#poor kalina

[all-about-the-tea-parties]

ngl I feel sad for Kalina

She warned them about Jace and Porter yk

[totallyseiso]

...

[feelingtheaster99]

I know Beardsley already alluded to thing but it was really sad and powerful when Kristen tells Cassandra that she knows “chaotic is not cute.” And then Cassandra straight up tells her, “I can’t rely on you.”

And Kristen and the entire audience have to agree. It’s really humbling for me as an audience member but I’m guessing also for Kristen in that moment

[thecryptidzenith]

I was thinking today about a timeline where Midnight Oil Riz gets back to his mom and somehow ends up in a party with the rest of The Bad Kids in Junior year (ignore the logistics). Thinking about him having to interact with the Rat Grinders is so funny; I feel like he'd see Kipperlilly being mean to Kristen, immediately try to find something to blackmail Kipperlilly with to force her to drop the election, and accidentally uncover Porter's whole plot in approximately four days.

First of all, I'm delighted that my silly little fic lives in your brain enough that you're thinking of alternate timelines, that's incredible. And thanks for sending this to me! I love excuses to procrastinate and excuses to yell about my guy.

So obviously, I'm God, and there's a lot of stuff prior to where this would be on the timeline that would have an impact, but I'm going to keep my cards as close to the chest as possible, however I think the thing that would impact this the most has already happened: which is that Poxson Tiktaalik is a student at Aguefort. On that, Kalina says "I have contacts at Aguefort." and "There’s more than one conspiracy going on at Aguefort," (to which Riz's internal response is 'what a fucked up school,' a sentiment made extremely funny both because he's an Aguefort student in canon and because he'd be an Aguefort student here.) This will be said directly soon, but Riz has met Eugenia, he's passing rogue class. Logistics aren't a problem at all.

But here's the fun part: the second conspiracy Kalina's referring to is Porter's plan to take Ankarna's place in the pantheon. Him and Jace are her contacts who take care of the administrative aspects of Poxson Tiktaalik being a student there. And Riz has already passed freshman and sophomore year with flying colors, and Eugenia knows who he is. The only thing that would need to happen would be changing his name in the system, and that's not technically necessary. Porter knows Kalina, and he knows Kalina wanted Riz in Aguefort's system for some reason. Throw in anything he may have heard about Poxson from Eugenia or any other networks he may be a part of, and suddenly, he looks like an incredibly useful ally with a high likelihood of helping them. If Kalina did, surely her protege would too, right?

Plus, this is a super tumultuous time for Riz. His living situation has changed drastically, his mom is alive, and he only recently found out that his godmother--his closest confidant--kidnapped him as a child and groomed him to be her actor in the physical world. Kid's not doing great as a baseline, and this makes everything so much worse.

How much does he really know or care about the Bad Kids? He's not exactly a team player here, and these kids are directly responsible for his ability or lack thereof to go to college. In canon, Riz doesn't have any resentment for them, but here? That's likely to be a different story. The two people he actually cares about are his mom and Aelwyn, the later of whom is working for Kipperlily Copperkettle.

Would it be so wrong of him to be a little angry? After everything he's been through, would it be unreasonable for him to get a little mad?

This isn't to say he'd join--there's no way he wouldn't despise the Rat Grinders, especially Kipperlily. He'd find them incredibly entitled, petty, and incompetent. Porter and Jace would probably annoy him too, their final goal is just to make Porter a god, and that's not something Riz would find worth it. Maybe his complicated feelings about Cassandra/the Nightmare King have solidified into hatred and he just wants her to hurt when her wife's domain is given to a new god, but that's the strongest motivation I can devise. Compare this to Kalina, who gave him a personal reason to help her in bringing his parents back and a societal reason in using the Nightmare King's power to fix the ugly parts of the world Riz got to know all too well in Gravalvia. Porter and Jace just aren't that good. Sorry to say, but nobody's doing it like Kalina.

