#MOHAN D.

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@alwaysif // mohan

"You can't talk like that! You can't say that stuff about people, good people."

He could be saying something innocuous but vaguely unkind, or he could be revealing his true colors to someone who always thought the best of him.

She wishes, intensely, for a knife.

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Beck himself doesn't really care about Mohan's irritability, even though it seems to radiate off of the other man in thick, noxious waves. Beck hasn't done anything wrong, as far as he's concerned - and, more importantly, as far as Ellie seems to be concerned.

She likes it. Blood feels hot and loud and heavy between his ears. His jaw sets; he looks uncharacteristically furious.

"I know he can't do anything," Beck says, cock as ever. He thinks about Rudy and Valen and Fern and Saya and Lake. They are the only reason he does not say Because if he did anything to you to hurt you or make you unhappy I think I would have to kill him.

His glowing eyes return to brown.

"Don't talk to me like that." The intonation reminds him of Dick Hayes. "If you don't want me to be ah-gress-ive."

Ah, that explains it. Explains why Mohan's skin been so goddamn itchy. He got scared there, literally, for a second that Ellie got abilities somehow. He's not scared of her little detective ways, because she can be easily disposed of. He sighs, the stress rolling off his shoulders.

He raises his hands to placate Beck, setting Ellie free. "No need to get agressive. We were simply talking. She likes it."

"I don't." She spats back and reaches for Beck's hand, worry settles on her face. Under different circumstances, she's be so flattered he's standing up for her, but she thinks Mohan's far too dangerous for that. "It's alright, Beck, it's fine. He can't do anything." She and Mohan exchange a glance. They know something Beck doesn't.

"Your glowing eyes are pretty impressive." Mohan says, tone between mockery and praise.

[ruleof3bobby]

THE MARVELS (2023) GRADE: D

Definitely forgettable. Not s strong idea to introduce TV char's. She deserved her own storyline. Huge drop-off from the 1st movie. No idea why they will tie in a Disney show so heavily sowed into the script.

[rainparadefromhell]

Found this in my notes app. I think I responded to someone on Reddit with this a long time ago but it made me kinda emo all over again so here ya go.

It became really clear to me early on in s1 that the show was intentionally using the same language for Mohan and Ben (both calling Devi a firecracker) as well as telling her she deserves better (Mohan in her dreams and Ben in the bathroom).

But nhie also tells us that Ben and Nalini are similar. In 2x02, Nalini visits her parents as they were supposed to go look for apartments (bc they were supposed to move to India) and her mom totally blows her off for some wedding. Nalini doesn't even seem surprised and we are led to believe that her parents kind of neglected her as well. It's the reason why Nalini was touched by Ben crying in her office in s1 - she understood.

It's genius writing really! It tells us really subtly that these three people that are so good for Devi, that impact her life more than the other characters share many qualities - they are compassionate, understanding and push her to do better and love herself more. The whole journey of the show is Devi remembering her father's words and this time (season 3) truly seeing and believing them. It's why she improves so much. The core message is to surround yourself with people that make you feel like being you is enough. And that is why I will personally sob uncontrollably when it ends. It's a simple premise but so needed for every young person to be reminded of.

[bollywoodirect]

Producer D. Rama Naidu, #SmitaPatil, #KishoreKumar, #BappiLahiri and Director K. Murali Mohan Rao during the recording session of the film 'Dilwaala' (1986).

[dndhistory]

505. Kim Mohan - Wilderness Survival Guide (1986)

BECMI D&D already had rules for Dungeons (Basic Set) and rules for wilderness adventures (Expert Set), AD&D already had a volume dedicated to Dungeon Adventuring with Douglas Niles' Dungeon Survival Guide, therefore, logically, there was one book missing, and near the end of 1986 Kim Mohan would finally present us with the Wilderness Survival Guide.

Full of little rules to make your wilderness adventuring more realistic as well as more fun, this guide gives rules for different kinds of weather, for encumbrance and movement rates as well as everything you might possibly need to know when outside the town or dungeon.

