Magic Space Potato

Posting into the void since 2014 She/Her 24 Current Obsession(s): Mcyt, plont, rocks

[animentality]

[headspace-hotel]

Pronounced "yixel" like "pixel" i assume

[gayestcowboy]

i allow myself one suicide joke a month because a well-placed “i’m going to kill myself” can be REALLY funny but like for real yall, if you’re suicidal or depressed in any capacity, or even if you aren’t, if you make suicide jokes constantly your brain will internalize it and you will actually want to kill yourself. which you don’t want to do. and if you stop making suicide jokes then you will feel better. same with any kind of self deprecation— stop doing it and you will start to feel better. i’ve been suicidal at several points in my life and i can guarantee you from personal experience that it fucking works. stop making kms jokes every day and your life will improve. and other people get uncomfortable when you make kms jokes constantly. be nicer to yourself

[llamagoddessofficial]

some SICK FUCK just responded to a FIVE YEAR OLD COMMENT I left on a Hamilton animatic to say "I don't actually care about this comment, I just wanted to remind you you had a Hamilton phase 5 years ago". What kind of MALICIOUS,

[mcytblrsexymen]

MCYT SEXYMAN WINNER JOE HILLS

[ID: the sexyman bracket, showing that the final winner is Joe Hills]

[joehills]

Thanks so much to everyone who voted for me!

This has been so much fun!

I especially want to thank and encourage all the amazing fan-artists out there! Your work this week was so beautiful, and I hope you keep cultivating and sharing your talents!

If you find yourself listless this weekend after such a hype week, make sure to check out the 48-hour charity stream I'm part of at https://twitch.tv/draw4charity!

I'll be popping in and out all weekend, but my events are streaming HermitCraft TCG with the Hermits at 2pm US Central this Saturday as well as Quake on Sunday morning at 8am! Come stop by and hang out for a good cause benefitting WorldBuilders!

[thatgirlwiththememes]

I swear I get sad if I wake up and one is on the floor

[cumaeansibyl]

They are exploring under the bed! This is normal stuffed animal behavior, as they are trained to protect you from monsters and shadow creatures, so it's natural that they want to keep an eye out. Don't be sad, thank your friend for doing such a good job.

[aquilacalvitium]

[dungeons-and-danis]

Accents 101

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

[dmwisdom]

I don’t usually do reblogs but this may come in handy for some of you.

Disclaimer: using accents is NEVER required, but it can add a bit of fun! Don’t feel pressured to adopt one if you aren’t comfy with it!

[petermorwood]

Here’s a post with examples of Irish accents spoken by Irish people on Irish TV.

Here’s a YouTube called “How to do a PROPER IRISH ACCENT” which says the first two how-to-do-Irish links in the OP are examples of how NOT to do it.

Though not specific about why, I think it’s because they don’t pick and stick to a region, and thus unconsciously default to de generric sownd av stayge Oirish.

That YouTuber’s approach - concentrating on the accent of an area, in this instance North Dublin - may be more focused than DM or Character voices require. On the other hand it may be just the thing for DM’ing a long campaign, especially if DM or Character wants to sound like Colin Farrell, Colm Meaney or Brendan Gleeson…

Indeed, since there’s another video about How To Create 100 Distinctly Different Voices, this channel might actually be just the place for RPG’rs. There are certainly DnD players making favourable comments about both videos.

YMMV, of course.

*****

No matter how bad a stage-Oirish accent may be (and there have been some hummers in Major Motion Pictures Near You) I don’t think it will ever match what I heard the other night on Talking Pictures.

The movie was “The Gentle Gunman” (Ealing 1952) in which thoroughly English actors John Mills and Dirk Bogarde played IRA men (and brothers) with accents that… Um, they didn’t… Er…

Let’s just say “things needed a lot more work” and leave it there.

On the flip-side, several of the real Irish actors seem (to my ear, anyway) to have dialled things up to eleven, as if less-broad accents weren’t identifiably Irish enough for a wider audience; a bit like kitting out the Scots in “Braveheart” with centuries-wrong kilts.

The film also had a crucial action scene supposedly near the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast, though it could have been filmed anywhere with industrial-area terraced houses and probably was. If anyone in that scene spoke with a Norn Iron accent - NOT the same as a generic Irish accent at all (at all) - I missed it.

Perhaps that’s just as well…

*****

This link is to the RTE show “Today”; I’m pretty sure it’s available world-wide; if so, the link for this edition is good for 30 days from today, 12 January 2023.

