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Hi i just got dropout and was wondering what to start out with, any nice tips? :>

Depends what specifically you’re into. I watch everything on there now, and I would categorize Dropout’s content into a few categories, so I’ll break it down by category.

Game Changer and Spinoffs

I started with Game Changer, and I think that is a very good first Dropout show because it introduces you to a lot of the recurring cast members, and since the game changes every show, you can either join in on the latest season or start at the beginning to get all the recurring jokes.

Make Some Noise I enjoyed more once I’d become familiar with the people doing it from other shows (plus it’s a spinoff of Game Changer, so chronologically it would come some time after the Game Changer episode it’s based on).

As a former theater kid, I very much enjoy Play It By Ear. It’s improv musicals, so i feel like you either hear that and absolutely must see it or you heard that and know you absolutely don’t want to see it, lol.

The D20 section

If you’re into D&D or think you could be, Dimension 20 is my favorite thing on there, and you could definitely start with that if you’re up for the long episodes. I’d recommend starting at the beginning with Fantasy High. Personally I really liked going through all the seasons in order so I didn’t need to figure out which ones were sequels and spinoffs of other ones.

If you’re going to watch Dimension 20 definitely use the “The Complete Experience” versions that have the adventuring parties (talkback) in between the regular episodes.

The order of the seasons has occasionally been flipped around in a way that puts one of the spin offs before the season it spun off from, so here is the order of the seasons so far, with some symbols I’ll explain after:

Fantasy High [I, F]

Escape From the Bloodkeep

The Unsleeping City [I, U]

Fantasy High: Sophomore Year [I, F]

Tiny Heist

A Crown of Candy [I, C]

Pirates of Leviathan [F]

The Unsleeping City - Chapter II [I, U]

Mice & Murder

Misfits and Magic

The Seven [F]

Shriek Week

A Starstruck Odyssey [I]

Coffin Run

A Court of Fey & Flowers

Neverafter [I]

The Ravening War [C]

Dungeons and Drag Queens

Mentopolis

Burrow’s End

Fantasy High - Junior Year [I, F]

The letters in brackets mean:

I - Intrepid Heroes season (the players are the main cast of players from the first season)

F - Fantasy High (this season is in the Fantasy High universe)

U - The Unsleeping City (this season is in the Unsleeping City universe)

C - A Crown of Candy (this season is in the A Crown of Candy universe)

I believe adventuring party starts during A Crown of Candy, so there is no talkback for the previous seasons. In general, you can watch the seasons that don’t have an F, C, or U in any order, but there are callbacks to previous jokes, especially in Adventuring Party, so I would say to watch any season with any letter above in order at least, and the rest it doesn’t really matter the order.

I watched them all in order except I gave up on Shriek Week because I wasn’t enjoying it and then came back to it when I was out of seasons to watch, and I saved Dungeons and Drag Queens until I was in the mood for a beginner adventure (plus Mentopolis started just after I finished The Ravening War).

Other TV-style shows

The first season of Very Important People just wrapped up, which is Vic Michaelis interviewing Dropout cast members who are improvising characters based on a costume they were put into without knowing what it was ahead of time. Like many other shows on Dropout, I got more into it the more episodes I saw. It could be watched first, but you’ll get more out of it from knowing who the person is that’s being put in costume to be shocked how different they look.

Dirty Laundry, which is a panel show where they share a secret/embarassing/weird fact about someone and then the panel members guess who it was, could be watched first, but the episodes with Dropout cast members as guests are more enjoyable if you know who they are.

Smartypants is a new show that just started. The show is them doing presentations, and I’m realizing I’m not going to be able to describe it in a way that doesn’t sound awful, but it’s good. This is a good one to watch earlier, I think. At least so far it hasn’t been highly dependent on inside jokes.

Um, Actually is very fun to play along with trying to find the mistake in statements about nerdy media. That you can watch whenever.

One of the first shows they did, Total Forgiveness, I would highly recommend. It’s only one season, but you might want to be familiar with Ally Beardsley and Grant O’Brien first.

I also liked Where in the Eff is Sarah Cincinnati

YouTube-Style Videos

Since Dropout got its start from CollegeHumor’s YouTube videos, there are some things that feel more like a YouTube video than a TV show (in the sense of less polish, shorter length, and/or the concept just being more like what you’d expect from YouTube)

The only ongoing one that I would describe that way (I think) is Breaking News, which is where they act like newscasters but they’ve never seen the words on the teleprompter and they have to try not to laugh as they say all the ridiculous things on there. Some episodes are funnier with more context on the cast, but most of them can be watched whenever, and there isn’t really any continuity to it, so any season can be watched in any order. I’ve only watched some of the past seasons and picked and chose the episodes to watch.

They also have all the old College Humor skits and stuff, and some of them have not aged well, but the Hardly Working series has a lot of good stuff in there, especially in the later seasons, that explains some of the running jokes across the platform.

Also all of Brennan’s A Message from the CEO skits are very funny (I think they’re all still on YouTube too, but they’re also on Dropout).

Early Dropout Content

The last category in my opinion is some of the stuff they tried to do early in Dropout where they were trying to grow out of the YouTube videos but didn’t yet pivot into what Dropout is now.

I already mentioned Total Forgiveness, which is from this era, but the only other thing I’ll mention is that they did some video podcasts during this time, and personally I really enjoyed Tales from the Closet.

There’s also just a LOT from this time and I’ve only seen some of it. They really tried some different things.

Summary

There is a lot of good content on Dropout, and it is the sort of thing where whatever you watch first you’re probably missing some inside jokes that you’ll then get next time they come up.

Having just thought about it all to write this, I’d say the best places to start are either Game Changer or Dimension 20: Fantasy High depending on what you’re looking for.

