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now i've watched a fair amount of d&d i've started to pick up on the differences between dm style i think
like brennan IS all the bad guys. every game he dms is brennan vs the players. he makes npcs and battles that make his friends throw things at him and he smirks the whole time. he makes them tell him their worst fears and then he makes them do it. and it's awful and amazing and really funny
matt IS exandria. his characters and battles never feel written or constructed, they just feel like things that already existed in the world. it's all about verisimilitude with him, and he's amazing at it. he tends to fade into the background and let the players react to the story and it makes everything he does incredibly cinematic
aabria dms like she's just another player at the table reacting to the story, right up until someone gets lulled into a false sense of security and tries to fool around and THEN she throws a curveball by making them deal with the consequences of their choices. she's like oh you think that's funny?? then i'm about to be hilarious, bitch. and she keeps getting away with it bc she's just that good!
basically, brennan's an evil bastard, matt's the world, and aabria's the queen of consequences
or:
brennan - fuck
matt - around
aabria - find out
#brennan lee mulligan#matt mercer#aabria iyengar#sorry but this made me laugh agdjgsjsgs#petition for a d20 series dmed by brennan w aabria as a pc where a couple eps in her pc kills brennan's bbeg and they swap seats#revealing she was the dm all along#i also really want a round robin series. all dms at the table and they take turns controlling the narrative#whether it's in order or just like. every time one of them kills the dm's npc they become the dm or smth#it'd be really fun i'd love to see what kind of mangled mess of a story we'd get#i haven't listened to that much taz but griffin seems to be a mix of brennan and aabria where he does things for the bit#and then eventually he's like oh btw the bit is immense emotional trauma. whoops!
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proud to say i am just as attracted to him now as i am to him in zero day
#also the fact that he still hasn’t dmed me back and i can’t message him again…#everyone makes fun of his baldness#and i do too#but he’s still so fine#ARMS#his arms make me cry#zero day#zero day 2003#andre kriegman#zeroday#cal gabriel#calvin gabriel#caldre#ben coccio#zero day movie#andre keuck#andre and cal#cal and andre#calvin robertson#cal robertson
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Stars Realigning
what's GOOD! happy mcyt au fest day(s)! this is my contribution to 2024's mcyt au fest, based on the art of my fantastic artist in crime @eyesandbees. super shoutout to tetris (GO LOOK AT THE ART RN), this au really did something fantastic for my brain :3 and kudos to all the @mcytblraufest mods, contributors, and my mutuals new and old who joined in. mwah!
Xisuma and Exonia were explorers by nature—and how could they not be, when the world rested right outside their fingertips. When Xisuma pulls himself and their brother into an unfamiliar End dimension, their only chance of escape is with a player they've hardly met, to a space station they've never even heard of. Built on the foundations of exploration and discovery, HC might be all the opportunity the siblings need to start a new life—or ruin their only shots at understanding themselves.
(12,765 words) (Read the whole fic here!)
Every player knows two facts about the End: one of those is that it is very large. The other is that it is very dangerous. The islands stretch onwards as far as they eye can see, tipping over a black horizon line invisible to the naked eye. The static particles of void—ink black and speckled grey—fill the spaces that stone and cities and blocky fruit trees do not. No players make their home here—none dare to spend more time than they must. The End is a utility, more than it is a dimension of its own. Hostile conditions make it unlivable to those other than the ones that know it best: endernians, endermen, the dragon, and her egg.
The third, most often overlooked fact, that meshes with the others in vastness and hostility, is that the End is no place for strangers to combat.
Xisuma is one of those strangers—was one of those strangers. World hopping was dangerous, unpredictable, dimension hopping even more so, especially for them—for the untrained. He hadn’t meant for either of them to tumble into the End dimension, prepared or otherwise, with its thin air and itchy end dust and large, very large, very angry dragon. It's the first thing his eyes catch—the movement of large wings and a massive, black snout as the world tilts and settles around them.
