prideofduskwall

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Spike will get captured by a paramilitary organization and locked in a cell where food is dropped through the ceiling and he arranges a jailbreak with the vampire in the cell next to him and I'll be like "This happened to my friend Raymon 'Ray Ray' Lareaux once."

Watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the first time after listening to Shrimp and Crits is so funny. Buffy pulls out the trunk full of holy water and crosses and everything and I’m like “this is just like my podcast.”

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I'm obsessed with characters we only hear about second or third hand, especially when those accounts are conflicting. No, you don't get to see them, but here's a warped mirror of what other people thought they were. Enjoy your contemplation of how being known is an act of translation and communicates only aspects of the self.

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FIRST step to enjoying any media is getting attached to the character whose suicidal tendencies are the most obvious

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"You don't know me. I'm not the same person anymore."

"That's okay. I'll get to know you again."

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The combination of 'unnervingly flawless self-control' with 'occasional tendency to engage in reckless, dangerous, and borderline self-destructive or death-seeking behaviour' in a character is SUCH catnip to me

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on the tumblr doing numblrs

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Sometimes I think about how Danny and Loretta knew Ari for a while before they actually noticed Goodfellow messing with his memories. They didn’t know. They had so much context he was missing and didn’t even notice… God.

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You know what I think its grossly under-rated in fandom? Second loves.

What it's like to love and lose and then love again. To suffer through either the death of a loved one or the death of a love you used to share. To know that loss, to know that hurt, and to still make yourself vulnerable to someone again. To love scared, to love wounded, to love anyway.

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It's in the interest of people making transformative content around tabletop RPGs to use D&D because D&D is what brings the biggest audience in spite of the fact that the market is already saturated and the fact that most transformative works rarely end up engaging with the system meaningfully. However, because no one wants to hear "We're using D&D only because it aligns with our economic interests" (the part of the audience attracted by D&D wants to be told that the choice to use D&D has to do with D&D's intrinsic qualities) it's also in the interests of content creators to obfuscate that fact, and to that end it's also in their interests to proliferate the idea that D&D is an unopinionated toolbox system instead of a game with a very specific set of mechanics that create specific narrative outcomes.

Having said that, in spite of all those economic incentives in play the biggest and most well-known creators of transformative TTRPG content are also huge D&D guys and that was before they even started making content. I don't think Brennan Lee Mulligan is insincere when he says that he likes D&D and that he thinks it's the best system for allowing him to tell the kinds of stories he wants to tell, but those claims must be taken in the context of coming from a guy who has played D&D for the better part of his life and thus has developed a specific set of skills around making that specific game work to his ends as well as within the greater context of the various economic realities surrounding the game.

All of which is to say: it's no wonder that Matt Mercer and Brennan Lee Mulligan can produce entertaining content using D&D in spite of the fact that said content hardly leverages any of the specific strengths of D&D as a game, because those guys are so good at D&D that they can fill in for all the stuff that D&D kind of sucks at. And if those two were, idk, Apocalypse World guys instead of D&D guys they would still put out really good content but it would be extremely niche because Apocalypse World doesn't have the broad brand recognition of D&D.

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Missing Ghosts on a Train right now…

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i'm like the smaller version of a nische micro-celebrity. what scientists are calling "not famous"

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Ari Green is such a character who is defined by disappearing.

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you too can write incredibly niche femslash rarepairs that no one knows or cares about 🫵🫵🫵

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I’ve been thinking again about when Sara learns who Nox is and in that split section between knowing her dad had a vampire nemesis and knowing said vampire’s name she canonically thought of Ari. And how she literally tells him and Ray Ray this and no one ever acknowledges it or brings it up again.

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you too can write incredibly niche femslash rarepairs that no one knows or cares about 🫵🫵🫵

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Yeah you could say I’m doing numbers on tumblr. And that numbers? One