#the languages were french german and spanish btw

[etherealspacejelly]

some words just sound better in other languages

when im putting the subtitles on for a video or tv show i usually say to myself "I need the sous-titres"

if i drop something or make a sudden mistake i usually instinctively say sheiße instead of shit

me and my mum often say to each other "wo ist die katze?" when we are looking for the cat

I will often say "Qu-est que ç'est?" instead of what is that

me and my dad have an inside joke where we deliberately pronounce common French phrases with strong northern British accents, just because it sounds funny (similar to the way David Tennant says "allons-y" in Doctor Who, but with an even stronger and sillier accent)

i often comment "il pleut" when it is raining, or just say "he rains" in english even though that is the incorrect grammar, because i think it's funny to say things in english with grammar from other languages

I am English, both of my parents are English, I was born in England and have lived here all my life. I just studied three languages in high school like a fucking nerd (and im autistic, that might have something to do with it)

[secretagentspydetectiveninja]

The new trilogy means we finally got official French translations of the fifth and sixth games (the fourth already had one) so I did my thing and played through them, since they're always a lot of fun. Here are some things about French Dual Destinies I thought you might like to know:

Yes, it's set in France as per usual. They are all French people who live in Paris. And yes, that means that in this universe there is a Japanese village themed around yokai within throwing distance of Paris.

Athena lived in America in this version, and therefore peppers her speech with English and Spanish. My favourite unhinged franglais line was "let's get au travail" which I will be using from now on because it's hilarious

Many characters got French pun names again. Simon's name is "Jack Lamenoire" -- Jack, because the French version of Simon Says uses the name Jack/Jacques, and "lame noire" means "black blade". (Also he's not British or anything in this version, he just speaks in somewhat old-timey French.)

He has multiple nicknames for the judge that are all slight variations of "Your Baldness". He doesn't do that "-dono" suffix thing but he does refer to Phoenix in particular as "Maître Wright".

...I don't like pointing out things I didn't like buuuuuut his voice is a huge downgrade. Actually, to be honest, I don't like the new French voices that much in general... idk man they just don't sound very enthusiastic...

Filch's name is "Arsène Loupet", reference to the famous fictional thief Arsène Lupin, which I thought was pretty cool! (Herlock Sholmes was also a reference to that series too btw!)

Athena and Apollo use informal pronouns for each other pretty much from the get-go, but there have been some changes from the previous games: Phoenix now uses the informal "tu" for Apollo (and Athena) whereas in the prev game he didn't, Pearl now uses "tu" for Phoenix as well, and Klavier uses "tu" for Apollo now (but Apollo still calls him the formal "vous" lmao)

SPEAKING OF... SPEAKING OF. The French localisation continues to utterly baffle me when it comes to Klavier (or Konrad as he's called in French). No listen, liSTEN. In the previous game he was specifically stated to be English and did his law exams in England and dropped English words into his speech (and this is still the case in the trilogy version, I checked). But now?? They seem to have gone back on it and in this game he says he's German again, like the in English translation??? But he's still dropping English words into his speech randomly????? Look I already went through the five stages of grief when I found out they'd english-ified him, I made my peace with it, and NOW they change it???????

God and his new French voice sucks too (his old one was actually good)... what have they done to you my poor boy, was making you English not bad enough T_T Oh and he and Athena didn't even get their little language club moment where they both start speaking in the same foreign language?? Like, that just straight-up didn't happen here and I had been waiting for it aauuugh it's cool it's fine it's cool i'm okay i'm--

True to Dual Destinies fashion, there are still typos. In an emotional moment, Apollo took a leave of asbence from the office. Not absence. Asbence.

I can't put my finger on it but Robin's coming out scene felt more... respectful in French? The English translation was done over a decade ago so it feels somewhat dated, maybe that's why... I obviously don't know if she was purposely written to be a trans girl but she very much comes across that way, and it feels like the French translators were aware of that interpretation and took it into account, idk maybe it's just me

THEY GOT RID OF MY FAVOURITE LINE. THE FORESHADOWEY ONE WHERE SIMON TELLS ATHENA THAT THE PERSON SHE WANTS TO SAVE MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD DOESN'T DESIRE HER DEFENCE, AND HE'S CLEARLY TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF. THE FRENCH MADE HIM SAY SOMETHING ELSE WAY LESS COOL. I don't wanna be like "FRENCH TURNABOUT ACADEMY IS DEAD TO ME" because most of it was awesome, but man these occasional things made me wanna flip tables

Cosmic Turnabout and Turnabout for Tomorrow were great in French though, so there's that. Clay's French name is "Pierre" which worked surprisingly well because it means stone or rock, and the moon rock was also called that, so like, the phantom had to kill Pierre in order to get the pierre... idk it worked and it was cool

Simon and Athena switch to using informal pronouns for each other very near the end of the game, in the scene where they work together to psychologically mess with the phantom. It's around the time when they start openly calling each other by first name since everyone knows now that they're old friends.

Phoenix and Edgeworth also occasionally refer to each other by first name in this game, which threw me off completely. (Reminder that Edgeworth's French name is "Benjamin Hunter". Just picture Phoenix standing in front of Edgeworth and calling him BENJAMIN. Now you understand how absolutely bizarre it felt.)

Here's the entirety of The Dissin' of Phoenix Wright in French

[maybeimamuppet]

Use this post as an excuse to dump all your Cady headcanons into one post. Go nuts dude.

Love your fics btw :)))

ayyyy thank you nonnie!!!!

i for sure have more but i’m just gonna post the list of headcanons i made to base her on when i first started writing

and usual disclaimer this is her 2018 musical version i have not used some of these and they may not still apply etc etc ANYWAY

tw for death mention

-autistic

-special interest in math, specifically calculus

-polyglot, fluent in english, swahili, french, german, spanish, italian, swedish, and american sign language

-can say any word or sentence backwards, taught herself to read backwards when she was first learning

-sensitive to noise and touch

-swears in different languages when frustrated or hurt

-loves skincare, will pin janis down to make her let her do it to her too

-loves to stim with janis’ hair

-loves janis’ jackets

-and shirts

-steals them whenever she gets the slightest opportunity

-weird medical knowledge

-overly prepared for every possible scenario

-love language is touch

-loves to be snuggled

-tries to touch janis at all times, janis just goes with it

-doesn’t like soft touch, too tickly

-teaches janis asl for when one of them is nonverbal (or just for fun)