With a great cover by Jeff Easley, this is also one of the more interesting of the rules supplements for first edition AD&D as Kim Mohan is a particularly good writer and the rules are particularly well set out. This makes this book kind of a model against which to judge other first editions books, and beyond. Definitely worth taking a look. 

[ofleafstructure]

Immaculate (d. Michael Mohan)

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 40, 2024

Impact of Extracellular Current Flow on Action Potential Propagation in Myelinated Axons. Abdollahi, N., & Prescott, S. A. (2024). Journal of Neuroscience, 44(26), e0569242024.

Prefrontal coding of learned and inferred knowledge during REM and NREM sleep. Abdou, K., Nomoto, M., Aly, M. H., Ibrahim, A. Z., Choko, K., Okubo-Suzuki, R., … Inokuchi, K. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 4566.

Distinct basal ganglia contributions to learning from implicit and explicit value signals in perceptual decision-making. Balsdon, T., Pisauro, M. A., & Philiastides, M. G. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 5317.

Hebbian priming of human motor learning. Bjørndal, J. R., Beck, M. M., Jespersen, L., Christiansen, L., & Lundbye-Jensen, J. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 5126.

The well‐worn route revisited: Striatal and hippocampal system contributions to familiar route navigation. Buckley, M., McGregor, A., Ihssen, N., Austen, J., Thurlbeck, S., Smith, S. P., … Lew, A. R. (2024). Hippocampus, 34(7), 310–326.

Ouvrai opens access to remote virtual reality studies of human behavioural neuroscience. Cesanek, E., Shivkumar, S., Ingram, J. N., & Wolpert, D. M. (2024). Nature Human Behaviour, 8(6), 1209–1224.

Two distinct networks for encoding goals and forms of action: An effective connectivity study. Di Cesare, G., Lombardi, G., Zeidman, P., Urgen, B. A., Sciutti, A., Friston, K. J., & Rizzolatti, G. (2024). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(26), e2402282121.

Conductance-based dendrites perform Bayes-optimal cue integration. Jordan, J., Sacramento, J., Wybo, W. A. M., Petrovici, M. A., & Senn, W. (2024). PLOS Computational Biology, 20(6), e1012047.

Subpopulations of neurons in the perirhinal cortex enable both modality-specific and modality-invariant recognition of objects. Lim, H.-Y., & Lee, I. (2024). PLOS Biology, 22(6), e3002713.

Hippocampal and orbitofrontal neurons contribute to complementary aspects of associative structure. Lin, H., & Zhou, J. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 5283.

A vast space of compact strategies for effective decisions. Ma, T., & Hermundstad, A. M. (2024). Science Advances, 10(25).

The direction of theta and alpha travelling waves modulates human memory processing. Mohan, U. R., Zhang, H., Ermentrout, B., & Jacobs, J. (2024). Nature Human Behaviour, 8(6), 1124–1135.

Mental navigation in the primate entorhinal cortex. Neupane, S., Fiete, I., & Jazayeri, M. (2024). Nature, 630(8017), 704–711.

Low and high beta rhythms have different motor cortical sources and distinct roles in movement control and spatiotemporal attention. Nougaret, S., López-Galdo, L., Caytan, E., Poitreau, J., Barthélemy, F. V., & Kilavik, B. E. (2024). PLOS Biology, 22(6), e3002670.

Striatal Dopamine Contributions to Skilled Motor Learning. Phillips, C. D., Hodge, A. T., Myers, C. C., Leventhal, D. K., & Burgess, C. R. (2024). Journal of Neuroscience, 44(26), e0240242024.

Visuo-motor updating in individuals with heightened autistic traits. Pomè, A., & Zimmermann, E. (2024). eLife, 13, e94946.3.

Spindle-locked ripples mediate memory reactivation during human NREM sleep. Schreiner, T., Griffiths, B. J., Kutlu, M., Vollmar, C., Kaufmann, E., Quach, S., … Staudigl, T. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 5249.

Disruption of dopamine D2/D3 system function impairs the human ability to understand the mental states of other people. Schuster, B. A., Sowden, S., Rybicki, A. J., Fraser, D. S., Press, C., Hickman, L., … Cook, J. L. (2024). PLOS Biology, 22(6), e3002652.

