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wayfaringmd · 2 years

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Can you recommend some books to read ,for a pre med student?

I’m going to preface my answer with a warning: do not try to get ahead. It’s called pre-med for a reason. You need a foundation to build on, so don’t go jumping in to reading medical textbooks in undergrad. It likely won’t stick and it definitely wont give you a leg up in medical school. There’s really no formula of books to read or classes to take in undergrad to give you an advantage to get in or through medical school.

My advice is thus to read broadly in any subject that interests you while you still have time to do it. Be a well read and well rounded individual. It will make you a better whatever-you-decide-to-be in the future. Develop a hobby or pursue knowledge in something completely unrelated to medical science. It may end up being the thing you discuss in your med school or residency interview that differentiates you from all the other applicants, and even better than that it will help you avoid being a nerd who knows everything about one tiny sliver of science but who can’t relate to people.

The following list does not contain any textbooks or hard science. Instead it covers the history (good and bad) of my profession and the everyday struggles and triumphs of physicians and their patients. Here goes:

- When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi

- The Emperor of all Maladies:A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee

- The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine, by Justin and Sydnee McElroy

- The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA’s Double Helix by Howard Merkel

- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach

- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot (also a movie on Netflix)

- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman

- How Doctors Think, by Jerome Groopman

- Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder

- And The Band Played On, by Randy Shilts

- Brain on Fire, by Susannah Cahalan (also a movie on Netflix)

- Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, by Sheri Fink

- Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, by Harriet Washington

- The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine, by Lindsey Fitzharris

- The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine, by Janice Nimura

- Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America, by Beth Macy (also a series on Hulu) OR Death in Mud Lick by Eric Eyre

- Letters To A Young Doctor, by Perri Klass

- What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine, by Danielle Ofri

- How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter, by Sherwin B. Nuland

- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, by Oliver Sacks (or literally anything by Oliver Sacks)

- Bad Science and Bad Pharma, by Ben Goldacre

- Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All, by Paul Offit

#recommended reading #medblr #pre med #medical school

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emiko-matsui · 3 years

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Recommendations for new podcasts <3

IF YOU WANT SHORTER, FUNNIER DESCRIPTIONS BUT THE SAME PODCASTS, GO TO MY PROFILE UNDER THE PODCAST RECOMMENDATIONS HASHTAG

Alice Isn't Dead: this is a horror/sci fi scripted podcast. it's only advertised as a horror podcast and i think that you will enjoy it much more if you look at it from both genres. it's a fantastic wlw story with a poc main character with anxiety. it has some terrifying and beautiful quotes. it also comes from the same creators as welcome to nightvale. if you like horror and lore stuff i recommend you check it out! (also definitely check it out if you're gay)

My Brother, My Brother and Me: three brothers starts a podcast in 2010 to keep them from drifting apart. over 500 episodes and 11 years later they are trapped in the podcast still. one of the aspects of the show is the brothers going onto yahoo answers and now, they have outlived yahoo answers. but jokes aside, this podcast is full of warmth and i've never met a person who hasn't laughed (out loud) while listening. and hey, if you're looking for a podcast to listen to when you fall asleep or if you zone out a lot, this is the one for you! you can zone out anywhere and have just as much context as if you hadn't, and it makes the podcast no less enjoyable.

What'sHerName: just listen to this podcast, just do it. it's about women forgotten by history and two female historians finally telling them. every episode they talk about a new woman and have an expert on the show about that woman's life and history. the vibe of the show is so calm and it asks question that are large in a serene way.

True Crime And Cocktails: so you take the world's most famous unsolved cases, often covered in netflix specials. their first season covers the unsolved mysteries episodes, but the women that host this podcasts does a lot more research than their sources. so if you like long episodes, unsolved crimes, and drunk best friends give this a listen. yeah, did i mention they're drinking during the entire time?

Sawbones: as the official description says, dr sydnee mcelroy and her husband justin delve into the twisted history of medicine. to a lot of people medical history sounds like an incredibly boring subject, that includes me, but then i listened to sawbones. the first episode alone talks about trepanation, or to put it simply drilling holes in your head to fix your illness. this isn't the history of medicine as we know it. this is the history of the most fucked up things we used to do and call medicine.

The Adventure Zone: ask anyone who's listened what they feel about it and you'll get answers after answers after answers of how profoundly beautiful this story that a family managed to create. how it's one of the most beautiful stories ever heard, with a fantastic score, and quotes that rip your heart every time you hear them. and then you put the podcast on and hear three brothers and their dad playing dungeons and dragons while making infinite dick jokes, dunking on every single npc their brother creates, and meets a man named barry bluejeans. our oldest brother fell in love with the grim reaper. our middlest brother swallowed an all-powerful pink rock. our dad almost fucked a plant. welcome to the adventure zone.

The Magnus Archives: it's a horror scripted podcast! every episode is standalone but becomes more plot heavy the further into the show you come. every episode has a creepy overtone but some episodes will be calmer and some episodes will be more terror heavy. this depends entirely on your personal fears. it has a genuinely cool narrative and gets pretty lore heavy by the later seasons (if that's positive or negative is up to you). the characters includes a brown bisexual asexual man, a blind lesbian woman, and a fat gay man. every episode includes trigger warnings.

