I just know that when Romeo and Juliet premiered two ye olde girlies in the pit at intermission were like didst thou see the sparks betwixt Tybalt and mercutio… aye and not from their swords alone!
CLAUDIA And Claudia, for reasons she would not yet divulge, used our advantage sparingly. But make no mistake, Claudia was plotting, quiet in her deer blind. Lestat de Lioncourt. 179 years in the Savage Garden. 148 years the blood-drinker, the bringer of death⌠the deer come up the trail.
AITA for not wanting my soulmate to sleep with other men?
I (450M) suggested to my wife (43M) that we open the marriage. I’m not monogamous by nature, and after 400 years of life, anyone would need some variety. I like variety. I love my spouse of course he is the most gorgeous creature I’ve ever seen and he makes me feel needed. He was initially hesitant about opening up the marriage, but I convinced him, in large part bc I was already sleeping with another woman. I didn’t expect him to see anyone else (he’s a gay man and we live in a very conservative area) but earlier this evening he had a sexual encounter with an old school friend. I was furious and, I admit, I have a temper at times. But I kept my dalliances purely physical and I expect the same—I would never disrespect him by sleeping with an old flame of mine. He says I overreacted and that I’m a hypocritical patriarchal asshole, but I’m not sure I agree. We tried and it didn’t work out. Am I the asshole for wanting to close the marriage again?
mardiyass75 🏅 ⬆️ 103939482 ⬇️ -2349
Why is the age gap so big? YTA just for preying on younger ppl and major yikes with “I love him bc he needs me” typical groomer lmaoooo
Tatesbugattis ⬇️ -2828372837273728282
NTA everyone has a role in the relationship. Kinda weird that you’re both queers but if his role is wife then he probably has a more feminine nature and women don’t need sex as much as men do. It would be much worse for you. If he’s not satisfying your needs then u gotta do what u gotta do
———> froggyvi
———> Of course ur a misogynist pig LMAOOOO
———> girderburneer
———> Dude maybe u should spend less time riding dick on the internet and more time trying to feel the touch of a woman
Tooldforthis
YTA. OP, you ARE being a hypocritical asshole. If you’re not monogamous then maybe you should have comminuted that to your partner before cheating on him. Now that he’s reciprocated, your fragile male ego can’t handle it. Treat others as you want to be treated applies even if you’re not religious. He should dump you
———> I didn’t cheat on him… there was no emotional attachment it was just sex. He was in love with this guy
Frackingrupaul
Whoa lots to unpack here first of all you’re a predator and a piece of shit. Wait actually maybe that’s all I need to say. YTA I hope he leaves your sorry ass 😂😂 you give bi ppl a terrible rep I seriously think you just set us back 50 years
Tradwifebabygirl
I understand your hurt but I think you should’ve communicated better with him in the first place. It’s true that some men just need it more but if u told him before sleeping with the other woman then maybe he would understand better. My bf and I have an open relationship and even though I’m not attracted to anyone other than him he was honest and clear with me about being poly early on in our relationship and so I could respect it. Your not the ah for being poly, YTA for lying
777angeldeath
Didn’t read past the ages. YTA
Armandeusmozart
Kill yourself
———> MODS: this violates the rules of this subreddit! Please edit your comment within 12 hours or we will be forced to delete. Further violations may result in temporary or permanent suspension. Visit our rules thread for more information.
No bc imagine ur the only daughter the favorite the shiv roy of ur family and then all of a sudden your older brother who used to act like ur father is in COMPETITION with you to see who’s being taken care of better?? and he’s WINNING ??? Ur gay brother is beating you at patriarchy???
