else t-t-to rob,” she said with a noticeable stutter. She pulled her duster back past her hips, revealing the ornate looking pistol just to one side of her belt buckle. She didn’t look like much, just some dusty boots, worn road clothes, and a hat pulled low. Something about her eyes though gave me a sick feeling in my stomach. Those sharp green eyes.

“Ah ah ah, easy now girlie,” Brog said, pulling the hammer back on his gun. “Let’s not get any funny ideas about reachin’ for that fancy piece you got there.” He took another few steps forward. “In fact I’m gonna go ahead and take it off ya.”

“Thhhhis is the last warning you’re gonna g-g-get,” she said. Despite the stutter there was a surety in her voice. Those dangerous eyes glanced around quickly, sizing the three of us up.

Brog laughed as he neared her, “look at you, tryna act tough meanwhile yous stammerin and shakin like a leaf.”

“Thhhhat’s your first mistake,” she said. “Thinking my st-stutter has anything to do with fear.”

“S’at right?” Brog sneered. “Hands behind your back.” He took one final step towards her. She wasn’t a small person but with him being an orc he still towered over her. “And what’s my second mistake?”

She put her hands behind her as she glared up at him high enough for the sun to hit those fierce green eyes. “You’re easily dist-stracted,” she said calmly.

Brog looked down at her with annoyance, “I’ll be takin that gun now,” he said as he reached for the pistol in her holster.

He’d no sooner laid a finger on it before her whole demeanor seemed to shift from stern glaring to simple confusion. “Oh thhhhat gun,” she said brightly. I blinked for just a second and suddenly she had a second pistol drawn from behind her back, pressed up under Brog’s jaw. “I thhhought you meant this one.”

“What the-“ was all he got out before she pulled the trigger and Brog’s head snapped backwards, a mass of blood and one of his tusks went flying out.

“What the fuck!?” Shouted Birdie as she started cycling her carbine as fast as it would fire.

Unfortunately for Birdie the woman stepped past Brog’s falling body, using it as a shield to catch all of the incoming carbine bullets. His body hit the ground as Birdie’s gun clanged empty. The woman fired her pistol again and Birdie collapsed backwards into the bushes.

I raised my gun to defend myself from the terrible mistake we’d all made but as my gaze traveled from Birdie’s final resting place back to the woman I saw her already aiming at me. She fired and my hand was relieved of my gun as well as more than one finger. “Fuck!” I screamed in pain as I fell to my knees. Clutching my remaining fingers I wanted to beg for mercy but I was frozen in fear as she picked up her bag and stepped towards me.

She holstered her gun and pulled a cigar from inside her coat pocket, tucking it between her lips. The whole time she stalked towards me I silently prayed to every god I could think of to spare me. Those terrifying green eyes bore into my soul, as if I was facing judgment for all my sins here and now.

As she came to a stop before me I looked up into the face that would surely be my demise. She held up her hand and snapped her fingers together and to my sheer terror a small flicker of flame appeared on her fingertips. I truly believe that if I had been capable of doing anything other than staring in horror I might have soiled myself in that moment.

She held the small bit of fire up to the cigar and puffed on it once, twice. Closing her eyes and seeming to savor the smoke, before she shook her hand and the flame went out. She opened her eyes and stared into my soul once more before plucking the cigar from her mouth and speaking, “you shhhould get b-better friends,” she said before turning and walking past me down the road.

I watched her walk, unmoving, for I don’t know how long. Long after she’d left my sight for sure. I looked back towards my former associates, Brog’s body soaking the dirt of the road a deep red. Birdie’s feet sticking out of the bushes. I looked back down the road. Never would I forget those eyes.

[squiddokiddo]

This is why I love Brains.

Though he's quite shy and timid, anyone who knows how skilled he is in his engineering listens to him.

He goes through several moments where he's had to stand up and be courageous and launch himself straight out of his comfort zone but his stutter never leaves, it's something that is never made fun of and it's never treated like a problem that needs to be fixed.

Brains' stutter is just another element to his character.

I hate that character trope where they're a severely anxious person with a "nervous stutter" and they have a big arc where they gain courage and cure their stutter so shoutout to people who just have a stutter as a feature of their voice regardless of how insecure they are I love you and if anyone ever tells you you just need to gain self-confidence I wish you the self-confidence to bite out their throat beast style

[lyraofthestarsss]

Blushing Game

(Mystreet boys x reader)

How long does it take to make them blush?

Garroth

- bro folds almost immediately lmao

- He definitely tries!! After all, he was used to putting on a face in front of others back in O’Khasis. Surely this wouldn’t be too different

- But there’s no hiding things from you

- All it takes is one sweet nickname for him to start melting

Dante

- He… also tries

- He’s definitely more competitive than Garroth. A few of your first few flirts are only met with smug smiles and comebacks

- It only takes a minute or so for all the compliments to finally get to him

- He looks away as he tries to hide his red face from you

Laurance

- for a moment, you thought this man was nearly unbreakable

- Nearly all of your flirts end with him shaking his head and smiling back at you

- He tells you “try harder, love” and “aww you can do better than that”

- If anything, you’re the one that starts getting flustered

- You start to lean closer, whispering in his ear

- You tell him you love him, how much he means to you, how you can’t imagine loving anyone else

- The closeness, along with how sincere you are, is what finally gets to him

- He curses under his breath as he leans his forehead on your shoulder

- He mutters that he loves you too, just loud enough for only you to hear

[sophsicle]

i know i have a problem, because i'm sitting here doing my course readings like "you know what we need? a french revolution au"

[dingdinghq]

i dont even have a caption. wels and hypno interactions are just really fun guys

(transcript under cut)

[Transcript:

Wels: -and don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that Jevin did a bad job. At all.

