#Fuck D&D

[tru-neutral03]

This randomly came to my head, so you all have to suffer with me. I just realized that Daenerys was the first person in the entire show we saw getting sexually abused (by a man) as well as the last person we see die (by a man).

Yeah I'm gonna go to bed and scream in a pillow.

[sleepymick]

just tried for like, the billionth time to talk to my brother and my mom both about how “targaryens are mad” is propaganda both in universe, and in the fandom, and my brother literally got up, and left the room bc i wouldn’t let him just shut me down and not interrupt me while im trying to get to my point

[allovesthings]

Sometimes, I think about the fact that D&D looked at Arya,a character who was inspired, according to GRRM, by feminist women he knew of the 60s and 70s and turned her into mysogynistic version of herself and I want to scream.

[qyburnsghost]

YOU KNOW WHAT MAKES MY ASS ITCH!?

By Season 8 fucking up everything, it makes Daenerys entire journey worthless , all her sacrifices and prophecies and magical things she went through worthless! Her being necessary to come to Westeros to help stop the Night King worthless!! Now people can look back on her as they do all Targaryens: insane blood thirsty incest nepobabies conquers, who just want fight and burn everything for power 😭

(I’m thinking about this cause @aemondsbabygirl pointed out Daenerys murdered died 5 years ago today)

[lagosbratzdoll]

bran is my second favourite asoiaf starkling and the way that #those men butchered him keeps me up at night. they took my sweet boy and turned him into a monosyllabic, inhuman, immortal god-king. and the fact that his siblings don't care. meera doesn't care. nobody really grieves for the boy who wanted to be a knight. the boy who wanted to repay the liddle. the boy who was sick of frogs. the boy who loved his siblings and missed them. the boy who put aside his desires to learn and grow. the boy who tried his best to be the stark in winterfell. the boy who kept forgetting to mark the tree. nobody grieved for the boy.

[whitedragonwolf4961]

Every time I get a reminder of that wretched season I like imagining doing this to D&D the lazy sloppy hacks. And also to those dumb idiots who say Dany “is going mad in the books and it’s gonna make sense”. I see too many of those comments and honestly? Those people are as stupid as the ones Tuco Salamanca calls “biznatch”

[lookingforasphodels]

Today marks four years since Daenerys was murdered. It seems like yesterday when I watched that disgusting episode.

[teasugarsalt]

No, listen. What if I told you that there's a hobby centered around playing pretend with rules, and the single most popular game in the hobby by an enormous margin is so poorly balanced that players consider it reasonable to pay one of the players to participate outside of a therapeutic or educational context?

[darksister8]

[qyburnsghost]

She’s such a spirit animal, she can make the best of any situation to her advantage without cruelty or force . One of my fav characters. I was upset when she died but glad the blood suckers didn’t get a hold of her by s8

I remember the first time I saw you in the throne room. I’d never seen anyone who looked so unhappy. I want very much for you to be happy, Sansa, and so does my grandmother. You would have been happy at Highgarden. But women in our position must make the best of our circumstances.

[riacte]

not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

[conceptofjoy]

big fan of characters who have it all under control when theyre put in situations but no idea how to be like a regular guy doing regular stuff when all is said and done.

[fantasticcrayon]

HBO killed ASOIAF pass it on

And GRRM if/when he doesn't write the rest of the books I won't remember him as a revered author who unfortunately left his work unfinished

But as a 🤡 scam artist

[froggyishere]

THIS!!

now i do think that d&d 5e is a bad ttrpg, like, generally. i would never recommend it to anybody in a world where pathfinder 2e exists with the sole design philosophy of 'doing d&d's thing but without 40 years of useless accumulated cruft and grandfathered in makework'. but i think that it's more specifically uniquely bad as someone's first TTRPG, a role into which it's basically been forced to by its cultural hegemony over the space

[clownboybebop]

if you’re ever in the position to choose between giving up and accepting defeat, and actually trying to fight the ancient unkillable god that is about to peel apart reality like a string cheese, remember this: scientifically speaking, you might as well give it a shot!

1.there were trees at the beginning of the world! there were trees so long ago that they predate bacteria that causes wood to decay. when a tree fell, it would lie there in stasis and there wasn’t any way of breaking down wood xylem on a molecular level in that way.

2. it seems obvious to say, but wood eating bacteria are literally incapable of comprehending what they’re breaking down. It’s just not information conciously available to a microorganism. they don’t know what they’re deconstructing, where it came from, bacteria have no way to even fathom the existence of a tree as a concept.

3. Regardless of the facts above, the world we live in today is a world where wood inevitably decomposes

it is worth fighting the unkillable god no matter how pointless it seems. it is worth taking the risk even though youre trying to accomplish something impossible. the reality in which you live was also once reality in which trees didn’t rot. You live in a reality that allows for existence before the possibility of destruction. you live in a reality where uncomprehending microbes break down matter that is so far beyond the scope of their comprehension that it feels comical to specify something so obvious. you live in a reality that occasionally allows unshakeable physical truths to be altered with no warning.

It is worth fighting the unkillable god because trees are so old they predate the source of their destruction, and it still did not spare them. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because bacteria rots unthinkingly, because there is room in our cosmos for destruction without comprehension on the part of the destroyer. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because now and then reality retracts the promise of immortality without fanfare, and when that happens there is no mercy for the ancient. the unmaking is not softer for the desecrators ignorance. for all things, existence is endless until the exact point where it ends.

so you might as well try to kill the unkillable god. it doesn’t seem likely, but at the beginning of the world, trees didn’t rot. so you never know! you never know

[crossguild]

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