#scottishness

[screampotato]

Sometimes it is very fun to be Scottish, driving across a foggy bog at night discussing kelpies, skelpies and bogles.

[heatherandthistles]

I truly love being Scottish! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[anonblaize]

Glasgow’s West End in October

[scotianostra]

Tossing the Caber

Local lad Stuart Anderson shows how its done  at Blair Atholl Highland games

[ayeforscotland]

Being Scottish is prefacing expressing that you enjoyed the film Braveheart by saying that you understand it’s historically inaccurate.

[pog-mo-bhlog]

My Dad’s only just learnt that the national animal is a unicorn. His whole life he’s assumed it was the lion rampant, which is actually the symbol of the Scottish crown, and now he’s terrified that folk will see his tattoo and think he’s a monarchist.

[mekanikaltrifle]

One thing I adore about Starfield that I'm in turn disappointed by in Baldur's Gate 3 is how either game treats Scottish accents and so on.

Idk if it's cause BG3 is fantasy, but the one Scottish sounding character I've heard has a very overdone, hammy, nasty sounding voice and belongs only to a badguy, while the English and Irish voices are (mostly) natural and even comfy or friendly sounding. There's no option to have a Scottish voice for your player character. They can only be English.

Starfield meanwhile could have gone the route of ridiculous hammy voices, given Bethesda's previous habits... But they didn't. Scots appear as regular people, just casually, same as Irish and Australian and American and English and so many more, and they're even allowed to sing and sound pretty. Getting that sea shanty lad in really helped there, he has a fucking beautiful voice. And that is literally the only time I've ever heard a Scottish voice be allowed to sound pretty in anything, especially video games on the rare occasions we turn up.

It's incredible, and baffling.