#SEE YOU IN THE STARS

[arainywriter]

this is going to probably be the longest post of my life, and i HATE getting into fandom discourse which is why i don't usually write anything about fandom discourse, but i just want to address some things about our favorite rat grinders so if you want to read, click below

as someone who loves the rat grinders as nuanced antagonists who are also teenagers, i think the rat grinders before they ever joined in on porter and jace's plan were assholes.

i think they were the quiet bullies, the mean people who you never notice until they are mean to you, the ones who seem nice and respectable up close, but talk shit about you the minute you're gone.

i think most of them (kipperlilly in particular) were looking for a reason to be bad. and i know we might not ever get this confirmation, but based off kipperlilly's file and other moments with the trg, i think it's possible this is correct.

they were assholes who needed a reason to be even bigger, more dangerous assholes and most of them took it. and yes, it was either that or be dead, but i want you to know that sometimes that's not even a question. sometimes you don't even care about the other option, you just want to rage.

i think the one time all of them or maybe some of them even thought that what they were doing could be was when lucy died. and that's when i feel bad for them. they had to lock in right there because they all had made a decision, and they all needed to continue it. that's the manipulation.

i know they are kids. they are just teenagers. i work with teens, and guys, let me tell you, some teenagers are assholes. and i don't mean say a funny mean joke asshole, i mean literally going to grow up and be a shitty person asshole. i think some of the rat grinders were those kind of teens.

did they deserve to be redeemed? i think some of them do. i think buddy has a big shot at being redeemed, and i genuinely hated that he died in the last stand and had to make that decision. i think ally is going to try if they can. i think mary ann might be redeemed.

but also, you guys have to remember that this is dnd. i don't think many of you have played dnd before, or if you have you're just really conscientious about everything you do. because as a dm who has played dnd and has made nuanced antagonists, your players are gonna straight up kill them.

brennan knows that. i'm 100% sure he knows that. this isn't scripted. the intrepid heroes aren't thinking about what the fans want every time they play. in dnd, ESPECIALLY in brennan's dnd, it's kill or be killed.

the rat grinder's weren't going to use non-lethal attacks. they were going to kill the bad kids, and they were going to be UNNATURALLY happy throughout it all. they were going to spit in their faces and roast marshmallows on their bodies. they were going to not feel guilty.

sound familiar?

i think the bad kids have been nice to the rat grinders since day one. not kind, nice. they've been polite and nice to them, not going all in until this fight. if this fight happened before the finale, i think the rat grinders would have had more time to be redeemed (ex. see Ragh in season 1 who def would have died in the finale battle if the bad kids hadn't fought him earlier). but the bad kids are stressed and done.

there is no time to be polite and nice when the world is going to end.

i know you liked these characters. i did too. i'm sad to see them go, but even when someone is nuanced and could be redeemed, the person they were a piece of shit to doesn't have to be the one to redeem them. they don't have to be the one to keep them alive and make sure they only get taken the police instead of dead. cause trg would have gone to jail.

aelwyn did. so would they.

people you've wronged don't owe you forgiveness or redemption. trg didn't wrong tbk that bad, but they made them angry, they tried to kill them, and they're probably almost close to ending the world.

i'll miss you rat grinders. you guys were perfect narrative foils, but it was always going to end like this.

now stop being absolute assholes to the intrepid heroes just cause they didn't play how you wanted.

love this fandom, and yeah, d20 get shit wrong sometimes. always make sure to critique your favorite piece of media.

but at the end of the day, this isn't your table to play dnd at. this is theirs and they are having fun. why don't you go and play as the rat grinders in your home game and give them the ending they deserve, or make fanfiction about it?

put your anger into that.

[intrepidbeans]

I'm not gonna lie, I'm currently really going through it mentally. I haven't drawn anything new in two weeks

But, two weeks ago, I finished this bumper sticker commission that I'm really proud of

I just wanted to share it, even though I don't feel good right now, because I felt really good when I did it

Thanks for continuing to support this account even when I'm not posting/creating. It helps me feel better about just being a person, if that makes sense

[vintagegoddess12]

Siobhan being a starstruck odyssey truther. You love to see it.

[theworstofallpossibleworlds]

How’s this?

I'm SOBBING Voltaire.

[nut-in-space]

[fiovske]

Cool thing about Europa is that it is thought that under kilometers of ice sheets there is a liquid ocean as deep as 100km! And the water is tought to be rich in ions so it could support life!!! I hope we learn if there is anything under the surface:D

yessss I knew I was missing something this is So SO cool god I hope there's SOMETHING there some rich biodiverse habitat that an occassionally maybe bioluminescent ecosystem god that would be so cool. thank you so much for telling me always love it when I learn new facts abt space and other planets 💕 I hope we find something cool there too that would be rad

[evercelle]

bust... or maybe i'll take it all!

[beardedmrbean]

I'm glad I decided to watch this one instead of just thinking I'd already posted it.

[only-as-sane-as-me]

Having no sense of the passage of time means that I woke up today and realized that it was the 29th, and the Dropout Discord closed on the 26th, and I missed it. That discord got me through the pandemic, through Covid, and even though I became a lurker more and more through the years, it got me through a two job losses, a work injury, and more. I know it’s too late, but I’ll see you in the stars.

[linvaniin]

oh, triple-faced soul

[frogaroundandfindout]

Bruce gets knocked over the head with a lead pipe and without even looking at eachother dick and Tim start circling around him making tweeting noises

Meanwhile bruce wishes the hit actually knocked him out so he didn’t have to witness his kids acting like this

[paintedcrows]

Thinking about that old man

[tawnysoup]

Their POV

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy one year anniversary to In Stars and Time!

[starcurtain]

Please someone redraw this with Dr. Ratio and Aventurine because this is the exact vibe they have in my head post-Penacony.

[synthaphone]

i suspect they cut the 3rd stage of the manectric line for being incredibly stupid looking, but i think they should have kept it, exactly like that with no revisions. dog that got stuck in its one of its owners shirts and is trying to act like it wants to be there and can leave at any time