Promote your stories but just with things you and your characters have in common

Leyelle 2024-01-14 17:27:06 UTC #21

yeah, you feel better physically and emotionally the healthier you are. I used to deal with a lot of body image issues too, between my scars, eczema, and being overweight, but the healthier I get, the more I learn to love my body, even as I continue in the process of getting healthier STILL. (especially for me, as I'm into calisthenics, learning to achieve awesome feats makes me feel proud of the body I'm living in.)

Vikthetoonaddict 2024-01-14 17:41:23 UTC #22

Okay! I will say both me and Crystal are really into superheroes...and I feel we have similar taste in men lol.

However, I feel as though she's a bit more well-adjusted than I am.

KevinReijnders 2024-01-14 17:46:59 UTC #23

Oh I got one, In an upcomming Chapter 02 episode Kyara swears with a Dutch swear word. Be in my close proximity and you'll hear this one a lot
(I kinda wanna add some more little Dutch-ism here and there)

Leyelle 2024-01-14 17:50:41 UTC #24

are you dutch by ethnicity or nationality?

KevinReijnders 2024-01-14 17:53:25 UTC #25

Both. Though I don't differenciate Dutch as an ethnicity, it's kinda just white haha.

Leyelle 2024-01-14 17:55:53 UTC #26

well lot's of groups have their own culture, so it's worth noting if you still retain any of it

KevinReijnders 2024-01-14 17:58:13 UTC #27

Oh I'd definitely say the Netherlands has its own distinct culture (even different provinces within the country are culturally distinct from each other)

Leyelle 2024-01-14 18:00:55 UTC #28

Ah! It's the same for my country, in certain ways, the way of speaking is different depending on where you live on the island. People swap out their 'L's with 'R's but which one they actually say depends on the region.

KevinReijnders 2024-01-14 18:04:48 UTC #29

Dialects can vary wildly! Dutch isn't spoken in a lot of places (worldwide), but it has so many variants. One time, with my ex (who was from a different part of the country), when I went to her parents house of the first time she started speaking in her regional dialect. Couldn't understand a damned thing, it felt like I was witnessing a completely different person

Leyelle 2024-01-14 18:12:26 UTC #30

I've heard dialects are often like this in lots of parts of the world, where they are almost a different language. I'm not quite sure, because most dialects I've listened to I can understand, but I've seen videos and heard my father talk about it before. I'm kind of glad people have so many different ways of speaking tho, cuz life would be less interesting if there was only one language or dialect.

KevinReijnders 2024-01-14 18:18:59 UTC #31

Within Dutch I know Friesian is officially a different language (calling it part of Dutch might actually be a disservice to it) and Limburgs is also classified as its own language. Other than that you have Flemmish, which is Belgian-Dutch. Technically not really a language o in its own right, since it follows the official spelling and grammar rules of Dutch.

It's honestly very fascinating and often ties into some weird historic twists and turns. Flemmish for example, sounds a bit different because for a long time in Belgium the nobilty spoke French, with Dutch being seen as lesser. So there was no formal education in the language. This caused a lot of the pronounciation being taken literally from writen texts.

Leyelle 2024-01-14 18:22:40 UTC #32

In my country we only officially speak Spanish, but there is such a large population of neighbors from Haiti (or at least used to be) that Haitian Creole should have been considered one of the official languages as well.

KevinReijnders 2024-01-14 18:25:48 UTC #33

Hatian Creole is fascinating, it's based on French right?

Kinda like how Zuid-Afrikaans originates from Dutch

Leyelle 2024-01-14 18:32:11 UTC #34

Yes, it's based on French, though I've heard it's not very similar in the end, I wouldn't know because I can't speak either, though interestingly, though my mother isn't Haitian, her first name is.

UntiteldMaidens 2024-01-14 18:42:41 UTC #35

Maiden and I both like blondez.....
... and like, we both have blue eyes, a huge rack, and wear red capes, and have killer thighs .... oh yea ....
[oh, for sure tho , Maiden and I both do SUB-4-SUB]

Leyelle 2024-01-14 18:43:57 UTC #36

You wear a red cape?

Leyelle 2024-01-16 18:12:29 UTC #37

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Leyelle 2024-01-18 20:59:32 UTC #38

Alicia likes donuts, pretty boys and crooners
Kattar likes rock music, palak paneer and samosas, and fashion
Andrew likes hiking
Shannon likes working out

Most of the emotions Alicia is experiencing in the first chapter, including the nightmare she mentions, are based on my actual experience the day I won the Turnill prize. The mention to it throughout the story never properly sinking in, and the lack of joy and excitement that makes her feel bratty and entitled, wishing it would sink in, when it never does, is all entirely based, again, on this experience.

And sadly, the expression of her trauma, wanting to escape from her body, in the chapter "Lurid" is also based on my own emotions

Leyelle 2024-01-19 21:01:51 UTC #39

Jinho has a short temper
Kattar spends a lot of time hiding his emotions
Mrs. Moon has a tendency to be too pushy

steppdusty 2024-01-21 06:38:37 UTC #40

Check out the latest episode.

or start from the beginning.