I'll Have What I'm Having

i'll have what i'm having

DMC3 MOD.

What about my son?

— BETTER CALL SAUL 6.09: Fun and Games

idk if I’m looking way too hard at nothing, but I swear that there’s something special going on with Godfrey’s accent in his cutscenes and rhoticity. rhoticity in English refers to the way speakers pronounce the /r/ sound in different contexts— a rhotic speaker will always pronounce the /r/, while a non-rhotic speaker will delete that /r/ when it is after a vowel and before a consonant. take the word ‘tarnished’: a rhotic speaker would pronounce that /r/, while a non-rhotic speaker wouldn’t. non-rhotic speaking in British accents is usually associated with higher social class: think of a stereotypical posh accent. Godfrey speaks with a West Country accent, and the West Country accent is rhotic. however, his accent is not consistently rhotic, and of course people aren’t always consistent in their accents, but the places where Godfrey’s accent is non-rhotic all feel meaningful. when Godfrey addresses the player in his first cutscene, his accent is nonrhotic. you can hear this in words like ‘tarnished warrior’. during Godfrey’s second cutscene, his accent is rhotic, as it would be in a West Country accent. you can hear this in the words ‘courtesy’ and ‘service’. there are also small exceptions to this. when Godfrey is putting Morgott to rest, he pronounces his name in a rhotic accent. when he dies to you, he says ‘tarnished’ in a nonrhotic accent. the rhoticity of his accent is emphasizing the different social classes he’s lived in. he only speaks in a nonrhotic accent when he is in the image of Lord Godfrey. when he’s Hoarah Loux, the rhoticity comes back. his native accent isn’t posh sounding because he doesn’t come from that background. when he’s speaking in a nonrhotic accent, he’s ‘talking up’. the exceptions make sense with this logic, as well. in the first instance, Godfrey is laying his son to rest— of course he would do that in his native accent. why would he talk up to his own child? similarly, when the player kills him, the voice line is ‘brave tarnished, thy strength befits a crown’. he is honoring the player as the noble Elden Lord they are soon to be by ‘talking up’ to them. 

labs that are also churches. to me

(1. annie dillard, teaching a stone to talk 2. the deep underground neutrino experiment, a.k.a. DUNE 3. the large hadron collider 4. the sudbury neutrino observatory)

You sacrificed me to a demon, who traded me to another demon, who traded me to a thing that is worse than a demon, and this is your punishment? An eternity of paper cuts? I didn't know. It was a prank, it was just to scare you.

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES 1.01 "The Case of Crystal Palace" - 1.07 "The Case of the Very Long Stairway"