And then there's the Kalina of it all. Does he want to help them because it seems like the thing she would have wanted him to do? Or is he spiteful and works tirelessly to destroy them instead? There's no way he isn't curious about what in the hells she was up to with them, but what does he do with that curiosity? Maybe he plays both sides until he knows exactly where he stands. He could pretend to infiltrate the Rat Grinders for the Bad Kids and the Bad Kids for the Rat Grinders. It'd be hard to pull off, but he's Riz 'Poxson' Gukgak. He excels at hard things.

[jackinalex]

I am fine with fans pointing out flaws all day and night, but the second I see a hater on Twitter shit on Alex, I get all defensive and aggressive. Like how dare you, only fans can do that. Yes his hair is awful when bleached, but also, fuck you. I don't actually say anything tho, I keep it to myself and just fume at others.

Honestly, I feel this. We are allowed to make fun of everything the boys do and clown them in our safe little bubble here. Beyond that, NO. Outsiders are not allowed to mess with my stupid little band. Those are MY dumb men.

[clowncarcrash]

i have a theory that in fantasy high junior year kalina will just be a regular house cat that lives in mordred manor

[halcyon-autumn]

Okay new theory in the vein of "The Ratgrinders are Jace's pawns" - I wonder if Kipperlilly might be trying to protect all of the Ratgrinders, the same way she's trying to protect Oisin while she acquires spell components.

I'll buy that the at minimum Kipperlilly was involved with Jace's plan to restore a corrupted Ankarna from at least Sophomore year, perhaps swayed by the idea of bringing back a goddess of Justice (she's talked about wanting things to be fair at the school). Rueben's potential to musically harness lots of people's rage would also make him a natural recruit. Lucy would be necessary as a cleric, but probably a hard sell since Yolanda Badgood was convinced that she'd never change her deity. I'm imagining the following scenario:

Kipperlilly acquires the Devil's Honey for Jace, not for herself; Jace was using her to do the dirty work the way Kipperlilly is now using Aelwyn.

Jace convinces Lucy Frostblade to change her deity, perhaps using the Devil's Honey himself, or maybe magically. Maybe he was planning to give Lucy the honey to have her lie to Ankarna and say she believes in her, maybe it was a way around Oblivati Mori, or maybe Jace wants it for himself. Idk.

Jace is the one to sign the Ankarna glyph on Lucy's paperwork (the one that the Bad Kids initially couldn't read). Yolanda says that such paperwork would have needed her signature, but maybe not if the Vice Principle of the school signs off.

Lucy changes her mind/breaks free of control and withdraws her paperwork.

Jace kills Lucy, and Porter helps (sorry but it's sus that he was talking to Arianwen and Kalina after Kalvaxus died). They either blackmail or magically coerce some of the Ratgrinders into helping - at least Kipperlilly, probably Rueben as well. Maybe all of them? He could have blackmailed Kipperlilly with the sketchy stuff she'd been doing for him.

Jace, a powerful sorcerer, is the one to brand poor Lucy with Ankarna's symbol, the same symbol he put on Lucy's paperwork.

Reuben uses the devil's honey to convince himself (and maybe the other Ratgrinders except Kipperlilly) that they had nothing to do with Lucy's death (hence the devil's honey that Fig saw bleeding out of his mouth during his Dream). Kipperlilly could have been the one to do it, and maybe the Dream indicated that Rueben had been affected by the Devil's Honey?

Reuben now doesn't know about Lucy's death, and Jace either by magic, force of personality, or blackmail gains enough power over Reuben's life to start convincing him to do things like demand that Frosty Fair be held at the Thistlespring tree. Idk how aware Reuben is of the weird magic rage symbols.

Kipperlilly decides to run for Class President to get enough power to protect her friends from Jace and Porter. It would explain why she's absolutely furious that Kristen, who doesn't care, is upstaging her.

Kipperlilly is either still forced to collect stuff for Jace OR she's collecting stuff for her own ends, but now she's using Aelwyn the way Jace used her. Maybe all of the money she has is either money Jace gives her to purchase stuff OR he tried to buy her off or something?

