#dungeons and therapy

[ianthewife]

addiction n abusive relationship metaphors are breaking down my door send help

head in my hands the last three panels are gonna live in my head forever

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[renguro]

[fumifooms]

[ministarfruit]

I love that marcille and mithrun go to therapy together… they can be buddies I believe it

[ilovelouie8]

Look at that vice grip

HE AIN'T GOING NOWHERE KABRU

[untowardsthoughts]

if anthony burch played normal oak in s2 i dont doubt it would be dissimilar to francis now

[mossyfig]

Very WIP of Senior Year Normal and Hermie!! Wanted to share my designs for them!!!!

[thatsthat24]

NEW VIDEO: “Those D&D Party Members Who Need Therapy…” ⚔️ https://youtu.be/qYzlriesWaE

[cozybells]

yeah you'll hurt me

[nanowired-lover]

i think im gonna start posting doodles on this blog bc i like them but it feels wrong to put them on my art blog so yeah. Chilchuck (+ 1 (one) Senshi) upon ye

[quillsnip]

its still insane to me that dungeons and daddies opening response to the death of such a beloved character was an All Stars by Smash Mouth cover that successfully made everyone bawl their eyes out.

[froggieco]

Some controversial thoughts about the Peachyville Horror

I've been seeing how everyone is reacting to Francis's moment in the bathroom in this latest episode (episode 7) and I thought I might as well add one more.

Francis is someone who is mentally unstable, yes. I think this is something we can all agree with. He's surrounded by people who seem to either enable his actions in one way or another or they're on a list of people he keeps which we can only assume is something like a hit list. He's been looked down on by his parents, bullied by his peers, and generally just beat down by everyone around him including himself at this point. Then he won that trophy. That's where everything shifts. He's the one to take it home and it's obvious that by how Will was describing that trophy, something about it had negative energy.

⚠️Now I get into some gory details in this next part so fair warning ⚠️

Now, Francis had his dream and suddenly became violent to an extent that he would joke about it and people would feel threatened. Relistening to episode 5, he threatened a man after scooping his eyes out with an ice cream scoop by kicking him in the balls and then grabbing his eyeballs and threatening to squeeze them. Now, I get it this is a horror comedy podcast but if we are gonna analyze a character I'm taking everything into account and really this is the first and really an extremely violent thing for a person to do, especially when this is the first actions he's been known to take.

Getting the gun and instantly he seemed to know exactly what he "needed" to do. On a dime, the Francis we knew just a few episodes ago was already so different.

Now that brings us to the bathroom scene. People have been saying it was a mental "snap" or "break" which doesn't line up, like how most others have pointed out that this was something that was premeditated. He planned out this whole thing and followed through with it. And to those who think he did this so Shane wouldn't bother him anymore, he didn't see Francis at all through the whole attack, which yes, Francis could go back and claim he did it but I still this it's important to note we don't know if Shane will believe him.

That being said, with every increasingly violent act that Francis had done up to that point it made sense within the confines of his world. It was in his character that things have played out this way so far. And really I think it's going to make for a really interesting character arc. He isn't going to to be a character that we have seen before, which when we just had a season of teens that were just coming into themselves Anthony is getting his chance to get his character in, and it is a horror series. This doesn't make any of the actions acceptable by any means and this should not encourage people to romanticize any of the actions he does. There is a way to like a character and not romanticize their actions, some of these posts remind me of posts of people romanticizing real murderers and shooters, which is rather disturbing.

TLDR

Francis suddenly got violent after bringing the trophy home, having a dream after being under his teacher's bed for 4 hours, and now he's suddenly he's on a bloody rampage and those around him are either enablers or in his line of fire and that's an interesting new character to think about. But don't romanticize that shit.

Extra

• Another idea I saw floating around was that Francis got switched with his reflection in the trophy, which I love the idea of this one. It can keep the idea of mental health slightly but it brings the story back into it. But, I understand that even without evil trophies, people like Francis exist in our world.

• Also having him practice with his bully's face as the target was really the warning. I personally didn't know the scene was going to be that graphic but now looking back I get the horror side of the podcast now. As someone who lives in America it was something that shocked me the first time listening to it, knowing that the usual stuff that the guys bring up I can laugh off. This scene most definitely felt different and I'm sure that it's going to be a huge turning point for a lot of things.

[fuumiku]

Happy new year!!

Some doodles I did today to unwind + test a lineart brush

[theadhdgoblin]

[andalitebytes]

Astarion getting so excited about meeting Drizzt hits different when you realize that Astarion probably held on the the legend because he, too, wanted to escape the horrors of his tormentors. Drizzt did what Astarion was never able to do- fight back, resist, and leave. Drizzt survived the horrors of growing up literally tortured mentally and physically by people who by all other means were meant to help and support him. Astarion was ripped from his life and forced into this horrible servitude and spent his days in terror, just like Drizzt did. Astarion probably sees a lot of himself in Drizzt and wished at least at some point that he could do the same. Drizzt is a survivor, and so is Astarion. Drizzt became what he is because he survived, and I'm certain Astarion hopes he can, too. Drizzt found community despite his circumstances, and so did Astarion. I'm sure they would have plenty to talk about, plenty of healing they could to just chatting together.