#neverafter dimension 20

[exoploring]

My destiny's children art !

[thedelolos]

The players continue to breach containment. The dome will not hold them. It’s only a matter of time before they shatter the fourth wall (and reality while they’re at it).

[perdamian]

something so important to me is the way that brennan continuously reminds the party of mira’s chronic pain. their main focus at first is on her mutism as it makes it more difficult for them to communicate with her, but he makes it clear how deeply the pain still affects her even after she gets her voice back. when the party is casually chatting as they make their way to the carriage brennan points out mira’s relief at the realization that she won’t have to walk anymore. no one else was thinking about how much of her life is simply physical endurance at this point, especially because she never verbalized those feelings to them. they arrive at the ice queen’s castle and mira immediately goes to bed. there’s no discussion as to whether or not that makes her weaker than the other princesses, they know she’s in pain and don’t want to worsen it.

experiencing chronic pain is so tied to staying quiet about it. you’re expected to quietly live with it unless it’s so debilitating that you can’t hide it, and god forbid that severity lasts longer than a day or two. it’s nice to see the support that the party offers her when they remember, but it’s also realistic to see them forget.

[kallypsowrites]

Something something… Ylfa leaving the little girl behind to embrace the big bad wolf but Rosamund saving that girl and bringing her home because childhood is still valuable and she deserves a soft epilogue.

[maybeimmac]

"You do not open the door to me, child."

[biboomerangboi]

I know some people are going to be pressed that we didn’t get these perfect cinematic narratively fulfilling endings but that was kinda the whole point. Destiny’s children fought and died not to fulfil a great story arc. They fought to escape that structure. They all just wanted trauma not to be forced on them and to live their own lives. That was the whole point. They want to be normal silly guys who don’t exist for some moral or for entertainment value and just hang out with their friends and discover things like first love, divorces and a seventh honeymoon with your husband and your pet goose. Like they just get exist now and get into hijinks without narrative pressure. They wanted to be normal. I think it’s great they have left behind their genres of fairytail and horror and are just a wacky dnd party exploring the world and being silly. It’s what they wanted all along.

[katamarang-art]

The frog prince

Man Gerard's never going to get his life together huh?

[celestialfeathers]

I’d like to speak to my mom.

[feelingtheaster99]

I absolutely love that Lou took the opportunity upon FIRST sight of snow to be like alright, yep, the kids are about to snowball fight right now

[brumleys-bones]

The Bravest Little Girl In the Whole World

[yeet-me-out-tonight]

they're my absolute favorite btw

[the-swift-tricker]

lou's silly pinocchio voice is all fun and games until he starts desperately pleading with his stepmother in a high little pitch and keeps squeaking "i don't wanna i don't wanna i don't wanna" in the most pitiable scared tone imaginable

[pjoneedstherapy]

I’ve seen a lot of people on Twitter complaining about NeverAfter to the point of hating on the players which is bizarre in its own right, but someone asked why the characters were motivated to fight the princesses and saying it felt low stakes because they couldn’t die… my guy are we watching the same show??

THEY LOSE EVERYTHING OF THEY CANT PULL THIS OFF!

you can only enter your Twice Upon A Time if you have been made aware of the greater world. The Fairies want to take away free will and force everything to go back to the way it was. No one would be able to go against them ever again because they won’t know better. The princesses want to fully destroy the book using the ink and everything else with it. They said that they can’t have a part in the new land that would come after because their trauma would make them write their stories in reaction to their past lives rather than in indifference to their past lives. The stepmother wants something similar, so in both cases everyones lives would be erased, without guarantee that they would even exist in the new world.

Why are the intrepid heroes fighting to save the universe? Because they live in it and are the only people aware enough to try and stop it! They don’t know what comes next, but they aren’t fighting to make a new world, they’re fighting to not nuke the current one.

As for how they make the world better…

As he died in “No Place for Princes and Princesses” Mother Goose said that he believes the world they live in can be better which is why he left home to begin with. His motivation hasn’t changed from the start, and he has legit never done anything with the book that would imply that he wanted control or power. (He always asks everyone what they want when the person they’re going to put in the book isn’t able to speak for themselves, i.e. Candlewick, and he actively keeps other people from going into the book if he thinks there’s a different way, i.e. the Itsy Bitsy Spider) He’s not gonna force people to live the life he wants by writing it in the book, he’s gonna give them control over their own lives using him as a tool to get it. (I have a feeling that when he dies Jack will pick up his work and keep helping people but that’s just my opinion)

I see no reason for the cast or Brennan to get hate. Is this a huge season that might have benefitted by having ten more episodes? Yes!Did it meet your expectations for what horror should be? Maybe not. But don’t dumb down the characters and the choices they made. Each of the characters gave up something that they needed for their Happily Ever After, but they’re selfless enough to not want to ruin the possibility of change for the rest of the world (unlike the princesses and the Stepmother)

TLDR: (JUMP SCARE CHRIS PRATT)

[perdamian]

when analyzing gerard’s decision to throw pinocchio the sword of truth it’s easy to look at that as him being too cowardly to attack the stepmother, but the reality is that gerard gave up his means of protecting himself so that pinocchio had a fighting chance. emily mentioned in adventuring party that murph assisted in 3 crits in the last couple episodes and it’s so meaningful for gerard’s characterization that he’s not the leader of the party as you’d expect a prince to be but someone willing to forgo the glory of defeating the villain to ensure the safety of those around him (particularly children)

[kallypsowrites]

Also, Neverafter ending on the briefest moment of PC x PC romance while the big bad wolf, the embodiment of death wearing an orange top hat, gives a big old thumbs up is incredible. No notes. A perfect ending

[maybeimmac]

"the face of a divinity you don't worship, the smile of a devil that you never believed in"

"you are seeing something you should not see"