And then poke around at some of the shorter videos when you don’t feel like watching something long.

#dropout #dropout.tv #dropout tv #dimension 20 #game changer #um actually #dirty laundry #total forgiveness #college humor #where in the eff is sarah cincinnati #my lil dropout daddies

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I just saved a draft I’d been working on for a long time and it disappeared. Like I’d previously saved it, and I just thought I should save again before switching apps so I don’t lose it, and then after I saved it disappeared.

Edit: And now it’s back. Ok

#tumblr meta

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If you push the first button, all the men lose their jobs.

The second button launches the missiles.

Two buttons

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Please Reblog is Your Blog is Safe for Non-Binary People.

If my mutuals can’t rb this then we can’t be mutuals

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WHAT THE FUCK IS NONCHALANT 😭😭😭 i was built to take a sword through my chest for you

#is this what it feels like to be in the twilight zone #there’s so many words in the tags but none of them tell me what’s going on

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but have you considered that her name is 4 dogs

dropout discord HATED my friend and I for saying the same thing thank you for talking about kipperlily being manipulated because holy shit

lol i believe it it’s nasty in dropoutcord and im sorry you had to deal with that. i seriously do not think brennan was careful enough about writing in teacher student dynamics in fhjy because like. you cannot just introduce a subplot where a teacher coerces/kills several students under their care and then not address it at all as part of said students’ motivations and be okay with condemning one of them to death. like the fact that he did not consider the subtext and implications of that genuinely makes me so mad 😭

like i personally dont give a fuck if kipperlilly “chose” the ragestar; her mental illness was being fed into by two adults in a position of power of her. there’s no other way to interpret the jaceporter/rat grinder dynamic and yet soooo many people ignore this so they can continue to spew vitriol about a fictional teen girl. out here exonerating the adult male imperialist to call a teen girl a bitch/cunt/whore/slut (ALL REAL TERMS I HAVE SEEN PEOPLE CALL KIPPERLILLY) but they think it’s okay if they put “white” in front of it

anyway. fhjy should’ve been about how children are failed by the school system and the adults around them. it adds tremendous depth to literally every character in the show—it gives the bad kids an emotional arc in sympathising with their foils, it makes the rat grinders deeply tragic, it makes jace and porter deeply threatening. like i rly srsly thought this is where they were going this whole time like 😭😭 how did we get here

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Name: "The Doctor".

Occupation: "Not a doctor".

Current status: "Just passing by".

Employer: "Myself".

Address: "That blue box over there".

#doctor who #yes! I did it! #best outcome possible!

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are some of you guys computer viruses be honest

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In the first picture I thought the cat had an escherian prosthetic back leg stuck in the soup.

Bothersome creature

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So much this. I feel like I start to see all of the players as their characters to a degree at some point in a season, but with Siobhan, it takes no work for my brain to do this, because she is the character.

I want to say more words because I feel so strongly about this but I would just be paraphrasing the original post, so I won’t.

I dont know how to put it, other than to say that Siobhan Thompson is such an actor when she's role playing. I remember going back to S1 fantasy high and thinking "oh shes so young" about siobhan as a person, but then immediately after that, watching unsleeping city and feeling like she - as a person - was so much older even though only a few months had passed between filming the two. She was playing young and old in fh and usc, and in neverafter and mentopolis she was playing two different ends of the transatlantic accent who were completely different characters. And when she was jaysohn she was SUCH a little boy, I have that nephew, we ALL have that nephew. She doesn't just fully embody the character she does so with astonishing range. Siobhan plays whole new people with every table she sits at.

#siobhan thompson #dimension 20

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#if your childhood was not filled with Richard Scarry: what childhood?

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There’s so much to unpack here:

Pack of Beakers

Goth Beaker

The Beaker snitching and pointing out the photographer

The Beaker that’s about to unload on the photographer

The terminator strut before the ass whooping and you know he’s moving at speed because of the blur

The ominous feeling that you know this is 3 in the morning

#meep

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How to Finish

I drew this poster for Jon Acuff and his FINISH book tour. Big thanks to Jon for this collaboration, his book has some great ideas about how to complete creative and life goals.

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Introducing the latest in my series of projects that are way less important and less useful than my other projects and yet for some reason I actually do these ones:

I made an app (just for me, you can’t have it) that I can open to see how far along I am on HRT. The progress bar converts the number of days to roughly how much of the perceived difference from HRT I expect to see based on various people I’ve heard from.

The point of it was mainly so that when I feel like things are taking too long I can pull this out and remind myself I’m only supposed to be X% of the way there. And if things are truly not moving along at the right pace I know it’s actually worth looking into if there’s a problem.

It’s not a linear mapping of days to percentage. More of an S curve that picks up slow, rises quickly during the period where the most obvious changes should start to become noticeable, and then slows down, asymptotically approaching 100% over the rest of my life.

That’s why it says “Time Remaining: Calculating…”, as a reminder that it’s a lifelong process, and it will continue for the rest of my life. Technically speaking it actually does reach 100% if I live long enough, but it would be impressive to reach that age, and I figure even if I do, I doubt I’ll still have the app.

I included the time since what I call my “first egg cracking” and my “second egg cracking” (basically the first one is when I realized I was most likely trans and the second is when I fully accepted it and finally understood it enough and had the autonomy to start doing something about it).

And just for fun the text on that section is using a metaphor of HRT being a journey I wanted to do for a long time, then prepared for, and finally have embarked upon

And the reason it says “Womanizing” instead of “Feminizing” is because I named the app “Womanizer” after the song.

#transgender #trans #hrt #trans hrt #wasting time

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she ate

#grandma droniak? more like grandma dunking