Demand More

32 y/o woman-adjacent; Ancient Wizened Fandom Hag. You probably started following me for Captain America or maybe Coco? Dragon Age Veilguard Defender. Right now I'm obsessed witwith Dispatch and lowkey The Amazing Digital Circus.

[steel-wind-strike]

No greater shock than seeing clips of CR4 Julian Davinos and later reading that accent is supposed to be scottish.

[wee-chlo]

??????? 90000% sure its intended to be Italian.

[punishandenslavesuckers]

CR4 Episode 15

Aranessa: *tearfully* Thaisha, my sister, my friend, my beloved ally and one of the only people left in the world that I can trust. I cannot follow you into the shadows. But please, take this boon from me.

Thaisha: *also tearfully* What boon?

Aranessa: I'm gonna tell Sir Julian to be absolutely unhinged as fuck about you. Same twelve out of ten insane that he is about me. I'm gonna tell him to bite people for you, like, nonstop.

Thaisha: I don't want that.

Aranessa: Too late.

[its-myonnie]

look i don't often participate in the lore side of cr (because frankly, i am too dumb to anticipate the plot twists most of the time) but like... we all agree that the aspirants of the creed have divine powers because they're all involuntary celestial warlocks who unknowingly agreed to have their souls sold to ksha'aravi by yanessa when they entered the church, right?

like... the weird, scary, glowing holy orders are warlock contracts.. that grant them power because they're pact-of-the-tome warlocks so they carry that shit around everywhere they go..? right??? i didn't hallucinate all of this??

[wee-chlo]

Yeah, I think the issue is that the people who CAN in character realistically connect those dots dont have the necessary info because Tyranny hasn't mentioned she saw Ksha'aravi's name on the holy orders. Like. I think Bolaire ended up being more focused on the name than the context, when he saw it in her head?

Basically the dots are there and easy to connect but IC I don't think the people who WOULD connect them know them or have put it together.

[dreamycastaway]

The original pride flag and the sewing machine it was sewn on

[iwriterobots]

[sanscest69]

I just realized that many many people have jobs

Rb with your job, wtf do you people do while offline???

[wee-chlo]

Rewatching CR4 from the beginning and JFC everyone's so rude and dismissive about the Stone of Nightsong. Like, DIRECTLY to Vaelus' face.

Like, somehow Thimble is the LEAST disrespectful? At least she apologizes. But everyone else is so blatantly snide about it. They swing back and forth between considering her an active threat to mocking her to her face; it's so off-putting.

[acebender]

and from Cooldown, Sam's T-shirt! Whitney Moore from when she did Birdemic!

[wee-chlo]

I couldn't remember where I knew Whitney Moore from and then he wore that shirt and I realized... Birdemic. JFC Birdemic...

For those unaware: Birdemic is an absolutely TERRIBLE movie that does a 180 into being absolutely hilarious. You can see the full movie with the guys from Mystery Science Theatre 3000 making fun of it for free on Youtube and it's... something else.

Whitney is VERY pretty in it, of course. She's gotten significantly better at acting since, but she was like. 21 at the time and still does a hell of a lot better than most of the rest of the cast.

[pinkbeetroot]

azune: *lies for no reason*

azune: i lied to much my lies are crushing me under them please help me

[wee-chlo]

Us: You could stop digging?

Azune, getting a backhoe: REMEMBER ME AS I WAS!

[wee-chlo]

I think in an Aramán game, I would play an elf who saw her goddess die and was like "... oh, death is the great equalizer; everything can die and death is the greatest miracle." And subsequently becomes a grave cleric.

[cassafrasscr]

Not to take away from the King Gus reveal, but like... didn't we also get confirmation that Azune is gay?

Maybe I need to rewatch the Cooldown, but I could swear Luis said, "Azune is gay, but his gaydar isn't as good as mine." Did I mishear that?

[wee-chlo]

He stuttered over the sentence, according to thr subtitles. What he said was apparently "Azune's gaydar isn't as good as mine." But he was very excited so clearly Azune is interested in men. XD I'd be excited too if I realized I had a shot.

[wee-chlo]

Love that Brennan called out how disrespectful the group was to just fucking. Casually talk about fucking with this deeply important ancient relic of Vaelus' people, that was STOLEN.

And then Thimble has the audacity to be like 'why not?' when Vaelus refuses to hand it over.

Genuinely wouldn't have blamed her if she just. Left after that. Because damn. Azune talking about Thaisha remaking the Stone when she's sitting RIGHT THERE was agonizing in its secondhand embarrassment.

[wee-chlo]

Just realized why this demon is so familiar: this bitch has big Vulture King energy.

[occidentalavian]

This here his what separates Brennan and Matt's DM style. Brennan here is butting in and asking for a check to point out that their theory with the Sundered Houses at the Theater is specious.

Matt meanwhile wouldn't say shit and let them keep barking up the wrong tree.

[wee-chlo]

Probably comes from doing short(er) form content. Can't waste time on folks barking up the wrong tree when you've only got like 20 episodes.

[shivermedoodles]

If her personality was a billboard, it would have big block letters going, 'She'll kill you.'

I wish I drew more stuff for CR4 but i've been...busy with other things.Also this is my first post since my pc went to shit! :) (hey guys, back up your stuff,sometimes your computer will format itself!! uwu)

I just really love Maya already

[wee-chlo]

"Whatever abbey you cry in" was such a devestating burn that Julien overlooked the fact that Vaelus asked a deranged question twenty seconds earlier and felt the need to silently apologize to her for his mom, which is hilarious.

[leebrontide]

Ok so my kid had an ear infection, right? As kids often do.

The doctor scraped out a bit of earwax to have a better look inside.

I was sent a bill for $200 PER EAR for this 5 second procedure which I did not give permission for them to do.

