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madamegoodparty · 4 days
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Reminder: studying is stupid and a waste of time (in the world of Spyre, at least)
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madamegoodparty · 5 days
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you are raised by a sword. she loves you. she shapes you into something to weild.
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madamegoodparty · 5 days
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I think that the Steel moment from this first episode of Arc 3 is so juicy.
There's some thread about trust and family and how it intersects with the machinery of Empire.
Sort of like, Steel is Suvi's mom, but also her boss commanding officer. And when you work with/for family, there are some lines that can get blurred. We've already seen how this has some benefit to Suvi. In the leeway she has for messing up. But now we see how it cuts the other way when Steel is using the trust she has as her mom to get Suvi to comply with her orders for her job.
Aabria played it brilliantly, sort of noting that she's having this moment where her friends have damaged her trust in them (and Steel really made a hard case to her last arc about trusting anyone but her... like trust me, trust us, maybe don't trust whoever gave you that prophecy tho... oh how sad everyone is too wrapped up in secrets to trust. >.>) and needing fundamentally someone to trust in, so in a situation where she wants to push back, she feels cornered by this need and her need for acceptance and love.
And as I've seen others note, Steel setting the scene super casually as to invoke her family tie rather than her official tie is epic manipulation tactics.
I love the way Aabria and Brennan are building this world together.
And I think it's the tension in Steel's character that Wren observed, that Steel is of the Citadel first and everything else second. Which is why she didn't refer to Steel as someone to be implicitly trusted.
And someone who belongs to an institution first, particularly an imperial institution, can be a lovely person who is nice and who loves their family and who also turns around and does fully horrific acts for their institution. Steel could have been responsible for Suvi's parents' demise and still sleep decently at night if she took those actions for the good of The Citadel/Empire.
Brennan: let's explore how the doers of evil deeds are sometimes nice people interpersonally. An excellent nuance to learn.
Yeah some bad guys are mustache twirling bastards who are rotten to their core. And some bad guys are nice normal seeming folks just doing banality of evil stuff as part of a system.
It's like in real life you have your active pursuit of bigoted behavior folks, full blown fascists, costumes and all. And then you have your folks who are perpetrating the violence of the established imperialist system on folks. And the "if they weren't guilty, why didn't they do thing that wouldn't have stopped or helped the situation" folks.
Brennan:
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madamegoodparty · 5 days
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Fresh from the Fireside testing of Patreon’s new community chat feature. I mean first of all, yeah, you gotta look at that last sentence, BUT!
It’s being implied that one of the witch’s instrumental motif is an instrument that exploded under its own pressure. The fucking symbolism. I’m not that good with sounds so I’ll be taking the next week memorizing whatever a bazantar sounds like so when I hear it I know a witch is about to snap.
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madamegoodparty · 5 days
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putting them back in panama for this
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madamegoodparty · 5 days
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Saw a bottle of wine and had to stop to take a picture of the label. This is the Fox. This is his vibe. Whenever Brennan describes the Fox, this is now forever what I’ll see. That’s what his face looked like after what happened at the Citadel. This is the face of a Fox Suvi wants to yell at. I love him.
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madamegoodparty · 5 days
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Brennan's describing the Witch of Wind and Stars and I'm just picturing Tilda Swinton as the White Witch
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madamegoodparty · 5 days
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Steel: Brilliant people, when they are following a compulsion, tend to invent an innocent reason for doing so. (...) Brilliant minds find justifications for things
Brennan behind the 4th wall, at the top of his lungs:
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madamegoodparty · 5 days
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📢 BEING SMART WILL NOT SAVE YOU!!!! 📢
This fireside is exclusive to Patreon subscribers, so join us by the fireside: https://www.patreon.com/posts/102427711
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madamegoodparty · 6 days
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A mini five years in the making...the Pentacorn 🦄
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kristen applebees has kiled god
this is the first time i've posted my art on tumblr be nice, also i haven't drawn in....... months........
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madamegoodparty · 7 days
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dev patel really said "i support trans ppls rights....... trans ppls rights to kill bigots with guns and metal pipes and chairs and cool knives'' anyway watch monkey man
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madamegoodparty · 7 days
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🚨A new episode of Adventuring Party is out now on Dropout!
Tune-in to hear about the cast's thoughts on The Last Stand and what the nature of rage is.
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madamegoodparty · 8 days
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Do you believe in miracles, because two nat 20s on a disadvantaged performance check sure seems like a miracle to me!! 🤣🤩🤣
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madamegoodparty · 8 days
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The way the muffled Jay voice just. Stays. They don't do it once for a bit this is just how we have to hear Jay throughout the episode bc the dumby got his head stuck in a huge frog mask
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madamegoodparty · 8 days
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Fuckboi Erika character having sex while wearing a giant paper mache frog head was not on my www hiatus bingo card, but I’m here for it none the less
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I love the first Interlude, “Twelve Brooks,” on the WBN Patreon for so many reasons, but the most interesting one is that in a lively, pastoral setting with truly awe-inspiring levels of fantastical whimsy, Brennan managed to fold in another reason for me to hate and distrust the Kehmsarazan Empire.
Mark my words, the Saraz Imperium will pay for what they did to the Grenoe (sp?) and to Buckles especially. Not only did they essentially orphan a seven or six year-old child, but they also separated him from his people, who could have guided him through his beautiful magical gift in his own time. Truly the dick-est moves of all dick moves.
The real tragedy that I keep coming back to is the imperialism of terminology. Prof. Salmón knows what the Empire and the Citadel would call someone like Buckles — a cambion, which Brennan definitely pulled from European mythology about the offspring of a human and a demon — but he has to look through an ancient library in a dipalitated castle overtaken by bullfrogs and fucking fireflies to learn what Buckles’s own people would call him. Something about that makes me incandescent with rage.
I fucking hate empires so much.
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