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I think one of my favorite DnD Things is when random rolls become retroactive Lore/Quirks for the character. Not even as a DM ruling, I mean something the whole table adopts organically, whether seriously or as a running joke.

(Yes this is an invitation to reply or tell me in the tags if you've had any canon-altering rolls like this I love PC stories)

In like the first or second session, my character rolled nat 1 perception despite that being her top skill, so I just decided that she's a useless gay who got distracted by the Pretty Woman the party just met. I also messed up her max hit points for the longest time so we decided that she's really just lactose intolerant and her daily milk coffee was ruining her

Tina and Bad had a pretty great conversation towards the end of her 10/4/2023 stream

listen i have so many thoughts on the differences between the governing styles brought up by bad, baghera, and gegg in the qsmp debates today so just bear with me okay?

bad is my least favorite of the three. he seems to say numerous times that he wants to simply "get rid of the role of president" and that the government just isn't needed, so they don't need to have it. my problem with this is that the government ALREADY exists. the federation is the one putting on this election, and so by saying you'll just dismantle the role of president and give power to the people, without having any system of keeping power against the government, the federation would be able to simply say "okay we'll just do another election" or even just take easy and total control right there. so i dont think bad's approach would work in anything other than theory because the federation is too unpredictable to assume they would just go along with the idea of no longer having a president (not to mention, leaving the role empty could allow certain people like elquackity to take up the power of the role to "fill the void")

baghera's is my second favorite. her entire idea relies on the concept of a presidential council, with advocates from each language, to ensure that every member of the community is being advocated for. hers is probably the one that would work the best in theory. it allows members of the community to speak up for themselves, and be able to relay it to the federation, likely through baghera herself as she would be taking on the role of president, making her the one to bring the citizen's needs to the federation. the downfall of this plan is the likelihood of the federation to twist baghera's wants and needs, as well as promoting infighting among the council, same as we are seeing with the presidential election itself. this would keep people from trusting baghera, each other, and essentially worsen a lot of the relationships between members of the server because the federation does NOT want what is best for everyone as we've established.

now, gegg. gegg. my favorite approach. anarcho-community. gegg's main approach to the presidential platform is "the federation does not make us feel safe. we are all one (gegg). we need to come up against them as a collective, it is our only chance." gegg's platform heavily relies on the knowledge that the federation cannot be worked with because they are actively harming people already. gegg also knows that they cannot ignore the governing power that the federation has. gegg's concept for president is that all the members need to come together as a collective and not just use it to better create events or things like that, but rather to use the close proximity to the federation the presidential role has and use it to dismantle the system from the inside out. the concept of working with the federation leaves the citizens up for being used like a doormat because the federation would absolutely break the president and citizen's boundaries slowly and slowly over time in order to make the president the federation's puppet, and gegg absolutely knows this. gegg sees through the presidential election as a way to keep the server members from coming together as a collective and going after the federation, just as many members were starting to get more and more frustrated with how they've been treated by the federation. gegg wants to dismantle the systems of government so that bad and baghera's ideas can work because gegg knows that community is the strongest thing they have.

sorry i just really love the philosophical dynamics behind politics that the qsmp brings up, it is SO interesting

Of course Philza son who is gone for ages comes back to Philza having a husband and a little brother. And the first thing he decides is too beef with what is the amount of a baby. Just a grown adult fighting with a baby for his father attention. The amount of playful pettiness towards chayanne was astounding. The amount of times chayanne stabbed his canonical older brother because 1) he is like a guard dog at this rate and it’s kill strangers on sight. And 2) Wilbur joke was that bad that I don’t blame him. And now Dadza has like two eggs to take care of whenever Wilbur back being music boy.

And just IMAGINE when Missa comes back.

Philza: Oh yeah I have a son and that son has a daughter so you are not only a step dad but also a step grandad. So two kids in the house we gotta watch for a couple days.

Missa: What!!!!!!

I’m cracking up. Wonder how Missa will react to being a step grandad LOL.

I will never be over the fuckin. Nightmare. God there's so much angst to it, and I am just such a big fan of how everyone has interpreted this situation.

Philza begging for Chayanne to come pick him up, to help him, not because he wants to kill the monster or because he's 100% sure it's safe for Chayanne. Because Tallulah is dying next to him, because he can't let her die, because he knows how strong his son is.

And then Chayanne goes down too, and he can only apologize, over and over to his son, for everything. For this island, for how it wants them dead. For failure, for his granddaughter.

And then everything is fine again.

The kids are back, and for the most part, unshaken. Chayanne promises to be a bit more careful but is still the protective uncle, still determined. Tallulah seems to almost shake off the event entirely, she has nothing but trust.

But Phil, Philza and the adults don't recover that easily. There's parts that still seem to burn, there's fear of every little thing in the dark. Even surrounded by friends, by a school, near his home, the darkness is foreboding. He stays in the light, calling the two closer, even while the other eggs and their parents are so close.

Look at the night sky, Philza. It was just a nightmare. You're safe, the kids are safe, and the stars are beautiful.

But when his friends see him flinch at their movements, linger just a bit closer to the lights, call the kids home just a bit sooner - what do you do when the nightmare seeps back into the real?

How do you help?

How can you be sure the stars are not just eyes staring back at you, their gazes still hungry?