The show features pharmacist Dónal O’Sullivan giving advice on avoiding colds, flu and worse stuff, starting at 0:05:00 and delivered in a splendid example of a Cork accent*, which is notably different to what most non-Irish people expect an “Irish accent” to sound like.

* His accent and speech patterns are distinctive enough that they may be specific to a particular district of the city or region of the surrounding countryside. I don’t know, but someone else might…

*****

And then of course there’s always the acshent, what acshent? approach of Sean Connery, who played a British secret agent, a Berber chieftain, an Irish cop, an Ancient Greek king, a Lithuanian submarine captain and an Egyptian-Spanish immortal in ekshactly the shame voish.

Nobody argued with him.

And nobody - if they’re wise - will argue with their DM, either.

Becaushe great big rocksh or wandering monshtersh can drop from shuch unekshpected playshesh, and shaving throwsh don’t alwaysh work if the DM ish feeling out of shortsh…

[mortalityplays]

embrace the joys of not being included in everything

[mortalityplays]

the ability to take in someone else's experiences and see them as external to you, a brand new thing you've learned about the world

the opportunity to listen to a conversation without having to form, justify and defend a position

security in the knowledge that your friends can entertain themselves, and even each other, and you don't have to lift a finger

sweet release from the obligation to attend events that don't interest you

the bliss of not being scrutinised

[radiojamming]

Have a sign from Grand Marais, MI that’s haunted me since childhood

[dogeared-euclid]

Have a sign from the lighthouse at Peggy’s Cove, NS

[radiojamming]

i’m sorry but this was way too badass and terrifying to keep in the tags

[callmebliss]

Trans Witches are Witches: 69 items for $60.00

Trans Witches are Witches (Apprentice Edition): 66 items for $10.00

The main bundle has 69 (heh) games for $60. The sister bundle has 66 games for $10.

The sale runs Feb 10-24, 2023

[arkstray-deactivated20240729]

I am sick and tired of people saying the new Harry Potter game is "Just a video game" and that "You are being antisemitic for seeing Jewish people as goblins" (we fucking dont, but to you people dogwhistles dont exist, so)

So Im gonna fucking tell you how its NOT just a video game, and that dogwhistles are a thing that exist, and you need to start seeing them if you want to be an ally to Jewish people.

I think the most obvious thing to people is the use of a Shofar as a "Goblin Artifact." For those who dont know, Shofars are a Jewish religious instrument :)!!!!

Wow!!! That doesnt look good! What does that artifact look like to you...?

Aha!

You see that?

"Used for Jewish religious purposes."

Now, lets get into the less obvious things to you people (that SHOULD be obvious)

In the Harry Potter world, Goblins were depicted as bankers. In the movies, they were depicted with large, hooked noses and pointy ears, with sharp rat like teeth.

"But OP! Thats just what goblins are in fantasy! They are greedy and ugly!" Have you ever considered that old folklore and fairy tales could be antisemitic too? Antisemitism ran in Europe for CENTURIES, not just during WWII.

You know what else is an antisemitic jewish stereotype? Greedy for money, maybe bankers that rule things behind the scenes with big hooked noses, rat like looks, pointy ears and occasionally horns.

How are none of you seeing this.

Not only that, in one of the movies, inside the bank, a symbol that looks suspiciously close to the star of david is used.

Oh but yk..its just a game, I guess, according to y'all.

The game of course has other problems. Its world building is awful, the story is literally just a blood libel (which is also antisemitic), theres not enough content for the $60 its worth unlike other $60 games, and they legit named a trans women character fucking Sirona Ryan. Any money you give to this game will be given to JK Rowling because all of the programmers and developers already recieved their pay. Not only that, but their lead dev is just as awful if not moreso than JK Rowling.

"Its just a game! Look at the transgender people being killed in the streets!"

Maybe you'd be right if it werent for the fact Rowling literally has the status and money to fuck trans people over in the UK. And not only that, you are actively consuming antisemitic content and not caring for your jewish cousins around you because of your want for a nostalgia factor.

So no, Carol, its not just a game.

Buy it or pirate it if you want, but dont be surprised when transgender and jewish people alike dont trust you, because I certainly wont.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

it’s always amazing to watch adults discover how much changes when they don’t treat their perspective as the default human experience.

example: it’s been well-documented for a long time that urban spaces are more dangerous for kids than they are for adults. but common wisdom has generally held that that’s just the way things are because kids are inherently vulnerable. and because policymakers keep operating under the assumption that there’s nothing that can be done about kids being less safe in cities because that’s just how kids are, the danger they face in public spaces like streets and parks has been used as an excuse for marginalizing and regulating them out of those spaces.

