#meera plays dnd

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First Planescape session yesterday DMed by @penatsial !!!

Our team of intrepid recently-re alived heroes include:

My amnesiac Dragonborn/Hollow One Warlock of the Raven Queen, Corinth. So far absolutely out of their comfort zone. Terrified that the cleric is gonna clock them as undead. (Cleric probably already knows lmao). Has been roped into a puppet show where they cast Infestation as part of the act.

@edenzom’s kenku sorcerer, Nod. Meera out of character loves this little guy. Corinth is vibrating between severely amused and severely annoyed. Doesn’t help that the gremlin looks like a fkin raven. History modifier of +5 and uses it to recite Wikipedia articles of stuff we find. Has an AC of 9, but is always the first to rush into battle. (as I have said in character - go la. gi lagi la.)

Mia, human cleric of Gond. Probably the only sane person in this crew. Is probably gonna kill Nod at some point out of sheer annoyance. Also is the one that’s probably holding everybody together lmao… poor girl needs a break.

Honsifer/Hansipher/whatever, Dragonborn rogue/wizard who can’t remember how to spell his own name. Has never disengaged in his entire life. Fuck it, we ball.

Lilandra, drow bard. Has both the planes largest piano AND the planes smallest violin. And also maracas. Has in fact bitch slapped a necromancer in our first battle. Has also performed that one Snoop Dogg nursery rhyme to a bunch of very entertained skeletons.

- we also apparently survived an encounter that was supposed to kill us, and ended up levelling up by the end of the first session??? Hell yeah

[belovedblabber]

So I promised I'd ask 5 questions to any mutual who reblogged that post... since I don't know your mutuals as well since you've only recently begun talking about them

Which ocs belong to which stories?

What are the relationships between them?

Which ones are in romantic relationships, versus platonic?

What are your favorite ones?

Which one is the most fun to write?

Thank you so much for enabling my oc ramblings that’s so sweet😭🤝✨

Okay so I have a lotttttt of ocs and I'm going to try to be as brief as I can and cover all of the ones I can think of also oh lord I have realized that this is SO long sedrftgyhuji everybody feel free to blissfully scroll past and let the 'keep reading' divider protect you as needed

Okay so for question one:

In terms of solid stories a have a few uh, 'universes' (ECUs, Esmé cinematic universes dfghj). The first is the most vague because I've had it since I was 11 and revised it so much that the characters are the only through-line (and they've changed a ton) and I'm currently trying to figure out a new coherent setting for them. But anyway, I loosely call this grouping League because of reasons that no longer apply but I hold onto from my leetle 11 year old days. The main ocs from this one are Tamara (Tam), Meera, Kelli (that's a last name but she deeply needs a new one), Arshak (this is an Armenian name because I'm part Armenian and so is he <3), and Solomon. Tam and Meera (and the rest of that gang)are some of my first ocs (outside of my wolf character from when I was teeny tiny, and outside of toys from games my sister and I played) and they [Tam and Meera] pretty comedically mirror my own little path to lesbianism. Because my god these women are dykes who didn't get to be dykes for years because I was fully oblivious for a long time fghj. They're deeply in love but they don't get around to admitting this to each other for years.  Putting the rest of my oc universes and the answers to the other questions under a 'keep reading'

I also have a science fiction story that I usually just call Space Noir, and the characters from that are Castor, Azza, Okar, Min, Martin, Hassan, and K'laña (forgive my weird alien names).

ANOTHER oc cinematic universe is the one that Corin and Faolán come from and it doesn't have a strict name rn other than W&W which is tied to way back ago name stuff that I use in my head to mark it. In that universe there is, obviously, Corin and Faolán, and also their adopted daughter Adaira, and a woman named Eira. Sort of connected is a character from a similar but slightly different universe that I may combine together with Corin and Faolán's universe. His name is Xavier and he is from a now-abandoned story I wrote with my partner. I want to either bring him back in a revised version of that story, in his own version of that universe that is similar but different from Corin and Faolán's universe, or or adapt him for their universe because I LOVE him. He's possessed by the norse god Odin and it's his own damn fault. Also in that universe is his (much older) sister Oisin, her wife Kiera, and Xavi's dead (but often on my mind) dad Beckett, along with Beckett's various flings and loves. I love Beckett a LOT.

