#and this was AT THE END OF OUR SESSION

[jess-abides]

Ayyye look who made the trainer’s story today 😌💪🏻 feeling strong af, I literally could barely do these with a half lunge 3 weeks ago.

[iwoulddieforienzo]

Personally I think percabeth is at its best when Grover is in it. I don’t necessarily mean in a polycule way I just think it’s great when he’s around

[kayzean]

Bungie once again COMING FOR MY FUCKING LIFE.

I- I'm... I'm going to scream.

[shitouttabuck]

“I’ll be honest—when Bobby first brought you on board, I told him he should just get a Dalmatian instead.”

[morrigan-sims]

And I forget sometimes I'm just flesh and bone.

As he stands in the ruined bathroom, all Rook can think is, At least now I can breathe.

[icantalk710]

Haven't posted too much since this week was hectic [😩], so it me after a slightly longer jog earlier (thankfully it's warm enough to sensibly go jogging) and then coming back to trim the beard/shave some 🪒🚿😌

[hal-o-ween]

Sweet Dreams <3

[luposlipaphobya]

Ok google how to date your boss when you’re haunted by eldritch entities. Asking for a friend.

Another scene from our dnd campaign. Melisande (guy with the braids) belongs to @the-nothing-maker ✨ and Lazuli is my npc!

[thyeternalhunger]

The coming of Necropolis

[rocketkid300]

so at first I thought the JJK finale was buns. And then I was mad. Then I thought about it a bit.

I think a lot of the stuff that Gege included within the final chapter (final few chapters ngl) is CONCEPTUALLY pretty good. Trio and all students surviving? Conclusion for the CG characters? Everyone moving on from Gojo because sorcerers should work together as a community and not rely on the strongest in a flawed system? Yuuji passing on encouragement to a new CG sorcerer to represent the next gen passing on their strength? All great points.

The problem was that it felt too fast paced. We didn't have time to really let the characters breathe and settle into the new world. No emotional conversations between the main trio, not even between Yuuji and Megumi. Just. Right back to it! And my biggest gripe was probably that there didn't really feel like there was a change to the status quo. Megumi's character didn't really feel like it had a proper conclusion, and we definitely should've gotten more from both Nobara and Yuuji about the new world they're in. Just killing the higher ups and putting gakugangi up there doesn't really make that much of a difference imo. And also everything with the foreign militaries? Ofc there was a lot of stuff implied w/ Mei Mei and the NSS clan stuff, and all the new CG sorcerers and etc, but honestly we just needed more.

That's when I realized the real enemy was Shonen Jump all along. Shonen Jump has extremely strict deadlines on the final chapter; meaning that once the final arc starts, the author would have to pick a date to end the manga and stick with it. But remember what happened a few months ago? Gege got sick around the time when the yuutago chapters dropped. He was out for a month. Thats anywhere from 3-5 extra chapters we could've had.

And that... really hurts. I genuinely think even 3 extra chapters could've fixed all the glaring issues with the last few chaps. More room to have emotional conversations, more to talk about the future of Jujutsu society/cursed energy, more change to the status quo, more actually cohesive character conclusions/interactions, even maybe a Gojo acknowledgement (yes ik the point is that the future gen will move on without him but I think it's unrealistic that the students don't look back on him fondly at least). Those extra chapters wouldn't fix everything, ofc, but it would definitely make things feel more complete. It sucks from a readers perspective, because we KNOW Gege can write really well. But I imagine it sucks even more from a writers perspective.

There's a lot of debate on whether or not Gege actually cares about JJK and its characters (especially when it comes to that six eyes freak ykwim), but even if his original ideas were scrapped, I think ANYONE who works on something for upwards of six years will feel some sort of love or care towards that project. I can't imagine what it must feel like to not be able to fully execute your creative vision because of health problems and the shitty cog-wheels of Shonen Jump serialization.

Ofc, I might be reading too much into it. Perhaps his leave of absence had nothing to do with how Gege ended JJK. Maybe this was his plan all along. The more I sit with it, the more okay I feel. We've known for a long time that the JJK ending wasn't going to be perfect. And yeah, we can (respectfully) mourn what we could've had but honestly? I had so much fun. I have never ever been involved in a fandom like this and yeah it sucked like 99% of the time but despite it all I had so much fucking fun. Say all you want about Gege's skills but you can't deny that he is amazing at creating compelling characters, cool power systems and emotionally packed plots. Yuuji, Megumi, Nobara and Maki will all be oh so dear to me forever. Yeah the ending could definitely have been better, but I'm willing to give him grace. If anything, I'm even more excited for his next work.

Anyways, I think that having all these plot holes and "wasted potential" might actually be a good thing in the long run. It can be frustrating, obviously, when you look at the story all on its own, but ngl fandom works best when we can fill in the gaps on our own. I'm looking forwards to seeing what everyone's gonna make from here on out! I definitely have a LOT of things I'd want to write about, maybe even draw ooh.

Incredibly longwinded way of saying: Gege, you aint so bad after all. And yeah, I think I'm pretty happy overall with JJK. Maybe a lil miffed about certain things, but I doubt I would be the person I am today without this godforsaken manga. How amazing is that? :)

[chrisrin]

some fun quick doodles of d&d pcs and npcs from the campaign i'm dming!

bonus! my little guy:

[dravencroft]

A few days ago our Storyteller prepared a special one-shot VtM session for us: we got nearly blank character sheets with only a name and a few stats, and our amnesiac characters had to escape the Hunters' prison they woke up in while slowly trying to regain their memories and defeat a demon and the Infernalist who summoned it.

In the end, they remembered who they were: Godot aka Alstroemeria, First Childe of the Seraphim Lily and First Finger of the Black Hand; and his sister Miri aka Bloom, Fifth Childe of Lily and Fifth Finger of the Black Hand. They chose to temporarily abandon their memories in order to go undercover on a very dangerous mission, in which they of course succeeded.

[lylailaeth]

One fun worldbuilding bit in my VtM game - only thing on tv is David Attenborough nature documentaries. Any day, any time, any channel you can expect thrilling footage of wild animals on your screen.

The only time we got anything else was news broadcasts after Queen Elizabeth died, just so we dont forget the game is in fact set in UK

[w1lmutt]

Our dnd campaign ended today

I miss the party already,,,,,

[anna-scribbles]

what does it say abt me that I tried out the adrien bot and immediately started roleplaying a therapy session with him

[ivy-saurs]

at my secondary school we had to choose an activity each term (maybe the american equivalent would be an elective? idk) which we did on wednesday afternoons and there was one term where a lot of people chose yoga and my form teacher said "i suspect people are choosing yoga because they think it's a good opportunity to sleep" and i was like oh shit, we can sleep in yoga? and proceeded to choose it as my activity every single term until i left the school