#generalgingerbeer

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heraldofgilgalad replied to your post “Every time I go back to Scotland, I'm just, completely involuntarily,...”

Lol I'm the same when I go home to Wales. It just Comes Out

YEAH this is a perfect way of describing it! Just...There It Is(TM)! It pops out!!!

generalgingerbeer replied to your post “Every time I go back to Scotland, I'm just, completely involuntarily,...”

I have a weird case of the accent chameleon thing, because despite being Welsh, Welsh is one accent I can't even *do* unless I've recently watched Torchwood or Michael Sheen interviews, and my day to day accent settles somewhere in North America. Meanwhile on my one trip to Skye as a teenager: Mum: Stop doing that everyone's going to think you're taking the piss! Me (never having been north of Lancashire before in my life): Ah'm no dain it on purpose!      

OOH that’s interesting! I tend to get accents in my head (especially when I’ve listened to people with it speak to me for an extended period of time, or, as you said, watched a lot of it on TV) but I’m very slow to be able to emulate it myself. eg., I just finished studying in Yorkshire for 4 years but while I can IMAGINE any phrase said in a Yorkshire accent, I cannot really do a passable impression of it out loud. However, having grown up in Scotland I can slip into a stronger version of that without thinking too hard about it, but sort of...ONLY if I don’t think too hard about it? If that makes sense? If I deliberately try to do a Scottish accent, it comes out sounding weird but if I can voluntarily nudge my natural accent a little over the way. (Also I’ve been informed I have very Scottish intonation all the time.)

(Also I’m really enjoying the Scottish-Welsh solidarity going on in this post!!! Hi guys!!!!!)

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In response to your tags on a gifset, I don't think it hurts because it's Sofia and not someone else, exactly, I think it's just that it's someone who we know doesn't actually care about Oswald. If Sofia was being genuinely caring the scene would be sweet, but she's not, hence pain. Even if it was Babs doing it, those two at least have history - they may hate each other but there's a sense that they could have been friends once. Sofia and Oswald's have no personal history beyond this.

...yeah, yeah I THINK you’re right? Or at least, SOME? But... idk...

I mean... it was a bit touch and go early on that EDDIE was treating Ozzie in such a way, and making him similarly vulnerable... and that didn’t upset me

And there’s always the possibility that Sofia might come to GENUINELY care a bit for Ozzie during her manipulations, which you would think might soften the plot for me...

(to add to confusion, having thought about it I feel like if Sofia’s character and behaviour was exactly the same but she was MALE... I don’t think I’d be feeling quite as queasy as I am rn, so... *sigh* I got issues I guess...)

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generalgingerbeer replied to your post: WTF is with the uk’s allocation of points did i...

Well this is the jury vote, not the public

I literally just realised this before i read this aaaa

so that makes more sense (thank)

god damnit i forgot that the point allocations were twice as long as they needed to be

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Hi there - for some reason I can't access the rules page on mobile but I just wanted to check if I needed to send an ask along with my submission form?

No, you don’t need to! I’m actually making your bingo card right now :)

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generalgingerbeer replied to your post “why the hell are Ozzie and Butch squatting in Falcone’s mansion?”

I'd speculate that it got seized when he was sent to Arkham, but that might be giving the Gotham legal system more credit for making sense than it deserves... The Manor is a bit isolated for a base of operations I guess, so maybe he's waiting to regroup a bit before taking it back

Ah, that last idea works well for me yes! Without his previous information network, Ozzie needs to be properly inside the city to make sure he’s aware of what’s going on. Cool, ta! That could explain not being at the mansion.

Even if his money/assets were seized though.... shouldn’t he have got them BACK from the Gotham legal system by now?

Something else I did think of - perhaps SOFIA ended up in control of the Van Dahl mansion and maybe even Ozzie’s fortune when Ozzie was sent to Arkham? Not via legal means, obviously, but by virtue of being the new Underworld Queen, and thus everything that was Ozzie’s became hers? So when Sofia went out of the picture, her former supporters took control of the Van Dahl mansion and Ozzie’s money?? Idk....

It would be nice if the show were to throw us a line or something to explain this.

Like, it’s not A Big Deal for me. I’m willing to role with whatever explanation. But... right now it kinda really IS a loose end that is confusing me.

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generalgingerbeer replied to your post “right part way in, a quick observation”

I suppose the thing there is that while he's definitely not happy, this is easily the most restrained he's been about not being happy with a situation since like, season one. It's probably why he barely says anything at all - his inner monologue is probably all screaming

that’s what I figure, yeah :p

also, we join the scene with pretty much everyone arrived and stuff - I assume that Ozzie already conveyed his displeasure with shouting and violence etc when Jerome first barged in before all that (whenever that was), and Ozzie has now, on understanding that he is outgunned, chosen to bite his tongue and play nice in order to survive while Jerome burns himself out (as Ozzie tells Butch later he believes will happen)

like to think that’s part of the reason for his gorgeous, elaborate, Fish-emulating outfit too - presenting himself as fully in control and a willing party, so the others won’t suspect that Jerome has him overpowered... and m.....aybe a little personal nod to how Fish used to stylishly play nice with Falcone while plotting his overthrow :)

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generalgingerbeer replied to your post: Don't know if you've done your own research...

It occurs to me that I should have said “columns” rather than rows but, you get what I meant :)

Yeah, I gotcha! :)