Liquid Sin
The Mrs has become one of the drivers of a World of Warcraft-related podcast, and is currently relishing the comment made by someone that several women listeners have decided that his voice is like ‘liquid sin’. Much as I love my husband and indeed his voice, this came as a surprise to both of us, but inevitably and rightly he’s started basking in it ever so slightly. My assumption is that the sheer exoticism of the British accent is wooing mostly American listeners.
Which put me in mind of the occasion a few years ago when I spent a good deal more time on the forums at Millarworld than I do these days, and the related consideration that online communications often result in mental impressions of interlocutors which prove to be quite different than the reality.
The Millarworld incident was kicked off by an innocent enough “what do you sound like?” thread which led various people to describe their voices and accents, and some of us to post sound files to demonstrate. My own voice, which I don’t like, tends to sound quite deep when recorded, and of course the English accent lends a particular tone. Somehow, it wasn’t what most people seem to have been expecting. The result of my tiny “Good afternoon, this is me and this is what I sound like” snippet therefore exploded out of any proper scale and I had my own brief opportunity to bask.
And then it all took a turn for the sordid. Several people asked me to record personal messages for them in ‘the voice’, and it wasn’t long before someone thought it would be funny to have me saying, basically, utter filth in these cultured tones. Because I was a very gung-ho member of the community I agreed to all of these requests, and indeed a number of them are still sitting on my server where I posted them for people to download. I listened to them last night while doing a bit of clearing up, and honestly, I’m shocked that I was quite that gung-ho. Most surprising of all was the fact that a number of very solidly heterosexual men asked to hear me describe the things I could do to them sexually for them to keep and listen to in the future. Did that make me an inadvertent sex worker? :-)
Anyway, the moral of this story is that lord knows what The Mrs is being asked to say to people in the voice of liquid sin while my back is turned…
February 21st, 2009 at 2:04 pm
I remember those sound files!
It must be mentioned that our current WoW-related online haunt is just chock full of delicious voices, including yours and the Missus’. Vent is aural candy.