#MOSS TALKS

[mossyflowers]

Who made trig I need to kill them

[mossolantern]

dunno if anyone translated the mall text yet so ermmm here's my crack at it

[freckled-moss]

Nononono hear me out Lockwood & Co. but from Lockwood’s perspective and it’s written like a cheap cliche romcom

[feral-goblin-lord]

Aɴʏʙᴏᴅʏ ᴇʟsᴇ ᴀ ʙɪɢ MCR ғᴀɴ?

[caniscreamintoanabyss]

Inosuke: OBJECTION! Nuh-uh.

Tengen: fUCK DO YOU MEAN ‘NUH-UH’???

[herbalsingularitea]

Santa: it’s less than a week til Christmas, how you guys holding up

Bernard, Curtis, and Quintin:

[mossdoesartshit]

i have been scouring the cult of the lamb discord and i have been scouring the suggestions forums there and... well it has certainly been a time

so, opening discussion about ratau, the red fox, questline relating to that, and "consequences of actions" (spoilers ahead)(also i will get heated. this is not a hate post of any sorts, just me wanting to yap, you are free to disagree)(very long post ahead, there is a tl;dr at the end but it is not free of spoilers)

The red foxes questline works like any other npc, you give them stuff, and they give you pieces to get fleeces and such.

for his last one, he asks ratau, should you give the rat, you get a fleece piece, you get a follower form, and a little amount of lore by the lonely shack. if you do not, you get none of these, just a questline waiting indefinetly to be finished.

so why is this a big point of contention?

well, people wanting ratau to come back as a follower (a case i will not argue for nor against, i see value and merit in both answers) causes a stir, people discussing ratau dying in their game causes a stir.

"well its just the consequences of your actions"

so what actual consequences are there?

well. the knucklebones gang and ratoo wonder where ratau is, no clue to any of them about such ideas. you lose access to the easy mode of knucklebones (which, now that we have a knucklebones table at base barely matters since knucklebones difficulty scales with follower levels). you cant talk to ratau. you get a little awkward when ratoo mentions him and go "haha bye!", and possibly a sad feeling for when you do it.

but. but the game almost more rewards you than it punishes

the developers said that they wanted the player to make a "difficult decision" and this is why they wouldnt consider bringing him back, and people say that this is substantial consequence enough. but it does not change anything about how you play the game

"erm but the consequence is youre sad" for like a second. majority of players dont even find his notes, there are no LASTING consequences, just a small one.

like i want to apologize to all the ratau fans because every time i see anything about ratau, consequence people want others to be MISERABLE about him getting killed, and say that if you want to bring him back in a meaningful way of sorts (i saw an idea of having to fight the fox for ratau, ratau being angry at you and leaving and you get him as a follower after you apologize and get him out of all the bad status conditions and only then you get him) and STILL they get told "youre avoiding consequences"

i dont mean to be rude with this, but it will come across as such

THERE IS NO MEANINGFUL CONSEQUENCE TO RATAU'S DEATH RIGHT NOW.

ratau is little else than an obstacle in completion, or a character people project headcanons to, but there is NOTHING that changes your game in lasting and impactful ways, getting like 4 lines of dialogue, notes, and feeling sad that the lamb is crying is NOT a consequence, UNLESS you were emotionally attached to him, and you have VERY LITTLE REASON TO feel emotionally attached to ratau, he is just a tutorializer and gets barely any characterization, objectively more content for him would not hurt, he was the previous crown holder and didnt DIE for not doing things right by the one who waits? thats UNFATHOMABLY INTERESTING.

for shamuras sake, the RAINBOW WORM gets more consequences after you fight him, he is PERMANENTLY terrified of you, and even that is very little consequence, but its still more than ratau.

if we wanted to argue for consequences, its been suggested knucklebones gang would not let you into the lonely shack anymore, but my idea has always been to ratoo

ratoo, after some time would find out what happened to his brother, and when the lamb next enters his area "how dare you. you dare show your face to me after what you did to my brother, what you did to the little family i have, i should not let you use my kindness for those seeking refuge through these difficult lands for how you betrayed him

but

my brother would not have wanted you suffering either. and i cannot lie and say that seeing your face doesnt bring some sort of company to an old fool like me. so you are welcome here still. but do not mistake it for anything more than honouring my brother" and he no longer heals you to full health, only half of what you were missing

actual tangible long lasting consequence to what you did, it changes how gameplay works, you have actual pros and cons to weigh out should you look things up before playing the game.

tl;dr

ratau's characterization is pretty much entirely fanon. the consequences that are there are so minor a large part of the playerbase dont even consider them consequences, and as it stands hes treated as a much more important character compared to the screentime he does actually have. will not lie i did not hesitate in killing ratau off and that should not be the reaction to what the devs wanted to be a "difficult decision"

[mossychaos]

I love being asexual

Its actually the coolest thing in the world

[ilovemosss]

For a muppet version of Good Omens, who would you designate to be “the only ‘human’” in the cast?

i have thought about this long and hard, never fully settling on one individual. my answer also changes based on the season

season one: i think anathema would be hilarious judging random muppets, alternately newt would be fucking hilarious because he kind of is the embodiment of "am i a man or a muppet" (creds to my friends for that quote

season two: maybe nina? or mister brown if i had to pick a more minor character, just for the comedic effect of him getting scared off by muppet!crowley in the pub

the most essential part of all of this, though, is that never once did either aziraphale or crowley enter my brain as being candidates for this. aziraphale would just be the cutest muppet, and crowley is like. a walking cartoon character gifted with a sort-of human body anyway. theres no way he'd be a human in muppet!omens, neither would aziraphale

alternate bonus question asked of me by the same friend-

who would be the only muppet in an otherwise human cast? these answers were much faster as well

season 1: also newt, see above citation of his "am i a man or am i a muppet" energy, unrivaled in the series. the alternate for this could be shadwell. might be funny

season 2: the metatron. just think about it. its too funny. the alternate for this is jim/gabriel because he exudes extreme muppet energy

[moss-deity]

relocating can be jarring, I am a creature out of time and out of place. I am not built for this.

[mossistasty]

two theories that I haven't really seen people talk about:

1) Mrs Flood is Ruby's biological mother (my dad's theory)

2) Mrs Flood is Susan Foreman (my theory)

I'd love to hear other people's opinions on these theories!!

[mossyflowers]

Moodboard when you already like a character but the story pulls a fast one on you and slaps a trope onto the character that makes you fucking insane

[mossolantern]

i love my dumb little slime grubtuber troll he is so silly to me

[freckled-moss]

Anyone else been accidentally clicking ads on tumblr mobile while scrolling when the ad isn’t anywhere on your screen? Then when you exit out and keep scrolling it’s like two posts down?

[caniscreamintoanabyss]

Mitsuri: Signs that you are not straight!

Shinobu: You like boyyyyssssss-

Sanemi: Nuh-uh. NUH-UH!!

[herbalsingularitea]

Elves just days before Christmas

Bernard:

Curtis:

Judy: