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#21 intimate moments with Hook? Absolutely adore your work!

So I had a good number of prompts that worked really well for a full Hook one-shot so I hope it’s cool that I combined all of them. It’s my first time writing Hook so I hope y’all like it and that I got his voice alright! I’ve been staring at this for three days; sorry for any errors! ;; Thanks so much for y’all sending in your requests and for your patience. <3

Pairing: Hook x OFC. Prompts: Reader is a member of Team Taz; her and Hook have feelings for each other and they’re conned into admitting it + cuddling in the first morning light + soft kisses while cuddling in bed. Requested by: @moxleygirl11x Rating: M. Warnings/Content: Fluff and smut! Word Count: 4309.

Tag List (asked to be added/removed!): @alyhull @boutmachines @chrisdickinson @crowleysqueenofhell @lghockey @rubyred1980 @sillynilly27 @simoneinside

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“Oh shit. That shirt looks damn good on you. What do you think, Hobbs?”

Ricky grinned at her and Will shot her an approving thumbs up when she stepped out, brand new Team Taz shirt pulled over her ring gear. The run in that sealed the deal that she was with them had happened last week but in an hour, it would be made official. The big announcement where she’d stand side-by-side with Ricky, Will, Taz, and…Hook.

Oh hell, she would be right by Hook.

The man in question was leaned against the wall, one foot planted against it as he dug through his Mary Poppins bag of chips. Hoodie pulled up over his untameable hair and just as cute as the first day she had come across him. Granted, that day had involved suplexing a man into the shadow realm but still.

Cute.

“Hook,” Ricky said as he slung his arm around her shoulder and turned her towards the younger man. “What do you think? She looks good, right?”

Hook picked his head up, expression unreadable when her eyes met his. Ricky blinked rapidly at him, brows raised but with the height Ricky had on her, she missed it. Hook gave an affirmative nod before he busied himself again with folding his empty chip bag into intricate shapes.

“Might be my new favorite,” she said with a small spin and a smile away from Ricky. Hook’s eyes slipped up to watch her. The corners of his mouth lifted some but then it was gone as soon as Ricky caught it. “I’m nervous but I’m not nervous. Does that make sense?”

“Sure it does,” Ricky answered. “But you got no reason to be nervous. You know you’re good, we know you’re good, and you’re with us because not only are you good, you’re damn good. And you’re gonna show up every woman on this roster until you get that belt. Get what I mean?”

Gratitude swelled in her chest.

“Uh-huh,” Will said with a supportive hand on her shoulder. He shot Ricky a look. “‘Sides, you’re not gonna be alone out there. Ricky and I might be busy sometimes but Hook will be out there with you. So, yeah, nothing to be nervous about. We got you.”

Shit. That was everything to be nervous about. She freeze-framed and Hook’s foot slipped off the wall. He caught himself in time and glanced at the clock. Mumbled something about it almost being time and then he was out the door. He didn’t go too far because he fell in step with her when she was the last one through it.

She didn’t pick up on what the two ahead of them were saying, too focused on not tripping over her own feet just because her crush–there it was, that word loud in her head–was walking right by her. Or that he would be ringside for every one of her matches. That they’d be sharing a space more often than not now. He was only a year older than her but there she was, doe-eyed. The embarrassment would be right on her heels no matter what.

“It does look good,” Hook said suddenly, closer than he had been before. He stared straight ahead, brows drawn together as he lowered his head. “The shirt.”

“Oh,” she said, cheeks warm and her chest tight. “Thanks.”

He smiled at her, the small one that lifted one corner of his mouth.

“They’re right, y'know,” he said as they approached the roar of the crowd. “We got you. You get nervous just…look at me or somethin’, alright?"

Before she could answer, she was led up to the tunnel and out to a wall of sound as Ricky's music hit. But she wasn't nervous, a smug smile on her face as she proudly displayed her new alliance. Hook kept an eye on her, cool as ever, and when she met his gaze from the middle of the ring, hair slightly in her eyes and a bright smile on her face, it took everything in him not to smile back.

The crowd didn't get to see that.

—

Will hadn’t been wrong at all. While he and Ricky were dealing with the hectic and heated tag team division, she and Hook took turns coming out for each other’s matches. Something that Taz was exceedingly proud of every time they walked through the tunnel together. It had been a little awkward at first, neither too sure how to step around each other but they managed it just fine. Cold-hearted was a good descriptor for how he treated his opponents but around her?

He could be downright precious sometimes.

She discovered early on that wrapping his non-dominant hand before a match proved to be a problem. As she did the finishing touches in the mirror of the Team Taz dressing room, he huffed and swore to himself behind her. His knee bounced, his fingers curled into loose fists.

“You good back there?”

She peered at him through the mirror and he frowned at her, hair in his eyes. Then he blew his hair out of his face and tried again to wrap his hand. Hook paused at her small giggle long enough for the wrap between his fingers to drop and lose tension.

“Hold on, hold on,” she said as she crossed over to him and crouched down to offer her hand. He blinked at her and swallowed but gave her his hand without hesitation. If she hadn’t had been focused on helping him, the feeling of his hand in hers would have had her head spinning. “Let me get it. Geez, who did this before I got here?”

“Dad did.”

It was a small tease but he answered her earnestly. The fact that he hadn’t shrugged her off spoke volumes and she couldn’t help but look up at him. Her face went hot as she crossed the wrapping across his palm and his fingers twitched towards hers. Ticklish, maybe? She made sure it was snug but not too tight then let go.

“Is that good?”

“Yeah,” he said as he tested it. “You’re good. It’s good. Yeah, it’s good.”

He rolled his toned shoulders and stood up, a few inches taller than her as he stretched out. One brow raised at her, he gestured towards the door. She hesitated, her attention fixed on the warmth of his eyes as he looked at her. The softness of his face, the way he took a breath and softened as he shifted on his feet. Not an ounce of hurry to him.

He wasn’t all that cold.

“Ready?”

His voice brought her out of it.

“Oh! Yes. Always.”

Her voice lowered in a tease and he turned it back on her with an amused uh-huh. Oh god, she wasn’t ready. Not with the way her stomach did flips and tricks but she smirked through it and he walked with her. Let her ego and his calming but nerve-wracking presence carry her through it.

—

Within weeks, that awkward first time was far away in the rear view. Hook supported her and she supported him. Hook was there with a bag of ice or two after her hard-hitting matches against Statlander and she always made sure to have fresh tape to wrap his hands. He trusted her enough to do both after the first couple months. Ricky and Will were thrilled at the development but perhaps none more so than Taz himself.

Proud and giddy was a way to describe the head of Team Taz when he psyched the pair up for their matches. She had expected Hook to look embarrassed or want to get away as quickly as he could but he didn’t. Sometimes she could hear Taz’s proud yelling from the apron and she would grin at Hook, just to get the tiniest hint of a smile before he went back to ruining his opponent’s day.

Then they would find some diner to dig into and quietly laugh amongst each other, just the two of them when the night went long. And it was perfect. They became as constant as the sun in each other’s days and really, she felt better for it. She hoped it was the same for him and every time that little smile of his brought out his dimples or he raised an amused brow at her antics, she was convinced it was.

At the end of the day, the rush of a victorious night for the team still in her blood, two thoughts crossed her mind.

Hook was her best friend. No question about it.

And she loved him.

—

“Hey, got a minute?”

The diner not too far from the arena of the week was the last place she had expected to see Ricky Starks wander into, let alone dressed in a casual shirt and sweatpants combo he would have never been caught dead in. Maybe that was the point, shades and all. Suspicion set in. She set her coffee cup down and squinted at him.

“Ricky, did you follow me here?”

“Maybe, don’t worry about it,” he said as he slid across from her. “I just wanted to run something by you real quick so here I am.”

“Oookay,” she said. “What’s going on?”

“Alright, cool, so, me and Taz got this idea,” he started. He was committed to the incognito aspect by keeping his designer shades on, she thought with a snort. “Baker and Cole are the power couple around here, right? King and queen, all that shit. We all hear about it, we all see it. No one’s doing anything about it though.”

She nodded. Took a sip of her coffee.

“Well, we got to talking,” he continued. He watched her closely as he talked. “We think we got something like that too. Or, well, we could. Present it that way, at least. Potentially. I don’t know. But the idea is there.”

“What do you mean? Like…me and you? Or me and Will? Where are you going with this?”

Ricky shook his head and she squinted harder. Another sip of coffee.

“While I’m very flattered,” he said, hand to his chest. “No, sweetheart, not me. Not Hobbs. You and our boy Hook.”

Her coffee betrayed her and sent her into a coughing fit. Ricky deftly crossed to her side of the table, one hand on her back. As she regained her breath, he kept on and moved back to the other side.

“Think about it, you already do everything together, right? You two might as well be the cold-hearted king and queen of this whole damn place, title pending, and we figure there could be something there.”

He framed his hands around the thrown together name for emphasis. She blanched. Something there?

“Ricky, that’s…I don’t know. I don’t think that’s a good idea. I–”

“Why not?”

She took a deep breath and leveled Ricky with a serious look, fingers tight around her mug. She couldn’t beat around the bush on this. Not with Ricky Starks.

“It’s…I like him, Ricky.”

“Yeah, I do too. He’s got my back and I got his. What’s that got to do with it?”

“I–God, this is embarrassing,” she said and put her face in her hands. “Ilikehimalot.”

“Can’t hear your ass when you’re muffled like that. The youth these days. Y’all lucky you’re cute,” Ricky huffed. But then he started up again and she swore there was a smile in his tone. Brow wiggle and all. “So you like him? Like…like-like him?”

“Don’t say it like that,” she groaned. “But yeah, I really, really do and I don’t think doing this power couple thing is a good idea because it just–” Would hurt too much. “It just wouldn’t be good.”

Ricky set his chin in his hands and whistled.

“Gonna be real with you, I’m not hearing anything yet that’s telling me it’s all bad.”

“Because he doesn’t like me like that! We’re just friends. Really good friends and that’s…that’s okay and this might hurt that somehow. I don’t know!”

“Uh-huh,” Ricky said and she couldn’t help but feel like she was being dismissed. She frowned. “Just friends? You two? Really?”

Flustered, she shoved more coffee into her mouth until the cup was empty.

“Fine, whatever you say,” Ricky said with a slight smile. “I’m just saying though, you should run it by him. Do that for me, okay?”

“What, if we’re just friends? Are you crazy?”

He lowered his glasses and fixed her with an amused look.

“The power couple, king and queen thing actually but hell, you two talk about whatever you need to, sweetheart. I gotta jet but let me know how it goes.”

Then he was gone and she was left with the angry butterflies in her stomach. That sneaking suspicion that Ricky knew something she didn’t crept into her head and didn’t leave.

—

It stayed with her all the way back to the hotel, to her room to freshen up and speak affirmations into her mirror, then to her final destination: Hook’s room. Ricky’s words didn’t leave her head and she almost missed Hook’s answer when he opened the door. Gray hoodie unzipped over his bare chest, hair damp from a shower. Looked good enough to fall into but she held steady.

“Hey, I was about to call you,” he said as twisted some of his hair between his fingers, then pushed it back from his face. Then he took in the sight of her, jaw clenched and eyes not quite on him. “You good?”

“Yeah, I just wanted to, um, ask you something,” she said. “Can I come in?”

He frowned and straightened some. He knew her too well by now to not realize something was up and his warm eyes ran a careful path down her from head to toe. It was hell to remember how to breathe.

“You don’t gotta ask,” he said as he stepped aside. “I wanted to ask you something too.”

The easy air that had surrounded them the last few weeks was gone, both suddenly as awkward as that first meeting. She wound her hands together and paced in front of the bed as he sat down on the edge, eyes on her.

“I talked to Ricky.”

“I talked to Will.”

They spoke at the same time, then fixed each other with suspicious looks.

“What’d he say?”

They did it again and she couldn’t help but laugh, a sound he mimicked with his own low chuckle. A crack in the nervous tension between them. Right, she had a point to get to. She sat down in the corner armchair and cleared her throat.

“He told me about this…idea that he and your dad had about, um, you and I. Or presenting you and I as this, this…”

“Power couple thing, right?”

Hook didn’t seem surprised in the slightest.

“Yeah, actually,” she said. “Wait, how do you know about it? And second question, how do you…feel about it?”

“Will,” he said with a shrug. Another pass of his fingers through his hair before he leaned over and set his elbows on his knees. “He told me a little bit about it. Enough to give me an idea, at least.”

Words came out of her mouth before she could stop it. Before he could answer her second question, the one she dreaded his response to.

“For what it’s worth, I said it was a bad idea! Like a really bad one because, because…”

Hook pressed his tongue against the inside of his bottom lip as he looked at her and she stopped herself short. He sat up and shrugged.

“I didn’t.”

“...you didn’t?”

“Nah,” he said. “I mean, it’s you and me, what’s bad about it?”

She didn’t have an answer for that for a long moment, her jaw momentarily dropped before she got it working again.

“It’s just–I know you don’t think of me like that, like as a…a partner. Girlfriend. Or queen! Whatever.”

“You do?”

“Yeah, you’re my best friend and you, you…”

It was her turn to look down. Hook stood up from the edge of the bed and went over to her, knelt in front of her like she had to him that time before. His fingers under her chin lifted her eyes to his. His warm brown eyes settled on hers. Compelled her to speak. There was the slightest tremble to his calloused fingers.

Not cold.

Nervous. Like her.

“I like you,” she confessed. “So, so much and I trust you but I just…I don’t think I could do it because you’re my best friend and I don’t want to ruin that by getting my feelings involved. What we have is good right now.”

“Ricky gave you the runaround,” Hook said with a frown. “Will just said fuck it and gave it to me straight.”

She blinked at him and he continued. It was a very Will thing to do, she had to admit, but she wasn’t entirely following.

“I like you too,” he said and he pulled her up with him as he stood. His body heat permeated her skin and she went to him, close as two people could be. Her hands on his chest, his on her face. “As my best friend, as my partner. Girlfriend. Whatever. Queen’s kinda corny but sure, that too I guess.”

“What?”

He shook his head and playfully rolled his eyes before he settled his gaze on her lips. His crooked heartbreaker smile punched a hole in her heart and she gasped quietly. He leaned towards and she tipped her head back instinctively.

“Tired of talkin’, I wanna kiss you.”

“Please.”

He kissed her gently at first, a cautious press of his lips to hers as he wrapped a solid arm around her lower back. A dip of their toes into the water until realization hit for both of them and she opened up to him. To the curious press of his tongue. He gathered her up against him and her arms slid from his chest to around his neck. His fingers flexed around her waist.

Hook cheekily sucked on the tip of her tongue then pulled back, barely even breathless.

“That answer your question?”

His breaths against her lips, his hands on her back then on her hips. A heat pooled in her lower belly and her breath hitched. He leaned back in but she beat him to it, a fevered clash of lips and tongue that burned away any doubts that lingered in the back of her mind. Emotions high and his skin so warm, she slid his hoodie off to run her hands along the strength in his shoulders, his arms. His abdomen went taut when she ran her fingertips down the front of his chest. His hand circled around her wrist gently as he pulled away, breath heavier than before.

Darkened eyes fixed on her face. Asked her a question and she answered by turning her hand in his to take it, leading him back that handful of steps to the bed. Getting to it wasn’t perfect, both so eager and nervous and hungry, but they made it. Hook moved her up the bed and hovered above her, one knee between her thighs and his forearms by her head. His head dipped toward her neck, his breath hot against it as he spoke.

“We don’t–”

Her thighs tightened around his and he edged his knee further up the bed, brushed up against the ache between her legs. Her gasp was answered with a small groan from him and she could feel the tension throughout his body.

“I want to.”

It was all Hook needed to hear. He busied himself with kissing her again, sliding his hand under her shirt to palm her breast through her bra. Under her shirt wasn’t good enough and she moved with him to tug it off. Her bra didn’t last long and he looked at her. The tops of his cheeks were tinted red and his breaths were heavier than she had ever heard in the ring. He held her eyes as he lowered his head.

“Fuckin’ gorgeous.”

His tongue teased against a nipple before he completely encircled it with his lips. Her fingers immediately slid into his hair as he lightly pinched and pulled at the other. He wanted to see what she reacted to and it warmed her whole body, the attention he paid to her. The same attention and care he paid to her everywhere else. Her heart swelled and she gently pulled him back up to her face, fingers still locked in his hair, to kiss him completely.

It was hard to get eachother bare with how lost they got in simply kissing but they made it there, her knees loosely locked around his slim hips as he braced himself above her again. Her stomach fluttered, a sensation he chuckled at, when his fingers moved down her stomach and he leaned over her. That slight nervous tremble was there in his hands again but she could hardly tell as his calloused thumb circled around her clit and one finger started to press into her. He worked her up slowly, added another.

“Doing so good,” he said to her, his low voice a catalyst for her to tighten around his fingers. He curled them inside her. “Yeah? That feel nice?”

She came with a sharp gasp and her face buried in his shoulder, body unbearably warm. He took his time taking his fingers out of her and she pulled her head off his shoulder in time to watch as he wrapped his slick hand around himself. Then he shifted them up the bed and slid her legs higher up on his hips, closer to his waist before he reached over to his nightstand to grab a condom from the drawer. He fumbled with it some but then the head of his cock brushed against her and her legs tightened around him. Hook breathed heavy above her, then gave her that boyish smirk with his hair in his eyes that made her knees weak.

“Love you, princess.”

He fucked into her slow, breathed through his nose as he pressed into her until they were hip to hip. The stretch, the weight of him, drew out a long, low moan from her. Hook grunted and gave an experimental roll of his hips. He was being careful and she appreciated that but as far as she was concerned, neither of them had a match tomorrow. She gently turned his face to hers and brought him into a heavy kiss.

“Fuck me,” she panted against his lips. “Please.”

His hips jumped against hers and her words sparked a volatile reaction in him. Hook wasn’t talkative but he was noisy. He grunted an affirmative, then pulled out of her for a second to hook his arms under her knees. Then he slid back into her with an urgency that took her breath away. The stretch in her thighs, the relentless pressure against her clit from the angle he had her at. His attention on every sound she made and twitch of her muscles to get her to do it again. Her eyes rolled back in her head and she buried her face in his shoulder to cover her moans and whines.

“Look at me, baby. Look at me.”

She obeyed and she looked up into his face, his lips swollen and his hair in disarray. He swore to himself under his breath and the steady, relentless pace he set started to falter. He was close and he groaned as much to her, his eyes shut and his brow pinched with focus. She rocked her hips with his and squeezed around him. Made sure to meet his eyes.

“Love you too.”

“Fuck.”

Hook chased his end and kissed his hips fully against hers when it came. He panted wetly in her ear as his breath came back to him gradually, his chest pressed against hers. Her head turned to catch him in a small kiss as he pulled out of her. He muttered that he would be right back and he didn’t waste time getting back into bed with her.

Warm hands squeezed and massaged her aching limbs. The rush of the day was starting to leave them and she could tell, a laugh to her voice as she told a sleepy Hook that they might want to get under the sheets before they got cold. She snuggled in close to him and looked at him with a smile.

“Queen’s too corny but princess isn’t?”

One eye cracked open before he wrapped his arm around her and pulled her tight against him.

“Mhhhhm. Said what I said.”

Couldn’t argue that. Sleep came quickly and the morning took its time. During the night, they wound up on their sides, his chest to her back and his arm slung across her waist. He stirred first and she woke up to kisses along her neck, her shoulder. The morning light was soft and the gentle ache in her thighs brought a smile to her lips as she stretched and turned in his arms.

His hair was an absolute mess but a mess he made work. She was used to his bedhead by now, just not in such an…intimate setting. The man looked soft in the morning light. She could look at him forever. A slow onslaught of gentle kisses interrupted her viewing before a good morning squeeze brought her against his chest and she curled into him.

“So, what do we tell Ricky?”

“Sure he already knows,” Hook muttered into her skin. “Dude’s got a way of knowing. I’m not worried about it.”

She wasn’t either. With her best friend beside her, around her, worrying was the last thing on her mind.

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buttdawg · 4 years ago

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AEW Dark and Dark Elevation

I’ve been trying to catch up on AEW from late March to present, and Dynamite was pretty fun, but these Dark and Dark Elevations have been kind of a slog. I usually watch Dark in batches like this, so I think the fault mainly likes with Elevation for doubling the backlog.

I finished DE#8 last night, so I only have this past Monday’s episode left to watch. From what I’ve seen the show is fine. Paul Wight seems to be fitting in well on commentary, and Tony Schiovane called the early months of Dark, so really, this is just More AEW Dark. And that’s kind of the problem, because they promoted Elevation like it was something different.

I thought the idea was that Elevation was supposed to emphasize the mid-tier performers as they competed for airtime on Dynamite. That was kind of what Dark had become, as embodied by Scorpio Sky’s “Throne” promo last year. The implication was that Dark wasn’t just a B-show, or bonus footage that they couldn’t make room for on Dynamite. Dark was the place where all the wrestlers had to go when they couldn’t get booked on the A-show, and it was every wrestler’s goal to try to build up their win-loss record to get a spot on TV. So Elevation seemed to offer this middle-tier, where if you won a lot of matches on Dark you could go wrestle more serious competition on Elevation, and maybe if you did well there you could get on Dynamite.

Maybe I just misunderstood the concept, but Elevation just feels like More Dark, which defeats the point of the name of the show, if nothing else. The Dark Order appears on all three shows, for example. So does the Hardy Family Office. So does Team Taz. So does the Factory. But then you’ve got Fuego Del Sol and Alex Gracia and Peter Avalon’s group, who are YouTube-only. There’s an implied pecking order, but it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with what show people are on. Fuego del Sol could easily appear on Dynamite, but it’d only be so he could get destroyed in a squash match, so it doesn’t matter.

So it feels like Dark and Dark Elevation are just B-shows, like they seemed to be from the beginning. The thing is, they used to do stuff with Dark from time to time. I always wished they would do more, but they had a few running storylines and feuds that rewarded you for watching the show. Now, that’s mostly a thing of the past. I see a few segments with Avalon and Nemeth trying to make their stable sexier, but there’s no sense that it’s going anywhere. It’s mostly squash matches, like WWF Superstars in 1990. And THAT wouldn’t be so bad, except they’ve been making these Dark episodes over 90 minutes long, and now we have Dark Elevation doing the same thing. Superstars was only an hour a week, if I remember right. If you wanted more, you could check out WWF Wrestling Challenge, except they never advanced any storylines on Wrestling Challenge, so it really only mattered if you missed Superstars that week.

I have no idea what these shows are trying to be, other than just 28 wrestling matches a week that they wanted to show off but there wasn’t room on TV. Is AEW’s YouTube channel pulling down huge numbers because of this? If it is, then why don’t they make the matches more important? Have Fuego del Sol feud with Peter Avalon. Have Brian Cage lose the FTW title and try to get it back. Have someone score an upset on Nyla Rose. Do some matches where it’s not immediately obvious who’s going to win. DE#8 had a nice Abadon vs. Ryo Miznami match and I was like “Oh, yeah, they should be doing this all the time.”

Maybe things will change when they get to do shows in front of live crowds again. I’m not sure how they plan to tape THREE HOURS of dark matches alongside Dynamite every week in front of a live crowd, but at least there’d be an audience to weigh in on Layla Hirsch’s performances. They did a video package about her recently, and it told us a few things about her, but there’s really no payoff to her story. She’s very happy to be in AEW, and she just keeps plugging away on Dark, but there’s no sense that she’s close to breaking through to Dynamite, or even if that’s her immediate goal. I think Alex Gracia has a cool look, but it never amounts to anything. She just stays in the same role every week. It’d be nice if the fans could force the issue, and AEW would have to recognize someone in that talent pool as being worthy of promotion.