I can’t stop thinking about this like literally how humiliating like you’re Grace de Pointe du Lac and you’ve done everything right in your life. You’re wealthy, you’re gorgeous, you got married, you had babies, you go to church on Sunday, like you’re life is going perfectly according to plan. And yes its unfortunate your older brother has those Proclivities and is a pimp and he’s definitely going to hell but you like him and he pays the bills so you ignore it. But then said older brother starts fucking a white man. Fine you can support that. But then he moves in with said white man, and maybbbeeee he’s a demon now. Not great but you could’ve coped. But then your brother and your husband get into a fight and damn he’s definitely a demon. So you cut him off. But then it turns out you’re husband is a flop so you aren’t rich anymore, and your Gay Demon Pimp older brother is now serving Wife harder than you ever have in your life!!! Doesn’t work, living in the rich side of town driving a fancy automobile. And he has the gall to bring his White Demon Sugar Daddy and their Lightskin Demon Child to your mamas funeral, looking good as hell, hadn’t aged a day, dressed in head to toe designer with some fuckass little sunglasses on!!! And because your husband is a flop and can’t support you, you have to ask your gay demon brother for the house! And he says yes but makes sure to threaten you first and his Demon Child says the house stinks. And then the Great Depression hit and now your poor fr!!! But your gay demon brother is rich as ever and still looks 30!!! Still doesn’t work!! Eternal trophy wife!!! No wonder she was like you know what Louis is dead everyone pretend Louis died
i know itâs been said many times before but i will never get over how jacob anderson, a british man with a british accent, not only nailed a louisiana creole accent but also developed a studiously (almost eerily) generic accent that louis uses in the present AND showed the first accent bleeding into the second accent at key moments as a way of aurally externalizing his characterâs inner journey. what did god put in this man when she created him.
@dedalvs anything to add about jacob andersonâs accent/valyrian pronunciation work?
Pardon me, but is someone praising Jacob Anderson without letting me praise him first?!
Backing up. Itâs October 2009, and my Dothraki is chosen as the official version for HBOâs Game of Thrones. Absolutely the job of a lifetime. Conlangers were never hired to create languages for big budget productions, and language was central to A Song of Ice and Fire. The fact that this was on HBO guaranteed that it was going to be huge, and now I was going to get to be on the set of a TV show, work with actors, go to Hollywood parties, and create a language that would be as popular as Klingon.
June 2011, only one of those four things had happened, and of all things, it was going to a Hollywood partyâthe season 1 premiere event for Game of Thrones. It was very cool! None of the cast attended, but it was cool! But as for the rest, the idea that I would ever actually talk to any of the actors or be on the actual set was, apparently, laughable. And as for Dothraki, it had a very loyal following of about 6 or 7 people, all of whom I came to know personally. Dothraki was discussed in the press, sure, but nobody was going to learn it; there were never going to be any Dothraki conventions. It wasnât the next Klingon.
June 2012, and by this point Iâd gotten used to seeing my work on screenâand by that I mean Iâd gotten used to seeing it performedâŚso-so. Every so often it was really good, but for the most part, I got used to hearing jumbled consonants, dropped syllables, missed words⌠Iâve always been a perfectionist, so this was difficult, but I didnât have much choice. I had absolutely no control over it. I never got to work with any of the actors, so all they had were my recordings, and a series of dialect coaches who had absolutely no idea what they were doing with my stuff. (And, as I would learn later, just because an actor nails 9 out of 10 takes doesnât mean the editor wonât like the one take they screwed up. Sometimes thatâs the take that makes it to the screen.) Basically, if someone has an English line on a TV show that goes âIt looks like the mechanism got screwed up somehowâ, and what they say is âIt locks like a manism got scroot up somehoâ, theyâre going to reshoot the scene until the actor says it right. If that happens with a conlang, no one will notice or care. This was now my life.
July 2012, I get the opportunity to create High Valyrian (yay!), and then a âdialectâ of High Valyrian to be spoken in Slaverâs Bay. Knowing the history from GRRMâs books, I knew this âdialectâ was actually a full daughter language with lexical/phonological material from an extinct language (Ghiscari) that I wasnât being asked to create, so I was going to have to create two languages at once, and at least have an idea for a third oneâand, in fact, there was going to be a lot of dialogue in this new daughter language. Consequently my focus was split. I can honestly barely remember creating Astapori Valyrian, because I wanted to be sure that High Valyrian was right (I knew book fans didnât care about Dothraki, but did care about HV). Despite the lack of attention, I did realize that Astapori Valyrian had a cool sound and a great flow (it really does!). I wish Iâd had more time to appreciate creating it as a daughter language (I wish High Valyrian had been as complete as Dothraki was at that point), but I was pleased with the result. I was curious to see how the actors would handle it.
