the world is ugly but you’re beautiful to me

Drawing The Spot every day until Beyond The Spider-Verse releases - Day 987

absolutely . guy so photogenic an would take a candid photo of him and accuse him of trying to aura farm

not to mention hes canonically attractive 🧑‍🦯

"My mother's going to kill me if she finds out I let you all sneak into the vaults!"

They’re at their first concert together

☆Hobie Brown x GN Reader ☆CW: Fluff ☆Authors note: Lowkey the only concerts I have ever been to have been during fete 😓

The venue was smaller than you'd expected

It was in an old converted warehouse packed wall-to-wall with people in band tees, patched jackets, and a very distinct smell. The music from the opening act rattled the floor beneath your sneakers. Despite the noise, your attention kept drifting back to Hobie, who was leaning against a pillar near the back of the room, hands shoved into his pockets.

" "True love starts where one doesn't expect anything in return."

- from Snow White"

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Imagine that you two have been schoolmates/ classmates since pre-K, and ever since Hobie won the science fair and beat your experiment you vowed to beat him in everything but all you got is the number two spot. But get this, You HATE his guts, for Hobie though? He's utterly in love with you ever since you wowed the whole class with your presentation during third grade. And he wants nothing more to get your attention, he tries to ask you for a study session which fails miserably when you snapped at him saying that he thinks that YOU'RE stupid, how dare he, right? But he tries again, he takes all the classes you do just to become your friend and you're irked that he's RIGHT THERE wherever you go. And the worst part? He beats your score every time. It's infuriating, his eyes that look at you softly, the way he tilts his head whenever he questions the teacher about the misinformation on the textbook, the way he kindly offers help and encouragements, and the irritating way he smiles at you!!! Like why is your heart thudding so loudly like you're about to present in front of the whole class whenever you see him in the hallway and he would smile back at you as he passes by? He's just the handsome nerd Hobie, who can shred on the guitar every battle of the bands! While winning a chess game on the same day!

Art above IS NOT MINE! Click for the link to the original art! Artist: @Jay19

A lot of people write Hobie Brown like Tom Holland, but this just isn't accurate if you want to write a good fan fiction. Hobie is a homeless black teen from the 70s, who was born in Cambridge, and is also a punk. He's not gonna sound like Aaron Warner or Tom Hiddleston. Just because he has a British accent doesn't mean he's going to sound like your average British movie star.

British English is a dialect, not technically an accent. An accent is how someone pronounces words, while a dialect includes pronunciations, but also includes general vocabulary and grammar. This means that despite Hobie speaking English, he won't use the same vocabulary that American-English speakers use, so if you write him that way it won't be accurate.

The British accent that most people are used to is called Received Pronunciation, which is considered the "upper-class" British Accent. However, Hobie does not have a a Received Pronunciation accent. He's cockney. They do not sound the same as upper-class British people, and have a completely different set of vocabulary.

How do you write a cockney accent?

Rule 1: Never pronounce the "H"

For example, house becomes 'ouse. Hat becomes 'at. Hello becomes 'Ello. By writing the words with an apostrophe in place of the "h", it would read more accurately.

Rule 2: -ing becomes -in

For example, running becomes runnin'. Helping becomes 'elpin' (because both the h and the g are silent). Walking becomes walkin'. Those speaking in a cockney accent don't pronounce the "g" part of the ending -ing.

Rule 3: Words starting with "th-" are usually replaced with "f-"

For example, thing becomes fing. This becomes fis. However, don't overdo it. If you write out every word starting with an f, it'll become difficult to read. Only do it if you're trying to enunciate some words over others. Even if you're trying to write an accent, it should still be comprehensible.

There's other rules as well, but these were the main three I saw during my research!

How do you write a cockney dialect?

Cockney rhyming slang

Hobie consistently uses Cockney rhyming slang in ATSV. For example, he calls Miles, "Peter Pan" which is Cockney rhyming slang for "Little man". Using Cockney rhyming slang can make your writing seem more authentic

Some other examples are "Apples and pears" for stairs. "bees and honey" for money, etc. You can google other ones for any words you want to use!

As always research is your best friend, so while writing Hobie, make sure to have another page open with lots of slang and other words available for you to use in your writing to make your character sound as authentic as possible!