Very Really Good: kurtis conner is a professional youtuber and standup comedian. for fun he does a podcast on sundays where he talks about... whatever. it isn't tied to either his comedic career or youtube profession just a thing he does on the side. the early episodes are more podcast centric while the later episodes are more youtube centric. it's a calm listen i recommend if you want something to have on and not engage in.

(if u want episode recommendations for these podcasts, check the replies)

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dykevillanelle · 2 years

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savannah "dykevillanelle"'s 2021 reading list

books read: 86 pages read: 26,910

top 5: 1 (best). Gideon the Ninth / Harrow the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir) 2. Lolita in the Afterlife (edited by Jenny Minton Quiqley) 3. Carceral Capitalism (Jackie Wang) 4. Detransition, Baby (Torrey Peters) 5. Plain Bad Heroines (Emily M. Danforth)

bottom 5: 1. The Other Woman (Sandie Jones) 2. Meddling Kids (Edgar Cantero) 3. Haunted (Chuck Palahniuk) 4. Come With Me (Helen Schulman) 5 (worst). The Mask of Sanity (Hervey M. Cleckley)

full list and my ratings under the cut:

Plain Bad Heroines (Emily M. Danforth) ★★★★★

The Honey Month (Amal El-Mohtar) ★★★★★

Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Ibram X. Kendi) ★★★★

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (C. Riley Snorton) ★★★★★

The Milk Lady of Bangalore: Adventures With My Milk Lady (Shoba Narayan) ★★★

Mules and Men (Zora Neale Hurston) ★★★

Ring Shout (P. Djèlí Clark) ★★★★★

The Friend (Sigrid Nunez) ★★★★★

The Body is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love (Sonya Renee Taylor) ★★★★

Meddling Kids (Edgar Cantero) ★★

Fade Into You (Nikki Darling) ★★

Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of LGBT Latino/a Activism (edited by Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Uriel Quesada, & Letitia Gomez) ★★★

The Fifth Season (N.K. Jemisin) ★★★★★

Her Body and Other Parties (Carmen Maria Machado) ★★★★★

Clock Dance (Anne Tyler) ★★★

The Other Woman (Sandie Jones) ★★

The Obelisk Gate (N.K. Jemisin) ★★★★

The Windfall (Diksha Basu) ★★★

The Freezer Door (Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore) ★★★★

Carceral Capitalism (Jackie Wang) ★★★★★

Watchmen (Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons) ★★★★

Lolita in the Afterlife (edited by Jenny Minton Quiqley) ★★★★★

The Stone Sky (N.K. Jemisin) ★★★★

The Mask of Sanity (Hervey M. Cleckley) ★

Grand Union (Zadie Smith) ★★★

In West Mills (De'shawn Charles Winslow) ★★★

The Farm (Joanne Ramos) ★★★★★

Jane: A Murder (Maggie Nelson) ★★★★

Inside This Place, Not Of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons (edited by Ayelet Waldman & Robin Levi) ★★★★

Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction (edited by Sabrina Chap) ★★★★

Other Voices, Other Rooms (Truman Capote) ★★★★★

Moses, Man of the Mountain (Zora Neale Hurston) ★★★

The Weight of Ink (Rachel Kadish) ★★★★★

Two or Three Things I Know For Sure (Dorothy Allison) ★★★★

Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States (Carl A. Zimring) ★★★★

The Grass Harp and Other Stories (Truman Capote) ★★★★

Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case (Debbie Nathan) ★★★★

Without a Net: The Female Experience Growing Up Working Class (Michelle Tea) ★★★★

The Devil Finds Work (James Baldwin) ★★★★

Seed Sovereignty, Food Security: Women in the Vanguard of the Fight Against GMOs and Corporate Agriculture (edited by Vandana Shiva) ★★★

Women, Race, & Class (Angela Y. Davis) ★★★★★

Mermaid in Chelsea Creek (Michelle Tea) ★★★★★

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Harriet A. Washington) ★★★★★

Freshwater (Akwaeke Emezi) ★★★★★

Summer Crossing (Truman Capote) ★★★

The Adventure Zone: The Crystal Kingdom (Carey Pietsch, Clint McElroy, Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy) ★★★★★

Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” (Zora Neale Hurston) ★★★

Women, Culture & Politics (Angela Y. Davis) ★★★★

Superior: The Return of Race Science (Angela Saini) ★★★★★

In Cold Blood (Truman Capote) ★★★

The Keeper of Lost Things (Ruth Hogan) ★★★★

The Chosen and the Beautiful (Nghi Vo) ★★★★★

Mexican Gothic (Silvia Moreno-Garcia) ★★★★

On the Come Up (Angie Thomas) ★★★

Capitalism: A Ghost Story (Arundhati Roy) ★★★★

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday (Angela Y. Davis) ★★★★

The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures (Noelle Stevenson) ★★★★

The Travelers (Regina Porter) ★★

Mister Impossible (Maggie Stiefvater) ★★

Honey Girl (Morgan Rogers) ★★★★

The Daylight Gate (Jeanette Winterson) ★★

Women in the Qur'an: An Emancipatory Reading (Asma Lamrabet) ★★★

Music for Chameleons (Truman Capote) ★★★★

Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture (Angela Y. Davis) ★★★★★

Trans Love: An Anthology of Transgender and Non-Binary Voices (edited by Freiya Benson) ★★★★

The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. Le Guin) ★★★★

Black Women and Popular Culture: The Conversation Continues (edited by Adria Y. Goldman et. al.) ★★★

