In my experience, RPers and Writers alike enjoy one thing: Making characters suffer. This little guide is supposed to help you with keeping injuries and the First Aid - in case you want to patch your character back together - realistic.
I am no medical professional, but I dare say I picked up a thing or two during my First Aid school-medic training ;)Under read more for length! Also, trigger warnings for blood, I suppose?
How do you actually pronounce Les Misérables? I’ve heard a number of different ways and I want to do it right. I know no French, so I’m pretty horrible at pronunciations. In fact… could we get a pronunciation guide for names? For a long time I was reading Enjolras’s name as though it were Spanish until I realized that was dumb.
copied from Musicals.net! if you want a wordy version.
Les Misérables- Lay Mis-eh-rahb
The Characters
Jean Valjean- Zshan Val·zshan
Javert- Jah·ver´
Cosette- Ko·zet´
Fantine- Fahn·teen´
Marius- Mar´·ee·us
Pontmercy- Pohn´·mair·see
Enjolras- Ahn·jol·rah
Thénardier- Ten·are´·dee·ay
Éponine- Ehp’·oh·neen
Gavroche- Gav·rosh´
Bamatobois- Bam´·ah·tah·bwah
Fauchelevent- Fosh´luh·vohn
Lamarque- Lamark´
Thénardier’s Gang
Brujon- Broo·zshon
Babet- Bah·bay
Claquesous- Klak·soo´
Montparnasse- Mont·parnass´
Students at the ABC Café
Courfeyrac- Ko·fer·ak
Feuilly- Foo´·ee
Combeferre- Kom·fair´
Grantaire- Grahn·tair´
Joly- Zshow·lee´
Lesgles- Lay·glay´
Places
Toulon- Too·lohn´
Montreuil-Sur-Mer- Mon·twee soor Mair
Saint Michel- San Mee·shell´
Notre Dame- No·truh Dahm
Rue de Bac- Roo duh Bahk
St. Antoine- San An·twan
St. Martin- San Mar·tan
Rue Plumet- RooPloo·may´
Rue de Villette- Rooduh Vee·ette´These were actual pronunciations on lesmis.com a couple of years back, read by Claude-Michel Schönberg but they were taken down after the revamp I believe. While these are proper French pronunciations I’ve heard a number of actors pronounce some names differently (or in an Anglicized way) like Ahn-jol-ras (Enjolras) instead of -rah and Saint Michel instead of San. It’s fine. If anyone wants to read this out and upload it please do (:
(Source: lesmisquestions)
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One of my all time favorite anatomy references is this handy dandy little webpage here. More than 750+ male and female photos in sequence? check. Outstanding b/w lighting on all of them? check. All SFW images but enough skin showing where the muscle placement is? check. Contortion, fencing, parkour and other poses included? checkity-check.
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So my friend Night expressed a general desire for help with profiles, and I figured I’d go ahead and whip this up! I’m no anatomy master or anything, but this is stuff that helps me quite a bit, so I figured I’d share… even if I have no idea how helpful it actually is. Writing tutorials is hard! Ah well, I hope it can be of some use.
ARIGATOU……………
“lips- Lips can slide, glide over each other smoothly, or they can be chapped and rough and dry and get stuck on each other. They can match, top-to-top and bottom-to-bottom, or they can overlap, with one person’s top or bottom lip captured between the other person’s lips (yummy). If there is lipstick or chapstick there is lipstick or chapstick flavor, otherwise, lips don’t have a taste (can you taste yours?). Lips also can smack- the sound of two of them coming together or pulling apart, because they’re wet and warm and soft.
tongue- Tongues are always wet, and always warm. They’re very versatile. They can trace over lips, teeth, or another tongue. They can be smooth and graceful or teasing and flicking. When tongues are involved, there is drool. It’s only sexy when you like the person you’re kissing, or else it’s kinda gross. :P
teeth- Teeth can clack together awkwardly, or teeth can bite down sensually. A person biting their own lip is cute, a person biting another’s lips is sexy. A person biting gently is sensual, a person biting roughly is sexual.
eyes- Eyes can be wide open with surprise, half-lidded with desire, fully closed with pleasure. Eyes can gaze lovingly, lustfully, wistfully, hungrily, seductively- it all depends upon the emotions of your characters. Have them do whatever you like, but don’t leave them out- give them at least a mention!
faces- Faces are what the lips are attached to. Noses bump, cheeks flush, ears turn red, foreheads either wrinkle or relax. Kisses can leave lips, quite easily, and become kisses on chins, cheeks, noses, foreheads, ears, necks, throats. Kisses on noses or foreheads are cute and adorable, kisses on cheeks are sweet, kisses on chins, ears, and throats are very sexual. And a kiss on the lips can be all of those! <3
hands- Hands are super-important. In order to describe a kiss, usually you want to also describe the hands. Where are they? Does one character have their hand behind the other’s head or back, holding them close? Are they on someone’s shoulders pulling them near, or pushing them away? Fingers brushing someone’s cheek or palms grabbing someone’s ass convey two very different kinds of situations, even if the kiss itself is exactly the same.
noses- Noses are annoying. They easily get in the way, especially for first kisses! People have to tilt their head to one side or the other, and if they don’t, noses bump. I’d only mention noses if a kiss is supposed to be awkward or uncertain or nervous.
bodies- Bodies are either close together, or far away. Someone can be surrounded comfortingly by someone’s arms, or terrifyingly trapped by them. Bodies are warm or hot, they are calm or nervous, relaxed or tense. Body language says a lot. Is your character pulling away, or moving closer?
heartbeat- Hearts can beat fast or slow, and that’s about all they can do- but there are lots of reasons why they do! A heart can beat fast with fear or excitement or nervousness; a heart can pound with lust or race with terror or sing with joy. Hearts can glow, cower, or shatter. When you really want to drive the emotions of a character home, mention the heart.
breath- To me, the most consuming part of a kiss is the breath. The air that someone else has just breathed going deep into your lungs is very intimate. Lips and tongues don’t have a taste, but breath does. Each person’s breath tastes different, smells different, and surrounds a person differently than anyone else’s breath. Breath can be warm and sweet, breath can be hot and sexy, breath can be hot and frightening. It is something that is very present and should not be left out. A lot of writers leave breath out. And it’s so important; it’s the most intimate part of a kiss. Someone else is breathing into your lungs, and it’s either heaven or it’s hell.
voice- Voice conveys much, even without words. A voice can groan, whimper, gasp, moan, catch, whine, scream, sigh. Voice can convey emotion powerfully, and while some kisses are silent, usually they’re not.
emotion- Emotion is the most important- and the thing you try not to say. You want to describe it, through all of the things above, so that it’s perfectly clear what your characters are feeling, without you ever using the “feelings words”. If they’re in love, their bodies will lean close, their eyes will smile, their voices will giggle softly. If they’re nervous, their palms will sweat, their noses will bump, their voices will shudder. If they’re afraid, their muscles will be tense, their faces will grimace, their lips will not open. Emotion is the color that you keep inside your mind as you write; it’s the base line that drives the description behind everything else you say.”
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