#was actually my downfall that year

[omgitstatertot]

I LOVE MATH

Except geometry

Geometry is my opp fr

maths enjoyers and bug enjoyers and horror movie enjoyers and so forth all need to come together and unite against the common enemy of people telling you how much they hate something as soon as you mention you like it

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

James Vowles, you will not see heaven

[cringefaecompilation]

not to dunk on junior year again but i am noticing a pattern here with the treatment of certain storytelling elements here.

both bell’s hells and the ratgrinders were pcs that gained sapience. the difference is that the ratgrinders were villains and the hells are heroes.

one of the most love-it-or-hate-it aspects of campaign 3 is that it does not only focus on the main 7 or 8 characters and everybody else is tossed to the wayside unless they benefit them like usual. all npcs (with downfall, that's including the gods!) deserve a chance to have their story told and they are all written to be that. the generic runaway prince you have to help escape to a life of freedom! the cute little helper robot npc! generic spooky evil minions based on public domain monsters! the quirky quest-giving fae! the rough and tumble hired goon! the brave captain of the guard protecting a strong lady in charge!  yes, even imogen, who in any other story would be the sad little abandoned daughter of the bbeg who would mourn the hero killing her mother but understand that the hero had to do what needed to be done.

and again, you don’t have to like it!

but there is a weird sort of thing i noticed amongst all the critical role c3 criticism that reminded me of people defending fhjy. an undercurrent of insisting that all the ratgrinders (who were teenagers. who were groomed and then murdered.) were pure evil spoiled brats and just wanted to be handed everything on a platter because they didn’t deserve what the main cast earned their place as the main characters and made passive aggressive posts saying things to the tune of you know they’re evil right. very Watsonian with a staunch refusal to look at a Doylist explanation. it got so bad to the point where people were insisting that if you liked the ratgrinders and sympathized with them then you were a fascism apologist.

astoundingly enough c3 criticism has only scraped the surface of this sort of overdramatic accusation, but it goes in the opposite direction. if you like where the story is going and how it's being told, then you’re not a real critical role fan. the story should have just been about the characters fighting evil fae or just wiping out the ruby vanguard and everyone in it without all this stupid introspective discussion on power because it’s retconning the gods being bad guys! grey morality sucks, why can’t good guys just be good? they all feel like npcs except for imogen because she’s the only one with a chosen birthright!

(of course, if they say that last part out loud, that might not look so good for them)

 yes, we know the gods are imperfect. that’s what we’ve been saying this whole time. but all these passive aggressive gifsets of liam-as-orym saying that the gods aren’t pure evil and it’s stupid to think so or laura and matt ooc saying that the gods have a grey area don’t mean fucking jack if you turn around and insist the gods have zero flaws and everything they do is good, actually and Aeor Had It Coming.

important caveats:

the actors on d20 could not react to things they were doing in the moment. they were tired after filiming 3 episodes back to back and wrapped up their season faster than usual to join the sag-aftra strike. i am aware of this.

yes i know that d20 is a comedy improv series! that does not prevent it from having deep themes and character introspection! ayda aguefort and zelda donovan still very much exist and had their own arcs despite being npcs!

yes the ratgrinders were working with a man trying to kill and replace a goddess and yes he is a colonizing twat. however, doesn’t that also make it the fandom’s insistence that liking the kids is bad and fascistic but making ship art of him and the other teacher that killed all of them is totally okay? rules for he but not for thee? 

[nightwingsaregoths]

so sorry for Morrowseer... he was an advisor for the queen and met a fiery end, but if he existed in real life, he would have been that type of person who's been complaining about his horrid work-life balance for the past 5 years and has around 6 hours of sleep a night, makes Moon's blood pressure shoot up from merely existing in the same space as her mother (usually Morrowseer stays in the living room and Secretkeeper watches Netflix off her phone at max volume in the kitchen) but it's okay because they're keeping the marriage together until their only child turns old enough and leaves the house. Also drops comments about IceWings and SandWings and RainWings while Moon slumps in her seat and stares awkwardly while refusing to think about the very real people who flashed through her mind. He's also on medication for something and has one of those middle aged male afflictions that he'll have until the day he dies. We suspect that his genetics'll take him out in 30 years. Unfortunately, his sacrifices have done much for the family and Moon still feels guilty as he gripes about it. Still makes Moon feel like garbage when he compares her to all the other NightWing kids in the neighborhood, whose coursework, GPAs, and extracurriculars he knows in detail from all that NightWing parent gossip (he's still clowning on Farsight for letting Fierceteeth go to the community college). Also says something to Moon that will affect her psyche for years and then yells at her for being clearly affected by having a parent like him.

