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Sometimes a family is a werewolf, his niece, his adopted daughter, his girlfriend, his girlfriend's griffin, his girlfriend's daughter, his girlfriend's daughter's friend who just moved in one day (who is the ex of his niece), the kid his girlfriend's daughter (and his adopted daughter, and his girlfriend's daughter's friend) killed once, that kid's mom, the demon who lives inside the kid's mom, the resident ghost, the resident ghost's ghost rat, the werewolf's girlfriend's daughter's girlfriend (but only through a magic portal door), his adopted daughter's no-longer-evil sister, said sister's fifteen cats, two kidnapped adopted butter jellies, an invisible dog, and a frog.

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pandomech · 3 hours

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short solidarity means sometimes you help ur halfling friend be taller than her girlfriend for kissing purposes

inspired by this classic but i thought it would be funnier if lucy was just standing there rather than being in a window

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pandomech · 2 days

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Even more princesses!!!!

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pandomech · 4 days

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the teacher evaluations are absolutely priceless. Teacher evaluations appreciation post.

"Attractive bard teacher I can't remember her name."

Fig intimidating Riz into giving Eugenia all fives and him saying "Good at rogue stuff but the double fisting cigarettes was a bit much."

Fig making Porter and Zara share a form but giving Lucilla her own and Porter getting SO incensed about it.

"After all these years, still not sure if Porter is secretly evil, but smiting is so sick."

"Yeah yeah, stabby stabby" for Corsica Jones

"Strongly disagree that teacher prepared for class, but this is the way of dance. Dance is present. Dance is now. [...] Also, again, I'm so sorry. Please let me buy you a new shirt."

"Liar, frumpy, wrong."

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pandomech · 4 days

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One thing I've not seen yet in discussions of Kipperlilly's reasons for hating Riz is how much it parallels the feelings of people born into priviledged majorities about 'diversity hiring'.

The way she thinks that having a tragic backstory makes you a better adventurer, when all it really does is hurt you, is exactly the way I've seen white cishet people complain that being in a minority gets you priority for job offers/grants.

The idea that having pain in your past from discrimination or trauma is worth it because you get 'more opportunities' in the working world from being a POC or LGBTQ+ or disabled is a genuine belief that some priviledged people hold. And to me that really mirrors Copperbitch Kipperbottle's jealousy of Riz both having a dead father and ESPECIALLY coming from a poor background.

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pandomech · 4 days

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Ep 16 Untapped Rage

I should have taken Rogue class in high school.

Ep 15 || Ep 17

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pandomech · 5 days

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Ok here's an updated timeline of the Rat Grinders based on the new info we got this episode:

Freshman Year

On the first day of classes Kipperlily and the others meet and form their adventuring party. Kipperlily comes up with the name the High Five Heroes.

Kipperlily excels academically, but the High Five Heroes only go on easier adventures, presumably to ensure they will succeed rather than fail at something challenging.

Ruben is primarily an acoustic/soft rock musician.

Kipperlily begins to have childish rage and resentment towards Riz and the other Bad Kids, which start out petty but gradually grow in intensity over the next couple years.

Sophomore Year

An increase in hostility, one of the first meetings Kipperlily has this year is being jealous that Riz's dad was killed by Kalvaxus, that if a person has suffered immense magical hardship it is an unfair advantage in adventuring.

Kipperlily tries to find evidence of conspiracy with her parents and is enraged that they are boring.

A week after spring break the High Five Heroes go on their first quest to the mountains of chaos, chaperoned by Jace Stardiamond.

After this, the High Five Heroes seem to undergo a shift where their rage is amplified. Kipperlily's counselor files become much more venomous towards the Bad Kids, Ruben shifts to emo music, etc.

At some point after this Ivy and Oisin propose changing the name to the Rat Grinders. Kipperlily opposes this and Lucy is on her side, but Ruben votes against her because it makes her upset and Mary Ann also votes against her but doesn't explain her reasoning.

A piece of paperwork is submitted for Lucy to change her god, but another piece of paperwork is filed afterwards rescinding that application, presumably by Lucy herself changing her mind.

