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prommytheus · 2 years ago
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hi if youre anti-endogenic systems then please unfollow me. its none of your business why and in what way someone is a system. gatekeeping is stupid and immature and all systems of all origins and all labels are welcome on my blog.
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v0idb4by-blog · 9 months ago
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CALLING ALL PLURALS AND OTHER STRANGE/STIGMATIZED GROUPS
I have a proposal.......
My school is based around making passion projects. But, despite this project technically being for school, it's something that i want to keep working on out of school and even after I graduate. So, heres my pitch to everyone who sees this!
I am going to be making an app/website!
The platform in question was originally going to be specifically for the plural community, to have a place for systems to interact with one another with an easy profile system implemented into the platform, similar to pluralkit for discord. But.... as I've been thinking more, I may or may not expand my project to more communities, such as the furry, alterhuman, and more!
Soooooo.......
if anyone is interested....
HERES ANOTHER POLL!!
if anyone has any questions or just wants to talk about it, please comment, or you can even dm me! I'd love all the support i can get!
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ask-the-twin-sinners · 9 months ago
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Uh, "Multiple Personalities"- A more correct term would be " Plurality " in their case. Anyhow we(plural) are wondering... Allen and Asan, are you two engaged yet?
-Fog/✉️👁️‍🗨️ Anon (can we claim those, if you allow "named" anons?)
(stop wait i (the mod of this account) am literally a system host how did i forget im sorry)
☆ - not yet...
yet.
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ahyesthesufferingoftvteens · 6 months ago
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Sooooooo this post is one of those rare “What’s Cursi’s life like?” Posts, and it’s technically related to The Hollow for reasons I will soon explain.
So I’m getting married soon. Surprise!
Kind of getting married, sort of. About as married as you can get when you’re polyamorous and live in America and your partner is part of a DID system (Specifically a part of @valarioncy // @eklesia-system’s system). No legal documents or any big party; we’re just gonna have a little ceremony in a park while I’m in a pretty dress and then eat at a restaurant.
Still a big deal. Especially for one of my other soon to be spouses: Helios, who’s very big on family as his source is Spanish.
I prefer the gender-neutral term Joyfriend with partners I’m dating, but soon I’m gonna be a WIFE to two very lovely people. It’s kind of jarring to realize. I didn’t think I’d ever find people who love me so much that they’d put a ringpop on my finger.
So how is this related to The Hollow?
…So the other man I’m marrying is technically an adult Skeet fictive.
Not just any adult Skeet fictive though; a BOOTLEG-VERSE adult Skeet fictive.
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I’m marrying Sleet y’all.
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pluralprompts · 8 months ago
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Prompt #2,175
Write about a system planning to propose!
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boyswillbedogz · 9 months ago
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i could nEVER tell my parents im a system id actually rather suffer electric chair- spooky af.
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thattheater-kid · 10 months ago
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System core is going through your Pinterest after your in-system partner fronts and finding a board called wedding.
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resmyx · 4 months ago
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Especially if you're plural. The people in your head deserve love.
...and especially if the people outside your head pick favourites.
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Self appreciation is something we must all do from time to time.
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ikibli · 2 months ago
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Gonosimulistic- it's a better scientific replacement for "hermaphrodite". Use it. It's better and more accurate, and the only bad part is that we haven't bothered to codify or list the derived forms.
For a while, I was resigned to using "hermaphrodite" because I'm a biologist, and we will always need some way to describe animals like slugs or clownfish that aren't gonochoric.
I have been enlightened. Thank you, @ders1tes for showing me a better path- my argument towards the use of "hermaphrodite" was never that it isn't a slur, it's that we needed something for animals in a scientific context, and "intersex" was firmly centred on humans or at most, gonochoric vertebrates.
Anyway:
Gonosimulistic: Adjective form. "Slugs are a textbook example of a gonosimulistic species."
Gonosimulist: Singular noun form. "This slug is a gonosimulist."
Gonosimulists: Plural noun form. "Many slugs are gonosimulists."
Sequential gonosimulist: A species that changes sexes over its lifespan.
Simultaneous gonosimulist: A species that produces both male and female gametes.