Xisuma gasps as they finish settling into the world and Exonia follows suit, shoving them both behind the pillar beside them. The air feels charged with energy, thick with the beat of air from the dragon’s wings. Xisuma swallows as the two of them drop behind the pillar, and as they manage to catch their breath from the initial shock, he stirs up the courage in his chest to peek out behind the pillar. He steps out into the ring around him, eyes searching for the dragon above him. He can hear her cry even from on the ground. The crystals that bolster her strength glow brightly as she passes. It only takes a moment for her to swoop down as she circles, and it’s in this moment that Xisuma realizes he’s been seen.
They freeze.
The dragon crashes to the ground, the heavy footfalls of her landing shaking the dirt around them.
Xisuma stares into the creature’s face, purple eyes unblinking.
Something grabs his hand. It takes him a startlingly long moment to realize it’s Exonia, their eyes wide behind their tinted glasses. He’s still too busy staring up into the maw of the black dragon, her eyes trained on his every movement, the betraying flick of their tail. His heart beats fast in the base of their throat. A voice jumps to life in his mind—surely if he stays put, if he doesn’t move, the great dragon will turn her head away from him, and spare him, and spare his twin, and the world will be right again. Xisuma shuts their eyes. The beat between his first and second breath feels like a millenia.
The dragon snuffs a great breath that catches into a screech, its heavy head whipping back and around as Ex tugs on his arm. His eyes snap open.
He’s not dead.
The dragon roars.
If he squints, Xisuma thinks he can see a shape, blurred by the scent and fog of the dragon’s breath, barely visible against the dark black obsidian pillars. It draws back its glittering weapon and fires, arrows flying high above the dragon’s head and to the peak of the pillars above. The peak explodes; obsidian chips and dust rain down from the blast.
He jerks his head to look at Ex. Their face is pulled tight in confusion and fear, a mask of anger flickering over it instead as they tug his hand again. He stumbles forward, feet catching pocks in the stone before he regains his footing. The dragon’s focus stays trained on the newcomer. She slashes with her claws, jaws chomping on thin air as the figure darts around with the effort of someone trained to deal with monsters her size.
An adventurer. Another player.
He turns back to look at Exonia—the back of their head, the tip of a pointed ear they can see. They’re practically pulling him along into further darkness toward something he can’t yet see, weaving between obsidian pillars as the island stretches out in front of them, all the way to a noticeable drop into void. As they cut through a section of chorus trees, a craft makes itself known on the next ridge.
A way out.
Xisuma pales, the oxygen in his lungs suddenly feeling very thin.
“What is that thing?” he manages as they start to slow. Ex shoots him a look over their shoulder, eyebrows tightly furrowed.
“A ship!” they say. “Don’t be foolish!”
“We don’t even—” X starts, but Exonia pulls them further forward. They dip their head, avoiding the endermen that roam around them, sinking in on themselves to appear smaller. They scramble up the next hill. In the short distance they’ve put between the dragon and themselves, they can still hear the screech of her anger and the beat of her wings. X’s heart still slams away in his throat.
“D’you want to be eaten, you derp?” Ex hisses, dropping into a crouch as they shimmy over the crest of the hill. X scrambles after them, finding their footing on the steep slope and up onto the ridge.
“No!” They blanch at the thought of the dragon finding them again, with her huge, yellow-white teeth and debilitating breath. “Why would I want that?”
Ex shoots them a pointed glance, taking a few quick steps around the edge of the “ship”—if it was a ship at all—as they do.
“Then start lookin’ for a way in!” they bark. Xisuma sets his jaw. Sighing through his nose, he picks himself up from his crouch, and follows suit. The ship is bright white and grey-black, hidden carefully by the dark sky around them and by shimmering enchantments that Xisuma can only guess at as he travels around its side and toward the back. It’s not a large craft—certainly different than anything he’d ever seen.
