#anytime i play any minecraft-esque game

[midnightmoonbeams]

I played a lot of DQB2 in November of 2020. A lot. LIke, I'm skipping screenies from a lot of days because a lot of it is mostly "notes" - screenies I take to remember lists of quest items, etc. But this one here I had to share. I love Zelda. Of course I'd screenie this.

From November 8th, 2020

[quirkzone]

youtuber au? uh, yeah, i sure hope it is

 welcome to youtuber au hc post part iii!

minor change before we get into it: this au has now been split into two separate stories that happen simultaneously! title changes are as follows: 

tododeku: Love at First Site kamishin: Love at First Like 

ANYWAY NOW FOR THE HCS

shinsou was on vine in college (and kaminari was a Big Fan)

pretty much all the dekusquad and bakusquad’s social media hijinks started in college

both squads (sans todoroki & momo) had aizawa as a teacher in high school

but shinsou was in a different class for a bunch of reasons so the dekusquad all met him after

none of them had any idea that aizawa had kids let alone was married (until they see him on present mic’s videos years later and during the PRESENT MIC’S SON?!?! drama)

present mic is 1000% still also a radio host

no one suspects shinsou of anything

the whole bakusquad further bond in college over all being engineering majors (don’t @ me you can take this hc out of my cold, dead hands)

idk if y’all know any engineering majors but let me tell you: some of the smartest people on earth with the most aggressive dumbass energy)

look me in the eyes and tell me that isn’t bakusquad vibes

they’re all doing different types of engineering but bond over the basic courses before they specialize and do study groups 

bakugou and kaminari end up bonding extra bc they both took a thermodynamics elective their 3rd year (listen ok? listen. it’s perfect and I crave bakugou + kaminari friendship)

during their last year they were like ‘ok we’re all gonna graduate we should live together to save money while we figure our lives out’

so they do that

executive decision: kaminari and shinsou have been fans of each other for years but through sheer coincidence they have no idea

todoroki occasionally takes voice acting roles on the side, and one of the indie games he agreed to voice for got Really Popular out of nowhere

and he gets asked to do the sequel and when he accepts the whole gaming community blows up and he gets invited to E3

a major portion of the stories lead up to E3, where everyone will be for one reason or another (or at least something E3-esque)

kaminari mostly plays like minecraft-type games but once todoroki’s second game is confirmed he decides to play through the first one, just get a feel for the hype

he’s currently working through that during the fic(s)

midoriya was in his friends videos in college but didn’t actively become a social media Person until he was like 23/24

i wonder why.... 👀

todoroki has never really been into anyone before and just focused on work 25/8 so when he gets smitten with midoriya and stops working so much (aka starts working a healthy amount) and like. actually takes care of himself and focuses on midoriya everyone who knows him is like: 

���wow....didn’t know it did that’

OKAY THAT’S ALL FOR NOW! 

If you wanna know the any of the bakusquad’s or dekusquad’s majors just come ask me! (it just would have looked weird in this format;; )

come talk to me about this or my royalty au anytime! my inboxes are always open! (and i love to scream about this au, clearly)

[eponymous-rose]

Talks Machina Highlights - Critical Role C2E39 (October 23, 2018)

(This week’s Talks will be posted after the episode airs tonight!)

Tonight’s guests are Liam O’Brien and Taliesin Jaffe! Also ft. Peak Dani (who has had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking show) and Marisha Ray Everywhere.

Announcements:

Marisha’s BtS episode has aired and is now available online on CR’s YouTube. Taliesin: “It’s not ridiculous to say she’s one of the best people I know.”

Matt’s BtS aired yesterday. Brian: “I’ve done twenty-some hours of interviews, and this is the one that broke me.” Liam: “Yeah, he’s super shallow, right?”

There will be a bonus holiday episode of BtS featuring Ashley Johnson.

The Halloween episode of All Work No Play aired last week! Liam: “The most handsome Sam’s ever been.”

Laura’s one-shot was pre-taped and aired on Thursday (now available on G&S’s YouTube). Brian, on trying to maintain a British accent for his character: “It’s a nightmare. I apologize to all the Critters. I’m going to get Peaky Blindered.” It’s truly a thing of beauty.

Stats for this week’s episode:

Matt surpassed 15 nat 20s and 20 nat 1s for the campaign in this episode.

The M9 got their 150th kill: the yuan-ti abomination killed by Nott.

This episode was the first time a character dealt more than 150 damage in an episode, with Fjord dealing 158. However, he only dealt the second-highest: Yasha dealt 301!

By the end of the fight, the Warden had grown an additional 8 heads and had taken a total of 428 points of damage.

Liam has the same mini at home that Matt used in this episode. “The hydra’s in the corner. All the heads are facing the wall.”

Caleb’s been enjoying the Menagerie Coast, but he’s starting to want to go home with all this time on the boat and the island. “He’s very much of the Empire, and sees leaving it as both a chance to learn things that he doesn’t know and experience things he hasn’t experienced so he can do things he wants to do.” He’s also very cognizant that the whole group has needs, and he can’t just railroad everyone to the library. Taliesin: “He’s evolving. That’s nice.”

