#SO fascinating

[olympain]

Five thousand men are about to find out they're never leaving here alive. Don't you think that worries them upstairs?

[overnighttosunflowers]

I saw a post earlier joking about how all the nines in the Mighty Nein will seem a little overplayed or heavy-handed to non-stream fans, which is true and amusing—like, have a bazillion nine-related things happen to a group called the Mighty Nein in a scripted show and it’s deeply heavy-handed foreshadowing; have it happen in a game of chance where the party name is a joke about dice rolls and you’ve got one of the coolest twists of coincidence in the world. (Side note, can’t wait to see how or if they even try to explain the party name in the TV show.)

BUT this also got me thinking more broadly about the challenges of adapting a game of chance into a TV show—how you keep those coincidences and lucky rolls, which are some of the very coolest moments in the campaign, from feeling like easy outs or lazy writing. Some of them seem easier than others—like, you don’t need to know how goddamn lucky the rolls were for the blueberry cupcake scene to be incredible, because it’s also such an incredibly clever beat—BUT. I’m thinking about Cad’s divine intervention in 140.

A zero-two. He rolled a zero-two. When fate said no, Caduceus said please. And it worked. Fate said okay, you can have this one. They’ve earned it. And it felt the way it did because it wasn’t just an inspired story moment. In a scripted show, whatever happens was always going to happen. But CR isn’t scripted. It was chance and fate and luck. It was a prayer that reached the Wildmother and that prayer was a d100.

And luckily for purposes of adaption, it’s a campaign—hell, an episode—that shows you the way divine intervention doesn’t always work. (Jester calling out for Artie, my heart.) So they’re well set up to keep it from feeling like a deus ex machina. But god. God. How do you replicate the feeling of that moment? Of knowing it‘s over, and then suddenly it isn’t?

[molinaesque]

"You would have been heroes if you had only dealt fairly with me, instead you're not so different to doom Karsus, overreaching your limits and burning your world to ash!" - Raphael (Baldur's Gate 3, 2023)

[thedreamerstoryteller]

[rusty-gloinks]

shoutout to this thing I said 7 years ago and whatever rage I had for Pokémon vs yu-gi-oh projects

[rosmarinys]

father and daughter with mother timothy goose and ylfa snorgelsson

les miserables by victor hugo / emily axford in d20: neverafter / trisha mateer / vanishing acts by jodi picoult / ally beardsley in d20: neverafter / eighth grade (2018) / the pain scale by eula biss

[lemonlinelights]

TERRIC OF YORK YOU HAVE MY HEART

[felrend]

Being circled like prey

[croszukis]

habs win! — MTL @ SEA 03.24.24

[starlitfawn]

i want to go strolling through american supermarkets soooo bad

[tiodolma]

What do you think of this trope for Mergana : some people are born with the name of their soulmate on one wrist and the name of their enemy on the other. And since birth, Morgana has the names Merlin and Emrys. And Merlin has Morgana on both

merlin and morgana:

i would think that they will try so hard not to meet each other lol. But like in the pilot episode, merlin will still see her in the window. i'd also imagine

gaius: you must take these potions to the lady morgana

merlin: no gaius i cant

gaius: why

merlin: (shows him the marks)

gaius: interesting. im sure that it will be fine. Destiny isn't set in stone.

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Morgana would be interesting tho. She's a smart cookie. So she had probably pored over the books in the library and asked gaius about merlin and emrys.

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when she hears about merlin from gwen, she is intrigued. the fact that he stood up against arthur makes him see merlin positively. and that's when she hopes that merlin is her soulmate and not emrys. Emrys can be her enemy and maybe merlin and her can eventually defeat him. Morgana will think this.

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this would leave gaius in the peculiar position of knowing both their soulmarks and knowing what they're going to be to each other.

the worldbuilding of this au would have to ensure tha everyone tries to hide their wrists by either wearing long sleeves or a bracelet to cover it up,

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Gaius initially never wanted the two to meet. But he recognizes the urgency of Hunith's concern so he allows Merlin to live in the palace.

Honestly Merlin and Morgana's lives are both on Gaius's hands.

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tho i figure the moment that kilgharrah would say "prince arthur is your destiny," Merlin would protest that "no it is the lady morgana, the marks on my arms prove this"

KIlgharrah is surprised coz the fates are working against him but he will resort to his usual tirade against morgana right at the first episode instead of later.

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honestly i think. it'd be a very interesting scenario. for one it would give merlin more hindsight of what is to be and it doubles as a protection spell for him against being fully brainwashed into killing his own soulmate.

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Mordred will be the second person after gaius that will be aware of what they are to each other. It'd be interesting.

[youjustwaitsunshine]

next week we're gonna make parchment and gold beater's skin, very excited

[la-cocotte-de-paris]

Finally read about Anna Anderson

[killerwithknife]

i love knives and guns but in a really fucking gay and shallow way

[krizkrozapplesoz]

On god you haven't LIVED until you've read a mario fanfic where every sentence makes you think "what the fuck was going through this author's mind"

[allusiontomemes]

Oh my god to that post I just reblogged, could you imagine a Hermitcraft TCG fic?? Immediately falling apart at the seams thinking about how cool it would be