Nightmare

But it was just a nightmere :)

its the way chayanne only died bc he was trying to help phil and tallulah, he was still up and could've swam away once he revived phil, but that just isn't how chayanne is, is it? he had to die protecting someone. even if it meant nothing in the end and they all died.

its the way tallulah was in the middle of writing a sign, her most prominent form of communication. it's how she was frantically scribbling something down to phil and was downed during it. it's how she died right next to the other two, even when chayanne was trying to get to them. it's how she's only been on this planet for a week, less, and already has died and come back to life

its how phil was trying to stay calm and yet was frantically telling chayanne to res him so he could get to tallulah, it's how he realised there was no hope, he just started apologising to chayanne, over and over, told him that the island didn't want them to live, was so upset that he called upon the island itself to fix its mistake or incur his fucking wrath

And I'm officially insane,

@avephelis posted this as an incorrect quote on another post, wanted to doodle it real quick as an excuse to draw qsmp!jaiden more

The Egg-Jury was so adorable. Philza was such a dad.

"i didn't expect the eggs to be such a big deal!" paraphrasing, but like. quackity. how. how??

the server said, "okay, here's a baby. no, really, an actual baby: fragile, new to the world, and alone. not only that, it's your baby. they're hungry, they're stumbling, they're trying so hard to live against all the impossible odds. and since they're your baby, you are the only one who can keep them alive. if you don't care for them, they'll die. it will be of neglect, plain and simple, because they're a baby.

oh, and they love you back, by the way. this is your baby and they toddle by your heels and babble at you (with signs) as they try, usually, to do what you tell them to do. they do this because you're their parent, it's clear that they love you. eventually, they start talking and they call you apa, abuelo, mama, dada -- and then they tell you, to your face, that they love you.

you fed them, played with them, protected them, tucked them into bed in a room in your home. you sang them to sleep, bathed them, dressed them, taught them skills and morals. you can see yourself reflected in their personality, their interests, and even how they look (leo's red hat/chayanne in the skull 'fit). they're your baby."

...and then he expected a series of (vaguely) sane people in their 20s/30s not to immediately become sick with devotion?? to be in tears over the silly little eggs?? like, no joke, if that had actually been the outcome i would have thrown every psychological and anthropological text i own in the trash in a fit of disbelief 💀

One interpretation of Daphne (and Fred but I’m focusing on Daphne) that I’ve never particularly liked that ofc the Velma show falls into is the idea that Daphne is super popular and therefore super bitchy. Because no she isn’t. Daphne may be “the pretty one” and not have as many book smarts as Velma, but she is still a part of this dorky amateur detective team with her three friends who stop adults dressing up like ghosts from committing property crimes or w/e. She’s kinda weird and probably would likely be a social outcast due to her hobbies despite her interests in makeup and fashion.

One interpretation I like of Daphne is, ofc, Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated. She is shown to have rich parents who are willing to practically pay for her success, and she’s shown to be really pretty and people like her and whatnot, but like she’s still not a super popular girl. Among her sisters she’s the least successful, her parents disapprove of her spending her time doing investigations with Mystery Inc. instead of trying to achieve something greater, and most of the time at school she’s seen talking to members of Mystery Inc. and not surrounded by other popular girls or w/e. She’s Daphne, so she still likes makeup and fashion, but that doesn’t default her to popular girl, and you cannot call default Mystery Incorporated Daphne “bitchy” even if she can get upset when someone bothers her.

Similar with Fred, he’s not a rich mean asshole, he’s literally the friendliest guy to the point that he sometimes doesn’t see that others wish him harm due to his own open friendliness. That damn movie where he’s a camp counselor at a summer camp that is kinda down in the dumps poor compared to another more successful rich camp nearby but he still harbors love for his smaller camp and the children attending it, dedicated to giving them a good experience, like that’s just peak Fred right there, friendly and upbeat and wholesome and cares for others. Fred is also smart, since he’s usually “the trap guy” and always coming up with complex traps to catch their villain of the week. He’s a strong leader, but not by virtue of being a dick.

Anyway HBO Velma sucks but I just wanted an excuse to talk about Scooby Doo characters and their good qualities so thx

thanks for all the love on my retiree mystery gang! here's a bit of expansion on them as well as full body refs!

also i know it's a little hard to see, but shaggy got a friend to make scoob's old dogtag a pin that he wears over his heart.

a scooby doo series set in community college where the gang is in a criminology class and end up in a huge debate on the first day of class that leads to them starting a podcast talking about local urban legends, only to realize things aren’t quite adding up and they go to investigate for ~journalistic authenticity~ and end up solving a real-life crime disguised as supernatural occurrences. this happens every week and they’re frequently featured on the school newspaper. they only have twenty listeners

I still just cannot believe they made Fred obsessed with portraying Toxic Masculinity in the Velma show.

Fred?

‘Ascot wearing’ Fred?

‘Metrosexual icon’ Fred?

‘Cried openly during the goodbye scene in Alien Invaders’ Fred?

‘Drinks his respect women juice daily’ Fred?

‘Unapologetically affectionate with Shaggy’ Fred?

That Fred? Obsessed with Toxic Masculinity? The audacity. The gall. The clownery.

FREDRICK ‘FRED’ JONES IS A KIND AND SWEET HIMBO WHO LOVES HIS FRIENDS, HIS VAN AND HIS TRAPS. HE WOULD NEVER BE A RACIST OR A BULLY!

HOW DARE YOU FUCKING SLANDER HIM LIKE THIS!

Okay, you can’t use Fred as the one to represent “awful, misogynistic, privileged white men” when that man was always a golden retriever of a human being.

In Mystery Incorporated, he cried because of how emotional he himself always is, he got instant PTSD in an episode where Daphne got kidnapped and for majority of the series, Daphne was just BEGGING for him to fuck her but he was oblivious and respected their friendship.

Shut up, Fred is a good boy.