All I know is that I don’t have time to watch 5-6 hours of AEW every week. I think what I may start doing is only checking out the women’s matches on Dark and Dark Elevation. That way I can keep up without actually sitting through the entire show. Let me just run down the lineup for Dark #87

0:45 Ricky Starks and Powerhouse Hobbs vs Unannounced Tag Team

2:50 Leyla Hirsch vs Diamante

7:48 Varsity Blonds vs Liam Gray & Adrian Alanis

13:23 SCU vs Jake St. Patrick & Spencer Slade

19:50 Big Swole vs Megan Bayne

25:20 Sonny Kiss & Joey Janela vs Kit Sackett & Justin Law

29:59 Kilynn King vs Julia Hart

35:25 Serpentico w/ Luther vs PAC w/ Penta El Zero M & Rey Fenix

40:17 The Bunny vs Leila Grey

45:30 PAC Backstage Interview

46:03 The Acclaimed vs David Ali & Vary Morales

51:51 Hughes Bros vs. Ethan Page & Scorpio Sky

57:55 Ryan Nemeth, JD Drake, & Cezar Bononi vs Evil Uno, Stu Grayson & Alex Reynolds

1:09:28 Dante Martin vs Danny Limelight

1:21:06 Lance Archer vs Luther

I mean look at this card. They have the temerity to call the last four matches a “Quadruple Main Event.” Like it’s fucking WrestleMania or something. Dolph Ziggler’s brother is in the main event? Danny Limelight is in the main event? Fuck outta here.

But if I pare it down to the women’s matches, it’s a lot more appealing. Hey, they’re letting the Bunny wrestle! That sounds like a good time. And I might as well check out the Lance Archer match and the PAC stuff while I’m at it. But the rest of this show looks like the other twelve shows I watched all this past week. It’s a mess.

#aew #aew dark #aew dark elevation

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sagehaleyofficial · 5 years ago

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HERE’S WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEK (12.18-12.24.19):

NEW MUSIC:

· �� Machine Gun Kelly delivered on his promise and dropped a new track before the end of the year called “Why Are You Here”. The track definitely continues into a more rock and roll sound, which he’s shown off in the past between hip-hop and alternative influences.

· Jeffree Star recently stated that all the things are in place for 2020 to be a musical year. In a recent interview with Trisha Paytas’ on her The Dish with Trish podcast, Star revealed his plans for new music.

· Simple Plan, State Champs and We the Kings dropped a new music video for their collaboration of “Where I Belong.” The track for the video was originally released before the trio went on tour together earlier this year.

TOUR ANNOUNCEMENTS:

· Falling in Reverse’s debut record The Drug in Me is You recently became certified Gold. In celebration, the band announced they are taking Escape the Fate and The Word Alive on “The Drug in Me Is Gold Tour,” kicking off February 8th in San Antonio.

· All Time Low performed “Hello, Brooklyn” and “Walls” for the very first time ever live at the Fonda Theater in Los Angeles last Monday. The band is currently in the midst of their sold-out Nothing Personal anniversary shows.

· Post Malone will be closing out the decade and year by headlining Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2020 in Times Square. Malone will be performing alongside Sam Hunt, Alanis Morissette and K-pop sensations, BTS.

· Limp Bizkit, Weezer and Blink-182 will headline the third annual Inkcarceration Music and Tattoo Festival. The festival celebrating decibels and body art returns to the grounds of the famous Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio, from July 10th to 12th, 2020.

· Sleep On It announced a new tour for 2020, “The Pride and Disastour,” which will begin at the end of February and run through March. The run is in support of their most recent album, Pride and Disaster, which dropped in September.

· Have Mercy announced their final tour, kicking off in early February and running through mid-March. Selfish Things, Fredo Disco and Young Culture were revealed to be tagging along in support.

· Talinda Bennington, the wife of late Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington, revealed the 320 Festival, which was created to bring awareness to mental health. The festival will include a mental health summit, community festival and benefit concert.

· Reel Big Fish announced they are kicking off 2020 with their first tour announcement, “Life Sucks…Let’s Dance.” They’ll be joined by Big D and the Kids Table and Keep Flying, and will be heading out beginning February 26th in Savannah, GA.

· Saosin were set to take the stage last Thursday for the first of two sold out shows at Garden Grove Amphitheatre in Garden Grove, CA. However, with hours until the show, the band took to social media to reveal they’d have to reschedule due to illness.

· At the historic My Chemical Romance return show in Los Angeles last Friday, openers Thursday pulled Saves the Day frontman Chris Conley onstage for MCR bassist Mikey Way’s favorite song. The band performed a cover of the Buzzcocks track “Ever Fallen in Love.”

· As fans donned their black eyeliner and My Chemical Romance attire at their reunion show, the band performed track after track of classic and timeless songs from throughout their discography. The setlist contained several deep cuts as well.

· Halsey was announced to return to Saturday Night Live for the third time on January 25th. She is the musical guest and will attend alongside host Adam Driver, who recently starred in the film Marriage Story.

OTHER NEWS:

· Pokémon and Adidas are teaming up and even though the collaboration has no release date yet, the first images of the Pikachu Adidas Advantage are here. Earlier in the year, leaked images showed more elaborate Pikachu and Squirtle shoes, but there has since been no additional information.

· Yellowcard reportedly resumed their lawsuit against late emo rapper Juice WRLD for alleged copyright infringement. The band pushed back the response date for the rapper’s co-defendants Taz Taylor, Nick Mira and the two labels he is signed to.

· Jackass announced it is coming back, as Paramount Pictures revealed on December 18th that it is expected to hit the big screens again in March 2021. This will be the fourth film in the series, in addition to three seasons of the television show.

· Late Linkin Park musician Chester Bennington‘s ex-wife was decided to receive 50% of his Linkin Park royalties. Samantha Olit filed a claim in 2017, and was married to Bennington from 1995 until 2006.

· Fender ended their recent Instagram story with some shots of the instruments from My Chemical Romance’s return show, saying “Look out for these on the @mychemicalromance tour starting tomorrow in Los Angeles.” Guitarist Frank Iero later shared on his own story.

· Sleeping With Sirens’ Kellin Quinn hopped on one of the latest viral trends by utilizing TikTok to spotlight a classic track. Filmed from inside either his or someone else’s home, Quinn shared some filtered jump cuts set to the SWS track “Low.”

· Horror metalcore icons Ice Nine Kills dropped their festive track “Merry Axe-Mas” last holiday season. Now, the band are giving fans a new Christmas present in 2019 with a video game inspired by the song.

· Billie Eilish finally filmed an episode of the hit show Carpool Karaoke with James Corden, starting off with “Bad Guy.” Throughout the episode, she discusses meeting Justin Bieber and when she began writing music, among other things.

· New Found Glory guitarist/vocalist Chad Gilbert took to social media Saturday to announce his engagement with musician Lisa Cimorelli. Gilbert reflected on the whirlwind of 2019 before ending saying he’s “standing on top of a fricken mountain.”

· After a Denny’s show with a raucous mosh pit for the hardcore band WACKO occurred last week and took the internet by storm, Green Day just covered all the costs. They even left a heartfelt message to Bryson Del Valle, who organized the event, on GoFundMe.

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Check in next Tuesday for more “Posi Talk with Sage Haley,” only at @sagehaleyofficial!

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laszlosharmonica · 6 years ago

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Relistening to TAZ Balance is just:

Oh no Lup :(

Aye it's Barry

"Magnus is 400 years old" "You don't know that."

"You can take nothing with you through the pleasure room door" "Except the memories, no one can take those." "Right... Nothing can destroy memories"

Cries about lesbians

AYE IT'S GHOST BARRY

Angus joins the team and it's lit cause I missed my son

Lucas enters the chat and you feel bad but like only a little

I know nothing is gonna happen to the baby boy but I still will die for Angus

Team sweet flips 👌👌👌👌

Oh hey it's Kravitz 💕

Wait fuck that means Kravitz is why Merle lost his arm

No one ever told Merle it wasn't Pan who fucked with his arm

You realize 90% that Red Robe is around is just Barry going "WAIT STOP JUST LISTEN FOR A SECOND YOU ASS."

Taako calls Angus "Agnus" for about 4 episodes and he doesn't realize for a hot minute

Everything Lucretia says makes me fucking sad, because I know the pain behind them

Roswell is much more sassy than I remember but I love it

Made it to the eleventh hour and the hollowness has returned to my chest

Will update again soon

#taz #the adventure zone #taz balance spoilers #the adventure zone balance #taz balance #here there be gerblins #the murder on the rockport limited #petals to the metal #the crystal kingdom #taz merle #taz magnus #taz taako #taz lucretia #taz lup #taz barry #barry bluejeans #taz kravitz #the eleventh hour

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peach-punch-satan · 7 years ago

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AFTER SO LONG I FINALLY FINISHED UP WHAT I NEEDED TO DO FOR MY TAZ AMNESTY MOODBOARDS AND PLAYLIST!  To be honest I had everything done except I just got lazy with uploading lmao. Now wait as I take forever to finish my TAZ Dust playlist! (Moodboards are done though) As always here’s the link to the playlist and under the cut is the tracklist with 9 songs for each member of the trio and 5 songs each for Barclay, Mama, and Dani (Danny?) as well as a lyric to each song that I felt fit each character in some way! Tracklist is written in order of the moodboards above so it should go: Aubrey, Duck, Ned, Barclay, Mama, and Dani (Danny?)

Please enjoy!

Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDQk0bABGzY7uCZPnDYY5tBYBvGGtcbty

Aubrey: She’s A Rebel by Green Day - She’s a rebel She’s a saint She’s the salt of the earth And she’s dangerous She’s a rebel Vigilante Missing link on the brink Of destruction From Chicago to Toronto She’s the one that they Call old ‘whatsername’ She’s the symbol Of resistance And she’s holding on my heart Like a hand grenade Is she dreaming what I’m thinking? Is she the mother of all bombs? Gonna detonate

Youngblood by Green Day - I want to hold you like a gun We’ll shoot the moon into the sun Alright, alright Are you stranded, like I’m stranded? Do you want to watch the world fall to pieces? Are you broken, like I’m broken? Are you restless she said: “fuck you, I’m from Oakland!” She’s my little youngblood (Youngblood) Punch-drunken youngblood

Make Me Feel by Janelle Monaé - It’s like I’m powerful with a little bit of tender An emotional, sexual bender Mess me up, yeah, but no one does it better There’s nothin’ better That’s just the way you make me feel That’s just the way you make me feel So real, so good, so fuckin’ real That’s just the way you make me feel That’s just the way you make me feel You know I love it, so please don’t stop it You got me right here in your jean pocket (right now) Laying your body on a shag carpet (oh) You know I love it so please don’t stop it

The Phoenix by Fall Out Boy - Strike a match and I’ll burn you to the ground We are the jack-o-lanterns in July Setting fire to the sky Here, here comes this rising tide so come on Put on your war paint Cross walks and crossed hearts and hope to die Seal the clouds with grey lining So we can take the world back from the heart-attacked One maniac at a time we will take it back You know time crawls on when you’re waiting for the song to start So dance along to the beat of your heart Hey Youngblood doesn’t it feel like our time is running out I’m going to change you like a remix Then I’ll raise you like a phoenix Wearing all vintage misery No I think it looked a little better on me

Young and Menance by Fall Out Boy - Woke up on the wrong side of reality And there’s a madness that’s just coursing right through me And as far as the time, far as the time Not sure I’m there yet but I’m certain I’ve arrived Oops I, did it again, I Forgot what I was losing my mind about I only wrote this down to make you press rewind And send a message, “I was young and a menace”

Cherry Bomb by The Runaways - Stone age love and strange sounds too. Come on, baby, let me get to you. Bad nights causing teenage blues. Get down ladies, you’ve got nothin’ to lose. Hello, daddy. Hello, mom. I’m your ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb! Hello world! I’m your wild girl. I’m your ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb!

