I know no one cares about other people's D&D games but listen, LISTEN, our DM whipped out an 19 AC, 158 HP green dragon on our level 8 adventurers and in response, as a Hail Mary for our broken, battered, low health and low slots group, my Paladin cast Command. The dragon rolled a goddamn TWO on their wisdom saving throw. Absolute failure.
"What do you tell the dragon to do?" asked my bewildered DM.
And I said, laughing in utter shock, "I tell it to leave."
AND SO IT DID.
Just fucked off entirely! Just flew away! Fight averted! Game won! Battle over!
I feel insane right now. I told a dragon, who almost certainly would have killed us, to fuck off AND THEN IT DID.
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"Jason does it to himself... a tragedy of his own making..."
Yes!
"...He is stubbornly depriving himself of good relationship with his dad and siblings! If only he'd behave at a minimally decent level, then he'd be embraced by his wonderful family. Alas, he has made himself all alone."
Nah, that's the opposite of correct. Could not get any more wrong.
Jason is a tragedy of his own making because he won't let his loved ones go. According to a decent amount of canon evidence and some common sense, he'd be a much healthier, more successful person if he didn't have this family.
Unfortunately, he keeps attempting to find a way to live with them. In varying ways and extents, Jason's loved ones have shown they can accept his death and move on, without his loss compromising their fundamental identity. Jason is the one who rips himself apart, burns himself, hides himself in costume after costume—all to transform himself into a monster too strong to be forced to unhook his claws from the people he loves.
You will pry his loved ones from his cold, dead hands. And after that, he'll come back for them anyway.
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EULR-S2313 “Holt”
Awesome artfight attack of her by archivebottles on twitter ^^
Holt time let’s go!!
- she’s an old EULR unit that works in Sierpinski-23’s medical wing, she takes care of both replika repairs and patching up gestalts. She’s known throughout the facility as one of the better medical units due to her experience and patients often request her not only for her skills but her company (she’s a terrible gossip even by Eule standards!).
- Holt was given her name from her tendency for hand holding both professionally to comfort her patients, and to generally show affection! Those who know her well also know that her name comes from her stubbornness for a EULR. When she sets her mind to something she refuses to let it go!! She does not take no for an answer! Especially when she’s caring for patients!
- She has a petty grudge against Storch Sieben. No one knows why, but the two of them don’t like each other and can’t be in the same room for very long unless someone wants a shouting match
- When a certain Kolibri unit had an accident in the mines, Holt fixed her face and then after learning that the Kolibri had lost her bioresonance and was being considered for decommission, pulled some strings and kept the decomm request at bay. This initially caused some friction between her and Kolibri, with Holt wanting to keep her alive and well, but Kolibri feeling purposeless without being able to hear her cadre. Although they got off on the wrong foot they grew close and spent a good deal of their spare time together (cue much teasing in the Eule dorms)
- Holt and Kolibri eventually became lovers, Holt had had a crush on her for a while and finally worked up the nerve to confess it. Kolibri felt the same and the two kept their relationship under wraps due to the already tense situation Holt had created in preventing her Kolibug’s decommission request. They still had each other and were happy for a few more years at least (there was much teasing and even more kisses in that time, they loved each other dearly)
- The mysterious illness infecting the replikas of Sierpinski-23 eventually claimed Holt though. During the infection she worked hard to try to treat ailing replikas, or at least bring them some comfort before they had to be put out of their misery. When Holt began showing signs of sickness, Kolibri stayed by her side in the medical office as her condition worsened to the point that she couldn’t recognize her lover at all.
- Holt couldn’t control herself and was confused and scared, she attacked Kolibug when she came to check on her that last day. Kolibug killed her in self defense and remained by her beloved’s side afterwards.
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Oh boy, I'm excited/nervous to share this - I wrote a song. About Tech Bad Batch.
I just had... so many feelings about him, and how his life/'death' (as an amazing, actually freaking groundbreaking autistic character, done quite dirty by the narrative's conclusion) was handled, the story choices and the fan reaction to them. Feelings of anger, betrayal, loss, utter confusion due to frankly bizarre story structure and simply falling into fog (where we can't see him) -
Anyway. It's been a lot. For a lot of us. 💚
So this is me processing... All That. And coming to the conclusion that even if aspects of it hurt me, ultimately, stories and the people in them belong to all of us, and our feelings about them are ours and real, even if the characters aren't. Much love to this show and fandom, always. And yes, I feel better now. This was therapy.
(Obligatory: this isn't an invitation for debate or discourse. It's an expression of art, and arguments/drags will be futile. Nice words, however are very welcome. 💜 Also, this song is on Bandcamp, and probably elsewhere soon!)
Lyrics under the cut!
Never thought I'd catch a glimpse of someone like you
Sees the universe and life the way that I do
And best of all, they let you shine
Galaxies illuminate in your rare mind
And you think like me
I knew that you feel like me
When I ran the numbers they all told me you'd stay
Logical conclusions pointing only one way
I never could take much on faith
Always needed evidence no one could shake
But I believed in you
I let myself believe in you
But now you're gone
The story's all wrong
I feel like such a fool!
They told me you would come back
Always supposed to come home
Even waiting for you seemed like a game
Waiting just to see your face
I'd see your shadow every day
But fate gets twisted
And I can't see you.
Playing back the memories time after time
Every place they told me I misread the signs
And every time they'd hint and tease
I laughed along, but the joke's on me
If you had to go,
Why am I the last to know?
But we lace our boots and pick ourselves off the ground
Standing side by side in the joy we've found
Who cares if stories break my trust
When they belong to all of us?
Can you see us all,
Standing by to break your fall?
We've all been told
How the story unfolds
But rebels live on hope!
Hoping that you'll come back
Waiting till you come home
But even if you never return
I don't regret a thing
You would be so proud to see
How we remember
And we still see you.
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