#fhjy ep 4

[feelingtheaster99]

I cannot believe that Lou did not immediately consider Chungledown Bim would be Fabians’s nemesis

#maybe it was for comedic effect #but I was like oh my gosh is Fabian is gonna need to give Chungedown Bim MILLIONS of gold #dimension 20 #d20 #lou wilson #fabian seacaster #fabian aramais seacaster #chungledown bim #what a truly terrifying nemesis to have #fantasy high #fantasy high spoilers #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #fhjy ep 4 #under pressure spoilers #under pressure #live reaction

[taurgo]

If someone doesn't get thrown into the strudel dimension next episode what are we even doing

#fhjy spoilers #d20 fhjy #fhjy #fhjy ep 4 #he emphasized not putting your hands in there very explicitly and I want to see what happens

[spending-life-pretending]

Brennan was CRUEL for letting them (and me) plan out and get all excited for the Ultimate Shrimp Party Stunt that whole time

#me #fantasy high junior year #fhjy spoilers #dimension 20 #fhjy ep 4

[xiewho]

its all love baby

#fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #dimension 20 #gorgug thistlespring #fig faeth #fhjy #d20 #my art #gorgug hauling his ass to do 4 yrs of coursework only for aa to say “yeah u didnt have to in fact u shouldntve” is CRAZY #fig mvp honestly #AUUAGHH THEY WERE ALL SO COOL i really fw combat eps

[heartru]

someone HAS to be keeping a running count of the different ways kilperlily copperkettle’s name is said this season

#IM LOSING IT #siobhan was killing me at the end of this ep and the preview #best bit fr #she IS like 4 dogs #dimension 20 #fantasy high junior year #fhjy spoilers #fhjy

[voxphantasma]

fig “my girlfriend’s out of town, okay? i’m spiralling!!” faeth

[IMAGE ID: screenshot of a tumblr post

user totallyfubar: my girlfriend is on a cruise so while she’s gone i’m gonna cut the sleeves off of all my shirts

user nightstargalaxy: why

user totallyfubar: she’s pretty much 85% of my impulse control / END ID]

#watching fhjy ep 4 rn and that line just made me think of this post #i love her so much emily has never made a mediocre pc #fantasy high junior year #dimension 20 #fig faeth #figayda #my post 💻

[coniferousconman]

FHJY EP 14 Spoilers

In the stands in the Last Stand Exam the Arthur’s are warring Adaine and Gorgug’s name sport style on their chests does that mean that if the illusion takes I to account Arthur Augefort’s preferences that Adaine and Gorgug are Arthur’s fav Bad Kids cause it so funny if Arthur Augefort considers his daughters girlfriend as bottom 4/6 of The Bad Kids in his rankings. Also it shows that the Gorgug and Adaine favoritism is genetic cause Adaine and Gorgug are also Ayda’s fav Bad Kids except for her girlfriend of course.

Just something funny I wanted to point out.

#d20 #dimension 20 #dropout #brennan lee mulligan #siobhan thompson #zac oyama #adaine abernant #gorgug thistlespring #d20 fhjy #fhjy spoilers #arthur augefort #ayda aguefort #fantasy high #fig faeth #figayda

[fantasy-mixtapes]

Riz Gukgak Junior Year Playlist: side A

Heres the first side of the Junior Year Riz Playlist and the explanations down below, Spoilers for Episodes 1-10 in FHJY

Genres: Alternative, Anti Folk, Math Rock, Punk

1. Photosynthesis, They Might Be Giants

Photosynthesis does not involve a camera Or a synthesizer Although that's interesting, too Photosynthesis is how plants take in light From the sun and turn it into energy It's actually a thing on which most life depends Here on the planet Earth

GOD so when I'm not making these playlists I'm and environmental educator and when Brian was like "we're the photosythe-KIDS!" i nearly lost it. Gotta let this little nerdy kid have at least one nerd song as a treat to me

2. Dissonance, AJJ

My feet planted in different realities I've been doing lots of parallel planning and asking Does morals exist anymore? Wondering if society's all broken down yet I should probably know I should probably know I should probably grow some more plants in the window I should probably try I should probably try I should probably try to find a cure for this dissonance

One of the things I relate to Riz about the most is the way in which he is so hungry for explanation and, specifically problem solving. When they get dropped right back into normal teen life after having just saved the world and "cracked the case", Riz had to really switch into school mode fast (with the whole paying for college thing)

3. Stress, Jim's Big Ego

I'm addicted to stress That's the way that I get things done If I'm not under pressure then I sleep too long And I hang around like a bum I think I'm going nowhere, and that makes me nervous Everybody's out to get me, but I feel all right

Obsessed with the way that, if Brennan didn't let Riz take on the stress of other people in the party, he would literally be so normal about the downtime system. God help him and his nervous system.

