hyperspecific good morning, night, afternoon, evening, void-hour to people with:

breathy voices

voices that cut off halfway though

choppy voices

whispering voices

higher pitched voices

no voices

mechanic-sounded voices

augmented voices

monotone voices

inaudible voices

voices that barely get through

voices that repeat

voices that skip syllables

voices that pause between words

voices that shake and waver in pitch and volume

voices that clutter

voices that stutter

voices that make sounds not words

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The Qiandeng Tribune

Ghost City Breaking News:

Grand Uncle was spotted at Ireland and is now very popular in the Mortal world. Chengzhu has been reported to gushing over him at Gambler's Den last Night. Ghost City Residents think that Grand Uncle looks very cute and has fallen for his charms. Today morning Hua Chengzhu rewarded everyone who spread the news and compliments for his danxia. Ghost City Residents have decided to declare today a holiday dedicated for the two of them.

while a good portion of liberal people are mainly focused on fighting over semantics and like...symbolic wins a lot of right wing groups are systematically and quietly getting poc fired from positions of power and rolling back diversity & inclusion efforts in higher ed and business btw

sue me (a cappella) is a criminally underrated masterpiece btw.

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Had a customer a few weeks ago ask me "what do you do for a living?" As I was checking him out and I just kind of paused and looked around the register and said "this?"

[Image Id: A drawing of the Vocaloid, Hiyama Kiyoteru, visible from the chest up. He's looking to his left, smiling with his head slightly tilted, and is in a relaxed standing pose. He's wearing a blue shirt and a dark grey hoodie. The lighting is reminiscent of Bisexual Lighting, a lighting technique using blue, purple and pink, used in film and sometimes animation to indicate a character's bisexual. The background consists of film reels on a dark blue, purple and pink plain gradient. End Id]

kiyoteru is bisexual he told me himself

grackles aren't related to crows but to me they're honorary corvids

The reason people like storyboards better is because current Chelsea is an awful twist villain, literally only motivation is " I'm a flipping Mermaid" and a one-dimensional character , the twist villain is obvious, the trident is a Chekov's gun nobody's denying that, the I'm Nerissa is a Hans-level asspull, it has nothing to do with shipping, the twist trades their friends dynamic for nothing in exchange. People don't dislike the twist because of shipping, people dislike awful twist villains.

The reason for the switch was Shock Value and a way to have Agatha without blood on her hands, as per the Instagram posts.

You can tell it's a last minute switch by the murals, where the mermaids are depicted as adults. Good luck portraying the mermaid-kraken war in the future when they're all teenagers.

I think everyone was going into the movie knowing that the mermaid was going to be the villain, especially because of the marketing it had. The movie outright told us mermaids are selfish and bad. The fact that the mermaid is selfish and bad in the end like we were told isn't shocking... We were told... and you also just said it was obvious... Hans was a shock value twist villain because there was no foreshadowing leading to it. Chelsea/Nerissa was simple and predictable but I wouldn't say shocking.

Having Chelsea also be a teenager and pretending to be Ruby's friend as she manipulates her into getting the Trident doesn't add anything substantial to the narrative. You still have her manipulating Ruby for her own gain, all that's really different is that it isn't as strong of a connection to the narrative of "Ruby and her relationships with women in her life" because we've now made her a peer instead. The exact same plot happens... Ruby listens to the idea, thinks it's good, gets the training, gets the Trident, oh no the mermaid is evil, they all come together to beat the mermaid. Like her age has zero impact on the overall "the mermaid is the bad guy" plot of the movie, there will still be a friendship montage and bonding and whatnot because that's the hustle she is pulling, but having her be older ties her story to the theme better than if she was a teenager. Her being a teenager gives the story nothing in exchange.

I've seen people saying it adds depth to the character of Chelsea because then she's not only trying to kill all the Krakens and rule over everything as a tyrant Queen, she's also trying to avenge her mother! You know, the mother that also wanted to overthrow and kill the krakens, so she found a weapon that could do it so that she could be tyrant Queen of everything. It sure is an extra layer to the character, but is that really a layer you guys want? I get that people love to pull out the morally-grey card and have stories do the "both sides are bad" thing, but for the info we got in the movie, the mermaids were the instigators. And once again, the info we have on the mermaids being "opposed and in hiding" comes from our bad guy who, even if she was a teenager, is still a liar and manipulator.

Like as far as real life goes fuck monarchies and the ruling class,,, but this is a movie aimed at younger kids and we have no reason to doubt the lore from Grand Mama being wrong while we have all the reason to doubt what Chelsea says no matter her age.

With what was in the movie, even if we went back to cover more of the war to flesh out teenage Chelsea and her motivations, the Trident would still be your Chekov's gun, and the villain Nerissa would still have the awful motivation of "I'm a flipping mermaid". This would add a story theme of 'history repeats itself' which is something I don't think they were aiming for.

If they kept blood on Agatha's hands by having her kill Nerissa, it would totally add depth to her part of the narrative and how she relates to her mother and ran away so Ruby wouldn't have to grow up in a post-war warlord household setting. I would feel bad that she got blood on her hands when she may not have wanted to. I don't feel bad that she killed someone who was very much trying to kill her people on purpose in a bid for power.

And for your last bit, of it being a last minute change because the murals don't look like teenagers. Let's just put aside the fact that they are stylized. Are you trying to say that adults can't look young like that? That there aren't adults that appear younger than their age because of whatever various reasons there are that cause that exact thing to happen? For mermaids it might just be a quirk of the species. But I will not have anyone using some form of "they look like a teenager so they can't be an adult" as some sort of proof on my blog because being an adult mistaken as a teenager has been a good fucking chunk of my life. I go to a restaurant with my family and we get asked "do you need a kids menu?". There are many middle schoolers taller than me. If people really look at my face they guess I'm around high school age, physical appearance plays a lot into perception of age and having someone who is extremely short, and cis female with absolutely zero signs of boobs makes 14-16 really popular estimations. They are very much wrong and have been so for over a decade. So I personally find it incredibly possible that mermaids might just look like that.

it is completely and utterly OK to mess up when speaking. it isn’t a tragedy. it’s awkward and hurts to have voice issues, and not many people understand. but it doesn’t make you wrong or bad.

go fuck up speech,

go get the wrong word order,

take your time,

get the volume wrong,

slur your sentences.

mess up loudly.

talk in the voice you hate.

🌹im sick of being scared and ashamed of messing up. i am bad at speaking. i have very little practice because years of mutism. the last bit is about ppl with voice dysphoria. 🌹

answered the gender q in a phone survey today with nb (diverse/misc/various as they say here). first time i´ve done that out loud 😮‍💨 

everytime i listen to coast side by omar rudberg (2022) i simply have a full out of body experience and ascend

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girls love me for my in-depth knowledge of sheik/sater’s spring awakening.

the racism of some people when it comes to "the rings of power" is absolutely revolting. however, i also think we shouldn't be blind to the fact that amazon is weaponising bigoted outrage as a method of deflecting from valid criticism.