just killing a little time

Creeps. Geek. He/They. Bi. Thirty-Something. NYC.

[ellewantsrevenge]

[alanshemper]

needed this on my blog

[youllremainmyhumbleservant-again]

I don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve seen this, but I still have earworms from this pop up in my head at least once a month.

[tysonfurybattlepass]

public defenders get behind me. i’ll defend you this time

[tysonfurybattlepass]

“so you like criminals?” I LIKE THE RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL.

[scamguy]

i would like to officially thank sesame for its seeds, its oil, and of course its street

[utilitycaster]

someone, I believe @anonym-potato, pointed out that Brennan is not a subtle DM by any means and like. I do think this is why a number of people fell off of Campaign 4. Like, he really has in the past three weeks alone looked straight to camera and said "Aranessa is not secretly evil" and "prizing effortlessness is fucking stupid". I do not, to be clear, think he will ever make people do anything they don't want to do (ie, if Aabria and Ashley do not wish to pursue a romance between Thaisha and Vaelus, they won't - I think they very much do, but those characters serve as excellent thematic foils that are worth bringing together narratively regardless of whether it is romantic) but he is very much telling a story with intent, and he does not really let you make up some nonsensical shit and pretend that's what he's saying, or at least, it's obvious that this is some nonsensical shit.

I think this is good, and indeed, this is something I've pretty openly wished the CR founding cast would lean into more. I think they were more inclined towards this in the past and a few still do it (Travis, notably) but like. I think it's possible to be a nice person and still be like "well that's not a question that can be answered" or "you can have whatever theories you want but that's not what happened," and while I understand the choice to back off from the fandom, and I think this needs to be done judicious it has been a little frustrating to me to look at some of the C1-era hard nos and then see the cast try to too-gently sidestep pretty obviously bad questions. Like, I bring up the Fjord Moon Theory a lot but that's because you can still watch the painfully long video and see Travis outright dismiss it during a Q&A session as ridiculous and this being used as a claim that he's just trolling, which makes it pretty clear how divorced from any sort of reality that theory was. I've seen multiple cases of people posting about how they talked to one of the cast at a con about a noncanon ship and how they were like "I guess if ten different circumstances were in place there might have been favorable conditions" and taking this as some kind of evidence of potential canonicity when I think it would frankly be kinder to say "well it didn't happen, but you can ship whatever you like."

When I joke about creators being more hostile to their fandoms I don't think they should outright belittle anyone. But I do think in the long run, especially when it comes to hard canon and not interpretation (ie, the canonicity of a ship or character origin) setting clear boundaries and saying "no, but you can do what you want in fanfic" is far kinder and healthier than trying to dance around it. I do think more fans need to hear creators say "no, that's not what is happening" and learn to accept it with grace, even if they wish it were not what is happening.

Anyway, I have some posts in queue about this and I might make my own but I think some of the people who haven't kept up with Campaign 4 have very specifically been stumbling over the fact that if they simply project their own desires onto the text rather than actually listen to what is being said, there is a very, very real possibility Brennan will look to camera and say "that's fucking stupid" and they really do not want to hear that.

[utilitycaster]

#I feel like Brennan is in general more#assertive?#than Matt#I wonder if it’s the improv background#like acknowledging or stating the truth of the scene you’re in#or maybe cause he’s used to playing with a bunch of chaos gremlins#and has to tell them hard no on the reg @piratecalicomorgan hope you don't mind me grabbing these tags because I fully drafted a follow-up reblog to this about Brennan vs. Matt's dm-ing and then said "idk if this is worth it" and the fact that other people are considering it means I think it is worth adding!

Anyway, I do think Brennan is much more assertive than Matt, and like, I think there's probably plenty of factors at play and I'm not here to do a personality analysis on two people I don't know. What I do think is relevant is that Brennan has done a very large amount of GM-ing for literal children (Wayfinder Experience) and that he has done a lot of on-camera shorter campaigns such that hitting a final mark within a certain period of time is very important (D20 being a big one), and, as you said, he has improv experience both as a performer and a teacher. I also think that while both of them have both acting and writing experience, Matt's background is much more in acting, and Brennan's in writing. I don't think it's a chaos gremlin problem in that I think people throw around 'chaotic' a lot about players who really aren't (though to be fair: I don't know the Wayfinder campers, but 'chaos gremlin' is an accurate description of tweens) but I do think Brennan is ultimately looking at landing the plane on time in a specific range of locations in a way Matt isn't, necessarily.