A prefrontal motor circuit initiates persistent movement. Wang, Y., & Sun, Q.-Q. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 5264.

Decomposition of an odorant in olfactory perception and neural representation. Ye, Y., Wang, Y., Zhuang, Y., Tan, H., Zuo, Z., Yun, H., … Zhou, W. (2024). Nature Human Behaviour, 8(6), 1150–1162.

[deesi-academia]

Cym as shahrukh khan characters

this took me too much time but it was sooo fun :D

@dumdum0515 : surinder from rab ne bana di jodi - fun lil dancey talented cutie guy

@geekytango : sunil from kabhi haan kabhi na - <33 need i say more <33

@dorkthoughts : mohan from swades - just seems like a very understanding person tbh

@liberosis-wav : rahul from k3g - hardcore romantic with strong beliefs fr

@shanti-ashant-hai : om from om shaanti om - i am simple-minded like that what will you do.

@timepasswithdee : major ram from main hoon na - i think you'd definitely love an undercover job like this lol

@magik-knives : raj from ddlj - hopeless romantic and <3 vibes

@voidsteffy : kabir khan from chak de india - MENTOR VIBES IDK

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@alwaysif // mohan

"Just stay away from me. Stay away from my family."

She takes a step closer. She looks up at him, almost looks like she's going to get close enough to put her hands on his chest, but all she does is whisper in his ear:

"Because I know exactly what you've done, I know exactly what you are, and I will fucking kill you."

[vitalphenomena]

Alex immediately feels a little bad for judging. They won't apologize, but they'll reduce their skepticism. Still —

"Are you talking about that thing that happened at Starbucks?" The Starbucks on campus, they mean — they'd gone impermanent picking up their iced latte. It was humiliating.

"Because that was someone else who looks identical to me."

His index finger points to them and then him and them and him and ---

"Sure, I do. I have taken some years off, but I'm back. " No, he did not. He's just a guy who knows where to be at the right time. Continues, " People like us who are special in a way.

[cloveroctobers]

OCTOBER PROMPTS 🎃 — 6. Joe

A/N: because the love I have for Raymond is consistently growing and it’s Scorpio szn (his szn) so why not? Although I’m not sure if Joe fits into the Scorpio vibe…those that care what do you think? Anyways he’s on the list so here’s this *GASPS* short thing and I can’t wait to see him (mainly) next season!

PROMPT is from HERE + I’m using: A notices B’s porch light off, so A knocks on the door anyway to pull them out of their boredom to persuade B to come join the fun.

Side note: slight crossover between two other shows: “The Bold Type,” + “Fire Country,” but not overly the focus in this piece. So don’t come at me if you’re questioning why they’re tagged :)

*GIF BELONGS TO: @kamala-khan + PHOTO DOES NOT BELONG TO ME!

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Ever since Briar moved out to the New England area it’s been difficult to get her besties to visit with them still living in New York City. Working for Scarlet magazine was a big part of not only Briar’s childhood dream but career journey that brought Briar to this big change in her life.

Perhaps Briar was still getting adjusted as life carried on but in different places now. Originally the girls planned to come up this weekend to have a spooky bake session + movie marathon and would head back that next afternoon.

However things didn’t go as planned with: Jane’s old Danish fling decided to surprise her back in the states after she took her lengthy trip of seeing the world. Briar wasn’t sure if a serious relationship is what Jane needed right now but Jane claims it was only her having fun…leaving Briar to take that with a grain of salt. Then Kat decided to last minute turn down the trip to dive even deeper into her own magazine, “Don’t Turn Away,” which was of course exciting to see and Briar was no doubt proud of her friend but Briar couldn’t believe that Kat was officially the workaholic out of the four friends. It was even sweet for Adena, Kat’s girlfriend, to consider traveling to spend the day with Briar but she encouraged Adena to watch over Kat and push her to take breaks every now and then so she wouldn’t get burnt out. Lastly there was Sutton who switched up to head down to upstate New York to the new cabin her and Richard purchased…which concluded with Briar placing them all on block for the next twenty-four hours.

