“One time my cousin Walter got this cat stuck in his ass. True story. He bought it at the local mall, so the whole fiasco wound up on the news. It was embarrassing for my relatives and all. But the next week, he did it again. Different cat, same results, complete with a trip to the emergency room. Then, last week, I saw him in the pet store. He was buying another cat. I said, "Walt, what the hell are you doing, you know you're just gonna get this cat stuck up your ass too, why don't you knock it off?" And he says to me, "Brodie, how the hell else am I supposed to get the gerbil out?" My cousin was a weird guy.”
I’m sorry to say this but…I’m a silent reader!!! IM SORRY!!! I know it’s bad, it’s one of the reasons I don’t write a lot! But I don’t interact beyond likes because I don’t want to be a bother and I’m scared of interacting on here.
I’m sorry, I’m learning to do better, I bow to all the people I follow and I just want you to know I appreciate what you have done and your contributions to this app greatly. I love you all dearly, I just don’t know how to show it beyond a like.
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1. Prominent 3h placements can give you a very distinct voice
2. People who have a deeper/huskier voice often have Mercury aspecting Pluto. Ex: Miley Cyrus & Whitney Houston (both have mercury conjunct pluto)
3. Mercury in a water sign can give the native a very sultry voice. They probably sound a lil intimidating and their voices will always be slightly low pitched (Zoe Saldana, Lana Del Rey, Pamela Anderson, Adriana Lima, Gisele Bundchen)
if Mercury is in Cancer, the voice tends to be soft and calming to hear. Ex: Margot Robbie, Elsa Pataky, Kate Beckinsale etc
Mercury in Scorpio gives the native a certain, almost nasally twang to their voice, it's not exactly nasally but i cant think of a good way to describe it, its deeper and fuller sounding but there's a certain twang to it.
Ex: Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry, Julia Roberts, Madonna, Kris Jenner, Demi Moore, Gabrielle Union & Miley Cyrus
especially Miley & Demi have this very gravelly cigar smoking kinda voice
Mercury in Pisces gives a very intimidating, richer or fuller vocal timbre
Mercury in Virgo: these natives have a very "sing song-y" voice, they speak in a very rhythmic way and modulate their voice very well. if you listen to any of their interviews, they always speak like they're telling a story, if you know what I mean.
Mercury in Capricorn gives natives a raspy voice, their voices tend to be very low pitched and some of them kind of sound like they have a perpetual cold
Ex: Taehyung, Zayn Malik, Shakira, Alex Turner, R Kelly, Alexa Demie
Sometimes however it can give the native a very "sugary girly" voice
Ex: Milla Jovovich, Taylor Swift, Zooey Deschanel, Ellen Degeneres
6. Mercury in Air signs
Mercury in Gemini natives are very verbose; they're articulate but they're very wordy; they also speak in a rather expressive manner; usually they're very well spoken
Ex: Angelina Jolie, Elizabeth Hurley, Helena Bonham Carter, Courteney Cox, Stevie Nicks, Cate Blanchett etc
Mercury in Libra natives often speak in a very expressive and animated way, its so cutee🥰
Ex: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Zendaya, Brigitte Bardot, Bella Hadid, Kate Winslet, Emma Stone, Gwen Stefani, Sophia Loren etc
Mercury in Aquarius: ive often noticed that these natives can sound a bit clueless or zoned out when they're speaking 🤭
Ex: Harry Styles, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Aniston, Paris Hilton (in the 2000s at least)
How on earth there are no Hobie x black reader like, revolutionary black man with revolutionary black woman/man/person
No sweet talk about their fave black alt artist: Nova Twins, X ray Spex, Militia Vox, and Tina Turner (here in the UK we love her RIP)
No wash day doing each other hair, or reader forgets to put their scarf/bonnet on so Hobie puts on for them while they are asleep.
Shitting on colonisers
Maybe readers is English and child of immigrant and cooks traditional food for Hobie (Jamican, Nigerian, Haitian all the black diaspora). Them going in African shops or stealing from racist hair shop owners.
Looking out for Gwen, Miles and Pav
They did say from great power comes great responsability
From lack of fanfiction with black people comes not expecting people to do it for you especially majority of reader are still white be default
Trailer Drop! Camlann releases in January 2024, subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts.
Transcript available here, or click the Read More below.
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Camlann - Teaser Trailer Transcript - 6th November 2023
[Camlann is written and directed by Ella Watts and produced by Amber Devereux at Tin Can Audio, with production management from Ross McFarlane. This transcript was written by Ella Watts.]
A dial tone - it’s a low, warm trilling beep which rings in sets of two, six times, before stopping abruptly.
The voice that follows is feminine and light, with a precise English accent. The character speaks with a sense of formality, and formal warmth - like you might find in a hospital.
RECORDING 1:
Please hold. Your call is very important to us and we will get to it as quickly as we can. The Cataclysm is frightening for everyone. Remember, in times like these we need to stick together more than ever. If you need emergency assistance, please call 999 -
The dial tone returns, ringing three times. The voice that follows is light, masculine, with a Scottish accent.