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anistarrose · 11 months ago
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I'd like to propose a dark horse candidate for the most interesting line in The Book of Bill. And it's this near-unreadable, seemingly one-off joke from the "Skin" page:
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[ID: tiny text reading: "Help! This is not Bill Cipher. My name is Grebley Hemberdreck of Zimtrex 5. I'm one of thousands of beings Bill has devoured over trillions of years whose souls are now trapped inside him. You have to free me! It's horrible in here. He just keeps playing the song "Good Vibrations" by Marky Mark on an endless loop. Please, please, this is not a joke! The Zimtrexians were once a proud and mighty people, but now our spirits long for release from this..." End ID.]
Okay, so Bill devours souls who then live out a horrible existence inside him. That's just some typical and expected Bill behavior, right? Nothing to be shocked by? Maybe not, but one thing jumps out at me... and of all things, it's the way that Bill keeps playing that Beach Boys parody (correction provided by @fexalted: no, not in fact a Smiley Smile parody, but a real song!) on loop.
Because in The Book of Bill, there's a recurring motif of characters playing music for a very specific reason: to repel an unwanted presence inside their head. This is what Elias Inkwell, and later Ford, did with the "It's A Small World" parody — they tried to keep Bill out of their brains. Or, metaphorically... to drown out his voice.
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[ID: a Journal 3 page with a cassette taped inside. It's titled: "The World Is Small Ever After for Always." Ford writes: "If it's war you want, it's war you'll get! If you want to torture me? I'll torture you back!" End ID.]
That doesn't necessarily mean that Bill finds the voices of devoured souls to be troubling, let alone downright haunting, does it? Well... not quite on its own. But there's a "color" code on the page about TV static that says a lot:
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[ID: a code consisting of colorful squares, translated to letters that spell out: "he never sleeps he never dreams but somehow still he hears their screams." End ID] (screenshot courtesy of @fexiled)
The context of the page implies these "screams" come to Bill especially when he listens to TV static, and the broader context of the book implies that these are the screams of his destroyed home dimension, Euclydia. Therefore, not necessarily those of the souls he devoured, from Zimtrex 5 and possibly other dimensions.
Except... do those two things really have to be mutually exclusive?
The beings that Bill devoured were accumulated over "trillions" of years, plural, according to Grebley. In Weirdmageddon 1, Bill claims to have resided in the Nightmare Realm for precisely "one trillion" years. So the "devouring" habit probably extends back even further than his time in the Nightmare Realm...
Enter @acetyzias, pointing out a very conspicuous word — and one of the only uncensored words — from Bill's description of destroying his home dimension:
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[ID: the word "mandibles". End ID.]
Oh, and how does Bill describe the "monster" that destroyed his home to Ford, when Ford asks about revenge?
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[ID: Journal excerpt reading: "Sixer, it would eat you alive." End ID.]
For a long time, Bill's destruction of his home has been associated with fire, even when the story's told by Bill himself. But through the way the book characterizes Bill's guilt — and characterizes how the consequences of what he's done remain lurking deep inside him — I think The Book of Bill lays out the hints for another motif: devouring.
And, well, when it comes to how Bill destroys things... it wouldn't be without precedent.
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[ID: screenshot of Bill in Weirdmageddon 3, taking a bite out of the Earth. End ID.]
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orangesaek · 2 months ago
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I have a requestt
Mark and s/o talk abt having babies and its gets quote suggestive yk...
Also I love ur work and devoured everything in literally a day I love yaaa💖
Hiii tysm for reading everything 🥹 hope u enjoyed the ones u read 💓 thanks for requesting this, too! hope u like this one (lmk if u did) 🫶 ily!
content warning: sliiightly🤏 suggestive, promise!
The sun was barely up, and the sound of the waves crashing rhythmically outside your beachfront villa was almost as soothing as the soft snores escaping from Mark’s slightly parted lips.
Almost.
“Babe,” you mumbled, not even opening your eyes.
“You’re snoring again.”
“No, I’m not…” he answered, voice still hoarse from sleep.
“I breathe with personality.”
You cracked one eye open and stared at him.
“Your personality almost summoned a sea demon from the ocean.”
