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There has been a lot of discourse surrounding the rat grinders and it's (mostly) been really cool and interesting

But while I love their complexity, and I think that it is important to remember that they are teenager who may have died in a very traumatic way before coming back, I also think that some people in the fandom are a bit too forgiving torwards them

There's a point where "They're teens,don't be so hard on them" doesn't cut it anymore.

They spent 2 years killing small animals in the woods before going to their spring break Adventure

Kipperlily complained about fairness and how the Bad Kids had an unfair advantage but then her and her party only ever picked easy adventures that would not challenge them or teach them anything

And also,while it can be understandable to want to feel unique and I agree that Kipperlily's anger issues are a sign of deeper problems;

we can all agree that a fairly wealthy girl with living parents being envious of a lower class boy whose mother can barely pay for food because she is jealous that his dad died horribly when he was little IS absolutely fucked up right?

Like, it's such a deeply entitled attitude; and it doesn't make her a monster, but her not being a monster doesn't make her an innocent little angel who never did anything wrong; a middle ground exists

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shoutout to siobhan thompson and by proxy adaine abernant for being the biggest hater to ever grace dimension 20. sometimes a sweet kind girl is a hater at heart and to me that is beautiful.

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The fact that Sklonda casually knows about the Society of Shadows retroactively makes Penny's whole dilemma in the Seven and all of Laertes' cloak and dagger shenanigans retroactively super funny. Like, she's having a whole existential crisis about never seeing her friends again and he's disguising himself as a scarecrow and a wooden duck and Sklonda is just like, huge air quotes, yeah the "SECRET SOCIETY".

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

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she wandas here, she wandas there

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sam nightingale fabian seacaster deeply tethered in the sense that whenever zelda & gorgug broke up i think they both were very emotionally supportive and there for their friend while also having clearly & openly thought the whole time that zelda/gorgug could’ve done better. also they’re both rich popular bards with talking vehicles who got left alone in their big house at the beginning of a school year so there’s that.

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The cover I did for the The Seven fashion zine from the @d20zinejam this past summer!

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Sam Nightingale 🤝 Kristen Applebees

living with the parental figure of the girl you loved long after she left you

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MY fig? in yellow sunlight PRIDE ARMOR? more likely than you think!

#she does now hold tha domain of a goddess of summer

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At first Fabian refuses to interact with his and Fig’s new sibling but one day his mom is dealing with something in the other room and the baby is crying and so Fabian has to pick up the baby. So he picks up the baby, bouncing them gently, and says, “One day, eighteen years from now, I will fight you to the death.” Then the baby reaches up and curls their little hand around his finger and Fabian’s voice breaks, utterly in love with this tiny person, and says, “I will defeat you,” unconvincingly.

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THEM!

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I raise my voice when I tell him I love him!!!

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perfect balance in new york city

(id: peter conlan and kingston brown from d20's the unsleeping city sit next to each other. pete, a young white transgender man with blond hair, a full mustache, and an easy smile, exposing a candy-cane coloured tooth, sits in a colourful version of new york, the building behind him stretching out into a galaxy of nothingness, surrounded by hundreds of dream creatures, such as pizza rat, a winged caterpillar, a fire breathing snake, the unicorn, a train with a face, the bodega cat, the moon, the juicy cockroach, and the spicy pigeon. his teapot and a steaming cup of tea sits in front of him. kingston, an older lightskin black man with white locs and a full beard sits next to him in the waking new york, dull-coloured and realistic in comparison to pete's new york. a fire hydrant is in the foreground. they seem to be in casual conversation with each other. there is no boundary between the two new yorks, blending into each other. end id.)

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they need to be in the dorkiest unhealthy relationship i've ever witnessed, and they need to do it now

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The wolves are killing members of their own pack

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I will say, we joke a lot about how Arthur Aguefort’s favorite adventuring party is clearly The Seven and how for all Kipperlilly complains that Arthur likes the Bad Kids more, they’re the ones Arthur REALLY gives special treatment, but I do wonder how much of that is guilt that he knew Kalvaxus was likely behind their kidnappings and that he basically let it happen so that Kalvaxus could be released and then defeated.

Arthur helping them stay together was basically him trying to make up for the fact that they became a party solely BECAUSE of the trauma and pain he let those teenage girls go through as a means to an end.

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arthur making gilear the vice principal is so funny but all jokes aside, it's the perfect job for gilear. the position was created for kalvaxus so arthur has limited it so much. it has no responsibility, it has no powers, all you have to do is show up and let arthur dunk on you. that's in the job description. gilear's main skills include being dunked on and hanging out with his daughter, the only two things he can do at aguefort. he starts fucking up the moment he gets a task but this job was designed to illicit no tasks of importance whatsoever