#(potato potahto)

[risingsunfish]

Happy birthday, Claude and Pasha— now it's time to answer some questions! This one came from /u/HB_DS2013 on Reddit, getting straight to today's hard-hitting Pasha issues— and, perhaps unintentionally, prompting a sequel to Pasha’s post-April Fool’s blues here on Tumblr.

Stay tuned for more responses! (Still taking questions BTW!)

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[oeuvrinarydurian]

It’s Morsestache Monday!

I love this scene.

The Morsestache is lush, vibrant and present, glowing in the fluorescent luminescence of his bunker and the vending machines. It’s a standalone character, part Tom Selleck, part Sean Connery, part Sweeney-era, all 1969.

The rest of Morse is tentative and shy, almost childlike, even a little apprehensive-not quite sure what response he is going to receive at this overture to resume their collaboration. 

For his part, Thursday is feeling his years, is embarrassed to find himself benched and demoted in front of his young protégé, and doesn’t quite know how to lead him with these debits on his ledger sheet.

Where you might expect at least a manly handshake, and a shoulder clap to reestablish connection, instead, you have a scene shot with a lot of vertical lines, indicating separation, distance, isolation, and a somewhat truncated, non-linear flow of conversation between them, with awkward gaps and silences, and unnatural speech patterns for them both. Fred doesn’t entirely turn around, and Morse hasn’t fully emerged from his cave. He reminds me of an eel, ready to dart back under a rock. We don’t see them truly face each other. They’re both protecting themselves.

It’s bittersweet and painfully awkward, as the two of them try to navigate this new reality without hurting the other or harkening back to better times which surely both of them miss terribly. 

[tilbageidanmark]

(All the other memes I made..)

[sexydreamgirl]

hi hera, i want to manifest my dream life and i know a few details of it and a general idea which is just being happy and successful, but would my subcon know exactly what to give me or do i have to get specific?

Your subconscious mind isn't separate from you. It is you. You don't need to get into the specifics if you yourself know what you want. Just focus on the end.

[blue-lock-rocky]

im taking a German course for beginners and our prof has this potato-shaped figurine that she calls ‘Kartoffelmann’. someone pointed out that Kartoffel (or actually, kartof?) is also potato in Bulgarian. I was hesitant to mention that Polish, too, has kartofel.

and then I remembered ziemniak

my mind wasn’t lying to me when i thought kartofel is potato, but also, potato is ziemniak

[england-would-fall]

you call it stress eating leftover stovetop stuffing directly from the pot

i call it soothing my poorly regulated emotions with comforting sensory input

[redglassbird]

Oh you know. Potato potahto. Shakira Shakara.

[flexitarianfoodie]

Credit: zestylimes.com/south-african-potato-pudding/

Traditional South African Potato Pudding

Chances are, you've never tasted a potato dessert quite like this!

[genderfluidlemon]

potato tithe

🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔

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[mayapapaya33]

Woof, The Wildmother just accidentally melted Orym's brain a little trying to explain Predathos to him so I think past me was right lmfao. She was like, oh shit, my bad, come here honey! So sorry, the eldritch monstrosity from beyond the stars is gone, you're ok, it's fine, the hunger's gone, you can stop screaming. Here, have a visit from your dead husband.

Yes she also asked for help and wanted them to work together, but I don't see it automatically as "manipulation", more persuasion combined with, oops I just broke his brain a little, he deserves a treat. I saw someone describe it as like when you accidentally step on a cat's tail and feel that instant regret and remorse and that seems pretty accurate to me.