Mark snorted and finally opened his eyes, now fully awake.
“If I did, it would probably think we’re a power couple and leave us alone.”
“You’re lucky I love you,” you said, poking his cheek.
“Otherwise I’d have sacrificed you to the ocean hours ago.”
Mark grinned, shifting closer.
“If you sacrifice me, who’s gonna help raise our five kids?”
You looked at him, confused.
“What?”
“Huh?” he replied quickly, suddenly very interested in playing with the hem of the bedsheet.
“You just said five kids. Plural. Five.”
“No, I didn’t.”
“You did.”
“…Did I?”
You sat up on your elbow, eyes narrowing suspiciously.
“Mark Lee, what exactly is going on in that Canadian head of yours?”
He held up his hands defensively.
“I’m just saying! I mean, look at us. We’re basically the hot, vacationing couple. The logical next step is kids. Or a dog…” he trailed.
“Or a house in Vancouver with a backyard and a barbeque grill and matching aprons that say Grill Master and Hot Stuff.”
You stared at him.
“Are you proposing to me?”
Mark’s eyes widened, and his voice cracked.
“NO! I-I mean—no!” he stammered in panic.
“I would never—I mean, not yet! Definitely not on this vacation… huh?”
You raised a brow, amused.
“You’re the worst liar.”
“Okay,” he sighed, covering his face with a pillow, muffling his voice.
“I was just testing the waters. You know, see how you feel about the idea of little us-es running around. One of them with your sarcasm and my inability to lie.”
You grinned, tugging the pillow off his face.
“So… how soon are we talking?”
He peeked up at you, cheeks red.
“Well… not before I give you a ring the size of your sarcasm.”
“So like… giant?” you gasped.
“Exactly.” he smirked.
You both dissolved into laughter, rolling around in the tangled sheets like kids at a sleepover. Once it calmed down, you rested your head on his chest.
“I mean… I wouldn’t mind a kid or two. Eventually.”
“Yeah?”
“Yeah. As long as they inherit my cooking skills and not yours.”
“Excuse you, I make perfect toast.”
“You literally set a toaster on fire last month.”
“It was experimental toast!”
You kissed his chest, giggling.
“You’re ridiculous.”
“You love it,” he murmured, wrapping his arms around you tighter.
“I do.”
A beat of silence passed. Then you felt it. His fingers slowly gliding down your spine, slipping beneath the hem of your shirt, his touch warm and gentle.
“So… hypothetically,” Mark murmured, voice low and sinful, lips ghosting over your neck, “if we wanted to get a head start on that ‘eventual kid’ thing…”
You arched a brow without moving away.
“You’re trying to seduce me with baby talk?”
“I’m trying to seduce you with the idea of forever,” he whispered, voice honey-smooth, and breath hot against your skin.
“And also because you in this sleep shirt is driving me insane.”
You felt his hand drift lower, slow and teasing, fingers tracing patterns just beneath your waistband.
“Mark—”
“You know I love you, right?” he said between kisses, trailing his lips along your collarbone.
“Like, ‘can’t-go-a-day-without-touching-you, might-spontaneously-cry-if-you-ever-walked-away’ kind of love.”
You were about to respond, but then he rolled you onto your back, pressing his body flush against yours, and the only sound that came out was a gasp.
“Just want to feel close to you,” he said, but the hunger in his eyes betrayed just how close he really meant.
Clothes were forgotten. Sheets messy.
And somewhere between tangled limbs and breathless laughter, you wondered if maybe he was right.
Maybe practice did make perfect.
Because if this was him just ‘practicing’ for forever…
God help you when he actually puts a ring on it.
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accepting requests atm ₍ᐢ._.ᐢ₎♡
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frameacloud · 8 months ago
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Therianthropy Day is Friday, November 15, 2024
Therianthropy Day is held every year on the first full moon of November. This year, in 2024, that falls on Friday the 15th. According to NASA, this also happens to be a supermoon, which means it’s slightly brighter than usual.
Why that date, and what is the history of that holiday? 
