sometimes a family can be a disaster butch princess, her sword lesbian girlfriend, a girl who used to be a cook but was prophesied to save the world, a bard prince with a lot of repressed trauma, an annoyed ranger who’s only there because he doesn’t want to be in jail, and their grumpy old washed-up wizard.

Been a min, so enjoy the concept I have for my next DnD character. She's a Smoke genasi halfling and a Witch

I really need to get back to drawing because these sketches of my and my besties DnD characters have just been sitting in my drafts for idk how long

Like this is probably one of the best drawings I have ever made and Im not even done with it??? Like I've done our human paladin a disservice by not even drawing her armor. And my tabaxi druid? bro looks so naked right now and is missing his left arm (also is it obivous I used to be a warrior cats kid? I still kind of am a warrior cats kid actually)

And dont even get me startet on the fact that I still need to figure out how to draw my boyfriends characters.

I've tried to draw him so many times and every time I just start to hate the drawing even more.

being neurodivergent is all fun and games until you remember those hourly quote bots on twitter and think well maybe I can't make a bot anymore but I could schedule a few quotes a day, that shouldn't be hard. it sounds fun to have a bunch of quotes of my favorite character Thirteen from hit mobile game Obey Me! and its sequel Obey Me! Nightbringer. and then you think about how arduous collecting the quotes is going to be but she's only been in the games for maybe a year and a half with little screentime and you love collecting things so you start but then you remember that you love collecting things so naturally you have ALL of her screentime in the game and suddenly you have 45k characters of quotes and are several lessons into season 4 (which is truly a trial in and of itself) but not nearly close enough to the end but you refuse to just stop collecting the quotes and make the account with the EXCESS of what you have already because you literally only have season 4 to get through and if you don't do it just seeing the bot (because now you've been informed you can make tumblr bots instead) will haunt you with that knowledge even if nobody else would ever know. this is a general anecdote of a situation that could easily happen to anyone though and not in any way related to my life

If there's anything to know about me it's my love of Gurren Lagann. I've watched it 39 times and am saving the 40th for the US release of the movies. It defines me as a person and made me who I am. So you better believe there's a big reference to it by the end of The Hero's Right Hand. Vague spoiler:

[aubree voice] I got LAID because I'm NICE

'hey spain whats ur latest obession/fandom' oh u know. group of ocs that me n 5 of my friends made. yeah theyre just stick figures. yeah theyre called the yaoi guys. u know how it is

the way that so many people watch stranger things like it's a marvel movie where everything is superficial and the plot is delivered and explained to you through flat dialogue instead of years of thorough and elaborate storytelling is so.... upsetting to me lol. as if the fact that stranger things uses a lot of cgi and has fantasy and science fiction elements makes it different from shows like sev*rance, succ*ssion, bl*ck s*ils, or literally any other show that is written with care. as if the fact that it's fun and brought to life by many young actors means that it's not serious, that those writers and costumers and set designers and cinematographers aren't all working together to immerse you into this world and beckoning you to pick up on the hints and substories they've littered along the way. like.... people understand that other shows use basic literary devices to progress the story and engage you and so on but for some reason people are dead set on saying that stranger things isn't like that. that it's on par with a marvel movie or any easily forgettable flashy summer action flick. what makes them think that stranger things doesn't foreshadow, have subtext, have unreliable narrators, show scenes through different povs, use allegories, symbolism, foils, and so on and so forth? like. I Just Do Not Understand.

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Might or might not have formed attachments to the entirety of the kotor 1 main crew

just got reminded of the time during a dnd game that I took an opportunity to misty step thru a really basic trap but it took so long for the rest of the party to get thru it that I ended up dying to like 2 enemies lol

Little shitty nervous wreck crow rogue druid

So last nights dnd game was quite exciting and dramatic, but the bit I want to focus is a small moment from near the end, for which I need to provide ~context~

the tl;dr of the campaign is that we are a trade expedition to a fantasy china-esque locale, currently stationed in a city with 5 factions vying for their own kind of control, + an overarching imperial authority that has lost its power owing to [circumstances]

the character of focus is a lady named Yan Xia. She was introduced to us as an investigator for a faction called the Bingja, who are the city's military force. We've have poor relations to the Bingja at this stage, and Yan Xia is the first character from that faction we really get to know who isnt a 10yo child (long story).

In the first meeting, she helps us investigate some strange goings on around the Mohzi (another faction) village, finding out some Fucky Wucky creatures have been kidnapping villagers and taking them to a partially-buried mindflayer ship in the nearby forest.