Then there is the current story I write with my partner (I call it Gay Snake Drama fghjk) which has a TON of characters but some of my faves are Lorcán(aka Lor) (my baby, I adore him), Riel (who I also adore and want to talk about more), Hypatia (who is so fun and also whose relationship with Riel is one. of my FAVE things to write), Minerva, and Maggie.

And okay just two more I'll mention fghjk. One is dnd characters who come from different campaigns. Agatha and Julian are my darlings, and they come from a campaign I never finished called Landion. I want to give them their own story some day. Then there is Seril, from the Curse of Strahd game I'm in, Alex from a fantasy high school game my friend runs, and then the npcs from the game I run that's set in hell. The twp major ones there are Artemisia and JOHN, who I talk about too much dfghj.

And last is the newest story I'm working on (in theory) which has a longer name but I'll just call Pennies here as a marker, and the main characters of that are Ilias and the Iudex, and I love them and their weird sweet sweeping romance. Love 'death and the maiden' as a motif, you know? And OKAY that is my way too long answer to question one fghjk I am probs forgetting some ocs

Relationships between them:

If I answered for all of my ocs this would. be WAY too long so I'll just highlight a few.

Tam and Meera's relationship is important to me because it is, like I said, pretty much a direct reflection of my own personal little journey to lesbianism, and they fell in love as a result of me realizing a lot of stuff about myself. They're best friends and wildly codependent (saying 'best friends' is honestly putting it lightly) and Meera is in what she things is unrequited love with Tam, but it's NOT, but Tam is a mess, and anyway they do end up together. Side note like I said, Kelli is a nasty and very fun character who is also in love with Meera (and also the villain of the story, or one of them) but her and Tam end up having a fucked up fling when she has Tam captive wherein they're dealing with hatred for each other, hatred for themselves, and love for Meera, all wrapped up in the most toxic sex you've ever seen in your life. It's fun.

In space noir, Martin and Min are fun as former best friends gone sour, and that's super fun especially because Min is pretending to have become sort of a piece of shit enforcer for a bad system but it's all an act to take it down, but Martin doesn't know it, anyway they do reconcile.

Corin and Faolán I adore, love these gay bitches. I also love their relationship with Adaira. Also in his own universe or in this one, Xavier's relationship with Odin is. So Tasty.

Gay snake drama has some of my fave dynamics, Lorcán is my baby and I love writing his relationship with his husband, my partner's oc Aaneshku (they're gonna have a daughter soon!), and also his relationship with his adopted sister Maggie. Also in that universe though there is Riel and Hypatia, who are not romantic, not sexual, not platonic, but a secret 4th thing (I don't know how to describe that fourth thing). They're wildly co-dependent, can't live without each other, and have gotten up to so much shit. They also do enable each other's worst habits a lot and can get NASTy with fights because they both know the best way to get RIGHT to the raw heart of what wounds the other. Anyway they're in love but in a weird hard to describe way. They're in love, they're divorced, they're married, they act like a romantic couple but they're not, when they were first introduced they were going through a divorce era, they're doing it all. Minerva is also their adult sort of daughter. Sometimes a family is a disgraced academic lesbian, her platonic life partner a beautiful bisexual man who is a wanted criminal in just...so many places, and their adult lesbian daughter who thinks of nothing but murder all day long. I love them. I also really love Riel's relationship with his (about to be) husband Aazra, who is another oc of my partner's.

Ilias and the Iudex are brand new, so I am still figuring out their dynamic, but I do love it. Also forgive me if you meant 'what are the relationships between the stories' and not 'between ocs' dfghjk, which I am now thinking might be the case but whoops too late!

Platonic vs. romantic:

I covered a lot of this above but quick rundown: Tam and Meera=romantic, Kelli and Tam=mess, Arshak and Solomon=romantic. Castor and Azza=platonic, Castor and Okar=platonic, Azza and Okar=romantic (maybe, I haven't decided), Min and Martin=platonic, Hassan and Castor=romantic, and Martin and K'laña= platonic. Also Azza and Min might=romantic I have not decided. Corin and Faolán=romantic (obviously) and then Adaira is their daughter and Eira is their friend. Riel and Hypatia and Minerva I covered above, Maggie and Lor=Platonic (adopted siblings), and Lor and Minerva=siblings. In dnd land Seril has various dynamics with dif npcs and characters, but she is currently romancing Ireena, aka the woman the. bigbad is obsessed with. Agatha and Julian are siblings, and they have a lot of interesting dynamics with the cast of player characters and npcs. Alex is a unknowing baby lesbian (I draw a lot of my experiences and put them on her fghj), John and Artemisia are platonic, and then John has a fun platonic relationship with my partner's character Arietta (they are mean southern women@each other) and is in love with my friend's character Khomros. Also Artemisia and Arietta are in a currently casual fling. The Iudex and Ilias=romantic