Sure it was petty but it’s not like the group didn’t plan this two weeks ago and yes things come up…yet it sucked being kicked to the curb like this. Gas prices were also out of control but none of them bothered to use that excuse and well at least they were honest with pushing Briar to the side! Briar didn’t have to sulk at her new Cape home and could get herself up and out into the city of Wellsbury if she really wanted to. The thing is she just wanted to have a night in with her girls, especially when Briar’s been looking forward to seeing them all after she switched career paths.

So…there she is in the solitude of her home lounging on a couch “watching” some crappy horror film, scowling at that one character who plummets to the ground after being chased by a serial killer.

There’s a knock at the door and Briar has to drag her eyes away from her phone to glance towards the windows that she shielded hours ago. Sighing she guesses it must be some more teenagers doing another round of ding dong ditch, since she was the new person in town and it was fun to pick on the new resident here apparently. Padding through the rest of the scattered “oddly,” placed furniture in the living room—Briar’s uppity mother’s words FYI, she finds her way to the front door. Standing a little on her fuzzy sock covered toes, she peeks through the peep hole after flicking her porch lights back on, to see no other than Joe Mohan waiting on her front porch.

Briar doesn’t wipe the nonchalant expression on her face as she pulls the door open, “Joseph, hello.”

Joe’s lips twitch at the formality Briar kept up with when greeting him, “I thought we classified each other as friends not acquaintances. What’s with the ‘Joseph,’ Ms. Briar?”

Briar sighs as she leans against the doorway of her home.

“That bad of a night huh?”

“Oh you have no idea.”

“Well your lack of lights told me to come over and check so I’m here,” Joe holds his arms out with a smile, “And you look like you can use a pick me up…so you should hang out with me.”

Briar and joe lived across the street from each other, while Joe had a ranch that was pushed back from the road, Briar also had her esquestrian property with cape architecture that was actually closer to the road and a roomy pumpkin filled front porch. They were friendly with Briar heading into the blue farm every Wednesday and Friday due to it being her longer days at work, from there they sparked up light hearted but teasing conversations.

She became the newest talk of the town, unwarranted and she liked to keep to herself just a bit to get adjusted better. Did that mean some labeled her as standoffish? So be it. It was something her mother often criticized her for when change came Briar’s way, that she didn’t have to retreat into her shell and that she needed to take things by it’s horns. Maybe subconsciously that’s why she was attempting to raise some goats? It’s a shame that the way your relationship is built from your parent(s) can still haunt you into your adulthood.

“hang with you and the horses you mean?”

Joe notices the shudder radiating off Briar’s frame and shakes his head. He knows the whole story about her at thirteen and on a horse back in the summer at Martha’s Vineyard. That resulted in eight stitches and a dark scar from her chin bone down to where the underside of her tongue rests. It wasn’t as noticeable despite the horrible laser treatments she endured as a kid; unless you were really trying to pick apart her story and if Briar didn’t have make-up covering the scar.

“Nah, what kinda guy do you think I am?”

“The kind that tried to get me on one at that fair last weekend? when you know that was solely for the children.”

Joe was only joking, he wouldn’t push past Briar’s boundaries.

“Oh my mistake, I thought you started middle school already.”

“Ha-ha,” briar playfully rolls her eyes.

Joe lightly taps Briar’s forearm, “c’mon, what else better do you have to do? Halloween is right around the corner, come out and celebrate.”

“I never took you for one to enjoy spooky season.” Briar tilts her head to the side then turns her hooded eyes into slits, “I feel like you’re more of a New Year’s Eve kinda guy.”

“Really? I don’t give fall guy season?”

“Joseph!” Briar almost crinkles her nose as if she’s appalled, “Don’t tell me you like pumpkin and chai lattes?”

“I’m actually more of a hazelnut, chestnut, or go for a praline vibe.” Joe shrugs his shoulders.

“Ah so a winter girl.” Briar lifts her chin almost in approval, “I can now smell the wreath’s from your pores and see the uggs on your feet.”

Joe scoffs and holds his hand out awaiting Briar’s grasp, “so what do you say?”