The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues (Angela Y. Davis) ★★★★

Inside the Cell: The Dark Side of Forensic DNA (Erin E. Murphy) ★★★★

Detransition, Baby (Torrey Peters) ★★★★★

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me (Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O'Connell) ★★★★★

The Magicians (Lev Grossman) ★★★

decolonizing trans/gender 101 (b. binoahan) ★★★★★

Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir) ★★★★★

Harrow the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir) ★★★★★

Come With Me (Helen Schulman) ★★

Geek Love (Katherine Dunn) ★★★

The House That Race Built: Original Essay by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today (edited by Wahneema Lubiano)

The Only Good Indians (Stephen Graham Jones) ★★★

Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote (Truman Capote, Gerald Clark) ★★★★

The Call (Peadar O'Guilín) ★★★★★

An Untamed State (Roxane Gay) ★★★★

Haunted (Chuck Palahniuk) ★★

Anger is a Gift (Mark Oshiro) ★★

Ayiti (Roxane Gay) ★★★★★

Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive (Kristen J. Sollee) ★★

#bookblr #books #angel.txt

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oots-digitalmedia · 3 years

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Queer rep in The Adventure Zone

Title: The Adventure Zone

Status: Ongoing

Cast: Clint, Griffin, Justin and Travis McElroy

Queer cast: no

Accessibility: transcripts available

Summary: Justin, Travis and Griffin McElroy from My Brother, My Brother and Me have recruited their dad Clint for a campaign of high adventure. Join the McElroys as they find their fortune and slay an unconscionable number of ... you know, kobolds or whatever in ... The Adventure Zone.

Balance tags: Gay man PC, multiple lesbian NPC, transgender woman NPC, m/m couple, w/w couples, queer man npc, non-binary NPC

Amnesty tags: Bisexual woman PC, queer women NPC, queer men NPC, Non-binary NPC

Graduation: Asexual PC, multiple non-binary NPC, queer men NPC

PC = player character NPC = non-player character; MC = major character

Specific character tags and details under read more

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Balance Arc Characters: Taako (PC, MC): gay man, Killian (NPC, MC): lesbian, Carey Fangbattle (NPC, MC): lesbian, Hurley and Sloane (NPC): w/w couple), Lup (NPC, MC): trans woman, Kravitz (NPC, MC): queer man, Roswell (NPC): non-binary.

Amnesty Arc Characters: Aubrey Little (PC, MC): bisexual woman, Dani (NPC, MC): queer woman, Hollis (NPC): non-binary, Agent Joseph Stern (NPC): M|M, Barclay (NPC): M|M

Graduation Arc Characters: Fitzroy Maplecourt (PC, MC): asexual, Festo (NPC, MC): non-binary, Jimson (NPC): M|M, Crush (NPC): M|M, Dakota (NPC): non-binary, Order (NPC): non-binary, Chaos (NPC): non-binary

Spoilery further notes about present queer rep:

Balance: Taako and Kravitz enter in a long-term m/m relationship. Killian and Carey, side characters, meet, date and get married during the series. Hurley and Sloane are w/w couple that get killed. Lup, trans woman, gets in a long-term m/f relationship. Roswell (minor character) is a nonbinary construct.

Amnesty: Aubrey and Dani get in a long-term w/w relationship, Agent Joseph Stern and Barclay enter a M|M relationship.

Graduation: Jimson and Crush are married, all non-binary characters use they/them pronouns

#the adventure zone #taz #ootsdigitalmedia #oots #taz balance #taako #lup taaco #queerpodcastrecommendations #queerpodcast

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slitherbite · 3 years

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hello! I was wondering if you could point me towards more info abt the 'misogynistic racial slur' that you mentioned travis + clint mcelroy making up for their dnd campaign? I genuinely haven't heard anything about this (granted I'm not completely up to date on the show rn) and I'd be interested to see what they've said. normally I'd just google this kinda stuff but I couldn't find anything about it when I tried so I thought I'd ask! have a nice day regardless :)

Hi! :) Yeah no wonder you couldnt find anything since i haven't really seen this be talked about outside of a server im in and two twitter posts. I dont listen to graduation so i dont know if he pulled any recent bullshit. Basically at one point in graduation Travis introduces the term 'sea spray' which is a fantasy racial slur for genasi women giving birth. Which is UHHHH Horrible and when Griffin and Justin didn't really react at first he paused the game to ask them if they picked up on a word that the bad guy was repeatedly saying and then has Clint explain it to them in detail because they're so proud of the slur that they came up with. And it's all for him to make sure that we know that the bad guy is a bad guy. He repeats it multiple times throughout two episodes.

Link to a clip of it coming up for the first time (good twt thread about the whole thing)

link to Travis pausing the game for Clint to explain it

Also it took Travis several weeks and one tweet getting attention until he realised that making up misogynistic fantasy racial slurs as a cishet white man in his mid 30s isnt something that he should be doing. Also recently he has been complaining about people being negative about the campaign and im 🤔 about how much of it is people having actual valid criticism of the shit he does

Also I'm just putting this in here in case anyone anyone starts shit in the reblogs or replies, do not defend or excuse the things the McElroys do, especially Travis who makes every social issue about himself somehow, and Clint who wrote in homophobia in the taz graphic novels, they hang out with LMM and thats a whole other can of worms. Theyre not your friends and you dont know them! You'll be blocked! Bye! 😁👋

#mcelroys #taz #travis mcelroy #so i can find this lost later i dont want it in tags bc of their stans lmao #*post #my.txt #asks #purplepillowfrog

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thatfunkyopossum · 4 years

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Hey, I hope this doesn't come off as dismissive because it wasn't the main point of that post and what she said absolutely was transphobic, but Sydnee McElroy has apologized for that comment, changing her stance from "it's not important" ' it's not my place to say' and she and Justin have put in the work to educate themselves and become better allies in the years since

Aside from her apologizing, i’ve only seen improvement in her treatment of trans women.

