#thieving even

[eluminium]

“There’s only two genders, MCC winner and non MCC winner” well damn Impulse congrats on your transition!!!! 

[5ftboy]

How is Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves different from other blockbuster action films?

[white-weasel]

Funniest bit of the dnd movie is Xenk clearly being an NPC the DM introduced for lore and plot purposes who’s a competent fighter because of course he is, his reputation and backstory require it. But whoopsies the DM made him too powerful, the whole party likes him, and now they want him to come with to fight the BBEG which will completely and utterly fuck up the encounter balance

So instead of there being any actual plot reason he can’t join Xenk just says “I can’t. This is something only you can do.” And then walks off, never to interact with the party again because the DM just knows those little shits will find a way to use their OP creation against them

[ryan-sometimes]

A man in Brazil stopped a robbery with a katana.

As a Brazilian person, I feel it is my duty to occasionally bring to you wack news coming from my country. Lucky for me, about 2-3 weeks ago on August 13th, a man in Belo Horizonte stopped a robbery at his building by charging at the thieves with a katana. He has been dubbed “the samurai of Belo Horizonte”.

Here’s some real videos of the incident:

Here’s part of a news report on the incident from CNN Brazil. I did my best to translate it to English:

A man used a katana, a traditional sword used by samurais in Japan, to chase down a group of suspects who were attempting to steal bicycles from a garage in a condominium in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais (a state in Brazil).

Alisson D’jean, who became known as the “Samurai of BH” [Belo Horizonte] went viral when the images won over social networks on Friday the 25th. The robbery attempt, however, occurred on August 13th.

In an interview exclusive to CNN, Alisson says it was his mother who first noticed the robbery, after hearing noises of someone breaking into the garage doors.

The “samurai,” who is a physiotherapist, reported the experience on his Instagram stories, and said he decided to act on his own accord after the military police, according to him, did nothing after three previous break-ins to the condominium [by the same suspects].

After checking the security cameras, the [fourth] invasion was confirmed. The samurai put on some clothes, grabbed the katana, and ran to the elevator, where he met up with the building manager [who was checking the security camera footage on his phone].

“I grabbed this samurai sword, a handmade katana, a weapon of war, really, because I didn’t know what I was walking into, I didn’t know how many [invaders], I didn’t know what kind of weapons they had,” reports the physiotherapist, who says he began using this type of sword almost 30 years ago.

According to Alisson, the decision was taken with the sole intention of protecting himself, his family, and the other building residents. “At no point was I concerned with the bicyles. I don’t even own a bicycle,” he says.

In the images, it’s possible to see Alisson and the building manager in the elevator. After getting out [of the elevator], the “samurai” begins running after the suspects, who, scared, ditch the bicycles and flee. No one was injured. In the days following this incident, no other break-in attempts were reported.

Original article (in Portuguese).

[afterthelambs]

Do we agree the Phantom Thieves make fun of Joker for the "I'll hold onto your glove" thing because if I knew someone irl who carried around an article of clothing from their 9-month situationship wherever they go I would think it's the lamest shit I've ever heard. Like I think the Phantom Thieves would be kind and considerate towards Joker when he's in mourning but the second Akechi comes back and shuake finally gets together post-canon it's no mercy. They are never letting him live it down

[nurseydexunsolved]

“ronan’s second secret was perfect in its concealment” is so funny cause like. was it, ronan? was it really

[bandoftheives]

adam getting stuck in a “love triangle” in book one and then getting stuck in an entirely different love triangle (while still being in the previous one) in book two and then ending up single in the third book is so iconic (and depressing)

[dcvina-claires]

the “glendower was dead, had always been dead, and gansey kind of wanted to live” line has such a double meaning because on one hand we learn that the glendower who whispered to gansey was noah all along so the line is actually talking about noah, not glendower. but also gansey was going to wish noah back to life despite knowing that gansey himself was going to die in the next year. and then in the end noah gives up his life and afterlife so that gansey can live. noah was dead, had always been dead, but at least he made it so that gansey could live

[kroosluvr]

originally for my ask/rpblog!

[rosered-schneeweisschens-sis]

[midnightmindcave]

wanna hear my head canons about the uber-story underpinning dungeons and dragons honor among thieves? well you’re gonna:

the players who created holga and edgin are indeed best friends but the dm who controls xenk is edgin’s partner and they created xenk specifically to annoy him in particular and everyone thinks this is hysterical. edgin’s player has been playing edgin for twenty years and his name is really ed, with holga’s as the runner-up at fifteen. and doric’s player was invited by simon’s player and indeed doesn’t know these people and has probably never even played before which explains how doric sometimes almost seems to break character. the older and more seasoned players have wagers on how long it will take those two to get together irl.

[emikomusubi]

the xenk/edgin dynamic is hilarious bc xenk is like edgin🥰i have the utmost faith in you and your oath to me🥰i will gladly save your life and explicitly trust you to do the same🥰it brings me great joy to see you reawaken as the harper you are meant to be 🥰 here take my hand🥰 and edgin is like Fuck U. *takes hand*

[ivyontheholodeck]

So I watched the dnd movie,

[afterthelambs]

I'm not sure if I believe the "Wakaba Isshiki did unethical experiments" theory in the fandom, but I do think this is the biggest proof of it in-game:

Because how the hell would she know that?

The first explanation is that she did experiments by sending people into palaces and then testing what happens to them if the palace collapses. Which is messed up for obvious reasons.

The second explanation is that she did NOT test it, meaning she was just making shit up. Which is funny but also would make her a terrible scientist. This explanation is less believable because everything else about her research is too accurate.

There's also a theory that Wakaba did unethical experiments on Akechi specifically. I'm not sure I believe that, since the evidence for it is pretty shallow (like the featherman game scientist experimenting on grey pigeon). But this scene is once again the biggest argument you could make for that theory. The researcher in the image above refers to palaces by their correct term 'palaces', which they say was based on Wakaba's research. But that's only something you would know with firsthand experience of the metaverse. And the only person they know who could access the metaverse was Akechi (that we know of, but i dont think Shido would rely only on Akechi if there were other options).

So yeah this scene is very sus. It's most likely the writers didn't think too deep about the implications. There's no way they wanted Futaba's mom to be sketchy, right? But even if it's not intentional, the scenes and their implications still exist. So in conclusion those theories make sense, I get it, and I don't blame anyone for headcanoning them and having fun. And tbh anyone involved with cognitive psience was portrayed as some degree of unethical (maruki for example), maybe this is just on-brand

[mengjue]

One thing I really appreciated in Dungeons and Dragons: Honor among Thieves was that the friendship between Holga and Edgin remained just that, a friendship. Both of them were shown to at least have a romantic interest in the opposite sex even if they aren’t heterosexual, and they care for Kira together, but after one mention of them being together that they both emphatically reject it’s never brought up again. They’re just friends and family to each other without having to be in a romantic/sexual relationship.

That is so rare in big name movies these days and so refreshing to see that just because a man and a woman share a scene they don’t have to fucking fall in love. More of this

[frankiebirds]

man i love how quickly you get a sense for what emily's relationship with her mother is like. when she sees her she literally calls out "mother" rather than a more informal title and then the three expressions she goes through:

she goes from shock (what is my mother doing here?) to pleasant surprise (my mother is here!) to (at least to me, the last one is a little harder to read) disappointment (oh...she's probably here because she needs something) here's a still image of that last one since it's a little hard to catch in my shitty gif:

(also: shoutout to paget brewster for cycling through three expressions in a single second and communicating so much so quickly. love that)