Towards the end of the year, after grades are finalized but before classes are over thus avoiding the pass/fail penalty, Lucy dies in the far haven woods near Aguefort. Presumably, she could have been resurrected in service of this unnamed rage god, but chose not to. She "stuck to her guns".

Kipperlily's rage towards the Bad Kids has transitioned from childish to venomous, she "hates them".

Junior Year

At some point between the end of Sophomore year and the beginning of Junior year, the Rat Grinders specifically request Buddy Dawn join their party as a cleric.

At 8:01 am, the first day of classes, Kipperlily goes to Ashgrove to dig up the rogue teacher's grave, thus forcing her to reveal herself and granting Kipperlily a pass for all her rogue classes for the year. Presumably she was aware of the rogue teacher's grave beforehand (information only available in Arthur Aguefort's office) but waited until the start of Junior year so she could pass all her classes for the year.

Kipperlily announces her bid to run for student council president, with a platform based on equity, equanimity, and fairness.

Kipperlily asks Jawbone about the creation of Yes! and the events of prompocalypse

Her counselor notes become extremely enraged, with her straight up wanting to kill Kristin and being angry that she can't get to her thanks to Fig's protection.

Oisin, Ivy, and Buddy are seen at Fabian's house party during the first week of classes. Kipperlily is not seen but is possibly there invisible. The Bad Kids are asked to do drugs but decline. That same night, mephits steal part of a cloud rider engine kept in Seacaster Manor.

At the school assembly the following day Principal Grix reveals he was notified of students doing drugs off campus, meaning its possible the Rat Grinders tipped him off in an attempt to get the Bad Kids in trouble.

Ruben performs presumably some kind of ritual at the Frosty Fair Folk festival, with the other Rat Grinders conspicuously absent. Simultaneously, Yolanda Badgood falls dead in the same place where Lucy Frostblade died, after Yolanda had been made aware of Lucy's change in god and was investigating it. Yolanda also refuses to be resurrected in service of the rage god.

The Rat Grinders are seen at the assembly addressing Yolanda's death and how all clerics would be moved to pass/fail. Most look bored, Mary Ann isn't paying attention, and Buddy is unconcerned.

Kipperlily and Oisin get caught trying to sabotage the Bad Kids' Last Stand exam, and Kipperlily kills Buddy. Ten minutes after the Bad Kids plane shift away, Buddy is revived by an unknown figure and he pledges his allegiance to the rage god.

Now the Rat Grinders are scheduled for another trip to the Mountains of Chaos and are on complete lockdown, hiding all of them from Adaine's divination magic.

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pandomech · 5 days

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alright so highlights from dimension 20 london night 2 show (in no particular order):

- okay first of all, amazing line-up: cody walsh, figueroth faeth, pinnochio, gorguk thislespring, amanda encino (quangled into sir amanda maillard and a very brief kristen quangle), adaine abernant

- setting is crown of candy

- also one of the setting balls ended up in lou's bingo thingy, and the first ball he got was said setting. ergo, lou was part of the setting

- siobhan: 'don't worry, she (amanda)'s got ceremony'

'someone will get married tonight!'

- lou, in high pitched pinnochio voice: hey, you paid to hear this

- baby is gorguk's intern. gorguk hates it. queue brennan (as baby): oooh, what will you do to me when I get your coffee order wrong???

zac (gorguk): hopefully fire you from being my intern

- "i will take psychic damage from this, but i disguise myself as a techbro"

- cody walsh arriving and asking fig if she's lucifer

- the bad kids all going 'wow this guy is cool'

- gorguk: wait, you're 32? i thought you said 22

cody: no i said 32

gorguk: must've heard that wrong

- gorguk, whispering to the other bad kids: this guy was way cooler when i thought he was our age

- time quangle dragging them into a rift and murph succeeding on the athletics check for cody to take out his sword and stick it in the quangle

- "cool, my sword's even more cursed now"

- margaret encino winding down by continuously slamming tripple red bull/espresso shots in a casino, yelling 'noooo my game' when getting sucked into the quangle

- cody being the knight of the quangle and gorguk pleding himself to him, becoming the squire of the quangle

