Yes!!! The words move from quiet to you but not using sound. Most people wouldn't really think about it, because it's not something they have a precedent to notice. Yk how your brain will fill in some gaps sometimes, but once you notice you can't unsee it? Like that. Once you notice that there isn't actually sound, you're not actually hearing things, and you try to think about that too hard it's just. Like cosmic horror. There's absolutely no framework for a human to think about words moving through the air to get to you without sound being involved
Headcanon that TLQ speaks without a voice.
Like, what he says and how he says it is very much audible. His words, his tone, what he emphasizes and how much he emphasizes them. Even some of the normal qualities of how voices work are still there, like how it’s harder to make out what he’s saying if he’s behind a wall or far away.
But the voice itself just…isn’t there? No cadence, no pitch, everything that determines what a voice sounds like is missing.
It’s like…text that your brain registers directly as words. Dialogue from a character in a visual novel who hasn’t been granted a voice.
Ok so today I was on the bus with another trans guy and we were talking about how hard it is to get testosterone. The waiting lists, the price, all the doctors you have to go to, that kind of stuff. Except, we were calling it ’T’, like you do when you’re both closeted and in public.
Then suddenly the elderly lady sitting behind us was like ‘young men, either I’m going crazy or you both have never heard of supermarkets, they have shelves full of tea there! Do you need directions to one?’
To which my buddy starts to explain, because why not. ‘Well you see, we’re both trans, and… ’
The lady didn’t wait for him to finish his sentence. ‘Oh no, I don’t mind that at all! Now do you want to know how to get to a place that sells tea? I’m actually heading there right now!’
We let her take us to the supermarket. We let her show us, excitedly, where the tea was. We both bought loads.
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It is NOT OKAY to actively hate and harass real people for creating content of fictional characters that features things that make you uncomfortable.