I don't know if this is at all likely to happen, but can you imagine if Sam's new character is a Reilora? Or any Ruidian humanoid?

There's so much potential! They could be a repentant member of the Imperium! A Volition member! A downtrodden citizen desperate to escape the hellscape of the moon and go to the Blue Promise! A player character who's a fish out of water on Exandria! And don't even get me started on the amount of Ruidus lore we could get from them! Sam Riegel can you hear my telepathic plea?? Do you see my vision? Do you see it??????

OK, but I love that Essek might be appearing in the Mighty Nein series before he meets the Nein! It's not just me wanting More Essek (though I do) or wanting to see more of what was going on with his dealings with the Assembly (which I also do). I think this could be super fucking interesting from a narrative construction standpoint.

Because I cannot see how you can include Essek from early in the series and not make it clear to the audience that he's the Dynasty traitor loooong before the Nein find out. Essek having stolen the beacons will not be a surprise. It looks to me like the cast are swapping out surprise for a fuckton of suspense. (Suspense vs surprise was explained to me when I was studying narrative structure as 'surprise is when a bomb goes off that the audience didn't know was there. Suspense is when they see the bomb being placed and have to sit there begging the characters to realise it's there.' In this analogy, Essek is the bomb.)

When we watched C2, the question was is Essek the traitor? In the M9 show, the question for new watchers will be when will the Nein realise that Essek is the traitor? When Essek meets the Nein, the countdown starts ticking; people will know that he is a danger. He is manipulating them. He is going to hurt them. Will the Nein realise before it's too late? But then Essek starts really befriending them, showing more of his loneliness and vulnerability, and... I think the mood will shift. Oh, shit, he really cares about them, doesn't he? What will the Nein do if they find out? Do I even want them to find out? What if they reject him and it makes him worse? He can't keep this up much longer, this is unbearable, they're going to find out - OH FUCK THEY'RE FINDING OUT -

It's such a fascinating choice and I think it goes to show that adaptation is an art form in itself! The actual events in the world will be the same, or at least very similar, but a new format means you can show those events in a totally new way and create a completely different tone! Narrative structure is the fucking coolest! I'm so excited for this show!

Has your #1 comfort character committed a crime?

First in my heart

Falmer mother and child

Sitting up straight out of a dream at 1 am thinking abt how Gale falls head over heels for a kind Tav bc he’s never known someone to be so genuinely kind without expecting anything in return. His last relationship was transactional and left him broken so seeing someone that cares for others and someone that loves him for him without expecting anything in return is entirely new for him so of Course he was going to be enamored by them

It's very funny to me that Sylas Briarwood spent months planning an elaborate scheme to crash Percy and Vex's wedding and murder them in vengeance for killing his beloved wife... and meanwhile his beloved wife was literally one continent over, chilling in the head of a dead girl with a flair for interior decoration.

It's also very funny to me that Delilah Briarwood apparently spent the time between her final death in Campaign 1 and Dalen's Closet chilling in the head of a dead girl with a flair for interior decoration, harbouring distant, desperate thoughts of regaining her lost love... while her lost love was literally one continent over, planning an elaborate scheme to crash Percy and Vex's wedding and murder them.

i’d say they’re going on a road trip but they don’t even have a car smh

I really like what the aroace community has done with pacific rim and drift compatibility. Not romantic, not platonic, but a secret third thing (punching a monster in the mouth)

(based on art by DeAgostini/Leemage)

i want to live (all origins)

i love Gale BG3 and i love how this turned out but i'm never drawing hair again.

todays eBird scrolling has got us these four examples of the bird name archetypes

1. The Grandiose

2. The Composite

3. That’s Just Mean

4. Huh?

I love reading older books that use terminology differently to how we do now. I'm reading a book that keeps using 'bisexual' in the way that we'd now use 'unisex' and while I know what the author means... it is absolutely hilarious to read statements like 'in 1750, London's first bisexual club was established'.

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it is very important that you give your newly adopted wizard many hugs so that he becomes accustomed to them. wizards are like cats that way.