- pinnochio is corrupting calorum

- pinnochio is found chewing bubblegum and shotting whisky. fig: "i'm straight edge except for drugs, but what happens in the quangle stays in the quangle"

- queen of junk food, picking up pinnochio: i heard you were looking for a mother

crowd: oooooohhhhhh

- first round of combat being initiated because the junk food mother queen tried to power word kill margaret and ally rolled a one. however fig counterspelling the spell, counterspelled by the junk mother, only to be counterspelled by adaine, and pinnochio counterspelling the original spell and giving the power word kill power (back) to margaret

- margaret encino quangling into ally's crown of candy back up character whom they have never played

- queen caramelinda: the only way to save this land from the corruption-

sir amanda of maillard: we kill everyone

queen caramelinda: true love's marriage

(they need to say yes to marriage and fall in love on the same day)

- everyone describing their relationship status; fig wanting desperately to marry ayda, getting 80 messages saying 'i do', fig having made a whole concept album of 80 minutes proposing to ayda and sending it ('well, the trigger is pulled'). cody walsh listing jack skellington and 'the concept of my chemical romance' as marriage candidates, adaine piping up saying she never wants to marry

- cody: 'the concept of the band my chemical romance. not any of them individually, just the concept of them. as a whole'

adaine: 'in our dimension, people marry concepts all the time!'

queen caramelinda: 'okay, do you have their number?'

cody: '? i have their albums? i have their songs on a mix cd?!'

- jawbone showing up wearing squeem, which is later explained to have always been a mecha

- 'this could be like the nightmare before christmas. we just have to figure out if we're jack skellington or oogie boogie'

- sir amanda maillard and queen caramelinda having the hots for each other and sir amanda blushing so hard that her cheeks become toasted marshmallows

- sir amanda taking queen caramelinda aside 'look i know marriage isn't our thing, that kinda constitution isn't for us, but-'

'one, i have thought about it already, but-'

'am i looking a little bloodthirsty? because if we get married i can finish off this pig-'

'it wouldn't work if the officiant is partaking in the marriage'

- 'what we have is hotter than marriage'

- lou (as pinnochio): 'do i know anyone who would immediately say yes to being married?' *pulls on his strings * *ends up at baron peppermint pig not preston, but his brother's house *

- sir amanda following pinnochio into the quangle with sentinel and almost oneshotting the baron pig, then, upon remembering he is to be married, fully heals him

- the others coming in and hearing his marriage candidate wishes (being of status) and the bad kids going baron from the baronies . loose duke is mentioned

- baron of the baronies quangled with loose duke

- loose baron immediately taking off, fig dimension dooring sir amanda to him, sir amanda having to make a con save as she's grappling loose baron

- 'what do you do to resist the pleasure gel that's covering loose baron?'

'oh, it's that kind of con save!'

'yeah, it's the one that people give themselves adventage on by thinking about baseball'

- adaine casting fly on gorguk, pinnochio and herself, turning to cody going: 'you will be okay, right?' and cody revving his scooter going 'yeah'

- lou: imagine driving that over the candied cobblestones!

- murph thinking really long about what he's gonna do for his turn

- cody: *turns to the pig baron * one knight started it, so maybe i should be the knight to finish it

- so much help from the cast to get a hit with Thisting Blade Dark Excalibur Mega-Genesis (it does. it's awesome)

- 120 damage from the d10s alone

- 'you see caramelinda stand over there, going: what the fuck?!'

- 'don't worry, i got a plan.' 'what if we raised a skeleton, and i married the skelleton?'

- '...but i also got memories from being a demon haunting a goblin' 'you got memories from haunting-? and i kiss him'

- bogbatriel frogbatriel

- alternate quangle in which sandra lynn an sklonda are very committed to each other

- pinnochio ripping up the squangle to create a pool of darkness as perfect setting for the first date

- the hungry (nightmare) king needed to be asked permission for loose baron and cody to marry

- murph getting a nat 20 on his initiative, immediately being followed by his next roll being a nat 1

- trying to persuade the hungry king is a dc 500

- *ally rolling persuasion* brennan: if you do it again we're going to end this show right here

- gorguk casting enlarge on cody so that his sword is regular sized

- cody: 'what? why? do it on my moped! i'll pay you for it'

- loose duke has a complementary nightmare before christmas tattoo to cody

- 'boy of destiny' 'you can call me pinocchio' 'boy of destiny-' *lou turns to emily* 'pinnochio-' 'huh?' 'focus up, pinnochio!'

