#santa frida

[feriasymesas]

Frida Kahlo y su colección de vinos creados por Viña Carmen

Hace cinco años Viña Carmen estableció una alianza con Frida Kahlo Corporation. Ello para generar una línea completa de vinos inspirados en célebres frases de la artista y las mejores cualidades de esta icónica pintora. El primero nació Carmen Gran Reserva Frida Kahlo, que en la actualidad se posiciona como elproducto más vendido de la viña en Chile. Más tarde se sumaron los espumantes Carmen…

[angelenohq]

in the city of angels.

NAME: Thea Ellis Barlow FACE CLAIM: Frida Gustavsson AGE & DATE OF BIRTH: 32 & May 2nd, 1990 HOMETOWN: Los Angeles, California TIME IN LOS ANGELES: Born and raised NEIGHBORHOOD: Santa Monica OCCUPATION: Actress

biography.

trigger warning: infidelity, vehicle accident, spousal death, parental death

Hailing from Sweden to the City of Angels in the early 80s, Etta Karlsson fled quickly to Los Angeles at the first opportunity she was given to pursue her dreams of becoming an actor. That dream was promptly squashed at every opportunity, but while she found no success in her career she did find some kind of financial stability and maybe even love — all in the form of hospitality heir and billionaire Edward Barlow. The two met when Etta was waiting tables at one of the more high end restaurants in Beverly Hills and as the story goes, they quickly fell in love and married six months after meeting. Rumors flew that they’d only wed because Etta had fallen pregnant but regardless, they soon welcomed a healthy baby girl they’d name Thea.

The union between the two of them didn’t last long, as it often goes in Hollywood. Edward was a notorious playboy and it wasn’t shocking when he eventually left Thea’s mother for another woman — someone younger, more beautiful, and more blonde. Child support and alimony wasn’t nearly enough to live on, so Etta continued working as a nurse anyway to support herself and her daughter where Edward wouldn’t. Thea was a quiet child at first, never speaking out of turn or doing anything she shouldn’t — but as years went on and she became increasingly aware of her father’s actions, she began to act out. She resented Edward and his new family and the court mandated time she had to spend with them, the only saving graces being her younger half sisters who she knew were innocent in the whole ordeal. Thea loved them both, doing everything she could to keep them from becoming completely susceptible to the Barlow name, but ultimately she lost that battle to her step-mother and her antics. Brie became a clone of the woman in question and her youngest sister, Cass, didn’t seem far behind in Thea’s eyes. As time went on, she distanced herself from the family when she could, as it became increasingly apparent that she was on the outside of their circle.

By the time Thea was ten, she knew she wanted to be an actress and do what her mother wasn’t able to do — a failure she blames completely on her father. She had no trouble using his last name to get started in the industry (though she would eventually drop the name Barlow completely in favor of her middle name, Ellis) and as time went on, Thea ended up landing a guest role in a sitcom series at just thirteen years old. By the end of her junior year she dropped out of school, deciding to earn her GED in favor of shooting her first real feature film. It was a box office flop, the film barely recovered its budget in revenue and Thea couldn’t help but feel embarrassed and ashamed when she saw the finished product for herself — but her raw talent was there, real and exposed for the world to see. Even if the film itself had been terrible, she’d soon had studios and directors sending her agent scripts for auditions she never would have been considered for before. Thea Ellis would be deemed a young star to watch for, and for a brief moment in time the public loved this new, up and coming actress.

Thea’s true breakout role came in the form of a YA dystopian action movie, followed by a brief slew of dramas and self proclaimed high-brow films, earning herself a spot as a critically acclaimed actress by the time she was 22. One role even earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and an eventual win, something even Thea herself had a hard time believing was true. The online film buff community claims the Academy had slim pickings that year and she’d won by a fluke, but the general public seemed to love her and while she wasn’t sure she deserved the Academy’s recognition, she did know she’d worked hard to get where she was. In the meantime, her personal life had been covered page to page by tabloids following the whirlwind romance between Thea and her then boyfriend, a movie producer who would eventually become her husband when they wed just after she won her first Oscar.

The behind the scenes of Thea’s highly publicized romance wasn’t nearly as glamorous as the press made it seem. Ben was a good man, a great one even — but his studio worked with some of the most vile men in Hollywood; men Thea had no problem telling off when she needed to. Of course her behavior made headlines, studios deemed her hard to work with and she personally grew resentment toward Ben for continuing a relationship with these men who were relentlessly trying to blacklist her from the industry. Though it barely stopped her, as it seemed for a brief moment in time that Thea was set to be Hollywood’s darling indefinitely. The building momentum of her career came to an abrupt halt, however, when her husband was involved in a fatal car accident just under two years after they married. Rumors flew around Hollywood and eventually the tabloids started reporting that she’d orchestrated the entire thing as revenge for his inability to stand by her against other studio execs. Obviously it was a ridiculous rumor and, of course, completely untrue — but it did enough damage to Thea’s image that she retreated from the public eye for a few years, only taking on roles in small films she felt connected to and generally shying away from the glitz and glamour of Hollywood that she’d once found herself in the center of.

