#yeah i watched the ep for the plot

[vinylattes]

#i love her necklace

Natasia Demetriou as Nadja of Antipaxos in WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (2019) 5.07 (Hybrid Creatures)

[utilitycaster]

Sort of a distant tangent off my post about Ashton, but I'm growing more and more suspicious of the fandom claim that there's no time for small RP moments in Campaign 3. I do think that it's been challenging to get deeper party bonding or serious conversations that aren't about the big philosophical questions they're facing, since those do take much more time; but then I think about Calamity, or Candela Obscura. I can genuinely give you at least a couple paragraphs about pretty much every relationship in the two Circles, or in the Ring of Brass. I can also point to no shortage of small moments between characters in the Mighty Nein Aeor or Vox Machina Vecna endgame episodes, which were all extremely plot-heavy and fast-paced, and D20 consistently nails character relationships in a fraction of the time.

I think it really does come down to, as Brennan Lee Mulligan always says, the character creation phase. Laying down a solid groundwork in which everyone has a detailed, rich backstory and sense of personality and relationship history (in the case of characters who knew each other prior to the start of the series) is absolutely crucial, and even in the case of characters who don't know each other before going in, a good amount of time spent in character creation ensures that it's easier for them to develop those interpersonal relationships on the fly. I know in actual play there's some degree of finding the character as you play, but there are games for which there is a very short runway, and I don't think it ever hurts to do more extensive character prep than the bare minimum. And if there are gaps, I think it also helps to go back and fill those in mid-way, away from the table - Travis clarifying Chetney's backstory being a great example that allowed the history of Chetney and Deanna to feel realized and full, despite only a few episodes.

I'll also be blunt: most of the time when people complain that there aren't moments because the plot keeps moving...they're mad about shipping. Which has always rung hollow to me. It was a common complaint in C2, that no time was taken for character relationships, despite them taking an entire half of an episode for the Beauyasha date and despite no shortage of moments for all three of the other couples (and plenty of platonic moments between friends). The issue was never a lack of time; it was that the characters they wanted to talk to each other didn't actually have the relationship in canon that the fans had dreamed up, and so, when the chips were down, they went to other people.

It takes two seconds to say something like "I hold their hand", even in the middle of plot-heavy adventuring. If someone doesn't say it, it's rarely the GM rushing them; it's the player either choosing not to do so, or not remembering to do so, and either of those is quite revealing regarding how the player feels about that relationship and where it stands in their priorities.

[sludgeguzzler]

I'm listening to malevolent and so far every time something is revealed or something major happens I feel like this

[5hrignold]

what do they mean by this

[fagandordyke]

this season has really been a rollercoaster for anyone remotely emotionally emotionally invested in zero

[charmac]

Just watched Fool’s Paradise!

[mythvoiced]

-. me, holding ji.an.g ch.en.g, fu y.ao, and fe.ng x.in by the scruffs of their necks: oooh, yeah having a type is nOT a myth, actually, huh

[brilliantfantasticgeronimo]

watching a viagem (90s globo remake) and honestly Dina is such a fascinating character. like i can't tell if the writing genuinely wants me to think she's great or if it is self-aware of how selfish she is for a supposed protagonist or """mocinha""" (god do i hate those categories). and is going to grow once she gets with otavio? like normally in novelas when the protagonist is being cheated by the villain... usually there's a reason for it, usually the villain is playing the protagonist in some way by hiding information (isabel doesn't know she was stolen by nazare as a baby or that she pushed his father down the stairs , tifao doesn't know carminha cheats on him w/ max or tried to bury nina alive that one time, etc) but here... like, that's not he case sdfklj alexandre isn't playing anyone at this point (ep 34) Dina literally knows that Alexandre ran over a 3 year old, that he was a trouble-maker in his university and almost assaulted a teacher, that he was indebted bc he took 2 many drugs, knows he was aggressive to his girlfriends, and like.,... and obviously knows he killed a father of 3 kids to steal some money (Even tho they're literally rich)... and she doesn't care and still treats him like a little kid? literally never chides him at all? sdlfjsdkfsdklfjs it's so bizarre to me man. and the novela is legit like "wow isnt dina so protective. isnt this passao de pano over her brother so touching"?

[frogmascquerade]

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[ranger-kellyn]

this avatar fixation is going to be the death of me

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

I am gonna be real with yall, vld feels more like Powwr Rangers than mecha

[mariocki]

Juliet Harmer guests as headmistress Jill Manson (or is she an imposter...?) in The Avengers: The Town of No Return (4.1, ABC, 1965)

[sleepynegress]

FINALLY... LOKI gets interesting.

Of the Marvel shows, LOKI is the one I cared for the least, but I'm a Marvel completist sooo... This season has great performances and interesting casting, but the storyline just hasn't been hitting for me. Well, they just dropped the first true horror of the Marvelverse. No, I don't count Wanda and Strange's movie, because Rami always tempers the scares with goofiness. This ep though? YEESH is honestly the most terrifying thing I've seen in the Marvelverse. If they nail the homerun, they could salvage this season.

[welcometogrouchland]

I am going to try and rewatch thanks to them 😎 (<- unaware of the horrors)

[dutybcrne]

Me, vibing: Now that I have finished the event, perhaps I can do things now-

My brain: Remember that one episode in Teen Titans? Where Robin gets a faceful of hallucinogenic gas?? And hallucinates his greatest enemy and obsessively pursues and attempts to fight said hallucination of his enemy to the point where he’s incidentally injuring himself and the resulting stress on his brain from it all damn near kills him??? Yeah, what if that, but Abyss magic or Fatui heckenings- 

[bonivers]

chris evans doesn’t deserve to be dating her. that should be me