4. Travelers Insurance, Their/They're/There

After all that we've done, You still skipped out on the beat of a different drum. Blurring the lines between failure and fortune

it's getting at Riz supporting so many people in his party, taking on their stress, organizing their extracurriculars, and literally tutoring them on subjects he doesn't know about. And they're definitely trying to keep everything under control, but sometimes it feels like when they mess up or make bad choices, it's Riz who has to take the L

5. Pitch Black, Heart Attack Man

Rock bottom smile bares its rotting teeth again Acts like there's nothing wrong and they're still my closest friend Romanticize the fondest memories and good times And hope that I forget the rest Rock bottom's grinning as it's creeping up again Dust off the depths and make me wish that I was dead again Hold out your hand to me Take me to a place in hell where Having self-esteem seems selfish and unhealthy

God the way that in Ep. 10 after Riz had that talk with his mom about everything he was just so despondent the rest of the episode about everything that was happening, and actually thinking about the toll his friendships were taking on him 💀

6. An Antidote for Strychnine, The Mountain Goats

Dig down amongst my calculations Check my maps Up there on the surface Everybody's gettin' ready for the bloodbath Stem the tide, stem the tide They're calling down for reinforcements Tryin' to find An antidote for strychnine Tryin' to find An antidote for strychnine

This has always and forever been such a Riz song for me and I feel like it really fits the tone of Riz looking into the soil, into lucy's death, into eventually the loam farm, reluctantly telling his mom about it. The moment when he thinks that something like what happened to Yolanda could happen to his mother and he gets really serious about it. AHHHHHH Something something isolation, something something taking on dangerous tasks by yourself just to protect the ones you love

#dimension 20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #d20 #d20 fhsy #fantasy mixtapes #riz the ball gukgak #riz gukgak #brian murphy #fhjy spoilers #d20 spoilers #fantasy high spoilers #Spotify

[undercoverangell]

okay. im calm like a little bit so im gonna talk about the insanity. of fhjy ep 4. spoilers under cut just bc ik some people r gonna take another extra day or two to finish it up !

anyways cassandra is becoming the nightmare king again theres flat out nothing else i see that being. we know she became the nightmare king because her followers actively tried to unmake her. and. im not anti kristen i love that girl. but thats kinda whats happening?? when kristen refuses to talk to her as her ONLY follower that means like. to me at least. kristens image of cassandra is ALL she is. so like. when kristen ignores her.. in a way thats unmaking her. if kristen stops following her cassandra is actively nothing. and we know what happened the last time cassandra was unmade. so like. theres some nightmare king fuckery about ! i do declare!!

also riz talk to your fucking dad who worked with kalina for a decade i think he will know something. TALK TO YOUR FATHER. YOU HAVE TWO. TALK TO THE OTHER ONE.

#fantasy high #dimension 20 #fhjy spoilers #cassandra #kristen applebees

[feelingtheaster99]

Ayda is honestly iconic for establishing an order of knights to deliver a letter to her girlfriend/paramour across time but also for ending her letter with like six hugs and kisses

#I love Ayala aguefort so flipping much #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #fantasy high spoilers #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #fhjy ep 4 #under pressure #under pressure spoilers #live reaction #ayda aguefort #fig faeth #figeroth faeth #THEY’RE PARAMOURS your honor #figayda #shower you love with affection Ayda #as you should

[floof-writes]

WARNING: this post includes some negativity about something you might love: D20’s The Seven, specifically choices made by Sephie about Sam Nightingale’s actions and backstory

TL;DR- (Disclaimer, I'm only to episode 5) The way Sephie chose to play Sam makes her seem aloof, toxic, disingenuous, and attention-seeking compared to the rich found-family themes of past Fantasy High seasons and to her fellow characters in this season. Less importantly but still frustrating, she doesn't follow the 'one leveled spell a round' rule. If she had all these flaws and was also funny, I might forgive her. But, alas.

Watching The Seven right now for FHJY and while I have countless good things to say about it, forgive me for instead ranting about the fan beloved Sam Nightingale. While I understand that many people love it, Sam/Sephie’s stage mom backstory gets on my fucking nerves. Especially the viral video thing in episode 5. Sephie blows up a bit (a bit in a comedy show! They're always doing bits!) into something big and then chooses to duck out instead of committing and resolving. I LIVE for emotional moments in D20, I seriously do, but whatever Sephie has been doing just doesn’t work for me. It feels cheap. D20 emotional moments have a ton of build-up through comedy/resistance, and I hate to say it, but Sam is not a funny character. I’m not saying she’s not realistic- she’s traumatized and is going through a lot, but Sephie is playing her in the wrong genre. D20 is a comedy.

