#nothing but a fantasy all my life

[natjennie]

what's weird about the fantasy high drama is that like. it seems to me like people forget d&d is primarily a) a game you play with your friends and also b) luck based.

I mean it's fine to say that "nothing felt like a challenge" and "they just dominated everything and there weren't any stakes" but like. it's not as if they weren't up against huge threats. they lost the mall fight. the last stand was an onslaught of enemies. they fought a dozen dragons from an airship. the fights were hard. they're just really good. they've had very good dice luck in general this season and are all very high level and highly specialized. fig is gonna beat deception and performance checks. adaine's gonna figure out the arcana. riz is gonna succeed investigations. like. for some reason their strategical competence and wisely picked abilities are. a downside? a disappointment?

the thing about d&d that you need to remember is it's first and foremost a game. it's mostly random and it takes you down weird paths and you're playing to have fun with your friends. the dice are literally telling the story that it's their time, it's their year. they've struggled enough. they've trained enough. they're good at what they do. and in my post about the academic/domestic/personal stressors being the focus, d&d doesn't have any other system to work them out than rolling different skills. that's what d&d is. brennan set specific challenge levels for different tasks and the players strategized to prioritize which abilities they were strongest in. the challenges were there. and the players rose to them. they were both smart in their delegation of responsibilities and lucky with their dice rolls. of which, both are foundations of d&d.

don't mistake them being good players and getting lucky with there being no hardship. just because they smashed through the wall, that doesn't mean the wall wasn't strong. they were just stronger.

[voxmilia]

Oh Sklonda's righteous fury hits so hard, as a kid who WAS taken advantage of in many ways by her friends when she was in school, and whose mom tried to tell her they were being unkind and who didn't believe her until she got kinder friends

[ratqu33n]

oh my god so many thoughts about the new episode

The contrast between Fabian and Riz really fucking kills me. Like Riz's mom is working herself to the bone trying to find a way to help him pay for college and has to have this hard conversation with Riz before school starts because it's just that important that he starts thinking about scholarships and jobs and stuff. In stark contrast with Fabian's mom who not only got married while he was away (presumably without telling him), but also left immediately all whilst giving him exponentially more things to deal with in her absence. Like I know it's funny that Fabian apparently doesn't even know where glasses are in his own home but it's kind of really sad to me. This guy is eighteen years old and doesn't know how to do anything for himself. He has to start applying for colleges soon and has to learn how to feed himself and be a person and all these basic things all at the same time. The whole theme of the season seems to be just exhaustion so far but Fabian's whole family life just makes me really tired for him.

[0rchidm4ntis]

Midsummer night's dream

[hashtagartistlife]

odd little comic that’s been in the drafts for a while

[swampthingking]

the thought of cracking the spine of a book makes kevin nauseous. he like opens it just enough to see the words and holds the book at such uncomfortable angles to read— anything to keep the book pristine and intact. he does not let people borrow his books because he is a control freak (as a term of endearment) and does not trust them to take care of them the way he does.

and andrew is the complete opposite, cracking the spine as soon as he opens it. he annotates in pen. he dog ears the pages because who the fuck has time to find a bookmark. he throws books out of anger. he throws them at aaron for fun. he lets them get smashed and torn in his bag. he always keeps them, he just prefers them to look like they’ve been read.

[napping-sapphic]

I know it’s already getting unbearably hot but who wants to come try and nap with both me and my heating pad anyway

[fatehbaz]

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[blujayonthewing]

if a human asks a gnome when gnomes reach adulthood, they'll probably pin it somewhere between 20 and 40, depending on how they're interpreting the question; if an elf asks, they'll say "oh, we don't"

[spotlightstudios]

This post goes out to my Father for regularly giving my heart attacks.

Context: I am a sfw artist. I completed that Rouge piece today. I am living with my parents, and regularly show them my personal artwork because I'm a little prideful alright? My father is super excited to see this drawing of my dnd character, and he excitedly asks to take a picture and yeah, that's fine. I leave him unattended and go talk to my mom in another room.

I return, and this man has my sketchbook flipped open looking through it like a kid at the candy shop, and I am desperately trying to roll through my head to figure out if I somehow had nsfw art or a rude gesture or smth that'd make him judge me. I do not. I decide it's safe. I have forgotten about Baddie, my Helluvaboss oc. Pros: My father likes his design and asks about him. Cons: I almost instinctively, casually, referred to him as a 'manwhore' when questioned. I kept that thought inside, but instead got very flustered. He did not notice.

I am very lucky my father supports me and loves what I draw, but I am also very afraid because this guy has also seen my laptop open and started reading a (fairly embarrassing) oc/self insert fic I was writing about Voltron (it was not ship stuff, just me digging into worldbuilding) but I was like 14 and he'd gotten almost a full page or two in before I returned to the room and panicked.

So, half a decade and nothing's changed 🙏.

[anelegaicmind]

I need to stand in a river and feel the cold water flow through me.

[kazumasougi]

im gonna be real for a second. if fantasy can only be enjoyable to you when removed from any and all real world implications then is it even good

[tastycitrus]

anniversary event be like (spoilers)

Abramelin: I'm the one who split the Omnipotent into two with the Phoenix's help Danchou and crew: Damn, really? Danchou: Why did you do it? Abramelin: The Omnipotent killed my wife and friends Danchou: Oh no, why would the Omnipotent do that? Abramelin: Because we tried to kill him multiple times Danchou: The rest of the crew: All of them: What? Danchou: ...Why did you try to kill the Omnipotent multiple times? Abramelin: He was just standing there and we didn't like his vibes Danchou: The rest of the crew:

[thefreshprinceofjunes]

also, the plot of cinderella III is that lady tremaine uses the fairy godmothers wand to go back in time and make it so anastasias foot fits the glass slipper

and then she changes the princes memory so that he thinks he danced with anastasia instead of cinderella

plus theres a song in it called ‘at the ball’:

and another one, ‘more than a dream’, which is basically a combo of the necklace theory + riku looking for sora in his dreams after kh3 and using them to find him in MoM:

Cinderella: I...I don't understand. I- I've always dreamed That my life could be Like a fairy-tale A perfect fantasy Every day a new adventure On some undiscovered shore Was it nothing more Than a dream? Then one magic night With a single dance I found more than Just a storybook romance And for once my life was perfect As we glided across the floor And it was so much more So much more than a dream I could say it never happened Just a dream from the start But then I'd live my life With a broken heart Jaq: No no! No cry Gus Gus, Princey knows he danced with Cinderelly. Cinderella: Yes, of course he does! What if I'd just see him again? Jaq: Yeah yeah! See Princey! Cinderella: Yes! Everything will be alright! Jaq: Everything will be alright! Gus: Yeah Yeah! Cinderella: Cause in a Prince's arms I've found a love I can't deny If there's any chance to set things right I've simply got to try So I'll trust my heart What else can I do? I can't live in dreams If my dreams are to come true There's a better life that's waiting Past the mountains I must climb I will take a chance on love To get my once upon a time Oh, I want so much more So much more Than a dream

like?????? LIKE????????????????

[queenerdloser]

i have such a visceral reaction to using "female" when referring to women in fiction that it actually draws me way out of the narrative when it's done. like. stop that.

[girlthingdecay]

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