I've never seen the 2020 film, but I do know that the Welsh accent is notoriously difficult for anyone even from the United Kingdom to impersonate, at best they come of sounding Geordie from the north-east of England. An American would certainly struggle to do a Welsh accent. Australian and New Zealand accents are also extremely difficult for overseas people to impersonate, and while its very rare for overseas actors to try a New Zealand accent, many have tried and failed to do an Australian accent. One of the few to do it successfully is American comedic actress Kate McKinnon.
What do you identify with in a character? ...and what annoys you?
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I've never seen the 2020 film, but I do know that the Welsh accent is notoriously difficult for anyone even from the United Kingdom to impersonate, at best they come of sounding Geordie from the north-east of England. An American would certainly struggle to do a Welsh accent. Australian and New Zealand accents are also extremely difficult for overseas people to impersonate, and while its very rare for overseas actors to try a New Zealand accent, many have tried and failed to do an Australian accent. One of the few to do it successfully is American comedic actress Kate McKinnon.
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Love how this thread is now simultaneosly about the versimiltude of poly relationships and about how awful a children's film about talking animals (especially as I've just come from the thread about to what extent is kitty group sex permissable). Don't ever change Lit.
I guess, while practically ever story is the author's fantasy, a good number of stories on Lit are the author's fantast with no attempt to anchor it to reality and that goes for more or less any catagory - the perfect virginal Incest sister, the BDSM sub who is willing to do anything (or equally likely the dom(me) who telepathically knows exactly what the MC wants at all times, and the LW couple who relationship is so open that the only consequence of extra-material sex is more intra-marital sex - with no emotional consequences at all. I guess the problem with the above dialogue for me is that it doesn't create any actual drama.
On a similar, but more generalized, my pet peeve is stories where the characters say yes to everything all the time. Obviously sexual compatibility is a thing and very important in relationships and fantasies but it gets taken to extremes sometimes - not only does the hero know that the heroine has always dreamt of being covered in ice-cream, he also knows her favourite flavour and brand and exactly and only the places where she wants it put. An erotic story should be about getting to know your new lover (or getting to know something new about an old lover) and that should involve the occassional 'no'.
I guess, while practically ever story is the author's fantasy, a good number of stories on Lit are the author's fantast with no attempt to anchor it to reality and that goes for more or less any catagory - the perfect virginal Incest sister, the BDSM sub who is willing to do anything (or equally likely the dom(me) who telepathically knows exactly what the MC wants at all times, and the LW couple who relationship is so open that the only consequence of extra-material sex is more intra-marital sex - with no emotional consequences at all. I guess the problem with the above dialogue for me is that it doesn't create any actual drama.
On a similar, but more generalized, my pet peeve is stories where the characters say yes to everything all the time. Obviously sexual compatibility is a thing and very important in relationships and fantasies but it gets taken to extremes sometimes - not only does the hero know that the heroine has always dreamt of being covered in ice-cream, he also knows her favourite flavour and brand and exactly and only the places where she wants it put. An erotic story should be about getting to know your new lover (or getting to know something new about an old lover) and that should involve the occassional 'no'.
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I had one reader point out a flaw in Stormwatch he claimed that an AC-130 gunner was special forces and wouldn't end up in a fighter squadron in Kunsan Korea. (bold italics = disdain) I copied that and emailed it to my 3 former shop chiefs from Kunsan Korea who all just happened to have been gunners up until they all promoted out of the job and were all sent to Kunsan. We all got quite a laugh from that shining light of rarified knowledge.
"May the force be with you" is not considered a compliment in the USAF sometimes.
Chapter 4 of Stormwatch is going to be a Poly story but I'm not in a poly relationship, so I've asked friends "Could this happen?" and they all have said "Oh hell yeah, thanks for the idea!" but I know there's going to be readers who are going to say it can't happen like that. I've already have been "spanked" for having a couple try light bondage after their first date... heck, they've been stalking each other for a year, been sleeping together for a week straight, in my world what took them so long?
