Anansi, God of Stories

Yeah turns out I was a fuckin' dweeb 4 years ago. Also I'm a woman now. Weird how that happens. Still a Deltarune fangirl but also I'm a filthy Homestuck so I guess I only got worse in my time away from this hellsite

[anansi575]

This isn’t the end of a hero. This is the beginning of a legend.

[anansi575]

a collection of goobers

[anansi575]

so yeah uh anyway the real lesson is that im an unreliable narrator

[anansi575]

“its bad to murder people” okay and? i didnt fucking ask for your opinionn you skeletal bitch

[anansi575]

you know i could just make a regular story but NO my brain (a goblin) keeps screaming at me to add time travel who am i to argue ig

[anansi575]

some practice drawing pokemon fusions this one’s a dewott and a reuniclus (Or however you spell it man I really don’t care that much)

[anansi575]

this dynamic is my absolute favourite 

[anansi575]

so that inscryption game huh. pretty bangin’ ngl. solid 9/10. music was way better than it had any right to be

[anansi575]

these two dumbasses are literally my crowning achievement 

[anansi575]

if you could be a space sea otter dominator of the world that’d be pretty cool i think

[anansi575]

play castle crashers and battleblock theater and pit people do it do it do it

[anansi575]

do you ever just when you do you ever when you just ever do

[anansi575]

anyway yeah i have an actual drawing tablet now so i can draw digital art well fr fr 

[anansi575]

you thought you could escape me by sending me to the wild for a packet of chips. you thought WRONG.

[anime--irl]

anime_irl

[ultimatebadluck]

I’m probably late to realizing this but the tutorial narration in sdr2 being Naegi and co fighting over one keyboard is SO funny.

Like this is obviously Syo.

But THIS is Togami.

I didn’t get a screen cap but there’s a bit that’s like “just between you and me… I was surprised too! Just kidding… I’m sorry.” And that screams Naegi to me.

[ultimatebadluck]

@demasc this tag is cracking me up thank you and you’re right

[ultimatebadluck]

Addition: “my throb is chesting!” is either Hagakure or Asahina, I can’t decide which is funnier.

[captainsnoop-deactivated2020041]

theres something very funny about people writing these rich and detailed backstories for dnd characters as if the characters aren’t gonna still be level 1 when they start 

“my elf has been alive for a thousand years and has won ten thousand battles!!!” you’re still level 1 aint ya i guess you those ten thousand battles you won werent all that hard to win 

[captainsnoop-deactivated2020041]

i know this sounds all grumpy but i legit mean it when i say it is hilarious when someone writes it in to their backstory that they were the Smartest Mage on the Planet that has researched magic for A Thousand Centuries and then the game starts and they’re like “yeah i know fireball whats up” 

[captainsnoop-deactivated2020041]

the more detailed your character’s backstory is and the more you boast about the character’s competence and abilities, the funnier it becomes when you roll a 1 and your character just drops their sword and shits themselves. president of the dwarves for six centuries and you just shit yourself in a bar you were trying to find work in.  

[drtanner]

Like I know that this is a Goof Post™ and that you’re generally not supposed to try to offer any explanations for stuff like this for fear of Ruining The Joke™ but I feel like people do this because they fundamentally misunderstand what their character’s backstory is actually for.

The most interesting and compelling part of a character’s life is supposed to be the story you’re going to tell; you’re defeating the object by shoving all of the cool shit into their backstory. The actual purpose of the backstory is to inform your character’s behaviour and choices and the way they react to things so you can play/write them consistently! A solid backstory is a great way to make your character a whole person with a personality that makes sense.

tl;dr - A “cool” backstory doesn’t necessarily make for a cool character. It’s less about who they’ve been and what they’ve already done than it is about who they might become over the course of the story you’re going to tell with them.

[dndaddyissues]

hey! this! this is really really good advice for players!