April 21, 2013. I am absolutely over the moon. Iâd just for the first time saw a scene that I loved in the books because, for once, I predicted what was going to happen (as a reader, Iâm sitting here thinking, âHow do you trade your entire army to someone and not wonder if theyâre going to use it on you after they get it?!â), and it actually plays better in the show than the books, and it all hinges on a language I created. I still get chills watching that scene: Episode 304, Daenerys revealing she speaks Valyrian. To this day thatâs still the best thing Iâve done. The same issues I mentioned above were present, as always (watching thinking, âDid she say mebatas instead of memÄbÄtÄsâŚ?â), but theyâre minor. The scene is outstanding. I realized that whatever was going to happen after this, I would always have this scene. That was a good night.
April 28, 2013. After last weekâs episode, I wasnât really waiting for anything. In episode 305 thereâs only one scene with any conlang work in itânothing really major. Introducing Grey Worm, characterization, etc. Everything in this episode is about whatâs going on in Westeros. At this point Iâd heard a fair amount of Astapori Valyrian in Slaverâs Bay. It was good! Definitely good enough. Did the trick. The prosody wasnât quite what I did with it, but it was good. I was somewhat interested in this introduction in 305. Grey Worm only speaks Astapori Valyrian at this point, so this actor wouldnât have had had any other speaking lines, and aside from one short line and saying his name at the beginning, his next line is a huuuuuge speech, comparatively speaking. I was curious to see how he would do.
Critters and gentlefolk, that night I witnessed a miracle.
NEVER had I heard ANYONE speak one of my languages better than me until that night.
Every word, every syllable, EVERY SOUND OF EVERY CLAUSE Jacob âYou Heard My Nameâ Anderson uttered was ABSOLUTELYFLAWLESS.
I was stunned. My mouth literally hung openâprobably for the rest of the damn episode, at which point I went back and watched that sceneâagain, and again, and again.
And so you donât have to go searching, this is Grey Wormâs line (not the first two short onesâthe big one [note: j is [Ę], except in Daeneryâs High Valyrian name, where itâs [dĘ], dh is [Ă°], q is [q], r is [Éž] and y is [y], in IPA]):
âTorgo Nudhoâ hokas bezy. Sa me broji beri. Ji broji ez bezo sene stas qimbroto. Kuny iles ji broji meles esko mazedhas derari va buzdar. Y Torgo Nudho sa ji broji ez bezy eji tovi Daenerys Jelmazmo ji teptas ji derve.
That was my translation of this English line:
âGrey Wormâ gives this one pride. It is a lucky name. The name this one was born with was cursed. That was the name he had when he was taken as a slave. But Grey Worm is the name this one had the day Daenerys Stormborn set him free.
That is a LOOOOOOOOOONG ass line. And go watch that scene. There is nothing on the screen but his face. Itâs a closeup the entire time. Any slight deviation would be visible as well as audible. Take a look:
ThisâŚKING just casually dropped the greatest performance I have ever witnessed on screen at a time when I had already given up on ever seeing a truly great conlang performance on screen.
And then he proceeded to do it again and again and again and again and again for the rest of the entire show. I donât think itâs a coincidence that the very last conlang line of Game of Thrones is his. They knew how much I loved himâI told them. I told anyone who would listen and twelve people who wouldnât, along with their next of kin. He didnât take my language and make it his ownâno, no. He is graciously allowing me to claim that I created his native tongueâthe one heâs been speaking since birth. THATâS how good he is.
So yeah, accent work? In English? I guess Iâm not surprised heâs pretty good at that. Something like that to thisâŚadonis, this living, breathing Master Class⢠in perfection is like yawning to an ordinary human. Jacob Anderson can walk into my house in the dead of night, take anything out of my refrigerator, and then leave the door to the fridge and the house open when he leaves. He has earned no less.
ALT