Of course, with her reclusion and mysterious departure from the Hollywood scene came even more salacious rumors as the years passed. Thea turned a blind eye to them all, choosing instead to focus on her family and the work she was doing. Her mother’s health had rapidly deteriorated over time and when she eventually passed, Thea had ultimately cut herself out of the public eye completely. She dated here and there and desperately tried to keep her relationships under wraps, though her most recent fling with another actor who turned out to be desperate for more fame made more headlines than she’d seen in a long time due to the man’s wandering eye — and after four years of the tabloids calling her the problem, Thea eventually broke it off for good. Now she’s been truly keeping to herself in her beachside home in Santa Monica, the only project she’s been working on being a television drama series that she couldn’t pass up once she’d read the script HBO had sent her way — the fact that one of her first childhood co-stars was already attached to the project had simply been an added bonus. For now, Thea’s kept her name mostly out of the tabloids for a year or so while filming, but the release of the series and the interesting dynamic she has with her co-star may turn her public image on its head once again.

[woso-dreamzzz]

Playing Favourites III

Arsenal Women x Child!Reader

Summary: The annual Arsenal Christmas video

"Hi everyone," Leah says to the camera," I'm Leah Williamson and I just want to say, sorry, Mum. I know you told me not to let her do this before Christmas day, but I'm here with the youngest member of our squad and...What are we doing today, bean?"

You sit in the middle of a little half-circle of the Arsenal girls with a little sack in front of you. There's a Santa hat on your head and you're holding the sack like you're scared it will float away.

"Presents!" You cheer. "I'm like Santa!"

"You are like Santa," Leah says, smiling at the camera," So we've got our own Santa here at Arsenal and she's going to close her eyes, spin around and give everyone their Christmas gifts. Ready, bean?"

"Ready!"

You close your eyes nice and tight, spin around and aimlessly wander to your left. Arms clamp around your waist and you open your eyes to see Teyah and Lessi.

You beam and reach into your sack. "For you!" You give them both their gifts.

"Top trumps!" Teyah says triumphantly as Lessi pries her Michael Jordan Funko Pop out of the package.

"I'm gonna put this in my locker."

You close your eyes again, squeezing them tight as Lessi helps you spin. You go straight this time and fall into the laps of Noelle and Cloe.

Cloe ends up with the 100 pics riddle game and Noelle gets a fondue thing. They both seem especially happy and Noelle ruffles your hair.

"I'll have to bring you round for fondue, bean."

You don't know what fondue is but you think it's food so you're happy to go.

Next up is Lina and Stina - who catches you when you stumble - and they get a little teddy bear and a tree ornament of Stina kissing the trophy.

"You gotta put it on the tree," You say to her as she laughs at the picture," Because that's what it's for." You turn to Lina. "And have to give your bear cuddles. Teddies die without cuddles."

Caitlin and Vic are next and you get a picture on Vic's new camera with the three of you and Caitlin wearing her new Arsenal beanie.

You fall onto Viv on the next round and giggle hysterically as your favourite Lia moves to tickle you. You give her her gift first which ends up being big plastic things to pick up leaves with. Frida gets a special ornament with a picture of her scoring.

Viv gets a nice jumper with her and Beth on.

"You gotta wear it to the next game!" You say.

Viv laughs. "Maybe I will."

Gio and Kim follow them and you sit in Kim's lap as Gio unwraps the blue Arsenal bag that's meant to sit on her hips. Kim laughs in embarrassment as she gets a mug that proclaims her as the best captain ever and has an arrow that points at her when she drinks from it.

Laura catches you on the next round when you misstep on Kathrine's ankle.

Laia lets you have some of the Spanish gift she gets. It's kind of like nougat but it's got nuts in it and you're not too sure that you like the texture.

Kathrine gets socks (you always end up with socks in your stocking) and Laura gets a snow globe with a picture of her only goal in it.

Laia and Kathrine both help you do your spins and the next person you fall into is your sister.

She hugs you tight around the waist as you balance on her lap while digging through the bag. Her gift is one of the longer ones and it takes you a little bit to get it out of your sack.

You sit down properly when she leans forward to open it, bursting into laughter when it's revealed to be a keyboard.

"I'll teach you, bean," She says, pressing a few of the keys," Won't that be fun?"

"I don't have to do everything you do," You say a bit condescendingly but you're smiling so Leah knows how you really feel, pinching at your cheek.

"Off you go, bean," She says," You've got more presents to give out."

She spins you around so much that you basically crash into Jen and Beth.

Jen ends up with a book of Christmas carols for the guitar while Beth gets the same jumper as Viv just in a different colour.

"That's you and Viv," You tell her.

"Yeah, bean! That's me and Vivi!"

Naomi gets her gift next, a book of very unfunny dad jokes that you only laugh at so she doesn't feel sad that she's not funny at all.

Manu, Kyra and Steph come next.

Manu gets a picture of the goalkeeper union while Kyra gets a packet of Tim Tams that she lets you eat two from.

