#Dottie Peoples

[trusoulchristmas]

Dottie Peoples-A Gift To All

[skizabaa]

Sun's purposely not telling him how to tie his shoes.

[darlingofdots]

once again three cheers for Will Laurence parenting superior-officering Emily Roland under truly the wildest of circumstances for like 7 years and doing such a fantastic job of it. He was basically her primary caregiver from age 9 to 16 and no matter how she might gripe, he took his job so seriously and you can tell she appreciates it! She runs away from her official posting during the Invasion to come serve under him again because he treated her with respect and gave her responsibilities suited to her skills, and also he has modelled a set of principles that she clearly understands and agrees with even when she thinks he's going about it wrong. And she is so fully On His Side anyway, she's so righteously outraged on his behalf when people disrespect him, and like. that man is not her father but he is her dad. That night when she was 9 years old and afraid for her mother and Excidium and he was so gentle with her is so emblematic of his attitude to his "young gentlemen" in my opinion; he is firm and professional at all times but he pays attention, he knows his people's backgrounds and families and he is so invested in giving them the best possible chance at success, and it's clear to me that people respond to that! including the terrible teenagers he accidentally got roped into raising

[dottie-n-stripes]

dottie and stripes and co tableturf expansion pack!!!

[sweetphantasmagoria]

So my bestie @honeydots has an ongoing longfic, Lover's Stigmata, I read regularly, thus exposing my poor little brain to a rot from a fandom and games I'm not even familiar with... SDFSDF

[fakemichaelsheen]

dottie, pouring tea: more tea dear?

sadie, smiles: thank you

dottie, thoughtful: so. what do you suppose they’re up to today?

sadie, waves a hand: oh who knows! I try not to ask too many questions

dottie, sipping tea: yes there’s only so much you need to know

sadie, taps her chin: he does keep coming home late…

dottie, nods: usually with an expensive receipt from the ritz

sadie: yes…

dottie, gets out of bed: well, I for one am glad he has a hobby

sadie, pulls on a dressing gown, chuckling: especially if it means the world isn’t about to end yet again

dottie, raises her teacup: I’ll drink to that

x

[justmwahstruly]

just some litol doodls

silly maybe a bit too silly

me when ragatha hehehehhhehe (looking at you. you know who you are 🫵👁️👁️)

he’s so stupid <3

(did not draw that pretty face! @annemissingshoe did! nor did i draw the litol gangle, @sallyandganglesimp did! both are very talented!)

and ofc! tadc belongs to @/gooseworx!

[mitskijamie]

Can we talk about how Dottie Lasso gives me bad boy mom energy? She doesn't have the energy of somebody who would be normal to her 16-year-old son who probably looks a lot like his father after said father's death.

I actually thought the problem seemed to be that Ted and Dottie were too emotionally distant rather than too emotionally close. An enmeshed parent will turn to their child for support and advice and companionship (as if they were a romantic partner), and Ted talks about how Dottie shut him out and wouldn't even acknowledge that she was grieving

So personally I would describe her as more of a wire mother than a Boy Mom

[cheese-in-space]

I was reading some reader input pieces the newspaper put together about Israel and Palestine and they were making me so frustrated. Two of them put the responsibility on the people living in Gaza to turn in Hamas and tip off their locations. They basically blamed them for not doing more, that what is happening is their fault. How is this even a thing that people believe. First of all, how do you expect regular people to know these things? Do they think every Palestinian knows where every hamas member is at all times? Second of all, do you even think the idf is giving people the opportunity to do that? Or are they just bombing wherever they want. This mindset also implies that the only reason there is a genocide going on is because of the october 7 attack. Both the people who wrote those pieces seems ignorant of the history of the situation. They don’t seem to realize the power the Israeli government has, and for how long. One of them actually implied that it’s the palestinians that have been causing Israel stress for 75 years. It made me so mad.

But there were plenty of pro-Palestine writings there as well, which brought up good points. I hope that people can see through this misinformed bullshit and see what’s actually going on.

[bloomingbutterflies]

doodle page with a LOT of different characters,,

Top left is Dottie Delight (D-2, Miss Delight OC), just below her is a Hall Monitor Dottie Delight, and below THAT is saturation lady (still,, doesn't have a name,,,,)

To the right of the saturation lady is @th3-k1n1t0-gang 's kinitoPET oc (only colored drawing), and just above those drawings is @thedeleteduser 's smiling critter oc KipKoala

oh and the top hat stick figure guy is Khirina lol

[tstain-is-an-idiot]

Dotty appreciation post bc she doesn't get enough love

[darlingofdots]

