#and liveblogging as i watch it

[goatsghost]

okay so imagine you’re in a relationship and your partner suddenly drops off the face of the earth, and their sister admits to getting rid of them via major head injury so she could take their place in you guys’ start-up business instead, but you just kind of have to let her bc the higher ups say so

then about two months pass and suddenly your partner is back! and their weird sister was evidently telling the truth; they don’t remember anything about you or your shared business plans, and also they’ve got a ton of new friends and a new s/o in tow, and they’ve just finished killing your third business partner

so now the two of you are on opposite sides of a war and your (ex?)partner is actively hunting you and their sister down to stop the plan for world domination that they helped create!

what i’m saying is that gortash is essentially the hallmark movie love interest that got left behind, and i think he deserves some credit for being as normal as he is about it

[shorthaltsjester]

if i keep seeing so many people refer to ayden as an indication of an unknown softness in pelor i will start setting things on fire. just because YOU cannot handle nuance does not mean the story of exandria has not contained it and done so consistently. in fact the first in depth interaction that any party had with pelor (vex becoming his champion) was a portrayal of him that was explicit in his complexity. taken straight from the transcript for 1x104 elysium, “[vex you] spin and look, whereas there once was a burning star-- and to the rest of [vox machina], you see the painful, endless light that averts your gaze-- it doesn't hurt your eyes as much, and you can see the faint features, the soft cheeks, the hairless head, and the bright warm eyes of he who brings the dawn. And you can see the smile there, behind the light. “there is hope.”” sunlight can warm you and burn you in equal measure.

that burning image of the sun has much in common with a teenage boy who steps into a dark room, and reminds the dm that it’s not dark. the same way that a teenage boy who stands by as a woman who will not give up her worship of pelor is punished because he has more important responsibilities he must honour has much in common with a seemingly benevolent lord of the dawn might respond harshly to a cleric who asks if he is worth saving while he is trying to find a way to survive so he might keep helping to provide light. the gods aren’t simple and they never have been. i am as psyched about the particular angle that downfall is taking as anybody but it is already frustrating watching people act like the gods are suddenly more nuanced because they’re in literally mortal bodies when the entire Point of the gods in exandria in the various stories we’ve seen so far is that the only difference they have with mortals is the bounds of their power. they carry all the same flaws and the same profundity. just because so much of the fandom has reduced that to black and white flatness or faulty mapping onto real world religions (or the various traumas those might have caused individuals) doesn’t mean that complexity has been missing at all from the story.

[mysteriouswolf]

Grian stream highlights!!!:

Mumbo is learning guitar + was recommended to be Grian's right hand man

Skizz was recommended to be Impulse’s right hand man

Grian can you please say one of your classic lines? -Ollie. Uhm….hi? -Grian

Scar discovered that you can use goat horns and everyone used them at the same time so noxcrew took them away

Being put on hold on gri’s stream

The Ghana school is doing really well!!! There's jobs and a trolley for the kids to be picked up, it's really popular, and they're opening a primary school class there :D

And it's semi-cheap to run the school, which is $15,000 pounds to run the school a year. I love gri <3

Meltdown (which definitely didn't happen)- “oooo Jimmy’s clutching! Oh- he's dead now.” -Joel

Awkward breaks because they're 5 minutes

JOEL SLAYING IN HOLE IN THE WALL (2ND!!!!!!)

The whole team getting 2nd in Grid Runners :D

Everyone getting so hyped about Mojang potentially saying the next update was gonna be the end update and getting so incredibly disappointed when it wasn't (they literally convinced themselves it was HILARIOUS ALFKAKGAK)

PEARL WINNNNNNN!!!!! THEY HAVE TO SHIP A HUGE ENDER CUP TO AUSTRALIA NOW WOOOOOOOOOO!!!

“I'm so happy for her :333” -Grian

[sparring-spirals]

all critrole roads lead to smut shop. except if u are yussa. if u are yussa all roads lead to whatever current existential threat that would LOVE to ensnare and devour a curious lil wizard. all the other ones lead to smut shops tho.

[andi-o-geyser]

fuck the fate of the very fabric of the universe, the scariest moment in the neverafter finale was brennan calling in the vice principal

[sharptoothed-gaze]

I don’t ever clip things, BUT this moment was so fucking funny to me that I had to go back and snatch it from the Pangi vod.

Idk bro it’s just such a Foolish thing to casually say some wild shit like this outta nowhere. To be fair though, I think he mostly does this type of stuff with Bbh rather than others??

They’re both very /like this/ to each other, and I’m sure the Doozers and Ghosties are both very familiar with the melodrama. I think Tubbo and Pangi both got the shock of their lives for a sec there tho lmao

[bloodpen-to-paper]

Acau on behalf of the Qsmp community I apologize that you had to experience being tp'd by an admin and instantly getting hit with Tubbo screaming obscenities. It will most likely happen again.

[thewertsearch]

You make a cautious motion toward a beckoning EXIT KNOB, when suddenly THE SAME WILD CHARACTER-SELECT SCREEN REAPPROACHES NONTHREATENINGLY!

