thinking about how when you experience a lot of shame in your formative years (indirectly, directly, as abuse or just as an extant part of your environment) it becomes really difficult to be perceived by other people in general. the mere concept of someone watching me do anything, whether it's a totally normal activity or something unfamiliar of embarrassing, whether I'm working in an excel spreadsheet or being horny on main, it just makes my skin crawl and my brain turn to static because I cannot convince myself that it's okay to be seen and experienced. because to exist is to be ashamed and embarrassed of myself, whether I'm failing at something or not, because my instinctive reaction to anyone commenting on ANYTHING I'm doing is to crawl into a hole and die. it's such a bizarre and dehumanizing feeling to just not be able to exist without constantly thinking about how you are being Perceived. ceaseless watcher give me a god damn break.
I think it's funny when non-human characters who were builtânot like, grownâdon't have belly buttons. it's an extremely common trope to display they are Other because they didn't grow in a uterus connected to an umbilical cord so they have no navel.
which would make sense for a character that were somehow grown from an embryo without being connected to a cord for nourishment.
but when it's a robot with organic partsâor simply made to look organicâit doesn't make sense to me to leave out a naval specifically.
it seems like a completely arbitrary feature to exclude because the people who designed and built the character gave it fingernails. they gave it a philtrum above its lips. they gave it ten fingers and ten toes instead of some type of advanced or modified/simplified hands and feet. they gave it eyebrows and eyelashes. all with the purpose to make it look as human as possible. leaving out genitals and a rectum i suppose makes more sense because i can see engineers deciding that orifices create design complications best left out if possibleâwhereas a mouth and nose are nonnegotiable for the intended aesthetic.
but why would they be like, well it wouldn't have a navel? it wouldn't have anything they don't specifically design and engineer it to. yet they included everything else. why leave out the navel lol
im getting really fucking sick of all this âit gets better!â bullshit. im going to have depression for the rest of my life. itâs not going to âââget betterâââ fuck you
based on the research i've done (and lived experience) of nautical linguistics- the syllables are the most important part of the word! for every command- historically and on modern tall ships, the command must be repeated by the crew exactly is it was heard: no conjugation, no changing of word order, nothing (referred to as a "call-back"). so it makes sense that these words are shortened in this manner.
boats are big, the ocean is loud, and there's a lot of stuff that gets in the way of words traveling coherently across the deck. it's also so rare to get a command when you aren't already entrenched in something else, and so may not be able to turn your head before acknowledging that you've heard. i've linked an NPR article from 2015 about how words travel in different environments, but basically the big takeaway for this scenario is: consonants get lost easily in windy or obstructed environments. there's been many a time (even in fair weather) where i'm having a conversation, on the opposite side of the boat, or even down below when an order is given, where i just hear the cadence of a command i'm familiar with and know immediately what i'm supposed to be doing.
on particularly well-practiced crews, i notice that even the tonal pattern of the officer giving the command is repeated. even without the tonal match, it's critical for the officer to have immediate feedback AND immediate response. when you get an order, you lay into it with urgency; therefore, if you repeat just as you head to your station, redirection can be given swiftly if an incorrect order has been transmitted, BUT if you heard it right the first time there's no delay in the task.
People speak very differently depending on where they live, and the climate and environment might have something to do with that. Crisp Engl
quick example (callback italicized):
"haul away!" "haul away" clear! exactly the same! i know they heard and the sail is doing the thing!
"haul away" "hauling" sounds an awful lot like holding.. is something wrong? did we forget something? was someone not ready? oh the sail is going up they said HAULing
also explains @ltwilliammowett 's example of "topgallant sail - t'garns'l sill" ... in "gallant" and "garns'l," less than half the consonant sounds are the same but the SYLLABLES match. its just the representation of what the garbled mess that comes across the deck usually sounds like for that Specific Thing!!!
stormborns
kaledo-art
baratheonpilled
jbbartram-illu
izzy806
tangentwithtanner
titsay
turnnoffyourmind