RECORDING 2:
Your position in the queue is -
The voice that follows is androgynous and light, a different Scottish accent to the one before.
RECORDING 3:
Three-hundred and thirty-three
A long, continuous droning beep as the phone connects, which ends abruptly.
The voice that follows is feminine and Scottish, specifically Glaswegian. She sounds confident, but somewhat rushed - like an emergency phone operator. She is immediately authoritative and polite.
PHONE OPERATOR:
Hello, you’ve reached the Cataclysm Casualties Hotline. Can I take your name and date of birth?
At this point, a very soft static begins to build in the background.
The first voice we hear is androgynous, English and precise.
PERRY:
Peredur Green
The second voice is a low, feminine voice with a Welsh accent.
MORGAN:
Morgan Jones
The third voice speaks with a Chinese accent, and is light and feminine.
GWEN:
Shújūn Liu
The fourth voice is low and masculine, with a broad Scottish accent.
GWAINE:
Gwaine Turner
The fifth voice is light and masculine, with a light Welsh accent.
DAI:
Just call me Dai
The Phone Operator is business-like and professional.
PHONE OPERATOR:
Ok, and who are you calling for today?
The static keeps building softly, getting slowly louder.
Dai sounds frustrated and anxious, and he speaks quickly.
DAI:
My Mum. Siân Thomas? She was in Aberystwyth.
Gwaine speaks firmly and slowly. He falters when he clarifies Kirkwall, revealing his anxiety.
GWAINE:
Matthew and Louise Turner. In Kirkwall on Orkney.
Gwen sounds audibly anxious, speaking with urgency and a slightly higher pitch.
GWEN:
My father, Kai Liu.
Morgan says Ben’s name as if around a lump in her throat - she sounds sad, like she already knows something has happened to him.
MORGAN:
Ben. Ben Jones.
Gwaine sounds comfortably skeptical - as if what he’s referring to cannot possibly be true.
A new drone builds alongside the softly building static - like a swarm of bees or string instruments being played vibrato. It slowly gets louder and louder, a low pitched sense of intensity and dread.
GWAINE:
I saw something on the news about a sea serpent?
Morgan sounds like she’s going to be sick. She’s deadly serious, firm and clearly seriously worried.
MORGAN:
He’s fifteen years old.
Perry is authoritative and comfortable with the bureaucracy, though they still speak with a sense of urgency.
PERRY:
Anna and Sophie Green, in Portsmouth.
When Gwen speaks, there’s a sense of dread in her voice.
GWEN:
What’s happening in Kowloon?
Perry sounds incredulous and confused as they ask their question, full of disbelief.
The droning bee swarm sound gets louder, it’s hard to tell if it’s musical or a sound effect, only that it’s building a sense of dread like a horror film.
PERRY:
Listen, is this real? I’ve been seeing news reports about dragons -
The phone operator sounds guarded and distracted when she answers, clearly avoiding the questions.
PHONE OPERATOR:
Let me look that up for you. Where are you calling from today?
Each of the following answers comes quickly and firmly. Gwen’s stands out.
PERRY:
Bristol
MORGAN:
Bristol
GWAINE:
Bristol
DAI:
Bristol
GWEN:
Leicester
The phone operator sounds sincere and sympathetic in the way that a doctor might when delivering bad news to a patient.
A new sound effect joins the static and drone - background voices or muffled clanging metal, like the echoes you hear in a swimming pool. It sounds strange and surreal, contradicting the sensible pragmatism of the Phone Operator’s delivery.
PHONE OPERATOR:
I’m so sorry, it looks like we haven’t got anyone listed under that name on the database. This means they have’t been listed as a fatality. Call back tomorrow, and if you haven’t heard anything from us or your loved one in three days, try the online form.
Very softly, music fades in - synthetic strings playing a warm, hopeful folk music kind of melody. The strings build.
PHONE OPERATOR:
I know this is scary, but it’s ok. We’re going to get through this…
Everything pauses - the sound effects, the music, and the Phone Operator herself. There’s a beat of silence.
PHONE OPERATOR:
…together.
The music resumes, louder than before, as everything else fades away. The tune builds from strings into a melodic keyboard like-tune on a synthetic instrument that sounds like fairy lights. The music is warm and hopeful.
It dips in volume under the following voiceover - delivered by a light, masculine voice with a Welsh accent, the same actor as Dai. His delivery is confident and formal.
VOICEOVER:
Camlann, a post-apocalyptic audio drama by Ella Watts, inspired by folklore and Arthurian legends. Coming January 2024. Produced by Tin Can Audio.
The music builds - the synthetic keyboard and strings joined by a synth that sounds almost like an organ, building to a gentle, slow crescendo before dipping back down - each instrument falling away until only the strings are left playing the core melody of the tune, more and more quietly until the music fades and the trailer ends.