#i played softball

[wolvesandvisions]

to anyone who draws and experiences wrist pain like I do i. I figured out the blindspot to solving the pain. maybe this is obvious but whatever. im honestly I'm frustrated at myself for not knowing sooner bcs I was an athlete for so long. but what always confused and frustrated me was that no matter how much i stretched the pain wasnt going away

people always linked n shared resources to stretches and it'd give me temporary relief but not deal with the issue especially not any longer than the time it took me to stretch.

u do have to stretch. but u ALSO HAVE TO WORK OUT YOUR ARMS.

the reason we are hurting so much is because that muscle is doing a lot of repetitive and strenuous motion but the whole length of your arms and wrists aren't strong enough to withstand that much work.

u cant just stretch. buy a set of light-ish weights and just pick a set of wrist and arm workouts u like. do them often. stretch and do those work outs. i really dont even think it matters which you do I do a combination of this and this

just pick ones u like that are good for you, working out can be fun and not miserable i promise. do it. save ur wrists. my life has changed, i still feel pain but ive been able to work and not be ready to cry the next day from daring to try

[guardian-angle22]

911 lone star -> baby animal lover!TK Strand story 🐛

[fishfingersandscarves]

big buff girlfriend who tap dances while on fire

[novaksupremacy]

You know, even with all the power suits, I'm still convinced this is the gayest thing Alex Cabot ever wore

[the-artificem]

play ball ⚾️

[avirxy]

👽 for eli or ⚽️ for aja

( alien infection 👽 and sports injury ⚽️)

[essenceofarda]

quick lil Modern Arwen doodle... she's the captain of the softball team

😍

[amity-png]

hey batter batter hey batter batter swing

[the-knight-of-destiny]

Okay, so long long ramble under the cut about the nature of Ratgrinder Discourse™, I'll preface by saying that I don't want any of this to get hostile with anyone, because I think that's frankly silly to do over a webshow. That said I am also open to critical discussion so if anything I say doesn't make sense, or doesn't track I'm open to critique on it! Obviously spoilers up to Episode 19 of Fantasy High Junior Year underneath. Also it is a VERY long post, several pages, so don't click read more if that'll be overwhelming/too much at once. I just had to get my thoughts into words.

So, this will be long but I'll try to break it up. For clarity I want to establish my main point and give a quick TL;DR here, so here's the short version, long version even further below. My main points are as follows: 1: It is okay to not be happy with how a narrative is going in a show/story you enjoy. Critique is not hate, if anything it's a form of praise in a way. People wouldn't be having such long and frequent discourse about D20 and it's current season if they didn't feel strongly. 2: Similarly, we as an audience have a very different perspective of the entire story unfolding compared to the Intrepid Heroes/Cast. I think a lot of people jump to assumptions about the cast's thought process when that really isn't something we can gauge beyond what they say in episode and on Adventuring Party. 3: For me at least, even if I am left unsatisfied by an ending it doesn't ruin the fun I had in a work. Now if you just wanted my bullet point thoughts without elaboration, there they are! The rest of this is going to be an insanely long ramble (seriously, exit now if you aren't up for that, it's pages long) that I don't expect anyone to read, but I like to get my thoughts outta my brain. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

So, in regards to the Ratgrinders dying in the fashion they have, there's been a lot of discussion on literally every place there is to discuss Dimension 20, Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, I'm sure other places as well. Really it all comes back to one thing, Dungeons and Dragons is a game, but Dimension 20 is a show. We as viewers have some level of narrative expectation, now for everyone that's different. Some folks have specific hopes for plot and character arcs. Others just want a general vibe, but the cast are players. Sure they are performers, but they are players in a game in equal measure. I've alluded to this before but a lot of the sincere vitriol to antagonists thus far (and especially the Ratgrinders) comes from the fact that the players have been fully immersed in a world and as characters where the Ratgrinders have been a constant thorn in their side for tens of hours of play time. Obviously one can still not like how they've engaged with them (I'm still not sure how exactly I feel about it,) but a lot of it is coming from that distinct perspective. When Fig took Ruben out, she specifically was frustrated because she 'wasted her season' on him. There's a meta level of Fig being angry with Ruben as a character who shares a world with him, versus Emily being frustrated as a player that a lot of her in-game actions did not hash out. That's actually totally natural, by the way. The interesting way that DnD serves both as a narrative of the characters in the setting, but also of the players rolling dice is part of what makes actual play like Dimension 20 so interesting. It's why I think SOME of the disappointment with Brennan and the Intrepid Heroes comes from a strange place, we literally cannot experience the story the same way the cast have. We get a week between chunks of story, they film the episodes in batches. We can think for as long as we want about our critical thoughts, they have to improv on the fly. We get to watch the Ratgrinders as antagonists in a story, the IH are actively hindered in their gameplay by the Ratgrinders as enemies.

That said I would be lying if I said I wasn't worried about some aspects of Protagonist Centric Morality™ in this. Oisin having a mildly flirty conversation with Adaine once when he had ulterior motives is a deeply awful manipulation, but Fig catfishing Ruben the better part of an entire year is her trying to reach out and understand him (?). Kipperlilly threatening to desecrate Eugenia's grave is deeply fucked up, but Riz openly advocating mutilating Oisin's body for tactical reasons, and Fabian loudly declaring he intends to do the same to Ivy for literally just his own self-satisfaction are 'fun unhinged moments'.