(by the same people who then complain about kids being inside playing video games, I’d imagine.)

thing is, there’s no real evidence to suggest that kids are inescapably less safe in urban spaces. the causality goes the other way: urban spaces are safer for adults because they are designed for adults, by adults, with an adult perspective and experience in mind.

the city of Oslo, Norway recently started a campaign to take a new perspective on urban planning. quite literally a new perspective: they started looking at the city from 95 centimeters off the ground - the height of the average three-year-old. one of the first things they found was that, from that height, there were a lot of hedges blocking the view of roads from sidewalks. in other words, adults could see traffic, but kids couldn’t.

pop quiz: what does not being able to see a car coming do to the safety of pedestrians? the city of Oslo was literally designed to make it more dangerous for kids to cross the street. and no one realized it until they took the laughably small but simultaneously really significant step of…lowering their eye level by a couple of feet.

so Oslo started trimming all its decorative roadside vegetation down. and what was the first result they saw? kids in Oslo are walking to school more, because it’s safer to do it now. and that, as it turns out, reduces traffic around schools, making it even safer to walk to school.

so yeah. this is the kind of important real-life impact all that silly social justice nonsense of recognizing adultism as a massive structural problem can have. stop ignoring 1/3 of the population when you’re deciding what the world should look like and the world gets better a little bit at a time.

[cripple-punk-dad]

Ok so at this point I've had two people roll up to me in manual wheelchairs, well, one of them was somebody pushing somebody who was nonverbal at the time, but it still counts. They asked me why I had zip ties around my tires.

It's winter where I'm living and we have really bad snow. And the snow plow people are really bad at their jobs probably because there aren't snow plow people who clean sidewalks. As a solution I got to thinking about how I could increase the traction on my wheels. And the most redneck thing I could think of was taking a bunch of zip ties and tying them around my wheels. They last surprisingly long, and work surprisingly well. It's basically the same premise as chains for your tires during the winter.

I chose to space them out pretty evenly so there's about one for every spoke. You could probably do more or less depending on how many you want and how much traction you get but I wouldn't go more than three per spoke. I realize that it's a bit later in the winter, and I probably should have made a post about this sooner, but I came up with it about a week ago. So please share this, even if you're not disabled, because there are tons of people I know who are stuck in their houses because they can't get around in the snow. A pack of zip ties costs about $5, which compared to $200 knobby snow tires is a big save, and if you want to invest you could get colored zip ties.

[bugger897]

Who was the president when you started your blog?

Bush (2007-2009)

Obama (2009-2017)

Trump (2017-2021)

Biden (2021-present)

Voting ended onFeb 16, 2023

Please reblog so we can find out whose shoelaces got stolen the most

[2seat]

[exeunt-pursued-by-a-bear]

things I love about this

someone tried to ship a tortoise by mail

the tortoise did not like being shipped by mail

“live harmless reptile”

her face

the tortoise’s face

[captainamerica-inmiddleearth]

Thats a fucking snapping turtle

[online-ghost]

Her face says this is bad but not the worst thing she has seen

[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

[notahorseindisguise]

the "came back wrong" trope except like... they didnt. like this mad scientists wife died, and so he studied necromancy, brought her back, and she came back and it all worked. like she came back exactly the same as she was before with literally no difference. but the scientist guy is like "oh no... what have i done.... shes Different now!!!! she came back Wrong!!!!" and shes just like. chilling. reading a book. cooking dinner. shes just so so normal but in the guys mind hes like "oh shes soooo weird" but shes just normal

[mysticorset]

Peer reviewed tags from @somanyofthekids

[notahorseindisguise]

NO its a JOKE and YOU DONT GET IT. ITS NOT THAT DEEP

[hiveswap]

While she was dead he put his memory of her on such a high pedestal that she could never live up to it alive

[midnight-revolucion]

alternatively‚ she came back perfectly fine but he thinks she came back wrong‚ because the tragic reality is that he never actually knew his wife

[notahorseindisguise]

im going INSANE thats MY POST.

[marlinspirkhall]

It's your post but the journey to posting it changed it to such a degree that even its closest intimacies are now foreign to you. Sorry dude.

[bakedbakermom]

also wooden stakes kill vampires because trees need sunlight in order to grow so all that sun soaks into the wood and it's like being stabbed by a splintery sunbeam thanks for coming to my ted talk

[lierdumoa]

Well this solves the "would bamboo work since it's technically a grass and not a wood?" debate. Any photosynthesizing plant should work.