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Words to describe someone’s voice :

adenoidal (adj) :  some of the sound seems to come through their nose.

appealing (adj): voice shows that you want help, approval, or agreement.

breathy (adj): with loud breathing noises.

booming (adj): very loud and attention-getting.

brittle (adj): if you speak in a brittle voice, you sound as if you are about to cry.

croaky (adj): they speak in a low, rough voice that sounds as if they have a sore throat.

grating (adj): a grating voice, laugh, or sound is unpleasant and annoying.

gravelly (adj): a gravelly voice sounds low and rough.

high-pitched (adj): true to its name, a high-pitched voice or sound is very high.

honeyed (adj): honeyed words or a honeyed voice sound very nice, but you cannot trust the person who is speaking.

matter-of-fact (adj): usually used if the person speaking knows what they are talking about (or absolutely think they know what they are talking about).

penetrating (adj): a penetrating voice is so high or loud that it makes you slightly uncomfortable.

raucous (adj): a raucous voice or noise is loud and sounds rough.

rough (adj): a rough voice is not soft and is unpleasant to listen to.

shrill (adj): a shrill voice is very loud, high, and unpleasant.

silvery (adj): this voice is clear, light, and pleasant.

stentorian (adj): a stentorian voice sounds very loud and severe.

strangled (adj): a strangled sound is one that someone stops before they finish making it.

strident (adj): this voice is loud and unpleasant.

thick (adj): if your voice is thick with an emotion, it sounds less clear than usual because of the emotion.

tight (adj): shows that you are nervous or annoyed.

toneless (adj): does not express any emotion.

wheezy (adj): a wheezy noise sounds as if it is made by someone who has difficulty breathing.

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Writing update: words are still hard

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There and back again, A Hobbit’s tale, by Bilbo Baggins. Now, where to begin? Ah, yes. Concerning Hobbits. Hobbits have been living and farming in the four Farthings of the Shire for many hundreds of years. Quite content to ignore and be ignored by the world of the Big Folk — Middle-Earth being, after all, full of strange creatures beyond count. Hobbits must seem of little importance, being neither renowned as great warriors, nor counted among the very wise. In fact, it has been remarked by some that the Hobbits’ only real passion is for food. A rather unfair observation, as we have also developed a keen interest in the brewing of ales, and the smoking of pipe-weed. But where our hearts truly lie is in peace and quiet, and good tilled earth. For all Hobbits share a love of things that grow. And yes, no doubt, to others our ways seem quaint. But today, of all days, it is brought home to me, it is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.

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Penguins attend classes on the first day of school at the University of Antarctica, 2007

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Vagabond by dongho Kang

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Arundel castle - Evening Standard

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shakespeare is not pretentious. fans of shakespeare are pretentious. shakespeare is twelve hundred dirty jokes strung together by increasingly ridiculous plotlines and increasingly homosexual characters. don’t let the archaic language fool you

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archive moodboard for @godisamoomin​

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On the way... | sennarelax

Location: Interlaken, Bernese Oberland Region, Switzerland

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A Modest Proposal for the Propagation of Deinonychus antirrhopus and Elimination of Sleep Deprivation in Our Youth

Sleep. We all bask in it’s sweet oblivion.

It and it alone is one of the few things we can say with certainty that the entirety of the human race experiences at some point or another. But across the world, from the cigarette-smoke laced streets of London, to the blaring heat of Los Angeles, we can see our young people languishing, shambling in a half-conscious state, dark bags hanging around their eyes, moving from one class or job to the other, with no solace that can be assured, no comfort can be given, and no rest until what can feel like an eternity to these pour souls.

They do not focus on their studies, nor their assigned task, and who could blame these Lethe-deprived people? For what do they do when night falls? They work, on the endless pile of homework and projects, the scale of which can seem to have no end. Or on the alternative, they party, late into the night, drinking alcohol with reckless abandon, so that when morning comes they haven’t even attempted the sweet release of REM sleep.

So it is in good faith I propose a new initiative to solve this problem plaguing our youth; local officials (or if necessary, private contractors), in conjunction with the United States Department of Education, should genetically engineer, alter, and subsequently release, live specimens of Deinonychus antirrhopus onto all school zones in the United States.

Naysayers may decry this bold initiative as ‘immoral,’ ‘insane’ or even ‘what in god’s name were you thinking?’ All of this I have heard, and I say to thee, how well can you engage in the hedonistic activities of youth when apex predators specifically designed to detect even the faintest trace of alcohol on young breath begin to stalk your home?

I say, how late could you stay up if a feathered reptilian had taken nest in your closet? Tucking you gently into your bed with a clawed hand as it waits for signs of weakness?

How many managers would assign their young, bright employees onto graveyard shifts if they knew that cold-blooded demons hunted the streets at night? If you were craving the sweet release of sleep in a cusp-of-dawn class, you would think twice about dozing off for a nap if the Teaching Assistant could bite through even the strongest of metals!

Though yes, there is, as in all things, risk. Some may be lost to the hunger of the beasts, but that will only serve to strengthen the resolve to stay awake in those who remain! All the while weeding out the weak and listless of our society.

With this program’s approval, we may begin at once to improve the overall morale and energy of our youth, so that society as a whole may be bettered.

(This proposal has been sponsored by the Institute for the Advancement of Dinosaur Rights)

#creative writing #dinasours #a modest proposal #Jberk Writes #writing #satire

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Antonie Lodewijk Koster (Dutch, 1859 - 1937)

#inspiration

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