“I’d say…as long as there’s no horses and you give me a glimpse of the itinerary for the night, I just might.” She keeps her arms folded.

Joe hums, “don’t have time for all the deets but I can guarantee you’ll have some fun.”

“Fun as that mark on your eye?”

“What do you mean? That’s part of my costume.”

“You’re not wearing a costume, Joseph.” Briar scans the bearded man, wondering just how he injured himself this time.

“I…could be.” Joe challenges the woman with the Pearl clips in her hair.

“Well am I dressed appropriately for this undercover mission of fun?” Briar slaps her hands down by her thighs, “Otherwise I’d have to change and take a shot of liquid courage to get through the night.”

Joe says, “you always look great…and I don’t want to wait another hour for you to be ready. The event has already started by the way. So come on, get your keys and ID just in case they decide to make sure you’re not part of gen-z.”

“Whatever you say, baby boomer.” She winks at Joe before disappearing back inside while the man just sent a mocking smile at her back.

They arrive at what appears to be this abandoned brick building with Joe and a few of his friends that Briar’s meeting for the first time. They’re a friendly group that Briar’s heard a little about but it’s good to put the names to the faces and that they welcomed her with pretty much open arms. It was a contrast to the others in town that were more nosy than getting to actually know Briar. However she’s handled worse attitudes in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

“Don’t tell me we’re going haunted exploring,” Briar says to Joe as they walk side by side through the scarce parking lot.

He laughs, “hell no, that’s more Jake’s lane and none of us would actually be here if that was the destination tonight, believe me. You’re in good hands.” He causally tosses an arm across Briar’s shoulders.

Which she glances at but makes no move to pluck his hand off. It actually felt comforting as they made their way through the breezy night together. As the group stand at the large door, they wait for a section of it to slide sideways revealing a beaming red light that shines over their bodies.

Briar still wasn’t sure if she liked this but Joe’s friends seem to get more excited after?

Soon they’re welcomed into the building which smells like cold air and moss, followed by two figures dressed in all black.

“What in the American horror story?” Briar mutters, which is not unheard by the group who let out snickers.

The voice that echoes off the eerily silent hallway, comes from the figure on the left who’s wearing a plague mask, “ladies and gentlemen, those of you who are ready to put those bones to work, I suggest you say your goodbyes now.”

Suddenly alarms go off with the blaring of red lights illuminating their frames. Briar won’t lie and say that she didn’t clasp both hands across Joe’s waist at that, brown eyes peering around this narrow entryway. She also picked up on the sound of the main door locking behind them.

“Come along,” the feminine voice in the black Victorian poof dress speaks, “we shall see how far those shells above thee bones can take it.”

“Take what,” one of Joe’s other friends, Bode is clearly finding enjoyment in this as he bites back a laugh while his girlfriend, Gabriela slaps his arm.

“The shed,” both speakers say at the same time as the floor beneath them all begins to glide them backwards and their group forward.

“Whoa!” Joe wobbles and steadies himself, “they’re really in tune with their roles.”

Abruptly the track stops at a set of stairs that lead downwards into the abyss.

“Welcome to the resurrection,” the feminine doll face raises her lace gloved hands while the plague man stomps his cane into the floor.

Just as they say this, unexpectedly chains slink down from above their heads while a gush of air almost knocks the group back but some unseen force keeps them upright. Devices are clamped down over their heads, making them immediately grip onto it in bewilderment.

“Please select a Halloween genre.” A menacing voice states, making Briar realize that she along with the rest had headphones on now.

“How do we uh…pick?” Jake asks but the hosts no longer say a word.

Briar presses on the top of the headphones, which light up orange while going over specific sections. A pop tune with a haunting theme fills her ears, making Briar’s wide eyes turn to see the rest of the groups slowly turning from a red hue to orange. With that the entryway to the stairs steam with blue smoke, signaling their cue to enter as the plague man and the doll faced woman side step to let the group through.

“This is pretty cool! I’ll admit. Creepy as hell but cool,” Briar can almost hear Joe saying as if he was speaking to her directly through the headphones and over her briefly lowered music.

