u/muddledmuggle

I’m reading books (I know, books right!?! Plural!) and I just realized how often I age up the characters in my mind. University automatically becomes grad students. 30s becomes 40s/50s, 200 year old MMCs become 450 year old MMCs… I just want characters who are old enough to know a simple honest conversation would chop the word count down to a crisp 1000 word book but too immature to actually have the conversation and drag it out to a 22hour audiobook. Is that so much to ask?!?

Uj/ this actually stems from all the “this person is rumoured to be cast as” posts on social media and all the actors look creepily like teenagers. I’m hoping the casting directors look at the general demographic of the readers/future viewers and cast based on that age range. I get that leads to a potential Steve Buscemi as a high school kid but I think I would rather that than some super young looking person. There has to be a middle ground.

We need to talk about kissing sounds in audiobooks. I’m not talking about when the MMC (because is ALWAYS the MMC) says “I gave her a kiss”, “I held her in my arms and kissed her” or the quick “mwah” peck kisses. I’m talking about the wet sloppy sounds coming at me that I have no way to brace myself for. It instantly takes me out of it and gives me The Ick.

How does the narrator make these sounds when recording and why does it remind me of:
- a toothless person eating an orange
- someone groaning as their boots squelch in mud
- that one creepy family friend that orders oysters and insists that slurping them makes them taste better

Either way every time I hear that sound I conjure the image of my girl Charlotte from Sex and the City when she tried to date Mr Pussy and watched him eat a fig.