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Me when I listen to the newest dndads episode a day late cus I had literally zero time 😎

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POV: five weird teens show up at your house asking for candy... wdyd?

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Cannot stop thinking about him (fictionalized ttrpg npc version of a 19th century celebrity)

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Thinking about Oscar Wilde. Like always.

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Reblog to let your followers know that despite your current obsession your previous obsessions still exist and are simply lying dormant until they awaken and strike again

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I have mommy issues but it still made me cry :D

Big smile on my face nearly every episode, my face started to hurt after a bit. ^^'

These designs are heavily inspired by @caroodraws animatics. They're so good and single-handedly convinced me to listen to the show. :]

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WHAT IS A COCKTAIL DRESS

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Hey yeah this is my silly little dnd podcast we’ve got some goofy little characters you know mostly just jokes in a nice story told throughout the season. Oh what that’s? Yeah that’s Beth May. Yeah no you’re about to have your heart ripped out of your chest and violently stomped on as she delivers the most heartbreaking character background and performance you have ever heard. Yeah no and you’re gonna enjoy it.

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Happy bday 💋 Oscar!

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So there's this famous quote from Trevor Noah:

“The way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women. He's attracted to independent women. "He's like an exotic bird collector," she said. "He only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a cage.”

And if that isn't Trucker Trout to a T.

Trudy was studying physical education, she wanted to start women's sports teams. That is not a traditional woman, especially for the time. By their standards she was probably very much a tomboy, maybe even to the extent of being described as mannish. But that's the woman Tucker decided he wanted, the woman he had have, to own. To beat (figuratively, as far as we know) into submission and mold into the perfect housewife. Why? Well to prove he could I suppose.

And when she left him, oh that had to hurt. The woman that he had so meticulously chained to his side deciding he wasn't worth being with and having the nerve to do something about it. Even the son he gave her, the son that, according to her (or at least the part of her that is Rosie), was her crowing achievement, wasn't enough to keep her with him.

She leaves him, and she shouldn't survive. A single woman all on her own with no friends or family to speak of in the 1950's? She should've come crawling back to him within days, throwing herself at his mercy, begging him to take her back. But she doesn't — she flourishes. She makes her way to California, gets a job, starts a relationship, makes a life for herself, leaves him in the dust.

Tucker could have just counted his losses, made the best of the situation and moved on. He's a strong man, strong enough to carry a robot in his arms up a hiking path and into a mine. He's incredibly intelligent and has a steady government job. He's a catch. He could easily find himself a new woman eager to fulfill the role of doting wife and stepmother. But he doesn't want just any woman, he wants Trudy.

So he tracks her down, gets all the way to California. He lures her back to his hotel, not even for him, but with the promise of info on the son she left behind, likely another blow to his ego. And he kidnaps her. Drags her all the way back to Peachyville. Takes her apart. Literally molds her into his perfect bride. Less of a modern day Prometheus and more of a modern day Pygmalion with his Galatea. She is made of steel rather marble, and he calls on science rather than the goddess Aphrodite to bring her to life. But it's the same idea, isn't it?

He didn't need to do that, did he? We've seen Lil' Tuck and Tiffany, he can clearly create near-perfect facsimiles of life. He could have just as easily made himself a new Trudy from scratch, without all the messiness of kidnapping the original and actually using her brain. He could have made a version of her that would never truly gain sentience, never disobey, never step out of line, always love and care and nurture. If anything, he'd at last never have to risk anything as potentially scandalous as being seen dropping his wife down a mineshaft.

But it wouldn't be the same, would it? It wouldn't be the woman he once conquered, the woman he caged, the woman bested him and did in the end manage to escape. She got the last laugh.

And Tucker Trout strikes me as a sore loser.

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glenn close trial arc jumpscare (im still not over it)

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Chai tea bag + lil but of brown sugar + apple cider packet + 16 oz. mug of hot but not quite boiling water

it will not Fix You but like. maybe. maybe.

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I genuinely honestly believed that Tucker was living out some sick twisted version of grief after his wife died in a tragic accident when it turns out he’s actually just a terrible horrible unredeemable monster who should die immediately

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dnd podcasts being the primary media you enjoy is crazy because you’ll be on the verge of tears listening to one of the most heart-wrenching and cathartic scenes ever and the character it’s about is literally called swag daniels

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Charybdis was a song that I didn’t think I would enjoy as much as I did, but it’s constantly getting stuck in my head. Especially because it feels like the first time in a while where we see Odysseus using wit and strategy to get out of a situation rather than violence, which is incredibly fun to listen to.

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i love you female characters who make selfish choices they know will be bad for everyone. i love you female characters who think they're making the right choice but make things worse. i love you female characters who are making the right choice but noone else understands it.

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"The wet pickle guy is trudys sister???"

Me, who hasn't seen the episode yet: is this a god their shitpost or is dndads just being batshit again. It's hard to tell.

Everything I do is god-tier