#switching register

[absolutebl]

Hello! I saw you mention this in your post about kink in BL and I'm curious... What do you mean by "linguistically" D/s? The use of titles? Or something beyond that?

Ah yes. So the use of something like phi or hia in Thai BL can be "daddy" coded. Not exactly but similar. If the characters are making a fuss about it in the BL as part of the plot, there's probubly something significantly intimate, sexual, or kinky going on (or all 3) with the language.

Also, if an older uke character swaps down registers (so suddenly uses own name or pom for the I pronoun) that's a sign of sexual submission. See LeonPob in Don't Say No.

You'll see friends tease each other in a flirtatious way with nong as well. Bad Buddy does this. (That a demotion of the person being called nong if they aren't a nong, and sometimes even if they are.)

Similarly hyung in Korean BLs has great power when sunbae is primarily in use prior. I call this "hyung slinging" when the use of the "older brother" honorific is pretty much weaponized for intimacy.

You want to see some serious hyung slinging? Watch Semantic Error.

The way JaeYoung melts whenever SangWoo uses hyung is KEY to their romantic arc. Then during yaja time when JaeYoung gets to use the word hyung on SangWoo, it is DRIPPING with sex appeal. No accident this is right before they kiss.

It's so linguistically kinky it's practically a master class in using a register shift for seduction.

Additionally, different application in the names, registers, and formalities in KBL or JBL (esp in terms of suffixes) is also in play (or given name vs family name) to drive intimacy and sexual tension.

For JBL I go into this grappling in Minato's Laundromat. That's a younger character blatantly courting an older character and the language use goes all over the map in a push and pull of seduction and resistance.

I recently noticed in The 8th Sense (after they become boyfriends) the younger character JiHyun uses JaeWon-ssi (NAUGHTY BOY)- but not to his hyung's face, only when talking about his new lover to himself. It's VERY cute. He does slip in a "ya!"" (in front of his friend), gets reprimanded for it, but not severely. I think this is somewhat allowed in a country bumpkin, but there is definitely an extreme intimacy edge of ownership going on too.

It's a "my boyfriend can use casual language because he may be a brat but he's MY brat and he's the only one who's allowed" kind of thing.

[imogenkol]

— ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN LINKS

If I Had A Heart - main fic

pairing: Imogen Kol (force sensitive oc) x Bix Caleen

chapters: 4 / ?

status: ongoing (hiatus until Andor Season 2)

ONE-SHOTS

What If I Asked You To Stay?

Be Still

Promise

Outer Rim Date Night

Relax

NSFW ONE-SHOTS (18+ ONLY)

Where My Gaze Lingers

Do You Trust Me?

[msburgundy]

i want to sing so bad and i just CAN'T it's so frustrating

[grntaire]

this is what i sound like signing picture you by chappell roan btw

[deuynndoodles]

hot take: the water temple isn't actually that hard and y'all are a bunch of babies

[fvriva]

what's with kids saying ahh instead of ass these days. what's with the coward shit

[mlarayoukai]

No no you're right the switch I was using wasn't the primary one and i hadn't realized! I figured there must be a way to play offline but obviously I couldn't Google when the internet was off, thanks for letting me know!

[saintofterror]

i want hobie brown so bad. i want him yall i WANT HIM IM GONNA TURN INTO A COLLECTOR JUST TO GET HIS COMICS WHERE DO I FUCKING START SOMEONE HELP

[piningpercussionist]

Whiteboard doodles from the other day! Pen was a little jittery but we got some passible ones, I think

Also Lisa!!! <3

[maeamian]

California sent me a postcard the other day being like "Hey just to remind you you are in fact registered for this upcoming election, here's several ways you can get your vote in and a hotline and website to help further if you need more help on the topic." It flat out rules and while I wish the state had RCV I fundamentally cannot think of a better system for handling the voting part of elections, California is consistently good and in my decade of residency here has only worked to find ways to make it better.

All of which is to say I am going to [redacted] the Ohio Secretary of State for their voter purge bullshit

[chimpukampu]

It took me several hours of gameplay & a single sidequest walkthrough video to find out that I can re-launch myself in a lookout landing towers 😭

I thought it was a one-time only! 😭😭

[chicago-geniza]

genuinely truly with my whole chest believe 212 by Azealia Banks (as dictated, as enunciated, as performed) is the finest expression of the modernist linguistic tradition in English in the 21st century

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

He dude uh. Sorry about your notifs. Also. I am not done. I just ran out of posts with short enough tag essays that I could screenshot them on my phone. I will be back tomorrow on the actual computer. Get peer reviewed idiot.

Sjdkskdkdkkdkskc it was very delightful to wake up to So Much Peer Review, and then to see this ask <3

Also I'm immediately stealing the phrase "get peer reviewed idiot" and adding it to my vernacular.

[watery-melon-baller]

Lads i have Fucked Up Big Time

[breathe-2am]

Me day one of voice class: yea when i was a kid my music teacher told me that if i couldnt sing high i shouldnt sing, and i didnt sing for years

Professor: wow thats awful, here ur gonna develop your voice to play to ur strengths

Me now: (sings a song an octave lower for a performance as a stalker bc i can sound creepy and angry)

Professor: dont sing low

Me: but i like my voice better when its lower

Professor: well we're developing your upper register so sing high

Me: ok

[vonlipvig]

@tracy bennett UHM HELLO? MY STREAK? I PLAY EVERY DAY? I HAVEN'T LOST? HELLO???????

TRACY GIRL WE GO WAY BACK YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME