#Neverafter Ep 20

[joanna-fake-name]

(Spoiler warning) Ok I know I'm late but I feel that now that it's cannon, Ylfa and Pinnochio's ship name should be Nokia. Don't ask me for an explanation but it's perfect

[beckyblah]

I think Muffet and Ylfa should become BFFs honestly

[greatpistachiopie]

if i don't come back, it's cause rapunzel got me

[kermitspussy]

80% of that secondhand embarrassment is from Leap of Faith

[trashponcho]

I love him.

[united-under-skyfall]

HAVING FEELINGS ABOUT GERARD "I'M A COWARD WHO WENT TO HIDE WITH THE CHILDREN" OF GREENLEIGH BEING INTENSELY AWARE OF THE GROUP HE'S TRAVELING WITH?? NOT EVEN THINKING FOR A SECOND BEFORE LYING TO THEM ABOUT MISS MUFFET HAVING KILLED MORE PEOPLE BECAUSE HE KNOWS SHE'S THERE AND LISTENING?? KNOWING THAT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE KIDS HAS EXPERIENCED AND COMMITTED HORRORS IN EQUAL MEASURE AND SEEN DEATH AND WALKED OUT THE OTHER SIDE WRONG AND STILL DECIDING THAT THESE KIDS DON'T NEED TO SEE THIS ONE MORE TERRIBLE THING IF THEY'RE ABLE? THAT HE'LL SPARE THEM THIS KNOWLEDGE IF HE CAN? NOT EVEN GETTING SQUEAMISH AS HE GOES AS FAR AS TO ACTIVELY HIDE THE EVIDENCE SO IF SOMEONE LIGHTS THE PLACE UP THEY WON'T HAVE TO WITNESS IT? NOBODY TALK TO ME I WON'T BE NORMAL FOR A MONTH

[18catsreading]

Omg i'm so dead. I laughed so hard. Brennan called Rick Perry in to make Ally explain their decision-making to him.

Rick: I will remember this

Ally: oh no, please, I respect you so highly!

Brennan: there's the orange hat. Please put the hat back on Little Red Riding Hood, who is wearing it in canon in the story.

[imstacks]

when a pc says something incomprehensible to an npc and brennan drops character and just talks like himself to berate them but doesn't drop whatever stupid voice he's doing 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

[cptkphob-archive]

My second favorite cat ever

[ ID: A cartoonish drawing of Pib in front of a book. He's saying, "We have a long list of bullshit to do". he's wearing a little ruffled collar and a pair of boots. end ID ]

[gonzocoded]

[wipeoutwhitney]

Neverafter 1.19 | The Ending of All Things (Part 1)

[feelingtheaster99]

Murph going to roll that D10 and Sibohan just yelling “I’ve got it, I’ve got it!” 🤣

[bebagerie]

I don’t think it’s my time to rest.

[unlikablefemaleprotagonist]

i don't really want to get too logical about it, but perhaps another "above the table" reason for this battle not being centered around getting redemption for the ratgrinders is because this is a show meant for public consumption and "persuade your enemies to desert their cause and join you" was literally the trick of the final combat for the last intrepid heroes season. maybe there was an implicit understanding among the cast that the same gimmick would be perceived by some as being repetitive

and honestly?? i think the neverafter team had a helluva lot better shot converting the princesses to their side than any of the bad kids had in this battle. key members of the squad (okay, not tim, rip his conversation with rapunzel) made inroads with the princesses through good faith interaction with many of them earlier in the season. elodie and mira were the easiest gets because of elodie's history with gerard and mira's lack of true devotion to the cause, but ylfa had a genuine SHOT with la bete and pinocchio got very close with cinderella (who i think may have come over anyway once her allies were down, if i remember right?)

but there isn't a single ratgrinder they have that kind of relationship with. they've been pretty out-and-out hostile, despite moments such as adaine saving ruben from disintegrate and kristen offering maryanne gifts. maaaaybe you could make an argument for ruben and wanda, but brennan pointed out that once wanda showed up with his enemies and ATTACKED ruben's friends, it was over. oisin seemed like a potential option earlier in the season, but then he pulled the rug out from under adaine and tried to murder the entire student body via nepotism. there was no friendly relationship left to capitalize on after that. and maryanne has been characterized as having such an impenetrable mental wall that it's hard to guess where's she's at, even for the other ratgrinders.

plus, there's the whole basic conceit that the ratgrinders' minds are not completely their own. their agency has been traded away to a nameless god of rage. who's to say any persuasion check could overcome that? honestly, i think if it was a realistic play, brennan would have encouraged the players to try it, like he explicitly did for neverafter, laying out a mechanic for it. maybe we'd know more if kristen hadn't gotten a nat 1 on her buddy insight check, but i think that was the moment that any diplomatic level to this combat went out the window, because the dice dictated that kristen couldn't see buddy in there, and to willfully push ahead with that line of thinking would have been close to meta-gaming. they are playing characters as faithfully as possible, and those characters are stressed-out kids! they don't have the same emotional maturity of a 32-year-old divorced frog prince who really wants to be amicable with his ex-wife

[chaoticentitled]

he said "you broke my curse. a cricket shot a rocket at me" thinking he could get through the sentence without breaking. the arrogance to believe ur immune to ur own comedic genius. the hubris

[puddle-books]

"it is a deep and unsettling dread to realise that you can, by taking charge, cause harm. it an even deeper dread, when you realise that in taking charge you will cause harm. you will not make every perfect choice. and the fear, that you will make some choice that does some wrong in the world, is exactly what your enemies are hoping will stop you. so, we do as best as we can, to do as good as we can."

neverafter - s01e12: 'a warm heart and a tombstone'