"It's a jumper for Calvin!" You exclaim when Steph unwraps her own present.

She looks ecstatic and she swears that she'll send a picture of Calvin wearing it to Leah's phone for you to see.

The last person to get her gift is Katie. She looks confused for a moment as she unwraps it before a smile splits her face.

"It's a luxury cat advent calendar," She says.

"For Cooper!" You say.

"That is class. He's gonna love that."

She pulls you in for a hug before letting you plop yourself back on your sister's lap.

She covers your eyes for the last time as someone places the last gift on your lap.

You rip open the packaging and squeal when you reveal an Arsenal jersey. It's got your favourite number on the back and instead of Williamson like all of Leah's jerseys, it's got the words 'The Boss' on the back.

You pull it over your head with help from your sister and she nudges you up to wave and smile at the cameras.

"Do you remember what to say?" She prompts you.

"Merry Christmas, Gunners!"

[rhinocio]

put together surprise icons/ornaments/stickers/whatever for the Alliance squad secret santa because I like them guys

Frida and Yuki are little dudes @aversiteespabilas created and they live in my brain rent free, Leo and April are specifically styled after @bizzie-bee's killer fic You Coveted This Prison, and everyone else is just here to look cute

[twerkinirken]

UPCOMING INVADER ZIM CAST AND CREW Q&A - MY FORMAL CAMPAIGN TO MAKE IT LIVE STREAMED

Okay listen up y’all, this shits important

I found out that there is going to be a special event at The Frida Cinema playing Enter The Florpus followed by a Q&A (or All A as per Jhonen)

Obviously we cannot ask the cinema to stream a movie, and that’s not what is important but I contacted the cinema to ask them if it were at all possible to buy a ticket to livestream or record the event to show for a limited time.

The cinema seemed receptive! In the email they said Nostalgic Nebula is helping running the event so a quick Google search has given me their contact information as well. I am going to reach out via their email as well.

Now as we all know, numbers are important. Let’s all email and ask to have this become an online event. I am reaching out to all Invader Zim fans whether you be shippers, gore fans, soft fans, NSFW or SFW it doesn’t matter. No in fighting, don’t ignore it because you don’t like the blogs usual content. We all want this to happen. Now some guidelines I feel are important:

BE FUCKING POLITE

I cannot stress this enough, being rude is not going to make this happen.

ASK TO PAY FOR A TICKET

Money talks, no matter how many people ask they will be more inclined if we all say we are willing to purchase a ticket for a live-streamed or recorded event.

NO SPAMMING

Just send one email and reply as appropriating, we wanna overwhelm them positively and spamming “make it a livestream!” Is not only annoying but it could overload this, I’m assuming, smaller more local theatre. Don’t spam the cast, the crew, social media’s, for the love of GOD don’t spam Jhonen, he’s not in charge of this and if we annoy him about this he would demand it not recorded out of spite.

ASK FOR IT TO BE LIVE STREAMED OR RECORDED

Not every company is capable of live streaming events and could easily be overwhelmed or crash. Be sure to ask if it can be live streamed OR recorded, if they can record it and upload it for a limited time viewing that could be more accessible for them.

Here are the contact links:

I really want this to happen and I know there are tons of other fans who would love this too so please reblog this and share it around. Wow I never thought I would actively ask to have my post reblogged but I want this so yeah

[jadequarze]

You know, it will be really interesting that when BH is reunited, they don’t recognize each other as they once thought. Like, this group were split up and went through different series of events. Who knows how long they’re separated (though at the moment it’s only been a few days). Because, along the way, they learn and grow to adapt with their surroundings. I want to see how they navigate through each other again. Learning about their new parts and seeing them with a different light.

“Do you love them for the way you want to see them?“ and/or “Do you love them still even with the parts you didn’t know about and want to relearn them again?”

Team Wildemount have the fucked up ones (no offense to Team Marquet but Team Wildemount have the funny characters). Tbf still, we dont know what’s happening to Team Marquet, so I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt for now. Maybe it’s just me, seeing Team Wildemount have a slightly brighter and warmer tone (especially because mama Deanna and FRIDA being there). Moreover, they saved Uthodurn and santa! People acknowledge them with bright smile and cheers.

[goingslightlymads]

For the fic questions, number 16 and 40?

Oooh I love those ehehe! Thanks for asking!

16. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Share one of them?

OK, buckle up, this will be long lmao. (Share one of them? I'll share ALL of them)

1) So first, there's my Secret Santa fic, which is secret so I won't say anything more about it, except: I'm seriously having the best time of my life. Thank God for people with amazing prompts. I hope my giftee will like it, but if they don't, at least I will have had fun writing it 😂

2) I've got my current two big WIPs, The Harder You Fall and The Highest Bidder, that have been put on the back burner for the moment so I can work on my SeSa, but I'll go back to them ASAP.

3) I started writing something about Tadej and a haunted house and Creature Jonas, but I've stopped to write more urgent projects with deadlines... I really want to go back to it sometime soon though. Maybe for next Halloween, haha.