Hypno: I'm gonna let Jevin know that you hate everything that he's done here. Oh my goodness-

Wels: I mean you can. You can use those exact words if you want.

(Hypno laughs; overlapped.)

Hypno: Alright, I'm gonna tell him!

(Wels, overlapping: You can tell him...)

(Hypno laughs.)

Wels: You can tell him that I think it is big... terrible. Um-

Hypno: It's just awful. Wels hates it, basically.

Wels: Yeah, just- we'll say- tell him, y'know, uh... go back to kiddie Minecraft, Jevin, because uh... this is the worst thing that I have ever seen ever.

Hypno, overlapping: Wow! Wow.

Wels: And it's an affront to my eyeballs.

Hypno: So, Wels, tell us how you really feel. (laughs)

Wels: Well! I mean, I could go on a rant, um- but no. Actually, I do like it. I-

End transcript.]

[frankiensteinsmonster]

Shout out to people with incredibly nasally voices, shout out to people with lisps, shout out to stutter-ers, shout out to people who can't say certain words "correctly", shout out to people who can't pronounce certain letters and syllables "right", screaming and hooting and hollering for people who's speech is impacted by neruodivergence or disabilities!

if anyone has approached you at any age about speech therapy, if you've ever been made fun of, just know I love you from a very respectful distance, I'm waving at you from across the street, and you're my cup of tea and also you inherently deserve respect!!!

[howtodisappearcompletelyand]

20/10 stars little guy

[ispridestillasin]

So I decided to watch a bit of Bridgerton with my mother, which I'm not really interested in (I don't really like period pieces unless it's a fanfic for a ship I like) but it's a show she enjoys so I sometimes catch her watching it and join her, and literally the only takeaway from the stuff I've seen with her is that Colin, Lord Debling, and Penelope should have all been poly

[a-cold-case-of-turnabout]

If anyone asks what Ace Attorney is about, I send them these screenshots.

[0vergrowngraveyard]

Omg I can relate so much!! I have a stutter, ever since I was a kid and the amount of times I just gave up on a sentence is ridiculous. Some days, I talk fine, just a few stumbles here and there, but other times, it's cranked up to 11 for no reason and it's so infuriating. I just want to talk, but my mouth is like: haha no :)

Like my jaw literally locks up and no word will come out for a second before it starts back up again. Which totally doesn't help with my anxiety when the other person is looking at you, waiting for you to finish. It's like (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻

Also, do you by any chance struggle in saying your own name? Because for the life of me, whenever I want to introduce myself, I always mess it up. It comes to a point that when I order something, and they ask my name, I say a random name because it's so much easier lol.

The joys of having a speech impediment 🙃🙃🙃

fellow stutter haver!!

i’ve also had mine since i was kid. i used to go to speech therapy for it and that shit did not help at all 😭 the only good that came from it was i got a tootsie roll whenever i completed some paper thing (i forgor what it was) and got to skip class lmao

you’re actually so right about it either being non existent or ruining every interaction ever. its like a 50/50 chance ill have a decent conversation or apologize profusely after every sentence. whenever the latter happens, i just consider never speaking ever again istg its so annoying and embarrassing augh

and yeah i had to force out my own name today actually! i thought it was just something that happened with my deadname but nope! i have to put effort into saying my chosen name and nickname too. let me introduce myself like a normal person!!!!

i also struggle a lot with reading out loud a lot 😭 bestie and i were playing mouthwashing last night and it would take me so long just to read dialogue out loud (we assigned ourselves characters to read out) unless i was completely in character. half of the time i just gave up lmao

i can’t have social anxiety and a speech impediment. it’s just not fair

[32girassoisdevangogh]

[giddlygoat]

i have SO many ducks LAWL

my mind is basically a big cartoon duck / silly robot melting pot rn and i always forget to post things as i finish them so i’m putting them all together. we got some donald, high roller, scrooge, my shameless ducktales oc [thinking of naming him Oliver Branch teehee] and a silly scrawl featuring chip inspired by a giggle shared with some chums ohohoho

[artist-owl]

So it has been said before that the Fëanorians are basically the only members of the Exiles who can pronounce Thingol's name correctly without practice, since they never got rid of the þ in their speech. But. It gets better.

One fun feature of Quenya is that not all consonants can go together, and almost always cannot appear in clusters of more than 2. There are a set few consonant groups that are allowed - rm, lw, ng, etc - but most aren’t. Notably, clusters like gl, gn, rg, mr, lr, and dr are not allowed in Quenya. This means that Quenya speakers trying to learn Sindarin would likely struggle to pronounce those sounds correctly before they practice a bit

The point I'm getting at is that most of the sons of Fëanor could not easily pronounce their own names in Sindarin, but had no problem pronouncing Thingol

[puppychase]

Everyone writing mirage as cool and seductive is so wrong. He calls his bf “bro” and “dude” and he’s always unserious. One earnest moment and he’s turning into a Porsche and driving away out of embarrassment

[pink-key]

hi toby! just wanted to let you know i'd let you gut me, i'd let you tortute me, i'd let you do anything if it meant you were to touch me. ＃your biggest fan!! ♡

He is very delighted to know he has such a big fan! You should come around sometime, it gets lonely in the woods..

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Still wild to me that the Avatar team saw a guy write a love story between a stick and a monkey and were like "This is the guy who we need to write Rangshi and Yangvik" and then he ended up making two of the best couples in all of the Avatar-verse TT0TT