Here's the thing: Ally also gets criticism for playing Kristen in a really explicit and overt way, trampling over other roleplay with her trauma, and that is true (sorry Kristen, ily!), but at least what Ally did is funny. Sam isn't. Sephie almost nailed it when Rebecca revealed she was getting divorced- her reaction was both real and comedic, but later when she called Penelope it felt forced/spotlighty/too soon, especially considering she didn't even have a mirror charge left. And that attention-seeky vibe isn’t helped by the fact that Sephie chose to play an ex-child actor: a real-life tragedy that almost always comes off as cheap when fictionalized.

But the parallels between Ally’s Kristen and Sephie’s Sam don’t end there! One of the biggest reasons people were annoyed by Kristen was Ally’s (and to an extent, Brennan/fellow player's), absolute ignorance of the rules about concentration spells, which made her really overpowered in season one. My argument against this as a newbie dnd player was always ‘rule of cool, it was fun to watch and fun to play so it doesn’t matter!', but as a more experienced player I finally understand that frustration even though I tried not to feel it. The same thing happened with Sam in ep 4- she casts two leveled spells in a single turn with Quicken Spell (Lightning Bolt and Fly, and again later with Enthrall and Suggestion), which makes her seem crazily overpowered despite the fact that she’s a 3/6 multi-class among a 9th level druid and a 9th level cleric. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love a good multi-class, but she shouldn’t be outstripping them so handily (Yielle also fucking slayed this fight though).

[A proposed alternate turn for her second mistake: Quicken spell to Enthrall and then use her winged boots and second action to attack the harpy and catch Penny (a ranged cantrip (LIGHTNING LURE) or a weapon attack if the DM allowed that to cause her to drop Penny, opposed strength with Danielle’s Bear Totem advantage if not). It would have been just as cool and displayed better teamwork, plus it was an opportunity to roleplay bonding and show gratitude for the Feather Fall that saved her fucking life.]

In fact, for me, there’s only three rather subjective reasons why I adore Kristen so much and find Sam super annoying: 1. As we've been over before, Kristen is funny. Sam is not. 2. I personally really relate to Kristen’s Overpowering Trauma (tm) and as an amateur actress, find bitter child actress plots absolutely inconceivable (Disclaimer:Jeanette McCurdy’s ‘I’m Glad My Mom Died’ made me fucking lose it). And 3. Kristen's story is about finding love (of herself through romantic but most importantly platonic relationships), supporting others, and understanding the world. Caring so much she self-destructs. Even her famous rule-breaking was usually caused by a conflict with Bless, a spell she cast every time to protect her friends. But Sam has thus far rarely displayed unselfishness, despite knowing the Maidens for nearly twice as long as Kristen knew the Bad Kids by the end of Season One. Kristen was self-centered in that Ally often drew the focus of roleplay towards their character's own issues and sub-plot, (or by being the purest form of the new player paradox and asking to do something crazy.) Sam is self-centered in that same way, and also in that she is literally selfish. Antiope says 'I have an opportunity' and instead of saying 'I get it, the pressure of having a parent who doesn't understand you changes everything, but even then a part of you still wants what they want for you' she says 'so you won't be there for me? How could you?'. Penny saves her life before being snatched into the air like a mouse to a hawk, and Sam is the only one who can fly but she plays the harp instead of helping her in return.

ALL the maidens lost months to more than a year of their lives. All the maidens are grappling with generational expectations, trauma, and pressure just like Sam. The big what-if at the end of highschool. I was only going to point out Antiope and Penny, but this actually seems to be a major theme of the season, since Ostentatia and Zelda also have overt themes of this.

Look, if you’re gonna play angsty, there’s a trick to it. There's this highschool level acting advice I've heard so many times: The worst choice you can make on stage is to be bored, because what is the audience to do except be bored as well? Similarly, if you choose to play disconnected, then how is an audience supposed to connect? In a group of people who have vocalized endless support for you, ‘I’m fine, I'm fine' (as shown in episode 5's viral video scene) is just dishonest, and it's honestly a betrayal of Sephie’s fellow actors who are working to improvise a history of openness and support with Sephie’s character, just so Sam can seem aloof and angsty. Break down in their arms, Sephie! Get flustered and run away! Either ‘I Kiss Her And Skateboard Away/I Burn Two Luck Points To Stop Riz From Finding Out’ OR ‘I Need Everyone To Dogpile On Me Right Now/I Kiss Everyone On The Mouth’ levels of teen angst are needed for this to be actually funny. Sam could've had something unique and iconic up there with Kristen and Fig's struggles with being known, but she isn’t cringefail enough. She's not relatable, and she claims to be bitter but really she's just mean. And again, I never said she isn’t realistic- real life people do the ‘I’m fine’ thing. Real life teenagers make a big deal out of something to tease out sympathy/curiosity over a Hidden Trauma and then duck out of an explanation for the attention of it all. But it isn’t funny and it feels OOC for a maiden who had a year and a half to become fucking codependent (/pos) with these other six girls.

