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I’m gonna die alone

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If Fjord doesn’t shoot an eldrige blast out of a finger gun in the animated Mighty Nein, I’m going to be mildly upset.

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I’ve gotta say, Amazing Spider-Man issue 202 has the funniest cliffhanger resolution I have ever read.

The punisher thinks Peter Parker is working with a gang so he shows up to his apartment at the end of issue 201. Then it takes a single page for Peter to explain that he works with Spider-Man and the Punisher to slip out the window

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Epic the musical Mighty Nein Edition:

Odysseus: Fjord

Trojan horse soldiers: Vox machina

Eurylochus: Veth

Polites: Mollymauk

Crew: Beau, Yasha, Caleb

Penelope: Jester

Aeolus: Imogen

Poseidon: Ukatoa

Circe: Fearne

Dead prophet: FCG

Sylla: Laudna

Calypso: Avantica

Hermes: Artagan

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why is shopping for computer shit so difficult like what the hell is 40 cunt thread chip 3000 processor with 32 florps of borps and a z12 yummy biscuits graphics drive 400102XXDRZ like ok um will it run my programmes

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Just had a dream where someone who lives in shadesmar kept a fearspren as a pet and let it sit in their lap while they watched horror movies. Now I’m thinking about what kind of spren would make a good pet.

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I love Chetney's (RTA)Recognize the Alpha

And I know some of y'all got the ick immediately because of toxic dudebro horseshit, I myself do not care for it.

I understand and it doesn't escape me when people mistakenly say Respect the Alpha. Now that is ick, it's what people typically think when you hear Alpha. It's the desperate cry of a loser who thinks he deserves everything in the world, while doing nothing of use, because his a man.

But remember what Chetney says to Imogen when he tells her what RTA means.

"There's an Alpha in all of us"

He doesn't reinforce it as law, or expands on it with some bullshit formula, it's simply just recognize the confidence that you already have inside yourself, Recognize the Alpha.

And Confidence is all Chetney exudes inside and out, he doesn't need to explain to you what an alpha is, because his showing it 24/7

This professional toy maker, old gnome, werewolf. Protects his team, takes the lead when everybody needs it, is fun to be around, who makes wonderful wooden toys for kids and art pieces for his friends, who respects and cares for struggling folks, and is a great listener and even more surprisingly gives really good advice.

Chetney is a source of strength, power, leadership, friendship, and kindness.

His already grasped the greatness within himself, his Recognized his Alpha.

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I find it endlessly hilarious that they have to do a dedicated one-shot just to untangle the web of promises deals and boyfriends left in the wake of Fearne Calloway

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So if the gods don't save every person who has ever asked them for help, they are terrible and deserving of punishment. And also, they are incapable of change while in this form, in which they decided to leave Exandria to the mortals so that they could not continue to harm them, but this was bad, because the mortals did not have a say in them leaving, and some of them felt bad when they left. And because they left, they had less ability to save every person who asked them for help, which they are bad for not doing both before and after they left, and the wars in which the Prime Deities tried to save mortals killed many mortals, but they can't leave without asking the mortals, because leaving the mortals makes the mortals they helped feel bad, but the gods didn't save every person who has ever asked them for help, so not leaving makes the mortals they didn't help feel bad, but then it's harder to help the mortals, so they're bad.

So the gods are bad (because they don't save every mortal who ever asked them from every form of harm), so we should kill them. But killing, which we considered for a very long time, and which the gods are bad for doing, is bad, so we should let them choose between the options of annihilation, exile, or mortaldom (it was cruel of the gods not to let mortals choose between the options of annihilation or the Divine Gate)(the Divine Gate wasn't good because some of the gods thought about taking it down when they were under threat of annhiliation)(they did not take it down until mortals asked them to take it down) and they cannot change until they become mortals so when they choose that over annihilation or exile, they have an opportunity to love or change. Only mortals are capable of feeling real love (the gods cannot). They hurt mortals because they do not choose exile because they care more about their family than they care about mortals. They fight their family to stop their family from killing the mortals. They are not capable of love (not real love, like mortals feel).

They wouldn't let us kill them without a fight so they are bad, and they wouldn't leave us to die so they are bad, and when they left us to die they were bad, and when they couldn't come to an agreement they were bad, unlike us, who couldn't come to an agreement because we are good and some of us wanted to kill them, which is good, because killing is bad. The mortals who worshiped them felt bad when they left, so it was bad for them to leave, but they killed mortals, so it was good for them to leave, but they were trying to save mortals, so it was bad for them to leave, but they didn't save everyone so it was good for them to leave, but they wouldn't leave with their family so it was bad for them to leave, but they won't kill their family so it was good for them to leave, but they won't leave the mortals but they won't save all the mortals so it was leave for them to stay, but they didn't ask the mortals before leaving so it was bad for them to good.

