Rae Rae, They/Them. A confused, bisexual IB student that definetly doesn't get enough sleep and definetly intakes way too much caffine. Escapism is the only coping mechanism I have, hence the fanfics you'll see here. Prepare yourself for medicore grammar and poor plot lines. I only write to spite god for making me dyslexic. Spotify: Fenixopel.
Halloween at school today so you already know who I had to go with. (How tf does Simon even breath in this, I was dying lol.) I wish everyone a great Halloween 🎃 👻 #cod #codmw #simonriley #ghostmw #cosplay #codcosplay
I spent entirely too long on this but honestly, drawing them was a long time coming and idk how i hadn’t done it sooner. Ngl i’m very pleased with how this came out.
Hey everyone. Please go watch Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. It's a really good show. Sadly it's been canceled. But I think the current ending is acceptable. And more people should watch it.
Spotify reeks, their shit little free app is less than useless. So useless it needs another word invented specifically for it. I can't play songs I search for, no, Shitify will play a random tune nobody asked for. Don't you want a music player without being charged monthly? Can't even listen to things in peace without sucking capitalist schlong. What's next, paying monthly subscription for a supermarket?
Life hack: When you get an ad, completely close off the app and relaunch it. It'll skip all the adverts and go to the next song. Fuck capitalism. Cheat the Shitify system!
I rly don’t want anything but a ghost x reader :’) because I miss my baby
When I saw this, I wanted to initially bail this ask and apologize. I didn't want to get called out again as a terrible Ghost fic writer and get blocked by more blogs but eh... I guess there are perks of being a writer... Just gotta accept and keep moving on.
Anyways. this one's short and kinda not what everyone would expect from me.
Hope you have fun, readers. (Wait, I have readers aside from notif squad?!)
You unloaded the last box and dropped it on the floor by the door, wiping your forehead as you placed your hands on your hips and looked at your new home. This is it, you were finally living the dream. Leaving your country was never easy, but you thought of spreading your wings and the idea of a fresh start was what's best for you.
Your new apartment room was the most decent you could get out of all your options. It looked like someone left on a rush as you saw a newspaper from last week still on the table by the living room. Guess they left some of their stuff for you.
Oddly enough, the said newspaper attracted your attention as the page was open on an article that showed 2 people, who looked like soldiers, one had a mohawk and the other looked old, had a moustache and an explorer hat. It was labeled 'Most Wanted'. You didn't bother to check the rest of the article and kept the newspaper immediately, thinking that you could use it for when you paint the walls.
Still tired from travel, you decided to unbox your albums and notebooks from highschool, as you felt a sudden wave of nostalgia. You just arrived in the new country for like 2 hours and you already felt homesick.
Among the stack of notebooks and binders, one particular book caught your attention. Your high school diary, which was unlocked for some reason and you were glad it was, because you were sure you never found any key when you packed your stuff.
You flipped through the pages of your vibrant high school life and smiled at the narration, word usage and good memories it had. Until one summer when you found a photo attached to the page.
The photo was that of you and Simon Riley, he was one year ahead of you and you both met at art club. Well, he wasn't a member there but a football toppled your popsicle Eiffel tower and he stayed up until night to help you fix it back.
You were both sitting by the dock of the lake, your smiles were over the heavens, laughing at something that wasn't remotely funny.
The caption read:
"I remember how we felt, sitting by the water
And every time I look at you, it's like the first time
I fell in love with a careless man's careful daughter
She is the best thing that's ever been mine"
Then you slowly closed your eyes as you remembered him singing that line of the song back in the lake almost 10 years ago. You told him that was the song stuck in your head after you met and he kinda liked the song as well.
This memory suddenly made you cry as you remembered how your relationship with him ended. It was tragic as you two got along for quite a while and even endured the fact that he was in a different school.
Then one summer, you both met back at that lake, he gave you news that devastated you. He didn't really plan to break up with you that day, but it felt like you should. You couldn't handle the burden of the two of you worrying for one another as it was too emotionally painful to think about.
You no longer had a diary that time but you still remembered his exact words.
"I'm enlisting myself to join the military." he muttered. No intros, no everything, he just straight up said that. You remember your mind process at that moment, thinking about how you two could survive his decision. But no matter how far you've thought about it, it only led to the same conclusion.
"I… I wish you luck." you remembered your voice croaking at that response as you gave him one final hug. You didn't even have to say it, but the context of the two of you splitting up was there. The romance that once bloomed by the water, ended at the same place.
"Be careful out there…" you whispered.
"I will. Take care." he responded with back rubs as you felt your tears drop on his shirt. You were going to miss him. A lot.
"Hey now. Don't cry. Always remember…" he pulled back and looked at you straight in the eye.
"You were the best thing that's ever been mine." he smiled, quoting the line from your favorite song. All you did was hug him again, so tight that you almost don't want him to go.
"One last run at our fave ice cream shop?" he invited and you nodded.
You couldn't help but cry at that memory. It was always dear to you as he was one of the reasons you felt that someone would really love you. But then again, the first love isn't always the last.
You looked out the window and smiled, wondering wherever Simon is right now.
"I hope you're happy, wherever you are. I won't ever forget how you taught me how to love." You whispered as you continued to unbox your stuff. It was going to be a long day.
So essentially I’m writing a COD MW FF. I’m Scottish and I have the BIGGEST urge to make Soap speak in pure Scots but I realise that might be a struggle for the audience.
Bottom Line: Should I make Soap speak pure Scots, just use some Scots words every now and then or not at all?