Ex investigates with the unshakable confidence of someone who’s read far too much about this exact situation, or craft, or biome, or what have you. Xisuma tries to siphon that energy for himself, watching as they track the side of the metal with eyes partially obscured. They reach the back together, the ship’s large bay door shut against the End and void around them. X watches Ex’s face, their tail flicking agitatedly. Their hands find a depression near the fins of the ship. As they press into it, the door hisses, starts to lower onto the dusty stone below. Exonia scrambles back, catching Xisuma as they do, their hands clasping together again. Xisuma watches as the dark inside floods with the End’s pale glow, illuminating the sparse space within.
It’s a holding bay—a handful of boxes are scattered around, their heavy plastic lids strapped tight. Bolted storage units line one wall, and a short staircase leads upward, into the space Xisuma can only assume is the main cabin of whoever that figure was.
Xisuma blinks.
Exonia enters.
Enters is a loose term, because as his foot steps onto the metal-ribbed platform, Xisuma feels something crawl it’s way up his spine and turns, much too fast, Ex’s name already jumping from his throat.
There’s a crackle, like the sound of fireworks in the distance, as the sky fills with soft purple light. Xisuma alone watches the figure turn, a large, dark object cradled in their arms, and feels them stare back. Distance and the helm obscuring most of their face doesn’t do their features justice—it looks like a man, a human, staring back at him, eyes wide and bright, expression unreadable from here. All Xisuma knows is that the chill starts at the base of his neck and pulls through him, catching his lungs and heart and spine all the way down, hooking him in place.
“Xisuma—” Exonia starts, tone bordering on impatient, but as they turn, they see exactly what they did. And they say again, their voice taking a fine, fearful edge:
“Xisuma.”
The figure starts toward them, and X can feel the immediate betrayal of all his senses, all at once, as his hackles raise, body recoiling until his feet hit the cold metal of the ship behind him. Exonia grabs his arm as he stumbles from the platform, tugging him away from the ship as the figure starts to close the distance between them. The man is carrying the dragon egg, much too large for his arms as he calls out to them.
“Hey! Wait! Wait!” The man calls. Xisuma stutters as he tries to scramble away, skittering to a stop at the man’s plea. As he turns to look over his shoulder, against all better judgment, he realizes the man has crouched by the entry door, egg still in his arms. The beat between the man stopping, dropping to a crouch to make himself small, and his next words is a rift Xisuma considers just jumping into. He wills a small, shaky breath into his lungs. The man sets the egg at his feet, hands spread.
“Are you okay?” he asks, breath evening as he stills for a moment. “I didn’t mean to scare you away. The dragon looked pretty dangerous!”
Xisuma blinks, breathing hard. Exonia manages to summon the courage he can’t seem to even taste, voice coming small from beside him.
“Who are you?” they muster. The man dips his head.
“I’m sorry for scaring you,” he says slowly. “I’m Keralis. Are you two from here?”
Xisuma shakes his head. The man, Keralis, nods.
“Are you lost? Do you need help going home?”
Xisuma offers a nod this time.
“Do you… know where home is?”
There’s a beat. The silence stretches on in the absence of anyone’s voice or actions, until Ex finally says:
“Not anymore. ‘S too far.”
Keralis doesn’t say anything for a moment. He stares instead down at the egg in his arms, the only expression on his face evident by his eyes through his visor. Xisuma watches him, trying to read that expression and coming up blank. It doesn’t look malicious, though. He’s begun to settle from the razor’s edge of nervousness and back down into a sense of normalcy.
“I don’t want to leave you here. I…” Keralis hums. “I can take you back with me. And then maybe there will be someone who can help you get home, how about that?”
“Where’re you from?” Exonia asks. Keralis smiles—Xisuma can tell by the squint of his eyes.
“I’m from a ship. A spaceship in the sky.”