So they become mortals. It's humbling for them. They should be humbled. They should pray to us, the humble ones. They chose this form before to destroy us. They chose this form before to build the gate they didn't ask us about building. They chose this form before to prove the gate would still make it possible for us to reach them. In this form they can love. They loved this form. In this form they can change. They have an opportunity to change. It's a gift to them. We're going to find her as a baby, and kill her. Thank us for our gift. They can change. When their fundamental nature comes out and they start to do bad things we'll kill them. They can change. The gods are bad because they didn't save every mortal who asked. The gods are bad because they killed mortals. If we find the Strife Emperor and he's a normal guy we'll just kill him. They can change. The gods were bad because they killed mortals. When the gods are bad mortals we kill them. They have an opportunity to change. When the gods were bad before they were mortals we kill them. They finally have an opportunity to change.

Choice when you choose to do the thing I want. and love is when you always put me before yourself. and change is when you become more like me. and good is when you give me everything I ask for. and we gave them a choice, and we gave them an opportunity to love, and we gave them an opportunity to change, and we gave them an opportunity to be good, and we will kill them if (when) they don't love and they don't change and are not good. They can still save some mortals. They can't save all mortals. It's bad to not save all mortals. Why do you hate change? They have a choice. We gave them the choice. Choices are hard. There was no good choice. It's a gift. We're going to kill that baby. They can change. We are good.

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Spider-man’s biggest villains are:

1. What if the Joker had Batman level gadgets and Captain America level steroids

2. Nightmare fuel mirror match

3. What if the avengers were evil

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Wouldn’t it be funny if one of the pc’s for campaign 4 ends up being one of the gods in mortal form

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Y’know the way c3 portrays the gods just feels so much different than anything else in exandrian canon. It’s like looking at a completely different pantheon. There’s so much cognitive dissonance there. I’m not really sure how to best put it into words.

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There's been a lot of talk about feeling like Campaign 3 fails to carry through consequences, and that is often met with criticisms framing this talk as just wanting Bells Hells or other characters to die or be punished. In return, the response to that is that "consequences" is not necessarily negative — it simply means a narrative follow through and events positive, neutral, or yes even negative happening as a consequence of what came prior.

I posted prior about what I and many meant by consequences, but generally, "a lack of consequence" means that it feels like events happen without clear connective tissue to previous events or it feels like things happen and don't feel like they're feeding properly into what comes next, that following events aren't properly carrying that weight of consequence.

But, just to further illustrate the discussion, the following is a non-exhaustive list of things I personally wish had consequences (that I could be probably better articulating):

Prism, Deanna, and FRIDA going off to do research at the Cobalt Soul, explicitly intending to try to help Bells Hells. This yielded nothing. Even a written letter to the Hells giving any information would have been great to have as a nod to that decision being made and the effort put into cultivating those friendships. (Given the reveal in the Fireside Chat that a Luxon beacon could've destroyed Predathos should research have been done, this feels even more of a missed follow through.)

The Unseelie Court not reinforcing the Malleus Key having clearer consequences. Obviously, there was a benefit to this, but it's hard to FEEL the consequences of disrupting that message because it is not clear what exactly the Unseelie Court would have provided.

Liliana chose not to broadcast the Downfall memory and what that meant to the sociopolitical scale. There is a clear consequence for her on a personal level, but this information being potentially broadcast was set up as a big looming threat, but it was difficult to really feel what would have happened, like, meaningfully, in terms of the material narrative as it affects Bells Hells, if it was broadcast, so as a result it's difficult to feel that stopping the broadcast was meaningful on a broader level.

Talking about Liliana, it feels strange that she exists within Vasselheim as a top leader of the Ruby Vanguard for, like, days without any comment. There is more (and properly delivered) tension over Opal's presence in the city. I don't think Liliana necessarily should've been arrested, I felt something like a small beat that may have required Imogen vouching for her was missing. The consequences of Liliana's position among the antagonists felt absent.

Ashton getting Shady Sally to agree to get the Nobodies back together to help save Exandria, then they'd all be free of Ashton for good. Nothing comes of this! An appearance at the forward camp in the Hellcatch when they came back from Ruidus or in Vasselheim, after the camp is evacuated there, with another opportunity to settle it with the others in the group would have been a nice consequence.

The Grim Verity, especially outside of Ryn, continued to meaningfully exist and the theft of the texts from Vasselheim mattered past the Predathos, Vordo, and Ethedok reveal exposition. It was a team of three people who stole the texts, and one of them, Arnold, was captured and presumed still held at the Platinum Sanctuary and another, Janina, was keeping tabs on the excavation site in the Hellcatch to keep everyone updated on what the Vanguard was doing. It would have been nice to see the Grim Verity more involved in this campaign, because they're the initial hook into the campaign itself! Learning about them and making contact with them stopped yielding any sort of narrative results. (The thing about research in the first point applies here too.)

Judicators. They are introduced, and then nothing is done with them at all. They factor in so minutely, and we understand so little about them, that it's hard to even talk about them as thematic pieces without engaging in a lot of speculative thinking.