Caffiene by Jeff Williams (Feat. Casey Lee Williams and Lamar Hall) - I’m a cheetah on the plains, I’m a highway star A supersonic princess in a million dollar car Blood on fire pumping through my veins Weaving in and out while I’m bolting through the lanes I’m hyperdrive, overdrive, hit the gas at fifty-five Break neck, trainwreck, in my presence genuflect Track-roundin’, speed-a-soundin’, electrifyin’, pulse-poundin’ Heart-pumpin’, brain-thumpin’, watch me get the party jumpin’ Caffeine I’m Caffeine (Caffeine) Caffeine I’m Caffeine (Caffeine) I’m a bad dream I’m a rad scene I’m a tad mean But I’m not afraid to take you out (afraid to take you out)

I Burn by Jeff Williams (Feat. Casey Lee Williams and Lamar Hall) - You’re standing too close to a flame that’s burning Hotter than the sun in the middle of July Sending out your army, but you still can’t win Listen up, silly boy, ‘cuz I’m gonna tell you why I burn! Can’t hold me now You got nothing that can stop me I burn! Swing all you want Like a fever, I will take you down!

Take Your Time (Do It Right) by S.O.S. Band - You know you ought to slow down You been working too hard and that’s a fact Sit back and relax a while Take some time to laugh and smile Lay your heavy load down So we can stop and kick back It seems we never take the time to do All the things we want to, yeah Now, baby we can do it Take the time, do it right We can do it, baby Do it tonight  Duck: Wake Me Up by Avicci - I tried carrying the weight of the world But I only have two hands Hope I get the chance to travel the world But I don’t have any plans Wish that I could stay forever this young Not afraid to close my eyes Life’s a game made for everyone And love is a prize So wake me up when it’s all over When I’m wiser and I’m older All this time I was finding myself, and I Didn’t know I was lost

The Moss by Cosmo Sheldrake - But have you heard the story of the rabbit in the moon? Or the cow that hopped the planets while straddling a spoon Or she, who leapt up mountains, while whistling up a tune And swapped her songs with swallows while riding on a broom Well, we can all learn things, both many and a-few From that old hunched-up woman who lived inside a shoe Or the girl that sang by day and by night she ate tear soup Or the man who drank too much and he got the brewers’ droop Legend has it that the moss grows on The north side of the trees Well, legend has it that when the rain comes down All the worms come up to breathe Well, legend has it when the sunbeams come All the plants, they eat them with their leaves Well, legend has it that the world spins round On an axis of 23 degrees

Alien Days by MGMT - Must’ve skipped the ship and joined the team For a ride A couple hours to learn the controls And commandeer both my eyes Hey! Be quick dear, times are uncertain One month crawling, next year blurring Decades in the drain Monograms on the brain Decide what’s working and what’s moved on To the last phase The floodgate alien days I love those alien days Mmm… the alien days When the peels are down, it feels like traveling in style You don’t need wings to hover forty ton stones for a mile And in the summer, virgin visions Mindless humming Numbers can’t decide if the day’s supposed to smile Today find infinite ways it could be Plenty worse It’s a blessing but it’s also a curse Those days taught me everything I know How to catch a feeling And when to let it go How all the scheming, soulless creatures Can’t find dreamer’s honey in the hive If it’s right beneath the nose

Lake Shore Drive by Aliotta Haynes - And there ain’t no road just like it Anywhere I found Running south on Lake Shore Drive heading into town Just slippin’ on by on LSD, Friday night trouble bound And it starts up north from Hollywood, water on the driving side Concrete mountains rearing up, throwing shadows just about five Sometimes you can smell the green if your mind is feeling fine There ain’t no finer place to be, than running Lake Shore Drive And there’s no peace of mind, or place you see, than riding on Lake Shore Drive

Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd - If I leave here tomorrow Would you still remember me? For I must be traveling on, now Cause there’s too many places I’ve got to see But, if I stayed here with you, girl Things just couldn’t be the same Cause I’m as free as a bird now And this bird you can not change Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh And this bird you can not change And this bird you can not change Lord knows, I can’t change

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough by Marvin Gaye (Feat. Tammi Terrell) - Listen baby, ain’t no mountain high Ain’t no valley low, ain’t no river wide enough baby If you need me call me no matter where you are No matter how far don’t worry baby Just call my name I’ll be there in a hurry You don’t have to worry 'Cause baby there ain’t no mountain high enough Ain’t no valley low enough Ain’t no river wide enough To keep me from getting to you babe Remember the day I set you free I told you you could always count on me darling From that day on, I made a vow I’ll be there when you want me Some way, some how 'Cause baby there ain’t no mountain high enough Ain’t no valley low enough Ain’t no river wide enough To keep me from getting to you babe

Believer by Imagine Dragons - I was choking in the crowd Building my rain up in the cloud Falling like ashes to the ground Hoping my feelings, they would drown But they never did, ever lived, ebbing and flowing Inhibited, limited 'Til it broke up and it rained down It rained down, like You made me a, you made me a believer, believer (Pain, pain) You break me down, you built me up, believer, believer (Pain) I let the bullets fly, oh let them rain My life, my love, my drive, it came from (Pain) You made me a, you made me a believer, believer

Fallout by Catfish And The Bottlemen - So I spent my yesterday Ducking your calls And in fear that things would change So I tidied up my place 'Cause you always told me It got me thinking straight Oh, but no, you still had to call Oh, but no, you still had to come But we just always Seem to just fallout When I’m most in need of it And you just always Seem to just call out When I’m up for leaving it You see now I’m sorry if I drove, your matches to my clothes But you know how I can get sometimes

Save Rock ‘n’ Roll by Fall Out Boy (Feat. Elton John) - Whoa How’d it get to be only me? Like I’m the last damn kid still kicking That still believes I will defend the faith Going down swinging I will save the songs That we can’t stop singing No, No Wherever I go, go Trouble seems to follow I only plugged in to save rock and roll, rock and roll No, No Wherever I go, go Trouble seems to follow I only plugged in to save rock and roll  Ned: Trouble Comes A Knocking by Timber Timbre - I want your money But your money ain’t right So I’m packing it in I stay at home every night And, our place had cleared out The bad luck had fallen And no one came knocking No one came calling And when things got real bad Oh, people got scared Well I got worried So we took what we could get And all you fair-weather watchers Watch out and beware When your trouble comes knocking I hope you ain’t there

Troublemaker by Weezer - I’m such a mystery as anyone can see There isn’t anybody else exactly quite like me And when it’s party time, like 1999 I’ll party by myself because I’m such a special guy I’m a troublemaker, never been a faker Doing things my own way and never giving up I’m a troublemaker, not a double-taker I don’t have the patience to keep it on the up

Movin’ Out by Billy Joel - Sergeant O'Leary is walkin’ the beat At night he becomes a bartender He works at Mister Cacciatore’s down On Sullivan Street Across from the medical center He’s tradin’ in his Chevy for a Cadillac You oughta know by now And if he can’t drive With a broken back At least he can polish the fenders It seems such a waste of time If that’s what it’s all about Mama if that’s movin’ up Then I’m movin’ out I’m movin’ out You should never argue with a crazy mind (mmm) You oughta know by now You can pay Uncle Sam with the overtime Is that all you get for your money If that’s what you have in mind If that’s what you’re all about Good luck movin’ up 'Cause I’m moving out

I Fought The Law by The Clash - I fought the law and the law won I fought the law and the law won I lost my girl and I lost my fun I fought the law and the law won I fought the law and the law won I left my baby and it feels so bad Guess my race is run She’s the best girl that I ever had I fought the law and the law won I fought the law and the I fought the law and the law won I fought the law and the law won

Should I Stay (Or Should I Go) by The Clash - This indecision’s bugging me (esta indecision me molesta) If you don’t want me, set me free (si no me quieres, librame) Exactly whom I’m supposed to be (digame que tengo ser) Don’t you know which clothes even fit me? (no sabes que ropas me queda) Come on and let me know (me tienes que decir) Should I cool it or should I blow? (me debo ir o quedarme) Split Should I stay or should I go now? (yo me enfrio o lo soplo) Should I stay or should I go now? (yo me enfrio o lo soplo) If I go there will be trouble (si me voy va a haber peligro) And if I stay it will be double (si me quedo sera el doble) So ya gotta let me know (me tienes que decir) Should I cool it or should I blow? (me debo ir o quedarme) Should I stay or should I go now? (tengo frío por los ojos) If I go there will be touble (tengo frio por los ojos) And if I stay it wil be double

Feel It Still by Portugal. The Man - Got another mouth to feed Leave her with a baby sitter, mama, call the grave digger Gone with the fallen leaves Am I coming out of left field? Ooh woo, I’m a rebel just for kicks, now I been feeling it since 1966, now Might’ve had your fill, but you feel it still Ooh woo, I’m a rebel just for kicks, now Let me kick it like it’s 1986, now Might be over now, but I feel it still We could fight a war for peace (Ooh woo, I’m a rebel just for kicks, now) Give in to that easy living Goodbye to my hopes and dreams Stop flipping for my enemies We could wait until the walls come down (Ooh woo, I’m a rebel just for kicks, now) It’s time to give a little to the Kids in the middle, but oh 'til it falls Won’t bother me

Highway To Hell by AC/DC - Living easy, living free Season ticket on a one-way ride Asking nothing, leave me be Taking everything in my stride Don’t need reason, don’t need rhyme Ain’t nothing I would rather do Going down, party time My friends are gonna be there too I’m on the highway to hell On the highway to hell Highway to hell I’m on the highway to hell No stop signs, speed limit Nobody’s gonna slow me down Like a wheel, gonna spin it Nobody’s gonna mess me around Hey Satan, paid my dues

Gold On The Ceiling by The Black Keys - Clouds covered love’s Barb-wired snare Strung up, strung out I just can’t go without I could never drown in They wanna get my They wanna get my Gold on the ceiling I ain’t blind Just a matter of time Before you steal it It’s alright Ain’t no guard in my house

The Ballad of Bull Ramos by The Mountain Goats - Drive a great big truck When I’m old, when I’m old Haul the wrecks down to the wreck yard Help the boys unload Keep my hair nice and long Because I can, because I can Any of my old friends who have no place to turn to They know to call me any time they come through Never die, never die Stand with a bullwhip in my hand And rise, rise In the desert sand

Barclay: The Chain by Fleetwood Mac - Listen to the wind blow down comes the night Running in the shadows damn your love, damn your lies Break the silence, damn the dark, damn the light And if, you don’t love me now You will never love me again I can still hear you saying You would never break the chain (Never break the chain)

Float On by Modest Mouse - I backed my car into a cop car the other day Well, he just drove off - sometimes life’s okay I ran my mouth off a bit too much, ah what did I say? Well, you just laughed it off and it was all okay And we’ll all float on okay And we’ll all float on okay And we’ll all float on okay And we’ll all float on anyway, well A fake Jamaican took every last dime with that scam It was worth it just to learn some sleight of hand Bad news comes, don’t you worry even when it lands Good news will work it way to all them plans We both got fired on, exactly, the same day Well, we’ll float on, good news is on the way

Mr. Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra - Hey you with the pretty face Welcome to the human race A celebration, mister blue sky’s up there waitin’ And today is the day we’ve waited for Oh mister blue sky please tell us why You had to hide away for so long (so long) Where did we go wrong? Hey there mister blue We’re so pleased to be with you Look around see what you do Everybody smiles at you

Come A Little Bit Closer by Jay and The Americans - Then I heard the guitar player say “Vamos, Jose’s on his way” Then I knew, yes I knew I should run But then I heard her say, yeah “Come a little bit closer You’re my kind of man So big and so strong Come a little bit closer I’m all alone and the night is so long” Then the music stopped When I looked the cafe was empty Then I heard Jose say “Man, you know you’re in trouble plenty” So I dropped my drink from my hand And out through the window I ran And as I rode away I could hear her say to Jose, yeah “Come a little bit closer You’re my kind of man So big and so strong Come a little bit closer I’m all alone and the night is so long”