Jace uses a powerful spell to kill Yolanda Badgood when she finds Lucy's body and brands Yolanda's body with the same symbol of Ankarna.

It would make Kipperlilly such an amazing foil to Riz - taking on more and more stress to try to protect her friends, trying to work her way through an impossible situation. And the idea of the Ratgrinders all murdering Lucy never felt right to me - I think that even if some were involved, it's more complicated, and the big bads are Jace and, unfortunately, Porter.

[genshingorlsrevengeance]

still don't care, i still want to marry angelia

Ya'll be like (me too tho)

===

Kalina's snicker could be heard behind the mountain of rings that Angelia's followers bought, the flipping of dollars audible above everything else.

(Kalina) "Not nearly enough to supply the suitors you have, Ange!"

(Angelia) "Can we clean this up before Helian sees? Poor woman might cry herself to sleep if she realizes this happens regularly..."

(Kalina) "Hey, I can sell her some ice cream to eat and cry into!"

(Angelia) "Tch, you're colder than some of the Sangvis T-Dolls we've fought..."

[everywishway]

I just learned this term so correct me if I'm wrong but Kalina is my literal 'poor little meow meow'

[verosvault]

🚨SPOILERS FOR FANTASY HIGH JUNIOR YEAR EPISODE 6🚨

Dimension20 "Fantasy High Junior Year"

Episode 6 "Party Politics"

Timestamp: 00:32:30

Video Length: 4min. & 48sec.

Sumo Wrestling to talk to Ragh (‣Pt. 1 | Pt. 2)

Gorgug gets to the front of the line! 😂😆

Ragh is so tired.. undefeated crab king 😂

Gorgug asks if Ragh wants to take a break 😂

Ragh is so tired 😂😂🤣🤣💀💀

Ragh is out of rages 😭😭

Gorgug doesn't feel like raging 😭😭

Ragh adds a +10 to Athletics. He rolls a 19 and gets a 29! ;0

Gorgug has a +8 to Athletics 😭

Ragh pushes Gorgug to the edge. He's one step away from going off. 😭

Gorgug goes into a rage

Ragh and Gorgug trash talk 😂

Ragh is Crab King!

Ragh is gassed!

Gorgug: "If you're the crab king, I'm the fisherman."

Ragh: "Well, fisherman, guess what? These waters are restricted! You have to throw me back or you'll be fined!

Gorgug: "I'll throw you back. I'll throw you back right now. I'm not afraid to provide for my family."

Ragh gets a 21.

Gorgug gets a 22!!

Gorgug has Ragh right on the edge!

XD LOL POOR RAGH! 😭😭😭✋✋✋

Ragh: "If you're gonna push me off, just don't do it too hard, okay? I'm gassed"

Gorgug: "Do you want to push me off?

Ragh: "What's that?"

Gorgug: "Do you want to push me off?"

Ragh: "There could be talent scouts here, dude."

Gorgug: "How much bad milk did you have?" 💀

Ragh: "Oh, I thought that was just milk! I was doing it to carbo-load."

Gorgug: "It's milk."

Ragh: "What?"

Ally: "Carbo-load on milk!" 😂

Ragh: "I was doing it to carbo-load, dude."

Gorgug: "Well, it's bad 'cause it's got vodka in it, but milk is milk."

Ragh: "I think I ate some glass. That was vodka?!"

(NOT THE "I ATE GLASS" BIT COMING BACK! 😭✋)

Gorgug tells Ragh to throw him off so he can have a conversation with him 😭✋

Ragh gets a 24.

Gorgug chooses to fail 😭✋

Ragh hurls Gorgug off and pretends to have been bested by him 😭💀

Ragh: "Crab King is victorious. Gonna go lie down."

Ooooo!!! Sofas with golden skulls and crossbones as the studs everywhere! ;00

Gorgug explains the things that happened in the Synod Mall to Ragh.

Gorgug tells Ragh that Kalina's back and he seemed surprised about it like "-Kalina's back?"