I am known to be frustrated with Ashton philosophically, but I am baffled that the conversation they had in their vision in the earth titan in 110 did not come up again at all in any of their subsequent argumentations about the world changing. I am certain that it would've driven me nuts, but I have liked to see that carried forward. It would've contributed a lot to feeling like perspectives were being built upon as a consequence of interactions.

Generally, the Titans are barely mentioned after that episode, btw. There was a lot of time spent on pursuing the idea of the Titans, even sometimes outright brushing past NPCs who repeatedly said that the Titans were dead, only for it to get dropped so suddenly. It feels especially strange when one of the major points of contention Ashton and Laudna brought up was the war against the Titans. Not even a final note about what this means in the tapestry of history or an acknowledgement that they indeed cannot be restored as they were or what? We spent a lot of time on this discussion, but fail to carry it through into the final thematic and philosophical decisions.

On that note, it's established that there is a destiny in which Ashton is to bestow the spark onto another, and there is a sense of fate then for Fearne in it. Since they both struggle with being locked into a path, I did feel missing an exploration of what it then MEANT for them to pursue this. As soon as these abilities are unlocked, there isn't a meaningfully thorough exploration of what they mean as narrative devices and their implications for Fearne and Ashton, at a personally transformative level.

The anti-resurrection toxin and its antidote. I know that it is used against Keyleth and there is a payoff in that the Hells successfully help her, but I don't understand why this toxin didn't continue to be used, especially given the campaign was supposed to be deadlier. Why wouldn't the Ruby Vanguard, but especially someone as vicious and ruthless as Otohan, continue to use it? It had such a prominent presence in the campaign and then vanished from it. We don't even have a sense of how it locked away divine magic and what connection it has to Ruidians or Predathos, which have similar divine dampening ability. Having it continue to be used in the campaign would've also made it continually rewarding that Bells Hells did that work to help Keyleth because the Air Ashari would have available antidote.

Stopping there not because I ran out of examples, but because this list is getting incredibly long — thought I reserve the right to add more later should I think of really good ones. But this is just some of the plot points and threads and conversations that I wish I felt led somewhere or had consequences, and you can see that not all of them are about punishing characters at all, just a desire for things to feel like they were going somewhere and were properly tied off.

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Sometimes progress means that you only want to take a ride down the sewer slide once a month instead of every day

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According to the rolls they did during cooldown I guess chetney will never die

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Mighty Nein Film Noir AU

This is set in the middle of the Great Depression. So, 1930's United States, in Chicago, Illinois.

Beau and Caleb are private investigators. They have worked together ever since Nott hired Caleb to help find the mob boss that ruined her life. The met Beau because she knew vaguely about the lady and Caleb would frequently go to her for help on cases. Eventually she became his partner in investigations.

Caleb is a German immigrant escaping from the growing Nazi party. He was almost a part of it but ended up running after they had him kill his parents and his loyalty and mind broke. He spent several years in an asylum. Afterwards he used his incredible memory and investigation skills to open up a PI agency.

Beau was kicked out by her father at 18 due to her stealing and selling his alcohol. She has held several jobs since then, but would occasionally pickpocket the odd stranger to get enough to get by with. She also worked to put together a couple unions and attended protests.

Veth was first a client of Caleb's who has turned into more of a consultant because of her insider knowledge of the criminal underworld. She tries not to get to involved with cases to protect her son and husband, but they wouldn't be able to solve nearly as many cases without her. She is a telephone operator during the day.

Mollymauk is a Hollywood film star that lives in Chicago for half the year and Los Angeles the other half. He met Beau and Caleb because he was a suspect briefly. Ever since they go to him for cases with higher profile names if he is available. He is in a lavender marriage with Yasha, the house they share in Chicago is in her name because she lives there year-round.

Yasha was a bodyguard for Obann, another mafia boss. That is because he has life ruining blackmail material on her. She anonymously hires Beau and Caleb to take him down. She now lives as a harpist and keeps a beautiful garden. She helps them if they need a little extra muscle or a place for someone to stay.

Fjord is the captain of a ferryboat who hires Beau and Caleb to help find out who kept on sabotaging his boats. After that case he grows close to them and helps them get around on the water. He is also pretty useful for getting into certain places off the record.

Jester is a very accomplished portraitist and she occasionally illustrates books. She hired Beau and Caleb to find her dad and they did. She now is a great help as a sketch artist if there are witnesses who saw enough to give physical descriptions of those being looked into. She has very powerful parents that are helpful as well.

Caduceus is a funeral director. He works with Beau and Caleb when they need some details about victims or when they just want some tea and a nice, calming conversation. He is also decent enough at first aid that they'll come to him if they need a little medical help and don't want to leave a trail.

Essek is a rich young man who goes around the world on trips just to learn. He is a scholar and socialite. He walks around in less than savory circles and Beau and Caleb found him when they had been hired to find the mole for Leylas Kryn. He ends up helping with travel costs for over land travel and opens his extensive library to them when they need to research.

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I haven’t seen anybody talk about the biggest Taln lore drops this book:

1: tried to kill cultivation

2: Jiggled before he became a herald