Whats SIGNIFICANTLY worse than saying it didnt matter, imo, that sawbones has done is the episode titled “an incomplete history of gender confirmation.”

I cannot express to you how painful this episode was for me, as a trans man whose best friend is nb. I couldnt even finish it. Even remembering it hurts.

The episode has a trans woman on as a guest host, and the two main topics of the episode are vaginoplasty and uterine transplant. An incomplete history of gender confirmation. Vaginoplasty and uterine transplant. Thats not “an incomplete history”, thats just exclusively the history of trans women.

Every time i’ve listened to sawbones since, which admittedly has now been a fat fucking minute because again i cannot tell you how bad that episode cut despite how much i genuinely love the mcelroys, any time the opportunity comes up to talk about trans men she just! Doesnt!

Also the episode is still fucking up and telling cis people it doesnt fucking matter if James Barry was a trans man or not! It hasn’t been re-released, or amended in any way. That original episode is! Still! Up! Its STILL hurting people! Its STILL telling trans men that their history doesn’t matter! ITS STILL UP TELLING CIS WOMEN THEY CAN TAKE OUR HISTORY BC ITS STILL UP SAYING IT DOESNT MATTER.

Like yeah im proud of them for getting better and i do love the mcelroys and i think it would be cool if someone brought me proof that Dr McElroy has improved her treatment of NB people and Trans men in addition to trans women and taken steps to undo the damage she’s done!

#im mad!#im hurt!

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utilitycaster · 4 years

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Class choices in actual plays (D&D and Pathfinder)

Only main PCs (no guests, but I do include multiple characters per player if they played more than one during the campaign)

This does include players who did not stay through the whole campaign or who joined midway through the campaign if they were considered part of the main party at some point

Only base classes, I’ll do a different post for multiclasses. All are D&D 5e except Rusty Quill Gaming; from what I can tell open-source Pathfinder does not have a warlock class but otherwise has the same base classes (including artificer)

Doesn’t include NADDPod which I know is very popular because I may listen to it one day and don’t want to spoil too much

Actual play shows/podcasts considered: Critical Role, both campaigns; Fantasy High; Escape from the Bloodkeep; The Unsleeping City; Tiny Heist; TAZ Balance; TAZ Graduation; Relics & Rarities; RQG up through episode 85 and not including Bertie’s sidequest

SPOILERS FOR CRITICAL ROLE C2, UNSLEEPING CITY, AND TINY HEIST: Nott/Veth, Misty/Rowan, and all of Rick Diggins’ personas are each counted as one character as they are the same person in a different body (and except for Nott and Veth, are the same race as well).

Number of characters considered: 57

Tied for first: Cleric and rogue with 8 each. This makes sense; it’s possible to have a party without them if you have an alternate healer or alternate stealthy/skilled person, but they’re difficult to replace. Props to Relics & Rarities, though, which had neither. Weirdly, the most common cleric domain is grave (to be fair, only with 2) and the most common rogue archetypes are swashbucklers and inquisitive, with 2 each as well, indicating that people really like Xanathar’s Guide to Everything.

Tied for second: Barbarian and fighter with 6 each. People like to be big and hit things. Note that these four classes - Cleric, Rogue, Barbarian, and Fighter - account for basically half of all the actual play characters considered (28/57). Of the barbarians, half are berserkers, and of the fighters, half are champions (and Bertie probably would have been a Champion archetype...things get less equivalent on the subclass level from pathfinder to 5e).

Tied for third: Bard and druid with 5 each. This is weird to me, honestly, as druids are one of the hardest classes to play and bards aren’t that hard but are often seen as one of the weaker classes. I assumed that after cleric, the most popular casters would be one of the arcane heavy-hitters, but as a bard player I feel very validated here. All the bards except one started as college of lore, and that one (hi Fig) switched subclasses to lore. For druids, two are circle of the shepherd but as with clerics and rogues there was no clear favorite.

Tied for fourth: Monk, paladin, sorcerer, and wizard, with 3 each. No clear favorite with the monk subclasses, and two of the paladins are from pathfinder. For sorcerers, the favorite is draconic bloodline (which is weird to me because I would assume wild magic would be more popular), and two of the wizards are transmuters. I get why monk and paladin are a little less popular despite loving paladins - monks are specialized and paladins are sort of weird to play as a base class, particularly pre-oath for campaigns that start at first level (Ricky Matsui and all Unsleeping City characters began at 3rd level, and the two paladins in RQG both came in as mid-campaign characters) and I’m guessing sorcerer and wizard split the arcane glass cannon vote, even though they’re actually pretty different.

