Shoutout to the Poet Laureate of Dropout studios, whoever you are. This might be your best work yet (and the only appropriate reaction to Annabelle Cheddar).
As wildly cheesy as it is to say it, Jawbone's speech to Adaine in the first season of Fantasy High, where he recognizes her having a panic attack/a potential of a chronic anxiety problem, was literally the last little nudge that it took for me to seek out diagnosis and treatment for my own anxiety and other issues. It's been genuinely life changing.
watching ally beardsley transition over the past five years has been really wonderful and affirming but also hilarious. they went from looking like siobhan to looking like brennan. truly the entire anglo-saxon spectrum of gender.
I haven't seen this topic being discussed, and its not a "fuck Siobhan and Brennan " post, just critique. please tell me if I'm being a stickler and unreasonable or am I right for feeling weird.
I feel like d20 doesn't do enough research on eastern europe.
examples: Lugash Primjitzki is polish, in captions it was said that he has polish accent, but his name isn't polish (and Yagdash isnt either, but names can vary from background to background so thats not really a problem), for some reason he has tattoos that, as Brennan described, have cyrillic lettering despite Polish having Latin alphabet. Brenna also tried merging polish and english words for Marta (old lady who used to house Pete in TUC chapter 1), using the word "boychik," which is a straight-up russian word "malchick". Iga's phsycic office has, quote, "cyrillic, sort of russian font," so Iga role-plays as russian for some reason?? barszcz bites (bc borscht is more ukrainian spelling) are most likely supposed to be uszka, soup dumplings, which aren't usually made with goat cheese and beets?? I don't have complaints regarding recipe bc traditional recipes are not set in stone and change from family to family, but if you want to create a character with specific background, who actively tries to preserve their traditions, you should do more. every single character is connected with criminal network, every single character is a stereotypical vague slavic, their accents are russian even tho charactes are not.
dimension 20 is always very forward about trying to represent different cultures with respect, but somehow, eastern europe is still treated like that.
yeah no, i'm not super knowledgable on the subject, but if you're being genuine and what you're saying is true, you have a point and are being reasonable
okay but when Older Adaine said "I don't know why I was so easy to discard" and "our parents didn’t love us and maybe there is a part of us that made that easy"
and when Illusion Fig asked "what do you think will happen when Ayda sees the real you?" and Fig said "i hope she finds something in me that I didn’t know was there"
and when Ayda said "the fact that i can’t find a redeeming quality in myself doesn’t mean that someone as brilliant as Figueroth can’t find something in me worthwhile"
and when Baron said "time will pass and everyone will find someone who matters more to them than you" and Riz said "I'm the little shrimp of this crew"
and when Fabian said "I don't know what I will be, but I like the direction I'm going"
and when Adaine said "I think the only answer is that we have to keep looking for love"
fuck you Brennan Lee Mulligan & Gang for making me cry my fucking eyes out