Also there's been a bit in here about life maybe existing before the Gods arrived, or nature existing, and the Gods shaping mortals from the preexisting life, or reincarnation being the previous way of life etc. Any way you care to slice it, whether mortals existed before the Gods got here or not, I still think if the Gods die without anyone to take over their domain like the Matron did, it's going to have some radical effects to the cosmos we and the players are NOT prepared for. Matt was going to let Caleb go back and try to change the past, who knows how successfully well or dreadfully wrong it would have gone. Point being, He's clearly thought about the ramifications of time travel and branching universes and stuff because otherwise why would he allow a character to fuck around with time travel in game. So a God dying and it having ripple effects up the timestream is totally something I can see happening. And Matt Mercer is actually smart enough and detail oriented enough to pull it off with style. Unlike a lot of movies and shows that annoy me with their shoddy time travel mechanics lol. I'm sure Matt has a tome of lore on the subject hidden away somewhere. Like Imagine if the Wildmother N E V E R existed... No Caduceus. Not as we know him. He would be a different person, if he was ever born at all. If the Archheart dies, does he take his gift of Arcane Magic with him in death? Think about it. The Implications!!!

I'm about half an hour into the third episode, and I see a bunch of people in the chat saying that the Gods never explain themselves, which sure, could be a valid criticism. But they have said that destroying a God is different than replacing them via ascending because their mantel of power won't be upheld. The Matron killed/replaced/erased? the previous God of Death and took their place. It has been heavily implied/ basically outright stated that the Factorum Malleus (God Hammer) would not just be the end of the Gods, but the end of their domain which does NOT just affect said God, but also all mortals, who are their creations. The phrase "never have existed" has been thrown around a couple times. If the Gods never existed, with no one to take their place in the weave, guess what, neither has anyone on Exandria, ever. That's my read on the situation anyway. Cause and Effect: Gods create mortals, no Gods ever, no mortals ever. To use a pertinent quote, it's very Wibbly wobbly timey wimey.

They also said that there are things beyond our mortal comprehension that exist outside this world that would take the combined might of ALL the Gods to defeat. Now, that "beyond mortal comprehension" bit can come off as condescending for sure, but what if it's literally just the truth and they genuinely can't explain it to us more specifically than a general outline. Go back to the beginning of episode 1 of Downfall, we couldn't even comprehend their NAMES. They were/are impossible fractal patterns and balls of light and sensation and sound and thunder and fire. Imagine all the other things that we just physically cannot process.

Imagine trying to teach quantum physics to an ant. You like the ant, the ant is really cool, and charming, and fun to be around. You love the ant and think it's great. You're very proud of the ant's achievements. The ant has impressed you with its skills. You want to protect the ant and you also want to protect yourself. You aren't trying to be a dick. But it's still an ant. How ARE the Gods supposed to translate the untranslatable Eldridge Monstrosities that lurk beyond? The things that, were you to grasp a fraction of their reality, they would break your mind and leave you a drooling mess on the floor, clawing at your head with madness. Other than by saying; 'look, there are layers here you don't understand, and also threats that require all of us to combat. Shit's complicated, sorry.'

This is all in addition to the "the Gods are a fractured family and would rather put each other in jail than murder each other" thing. Which honestly, that's fair. If someone I loved went off the deep end and started killing innocent people, I too would rather put them in jail than murder them. And many things can be true at the same time. They can both long to be a family again AND have legitimate/strategic reason for not killing each other. Not wanting to kill your family doesn't automatically make you a liar or a bad person lol. The prime deities DID choose saving mortals over getting along at thanksgiving with the betrayers and a lot of people seem to be forgetting that. From what I can tell, it would have been super easy for them to be like, 'ah fuck it, fine. Have it your way bro. Smush the ants if it means that much to you.' But they didn't.

[thatsbelievable]

[crow-quet]

Might I suggest Lunacord fan child/next gen?

what a fun one !!! :D getting to mix and match everything was an enjoyable little puzzle for me :3c

[miscellaneous-geekery]

Of course, the real answer is that both are correct. But according to Wiktionary, they are only homophones "in non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger."

Which is to say, if you have an accent like a British RP, Bostonian, a traditional New York accent, or other accents that don't pronounce most of their "R"s, you are likely to pronounce the two the same way.

Most of the rest of the English speaking world will say they are two very different sounds.

But don't take my word for it. The Cambridge Dictionary site lists both as valid.

US  /flɑː/ UK  /flɔː/

US  /flɔːr/ UK  /flɔːr/

[stealingyourbones]

Short DPXDC Prompts #716

Someone mistakes Deadman and Danny while hella sleep deprived