[simpfornegan]

modern cegan au where they meet in a COD lobby while gaming and at first they talk the absolute most shit on their mics about each other while actively trying to kill the other. though eventually they end up forming an unlikely alliance when they’re forced to play on the same team for a few rounds and then suddenly they’re all buddy buddy— talking about how shit everyone else is together while demolishing other players in the lobby, together.

[adhdwerewolfgf]

ok this might be a weird post for me because i never talk about it but. as an avid dbd player who hates the game i have to ask something

to expand: this hypothetical game remains an asymmetrical survivor vs killer horror game, but differentiates itself in many ways including:

- survivors also in first person

- room for more killers per match, at a 1:4 ratio of killer to survivor (avg 3 killers with significantly larger maps)

- no gens, but rather various map-specific objectives

- much more downtime, no “win” or “lose” condition

- proximity voice chat + expanded gestures

- no “hook states”, but rather another mechanic that ensures you cannot be tunnelled out of the game

- no perks aside from an inherent skill for each survivor, and then random pick-up-able “perks” that can be found throughout the match

- the devs would actually play their damn game

- +more things that push this game away from “competitive” and more towards “horror experience”

[lovelywingsart]

Being at a new job while having connections to the old job is fun because you get to actively sit back and watch it all fucking burn and laugh about it

Gods I'm so fucking happy I got out when I did. It's a fucking glorious mess and I get to watch it happen.

I may be in physical pain because of what the new job is (for now), but it's worth it for this.

[fujii-draws]

hey fujii do you wanna hear about a silly little thing i thought of earlier. so you know how in red/blue rescue team, eevee used to be in the "naive" category, whereas in explorers of sky, it's in the "jolly" category? it made me think about ribbons, specifically because of how the rescue team personality test describes the naive trait.

in rescue team, the naive type is described to be someone whos highly curious, and someone who likes rare things. their cheerful and carefree make everything fun for the people around them, but they also have the flaw of being childish, never sitting still, and always being on the move. (it also says that they might be selfish but i dont see that applying to ribbons tbh..)

it seems so oddly fitting for ribbons because her personality does show those traits in particular. she's a silly little thing and her bright cheery personality, and she is childish to some extent. and of course, can't forget her curiosity. especially with how curious she got when it came to dusknoir. and of course, we can't forget about the *actual* definition of naive. naivety in the sense of choosing to believe that dusknoir, despite how his aura flared with malice, bared no ill intent. to think that someone who is so great, so wise, so kind and caring could ever be capable of shattering her world apart.. that was naive. because she believed he was what she thought he was, and because it was her naivety that nearly got her and aimilios killed. you'd think she'd have learned from the drowzee incident where two kids displaying trust in a spur-of-the-moment stranger who coincidentally showed them kindness in their misfortune was a mistake, but i suppose that's what being a naive little child does to you.

(anyways im sorry if this sounds incoherent and out of the blue. have a good day)

DONT YOU DARE APOLOGIZE FOR THIS. THE JOLLY AND NAIVE NATURES FIT MY GIRL SO WELL. (Unhinged rant in tags)

[kyeterna]

Villains

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[fingertipsmp3]

People find out about shit I’ve put up with in the past and are like “how did you not punch this person omg” and I just need to explain one thing to you about me. I can store up things indefinitely if I have to. I am capable of rational thought in even the most insane of circumstances and if I decide it’ll be infinitely more satisfying to get back at someone at a later date when I’m more coherent than to yell at them now, by God I’ll do it

[daisychain-unchained]

I have a problem…

ThriftBooks and girl math is a fatal combination

[wqnwoos]

guess who dropped their phone in water 🥰

[shoulderholsterfreak]

You know, considering not only how incompetent the New Republic military leadership is and how badly they’re being written in general, Thrawn could come in and obliterate them with a sneeze.

[chiistarri]

imsoo normal about guys byw

[demoncatapologist]

Invel in my mind: Terrifying. More force of nature than man. Winter condensed into human form. Militaristic and strategic, with an unsettling level of efficiency (that was humanely possible, for alas, he is still (un)fortunately human.) Will stop at (almost) nothing to fulfill his ambitions, and will destroy everything on his path, with a coldness not unlike winter itself.

Also Invel in my mind: Tired and pathetic. Has 50 mental illnesses and 30 of which were caused by his employer. Doing his damned best to keep himself together. Tfw when you see sentiments as nothing but annoying obstacles yet your own sentiment is what brought your downfall. Can't even ignore his own doubts for the "righteousness" of his emperor smh. Did I mention tired and pathetic

[madasacrow]

according to MaaC's worldbuilding doc Jonathan was born in 1979 & Jervis/Alice were born in 1983, making them 43 & 40 respectively which feels. so wrong. I think they had different birth years or this is yet another leftover tidbit from when it was a d//c paracosm, which would make a lot more sense for the characters they're based on.