APH: ужасно усталый -More Dead Than Alive ((America, Russia))
(( Channeling my frustrations into writing. This is a product of it. Xp ))
Title: ужасно усталый (More Dead than Alive)
Author: me!
Genre: hurt/annnngggggst
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 for gruesomeness? (Not gunna swear in this one. For once. I blame these characters.).
Summary: The aftermath of World War I. The Russian famine of the 1920s hits hard, and it ( Read more... )
Gah, is it sad to say one of the things I like about this pairing is they are so screwed up? The hate and the fighting of the Cold War era works but it just makes me hope more for potential reconciliation.
Poor America for wanting to help and yet it not fixing much. Poor Russia for the famine (Europe in general seems to have much more bad luck with this event) and technically being right about America's government wanting repayment.
And then history--I think it's funny how history isn't agreed upon and is disputed from place to place. We, as humans, don't like admitting things. I think the Texas board of education is trying or has approved a set of history texts that is more right winged and doesn't use the word "capitalist" but instead "free market economy" (or something similar to that.)
I wonder what it says that we can be so scared of the past and words that we try to cover it up? But at the same time on a personal level, there are things I don't want to admit to.
I apologize for rambling dear. I find the different takes of history interesting and I am really, really tired. So if I am not making much sense, forgive me?
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I admit that my brain was so far gone that I had intitially started describing WWII instead of WWI. I fixed it as quickly as I could... => <=
I enjoy writing about America as the flawlessly optimistic hero, but I know there is a darker side to History that must be shown, as well. D: If only more teachers would see it that way.
No worries, your rambling makes sense to me! XD
Um, you didn't think my butchered attempts to capture the Russian accent were silly/offensive, did you? I certainly did not intend for them to be, but I wanted to make the accent more noticeable to the reader.
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I kind of like writing America a bit darker...in the things I haven't shown you (as they are useless, senseless scraps) I write him a bit schizophrenic. And maybe with a bit of a victim-complex. More than a bit of paranoia at times too (it's almost like a reoccurring disease we Americans seem to catch, huh?). As much as the patriotic!me likes to think of America is perfect, I know better.
I don't know the Russian accent well. But my Calc TA, who was from somewhere in Eastern Europe, said the 'th' the same way. (hehe, and my Ukrainian Spanish TA--and that's just funny to say--said "no" at the end of things like people write Russia saying "da.") Tehehe, I just learned about the 'th' in Spaniard Spanish last month. That was weird.
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I tried to go for that with most of the words, but "each other" as "each odare" seemed confusing, so I didn't mess with it. I love accents! My Spanish accent is terrible.
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Yeah, I don't think you wen overboard with the accent.
Can you at least roll your rr's? I can't. My attempts amuse my teacher, though.
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>:D
No, I can't.... TT w TT
Sometimes if it's in the middle of the word, I do it on accident, but I can't make the sound on it's own. For some reason a Russian accent is easier for me than a Spanish one (minus all the consonants in a row: rptkdvblx....or something. I really wish I was better at languages.)
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i love to roll my r's randomly just to piss off my friends
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That's hilarious, though. XD You are so evil.
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yeah but then they make fun of me for being the only albino Hispanic the world has ever seen :/
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