But Kristen had already told Ragh before when they were talking about Tracker and stuff that Kalina was back.. that's not new info for him. 🤔 So... Idk 🤷‍♀️

Gorgug: "She[Kalina] said 'Ragh'"

Ragh: "She said my name? Like she's gonna come after me or kill my mom?"

The way that Ragh got SO DEFENSIVE IMMEDIATELY! 😭✋ I LOVE HIM SO BAD! 😭✋♥️

Ragh goes over to rally 💀

Ragh: "Gotta rally, gotta get sober. My mom's in danger! Gotta get it together, Barkrock! Why did you waste all your rages being crab king?"😭😭😭😭

Gorgug: "You never know when you're gonna need 'em."

Ragh: "You never know when you're gonna need 'em! That was stupid!" 😭😭😭

I love Ragh so much! He cares about his mom SO MUCH and I love him SO BAD! 😭😭✋✋

[dimension20npcofalltime]

Preliminary Round G

Propaganda under the cut (May contain major spoilers for one or more of the campaigns listed above)

Kalina - She was such a well done villain, incredibly unnerving, and so fascinating in her ties to Riz and Pok. I love her with all my heart.

Barry Nyne - Poor man, killed his family under the control of a brain slug

Em - An iron statue atop the Bethesda Fountain. She guards and protects the waters in and around New York City, a source of neutral divine magic, designed by a woman (has a womans touch), besties with Sofia

Master Ipskix - hes a dirty little freak

Primsy Coldbottle - Love her accent, love that she's both young/innocent and incredibly competent as a leader, love that she's a sassy independent woman, who doesn't need no man, even on the brink of death.

Hallariel Seacaster - A wine mom, an expert swordswoman, she cut a man's eye out of his head and he proposed on the spot. Milf.

Woman in the Moon - moon lady

The Tornado - It was such a great bit, I hope we meet the tornado properly in Junior Year

Justin Fication - Conrads best friend

Cinderella's Mice - The way "We was turned into men" was said with such horror will always like rent free in my head. Love a good existential crisis. Especially one that humorous. It's almost Lovecraftian, the way Brennan portrayed it.

[baron-fromthebaronies]

...I bit her. That was...most of it...

-Baron

I knock on the mirror and wait for Baron.

-Riz

It takes a minute but, eventually, I appear.

...Hallo, Riz Gukgak.

-Baron

[strugglingatart]

Jr Year ep4

This is me live blogging bc I need to get thoughts out also would love fandom friends full spoilers bellow the cut just so no one accidentally reads anything they don’t want to this will be long

I have wanted most if not all of Zac's and Murph's shirts this season

I still have issues with the multiclass system but also no school thing has made the most sense in universe

I believe you and that's why I'm not saying anything is SUCH a trouble friend mood

"what's the drinking age?" "you have murdered SO many people"

BRENANS FACE WHEN KALINA SAYS I'M NOT BAD ANYMORE OH LORDS

the whole Kalina/Cassandra/Kristen scene is so nerve wrecking and interesting and once again I can talk so much about this topic and I know I have critized Kristen's approach but that's bc honestly I do have issue w it despite understanding it but it does make for an interesting arc and with this conversation it does seem like she believes in this domain of faith on the unknown. I will at some point talk more about from the point of someone who also left a culty religious thing but was still expected to perform similarly once out of it but my thoughts are still not the most organized

that being said I do not trust kalina and i do love cassandra

when you're in the dark I'm there holding your hand why am i crying

not kvx still being a thing lmao so Brennan

oh I just love how complicated but absolutely Bill Seacaster is the whole trust thing, the money going to the nemesees, there being a whole department, honestly that's a department I'd work for it's basically spy and gossip stuff

but also poor Fabian having to go through all this head ache stuff alone

watch Caperslolly Cattlekrush not be a direct nemesis but someone from her party be yes Fabian get that service!