#xisumavoid#xisuma#evil xisuma#evil x#minecraft space exploration au#mse au#hermitcraft#hermitcraft au#hermitcraft fic#mcyt#mcyt fic#mcytblr aufest 2024#mcyt au fest 2024#mcyt au#text#fics#woah rare tuna w actually posting what's GOOD. WE BAAAALL#gosh HUGE shoutout to tetris guys. they're such a sweet person#i dmed him the day i got the pinch hit like hiii heyy ummm. how can i help :>#and since then they've been so awesome about explaining the au and walking me through ideas for the fic#and it really spawned into something i'm so proud of#it was such a fun au to explore#especially considering i'm writing an xisuma space au LOL#i saw the hit and immediately dmed like four people like. i need to pick this up. this is my chance#KJHSKFJGH seriously though#SUCH a blast this year#so excited to see what my other mutuals have done! i know y'all have things in the works pspspsp
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sometimes i feel like the people who are constantly yelling at people to play ttrpgs that aren't d&d are like the vegans of the ttrpg world. it feels like they're on a soapbox sermonizing at me. i am interested in other systems, but it definitely puts a damper on actively looking for people to play with, cause that's really the only type of person i've personally encountered; even in regards to pathfinder.
i don't wanna play with people who feel like they're gonna breath down my neck every time i so much as mention the system i love! yeah, we get it. wotc sucks. they suck. the game is still great. yes it has weaknesses. that's literally fine because nothing is perfect! other ttrpgs aren't perfect either!
anyway sorry for ranting a little in your inbox. i hope you're having a lovely day.
I agree! Although I will say, with both vegans and indie gamers, most I've encountered in real life are far more charming and reasonable then their online counterparts.
I've had many a delicious meal prepared for me by vegans, and it's definitely opened my mind and made me more inclined to intentionally reduce the amount of meat I eat.
Similarly, I've had some very lovely people offer to run other TTRPGs for me, and even though I didn't click with all of them, I enjoyed the experience and would be open to more new gaming experiences. Those are the kind of people that make good ambassadors for their hobby/lifestyle.
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interview with the vampire (2022) deserves better promotion
another corn on the plate situation: amc's marketing strategy, if it even exists, sucks.
we've known this since season 1. personally, i was lucky enough to get on-board with the series early enough back while it was airing in 2022 because my algorithm knows me, knows i like (queer) dramatic pieces of media that will fuck me up emotionally for the rest of my life because i got too attached to the unstable character(s). i then convinced my equally insane friend to watch it with me (didn't take much convincing, honestly) and we've been hooked ever since, annoying people enough to tune in too.
and i know i'm not the only one. most of this show's marketing relies on its passionate fanbase, which amc is lucky to have, but mouth-to-ear promotion becomes frustrating when it seems to be the primary, and almost only, marketing tool (i say “almost” here because outlets like tvtime – thank you – have been doing the most to feed us interviews).
as of now, we've mostly gotten 2-pixel quality interviews over zoom. while i appreciate watching them because it's “better than nothing” and i love getting more content of them, whose interest does it pique other than people already invested in the fandom? we need more mainstream media news outlets to interview the cast – amc headquarters should consider themselves lucky to have cast members who love each other so much, why not use that to their advantage? give them a buzzfeed puppy interview! a gq agree to disagree interview! jacob anderson is your main actor, get him an elle song association interview! ladbible's food battle – uk vs australia vs america? get them to guess parisian vs new orleans slang? best friends test?
what will it take for amc to invest in a show that clearly deserves its already-received praise to gain a wider audience?
not only such exposure would gather more fans, but it would attract award critics attention – which the crew & cast deserve in masses. and if they wanna talk money, well, they should know the show's potential would bring a lot more capital. (it's already keeping them afloat...)
marketing investment goes a long way.
