lost in the (audio) sauce

avi / he/they / dnd + podcasts / main: @avi-why

[kindlingofsorts]

god my favourite thing is when the entire naddpod crew forces murph to die on a hill he doesn’t even care about. while they scream from a mountain made of sand that is actively sliding out from under them.

[kyeree]

A Dungeon Court moment that lives in my head rent free is when Murph narrates those two dudes wrestling on the dock and the whole town shows up and the queen is almost assassinated

[rooolt]

ParmaJohn and ParmaJean have a very traditional marriage (so it plays well in the Midwest) with their angsty teen daughter ParmaJune and their dog (who is straight) Parmesog (he will not sniff a dude dogs butt, he goes hunting, still has his massive chunk of Parmesan nuts, and he fucks. He only speaks to say “I am cisgender”)

[revvetha]

playing a proper, beautifully gothic and lovingly crafted Curse of Strahd campaign while also listening to the Trinyvale Triplets turn Kolyan's funeral into an advertisement for their new baked potato restaurant until Strahd descends on them in a burning helicopter is. Is fucking something.

[rooolt]

I think the thing that makes the triplets so awful (affectionate) is that they’re just so successful. Pre-Strahd they were so powerful and had such broken items that they would just chain lightning and smite their way through every interaction with no consequences because bafflingly, Jens and Onyx’s charisma is so fucking high. Even within Strahd, everyone in this fucking town is too miserable to stand up to their nonsense and Jens rolled a nat 20 on the most batshit insane eulogy for a man he’d never met in order to advertise his Spudfuckers (vegan potato based fuddruckers). They are never faced with consequences for their actions and even when they are they do not register them as consequences

[crims0nstardust]

[imstacks]

The reason naddpod works is that every person at that table treats cringe like an art form to be loved, studied, and shared with the world.

[paging-possum]

Bev had to be gay and 15 because moonshine and hardwon keep getting distracted by hot women and SOMEONE needed to be there with the protect evil and good spell prepared

[paging-possum]

Imagine you were 15 and you were trying to find your FREAKING DAD!!!! And all your adult friends were doing drugs and trying to get some from hot tree women and ordering a glass of sliders and you nobody would even tell you. If they saw your freaking dad. :( I’d kill everyone in that hot tub.

[fesenmoon]

loml moonshine cybin!

[forksthousands]

a very merry end of campaign 3 to all naddpoles out there!!! ive had these designs for the main teams done for a long while but never posted them, what better time to do so than now! excited to see what new stuff comes next 🦆

[rooolt]

naddpod c3 is obviously about siblinghood INCLUDING the siblinghood of three primordial serpents that make up an ancient apocalyptic prophecy

[heckblade]

was just reminded of the naddpod live show i went to where the first words spoken by emily axford upon her character being introduced were “i’ve been fucking my way across bahumia and i need a beer to wash the taste of druid pussy out of my mouth.” and then she cast blight

[softwaring]

What Vegetable Are You?

After taking the quiz: which veggie did you get?

Onion 🧅

Napa Cabbage 🥬

Leek 🌱

Green Bean 🫛

Jalapeño 🌶️

Pumpkin 🎃

Bok Choy 🌿

Broccoli 🥦

Carrot 🥕

Potato 🥔

Garlic 🧄

Tomato 🍅

Voting ended onAug 12, 2024

[kindleaf]

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not over it actually . that sol is a clone and what his response to that says about him as a character.

like okay. traditional clone angst shit is like "oh am i real/im not the original/im just a fake copy of someone else/etc etc etc" . and that route of a character arc might have even made sense w sols whole launchpad history - that he self-identifies as a sidekick. but also. maybe that rejection of being the main character is what allows sol to take a different route entirely. swag isnt just his prime clone, hes his "daddyself". sol doesnt really care about being the prime version of himself, he just wants family.

im so deeply fascinated by how the concept of clone-dom intersects w the concepts of family. what is a son but a version of you fated to go through all the same patterns of experience you have. what is a brother but a version of you whose choices has led him to a place you could never go. what is family if not enveloped in fear, love, idolisation and rejection. what is family if not a piece of your heart fragile and vulnerable and walking away from you.

anyway. so like. just compare how mothership sees clones (expendable identical bodies) vs how sol sees clones (brad & bron, youll always be a part of me you are me)

like. does that drive anyone else crazy.

and the original point of this post has completely flown away from me but in a feeble attempt to bring it back. my interpretation of sol is like. sol doesnt want to be a hero, he wants a purpose to fight for. he wants people to fight for. he wants to be part of this thing *bigger than he is* to dedicate himself to. and that used to be the mothership corporation, and has now taken the form of his friends and family. its only natural he would have adapted the spore network, as someone so clearly driven by his connections to other people. it makes so much sense he would see his clone identity this way because ultimately he sees himself in terms of his relationships to other people

(and if you want to be insane like i am, then you can think about sol as a child abandoned and alone in a derelict waterpark, so desperate for any kind of connection that it comes to form a defining character motivation for the rest of his life) 👍

[heytherecentaurs]

After listening to Twilight Sanctorum again, I think it is perfect. It is 4 episodes long and it is a masterpiece. Emily delivers such a creative story and world filled full of Axfordisms and pitch perfect film noir tropes. Murph’s character is such a quintessential Murph character—his wife is gone and he’s sad about it and his life sucks. (“I’m 71 years old!!”) Caldwell is a perfect Caldwell character—a weird lil guy who is into crafts. And Jake—well Mavid is the literal worst, makes the worst choices and has to be begged to do anything. And he is so goddamn funny. The trauma and dysfunction is handled so well. The atmosphere and setting is so well done. Emily even manages to weave in a toxic wlw relationship, which is so Emily and definitely on theme for film noir. It’s gritty. It’s messy. It’s hilarious. it’s emotionally impactful. It’s perfect.

[charlilil]

Twilight sanctorum has been a delight so here’s some cone boy