#tucutucus

[skunkes]

What brush did you use on the last doodle you posted? It looks like it has a shape of something but I can't tell

a brush that i made that ill be sharing wit everyone soon! it's not like one of those brushes that uses an amogus png as a brush tip or anything (said as a response to the "shape of something" part), its just spikey on upward strokes

[revvethasmythh]

I have that user blocked for WEEKS because they just have the worst takes on CR, but also a good majority, Veth and they kept appearing on the tag

Just the most insane takes, i genuinely do not know how you you can watch the same show and get it THIS bad, im sharing your rage

Yeah, it took me a second but i recognized their url because they'd had some AWFUL meta in the Veth tag i got mad about like. a month ago that was so bad i publicly commented about it. I probably should have just blocked them then, but like. WOW. I mean, I won't lie and say i haven't seen those sorts of takes scattered around (what orb are some people watching???), but they sure are all condensed into one blog with this person and it is. it is AWFUL

[tucus-arts]

Commission for SleepsleepMr on Twitter

[utilitycaster]

Feel free to answer whenever you feel like, but i just saw an ask you've answered where you said " FCG's attitude towards the Changebringer is Jewish, Imogen's attitude towards the gods is Goyish. "

As Goy myself i really would love to hear you expand on this because i never thought about it like that until now but i can kinda see it (??)

Ok now this is something i realized mid-writting this ask and, if this is something Sam thought of doing on purpose, maybe the lose cables or "hair" on FCG is a convenient way to introduce a more obvious bit of Jewish analogy by introducing an Exandrian Kippah equivalent (??)

So...this requires a lot of context that to be fair I think a lot of people might not have.

The *Lenny Bruce voice* is a reference to a comedy routine by Lenny Bruce, a Jewish comedian from the 1950s and 60s, in which he would just go through like...random things or people and assign them "Jewish" or "Goyish" based on vibes. Like...he sorts different cigarette brands as Jewish and Goyish. He calls Ray Charles (not Jewish irl) "Jewish" and Al Jolson (Jewish irl) "Goyish". It's like when people on Tumblr say "oat milk is a girl to me and almond milk is a boy" or whatever. It's cultural rather than religious, and worth noting that Goyish in this context is often equated more with WASP attitudes than with Christianity on the whole. (For more, see some brief commentary here).

This is actually based on broad philosophy and not specifics, and actually the kippah example you give is kind of specifically the sort of representation I tend to oppose, because it's frequently the representation given. A lot of Jewish representation in fiction takes surface-level elements and is like "cool! Jewish character created! Done," because they threw a kippah on someone or had them leave a small rock on a gravestone. In the Christmas episode, they'll have one character who has never engaged with Jewish culture in any other context be like "don't you mean...Happy Hanukkah?" and then that's the last you've heard of it. You can make a character who smashes a glass at their wedding until you're blue in the face but, as I've said many times, one of my favorite forms of "representation" in media remains the comic version of G. Willow Wilson's run of Ms. Marvel, a Muslim character. Because that actually understood my high school experience! That had the complexities of being in a public high school but needing to miss events due to religious obligations the Christian majority did not have, or not being able to eat the pepperoni pizza my friends ordered! That actually captured my day-to-day lived experience, rather than being like, a weird archaeological dig into "Jewish Ritual Objects And Practices" that are then pinned onto a character like they're Jewish Barbie. A Kippah placed on a character who has an otherwise extremely Christian mentality is just a hat on a guy.

So anyway the reason FCG's coin strikes me as a very Jewish practice is not because it's literally indicative of any specific Jewish rituals. It's because it's very much a dialogue with a higher power that provides a lot of room for interpretation and even disagreement. And it's very focused on the here and now - FCG comes to the conclusion that the details of the Changebringer are not going to be answered and are not technically relevant; what matters is their actions in this time. Like, the decision FCG makes in episode 53, to go into the Grand Disc to see if they can help, is explicitly "if we cannot get a direct answer from a deity, we need to focus on living out their values and helping people." Meanwhile, Imogen's initial attitude towards the gods doesn't really grapple with the idea that people have free will and actions ultimately speak far louder than words, which is antithetical to the Jewish philosophy. Like, Judaism doesn't really have a solid idea of the afterlife (there are multiple vague concepts with no real consensus other than 'really not the most important thing to focus on') and while it does have a concept of souls it's sort of like...the divine within us all. The Ruby Vanguard ideology is remarkably consistent with (for example) Calvinist predestination and presumes a monolithic attitude with little room for questioning or free will that is entirely foreign to my upbringing, and even considering it for a second feels bizarre to me. Which isn't to say it's bizarre for Imogen to do so because, well, she's not Jewish, but it is philosophically incompatible with pretty much any Jewish worldview.

This was a very long way of saying "Jewish representation for me needs to be about ongoing day-to-day lived experience and philosophical outlook and as such most representation fails because it's single moments in time - a specific holiday or custom used as a lazy shorthand for an entire diverse religion and subculture. Within a world that is always going to be incompatible with the basic tenets of Judaism re: ethical monotheism and six thousand years of highly specific historical events, what I find most relatable is attitudes towards the divine that I find compatible. And FCG's attitude towards the divine is compatible, and Imogen's is not."

[rotten-dan]

AAAA Happy birthday Dan!!!! Hope you have a wonderful day!!!!

tHANK U THANKU AND BOY I know! I have the best twin in the world

[bravenot]

Honestly same. Kinda liked Ess/eek after the traitor reveal but man, Ca/eb deserves better, and that better is the Brena/tos and always has been

big agree 😔 it doesn’t bother me as much now, knowing that other people feel similar ways!

[bravest-notts]

People are giving Matt shit because the assasins attacked at night and was rigged agains the players, forgeting or bending rules for armor and sleeping and other bs. Just rulebook snobs forgeting that the DM is allowed to do that, and that he is human. The only thing that i would say im suss about is the 4 Nat 20s against Fjord, which he is still allowed to do for story reasons

my WoW guild uses a d100 format (bc ingame /roll command is natively 100 so it’s easier) and there have been nights where, as a DM, i haven’t rolled below an 80. it’s happened often enough to the point where there’s a guild meme where if a DM rolls very high consistently, they have “the M dice” that night. (my main’s name is M.) so it really does just happen like that sometimes. i don’t think matt would ever fake a roll, either for his own benefit or others’. the most he’s ever gone is giving himself an advantage roll for narrative reasons, like when veth killed the manticore’s baby in front of her. which makes sense.

it’s so wild that people expect matt to be some kind... DMing robot. like, god, i’ve had massive scale fights before with 21 players in attendance and it took all my concentration to make it work. and that was in the comfort of my own bed, slumped down and in pajamas. not on stream, having to keep things snapping along while juggling eighty thousand other balls in the air. and our system is muuuuuch more simple. i genuinely cannot imagine doing what matt does and boy i could not pull it off a quarter as well, boy howdy.

--vaguely off topic, but i always forget he also runs the sound effects and music while doing everything else. like. how. how does he do all of that.

[lostsometime]

tucutucus replied to your post: i always forget how creepy nott can get when you...

When was the “no.. you can’t” part?

same conversation as the “need him to be powerful” bit, in episode 11. 

Fjord: Why, Nott?  Why do you need him to be powerful?

Nott: So he can save me. [...] He can protect me.

Molly: I think we can all do that.

Nott: No... you can’t.