#Traci Dead

[thereverie25]

My two best girls ☺️ Fearless, wise and compassionate. I think they would be good friends ✨

[fertileground]

the pitt / 1.09, '3:00 p.m.', 2025 (dir. quyen tran)

[dollw0und]

girls turn 13/14 then they turn into one of them

[watchingthescreen]

when your father-daughter bonding activity is making your wife/mom eat your enemies

[eff-ston3mblogs]

missing 2021 grunge way to much right now

[notreyi]

[bitterdesert]

I'll Be Your Mirror (Reflect What You Are)

1990s University/Magical Realism AU

Chapter 7: maybe together we can get somewhere

Word count: 10.5k

Edwin awoke to a cacophony of ribbeting frogs. Truth be told, the absurdity of it almost made him laugh. It felt like he’d skipped ahead several chapters in a book until the plot was totally lost. Surely he should have been in the clutches of a demon by now, fighting for his life. After all, what else could have kidnapped him?

[jq37]

So, that lady FH episode was amazing and all, but...

Hoo boy, I already see the discourse around the Ratgrinders' fates forming and it is going to be painful. Be careful around the fandom space.

(I mean, resurrection is still on the table for them, but that's based on if the players feel like it and right now, we're looking at 50/50 odds at bests)

Yeah, don't worry about me. This isn't my first rodeo and also I post a lot about D20 and respond to asks I get but I don't actually personally engage with any of The Discourse (tm).

And I'm not really surprised at the reaction. I know people have been opinionated all season in two main camps (that have a lot of overlap): people dissatisfied with the narrative direction and people deeply sympathetic to the Rat Grinders to the point of being mad at the Bad Kids.

The first camp I mostly understand. I get wishing the cast would explore a certain storyline more. For example, I've been on the Aelwyn redemption arc train since literally the first episode of Fantasy High so I was a little disappointed that when that finally came to a head in Freshman Year, it was a big fight and then very little aftermath/unpacking because Aelwyn was sent to jail right after. And Sophomore Year hadn't been announced so I had no idea that she was gonna get another shot. But I wasn't upset or anything. Adaine at that point still hated her sister. She had no reason to want to reach out. And at the end of the day this is other people playing a game. Brennan presented them all the possible plot threads and they were most interested in self discovery, hanging out with each other, doing Shenanigans, and playing Tomb Raider re: Ankarna. Those are all options they were presented and it's not like they were doing crazy off-roading. It's well within the parameters of what D&D is. If you're gonna watch a show like this (or honestly any show), you have to accept that what's most interesting to you isn't always going to be the most interesting thing to the people in the driver's seat.

So yeah, I feel like this side of things I get (even though I'm fine with how things turned out).

The other camp--people being legit mad at the Bad Kids (and in some cases the actual cast) for treating the Rat Grinders like antagonists instead of victims that they were responsible for empathizing with and redeeming--I find kind of wild.

Like…you're mad at the kids who go to Child Murder School for killing kids who want to end the world and kill them specifically? Literally the first day of school the principal of the school says that adventurers are violent wanderers who engage in shenanigans and enact violence. This is the exact assignment they were given and that's what they're doing.

I think it's wild to at the same time believe that the Rat Grinders (who have killed people) are not responsible for their actions and deserve to be talked down while in the process of causing an apocalypse because they're just kids who were manipulated while at the same time calling the Bad Kids evil lunatics for trying to stop them by killing them (in a world where Revivify and Resurrection exist) even though they are ALSO kids who are doing what they've learned at Child Murder School. The Bad Kids have to be mature enough to thoroughly investigate the situation and have nuance about it but the Rat Grinders don't have any responsibility to not join a shady evil murder plan*? And do the Bad Kids really hate the Rat Grinders to the point where they're doing some overkill in this fight? Absolutely. But it's not like they're killing them because they hate them. They're killing them because they're trying to end the world--and they also happen to hate them. Are we forgetting that Kipperlilly killed Buddy--her own teammate--with a gleeful smile on her face? That was so out of pocket.

They're adventurers! Not guidance counselors! If Jawbone was like, "We need to kill these kids," yeah that would be weird but why would the Bad Kids extend an olive branch to the kids who (1) famously hate them, (2) killed at least one maybe 2 of their own party members, (3) endangered the entire student body population an hour ago, (4) are currently trying to end the world. Hell, Adaine was ready to be mean to her own sister in elf jail literally up until the point Brennan described how rough she looked from the torture and that's when she changed her mind. The Power of Love and Empathy is on the menu but it's a special item you only can get if you know the chef. Everyone else is getting a serving of These Hands. Just because you can find a vegan solution to a problem it doesn't mean you're obligated to.

This all comes down to, "Maybe teenagers shouldn't have godlike powers and the ability to play judge, jury, and executioner" but that's literally the premise of the entire show so you can't get around it without rejecting the show's entire premise. If they were like, "Hmm the systems that underpin our world are questionable and we should change the power structures" instead of, "Let's kill some bad guys!" then that's a totally different thing we're doing here!