Tied for fifth: Artificer, ranger, and warlock, with 2 each. I’m a little surprised about warlocks, who I thought would be more popular as battle casters. Artificer and ranger make sense - hybrid classes are a specific taste, rangers prior to revised ranger were kind of underpowered, and artificer wasn’t in the main PHB and has gone through a lot of revisions. As a result it’s hard to tell what the artificer specialties are. Both the rangers are beastmasters, and both the warlocks are hexblades, because everyone loves the hexblade (I love the hexblade too but I just really want to see an archfey or celestial warlock).

And finally: we have one bloodhunter, which is understandable as it’s not released as a class in official D&D material and is still being revised. I was hoping it would be in the guide to wildemount, but I think the latest revision came out after the book would have gone to print (same with the cobalt soul subclass). I kind of hope they come out via Unearthed Arcana though so they’re at least semi-official 5e content.

Some fun facts:

There are three characters named variations of “Rick” among the 57 considered

Gender distribution: artificers, barbarians, clerics, druids, monks, paladins, rangers, and wizards are an equal or roughly equal male/female split. However, all the bards but one (Scanlan) are women, all the rogues but two (Nott and Sasha) are men, and all sorcerers, warlocks, and fighters are men. [note: Ally is nonbinary, but has played a woman and a man in Fantasy High and The Unsleeping City respectively. Molly (bloodhunter) is the only canon nb character; Nott/Veth is a female character played by a male player, all other characters, to my knowledge, have the same gender as their player and the player gender breakdown here is 37 characters played by men, 18 played by women, 2 played by a nb player]. Obviously this is a tiny sample size; also the individual player genders are somewhat more balanced (20 men, 14 women, 1 nb person) but all four of the players who are counted three times here are men (Sam Riegel, Taliesin Jaffe, Justin McElroy, Clint McElroy).

Race breakdown by class: is virtually impossible because I have no fucking clue what half the 5e races for the Dimension 20 characters are, thanks Brennan. However, some incomplete observations

Artificers are both human or what I think probably counts as human (bittyfolk from Tiny Heist)

there are two half-orc barbarians

there are two fairy bards which I believe is treated as an elf in Dimension 20

there are two human and two dwarf clerics but it’s otherwise all over the place

I have no idea what race was reskinned to make a drider or rat druid but anyway druids are all over the map

Four human fighters, the most popular race/class combo is real

also all the monks are human or human equivalent

paladins are all over the place too

half-elf and reskinned half-orc rangers, which does sort of fit the ranger archetype

two human rogues, two-ish goblin rogues (with gun), I have no idea what race ‘plastic toy’ is supposed to be (REDDIT IS GOING TO EAT YOUR ASS, BRENNAN) but there are two of them

no clear preference for sorcerers and warlocks (also is Pactwraith a revenant? I give up)

*12 days of Christmas Voice* two elf wizards

*still 12 days of Christmas Voice* AND A TIEFLI-I-ING BLO-ODHUNTER

#the problem is i have a personality that says if it's worth doing it's worth overdoing #but also i seem to be continuously unaware of it until I'm in too deep #then again what else was I going to do today #oh right passover cleaning and watching the fantasy high finale #oh well #d&d #dungeons & dragons #critical role #taz balance #taz graduation #dimension 20 #tiny heist #the unsleeping city #fantasy high #escape from the bloodkeep #relics and rarities #rqg #anyway the takeaway is we need more halflings

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sooptea · 3 years

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I am once again begging the TAZ fandom to please stop giving Lup and Taako indistinguishable designs

Lup is a canonically a Trans Woman, and Taako is canonically a GNC Gay Man.

Justin McElroy has explicitly expressed the fact that he doesnt want Taako to be presented as a hyper feminine gay stereotype. And while GNC trans women very much do exist, you should be mindful on how you are presenting that. ESPECIALLY when the two characters are together.

I am so, so exhausted of not being able to tell people's Lups and Taakos apart. I'm so exhausted on having to rely on image descriptions provided by the artist (when there even is one) to help me figure out which one is which.

#taz

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ghostbandxyou · 4 years

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Ghouls as McElroy Brothers Quotes

Era 3 ghouls:

Omega:

“You’re going to start sneezing quieter, but prouder.”— Travis McElroy

Alpha:

“Why do people with baguettes think they are better than me?”— Griffin McElroy

Era 4 Ghouls:

Aether:

“There’s little more empowering than cooking with a chainmail glove.”— Justin McElroy

Dewdrop:

“I’m not trapped in here with these small monkeys, they’re trapped in here with me.”— Griffin McElroy

Swiss:

“It’s so important, even in the darkest of moments, to maintain an adequate level of horniness.”— Travis McElroy

Rain:

“Teens are very much into the following: One, bullying me on tumblr. Two, dabbing.”— Griffin McElroy

Mountain:

“Magnets are basically magic.”— Travis McElroy

Smol Ghoulett:

“Man creates goose, goose delays man, god kills man, goose kills god, goose eats god, women rule the world.”— Griffin McElroy

Tall Ghoulett:

“You know what my favorite thing about milk is? When people call it moo juice and they're tryna be cool. Like, you're already talking about milk. You can't be cool. There's nothing cool to say about milk.” Justin McElroy

#ghost band #ghodt bc #the band ghost #The Ghoulettes #aether ghoul #Nameless Ghouls #era 3 ghouls #era 4 ghouls #dewdrop ghoul #swiss army ghoul #mountain ghoul #rain ghoul #Omega Ghoul #alpha ghoul #mbmbam

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Top New Fantasy Books July 2020

The Book of Dragons: An Anthology by Jonathan Strahan

Type: Anthology Publisher: Harper Voyager Release date: July 7

Den of Geek says: I’m always looking for a good book about dragons, and this incredible list of authors promises adventurous and unique stories. Anne Leckie, Zen Cho, Seanan Maguire, J.Y. Yang, Patricia A McKillip, Brooke Bolander … it’s an astounding, literary-flavored list of people qualified to write cool creatures.

