On A Bus season 3 is gonna rule

Levi, he/him, *1995. I interact from @thelastgenderbender formerly @at-the-thistlespring-tree [Icon description: A photograph of Lou Wilson blowing the camera a kiss. End icon description.] Originally a Dimension 20 blog, now any Dropout (and CollegeHumor) shows blog. URL to be read in the same cadence as 'the vampire Lestat'

[thebitchlapin]

Maxwell Gotch IS gay, I know this because he sucked my dick by the dumpsters behind the Revington cafeteria

[missstrogen]

Sam reich having a trans women are pedos moment was not on my bingo for this year

[missstrogen]

Clarification

[um-jammer-tranny]

it was my entire bingo card, seriously. this is dropout, and sam, doing what it always has done

[knives-in-the-dishwater]

...please look up the slang word "nonse" (with an 's'), and consider whether "nonses" might make a bit more sense than "nonces" in the context of a list whose other items are "hardened gamblers", "addicts", and "sociopaths".

y'know, "hardened gamblers, addicts, sociopaths, fools" at a race, rather than "hardened gamblers, addicts, sociopaths, pedophiles".

[atelier-tamamoland]

let's put our critical thinking hats on and think really hard about what he meant when he brought up being called that by someone wearing makeup

[missstrogen]

According to a friend he might have said "nancies". Which would be better, but would also be the literal transmisogynistic slur that nonce comes from. So not great actually!

[irramdiated]

hi, i was the one who sourced the video in question, it's the teensyville video off no rolls barred; this was a callback bit from earlier in the video, where they had been specifically speaking about lewis carroll, using the term 'nonce'. there is no misunderstanding here; sam reich did, in fact, say that it is quite ironic for a man in heavy makeup to jest about nonces. it is unbelievable for so many people to try to bend over backwards to make excuses for such blatant transmisogyny

[irramdiated]

it's also particularly upsetting when put into further context!!!! the blood on the clocktower community (which is the game being played in the video) has been heavily praised by transfems in the community for the number of transfems who are prominent players. off the top of my head i can name at least 10 transfems on the botc channel's rotating cast, a far higher percentage than its tme trans roster (and i believe equivalent or close to their cisfem roster, but i don't have an exact count bc they don't keep a documented roster for their streams) not to mention other major channels in the space that feature several very notable transfems. ime its regularly noted how safe of a community has been fostered for transfem viewers and players.

i must, obligitarily, note: a higher amount of transfem cast members (or the presence of them, period) does not necessarily mean a completely safe environment for transfems, either viewers or cast members alike. but at the very least, it demonstrates a marked effort to platform and support trans women as valued community members. an effort which, notably, dropout tv has not bothered to make. nrb in specific, the channel this happened on, is one of the botc community channels striving to make this effort, with one of the key and beloved members in their botc series being mara joy (who is a trans woman, noted not to tokenize her in specific but to highlight her)!!

so, to lay it out more specifically, sam reich made this joke on a platform that is expected to be a safe space for transfem viewers. he was a guest star on a show which has far less social pull than dropout tv, was one of the only white cishet guys in the room, and took advantage of that. i cannot stress this enough: sam reich went to a community that has a general expectation of being a safe place for transfems, as a guest, likely for the purposes of promoting his latest kickstarter, and he used that platform to make a "joke" about transfems being pedophiles.

it was also directed towards a gay man, who, like… well, we all saw the clip, it's my opinion that he looks pretty genuinely uncomfortable for a moment before trying to hide it by playing it up for the camera. tbh i find it disappointing that said joke ended up in the final edit at all! but the fact that sam felt so comfortable dropping that kind of quip given the setting and the current overall climate is so frustrating and gross.

i don't know. i don't fucking know!! it's an uncomfortable joke in a vacuum and worse with context on all fronts.

[samreich]

like day and night this guy

[biria8]

"Hey, you know I don't mind a little sauce on my Wingstreet" oh we know, babe. We know.

[telumendils]

What do you think you're trying to understand about your story?

Dimension 20: Neverafter — Episode 9, “Origins”

[telumendils]

#the allegory to Black boyhood Lou brought to this character is simply unmatched by any other adaptation of pinocchio. it's That Good.

[themaidenofwords]

Allegations? No, baby, they're married

[themaidenofwords]

#they got married and called it a merger

prev these tags make me want to have a merger with you

[thedman0310]

Do they know?

[sunshinetheinspiration]

Context:

[thebitchlapin]

Hypothetically, at some point, there might be a moment on Dirty Laundry where by pure coincidence, two people have secrets that are similar enough that they both think Lily is talking about them and both get very confused when they see the other reaching for their drink

[leonalmalsy]

[leftbeeftheory]

“Vesper is girl Cody Walsh”

Actually, Cody Walsh is girl Cody Walsh. Vesper is Cody Walsh after a few years on hrt.

[not-a-smartass-just-a-nerd]

and Darkness Man is the OC for a Batman fanfic that Cody Walsh wrote when he was fourteen

[hi-intrepid-heroes]

first a missile, now a whole guy

[jadeinretrogrde]

close enough, welcome back Margaret Encino

[scribefindegil]

okay avoiding doing a reblog with "me but I don't do this" tags because I know how annoying that is but: possession isn't always romantic but it IS always intimate in various intense and compelling ways that can be used for horror or love or any combination of the two. it's so tasty. and *also* sometimes it's hot, but that's a bonus.

[nootdraws]

A quick doodle of Maria, aka. the Blue M&M from Dimension 20: On A Bus. Just wanted to jot down some ideas before I go to bed. My apologies for it being janky.

(yes, those are peanuts attached to those hoops.)

[inthemosss]

We Goncharov'd On A Bus into existence, let's keep working so that Katie gets to do Season 10 in Space

[thebitchlapin]

There were countless hilarious lines in On A Bus season 2 but "I feel like she was calling you a homebrew hack" might be funniest out of all of them, thank you so much Aabria

[ademonandherbentley]

Tbh my main takeaway from D20: On a Bus is that a completely improvised DND season would go hard as fuck.

The DM comes in with no plan, the characters are randomly generated at the table, and the whole group has to collaboratively figure out the story and themes as they go. Bonus points if everyone gets to trade off DMing as they did in OAB.