- gorguk moodily repairing cody's moped

- fig's disguise self as cody to make him look better to the nightmare king

- the nightmare king: i should be on your t-shirt!

- pinnochio pulling his strings and making the quangle into an olive garden; ragh and thorek appearing as well as a brief glimpse of ayda

- the persuasion dc now being a 30

- murph rolling with fig's performance and a bardic, still getting a 29 total

- brennan: 'there is one person who can lower the DC by one. one who first said those words [when you're queer you're family]...'

- CASSANDRA!

- cassandra dipping after giving their blessing because the cody/loose duke match is truly a mystery to her

- cassandra, to kristen: 'you got this?'

- fig as cody dipping cassandra and cassandra going 'fig, is that you?' and cody going 'no, i am the night' and kirsten being 'oh hey fig!'

- 'i know pronounce you....creepy and freaky'

- alternate timeline info from single jawbone making gorguk so mad and sad he can't even process it

(mary ann taking his place in the bad kids, mary ann playing the bass in fig's band with fig playing drums, gorguk being co-president of the av club with biz who purposefully failed a year just so he could be co-president with his best friend gorguk)

- cody having an aura meaning he and anyone within ten feet of him cannot be frightened being revealed after everyone being frightened by the nightmare king except for adaine, who had jawbone put a paw on her shoulder as she felt the familiar anxiety and said to her 'you got this kiddo'

- the wedding rings each being fashioned out of 3 nigtmare before christmas hot topic rings pulled out of adaine's jacket

- gorguk asking for the mecha and jawbone going 'i am really glad you can so forcefully ask for something. in my timeline-' '-stop.' 'wait what do i do' 'well in my timeline you come to school everyday with a suitcase full of metal flowers' 'i can't even begin to think about that'

- margaret putting so much money into a fund for adaine

- brennan describing this show as chaotic (he wasn't wrong)

- murph in glasses

- honestly we keep winning 🏳️‍🌈🌈 (amanda/caramelinda, cody/loose baron, (aro)ace adain implication, fig/ayda going strong, alternate timeline sandra lynn/sklonda)

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When joking about how ridiculous it is that Fabian is popular I don’t think people realize how insanely cool the bad kids are in universe. As viewers we see their cool moments but we also see them being dorks and lame idiots. Think about their in universe reputations and how you would react to hearing about them if you lived in the same world as them.

There is a group of six people who saved the world 3 different times before they even entered their junior year of high school.

One of them never showed up to any of their classes until their third year and still passed. She is a rockstar and arch devil of rebellion who owns a recording studio in hell where she plays the bass.

One dude threw the greatest party the entire high school has ever seen, is captain of the sports team, and killed the school’s evil principal without facing any punishment.

One performed a motorcycle kick-flip that was doing a jump off of a mansion’s roof into a pool of flaming tartar sauce. Said kick-flip student has created a god, killed that god, brought herself back from the dead, and resurrected a completely different god.

One of the girls is the chosen oracle of all elves and punched her dad so hard he instantly died. Also if you dig deep enough into the political history books it turns out she caused there to be a feud (bordering on full war) between her home nation and the nation she currently lives in.

The quietest kid of the bunch is a super genius who invented a solar lasso that captured and contained an eldritch horror into his van, took 4 years of high school all at once and passed all of them, is currently acing his arcane mechanics and physical Ed studies, and is the second hand man on the school sports team. He also is the drummer for the arch devil’s band and launched a fully working satellite into space before he even started studying arcane mechanics.

Finally the “dork” of their group is an arcane consultant of heaven, became a P.I. after freshman year, is currently in every extra-curricular school club, and is beloved by seemingly all of his underclassmen. Also after he found out that the dragon his party was fighting ate his dad he fucking ATE IT to avenge him.

Obviously we know the truth behind all of these things and the actual way these six dorks act, but think how insanely sick they all sound in universe.

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