Paradox, The Uninspired Writer @paradox-brody-chase - Tumblr Blog

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

jude-us

As a brown trans boy it sucked so badly to watch those “gender envy” slides on tik tok and see only white boys with fluffy hair. It was a little thing but it made me feel invisible even in my own community. So these are men that look like me and give me gender envy. If you’re POC disabled/ don’t see your self in common trans discussions feel free to add on.

korithegreat-deactivated2024070

wanderingnelipot

Adding some nonbinary fashion inspiration for people who aren't represented enough.....

anotheraccountonthisapp

May I add?

mingus-archives

Remarkable: years of isolation, bullying, and ostracizing single member of family unit made said member super not down for family's evil schemes

johannestevans

horniest battle moments:

- taking your ally's weapon out of their scabard to use yourself

- using someone else's shoulder as a rifle stand

- nudging someone's chin up with the tip of your weapon

- freezing with your blades against one another's throats, breathing into each other's mouths

mini-godzilla

Team Birdwatching was seen as a massive loss because Teor and Cyd died, but let’s recap what they managed:

- Desecrated the Tachonis vassal crypt, broke ancient and valuable corpses there

- Killed Primus’ chosen heir (which leaves him with only three options, one of which is Ethrand, yikes)

- Destroyed the undead hulk he was building out of Sir Raimond Davinos which he presumably had plans for

- Stole very confidential plans for the boat going into the Sea of Lacrys (which I’m assuming there are NO copies of)

- Freed Mara (who Primus just assured ALL THE OTHER VASSAL HOUSES HE HAD and was going to interrogate her easy peasy)

- They inadvertently put Hannan into his path, who destroyed all the house’s low level undead, including the zombies from Royce and Davinos

- Resulting in Hannan’s death, meaning if the Circle of the Hunt (you know, the Druids who specialize in destroying undead) ever find out about that, there will be massive consequences

Oh and all of this occurred after he just promised a bunch of his rivals/allies a huge chunk of change because he got chewed out. He deserves it all, but the crash out was understandable.

mini-godzilla

Something I really appreciate about Sam as a player (that makes a lot of people on the internet really mad) is his absolute refusal to meta game.

To be clear, the goal of DND is not to make The Correct and Strategic Choice all the time. Critical Role isn’t just DND either, it’s Actual Play, which is using the game as a medium for storytelling. Actual Play is a performance, it’s telling a story, and stories are so much more interesting when you make messy choices.

Wick going to find Teor even when he knew Teor was dead made so much sense because

1. We’ve been shown that Wick, as a character, is excellent at denial. His entire religion was revealed as a farce and he’s still a believer. That’s consistent characterization! Being told Teor has died was of course going to be met with a ‘no! It can’t be!’.

2. Wick knew there were other party members with Teor, of course he’d be concerned about them. For Wick to just assume Thimble and Co. would be fine wasn’t realistic!

It takes a really good actor to be able to see a piece of knowledge offered to them that their character could benefit from, and continue to act according to only their character’s beliefs.

Every time Sam does this (Scanlan deciding to leave the party because fuck these guys there’s no cosmic force saying he has to stay, Nott high out of her mind trying to cast a spell she doesn’t have) it makes the story he’s participating in telling better! Funnier! More interesting!

Wick became a killer because of these choices and it spun his entire character arc in a different direction.

Sam Riegel is GOOD AT HIS JOB and that job is to cause problems in the narrative.

I’ll get off my soapbox now.

mmmelahii

Yayyyy roadside biting all the time !

thelonelybardofexandria

I know it's not his style, but I'm holding out for Travis to give us a twink. One more twink for CR4, please and thank you.

stella-draws-things

mingus-archives

Sure buddy

simonslastprayer

PLEASE when Mark does his stream, keep PHM and Bloodymary out of it. I'm a big fan of Bloodymary but let our boi Simon have the spotlight in his own movie! And Mark worked his ass off to get this movie out, let's keep it focused on Mark and Simon this time, PLEASE!