Briar nods, guard still up as they all creep their way down the stairs and into what looks like a huge club scene with some attendees dancing in costumes and others in simple night out attire.

“I’m getting drunk! Bye!” Gabriela shouts into their ears, dancing through the crowd while pulling Bode along and right to the bar.

Briar and Joe both share a smile as they turn to each other. She wastes no time twirling around him then and begins to dance to her own tune in her ears. Joe keeps his hands together as he watches Briar let free, throughly enjoying seeing a grin on her face.

When she stops in front of Joe, she poses and waves her fingers encouraging Joe to show her what he’s got. She’s seen joe break out into some moves before when he thought nobody was watching and it was the funniest thing how he got embarrassed about it.

The man can move to a beat okay and if a dance battle was what he was asking for tonight, then who was Briar to stop that from happening?

After all it was all in good fun and what was the harm in that?

Joe tried to play it off like he was too cool for school but briar noticed his headphones flicking dim and back to Orange, almost as if the song changed and Briar didn’t miss the way Joe clenched his eyes closed.

Which made Briar smirk.

His song had to be playing and when he busted out doing his own version of the Wednesday Addams dance, which definitely caught Briar off guard! She couldn’t help but to jump in alongside of Joe but she managed to keep a blank expression on her face much better than Joe did.

They were more in sync than they realized once they whipped back to be face to face, Briar raised their hands up into the air together before a smile broke onto Joe’s face which the woman couldn’t help to match as their hands lowered. Briar lets out a laugh, resting her head against Joe’s chest and he wraps his arms back around her, hugging her close as they found joy in the night.

He figures Briar could at least consider him a friend now, bearing in mind that they just went into a whole dance routine in public together. Not to mention she felt just right in his arms and the moment was cheered on, they noticed as the crowd around them watched leaving Joe and Briar to bow at their unknown audience.

Turning to Joe’s friends, they appear with spooky cocktails with Eve handing off one of each to the pair, which they all cheers to with more laughter.

“Who knew all it took was to bring Briar out on the town with us to get Joe on the dance floor?” Gabriela tells.

Briar peeks up at Joe who sends her a wink with his lips at the rim of the glass.

Briar nudges his shoulder, “Ah, what are friends for?”

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Continue along with my October anthology prompts here.

[hunterkhean]

Human AU Chapter 33 is finally Here!

(I've been gone for a few days and now IM BACK! With an Unexpected Update of Human AU!)

I'll answer the ask soon lol

August is a very... interesting month

Summary!

A new Trouble Coming to Praneel's (Proteus) way that cause Rab (Senator RatBat) to Abandon Zeidan's (Zeta Prime) Alliance and Went on his own... Maybe Rab is not all bad after all...

Thomas (TwinCast) (Blaze/Blaster and Sonia/SoundBlaster's son) Is Born!!! At the same time Saleem (StreetWise) Had survive Another Suicide Mission and Two Character Decide that it's the right Time to finally get Married!!

Sohan (SoundWave) Going back on Teaching Rodion (Rodimus Prime) About College Lesson but... It didn't go as Planned... ;3

Silver (SilverBolt) Inner thought about his Inhumane Power and Mohan (MotorMaster) is there to oight up his dark Memories

MEAKER (MEGATRON) IS NOW AVAILABLE ON QNA AGAIN! :D

Scara (ScatterShot) Decide the faith of his Love Life

Francis (Frenzy) May have a little bit of... issues with his New form

A Mysterious Character shown to have an Inhumane power to control Puppets... Could he be a friend or a foe towards the Cybertronians agency?