Black Water by Timber Timbre - You’ve fallen barefoot past the treeline Peeping boned-eyed, birches sway And a thousand whitefish floating belly up In the spirit that I crave And we threw ourselves right into it Where lay the bodies had been claimed We dove a third, a fourth, a fifth Banned to the spirit that I crave All I need is some sunshine All I need All I need is some sunshine All I need I found empathy from madness Deliverance from malaise My heart is filled with gladness And you’re the only spirit that I crave All I need is some sunshine All I need All I need is some sunshine All I need Black Water (pull me down) Black Water (pull me down)

Mama: Come to Mama by Lady Gaga - Dude in a lab coat and a man of God (Come onto mama, come on, mama) Fought over prisms and a forty-day flood (Come onto mama, come on, mama) Well, I say rainbows did more than they’ve ever done So why do we gotta fight over ideas? We’re talkin’ the same old shit after all of these years Come to mama Tell me who hurt ya There’s gonna be no future If we don’t figure this out Oh, come tomorrow Who are you gonna follow? There’s gonna be no future If we don’t figure this out Psychic guru catches minnows in the harbor (Come onto mama, come on, mama) Everyone tells him he should work a little harder (hey man get to work, catch up) (Come onto mama, come on, mama) They all tell you that freedom must be bought But, baby, he’s already caught them So why do we gotta tell each other how to live? The only prisons that exist are ones we put each other in

Similau by Peggy Lee - Spirit in the wood beat the hollow cane Spirit in the wood take away the pain Make the body ripe and alive again I Similau (I Similau, I Similau) Spirit in the heart make the blood flow fast Spirit in the heart make the beauty last Keep the hope alive when the youth go past I Similau (I Similau, I Similau) When my lover comes upon the scene Drop a petal from the tree Fling the mountain up into the sky Fill the river with the sea Spirit in the wood let the hollow cane Echo in the afterglow Waiting for the flame to burn again I Similau (I Similau I Similau)

On Your Way by Alabama Shakes - On your way to God, Did you think of me? On your way to heaven, Did you say “I’ll see you again”? It wasn’t me, why wasn’t it me? On your way to to the promised land, did you say “Oh, she was such a friend”? Then they took you higher and I don’t know if I can follow… It wasn’t me, why wasn’t it me? On your way, I said to the air, I don’t know if I am strong. So I climbed to the mountain And I don’t know what I did wrong And it was just me, just little ole me…

Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand - So if you’re lonely You know I’m here waiting for you I’m just a cross hair I’m just a shot away from you And if you leave here You leave me broken, shattered, I lie I’m just a cross hair I’m just a shot, then we can die I know I won’t be leaving here with you I say don’t you know You say you don’t know I say, take me out! I say you don’t show Don’t move, tide is low I say, take me out! I say you don’t know You say you don’t know I say, take me out! If I move this could die Eyes move this can die I want you to take me out I know I won’t be leaving here (with you) I know I won’t be leaving here

Jackie and Wilson by Hozier - She blows out of nowhere, roman candle of the wild Laughing away through my feeble disguise No other version of me I would rather to be tonight Lord she found me just in time 'Cause with my mid-youth crisis all said and done I need to be youthfully felt, 'cause God I never felt young She’s gonna save me call me baby run her hands through my hair She’ll know me crazy, soothe me daily, but yet she wouldn’t care We’ll steal her Lexus, be detectives, ride round pickin’ up clues We’ll name our children Jackie and Wilson, 'raise em on rhythm and blues

Dani (Danny?): Dance Apocolyptic by Janelle Monaé - You’re going crazy, the hitmen always finds you Do that dance, smoking in the girls room Kissin’ French, it’s over like a comic book Exploding in a bathroom stall (AH!) She’s so freaked out, worrying about the bomb threat You bought a house, but I’m allergic to the house pets Credit cards They bought a new wife for shiny little lonely men But I really, really want to thank you for dancing 'til the end You found a way to break out You’re not afraid to break out But I need to know if the world says it’s time to go Tell me, will you freak out? Smash, smash, bang, bang Don’t stop Chalang-alang-alang But I need to know if the world says its time to go Tell me, will you break out? Smash, smash, bang, bang Don’t stop, chalangalangalang Smash, smash, bang, bang Don’t stop, chalang-alang-alang)

Stand By Me by Ben E. King (Florence + The Machine cover) - If the sky that we look upon Should tumble and fall And the mountain should crumble to the sea I won’t cry, I won’t cry No I won’t shed a tear Just as long as you stand, stand by me And darling, darling stand by me Oh, stand by me Stand by me, stand by me, stand by me Whenever you’re in trouble won’t you stand by me Oh, now, now, stand by me Oh, stand by me, stand by me, stand by me

Bmblb by Jeff Williams (Feat. Casey Lee Williams) - We’ll sit for a while As I drink in your smile It feels like a dream that’s come true My head starts to buzz And my heart fills with love over you Baby can’t you see? You could be with me We could live inside a garden of ecstasy You could be my queen I could be your dream Life’s like a fantasy Maybe set me free Let me be your bumblebee Now the flowers are in bloom And you’ve chased away my darkness and gloom When the wind blows through the trees And your voice is like a song in the breeze My doubts disappear every time that you’re near Clouds seem to run from the sky The thought of your kiss sends my soul into bliss I get high

Take Me To Church by Hozier (Neon Jungle Cover) - If I’m a pagan of the good times My lover’s the sunlight To keep the Goddess on my side She demands a sacrifice To drain the whole sea Get something shiny Something meaty for the main course That’s a fine looking high horse What you got in the stable? We’ve a lot of starving faithful That looks tasty That looks plenty This is hungry work Take me to church I’ll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies I’ll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife Offer me that deathless death Good God, let me give you my life

Angel of The Morning by Juice Newton - Maybe the sun’s light will be dim And it won’t matter anyhow If morning’s echo says we’ve sinned It was what I wanted now And if we’re victims of the night I won’t be blinded by the light Just call me angel of the morning, (angel) Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby Just call me angel of the morning, (angel) Then slowly turn away I won’t beg you to stay with me Through the tears of the day, of the years Baby, baby, baby

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jumpboy-rembrandt · 7 years ago

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TAZ asks to remind you to smile

Rules: no cop-out answers (i.e. Merle – I don’t; Nadiya – nothing) and feel free to give limits in the tags (i.e. #ask me any except Crystal Kingdom and Tom; #only ask me PCs and Goofy)

PCs:

Remmy: Love is a motivator – who do you want to make proud?

Nadiya: Be proud – talk about something you’re good at.

Irene: You are brave – describe a time you persisted despite your fears.

Kardala: You are divine – describe a time you felt free.

Merle: Even if we forget, we are important – name at least one way you matter.

Magnus: Don’t always take the big hit – what is your definition of strength?

Taako: You’re worth more than you think – how do you defy expectations?

NPCs:

Lucretia: We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins – what was a time you thought you couldn’t go on, but kept pushing?

Lup: You are so loved and love in return – gush about at least one sibling, friend, or partner.

Barry: Home isn’t just a place – recall a joyful reunion.

Davenport: Become the stars you gaze upon – how have you been defined by a journey (literal or metaphorical)?

Angus: Adoration might be hidden – describe a time you felt loved or appreciated.

Kravitz: It’s never too late – what makes you feel alive?

Julia: No battle is forever – what is your happy ending?

Johann: You will not be erased – what do you want to be remembered for?

Arcs:

Commitment: Don’t give up – what are you committed to?

Here There Be Gerblins: Embrace nostalgia – what was your first encounter with a loved one?

Moonlighting: Tomorrow is a new day – when have you begun a brighter chapter of life?

Murder on the Rockport Limited: Not everything is clear – how do you feel about mysteries?

Petals to the Metal: Sometimes we need to let loose – when have you done something you shouldn’t have because it made you happy?

Crystal Kingdom: There is more to existence than we could ever imagine – discuss.

The Eleventh Hour: There is relief in letting go – write about it.

The Suffering Game: This too shall pass – how are you stronger for your struggles?

Reunion Tour: Everything can change in seconds – what is your definition of trust?

The Stolen Century: Bonds have power – who do you consider family, and why?

Story and Song: You’re going to fight and you’re going to win – how or why?

// // //

Goofy:

Tom: “That one was called…Wizard Shout” – tell us about a time you hilariously failed at hiding something.

Lenny: “You may remember, you subscribed to the cylinder of the month club” – what is something you are well-known (or notorious) for?

Troth: “Go home and pray for sunrise” – when have you said something badass?

Tres Horny Boys: "Nobody ever say that out loud ever again please” – what is your worst nickname?

Team Sweet Flips: “Me and Carey and a robot ghost with a gun arm, fuck yeah” – if you and your friends had a spin-off show, what would it be called?

Reapers: “ARE YOU AFRAID?” / “Merle, it’s me, Pan” / “Also! Greg Grimauldis–“ – do you have a flair for the dramatic?

Magic Brian: “Hællo hællo welcœme tö my cæve” – do you have any unique speech patterns?

Jenkins: “…aaaand he misses by a country mile” – are you any good at planning?

Marvey: “Well, let's see if I can make a mark in that book on my– in my– hey, fuck you!” – are you any good at comebacks?

Garfield: “Do you like deals?” – describe a time you expertly negotiated.

Lunar Interlude: “I hand Leon the token” – how do you make your friends laugh?

Fantasy WWE: “I Morco [guitar sting]” – describe your wrestlesona.

Camp Goodfriend: “You guys know you earned a teamwork penalty for that one, right?” – do you work well with others?

Neverwinter High: “Magnus, it’s another day of high school! Taako and Merle, you immediately realize something horrible has gone wrong” – how observant are you relative to others? Has this led to any goofy situations?

Tomb of Horrors: “I expected you to catch a fucking fish in the fish minigame!” – when has something gone ridiculously off the rails? Were you the derailer, the voice of reason, or a bystander?

#long post//#ask game #text #u can ask me these but i won't get back to them for a while?#i just couldn't stop thinking about these lol #anyway the first three groups are based on things my therapist(s) recommended i remind myself of in bad moments #and this seemed like a good way to make them?#(except commitment lol that one was p obvious)#the last group is just for kicks tho lol #anyway back to the grind #fuck finalssssssss #nice (1k)

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savrenim · 7 years ago

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I'm so jealous of your gay elf murder bachelorette campaign that I now desperately want my own. Any recommendations on how to find people to play D&D with? I have several friends who are interested, but none of us have any questions experience (between my secondhand experience of reading about your adventures) so we don't know how to get started

oh gods so apparently I have A Lot Of Opinions and it got really long, so under the cut, also thank you for reminding me that I should probably properly type up the finale of Gay Murder Elf Bachelorette Campaign Book 1 because it was freaking epic and this is the one campaign that I can properly rant about on tumblr without worrying about spoilers

(I’m in three campaigns right now) (by complete accident) (on the one hand it’s a bad life decision in that I have zero free time anyways with grad school, but on the other hand it has become my sole social interaction with anyone ever and also coping mechanism for the stress and one good thing I do for me and, like, they’re not all weekly campaigns, so hours-per-week I’m devoting isn’t ridiculous) (and I miss my friends and it’s re-connected me with them and also has introduced me to upperclassmen in the department) (but sometimes there are character secrets and people who potentially follow me on tumblr so I can’t post the super long dramatic things about a character that I really want to)

OKAY SO HOW TO GET INTO PLAYING

I will be real, the three campaigns that I am in right now are the first time I’ve played DnD for anything that lasted longer than a week and a half at a summer camp type deal, like, arguably, this is my real first time playing DnD….ever. That being said, I’ve worked at gay theater camp for….six years now? And they do super intense super in-character LARPing that is far more roleplaying-heavy than mechanics heavy and has trained me to both have very good story instincts of, like, “this is how you make decisions that both fit with your character and support the narrative instead of oppose it, and either do not tear the party apart, or tear the party apart but for a very good and fitting narrative reason (i.e. if there’s going to be strife, make it mean something)” and in my opinion it is when you bring those sorts of instincts to a DnD game that you get the most satisfying story out of it. Character creation, team cohesion, and story and world development are all things that I do feel super comfortable speaking about because that is my literal jam outside of my math jam which is paying for me to be alive and stuff. So here we go.

