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lauren, they/them, 19

[theboxofdoom]

sorry i dropped off the face of the earth tumblr. i’m trying to be back now (which i’ve said before).

follow my main blog @dyslexicdumbass if you want to hear from me. i’m probably going to delete this blog soon… or just archive it. idk.

[clemtiness]

the energy of The Seven campaign is so slumber party/bathroom talk and it makes me so proud to be a teen girl disaster

[theboxofdoom]

For everyone celebrating, happy FHJY premiere!

welcome back my beloved Baby ❤️‍🔥.

[idontreallywanadotheworktoday]

[figsbass]

fig saying "i come from hell" is so funny. girl you're from the suburbs!!!!!

[theboxofdoom]

it’s giving that clip of veneer and velvet from trolls 3…

Fig “Do you want to lose all this and go back to the dark place where we had NOTHING”

and Wretchrot “Girl you grew up in the suburbs, your mom was a ranger.”

[dabidagoose]

Thinking about Kristen Applebees. Chosen of Helio. Creator of YES!/?. Saint Kristen Applebees. Follower of Cassandra. She died first day of freshman year. She's currently a junior at Aguefort. She died 850 years ago. She's even gay.

[myartdumpster]

I love him with my whole heart

[gingermarshmallow]

Probably showing my age here with this:

For secret reasons I started picturing The Bad Kids & friends doing a rendition of The Princess Bride and here is my casting:

Adaine - Buttercup

Fabian - Westley/Dread Pirate Roberts (was there any doubt?)

Gorgug - Fezzik

Riz - Vizzini (hah! Rizzini!) / a R.O.U.S. (we all want to see him jumping on and biting Fabian. Don't deny it.)

Fig - Inigo Montoya

Kristen - Miracle Max / Prince Humperdinck (she HAS to be Max, no one else would fit, but it's such a short role for one of the six so I wanted to give her another. And I think she'd do a good Humperdinck)

Aelwyn - Count Rugen/The Six-Fingered Man

Sklonda - the ancient booer

Ragh - Yellin

Tracker - Valerie / the clergyman

Gilear - the Albino

Zelda - the grandson granddaughter

Jawbone - the grandfather

Sandra Lynne - the mom

Ayda - Prince Humperdinck (second choice if we're only casting one role/person)

Telemaine - the clergyman (second choice)

Some of the smaller roles are hard to cast, and it would have been fun to throw in other Spyre characters, but I struck with the usual peeps.

Please reblog with your own casting!

Edited by swapping Aelwyn and Ragh.

[sstarlegacy]

now announcing

ahem..

RIZZ Gukgak.

he’s uh.. got all that rizz now so he gets um an extra Z. good for him

[shitpostingkats]

Thank you for your service, king.

[theboxofdoom]

out of his cringe era.

there is said it

[thepringlesofblood]

the vibe im getting from FHJY is that this is the season where they really lean into the high school aspect. that probably sounds bonkers since its called Fantasy High, but like. hear me out.

Freshman year, they come at high school from the "John Hughes" "80s teen movie trope" vibe, which is to say different from the real-world experience of high school.

it works great! operating in that frame of reference makes everything flow really well, and hits all the high-school-related-media notes in a very satisfying way while putting its own spin on it and not getting bogged down by the actual slog that is high school in reality.

there's still a lot of more modern inspo, but it stays in the kinda expectation-suspension-tropey area of how 80s movie high school works.

Sophomore year is spring break! I believe in you! They're not at school! They're on an adventure!

They lean into being a teenager and coming-of-age themes a lot (obvs), but the only big reference point to the institution of high school is that it'll be worth 60% of their grade.

A huge point, to be sure, and the exact kind of objectively unfair but somehow not against the rules shit that happens in high school, but not the main driving force of the season.

arthur aguefort also does a bunch of wack shit but it's more fantasy than it is high school although its a lot of both.

they lean into adventuring as a set career path much more, with the school giving money for hirelings and offering a basic incentive for other students to go, so that's a loose connection to the real-world career counseling high schools have, but again, not the main thing.

VERY Important though: we are now very much in the present. The viral shrimp party, livestreaming Kalina, online banking, the epic of Gorgug building a cell tower? this isn't john hughes 80s town anymore, this is now. (at least in Solace).

Junior year

almost everything in the trailer is about academia

we've got the cool doodles-in-the-margins style art and intro

in the interviews and BTS (so far), the cast have talked a lot about what they were like in high school (not the 80s)

and the precedent that The Seven set where the MacGuffin was getting their GED? It's time.

we're getting into what is actually hell about high school - the institution itself. the arbitrary standards that academia in the US holds, and how it leaves behind, punishes, and fails its students in its extremely important role of preparing them for life as an adult.

i could talk about this all day, but personally for me the quote from the trailer that shot me back to my junior year of high school was "You have perfect grades, and it still might not be enough for you to graduate"

riz's arc this season is shaping up to punch me in the academia trauma and personally i can't wait for the catharsis

Brennan has shown time and time again that he Gets and wants to tell stories about the ways in which the US education system affects, hurts, shapes, traumatizes, changes people, and how they survive and recover from it and make their own lives. I for one am so so ready to see that reflected with the bad kids.

[parksnark]

IM A LITTLE SHRIMP

[sleeperagentclone]

I love him your honor

Adaine

[theboxofdoom]

hey tumblr, how are you?

i don’t come on here much nowadays and it makes me a bit sad that scrolling on my account it says most of my posts were made at least 2 years ago.

anyway, i’m a freshman in college now and my life has changed dramatically (for the better). Thank you for being my best friend for so long <3

[theboxofdoom]

i recently did a purge of my quarantine photos (most of which were D20 related) and this is one of the only D20 images i have left.

[theboxofdoom]

a few months ago i stopped being able to afford dropout and that means i wasn’t able to watch D20. i still don’t have dropout which makes me weirdly like nostalgic for when this account was super active

[charlilil]

here’s some quick dumb doodles I did while watching starstruck odyssey