Therianthropy Day commemorates the first Howl, which was held 30 years ago in November 1994. A Howl is when therians meet up together in person. That was a year after the first therians started to meet up together online in November 1993. Therians first proposed commemorating it as a holiday on that date in 1996, in a conversation thread you can still see here. Based on that history, in 2016, Muninn the Raven proposed observing it as Therianthropy Day, though the first posts and community poll about it attracted little attention. I think the holiday finally really caught on in 2021, when I first saw many therians posting on social media about fun things they were doing for it.
What are therians, anyway?
If therianthropy is a new idea to you, or you want to explain it to others who are unfamiliar with it, this essay is a quick and easy to understand introduction to it. It’s available in several languages already, and more translations would be great.
Learn more about the history of the therian community by reading the Timeline of the Therian Community written by @liongoatsnake
What can we do for Therianthropy Day?
I’ve seen therians celebrate it by wearing gear (for example, a necklace with the therian symbol, or clothes with pictures of their species), meeting up with their therian friends, and howling at the moon.
Enjoy some indie games and zines about therianthropy from this hand-curated itch.io collection. Some therian highlights from that: SlumberDragon’s zine of self-care tips for animal folk, @who-is-page’s therianthropy-inspired solo journaling game Wolf In Man’s Clothing, puppygirlbelly’s interactive story I Am Dog(s), and Digital Freegans’s zines THERIANARCHY and BEAST PUNKS.
Are there days for other sorts of alterhumans too?
There are. Alterhuman Day commemorates when Lio of the Crossroads System coined that word on September 26, 2014. Otherkin Day is on July 9, commemorating when the word was coined in 1990, though Arethinn has found that the word’s origin is a little more complicated than that. Plural Events says that Plural Pride Day is the third Saturday of July, and Plural Acceptance Week is that week.
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izayoisakuyas · 7 months ago
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Transcharacter template flag I'm proposing (^∀^●)ノシ
+ Transcharacter symbol I made. It draws inspo from the plural trident and kin star
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beingcultureis · 7 months ago
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So, you guys know how different disorders and disabilities have creatures? I’m not sure if plurality overall has one but may I propose a hydra?
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the-littlest-goblin · 5 months ago
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As I’ve alluded to, I think a lot of the failures of c3 can be traced to the fundamental gap that, in a plot where so much revolved around “”the gods”” CR never answers the question:
What the fuck is a god?
Others have made excellent points in how we talk about epic fantasy and the difficulties in fully receiving a world where gods definitively exist. What's interesting to me is that, if you really want to get deep into the philosophical weeds (and I always do), then what does it actually mean when we say "gods exist" in Critical Role?
Disclaimer: this isn't exactly as comprehensive as I would like but what I hoped to articulate in one meta post is more like 2-5 thesis proposals in a trench coat, and I still want the catharsis of yeeting my thoughts into the void so I can finally take a nap. I tried to limit the academia of it all but there's still plenty of jargon, and also a bibliography because I like to show my work.  
Short version: Godhood/divinity is a semantic lacuna in the CR's worldbuilding. That's not a bad thing, in fact it's kind of necessary. The problem arises when the plot makes gods and godhood a central problem without resolving or even acknowledging the barriers to understanding those concepts, thus leading to hours of dialogue, plot beats, and a supposedly climactic resolution which all amount to nonsense if you look too closely.
As anyone who’s so much as dipped a toe into philosophy will tell you, you gotta define your usage of terms or the discussion is DOA. On all levels of CR text, words like "god"/"the gods"/"divine"/"deity"/etc. are used interchangeably in so many contexts, and the meaning of those terms is only accessible via contextual implication, and the deducible meanings in so many of those contexts directly contradict each other. C3 especially reveals a dissonance between how the mytho-cultural text approaches divinity compared to the contours drawn by the mechanico-ontological text.1
The former in Exandria refers to "the gods" in terms of the Pantheon, a definite collection of individual entities. These otherworldly beings of Tengar, a realm of pure possibility. But "god" is also a rank within D&D's cosmic taxonomy—a rank to which, in Exandria, other entities can rise via the Rites of Ascension. The Matron is a god same as the others; Tharizdun is part of the pantheon but separate, not of Tengar. Maybe a "god," maybe not?
