#voice for the voiceless

[miss-thorn-in-your-side]

I'm sure someone has said this already, and I haven't seen it, but a thought on Taylor Swift and her total domination. First, what she's doing is so meta and my symbolism-loving self is obsessed with it. Maybe she was bent on music world domination, maybe she wasn't, but honestly, I think she kind of laid out her plan in Vigilante Shit because she isn't dressing for women or men but revenge, and man is it a dish served sweet for those voiceless, marginalised entertainers who have been at the mercy of the decision-makers in the industry. She's using her voice in her music. Her songs are anthems for a reason. She's using her voice with her fans. She's doing it responsibly and respectfully, but oh, so powerfully. She's using her voice with her actions. Each new strategic shot she takes by systematically reclaiming her intellectual property and brand is sweet, sweet music to my ears. I'm cackling with glee. I'm mixing metaphors in this tumblr post. I'm rubbing my hands together and the deliciously diabolical way this young woman is using her influence to disrupt an industry that, honestly, could have given her the dues she asked for but was relying on their arrogant and decades-long monopoly to dismiss her as a threat. Well, we saw how well that went for Blockbuster movie rentals when Netflix tried to ask for the same thing Taylor Swift did to the executives who underestimated her. This is such an amazing example of using influence responsibly and how activism can take the form of song lyrics showing that life imitates art. They can't say she didn't warn them. Maybe they were too distracted by market share to understand the metaphor?

#taylor swift #swiftie #the eras tour #eras #vigilante shit #music industry #spotify #taylors version #spilled thoughts #lyrics #metaphor #music executives #disruptor #activism #feminism #not a woman scorned just solid business sense #voice for the voiceless #with great power comes great responsibility #blockbuster #netflix

[animalsoutloud]

Billions of chickens are severely confined in battery cages which are so small that it is impossible for them to even lift their wings and all they can do is stare outside of their prison while the eggs that they lay are taken for human consumption.

There are a growing number of amazing plant based egg alternatives. Make the switch for a kinder world.

#eggs #foods #slavery #confinement #breakfast #chicken #prison #cage #food #egg #freedom #oppression #reality #pictures #did you know #wishes #voice for the voiceless #vegan #be the change #end speciesism

[radcheese]

#pigs #friends not food #voice for the voiceless #animal rights #meat is murder #alternative foods #try vegetarian #vegetarian #love naimals #farm animal rights #stop animal torture #protective animals

[vegandude72]

#voice for the voiceless

[generic-sonic-fan]

Metal Sonic being voiceless and that being played for the horror, but less in the way of "he doesn't physically have a voice box" and more in the sense that he's voiceless metaphorically.

Not only does he not possess the voice box, but he doesn't have any tools to communicate. He's never offered pen and paper. Never given the opportunity to write digital reports except with only the briefest of words. Never taught even a scrap of sign language, as crude as such a communication would be due to his lack of facial features.

If you handed him a speech generating device, would he even know what to do with it?

#sth #metal sonic #THAT'S the kind of angst I love exploring your honor #idk man. something about alternative communication methods. #it's a mini pet peeve of mine for Metal to just get a voicebox installed in redemption fics without a blink of an eye #like! that's a huge metaphor you're handling with that!! you're missing all the interesting stuff by just 'curing' him then and there!!! #you are literally giving a voiceless character a voice for (effectively) the first time and you don't feel the narrative weight of that?? #and I know he's a robot but the idea of him being instantly 'cured' is. . . eh? #It's not my favorite. I'd much rather explore other options. #playing around with this in my longfic hence the post about it

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

idk how many of you have taken a linguistics class but this is literally what it is. teacher goes “make this sound” and for the next hour it’s just a bunch of people having existential crises about their own mouth sounds.

simply put, linguistics 101 is making the most unattractive noises humanly possible for extended period of times and then being amazed and surprised by it.

