#immigrant voices

[gingerylangylang1979]

Remember when Ebra's future at The Bear wasn't certain?

gif courtesy of @heardchef

Remember when this trailer hit and we freaked out?

I was worried about Ebra. I thought he would quit or maybe get fired because he couldn't keep up with the new pace. In season one he was a bit dismayed by all of the components in the chicken piccata. In the moment above there was foreshadowing that he wasn't confident about his place in the future. Things moved forward rapidly. He didn't thrive like Tina in culinary school. In a crueler kitchen he may have been forgotten when he disappeared but he wasn't. He was given space but he wasn't cut loose. People were concerned. Carmy asked about him. Tina reconnected with him. He still had a spot on the team, just one reimagined. I'm glad.

Edwin has high billing despite a small role. He's a legend in Chicago. I honestly think Ebra's the funniest character even though he doesn't get the big goofy, flashy moments. Please let him be funny again! But there is a story of immigration, sadness, and loss for him that is ready to be told. I don't think they will ever give him a big storyline but I do hope he at least gets a monologue to explain the whole thing or it gets revealed in bits and pieces along the way. Also, I think his style doesn't get enough love. He dresses like the older fly African and Caribbean men I see in my Brooklyn neighborhood. Bright colors, bold patterns, boho accessories. It's a vibe. I bet he smells good, too. And he's attractive. If I was his age...

I think Ebra's arc last season says a lot about the show and the people behind it. Carmy could have let Ebra go. There was a lot going on and he could have just saw a rogue element and dropped that ass. But who would Carmy be to judge? He was the most rogue element all season and was the weakest link at Friends & Family. Instead, Carmy still found value in him. Tina could have rubbed in her all star status and promotion but she didn't. She saw a friend struggling, not competition. She had the vision for him in his current position.

Storer saw Edwin in a local play when he was a kid, thought he was the most magical actor he'd seen, remembered him, kept up with his Chicago career, and sought him out for this role. He didn't have to do that. He could have hired a more widely known talent but he gave his childhood favorite actor the opportunity. He remembered and honored him.

I see a lot of how Storer is with his talent in how Carmy is as a leader. Carmy is deeply flawed but he does invest in his people. He could have fired the old crew from day one. But he didn't clean house and hire a bunch of Sydney's (he only needed one). He could have started with an entirely new crew when he decided to rebrand, but he didn't he decided to fast track his found family. Storer wanted people he had worked with to work on The Bear. Jeremy (his award winning lead), Ayo (breakout star, IMO romantic lead, and future director thanks to Chris), Ramy (director), and Molly (romantic interest) are people he worked with in the past, sought out again, and saw how they could build on what he saw in them before.

Anyways, this was partially an ode to Ebra/Edwin and partially me getting warm fuzzies over Storer as a generous show runner and Carmy as a generous anti-hero.

#ebra the bear #edwin lee gibson #carmy berzatto #jeremy allen white #ayo edebiri #sydney adamu #ramy youssef #molly gordon #the bear fx #chris storer #kindness #immigrant voices #somalia #somali stories #liza colón zayas #tina morrero

[cats-of-eden-valley]

so I'm actually going the full nine yards and including info about who mentored who and im coming out with even more interesting dynamics from it

#it might seem like overkill but man i just want the relationships at play #to be as well developed as i can #because i just feel like its key to the sorta insular culture the story takes place in #EVERYONE has a motive. everyone has a voice. because there's very few members within the factions #(like the population of the valley and the surrounding area is something like. 500 ish individuals) #(with a constant ebb and flow of immigrating and emigrating individuals to somewhat refresh the pop.) #So a single person has so much more power and effect in the setting

[divinekangaroo]

I attempted to replay DAII a few weeks back for the pleasure/refresher of the story and the character arcs but just couldn’t bring myself to do it. Have lost lots of capacity to enjoy game mechanics which extend length of time to engage w story and notwithstanding the dialogue is quite excellent (in a game context) it’s clunky for, say, a story, and the physical/visual staging in character interactions is v dated. (Key Settings are pretty decent for symbolism tho)

and that’s when I realised the first time ever why sometimes fans *do* get interested enough to write full novelisations of a thing.

#I would prob read one. #I would prob also still be interested enough to write one if I didn’t have competing priorities #I’d still hold it needs to be aveline’s pov tho not varric #aveline’s conflicted morality as a corrupt cop favouring the criminal immigrant who saved her life and wangled her position of power #watching as that crim legitimises himself but continues to operate between the lines #because after all he’s a blood mage #gooooooooood I would want this #blood mage Hawke x Isabela who abandons him to the arishok #rivals Anders and Merrill and executes anders; mage Beth and temp carver live tho #friends/romance Fenris post Isabela and friends varric #but at the end of it Hawke cannot bring himself to support Templars and has to kill Fenris #Aveline narrative voice as if she is untouched and non influential on all this while reader can See her Hypocricy #only varric calls her out #Also can we have more Leandra being complex and hypocritical too

[cosmik-homo]

I love how Early Doctor is sooo dodgy about timelord stuff (cuz they were putting off inventing canon for that, or mostly anything about him) and then their first meeting Jamie tried to kill him for being English.