-loves fruit

-loves tea

-fascinated by american culture

-name is spelled because her dad was trying to be a musician when she was born and wanted to give her a musical name like harmony or rhyme, mother agreed to cadence if it could be cady on her birth certificate

-middle name is allison

-had an older brother named rhys, ten years older, died at 20 in the military

-he joined the military to pay for college, wanted to be a doctor

-was born in oregon

-aquarius, acts more like pisces, birthday february 11

-bisexual

-very organized but has terrible handwriting

-janis buys her chewy necklaces and stim toys and she loves and uses them all

-comes up with a code to help both of them whenever she has a sensory overload or other meltdown

-blunt as hell, honest to a fault

-tutors janis in math for payment of kisses and time as little spoon

-loves all animals

-kind of like a disney princess, can also befriend any animal

-loves to play animal crossing, designs her island to look like kenya, fav villager is rex

-afraid of the dark and big storms

-takes a sleeping bag and camps in the backyard whenever she’s stressed

-loves to let janis paint on her, the texture of the paint gives her good sensory input

-barefoot whenever possible

-hates being tickled

-tries to learn art to impress janis, it doesn’t work but janis loves what she makes anyway

-loves holding hands

-whispering irritates her

-shifts her lips side to side when she’s anxious

-keeps in touch with karen and gretchen throughout senior year, becomes friends with all plastics again once they become decent people in college

-keeps in touch with aaron, decided they were better as friends

-teeny tiny. 5’3 and 120 pounds

-will throw hands for janis

-vegetarian when she can

-sleeps on her tummy, janis thinks it’s adorable

-valedictorian in hs, fast tracks through getting her bachelors and masters in math , gets her phd really young

-becomes a math professor and tries her best to be understanding and fun, channels ms norbury

-they still meet for coffee sometimes

-used to go for walks in the woods alone when she got stressed until she learned how dangerous it was

-can play a little bit of guitar

-sings to herself a lot without realizing, janis is 😍

-goes to all of janis’ art shows and panics if she’s even a little late

-front row at all of damian’s shows too

-loves disney movies and makes janis watch them with her after they watch horror movies so she can sleep

-can and will sleep anywhere but pretends to have trouble sleeping sometimes so janis will cuddle her

-loves having her hair played with

-hates crowds

-certain textures put her off, janis thinks it’s odd but protects her from them nonetheless

-allergic to pollen, spends most of spring sneezing and with a stuffy nose (janis also finds this adorable)

-never wears matching socks

-said i love you first during a tutoring session with the equation thing

-finds signs easier than talking aloud most of the time

-knows all about space and the stars

-doesn’t understand sarcasm or most figures of speech unless it’s very obvious or intuitive

-janis gets her a bunny in college

-she tries to name it janice (but it’s different!)

-janis says no

-she names her pickles instead

-invents names for things and comes up with new swears

-drops shit all the time

-discovers crocs and causes chaos

-has frecklessssssss

-likes mornings, hates waking up to see them

-does not like eye contact but could stare into janis’ for hours

-janis helps her with english, she doesn’t like it because there’s too many exceptions to all the rules

-avoids alcohol at all costs

-can do really good impressions once she’s familiar with how they sound, learns a lot of social stuff through mimicry

-cannot do fashion at all

-doesn’t like surprises, gets anxious if her routine changes or if she doesn’t have enough information about a new situation beforehand

-hyper fixated on the lion king for a while after janis showed it to her

-has little plants she named after her friends, when one isn’t doing well she checks on them

-wants and loves to travel

-weirdly strong opinions about stupid shit

-says little things in her sleep sometimes

-will tell africa stories to someone on the sidewalk if they’d listen to her

-excitable

-lived in kenya from 3-16

-watches inter-species friendship videos all the fucking time

-loves riding in shopping carts

-soft spoken. so soft.

-smells of rose water and cherries

[shiftingtomydrs]

Hello! You have been ✨chosen✨ by ✨boredom✨ to name 5 fun/cool/interesting facts about your DR(s), then copy and paste this into 10 of your shifter mutuals’ askboxes. Have fun!

ooh i love this (doing this for my mlb dr)

I'm allergic to cats which is funny cos my s/o (chat noir) is yk a cat

I used to do ballet kinda professionally but then stopped for reasons I'm not sure of yet

I live in Paris but my family lives in another country (I'm staying with my godmother who lives in Paris)

I can speak 4 languages (French, English, German and Spanish)

Chat Noir and Ladybug have Social Media Accounts in my dr and we use it for all sorts of stuff haha especially post reveal

Btw if anyone wants to do this feel free to reblog and add your facts :) I'm gonna be honest I'm lazy af soo I'm prolly not gonna put it in inboxes even tho that makes me sound like a shitty person kinda I guess (also these type of things even tho I love to do them and receive them give me war flashbacks of the messages that used to go around on WhatsApp when I was younger that were like 'send this to 10 people or you'll die at midnight' haha)

[lizzybeth1986]

WIP: The OCs of "Out of the Chrysalis"

So the fic I'm currently doing for HLAW...is a "Hana tries speed dating courtesy of Maxwell" fic in my P&Tverse haha, because I didn't want to have her plunging into her One Big Romance before getting the space to figure out who she is, sexuality wise, and finding a community of sorts.

One hc I always had was that Maxwell figured out Hana was interested in women by the time they became friends, and basically wanted her to have the experience of dating. He's a guy who winds up remaining friends with his exes, so he definitely talks to them and the people Hana secretly dates (because she's part of Madeleine's court and expected to catch a suitor the regular way) during the Applewood-Italy-Paris leg of the tour are either people he has dated before, or friends of people he has dated and is still friends with. Or just friends. Basically, people he trusts.

Along with being bi I hc her as demisexual, so this fic is about her discovering that too. So five of these people she dates, and two of them she basically has very illuminating conversations with.

So here goes! OC character sheets under the cut

Bethany James

Faceclaim: Vidya Vox

From: Cormery Isle originally, but now lives in Applewood

Pronouns & Sexuality: she/her, lesbian

Profession: Runs a bakery

Headcanons:

• is a friend of someone Maxwell dated during a stay at Applewood.

• a tiny bit of her story is mentioned in "It Takes A Village", about Kiara's coming-out. She is the girl Kiara speaks to at an art exhibition at the end of that fic.

• Bethany left Cormery Isle with a friend, sensing what she was experiencing was different to what other peers seemed to be experience (she'd find out eventually that some of them were bi and equally scared as her). She was only 16 then. She came to Castelserraillan which was always hailed as a VERY safe space for the Cordonian LGBTQ community in general, and had a really, really memorable experience during their Pride Month.

