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My name is Shelby. Icon by @John-Su. 30s. Biomedical scientist. White. Ace lesbian. Cis lady, she/her pronouns. Current obsessions: One Piece and various TTRPG podcasts/dimension 20.

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[queerfandomunlimited]

It’s all well and good if the CCOD finale wasn’t your thing but also I feel we are all forgetting something: this season was directly inspired by WWDITS. Ya know, the show that brought us “I drank the blood of some people and the people were on drugs and now I am a wizard.”? The one that had some good throughline emotional beats but was mostly Bit fuckin City? I mean Zac’s character was based on Zoolander!! Murph was a vampire who thinks he’s some sort of Batman!! THERE WAS A GHOUL HORSE NAMED GHORSE. Batchild swallowed a missile in the first episode! They wrote off multiple shit shows as “Banksy’s”!! If you wanted a serious season and got a silly one I get it. But you can’t pretend this was ever all that serious outside of Brennan’s signature capitalism and fascism sucks tropes. You can’t criticize something on criteria it never met (or really even intended to meet) in the first place.

[mercurymasc]

being really sad about ccod ending and then watching the finale feels like that video clip where the baby starts crying and then someone throws a cheese slice on their face and they stop crying because they're too confused trying to register what just happened

[fullmoonguidance]

ok guys but imagine how hard it's gonna hit if something good ever happens again

[ramavoite]

Dimension 20: City Council of Darkness - “An Undead Denouement”

[bowcard]

people on tiktok hating on ccod, why do u hate fun

[okmurph]

Me when I’m the world’s most perfect woman if I’m being honest

[unseenbox]

Sorry i simply think it is very sweet that brennan wanted to make his friends laugh so badly he accidentally made his campaign's finale too silly the second smiling Richard Nixon walked out and they all lost it. Like. The intrepid heroes are the sweetie-est actually.

[themaskedmuse]

This was seriously the most insane, chaotic, unpredictable finale they’ve had, and I loved every second of it

[kyriolex]

Given that this was an improv-only season, it’s impressive that the finale was as coherent as it was. But I love how Brennan fully leaned in to the weirdness, plot continuity be damned. It’s not something that would be appropriate for every season, but it worked here.

Because even up through the penultimate episode, there was no way for anyone to predict:

Mitch x Cody x Nancy love triangle

Herbert-Koschei team-up

Death by Bingo Bus

Jesus being best friends with Jack of the Pines

Madeleine getting back together with Marie Antoinette

Leprechauns getting infinite luck rolls

Bartok hooking up with a vending machine genie

Nancy following Banksy into hell for her cherries

Everything about the Clown-Ghost war

Bigfoot kicking down the fourth wall

The whole episode was a fever dream.

[zac-oyama]

do we think murph always dreamed of doing that?

[bikananjarrus]

love everyone contributing to the absolute hoard of dice for emily to roll

+ bonus: some delighted emily faces

[bakingenby]

This had me giddy

[froglesbianphd]

Finally watching the finale of ccod emily axford you'll always be famous

[warren-keplers-funk-band]

i'm so enthralled by him. you could say... i'm in his thrall... HAH. vampires

[foxdoodles]

the prince of purpee, oregon

[froglesbianphd]

I love when google's AI summery includes a seemingly random photo. Why is Naruto Pikachu here.

[dioptre-hertz]

the entire time i was watching Nosferatu (2024) i kept hearing justin mcelroy's terrible dracula accent

[mooselybased]

Every year I listen in horror as the McElroys inevitably decide upon the Year Name that is hardest to come up with a pleasing design for. And yet, here we are, with my drawing for Twenty Make It Stick, as well as some of my favorite rejected names.

Rest assured, I will be doing my best to cook up some heaters for the big boy in the year to come. Happy New Year, everybody

[theguywiththewhitespot]

My dream bonus episode of Worlds Beyond Number is a look at an indie improv show on the citadel, guest starring Hey Riddle Riddle.