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Obsessed with this man 🥰

What's his alignment? Who the hell cares, my boy Wealwell majored in Reposed Standing

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A sign I would actually hang in my house even though I don't like guns.

pappy’s rules for living #6

Live, Laugh, Love

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VIP up for an Emmy y'all!!

Emmy voters - have you considered us? 🏆

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The real host of Trauma Dump with Lou Wilson.

When I put on these glasses..I become.. El Dragón.

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I just started watching Trauma Dump with Lou Wilson, and Y'all, it needs to be said, this is GENIUS.

Trauma!Lou is the inverse of Host!Vic on VIP. He's unserious, glib, flippant. He's dedicated to creating Sick Rad Dope Fun Mental Health Content. He's a Walking Facade of Party Energy, approaching the deeply personal process of self discovery with no sense of transparency or gravitas whatsoever.

Anyone who's seen Lou in anything - Dropout, Crit Role, WBN, even Kimmel - knows he's a damn good actor and a magnetic personality. This project tests our understanding of Lou and asks us what we think we're seeing.

Vic said in an interview (which I can't find now, unfortunately) that they've encountered people who believe Host!Vic is the real Vic, and they have to explain that just because a character has their name doesn't mean it's Really Them. VIP is improv, but there's two comedians bouncing off each other in that environment. By contrast, Trauma Dump is also improv, but Lou's the only actor on set. Paul is, presumably, just doing his job. (unless he's an actor playing a therapist, but that's a whole different level of meta I'm not equipped to dig into here.)

The premise is awkward in its own right: Lou says he wants to get profound, but then dodges like his life depends on it. Paul is certainly taking the situation seriously; he's not sure whether he's meant to find Lou's behavior funny or not. It's tonally bizarre in a way that rhymes with VIP but also subverts the expectations of improv. You can already see the confusion in youtube comments, two hours or so after the stream. "This whole thing is a bit, right?"

This bit's game, to borrow a term from improv, is the gap between Lou and Paul, and How Lou works to maintain the gap while Paul works to close it. How much of Trauma Dump is Paul using his expertise on a fictional character, and how much of it is actually catching The Actor Lou Wilson off guard?

Actors put pieces of themselves into the characters they play; their perspectives and experiences. It's part of the mechanism of acting. Therapists remove their personal biases and feelings from their work environments; it's part of the mechanism of therapy. With these facts in mind, where are the lines? Where does Lou Wilson (sick rad awesome fun PTSDTF bro) end, and Lou Wilson (Actor and Human Person Who Exists) begin? We genuinely don't know, and that's what makes it an incredible soup of funny, scary, surreal, and magnetic.

I really, really hope this turns into a series.

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Siobhan is so freaking brilliant, she can't even be stumped by a made up language puzzle!

so @say-hi-intrepid-heroes said this a few days ago about brennan using german in cloudward, ho!

BUT THEN ???? TODAY'S EPISODE?????

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Happy Juneteenth!

Happy Juneteenth! Please enjoy this conversation about House of the Dragon with Um, Actually legend Jess Clemons

“Um, Actually” 10.11 ( House of the Dragon, Xena: Warrior Princess, Cardcaptor Sakura)

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Will always be here for 🌈Slay's✨ Brilliant and fabulous!

But what about Chompsky's Potato Chips - America's crunchiest, hardiest, tastiest chip?!