In the mytho-cultural role "the gods" play in Exandria, their being-qua-being is positioned as necessarily plurally defined and unknowable, but nevertheless possessed of immense "cosmic power" befitting their role in the Creation myth and ongoing worship. It makes perfect sense that the in-world mythology is (intentionally) plural and contradictory. However, as others have pointed out,* Exandria's socio-political and cultural worldbuilding vis a vis religion are (less intentionally, I would imagine) rather underbaked, leaving significant gaps in our understanding of what the gods (and religion) mean for the cultural part of mytho-cultural. 
Now let’s get into the latter. Because CR isn't just a narrative—it's a ludonarrative, and the game mechanics have huge ontological implications.1 
In the mechanico-ontological sphere, the gods are positioned as sort of exceptions to the rule, by which I mean, like, we don't get stat blocks for deities. Which again, on its own, makes perfect sense! D&D focalizes the PCs, and so on the purely mechanical level, gods/the divine are subordinate, acting only through proxies. This is necessary for the game-narrative D&D supports. Giving god-level power explicit stats would be a catch-22:
first, it would severely demystify "cosmic power"—to define is to limit, after all. Not doing so can imply an ontology where gods are not confined by mechanics—their powers go beyond, their powers are not only unwritten but unwriteable.
secondly, if the rulebooks were to even attempt codifying mechanical abilities on par with the semantic associations of “god-level” power, then it would be very difficult to maintain either the PCs focal role as agents of the narrative or a fairly balanced game, much less both. We saw this play out in Downfall—the point of the mechanics in the final battle outlined the huge disparity between mortals and gods.
Speaking of Downfall—as well as their mechanic and mythic existences, the gods also exist on the narrative level as characters. As such, we must necessarily consider questions of agency and consciousness in qualifying their existence, but fuck if that isn’t a messy question on the one layer, let alone putting it in the contexts of these shifting, intersecting layers.2 Keeping it brief though, the gods’ narrative agency is subject to similar issues as their mechanical powers.**
Being an exception to the rules of mechanico-ontological existence only holds together so long as divinity remains separate from everything governed by mechanics when mobilized in a narrative. I'm not trying to nitpick—Matt's "NPCs are not governed by the same rules as PCs" MO isn't automatically world-logic breaking, and there's a degree of pedantry on that front that is simply unsportsmanlike. But the problem in c3 specifically is that the plot focalizes the gods and divinity as a construct in such a way that invites—demands even—closer inspection. And the coherence between the structural layers of the narrative breaks down quite quickly under this scrutiny.
It's not like c3 brought this theme out of nowhere. Disproving that there is any essential divide between gods and mortals defines the zeitgeist of the Age of Arcanum. The Matron’s ascension proves that, however the difference is defined, the state of being one or the other is traversable. Exu: Calamity brought this up plenty: Laerryn contends that the distinction is access to the Celestial plane, and seeks to dissolve the difference by achieving large-scale interplanar travel for all of Avalir; Zerxus embodies that so called "divine magic" is not strictly tied to a worshipful relationship with a deity.
In c2, god-or-not is a huge element of Jester's arc with the Traveler. Her build shows that, despite the very different class abilities/powers of warlocks and clerics, there is no mechanico-ontological constraining the distinction between a warlock patron and a god. These are roles defined through a relational existence, not in keeping with any essential taxonomy of substances.1 The Traveller’s position in the cosmic taxonomy as an Archfey has less bearing on the type of magic he can grant than the belief and conviction on the side of the grantee. Similarly, there’s the Luxon in all its mystery—a god but not a pantheon deity? Divine but not a god? The semantics seem less and less significant. 
Now’s probably a good time to remember that CR is a story, and stories are representative constructions wherein any logic other than narrative logic is secondary. D&D as a story engine allows fictional representation to evoke a unique facsimile of materialism because the diegetic laws of physics are established in such detail via mechanics. But still, in a fictional world, metaphysics kind of are physics, and also kind of are semiotics, and both answer to the symbolic. It's fun (for me) to dig into the worldbuilding using philosophy as a framework, but at the end of the day, it doesn't matter if the philosophy finds gaps so long as the rest of the narrative elements cohere around those gaps.