Publisher’s summary: Here there be dragons . . .

From China to Europe, Africa to North America, dragons have long captured our imagination in myth and legend. Whether they are rampaging beasts awaiting a brave hero to slay or benevolent sages who have much to teach humanity, dragons are intrinsically connected to stories of creation, adventure, and struggle beloved for generations.

Bringing together nearly thirty stories and poems from some of the greatest science fiction and fantasy writers working today— Garth Nix, Scott Lynch, R.F. Kuang, Ann Leckie & Rachel Swirsky, Daniel Abraham, Peter S. Beagle, Beth Cato, Zen Cho, C. S. E Cooney, Aliette de Bodard, Amal El-Mohtar, Kate Elliott, Theodora Goss, Ellen Klages, Ken Liu, Seanan Maguire, Patricia A McKillip, K. J. Parker, Kelly Robson, Michael Swanwick, Jo Walton, Elle Katharine White, Jane Yolen, Kelly Barnhill, Brooke Bolander, Sarah Gailey, and J. Y. Yang—and illustrated by award-nominated artist Rovina Cai with black-and-white line drawings specific to each entry throughout, this extraordinary collection vividly breathes fire and life into one of our most captivating and feared magical creatures as never before and is sure to become a treasured keepsake for fans of fantasy, science fiction, and fairy tales.

Buy The Book of Dragons by Jonathan Strahan on Amazon

Or What You Will by Joe Walton

Type: Novel Publisher: Tor Books Release date: July 7

Den of Geek says: Jo Walton is a writer’s writer, highly praised but still generally skating under the radar. I found her 2014 My Real Children to not nearly live up to its very high concept, but she’s one of those authors with technical prowess who is at least worth checking out for context for women’s science fiction. The metafiction plot sounds fun.

Publisher’s summary: He has been too many things to count. He has been a dragon with a boy on his back. He has been a scholar, a warrior, a lover, and a thief. He has been dream and dreamer. He has been a god.

But “he” is in fact nothing more than a spark of idea, a character in the mind of Sylvia Harrison, 73, award-winning author of thirty novels over forty years. He has played a part in most of those novels, and in the recesses of her mind, Sylvia has conversed with him for years.

But Sylvia won’t live forever, any more than any human does. And he’s trapped inside her cave of bone, her hollow of skull. When she dies, so will he.

Now Sylvia is starting a new novel, a fantasy for adult readers, set in Thalia, the Florence-resembling imaginary city that was the setting for a successful YA trilogy she published decades before. Of course he’s got a part in it. But he also has a notion. He thinks he knows how he and Sylvia can step off the wheel of mortality altogether. All he has to do is convince her.

Buy Or What You Will by Jo Walton on Amazon

The Adventure Zone: Petals to the Metal

Type: Graphic Novel Publisher: First Second Release date: July 14

Den of Geek says: The Adventure Zone is a wildly popular humorous fantasy podcast. It’s part of the big 2010s wave of Dungeons & Dragons coming back into the geek space. Especially for someone who might not want to listen to hundreds of episodes of a podcast, the illustrated version does a good job of smoothing out the story into a graphic novel format without removing the goofy chaos of the original podcast.

Publisher’s summary: START YOUR ENGINES, friends, Clint McElroy and sons Griffin, Justin, and Travis hit the road again with Taako, Magnus and Merle, the beloved agents of chaos from the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novels illustrated by Carey Pietsch, The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins and The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited.

Our boys have gone full-time at the Bureau of Balance, and their next assignment is a real thorny one: apprehending The Raven, a master thief who’s tapped into the power of a Grand Relic to ransack the city of Goldcliff. Local life-saver Lieutenant Hurley pulls them out of the woods, only to throw them headlong into the world of battle wagon racing, Goldcliff’s favorite high-stakes low-legality sport and The Raven’s chosen battlefield. Will the boys and Hurley be able to reclaim the Relic and pull The Raven back from the brink, or will they get lost in the weeds?

Based on the beloved blockbuster podcast where three brothers and their dad play a tabletop RPG in real time, The Adventure Zone: Petals to the Metal has it all: blossoming new friendships, pining for outlaw lovers, and a rollicking race you can root for!

Buy The Adventure Zone: Petals to the Metal

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Kat and I have amazing conversations sometimes and I felt they had to be shared. Also, alienfuckers, dad jokes, Maxwell’s alternative lifestyle and other headcanons, and Ace Attorney: Doug Eiffel edition. Full transcript under the cut.

Gill [Yesterday at 6:05 PM]: On an Unrelated topic: after the finale the crew remembers "OH YEAH, EIFFEL ACTUALLY HAD A FACE-TO-FACE CONVERSATION WITH ALIENS" and now in addition to all the other reasons to want him to Remember they're really freakin' curious to know how that went

Kat [Yesterday at 6:11 PM]: Minkowski: so what did they look like Eiffel: me (They do seem to like his body, they had a few models to choose from when talking to Cutter.)

