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This image is a meme formatted as a "starterpack," featuring a white background with black text and several small photographs arranged in a collage style.

At the very top, centered in bold black text, is the title: The “How do we make this fantasy race sound evil/threatening?” starterpack

Below the title, scattered across the middle of the image, are various International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols enclosed in square brackets. These include symbols such as [ʁ], [x], [χ], and [ɣ]. These represent specific consonant sounds often associated with harsh or guttural speech.

There are four distinct sections containing photographs and captions:

1.  **Bottom Left:** There is a photograph of a man sitting at a desk in an office setting. He has short brown hair, a beard, and is wearing a light blue polo shirt. He is holding a phone to his left ear with his left hand and looking slightly to the right. Next to him is the text: "Wow, that sure is a harsh consonant!"

2.  **Top Right:** There is a photograph of a group of people sitting around a white conference table in an office environment. They appear to be in a meeting. The caption above this image reads: “How about some more velar fricatives?”

3.  **Bottom Center/Right:** Below the scattered symbols, there are two more images of office meetings.
    *   One image shows a group looking at papers on a table. A woman with dark hair in a black top is central to this group. The text below/near it reads: “Could we maybe represent their warlike behaviors through a conflict-centered vocabulary, or through dialogue perhaps?”
    *   To the right of that, another image shows people around a table. The text next to it says: “Nah just scrap all the vowels lol”

The overall theme of the meme is a joke about how fantasy writers often use harsh-sounding phonetic symbols (like [x] or [ʁ]) and guttural sounds to make fictional languages sound "evil," rather than using complex vocabulary or dialogue.
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