This is purely stylistic preference, and like, as someone whose favorite campaigns are shaping up to be C2 and C4 [too early to say in C4 but like, I am enjoying it greatly] Matt's more hands-off approach made Campaign 2 possible. There's positives and drawbacks to both and it comes down to what you're trying to do. I didn't care for Campaign 3 and I found that Neverafter didn't work for me, and I think both those stories would have flourished under the other GM's style (ie, Campaign 3 should have had a Brennan-style heavy hand on the reins to hit the beats of a lore-heavy, densely plotted campaign; and Neverafter needed a Matt-style character-driven, room-to-breathe approach). I talked a lot about this back when I was talking about the Augen Trust arc and how judging C2 for not having an arc that was never made clear to the players is extremely stupid, and in talking about how C3's lack of hand on the reins led to the signaling issues we saw at the soldiers' table, so I'm not going to repeat all that. But yeah, I do think Brennan is much more assertive, and it works when he leans into his own style just as Matt's work on C1 and C2 (and for that matter, Age of Umbra) was spectacular.

[deep-dive]

hiiiii 👋  hi  🙋‍♀️  i’m lady kier from deee-lite…. welcome to my klæüsêt…….. yes, i am a mouse potato…… computer nerd…….. otaku…………… and this is where it happen

[drchucktingle]

more and more each day

[supergameboytwo]

I can phil it collins in the air tonight

[greelin]

i’m sincerely always saying this

[homunculus-argument]

We need to figure out how to communicate "thank you, that was very cool" to whales. And also "please do not do that, that was scary", but that's secondary. Imagine what kind of shit humans would get up to if any time you're out and doing things, there's an above zero chance that you hear a handful of beetles making a tiny sound of waow. nice. and a round of teeny tiny applause.

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

"Just because I'm right, doesn't mean I'm being helpful" is a vastly underrated thought process that I strongly encourage others to get comfortable with

[tielan]

I have had ENTIRELY TOO MANY CONVERSATIONS with people who thought the goal was to be right, not to be helpful.

Great moogly googly.

[theonion]

As he bemoaned yet another day of the same infuriating routine from one of the message board’s biggest assholes, local man Kyle Parker confirmed Friday that AmigaraEnigma_9x9, his rival on AnimeNation.com, was up to his usual horseshit. “It’s not even noon, and he’s already being a huge prick to someone who just said they kind of liked the Demon Slayer Hashira arc,” said Parker, who sighed audibly as he saw his nemesis up to his typical bullshit of poisoning the well in otherwise perfectly civil discussions of anime, manga, video games, and Japanese culture.

Full Story

[ifyouknowmeirlgoaway]

I'm very emotional about that first post-credit scene for Sinners.

Because Sammie says that the day the movie is about was the best day of his life, before the sun set. And at first I was thinking like, the music he played and how his whole community was together dancing and the past was melding with the present and the future and it was this beautiful, transcendent communion.

But I'm pretty sure that happened after sunset. Sammie's best experience was driving around with his older cousin, collecting members of the community, spending time together talking and laughing and playing music. Not the big, dramatic stuff, but the small things. And Stack offers him an eternity of the big dramatic stuff, but they can never get those small things back.

[ssspinel]

how can you be a goncharov fan and yet not have watched zakk tomorrow…

[werenotreallystrangers]

if you cannot tolerate boredom you will unconsciously create problems to feel alive

[queenofnots]

#America's median voters

[goldensunset]

i know in my heart of hearts that within the pokémon universe it’s all the really cute popular marketable pokémon that have the most irresponsible trainers. small dog syndrome ramped up to a whole new level. that is not a toy that is a lifelong commitment. ma’am please keep your untrained sylveon in its pokéball inside the store. no that is not a service pokémon it wouldn’t be using moonblast on everything if it was

[goldensunset]

sir! sir!!! your pikachu is decimating the ducklett population at the pond and you aren’t even looking! you are NOT ash ketchum you are NOT gonna catch ‘em all because that involves trade evolutions and you have NO friends!!!

[goldensunset]

ok literally. that palafinstagram mom who posts pictures of her rowlet not understanding it’s displaying distress behaviors making fun of the cool person whose best friend is a solosis or rellor or unown letter f

[warrior-kitty]

if one more middle aged mom tells me that i should’ve kept my raichu a pikachu because ‘she’s much cuter that way’ i’m sending out my full team and throwing hands right there in the starbucks

[threefeline]

"You will often be subjected to uncomfortable situations in public and you should learn to navigate that" and "if you play your music out loud in a public hike then the other hikers should be allowed to hunt you for sport" are two sentiments that can and should co-exist