4) I've started writing about your prompt "Our Little Jonas" (no, I haven't forgotten! Sorry this is taking so long urghhh). It's also been put on hold for the moment because I had pain in my hands for a long while and couldn't write, but I'll go back to it too!

5) I've got a nice little project coming up with my lovely ladies @indie-summer and @ridingupsaturn for Valentine's Day, but the deadline is a bit further away so I haven't really been thinking about what I should do with the prompt yet!

6) I've got a triptych fic idea that would be three one-shots written in an Inception kind of way. It's supposed to be PWP. I've started one and it immediately veered into plot. It's going to be hard. 😂

7) I really want to go back to my Tadej discovers AO3 fic. @loxen06 and I had so much fun thinking about ideas for this fic. I hope I can at least publish a new chapter for Christmas, one year after the first one was published 😂

So, yup. Maybe I'll manage to finish all of that in the next twenty years!

40. If someone were to make fanart of your work, what fic or scene would you hope to see?

I would looove to see a scene from the Highest Bidder: the moment Jonas stops his bike next to Tadej having a drink with João in Tenerife, with the sun low in the sky shining behind him and lighting him up from behind, seen from Tadej's POV!

And from my other fic THYF, I'd love to see the "Pauline Ballet photo" with Jonas coming down the steps with his trophy and looking at Tadej, while Tadej is holding Frida in his arms and looking back at him and smiling, and Frida with her head on Tadej's shoulder, unsmiling, staring right at the photographer. I spent so much time imagining that picture in my head 😂

I loved your questions, thank you so much for asking!! ♥

[heavenangelblog]

as promised, according to the past post, movie list:

my favorite action movies:

Straż nocna and Straż dzienna

Skyscraper

Die hard

two old Hellboys

Ice road

Monster hunter

Priest

Unleashed

The darkest hour

Maze runner

Kick ass (only the first one actually and it's my guilty pleasure, don't judge me)

Valerian

Duel 1971

Watchmen and bunch of Marvel movies

Rollerball

Hunger games

Returner

Independence day (sentiment)

Ghostbusters

Tim Burton's Batman

Demolition man

Red

Wild wild west

Tank girl

old Twister (new one is a disgrace)

Free guy

Charlie's angels

Operation dumbo drop

Arsene Lupin

The silent hour

Jurassic park/world

Uncharted

Indiana Jones

The rocketeer

Robin Hood 2018 (it's a secret why)

Salt

Mad Max

Speed

Blue thunder

old Judge Dredd

Equilibrium

The fugitive

The purge?

biography or document:

Napoleon (even tho it was disturbing, it's worth watching for few scenes)

Extremely wicked, shockingly evil and vile

Iris

Frida

Marina Abramovic

Sayat nova

Grey gardens

Dangerous minds

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

Purple rain

Girl interrupted

The Ron Clark story

Advanced style

Queen: days of our lives

Królik po berlińsku

Cleveland abduction

comedies:

Addams Family

Elvira

What we do in the shadows

Buster Keaton movies

3 men and a baby/little lady

My big fat greek wedding (last one wasn't the best tbh)

Les nouvelles aventures d'Aladin

The first wives club

Freaky friday

Mean girls

Maverick

Galaxy quest

Ciacho (sorry not sorry)

Sydney White

Sahara

*wondering what it all means about me, probably nothing good but paints a pretty good picture of my humor

dramas:

The last legion

Marrowbone

Alice, darling

Klass

Shutter island

Judex 1963

Secretary

Cloud Atlas

A patch of blue

Truman show

Times square

The monuments men

The fall 2006

Robinson Crusoe 2003 (the french version)

Renaissance man

Race the sun

Frantic

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

Breakfast club

Hello my name is Doris

Little miss sunshine

En Duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron

The beniker gang (if someone has a link where I can watch it - I beg you)

Click

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar

Under the Tuscan sun

Flight of the phoenix

Christmas movies:

Santa and Pete

It's a wonderful life

Grinch

Elf

fantasy movies:

Hobbit and LOTR (including animated one)

Krull

The watchers

Red riding hood 2011

Dungeons and dragons

Gods of Egypt

Kate & Leopold

Paradise Hills

The princess bride

Warcraft

Fire and ice

The scorpion king and all Mummies

League of extraordinary gentlemen

The shadow 1994

Night at the museum

The 10th kingdom

surreal movies:

Blood tea and red strings

Meshes of the afternoon

Paprika

Destiny to order (also looking for a link)

This is me... now

The cell

Twin peaks: firewalk with me

romantic movies:

Red white and royal blue

Penelope

On - drakon

Stranger than fiction

A lot like love

Ode to joy

My policeman (but it's complicated)

Byoo-tee In-sai-deu

Five feet apart

Me before you

My monster

horrors and thrillers:

A quiet place

Bird box

Priest

Van Helsing

Last night in Soho

The lost boys

The village 2004

sci fi:

Star wars

John Carter

Atlas

Mortal engines

favorite shows:

