Goddamn I'm happy I got into dimension 20. I was raised in a household where emotional vulnerability and intelligence were regarded as bottom-of-the-totem-pole virtues, was always taught to see the "facts" and "logic" of a situation first (which ultimately just boiled down to You Are Not The Boss Here and Dependability Is More Important Than Any Moral Or Ethical Viewpoint You Hold)
Gladlands and Adventuring Party is really helping me break out of that, especially given the fact that they address the dependability paradox of, "Well sure you're there when the situation is dire, but the situation is barely ever dire, and the whole rest of the time you're just kinda miserable".
It also helps me bc now I get to think of my gladlands OC, Dogman the Carrier. He's mute, has six arms, and gets around by hanging from the ribcage of a giant scrap metal marionette that he moves by pulling on a series of cables. He calls the puppet-mech "Dog", despite it looking nothing like a dog because he's never seen a dog. In fact, it looks like a homunculus because he's taken the rumored physical traits of a dog (tail, long face, triangular ears, quadruped, etc) and applied them to the shape of a human.
Anyway thanks for Gladlands, Dim20 crew. You're really making me deconstruct the nuances of what I'm coming to regard as a kinda fucked upbringing.
