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morethanonepage · 1 year

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the discourse about this on ask a manager is so funny to me, esp bc honestly “mama” is just sort of a filler word to describe a female person amongst some latin-american people. it doesn’t actually mean mom/mother specifically.

#the word you would be looking for there would be mamá #the accent DOES make a difference #if you hear an older hispanic woman (or man but honestly i mostly see this in a woman to woman convo) call you mama it won't sound the same #as when they refer to a mother in spanish #it's like the difference between papa #which can either be pope (el papa) or the potato (la papa)#vs papá #which is 'dad'#some commenter was like 'oh well i bet people only use 'mama' and not papa' so it's sexist #sounds like someone who hasn't heard everyone from their dog to their male baby cousins called 'papacito' regularly #like i guess having a knee jerk reaction to hearing mama like that when you have issuse around fertility or something make sense but like #culturally that's just not what it means!!! it's not implying someone sees you as motherly or that you should be or anything #it's like an older woman calling you sweetie or hon but honestly i find it even less of an endearment it's just like #as alison said -- a term of respect #like i go into a butcher shop and the butcher says 'what can i do for you mama'....#it's culturally very homey to me lmfao i genuinely like it better than #linda or chula

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sergle · 5 months

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mMMMM my doctor "renewed" my meds but instead of actually renewing the most recent one, he went back and renewed the version that costs $300 per bottle. kewl

#no that's soooo slay I was HOPING to have to call him again. I love talking to old rats with bad phone quality. thick italian accents #and a total lack of interest in whatever i'm saying on the phone #it does not make me want to hit anyone with a bus... at all #It's the 450mg dose pills of my meds. which is hundreds of dollars #and we changed that to 150mg pills of a higher quantity. and I just take three #and that bottle is $80.#isn't it funny that the prices are different in the first place? hee hoo ha ha..#sergle.txt

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fishareglorious · 22 days

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I think it still makes me laugh that Madam Z and Tennant share the same CN voice actor. i don't know what would be more funnier: a role swap or a personality swap between the two.

#reverse 1999 #madam z #tennant #actually madam z has the same eng and cn va too #while tennant has different cn and eng ones. which makes sense lmao imagine british woman having a audible chinese accent #i don't know tennant's cn voice though. someone check for it and tell me if it somehow sounds the same #like obviously they have different personas to play but can you pick out that they have the same va and all that #certified storm moments #in terms of role swap chapter 4 would just be damn funny. filibuster to pass the storm reformation draft? NO. just seduce the vice #president and some of the committee. somewhere in the world this random ass theoretical physicist has been wanted in several countries #for scamming rich people with diamonds. how does z do it? fuck if i know.

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chaos-in-one · 1 month

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Seeing r/systemscringe straight up misinterpreting the DSM is disappointing but not surprising

#they're trying to say only a small percentage of people with DID have alter names #and their reference is the part talking about more overt presentations of DID which IS less common #that happens to mention names #like buddy there is a reason it mentions things like different hairstyles and personalities and ACCENTS #a person with DID internally having different names does not make them fall into that small percentage by itself #because for a lot that is an internal thing that is not externally obvious in real life #most of the people with DID you see online are not going around announcing their individual names every time a different alter fronts irl #that passage is telling that it is more common for DID to be covert #syscourse

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averwonders · 2 years

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It's about time people need to stop thinking of dialects and accents (especially minority and rural ones) as a judging factor or something to mock. People shouldn't have to feel ashamed, humiliated, insecure or fear of being judged for having a hint of their native dialect/accent while speaking the standard version of a language or even speaking in them completely at a new place.