I too keep thinking it is rat ccrushers no t grinders and will absolutely get it wrong

the gorthlax art is PERFECT

my school nurse did not have sweat pants but ok murph(i also absolutely am not from the us idk why i keep pointing out diferences)

they each will have a foil in my head so why just one owlbear contender? also is riz in the bloodrush team?

grinding for xp is so much weirder and terrible imo in this context also should be less effective bc like lbr experience is important like thinking on your feet etc like yes they are probably equal level and Brenan will play them well but they should absolutely not be as good as the bad kids at actual adventuring

I love how they all are so agro tho bc I get it and love the energy and I would absolutely be that mad

YES SOMEONE CALLED OUT THE HIPOCRISY

xp isn't bad if you at least still DO INTERESTING STUFF TO GET IT

if brenan makes them like grinding i will become as agro as the bad kids so far lol

gorthlax gave great advice, that being said i do hope they get a lil bit petty and end annoying grinders

nooo Gorgug (cries) I really want him to do well

listen I am so emo about gorgu's storyline like it's just no thoughts just feels and all of them

listen i don't do character builds but it does not sound to me like artificer and barbarian are THAT ill fitted, like yes the require different focus levels and types but they are also USED in different moments, nothing is stopping Gorgug from using his down time to come up with gadgets that work WITH his strenght and dex and rage and then use reckless abandon in battles. I think even th solar lasso is very much an example of that because it uses his strenghts, he's realing it in with atheltics checks iirc or how his shoes have jump like yes absolutely a challenge and not the most obvious but people are acting like it's impossible when it absolutely isn't

we love Corsica Jones

Riz helping Kristen <3

Brenan is absolutely having so much fun with Ayada's messages

Listen Fig does not need to go to warlock classes, no one in the school knows she is a warlock just do bard and barbarian and help your friend

also i get that procrastination girl

Please I want Fig and Gorgug to work on a song together and for us to get that scene so bad

Aelwynn is a whole entire mood

well that answers me: riz is not on bloodrush

I KNEW BRENNAN MADE THEM STUPID RATS TOO GOOD I HATE IT BUT I LOVE IT

wouldn't detect magic tell riz what enhancements she has? cause otherwise it's nnot THAT useful for spies (which is reason #1 the gadget exists)

oh brennan REALLY made people we will all hate

Yes Bucky I adore him

someone please go home with Fabian

ohhh Brennan put extra stakes at Fig just quitting/failling auegfort since she technically doesn't need it

oh warlock classes are night classes, kinda love that for Fig and also good for her being good at it

also looove the talk about exchanges and that

FIg could make an album out of pressure and expextations that woul be rad as hell

RAGH we love him

LISTEN Ragh should be like party guy, he was absolutely popular and is older and it takes stuff away from the bad kids to do

oh Fabian goes into it immediately we stan

Listen Ally is MASTER of weird ass energies and I love them for it

they truly are such dorks and somehow cool at the same time

I cannot tell if they don't know milkyriver's name or if they are benedict cumberbunching it and I love that

literally everything kalina says is so threatening

also the bad kids should count as followers of cassandra like they are not clerics sure but they ablsolutely belive in her... do only clerics/paladins count?

LISTEN BRENNAN WE DON'T NEED MORE PROBLEMS

oh the shard and red thing that was in one of the arts

oh I REALLY thought they were gonna split party this

I do hope the party still goes well

[praise-bakarath]

kalina if you can see this at all i need a lifeline. what do you know about buddy taking devil’s honey

how much has he taken? can you cut off his supply? anything would help

please

i can’t see him hurt like this

- @quokkipetenjoyer

Hey, don't worry, Buddy's fine. @oisinthewizard got his shatterstar out. The thing was latching onto his anger at himself, and he took extreme measures with the honey to "fix" himself. Without it, he's probably not gonna go that far again, though I'll confiscate it just in case. Poor thing just cried himself to sleep.

Personally, I'm more worried about what he's gonna do about Bakarath when he wakes up. He worshipped it because of some left over orders from ******, but I don't thing he emotionally handle it if he killed a god. And more importantly, what the hell am I gonna do if I don't have the damn thing protecting me from @squeeeeem?