Formal vs Informal Address in German Temeraire Translations: a report

So I have picked up my German copies of the Temeraire books for the first time in over a decade for reasons unrelated to this post but I immediately got distracted by the matter of formal address in German and how translators have to make a very specific and important choice when translating from English. German (like French and many other languages) has two forms of direct address in the 2nd person, an informal one for friends, family, children etc., and a formal address for strangers, teachers, colleagues, professional contacts. It is famously a Whole Thing when you switch from formal to informal with somebody: usually the person with a 'higher' position in the relationship has to explicitly offer it and it can be a big deal! A common instance might be when you've worked at a new job for a while and your colleagues tell you to use informal to indicate they consider you Part Of The Team, or your girlfriend's parents do it when you've been dating a while and they signal that you're part of the family now. In translation, this can be a really tricky choice! For instance, I have not watched Elementary in German but I would say Sherlock and Joan would absolutely start out addressing each other formally (Sherlock calls her "Watson" most of the time), but by the end of the show there is no way they would not have switched. Obviously English-language media does not have an explicit conversation about this and the closest analogue would be switching to first names when they've only ever used last names before, but you can't rely on that and translators end up having to make choices about characterisation and relationships based on like, vibes. With all that said!

In the Temeraire series, there's a lot of formal address around, such as among officers; I knew Laurence would be addressing his cadets formally because even though they are like, 9 years old, they are his officers and deserve to be treated with that respect. I only have books 1-5 in German but I'd be willing to bet that this doesn't change even Emily's been with him for nigh on ten years, and the same goes for Temeraire. Also Laurence uses formal address with both his parents, in case you were wondering.

What I was not sure about was a) how other people address dragons and how dragons address each other and b) the finer interpersonal relationships among aviators. Jane addresses Iskierka formally but Temeraire informally; the dragons of the formation are formal with each other but Temeraire, Lily, and Maximus are not, and Temeraire quite happily scolds Iskierka like a misbehaving child. I would LOVE to find a bit of, say, Laurence talking to Lily or Berkley to Temeraire!

Among the aviators, Laurence and Jane are informal with each other once they've slept together, but I just saw that Laurence is also informal with Harcourt but not with Chenery, which is interesting but I suppose makes sense if you go by the dragons' relationships too. What really fascinates me is that at the end of Victory of Eagles, Laurence and Granby are still formal, which makes sense because until five minutes ago Laurence was his superior officer, but if I were the translator for this series I'd have them switch to informal with the beginning of book six but unfortunately I do not have that on hand so I can't check.

Now for the main event: Tharkay uses formal address with Laurence when he leaves to fetch more ferals at the beginning of book 4, and I thought he switched for the infamous "Laurence, what are you doing" which would have been exactly the right moment if you'd asked me, but in fact there is one random informal when they're out rescuing Granby in London (loose quotation: "that is [Woolvey's] problem and for those who would weep for him, even if they are close to your [informal] heart")? And then he goes right back to formal all the way to "Laurence, what are you [informal] doing" and finally switches properly, at which point Laurence follows his example. At first I thought that was weird and I am not sure if it was done on purpose, but on second thought I kind of like that he tries it out first when speaking of something personal (Laurence's concern for Edith) but isn't sure of it yet and retreats back to familiar territory until he realises that he needs to shock Laurence out of his war crime depression.

It's interesting to me that Tharkay was the one to take that step. Traditionally, like I said, it would be on the person in a position of authority to offer or, like with Granby, Laurence could have just switched once Granby was confirmed in rank to indicate that he wants to be friends now that he doesn't give orders anymore. Of course it makes perfect sense that Tharkay would not care one bit about rank, and he's not really an officer anyway and he certainly does not consider Laurence to have authority over him. I love that the translator (Marianne Schmidt) recognised that moment on campaign for what I think it is: not so much a turning point in their relationship but one that cements a degree of intimacy that Laurence doesn't have with anyone else. They would not have had access to book 6, I think, when they were working on book 5, so it very much is a deliberate choice based on their interactions up to this point. I made a list recently about people that Will Laurence calls by their first name (former first lieutenants, Catherine Harcourt, 1 FWB, and Tharkay) and now I feel like I need to make another list of people German!Will Laurence uses informal address with!

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featuring @bloomingbutterflies’ OC, Dottie Delight

[thefelinerouge]

HEEEY POOKIE 😜😜😜😜

Just a question about shipping

Can people also make a character in love also with fifi and Dorothy? Like a poly relationship?

HAI this is probably a question that youve found an answer to LONG since you sent this, buttt I ALLOW IT YES!!! to anyone who may be reading this dead blog heh. i encourage it rlly! especially poly relationships, those r always fun to see!!

[sweetphantasmagoria]

Here I go once again summoned by @honeydots B) Not too bad for first furniture background methinks~

[ijustlovefiction]

Everytime when I'm going on walk and looking on my town, I think about Propwash Junction