i genuinely think most of the people actually upset either haven’t played dnd before or haven’t seen the first three years of the show.
because wide swings like this—that MAKES the show. that forms the base of it’s best moments. Bard’s Lament, I Stab Raishan Three Times In The Back, the Deck of Many Things, Caleb and the Dodecahedron, you name it. All those were batshit in the moment and absolute sparks of inspiration.
What would you guys do if you were to meet your canon counterparts?
(Specifically, Vox, Al, Luci and Adam thank you!)
Vox: "Ooooh boy- well, you guys have already seen how I am with my counterpart. He's like a... twin brother I want to punt into the sun-"
Lucifer: "I don't think I've ever met my counterpart just yet... b-but I would hope that we would get along! Or at least get along better than whatever Alastor's doing."
Alastor: "As much as his creation and writing are a stroke of genius and the magnum opus of my career– I genuinely hate the bastard. He's everything wrong with me with an added touch of mystery and charismatic comedy."
Adam: "I'm pretty sure you're just pissy because your new plaything got battered within an inch of his life. Anyway-! On my end, I would probably beat the misogyny out of him. Or I'd let Lute do it, growing up in a house of sisters would really teach a guy about how to handle women."
Vox: "... I almost thought you would've said how to think like-"
Adam: "Oh are you serious? That's impossible. It's like trying to predict whatever Alastor's going to do next."
Lucifer: "That's- did you just call Al a woman??"
Alastor: "Well that's a new, I never thought I'd hear something like this in my life!"
I think it's so funny that imodna could literally act the most couple-y possible, and the Bells Hells would still not know for sure that anything had changed, because they've literally always acted like that! Like the only thing different is that now they also kiss sometimes 😆
If you so much as look at my owlbear baby funny I will end you. They are not a snack Astarion!
He couldn’t help but roll his eyes as you threatened him, he mockingly threw his hands up in surrender, “Fine, I will not eat the little snack! As tasty as it may probably be…”
Astarion didn’t bother to hide the pout from a lost snack, although he did have to admit that the owlbear cub was adorable, if only slightly.
The vampire spawn sighed while placing his hand on his hip, “Well, let me know if the little snack brings you something fresh. I’m feeling a little bit peckish lately.”
I usually avoid posting my own opinions, but I've seen a few posts like the one in the screenshot below creep across my feed lately and they're bugging me too much to keep my mouth shut. I censored the identity of this particular example because I don't want to start a Tumblr war or make them feel like I'm singling them out or attacking them.
I don't feel good about celebrating black history month through a character who was both written and performed by a white man. I know this is all just low-stakes fandom headcanon stuff and I'm not trying to control what other people do, but something feels not-quite-right about taking a character played by a white VA and deciding (on his behalf might I add) that he's black and using him as your example of black representation in the audio rp fandom.
There are black VAs out there, they can represent themselves. I really think it's disingenuous to sort through a cast of characters all played by the same white guy and assign POC races to them in order to give a singular white guy's one-man show racial diversity, then celebrate said "diversity".
Sorry, I'm not trying to be a Tumblr drama queen. If you're the person from the screenshot (or have posted something similar), I don't think you meant any harm. Your post probably wasn't meant to be that deep and not the worst thing in the world, but I don't know why you would pick a random character written and performed by a white guy and cheer "Rahhh, let's celebrate black history month with this!". If it really matters to you, you can celebrate a black VA, or a canonically black character, or even just a listener character that you/others HC as black. You can celebrate fan artists and writers who are black.
Why use characters played by Redacted for this? I promise I'm not trying to start a fight, or accuse people who've made posts like this of being racist or cancel anyone. I don't think they mean badly. But I see this a lot even outside of the context of BHM. It's almost always with characters written/performed by Redacted and it's always made me a little uneasy, especially with the amount of enthusiasm people throw onto the race they decided to HC for this one white man's characters.
If you disagree with me, I'm open to hearing you out. I don't want to try and dictate what people can/can't do in a fandom space or send a mob after anyone, but something feels off to me about using Redacted characters to celebrate BHM.
Her giggles come unbidden, brought about by an idle thought and hastened with the fizz of the seltzer in her Singapore Sling. She presses the cards to her face, nearly leaves lipstick stands on her full house before resurfacing. "Sorry, sorry, a funny thought just came to me," she explains through her chuckles. "Before we were going steady, Beej let me guess what his name meant, and the very first name I tried, you'll never guess." She doesn't give them a chance to, giggles increasing as she leans over and squeezes Hawkeye's hand. "Benjamin John! How funny is it that in the end, I got a Benjamin and a John after all, hey?" (X)
happy holidays and happy new year to my best friend, @remyfire!! A small little moodboard for my favorite quad in the world with the silliest name, McPunnihawk. Thank you for letting me play in the Some Things Are Evergreen sandbox with you!
Remember, it’s only a beam attack if you’re making a spell attack roll against your target’s AC. If your target is making a saving throw against your spell DC, it’s a beam effect.