#queerlyvictorian posts

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Brennan Lee Mulligan arguing for the primal nature of morality on Ep. 40’s Fireside Chat is one of the funniest and realest things I’ve ever heard. He once again put into words what I have been trying to say for what feels like forever.

EDIT: No, I actually need to quote this out for myself.

“One of the things that happens a lot in philisophy that is, I think, a point of failure, potentially, in it, is that philosophy contains a lot of formal logic studies, and there’s a degree to want to sort of explicate, logically, everything, and go like, ‘What are the reasons and rationalities behind all of this?” But I think ignoring the primal origins of morality- You don’t need- If you watch someone kick a small animal, you don’t need an explanation for why that’s bad. It’s a first- It’s a primary thing, right? And you get into weird positions when you’re like, ‘I believe that humans should have good- be flourish and be happy, and have safety and joy!’ And someone can literally just go ‘Why? To what end? To what end should they have joy?’ And you’re like ‘Not to what end. I’m saying this is the end for me. The end for me is joy and safety and peace.’ And I get to say that because I’m a weird brain monster living in the universe and I can create meaning with my mind. You’re doing the same thing right now, but I just choose joy. Are you choosing something else? Because if you are, then we’re in conflict!” -Brennan Lee Mulligan, “Fireside Chat for WWW ep40 ‘Aid and Comfort’”

Choose joy, motherfucker! If you’re not, we’re in conflict!!!

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I love everything about this pansexual, philosophical, pontificating robot

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Clearing up some confusion that I’ve been seeing. The wand that Ame took doesn’t make you a witch, it makes you a part of the Coven of Elders. It’s called the Wand of Covenant. All a witch needs is a connection with the spirits and a familiar, and Nif had a spirit willing to guide her to her familiar. It’s like Brennan says. What Mr. Soup did for Ame in leading her to the Fox, Eursulon did that with Nif and leading her to her elk.

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“One of the first things your father said that charmed me due to its insight, which your father had in great quantity. The entire world of wizardcraft, from the first elders that reached into the shadow and wrought the first secrets of the lingua arcana from the depths of ignorance into the sudden light of insight and realization: the most common of their downfalls has been seeing the humility and serenity of witches, and underestimating it.” - The Wizard Steel, Episode 1, “The Open Door”

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First Solari post!! Thus begins my reward for tagging all my previous WBN posts with #the wizard the witch and the wild one…

Anyways. I saw somebody speculating how Chee and Ze’Doven can relate to each other, and I remembered a detail Aabria mentioned. That Chee is going to have find a better place to start in her attempt to keep Ghenopaar independent, e.g. a member of the Five Families who actually carries the name. And what do you know, a scion of Clan(?) Iverex is partaking in her vice den, and is probably about to be saved by her. Depending on how important Ze’Doven actually is within his family, this could be the beginning of a beautiful partnership…

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Um, the Kasov Collection is a whole ass copper or black dragon… like WTF??? What crafty ass wizard trapped a fucking dragon in a magical portrait?

Also, of course the collection has a utilitarian (and military) purpose. It’s not just horrific imprisonment, it’s horrific enslavement too!!

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The longer I hear Eioghorain speak in that gruff Brennan voice, the more I am POSITIVE that bitch is bisexual.

Granted, I think all wild spirit-men are bisexual, especially in the world of Umora, but still.

Please, won’t someone tell me I’m not alone in this!! I saw someone say he was Soft and Stone’s third, and for a brief shining moment, I felt seen.

EDIT: Also, I will be thinking about Eioghorain’s explanation of Umora’s version of druidism for literal years…

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I don’t know how often Brennan brings up this analogy, since despite the amount of Lee Mulligan content I feel I’ve consumed, I’ve only recently dived into Dimension 20, but in Episode 4 of Adventuring Party for A Crown of Candy at 01:04:12, Brennan mentions a thing he learned about chess recently and related it to DMing and I was like, “Wait, I’ve heard him say this, and recently.” It’s the exact analogy he threw out as a taunt in the most recent Fireside Chat for Episode 22 of The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One on the Worlds Beyond Number Patreon, about how so much of his “planning” as a DM is just developing enough material to move aspects of the narrative into the good positions to be used later-

These two talkbacks are nearly four years apart in their release date, and I coincidentally listened to them less than four days apart from each other. It just goes to show, I think, how deeply Brennan thinks about DMing and his philosophy towards the art form and practice of it. He pulled the same reference out of his brain years after he learned it, and expressed it in a totally different tone and context. He really is so good at this game.

The understatement of the century, I know, but I just think it’s neat.