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#biphobia #queer

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imagine you're watching the bad kids, a group of adventurers the same year as you taking the last standard exam, a test no party has ever beaten, and theyre so close to acing it, theyve killed so many monsters already

and their cleric, the previous chosen of your helioic faith, who despite having a dead god has been healing and banishing and blessing and protecting their party from the horrors around them, pops up next to you

and you've been told by your party that theyre rule breakers, kids who can get away with anything, who dont care about school

but you ask kristen applebees, despite it all, if they're alright

and thats the last thing you say before you die

#dimension 20 #fantasy high

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*Brennan makes a deep Tolkien lore pun*

You're so right, Ally, that was for me

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Something about Kristen being the one to see Buddy murdered by his party. That could have been her brother. That could have been her.

#fhjy spoilers #fhjy #d20 #dimension 20 #buddy dawn #kristen applebees

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they should give kristen time and a half on the last stand! show them your 504 girlie!

#fhjy spoilers #fantasy high junior year #fantasy high #dimension 20 #just adhd things

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Friendly reminder that if the Democrats don’t win, that is their fault, not the fault of the people who didn’t vote for them. The party could have put forward a new candidate. They could have chose to not fund Israel. Hell, they could have made good on their campaign promises. But they won’t, because the Democrats don’t want to win. Because they rather use the fear and desperation of a post republican presidency to win votes than make real changes that will alienate their corporate backers. You are not morally wrong for not wanting to re-elect a man complicit in genocide.

#voting #american politics #politics #biden

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truly no greater description of this show for me than this

#dimension 20 #dropout #game changer

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If you come in you don’t have to come out

#queer humor #lgbtq

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Writing a novel when you imagine all you stories in film format is hard because there’s really no written equivalent of “lens flare” or “slow motion montage backed by Gregorian choir”

#writing advice

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Okay but who’s who? 👁️

there will be a day when I animate Jupeter to Thrill of First Love from Falsettoes........and that day ain't today. gn

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Kinda tired of Kristen getting attacked with this re-occurring accusation that she doesn’t try and doesn’t care. All she has done this season is try! All she does is care! She’s spent every moment of the campaign trying to fix things with Cassandra! Even the silly bits Ally does that don’t make sense to us have a coherent motivation behind them. On its face, Kristen going to the middle school seemed like a waste of time, but Ally explained in the corresponding adventuring party episode that they wanted to investigate the area more because it was near the murder scene. Also the way Ally constantly uses game mechanics to help others is so genuinely kind. And it’s not even just for the party members. It’s for the NPCs. It’s giving Lydia the help action. It’s casting death ward on Aelwyn. It’s doing a ritual so Lucy and her teacher can rest in peace. Kristen constantly does the most to show she cares and is trying and yet is the only party member who’s constantly experiencing narrative consequences. She’s the only member who’s constantly accused of not caring!

#barking at shadows on my wall man #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high

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i want to live (all origins)

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Kristen "the greatest cleric of our age" Chilis Applebees

#dimension 20 #fantasy high

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Kim Kitsuragi

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"It's the only name I can say."

So last ep, Kalina dropped this line after saying "Ragh Barkrock" again. She's really trying to get the Bad Kids to deduce who she could be referring to via Ragh. We've found out about the Spy's Tongue Curse since she last dropped Ragh's name, so it's clear that she's implying that she cannot say the names she wants to say and is dropping Ragh's name as a clue. I've been seeing a lot of theories about this line that are convinced it's implying Lydia Barkrock. I disagree: I think she is referring to Arianwen, Jace and Porter. Here's why.

First of all, and most obviously: Kalina says Lydia's full name in Sophomore Year episode 6.

Kalina: But you do have some time to talk it over because I'm gonna head out and kill Lydia Barkrock. So take care.

I don't think Brennan or the D20 Lorekeeper would have missed this. Kalina doesn't have a Spy's Tongue Curse with Lydia.

Secondly, the gang already investigated Lydia and got relevant clues from her, and Brennan did not encourage suspicion towards Lydia in any way. This repeat of the clue really feels like a "you guys didn't get it yet" type thing. Last time they assumed Lydia and that wasn't it. Try again.

Thirdly, Ragh's only real interaction with Kalina is about a single time he saw something he shouldn't have: Jace, Porter and Arianwen talking to someone invisible (Kalina) on Prom Night. I believe that if the Bad Kids just asked Ragh what Kalina could possibly have meant by "Ragh Barkrock" and "It's the only name I can say," he would absolutely bring up this fact. But they haven't!

That's why I am convinced that Arianwen, and to a lesser extent Jace and Porter, are who Kalina was referring to.

Below the cut are some bits of the trancript from Episode 4 of Sophomore Year, where Ragh reveals this to the Bad Kids.

Ragh is describing the aftermath of the fight with Kalvaxus:

Ragh: I ran into the school. And I went and I saw there was this conversation, and I was going, 'cause a lot of the teachers had been trapped in the crystals and had come out again. And I saw Jace, the sorcery teacher-- Adaine: Mm-hmm. Ragh: Talking to this woman that I didn't recognize. She was an elven woman, she was wearing sort of like black, dark robes, it looked like, they were very light. She was blonde, she had glasses. Adaine: She look like this? [points at her face] Ragh: She look like you? Adaine: Mm-hmm. Ragh: I mean, yeah. Yeah, she looked like, yeah, she looked like you. But older. She didn't look like-- Adaine: Right. Ragh: Um, you know, I mean, elves never look that old, but she looked like, you know, not a high schooler. Um. Jace and them were talking, and they were talking to somebody else who I couldn't see. I just assumed somebody was like, invisible. Um. Later, um, Jace and Porter came and talked to me--

Ragh goes on to describe Porter healing him, despite Ragh not feeling "that injured, honestly", and after that he can see Kalina despite not being able to see her moments before:

Ragh: And after that, I was like walking home, and I saw this cat woman, this tabaxi. And she came up, and told me all this stuff about my mom, and she said if I ever talked to anyone about it, she would kill my mom.

This indicates that Porter infected Ragh with the curse, on purpose. Probably to allow Kalina to threaten and manipulate him so he wouldn't tell anyone what he saw. She really doesn't want him telling anyone that he saw Arianwen there.

Ragh: She told me if I ever mentioned to anyone what I had seen about that elven woman-- Adaine: Mm-hmm. Ragh: That she would kill my mom.

They have a short conversation about wether Jace is suspect, but dismiss it. Adaine shows Ragh a photo of her mother and he confirms that it is the woman he saw.

#dimension 20 #fantasy high

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