Thank you so much for taking the time to read and hopefully replying! <3
MacTavish interacts solely with other non-Scottish, English speaking characters in canon, and during these interactions he speaks in English. I don’t encourage people to be slaves to canon, given that I frequently reject swathes of it when writing my stories, but whenever I see someone choosing to write MacTavish or MacMillan speaking in Scots to non-Scottish characters, I find it out-of-character enough to be jarring, rather than engaging. I think you can do enough with Scottish-English to make his voice distinct in his general conversations with non-Scottish people. For me, it is seeing Scottisms, and Scottish-English grammer and vocabularly present in his dialogue that makes me feel strongly engaged with him as a character.
This said, I would understand why someone would chose to write MacTavish interacting with other Scottish characters in Scots, because I think you can make valid points about code-switching, and use it to obscure meaning from non-Scots speaking characters around them.
I would also understand if you wanted to write a story in Scots, told from either Scottish character’s point of view, for cultural reasons.
That’s a very good point. While I was writing his dialogue, although I wanted to do it, it did feel weird and a bit out of character. I’ve been heavily contemplating toning it down and using Scottisms and Scottish-English grammar like you said. Maybe if he’s under a lot of pressure + a shocking event happens, it could throw him off enough to fall into Scots for a couple of lines or if I write a diary entry by him I could write it in Scots. Do you think that could work?
The story is in third person so I feel writing it in Scots wouldn’t make much sense, but writing in a Scots perspective is something I’m definitely going to keep in mind for the future.
Thank you so much for taking the time to reply with in depth feedback!
Certainly people who suppress their native accents and languages do that, and I think if you want to interpret MacTavish as someone who would fluently speak Scots otherwise, but communicates in English to non-Scots speakers that sounds reasonable to me.
He could very well write a diary in Scots; although there was a diary produced as additional material for the game, and it’s not written in Scots. Again, I’m not intending to criticise revision of canon to allow you to interpret his character in your own way, but I think that you might need to make it clear that you are reinterpreting that material for those people who are really keen on it so they know what to expect.
Personally, I think it’s an interesting thing to explore, because I think very few children in Scotland are taught to write in Scots, and Scottish literature written in Scots forms a minor part of the Scottish curriculum. So to me, this would be an affectation, a deliberate choice that says something about the character’s relationship to Scotland, his sense of nationalism and national identity, which adds to the sense of his character, as you write him.
Thank you so much, I really do hate the fact that so much about Scotland, its history, culture and languages have been stripped from the educational system and in Scotland itself, Scots is seen as a language for the uneducated. I really do want to flesh out Soap's character in this way and I will definitely make sure to preface that if I do use the device of a diary entry to explore him and his relationship to Scots more.
I do live in Sweden and have very patriotic Scottish parents so I think it was a bit of an oversight for me to just think automatically that every Scottish character I see would speak Scots instead of being pragmatic about it.
Thank you for all the help, your perspective has really helped me flesh out more behind use of the language and the connection it holds to Soap rather than it just being a language he speaks.
So essentially I’m writing a COD MW FF. I’m Scottish and I have the BIGGEST urge to make Soap speak in pure Scots but I realise that might be a struggle for the audience.
Bottom Line: Should I make Soap speak pure Scots, just use some Scots words every now and then or not at all?
Thank you so much for taking the time to read and hopefully replying! <3
MacTavish interacts solely with other non-Scottish, English speaking characters in canon, and during these interactions he speaks in English. I don’t encourage people to be slaves to canon, given that I frequently reject swathes of it when writing my stories, but whenever I see someone choosing to write MacTavish or MacMillan speaking in Scots to non-Scottish characters, I find it out-of-character enough to be jarring, rather than engaging. I think you can do enough with Scottish-English to make his voice distinct in his general conversations with non-Scottish people. For me, it is seeing Scottisms, and Scottish-English grammer and vocabularly present in his dialogue that makes me feel strongly engaged with him as a character.
This said, I would understand why someone would chose to write MacTavish interacting with other Scottish characters in Scots, because I think you can make valid points about code-switching, and use it to obscure meaning from non-Scots speaking characters around them.
I would also understand if you wanted to write a story in Scots, told from either Scottish character’s point of view, for cultural reasons.
That's a very good point. While I was writing his dialogue, although I wanted to do it, it did feel weird and a bit out of character. I've been heavily contemplating toning it down and using Scottisms and Scottish-English grammar like you said. Maybe if he's under a lot of pressure + a shocking event happens, it could throw him off enough to fall into Scots for a couple of lines or if I write a diary entry by him I could write it in Scots. Do you think that could work?
The story is in third person so I feel writing it in Scots wouldn't make much sense, but writing in a Scots perspective is something I'm definitely going to keep in mind for the future.
Thank you so much for taking the time to reply with in depth feedback!
Drawing military gears without any particular knowledge on it are so fucking wild like how many ammos do they carry? Let's add a fuck ton of bigass pockets and pouches on his sides and God knows what the fuck those pockets may contain. Ammos? Snacks? Grenades? Arts and crafts? Knives? POCKETS EVERYWHERE
Oh right! Their comms! Let's place their radio right beside their already packed chest area with ammos and then there goes some cables that goes right below their shirt and comes out of their asses. Also another cable right there... And then there... CABLE WIRES
Wait they also carry some med kits right??? What are the first aid kits for soldiers??? Right! A few bandaids and a fucking scissor probably. That'll do the work, DRAW A FANNY PACK.
Quick doodle of the 141 when all the LZs were too risky and they had to find another means of escape. (Yes this is based on that one meme base) (Yes² I don't know how to draw bikes)
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