#I'm tired of the mistreatment dialects and accents get #especially in the cities #like just cause a person is speaking in an accent they become backwards or illiterate?#how stupid is that #we need to embrace our dialects and accents #we need to give them the respect they deserve #this is me crying over the fact that i never learnt to speak my native dialect cause i grew up in different cities and got mixed vocab #although i can understand it cause everyone else in my family speaks it #awadhi my beloved #aver does shit post #dialects #accents #linguistics #desiblr #why are asian societies so judging ㅠㅠ #it's so sad to see dialects and accents being in the list of things that make people feel insecure #someone's accent isn't something to joke about or mock #it isn't cool to find accents entertaining to laugh at #having accents doesn't make someone an alien for you to judge

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magnusbae · 10 months

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A short writing challenge with @cuubism the challenge was for her to manage to write 100-200 words and no more and for me to write at all xD So here's mine, the prompt words cuubism gave me were " Social Media AU" and "First Meeting Offline" they both have pretty successful but very different social media accounts :)

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Hob was nothing like Morpheus had expected him to be. For starters, there’s no neon colors to be seen anywhere. Nor is there an idiotic smile nor accent. He looks….

“More ordinary than you had expected?” Hob smiles cheekily and there, finally, Morpheus recognizes the man who dared to challenge him. “You on the other hand,” Hob checks him out from head to toe “look exactly as I had imagined you.”

Morpheus snorts.

“What? Really. Look at you, you’re exactly what you sound like.”

“I use a voice reader in my videos, you do realize, yes?”

Hob waves his hand dismissively “Not the point” and then with yet another dazzling grin he steps closer to Morpheus and offers his head “Nice to meet you, Dream.” He says the name like it’s a secret between the both of them, and not an username half a million people know.

Morpheus purses his lips tighter, standing taller and looking down at Hob, he’s pleased with his own choice to wear the tallest pair of boots he has. He takes Hob’s hand only after making an eye contract and asserting that Hob is well aware of who’s holding the higher ground.

“My pleasure.” He says.

“Let’s have a fun date~” Hob responds jovially.

Morpheus wonders if it was a wise decision to agree to meet a stranger for a date just to prove a point— though, he’ll surely find out, soon.

“Let’s begin.”

#HOB IS THE SORT TO WEAR NEON CLOTHES AND FILM SHIRTLESS AND MAKE FUNNY ACCENTS TO AMUSE #meanwhile dream only does videos with a TTS about wild myths and weird dreams and what not #they couldn't be more different LMAO #the sandman #dreamling #dream of the endless #hob gadling #buns.w #buns.all #properly continuing to clown #cuubism

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the-busy-ghost · 4 months

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Minor throwaway sentence in a book on corruption I've just finished was talking about 1930s gangsters and about certain organisations in Chicago which the author stated were more ethnically diverse than the Italian mafia, and whose members were said to have included 'Irish, Welsh, Italian, and Jewish' gangsters.

Now call me sheltered but I've seen MANY Italian American gangsters immortalised in film, I've heard of the Jewish mob, and the police Irish American gangs but I have yet to see a movie about the Welsh mob. As a rule I don't go in for gangster movies but I feel there's an unfilled niche here and also I need more info.

#Might delete this in a bit #On a more serious note given the context of the Great Depression and slumps in the coal mining districts of Britain #I can see why Welsh people who emigrated to America might be form an impoverished immigrant community targeted by organised crime #And possibly my surprise comes from outdated national stereotypes and the fact that popular stereotypes of 1930s gangsters #Rarely include immigrant groups that are largely Protestant (at least in the US- in Glasgow and London it's a different story)#Makes me wonder if all those Catholic Aesthetics that directors who make movies about Italian and Irish mobsters are so fond of #Would play the same with Meredith Davies who may be a crook but at least he regularly attends the Methodist chapel #And is a teetotaller and a fixture in various choirs #Welsh accents are often quite soft too I think I'd be fucking terrified of a Welsh gangster in a movie tbh #To be fair real life organised crime obviously encompassed people from all walks of life I'm more interested in movie depictions here #'More Welsh representation!' 'Ah yes how about as gangsters?' 'Er...'#Less surprised if I come across Scots because eventhough they're privileged in the US English media does seem to view Scottish accents #As threatening so Scots often get roped in to play tough guys and gangsters and villains in all sorts of media #And often they will get an Englishman to play a Scot and Scots to play Eastern Europeans which is also weird #But that's off topic; I am not however used to Welsh villains

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incoherentbabblings · 3 months

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I understand people joking about unintelligible accents/dialects sometimes I do but there is always something really surreal about seeing one that is either yours or one that you understand perfectly well being made the butt of a joke and you'll sit there like what's the joke they're being perfectly coherent!

