#I don't know how to liveblog

[thewertsearch]

You make a cautious motion toward a beckoning EXIT KNOB, when suddenly THE SAME WILD CHARACTER-SELECT SCREEN REAPPROACHES NONTHREATENINGLY!

I think we've got to go with Jake, unless one of the blondes is secretly clickable this time around.

...nope, doesn't look like it. Back to English class, then!

What was it you were up to? Oh right, you were going to pick these dang guns up off the floor when you were interrupted by some fleeting imperceptible thought. You kind of space out sometimes.

A reference to Jake's 'spacing out' feels like it could be a hint that he's the session's new Space Player. I guess he is living beside the Forge, but I still think there's currently more evidence for Doom.

You pick up your TWIN M9 BERETTAS, weapons of choice in an absurd arsenal inherited from an eccentric old woman.

I could absolutely see Grandma Jade rocking the Sassacre Slayers. She is a skilled markswoman, after all, and we've seen her abilities in action a couple of times.

You think your bed is some sort of electronic gadget. You're pretty sure those bedpost globes are supposed to glow like light bulbs under certain circumstances. But you've never been able to figure out what purpose it serves. Just more mysterious junk inherited from your eclectic GRANDMA.

No Dreambot for Jake, I take it. Guess that makes sense - that bot was Crockertech, and Grandma Jade didn't inherit the company like Grandpa Jake did.

He's still got an upgraded bed, though, so my guess is that Jade attempted the Dreambot project, but simply didn't have the resources to complete it.

She also gave you these bedsheets when you were very young, which you adore, but only for sentimental reasons.

It looks like the only lusi depicted on Jake's bedsheets are the twelve we're already familiar with. That catlike silhouette in the center-bottom is a slight question mark, but I think it's supposed to be a very skinny Pounce De Leon.

I was going to ask where Jade got a bedsheet which references the Alternian Players, but then I remembered that her adoptive mother was an Alternian Player. Jade probably swiped some of her things on the way out, the cheeky minx.

You aren't too keen on monsters.

Yeesh, the Medium's not going to be much fun for our boy.

You'd expect an adventure-lover to be a lot more enthusiastic about fighting monsters, but I guess we all have our phobias. At least he has a ranged weapon, so he won't have to get up close and personal with his Underlings.

A lot of these posters are fairly transparent references to Lord English. The Mummy alludes to the weird sarcophagus he summoned in his Intermission, Weekend at Bernie's is about corpse-puppeting someone like he did with Scratch, and The Incredible Hulk explains itself.

Special shout out to this poster, though, which I'm pretty sure is literally titled Time-Travelling Demon. Subtle!

[psychopomp-namine]

the way everyone has a dislike in their profile that actually says something integral about their character. lu guang doesn't like plans getting messed up, cheng xiaoshi dislikes loneliness, xia fei with owing favors, vein with lying...

and then you have liu xiao, who dislikes... cilantro. and fish mint.

(shakes fist) (putting him in a glass jar and shaking vigorously) learn to be vulnerable!! tell me something about yourself!! I guess him liking movies lines up with the theater metaphors, and there's him liking chess, but that. doesn't count methinks

[arthursfuckinghat]

This might sound really odd but meeting Roger Clark has weirdly helped with the underlying grief you have for Arthur and his story like naw Arthur's not dead I met him the other day he's fine dw

[marshmallowgoop]

No matter how special it is, a kid's lunch is still just a kid's lunch.

I dunno, I liked "The Genius Restaurant" (Episode 1,089).

Happy (belated) birthday, Jimjam.

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[eerna]

Reading Hadestown criticisms is funny bc they're always like "this is a bad show because WHY are they CONSTANTLY talking about a TRAIN but WE NEVER SEE A SINGLE TRAIN"

[strink-family]

Dallon keeping it real

[travalerray]

Li Lianhua: Expert at bs

[anachronistic-falsehood]

mouse: (to bad) well you're a demon...

cellbit: WAIT you're a demon??? oh that makes so much sense!!!!

bad: no no no no, it's a case of mistaken identity!!!

mouse: right right he's NOT a demon!! he just uses lotion, high quality lotion

cellbit: oh ok

[aparticularbandit]

I like that this era and the set of three games that ends the era ends with Vax and Keyleth.

But I'm not sure that I like that a campaign meant to be about Bell's Hells ends with them.

I don't know if that makes sense - and I know it doesn't matter if I like it or not because it's for them and they share it with us!

I just.

Hm.

[pinkestpurple]

is so funny that Robbie gets nervous when liev'el appear, is Liam, again

[turnaboutstar]

he's talking about apollo like oopsie almost forgot my employee who was injured in a courtroom bombing

[psychopomp-namine]

fixation so real I am about to enter my "the curtains are fucking blue" era of link click analysis, but I need yingdu to finish airing first before I can even feel confident about why I think every season of link click features someone wearing a yellow and blue jacket (i.e. the way cheng xiaoshi, the twins, and xia fei are foils of each other and how their character arcs when they wear the yellow and blue jacket are a small scale representation of the overarching story of shiguang, which are represented by, you guessed it, yellow and blue)

(and of course, the way shiguang, xiaochen, and veifei are foils of each other, etc etc)

but anyway. I'll be patient and wait for yingdu to finish or else I'm probably just clowning around here. but I am thinking many thoughts and have written many words in the drafts.

[arthursfuckinghat]

So, turns out if you black out from being drunk, Arthur will actually bleed from where he collapsed and hit his head on the ground

[000marie198]

...

Permission to smack Sonic over the head?

[heartcircus]

here's what kab had to say abt her relationship with zam earlier btw

Kab: ...Because everyone I've trusted over the last four days has stabbed me in the back, viciously- Bacon: Except ClownPierce. Kab: Yeah, except ClownPierce but I don't trust him either. Bacon: [overlapping] and Zam. Kab: No, Zam has as well. But- Bacon: What'd he do to you? Kab: Um, Zam and I have a complicated relationship. He's very much... I don't know if Zam is really- Zam and I are like frenemies, I think. So, I don't trust him at all, equally as I don't trust ClownPierce. Trust, I've discovered, is not something you should give out so freely, so I'm, uh, being more careful with it.

[marenwithanm]

I'm watching my brother start playing Wind Waker, and I forgot how often Link gets slammed into walls?? I remembered the forsaken fortress, but then when the tower of gods rises he just gets flung into the stratosphere?? Not to mention him getting punched in the face by ganondorf like 5 times. The poor boy is lucky he doesn't have a concussion, or at the very least a broken nose!