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A Star in the Universe

There is a star in the universe

I hear its words

Trailing in the night

Calling to me

"Come home"

I hear it say

"Come home to us"

It repeats

In the night is when I hear it most

Its words stronger then

Its words brighter

Calling

I hear it as I fall asleep

"Welcome home"

It says 

"Home"

I repeat

-SadTrainNoises

Oh that two year gap on my resume was when I was the architect of my own hell

How do people just write, like words and stuff. I could never.

a texan’s unofficial guide to writing a southern accent

Obligatory disclaimer that southern accents vary significantly, and I can speak on a general Texas accent. Also, this is nit-picky, so don’t take it too seriously. Mostly just “hey here’s some fun ways to make your writing more realistic.”

1) Most people writing a southern accent love to use “ain’t” and “y’all”. Great start, but when those terms are surrounded by non-contracted words, it starts to lose the accent (and look a little funky). Think “how’re y’all doing” rather than “how are y’all doing.”

1.5) “Ain’t” is often paired with “nothin’”. “There ain’t nothin’ wrong with that” vs. “There isn’t anything wrong with that.”

2) Southern accents don’t only drop the last letter on -ing. “Something” becoming “somethin’” is definitely accurate, but I also hear a lot of “around” becoming “‘round” and similar things.

2.5) On a slightly related note, if you’re doing a southern accent, keep in mind that the way someone writes out words “in a southern accent” does not always reflect how it would be pronounced. “Somethin’” is nice short-hand for “oh this is dropping off that sound at the end,” but I usually hear it pronounced like “suh-mn” (which is unreadable and bad for writing). I don’t even have a strong accent, and I do this.

3) There’s a lot of jargon! I’m not sure if this is specific to my region or more general, but a common one I hear a lot is “fixin’ to” as a substitute for “going to.” Like “I’m fixin’ to start dinner” rather than “I’m going to start dinner.” In addition, theres a whole world of fun southern terms and phrases (big fan of “oh, bless his heart” as a patronizing, fake nicety). Lots of fun church-themed and farm-themed terms and turns of phrase.

4) “Y’all” is a super common gender-neutral term, but “folks” is used equally in my experience. I’ve heard it used to refer to family (“his folks” to mean “his parents”), to refer to specific communities (“those folks—“), or just as a general substitute for “people” (“folks these days—“).

5) “Howdy!” is severely underused in writing! It’s super common around where I live, and it’s just used as a greeting.

Go forth and have fun!

I'm re-listening to Icebound, and I realized something.

Taishen said he raised Mei Li. And somehow I didn't register that the first time I listened to Icebound. Taishen being a parent or at least a parental figure makes so much sense. And also...

That means he's a dilf

...I need to write a modern au one-shot where he's a single parent tea shop owner and has a meet cute with Jornir

Body Language

When someone is...

Sad

Face/Body:

Avoidant/reduced eye contact

Drooping eyelids

Downcast eyes

Frowning

Raised inner ends of eyebrows

Dropped or furrowed eyebrows

Quivering lip/biting lip

Wrinkled nose

Voice:

Soft pitch

Low lone

Pauses/hesitant speech

Quiet/breathy

Slow speech

Voice cracks/breaking voice

Gestures/Posture:

Slouching/lowered head

Rigid/tense posture

Half formed/slow movement

Fidgeting or clasped hands

Sniffing or heavy swallows

Self soothing gestures (running hands over the arms, hand over heart, holding face in palms, etc)

The only reason green arrow realised who Batman is first is cause Batman slipped once and said “talk to me superman” after a mission during a briefing once when everyone was super tired in the exact same tone and jersy accent Brucie would say“keep twalking ollie we need to pass this test” to him when they were in the library in school at 3am.

He just sits there staring into space. Next day he tries to tell himself it was just the exhaustion but inside he knows.

Bruce noticed and inside slapped himself but keeps his composure.

holy shit, look at all the stars!!

Me about 2 hours ago

The Kiss of Life - A utility worker giving mouth-to-mouth to co-worker after he contacted a low voltage wire, 1967