#failed save

[wrenrix]

watching failed save and aabria just hit me in the feels with the line

‘i’m sorry bora i lose everything i love’

EXCUSE ME? MA’AM? I AM SOBBING. PLEASE

it’s so good and i can’t wait to catch up (two years in the future)

anyways, i don’t know how to tag this so wish me luck

[mgrover]

It’s thinking about effi and chi hours….

Like “and then ill tell you i love you again in the morning and you'll say it back” killed me, s6e7 is a cruel moment I love it so much. Aabria always knows how to hold conflict at a table and how to put a knife in you back(pun intended) and Saige knows how to make the most fucking devastating character choices and always sticks to her guns so hard. God they always play so well together!! Like all the way back to Dasel and Fess at the end of campaign 1 through to every one shot they’ve ever done together to Pryv and Kurse in Banesbreak urgh!! I meant this to be short but I have so many feelings about failed save.

[ph0enixart]

[artemissoteira]

something I love about watching Aabria play ttrpgs is her absolute delight in character conflict and specifically characters who insist upon sitting in conflicts of deeply held convictions that don't have an easy resolution.

I feel like in Failed Save alone there are multiple times where both Fess and Chi have interrupted someone (PC and NPC!) who is trying to move past or minimize or make light of a conflict in order to make things easier or more comfortable (spitting over Dew, Amelia, everything about the contract in s6). it's such a cool way to interrupt the assumed 'yes and' / narrative flow of a ttrpg by forcing not just continued focus on a scene, but refocus in the framework of - no, you don't get to be comfortable, the camera isn't going to turn away, we're going to sit with the implications of this conflict and take it seriously even if it's hard because there's something here for us to dig in to, if you'll trust me to do it together and go there together.

I just think it's such a fun approach to this medium of fantasy and creative freedom and shared storytelling, especially in a game like Failed Save that is so over the top and lackadaisical with reality - until it's not, until the characters face something very, very real. and of course the GM has a lot of tools to manipulate that contrast and set up those emotionally intense scenes, which vince does very well, but it's very cool to see a player* using their more limited scope of tools to do the same thing.

I imagine it's a style that not everyone is comfortable with, given the way it challenges cultural expectations around conflict and specifically conflict in improv / ttrpg settings (and coming from a Black woman especially). I think it's not something a player can pull off well without a) an excellent sense of narrative pacing to know when it's appropriate and b) more importantly, a ton of trust at the table, with both other players and the GM. and naturally it's harder for the audience to be certain of the latter when we're watching through a screen and don't have the same context, so I don't think it's an uncomplicated thing by any means.

but god is it marvelous to watch when it lands.

*everyone in the Failed Save cast does this in really interesting ways, actually, but I think Aabria's style is the most overtly challenging to common ttrpg sensibilities and so the most stark. Gina's emotional sneak attacks with Murray and Saige's decidedly unheroic choices for Dasle are also always on my mind but. that's another post entirely lmao.

obligatory plug to go check out Failed Save (and other shows) @PixelCircus on twitch/youtube for high-octane high-chaos ttrpg fun

[pagingdork]

this is random but if ur looking for a live actual play show, I've been getting into Failed Save recently and I'd recommend it. it's just wacky RPG fun with a lot of comedy and heart. Aabria joins in season 2 (which I am currently watching) and they have awesome guests. they stream on twitch, and you can watch episodes there or on YouTube here on the PixelCircus channel.

It might not be your cup of tea, but as far as I can tell there isn't a super huge fan base or anything, so I wanted to boost, I guess.

[twomoonsz]

best way to watch failed save?!???

i’ve been wanting to watch failed save after seeing some edits but i’m so confused as to how they have their videos labeled in their playlist on yt. it’s might just be me but i don’t know where to start exactly, any help? :)

[walkthroughtheforest]

I've been watching so much Failed Save that I forgot that re-rolls are not a thing, which was a shock to the system when listening to Worlds Beyond Number today...

[depressed-simp-writes]

literally so pissed off, i just spent an hour writing something and when i went to save it, it failed bc my "connection flaked out" even tho its literally fine and it deleted everything i wrote. this is why i barely write anymore bc this keeps happening. i dont remember everything i wrote, just some of it so im gonna try again but oh my god i shouldn't have to write everything twice.

[iamanartichoke]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -

I am fine with "the audience" -

downloading my fics

printing my fics

copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics

sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3

making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss

doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc

I am not fine with "the audience"

doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity

feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever

Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.

Enjoy the fandom things.

[ambrosiagourmet]

I think one of the biggest tragedies of Laios & Falin and their relationship is how much his actions impact her life. But like. Specifically how much they WOULDN’T impact her life as much if they weren’t both stuck in such a shitty abusive situation.

This part of the Falin-tries-makeup daydream hour comic is what got me thinking about it again because truly it just... it seems like such a like an offhand comment that I'm sure Laios didn't mean to be cruel or anything. That's just like. A little kid not thinking about what they are saying. ESPECIALLY when the kid in question is Laios.

But man they depended on each other SO much as kids. Too much. It really feels like they didn't have any other source of positive reinforcement, or anyone else to share themselves with. So of course an offhand comment like that has a huge impact on Falin.

Or this little bit from one of the flashbacks:

This tears me apart. Do you think it tears him apart to think about? I think it does. I think Laios holds every small failure to care for Falin against himself.

And then there's the Bigger stuff. The way that him coping with his own trauma ended up impacting her.

Like his interest in monsters. Like him going to find a ghost, and accidentally revealing Falin's magic to the whole village in the process.

Like him needing to leave. And leaving her behind.

He shaped her life so much, and he carries so much guilt for it. And again, there should have been other people there to help. The same things that made Laios need to leave home are the things that made his leaving so hard on Falin. She ate alone after that. She shouldn't have had to eat alone just because Laios wasn't there.

She was 9 when he left for school, and he was 11.

Nine. And Laios feels like he failed her because he didn't stand by her through this better. As an eleven year old.

Both of these kids deserved so much better from the world.

[weenieizkewl]

my monthly post WOOOOO okay but actually i luv this piece it looks so pretty im sohappy

[wrenrix]

“I’m sorry Bora, I lose everything I love” - Fess

so when I said it destroyed me, I then decided to draw it and here is a lovely thing i tried to do

[oifaaa]

Listen listen is the Percy Jackson show making changes so big that even me with my horrible little memory is noticing - yes Do I care - absolutely not I'm still enjoying the show and the changes so far have just helped keep me on my toes bc wtf do you mean Percy has 4 pearls?!?? What do you mean the summer solstice has happened?!!? What is going on I need to know !!!!

[tea-n-ink]

When the final curtains falls, face the wrath of the understudy

[plumadot]

it's a song of rest, my dear, so why does it make your heart race?

[nevermeyers]

“When it's your time to go, make sure you're surrounded by others”