High potential

From

Grotesquerie

Fallout

Heartstopper

Gen V

The crowded room

Into the night

Czterej pancerni i pies

Don Matteo

Call the midwife

first series of Stranger things and Orphan black

Buffy

My mad fat diary

Poirot

OITNB (but not to the very end)

TBBT

The Simpsons

United states of Tara

AHS Freak show

few episodes of Black mirror

The last of us

LOTR (mixed feelings about it)

[dweemeister]

Viet Film Fest 2024

Hello, dear followers. Wherever you are reading this, I certainly hope that things have been going well. For my fellow Californians, I hope you've been staying cool this scorching last few days. I know that longtime followers are not used to anything on my tumblr that hints of self-promotion (if you don't count the "My Movie Odyssey"-tagged write-ups as self-promotion, that is). So please permit me something that is dear to my heart (and the ICYMI reblogs to come).

Since 2021, yours truly has been the Artistic Director of Viet Film Fest, an Orange County, California-based hybrid film festival that showcases movies made by and/or featuring people of Vietnamese descent from all around the world. It is the largest festival of its type in the diaspora, and it is based in-person in the community where the largest population of Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam resides.

VFF 2024, the 15th edition of the festival (which used to be biannual in the early days), takes place virtually from October 5-20. It takes place in-person at the Frida Cinema in Santa Ana, California on October 11, 12, and 13.

For more information, check out the following links:

Full press release, complete with feature film synopses and short film set synopses

Full schedule (for virtual screenings, those are all listed on October 5)

Ticketing info

Facebook / Instagram / website / YouTube (yes, I know the YT needs work)

Please note that some of our films are playing in-person only. Also please note that some of our virtual offerings have geoblocking restrictions (you may not be able to access certain versions of short film sets if you are watching from outside the U.S. or North America).

The festival is part of a small, but mighty non-profit known as the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA). VAALA is 501(c)3 non-profit that was founded in 1991 to provide artists of Vietnamese descent a platform to express their artistry. VFF is the most visible part of VAALA, but we also host fine art galleries and the annual Viet Book Fest.

To my followers, if you have any questions about anything regarding VFF, feel free to ask me over asks or private messages.

[pacificartstore]

[song-of-baldy-ron]

Chetney has turned FRIDA into one of his worst fears

a deadlier version of the robotic dog toy that many kids requested from Santa for Christmas back in the day

[earlgreytiefling]

My fave Critical Role quotes/ moments of c3: A Thread (12)

•The entire cast wearing red (and lookin fabulous)

•Mama, I love you. The better halves can make a better whole. Please remember- Imogen, 51

•RED MIST RUIDUS BORN?? they smokin- 51

•Triple Marisha- 51

•Sam’s cameo bingo card on his gas can- 51

•VAX!!!!!!- 51

•The cast collectively losing their shit when Vax arrives- 51

•Don’t you even dare- Vax’ildan, 51

•Chet, leaping onto Ludinus’s back in wolf form: You said something about natural predators - 51

•V A X ? ? ORBED -51

•Matt split the party- 51

•Sam, to Travis: the NORTH pole?? Your fucking Santa Clause….- 51

•Where did we GOregard- Sam, 51

•THE PARTY IS SPLIT OH BOY- 52

•AABRIA AND CHRISTIAN!!!!!!!!!-52

•Spiritual weapon Nick Jonas- 52

•Chetney perishing because of his Tragic Backstory TM- 52

•Deanna’s knitted sweaters and beanies - 52

•We had a little family, and then I was brutally killed! I got better. - Deanna, 52

•FRIDA casually chomping on coins- 52

•death is like a snowflake melting in the ocean- Deanna, 52

•Deanna: That’s so heavy, why don’t- we could talk about ANYTHING else

FRIDA: Oh I’m sorry I didn’t-

Deanna: No, sweetie you’re perfect- 52

•FRIDA: I believe you call it dreaming

FCG: You can dream!!??

Deanna: You can bake!!- 52

•Ashley yeeting Mister at Matt at the end of the ep and Matt catching him - 52

•Form Voltron! -Chet, 54

•SANTA IS CANON- 54

•FCG’s real name is Faithful Care Giver ;v; -55

•FRIDA AND FCG!!!!-55

•You just screwed me- FCG, 55

Previous part

[loquaciousquark]

4-Sided Dive Highlights - Critical Role C3 up to E58 (May. 17, 2023)

Rolling right into the next one, tonight’s guests are Aabria, Christian, Sam, and Travis. We open with Christian wearing sunglasses inside due to one eye being very light sensitive. Travis wins host and hulas his way into a monologue about an increasingly frantic recap of the recent plot, capping off with a ventriloquism segment and a French puppet wolf. It's...not...good, haha.

What the Fuck is Up with That? Sam reveals he verbally bleeps curse words when his kids watch the show, ha. Sam absolutely loves having the guests and mixing up the company. Sam to Aabria: "How do I know you?" Aabria: "What?" It turns out he means how did they meet? Aabria did a D20 game with Matt and Marisha (Pirates of Leviathan). Christian slid into Sam's DMs on Instagram, ahahahaha, and asked him for coffee with Marisha. Incredible! He just felt that Christian had a good heart! Sam, what in the world!