What are my favorite ones:

I don't play favorites (yes I do). I can't really easily list that but dear to my heart because of seniority are Tam and Meera (and their accompanying characters. I'm really excited to explore Armenian identity stuff with Arshak). But in terms for who is on my mind the most these days, it's Lor, Riel, Hypatia, John, Seril, Corin and Faolán and Adaira, Xavier, and the Iudex, and Ilias. I realized. I just listed a huge chunk of ocs from that list but dfghjk, I love them what can I say. I also love all of them but that group is on my mind rn. Oh Also Agatha and Julian, they NEED their own story, or to have their campaign brought back, or both.

Which one is the most fun to write:

That's a tough one and I don't have a favorite per se, but the one I think I currently have the most fun with is John. He's so fun to write dialogue for, for a variety of reasons. And he's very fun to play, I emote more for him than I do with any other pc or npc I play

Anyway this is novel-length, forgive my ramblings and thank you so much for asking me this and giving me an excuse to go a bit wild here<3

[alangdorf]

RIP my ability to ever draw fire

[thedreamergirlofsummer]

The whole GoT petition fiasco...

I understand that people are upset about the quality of S8. It is a legitimate issue. Characters were poorly developed, some fan favourites arcs were completely destroyed and overall almost everyone is angry over the rushed pace of S8.

Yet remaking an entire Season on popular demand? That's juvenile. If they're doing that, they better start from S5 since it was from there the plots began deviating and falling apart. (As a Jonsa it doesn't benefit me)

Yes we the audience invested 9 years of our life into this show, we wanted the characters to meet a satisfying end. When we're presented with a poorly made end product it does negate our years of emotional attachment to the show.

But...

We were not the only ones that were involved. What about the people that actually worked on the show? What about those people who had to suffer a 55 night long shoot in terrible weather, n yet they gave it their all!

What about those people involved in storyboarding, set design, prosthetics and those people that pumped gas into KL that helped the burning look real? What about those actors that had to wear masks and set themselves on fire for a perfect shot? What about the special effects team that takes months to render and make all those fucking dragons? What about the extras that drenched themselves in blood?

What about them?

Michele Clapton, Deborah Riley, Miguel Sapochnik, Bryan Cogman and countless others, not just the major and minor actors, but everyone that worked on that show. What was their crime that they they should start over, that they should feel awful about things they never did wrong? Why should they have the years that they spent on the show, the talent and the hard work that I am fucking sure not even half the BNF and GA of GoT have, be negated and cast aside to make a remake to satisfy YOUR version of a perfect ending?

Don't like it? Fine you still have the books to look forward to, also you have fanfics. Deal with it.

Am I satisfied with GoT storyline? Heck no. Reasons?

Jaime's arc was decimated. Going to Cersei after sleeping with Brienne? "I don't care about innocents" Jaime vs "Would you stand by as thousands of innocents died, would you have kept your oath then" Jaime. Like FU seriously. Also being killed by fucking rocks!

Gendrya sunk...kinda.

Jonsa will probably never happen in one episode

Jon's POV was fucking blocked and he just dissolved into a puppet mouthing random sentences

Tyrion was fucking stupid

Dany's descent, although foreshadowed and was bound to happen was not culminated properly, since DnD kept trying to portray her as a hero by undercutting her cruelty with a kind act or a victory.

Jon/NK was not resolved for shock value

Bran became a tree god that creeped people (also left Meera S7 in the coldest way possible)

Never got a Euron/Theon fight that would have been a better conclusion to Theon's arc than being sacrificed in a terrible redemption arc that ignores his abuse

Cersei never getting her elephants and doing despicable things

No Cersei/Sansa face off, that would arguably have been the biggest beef between two beautifully developed characters in the history of Westeros. (It's better than the Sansa/Dany jealousy angle, not negating Northern Independence here, that beef is legitimate. But they played the jealousy angle quite a bit. As an anti Dany n Pro Jonsa I enjoyed it, yet I felt cheated out of a Cersei/Sansa confrontation. But you don't have to agree with me.)

