#Fun Things. Dash Games

[proxycrit]

(I point. Gently, in the voice of somebody who’s mind touched by the outer gods, i whisper truth in your ears:

Your honor the horses are now lesbians

(Anyways here’s the designs)

[slayerdurge]

the brainrot is telling me to do an evil karlach origin play through

[nobodybetterlookatme]

The boyfriend nearly sneezed on me but caught himself at the last second and pulled his shirt up to cover, so I'm gonna be thinking about that for the next week I think lmao

[wild-pineapple-butt]

Happy Munday! A fun thing I saw going around :3

What kind of friend are you? & Create a Picrew of yourself!! uquiz & picrew

Tagging: @rukia-kuchiki-divided @valerieyo @starrkc @coldheartedflame @ramxswords @hollownekomata @bleachbrainrotbro @liecoris @icybreaths and if you're gay, do it.

[bloodebayou]

1920s wife rating quiz

You rated yourself a failure as a wife (19.7%).

[twobellsilence]

I'd forgotten that when you push against a solid surface that can't be moved / interacted with in Soul Reaver Raziel does this funky little animation where he'll try to push it with his hands before jumping and trying to do it with his shoulder. It's a small detail but also so cute my boy is just trying so hard

[iobartach]

Muse edition: Pokemon Teams

And of course, given the jarring weakness to fire type this team has, I might as well throw in this as a bonus 🤣 ;

[heartbinders]

It was getting lonely in the bottom left quadrant so I threw all the muses on here LMAO

[byanyan]

━━━━ CHARACTER STUDIES.

basic information.

LEGAL NAME : yeong-hwan byun / 변영환

NICKNAME(S) : byan, by-by, bee, byannie

DATE OF BIRTH : june 30th

GENDER : non-binary

PLACE OF BIRTH :  somewhere in america

CURRENTLY LIVING : in that same city somewhere in america (we're flexible about setting here ok)

SPOKEN LANGUAGES : english (fluent; primary); korean (fluent; secondary); japanese (beginner-intermediate)

EDUCATION : high school student (eventual graduate; later completes an associate degree in fashion design)

HAIR COLOR : black

EYE COLOR : deep brown, almost black

HEIGHT : 5'10

WEIGHT : ~100 lbs

family information.

SIBLINGS : hwa-young lee (estranged younger sister from their first home); possible half-siblings out there somewhere, but they can never be sure

PARENTS : eunji byun (biological mother; never met); hye-jin yoon (adoptive mother for their first 5 years); daeseong lee (adoptive father for their first 5 years); many foster parents since

RELATIVES : ???

CHILDREN : n/a

PETS : jjijji (skinny black cat w/ big yellow eyes; college & adult verses); momo (soft calico cat w/ pretty green eyes; college & adult verses)

relationship information.

SEXUAL ORIENTATION : pansexual

RELATIONSHIP STATUS : taken by their favourite boy forever, sol lee (@cafesol)

tagged by:ㅤ@violetgleams like a month ago ♡♡♡

[rav3nston3]

due to Reasons™ i got to Dress Up and hang out with a friend at an arcade recently!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was great and i looked amazing and i didn't even get any rude comments or dirty looks >:) didn't get any compliments either but that's to be expected

so yea i did a portrait of the outfit! specifically based on the pictures i took at the arcade in the big wall mirror they had

[rody-soul]

10 people I want to know better tag game!

Tagged by @i-write-shakespeare-not-disney Thank you! A pleasant surprise :]

Last song: Routines in the Night by Twenty One Pilots. Was listening to music on the drive home last night after a convention and I do love em

Favorite color: Blue! I like light blues and then a good navy blue

Last movie: OKAY LISTEN- it was Despicable Me 4. Put off on watching it but my family and I have seen all of the others so we finally sat and watched it. Before that was Sonic 3.

Last TV show: I believe it was Teacup. A show on Peacock based on a book. Real interesting, a little gorey. There's no season 2 though. Oh well.

Sweet/spicy/savory: Always between savory and sweet but I always crave some chocolate after a meal so I'll go sweet!

Relationship: Taken :)

Last thing I googled: "Is vivinit internet legit" because we just had a guy at our front door trying to offer it

Latest obsession: Always Rody. But also heavily into Epic. Cannot stop listening/singing to those songs. Waiting for my sweatshirt to come in!

