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Torchwood? Trending?

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If you’re watching Nein Again, this is a good week to check out my AU fanfic The Fool & The Soldier. TF&TS explores the premise that Matt had intended for Lucien to pursue Molly as a spirit if Molly had not died. Chapter 1 launches into the failed ambush against the Iron Shepherds at the end of episode 26 and carries on from there. There’s action, character moments, fucked up villains, ominous dreams, and plenty of dick jokes—as any C2 fanfic should.

The latest chapter leaves off at Darktow, so I’m aiming to get that next chapter posted as we reach it in Nein Again. The amount covered by each chapter varies (sometimes 1 episode, sometimes 3), so I’ll post reminders for good weeks to check out a particular chapter.

Cover art by the lovely @prismantis. :)

(Pssst, you should also check out the LitMoR book club, which paces Life in the Margins of Redemption, another Molly Lives AU by @grayintogreen. It’s a series that includes the longest single CR fanfic on AO3!)

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Enough about favorite books. What’s a book you read and absolutely hated? The book you’ve got a bone to pick with.

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i feel like high school/middle school sitcoms set the unrealistic expectation of being able to have lunch time outside

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you can pick five historical figures to put in a series of taskmaster. who do you choose?

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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: one of the only few bad things about Tolkien's legendarium is that it makes 90% of all other fantasy worlds look either completely or somewhat mediocre in comparison.

Like, what do you mean you don't have a fictional language for your fantasy world? WEAKLINGS

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they should make a job application process that doesn't feel like a deep and fundamental rejection of your humanity or right to dignity and respect

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DISTANCE: How do astronomers learn about something in space that is very far away? In addition to images, they study the light from cosmic objects like planets, stars, and galaxies. Astronomers spread light out to look at the detailed rainbow spectrum (plural: spectra). Light carries a lot of information, if you learn to “read” its rainbow! 🌈

In this video, discover how astronomers read spectra to measure the vast distances of space.

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Stephen Vollo (American) - Strainer, Paintings: Oil on Canvas on Panel

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maybe knock next time

old starstruck piece~

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The 1st official statement from the new Honorary President of Dropout, Vic Michaelis 🫡

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Absolutely blind theories/hopes for CR campaign 4

I'm obsessed with the way Taliesin plays sibling relationships. I want his character to have a big family again. I think he and Marisha could play siblings so well, but I'm not sure they are gonna do that.

I really want someone to use one of the character classes that Brennan and co have made for WBN. Especially the witch class.

One thing I love about Brennan's DMing is when he implies that someone wants to fail a check. It usually leads to a really cool story moment. I know he did it once in Calamity and maybe in his other miniseries, but I'm really looking forward to him bringing that energy to the main campaign.

I am very curious if they will do some sort of 0 level adventure. It was so cool in WBN and the cast seemed to enjoy it in Divergence. If they do it, I hope we will see it.

I hope Travis plays a more serious role again. Or maybe still a wild character, but stats that allow him to be strategic. Its fun to watch him plan.

I hope Marisha makes a character with leadership potential. Maybe even one that's one of the oldest in the party. I think she has great potential for playing a more serious world-knowledge character like she did with Auntie Bee.

I think it would be fun to see Liam fall into the comedic relief character, but its probably more likely that he would do the college of tragedy bard.

I'm expecting Matt to trot out a character that seems normal at first but actually has the most insane secrets hidden in the backstory. The longer they play, the weirder his character is. I also wouldn't be surprised if his subclass is homebrew.

I also think the campaign is going to be structured from the beginning in a way that allows players to be gone from the game for longer periods of time. Maybe there's groups within the larger group and sometimes side missions are required. Or grand missions that require multiple little missions to happen at the same time. But with the move to live-to-tape and the sheer amount of other stuff they all have going on, I think building in flexibility will be part of the story.

Brennan will make a weird little guy that they are going to immediately adapt. This will be used to hurt them later.

Wild swing, but I don't think Laura will initiate a romance this season. But once someone else initiates ones she will be 100% on board. I suspect some of this will be a discussion above the table about her character not being one to initiate even though Laura really wants a romance to happen.

Probably a pretty safe guess that Taliesin's character will have a long coat, Laura's will be hot, Liam will have something tragic in his backstory, and Sam will have some hidden twist we learn about ~20 episodes in. I haven't picked up any strong trends from the others but I'm sure they exist.

oh, I also expect some time shenanigans. Maybe this is a time skip from a session zero, but I'm personally hoping for mid-campaign time skips like Matt did in Ravening War. More likely there's time differentials between planes or worlds.

Wait new theory: Matt playing a warlock. I think he would have fun taking risks and big swings and reveling in the chaos of a questionable contract.

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i was thinking earlier about Percy de Rolo again and how amazing it is that Taliesen literally created the Byronic anti-hero of a gothic revenge tragedy, and then all his friends went “yeah but what if he got a happy ending through the Power of Love, though.”

and then while I was thinking about that (and also revenge tragedies, in general) I started thinking about Hamlet, as I am wont to do, and how much Percy is Hamlet because he’s so fucking aware of the shape of his own story and the fucking… self-defeating level of narrative savviness it takes to look at your own life from the outside and be like “this is going to end badly” and still do it.

Anyway, the point is I was thinking abt Percy being Hamlet and then I thought about Mollymauk being the Player King and then I realized that Caduceus is the Gravedigger and Taliesen is just slowly going through the entire Dramatis Personae of Hamlet, one-by-one, and I went a little bit feral.

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"People are just people. And you guys just keep doing good things." is such an early Caduceus quote but one of my favorite ones to this day.

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bbc merlin - 03x08 The Eye of the Phoenix

truly a favourite of mine is the choice they made in physically showing the way magic pulls merlin towards itself

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