whenever I decide anything I need 15 people to say "that's a good idea" to me otherwise I feel like I'm making a catastrophic decision that will ruin my life. in a chill way I'm chill
Starving to death this morning because ive been to the new local cafe twice this week already and if i go a third time ill look desperate.
Not people saying “Fandom has always been like this” in that vent post I made. No. It hasn’t always been like this. Fandom has NEVER been like this until recently and if you were in fandom pre-tumblr purge, pre-twitter, pre-netflix boom, pre-tiktok….then you would fucking know it was nothing like this.
We still had the drive to create. We still sold prints and charms and made zines…but it was never like this.
The introduction of streaming, binge shows that drop all at once, tiktok and vine RIP i still love u vine but you were the beginning of a particularly ugly era) creating this bite sized, quick paced ‘content’ era of creation and it bled out into fucking everything else.
Fandoms didn’t die down when the show ended or the season was over. You didn’t mass unfollow artist, writers or moots just because they changed fandoms. There wasn’t this need to please the algorithm in order for your posts to get seen by people and enjoyed.
Fandoms used to last YEARS. Star Trek is literally the oldest running fandom out there and you got people in there that could care less about the new stuff and still have been happily prancing through their fucking fifty year old fandom today. Hell, even SPN after all it’s fuckups and shitshows has a dedicated fanbase STILL creating tons of art and fic.
There is no patience anymore. No calm feeling of taking in fandom and friends at a pace that which doesn’t make you stressed and is still fun.
Do I blame fandom for this? Of course not, but people are complacent with it and start changing their vocab to accommodate and end up making the situation so deep it cant be fixed.
We call Art & Fic Content now, completely stripping the value of what it is to a level of consumerism instead of personal entertainment & community bonding.
House rule: when Tim falls asleep on you, you cannot, under any circumstances, move. It's cat rules. You can't get up to pee. You can't get yourself water or a snack or the TV remote. You're stuck until he wakes up. Good luck.
So if you’re a dm like me, you probably want to be relatively skilled in some typical fantasy accents for your game to make things feel that much more real. So i’ve decided to throw together a little master post of “how to” videos on some various accents. This is mostly for my own reference, but if you’d like to save this for yourself too, go right ahead. Feel free to add on to this, as well!
General Accent Tips
How To Learn Any Accent (1)
How To Learn Any Accent (2)
How To Do 12 Different Accents
US/UK/Aussie English Vocabulary Differences
One Woman, 17 British Accents
How To Lose Your Native Accent
How To Learn A Different Accent
Fun Tour of American Accents
Scottish
Scottish In Under 2 Minutes
How to Speak With A Scottish Accent
HOW TO DO A SCOTTISH ACCENT
Speaking Scottish 101
Scottish Slang
Gerard Butler Teaches You Scottish Slang
Scottish Insults
English or “British”
How To Do A British Accent
3 Ways to Sound More British
HOW TO DO A BRITISH ACCENT CONVINCINGLY (1)
HOW TO DO A BRITISH ACCENT CONVINCINGLY (2)
HOW TO DO A BRITISH ACCENT CONVINCINGLY (3)
Henry Cavill and Simon Pegg Teach You English Slang
French
How To Speak With A French Accent
How To Do A French Accent In UNDER TWO MINUTES
Tips on how to do a French Accent
French Accent Tip
Irish
How to do an Irish Accent
How To Do An Irish Accent
How To Do An Irish Accent
Guide to Irish Accents
How To Do An Irish Accent In UNDER TWO MINUTES
Russian
How To Speak With A Russian Accent
How to Do a Russian Accent | Accent Training
How to speak with a Russian Accent
How Russians Speak English
How To Do A Russian Accent
German
How To Have A German Accent
How to do a GERMAN ACCENT?
Get the Perfect German ACCENT
Me speaking in 12 GERMAN DIALECTS!
How To Do A German Accent
5 Steps to a perfect German Accent
Canadian
How To Do A Canadian Accent
All aboot Canadian accents
How To Speak Canadian, Without Knowing How!!
Is There A Canadian Accent?
The Canadian English Accent
Adrian: I’m having a problem with this person.
Nova: Kill them.
Adrian: No!
Nova: Then I’ll kill them for you.
Adrian: NOVA, NO!
I think the discussion that made time loops my brand was entirely confined to Twitter, so since this website has gone all in on time loops of late, here, have the story:
Several years ago, I suggested to my wife that we have an agreement that if either one of us ever came to the other and said that we were in a time loop, we just accept that it's real and get on with things, thereby eliminating the frustration of the looping partner having to convince the other one every day.
She REFUSED. Because "time loops aren't real."
Well, we had this debate on and off for several years, and finally, she got tired of me bringing it up and agreed. So now we have a deal: We'll believe each other, but if I ever do it as a joke, the deal's off.
It turns out that the reason that my wife has been refusing to make this agreement is less that time loops aren't real, and more that she's concerned I would come to her one day, claim to be in a time loop, and then the next day declare the time loop had finally broken. And since that is, of course, exactly what it would look like to her if I really was in a time loop, she'd have no way of proving it.
I explained to her that she's completely right, that would be incredibly funny, but I'd never do it because there's a part of me that is legitimately nervous that I will actually end up in a time loop one day, and I need her to believe me.
Are these facts true?
Yes, only the names, events, times, locations, specifics and meanings have been changed to protect the innocent, guilty, and unrelated.
i am doomed by the narrative. ignore that i am also the author of the narrative
in case people would like context:
NO MORE DREAM IN MCC WHO CHEERED