discovered an amazing youtube channel called real horror, who does history and crime videos. she only has a few videos on her channel, as she has a full time museum job, and she researches, script writes, narrates, and edits the videos all herself, but she's incredible. her voice is so soothing and smooth, and she is super respectful of any topic she talks about, always getting permission from relatives, or contacting the relevant people to get the facts (if they wish to give them).

but what drives me insane, and seemingly her from a few comments i have seen her make, is that a ton of the comments praise the work of 'the channel creator', but presume that she, the narrator, is not the channel creator and script writer. the say stuff like 'your videos are amazing! and i love the voice of the narrator', and just very clearly viewing the channel owner and narrator as two distinct entities. when she clarifies that it's all her, they're surprised.

you NEVER see this on faceless narrated male documentary style channels. it's presumed until otherwise said that they are the ones who also researched and wrote everything. but for her, they immediately think that a man is running the channel, and she's just a hired voice for a script a man wrote. it's wild to see.

I wish I was joking when I said I spent an hour going through your acc to find all the tsp content.

I mean,,,,you could have used this thingy...unless you mean just. Scrolling through all my tsp content. then damn

me, at any given moment, under my breath: *john voice* arthur. arthur. ARthur. arthur. ARTHUR.

[ID: the prophecy from percy jackson and the lightning thief transcribed into tengwar, tolkien’s elvish script. the prophecy reads:

you shall go west and face the god who has turned / you shall find what was stolen and see it safely returned / you shall be betrayed by one who calls you [a] friend / and you shall fail to save what matters most in the end.

/end ID]

ipa transcription + rambling under the cut!

this was originally practice for my phonemic english tengwar mode with inherent vowel schwa but it got. a bit out of hand lol. tenchnically the mode’s still under construction but that’s mostly bc I’m running into issues with the guide I wrote for it (mainly font & accessibility issues)

both the ipa and the tengwar transcripts are based on how I personally would pronounce the prophecy if I were to read it aloud slowly & carefully. which is to say I don’t sound that much like a stuck up ass irl lmao. the ipa is mostly based on geoff lindsey’s transcription guidelines for standard southern british, with a few adjustments. also I didn’t use stress markers in monosyllabic words bc I’m lazy

ipa (so warning for screenreaders):

jʉw ʃal gəw wɛst and fejs ðə gɔd hʉw has təːnd | jʉw ʃal fɑjnd wɔt wɔs stə́wlən and sij ɪt séjflij rɪtə́ːnd | jʉw ʃal bij bətréjd bɑj wʌn hʉw koːlz jʉw frɛnd | and jʉw ʃal fejl tʉw sejv wɔt mátəz məwst ɪn ðij ɛnd

I love that Ketheric is, iirc, the only American in bg3. Like in the real world I assume they just wanted J.K. Simmons even though he couldn't do a British accent, but I love to bend over backward trying to figure out what it could possibility signify in-universe. like. he's from space. not to be confused with the astral sea, which is space but british.

A special request from @thelaststarman ! "Pratt Out Of Hell" from Spitting Image Series 15 Episode 6. A parody of the Meatloaf classic, "Bat Out Of Hell"

dgs fics are crazy they get me out here grabbing my nonexistent prosecutor's badge and going "guh...!" as i take psychic damage from the beautiful angst people write like brooooo

JUST watched a video about the Afton's and I really love their British accents, but I've seen people dislike it so.... I'm curious. Reblogs or comments welcomed, I really want to know people's thoughts on this!

Song of the Day: December 23

"Agamemnon" by The Teacups

Atp trolls is competing with sonic to take my top interest

Im playing BG3 and That Scene with Mizora just happened, and fuck, Wyll's hot now

(he was so vanilla before, but between Shadowheart, Gale, Karlach and now Wyll I have reached new levels of Bisexual Panic)

listening to the patched-in oxenfree anomalies for the first time since playing lost signals. having context for all of this...man.

Félix is Gabriel's mind in Adrien's body but British

my tist horror stories aren't like insane but my first tist would have me in a call for the whole day and i'd be in trance for like 90% of it. which sounds hot and all until i mention that it was at the expense of normal human things like eating and sleeping. that and i stayed in my room so much that my family got concerned and my friends wondered why i was always with him and never around. and then when they pointed this out to me and i was like oh shit, i tried to leave to hang out with other friends and then he tried to guilt trip and manipulate me and make me feel bad LMAO

was that a Very Special Episode about self esteem or smth howd u get 2 characters having a crisis of faith in one episode...

“Pete’s laughing because he thinks I’m going on kvetching about the traffic. ... It’s important for Silverstone to know, for it to not be a surprise. It’s like, ‘Oooh, it’s a surprise! Oh, there’s a grand prix here! Oh, we should’ve done something about the traffic.’”

→ Ted Kravitz spends two minutes kvetching about traffic during the Qualifying Notebook at the 2022 British Grand Prix.