In c3, they do not. 
Next to c3, c1 gets the closest to leaning too hard against the logical house-of-cards making up cosmic ontology in Exandria due to the importance of the Divine Gate in defeating proto-god Vecna. The Divine Gate is, imo, the material nexus point where all the semantic and ontological contradictions coalesce: it was created so as to specifically block gods from traversing out of the Celestial plane, but is permeable to mortals. Presumably there is some quality or essential substance that decides who can move through it and who can’t—but what is that? What is the substance of divinity, not in the ontological sense but in the materialism of arcana? It’s not something exclusive to denizens of Tengar, because the Matron is also trapped; perhaps “divine” is a misnomer, and it only traps the specific entities designated at the time of its creation, regardless of any shared essential quality? Except no, because Vecna was able to be trapped behind it as well. 
On the flip side, the great thing about the Divine Gate is that it encompasses and narratively justifies that catch-22 of divine mechanics by adding the element of time. The gods used to be un-writably powerful Pre-Divergence, hence their cosmic standing, but the Divine Gate limits their powers of acting in the present, allowing for their mechanical impotence. The Divergence and the Divine Gate incorporate the gods’ disparate ontological states into the history of Exandria, a physical and temporal division that allows for these contradictions to coexist in separate corners of the narrative.*** 
This coheres throughout campaigns 1 and 2—even when c1 started approaching concepts of “divinity” more closely, the plot maintains a separation between mortal stakes and divine stakes. Vecna was Vox Machina’s problem because he posed a threat to mortals; he posed a threat to mortals because he was seeking to achieve god-level power on the mortal plane. We don’t need to know what the “power” exactly means to know it would be a huge imbalance. The threat is nullified by trapping Vecna behind the Divine Gate. We still don’t know what he is vis a vis godhood, but we do know his powers of acting and affecting on the Material Plane are curtailed and as such he’s not mortal’s problem anymore. Compare this to the Bell’s Hells attitudes towards their joint BBEGs of Ludinus and Predathos. Ludinus is the threat on the Material Plane; for much of the campaign, BH cap off cyclical debates on the gods by agreeing that stopping Ludinus is their actionable concern. In the end, however, Ludinus’ rhetoric succeeds in focalizing cosmic concerns: the narrative concludes with the resolution to the questions of ‘what to do about the gods and Predathos,’ reifying Ludinus’ view that the cosmic structure was a problem to be solved (despite the complete lack of supporting evidence to that point). Meanwhile the resolution to the—previously central—question of ‘what to do about Ludinus’ is ‘leave him to his cottage-core Thanos epilogue,’ as though he is not nor has he ever been a primary source of conflict.
I think Predathos is where the irreconcilability of material substance and ontological substance really start to chip away at the foundations of narrative coherence. The “God-eater” must be subject to the same questions re: “so what do you mean by god?” The takeaway is that the Predathos lore is frankly a hot mess of ludonarrative dissonance—perfect illustration for the other side of that catch-22 I was talking about!
 In theory, Matt could have introduced Predathos into Exandrian cosmology without it becoming a narrative problem, had it remained at a sufficient distance from the immediate plot to sit comfortably obscured in the same miasma of metaphysical unknowns as the Luxon or Tharizdun. It’s Ludinus and all the discussion surrounding these cosmic entities that shines a glaring spotlight on the contradictions by way of placing the gods into an ethical framework and using that judgement as a basis for praxis. Moral philosophy is not my area, but as far as it intersects with ontology: it is, to put it mildly, very fucking hard to put a subject under ethical judgement when said subject has no defined being as such that it’s very subjecthood is in question. 
What I’m trying to say is that you hold a guy in a very different ethical standing than the sun. The Dawnfather is both and can be reduced to neither. He is a character in a narrative with agency and personality and relationships at the same time he is a mechanical construction that has no independent existence and extremely limited powers of acting, and all the while he is semantically presumed all-powerful.