#let me not get into the whole episode-dropping-on-saturday mess#and how assad deserved to get co-lead status interviews#stop underusing your cast members' intelligence#let them talk let them rant let them have fun too#i'm not hopeful for filmed jacob/assad/delainey interviews anymore but amc you suck#i actually dmed amc w more ranting this is ridiculous#and they're stupid as hell for cancelling the iwtv podcast#all that will to rant publicly came from amc declining filmupdates' offer to interview the cast btw#they probs won't see but someone needs to yell at them to their faces#it's all so ridiculous. YOUR FANS AND YOUR CAST AND YOUR CREW DESERVE BETTER. THE SHOW IS FANTASTIC.#IT DESERVES THE BEAR/SUCCESSION TYPE OF TREATMENT#textpost#iwtv#interview with the vampire#iwtv 2022#interview with the vampire 2022#amc interview with the vampire#amc iwtv#amc's interview with the vampire#amc's iwtv#mine#my post#my posts
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#obviously i cant do this but what if any time someone reposted instagram anxiety bait chain mail i dmed them a personalized#intrusive thought gram before i blocked them. as a little treat.#in other news something from someone i blocked in september is continuining to ruin my peace :/#if anyone following me reposts that shit make a fucking burner account like an adult or wholly stop. i understand its miserable#but sharing the misery isnt going to help. and if you do it 'because its fun and you dont take it seriously' this post is for you. specif.
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Sharelle and Abbey as “Two Women” by William Andrew Loomis
#deadloch#aj art#Sharelle Muir#Abby Matsuda#lesbian#Fun fact Sharelles actress dmed me as I was drawing this#It was so cool
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i stayed up til 4am making pinterest boards for my ocs and i get why you guys do this now its pretty fun. anyways check out page if u want here !
#my pinterest account was dormant for like 4 yrs#i had a bunch of oc boards i didnt even remember#the aesthetic for all them is all off though#i feel like a grandpa trying to navigate this website im sorry to the stranger i accidentally dmed bc i was trying to click on their profil#grandpa moment#anyways this is fun lets hold hands and make ocs boards together
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OC-TOBER DAY 13: doomed to die too pretty to be killed
#EDIT: FORGOT HER EARS WERE POINTY :(#this is thalia shes a dnd npc for a horror campaign i dmed!!!! she was NOT supposed to make it out alive. but i love that she did lolol#i fell in love with playing her she was so fun <3#lee art#oc-tober#bweirdOCtober
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Btw if your righteous anger gets tons of people harassed, and a teenager blackmailed with doxxing maybe it wasn’t so righteous. Hope you had fun just like you said you would.
#Val ramblings#they said they thought the user might have been a child they said theyd have fun putting them on blast…#Neg#Discourse#Fandom neg#im upset Im just disgusted you were old enough to know better I had sympathy at first but you just restated how vile you are#And to all other people involved its your job to not instate unnecessary hate and violence#you can not deny you wanted these people harassed you would have just dmed the users if you didn’t#you wanted them hurt do not lie we both know how the internet works and if you truly didn’t then maybe you need to leave for a bit#And just give a thought to what this does#you got a teenager doxxed and threatened by naming them by falsely accusing them of stalking you did that#if you had vagued it made upset posts but didn’t name them didn’t make an ordered list no one would blame you
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3. Favorite Plush
If you follow me, or have seen my posts before tangentially, the answer to this prompt is probably no surprise—Sunny, my webkinz signature chow chow! My partner got him for me as a gift, and something about him made him so special to me. This was only increased after I got in an accident last summer, and now he’s my best little guy ever! I can’t imagine living life without him :)
#cheeky barks#15 day plush challenge#fun fact: he’s actually named after one of my partners TTRPG characters from a game they DMed!#they said if he was a dog he’d be a chow chow and well. it just felt obvious when it came time to name this guy#todays pic is boring I apologize. I’ve had to many errands the last few days I’m just chillin at home now#my plush: sunny#webkinz#webkinz signature#plush#actually autistic#safeplush#plushblr
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As part of a project I recently started working on, I needed some images to decorate a webpage for truly me dolls. I immediately thought of this classic ad!
(image snagged from a post by @desertdollranch, who nagged it from an ebay seller)
The line “She’s just like you. You’re a part of history, too!” has always been really fun to me, as it brings to light my favorite way of looking at modern AG dolls - the historical characters show kids that they were an important part of history, and through modern ag dolls, kids also are reminded that they are an important part of the history being made every day!
However, there’s no really great images of this spread that I could use. (And even if they were great, since this was only in print, I’d be bumping up against the copyright of person who took the photo of the catalog, as well as that of AG. That’s fine for a tumblr post, but not for the project I’m working on!)