Jamie: I can't believe I'm in a relationship with an Englishman. Embarrassing

Doctor: I'm from space. I'm not English. I'm something much worse.

Jamie: eh?

The doctor: don't worry yourself about it lol :)

#the idea of the doctor having a nationality is so silly to me #like i get what it means in the uk sphere to let him represent various stripes of identity and om all for outrage 4 Let The Doctor Accents #but when twelve regenerates and goes IM SCOTTISH NOW :0 and im like i mean ish. #also again lots of immigrants have been adopting into scottish/welsh etc culture its not ahout Not Being Born It I'm just like. #youre maybe tangentially affiliated with earth in the larger scheme of things. you're not Scottish #anyways. #me in the distance ('something worse than' voice) A SARTAN! #timelords even more in the distance doing monkey 👀👀 meme w a huge hammer when the doctor is like hehe it won't come up

[goatpaste]

Hot Pants is american. This is confirmed through her backstory flashback. A bear, explicitly stated to be a grizzly bear, attacked her and her brother when they went to go pick nuts in the mountains. A species that ONLY exists in north america. She then later moved away from home and joined a convent, then later became an agent of the vatican and was send back to america to retrieve the holy corpse. Hope this clears up your confusion!

thats literally so so crazy, like i guess i just didnt remember them saying she was an american or stating the specific species of bear,,,

thats so crazy what the fuck... LIKE

I DONT UNDERSTAND lIKE how i keep reading through jojos and just completely understanding things wrong, this is just like when i thought Joseph was born and raised in new york...

bUT im like

thats crazy! she sure went, this whole thing with my brother is so fucked up im literally moving to italy about it

#AS FAR AS IM CONCERNED #hp is italian #or at least from an italian family #OR AT LEAST SOME EUROPEAN PLACES #i convienced myself too hard about it #iF i accept american HP she needs to be from an immigrated family and moved to italy to be with family who were connected with or like #close to the curches/vatican there #and she herself #needs to have grow up somewhere that gives her a wicked accent #the idea of HP with a deep voice and a thick accent is so...

[stargazerlillian]

Me with a fair amount of my original characters like...

#🌠 #Meme Post #I’ve got a middle-aged museum archivist with a large nose and bony bumps on his shoulders... #... a plus-sized freckled woman with two front teeth missing who’s a gifted multi-instrumentalist... #... a plus-sized bald British immigrant man with a golden singing voice and a golden heart to match... #... an Ethiopian Jewish immigrant woman with the most friendly gap-toothed smile one could ever witness... #... a balding middle-aged bookstore owner with a bowtie for every occasion and a fondness for Shakespeare and movies based on books... #... a short yet chill African American punk dude with a mohawk as astounding as his bass-playing talents... #... a very tall and very lanky awkward beach bum dude with a slight potbelly and loads of anxiety... #... a muscular sporty woman who was the star player in her high school’s football team... #... and a tall husky Lift Bridge operator with a full head of silver hair and a noticeable belly due to age and his love of sweets. #Sure I also have characters that are “conventionally” attractive as well - nothing wrong with a little aesthetic appeal here and there. #But the fact of the matter is I’m here to make characters that are true to life - people that folks can actually see existing... #... in a world as vast and assorted as ours. I’m not here to write a YA novel. If you can’t vibe with that we can’t be friends.✌

[itmbookawards]

#social justice #inthemarginsbookawards #ya fiction #yanonfiction #graphic nonfiction #picture books for all #indigenous voices #community policing #immigration and racism #the power of community

[shirogane-oushirou]

thank you, tv room, for giving me a brain blast and helping me FINALLY decide between some different ren origin options after mulling over them for months :) he may have come fully formed in my brain personality-wise, but i'm still working on details.

