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part two to marcille rolling to seduce dragon falin! (her nat 20'ing won the votes)

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One thing I find interesting about Kipperlilly’s plan at the Last Stand: each contingency involved killing as few people as possible by her own hand

Plan 1: Kristen fails. No one dies. Kipperlilly wins the election by default

Plan 2: Steal the rez diamonds. Bad Kids can’t get back up in the fight. Fail the last stand. THEY ARE STILL REZZABLE BY NORMAL MEANS (just miss out revivify). Kipperlilly wins the election by default.

Plan 3: Kill the proctor if the bad kids are winning. Bad kids fail. Proctor either stays dead or comes back serving Ankarna. Kipperlilly wins the election.

Plan 4: Last ditch effort. Bad plan. Kill Buddy Dawn. Bad Kids might be trapped for a day or two in the testing plane. Ankarna gains a new follower with power. Ratgrinders have time to regroup/escape in the confusion

She could have killed the proctor at any time. She probably could have taken one of the bad kids out, especially Gorgug or Fabian when they got low.

it kind of looks like she’s trying to minimize powerful forced converts to Ankarna.

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bigger and better things

an exploration of the bad kids as children and what it means to be destined for greatness

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i. adaine abernant

the disappointed looks start to wear on adaine sometime in middle school.

she tries so hard, always working to meet what they've asked of her and somehow never measuring up. not like aelwyn, who's so good at magic, at talking to people, at behaving like a "proper young elven wizard" even when she gets adaine in trouble for things that she does. hacking away at her spellcraft until it's perfect, beyond reproach even as she continues to fail in their eyes.

(a talented young wizard, they call her. able to cast great workings of magic with the barest of material components, a true credit to her class)

she's not elegant in her magic. not like her father with his delicate enchantments, nor her mother with her careful conjurations, nor aelwyn with her impeccable abjuration.

no, adaine is a diviner, stumbling around with ill omens, always a half-step ahead and behind where she is supposed to be.

thinking about it makes the breath catch in her chest, makes the room start to spin, makes flashes appear in her eyes, fragments of thought, of memory, of portents. her parents disdain these attacks, calling them simple weakness of the mind. she should be beyond this helplessness, this fear that dogs her every step.

"no, she cannot go to anyone for it. one cannot show weakness like this; no proper elf would. honestly, she's like some sort of solesian mage, all big fuss and minimal results. i'd be ashamed to present her in front of the court of stars. we'll leave her here."

sometimes the anxiety builds so much that adaine lives out of her mind, seeing a day go by in her mind and reliving it with her body, or is it the other way around?

she sees a question on the entrance exam and answers it with the response she knows to be correct, despite never truly seeing it before. the panic builds, tight in her chest and throat, words swimming on the page as her eyes flash white, blank and vacant and yet seeing more, more, more than there is to be seen on the page.

something's wrong, something's wrong, something's wrong.

(this is the day the harpy sinks, taking the elven oracle eleminthindriel with it)

when the letter comes in the mail, announcing her failure to enter the first-year class at hudol, aelwyn looks at adaine with pity in her eyes and a little bit of something more, something ugly and guilty and acidic. the panic rises again as their father finds the letter and shouts at her, incandescently angry at her once again.

"the daughter of a hudol professor and diplomat, failing the entrance exam. they expect more of her than this. it's like she's not even trying to be a respectable wizard. goddess forbid she try to manage herself appropriately. now the only half-decent option is bloody aguefort, and everyone knows how aguefort is."

(aguefort goes to war at her call, some two years later)

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best intrepid hero seating arrangements (not all of these are possible at the same time), with examples - mild spoilers for all main seasons!

- ally and murph next to each other. they are at two ends of the shenanigan-spectrum which just makes it extra funny when they do have shenanigans and I want to maximise the opportunity. see: fhsy ribbon dance / swaddle me like an egg roll incident

- ally and zac directly opposite each other. so zac can pick up on whatever unhinged thing ally is saying / doing and make direct eye contact with them so as to send both of them into laughing fits. see: tuc "I can see my dick!"