[mynonclicheblog]

it wouldn’t make sense for the show to bring a paxton and devi romance at all and i’d argue they won’t have much screen time the first half of the season aside from tiny scenes here and there similarly to the second half of season 3. devi will be dating the ethan guy for at least until the nyc episode (405) and that closet scene happens on 407 and this is why i believe it will be the final closure for them. it’s the perfect moment for devi to end another part of her high school life as she’s getting closer to saying goodbye to high school life and into her future. ben will be the last thing she needs to face which is why they will be left for the last 3 or 2 episodes (with of course them pinning horrendously the first half). i know people are theorizing 408 could be the wedding episode and how perfect could it be? 405 a glimpse at her future, 406 perhaps college acceptance letters, 407 closure with paxton, 408 a devi that fully embraces her Indian culture and 409 facing her feelings for ben (the bed scene is 409). 410 will bring everything together and give us a parallel to devi from the pilot.

mindy knows what she’s doing. ben and devi have been the endgame since season 2 and i think even d/p shippers would appreciate their ship ending the way it did on season 3 and a cute moment of them acknowledging the impact in each others lives. reviving a relationship that will end in 1 or 2 episodes doesn’t seem like a good way to revive anything.

Yeah, I remember thinking that 4x07 is really late in the game to be dragging Dxton out of its grave. Maybe this is why, if it's nothing more than a fleeting moment.

I would love love love it if they used the episode structure you just described!! It would be perfect and would cover all the bases for Devi's story. I definitely hope they reserve at LEAST the last 2-3 episodes for building towards Devi and Ben's romantic reunion, with no other love interests or flirtations. After all this time it's what they deserve!! And it's what we deserve for waiting so long while the other shippers feasted, lmao.

And ofc I'm obsessed with full-circle parallels that exhibit a character's growth! Can you imagine a s1 finale/s4 finale parallel with Devi and her relationships to Nalini and Mohan. Oh my god.

[thefabulousfab-3]

this is going to be a scandalous opinion and i really like d*rren he seems like a good guy but he isn’t a very good actor. his good looks safe him and i think he’ll get stuck with this type of characters forever because i don’t think he is a very dimensional actor. mindy got lucky with maitreyi and it blows my mind this is her first acting job and there’s a reason ben’s pov episodes get so many good reactions. jaren’s amazing and easily the best male actor on the show.

I disagree about Darren. I think he is a good actor. He played paxton exactly the way he was supposed to. As Paxton got more depth, Darren was really able to showcase that. His background reactions are very underrated and even though I had issues about his age. I don’t know if I could honestly see anyone else playing Paxton.

Maitreyi is AMAZING and I can’t believe this is her first acting job. She’s a natural and I hope we get to see her in a TON of stuff in the future.

I do think that Jaren is one of the best male actors on the show (I love the actor that plays Mohan and think he is probably the best). I have to agree with you that out of the younger cast he is definitely the best male actor.

[dndhistory]

 ???. Various Authors - Dragon #83 (March, 1984)

Well the inevitable happened, one of the posts that I was supposed to make here fell by the wayside. So throw your minds back to March 1984 and here's the missing review of Dragon 83! Thanks to @rpgsandbox for pointing it out!

This issue of Dragon is notable for a number of reasons but probably the most significant for the coming years of D&D and down until our days, is the fact that it truly marks the start of the Dragonlance era. The first piece of Dragonlance fiction is included in this magazine, a short story by Margaret Weis, entitled The Test of the Twins, a prequel to the Dragonlance Chronicles and not to be confused with the Test of the Twins novel from 1986, this tells of Raistlin's graduation as a magic-user, explaining how he gets his hourglass eyes and going deep into his relationship with his brother Caramon. There's also a good "setting the stage" for the novels call-out box in the story that is worth reading.

I was and am a big fan of Dragonlance fiction, so I had read this before (as a reprint in 1987's Magic of Krynn anthology) but I didn't know it was actually the first published bit of Dragonlance fiction. Definitely worth tracking down and the start of something special, so much so that there is still Dragonlance fiction coming out, and next month, August you can get the second volume in the most recent trilogy by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis: Dragons of Fate.  I read the previous entry and it was great fun. 

Otherwise the magazine is packed with fun stuff, from Ed Greenwood's Anatomy of the Stirge, to an article on gems and what they do, and an adventure for high-level AD&D players featuring Baba Yaga, and an article on how to make hand to hand fighting more fluid, it's all good. We also get a warning from Kim Mohan, that Ares magazine (the SF RPG sister to Dragon) has folded and so, from now on Dragon will include a section which will replace the content from Ares.