• She moved to Applewood at the age of 20. Loves the farming community and tries to support local farmers there with a pie festival in the autumn months.

• Like most people everywhere, cannot stand Lord Neville Vancouer.

Angel Diaz

Faceclaim: Kehlani Parris

From: Applewood

Pronouns and Sexuality: they/them, pansexual

Profession: Tattoo artist

Headcanons:

• In my hcs Maxwell has a better hippo tattoo now coz I decided to make this character his tattoo artist, and there is NO WAY I'm going to have them be the face behind that awful clipart excuse of a canon tattoo.

This is P&T!Maxwell's tattoo btw:

Has the right amount of goofy, just not lazily done. But whatever, Maxwell got the clipart one as a teen but upgraded it to this one with Angel's encouragement and skills. He's still a bit embarrassed to show it because what will Bertrand say!

• Angel was always a gifted artist, and their parents enrolled them on scholarship at Castelserraillan's premium University for Fine Arts. But it was there that they got fascinated with tattoo art. It gave their parents quite the shock when they made that their profession and it took them a few years to come around to the idea.

• Like Bethany, Angel was also part of the queer scene early on - but because they were actually staying there they could get involved in the community.

• Maxwell and Angel did briefly date.

• Angel loves to dance. You need an eager person to do crazy spins for a flashmob? They're there.

Andrea Melis

Faceclaim: Alessandro Mahmood

From: Sardinia. Born to a Sardinian father and an Egyptian mother. Currently stays in Capri.

Pronouns and Sexuality: he/him, bisexual

Profession: Translator

Headcanons:

• Knows a variety of languages. Italian, Spanish, Arabic, German, French being just a few of them.

• Mostly translates books. His favourite project so far was translating a food memoir by a famous food writer from Domvallier, Cordonia, from English and Arabic to a couple other languages.

• Has developed a YouTube channel to introduce beginners to Italian and Arabic, since those are the languages he knows most intimately.

• He and Maxwell hoped to be serious in their early 20s, but it didn't work out. Took a while before they could get back to their vibes as friends again but they are now at a good place with each other platonically.

Noèmie Dubois

Faceclaim: Agathe Bonitzer

From: Paris.

Pronouns and Sexuality: she/her, bisexual aromantic

Profession: Boutique owner

Headcanons:

• Loves wearing black

• Loves car racing

• Has two moms. Came out as a teen to her moms first.

• Most people know her as a very chilled out person. Very relaxed.

• Dated Maxwell casually a couple years back, but realized Maxwell and her friend Helene were unknowingly catching feelings for each other, so gently veered him in her direction 😂 Worked out well for all three of them.

Hugo Lefevre

Faceclaim: François Arnaud

From: Loire, but stays in Paris.

Pronouns and Sexuality: he/him, pansexual

Profession: Museum curator but used to be a tour guide in his early days.

Headcanons:

• Majored in art history

• Shy and a bit of a loner

• Was a tour guide who helped Maxwell once when he was lost in Paris on a tour the court was talking. They've been friends and trusted confidantes to each other ever since.

• Loves stargazing

• Isn't out as such except to a few people. Is more comfortable that way. Doesn't like socializing much, which makes the friendship with Maxwell a real surprise. Idea of a perfect night is to sit alone in front of a fireplace with a glass of wine. He doesn't have a fireplace as such right now, so a good glass of wine will do.

--

These last two are not people Maxwell knows, but are essential to Hana's journey to discovering who she really is, romance wise.

Robin Zhou

Faceclaim: Jess Tom

From: Shanghai, but they and their folks moved to San Francisco when they were younger.

Pronouns and Sexuality: They/them, bisexual

Profession: Professional chef, hosts dinners and parties. Does cooking classes in European cuisine on the weekends.

Headcanons:

• They went to culinary school in the States but travelled back on an all-China tour that lasted a year because they felt they didn't know their home cuisine well enough.

• They know Hana's cousin, Chuntao. She took a cooking class with them and wound up loving it.

• Frequents a bar named Roxie. This is where Hana will meet them in the fic.

Doralis Perez

Faceclaim: Elizabeth Acevedo

From: Brooklyn, born to Dominican-American parents.

Pronouns and Sexuality: she/her, lesbian

Profession: Was teaching for a while, but hopes to do her Ph.D one day. Currently works at the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation.

Headcanons:

• Remember the college friend the MC talks about when she mentions the Ramen Incident of Senior Year? That's Doralis.

• Esther and Dora were batchmates and roommates in university

• She was promised a shitload of ramen to call in that favour for Liam

• Esther never got the time to do that, obviously, but she did request her aunt Vivienne to keep that promise in her stead

• Many things Esther knows - as a cishet woman - about sexualities and being an ally, she knows through her time with Dora and their circle of friends at University.

• Dora came out to all their friends by the end of their time at University. It wasn't very easy for her initially, but the environment was such that you had multiple support groups for queer and closeted people there.

• Esther was very much a part of that journey as a close friend who lived with her. That experience also informed how she handled Hana's coming out when she returned.

• Dora loves doing craft activities and has a blog full of fun, innovative and simple craft projects for kids and their parents.

[mchiti]

instead of writing my thesis i'm having a fight with WHITE french people under an instagram post. Yarab help me because you can't win with them. The post was basically one french actor from the 50s talking and one french lady commented "he speaks so differently than today". So another user asked what's different, and she replied "old-fashioned, well mannered, nowadays french is tainted by arabic slangs". Of course languages evolve but out of all the explanations karen could have given us she had to complain about arabic influences. lmao. What MADDENS me more than anything is when they bring languages into it like you don't understand I'm not getting this degree for nothing.

So I said to this french karen: sis, change is inevitable. LANGUAGE CHANGE. The whole idea of purity is utter bullshit because languages change all the time, where is the purity coming from? All neo-latin languages like french, italian, spanish, do you know why they were born? BECAUSE LATIN ITSELF CHANGED. The latin they teach you at school when you study Cicero and all that - that's latin from the "golden age" of latin literature. It lasted like, 2 centuries. It was different before and it changed after. And after the fall of the roman empire - just imagine a whole empire falling down - of course latin was bound to change more rapidly: because with the falling of the roman empire you didn't have a stable school system anymore, or stable institutions. + the germans started coming, especially in france. LIKE FRANCE CHANGED ITS OWN NAME it's literally called "land of the franks" who were germans btw. it is the most germanic-influenced language out of the neo-latin languages (which is also the reason it's more distant than italian/spanish/portuguese). French, like Italian and spanish etc, come from a "tainted" latin from the middle ages - irregular, unstable, very distant from the norm, full of errors to the point if you look at latin written documents between the V and the VII centuries they don't even make sense, and that's because orally it was evolving into something else: romance languages.