Liam has dyed his hair green, red, and blue. Brian did purple.

Cad hasn’t yet put together that the Cloaked Serpent is the Wildmother’s mortal enemy. “I don’t think he necessarily believes that that’s what’s happening yet.” Even as Taliesin, he isn’t entirely convinced.

Caleb hasn’t been avoiding Cad or anything. “I think Cad would see what the others see, which that Caleb’s fucked up.”

Everything gets derailed at the realization that Taliesin was in Facts of Life. Brian: “You can’t just throw shit like that!”

Caleb’s been looking at Cad with the perspective of, “Oh, hey, he’s the new guy, let’s see if he lasts.”

Taliesin: “He’s fascinated by your intellectualism. He wants to know that.” Dani: “Yeah he does.”

Cad’s perspective on the M9′s casual disposal of bodies: “It’s all food. As long as the body’s useful, it doesn’t matter where it goes.”

Caleb put a lot of trust in Fjord to hand him his spellbooks. “He does trust Fjord for certain things. Not enough to tell him everything. Caleb’s been getting a little cocky lately.”

There’s some innuendo here. Maybe. Just a little. “Ball’s in your court, Brian.”

Who would they trust to come in and play their characters in their absence? Taliesin: “I don’t have friends anymore.” Brian: “YOU KNOW TERI HATCHER!” 

But seriously, Taliesin would ask Ashley first, then Marisha or Travis, as the ones most likely to get the zen. Liam: “I think Ashley would be number one, RP-wise, for Caleb. And it would probably be Taliesin.”

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn once explained hentai to Brian on an airplane for half an hour. “It was the funniest goddamn conversation I’ve had in my life.”

Gif of the Week: the beheading of the hydra.

Caduceus has “definitely dabbled in some psychotropics. That’s definitely something that grows in the garden.”

Taliesin and Liam generally cut themselves some slack for any mistakes they might have made in a game that’s played late at night after a full day of work. Liam: “Even the bad decisions lead to awesome.”

Taliesin: “I would’ve liked to have gotten the hydra high, now that I know that was an option.” There’s some discussion as to what kind of high a hydra would have, and if each head might react differently. Liam: “I told you we shouldn’t have mixed!”

Brian: “This has more dick jokes than Honey Heist 2, for some reason.”

Fanart of the week: the beautiful orchard chamber.

Taliesin on Travis’ ‘Molly’ slip-up: “Honestly, there’s very few things in the world that delight me more than seeing a little bit of shame roll down his face.” He purposely made an offended face at him. That moment delighted him.

Liam’s getting some great schadenfreude over Travis having to agonize over his RP decisions like the rest of them this campaign. “Fuck you with your emotional investment!”

Taliesin specifically made a character who bonds easily with people. He loves knowing things about the characters but being able to back off from that and feign ignorance.

Caleb being high meant that his self-flagellation got pushed way into the background. “It felt good not to care.” Brian asks if Caleb might seek escape through addiction to something like that, and Liam notes that Caleb doesn’t actually want to escape that self-loathing; he wants to wallow in it. Liam: “He really likes hating on himself. That was the point of all this. He wants to do something unfathomable fueled by self-loathing. There’s a thin little window that, if he sticks the landing, he can untie the knot.”

Clay’s mostly just pushing forward with this whole release-the-snake-of-many-eyes thing in the hopes of getting answers; he hasn’t thought more deeply about it. Caleb think it’s a bad idea; he’d try to stop it if he could. Both Caleb and Clay feel like Fjord’s hiding a lot. Clay’s feeling curious and cautious about what’ll happen when Fjord finds out the things he doesn’t know. Caleb thinks Fjord’s hiding a lot and is making terrible decisions; “Caleb’s such a hypocrite, because he’d probably take steps to stop Fjord from doing the things that he’s doing, still knowing that he needs to do the things he wants to do.”

Talks Machina: That About Sums It Up:

What books would Liam keep in Caleb-esque holsters with him at all times? Hellboy: Seed of Destruction: Vol. 1, and Complete Works of Shakespeare. It would be a little unbalanced. If he could only pick one Shakespeare play, it’d be Hamlet.

Given the chance, Taliesin would dye Liam’s hair “a blue-silver with a little purple highlight, a gentle amethyst. It’d be good, bring out your eyes.”

I just love that this is a thing Brian said: “Fluffernutter. Does that scare you guys?”

Taliesin: “Anytime you have to roll that many times to get something to work, I’m a little hesitant. If we’re not in a cave next time, right next to people who are taking damage, I’d feel a little better.”

How would they defeat a Marisha hydra? Taliesin, instantly: “Could not be done.” He and Liam concoct a plan involving the right margarita, turkish delight, a pickletini, red wine, Minecraft, and giving one-sheet pitch docs to three of the heads.

Brian’s solution in four words: “There’s a weed drought.” Taliesin: “We once came up with a Magic card just called Pile O’ Weed. It’d just be a green card you could tap, and a whole turn would pass and nothing would happen.”

Molly would’ve had two of the fruits, “just to make a point”.