*I can’t find the post now to link it but I’m 99% sure it was by @utilitycaster
**For an illustration of (non-game) narratives where a pantheon of gods explicitly exist, are in possession of a certain cosmic power, and are direct narrative agents, see: Homer. I ran out of steam before getting to the full comparison I wanted to make, maybe I’ll get to that in another post, but trust me when I say it has massive implications—like, ‘requires a totally different method of engagement with the work, one which heavily departs from, and at times directly contradicts, literary and pedagogical tradition since at least the early modern period’-level implications.
***In terms of Pre-Divergence depictions, frankly I need to finish rewatching both Calamity and Downfall (possibly multiple times) to properly incorporate Brennan’s contributions to the text into this consideration. Drive-by assessment though, as it pertains to the main campaigns: we see glimpses of what the gods powers of acting can be without the Divine Gate, both with Asmodeus at the end of Calamity and the final battle in Downfall, to use as a comparison. These are useful for when c3 brings up the possibility for an alternate state of affairs while providing no examples for what those alternatives would entail. 
1. Bryant, Levi R. “Substantial Powers, Active Affects: The Intentionality of Objects.” Deleuze Studies 6, no. 4 (2012): 529–43. http://www.jstor.org/stable/45332014.
2. The structuralism I’m employing follows a number of works and theorists, namely Roland Barthes for lit theory and Richard Schechner for performance theory; the most relevant direct citation is Daniel McKay’s book The Fantasy Role-Playing Game: A New Performing Art (2001), which references both of the above and many others.
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ferrarifinnick · 6 months ago
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WHO WANTS TO BE A DADDY | THE HUNGER GAMES HEADCANON
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i absolutely loved exploring this with thg boys. we only ever really see katniss’ opinion on parenthood in the books, and it was so much fun exploring these perspectives. also i know everyone hates gale but honestly he’s so fun to write for. moody and stoic. just how i like ‘em!
set post-rebellion. if they want kids + how many/genders that suits them best.
includes: gale, finnick, peeta
warnings: none
gale would absolutely want to be a father, but just not for some time after the rebellion is won and over. i can see him moving back to the new district 12, building a new house for you both to live in, far away from the ruins he watched go up in flames. i think this would be his project for a while. it would be his way to grieve the loss of his old life, while focussing on building a new one. with you. i can see this being therapeutic for him, and i can see his younger siblings helping him with painting the walls and his mother cooking a meal for you to eat together once the project is complete. and as gale is eating in your new home with his family, i think he would realise that he no longer has to provide for them like he has since his dad died. they will be alright without him now, and he can finally live a life of his own. after his family goes back to their new home, i think he would finally tell you that he’s ready and wants to start this new chapter right away. but most importantly, he wants to start it with you.
i think gale would shine best with two boys, partly because he can fill the void his father’s death left in him, and to turn them into better men than he was growing up.
i’m going to defy canon and say that finnick doesn’t really have a preference. i think his attitude would be that if it happens, it happens, and if it doesn’t, that’s fine too. it would be something he’d like fate to decide, i think. after all, finnick is much more interested in all things you than about what you can or can’t give him. but that’s not to say he wouldn’t be completely overcome with excitement if you did happen to fall pregnant. i think he would occasionally wonder what your baby would look like, if it would have your eyes or his smile, and he’d spend a lot of his free time thinking of names that incorporate your favourite flowers and colours, just in case. but if you didn’t ever fall pregnant, i can see him being equally content in taking the number one spot on the list of people that you love.
finnick is definitely great with kids. i think he’d shine best as a girl dad or as the fun uncle katniss and peeta’s kids see occasionally for holidays.
peeta has three priorities in life: propose to you, marry you, and then have beautiful babies with you. plural, because peeta has so much love for you that it couldn’t possibly be contained to just you. no, he needs extensions of you, so that he can share his love with them, too. i think peeta would take his role as a husband and father incredibly seriously, and that would include cooking every meal for your family, organising family game nights every week, etc. but he would even do little things like filling up a vase with fresh flowers every week for you, crafting his own stories to read to your kids every night (and he’d definitely make a picture book to go along with it), and really taking the time to meet the emotional needs of your family. most of all, he wants to make the kind of loving family that he wished for but never had.
he would do best as a father to at least one girl and one boy, if not more. he would definitely make saturday mornings a baking day, with you and the kids helping to bake some treats for game night later that evening.
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