Rant over, something positive to end the post: TaleSpire is so fucking cool! Physical battlemaps are awesome but you couldn't do a 700ft+ chase battle on the dome's tabletop. They really took advantage of using a virtual tool this season and did something they couldn't do otherwise. (Plus the fact that TaleSpire is treated like video game software and has a one time purchase fee instead of a subscription based model is fucking awesome!)

#d20 #the seven d20 #sam nightingale #if you follow her tag I wouldn't read this I love you and I'm not trying to spread negativity #fantasy high #dimension 20 #long post #writing about a character who uses different pronouns than their actor is a real exercise in grammar

[rizs-briefcase]

‼️FHJY EP 4 SPOILERS‼️

once again. i’m here with a long ass post of all my thoughts and favourite bits from the new episode

shoutout to murphs shirt for showing off his tattoos again , i live for the simple pleasures in life

emily looks so good i love you

KALINA ILY

wait why have i just noticed Cassandra’s pronouns are she/they omg

let cassandra go off and become and archfey and let kristen change class god

‘you’re the meat, mama’

‘’real sonuvabitch’ by duggan mccann’

kipperface pennybottle

i’ll go to the nurse and get some spare clothes

the rat grinders are literal exp grinders; that’s so funny

riz is so mad because the rat grinders are cheating,, he’s such a nerd

‘ the bad guy this season is XP levelling?’

a total of,,, four

henry, ur so cool i love you

WAIT HENRY AND RUBEN ARE RELATED?

fig putting a note under her teachers door

fig wanting to carbon date the fossils ayda sent her stop

let adaine and aelwyn hunt down and kill their mum

riz saying he took gorgug down

mary ann sending gorgug flying into the bleachers

‘she got that dog in her’

kristens little brother being a paladin! he’s so cute i love him

‘i’m lying so i’m going to go to hell’

the butt fuckers

the way they’re setting up the rat grinders to be an exact parallel of the bad kids is so fun; and i’m absolutely stealing this idea.

Zara Sool i love you

evidently i got distracted eating pasta and never added to this. but what a great fucking episode, im so curious as to what the fuck is going on with Cassandra! if even Kalina is concerned, also imagine the bad kids have fucked their chance at hosting parties because they have to go fight wizards

#dimension 20 #fantasy high #intrepid heroes #fhjy

[catgirlriya]

i cant watch fhjy ep 4 until like 9pm (it comes out at 7pm for me) because im going to sex bingo as soon as i get home at 7:30

#ri speaks #sex bingo does not involve sex. btw #hope this clarifies any confusion you may have :)

[fabiansbattlesheet]

i continue watching fhjy ep 4 and my heart rate IMMEDIATELY goes up this is too similar to my life

#i’m literally stuck on this episode because it causes me physical stress #theyre like me fr

[kalinaapologist]

o7 saluting at u finishing starstruck!!! did you have any favourite moments in specific? :O

im on ep four of my seven rewatch and forgot how good and silly it is, i'm watching all the adventuring parties too and my heart is so full!!

omg yes its been so slow at work lol so ive just been watching so much d20 lmao. i had like 4 episodes left so i flew thru it!!! i mean emily dropping 560 points of damage was fucking hilarious, operation slippery puppet was mad, the whole battle of the brands battle was so good

continuing my acofaf rewatch next now lfjjdsjjs .... simply starving and biding my time for fhjy😭

& wow yes the seven <3 missing my best girl sam nightingale....

#ask

[feelingtheaster99]

This whole Porter situation, with him praising Fig for expressing rage in a way he views as “correct” and “acceptable” and Gorgug being so calm and quite frankly more understanding than Porter deserves in saying, “I understand that your heart is in a place where your point of view is different” makes me SO MAD

Like REALLY Porter, all you have to say to that compassionate response is, “God this SUCKS” ???

You, sir, are the one who sucks. Gorgug is allowed to be a multifaceted humanoid, one who accepts both parts of himself and still is a FANTASTIC barbarian.

(Also, not for nothing, but Gorgug is doing WAY better at Barbarian class than Fig is doing is any of her classes, which she has not shown up for.)

(Also also—fuck you times two, Porter.)

#dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy ep 4 #fhjy spoilers #fhjy #d20 fhjy #dimension 20 fhjy #fantasy high spoilers #under pressure spoilers #under pressure #Porter #d20 fantasy high #d20 spoilers #d20 Porter #fantasy high Porter #gorgug thistlespring #fig faeth #figeroth faeth #barbarians #I’m really heated about this obviously #fuck you porter #live reaction