There are many many many many examples of this but the one that is relevant for myself is the chap in Brave speaking Doric. He's not even speaking that fast.

If he was a wee bit closer I could lob a caber [tree trunk/log] at him, ken [you know]? and It's just nae fair making us fit [fight] for the hand of the quine [woman], it disnae whet an appetite, ken [you know]?

#just something I was thinking about #to be fair doric is mocked by scots because it does use certain lingo that glasgow and edinburgh don't and it does have a different rhythm #still #he's a nice boy who enjoys caber tossing and saying 'it just doesn't make sense' in the most poetic way possible #also see chicken run but i think the joke is more on the rooster for being ignorant than the hen rolling her rs #i think it's just if you aren't used to the pattern of speaking it can be hard #i have a pretty neutral english accent and when i was in washington dc the blooming concierge didn't understand me and i was so baffled #so... no judgement i know it's more than just being ignorant 9 times out of 10

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bookwyrminspiration · 4 months

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having polyglot thoughts so i'm dumping them on you:

first of all, do you think if polyglots didn't know a language before manifesting (for example, keefe with english), then they would switch accents based on who they're talking to? for example, keefe went to london, so should we assume that since he was talking to british people, he was probably speaking in a british accent, too? or if he went to america (which he did, he went to disneyland or disney world i think) then he would be speaking with an american accent? that would be really funny. like one day he's speaking canadian french and then he leaps out and the next day he's speaking french french or something. even polyglots that did know the language before manifesting (like sophie with english). do you think they are also switching accents according to the person they're talking to or just keeping the accent they grew up with (in sophie's case, american). i know that sophie's a special case, and that most elves would only ever speak the enlightened language before manifesting, but it's still worth considering.

second of all, do you think polyglots would have an innate grasp on idioms and sayings? because those aren't inherent to the language, not really. if i said like. "it's raining cats and dogs", would a polyglot really understand what that means or would they think i'm literally saying cats and dogs are falling out of the sky. because if that's true then keefe would've had a lot of idioms to learn when he was living in london, too. there's a saying in my language that literally translates to "do it with [your] hand", but in terms of idioms, it actually means "do it immediately". so something like that would really throw off a polyglot if they didn't have a natural understanding of all the various idioms that came with a language.

a lot of people have brought this last point up already, but sign language. personally, i think sign language would be a part of a polyglot's natural database of languages, so to speak. because it is a language. it's literally in the name. just because it's not a vocal language doesn't mean it's not a language. so i think that polyglots would understand sign language on instinct, but wanna hear your thoughts.

Oh I love language thoughts. I'd think a polyglot would speak the language reflective of the accent they first heard. The way it seems to work is once they encounter it (reading, hearing it, etc.), then they understand and can use it--but they couldn't start speaking a language they've never heard out of nowhere. Afterwards they can use it based on that initial contact. I'd assume with time they could change their accent the same way anyone could, being around different pronunciations for a while and slowly incorporating them in--perhaps with more speed given their ability. But I'd still assume a base in their first contact. after all, encountering different accents isn't a new language

Based on that, I'd also think they'd keep their own accent if they learned the language prior to manifesting. Maybe their understanding of grammar rules and patterns would improve though--but then again, it's instinct, not conscious, so maybe not

As for idioms, I suppose it depends on how you want to interpret their instinctive understanding/speaking. Does instinctively speaking the language (Unlocked 265) mean they simply understand the literal meanings and socially constructed metaphor is an entirely separate realm? Or does it mean they can instinctively communicate in any language, and that includes implied/non-literal meaning? Like you said, idioms aren't inherent to a language, so I'd personally vote no. It's not instinctual to understand, but it's not like you can't learn them or sometimes reason out what one means. But again, the rules for magic polyglots are really just what you want them to be.