Aww, Christian is still such a fan of the show! (The way he's talking right now is very much like Jeremy Dooley from AH right after he first got hired.) He & Aabria got together for a Session Zero at Matt's place and feel like brother/sister now. They built the characters together. FRIDA came first & Aabria wanted to explore some holes in the world and was able to match elements around FRIDA's build. Plus they didn't know which members of the regular cast they'd be with. As Aabria developed the character Matt instantly decided she'd be paired with Travis. Christian knew FRIDA's color palette before anything else, ha! He knew he wanted to build a complementary character for Sam because he's grateful to the opportunities Sam had given him.

FRIDA has the level of rogue because they'd wandered around for a while on their own, and the cleric levels from Deanna's influence.

Aabria was determined to be a nice generous cleric to counteract any expectations of hard-ass-ness from Laerryn, ha! She picked the Dawnfather because he's one of the most hardline Prime Deities; she's a full cleric with off vibes. She wanted a contrast to FCG, who's in the position of a supplicant; she wanted someone more under the thumb of a deity in order to bring more facets of those relationships. Travis: "A perpetual IOU."

Deanna was one of the names from Chetney's vision; she was fully a Matt invention. Aabria loved the idea of being a past relationship and sent notes to Matt; then the day before they started filming Travis sent more notes to Matt saying she was a fling. "Damn it, I got downgraded to a fling before I even walked in!" Travis had to firm out Chet's backstory as they got to Uthodurn.

Sam really wanted to see Travis kill Santa, but Matt made Oltgar too regretful. Travis loves taking the dark routes in video games when available, but "with Mercer there's so much heart. I feel bad."

They had probably more god advancement in the last seven episodes than the entire campaign. I'm realizing this is about where I am in my show watch, which is why it all feels so current to me! Everyone loved the Changebringer stuff, except Travis could do without the Ring girl hair.

Ludinus was behind it from the start?! What the hell does the leather armor do? He caused the corruption of the Savalirwood 500 years ago, which means he's been planning this for a long time. He tried to kill them with Molaesmyr and corrupted the land, founded the Cerberus Assembly; he's constantly reaching back for the glory of the Age of Arcanum. Everyone hated the freaky animals.

The Rexxentrum Toy Authority was a beautiful moment! Sam: "Why would you come up with a three-letter moniker that was actually standing for something else??"

Sam is very grateful for this arc because it gave a lot of meat to his character. He feels that he's been asking so many questions: who am I, what are dreams, am I alive, who are the gods, I want answers. Now he has a connection with his god, a connection with FRIDA--it doesn't really matter what his original design to kill was for because he has such a bright path forward.

Deanna was built to complement many characters, and Aabria leaned into certain facets for this party over others. "The dying and come back was very built in for Laudna and Ashton and Orym especially" because she spent a lot of her life constantly bringing her husband back from 0 hp. She liked playing with the weird, unresolved feelings of knowing that the dead person isn't gone, just static and waiting. The husband is still alive but is super old???? Ha! "Dustyl" is his name.

Everyone's enjoyed exploring the haunted areas of Exandria. Travis describes several locations on the maps in detail from memory and everyone ribs him a little; it's really cute! Everything was a little wrong in the Savalirwood.

Sam thinks Fearne should have the staff. Fearne having teleportation would be incredible. FCG's coin has a once-a-day power that can cause distractions, ask the Changebringer a question, or get a luck point (which everyone's sure he'll use right away).

The last two interactions with the gods were fascinating because they weren't requests for help, they were demands. Deanna thought she'd died for a second at the end.

Aabria went pure life cleric specifically because she wanted to lean into the drama of resurrection magic being off the table. "Someone's dead? Oh, I'm great at this! Oh...wait..."

Jerry stole the show. Everyone agrees the goats are giant food.

Travis is sad they didn't fight the pterodactyl thing. FRIDA is intentionally built like a tank & has had Death Ward most of the time, so they intentionally drew aggro.

Travis intentionally pulled Chet away from the group when the moon started changing him specifically to avoid endangering the guests, and then Christian went after him! I have spelled "intentionally" wrong as "intentially" every single time. Christian knew it wasn't a "smart" play but thought it would be fun to interact with Chet, and that'll trump optimization every time for him.

The Tower of Inquiry! Favorite encounter so far? Travis: the Ludinus showdown. Sam: Laudna going down and not knowing how to Revivify. (Aabria asked if she could play Otohan and Matt was like, what? No!) Christian: the heist race where Ashton got the bust! Aabria: the same fight as Sam.

How does it feel being part of a larger group? Sam: FCG's entire first group died, so this new group is a lot of pressure. FCG's been one event away from berserkness multiple times. Every time they long rest, Sam can roll a d4 to reduce stress points, but he's self-imposed a rule that he doesn't do so on non-active days.