There are a couple of questions that you need to immediately answer, the first being, “do you want to play Dungeons and Dragons, or do you want to start with a mechanically less complicated system?” Because there are a lot of pretty good systems out there that are high fantasy even (i.e. Dungeon World) that are a lot more streamlined in terms of “you don’t need to be as familiar with a set of rules in order to play.” That being said, Dungeons and Dragons is classic and is fantastic and I freaking adore it. (I will be completely honest, the only other two systems I know right now are Dungeon World, which is fantasy, and Mech Noir, which holy shit you are playing noir style detectives except in a SCI FI SETTING WHERE YOU PILOT MECHAS and the entire game system is around applying “adjectives” to people like, if you successfully roll against an enemy, you get to pick any adjective you can think of ever from “grappled” to “trusting” to “confused” to “located” and it just makes for such interesting storytelling)

which vaguely brings me to my first piece of real advice: you learn how to play best by witnessing playing happening. if you are a podcast person, I highly recommend either The Adventure Zone or Friends At The Table (or, honestly, if you have the time, both). The Adventure Zone plays DnD, 5th Edition, and it is a super quality family who are goofing off and having fun together and then the plot that arises is like “oh shit I am crying about a wizard named Taako, pronounced taco, how did this happen to me” and it’s great. The Adventure Zone is 100% the reason why I reached out to friends and was like “yoooo is anyone starting a campaign because TAZ has made me want to play again.” Friends at the Table starts with Dungeon World and it is some of the best storytelling and worldbuilding I’ve ever heard? And you will learn so much about how to set things up and go with the flow and the DM talks a lot about his process as offhand comments and you will learn so much. I’ve heard good things about Critical Role, but haven’t listened myself. But get out there, listen, and then don’t be afraid of copying things that you admire. Best way to learn.

If you’re going with Dungeons and Dragons, start with 5th Edition. 0th, 1st, and 2nd are all ridiculously unbalanced, 3 is “actually everyone uses 3.5,” or a combo 3.5/Pathfinder. While 3.5/Pathfinder is a great system and is what we’re playing both in gay murder elf bachelorette campaign and in the math grad departmental campaign, and was the game that I learned on, 5e is a lot more streamlined and they’re aren’t super picky exact rules for every tiny thing you could think of doing, which means you don’t need to be familiar with a vast system full of loopholes and counters and counter-counters to know how to effectively play the game. we don’t talk about 4th edition

Decide who is going to be the DM. There are sometimes comic stores that’ll run weekly or biweekly or monthly games of DnD, but those are almost definitely going to be less story-based and usually are one-shots? And if you’ve got a good group of friends, I recommend just playing with them and not trying to find an external group that you don’t know. I’m vaguely assuming that you’re volunteering to be DM because you’re asking? But if there’s someone in your group of friends who likes writing things or likes managing things or is interested, or if people want to take turns trying stuff out, go for that. The department group rotates DMs (and rotates games) just based on who has something written that they’re excited to try out.

You also might want to ask around to see if there are any people that you vaguely know, or that are friends of friends, who play. You’d be surprised how many people do. I’ve also seen blogs on tumblr sometimes going “hey, I’m running a Skype campaign and I need two or three more players, if people are interested fill out this survey and then depending mostly on times people are free but also what you say about what you’re looking for from a game I’ll pick the players?” or if y’all are in college there is almost always a DnD club somewhere, hidden semi-secret on campus, on the register to get club funding but under the radar because nerds. But you and your friends who are semi-interested will work just fine, as long as semi-interested means they’re actually willing to commit for a bit. So how do you get started?

Get the Player’s Handbook, and the Dungeon Master’s Guide, and read them cover to cover. If you’re playing and not DMing, eh, skip this step, and have the DM do it instead, but the Dungeon Master’s Guide especially will walk you through how to set up things mechanically very well and if you’re going in blind it will be good to have gone through and read it all once. I’ve read the 3.5 DMG cover to cover several times, haven’t read 5e yet, I know that I didn’t like their storytelling tips, but read through it once to get an idea of what mechanics might look like, it gives very good starting mechanical advice.

1. Speed and smoothness of playing are important, which means that sometimes, if you don’t know a rule, you want to make something up on the fly and deliver it with a completely straight face. Everybody does homebrew. Rules are great because they keep things from devolving into chaos and they can settle disputes, but also, sometimes you’ve just got to make a call, and if you make it while looking like you know what you’re doing, everyone will believe you. Similarly, don’t make the same rolls, or the same number of rolls, for NPC characters as you would for PCs. For example, in gay murder elf bachelorette campaign, when Iria was both directing a full assault on a hobgoblin fortress as well as had put herself on the special strike team that was going to sneak in and open the portcullis, the DM made ~one or two rolls~ to see how successful the Caedic units were at each of the points of Iria’s plan, instead of rolling a full battle between ~40 hobgoblins and ~80 elves. screentime is important; if you’re spending too much time on not-the-players, it gets boring for the players, so roll enough dice to decide what’s going on with a tad bit of luck and so it seems like other characters have rules that they have to follow, but you don’t have to let the rules dictate every single thing that happens in-world. you dictate that.

2. Character creation is how you set yourself up for success. Do not underestimate the importance of party dynamics. You don’t all have to be playing best friends or even people who get along–in Spelljammer, Marian and Djin had the character backstory of “ten years ago we were captain and co-captain of a vessel and for Reasons got into a huge fight over nothing and split and Marian took half the ship with her and she thought she’d never see him again but now oops they’ve both ended up jobless on the same station and Marian was already pooling as many resources as she could to try to put together a new ship and Djin arrived a couple months into this and needed the work so joined this ragtag democratic crew, but there’s a shit ton of tension.” This worked because we were snippy to each other in dialogue, when push came to shove, Marian is professional enough such that her whole deal is putting personal feelings aside always no matter what, and Djin takes the passive in passive-aggressive super seriously, so it never meant that the party was sitting around arguing for hours or refusing to cooperate. Meanwhile, I’ve seen and heard of campaigns falling apart because “there are two thieves and one really wants to get to do all the sneaking so they argue all the time over who gets to do cool stuff” or “the evil fighter literally just wants to murder everyone which means everyone else can’t get stuff done.” You can have intra-party strife and have it be interesting, but only if players are doing it cooperatively instead of being at each other’s throats irl. Rule of thumb: if the party dynamics are frustrating the other players, you are doing something wrong.

2.5 That being said, if a party starts to develop into bad dynamics, it is fixable without betraying character! For example, in the department campaign, I’ve been playing a super sheltered youngest child elf wizard from a super established Elvin wizard family (of, like, oh the arcanic postlines that let mail be sent around the continent? Grandpa came up with that theory. Schools of magic identified and classified originally? That was the Maewels) so Seraph is a tad bit privileged and a tad bit sheltered and is uppity sometimes. There was a fighter in the party who liked his alcohol, once missed a huge battle that the rest of us had to cover for him because he’d seduced two women at the inn we were hanging out at before the town was attacked, and typically did things like walk around in the morning with no pants on. And he proceeded to interpret Seraph’s increasing shock and disdain for him (or rather specifically, how upset she was the first time she saw him pantless) as “yeah all women go for me.” The party was vaguely splitting into “Seraph’s side and Silas’s side” so I decided to aggressively interpret one of the battles we went through together as a bonding experience and lo and behold Seraph’s feelings started to change over the next couple of weeks to “you might be an inconsiderate asshole but you’re OUR inconsiderate asshole so only we are allowed to rag on you” and she became one of his biggest supporters esp when they got to his hometown. All you really need is one super solid, proactive player in a party to make sure that things are resolved in a solid manner, so if you’re not the one DMing? Be that player.

2.75 Okay but if you’re DMing, have the conversation with your players as they’re designing their characters about point (2) because good party dynamics are easiest when you get it from the start.

3. Design encounters around the party. You don’t need a traditional setup of “a tank, a mage, a healer, and a thief” to have an effective and fun party. Maybe everyone wants to play a thief, great, design the scenario to be “you have all been contracted by the thieves’ guild to sneak into this party and assassinate this noble, you have three days to prepare and these resources, make a plan” instead of “this is a traditional dungeon crawl where you are fighting big scary monsters despite the fact that none of you are melee fighters.” Similarly, figure out what sort of stories and settings and aesthetics your players are interested in, and then play that game.

4. Make it personal. Ask people about their backstory and then incorporate stuff in. Notice what they become invested in and adjust your plans to include more of that. Give characters individual arcs that fit vaguely into the overall story, but also that they are the semi-protagonist of. Right now in Spelljammer, we’re all dealing with “so there are weird tears in the universe that Password, this Extinct AI we found and befriended, says are reminiscent of literally the entire universe ripping apart at the seams and are possibly why the Extinct went extinct, oh and some random lady gave us this artifact called the Eye and told us to hide it from the Blind King? And now his servants are hunting us? We are literally scav elves this is so above our pay grade.” Except going on as subplots, Algol is being hunted down by this evil overseer of whatever place in Echoside he originally escaped from, Leif got a stone that gives her prophetic dreams, Kimi has been super close to Password and Leif dreamed about them stitching the universe together, and Marian is dealing with an "oh shit I’ve accidentally adopted these three kids even though I don’t do personal” along with “oh god have I literally become the captain of this ship because I AM THE ONLY ADULT LEFT” along with some old friends from her past trying to reconnect just after we got a prophecy about how the last thing the Blind King would send to steal the Eye was someone we loved turned against us. So yeah, sure, there are big Adventure Plotlines going down that involve the entire party, but we’re not doing things just to do them, everyone is personally invested in this for their own reasons. So when you plan a big adventure, both plan places where individual party members get to start both for who they are and what they can do, as well as along the way keep an eye out for things that you can tie in for them.

5. Consequences matter. And not just stuff like “Iria got stabbed really bad first session and nearly died, now every time she goes into rage at the end needs to roll a fortitude save to not fall unconscious, and whenever she rolls a one same deal.” But also consequences like “you were really rude to this person and now they don’t like you and they are friends with the owner of the apothecary, who now also doesn’t like you and marks up prices behind your back” or "you let one of the patrol escape and now the whole army knows that you’re coming” or “you saved this kid’s life even though you were in enemy territory and now five years later he recognizes you even though you’ve been captured and is making sure that the party is taken prisoner instead of killed.” Make NPCs (non-player characters, ie characters the DM controls) recurring characters instead of people that you meet once, and have the way that the NPCs feel and then interact with the players change based on how prior interactions go. Have them care about things and have them remember. It makes the world feel a lot more real.

6. Preparing for a session goes petty much "how much do you like improv”. If you’re chill improvising, you want written down the stats of the monsters/enemies your players are potentially going to encounter, and probably a vague idea of goals, and then just play it by ear. Jeremy (the person running gay murder elf bachelorette and spelljammer) has I think at this point 13 “Books” written for gay murder elf bachelorette campaign, will write long descriptions of characters, settings, has maps drawn, has customized his own random encounter tables, has made his own homebrew system for how spaceship mechanics works specifically so that we could better piece together our spaceship with fantasy duct tape during the Death Races, and overplans every last detail all the way down to “has different musical themes that he’ll swap out and play at different times.” like, Iria has a Trauma theme that is played every time her wound starts acting up. He has collected music for books in advance. He has multiple different theme songs for each of the players in spelljammer. He writes notes about what NPCs are thinking so that he can reference it later. But that’s because he knows that he prefers the things he comes up with when he has time to plan things out, instead of when he’s surprised. He knows his own storytelling style. “eh, an outline and some monster stats” would not work for him the same way that I’ve seen it work for other people. You don’t have to put a ridiculous amount of prep work and writing time into being a DM, you need to figure out how much prepared material you need to run something comfortably, and then prepare that much.

