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unrequited polin/pen yearning songs that spotify recommended me on my drive home:

saving all my sinning by lake street dive

stop your crying by lake street dive

i wanna be your lover by prince

breathless by corinne bailey rae

gonna get over you by sara bareilles

let the rain by sara bareilles

bluebird by sara bareilles

#polin #colin x penelope #penelope x colin #bridgerton #penelope featherington #song recs

making unnecessary connections between naddpod bahumia and other dnd things:

reeva and riva (d20 aso)

gunkbog [emily kept calling him gorgunk] and gorgug (d20 fh)

uku and pumat sol (cr2) [idk just the vibes i guess]

red, the rat man and kugrash, the rat man (d20 tuc) [both played by murph :)))]

(i want to be like FEYWILD and DECK OF MANY THINGS but yeah i know it's real standard dnd stuff <3)

the crick elf youngins bending beverly's ears to look like their ears and laudna getting her ears cut to look like vex's (cr3)

the fog, crick rot and the nightmare forest, kalina's disease (d20 fhsy) [also see: treants, allies turned enemies through enemy control]

luna moonshine love hate tension in the fog and theo gooey sexual tension (d20 acoc)

moonshine being a fan of apple scrumper and sofie bikes being a fan of misty moore (d20 tuc)

let's play an arcade game in dnd!: giant shredder and arcade ambush games (d20 fh)

golden scarabs in the box in snot's yacht and the golden scarab riz shot in the hospital with fig (d20 fh)

rapport spores and the gunner channel (d20 aso)

ulfgar and oltgar (cr3) [just the names, but ify did play an ulfgar on cr]

#btw this is not to diminish any of the properties #it truly is just that my brain is stupid and likes to be like oOH CONNECTION :)))#old post #but im just #clearing out my drafts #dnd #dungeons and dragons #critical role #d20 #dimension 20 #fantasy high #d20 aso #a starstruck odyssey #cr3 #the unsleeping city

one rant that i have alone in my room all the time (it was sparked once by a comment i saw and i haven't been able to watch the scene in question without having this conversation with myself since) is a defense of elle woods in the trial scene

i'm gonna let u know now that i know pretty much nothing about the trial and jury and legal sense in this but my gripe really comes from people trying to poke holes in elle's argument

because yeah, of course there's holes. of course she could have been wearing a shower cap. of course she could have been avoiding her hair one way or another.

but that's not the point.

the point is that if any of that was the truth (or honestly if chutney had anticipated the question and thought of these solutions), she would have said so when elle pressed her on it.

so although it is her recognizing perm etiquette that gets talked about all the time, elle's brilliance is actually very layered. it was her love and understanding of hair care that helped her realize that it wouldn't make sense for chutney to be taking a shower, it was people underestimating her that made them not expect to be confronted about this hole in their alibi, and it was elle's understanding of interrogation practices that helped her to push chutney until the truth came out.

so yeah. it might have been the "unacademic" knowledge of hair care that was the basis of the logic in that scene, but that scene really demonstrates her talents much deeper than people realize.

no name (no context?) npc love (and not love) story summaries from an inactive campaign i ran:

i did something dumb when i was young and stupid and she held onto a grudge about it for a long time and i will atone for it for the rest of my life as long as she lets me stay by her side

arranged marriage! it doesn't get better and they cheat on each other constantly

i was in love with him and thought he was in love with me and i vowed to protect him as he upheld the order we pledged to together but he left and betrayed both me and the values i thought we both held

she has a crush on a person who doesn't care about her and i've been druidcrafting her flowers ever since i've known her cause i have a crush on her so i told her that i'd start giving her flowers to give to her crush

she was trying to get to my plane of existence and was not supposed to be so i asked her to leave and whether i could visit her instead

i worked with her father and he told me to pursue what i've been thinking about. when he died, we relied on each other a lot.

she always sits in the corner spot of the place i work at and she's so cute when i flirt with her//she's so pretty and i come to sit in the corner spot every week so that i can just watch her be pretty but if she talks to me i'll explode

i comforted him when he was mourning his dead husband and drinking

i dragged him back into his bed when he was crying over his ex. i've been there (sort of) and i hope he can get to where i am now

i went to the tavern with my friend and his boyfriend just wing-maned for him. look, i know i have a crush, but i was just going to suppress that!

#the last 3 are a polytrio and they are so cheeky #the two crying over their past partners have very different exes but they actually really commiserate and heal each other #dnd #d&d #dungeon master #dungeons and dragons #dnd campaign #dnd5e #npcs #old post #but im just #clearing out my drafts #ugh forgot how much i love these guys that i made

every time i get really interested in a movie, i do this obsessive thing where i watch youtube reactions to the movie

i almost always have thoughts but most of the time i just talk them out into the empty air but there was some common stuff this time so here this is for probably no one but me:

reactions to turning red reactions

the quotes are all obviously paraphrased and when i say i watched a sHIT TON of reaction videos, i'm not kidding so if it sounds like im only targeting one person im not. most of these reactions are from multiple videos and im very much aware that most of the people reacting on youtube are coming from different experiences than me so it's really no biggie.

