#that posh bastard was allowed to keep his shitty accent

[graysanatimony]

I’m gonna ramble about my day, trying to keep it as non complainy as possible

so school. I had it today, and like first period was fine (English), had one of my favourite teachers, sat with one of my friends yeah

second was also good (chemistry), the principal was apparently at the back of the class the entire time and I didn’t notice and my friend was made to move water from a bucket to another bucket with beakers and another guy did it the opposite way to demonstrate reactions at equilibrium and the teacher burned magnesium and I almost got blinded

Third and fourth is where it gets shitty (RELIGIOUS FUCKING EDUCATION), we had a double split over break and first period of it wasn’t too bad, it was about celibacy which wasn’t greaaatttt a few jabs were made at catholics other than that all fine

at the end of the first period of it we got to the page about ✨the gays✨ but then the bell went for break so we were saved for 15 minutes and I spent most of that time giving off to @mex-rarksley about transphobic assholes

THEN WE WENT BACK TO CLASS AND OH BOY the teacher told us to talk to the person next to us about our opinions that were on the board which were:

‘Same sex attraction is involuntary’

‘it is alright to oppose same sex marriage’

‘you should be allowed to declare your gender and access transition treatment from any age’

which is already like what the fuck and the girl beside me was shockingly not horrifically trans/homophobic in her answers and she agreed that hormone/puberty blockers are good for people

BUT THEN THE BASTARD GOT PEOPLE TO SAY THEIR OPINIONS ON IT TO THE CLASS AND BY PEOPLE I MEAN ONE TRANSPHOBIC ASSHOLE WHO WAS AHEYYSGGAGRFHHHHH AND HE IFNORED MY HAND BEING UP THE ENTIRE TIME CAUSE MY QUEER ENERGY IS TOO FUCKING STRONG OR SOMETHING

then in periods five and six (biology) we got test marks back (I got 93%!!!) then did heart dissections and the teacher was playing songs to do with hearts like don’t go breaking my heart (this song will never stop reminding me of kris and Damon cause yeah) and achey breaks heart and a person wasn’t mean to me cause they don’t like me, they were somewhat nice

after lunch I had English again for a double and that was the same as the morning except my friend wasn’t there so I had to talk to a girl who is friends with my friend and she taught me some things in Polish that I have already forgotten and the boys at the table behind us were telling one of the boys that his sister was hot, his dads a pedo and they want blowjobs from his sister (I’m pretty sure that’s what the part about blowjobs was cause they talk about stuff like that a lot) this unfortunately led to me having to explain to the girl what a blowjob is

last period was physics and we did a practical to draw light rays and the guy I sit beside wasn’t in so and I don’t have a single friend in that class so the teacher put me with two guys, one of whom I know cause I sat beside him last year and he’s also in my history class and randomly raps Eminem songs and made fun of me apparently looking like I had a seizure and sounding like a gnome cause I remembered the answer to a question

then after school there were play auditions and the teacher said my posh English accent was good, cockney she didn’t have a comment on or I forgot and she also didn’t have one on what we were told to do as a “foreign” accent

[thebetterluthor]

So, with everything that’s happening right now in NI, I think I’d like to talk accents for a moment.

I’ve seen people point out the fact that Katie’s accent slips sometimes. Well, yeah, of course it does, she has a native Irish accent, it’s not really an easy or a simple job to fully take on a different accent.That’s why serious productions have accent coaches, and they re-shoot scenes when a slip up occurs, because it will occur even for weathered actors who’ve trained for months. 

So, whenever I see those comments that go “oh, she really can’t hide her accent”, I get slightly pissed off. Because taking on a different accent is a difficult task, and it’s not her fault if the productions are hasty and sloppy and don’t re-shoot when slip ups inevitable happen.

I’d also like to point out that the fact that she’s never been allowed to just, speak naturally, in any of her roles is really fucked up. 

Like, I get it that for roles where being from a different country wouldn’t work she has to adapt to a British, or an American, or whatever other accents. But it would have been so easy, e.g. with Lena, to let her keep her accent. She could have been adopted slightly older for example. There are dozens of ways to easily explain away an accent that isn’t the one “native” to wherever your show is taking place, and that should be fine. If you walk around a city like New York, London, pretty much any place that’s made up of people from various places, you will come across thousands if not millions of different accents.

To come back to the NI thing, it’s such a “thing” in London to be identified by your accent. Whether you’re an immigrant, or if you’re Scottish, Welsh, or simply from an area outside of London, people will undeniably try to trace your birthplace the moment you open your mouth. And it’s pretty shitty that there’s still this issue with the Irish. Whether it’s actors asked to change their accents when a British accent is acceptable in comparison (I’M LOOKING AT YOU WILLIAM), or when it’s the fucking church of England banning Irish inscriptions on gravestones in order to avoid arousing political “passions”, it’s a fucking shitty thing to do. And now that NI is suffering from rioting due to Brexit bullshit, and the UK government gives exactly 0 fucks, I’m becoming a bit sensitive over this.

So, in conclusion, please leave Katie alone. Her accent is wonderful. All accents are wonderful. It’s not her fault TV execs only recognizes Basic American, and Posh British as valid accents. It’s not her fault production budgets are tight and there’s no time for re-shoots. She should have been allowed to keep her own accent, because adapting to an American one didn’t offer anything to her character in the first place.