That was key- they did not ASK me if they could do this "procedure". And, as I OWN a medical practice (it's me. The medical practice is me, sitting in my house on video calls) I knew to call them when this bill came in to be like "You did not obtain informed consent for this procedure, and it was not en emergency procedure. You had full ability to gain my consent and didn't. I'm not paying."

And the massive hospital who owned the bill said "yuh-huh you do have to pay."

And I said "I own a practice. I know these laws. I do not owe you money for this."

And they conducted an "internal review" and SURPRISE! Decided I totally owed them money and they had never done anything wrong ever.

And so I called my state's Attorney General office, and explained the situation because, as I mentioned, I know the law. The AG got in touch within a couple days to say they were taking the case and would send the massive hospital conglomerate a knock it off, guys letter.

Lo and Behold, today I have a letter where said hospital graciously has agreed to forfeit the payment.

"How not to get screwed over by companies" should be part of civics class.

Know your rights and know who to call when they're infringed on. This whole process cost me $0 and honestly less effort than I would have expected.

May this knowledge find its way to someone else who can use it.

[musefortheages]

This post is super cute and all but like.... This isn't practical advice. I called the AG???? And they got involved over a $200 bill. Maybe because you yourself are a medical practitioner. Not just your knowledge but also your status.

Civics class wouldn't help most people in this case because the AG will not take on all these cases and most people cannot afford an attorney in this instance or more importantly, the hit to their credit.

The issue is not education over the system, it is the system

[leebrontide]

I agree the system is a mess but I think education does matter because people seem not to know that this is actually perfectly routine AG office stuff. I’m not the only person who’s done this- this is just what they do?

Were they going to get into a lawsuit over my $400 bill? No obviously not. But they printed up a letter on fancy letterhead to say to stop and it worked. They followed up with me the next day to be sure, and so ask how much money they had saved me.

They use dinky cases like mine to track habitual misbehavior of large scale companies to build cases they could actually go to court over.

And because people are shocked- I never spoke to the AG of my state directly. He operates mainly by overseeing a whole crew of people. And this is what those people do.

This didn’t happen because I’m special because of my tiny therapy practice.

This happened because this is what the AG office is for.

“The problem is systemic” doesn’t mean “and there’s nothing you can do”.

This is a systemic problem but that doesn’t mean there are no resources to help.

[ktempestbradford]

Thank you for clapping back on this. I'm here to reinforce. Yes, you CAN call your state Attorney General office when an entity is doing something illegal, even if it's "only" for $400. You think they don't care a hospital is doing a crime because it's not a big enough crime?

Then you've been trained well by "The System".

Yes, that System you say can't be fought? Where did you get that idea, huh? Who taught you that "small" acts of illegality don't matter? Who made you think that there's no point in fighting back because it will all come to nothing?

Might it be the same entities that benefit if you believe all that?

Gonna pause and let you ponder.

Never. Ever. EVER.

EVER.

Let companies or corporations or hospitals or organizations or any business big or small get away with screwing you over without a fight. Maybe you personally don't win every fight, but you lose 100% of the time you don't try. You'll win more often than you think you will. I know cuz I've done it.

So have others. Attorneys General offices bring lawsuits against businesses all the time. They do so because citizens contacted them to say "someone is doing a crime" and the crime doers did not stop when told and got into way more trouble than if they'd just stopped. FAFO. The Find Out can't happen if you don't even bother to report the Fucking Around.

On that note, as OP said, please know your rights! And, in a situation where you don't but suspect something is hinky, ask! The people of the internet can help! So can librarians! So can many others. Find out what is and is not okay for them to do. If it's not okay, report them! See something, say something.

Don't let the System win by default.

Fight, damnit!

[themardia]

Additionally, pay attention to State Attorney elections! Here in Minnesota, our AG Keith Ellison has made it a POINT to go after slumlords, has created an entire UNIT in the AG office dedicated to wage theft, and gone after debt relief for people who were conned by those scummy fake universities. And despite MN being a blue state, one of his elections was a fucking NAIL-BITER.

Absolutely fight the system, absolutely go to your AG office if you’re being screwed over, and also pay attention to the people running for AG in the first place.

[sabra-n]

Government of the people, by the people, and for the people only works if the people make it work. That's you! You're the people.

"Don't bother doing anything because nothing will happen" confused cause with effect: it's really "Nothing will happen if you don't bother doing anything." Yeah, I know, it's a travesty that they don't hand you psychic powers when you take your oath as a civil servant, but until we fix that clear defect in our democracy: you're serving the public, too, when you report fuckers like this.

[ktempestbradford]

Not gonna leave this in the tags:

[mxlabradorite]

Suspicion of The System™️ is one of the ways The System™️ perpetuates itself.

If you believe The System™️ is only for Them™️ and not you, it will only ever be so.

Know the rules so you can make them work for you. Or better, how to break them in ways that hurt The System™️ and help you.

[wee-chlo]

Also, honestly: pay attention to who your local reps are and what they care about. Even the ones who are shitty on a national level can be surprisingly helpful on a local level.

My state rep is a shitbag. BUT he cares an awful lot about VA stuff. He's a big deal on that, he heads or headed the VA commission, etc.

The VA was cutting off referrals to chiropractors in my state and forcing us to go to the ones in local CBOCs. I live in a rural area with one CBOC, which in turn has one chiropractor. Who is suddenly having to see every single vet in our area on short notice.

Called that rep's office. Got a call back from a very interested and knowledgeable assistant who took my details. My referral went through within the week.

I'm no one special. I don't have a crazy important job or make tons of money. I didn't lie to them or say what they wanted to hear.

You'd be surprised what options you have available.

[catchymemes]

[dalishious]

Hypocrisy off the charts lol