Like imagine talking about purity for european languages who were born out of a very unstable, poor in lexicon and grammar latin spoken by "commoners". And by the way YOU went to colonise north africa. moroccan darija is considered hard to understand by other arabic speakers because it also has a lot of french influences. We should be the one complaining lmaooo

[autistic-lan-xichen]

Hi!!! I am here with the promised etymology fact! I have a few smaller tidbit ones soo yeah

Helicopter! Most people think it divides into heli+copter (think heli-pad) but actually it's helico+pter!

Helico meaning spiral (as in helix) and pter meaning fly/flight! The same as in pterodactyl which, btw, is ptero+dactyl

Dactyl means fingers so pterodactyl litrly means flying fingers or finger flier! It's also the same dactyl that appears in polydactyly which is poly (many) plus dactyl!

Another one i really like is the difference bw and Elegy and a Eulogy! They're both poem kinda things that you say when someone dies like in memory of them, but an Elegy is about mourning the one who died while a Eulogy is about celebrating and appreciating the life they lived, it has a more happy vibe! Which makes a lot of sense when you see that the prefix 'eu-' is usually used to denote happiness and good feelings. Think euphoria!

The seeming exception to that is euthanasia, but it ends up making sense when you see that euthanasia originally meant 'a good death' which is a nice way of thinking about it if you ask me!

Another cool one is how the Fruit that adam and eve ate in the Bible came to be an apple. In the Bible it's never actually mentioned the the fruit is an apple, we don't know what fruit it is! The thing is though, that in Latin, the word for general Fruits was also often used as the word for apple (malum), not only that, the Latin word for 'Bad' is written and pronounced in a very similar way, so the theory is that somehwere in all the translation, 'Bad Fruit' got condenswd down to just. Apple. Cuz it all sounded similar!

Speaking of Latin 'bad', the word is Malum (there are some accent marks but i forget them rn) which is where we get the suffix 'mal-' for bad things! Like maleficent, malnourished, malcontent.

Another kinda funny one is Rhinoceros! Rhino means Nose. Think rhinoplasty, rhinitis(inflammation in the nose), rhinovirus (the common cold).

Ceros comes froma root word that basically means like. Stone? Thorn? I am not 100% sure rn but something like that. So rhinoceros litrly just means Nose-Stone lmao

Soeaking of Ceros, it's also where we get the word Keratin! The stuff out hair and nails r made of. So that's cool

Last one, u know the words 'human' and 'man'?? U ever wonder why they don't have the same plural endings when they're so similar?? Well the thing is they sound very similar but they're actually from completely different roots! Like. Not even the same root language. Human comes from the latin 'humanus' which has prety much the same meaning.

But 'man' comes from Germanic roots! Think german and the slavic languages, which is a completely seperate language system with its own grammar rules to latin and the Romance languages (french italian spanish etc. Languages that descended from the language of Rome hence the name)

Which is why their modern day remnants human and man also follow different grammar rules, the rules of their root languages!

Anyway i hope me rambling on was not boring i personally find this so cool one time i sent my friend a good half hour long ramble about this. Thank you for asking!!!

this were really interesting i know almost nothing about this besides the bad one(learned about it in spanish class) so it was fun to learn about it

[varricscrossbowbianca]

15 Questions, 15 Mutuals

aaww thanks @hannahrama for tagging me!! :)

i’m tagging (and no pressure to do this btw):

@fnhrl  @lelianasgirlfriend @solas-egg @tesknicaa @ammiittaa @niranhesr @ebonysquib  @bisexualtelepath @blueberriiee @lenemango @hardwitchhologram @dreamsvoids @bramble-elfdancer @blackwallmancer @theloveshow

  1. Are you named after anyone?

2. When was the last time you cried?

3. Do you have kids?

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

5. What’s the first thing you notice about people?

6. What’s your eye color?

7. Scary movies or happy endings?

8. Any special talents?

9. Where were you born?

10. What are your hobbies?

11. Have you any pets?

12. What sports do you play/have played?

13. How tall are you?

14. Favorite subject in school?

15. Dream job?

1. Are you named after anyone?

Nope, I got a very typical German name lmao. Anna is a very popular name :’) I call myself Sammy on here though because a friend of mine gave me that nickname (it’s because of Sam from SPN haha)

2. When was the last time you cried?

hmmm my uni stuff frustrates me a lot at the moment, so that’s where i get emotional

3. Do you have kids?

noope.

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

pretty much all the time. runs in the family. you can’t ask anyone anything because the reply will always be something ridiculous lmao.

5. What’s the first thing you notice about people?

i guess their voice? i really love voices.

6. What’s your eye color?

it’s green-grayish. there are a few pics of me on here (sometimes i think about deleting them again idk), so you can have a look at it yourself ahaha.

7. Scary movies or happy endings?

i’m starting to like scary movies again so this is a bit of a difficult choice. tbh though i think we need more happy endings. i like happy endings.

8. Any special talents?

i don’t know if it’s a special talent but my french accent is apparently quite believable, at least to my french teachers. i used to be really good at french but sadly forgot most of it. i love the language though. i used to be able to learn new languages quite fast heh :’) i also do voice acting as a hobby from time to time (just posting stuff on youtube) and sometimes here on tumblr when i post my audio stuff. it’s really fun to do. apparently, my english accent also fools some people into thinking i’m british (at least when i met ben barnes at a convention he thought i was british ahaha). so yeah...i love accents. but i don’t know if any of that counts as a special talent.

9. Where were you born?

Germany. In a small town. It’s quite boring and there is nothing here to see ahaha.

10. What are your hobbies?

i love drawing fanart, reading (although i have abandoned my reading list for a while), voice acting, photography (portrait photography), sometimes playing guitar, playing video games like TLOU, RDR2, Dragon Age, Uncharted...  I also do cosplay from time to time.

11. Have you any pets?

yes, i’ve got a dog. he’s a mix of a great mountain dog and a german shepherd. so he’s big and fluffy. his name is anton :)

12. What sports do you play/have played?

well, as a kid i used to do ballet which i am getting into again. it’s so much harder than i remember.

13. How tall are you?

just 163 cm. i think that’s 5′4 or something. so pretty much an average height haha.

