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andie's corner

@ferluccia / ferluccia.tumblr.com

i'm andie. 27. bi. back to tumblr by unpopular demand.
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the-night-wizard

about to use a printer. wish me luck

*comes back covered in blood and ash with a thousand yard stare but I'm holding a perfectly clean stack of shipping labels*

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troglobite
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ellatholmes

if you're an author I wish you a very bigolas dickolas

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pupucino

I feel blessed I met the original Bigolas Dickolas tweet in wild before this thing blew up because I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't. It's so surreal.

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pupucino
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troglobite
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lilblueorchid

A spring that cannot be replaced 

Daily 30 min Paintings from pinterest photo reference! It’s a fun exercise I was doing back in 2021 and I felt like trying out again. It makes me happy to draw peaceful landscape outside of my work.  Also spring is in the air, and it’s making me so happy. 

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maplem0th
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tlirsgender

I Love stories where the setting is a character unto itself I love fucked up cities that are not only reflective of but formative to the main character

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tlirsgender

A fucked up guy's toxic relationship with the city he grew up in is something that can be so personal

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tlirsgender

The city that you were born in. The city that you were reborn in. The city you were shaped by. The city you can never leave, despite all the filth and crime and death. The city that keeps drawing you back like water down a drain. It's miserable here and it's your home whether you like it or not. You don't like it, but some part of you loves it. A sufficiently fucked up city can be like a mother or ex wife to a sufficiently fucked up guy

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aqueerkettleofish

I am kind of surprised that “D&D: Honor Among Thieves” isn’t getting as much [tumblr] love as it deserves. This is my contribution:

  • Everyone involved– writer, actor, director, wardrobe, camera, EVERYONE– understood the assignment.
  • There is no attempt to apologize for the fact that it’s an ensemble fantasy comedy-adventure movie.
  • The plot is clever without being Too Clever. All of the major twists are well-telegraphed, and while it surprises you in a couple of places, it doesn’t try to shock you.
  • Given that the archetypes of the fantasy genre came to us from Tolkein, Dungeons & Dragons, and Tolken-by-way-of-D&D, you will not need any context for the game and the lore that is not provided by the film itself. If you aren’t familiar with the lore, there are no jokes or plot points you will miss.
  • If you are familiar with the Lore, there are references galore, but they’re not fan service, they’re the byproduct of the fact that the movie is set in a known location in a richly developed world. For example, despite that the fact that it’s set in Neverwinter, at no point do any characters utter the phrase “Neverwinter Nights”.
  • If there must be a negative comparison to the game, it’s that no Dungeon Master alive could get a party to stick to the plot that well. They’d have gotten off track at the battlefield and the bard would have tried to seduce the Red Witch. Or everyone would have tried to adopt Themberchaud.
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mikkeneko

Oh, I don’t know about that. I think there’s a direct arc to be traced in the Development Of Plan B where you can see where the party went off the rails. It’s clear that the DM’s intention was for them to use the Helm of Dysjunction – the grand mystical artifact they went on an entire ass quest for – to get into the vault, but Simon kept failing his (charisma?) rolls to attune to it.

So Plan B was formed, a wild ass-pulling rube-goldberg heist strategy based on the rabbit-out-of-the-hat deus ex machina the DM already had to give them when they failed the bridge challenge and the whole story would have ground to a halt otherwise. You can see the moment where the DM firmly declares that their plan will not work because oopsiedoodle, the painting fell over! Guess you’ll just have to try the Helm again, hint hint. And for a moment it looks like the party’s going to get back on track but NO, Doris insists that her character can still get through the portal as a worm, and now the DM has to pull out the charts to look up the AC and HP of a sandstone floor and –

And they were supposed to get into the vault and find it empty and then realize that Forge was planning to flee with the treasure, but no, the druid had to manage to get to the real treasure vault and the DM had to cold-cock her just to get everyone back in the same place for the arena sequence.

#this is the best movie of the century i'll die on this hill
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