And I agree; signed languages are as much languages as spoken, as complex and varied, and can be analyzed and studied much the same. Unless one's worldbuilding has it's own specific magic rules--e.g. there's something about hearing a language that allows one to understand it, which then means signed languages would have to be learned organically--then there's no reason to exclude sign. I'm not saying that a world with those specific qualifications would be bad--it could be a fitting source of friction or difficulty is a polyglot character used to being able to communicate everywhere suddenly can't and has to adapt. Just that kotlc does not appear to be one of those stories, so I think kotlc's polyglots should instinctively understand sign.

I'd also be curious whether their instinctive understand could at least partially translate towards methods of communication like morse code. Would an encoded message (not necessarily morse) count as a method of communication/language of its own and therefore be understandable by them? I suppose it would depend on what kind of code it is, but food for thought.

Polyglotism is quite underappreciated in the story--which isn't its fault, given the plot, but man I cannot help but yearn...

#kotlc #kotlc worldbuilding #quil's queries #nonsie #long post #another polyglot thought: what does it /mean/ to have a 'flawless accent?'#there are /so/ many different accents within a language #there's isn't one specific one that's more correct than the others #i know it's intended to mean that polyglots don't struggle to make the sounds of other languages #but like. an accent isn't a set thing for a language #so that always makes me wonder

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a-moon-eclipsed · 6 months

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alrighty lads,, if i get myself a permets-tu bracelet for my birthday, par the lovely @/amorseart on etsy, what colours are the MOSt exr?

#it's one main colour w either gold or silver #god forbid i make a decision on my own- it is impossible #i need consultants!#exr #enjoltaire #grantaire #enjolras #les mis #les misérables #les miserables #does the accent make a difference? who knows #not i #i just want to live out my pathetic fangirl dreams :(<3

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shitty-check-please-aus · 1 year

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I absolutely love the inadvertent comedy of reading descriptions of Americans from the perspective of English people. Yeah, what a rude freak that lady was, smiling at you, introducing herself, and saying that she’s your new neighbor as you saw her moving in to the apartment next door. Who does that?

#tbh it is much appreciated in this book #my lady detective books have morphed a bit into lady spy books as WWII breaks out over the course of time #and they're currently at the point in the war where they're trying to get Americans to provide money & troops #while London is getting bombed #so like I could use a little silly laugh after hearing the descriptions of the lady detective volunteering to drive ambulances #to take care of bomb victims throughout the city #because those descriptions make me cry a little bit #also the narrator is so good at accents #she does all these different ones from across the UK #and then she does the American ones #and THEN she does the 'British person attempting an American accent' which is a whole other thing

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pathologising · 6 months

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anyone else hearing voices in their head talking to eachother or about things or whattttt remembers im diagnosed with did post cancelled guys I figured it out nvm

#ibut does anyone hear them in like accents and shit like different people all the time make it DTOP

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mariocki · 7 months

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Acting legend Peter O'Toole makes his screen debut as lowly '1st Soldier' in The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel: A Tale of Two Pigtails (1.4, ITP, 1955)

#fave spotting #peter o'toole #the adventures of the scarlet pimpernel #1955 #itp #itc #classic tv #actual acting royalty here! fresh from RADA and without a penny to his name. i actually knew he would turn up in this series at some #point but i still didn't recognise him‚ it was dad that picked him out. i think it's his nose? did he break his nose at some point? idk it #just looks different and as a result his whole face does. perhaps it's a fake nose‚ tho i have no idea why he'd wear one for this small #role. Peter would soon be winning rave reviews on the english stage‚ and from there film work and screen immortality #beckoned. unsurprisingly this would be O'Toole's only ITC credit (and before they were even called ITC)‚ although he did make a handful #of other tv appearances (mostly single plays in drama strands) before Hollywood claimed his as their own #his brief appearance here is quite fun and he gets to mug quite mercilessly to Stanley van Beer's villainous Chauvelin #alas i can't with clear heart recommend the ep to anyone looking to see a baby Peter; it is alas Hella Racist. not his scenes‚ but #the later body of the episode‚ which features star Marius Goring playing a Chinese character in yellowface (as well as the Pimpernel in #yellowface impersonating the Chinese character‚ a sort of meta racism??)#it's pretty awful‚ as is the accent and the dialogue choices.#imdb lists this as the 18th and final ep but wiki and network place it 4th and i suspect imdb is following the US transmission #bc they list the show under its overseas title of simply The Scarlet Pimpernel

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darcyolsson · 1 year

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personal pet peeve is when animated movies where some characters are american and some are british get a dutch dub but they dont take advantage of the existence of flemish dutch & netherlands dutch and make all of the characters speak netherlands dutch. like we literally have the same "two main accents, at least according to tv land" thing in dutch why not translate that too.....