14. Favorite subject in school?

I loved English, Art, and Theatre/Literature. I really miss school in that regard.

15. Dream job?

I used to want to be an actress (like most people lmao) and there were people who told me I had an ‘‘actress’‘ face and a few even told me I could be a model (lmaaooo what) but I don’t have the self confidence for that tbh. Right now I want to work in IT.  I started studying Robotics so yeahhh...it’s difficult af. I also want to learn French and Spanish again which is always useful :)

[v-anrouge]

AH I SEE.. I DIDNT MAKE ANY MATH IN MY HEAD SO I THINK THATS WHY I GOT IT WRONG❓BUT I MEAN IM JUST DUMB IN EVERYDAY LIFE SO THAT MIGHT ALSO BE IT‼️‼️ BTW YOU KNOW THE FANDOM YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT YESTERDAY❓QSMP I THINK ❓IT GENUINELY LOOK INTERESTING, WHAT IS IT ABOUT IF U DONT MIND ME ASKING PLS‼️‼️‼️

-🎧 Anon ‼️

QSMP IS A MINECRAFT SERVER OWNED BY QUACKITY, IT STANDS OUT BECAUSE IT IS RHE FIRST MINECRAFT SERVER RHAT IS MULTILINGUAL, THEY PUT ON A MOD THAT DOES LIVE TRANSLATIONS OF MULTIPLE LANGUAGES, AT FIRST IT WAS ONLY ENGLISH AND SPANISH SPEAKERS BUT THEN THEY ADDED BRAZILIANS AND THEN THE FRENCH, NOW RHEYRE GOING TO ADD MORE PPL AND I THINK THE NEXT ARE THE GERMANS? ITS VERY FUN AND CHAOTIC ANS ALL RHE PPL THERE ARE RLLY RLLY FUN!! IT ALSO HAS A LONG ASS LORE 💀💀💀💀💀💀 WHICH IS SURPRISINGLY DARK FOR MINECRAFT.

[threadsun]

JDA Asks: "OH FUN FACT !! Completely off topic ask btw just random convo—

-JDA here sorry for the random conv LMFOA-

Spanish is actually one of the fastest languages alongside Japanese I think, apparently it’s words can have many syllables it makes the whole language sound fast, ok idk if that makes sense—

Also THIRD language??? Fancy oooo, I’m also learning my third language (the other two being English and Spanish obv) it’s French and I have very basic knowledge of how to speak but it’s fun and sounds nice !!

I thought it would be easier tbh, cuz I was understanding pretty well how to connect words and how to mush them into a sentence,,, then I decided to look a mini movie in French to practice my listening and never understood what it was about—"

Oooooh that's really cool!! And yeah, it's always so much harder to understand shows and movies in a new language for some reason. Something about the way actors talk make it much harder than language learning apps and stuff. I guess it's more natural to how native speakers talk though?

French is a fun one! The spelling is a lot to process at first, but once you figure out what sounds things make, it becomes more intuitive from what I've heard.

My first language is uhhhh... Yinglish, which is a mix of English and Yiddish. I grew up in an immigrant community that included a lot of Jewish USSR refugees who only spoke Yiddish (and sometimes Russian) as a common language, so a lot of their kids generally spoke Yiddish and English interchangeably until it meshed into one language and that a lot of us speak now. My grandparents and their whole families were fluent in Yiddish, but my immediate family only know Yinglish now.

So like my primary language is probably about... 90% English? But then a solid 5% is Yiddish words thrown into English sentences and another 5% is direct translations of Yiddish phrases into English in a way native English speakers don't usually do. And no one ever taught me which words weren't English, so I can't separate the two languages from my speech now. So Yinglish it is! Though I make a conscious effort to keep my writing as fully English as possible.

Then I've also been speaking/learning Hebrew (ancient and modern :3c) since kindergarten, so that's my second language. I can speak and understand it pretty fluently, but my reading and writing isn't great. If you've ever seen the Hebrew alphabet, especially the script, you'll see why lmao

My mum is fluent in French and German, so I have a very basic knowledge of both of those. As I said, I grew up around lots of Russian speakers, so I've got a bit of that... But nothing really fluently. It's fun though, knowing bits and pieces of different languages!

I'm trying very hard to learn Spanish so I can talk to my partner's family in their native language, but I've got dyslexia and aphasia so... yeah, the Spanish learning ain't going great, unfortunately 😔 But we stay silly! I'm gonna keep trying!

[eclaireparlalune]

I’m reblogging it again with an addition because I’ve been thinking.

I was curious as to the nature of the English language and people’s opinions on it as a hard language to learn.

For the record - every language can be easy or hard depending on a lot of different factors, such as the native language one already knows, other languages one has learned, the amount of resources available, the motivation and the predispositions of the learner.

Given that, most people on this site are native English speakers and many who were saying English is hard were monolingual native English speakers, so I wanted to consider their opinions and touch on the idea of why I think English is held to a much bigger standard than other languages.

Some of the arguments used were the inconsistencies of the English pronunciation and spelling, accents, as well as the amount of exceptions (a broad term which I’m not sure what was meant to encompass). I’ve also seen that while some say that it is easy to learn it is hard to perfect.

What got me about it was that while I agree that it’s true that the lack of rules may be hard to some people and the popularity of the language helps greatly with that, I believe that you can learn to speak and write in English so that people understand you fairly easily.

To speak “perfectly” and with a “perfect” accent is near impossible for a non-native speaker. In plenty, if not all, languages. The same when it comes to “perfecting” a language.

I know that the question itself is very open-ended for previously listed reasons, but sth else to note is also the idea of learning and knowing a language. What does fluency mean? When does a person know a language?

Personally, I’d define it as: a person being comfortable to listen to, read, write and speak about various subjects that you talk about in your everyday life, and no matter the quality of your speech and accent the most important thing for me is to be understood.

I’ve had various good and less than good encounters with native English speakers and while many are cool with the way we - non-natives - speak, there are plenty who will comment on our accents and pronunciation no matter how close to the real thing it is.

Overall I believe that English for most is a fairly easy language to learn when compared to some others, although my opinion may also be skewed because I’ve been learning English since I was six, had a predisposition to learning it and loved learning it + spend most of my time reading and listening to it throughout my whole life and ended up studying English exclusively at the university.

Keeping that in mind, however, I decided to ask other people about their experiences and my aunt and mom, who are both teachers in elementary school and high school respectively, said that their perception was similar to my own. Most students choose English as the language to study at school, saying that it is easier than German, Spanish, French, Russian etc. (I’m from Poland btw.) Test results confirm that. (Which is not to say that is it all-around very easy and people don’t struggle with it).

