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[cuntlijah]

imagine watching the evil gay women show and hating the evil gay women

couldn’t be me, as far as I’m concerned a sexy milf can get away with anything

[theehorsepusssy]

Notes on the peewee documentary

Wow. What an asshole

How many hours to try take to make him a sympathetic subject?

3 hours later..nope. Still an asshole

[thequantumranger]

Keanu Reeves in Destination Wedding (2018)

[ofrandomthought]

god this is so sick and twisted. and yona KNOWS that. in that split second when she heard him calling for her she realised that what she's about to do is going to cause immense psychic damage to this man whose psyche has already been stretched so far beyond its limits you'd have trouble picking it out in a row of threads but she also understood that she's gotta do what she's gotta do.

[dragonnarrative-writes]

https://www.tumblr.com/dragonnarrative-writes/785014838613164032

This post made me think of this:

And I just can’t stop laughing bc Ghost is old enough for this shit too 🤣

lmaoooooooooo

he had a cookie for Johnny, but he eated it

[supersmashsoni]

how about the aeg characters in your au like kana, sandy and Bruno like their basis or where they’re usually working?

Kana and her sister Akira are BR Class 800s!

They arrived in 2018 as part of a plan by the NWR to expand services going directly from Tidmouth to England. Akira is very boisterous , while Kana was very focused on her job, but after time came to appreciate the quieter things.

The same campaign also brought Riff and Jiff (BR Class 70s) to Sodor. They handle goods trains from Sodor to England. Farona and Frederico (Class 180s) were trialed, but due to their rude and reckless behavior were sent away.

Sandy is a new-built Wickham Trolley who is part of the NWR’s maintenance fleet. She is very close to Mildred, a road-rail excavator who serves as a stand-in for AEG Carly.

Bruno is a regular brake van. He doesn’t work with any particular engine.

And lastly Tess is a crane who came to Kirk Ronan Docks following a large expansion project in 2009. Her and Pug, the dock shunter, don’t get along at all.

[jasminesanriofan]

Riff and Jiff are riiiiiight here!

[jiff01]

Llegando a Osaka un día de junio 2025, un poco más de 18 años después de la última visita al archipiélago nipón.

[thecurioustale]

i have a question regarding the pronunctiation of some of the names in your story but i feel that question can only be properly asked in audio format so...

also id be really curious to know if there is a specific accent that the people of this world talk with and if there is any description of such accent

Ooh, questions!! :3

Okay, so, for anyone who is a fan of my work and has this same problem with the pronunciation of bespoke words and names, worry not: All of my books henceforth are going to have pronunciation guides covering many of the most ambiguous or problematic words.

To begin answering your audio questions I first must talk about the constraints of translation. The narrative conceit of The Curious Tale is that what you are reading has been translated into whatever language you are reading it in from the original Relancii languages.

The specific Relancii languages of the "original" author don't matter for the most part, because, unlike with, say, The Lord of the Rings, The Curious Tale as a volume of books doesn't actually exist in Relance. It's just magically there for you to read in the here and now, like a window into this other realm. Indeed, because language is so important to the expression of thought, it is nearly impossible to say which Relancii language The Curious Tale might have been originally written in. Because the real-world answer is that it was written in West Coast American English, and that would heavily wash out the telltales of the "true" native language, unless I were to go to the immense effort of trying to preserve the original character of the original Relancii language of the story's composition in this English "translation." And I don't have those skills to do that, and even if I developed them it would fundamentally alter the focus of the story, as well as prolong its already-glacial completion time. Instead I made the decision a long time ago—and am very happy with my decision—to use this story as an opportunity to build and develop the English language itself. That's why so many of the new words I invent are meant as English words that we could use ourselves outside The Curious Tale, e.g., promenfere, conation, pris. Many of these words were designed through English etymological channels anyway.

But anyhow, here's what all that means in the context of your questions: For a name or title like "Silence" or "River" that is simply an existing word that happens to be appearing as a name or title, the "correct" pronunciations would be for you to pronounce those words in your own accent. For me, "Silence" is just the English word silence pronounced in a General American accent. But an Australian for example might pronounce it "SOY-linz." And neither is more correct than the other because both accents are going to be different from all of the various accents in which her name would have been pronounced in the many languages across Relance that used it.

