#baron of bricks

[banquo-and-macbeth]

The Baron of Bricks

lover when you feel that fire... think of it as my desire...

[d20rarepairs]

Montgomery Lamontgommery/Peter, the Baron of Bricks toxic one night stand

[smallest-clown]

Not to obsess over Brennan Lee Mulligan’s literal Capitalist pig, but I’m really happy, both narrative wise and allegory wise, with the end that the Baron met.

Like, narrative wise he watched his brothers die for taking the easy way out, and so he “worked hard to create his empire” (a sentence a lot of capitalist use to make it seem like they did all the work themselves). He creates this empire, then locks himself in his giant house while his underpaid workers do all the work to keep his empire going for him, essentially showing that he too is taking the easy way out. He makes a mech suit so that he doesn’t have to fight as himself and spends most of the battle using the spoon to knock people over rather than fighting one on one, taking the easy way out again by not having to fight on the same level of everyone else. And that’s his downfall. People genuinely putting in the work take him down, and he meets the exact same fate as his brothers.

The perfect allegory for how capitalists use group effort to bring themselves up and claim that as their own work, and how group effort and collaboration can take down capitalism

[starmolts]

dear r/relationship_advice how do i (18f) divorce my fiancé (?m) before we get married. didnt mean to propose it was just the first thing i said to him out of panic. he accepted.

[pikmininaplane]

@underrated-d20-event day 10! The theme for today was Mirror, and I chose to write about another one of my favorite Neverafter NPCs, the Baron of Bricks :]

(Vague spoilers for Neverafter episode 10)

Reflections of the Other (300 words)

Deep within the bowels of the Baron's mansion, there is a hallway that contains a set of three mirrors.

They hang where portraits would be, at head's height, lined up on the same wall.

His mechanical butlers are instructed not to tread that hallway, and Peter himself seldom does.

Still, sometimes his hooves take him down. He makes sure to look in each of the mirrors as he passes it.

In the first mirror, he sees his first brother. Arrogant, overconfident, lazy George. He who insisted that his house could be built out of sticks, that it would be safe inside. The first one the Wolf took.

In the second mirror, he sees his other brother. Cowardly, gutless, compromising Charles. He who thought wood would be enough to keep danger at bay, who would not bother seeking a better solution. The Wolf took him next.

In the third mirror, he sees the Wolf.

And the Wolf looks back at him, teeth bare and eyes glistening with a promise of death.

Peter does not resent his brothers for their arrogance and their cowardice. There is little point in cursing the dead for being dead, after all.

He resents them for giving the Wolf a taste for boar flesh.

Soon, He will come, shaking the ground with every step, hungry for pig’s blood, and he will huff and puff until the bricks crumble to dust. It is all Peter sees when he closes his eyes, when he lies both awake and asleep at night.

But the Baron is ready, as he always has been. He has managed to trump Death once; this time, he will make sure it cannot come back for him.

Because he, too, has acquired a taste for Wolf flesh.

And he is ready for dinner to be served.

[dropoutconfessions]

baron of the bricks from neverafter can get it

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[brainrockets]

In the Walter Crane illustrations of Beauty and the Beast, the Beast is a boar.

Just a thing that struck me.

[grey-pr1sm]

Listen, I was rewatching Neverafter and I think if he wasn’t an absolute bitch they would’ve been so cute together so I had to do a bit of a wedding. Rosamund’s dress was so fun to design: it has briar roses, forget-me-nots, and sweet pea flowers.

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