#goddamn brennan

[mareastrorum]

I was re-watching A Crown of Candy and noticed something (spoilers):

In Episode 3, when Ruby is inside the carriage after the ambush, she casts Prestidigitation to clean the blood off her flyer. Calroy Cruller reaches in and grabs her hand to interrupt the cast. Brennan described it as "swashbuckler dexterity" that allowed him to do that.

Rogues don't have an ability to react to spell casts like that. Swashbuckler subclasses don't either.

You know what grants that ability? The Mage Slayer feat:

When a creature within 5 feet of you casts a spell, you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack against that creature.

Brennan threw a red flag out there so early. Holy shit.

[idkimoutofideas]

Better that a soul feed someone than be thrown away

[lavender-ghosting]

the stress stacks?!?!?! i thought it might reset 😭😭

[operationslipperypuppet]

sometimes you just gotta. quit on the spot. because of ally beardsley and their insane dice luck.

[absolutequagsire]

[insert the most scary, cliffhanger-y thing you’ve ever seen that will keep you up all night until next Wednesday]

T-T-T-TAKING OVER

TEENAGE REBELLION

[feelingtheaster99]

Honestly Riz/Murph having such an INCREDIBLE turn using knowledge of game mechanics against Kipperlilly who CHEATED the system to get gains is fucking ICONIC

[thisisworsethanitlookslike]

this made me tear the fuck up

[plant-ago]

"Power exists. Power should make you sad, and tired. Anyone who seems to like power is suspect."

-- anti-authoritarian luminary Brennan Lee Mulligan

[b3anieperson]

Things I do not want but expect in Onyx Storm (also things I do want but you all have to figure that out)

Naolin comes back (or has always been and never died-) as a venin

Tairn dies

Xaden ties Violet's shoes

Colonel Aetos comes back to bite us in the ass

Someone close to Xaden dies (I'm placing bets on Bodhi, sorry)

Violet's second signet is going to be ward weaving (maybe idfk)

Bodoc happens???

We meet Drake Cordella!

One of the Cordella children dies (placing bets on Syrena)

Gamogen/Immrick happens???

We have a meeting with Venin

Mira or Brennan get severely injured in said meeting with Venin

We FINALLY get to hear about Liam wielding ice in the Battle of Resson

Viscount Tecarus dies (thank fucking god)

We get to meet the Queen of Poromiel

They drag King Tauri kicking and fucking screaming to a meeting with the Queen of Poromiel

We meet Halden

We get history on how (I hope) Halden and Vi dated

We hate Halden

Aaric hates Halden a tad bit too

Aaric x Sloane (pleaseee RY I begggg)

Sgaeyl and Tairn have eggs (maybe idfk)

Andarna can finally fly fully and we learn that she CAN support Vi while flying

We learn that Lillith Sorrengail was a Venin (see a pervious post about that theory)

Jack Barlowe is killed (PLEASE IM TIRED OF THIS FLYING RAT TURD)

Dain Aetos dies (killed by his own father, such shame)

Okay now we play a game, I'M Xaden Riorson, and YOU'RE all Violet Sorrengail, ask me what I mean (by reblogging or commenting or asking) and I'll explain what I mean. (I hope that it'll make sense because my tiny pea brain doesn't work well at midnight apparently)

[thelesbianluthor]

Two episodes in Fantasy High and WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE LIKE ?!? Lou's reaction? That was me at the end there

[foreverinblupjeans]

But like, you're... you're Evan. All that other stuff. That doesn't hold a candle. Like it- it...

They're not you.

It's not that you're not them, they're not you.

[sugaldean]

When you see the d20 cast being ""annoyed"" at each other or fucking scream at each other for some decisions they took

It is not an invitation to us the audience to bash the cast. They are friends who know each other and respect each other boundaries

We are thousands of people potentially screaming the exact same thing at them. On loop. They don't know us. And we don't know them

[essektheylyss]

Conrad and Justin really are so sweet and heartwarming, but there is something that makes me lose my mind about them being friends in particular.

Given Mark Bition having such an influence in the city, with Mayor Logic being elected because, you know, it just made sense, and just Elias Hodge's general career path and interests, Justin could've been running with the big dogs. People who are ambitious and rational, particularly those funneled into siloed scientific development jobs for those traits, often justify their actions extensively. Progress, the momentum of civilizations, the greater good, economic upswing—these are all justifications for scientific and technological development that work well on the people doing the work as much as they do on those funding it. It is a simple story to tell.

But Justin isn't with those people. He's with Conrad, the stunted conscience that has been neglected and ignored out of pain and fear and anxiety for years. He's been encouraging Conrad to act, to speak up, to push through those fears to make a change, and after all of those years, he is still Conrad's best friend.

Even when Conrad thought he had been wrong, Justin didn't. Which means Elias Hodge knew all along that his conscience was right.

[kazz-brekker]

just finished reading an arc of long live evil by sarah rees brennan and i simultaneously feel like i am full of helium and also like i am about to have a heart attack

[operationslipperypuppet]

the mortifying ordeal of being a mouse that was briefly a man

[malachitebeck]

Do you think that by mocking the folly of the former Elven Oracle for not realizing a storm would be her downfall, Adaine Abernant made her first prediction.