So... I made my own version of the banner, and I figured I’d share it!
It was a bit tricky trying to figure out the fonts, but I got there! There’s a version with a white background as well as a transparent one (though there’s a bit of a “halo” around the black lettering, as a result of the hoops i had to jump through to use that font lol). Feel free to use it yourself, no credit required :)
#american girl#American Girl dolls#agblr#dollblr#anyway i'm having a ton of fun w this project! it's a doll database that's currently under construction.#it was started by xcanadensis and i found out in one of her youtube vids and i p much immediately dmed her asking to join haha#if you're also interested in working on the database (for ag or any other doll brand!) go dm her on twitter!#many hands make light work and all that :)#(and hoooo boy is it a lot of work. I spent like. all day today working on ag pages and you can barely tell T-T
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if someone excuses behavior or actions based on the belief that some planet is moving in some way or crossing some imaginary line then they are a Sucker you could tell them Any Lie and they would Believe It
#made a post on a separate platform like 'venus? mercury? idk who that is. sounds scary' and someone dmed me#'i didnt know venus was in retrograde rn'#thats because it isnt. and i am making fun of you. sorry
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interesting that Astarion mentions all of Strahd's abilities when he talks about what he can do as an Ascended Vampire!! maybe I'm reading into it, but turning to mist, calling wolves, spider climb, I can remember reading exactly in the source book when I played Strahd as a DM
dnd as fuck
#bg3#curse of strahd#dnd#me when worldbuilding tehehe#i DMed a curse of strahd campaign it was fun playing Strahd#i loved giving my players hell
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it's so hard being out here liking all genders and using the lable bi
#if one more person tries to argue with me and tell me to call myself pan#or argue with me to say i cant use bi because it means “two” im going to eat pavement#i unfortunately know a ton of queer people online and irl who would not survive irl queer spaces why do i have to justify myself 🖕🖕🖕🖕#also like it isnt even confusing lol#wait till u find out im friends with boy lesbians etc etc. dang you're gonna be in for a real surprise#i used to be in the queer server where the owner of the server (who i disliked cuz she was an ass) dmed me to tell me i could have#both the bi and the omni lable in the server roles and i was like bro what?? and then had to give a whole lecture on the use of the word bi#dating back to like before the 90s idk man#she ended up being like “ok” and letting me keep both. but girl rlly tried to tell me i had to be either omni or pan and i couldnt call#myself omni and bi lol#anyway that's part lf why i left that server#now im in a great queer server where there are not roles for sexualities 🩷🩷🩷 just pronoun and preferred language roles#and everyone speaks openly about whatevr they want and there are lots of fun conflicting lables and the owners and moderaters are very kind#*COULDNT have both the bi and omni lable i mis typed
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"if you were talking about the person running this blog then I'm gonna need you to tell me your age before this continues" bud have you accidentally been soliciting minors?? 😭
bro the minor was the one soliciting me 😭
#customer queries#im a loser who would never be confident enough to start a flirtation#ok there's one (1) exception to that but i dont believe he's interested in me#if the person im talking about is reading this: im not actually upset. it was a genuine accident/misunderstanding on both our parts#for full context:#they started flirting with me on anon and i matched their energy bc flirting is fun (and also i thought they were kidding)#once they made a new account to continue flirting I dmed them to figure out if it was actually serious and asked their age#which is when i found out they were a minor and told them i'm an adult (and that they were also joking)#it honestly never even crossed my mind that I would be mistaken for a teenager on my Official OLIPOP blog#cursed by my youthful joie de vivre and tendency to mimic the vibes of my anons if they aren't annoying#so if anyone wants to flirt with me (either seriously or jokingly) in the future be aware that I Am An Adult (mid 20s)#also im dumb and bad at social cues so if you're serious youre gonna have to spell it out explicitly#please dont cancel me for this. if youre gonna cancel me for something cancel me for having a crush on a gay man when im not a guy
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