#im talking ab puss in boots. goldilocks & the bears are Super British in the og dub why not make them flemish it's RIGHT THERE!!!!#also you would only need to create one dub for both countries which i know is suuuper uncommon for movies esp big name ones #but very common in newer childrens tv (for money reasons) so i feel like most kids at least are used to it anyway #but then again i can understand that having a dub with mixed flemish and dutch VAs does have the connotation of cheapness here #in the way that mixed british/american VAs do not so big companies might want to avoid it for that reason. hm #but also i dont care and when a character has a wildly different accent in a movie its usually for a reason so i think dubs should try #and keep that for artistic integrity's sake. peace nd love im right ab this 🫶#personal

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shoutsindwarvish · 1 year

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there are two wolves inside me

#well-done autistic character #one of the main characters no less! with a character arc unrelated to his autism!#almost entire cast is poc #specifically give romans an american accent (interesting choice that i particularly enjoy)#all characters are deadpan snarkers and majority are delightful disasters #simon peter is blorbo #judas is baby #andrew is doing his best #third season especially does a great job setting up plots that are seemingly unrelated and bringing them all together #and it's actually the exception rather than the rule that i feel dallas (the creator) looking in the camera #and reminding me that it's made from an evangelical lens #(at least imho)#and i can be like 'i pretend i do not see it'#(probably will be able to do that less and less the closer we get to the passion but i'm probably going to stick around until the end)#anyway i might post some memes so please don't judge me my friends #i'll tag them accordingly #my posts #i make me laugh #you might ask why i started in the first place and the answer is that bible adaptations are my guilty pleasure #(i've explained why in a different post)#and this one went from ironic to unironic

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luckyfiona · 1 year

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“ you can’t or you won’t? ”

❝ —— Oh. Hm. ❞

( Uh-oh. )

Lawless Lucky talked a big game around the bonfire last night. She wasn't too oblivious to pick up on the fact that her being scandalized and upset by the boys' violent sides was beginning to grate on them. So, when all of the boys were talking about the gruesome things they'd like to do to the people who made their lives hard in The Other Place, she forced herself to laugh along, and even took the opening to spin a tale about how she was planning to poison her old employer's food. And, oh, those rotten pirates? Well, she would do the same to them if she had a chance.

So busy seizing on the moment, she didn't consider that she would actually have to put her money where her mouth was.

It would shatter the illusion of Neverland as her luxurious, peaceful, happily-ever-after paradise if she had to see any real carnage with her own two eyes, much less deal any of it herself. But here was dear Peter, ever the altruist, granter of all her wishes, suggesting she come along to their next raid of the Jolly Roger. Lucky's pretty sure he knows this is out of her comfort zone, if he's paid any attention to her — and he does, of course he does. Why else would he go through the trouble of bringing all of these troubled souls to the island if he didn't empathize and care about all of them, right? She can't imagine any motive but love and sympathy. — It's funny, considering how anxiously, meticulously sensitive she tries to be to his boundaries. There was something maybe endearingly boyish about his disregard for hers.

She reasons that she should be grateful for his investment in keeping things fresh and interesting. This is what a sensible, healthy relationship looked like, right? Balancing energies was a major tenet of Celtic magic— it was the key to harmony and prosperity. A passive, supportive person worked best with a person who was a little more... challenging. It would be too stagnant or too chaotic any other way. She gives a fond half-smile to her love, her true love, convinced he's only looking out for her best interests. She would find a way to explain to him that this doesn't really interest her... another time.