Before I go on, obviously the Ratgrinders are the bad guys. They're taking part in an evil plan, they've done villainous things throughout the season, especially very recently, etc. This isn't some argument that the Bad Kids are secretly the real monsters or something, obviously not. I just think it's odd that people read into the Bad Kids' actions in the best possible light at all times and the inverse for the Ratgrinders. This protagonist centric morality also comes down to the true reason behind any and all of Fantasy High's villain redemption. Ragh gets redeemed because the player characters think he's possibly useful and/or endearing. Aelwyn gets redeemed because she personally helps Adaine. The only one that Brennan really pushed forward on his own was Zayn, who they barely engaged with. People compare the Ratgrinders to Penelope and Dayne a lot, and understandably so. However I think this is sort of the complication and in my opinion, the silver bullet to understanding what's actually happening with the Ratgrinder's narrative place, Dayne more specifically. He does very little evil on screen. I mean, he injures Fabian and is most likely the one who killed Zayn, but comparatively to Aelwyn, he does almost nothing. He gets killed without so much as a thought, and in a fun (?) parallel to current Ratgrinder discourse, does actually have his body desecrated after death by Fabian. Because he hurt Fabian personally. Aelwyn gets forgiven of doing a lot of terrible shit (and this isn't Aelwyn hate, she's like my favorite NPC.) because it didn't directly affect any of the Bad Kids besides Adaine, and even the bad stuff that did affect Adaine can be sort of off-loaded onto their parents. So it's why I say this discourse is tough, people inevitably say "Well, the Ratgrinders are villains, of course they'll get killed." And this isn't inherently a wrong statement, they look at the bad things the group is doing and understand they must be stopped, why are people upset clearly bad guys get beat and/or killed in DnD games? Because they aren't actually getting killed in such brutal ways because they're bad guys, it's because they personally annoyed or hurt the Bad Kids. This is also why Ratgrinder fans often feel both frustrated and vindicated at once (I speculate, but I feel it's a safe assumption,) because on a meta level Kipperlilly is literally right. Her friends and likely herself are getting ripped to shreds because they crossed the special protagonists, because they started to really frustrate the Intrepid Heroes. The Bad Kids have forgiven atrocities before, but the Intrepid Heroes are really quick to dismiss and kill people they find annoying.

The ultimate example I feel of this, is Mary Ann. Ruben gets blasted into hell because his actions personally annoyed the players, Ivy gets stabbed to death while being repeatedly insulted and threatened with mutilation because her actions personally annoyed the players.

But Mary Ann is the one they all think they can redeem or save, because her personality is more cute and endearing to the players. That kind of says it all better than I ever could.

[guardian-angle22]

911: Lone Star | S5E5 -> Tarlos + guitar

[ferronickel]

Okay, the two year anniversay of Looking Glasses is coming up in about a month (Dec 5th), and I want to do another drawing like this one, but I haven't decided what situation I want to put the cast in. I figured I'd see if anyone here had any suggestions. Preferably for something fun the gang could be doing, but I'm open to whatever.

[lanadel-heyyy]

i didn’t know this was happening but i did stop my class for a “brain break” to watch it ✌️

[savvylittlecoxswain]

Bobby as a catcher in a baseball au fits so well because they’re kind of the ring leaders of sorts because they can see the entire field. It’s all akin to rowing in that everyone on the field is facing one way whereas, much like a coxswain, the catcher is facing the opposite direction. I understand it’s not the case in baseball, but in softball if the catcher gets a hit and ends up on base, they can put in a courtesy runner to take their place so that the catcher can have extra time to put on their gear before the next inning. This would definitely benefit Bobby who had severe asthma so the less running he has to do the better.

I can literally picture Ulbrickson signaling what pitch to throw to Bobby who is then to signal that to Don, but Bobby does what Bobby does best and just signals Don to throw something else entirely. Not like totally random, I mean I’ll bet he studied the opposing team’s line up and knows each batters strengths and weaknesses as far as hitting pitches goes.

Maybe Bobby got kicked off the team initially because he had the varsity pitcher to throw a particular pitch, but the pitcher didn’t hit his spot (ie told to throw low inside but ended up throwing the ball right down the middle either on accident or purpose) and the batter hit a home run.

EDIT TO ADD THIS: again softball related but Bobby is such a shoe in for hitting no. 2 like he’s so slapper/push bunter coded it’s insane

[squeakadeeks]

You probably suck at some things, we all do, but you are PEAK you, and nobody would want you any different

oh im very bad at a lot of things, honestly some of the commentary i get online is goofy because in everyday life i am commonly bringing up the rear in terms of skill and general function. like not in an endearing way, but in an awkward and uncomfortable sort of way for sure. Its the whole "online viages do not represent the real, interactive self" speil deal there. for specifics I am comically bad at pretty much any physical task, like in a "you could not have imagined someone being able to be that bad" sense.

but at this point ive accepted that whatever flavor of freak i bring to the table is going to be what its going to be, good, bad, awkward or otherwise

[juliets-roller-derby-awesomeness]

im sorry lassie but have we forgotten

etc

[local-gun-witch]

Coach asked me to help out at my kid's practice.

Me: Your throws are rushed and sloppy. They're not even close to the person you're throwing to, and then they have to reach and correct or run and hurry back. Then their throws end up sloppy too. Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.

Kid: You want me to slow down?

Me: Yes.

Kid: ...

Me: ... Just trust me!