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I cannot wait for the Evan and K being polite and casual exes to completely and utterly blow up. I want that messiness so much. Erika and Brennan are so good at drama and conflict (given their fight in Burrow’s End) and I’m really looking forward to that moment in MisMag 2

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i'm fine (← lying)

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Please God , take away Chappell Roan’s pain, double it and give it to mrbeast.

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uh

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I love dimension 20 as much as the next guy, but it’s got me saying shit like “I hope the Quangle is good this week!! Super excited for the Quangle!!!!” Like stop you’re scaring the hoes

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40% less haunted

40% LESS HAUNTED

YEAH BUDDY!

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Not me crying episode one of misfits. man did I miss Evan

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Once again, the dropout captioners never disappoint

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Make sure you say "I wonder what they're doing right now..." about your comic relief friends every now and then so the episode can cut to their B plot

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saw a tweet that referred to mismag as a "love letter" to harry potter. no, it isn't. that just isn't true. "charlie brown had hoes"-level accusation. if anything, mismag is hatemail to harry potter. it's a "fuck you, you don't own magical schools, we're gonna make a whimsical magical school and read you for filth while we're doing it" letter.

not to say i don't understand if it still doesn't sit right with some folks (everyone is entitled to their own preferences and if you'd rather never engage with anything hp-adjacent that's your right) but i just think it's a mischaracterization of aabria and the cast/crew's intentions. they started the show with "fuck terfs"

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i don’t think you understand

we have had aabria autumn on d20 since 2020, when she stole the show as myrtle in pirates of leviathan. you could feel her inhabiting that mermaid over a zoom screen. felt like i was watching a mermaid roll around in a life-size martini glass full of vodka with my own eyes.

then she changed the game with mismag in 2021, bringing kids on brooms, personalized props, lighting effects, and projections to the dome, after which she held it down as antiope jones. the reluctant leader, the late bloomer who is not late but merely arriving in her own time.

in 2022 she came back with kisses, with regency, with good society, with flowers and tokens and projections and a willingness to follow up on consequences that never stopped moving. wuvvy my beloved. kill me with the devotion of a life lived in service to the one you love why don’t you.

in 2023 she was the spiciest assassin. fit for the genre in fits for the genre. replacing skalds like she was born to do it. and then burrow’s end. a genre exploration with a splash of the violence of dnd and the tragicomedy of family. beautiful sets, incredible audiovisual effects, and horror both visceral and cosmic.

in 2024? she’s back with wizards baby. she’s taking a 4 episode jaunt of americans becoming wizards in britain and making an adventure of eleven episodes. planets move, the dm screen talks, and the wind is on the rise.

aabria adds such a fun, artistic, genre-bending, cinematic flavor to her time in the dome; it’s no wonder that the Q4 mid-length season is hers.

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twilight and dawn

doubt and conviction

mystery and clarity

the quiet of the night and the blaring trumpet sound of the day

you pray to cassandra before you sleep to take respite and ponder in cradle of darkness

and pray to ankarna as you wake for the clarity and impetus to take on the day

using doubt to question what is and is not, and conviction to do something about it

ankarna rides her golden chariot across the sky, heralding the sun and the long day before reuniting with her wife as day gives way to night, where cassandra holds sway, trailing magic in ancient forests where the light does not touch the depths

you bear their names in crucibles, at thresholds; when action must be taken, you have faith in cassandra to venture into the unknown, and faith in ankarna to light the path ahead

even in corruption, in fear of the unknown, and rage against injustice, there is hope that doubt and conviction might carry you through the dark night and into the light of day

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answering “are you dating” with “it’s complicated” when the complicated part is that hes a manifestation of your worst fears that tried to fucking kill you is insane btw

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siobhan catching that cassandra’s spouse is either a woman/nonbinary/transmasc bc of the mitochondrial mna…i love women in stem…