#The Unsleeping City Spoilers

[rotpeaches]

"Soph, if you go after Isabella...you got no idea how fuckin' powerful she is."

"Maybe you should have said that to Isabella before she went after me."

[dimension20memes]

Cody is one of the funniest characters in D20 history. Only Murph could make Brennan play the cops as reasonable, competent people.

[keirashark]

I have acquired a new meme format:

[contrivedcoincidences6]

Going back through old TUC q&a on discord and found this gem:

Absolutely wild. I want to write this as a fic or something and also have a million more questions.

[yarrilone]

I made this earlier last year! I wanted to experiment with art nouveau while making fanart that excited me ☺️

I love Rat Jesus 🐀

[dropoutconfessions]

??? i thought the joke about the zodiac sign was that it was this bullshit “zodiac signs got realigned and they added a new one but nobody really paid attention to that” thing. pete was trying to be cool but came out of the gate super strong in the lame category. meanwhile maddie was cool and chill and kinda going with his lame-o energy by flirting with him that way.

and brennan’s insistence on looking it up was bc no one remembers that the new star sign was a whole thing and won’t recognize it, but brennan’s brain is like encyclopedic and ally started the zodiac sign thing so he just broke out random knowledge. i think it was a coincidence that it meant “serpent-bearer” and happened to have a transwoman saying it.

i’m not saying people can’t say it was offensive, but coincidences do happen and intentionally reading into it in bad faith is insane. sure dropout could do better with representation but i feel like it’s pretty clear they wouldn’t consciously be malicious to or about queer people

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[adainesfroggieboggy]

siobhan thompson appreciation post because her characters just make me so happy and they're so. good. she's so good at characters! spoilers for every intrepid heroes season of d20. i could do a whole other post about her sidequest characters bc they're so good.

Adaine Abernant. The Elven Oracle. She's always been one of my absolute favorite characters ever. Her anxiety representation in the first season makes me feel more seen, understood, and represented than any other character ever. She's literally so cool! She starts freshman year as an awkward nerd and becomes a cool nerd! Her anxiety never goes away, but the medication makes it manageable. She hates her parents because they're awful! Just the rep of having awful parents and hating them and that's okay because they suck! You should hate your parents if they suck as bad as the Abernants! Not everyone gets a redemption arc. If they suck, they suck.

Misty/Rowan. Misty is the perfect representation of an old lady who gives no fucks. She flirts so hard with that guy at the pixie wedding. She openly admits to having been friends with John Wilkes Booth. But at the same time? Will not give her age. A lady never tells. She's absolutely ancient and doesn't fucking care, but she also has this undertone of absolute existential panic because she needs adoration to survive! She stays relevant because she has to! Don't get me started on Rowan. I have a crush on Rowan Berry. She's reborn and immediately starts flirting with Pete, which is iconic in its own right. She's a bard who gives bardic inspiration by either flirting or complimenting, and sometimes the lines blur just a little bit. Absolute queen shit. She defeats the queen of Faerie and has no desire to go back until the Fae court tells her hey. You left us with no leader. And then brings democracy to Faerie! President Rowan!

Ruby Rocks! She starts the season as a kid who loves her sister just so much. That's the most integral part of her character. She's a princess and a rogue, and she loves her sister. She has a lot of development over the season! She ends as a woman who fights for her family and her country. She hates Saccharina when they first meet, a new sister on the tails of the loss of the most important person she's ever had. After Jet's death, she's overcome with grief and takes a level of shadow sorcerer because of it! Her development is amazing, a truly wonderful arc.

Iga Lizowski! Oh. My. God. She's the first pc that is a mom in d20, or at least in the Intrepid Heroes. Her relationship with her kids is so fun to watch, from urging Jessica to engage with the chest to bringing her into another part of the Unsleeping City. Then Nick, who she hadn't pressed at all to take responsibility for the chest, decides to become another defender of his family's magic! Not only is she an amazing mother, she's a fortune teller by trade! She knows full well that everything she does has merit, and that magic is real, but makes it all seem like a lie to cater to her clientele. It's not her intention to become a part of the Dream Team, but when her family is threatened, she fights like hell. Also she has a pseudodragon that's just a magical chihuahua and that's so old ladycore it's such a perfect choice.

Riva. They're just on their gallivant, honestly. They decorate their psychodrone with magnets. They're trying to sell pleasure putty. They make their own hours, but they don't know how. Riva is sweet and fun and naive. They love their friends and they love the outside world and they're having a great ass time on their gallivant.

Rosamund. Du. Prix. Quick little shoutout to Siobhan's princess voice because no joke she did my favorite accent. It borders on transatlantic (my favorite accent) but is very Disney princess. She starts as a Disney princess, too! To have a character looking for her true love wake up, search for him, and ultimately sacrifice her chance at having him is *mwah* beautiful. True love isn't real! She directly confronts this, and a member of her party is living proof of it. She has to see the prince who came to save her, and upon meeting him, she realizes how fucked the idea is. He kisses her once and that's all? She doesn't know him, she doesn't love him. How can she live happily ever after with him? Her story is about having things happen to her, but she wrenches the pen from the authors' hands and writes her fucking own! Once upon a time, there was a princess who tried speed dating!

[pawpunkao3]

If I had a nickel for every time I had a ship between a very sweet guy with some kind of public service job and a blatantly obvious crush and an unfathomably magical woman who is cursed in a way that makes it functionally impossible to be with the man she loves, I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

[flea-eats-bugs]

Some miscellaneous Unsleeping City sketches I pulled from my sketchbook

[hi-intrepid-heroes]

dale lee using his entire first turn in d20 history to help his wife do cool shit is truly so iconic of him

[spacedoutalpaca]

this is a running list of celebrities who have been NPCs in Dimension 20:

Stephen Sondheim

Jeremy Renner

Count von Count

(Special Mention to Brendan Frasier, who was mentioned but didn't appear.)

[rotpeaches]

this is the biggest "fucked around, rolled low, and found out" mood ive ever seen

bonus:

[chimaeraonwards]

i need sklonda and pok gukgak to interact. i need sofia bikes and dale lee levels of angst and sorrow.

[dimension20npcofalltime]

Round 1B - Bracket Eight [Dimension 20 NPC of All Time]

Dale Lee vs Bennett

Propaganda under the cut (Contains major spoilers for The Unsleeping City and Burrow's End)

Dale Lee - He/him

Campaign: The Unsleeping City

Who is he?

Dale Lee is the husband of Sofia Lee. It was originally believed that Dale left Sofia for Isabella Infierno, but it is later revealed that Dale is deceased.

Why is he the NPC of All Time?

He fought his way out of heaven for his wife. That's cool as fuck.

Bennett - He/they

Campaign: Burrow's End

Who is he?

Bennett is in charge of Resource Allocation at The Last Bast, helping collect resources for the warren.

Why is he the NPC of All Time?

His family got deleted so tula could smash, I think that's incredibly funny

He's cool, he's hot, Tula fucks him, what more do we need?

Sexy stoat

[silly-goofy-mood]

Never in a million years would i have expected "man sells his soul to a devil in a hot topic" to be a plot point in a dimension 20 show

And in the first episode of a season!

[sycamo]

i cannot believe that my chess.com username is ex post facto a unsleeping city reference

yes ofc i know Kugrash why do you ask