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Someone at an old job asked why I wanted to write up the meeting minutes for our team and I said 'i wanna control the narrative' and they were like 'what' and I pointed out that no one was gonna remember what we said in six months and so my interpretation of the meeting would dictate the assumed reality of what happened

"none of you ever send corrections when I offer the draft so y'all have consented to my version"

"we don't read that shit"

"you must trust me implicitly to create our shared reality that's so sweet"

That's how several coworkers decided I was a supervillain and how I learned several coworkers didn't understand record keeping as like a CONCEPT

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Care for a drink?

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the spirit is not willing and the flesh it is not so into the idea either

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to all my demotivated girls

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Welcome to the Mighty Nein Rewatch!!

Beginning on Sunday, February 2nd of 2025, we will be rewatching campaign two from start to finish, one episode per week!

(Yes, that's Groundhog Day for the US... obligatory "help, it's again" joke)

I'll do my part on this little sideblog by posting which episode we are on every Sunday

Please use the tag #nein again if you would like to join me on this ride so we can all follow along and chat about the episodes like we did the first time!

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your unreliable narrator fucking bit me

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I couldn't find the original post so I redrew it from memory for myself and anyone who needs to hear this

Very important message for LGBTQIA+ Americans today:

We gonna get through the next 4 years out of spite if nothing else ❤️

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LETS BRING BACK 1337 SPEAK 

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idk if this is a boomer take but I think ppl should make more of an effort to go see movies in theaters bc I couldn’t bear it if the movie theater industry went down and the only way to watch movies was through streaming I’m not strong enough

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Hate how lighting a candle does wonders to my mood. Like wowwww. Grug like fire? Grug not sad anymore because Fire in Cave? Wow. Real predictable of Grug.

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Maybe I already do.

—Sue Zhao, Dialogues on Love #4 | insp.

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I’m so emotional about dinosaur stuffed animals,,, there are these creatures, extinct long before any of us were alive, but we found their bones and their eggs and their footprints. And we made drawings and models of what they could’ve looked like. And we made them into stuffed animals so we could hold them. We made them soft so we could love them. I’m sobbing

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Something that I am struck by, as we wait to walk into Vasselheim, is that so much emphasis has been placed upon this being a change in the status quo, to the point that it feels like the narrative has pushed to this conclusion only because that emphasis demanded it, but at the same time, everything else said has suggested that nothing will change.

Matt has specified on more than one occasion that healing magic won't disappear because it's not technically of the gods, and that clerics and paladins can continue on as they were because the magic doesn't come from their patron but the conviction of their beliefs. The gods may be gone in one respect or another, but these statements suggest that faith is not contingent on a real figure responding to it, even when magic is involved, and though some religious figures and sects may opt to let go of it, many will not. The rest of Exandria will not be harmed if Predathos is let loose in a diminished form to chase its next prey, because we've confirmed it does not even see Exandria. Though there are other massive impacts upon status quo normal in the world—Ruidians now being known and present, unprecedented political alliances, shifts in longstanding ruling institutions like the Cerberus Assembly—these are not the changes that the narrative has hammered so hard upon; in fact, it's barely lingered there, and instead swept those concerns under the rug. Exandria itself will largely continue to turn as it always has, and the lives of those upon it, in this regard, will not materially change.

There are less kind interpretations to be made about what kind of ending the Hells are walking into, but these frustrations lie a level above even that, at the narrative and structural level. For all the talk of a change in the status quo, it feels as though the stagnation the Hells have exhibited for this entire campaign has infected the creative intent.

At every turn, we've been reassured that this change will not make an impact on the world in even the ways that it seems it most should, in a sense that feels almost precious about Exandria. And it is not unreasonable that the table and especially Matt are precious about it! But it is fundamentally at odds with the force the narrative is attempting to exert, at this point culminating in what I can best describe as unstoppable force meets immovable object, and the result is a lack of narrative commitment in change—any change—that the ending desperately needs to feel as though it's found any purchase in its own world.

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ok but does YOUR bbeg live in a tower that smells like incense and vanilla

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“I am Brontë Wyvernwind, only son of the Silken Squall”