#this is what we do #us linguistic bitches #and it’s the best #like so many sounds are the exact same sound but one is voiced and one is voiceless #like phil said labiodental fricative #but there are 2 #one is /f/ and one is /v/ #they are the exact same sound #but /f/ is voiceless and /v/ is voiced #which basically just means your vocal chords vibrate #so whispering is basically just making all voiced consonants voiceless #so if you were to say #do that very quickly #and whisper it #it would become #to that fery quickly #with a different th #dnp #yeet my deet #dan and phil #phan #lingblr #danandphilgames #amazingphil #phil lester #english language and linguistics #yeet my deenp

[fyeahygocardart]

Lo, the Prayers of the Voiceless Voice

#Lo the Prayers of the Voiceless Voice #yugioh #ygo #Voiceless Voice #yugioh tcg #ygo tcg #Fairy #LIGHT

[gay-stuff-is-happening-here]

Need buck to come out to the team and Ravi to be very confused and say something like I thought you were already out and then imply that he thought Buck and Eddie were married

#Ravi needs to become the voice of the voiceless #911 abc #ravi panikkar #evan buck buckely #eddie diaz #buddie

[spocks-kaathyra]

Cardassian conlang (part 1?)

Finally started making my Cardassian conlang and I'm having so much fun already. Get this:

There's a distinction between alienable and inalienable possession, something that occurs in many natural languages. An example is, like, "my nose" vs "my hat". My nose is inalienable because it will always be mine, while my hat is alienable because it can stop being mine. So in languages with this distinction, you'd use different words for "my" in those two situations.

In my Cardassian language, possession is indicated with suffixes attached to nouns and people's names. People are "possessed" in the sense that, y'know, they're your mom or your friend or your orthodontist or whatever. Generally, you'd use the alienable form for people. Your orthodontist might not always be your orthodontist, your friend might not always be your friend. The exception is that you always use the inalienable form(s) for family. Your mom will always be your mom.

So, to use the inalienable possessive for a friend would be to say that they are as close to you as family, that you trust that they will always be your friend. This is often, like, a milestone in dating. To start saying "my girlfriend (inalienable)" marks that your relationship is serious. (Traditionalists will say that you shouldn't use the inalienable form until you're properly betrothed, but kids these days have their own ideas.) In this way, it becomes a pretty straightforward term of endearment (or, rather, grammatical particle of endearment).

Since there's no equivalent in Federation Standard, the translator often renders it as "my dear."

Here's a table of the 10 different words for "my"

So, presuming that the speaker is a man, and the person they're referring to is also a man who they don't have to use the honorific form with...

/alʊk/ - "friend"

/alʊkɬei/ - "my friend"

/alʊkxa/ - "my dear friend"

/ilɨm̥xa/ - "my dear Elim"

#no I don't know what I'm doing but I'm having so much fun hehehe #disclaimer: so much respect to the awesome cardassian conlangs that already exist and the ppl who made them!! #not trying to step on any toes I just thought it'd be fun to make my own :)) #these r the first words I've come up with after settling on a phonemic inventory. which was fun in and of itself #THERE R EJECTIVES !!! ISNT THAT COOL !!!!! also no voicing distinction and nasals r usually voiceless #anyways. honorifics r mostly abt age I think. but also social class and rank probably #I like how the casual forms don't distinguish the speaker's gender. reflects that gender differences r more pronounced in formal situations #cardassians #ds9 #asit #star trek #elim garak #narcissus's echoes #q's cardassian conlang

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i think clown said there will be new neighbors (i don't know im depending on the internet right now) thats whats been giving me rabies

i didn't see anything of the sort w/ my own eyes, so!