Gill [Yesterday at 6:13 PM]: Eiffel, probably: at least the aliens think I'm cool I know what was meant by that but your phrasing made me think "In a shocking turn of events, it is the aliens who are attracted to the human." The aliens... are alienfuckers

Kat [Yesterday at 6:17 PM]: I don't think that's their jam but that WOULD be just his luck

Gill [Yesterday at 6:18 PM]: It is unlikely, but also: it would be hilarious

Kat [Yesterday at 6:21 PM]: the aliens keep sending me mental sexts and i crave death

Gill [Yesterday at 6:22 PM]: And lo another shitpost transforms into a fanfic concept, like a humble irradiated lizard becoming Godzilla: "would you fuck your clone?"

Kat [Yesterday at 6:28 PM]: leave him alone has the man not suffered enough

Gill [Yesterday at 6:28 PM]: No

Kat [Yesterday at 6:29 PM]: sigh

Gill [Yesterday at 6:29 PM]: Dance for my amusement, Douglas And also because I earnestly suspect that in the case of Eiffel and an interested alien-consciousness-in-the-form-of-a-Xerox-copy-of-him the answer would end up being "yes"

Kat [Yesterday at 6:34 PM]: idk i feel like it'd be more like "Oh what you spend two fucking years trying to drag us into the star because you can't be assed to make an appearance but you'll teleport across the galaxy for a booty call? Fuck you and I mean that figuratively" later sluts

Gill [Yesterday at 6:36 PM]: Bob is a bad datemate Is this entire train of thought brought on by the fact I still think of the person who expressed they shipped Bob/Eiffel in the tags of the "Take your double to Disneyland" post? Perhaps

Kat [Yesterday at 6:39 PM]: i don't know that you can have this at the same time as 'what if the aliens' bodies are still the people suppressed' without it getting Fucked Up but that's your perogative I guess as long as I don't have to hear about it family can't walk w me tonight so i need to hit the treadmill for a bit. ttyl

Gill [Yesterday at 6:41 PM]: See u in a bit! But ah yes, I hadn't thought of that til you brought it up Points at one explanation of Dear Listener manifestations for some ideas, points at a different explanation for ideas that would become unintentionally Pretty Fucked Up under the first explanation Although there is comedy potential to be found in Eiffel and Eiffel-2 having the "are we down with this" conversation In the /Justin McElroy voice, "someone just discovered they have ~the world's worst fetish~" sense

Kat [Yesterday at 7:33 PM]: a different terrible concept: eiffel with his pop culture references restored will likely be called upon to testify at the united nations

Gill [Yesterday at 7:37 PM]: O h g o d Ace Attorney: Doug Eiffel edition

Kat [Yesterday at 7:46 PM]: i mean they're gonna have to tell the world SOMEHOW and i'd think the international court would want to know and he's the one with the subconscious recall implanted sidenote if the DL can do that mental transfer could they have just... asked them to reupload whatever their most recent scan of eiffel was there are so many ways around this that's why it failed to get much of an emotional rxn from me

Gill [Yesterday at 7:47 PM]: Minkowski and Lovelace trying to get him to practice his testimony bc if they hit enough subconscious recall triggers they can at LEAST get thru an explanation of the aliens without Eiffel going off into a tangent Once they're off the Dear Listeners' script though all bets are off

Kat [Yesterday at 7:48 PM]: here's a list of preplanned questions your honor we're not responsible if you ask anything else

Gill [Yesterday at 7:51 PM]: Eiffel, maybe: now Goddard didn't send up us there to bring home any xenomorphs but let me tell you, with the Decima project? They might as WELL have let a facehugger get up close and personal with me The translators rapidly swapping notes on late 70's sci-of cinema because a handful of them actually know what he's talking about

Kat [Yesterday at 7:54 PM]: Minkowski headdesking behind him Eiffel English isn't most of these people's first languages

Gill [Yesterday at 7:57 PM]: The news cameras are all dead-focused on Eiffel. He's hit his stride and is picking up steam. "And it was right around the time I was coughing up my liquefied respiratory system that I thought to myself, gee, I'd MUCH rather get a face of alien wing-wong than deal with this!" Minkowski is off to the side. She is visibly restraining herself. No poker face in the world can hide how hard she is longing for death. Whether it is hers or Eiffel's is a subject of contentious debate.

Kat [Yesterday at 7:58 PM]: someone at an elementary school: hey Garcia, is that your dad

Gill [Yesterday at 8:01 PM]: Anne, who was four the last time she saw her father in person, gets one look at the man weaving an intricate Star Wars metaphor out of crimes against humanity and recognizes him instantly, but signs back "I have never seen this guy before in my life."

Kat [Yesterday at 8:04 PM]: good call kiddo

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Gill [Yesterday at 8:10 PM]: Honestly I love the concept that no matter how much Eiffel may drive them up the wall sometimes the rest of the crew would meet Anne and immediately be ready to kill a man for her sake

Kat [Yesterday at 8:15 PM]: as far as we know he's the only crewmember with kids women in the military... it wouldn't be easy even if you wanted one, which idk if any of them did

Gill [Yesterday at 8:15 PM]: Wait wait, brainwave: it is actually AMAZING that Minkowski had no idea Eiffel had a child because... does he seem like the kind of guy. Who would ever resist a Dad Joke.

