Well this changes the tone

[elizabethlee@metalhead.club]

@HailsandAles now I'm picturing it as a true crime podcast, complete with copious pauses.

[hailsandales@metalhead.club]

Today’s tale of horror is brought to you by Nord VPN

[lpl@metalhead.club]

@HailsandAles Does NordVPN also connect from the Far Realms where the Old Gods slumber?

[hailsandales@metalhead.club]

@lpl yes but it costs one soul

[lpl@metalhead.club]

@HailsandAles But what if I use the offercode FIRSTBORN25 ?

[letoofthedesert@rivals.space]

@HailsandAles The Tale of the Body Thief suddenly transposed to the 2020s

[Guest]

@HailsandAles chat, mash that like button if you've ever been to miami

[woe2you@beige.party]

@HailsandAles Similar vibe to that post that was doing the rounds a few days ago. https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english

[thebreadmonkey@beige.party]

@HailsandAles

The Vampire Lestat here. Now, this is a story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down. And I'd like to take a minute just sit right there I'll tell you how I became a creature who can fly through the air.

[kalos@dice.camp]

@TheBreadmonkey @HailsandAles

[elbeetoots@mastodon.nl]

@HailsandAles That's literally how OddBawz, a YouTuber I've been following for quite a few years, opens his War Thunder replay videos. With "a wee bit" of a Scottish accent. So now I can't "unhear" that when reading that introduction in the book.

Who knew Lestat was a Scottish YouTuber, eh?

[lunchb0x_b@mstdn.social]

@HailsandAles

I love this!

[jorsh@beige.party]

@TheBreadmonkey @HailsandAles

A) You stole that from me retroactively.
B) LMAO
C) Goddammit Ben.

[saltywizard@beige.party]

@HailsandAles

don't forget to like n subscribe!

[count_01@mastodon.social]

@HailsandAles But first, a word about Raid: Something Or Other, you're just going to skip this bit, I'll put the chapter marker in when it's done.

[jonnyt@mastodon.me.uk]

@saltywizard @HailsandAles Strike and imbibe.

[keab42@kind.social]

@HailsandAles I wonder if that works for Moby Dick too.

[androcat@toot.cat]

@HailsandAles Is that really how the book starts?

Yikes, kinda rough.

[keab42@kind.social]

@HailsandAles

Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube Channel. Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.

[morningsong@weirder.earth]

@HailsandAles Y'know

I'm not sure it changes the tone THAT much

Dude was just kinda always a youtuber. Well before youtube existed.