There's also the issue of the word itself changing in the translation, sort of like how Frodo and Samwise etc. were not actually the names they used of each other, but Anglicized names used in the books for our benefit. In the language of Silence's homeland, where she was named, the word for silence would not necessarily have been "silence." It would have been whatever that language's word for that concept is. This also holds for many of the words that I have invented for the story, such as Silence's epithet Phannamer, which is based on real-world etymologies and like I mentioned is an "English" word. Its literal meaning is "Giver of Gifts" and the first peoples to call her that would have done so in their own language, and from there the title would have spread across Relance in some combination of being locked in that original form (sort of like how real-world languages sometimes directly borrow words from other languages) versus being restated into new languages (like how different languages usually have different words for the same thing).

In fact there is relatively little in The Curious Tale where we can be absolutely certain that we are hearing the words as they would have been truly spoken on Relance. The major exception would be all speech in the Divine Locution, including words such as "Rhya Kimbrii" and "Derishos," which are literally the same words they would have used on Relance; but sometimes for various reasons I occasionally give "true" transliterations of other Relancii words in the English text as well, such as "Ieik," which you mentioned.

Let's get to the specific names you asked about:

I've already covered "Silence."

"Terlais" is pronounced "ter-LAY"; the spelling evokes French. (I was inspired by the name of the city of Calais; "ter" is an agency suffix e.g. "characTER" that I appreciate being attached to Silence (the ultimate agent), but that's a retcon, albeit a very old one at this point.)

The "River" of Ignorance is indeed a river as in one who rives; rhymes with "fiver" (i.e. a five-dollar bill). It is not "river" (rhymes with "liver") as in a channel of collected water that flows downgradient. Since this is an obvious opportunity for mistake I'm pretty sure I went to the trouble of putting a footnote about this in The Great Galavar. A similar opportunity for error would be in Galan's team of combat wark riders, the "Pingers." This is short for "Impingers" (rhymes with "injures") and is not the actually word pingers (rhymes with "hum-dingers").

"Ieik" is a homophone with the word "ache." And there are MANY words like this in The Curious Tale, where the pronunciation is not at all clear from the spelling; I do this in Galaxy Federal sometimes too.

You got "Galavar" right: It's GAL-uh-var. The possessive form "Galavar's" woud be a homophone with the phrase "gal of ours." But you gave some other pronunciations that would also work, such as trilling the R for example, and might even make more sense with your accent. To build on what I said earlier, the farther away one's own speech gets from my own accent, the more stilted it becomes to use my pronunciations as opposed to one's own. My main concern is with getting the core sounds (e.g. "hard-G Galavar" rather than "soft-G Galavar" and stresses right (e.g. "GAL-uh-var" rather than "gal-AA-var"); beyond that I would rather hear people pronounce these vowels and consonants in the ways that are most natural for them, as opposed to maximally emulating me. When you trill the R on Galavar's name it sounds beautiful, but when I try and do something like that it sounds foolish because I don't trill Rs in my native accent and am also not very good at it.

And neither way is more correct, because who knows what it would actually sound like on Relance anyway?

(I've run into this problem extensively with Cherry's full name in Galaxy Federal, "Diwa ng Seresa Ilyapa," which is Filipino except for the "Ilyapa" and which I have tried to pronounce as a Filipino-speaker might do so today, with very mixed results. Same with the "Ilyapa"; it's a corruption of "Illapa" from mythology that retains an L sound).)

I hope this gives a good sense of my view on this stuff. This is fairly important to me, so I appreciate the opportunity to speak about it!

I probably should do something like this as a voice resource at some point too, like you did, recording pronunciations in sound.

[soul-wanderer]

[daikenkki]

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[1004knightingale]

Day 3 - Fav Familiar + Weight

What is the [weight] of a single mortal life, Elias?

[thequantumranger]

@residentevilnet 2k Celebration | Day 6: Fave Movie

Resident Evil: Apocalypse

[sheprotec]

"murder is okay."

[dragonnarrative-writes]

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[seokmashu]

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