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havingapoemwithyou

from let July be July by Morgan Harper Nichols

yardsards

but i stay silly! *←said in the most world-weary voice you ever did hear*

fizzlepop-frog

“but I stay silly!”

sensiblereblogifposts

Reblog you stay silly

weaselle

on it boss

pawthorn

I don’t personally believe in good people vs. bad people irl and I’m not particularly interested in assigning blame or punishment because it’s not useful. Even moreso in fiction than reality, “good person vs bad person” is just not on my radar of engagement or interest.

So fandom is often a very strange space to be in.

People trying so desperately to prove that a character is good and justified and “the victim” and another character is bad and wrong and “the perpetrator.” Rather than asking what the character’s role is in the story, what lies they may be telling themselves and others, what are their flaws, what might their arc be?

Instead, they’re focused on other people’s perception of the character. And you can feel their sincere dismay that people don’t see things their way through the text of their posts, this visceral sense that other people’s disagreement and dislike is hurting them.

I can’t imagine that engaging with fandom that way is anything but miserable.

Eventually, you’re going to need to expand your taste, and realize that characters who murder or are bigoted or cruel can be great characters regardless of their goodness, and enjoy them for who they are.

You’re going to have to allow other people to disagree with your opinions and dislike your favorite things without being hurt by it.

Or you’re going to need to block and filter extensively, because getting everyone on your side is simply not going to happen.

galaxywarp

once you realize you don’t actually need to sleep, you can really (stops talking abruptly and stares straight ahead for 4 minutes)

mushbeast

My Child

soymoss

emo heron in boots

aerionpilled

we need to talk about how funny it is that isharnai actually planned the wedding. like yes she attacked them but she also genuinely fulfilled all the responsibilities of a wedding planner. the flowers were there the food was there the guests were there the lighthouse was set up. she sent the invitations she dealt with the vendors she picked the shades of pink she installed the pillars.

#critical role

artsdel

I hope that someone was waiting for the full version of the drawing from the last post 🙏🏻

#essek thelyss

going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi

things to ask yourself when designing a female character:

how much blood is she covered in

are her eyes filled with madness

can she rip things to shreds with her fingernails

mortuary9

#essek thelyss

unplannedpregnancy

i wont hatepost but sometimes it does feel like this to scroll fandom tags

lethallana

one (1) jessie doodle per sometimes to feel alive

#jester lavorre

bloodybitessquare

opital

utilitycaster

Something that really impresses me with Travis's characters is that he really just...grasps the structure of D&D. Grog notwithstanding (Grog is great but he was created for a one-shot and ended up being his character for 5 years, and I think his limitations as a character either led Travis to figure out what D&D is about, or merely gave him time to analyze it while the other characters were talking strategy and Grog was off eating mayonnaise) his longform characters and many of his miniseries characters have all recently had something significantly shake up their routines and lives. They enter into the game as people who have a good reason to be adventuring - they don't have a place to go back to and that includes their past self - and they have a new problem to discover. Fjord believes himself to be the sole survivor of a shipwreck and has unexplained new powers; Chetney was kicked out of Uthodurn and recently became a werewolf; and Teor's mercenary group is disbanding and his brother is missing.

The key to making a pretty good D&D character is having someone who not only has a reason to leave whatever their life was behind, but also has something they are working towards. However, there are a couple of nuances that bring this from good to great:

understanding the follow-through of what made you leave. It should be something that you are prepared to deal with in the story - eg, if you were kicked out of town, you are going to have to deal with that should you need to go back to your hometown.

if you get what you were working towards, why do you stay? like yeah, found family, but that's not actually that interesting on its own and really runs a risk of making your D&D character feel like an appendage to someone else's character. You need to be prepared to find new purposes. Travis is an incredible generator of plot; he tends to make characters for whom the journey itself is very important anyway (ie, even after Fjord gets a new patron the idea of self-worth and identity is an ongoing process) but he also focuses on other things that would interest this character, rather than being single-minded. (This incidentally is why he gets dinged by the unenlightened for having too many hanging plot threads; it's because he makes sure to have more plot potential than the campaign requires, as it is an improvised work.)

This incidentally is why I tend to be less enamored with higher concept characters, and why I think they often fail: yes, you're ~weird~, but do you have a worldview? Do you have a mission? Are you flexible enough to keep going if that mission changes? A lot of high concept D&D characters ultimately would make for a great character in a book, but not a very good D&D character for this very reason; they need to have a delicate balance of internal motivations and external flexibility and typically they lack the latter, whereas Travis nails it every time.

#critical role

395nm

Fuck Meyer-Briggs whatever typology. This INTFP shit is only for redditors up their own asses to substitute for a personality. Use my new typology instead!

Your ideal environment is:

Hot/Cold

Wet/Dry

Bright/Dark

Loud/Quiet