#all i think THINK OKAY i could be misremembering #is that there may be new Voice Actors #which yes. could be for a neighbor i suppose - probably a preexisting (currently voiceless) one like ms. beagle or the joyful siblings #OR we could be getting voice lines from some human character(s) #but i highly doubt there's gonna be a new Neighbor! #it just doesn't seem likely... #outside supplementary puppets like the aforementioned family members? sure #but an actual Neighbor? nah im confident that that shit is Fixed #so im banking on human voice lines!!! #rambles from the bog #homebogging

[doubledyke]

have yall ever noticed the weird way eddy says "something"

#tony voices the 'th' sound like in “they” instead of the usual voiceless sound in “thing” #must be a canadian thing #i find it very fun and interesting #text

[alpaca-clouds]

Voice of the Voiceless - Chapter 14

And the next chapter for this story is online. This one featuring Halsin having a good old heart-to-heart with Astarion. Aka, Halsin talking sense.

Voice of the Voiceless Chapter 14: Druidic Wisdom

Fandom: Baldur's Gate 3 Shipping: Astarion/m!Tav Genre: Hurt/Comfort & Adventure

Halsin talks to Astarion.

#baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #voice of the voiceless #astarion #astarion ancunin #astarion x tav #tavstarion #halsin

[animalsoutloud]

Hundreds of millions of chickens are severely confined in battery cages which are so small that it is impossible for them to even lift their wings and all they can do is stare outside of their prison while the eggs that they lay are taken for human consumption. There are a growing number of amazing plant based egg alternatives and substitutes. Make the switch for a kinder world.

#end speciesism #slavery #eggs #oppression #food #pics #chicken #enslaved #breakfast #life is beautiful #egg #stolen #before and after #breakfast foods #injustice #voice for the voiceless

[pochapal]

i'm going insane i'm going insane i'm going insane what the fuck is happening

#umineko liveblog #time limits.....rules of the game.........beatrice actually for real speaking.................my head is melting #what does it mean that this is the first thing said in *her* voice #on its own this would just basically be a threat to do with the ninth twilight by genji #but this is explicitly beatrice defined as a unique individual here #the other letters were voiceless and thus attributed to many possible authors and speakers #this is different. why is this different. why are *these* words specifically beatrice's first words in the story #i'm shaking this is So Much. beatrice what are you trying to tell me

[paarthursass]

another thing that is just. absolutely baffling about vtmb2 is. implementing a voiced protagonist is more work.

yeah it's the "popular" choice that many AAA RPGs use nowadays (Mass Effect, Dragon Age (excluding Origins), Fallout 4, Cyberpunk), but considering vtmb2 isn't AAA the fact that they're trying to emulate games of that caliber is just odd. Especially since there's plenty of RPGs at the AA level that have done fine financially, and most of them don't have voiced protagonists. hell, the game this is a supposed sequel to didn't have a voiced protagonist either.

it's just such a weird concession to make because it means having to hire two new voice actors for male and female Phyre, having to animate them for cutscenes where they're talking, and in general having to put in a lot more work that they wouldn't have to for a voiceless protagonist.

the only area it cuts time for is writing, because a voiced protagonist means fewer dialogue options. it is simultaneously the lazy option and the option that requires effort that wasn't needed in the first place.

#sophie.txt #vtmb #vtmb2 #im sorry im not done complaining about this #its just. its so stupid #if you're given a game that's almost fucking done. a game that HAD a voiceless protagonist #why tf are you wasting time implementing a voiced protagonist where it wasnt fucking needed

[tinyfantasminha]

There's a good chance that we will have to battle Rollo (overblot or not) when the last part of the event drops, which means.........WE GET TO SEE A CHIBI SPRITE OF HIM AND GET MORE VOICE LINES ?!?!?))#¨) OTL

#this event is doing massive damage to my psyche it feels like im waiting forever #THEY DIDNT JUST CALL FUCKING HIROSHI KAMIYA JUST TO TELL HIM ''uh yeah just voice the prologue for us and then u can go home lol'' #I NEED TO HEAR ROLLOSFFVOICE AGAIN PLEASE ANYTHIGN #events being voiceless are such a crime against the twst comunity #twisted wonderland #twst event #twst spoilers #rollo flamme #rollo flamm #glorious masquerade #rotting