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been seeing homies get deep into "the terror" and making me want to rewatch SO i spent two hours in the dead of night reading the wiki/the subreddit/other linked articles and like. one of those articles was deadass fucked up

there was a woman who spoke inuktitut who was writing a book containing a lot of inuit oral histories, and in nunavut she was able to hear passed-down recollections of when survivors from the franklin expedition were passing through

and like. i can't imagine being an inuit family/group, knowing that europeans exist but having never seen them, seeing 8-9 shambling, blue-skinned, cold-to-the-touch out-of-their-minds white men come wandering by. they invited the men inside their igloos for warmth, for food, to be hospitable. the men refused to eat, refused to speak, and when trade was offered, clutched their possessions close and refused to entertain the idea of trade. this was, offputting, to say the least. the group set them up in their own igloo, with their own fire, and left three whole seals for them to eat. and then they fled cause what the FUCK get out of there. they came back in a few days to check on the strangers. the three seals were completely untouched, while all of the men had killed and eaten each other

i mean. fuck dude. there are obviously pretty dark angles to view the franklin expedition from– honestly can't think of a good angle, it's pure colonialism and british exceptionalism– but that specific interaction, that inuit group who were living lives as normal until a dozen fucking walking dead showed up and did cannibalism. no wonder that story got passed down, i'd be shitting my pants if i saw that

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the problem with autism is sometimes you want to do something (brave) but you need someone to gently walk you through each step so you know what will happen. and people don’t like doing that

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Today's Seal Is: Explorer of the Seas

#seals

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Honestly? Shoutout to those of you who are completely fucking lost in life. Those who don’t know what they want to do with life. Those who are stuck in a certain part of life and can’t get out. Those who are reaching for dreams they feel are impossible to reach. Those who feel like they’re accomplishments are being overlooked. Those who feel like their enough just isn’t enough. It is. You can make it. You will make it. There is an opening at the end of the tunnel.

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you should be able to say "line" if you don't know what to say in a social situation

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I mean that about sums it up

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tumblrs great. you can have 6,000 followers & only 9 of them are active/real

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I think the only solution to your post re: accents is to watch more POC led Actual Plays, like Desi Quest for example. Featuring many CR and D20 cast members (including Anjali), it's beautifully diverse, has tons of South Asian accents and it's really a celebration of Desi culture.

I was thinking of looking into those actually! ive had a backlog of content to catch up with but I wanna go get into more diverse actual plays to see more of the breadth that the medium can have, i'll def make sure to check out desi quest!! I just looked up the cast and saw a lot of familiar faces I really enjoyed seeing in other things so I'm excited :)

#im answering this so late whoops im v sorry about that #i saw i got an anon and meant to answer immediately but then completely forgot because it's been a few years since I have actually #received a tumblr message #i have very poor object permeance i forget things exist the second im not looking directly at them

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watching so much critical role and dimension 20 and the like has really got me thinking about the different accents displayed by npcs and pcs as well to a lesser extent and how theyre all p much european and north american ones

like it makes sense of course bc it white people doing impression of foreign accents is still a pretty common racist joke so there are a lot of accents where it'd be really easy to fuck up and sound pretty offensive but at the same time it feels strange that these giant worlds are populated solely by people who sound european/north american, like there are so many beautiful and varied accents throughout the world but the majority of the characters in these shows speak with a generic fantasy english accent

I don't know, it's a topic I'd be interested in seeing in depth discussions on by people that actually know what they're talking about, but idk if those discussions exist online somewhere already and if they do how to actually find them

#critical role #its too niche a topic to look up ethics journal papers on it #idk what other accents they can all actually do though tbh #im tired of english accents most especially #i really liked Anjali's accent for Fy'ra Rai #all the attempts at irish accents always confuse me also tbh like it feels so weird to hear a 'generic' irish accent #it doesnt even register as irish for me really bc it doesnt sound like its from any specific place #its still european but i would like to hear someone do a belfast accent for a chara or npc thatd be fun #i just want more accent diversity because its cool to hear them all

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He’s done.

#seals

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Why does basil smell so fucking amazing

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Spot on 😆

[antivanelf]

I lost my virginity when a cruel philosopher ontologically redefined virginity

#philosophy

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#seals

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there should be a hotline for me to call autistic people with specific hyperfixations every time i have a question