- ally and lou next to each other. they both fucking COMMIT to the BIT and then and collapse against each other in hysterics and it's the best thing. see: all of neverafter but especially the whole orange top hat situation

- lou and murph across from each other. they amp each other up in a way where they need to be able to see each other and hype each other up and keep raising the stakes that way. see: starstruck casino fiasco

- murph and emily next to each other. leaving axmurph forever otp aside, murph has the most insane reactions to emily being chaotic and I need to simultaneously see emily breaking down in giggles as she tries to explain something absurd while next to her murph explodes with laughter and struggles to breathe from how hard he's laughing. see: starstruck perfume gun incident

- siobhan and emily at the end of the table right next to/opposite each other. Maximum Emotional Damage. see: all of acoc

- zac and murph next to each other. for matching exasperated reactions. see: neverafter "do you swallow the bubblegum?"

Add more!

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I can't believe we finally got pc/pc romance (in an intrepid hero season) and it was in the last 5 mins of an already insane finale episode with little red riding hood and pinocchio trying to kiss over an awkward game of gin rummy

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I would say that [Murph] is, like, a hardy city pigeon-

I'll take it. I respect it. Blue collar

-and then I was gonna say that Jake was, like, some hawk.

i-

WHAT

DID YOU JUST CALL YOUR HUSBAND A PIGEON AND YOUR FRIEND A H A W K

No, no, no-

(I was really hoping you were gonna say hawk..)

-because you're more like a city person and he's more of an outdoors- So, I picture him having like a human companion and he's kind of coexisting with him, whereas you're this like tough city guy-

Yeah, I'm like elegant and fierce, a little majestic and a little mysterious, and you're sort of like a frumpy little ass!

(make jake like a stupid sparrow or something)

(a stupid sparrow?!)

BUT MURPH city pigeons are like rough, you're not some random ass pigeon you're like a city pigeon, you like intimidate people in the park-

SO A VAGRANT??

no, no, MuRpH! yOu ScArE PeOpLe! YoU sCaRe PeOpLe iN tHe PaRk, MaN!

yEaH! yOu EaT pReTzEls AnD aLso oNe oF yOuR LeGs iS A wEiRd LiTtLe StUmP!

ALSO THEY HAVE HUGE DICKS!!!!

- is that true?

- certainly not

I'm just trying to dig myself out of this hole...

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emily protecting murph from spells is actually how i imagine their marriage works

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I saw a tag on here somewhere that talks about how much they love how Brennan is such a wife guy and I think we need to discontinue the term entirely. No hate or shade to that tagger at all! But I just don't see Brennan as a wife guy. Because up until now, wife guys have been performative. I think about John Mulaney and how much he talked about his wife right up until he left her mid-recovery to have a baby with someone else. I think about Ned Fulmer who constantly talked about his wife and his baby and how much he loves being married and having a family…right up until he cheated on her rather public with an employee.

Wife guys will speak volumes to their love in front of an audience while sneaking around in the shadows and it's both disappointing and exhausting to witness.

I look now at Brennan, who doesn't speak constantly about Izzy, whose public persona is complete without her and vice versa, she shows up complete without him as well. But no one is faster to laugh at Izzy's jokes than Brennan. And no one will push his buttons better than Izzy. When they are in the room together you can see the chemistry and you completely understand how they can love each other so much without it needing to be said every single time either of them are on screen.

Honestly, I feel the same about Emily Axford and Brian Murphy. They don't need to be lovey dovey or constantly talking about each other for you to see how much they love being together and working and playing together.

I think I'm over the wife guy. I've moved on to authentic, beautiful emotion that doesn't need exposition or highlighting.

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top 8 pics of my parents

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Brian Murphy, you son of a gun, you’ve done it again!

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Kind of hilarious to me how poorly the title "Mob Psycho 100" localized to English-speaking areas. To someone whose first language is English, it scans as:

Mob (Yakuza, Mafia)

Psycho (violent person with "crazy" behaviors)

Thus: a particularly violent member of organized crime.

But in Japanese it scans as:

Mob (background characters in crowd scenes in manga or anime)

Psycho (short for psychic)

Thus: a psychic who looks/acts like someone you'd never pick out of a crowd scene in a comic.

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riz going "you know how sometimes people make stuff up" and the immediate response of "no i actually don't" coming from figueroth faeth is so extremely funny

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🎼 gimme some fic, boys, to feed my soul I wanna read plots that fill canon's holes and soothe my pain 🎶

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teenage rebellion is the song ever btw. the first lyric is “i am perpetually confused.” it’s got cool little “here we go!” bits in the backing vocals. it’s a song about everything being fun and cool and it plays right after the most messed up, dramatic shit happens in the episode. what more could you ever ask for

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