6.5 Understand no matter what you plan, bits and pieces will probably be derailed, and be okay with that. Nothing is more upsetting than when a DM does not respect player autonomy and invalidates the clever things they think of, because it goes against their own plans. I think being a DM/running a story is sort of halfway “you’re writing a novel” and halfway “oh shit except this time the characters ACTUALLY have minds of their own” and striking a balance instead of dominating the narrative makes it fun. Also, it means you can throw in problems that you have no solutions for. During the Death Races in spelljammer, our battery started running out of plasma, which meant that the pressurization was getting all wonky, Leif immediately goes over and says “I have a spell called Reduce Object, can I cast it on the internal casing to try to up the pressure of what little plasma we have left” and Jeremy goes “uummmm sure if Kimi is over there to help you rewire the rest of the battery on the fly because you are SHRINKING HALF OF ITS PARTS” and then that held for three minutes until oh shit it was still low on plasma and Marian ran over and went “wait a second guys I have a Flaming Sphere spell except Jeremy, Jeeeeremy, I’m technically a plasma variety of Light Cleric, my ~god~ that ~gives me my divine magic~ is the collective of star dryads which live in balls of plasma, we’ve established prior in this setting that some of my fire spells are actually plasma spells, not fire, Jeeeeeremly can shove my hand into the empty battery casing and cast a flaming, 10-foot in diameter ball of plasma to try to give us a fuel boost” and Jeremy went “okay fuck it, stick your hand in the battery and cast a flaming sphere of plasma to give the ship a fuel boost, Leif, make another concentration check to hold the pressure.” and it did and we won the race the end we’re the coolest space elves ever. moral of the story: your players will come up with clever things. Sometimes clever things that mess up your plans. Let it happen, it’s more fun that way.

(Iris has come up with a truly heinous but potentially really effective military tactic that gay murder elf bachelorette campaign is actually a bit more delicate because it’s set in a larger world that Jeremy is running multiple other campaigns in and I’m still not sure if Iria is legit going to be a villain that I face off as a good PC one day, or if she’s a historical figure, or even whether or not this campaign is set in the past, but either way the history of this world matters? and the idea that I came up with has the potential to re-shape history? and I told it to Jeremy and he was quiet for a very long time and then thanked me for telling him and so Iria told Talvus in-character and we’re going to see whether or not in a couple of books this ends up changing the entire history of the world that he runs multiple campaigns in or something drastic like that, but hey, player wants to do something you haven’t thought of, “I didn’t think of that” is not a good enough reason to not let them do it.)

7. Decide if you want to write your own adventure, buy/find online a pre-written one, or vaguely do something in the middle. If you’re going for something pre-written, edits bits and pieces as you go to personalize it to your characters. I have a friend who just wrote and published something for DnD 2nd Edition? And it looks great? http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/229248/War-Wizards-of-the-Wasteland Even if you don’t play a pre-written adventure, reading a bunch of them will give you an idea of what preparing for sessions is like and what sort of information you should have on hand.

8. Don’t be afraid to make up home-brew mechanics, either for the whole party or for an individual player. Jeremy ran a vignette session called “Flight of the Kalla Tukal” in which we were playing a trio of orcs that had fallen through a tear in space and had just managed to get back and were searching for our tribe, which left without us. Except in his setting, orcs are a super psionic almost hivemind race? You meet orcs outside of radiation space sometimes, but they’re usually Not Coping Very Well with the fact that they’ve been cut off from their community. But the Kalla Tukal were still all linked together so we weren’t all going mad. then the other part of being psychic orcs meant that we could at any point attempt to do telekinesis or mind-control something, and the way that it was determined whether or not that worked is roll a d20, except we’re not trying to get 20, we’re trying to roll as close to each other in number as possible. There was one dramatic moment when two of us rolled 4’s or something and it was a critical success. but it was so cool to have that weird drift-comparability mechanic, and, like, the more people in our group that wanted to contribute, the more likely two people were to roll the same number. it was just?????? so cool??????? so if you want your party to all be psychically connected and be able to throw stuff with their minds I totally recommend that.

on a more personal/one-player level, in the department campaign, it has developed that Seraph really wants to be a research wizard like her family before her, and so the DM and I had a long conversation about the topics that she would want to research and a particular narrative impetus for her to start researching, and he came up with five or six new spells that Seraph will be able to invent over the course of the campaign, except because it’s experimental magic it’s going to start out with a 40% partial-to-total failure rate that will go down the more she tries to cast the spells, because hey, she’s working out the kinks. to me, it’s more than “oh this is a cool new mechanic,” it’s the DM cared enough to take the time to work with me and put what I thought was interesting into the campaign. and you have a lot of room to do that by adding your own rules and conventions and what-not. don’t be afraid to experiment, see what works, and then keep those mechanics around.

9. Start small. Don’t try to start with a whole huge epic campaign, you want to start by running a bunch of mini-arcs in different settings so that you get a feel for how to play and how to run things. This also gives you a chance to figure out how your group of friends plays, who is going to be the person that gives you the most scheduling problems, some of them might like the fighting parts more than the “come up with clever plans” or “interact with NPCs” parts, and this will give you an idea of who you actually want in a long-term campaign. Because long-term campaigns go on for years. Like, gay murder elf bachelorette is probably going to be a year and a half if Jeremy and I keep going at this pace? and that’s vaguely on the short side for something that Jeremy runs. A proper full epic campaign can be a huge time commitment, so start out with mini-arcs just to have fun and get used to stuff and because that is something that people will actually be able to commit time to.

I interrupt this long list of advice for another list of advice of potential ideas for miniature campaigns you could run for your friends. or one of your friends could run, if they’re interested in DMing:

COOL IDEAS FOR ONE-TO-FOUR SESSION MINI-CAMPAIGNS THAT I CAME UP WITH RIGHT NOW OR STOLE FROM FRIENDS WHO CAME UP WITH SUPER COOL THINGS

—as mentioned in a previous bullet point, “you’re a group of thieves planning an assassination. this is how much money you have. each of your characters has one character connection in the city who can help you get items or forge a document etc etc. this is what the castle looks like. this is what you’ve figured out about guard shifts and security for the party. you have a week to plan. go” and then, like. somebody wants to try to pretend to be a noble to get in? fantastic. someone wants to try to seduce a guard? fantastic. sneaking in the traditional way? fantastic. all three at the same time. faaaantastic. it’s fun, it’s short, the way that you would prepare this is you would think about guards, defenses, patrols, maybe some of the nobles at the party are trained in magic or have weird special teams of guards and maybe have agendas of their own, and then what the actual ball itself would look like and maybe make a castle map, but the fun part of this scenario is the players get to be as creative as possible and I guarantee they will think of the coolest things and then you get to figure out how to react to those things in interesting ways to figure out whether or not they work.

—okay this is a one-shot I have only heard legends about but everyone was playing a rock band of monsters who were about to give a super huge concert in monster city and I think someone had stolen a drum set or a guitar or something and they were trying to dodge paparazzi and get their instruments back but it was also ridiculous sex drugs rock & roll culture and a comedy one-shot that apparently was the coolest thing in the world, but you can’t go wrong if you start with “crazy monster rock band superstars”. during the sequel they went on tour to the human lands and I think wrecked a couple of cities.

—this one is stolen from TAZ but fantasy WWE, the intro plot setup that is exposition in the first 10 minutes was “a friend of yours who is a famous wrestler just had her partner assassinated before the biggest match of the year, one of you has been asked to fill in for the match, another as the manager, and then the rest of you are trying to solve this murder mystery super quick because your friend is worried she’s the next target”

—honestly any sort of “huge gladiator/fighting tournament but there’s drama and foul play going down behind the scenes” makes for a really good short arc. there’s a game that actually Jeremy invented that is played irl at gay theater camp called “bloodrush” which is such a ridiculous game, it’s….vaguely fantasy football except everyone also has daggers and swords and stuff and you are allowed to stab members of the other team but only when they’re holding the ball, although cheating is basically a requirement when the refs’ backs are turned, oh, by the way, the refs are vampires. there have been cases at camp where teams waiting in the bleachers for the next match enemy teams have crept up behind them and slit all their throats with foam daggers while the refs were watching the game, or poisonings, or just. anything you can think of, it’s gone down. my little brother once jumped on the biggest baddest counselor’s back, stabbed him in the shoulder, snatched the ball from him, did a front roll, and ran off, and scored a goal and that is one of his proudest moments of his life to this day, basically what I’m saying is you can’t go wrong with “bloodrush tournament” or whatever your own crazy fantasy sportsball game you want to make up and play.

—“we are a bunch of archeologists who have a little bit of combat or magic training but not too much because mostly we’re archeologists and someone poked a button in a pyramid and oh god we’ve accidentally summoned an ancient race on monsters that feed on human souls, which also apparently there’s a secret military conspiracy that has been watching this site to try to stop these monsters and have come here to contain them but oops also are ready to murder ALL OF US because WE have human souls, now we’re trying to run and hide from both groups and figure out if we can find anything to banish the monsters again” (this is 100% stolen from a LARP written by a friend of mine) (I’m pretty sure same one who wrote the monster band one-shot, actually) (they’re a really good writer, okay)

—PRISON ESCAPE. Think Guardians of the Galaxy 1. You can’t go wrong with a prison break game. character design will be so fun. I swear I thought of stuff like this separate from Jeremy. Jeremy’s writing a prison break game and has promised that I get to play Captain Jennijack, a genderfluid space pirate who totally woke up in this prison a week or so ago and doesn’t for the life of them know why they are here, there are, like, eight or ten possible things they could think of but they’re not sure which one they’ve technically been convicted of, and I am holding him to that.

—Honestly, you have a book that you like? A movie? A TV show? One that you haven’t convinced your friends to watch yet? (or one that you have and they will recognize halfway through.) STEAL THAT, write and run a fanfiction game, it’ll be fun.

ADVICE PART 2: PREPARING FOR A LONGER CAMPAIGN ONCE YOU’RE COMFORTABLE DMING AND HAVE FIGURED OUT THE GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE GOOD CHEMISTRY AND DYNAMICS AND WANT TO STICK AROUND. I’m assuming you want advice for getting something vaguely like gay murder elf bachelorette to run, so I’m going to talk about broad story-based things that I think are important for setting up good stories?

10. Scheduling is key and what is most likely to mess you up. Pick your players carefully, pick people who are invested and who will turn up. If there are people who didn’t get along during your mini arcs, or who just had very different expectations of what the game should be like re fighting/mechanics and roleplaying balance, don’t put them in the same party. Picking a party isn’t about picking your friends, it’s about picking people who work well together as players, and whose playing style matches your storytelling style. You’re better off with less people but who are super quality players and share a vision with you and get along, than letting someone into the game that’s going to mess stuff up for everyone because of outside-of-game social politics. It’s just not worth it. Not when this might go on for years.

11. There’s something really powerful about a story that isn’t about the Chosen Ones, but instead you’re just a group of people who were at the wrong place at the wrong time and now oh shit it’s on you to save the world. Epic campaigns generally become epic, like, you invest that much time and energy into something and by the finale you usually are saving the universe, but be willing to start out not special. Let specialness develop.

11.5 There is also something really powerful about there sometimes being problems that magic can’t fix. Or that just aren’t fixable. If you haven’t read the Young Wizards series go read it and cry.

12. Write in arcs. This goes along very well with starting small, but have there be different parts of the campaign that are semi self-contained as you slowly build up to something bigger, this is also where you start dropping in personal arcs. Arcs also allow you to change up the feel of the game and keep things interesting and keep people on their toes. The Adventure Zone does maybe the best example of how to have self-contained plot-driven arcs that build to something eventually cohesive, all arcs with their own unique setup and flavor. (The Adventure Zone: Balance is a really great game and I really do advise you listen to it, it’s ~70 episodes but it will get you used to the mechanics of 5e, and holy fuck is it a story.)