Looking forward to: Making more art and merch! I have a lot planned, just struggling with what to finish first, haha.

Tagging (if you want!): @explodcor @nuravity @itsumoegao

[the-knight-of-destiny]

Okay, so long long ramble under the cut about the nature of Ratgrinder Discourse™, I'll preface by saying that I don't want any of this to get hostile with anyone, because I think that's frankly silly to do over a webshow. That said I am also open to critical discussion so if anything I say doesn't make sense, or doesn't track I'm open to critique on it! Obviously spoilers up to Episode 19 of Fantasy High Junior Year underneath. Also it is a VERY long post, several pages, so don't click read more if that'll be overwhelming/too much at once. I just had to get my thoughts into words.

So, this will be long but I'll try to break it up. For clarity I want to establish my main point and give a quick TL;DR here, so here's the short version, long version even further below. My main points are as follows: 1: It is okay to not be happy with how a narrative is going in a show/story you enjoy. Critique is not hate, if anything it's a form of praise in a way. People wouldn't be having such long and frequent discourse about D20 and it's current season if they didn't feel strongly. 2: Similarly, we as an audience have a very different perspective of the entire story unfolding compared to the Intrepid Heroes/Cast. I think a lot of people jump to assumptions about the cast's thought process when that really isn't something we can gauge beyond what they say in episode and on Adventuring Party. 3: For me at least, even if I am left unsatisfied by an ending it doesn't ruin the fun I had in a work. Now if you just wanted my bullet point thoughts without elaboration, there they are! The rest of this is going to be an insanely long ramble (seriously, exit now if you aren't up for that, it's pages long) that I don't expect anyone to read, but I like to get my thoughts outta my brain. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

So, in regards to the Ratgrinders dying in the fashion they have, there's been a lot of discussion on literally every place there is to discuss Dimension 20, Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, I'm sure other places as well. Really it all comes back to one thing, Dungeons and Dragons is a game, but Dimension 20 is a show. We as viewers have some level of narrative expectation, now for everyone that's different. Some folks have specific hopes for plot and character arcs. Others just want a general vibe, but the cast are players. Sure they are performers, but they are players in a game in equal measure. I've alluded to this before but a lot of the sincere vitriol to antagonists thus far (and especially the Ratgrinders) comes from the fact that the players have been fully immersed in a world and as characters where the Ratgrinders have been a constant thorn in their side for tens of hours of play time. Obviously one can still not like how they've engaged with them (I'm still not sure how exactly I feel about it,) but a lot of it is coming from that distinct perspective. When Fig took Ruben out, she specifically was frustrated because she 'wasted her season' on him. There's a meta level of Fig being angry with Ruben as a character who shares a world with him, versus Emily being frustrated as a player that a lot of her in-game actions did not hash out. That's actually totally natural, by the way. The interesting way that DnD serves both as a narrative of the characters in the setting, but also of the players rolling dice is part of what makes actual play like Dimension 20 so interesting. It's why I think SOME of the disappointment with Brennan and the Intrepid Heroes comes from a strange place, we literally cannot experience the story the same way the cast have. We get a week between chunks of story, they film the episodes in batches. We can think for as long as we want about our critical thoughts, they have to improv on the fly. We get to watch the Ratgrinders as antagonists in a story, the IH are actively hindered in their gameplay by the Ratgrinders as enemies.

That said I would be lying if I said I wasn't worried about some aspects of Protagonist Centric Morality™ in this. Oisin having a mildly flirty conversation with Adaine once when he had ulterior motives is a deeply awful manipulation, but Fig catfishing Ruben the better part of an entire year is her trying to reach out and understand him (?). Kipperlilly threatening to desecrate Eugenia's grave is deeply fucked up, but Riz openly advocating mutilating Oisin's body for tactical reasons, and Fabian loudly declaring he intends to do the same to Ivy for literally just his own self-satisfaction are 'fun unhinged moments'.