And, idk man, this show has always had a Who Framed Roger Rabbit style morality where the normal rules of ethics stop applying when it's funny. They beat the crud out of Ragh and then lied to him that he shit his pants just for the bit. A pirate was rude/kinda racist to Riz so they scared him into killing himself. Riz ate the remains of the sentient (albiet evil) dragon he killed. That's all unhinged behavior but none of that is meant to be serious. Getting upset about Fig sending Ruben to hell to me feels like getting mad that Jerry hit Tom with a cartoonishly large mallet.

None of this is new so I have to assume that people are having a big reaction because they relate to the Rat Grinders or just really like them so it feels bad that the Bad Kids are treating them like fodder rather than beloved NPCs.

But again, this is a world where you can bring people back from the dead and the Rat Grinders have showed intent that is grievously neglectful at best and insanely murderous at worst so I can't muster a lot of sympathy for the fact that the Bad Kids are just taking them down without remorse. I don't think you have to try to empathize with the people who are trying to harm you if you don't want to especially while they are in the process of harming you.

(*And we still don't know how voluntarily they joined this plan. We don't know if they were killed and basically forced into resurrecting with rage or if they just leapt at the chance to join a plan that would let them get one over on their rivals. It literally could be either. We've had kid villains on this show strong armed into being party to evil plans by threat of harm (Aelwyn) as well was kid villains who just had their own selfish motivations and weren't tricked at all (Penelope and Biz). We actually don't have any clear answer on how culpable they are. We don't know if they all have rage crystals (except for Buddy). And we don't know how much having a Rage Crystal effects your actions. The best indicator we got is in this latest ep when Brennan said that there was a mechanic where Porter was going to call anyone with a rage crystal to fight for him but that says to me that he's only directly puppeting them when he uses that action and otherwise they have free will and are just angrier. The Bad Kids don't have a reason to believe definitively that the Rat Grinders are just unwilling puppets even if that is the case so of course they're treating them like enemies. Anyway, this is a whole lot of "I don't knows" but that's only because I've seen a lot of people talking like the Rat Grinders literally aren't in control of their actions but that's not info that we have. It could be true but we don't actually know that so it's not a good argument.)

[lgbtqreads]

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Middle Grade: July-December 2025

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[mikeywayarchive]

frankieromustdie: Happy Release Day frends! Thanks for letting me crash the party… 🖤🙏🖤

Revenge Deluxe Edition, remixed and remastered is out now.

KTF xofrnk

[Jun 7, 2025]

[noemitenshi]

Troy Otto should have died of old age surrounded by his kids and grandkids. By his lover(s) and his friends. the community he built and defended.

He should have died completely different to how his father had died - murdered by a Clark trying to bring peace.

I mean at least Nick was justified in shooting Jeremiah because Jeremiah was actually posing an active threat to everyone's survival.

But by the time Madison killed Troy he was no threat anymore. He was helping them, only wanted his daughter back. Madison and him even had a heart to heart. what the fuck was that about huh!? He fucking saved her - and she still killed him. Did she want to die so badly that she had to punish him for saving her? Could she not look past her own mirror image in him to let him live? Was it some perverse form of suicide - because she saw him as being the same as her and she was unable to kill herself even though by her own admission she thinks everyone would be better off if she died so she killed him instead??? Or what exactly was the fucking point?

[misstanktracy]

Sorry, I’ve been kinda M.I.A for a while. Y’know, rescues come up, life comes up, it’s pretty manic.

Buuuuut anyway, I took myself off to one of my favourite music stores to get some replacement strings on my Violin. It’s a cozy little place in London, great acoustics if you’re an orchestral kind of person (not as great as the lounge though 😅).

Normally, I’d be with Virgil, because he likes to play on all the keyboards while I mess around with all the bases and violins.

And there she is, looking as fresh as ever, and sounding a little more lively. Ironically, she has the TB2 colour pallet for the peg threads. Crazy, right?

OOC below read more

ooc// hey again, mun here. Just wanted to give a quick explanation of absence.

Val’s blog has been really difficult to post on, because she’s barely getting talked to. I’m running out of ideas on how to interact with the tumblr void. It’s a little frustrating since I’ve changed her so, so much just to have her fit in, I mean, 95% of her lore and what makes her *her* has been scrapped and changed just to make her fit in this thunderbirds rp community.

This isn’t trying to be a guilt trip, or a force on you to talk to her, it’s just a small explanation, just in case there was anyone wondering. As always, thank you so much for the support and advice. Back to Tracy shenanigans!!

[by-izzmizz]

[wlwalthea]

OMG CRUMBS i wish there were more behind the scenes of them :((

[happyvoltz]

nick and tracy doodles

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