#practicing with accents

[xiaokuer-schmetterling]

podficcer resource

IDEA: international dialects of english archive

[kendallroyjenner]

mike faist as jack twist and lucas hedges as ennis del mar in brokeback mountain 3/?

[mad-as-a-box-of-frogs]

Oh, Banner, I love you, man!!!

Marc Spector in What If... The Hulk Fought the Mech Avengers? [6/?]

[elodieunderglass]

an Ask: what is Killie's accent like? Irish? English? Weird mixture of both? Does he code-switch?

Thank you for this lovely ask! Killie the jockey OC has an Irish accent very similar to Dublin (County Meath is next to it.) his mother is English, bringing a whole host of additional problems, but despite that, Killie cannot code-switch his accent. It is beyond him. The best he can do is shut up, and possibly not use dialect words that annoy his ma- that annoy his mum. Killie already has a bit of a stammer, which he covers up by being gruff, and now you want him to do tricks? He is laying facedown on the grass. He has gone away mentally. He’s gone.

He is also the sort of guy who claims he can’t speak a word of Irish (and probably can’t unprompted) but understands it on TV, and corrects your mispronunciation of the road signs. Language is not his thing, it works better for him if he isn’t paying attention to it.

His brother Charlie CAN switch accents, and with magnificent confidence thinks he’s GREAT at accents, as a result. All accents. He thinks he’s a talented natural mimic. He thinks his American impression is a work of particular art, and a treat for everybody. “I’m from BAWSTIN, I have a PAWDCAST,” he says, Yankishly, instantly and violently activating Killie’s prey drive.

They can do a really good impression of each other, though. Watch this.

Oh my goodness! WHICH ONE IS WHICH. They could trick people with that.

[disastersappho]

i need to have jeremy confess his feelings and jean not believe it/not hear it until jeremy stumbles into clumsy french and jean snaps his head up and they hold hands and jeremy says, “jean. je t’aime.”

[lizasweetling]

Okay, I almost understood that!

but if I understood correctly, I really don't get why we carved a Klaus into the pencil.

like ok, claws are probably not good for penmanship, so writing probably wouldn't have worked anyway, but ??? I don't know what that was meant to convey if the problem is there's Klaus and a scary Clank lady in the labs.

[canisalbus]

Different Italian anon, but the thing with Tuscan C is that it's pronounced like a very strong H sound, which is extra weird cuz the letter H makes no sound in Italian, normally. It sounds the way Spanish pronounce the J. We say it's "aspirato". So then people from there will say things like Hoha Hola (coca cola), and it's funny. It's also extremely contagious, I got family in Florence, you spend 3 days with them you start doing it too before you even realize.

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[meownotgood]

if i may ask for advice... how do u make dialogue sound so natural? as much as i love viktor. i feel like i physically Cannot write anything that he would say or for any character really i've watched arcane over 10 times now but when it comes time to write suddenly idk how jayce has ever spoken!!! Help Pls i will owe u my firstborn (a completed fic)

I put my head in my hands many times... I groan while writing... I rewrite it at 3 am while staring at my phone with my eyes burning and my brain like mush.......

okay but really. I definitely understand your struggle, know that you're not alone!! dialogue is always the hardest part of a fic to get right for me. I'm always changing it even up to the minutes before I post haha...

the first thing that might help you is if you write all of your dialogue first, like the fic is a play, before you write anything else. I always draft my dialogue first to make sure it fits well with the story even without explanation. this way, you can make it seem more natural, and adjust the flow as you see fit without any distractions. the next thing I do is watch clips of the character speaking before I write, it definitely helps me to envision their voice while I'm writing (especially so for viktor... his accent is harder to nail down for me). it can also help to watch without sound, just with subtitles. this way, you can better understand the speech patterns and vocab the character might use. just reading the subtitles will show you it's a lot easier to write for them than you might think...

and anon really... the best advice is... fake it til you make it... the thing is, the audience will imagine the character regardless and won't be looking into everything closely like us silly authors. how do you want viktor to speak in your fic? just be confident with what you're writing!

[jokerlennon]

can we all observe the 1967 monkee-beatle party as interpreted by awful movie daydream believers: the real monkees story

[stfrancisprayer]

DEXTER FLETCHER as SPIKE THOMSON PRESS GANG (1989–1993)

[squidsinashirt]

Hi Gordon. You’re from Kansas. Do you like country music?

Never refer to me as from Kansas ever again.

I come from the sea. Do we see the sea in Kansas?

And no, that’s @ilikebigshipsandicannotlie and @scramjettracy area of expertise. I tend to leave them to it. That and the whiskey, yuck.

[arguablysomaya]

DAMIAN MY BABY MY BELOVED THE LIGHT OF MY LIFE

[fxxlfxrlxvx]

I think X-Men 97 is taking Kurt in a good direction after the original animated series. There was nowhere near enough of him in todays episode but I still really enjoyed it!

[artem1sc0re]

Got bored during a bus ride on a school trip so Aiden Pearce doodles (with close-ups)

Also take an edit on the side since I tried out a different app

[popipopipopipopipo000]

Some color and lighting practice w Leon bc hes so pretty and wonderful and beautiful and

[hmmbo]

i can have a self indulgent gabriel drawing. as a treat