Before I go on, obviously the Ratgrinders are the bad guys. They're taking part in an evil plan, they've done villainous things throughout the season, especially very recently, etc. This isn't some argument that the Bad Kids are secretly the real monsters or something, obviously not. I just think it's odd that people read into the Bad Kids' actions in the best possible light at all times and the inverse for the Ratgrinders. This protagonist centric morality also comes down to the true reason behind any and all of Fantasy High's villain redemption. Ragh gets redeemed because the player characters think he's possibly useful and/or endearing. Aelwyn gets redeemed because she personally helps Adaine. The only one that Brennan really pushed forward on his own was Zayn, who they barely engaged with. People compare the Ratgrinders to Penelope and Dayne a lot, and understandably so. However I think this is sort of the complication and in my opinion, the silver bullet to understanding what's actually happening with the Ratgrinder's narrative place, Dayne more specifically. He does very little evil on screen. I mean, he injures Fabian and is most likely the one who killed Zayn, but comparatively to Aelwyn, he does almost nothing. He gets killed without so much as a thought, and in a fun (?) parallel to current Ratgrinder discourse, does actually have his body desecrated after death by Fabian. Because he hurt Fabian personally. Aelwyn gets forgiven of doing a lot of terrible shit (and this isn't Aelwyn hate, she's like my favorite NPC.) because it didn't directly affect any of the Bad Kids besides Adaine, and even the bad stuff that did affect Adaine can be sort of off-loaded onto their parents. So it's why I say this discourse is tough, people inevitably say "Well, the Ratgrinders are villains, of course they'll get killed." And this isn't inherently a wrong statement, they look at the bad things the group is doing and understand they must be stopped, why are people upset clearly bad guys get beat and/or killed in DnD games? Because they aren't actually getting killed in such brutal ways because they're bad guys, it's because they personally annoyed or hurt the Bad Kids. This is also why Ratgrinder fans often feel both frustrated and vindicated at once (I speculate, but I feel it's a safe assumption,) because on a meta level Kipperlilly is literally right. Her friends and likely herself are getting ripped to shreds because they crossed the special protagonists, because they started to really frustrate the Intrepid Heroes. The Bad Kids have forgiven atrocities before, but the Intrepid Heroes are really quick to dismiss and kill people they find annoying.

The ultimate example I feel of this, is Mary Ann. Ruben gets blasted into hell because his actions personally annoyed the players, Ivy gets stabbed to death while being repeatedly insulted and threatened with mutilation because her actions personally annoyed the players.

But Mary Ann is the one they all think they can redeem or save, because her personality is more cute and endearing to the players. That kind of says it all better than I ever could.

[frystsnow]

𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐃𝐎 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐆𝐀𝐙𝐄 𝐀𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄?

when they're already watching you.ㅤㅤyou know. you always know when they're looking and especially when they're not. you feel their eyes on you and at first you just feel it. you pretend not to notice and you smile to yourself. it's warm. and maybe it's foolish and cliche but there are butterflies in your stomach and that's the feeling you want to hold onto. so you do. you count the appropriate amount of seconds which feel like minutes. then you lift your own eyes and meet theirs and those butterflies turn into fireworks. they see you and you see them. and there is nothing more comforting and exhilarating as that.

taggedㅤ\ㅤ@rosahope ily<3 taggingㅤ\ㅤ@faetides, @drakyns, @kindgun, @vilence, @pomniegranate + you! steal it from me and tag me >:3c

[jimchee]

rules: without naming them, post a gif from ten of your favorite films and then tag ten people to do the same

tagged by: @giallos & @olympain, thank you! tagging: @unwings, @thesoldiersminute, @lukaskyle, @echosdevil, @cooperhoward, @billysjoel, @elisabethsparkle, @linusbenjamin, @palaeolithicc, @t4tvampireisms, but no pressure!

[airshipvalentine]

started trying to play hollow knight again from a fresh save, played for like two hours, got to the Exact place where i rage quit last time and remembered why i have never played more than three hours of this game in a save

[eyesofcuriosity]

What is your villain origin story?

The Power Seeker

You were always ambitious, but the world put barriers in your way. Now, you’ve learned to tear them down, no matter the cost. If the world won’t give you power, you’ll take it.

tagged by @xxlordalexanderxx thanks mate!

tagging : @steel-and-fire @mayhemmaybe @townofcadence @gunslinginnhogtyin @mannequinentity @deathdvncer @tiimeremind @skarletchains aaaaand anyone else who wanna try!