I think we've got to go with Jake, unless one of the blondes is secretly clickable this time around.

...nope, doesn't look like it. Back to English class, then!

What was it you were up to? Oh right, you were going to pick these dang guns up off the floor when you were interrupted by some fleeting imperceptible thought. You kind of space out sometimes.

A reference to Jake's 'spacing out' feels like it could be a hint that he's the session's new Space Player. I guess he is living beside the Forge, but I still think there's currently more evidence for Doom.

You pick up your TWIN M9 BERETTAS, weapons of choice in an absurd arsenal inherited from an eccentric old woman.

I could absolutely see Grandma Jade rocking the Sassacre Slayers. She is a skilled markswoman, after all, and we've seen her abilities in action a couple of times.

You think your bed is some sort of electronic gadget. You're pretty sure those bedpost globes are supposed to glow like light bulbs under certain circumstances. But you've never been able to figure out what purpose it serves. Just more mysterious junk inherited from your eclectic GRANDMA.

No Dreambot for Jake, I take it. Guess that makes sense - that bot was Crockertech, and Grandma Jade didn't inherit the company like Grandpa Jake did.

He's still got an upgraded bed, though, so my guess is that Jade attempted the Dreambot project, but simply didn't have the resources to complete it.

She also gave you these bedsheets when you were very young, which you adore, but only for sentimental reasons.

It looks like the only lusi depicted on Jake's bedsheets are the twelve we're already familiar with. That catlike silhouette in the center-bottom is a slight question mark, but I think it's supposed to be a very skinny Pounce De Leon.

I was going to ask where Jade got a bedsheet which references the Alternian Players, but then I remembered that her adoptive mother was an Alternian Player. Jade probably swiped some of her things on the way out, the cheeky minx.

You aren't too keen on monsters.

Yeesh, the Medium's not going to be much fun for our boy.

You'd expect an adventure-lover to be a lot more enthusiastic about fighting monsters, but I guess we all have our phobias. At least he has a ranged weapon, so he won't have to get up close and personal with his Underlings.

A lot of these posters are fairly transparent references to Lord English. The Mummy alludes to the weird sarcophagus he summoned in his Intermission, Weekend at Bernie's is about corpse-puppeting someone like he did with Scratch, and The Incredible Hulk explains itself.

Special shout out to this poster, though, which I'm pretty sure is literally titled Time-Travelling Demon. Subtle!

[12pt-times-new-roman]

"I'm fine to be wrong, but let's just talk about it. Let's let that be the opening gambit."

Sorry, y'all, but Orym is 100% right here. Like, sure, Orym walked in wielding that blade without consultation, but Laudna fucking attacked and damaged him first. Jesus christ. As soon as someone suggests that the blade might be cursed, Orym puts it onto the table to be identified -- as soon as a challenge comes up, he puts his soul on the table, bared. He puts himself up to be questioned, criticized. In this situation, he was the only one willing to compromise -- if Laudna had approached him for a talk, he would've been open to it. but instead she gave in to Delilah and attacked her party member.

[saltyyetbland]

Welcome 양띵 to the QSMP!

I know that the current state of the QSMP is a bit iffy and many may not feel comfortable watching QSMP right now (valid response), but I still feel like a warm welcome to these new Korean creators is still needed regardless as they are being introduced to an international community, which is a very scary thing ngl.

So welcome 양띵 or Yangdding who will be one of the new Korean CCs!

She streams on CHZZK and her channel can be found here.

Her Youtube can be found here.

Fun fact: She was the first YouTuber in Korea to reach 1 million view and is considered to be the one to create the foundation for Korean Minecraft content.

[djevelbl]

Guess what tf I'm watching nowwww

[nandermoenthusiast]

not them having a fucking showdown about which one of them was more devoted to the other………… not them making it a fucking competition and a fucking argument which one of them is more down bad horrendous for the other and STILL they havent had their realisation in the dead of night/day while lying in their bed/coffin that the other has feelings for them

[silverraes]

my man really said "I'm going to get my fanfic truth or dare confession and if I have to make it happen myself then so be it"

[chinzhilla]

not sitting like that you don't

[sparring-spirals]

loved exu calamity. so deeply and immensely. REALLY fucking love. cr downfall. as a mirror to it. in so many ways.

i promise i wont make 3 million posts until ive watched it properly in full but. well. for posterity i am posting this incoherent message sent live

calamity where we spend the whole time knowing theyre fighting a doomed battle and so much of calamity came down to what do you do when the world is going to end? what do you do when you cannot stop the end? when there is no way you will survive- what do you do, when you WILL lose? wins that are not complete but feel earned.

vs here when success is guaranteed in a way that is awful and terrifying and is like a natural disaster bearing down. Like the inherent horror of. you will win. you WILL win. your humanity unravelling and falling away. this success is guaranteed. your enemies will fall. everything crumbling before you like the force of nature that you are. you win but. do you. do you. does it mean anything.

[your-turn-to-role]

AT DAWN WE PLAN