(also u should know im korean american so when i talk about asian experiences im not speaking on something i dont know. its obviously not a one-to-one with her story (even if i was chinese it wouldn't be cause everybody is different) but many asian and immigrant parents and families share similar experiences. it's why seeing stories that might be even just adjacent to yourself is so important)

- "oh god, why is her mother doing that? she's crazy. she's a stalker" (at the mother arriving at school with the pads): okay, so i will say: this is way past the point that my own mother would do (and i'd say my mom has quite a bit more social tact) but showing up at school? helicoptering? very familiar feeling to me.

story time! during my high school years, i was in the tennis team. (varsity captain actually heheh) but i was also struggling with anemia at the time. so after one particular scare my freshman year, my mother was reminiscent of ming: candy bars, water, towel-anything i needed as soon as i needed it all of the time. she became team mom, not because she was particularly dedicated to the sport or my success but because she was worried about me fainting again, throwing up again, or having to go to the hospital again and her not being there this time.

so, obviously not as mortifying or intense as ming, but it's not exactly unbelievable, just exaggerated.

- "why are they acting like that about 4-town?": *nervously looks over to my deep rooted history with fangirling* so... how do i really...

- "why do they keep hammering that she thinks she's an adult or that she thinks she's gonna become a woman?? she's 13!": that's,,, kind of the point? like was there never a time in your tween/teen life where you were like iM AN ADULT AND MATURE AND I KNOW WHAT IM DOING or was that just me? it's short-sided and inaccurate for us now obviously but that's because we are watching as people who are past that age, but it's similar to the thing with middle school or high school where you think that's your entire life, that everything is banking on how you are and how you feel right now even though years down the line you don't think about it at all.

- "what's up with the dad? just speak up": so,,, this might just be me projecting again with my own experiences of having a quiet and/or absent father, but in this dynamic, it's not really his place. ming has taken control, become the matriarch and it is she that has domains, moves, and opinions on what happens with mei mei.

is it a bit neurotic and in this case slightly detrimental? yes.

is it wholesale inaccurate? no.

- "what's wrong with you, mei mei? stand up for your friends!": i'm gonna start this again with obviously it's fucked up. like you should be able to defend your friends, the ones that actually provide solace and comfort to you at this age. but also that does on some level erase the reality of what this character is. we learned early on that above all else she follows her mother, deeply values the image of who she should be to her family to the point of unable to stand up for herself, take responsibility for what she has done, set boundaries and separate herself from the expectations of her family, and very specifically, her mother.

(for example, with the daisy mart incident, one person might have confronted their mother saying, "it's not my fault i have a crush on devon and it was crossing a line to not only pry into my business but also confront him even when i said i didn't want that to happen and i'm really upset that you did so" but mei mei goes directly to attributing it privately to her own self-control and follies since she knows devon is not to blame the way her mother thinks.)

as messed up as it might be to abandon her friends, it is keeping in line with who she is up to this point. she is spunky and outgoing when she is separate from her family and their obligations, but when she is in these structures and places, she has always up to this point fallen in line.

(she already has abandoned her friends in one way at this point, actually. the first evening, we learn that her mom thinks miriam is odd and that she might disapprove of her. mei mei makes no real move to defend her friend.)

mei mei views her mother as an unmovable object. she may be unstoppable at school or with her friends, but it is not until the end that mei even attempts to really push against the supposed rigidness of her mother and the generational patterns that lay in her way. (honestly, i might speak about this more later but there is a bit also here about how her mother views her and how that affects her own view of herself)

- "why did all of the aunties and grandma and her mom just get to walk through when it was so hard for mei?": i mean one logic that was brought up in the video was that meilin kept on using it over and over, but like everyone else also already banished their spirits. these spirits technically already belong to the astral plane. although they were able to utilize it for a little bit, they all successfully already had their initial ceremonies. they already made choices. even with the loophole of being able to use it in crisis by breaking the artifact that holds it, i doubt that any of them (other than mei obviously), would even really be able to maintain a level of control over it at this point. they have separated themselves from that part of themselves and even if it is a part of their blood, it's not one that they are thoroughly in sync with anymore. the separations for them is how it should be. and what they decided for themselves.

#mei mei #turning red #mei lee #meilin lee #ming lee #pixar animation studios #pixar turning red #disney #disney animation #disney movie #disney pixar #this is an old draft #but i stand by it #clearing out my drafts

i just know pre-polin penelope would bump im not that girl

#dont worry about me #just listening to the wicked soundtrack and reading polin fics #is there a fiyero!colin/elphaba!pen fic?#like even them playing or dressing up as them?#cause slay #polin #penelope featherington #bridgerton #wicked

keith tonight is just reverse game changer, right? that's the thought we all had,,, right?

#dropout tv #game changer #keith tonight #try guys #keith habersberger

dungeons and drag queens is one step closer to my dream of oops all brians season

#murph as a dm rights #and then bdg and katya and trixie #like wouldnt that be funny as all hell #dungeons and drag queens #dimension 20 #dadq #d20 dadq

was working on my game changer costume a few days ago and realized that why game changer/make some noise is so appealing to me is it is my modern whose line is it anyway

#my game changer costume is the set btw #its very fun and good #game changer #dropout #dropout tv #sam reich

what do you think about at night?

regency era name etiquette

#god i wish i was joking #tbf its for a campaign #but no one will care about it as much as i do

begone frenemies, here comes friends with detriments

#this may be the funniest shit i've said in forever #i love how i've been mia from tumblr for a while and i come back with this