#and also the ruidus stuff!?!?!? like is the world gonna end!!!!???

[strawbie-doodle]

the fucking ninja turtles are making me lose sleep

[essektheylyss]

Hello! Just wanted to tell you how much “what luminous worlds await” lives in my head absolutely rent free. I’m not caught up on the sequel because I really haven’t had time to read fanfic lately, but I think about luminous worlds constantly. best time travel story I have ever read, one of my favorite stories of all time. It genuinely reframed the way I conceptualize the universe, the idea that it’s singing to us all the time and is filled with love and care for us will live in my heart forever (the way the luxon loves leylas!!!!! Ahhh!!). Also the worldbuilding you did around the magic tech is astounding! I think about the ruidus life support system allll the time. I wish I could go back in time and reread it blind for the first time and experience the magic of watching the story unfold all over again. You’re an incredible writer and I can’t thank you enough for sharing such a clever and moving story.

Hello!!! THANK YOU!!! I have failed to respond to this for two days and it's cuz I kept needing to scream into the carpet anytime I thought about it. I am ALSO not caught up on my own sequel and it is haunting me at the moment, I'm not gonna lie. I have like... a third of the next chapter written and that's where I've been for months. It's fine it's cool writer's block has not been giving me an existential crisis, nope, none of that here!

ANYWAY I am very 🥺 to know that it had that effect; it was definitely partially a product of me working through some stuff wrt belief and how I interact with the world and knowing it had a small amount of the same impact for people reading it is... wild, honestly, but I'm very pleased that came through!!!

Also I did want you to know that I listen to your playlist for it SO often—I ended up putting a bunch of songs I found from it on a playlist for an original project with actually fairly similar vibes, which I'm hoping will turn out like... marginally as well as I felt like luminous worlds turned out, though that project is currently highly unwieldy (and it always has been lol) so we'll see if that happens.

In any case, thank you for the note; I'm so so fond of this fic and I'm really glad it stayed with you this long! 💜

[britcision]

And this is literally what I mean about Matt Mercer unfinding my goddamn family

10 years after their last fucking meeting? 10 years? They haven’t got the whole gang together in 10 goddamn years after the Uk’otoa fight?

And yeah sure they’re meeting up in bits and pieces in between I’m sure they’ll mention it, if they remember, but this is why American rpg game endings suck

“And then they all went their separate ways from the people they had seen every day and saved the world with and didn’t really think about each other ever again (unless we want them to reunite for a DLC)

But be super invested in their interpersonal relationships anyway. It won’t change the ending, but your choices totally matter”

(Ignore that c3 is only 6-7 years after the M9’s final campaign ep and the Ikithon fight and has not even hit the full year yet timeline consistency is fucking hard okay)

(Gonna be fun to see how they handle that Caleb and Beau were canonically off with Bells Hells without the rest of their friends when the solstice started, I’m hoping for “this is how the rest of the Nein go rescue them” and also CADUCEUS GODDAMN CLAY

They fucking STOLE his “deal with Molaesmyr” DIVINE MISSION PERSONALLY SENT TO HIS ASS BY THE WILDMOTHER and just haven’t even addressed it so I’m double hoping for Some Kind Of Goddamn Explanation for what exactly the Clays are doing about The Evil Cursed Forest They Literally Fucking Live In And Their Goddess Personally Paged The Lot Of Them To Deal With Before It Tries To Eat Their Fucking House Again

I will accept “Caddy stayed home he likes it at home and let the others handle it” (cuz that went super well and in a way that totally wouldn’t have traumatized him last time) if I must but for fuck’s sake the only elven amputee they ever met in game is Keyleth’s lost mother how the fuck did they send the new party to The Woods By Caddy’s House His Family Were Personally Charged With Fixing and not run into a single fucking Clay?????)

Also since the one thing we know happened to Beau and Caleb around the solstice was getting yote to destinations unknown (hopefully together) the reuniting aspect is gonna be fun while the magic’s fucked 👀

I’ll admit to a passing curiosity about how much of Bell’s Hells current solstice-and-Ruidus-heavy plot line they’re going to let the Nein deal with in the one shot but honestly not enough to catch up with Bells Hells

Like. Matt’s not gonna let them deal with anything important to Bell’s Hells “offscreen” for that campaign. He’s just not gonna. So hunting Ludinous for sport would be fucking excellent, but I don’t think he’d let them do it?

If they were visiting Vox Machina to rescue Vax it would not just be a Mighty Nein headline

Matt isn’t gonna let them just handle anything that Bell’s Hells have been building up to for months and months

I thought we’d gotten a pretty solid grip on everything that was happening with the moon… as part of the Bell’s Hells plot that’s been building for months and months

Beau and Caleb are explicitly involved in the Bell’s Hells plot that has been building for months and months but explicitly under Matt’s thumb, not Liam and Marisha’s

(And he’s gonna have to give them just all the juicy plot stuff the Empire Sibs have been doing that they might not have told the Hells because this is the first time Matt’s taken over a PC and then given them back at a point explicitly later in the timeline

So Liam and Marisha need to know what their characters have been doing last week while Matt controlled them for Bell’s Hells to play them in line with how Matt played them

And Liam literally built Orym as an excuse to reuse all his c1 knowledge he hates keeping information separate between characters but Orym can’t know what Caleb’s been up to)