And I love how gay unemployed 20 somethings on think that a vast interconnected network involving the US government, independent media, Verizon, etc, conspired to delete a couple dozen blogs on a dying blogging platform is somehow more likely than a gay unemployed twenty something disillusioned with American politics unknowingly following a sockpuppet account or two back in 2016.
So, I have a new obsession! This guy has been on my FYP on TikTok and I just…the brain juices are flowing. Reminds me of Ghost if he were to be a true person lol😂
(yes i am just cribbing the idea from the new mutants playing dnd post i rb'd, i just couldnt get the thought out of my head.)
Alison is the one who organised the whole thing, since she had been a big roleplaying fan for years before she became a big star and has been desperate to play with the others ever since she impulse bought almost every book currently available. She talked the others into playing, which mostly amounted to plying Jubille and Tabitha with drinks, and offering Laura the chance to stab people. She invited Illyana, but didn’t get a reply until Illyana just sorta… turned up five minutes before the first session. She’s the DM, which means she is constantly in a panic as she tries to tell her gigantic and grand story that she planned out while the others are trying to intentionally or unintentionally drive the whole thing off the rails. She’s happy regardless, but she does scream a little when Illyana kills another NPC.
Jubilee is completely game, if only because she knows if she goes along with it she gets free drinks. She’s playing a Rogue, mostly because the idea of stealing things sounded cool to her. She’s probably the most ‘properly’ into it other than Alison, she’s completely absorbed in every part of the game, the roleplaying, the combat, etc. Will still get completely blasted, but she is the least likely to drag the game into the void on a whim.
Tabitha is still on the ‘DnD is for nerds’ train, but Alison gave her the puppy dog eyes and how could Tabitha say no? She’s playing a Bard, which actually means she’s actually flirting with every. Single. NPC. Alison had to beg her to not to try and sleep with the main villain of the campaign every time she showed up. Despite how much she doesn’t act like it, she does enjoy goofing around with her friends and she does kind of start to get into it by the end.
Laura has absolutely no idea what DnD is, and also does not care. She still turned up because she doesn’t really have any other friends, but she spends the whole time barely paying any actual attention to anything that doesn’t let her stab things. She’s playing a Warrior, specifically the one that came from the starter kit since she didn’t bother to make her own character and Alison had to improvise. Over time she does slowly get more involved, but she still pretends to be completely disinterested when pressed, only for her to reference a plot point that she was supposedly ignoring, when she does this Alison loses her mind with joy.
Look Illyana is kind of weird. She has a character, a chaotic evil (obviously) Warlock, and she seems to be super into the plot, but she will also randomly murder a NPC ‘because they looked at her funny’. Despite this she is genuinely excited to play, since she hadn’t played since she played with the New Mutants back at Xavier’s and she gets into it. She’ll yell, laugh, the whole nine yards, and then act like she never did any of it when the others point it out. When she gets to be dive deep into the ‘chaotic evil’ part of her character she really lets loose, and it usually ends up the best part of the evening, even if it is usually in service to her murdering an important NPC again.
it's interesting how the vast majority of the people on this website just don't actually know anything about like the broader internet politics sphere. Like... you see liberal bloggers reblogging articles from The Grayzone about the Israeli genocide in Palestine and then two posts later reblogging something from like. prismatic-bell about how you should vote for 99% hitler or whatever.
as a russian who doesn't talk to russian people online what the shit is happening there hello
look man i myself have put in the effort to Not talk to online russians for like (checks hand) 7 or so years (of course i’ve met some really great ones but this isn’t about them and they probably know it) but i’m sure the community didn’t change much. actually from the glimpses i see it seems to have gotten worse. don’t even get me startedddddd man