Euron died like a fucking anticlimax. I expected some resistance!

Cersei's prophecy mentioned in one season having absolutely no impact on the manner of her dying, Valonqar theory negated. What was the point if the rocks were going to kill them anyway?

Missandei and Greyworm not getting a happy ending.

Missandei DYING IN CHAINS!!!

Missandei's death used as a bloody trigger that snaps Dany.

Greyworm regressing into a mindless Unsullied after Missandei's death, undoing his morality and character development.

Not one character... especially Jon who threatened to kill him, asked about Littlefinger.

Edmure Tully? Robin Arryn? *crickets chirp*

Bronn getting fucking Highgarden??? Cersei promises him the Riverlands, Highgarden is in the Reach and House Tarly becomes the Lord of the Reach because they're the second powerful House in the Reach for fucks sake.

Gendry Rivers?? Wtf.

Feel free to add to the list if you like. It's true that the writing in GoT needs much room for improvement, but that doesn't mean just because you have a list of problems with a Season you ignore the work that has been put on it for decades and scrap the talent of many people that made this show worth watching.

Somebody make a counter petition to take down that stupid petition.

[asthebelltolls]

Tagged by the fantastic @rabbitbaratheon to do this thing!

Rules: Tell us your favourite characters from 10 different fandoms and then tag around 10 people

To keep things interesting, and to help myself in this process, I’m going to set a specific rule as say that these are favorite characters who I have yet to personally identify with. Things under the cut because long post.

1. Harry Potter - For far too long have I ignored the amazingness of Harry Potter himself being a witty, intelligent, funny, sassy, average character. We actually share a lot in common, but I’ve never actually identified with him or given him too much thought, even though he’s the protagonist.

2. Marvel - Claire Temple is the epitome of goodness and kindness in this world, and she’s everything I aspire to be. I know I can never be as great as she is, but I’ll be a lot farther off if I don’t start trying now.

3. A Song of Ice and Fire - So if I’m entirely separating myself from characters I identify with and searching for a favorite, it’s gotta be Meera. She’s super headstrong, knows exactly who she is and how to live her life the way she wants to and isn’t encumbered by anything else. Also, look at this cute gif of her!

4. Stranger Things - Will Byers. What a good and pure kid to be honest about his fate in the DnD campaign, even though anyone else would have lied about it. And from episode one, I was on his side and hoping he’d be okay.

5. Kingdom Hearts - Regardless of how often I played this game, I was always more of a Sora. But I love Kairi. I love everything she stands for, and what she represents as part of the journey and bringing goodness to the world. Also, I really love the animation on her.

6. Percy Jackson and the Olympians - I feel like everyone forgets that Hazel is from 1928 New Orleans, and I think that’s a serious detriment to her character. She is completely out of her time, everything is new to her, and she just rolls with it.

7. Sense8 - I am nothing like Wolfgang. Except that we think in very similar ways. We act on those thoughts very differently. And even though he’s in a bunch of crazy shit, he’s just doing the best he can.

8. Avatar: The Last Airbender - Aang gets a lot of flack from fandom (looking at you, crazy Zutara shippers) for not being a one hundred percent perfect character. And everyone dismisses the fact that his entire world was twisted around and destroyed when he was 12. If you know any 12-year-olds, you can likely see why it’d be wrong to force perfection on them.

9. Star Wars - Are you ready to make fun of me? You probably already are from the gif. R2-D2 has always been a favorite character of mine. I love how often he sasses back to C3PO, and goes off to do his own thing whenever he wants. 

10. Lord of the Rings - I feel like Radagast would be me if I didn’t enjoy any of the comforts that I have in life. Radagast is the crazy hippie healer that I wish I could be, but i know it will never work out, unfortunately.

Tagging: @sporadicallydelusional, @takiki16, @casuallyotaku, @snarling-through-our-smiles, @foofoocuddlypoop-loves-you-too, @too-latefor-logic, @empire-of-dirt, @omg-unit, @organamidala, and everyone else who wants to do the thing.

[quitefair]

dont talk to me, i'm shifting into corinth mode.......

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maybe I should talk about my dnd character for the planescape campaign I’m joining………..

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VIBRATES REAL LOUD

[deranged korok noises]