In our country almost every person from younger generations (and many in the older), know English to some degree, and knowing English is becoming kind of a requirement on the job market. Most companies now start to require English + some other language when looking through resumes.

It is, of course, the effect of the wide-spread nature of English all over the world. While it is beneficial to learning it, the downside to it is the fact that so many more people are now much more judgemental when it comes to using it. To differentiate between those who know it we began to focus much more on the levels of skill and knowledge.

It’s so widespread that our knowledge of the mere existence of various accents and differences between them forces us to rise to this higher standard more often than with other languages, where simply knowing how to string up a sentence together is something we cheer about.

Again, it is not in itself a negative thing, and I know that there are judgmental people in other languages and cultures as well, but I think it is something to keep in mind.

If anyone lasted in reading it up until this moment: I thank you for your sacrifice. I just thought it was interesting to think about when seeing the big divide between people proclaiming it’s difficulty vs people screaming about how easy it is. The extreme reactions were very curious.

I’d love to hear some other thoughts on the subject, from people from different backgrounds and different parts of the world, whenever you agree or disagree with what I’ve written.

I’ve always found it funny that every native speaker of any language will always tell learners how awful their language is to learn so question time

Also if you reblog pls tag with your language and answer cause I’m really curious to see

[edwin--artifex]

VPI, Voice Professionals Italy S.r.l.s. dubbed the (by now) famous Cry Babies! 12x3'10" episodes per language: in German, French and Spanish. All the talent was auditioned and cast here in Rome @ VPI. Great kids!

Edwin Alexander Francis, VPI directed German and produced, Marc Reynaud did French and Luis Moriones handled Spanish.

(just btw) The English language versions were produced in the UK by WhoDunnit?, the Italian versions were (sadly) recorded in Milan (with what sounds like pitched adult talent).....

So, let me introduce you to the Cry Babies (and their Magic Tears) ->

...and here are 3 sample episodes (in 3 languages) ->

Deutsch: "Ich bin krank!"->

Francais: "Je suis malade!"->

…and Español: "¡Estoy malita!" (pls see the second episode of the collection at time code 03:40) ->

(PS) Originally I posted 'my' 3 vids and got blocked on YouTube, so, here are the originals posted by the 'owner of the copyright' (who wasn't willing to concede 'fair use') on their youtube channels! Hope you had fun!

[dysah]

I think a lot about Gladio was for sure lost throughout the dubbing. My first playthrough was in Japanese (although the subs were definitely for the eng dub) and I saw him as the big bro who could easily approach anyone, not just women. I didn't really see the whole playboy persona in him like everyone else until I played the second time in English. Your Gladio art truly exhibits how he's meant to be portrayed - a very attractive and prideful teddy bear. It's so refreshing.

Bruh! I played with the Japanese dub and Spanish subs. The Spanish subs are kinda weird, because they don’t always correspond with the English dub/sub which is… good? Cos maybe there’s more fidelity with the Japanese?¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (but they probably do their own shit at times). Honestly Gladio is fkn funny in Spanish, I freaking love him. Gladio and Iris’ confident cheerfulness was obliterated in the English dub, fuck that. The only one who got past the “Translation Filter” intact was Ardyn, everyone else died.        

I’m really glad you’re enjoying my Gladio drawings!! Thank you for the kind words~! *sniff* ;v;b 

[my-skull-is-full-of-sunken-ships]

Since in east-slavic languages the word "computer" is just exactly the same word, but written in cyrillic (компьютер), I thought that all european languages (or maybe not only them) use this exact word (and French is just being a weirdo with it's "ordinateur")

But it turned out that in czech computer is "počítač" and in slovenian it's "računalnik", and half of european languages were probably too lazy to come up with their own name.

I started to google and here's what I found out:

Most languages (and not only european btw) indeed use the word "computer": german computer, portuguese computador, ukrainian комп'ютер, bulgarian компютър, polish komputer, hindi कंप्यूटर (kampyūṭar), albanian kompjuter, arabic كمبيوتر (kambyūtar), azerbaijani kompüter, thai คอมพิวเตอร์ (kompiwdter), japanese コンピュータ (kompyūta), korean 컴퓨터 (keompyuteo)

But there are lots of languages, which created their own name out of words "count", "compute", "calculate" etc. Here we have another arabic word حاسوب (ḥāsūb; along with كمبيوتر, kambyūtar) comes from the verb حسب (ḥasaba) "to count". Estonian verb "arvutama" makes "arvuti". Hungarian "számítógép" is basically "számít", to count, plus "gép", machine. Slovenian and czech words are also in this group of languages.

There're also groups of languages, where the word "computer" came whether from words like "arrange", "systematize" (french, spanish, armenian), or where computer basically means "data"+"machine" (norwegian, finnish)

And chineese and hawaiian made computer out of words "brain" and "electricity"

Fun fact: in russian laptop is called "notebook" (ноутбук), and I still can remember the amount of frustration back when I was, like, 7 y.o. when I found out that ноутбук and notebook are not the same thing.

[ch1ck3nnugg3t]

I feel like this whole thing is very confusing

Neil Josten real name Nathaniel Wesniski- when he was 10 he and his mother (Mary Hartford) took 5 million dollars and ran away from his abusive/serial killer dad (Nathan Wesninski) and went on the run for like 8 years I think. Mary took him and ran because Nathan was going to sell him to the Moriyama's side branch to play Exy when Neil was 10 they had him go to Edgar Allan for tryouts Neil just thought he was there to play Exy the next night Mary took him and ran. When Neil was 17 Nathan and his men caught up with them in Seattle where Neil and Mary are split up but then meet back again at a chosen location where they get in a car and drive Mary tells Neil to drive to the coast and Neil doesn't realize till it's too late that Mary had died he then proceeds to burn the car and bury the bones in the beach and from then he goes to millport Arizona for a year to be recruited by the foxes.

