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Last hour of episode 77 summarized:

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Endless TLOVM

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My last post died and I’m trying not to panic bc I really need help

The spark notes are: I’m an autistic transmasc who moved across the country to be with my partner just for us to break up and while she gets to continue to stay with her parents and have all her needs taken care of, I’ve had to spend every penny I have and max out my credit cards to get my own place bc I’m starting from complete scratch which leaves me no money for groceries and I move in 4 days

My goal is literally anything at this point but I know I can get through the month with $200

Pay—pal

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Caleb: “All right, you listen to me. If you come with us, I reserve to send my godson back at any time. We are just doing some fact finding to begin here, and if I feel like it is too dangerous, I will send you home. And you will stay under my eye at every moment, do you understand?”

Luc: “Ja mein onkle.”

Caleb: “Sehr gut. Sehr gut.”

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the sheer DELIGHT from Laura and Tal as their graph paper child is a complete little brat and is in charge of anyone smaller than her and is the Queen of Whitestone and loves SKELETONS and is MEETING PATE

Look at Tal. He's so proud.

"You are a de Rolo."

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Laudna: oooh maybe I'll get a little pirate wench outfit

Imogen, who's definitely normal about this idea and is NOT down so abysmal it defies the laws of physics:

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keyleth wearing a hat that says “ravens want me goldfish fear me”

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Yes The Mighty Nein explore the ideas of grey moralty and how you can be both good and bad and that's great but more importantly they explore grey intelligence and how you can simultaneously be incredibly competent and so fucking stupid.

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This is about Vespin and Zerxus

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let the record show that i can actually picture aabria sitting down across from matt and just putting a character sheet on the table, looking him in the eye, and going ‘i am playing chetney’s ex’

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I love how there are so many horrible wizards in Wildemount that Essek isn't even in the top three and he betrayed his country and started a war.

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With Fearne there’s a lot of human experiences, that she’s starting to experience for the first time, after leaving the Feywild.

I was rewatching an older episode and found the moment of Fearne saying she doesn’t want to get separated from Orym and got inspired to do this gif. I love their friendship so much.

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Anyway, go and read My Stranger, My Dream by SigniorBenedickofPadua

'tis where this scene is from

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This whole thing makes the Cerberus Assembly so much funnier. Each one of them has a fucking innumerable amount of skeletons in their mad scientist lab closet. Ludinus Da’Leth, Trent Ikithon, and Vess DeRogna have a meeting together, and in their own head they each think “ohohohoho, I have the most Fucked Up Plans, they don’t even know the shit I’m up too!” And they go run off to talk to the moon or get juice from a time shape and inject it into kids or venture to the Flesh City ruins. Everyone is the crazy one here. Delilah got outed as a necromancer right and they were all like “oh NO, necromancy. Here?!?! Noooooo… we’ve got to get that out!” While hiding their evil fae court dealings behind their majestic robe.

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Sleeping Beauty-esque au where Dream wants to Stop Living but doesn’t want to go through making someone be his replacement (being Dream of the Endless is so hard, how cruel would it be to subject that role to someone else?) and it occurs to him that he is the Dreaming and the Dreaming is him so what if he just… took one of those out of the equation? As long as there is a Dreaming then technically there is a Dream even if he’s not human-shaped anymore and so one day he goes into one of the gardens and he lays down and closes his eyes and lets Dream the Person sink into Dream the Place. 

Matthew comes looking for him and gets lost because his magic-raven-senses, which are supposed to always know where Dream is, are telling him he’s everywhere?? And finally he stumbles upon a body, still breathing but with moss and ivy and briars slowly growing around him, a living body being reclaimed by nature and Matther naturally freaks the fuck out, clawing at the plants and pecking at Dream’s hands and pulling his hair to try to wake him but all it does is make the ivy grow faster and he’s pushed back by a gust of wind that feels like a sigh. 

Cursing as loud as a raven is capable of, he books it back to Lucienne, and it takes a few minutes for her to make sense of his panicked cawing but then she is dropping the book in her hands and rushing to call anyone she can think of, which includes both the rest of the Endless and also one particular immortal human because that’s how desperate she feels. 

And then it’s a line of people taking turns sitting next to Dream the Body, gently pushing back the greenery around him, some of them sobbing when they see how the plants are starting to grow through him, and the body is still breathing but it’s decomposing, sinking deeper into the landscape, and it’s hard to tell but they think Fiddler’s Green is crying, pleading with the Dreaming itself to walk on two legs again. 

I think eventually Hob, who has been coming and speaking every night in his sleep, trying to bribe and barter and goad his friend to come back to them, finally snaps when he comes and sees Dream’s body completely covered by moss and vines, looking for all the world like just an uneven patch of field, and he thrusts his hands into the earth and physically tears Dream out, standing and dragging him away from the plants that reach to take him back, and he starts sobbing and screaming about how Dream isn’t getting rid of him that easily, Hob is immortal by stubbornness alone, if Dream thinks he won’t fall in love with a goddamn patch of grass he’s got another thing coming, he wants Dream to walk with him and live with him, but if he has to marry Dream the Place then that’s what he’ll do, he will make the realm itself his husband and spend eternity nurturing it, give whole new meaning to the term “husbandry”. And the ivy is crawling up Dream’s body, trying to pull him out of Hob’s arms, but before it can cover Dream’s face Hob is kissing him for all he’s worth. 

And then the ivy slows, and the wind seems to shudder, and the land is still but Hob thinks he feels a separating within it, like the red sea parting beneath a blessed hand, and it takes a moment, because so much of Dream has spread like roots throughout the Dreaming and it’s hard in so many different ways to pull it all back into himself, but Hob holds him through it, peppering his face with kisses as the earth falls away from his withered body and being a person again hurts, but Hob’s love soothes it like a balm. 

And then he awakens, opening his eyes for the first time in months, cradled in Hob’s arms, with soft memories of everyone who had tried to bring him back because they wanted him back, and he is still so tired, but. But maybe, he thinks, being awake, being here, is not so bad if there is someone to hold him like this.

Hob kisses him again.

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The details of: Ashton, who was so moved by rage and loss and determination the entire time Laudna was gone, step for step with Imogen's frozen, disbelieving desperation. Who hasn't spoken much to Laudna, since her return- other than saying they were glad she's back, to assuage her guilt over getting her back, saying it was for all of their benefit, really.

Ashton, getting protective and heated and intent and sincere and direct- to Paté. To another little puppet whose whole purpose is protection, to a little stitched together thing who wants so badly to see Laudna well, and safe. To Paté, who is, in many ways, an extension of Laudna herself, and yet, plausibly his own being.

Ashton has not spoken too much to Laudna since her revival, and technically, they still haven't.

But they got eye to eye with this little monstrosity made of Laudna's magic and will and love, and spoke about protectiveness and Delilah and Laudna and what she deserves, and they spoke a threat.

And what did Laudna say? It's how they express they care.

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Endless Bells Hells

Sorry, Matt