--K

[jackinalex]

I saw that Alex was wearing the LYR jacket yesterday so I decided to go watch some music videos from that time. I forgot how much I loved that era; the aesthetics, easter eggs, the roses, great hair all around, I even made my own jacket I was that excited. All the videos have something you can take away from them. Dirty Laundry gives a small insight into Alex’s life, LYR is just a fun time highlighting being young and carefree, LOTP shows a little of the tour party life and its consequences, Nice2KnoU is just them going around Baltimore and reminiscing. As much as I enjoy their weird funny music videos, I think I prefer these more serious artistic ones (please bring Pat Tracy back for some videos). I completely forgot about the quote at the end of Good Times - ‘When the night is dark enough the stars shine out.’ I loved that!! They should do more videos with shots from tour. The Drugs and Candy one was really fun. And I can’t forget the video for Afterglow that was shot in London. I went to that show and it was the best! Freezing outside in snow for hours but it was worth it for the two sets because they were opening with the whole of SWIR. I guess this is my love letter to LYR music videos 🥰

LYR really was a great era (even if Jack was weird during it and Rian and Cass broke up during that time). I know a lot of people don’t like it, but I love that album and the aesthetic. And they were all SO fucking hot the entire time. Especially Jack, of course, but man, all four of them were slaying. Dirty Laundry is my favorite music video from that time, but I felt like LOTP and Good Times were videos where they really tried to say something in a way that hadn’t before and I liked that a lot.

[jq37]

On the one hand, the Kids used up a lot of higher level spell slots and resources in this one, so skipping a boss battle was a very good thing. On the other hand, Final Form Baron looked pretty rad. Could've been fun. And I wish we could've gotten a better look at the mini for the Gilear-That-Never-Was. Anyway, great episder. I love these more elaborate Encounter episodes, where it's not just an arena, but also a dungeon or there's alternate win conditions other than kill everyone.

No recap this week because I was out of town (not that much happened plot-wise so I'll roll it into the recap for next episode) but I thought this episode was awesome! One of my favorite episodes of D20 and probably my fave battle episode ever. Like you said, it's great when a battle ep is more than just a slug fest. This had exploration and hidden roles and a fetch quest element. So fun! And everyone had such great moments! Since I'm not doing a full recap for this ep, I'll drop some highlights here:

-GORGUG!!!!! Or really, Zac with an assist from Emily. I had to replay his womping of Brennan like four more times before I continued the episode. What a legend. I totally forgot he had that ability so I was just as caught off guard as Brennan.

-Lou, king of commitment to the bit morphing into Baron to a horrified Adaine and outraged Siobhan was another easy episode highlight. I love Adaine insisting that she's SO nice to Riz and her, "What are you TALKING about????" It was such a fun moment and a great way to change the stakes and keep everyone on guard.

-Adaine was so cool this episode! Sure she got possessed (also very fun) but Kristen came in clutch yanking her out of it and then she immediately used a super sick spell (which according to the AP, she took specifically to get Kipperlilly, lol) and merced Baron before he could touch Riz (she *IS* so nice to Riz). Then, she one-shot fake-Zayn! Battle Wizard! Battle Wizard! Absolutely love that for her.

-This arena was totally made for Riz. It's so great when you're absolutely in your element and your build gets rewarded. This is the first time I've even considered playing a rogue. They're SO GOOD at high levels.

-Poor Fig but, "I would like to roll...a new character" was such a funny line. Also, girl why are you eating the cursed cottage cheese (or whatever it is)? You were JUST told not to do that and Adaine JUST broke the curse on you!!!

-There is something disturbingly endearing about Kalina snapping her own neck rather than attack the party--similar to how it's endearing that Cass tried her best to make a save haven for the group even though she was being corrupted and it came out wrong. Wrt Kalina only being able to say Ragh's name, there are some loose ends from Sophomore Year in the back of my mind that I haven't been able to check on because I've been AFK for the past few days but I wouldn't be surprised if they're related somehow.

-I also wish they'd showed us the thriving Gilear mini in the AP at least.

Anyway! Very fun episode and the Bad Kids have all this useful infernal energy to play with now. Stoked to see what they do with it!