- through out his time in the run he has had 22 identities

- he does not find out till Kevin tells him that he belongs to the moriyamas(idk second or third book) or that the moriyamas are a mafia till wymack tells him (first book)

- his mother never told him why they were in the run

- Neil can speak three languages English German and French (and in the books he takes a Spanish class)

- in the books him and Andrew never officially started dating but yeah they're dating

Mary hatford (bc I feel like this needs to be explained)- the hatfords are the British mafia Stuart is Mary's brother also Neil's uncle Mary takes Neil to him for a little bit at the beginning but it was just exchanging one mafia for another Mary married Nathan with something to do with her connections to the Hatfords and Nathan's to the moriyamas ig (also btw we don't like Mary she was abusive to Neil on the run Neil will deny it was abuse but he is delulu)

The moriyamas- there are two different branches to the moriyamas the main branch and the side branch the main branch consists of kengo and ichirou (ichirou is kengos son) they handle the main stuff the side branch is tetsuji and riko (tetsuji is kengos brother and riko is also kengos son but he was the second born so he was put into the second branch(daddy issues😉)) they handle the Exy side ( in one of the towers during games the main branch does business there only during games tho as to prevent susiness) Nathan is the kengos right hand man (basically he kills people for them (really slowly))

Andrew minyard- him and his twin brother (Aaron minyard) were put up for adoption right after being birthed by their mother (tilda) but tilda took back Aaron right after leaving Andrew to go through the foster system where he went through many uhh not so nice homes (😬 SA) when he was like 13 (maybe???) he was put into cass spears home and he liked it there till her son drake spear came home from the military on leave (or smth) anywayyy he was also sexually abusing Andrew without cass finding out but Andrew liked it there so he put up with it till Andrew found out he had a twin brother and drake started saying some thing about liking twinsss(???) so Andrew told his brother to fuck off then got his self sent to juvie (I think he was 15) while in juvie he found out he was gay (yay?) at some point his uncle Luther came and got him out on early parole so he could go live with his brother (Aaron) and his mom( tilda ) Andrew tried to tell Luther about drake to prevent cass from fostering any other kids but he just called it a "misunderstanding" and that he just didn't understand "brotherly affection" Andrew only went to live with tilda because he found bruises on Aaron when he had visited the juvie so he had to go protect him. When he got out of juvie and went to go live with them he found out that Aaron hadn't had it so good bc tilda was an abusive mf and a drugie and probably got Aaron stuck on drugs anyway Andrew and Aaron made a deal that Andrew would get him off the drugs and keep tilda from hitting him and Aaron would stay with Andrew till the end of high school (they end up extending the deal to college when that happens) but she didn't stop so Andrew told her if she didn't stop he would kill her sooo that what he did he pretended to be Aaron got in the car with tilda and drove them into a tree or something it killed tilda that's what's important anyway so Nicky hemmick is Luther and Maria's son he is also gay and bc Luther is a crazy ass Christian he like disowned him or something Nicky went away in an abroad program for his last year of high school then decided to live there with his boy friend anyway Nicky came back for Andrew and Aaron when he heard about tildas death and became there guardian was supposed to last till the end of high school then he'd move back to Germany with his boyfriend but then he got the full ride scholarship with Aaron and Andrew and decided to stay till the end of the five year sports scholarship. So Nicky bought them and house in Columbia and got a job at sweeties while the twins were in high school at some point he gets him and the twins a job at edens (the night club(it's totally a gay bar)) sometime in Andrew's senior year he gets invited to the ravens by rkio and Kevin but he turns them down (not very nicely might I say) and as a respond Riko sends men to beat up Nicky while he's on a break at edens when Andrew hears about them beating his cousin up he rushes out there and beats the four men half to death at the court date he gets put on drugs bc he was unnecessarily violent. 

- Andrew started playing Exy in juvie and was crazy good at it for no reason he also claims to hates Exy (I personally think he's full of shit)

- Aaron and Nicky were totally only offered scholarships as a way to get Andrew in the line up but if Andrew had said no and Aaron said yes Aaron still would have been able to play bc wymacks not like that

- he wears the arm bands to hold his knives and to over his scars (SH scars btw)

Aaron minyard- kinda homophobic (blame the uncle) been abused by his mom an addict an asshole In general wants to be a doctor (I really don't like him in canon) 

The nest- aka the court at Edgar Allan uni there is an under ground area (they're gonna have vitamin D deficiencies )were the whole team lives it's not public knowledge everyone thinks they live in the housing areas (something like that) the nest has 16 hour days and most of that is spent practicing exy they are not allowed outside unless it's an away game or they're going to classes also they all have to take the same classes unless they can get someone else to take a class with them and they have to ask the master they are givin food that is measured to them (I'm convinced everyone there has an eating disorder bc it's so health it sickening) everyone in the nest has a partner (now they're going to have codependency issues) they share and room and have to be together all the time when one makes a mistake they are both punished for it (stg it's a cult) also they call tetsuji (he's the coach btw) the master (🤮)

Okayyyy Jean kevin and riko- (just so we're clear Jean is not pronounced gene it sounds more like john but with a French accent idk put it through google translate) okay so first of all Jean and Kevin are NOT dating 😭😭😭 can't say I blame you for thinking that tho and anyway riko is number one Kevin is number two Jean is number three and Neil is number four (unwillingly) Neil was meant to be number three but his mom took him and ran before that could happen the numbers are what riko wanted to be the prefect court he was number one bc we wanted to be the best then two saying Kevin was second best and so on. when they were little they would just write with marker the numbers but when they were old enough they got them tattooed so Jean was sold to the moriyamas to pay off debts his dad owed and (oh my poor baby went through it in the nest) Jean was treated as property Kevin had it slightly better bc he was just an investment never actually sold to them his mom Kaylee day ( that's not how you spell her name but I'm too lazy to google it) and tetsuji moriyama created Exy but when Kaylee died Kevin went to her friend tetsuji sooo don't hate Kaylee she didn't know how bad it would be also tetsuji I think set up her death it was someone in the moriyama family anyway so Kaylee wrote tetsuji a letter telling him who Kevin's dad was and guess what (it's wymack 😱) Jean and Kevin were friends and Jean taught Kevin French later Kevin and Jean were looking through tetsujis office and found the letter so years later when riko breaks Kevin's playing hand bc Kevin was better than him that's where he leaves my poor baby Jean in the nest and ( we don't victim blame tho so no hate on Kev at least for that now his attitude go ahead) goes to the foxes or to his dad wymack. Also in case it wasn't clear we don't like riko he's a psycho messed up in the head something (daddy issues 😉) 

Renee- oml this one she is a goalie for the foxes was adopted late in life my her mom Stephane walker she helped Renee, Renee became a Christian (not like Luther good lord) and is considered the sweetheart of the team her past now 😬 her real name is Natalie and she was in a gang shit went down ( meaning idk all the details ) and now she's all good she's like Andrew's only friend and the only person he'll tolerate and even likes every Sunday they like spar in the basement of the fox tower (pretty sure Renee like always wins) oh she also has got angle wins tattooed on her back (tho they look like devil wings)

