#klck

[rabdoidal]

i stand with my cancelled daughter

🐀 kofi link in bio if you’re feeling generous 🐀

[birdhouse-art]

fan art for "Victim" Impact Statement by @kipperlillyforpresident !!! the definitive kipperlilly fic . hope you continue it op

[emiuli]

Stream rat grinders amv dropping tomorrow!!!!

[nocternalrandomness]

Thunderbirds on the Rickenbacker ramp

[ragesstarred]

headcannons for kipperlilly

she used to keep a diary but she stopped for whatever reason (was told it was too childish, had it looked through by her parents & got in trouble, etc.) & now it all just Festers in her head forever because if she's not even safe to write it down without consequence she's certainly not safe to say it aloud.

she was taught to straighten her hair from an early age, but not from her mom specifically. i'm thinking like an older sister or aunt figure, or perhaps just from media in general doing the "ugly girl straightens her hair & gets rid of her glasses and now she's beautiful" thing. she wears contacts for the same reason.

she's been an insomniac for as long as she can remember, which only serves to make her more irritable, especially as a teenager. she uses this "extra time" to plan her campaign and kill rats in the woods, and she gets upset at the other rat grinders when they don't join her.

she thinks addiction and joining cults are just weak-willed behaviors. she also thinks people who drink specifically are stupid and have bad taste. this may or may not be influenced by the fact that she's never been popular enough to get invited to parties.

she hates when people make fun of how angry she is all the time, so instead she'll usually bring it up first to make it feel like she's in control and it doesn't make her upset.

she actually hates the color red and finds it incredibly ugly and overbearing, but of course it actually totally goes with her outfits because if she didn't incorporate it that would just remind her how shitty the rage star looks on her chest.

she's never actually felt attraction for anyone, and only expresses interest if she feels like she can gain something from them. she assumes this is how everyone goes through life, so she doesn't feel like she's being used when others do the same to her.

she was never intentionally abused, but she was mistreated in the way that most children are. never given a say as to whether she wanted to hug that relative or play with that kid so that the parents could chat. shown things in media that told her she was lesser for being female, for being a halfling, for being small. made fun of for her name and her size, and her parents teaching her by example to just grin and bear it. told that when a boy pulls your hair or follows you around you shouldn't punch him! he probably just likes you. scolded by adults and made fun of by peers for being angry at all this, because that's just how it is.

[finn-from-adventure-time]

Kipperlilly Copperkettle: At age fourteen, one of the teachers at my school realized that I was dealing with anger issues and elected to worsen them for his own personal gain. I was lied to, manipulated, convinced to undergo a ritual that would forfeit any control I had over my own actions, and forced to murder my friends with my own two hands. I tried to get help before it spiraled out of control, but none of the other adults in my life realized what was going on soon enough to stop everything that was happening to me. I died fighting for that man, and he didn’t even bat an eye as I faded into nothing.

Everybody for some reason: Wow. Sounds like all of that was your fault!

[th3b4dk1dzz]

Kalina: You will keep digging, digging, digging until your own hands are bleeding because the second you stop, you'll realise your dad is never coming home

Kittylitter Clerickiller: Gods, I wish that were me

[dropoutconfessions]

As I make my way through Fantasy High I find myself more and more perplexed by the numerous takes I have seen prior.

1) “It’s railroading.” Railroading is when the player has no real agency or choice. It is when their actions don’t actually affect the outcome of the game. Every player is given the ability to make choices that impact the world [created by Brennan] and do so frequently.

Having a planned story is called GM’ing. Letting your players know the general idea of what you have planned is a fairly normal thing to do. That’s called setting expectations/tone. Do you think someone hosting a campaign using popular and well-known adventuring modules like Tomb of Annihilation is railroading?

2) “[X character] is terrible this season. They made so many bad choices.” Almost every single choice made by the players is completely intentional (including the ones that make the character seem like an asshole). This is because they, like any writer worth their weight, understand that doing otherwise would be narratively boring.

3) “They said ‘chaos isn’t cute’ but Kristen is still being chaotic” (or something along those lines). Ally has significantly toned down Kristen’s chaotic shenanigans and made a real effort to show Kristen actually taking their clerical duties seriously after getting the wake up call. We have multiple scenes showing this. What are y’all talking about I had assumed that Kristen would spend the entire season blowing off their duties and only learning a lesson during the finale (but never learning the lesson). Instead I saw a great deal of character development that made sense for her.

4) “The story makes it seem like Kipperlilly deserved being manipulated.” /“Players act like Kipperlilly deserved what happened to her”.

They don’t. And this is the biggest one I saw and was what made me extremely pensive about watching this season. I had viewed every interaction with Kipperlilly under this lens. And then I watched episode 16 where they [SPOILERS] acknowledge that Kipperlilly wasn’t some inherently evil person but likely a very frustrated, childish teenager who was taken advantage of. They do not act like she deserved it.

They do, however, dislike her. Frankly they have no reason to like her at that point. Even if she’s a little sympathetic. Sometimes people don’t get to redeem themselves. Same with Kalina. Just because their situations were complicated doesn’t mean they didn’t directly played a major role in harming the Bad Kids. They are not owed forgiveness.

Overall: This season was so much better than I expected. I’m glad I stuck it through and decided to see for myself. I’m also happy I have basic literacy and critical thinking skills.

Disclaimer: This is not me saying D20 crew can do no wrong. I have my complaints. Brennan is way too lenient on them IMO. I dislike how they’ve handled Sandralynn’s whole thing. I think the players shouldn’t tunnel vision so much (the tragedy playing lots of D&D is sometimes you might be following a path of tropes in your head instead of the actual story). It has its issues but it’s also still a very solid piece of D&D media.

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