13. Don’t be afraid to steal plot points from your favorite things. Hell, don’t be afraid to steal the entire plots of your favorite things. Especially if you’re worried about your own writing skills or creativity or whatever? Fanfiction is freaking great, and it’s fun; some of the best games I’ve ever played have been fanfiction of super obscure things that the writer has afterwards told me what it was fanfiction of and it was so freaking fun to go read/watch the original after I’d already played an even cooler version???? It’s also pretty easy to start out fanfiction and then through developing personal arcs and following party interest, ending up with a story by the end that is entirely original and you. So write fanfiction if you don’t have any ideas, or honestly, if your fanfiction ideas excite you more than when you sit down and try to write with a blank slate.

14. You’re not limited to a high fantasy setting. Honestly, standard high fantasy/dungeon crawl stuff has gotten pretty boring for me? (although the department campaign is pretty cool, but that’s only because it’s high fantasy but we slip in jokes like “Seraph marches downstairs in her pajamas and channels her mother to start yelling at the innkeeper about the utterly terrible customer service of getting poisoned, non-consensually, and that she would like to speak to the manager of the local thieves’ guild to lodge a complaint” because even though it’s high fantasy, it’s funny. TAZ does really good high fantasy too because of how they weave a whole bunch of other stuff in.) but, like, YOU CAN DO DND IN SPACE. you can do modern urban fantasy. you can go post-apocalypse. you can go post-high-fantasy-apocalypse. you can play a supernatural style game. it’s your world, make it whatever you want.

14.5 It is possible to play things that are mechanically the class in the book, but have a different interpretation in the setting. Or just to works differently in the setting. in spelljammer, elves don’t have gods, and I vaguely developed over the course of a couple of months an old belief system that was pretty old even when Marian was a kid that she just pseudo-learned and didn’t quite believe but is now revisiting, and the difference between divine casters and arcane casters is actually just “magic is vaguely a part of physics and most arcane casters are tinkerers who are doing it via weird cool gadgets or are pseudo-scientists/engineers in their training and approach to magic, while for divine casters it’s more of an internal, feelings-based thing.” I’m also very very excited because I have developed a super intense and specific lore that is canonically what elves used to believe and what Marian believes, but might not actually be how the world and death specifically works at all, so I’m bouncing up and down on my feet waiting to discover what’s going down behind the scenes with gods in that campaign, instead of it just being “oh yeah choose your gods from the gods in the book.” in the department campaign, Seraph is from a family of wizards and thinks that she is a wizard even though she is actually an arcanist, because the world doesn’t have words different types of casters esp niche types of casters yet. the DM and I are planning for it to be a huuuuge surprise now that she’s leveled up enough to have access to “arcanic exploits” which are at-will abilities that wizards don’t have, and it is going to be an in-character process of her discovering that she can do something that according to the known laws of magic she shouldn’t be able to do, and now oh shit she has to research it. even though mechanically, we’re going pretty much entirely by the book, the book doesn’t exist in the world! characters don’t know what players know! make it interesting to discover things that you as a player might otherwise take for granted!

14.75 make magic and fighting sound cool, and design how you describe it to be specific to the setting or the culture. in gay murder elf bachelorette campaign, the way that Caedic casting works is you first have to draw a rune in the air that then hovers there all glowy, and then you “thread the needle” which is projecting power through it in a very specific manner, I’m pretty sure that Surrians cast differently, magic works different in different parts of the world. having a melee fight scene? describe how people exchange blows back and forth or let them choose how their killing blows will look or just make them feel like badasses whenever they try to do a cool thing because it’s cool. I am used to playing magic/caster characters just because I generally am more familiar with magical mechanics than fighting mechanics and magic has always been more interesting to me but holy crud I have never had a fight scene so fun as the one when Iria had led a researcher from the Black Lotus Labs to a fae font that she’d found scouting in the woods and this seaweed creature eventually attacked them and she did a badass holding it off with her scimitar an then Vennikus, the researcher, tried to throw a cold iron knife at it but missed, and so Iria, who had been training in two-weapon fighting, saw the knife, did a front roll underneath the monster’s next swing, picked up the knife, exchanged a flurry of blows with the thing now two-handed fighting which eventually ended with her doing this super badass throwing both weapons in the air and catching them to switch hands, leaping on the things back, slashing so deep with her scimitar that it finally got through all of the seaweed and cleared it before it could get back to a weird, pulsating green heart, which then she drove the cold iron blade into all the way up to its hilt. which was so much cooler than “oh shit I rolled a crit on my scimitar hand and confirmed it and I guess that deals enough damage for this thing to die,” nah, I drove a cold iron knife into that thing’s pulsating heart and so that’ll be a scene that I never forget. Even when I miss Jeremy makes me sound cool because then when the enemies miss he talks about how good my footwork is or how well I’ve drilled to block these exact kinds of blows so the Surrian had no chance because my training kicked in type deal. it makes fight scenes more than just rolling dice, and thus easier to get engaged in.

14.8725 I swear I didn’t start out this essay as an “I’m going to sing the praises of Jeremy for several thousand words”

15. It’s always interesting when you have mechanical reasons for players leveling up. Or for what their classes are. That’s always a tricky one to balance, and it’s one that I’ve been doing aggressively as a player? And to be fair, if your players start out with young and fairly inexperienced characters, “I am gaining experience at doing a thing” is a perfectly good narrative reason to level up. You want to play an older character? One of my friends is playing a 150-year-old orc who was a Great Adventurer back in the day and retired to take care of great-great grandkids and is back in an adventuring party now but wheeee is starting at level 1 because they’re out of practice oh, and they have bad knees. There’s also always the option of “I hurt myself real bad and I’ve been recovering,” leveling up isn’t ~gaining new experience~, it’s slowly getting better through whatever your injury is. or just you can write this off as an unavoidable mechanical aspect of the game, eh, not that important, I just love it when tiny details match up. This isn’t actually an important point, I’ve kind of moved on to the “picky details that I care about” second of this advice rant.

16. Make the unexpected important. JEREMY GAVE ME THE MOST ADORABLE PET SPACE OCTOPUS AS A FAMILIAR AND I HAVE BEEN ASSUMING THAT VELO IS JUST VELO AND THEN JEREMY MADE SOME SORT OF A SIDE COMMENT ABOUT “YEAH VELO IS NOTHING LIKE YOU’D EVER HEARD OF BEFORE” AND YEAH DUH BECAUSE THE LIL’ BUDDY WAS SUMMONED THROUGH A MYSTERY SPELL IN A MYSTERY PIECE OF EXTINCT TECH BUT NOW I’M FREAKING PARANOID OUT OF CHARACTER THAT VELO IS SECRETLY AN EMISSARY OF RAT JESUS OR SOMETHING. but also just, like, nothing is cooler than “oh that tiny thing that happened when you were level 1 that you didn’t really think much of and it’s just been vaguely a thing you’ve carried with you for the adventure? turns out it was the most important thing in the world!!!!!” just. good foreshadowing. unexpected foreshadowing. it’s great.

17. Your players will invent stuff, either as a part of their backstory or as something that they’re interested in. Let them, especially if you don’t have a previously established canon opinion on the thing. This is 100% a self-serving thing of what I wants DMs to do when I’m a player of, like. I really love getting to write stuff into the setting, but also it’s because good improv means go with the flow. Someone says something? Work it in, oops, it’s canon now. This can be both on-purpose or accident; in the department campaign, I wanted to write in-character letters to an NPC in my backstory from the beginning, except goddamnit I didn’t want to have to deal with “and it’ll take a couple of months for the mail to travel across the country to get to them,” so I made an offhand reference in the email that I was sending the DM the letters of “can we say I just threw them in the arcanic postlines,” which then, like. After doing this about five times I sat down and wrote out the exact magical theory about how arcanic postlines should work considering how we’d said that they function in-game and the DM went “okay, sounds great, that’s consistent with how we’ve been dealing with these letters for the last two months” and that is why the fantasy world of the departmental campaign has a highly functional postage system. On the improv end of things, there is a beautiful moment in The Adventure Zone where the wizard just, in-character, teases another wizard about “ooooh, don’t want to burn your spell slots,” and the DM just went with it and suddenly it became canon that instead of spell slots being a behind-the-scenes mechanical thing that doesn’t exist in-world, it was a legitimate way that wizards referred to how much magic they could cast a day. Which I love so much, that’s so interesting for a high fantasy setting. Letting players add to the setting will bring in cool new things that you didn’t think of, and you should be open to it.

18. First priority is everyone should be having fun, and communication is key for that to work. Debrief sometimes after sessions. Ask people what their favorite parts are. listen to them chat about their theories. follow up on actively developing framework for the things that people think are fun. ultimately DnD is as much about friends getting together and having a good time as it is about telling a huge, epic, intricate, interconnected story, and the huge epic stories are a lot more fun if you’ve been having fun the whole way along.

All that all being said.

Don’t expect your campaign to look like gay elf murder bachelorette campaign, the way that I am playing in gay murder elf campaign is…..a bad way to play in a party? Being a conscientious player means being aware that the overall story arc isn’t just about you, it’s weaving together about everyone and there is always a part of me that is thinking about “is everyone getting equal screentime” and going “I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS NPC JEREMY SHE’S SO GOOD AT FIGHTING OH MY GODS THAT MURDEROUS LOOK SHE GETS WHEN SHE’S FACING OFF AGAINST SURRIANS AND SHE DOESN’T THINK ANYONE IS WATCHING JEREMY I AM IN LOVE” and, like, actively going over to try to talk with her any time I had the chance to ever and insisting on sparring with her any time we had free time and insisting on having a bunch of scenes with Talvus of “oh my god Talvus help she said three whole words to me what does it mean” which made all this the gay mess that it was would have been something that I wouldn’t have done if there were other people in the party with other agendas; gay elf murder bachelorette campaign gets to be gay elf murder bachelorette campaign specifically because Jeremy and I realized “….wait, there are only the two of us, we can get as ridiculous with this as we want” and have decided to commit. Fully. But that’s not the sort of shit you want to pull if there’s a whole other group of people who just kind of have to sit and watch every time you want to go over and flirt with your murder-rival-who-will-maybe-one-day-be-your-murder-girlfriend before they can do the stuff they want to do.

(As a secondary warning note if you’re doing any sort of roleplaying and are playing a fictional character in love with another fictional character being played by a friend of yours, you better be on the same page as your friend as, like, one of you not having a secret crush on the other in real life because shit gets messy and then real life and character stuff starts to blend and it’s just. I have been there and done that when I was a 17-year-old Gay Mess and I feel like it is my responsibility as a 22-year-old Slightly More Responsible Gay Mess to warn you against that. Jeremy and I know each other very well and have for years and know each other’s boundaries and talked about triggers and boundaries before starting this campaign, which to be fair was more because as a villain campaign dark stuff is probs going to happen but we have talked about fictional romance too , but I would not play this intimately with someone I didn’t trust intimately. So keep that in mind when designing things?)

ALSO THAT BEING SAID

if you want a gay elf murder bachelorette campaign, there is a game called Monsterhearts that I have never played but heard about friends playing and they all freaking love it and there are a lot of undertones about dealing with mental illness and being queer and in the closet and the entire setup of the game is y’all are monsters in high school having love life drama and everything I have heard about this game is how remarkable it is combined with stories about the most ridiculous teenage drama, sooooo possibly after I have ranted for 8000 words about how to set up a functional Dungeons and Dragons campaign which the party and DMing advice still I think applies to any game Monsterhearts might be the game that you want to start with.

BONUS: ADVICE FROM JEREMY.

#jeremy believes in you #so do I #wheeee that got long #dungeons and dragons #storytelling advice #gay murder elf bachelorette #if you stuck around through this whole thing wow congratulations I hope I wasn't too boring #I have a lot of friends who are very good at mechanics and who can speak a lot about good game design #this is what I can offer though

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