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i did my best to include lots of birds. sorry if i missed your favorite or miscategorized it! i am no bird expert

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In Aunt Agatha Makes a Bloomer, Wooster:

is "chilled to the marrow" at the thought of marriage

blushes at the suggestion of "breeding children"

is desperate for Jeeves to give him a comforting embrace

is "rattled" by a young woman kissing him

rates it 100-to-1 that he will ever have grandchildren

wants nothing more than not to be egged on "to marry females"

He's not exactly at peak heterosexuality in this one, is he?

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Never before had I encountered a curate so genuinely all to the mustard. Little as he might look like one of the lads of the village, he certainly appeared to be the real tabasco, and I wished he had shown me this side of his character before.

Love how Bertie’s assessment of character is just a cupboardful of condiments. Who’s the mayonnaise and who’s the worcestershire sauce?

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Map of the Kingdom Dice Set

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"I'll see you in your dreams."

it's so interesting that what liliana considers dreams imogen considers her nightmares

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Shoutout to Travis' DICE for their excellent sense of comedy and karmic turnarounds

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Oh shit, so if ruidian glass is a piece of Predathos, then Chetney fulfilled his bargain with Morri!

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Sometimes self care as a DM is taking a break to be your PC with 8 INT

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Obsessed with Marisha claiming she found out she was doing the ad read five minutes ago, twenty seconds after she admitted that the hot dog costume was ordered online.

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I feel like I need a rundown on all the exu lore because I have forgotten so much of it

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Imogen "are you telling me the truth" Temult

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Me and my friends are going are going on a mission that is important and could change a lot of stuff, and I feel like something bad is gonna happen. There's doom on the horizon. But I still think it's right that we're going. (for @overnighttosunflowers)

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F.C.G. || Fresh Cut Grass || Faithful Care Giver

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I'm alive because they made me alive. It's the connections that I made with all of them, and it's a feeling of joy. I'm happy to do this. (insp. via @igotublue)

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OK, but I love that Essek might be appearing in the Mighty Nein series before he meets the Nein! It's not just me wanting More Essek (though I do) or wanting to see more of what was going on with his dealings with the Assembly (which I also do). I think this could be super fucking interesting from a narrative construction standpoint.

Because I cannot see how you can include Essek from early in the series and not make it clear to the audience that he's the Dynasty traitor loooong before the Nein find out. Essek having stolen the beacons will not be a surprise. It looks to me like the cast are swapping out surprise for a fuckton of suspense. (Suspense vs surprise was explained to me when I was studying narrative structure as 'surprise is when a bomb goes off that the audience didn't know was there. Suspense is when they see the bomb being placed and have to sit there begging the characters to realise it's there.' In this analogy, Essek is the bomb.)

When we watched C2, the question was is Essek the traitor? In the M9 show, the question for new watchers will be when will the Nein realise that Essek is the traitor? When Essek meets the Nein, the countdown starts ticking; people will know that he is a danger. He is manipulating them. He is going to hurt them. Will the Nein realise before it's too late? But then Essek starts really befriending them, showing more of his loneliness and vulnerability, and... I think the mood will shift. Oh, shit, he really cares about them, doesn't he? What will the Nein do if they find out? Do I even want them to find out? What if they reject him and it makes him worse? He can't keep this up much longer, this is unbearable, they're going to find out - OH FUCK THEY'RE FINDING OUT -

It's such a fascinating choice and I think it goes to show that adaptation is an art form in itself! The actual events in the world will be the same, or at least very similar, but a new format means you can show those events in a totally new way and create a completely different tone! Narrative structure is the fucking coolest! I'm so excited for this show!

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just thinking about matt's description from the campaign wrap-up of what the nein returning the beacon was like for essek as being like, "you've killed someone. you think you've gotten away with and then some randos show up and they found a BOOT in your front yard and they're like, 'hey! look what we found!'"