❝ Well, I suppose I would... ❞

Lucky? Morally opposed to it? No sir, you've got the wrong lassie. You must be thinking of that prude from Chicago, Fiona Comisky, who used to dote and cry and sermonize Nate Larsen any time he got injured in a fight with some low-class brute he should've run away from. She had no qualms with clodhopping bullies who started barbaric fights. Didn't find it tasteless in the slightest.

She was opposed to tagging along for much more modest, supportive, team-playering reasons, to be certain. The same reasons why she declined Nate's offer to teach her how to use a bow and arrow: why would the Princess of Neverland get her dainty, dignified, not-at-all-labor-calloused hands dirty learning how to hunt when her boys got such a thrill out of slaying those innocent animals?

❝ But why bring a girl along to steal all of the attention? I'm not as strong or as sneaky as you. I may ruin the... Element of surprise. Or... distract everyone when they have to keep me out of harm's way. And there’s really— there's so much I could do back here. I thought I should make some sort of victory banquet for the boys to come back to. ......Besides... ❞

Lucky's fingers sidled over to his, tips brushing over his knuckles, as if timidly asking permission to show tenderness before making any sudden moves. Peter was a bit strange about physical touch. She could never tell if he was enjoying it, or if she maybe wasn't doing it right. When he didn't immediately swat her away, she gingerly placed her palms in his, intuitively careful not to scare him away like a baby deer too shy for human touch, or startle him like a scorpion ready to plunge a stinger into her at any moment. She has experience with his type. She has nothing if not patience and willpower to break through to them. She has hope that one day she'll be able to fully embrace him. If she's really as lucky as everybody says, maybe she'd be able to fully-fully "embrace" him.

❝ I love when you tell me all about your thrilling adventures. You get such this 𝓅𝓊𝒸𝓀𝒾𝓈𝒽 𝓉𝓌𝒾𝓃𝓀𝓁𝑒 in your eye... It's the same one you had when you first found me— the one that I saw and thought, 'Oh, there it is: my 𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫. At last, I can see it!' ❞

She boldly ventures to show a little more affection while she pleads, but not enough to push him too far, just enough to remind him that he can touch her back any time he's ready. (If he's rallying her to come out of her comfort zone, maybe this is a good time to encourage him to be a little more adventurous, too.) Her fingers, ever-so-lightly cupped over his hands, gently lace themselves into the spaces between his. She's not naïve enough to believe she's going to get out of raids forever. She just wants to experience feeling truly loved and close to him, just one time, before she has to see him at his absolute nastiest.

❝ Oh, Peter, won't you please let me see my 𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫 again when you fill me in later? ❞

( Won't you please let her be so lucky as to skip out on this? )

╳ — 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒 ! // ACCEPTING.

#(set when she was still peter's latest model Wendy-bot 2000)#i like the gifs from this movie cus she has a Visible irish accent in them and i love that for fiona :')#if u look real close and havent gotten any in a while you'll notice there's like three different subliminal message double entendres in her #jus know that every time u think a line in a post abt peter sounds like an innuendo it 100% is because lucky is thinking it too #｢ ʟᴜᴄᴋʏ ▓ 🐞 — the lost girl. ｣#｢ ʟᴜᴄᴋʏ ▓ 🐞 — ❛ ft. peter pan. ｣#｢ ɪɴʙᴏx ᴄᴀʟʟ ▓ 🕯️ — answered. ｣#the nature of drabbly askmeme prompts is that you want to write a complete vignette based on the one line someone sends you so you end up #writin like 99 words of dialogue in response to the 5 syllables someone sends u and it makes it look like ur muse Does Not Shut The Fuck Up #so. ignore that. i wanna say fiona would've picked up on the fact that he doesn't like to listen to broads rambling for too long #this is also kinda my first ic post tho (baffling that it took me this long i am sorry) so! wanted to write a good intro scene #and rly set up what fiona's mentality was like in this time cus it's gonna make a lot of her present day chocies make more sense #also sorry that you all have to find out this late but i Am a broad who rambles for 5 paragraphs in the tags of everything i post Sorry!!

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