Sam literally leans over to Travis about his old age rules. Travis has to roll a 100 on the dice (three 0s) in order for Chet to drop dead. He's not concerned at all that it'll happen; Sam is hilariously concerned.

The Deep Dive, sooner than usual! Sam absolutely loved the interaction with the bull. He's delighted "the power of friendship" mattered.

Travis has been sitting on the RTC reveal for a while. He sat down a while back and really mapped out a lot of Chet's backstory and where he traveled, and again pulls out tons of map details like the Wuyun Gorge. The one place he hasn't been yet is Issylra.

FRIDA is a little nervous about turning into a werewolf; being around the group made them more comfortable, but the reveal of killing all those people is concerning. FRIDA also felt they were able to see Chet inside the beast during that fight & loves the idea of being unadulterated & free. Christian texted Matt & asked what it all meant that night, and just got in return, "ahahahahahahahaha". Ha!

Aabria is fascinated that developing these relationships with Bell's Hells has changed the previously friendly ease Deanna had with FRIDA. It's not quite a strain, but it is a reevaluation which is not settled; it's painful. FRIDAY had a strong opinion on the absence of pain and the absence of sadness; he hadn't appreciated how important current relationships were before FCG. Sam: "We have so much in common. We're both metal. We're both murderers."

Sam butchers the FRIDA acronym, which Aabria of course nails. Far-Ranging Integrated Defense Aeormaton. FCG is scared about the Changebringer's lack of clarity, and fears for the future. Travis suggests that if FRIDA dies, FCG should incorporate their body parts. Christian: I'd give you FRIDA's legs.

Everyone laughs at the size differences/similarities in their partners. Dani's (female) SO and she share clothes. Sam shrinks things in the dryer and gives them to Quyen. Alissa is taller than Christian so she can't wear his clothes; same for Aabria and her husband. Travis rolling over in bed is a literal health hazard for Laura, ha!

It took Travis forever to realize Deanna was his Deanna; Aabria even pointed to her name & he didn't get it. When it did click, the panic was real; he had acid reflux and realized she knew the backstory and he didn't! He didn't know if he should be angry or happy or neutral to see her; he had to wait until he had more context clues.

The romance for FCG and FRIDA was organic in nature. Originally they'd thought Deanna & FRIDA might have something, but it didn't pan out. Sam did text Christian to make sure they could lean in after.

Aabria loved getting to play with a character she helped develop in ExU (Fearne).

Tower of Inquiry, Redux: character's favorite board games? Chet: Chutes & Ladders. Deanna: Pandemic. FRIDA: Risk. FCG: Operation.

Post-Break Shenanigans: Super Smash Brothers! Sam: Dark Samus. Travis: Wolf. Aabria: Kirby. Christian: ROB.

Travis thought Oltgar was going to be more of a shit, but he's 100% okay tracking Drixlich instead.

Deanna is concerned after the conversation with the Dawnfather because while it's on brand, she fears losing her powers/life. She'd rather pay it forward first.

Sam wins round one! Huh! Round two: Sam: random (Falco), Travis: Ganondorf, Aabria: Ganondorf, Christian: ROB again.

FCG is weirdly comforted to have direction from the Changebringer; Sam likes her vibe. He was little freaked out by how demanding she was at the end but looks forward to exploring that relationship.

Christian wonders if FRIDA belonged to Ludinus. All he gave Matt was the dream of the child's legs. Time runs out on the second round and Christian takes it by percentage!

Round three: everyone picks random. Sam: Diddy Kong, Travis: Terry, Aabria: Kirby, Christian: Bayonetta.

How does Chet feel about the gods? It's only a matter of time before Chetney takes the gods' place.

FRIDA was very freaked out by fighting Aeormatons, but Chet's gift especially helped a lot.

Deanna feels that while the gods aren't a nascent part of the world, if it weren't them, it'd be someone else. Sam found it hard to play a religious character because his instinct is to be subversive.

Sam asked Matt if FCG had his initials carved on him somewhere after FRIDA revealed theirs. Matt said, "you don't know," then let Sam throw out a handful of suggestions for what the acronym stood for. He didn't know which until the moment, though. The entire conversation was inspired by Christian's play; "Christian did a cool thing and I wanted to steal it."

Christian's best friend Jack was helping him with acronyms; Christian had come up with "FRIDA" and Jack defined it in about thirty seconds, haha. Backronyms!

Travis loved the first Catha transformation. Now he has to decide who to transform into a werewolf. Everyone loves "Bells Heals" as a minigroup name, and "LoveLetters" and "Body Count" for the FRIDA/FCG ship.

Aabria found the two relationships with Deanna/Laerryn very different; with Sam she planned it out, and with Travis she knew she was surprising him. She is fully embracing the "we've already banged" dynamic for all her characters now.

The post-credits scene is a cutout of Sam spinning into the abyss.

That's that! One more 4SD is out right now (came out yesterday), but I'm going to catch up on the show first!

