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Baby Lore: Good Gift For Mother
Note from the writer:
At the time of writing this, my son is about 19 months old. For the entirety of his life, I have voiced him in a terrible Russian accent. At the time of his birth, I had been listening to a Dungeons & Dragons “actual play” podcast by several CollegeHumor/Dropout alumni called Not Another D&D Podcast. At that point in the podcast, the hosts’ characters were in a frozen northern Dwarven city, and the DM used a Russian accent for the northern dwarves. I’m pretty sure that’s where this stemmed from.
I have created a deep lore for Jamie’s version of Russia. It is entirely incorrect and unfactual and probably highly offensive to any actual Russians (eg. there is a strong focus on the noble potato), but my near-constant prattling stream-of-consciousness narration of his day as a Russian