As we're discussing the ship, it slips out that we've had a previous encounter with mindflayers in this very city - inside the Bingja base, in fact (which is when we met that 10yo, who was lightly injured in the encounter). We do actually tell her about this, including that we'd broken in with a goal of getting back some wine that the Bingja had taken as "taxes". An agreement is reached that we and the Bingja will explore the ship together.

However. We, the members of the fleet, end up exploring the ship before the Bingja arrive, clearing it out, rescuing the surviving townsfolk, and scavenging some cool shit. When Yan Xia arrives, she is fucking pissed. Because she was under the impression she had a deal with our commander, which he completely reneged on. Some of us attempt to smooth that over, but we end up leaving the ship. We're 1/2 on good interactions with Yan Xia, but we all know why she's mad.

The next time we see her, its as part of an attempt to sorta... smooth over the relationship with the faction. The Bingja have an item we think we might need for a party member's personal quest (long story, not important), so a small group head to the ship to see if we can work out some kind of deal. Yan Xia is the person who greets us on our arrival, and she is very much not impressed - however, she's not in charge, because her commander is here, and she redirects us to him.

Which is where things get weird. Because over the course of a conversation with him, it becomes clear that the Bingja have taken the mindflayer attack on their base quite seriously, and further suspect that we were involved in the injury incurred by the commander's daughter.

But wait! We told Yan Xia we had broken in to the Bingja base. We told her that was where we fought a mindflayer. She knows we were there. So why is it merely a suspicion of the Bingja that we were involved in the incident? Hmmmmm.

She doesn't end up being present for the rest of the encounter iirc, as we end up teleporting the mindflayer ship to the Astral Sea while she's outside (oops). Everything's fine.

We don't see her again for a little bit. A small group, positioned as a "diplomatic envoy", are sent to the Bingja base formally to discuss a matter of great important - at some point we found some evidence that the imperial administration had been compromised or fucked with, and as the military faction in the city, we hope to work with them to sorta... deal with that. Now we did obtain this info by breaking in, as is our want, but yknow. Whatever.

But when we show up, the head of the Bingja orders our arrest - the administration had beaten us to the punch, and charges us with a crime we actually genuinely haven't committed (not important). The envoy is tossed in jail.

It's there, a bit later, that Yan Xia shows up. And she apologises for not being able to prevent our arrest - she'd argued with the imperial officer who arrived with the "warrant", and made a case to her boss, but to no avail. When she receives our word that we had no involvement in what we've been accused of, she leaves. IIRC, she then spends that session attempting to help distract the imperial officer, enabling us a window to escape (literally, lol).

Yan Xia then doesn't make any particular appearance for a while, as our relationship with the Bingja isn't doing too hot, and we don't really go out of our way to talk to them if we don't have to.

Until last night. A group of us were heading to the Mohzi village to steal gunpowder from their fort (long story), and a Bingja squad is also heading that way. We beat them to the village by a fair way. But as we're sneaking in, a fucking nautilus mindflayer ship shows up and starts wreaking havoc. We grab the gunpowder, we knock out the Mohzi leader, and some of us make efforts to evacuate as many people from the village as possible.

And as we leave, we bump into the Bingja squad. Or, one of us does, with the intention to telling them what's happened. That character attempts to convince the Bingja to turn back - they'll be slaughtered if they advance. To which their commander asks if we know whether the mindflayers have gotten access to the gunpowder.

We lie. We say we don't know. Even as, elsewhere, the party's pockets are laden with ill-gotten formulae and weaponry.

To which the Bingja commander orders her squad to split - some to help with the evacuation, and the rest to make for the Mohzi fort. And she, Yan Xia, will lead that attack. She has her orders to secure the gunpowder, and she will follow her orders.

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"oh ya cause your dex is bad" heavy breathing

me: *sits still for too long*

my brain, shuffling through a pile of papers: which dnd character am i going to obsessively fantasize about now?

What can I say. I can't help myself. I'm in a bad writers block, I have been for a bit now. So all of my creative ambition is going towards spam art of my DnD character.

The last few sessions have really not been going well for him. Like everything is just going wrong and he's been pissed for like a solid week in game.

Which is weird, because he is the golden retriever of the party. He's usually not in a bad mood. But he definitely has been now for the last bit.

Also, the last combat session was the first time I let the demon(?) out to play. It was - interesting. I got backed into the corner and my only option was to use the cursed sword.