[thisisnotthenerd]

c3e54 thoughts and musings/liveblog

pre-episode

who are we going to see today? i’m hoping for laudna, ashton, and orym so we can get a good look at what’s going on closer to the blast site, see the guests, and follow up with some of the npcs that we don’t yet know about. team wildemount bells has had a fun time and they’re at a relatively same and comfortable place right now--having released umudara, they don’t have any super pressing commitments. that being said, based on matt’s tweet, whichever team is present is working with sketchy history--that could hit chetney, but also ashton. this is the big backstory arc for both of them.

wherever they are, whichever half of bell’s hells is present, it’s going to be tricky to navigate.

pre-break

okay it’s team wildemount bells. anyway. missing team mom friend hells. i’m feeling more of an rp episode, maybe shopping?

edit: i was wrong.

yay for cool parades. royal recognition like i expected--this is their luxon-bright queen moment.

sending still isn’t working--maybe message instead? it’s transmutation, but maybe the distance aspect is really what’s being regulated.

deanna’s house! i love it! deanna & imogen bonding! the room arrangements and little character interactions. it’s lovely. the completion of the tonal change of being away from the solstice planning.

do aeormatons dream of electric sheep? christian created this character to be in platonic love with deanna and tell fcg the world is round. Humanoid legs???? a child??? embedded in their body??? spiritual hug? the eyes glow? i was meant to protect this boy! omg frida i love you. finding the old programming and using it as a source of hope and something to tie back to.

fcg’s power of friendship. aeormaton bonding. i’m excited to see where sam and christian go with this from here--the mortifying ordeal of being known in your dreams and sharing in the experience of finding someone who you identify with uniquely is so cool to explore.

deanna’s breakfast. all of the time they spent in her home. this is shaping up to be fun and very silly, with lots of shenanigans coming--i can feel it. good ol’ drixlitch (dick licks) & oltgar (old fart), and macaroni retconned to parmesan

we found santa! he’s sad! he’s lost the meaning of winter’s crest! he’s oltgar dredagon! All of the petty nonsense is so good. i feel for oltgar, and i do hope that this works out for chetney. D&O’s seems like a predatory business relationship, and i hope that they have a chance at getting rid of drixlitch. also, the ‘war wound’ & brand of castigation combination is so funny.

post-break

battling again! a few things to consider: swarm tactics from the bugs, and the objective of keeping the worm in its larval stage. really highlights the guy’s idiocy--anyone could have popped a dispel in the store at some point and then where would you be. i’m assuming the bug is guaranteed to die before the enchantment goes up, unless they’re just releasing the firebugs on the populace when the enchantment fades.

lots of fun tactical moves: imogen with telekinesis, deanna’s blindness & dawn, all of the snares, the flyswatter, good uses of feats and mechanics from christian, and that crucial polymorph from fearne that turned into just a hilarious slaughter. that’s the second beast bell’s hells has released based on something fearne did.

meanwhile all of them are looting. by my count they have a bunch of the toys, lots of quality wood, the paperwork, enchanters’ gloves, and two boxes of extremely angry firebugs, as well as 400 platinum in payment.

edit: i somehow forgot that frida straight up walked out with a chair. just right out onto the street. i have to assume they’re still carrying the chair as team bells heads to the citadel.

they came into uthodurn, immediately started their time there with the procession and of a divine bull. then proceed to have some crazy aeormaton interactions in dreams. the next day, as they are on their way to a noon appointment with the diarchy, they just casually walk up to chetney’s old place of work, defeat a bunch of released bugs and a transformed baby worm, find out about the child labor scheme the owner was running as well as other general bad guy nonsense, and then loot the place for supplies. chetney then reconciles with oltgar, a guy he’s held a grudge against for the entire campaign so far, and successfully intimidates him into leaving uthodurn and becoming exandrian or at least wildemount’s santa, who has a shithead and okay list instead of naughty and nice.

all in all, lots of shenanigans, very funny episode, and some real callbacks to the origins of chetney. my prediction for next episode is that they meet with the diarchy and generally finish their pressing business in uthodurn. the episode after that, i think we’re looking at a return to laudna ashton and orym. maybe. it depends on how they want to apportion their episodes based on the break week and guest availability.

[captainsspnanon]

C3E54 part 1 reaction

OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS EPISODE

They are all punchy as hell it is GLORIOUS

from the utter absurdity of absolutely everything

going to the soft and beautiful shared dreamscape, and FRIDA's comment of asking FCG why they always help (which was a bit of a punch to the gut, I don't know how I didn't connect their actions with Umudara to FCG's friendliness, despite all the power of friendship jokes)

TO FUCKING OLTGAR IS SANTA

FYI I love Oltgar so much. Kill fucking Dicklick, plzkthx, but let's redeem Oltgar!

(though I'm also super curious now, because we had the woman in the Heartmoore who ALSO hated Oltgar? So like, is she just obsessed with wood too? is there something deeper here? WILL WE FIND OUT IN THE SECOND HALF??)

(also Ashley is gorgeous this episode, her hair is so bouncy! And Fearne is just ON POINT)