Wymack bc I feel like i need to explain him- kaylee taught him how to play exy and he went on to make a program at the palmetto that only excepts people who wouldn't get excepted to other colleges (like people with records or past addictions) some people think it is a publicity stunt but it's not trust. in Neil's words he excepts "talented rejects"

Matt- aka Neil's bestie his dad got him hooked on drugs and he struggled with it till Andrew intervened in Andrew's freshmen year

Dan- is Matt's girlfriend she became a stripper in high school to help pay the bills ig she's also the foxes team captain

Allison- she got disowned from her family bc she wanted to play Exy and not take over the family business (plus she's like super rich or whatever ) (also btw like my fav character)

Seth - he dies at the end of the first book riko kills him (not personally ofc he gets someone else to do it) but he was allisons on again off again boy friend and he was a druggie

Exy- woah a lot with this one I don't think anyone could actually play with what with how much concentration would go into it okay so in order to have a full team to play you need at least 9 players. In the game at a time you have a goalie two backliners a dealer and two strikers. The court is like basically a big box the size of a soccer court there is typically walls the a roof to bounce the ball off of it's called plexiglass in the book.the goal isn't an actual goal with a net and all that it's just a box on the wall with sensors that light up when the ball hits it. If you have the ball you can only carry it for 10 steps before you need to pass it drop it bounce it off the wall something but you can't keep holding it. The goalie guards the goal. The backliners stop the strikers from scoring (at least try). The dealers deal and can pass to other players (preferably of the same team). And the strikers try and score points. Exy is a contact sport there is no tackling but you can check the other players but only if they have the ball (it's like lacrosse and ice hockey) 

These are all the players I can remember (I'm lazy and don't feel like googling the rest)

Foxes

Neil - striker

Andrew - goalie

Kevin - striker

Aaron - backliner

Matt - backliner

Nicky - backliner

Dan - dealer

Allison - dealer

Renee - goalie

Seth - striker

Ravens

Riko - striker

Kevin - striker

Jean - backliner

(I literally don't know anyone else) maybe Thea I think she's a dealer

Trojans 

Jeremy - shit actually idk

Uhhh??? U know what don't worry about it

Do you know what happened in the books bc this is all basically what happened before them

I legit wrote all this bc my computer was taking forever to update

SO im not into aftg I have not read aftg I follow the tag and reblog fan art because I am a fan of that fandom almost? Yall are just some of the most funny and talented people I've ever seen i love experiencing these sports mafia books second hand.

Here's what I know from the outside looking in:

Neil Josten- A fake name? His real name in every way that matters I think? Mafia family ties. Boy on the run. Dating Andrew Minyard(?). You can tell who he is in art because he's got reddish brown hair and face scars.

Andrew Minyard(?) - thats his last name, right? Short blonde and looks angry a lot of the time. Arm warmers are plot relevant cause hes hiding scars. Has had a REALLY bad childhood but idk if its mafia related or not??? Dating Neil.

Aaron Minyard(?)- Andrew's twin thats all I know

Jean and Kevin - Unclear who they are I was just already following the tag when Sunshine Court was announced so I see their names together a lot. Are they in love?

Renee- the one with rainbow dip dyed hair in fan art. All I know is people love her.

Riko- A name I have seen

Exy- Fake sport. Under the impression its a contact sport but I am realizing that these character might just be violent people??? Is it tackle lacross or did I make that up????

Thats all I got boys. Whats with the face tattoos? How many of these people actually have mafia ties? Idk how many people will see this but please infodump in the tags/notes. I would love a character cheat sheet so I understand more fan art but also just tell me anything about these freaks (affectionate).

[jessekellywould]

i love your blog so much. i'm looking for racetrack higgins headcannons? their time and modern day? please? xx

I-oh wow thanks! Thank you so much!

And for those headcanons you asked for: (BTW I have this wip where Race is Robin (as in Batman and Robin) so a couple of these stem from that.)

-Canon Era:

The Delancey brothers and Race owe each other life-saving favors. (Race: I saved your half-sister one time and now you feel the need to try and save my life. Ya know what? How bout you just don’t beat up Crutchie instead, yeah?)

Race and Jojo were selling buddies once upon a time.

Race has a cop buddy by the name of Marco Hawkes (who is also Italian). Hawkes has decently high rankings at his police precinct so he usually keeps an ear out for Race so he doesn’t end up back in a Refuge like place.

(Going by Livesies canon) Race met Denton after the strike and now they hang out sometimes. Tea and biscuits, sniffing out the latest story, Denton helping Hawkes bail Race and Albert out of jail, etc.

Sort of a pyromaniac, he more likes watching things burn than actually starting fires.

Convinced Finch to use berries in his sling-shot once so when he shot someone the mushed berry would look like blood

Darcy's sister, Jean Templeton Reid (she’s a real person, I looked her up) has a crush on him

Race is pretty friendly and has a lot of non-newsies friends 

-Modern Era:

Race knows lots of languages, fully he knows English (that’s a given), Italian (cause he’s Italian), Spanish and French (cause they're also neo-latin languages), German (IDK he just does), Mandarin (cause it’s the second most common language in the world), Russian (cause it weirds people out), and Arabic (Cause he’s Robin and wants to show off to the league of assassins)  Irish. He’s working on Polish because Elmer speaks it.

He also knows ASL.

Throws cards at people that are annoying him or that he just doesn’t like

Would watch movies in the splits just because he can do that.

Went trick-or-treating and then gave his candy out to all the homeless kids he could find

When the Newsies goes skating they’ll push Crutchie around in a chair and when Race pushes him they speed around the rink much to fast

Learned guitar

Has a little scar on his upper lip from where a stray cat scratched him.

-Could be in either or both:

Will participate in rooftop parkour and Davey is like “Stop! You’re gonna slip and fall and end up breaking your neck!”

Race is pro-capes, other newsies might be like “No capes!” or “Capes are stupid”, but Race won’t listen to them and loves capes especially if they have hoods.

If he hears a good insult he’ll steal it and save it for later.

Randomly pokes the other newsies in the stomach

His dad was in the mob/mafia.

Race is stupidly protective, he doesn’t show it often but he is. 

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Well that's all I've got for Racetrack headcanons, before it dives into Race as Robin headcanons. These are mostly just Race. I didn't really wanna do any with relationship ties. I could but whatever.