still waiting on that voice claim brain blast tho KJANSFKJN

#literally been listening to two tv room tracks for MONTHS... and when i finally looked up the full albums last night #it was like a neon sign pointing me to something obvious that i hadn't thought to look up ;; #currently: mom's french canadian > immigrates to maine after meeting his dad there > ren's born > he moves south for college / to escape #and i'm gonna hide this in the tags bc despite it all i'm still nervous KJANSDFKJN but #after all this time i'm wondering if i'm building up the voice thing when it isn't like... i'm-gonna-be-crucified bad? #he is absolutely peak white liberal + everything but his most recent stuff is Genuinely Bad... maybe this will give it away #but i only knew about him from vine and from other white liberals talking up his most recent n/etflix special when it released... #so seeing the other stuff while looking for ren-isms Took Me Out. but he's clearly... grown? i guess?? still irony poisoned #and cynical and annoying as shit but... yknow... more harmful comedians are given bigger platforms etc etc. #if that's enough to give shit away and you know anyone who has a similar voice and isn't. yknow. him? i'm Begging and Pleading. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 #evil brain blast cursed me and i've been working to break the curse ever since... so any and all recs are VERY much appreciated ;;; #currently searching through queer comedians to see if i can find anyone w the same tone but not having as much luck as i thought i would. #SEND TWEET KJSANDFKJn been sitting on this for a couple of hours. Debating. it's gonna happen eventually tho so it might as well be now. #📌 [ my posts. ] #🍄 [ lying on the blade of an emotion. ] #🦦 [ can't escape it. ] #✨ [ oc lore. ] #✏️ [ my scenarios. ] #🐸 [ look ahead. ] #🧃 [ who is in control. ]

[waugh-bao]

I love how Charlie’s voice is so distinctive you can hear it just by seeing a gif. I can totally hear him say ‘a Bo Diddley number’ in his accent. I can also imagine how he would say “Keith’s my bitch?! Blimey!” after seeing the tshirt you photoshopped for Keith. 😆😆

I really love both Charlie and Keith’s voices. Charlie had this very soft, sweet voice but overlaid with a thick old school cockney accent (all the dropped “h”s and the glottal stopped “t”s). Plus, as you said, the classic slang like “blimey” and “bloke.” It’s so him that it’s very easy to conjure up in your mind.

It’s nice that he didn’t try to change that about himself, too. There’s a lot of accent based classism in Britain and it says something that, even though he was the perfect gentleman, he wanted to be seen as self-made, not manor born, which isn’t nearly as celebrated there as it is in the US or some other Anglophone countries.

Bill can go play in traffic as far as I’m concerned, but he wasn’t wrong when he said that Mick’s cockney accent is a total affectation. Multiple people over the years have pointed out the same thing, and it’s really annoying, because I think a lot of people outside the UK don’t realize that accent doesn’t belong to a middle class boy from Dartford. He wants to play act being from the wrong side of the tracks when he isn’t and never was, for the sake of rock ‘n roll street cred.

Keith’s voice is, like everyone always says, very whiskey soaked and cigarette damage forward, but it’s also such a combination of accents. Cockney is in there, for sure, but there’s a surprising amount of RP, and some north eastern/mid-atlantic American, probably because of how long he’s been based out of the States. Personally I think he and Charlie should have narrated an audiobook together, it would have been amazing.

#I’m not British #but I went to university there #and one of my friends who did the ‘with Russian’ portion of my degree with me #used to tease me for when I did and didn’t pronounce my ‘h’s (like dropping it for herbs but keeping it for help) b/c it #‘sounds so posh’ #it’s a funny place to be an immigrant b/c people will comment so openly on your voice and accent #which isn’t an experience I’ve had anywhere else I’ve lived for big stretches of time #like Portugal or Russia #the rolling stones #charlie watts #keith richards #mick jagger #ask response #anonymous #bill wyman

[creepyscritches]

Thinking abt my gigantic german family members from the fresh off the boat -> 1st Gen generations 🥺 My biological grandma's mom was 6'2", one of 17 siblings, and still considered one of the short ones.....yet here I am a 5'7" short king bc Italy is full of manlets

#Creepy chatter #Great great grandparents on BOTH sides were the immigrant generation lol #Stoic Germans that did NOT cry or shout ever and fucking insane screaming Italians bc shouting is the speaking voice.....what a fucking mix

[chamerionwrites]

#all of this news coverage lives in my head permanently #that one woman with her voice cracking. ''This is EUROPE'' #obviously being forced to flee your home IS horrific but wish we could find that energy for refugees who aren't blond and blue eyed #racism #immigration #refugees #lines on a map

[kokin7]

i hope everyone remembers that micro aggressions still happen and asians still arent past the point of being racially targetted in the united states

my 7 year old brother literally got told by a white woman without a mask on to put on his mask…im not even joking its cold season right now and everyone behind her was coughing and yet she decides to pick on my 4 ft tall little brother…

and everyone pls remember that asians arent just “aesthetically appealing” . its not just china and korea and japan. im speaking as someone whos filo-chinese , the philippines exists and we still get shit for it in america. theres southeast asians like from cambodia, indonesia, malaysia, theres south asians (indians), asia is not just one unified culture but so many that influence each other.

so when you say that you “like asian culture”, are you just saying that you like anime and kpop idols? do you like cute bento boxes and “the language”? what language? mandarin? hindi? every dialect on the philippine islands? do you like the culture or the aesthetic?

do you also appreciate the ugly side where we can’t live up to the standard our parents hold for us? would you eat a chicken fetus because you love asian culture that much? (its called balut btw). would you acknowledge the asians with dark skin or the asians that are plain dirt poor?