This is NOT sponsored by Slay's Potato Chips, we promise 💃

Watch the full Game Changer episode on Dropout

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Absolutely love this! And I would love to post my own stats!

current dropout.tv binge stats !! (will be updating as i finish things)

finished:

adventuring academy

adventuring party — seasons 2, 5, 6, 16, & 18

a message from the ceo

bad internet

breaking news: no laugh newsroom

collegehumor shorts — seasons 6-15

dirty laundry

escape from the bloodkeep

fantasy high

fantasy high: extra credit

game changer

gastronauts

hardly working — seasons 7-16

hot date: the web series

kingpin katie

kingpin katie: the web series

make some noise

misfits and magic

monét’s slumber party

nobody asked

parlor room

pirates of leviathan

smartypants

the rank room

the rank room: the web series

the seven

the unsleeping city — season 1

thousandaires

tiny heist

total forgiveness

ultramechatron team go!

ultramechatron team go!: the web series

um, actually

um, actually: the web series

very important people

currently watching:

the unsleeping city — season 2

adventuring party — season 3

new episodes of most shows currently releasing

watchlist:

a court of fey & flowers

a crown of candy

adventuring party — seasons 1, 4, 7-15, 17, & 19-21

all-nighters

a starstruck odyssey

badman

bearshark

burrow’s end

camp

canon city comic club

cartoon hell

celebrity slumber party

cloudward, ho!

coffin run

collegehumor chaos

collegehumor does the purge

collegehumor goes to hell

collegehumor live

collegehumor shorts — seasons 1-5

collegehumor storytime

dimension 20 animated

dimension 20 live

dinosaur office

dora the explorer and the destiny medallion

dropout music

dungeons and drag queens

erotic book club

erotic clubhouse

everyday acting

final destination

full benefits

game changer animated

gods of food

hardly working — seasons 1-6

heist night

hello, my name is

if google was a guy

inside the collegehumor vault

josh’s mindhouse

mentopolis

mice & murder

most insane vo booth ever

neverafter

never stop blowing up

not a yule log

paranoia

phantom of the office

play it by ear

pov

precious plum

raph’s hall of fame

see plum run

shriek week

soap box

sock or hat?

tablepop

tablepop presents: megadungeon live!

tales from the closet

the adventures of kim jong-un

the collegehumor podcast

the comment show

the ravening war

the schining

the six

titan takedown

total forgiveness: early payoff

troopers

troopers: animated

troopers: the web series

very mary-kate

what the facts 101

where the eff is sarah cincinnati

wtf 101

yay or nay

+ a little bonus: actively keeping up with the wizard, the witch, and the wild one podcast as it releases from worlds beyond number!!

…and y’know doing other life things as well, i (sadly) don’t spend all my time watching and listening to things lmao

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If you're a Dimension 20 lover and an aspiring/beginner level political activist, here are some Brennan Lee Mulligan interviews that I've watched that I found really motivating and gave me a sort of mental anchor point when things looked the most bleak or scary.

I know there are many more Dropout folks who are doing this work as well so feel free to repost with your own links/examples!

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I am a rowdy 🌈👊🏻🏳️‍⚧️

kind of obsessed with rowdy as a euphemism for queer in cloudward ho. you're rowdy. you're too loud. you cause trouble. you make me uncomfortable. you're not being how i want you to be. you go places and you do things that i don't think are proper. you don't live how i think you should live. and you're so in my face about it. you're one of those..... rowdies. like come ON that's so good.

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I'm just gonna put this here

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKqCkrph1po/?igsh=ajB1YWM1OXppdzhk

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Found out while browsing romantasy novels on Libby that Critical Role has published fanfiction?!

My question for @dimension20official is Ummm where's our spicy published book?!?

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Petitioning to make Pappy and new Daddy.

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Can't unsee the fact that Wealwell Gotch is literally just Shiro Ashiya from The Devil is a Part-Timer, except rich.

They are both so sick but so solid.

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Hi there! Hope you don’t mind me asking, how long was the Indy show last night? I’m going to the Louisville one tonight and wanted to know around what time the show would let out

Hey, great question! It started about 15 mins late around 7:45pm just because folks were still coming in the door (might not be the same at the Louisville show) and went until about 9:45pm.

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Shout out to the homies going to the start of the Midwest leg of the Dropout Live tour tonight at the Murat Theater in Indianapolis!

The seats are notoriously uncomfortable but I think we're in for a great show!!