#also me @ aabria:

[godaweful]

thank you @quiddie for running a massive official d&d game for a huge crowd and the official d&d people that featured:

immediately flirting w karlach

several small kobolds named after food including pasta, roughly cut ham, and also ratcheeks was one

making brennan and anjali warring dragons who are exes

giving astarion a talking possum to feel bad about eating

encouraging the description of brennan's old man cleric's nipples (and tattoo)

give con rolls for flirting (stealing this its so funny)

say "this is an official game for wizards of the coast so i should play this close to the chest... anyways yeah go for it!"

make me laugh enough to wake up my family

[dumpster-fire-sapphic-failgirl]

If Aabria has 1 million fans, I am one of them

If Aabria has 1 thousand fans, I am one of them

If Aabria has 1 hundred fans, I am one of them

If Aabria has 1 fan, it is Brennan Lee Mulligan and I have been killed, please avenge me

[deadhawke]

There is. Truly nothing funnier on this planet. Than listening to Aabria and Erika describe omegaverse to Brennan and Lou. I have not cry laughed this hard in years.

[criticalsyourroles]

now i've watched a fair amount of d&d i've started to pick up on the differences between dm style i think

like brennan IS all the bad guys. every game he dms is brennan vs the players. he makes npcs and battles that make his friends throw things at him and he smirks the whole time. he makes them tell him their worst fears and then he makes them do it. and it's awful and amazing and really funny

matt IS exandria. his characters and battles never feel written or constructed, they just feel like things that already existed in the world. it's all about verisimilitude with him, and he's amazing at it. he tends to fade into the background and let the players react to the story and it makes everything he does incredibly cinematic

aabria dms like she's just another player at the table reacting to the story, right up until someone gets lulled into a false sense of security and tries to fool around and THEN she throws a curveball by making them deal with the consequences of their choices. she's like oh you think that's funny?? then i'm about to be hilarious, bitch. and she keeps getting away with it bc she's just that good!

basically, brennan's an evil bastard, matt's the world, and aabria's the queen of consequences

or:

brennan - fuck

matt - around

aabria - find out

[genderentvy]

I love Aabria's choices so much. Karna the dead spicy pepper? Burrow's End the true horror season? The bear battle map? Undead creachers just vibin' (shout out to Tula who died and just kept going anyway). Everything in the world building for Misfits and Magic season 2 (Joanne could NEVER). Like, I see an Aabria Iyengar season and I know it's going to feed my soul.

[sea-buns]

aabria bringing up the ao3 dorym fanfics she's read to liam in her case of why they should fuck. aimee directly asking matt for clarification on the vibes dariax was putting out towards dorian.

voices of the people. women after my own heart. single handedly giving me enough dopamine to keep chipping away at the hours and hours I still have left to catch up on.

[sparring-spirals]

aabria, tearfully: i didnt kill as many of you as i thought i would. and that's a skill issue.

[whichcouldmeanothing]

Dimension 20: Misfits And Magic 2x04 "A Change of Plan"

[wardensantoineandevka]

CRYING someone save Travis, and Aabria. How can Matt do this to Cowards Corner 😭

[hellishfig]

finally watching today's adventuring party

and what brennan says about how evan can only be himself while jammer has a version of himself for everyone is really fucking me up

not being able to mask versus being only able to mask is very interesting

[cursed-and-haunted]

The Goat (figuratively & literally)

[thequibblingking13]

Fearne Calloway, the woman that you are

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[irisbaggins]

I may be entirely wrong in the end, but I cannot stop thinking about this. I saw someone mention how Mismag 2 is a deconstruction of the genre, and upon further pondering, I wonder if it's more than that. I wonder if it's not only a deconstruction of that other wizard franchise, but that it also pointing out that it was never the only work about wizards and schools, and that it was never the first, only the most popular.

Specifically, the thing that keeps coming back to me is Aabria mentioning how there was old magic in the before times. How the magic that broke was never the original magic, just the magic that got popular. But now it's broken, with factions spread around with different opinions and philosophies on how to deal with that fact. Where, up until now (as of episode 4), we have not met a faction that is focused on the older magic, just the most recent one. They are torn up about a magic much more recent, and have yet to attempt to connect with any older iteration. Is there a reason for it? Or is it simply because they don't know any better?

With the theme of this season being intent, and with certain emphasis being made on the history of magic...I cannot help but see some parallels to the literary world. How wizards and their worlds were a genre prior to that one author, and how now you cannot escape the accusation that you're "copying" if you're attempting to write within said genre. We've been stripped of the "old magic", and perhaps the answer lies with finding it again.

Anyway. This is just me rambling because of a thought that struck me earlier and also I am just constantly thinking about Aabria's campaigns as a consequence of writing about said campaigns for my thesis. I'm probably far from accurate, here, but I thought I'd share some of my thoughts before I once more disappear. I just found it to be very fun to look at Mismag 2 as a deconstruction of one work as a statement and reclamation of a genre, especially since I've been thinking a lot about genre as of late.

I cannot wait for more Mismag, and to see how this world unfolds. It's always such a treat to watch Aabria GM a campaign :D

[mountaindaddiesanddragons]

A sincere thank you to @quiddie and the whole @worldsbeyondpod crew for giving a heads up about changing worlds after arc 4! My lil brain appreciates knowing a change is coming ahead of time. It gives me time to come to terms with my inevitable emotional destruction.

[thinkanamelater]

Hmm now what does this reminds me of 🤔👀

[sea-buns]

SO insane that Sam has seen AND liked this... I'm so cozy in my little tumblr corner that I forget my words can escape containment and be perceived beyond Aabria Iyengar