…or maybe youre just a part of the problem too?

fetishization also happens to us, like in miss saigon—a broadway show about themes of asian fetishization/prostitution with a vietnamese mc…lea solanga was the actress for kim, and yet i don’t know if many people are aware that the actress was a filipina and not an east asian...she even voiced jasmine and mulan’s singing voice. we’re here and yet, somewhat invisible. i don’t know how many people would even know that filipinos are aapi.

the philippines is literally almost the size of japan, we have vocal stars like morisette, comedians like jokoy and world famous boxers (shoutout to my guy manny pacquiao with the worst filipino accent in existence).

and yet, why are we forgotten in this debate ?

#im not saying you cant enjoy all the aesthetically appealing parts of asian culture #im saying that if you claim that then KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN. #im tired of not having a voice im tired of being shunned by people after i say this a thousand times im tired of getting fetishized #im tired of being pressured im tired of having to keep QUIET #im not saying that japanese chinese koreans etc arent a part of this #i am just asking for us to be acknowledged #the article about that 67 year old filipino woman haunts me down the streets #and yet every dumb question i FRICKIJGN get is like #but youre not asian right? #ARE YOU KIDDING ME #idk if you guys can tell im a little mad #centuries of colonization and the hard work of millions of immigrants #dwindled down to just #plain fucking ignorance. #i dont care who’s reading this #carry this with you #aapi #rant #vent

[gayfranziska]

kinda obsessed with the idea that the karumas and mitsurugis are both offshoot branches of the original asougi clan with beef that goes back for GENERATIONS. the von karma-edgeworth family drama is just the inevitable consequence of history repeating itself

#[franziska voice] did you know that one of your ancestors was responsible for making my family flee from japan and move to europe #[edgeworth voice] fascinating. i'll be sure to keep that in mind the next time i choose to complain about our shared german upbringing #its like fey family drama but this time they got swords #constantly thinking about von karma saying that finding the edgeworths in the elevator was like destiny. fate. Karma #in the same way im replaying the inherited turnabout rn and being like nooo gregsy stop poking the hornets nest ur so sexy aha x #like i wish it didnt have to go like this. but given the people involved this was the only possible conclusion #the inevitability of gregory giving von karma his first penalty because no version of gregory edgeworth could stand for that injustice #vs the inevitability of von karma killing him in return because no version of manfred von karma could stomach the insult #the tragedy of dl-6 couldnt have happened any other way when everything fell in line so perfectly. like it was predetermined by fate #(and the cycle of vengeance is broken when miles and franziska the last of their respective lines acknowledge each other as family) #(the only family that the other has left) #(and that too is destiny) #but on a brighter note i looove the idea of greg being a first- or second-gen immigrant. asian dad greg is so real to me you wouldnt get it #ace attorney #haystack.txt

[keyboard-cowgirl]

I am not a girl. I am a sword.

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

#filed under: books that will remind you loneliness is a shared experience #and books that give you words for things you already know #and books that can voice your silence #also an incredible aside to asian-american and immigrant life #highly recommend the audio version narrated by the author herself #thank you stephanie #what my bones know

[kate-m-art]

HELLO HYRULE HIGHLAND GAMES JUST DROPPED

YEEEEEEEEEE LETS GOOO

#ye legacy link is scottish inspired #and autumn also to an extent ajskd #maggie takes some inspiration from welsh fae folktales #theres this one vid in particular of a welsh professor with the most beautiful soft gentle voice that fits mags perfectly in my head #and when I saw Autumn to an extent its cause his dad isnt actually hylian #he was a bit of an adventurer himself and an immigrant from a country inspired by denmark #gosh my friend has an Irish inspired Link story too theyre actually turning into a novel and i love it a lot but like yeeeee #*holds them all gently*

[mishkakagehishka]

Hate being forgetful actually

#got a good concise title for my topic and managed to procrastinate writing it down and FORGOT #you know what. first-generation immigrants' struggle with identity will do. it feels like i'm missing a modifier but it will do #as long as i have something to present it doesn't matter i don't care if i pass anymore i just don't want him to yell at me again bc i #have been such a crybaby these past few weeks i have been crying on and off for the last five hours and if he so much as raises his voice #at me tomorrow i will probably break down and that will be so fucking embarrassing #i don't wanna cry in front of others least of all in front of a prof #esp so bc i've seen people break down into tears in front of him before and he gets so grossly gentle and apologetic and does his best to #comfort them and well !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! not a fan of being comforted by most people especially by those i don't feel close to #and on the spectrum of closeness people in authority are on the far end of ''you are not my friend'' you can address me with the formal you #all you want but i know what the hierarchy looks like and i won't be caught dead accepting close relations to authority figures