Kat [Yesterday at 8:15 PM]: haha fair

Gill [Yesterday at 8:16 PM]: Eiffel: Actually, I have amazing self-restraint when I choose to exercise it. (Various noises of disbelief.) Eiffel: have you ever heard me tell a dad joke? No? I rest my case

Kat [Yesterday at 8:21 PM]: biggest plot hole of the series more like it was too painful a memory but still

Gill [Yesterday at 8:22 PM]: If he ever patches that connection it'll open the floodgates

Kat [Yesterday at 8:26 PM]: He'll become the Maes Hughes of the gang, except with fewer war crimes

Gill [Yesterday at 8:27 PM]: ...has anyone on this crew done war crimes? SI-5 excepted of course, they have obviously done war crimes

Kat [Yesterday at 8:32 PM]: yeah SI5 is war crime central I'm not sure about some of the other stuff executing a prisoner? idk about Minkowski

Gill [Yesterday at 8:32 PM]: Also my thought

Kat [Yesterday at 8:32 PM]: she wasn't a formal pow though it was an ongoing engagement I don't know the rules

Gill [Yesterday at 8:32 PM]: Minkowski Has Done One (1) War Crime (Goddard Futuristics attempts to bring that against her in the court case only for Maxwell to stroll in like lol what's up gang)

Kat [Yesterday at 8:37 PM]: does Goddard in its current incarnation last long enough to sue anyone i mean i think you could sue them for attempted genocide

Gill [Yesterday at 8:38 PM]: Look I have had one semester of business law You were the one who almost went to law school Also re: other characters being parents, the only one I could see going kiiiinda either way on the subject is Lovelace and it wouldn't have been terribly high on her priority list prior to the Hephaestus mission I can see characters having the opinion that they could see Minkowski as a mom but she and her husband both strike me as understanding themselves and one another as being more career-oriented

Kat [Yesterday at 8:44 PM]: yeah if she wanted to rise in the ranks of the military... that would probably be a strike against her

Gill [Yesterday at 8:44 PM] And the implication she's got a Complex about her parents having both left promising careers to raise her Also, Lovelace: Well I always said I could see myself settling down someday, maybe have a family if I met the right person, but when I took the job with Goddard it was legally dubious whether I could actually do that- Eiffel: Because you're an alien? Eiffel: Eiffel: ...wait a sec

Kat [Yesterday at 8:54 PM]: ha It's ok to be gay in space

Gill [Yesterday at 8:56 PM]: Alternatively it's Hera who said that bc didn't connect those dots right away, meanwhile Eiffel saw Lovelace in a flannel shirt once and Knew Immediately Eiffel may be dumb but somehow his Bi-Fi has yet to fail him

Kat [Yesterday at 8:59 PM]: Hera doesn't grasp human sexuality nuances

Gill [Yesterday at 9:01 PM]: Funny addition to above thought: Eiffel put together that Jacobi was gay after like three days on the Urania, was the only one on the Hephaestus crew to do so, and just never felt it was relevant to bring up Hera, my child... you have much to learn (Also, Hera, probably: I'm experimenting at the moment, I'm looking for a torrent so I can download lesbianism)

Kat [Yesterday at 9:04 PM]: I don't know which option is funnier, that Jacobi is just Really Fucking Obvious but Eiffel was the only one paying attention or that it was super subtle and everyone's like How Did You Do That lovelace's righteous fury overwhelmed her gaydar, she was too mad to go 'same hat'

Gill [Yesterday at 9:07 PM]: Eiffel: I have something to confess to all of you... Jacobi: Eiffel literally not a single person on this ship is straight Eiffel: Oh I was just going to recount a PG version of my wild younger days, let's just say I know a thing or two because I've seen a thing or two.

Kat [Yesterday at 9:07 PM]: Jacobi on Earth: Just matched with myself on Grinder a-fucking-GAIN

Gill [Yesterday at 9:10 PM]: Jacobi: Oh I definitely picked up on it but who wants to go playing into stereotypes by speculating on what may or may not be a promiscuous history? Eiffel: Promiscuous? Look I've got notches in my belt but mostly I just ended up laying in somebody's bathtub at a house party while just conscious enough to nod along to someone else's relationship drama. Eiffel: to several sororities, I was the Gay Bathtub Wizard.

Kat [Yesterday at 9:11 PM]: Maxwell on day one of orientation: So if SI5 is paramilitary what's their stance on alternative lifestyles? Jacobi: I was recruited in a gay bar.

Gill [Yesterday at 9:12 PM]: Her asking the question has my brain going in several different directions

Kat [Yesterday at 9:13 PM]: I think she was recruited right after dadt was repealed... if obama exists in this universe fantasy obama

Gill [Yesterday at 9:15 PM]: One part of my brain: Maxwell is also gay Another part of my brain: Maxwell is exclusively attracted to nonhuman persons Yet another part of my brain, most adjacent to number #2: Maxwell voice, who in their right mind would build a robot that can't fuck? The 4th part of my brain: Maxwell wants to know how chill they'll be with her living exclusively off energy drinks and frozen yogurt for weeks at a time

Kat [Yesterday at 9:15 PM]: honestly I figured whatever it was it was MUCH weirder than just being gay

Gill [Yesterday at 9:15 PM]: Maxwell: I have plans to take over the world with my army of battle bots and rule as their robot queen.

Kat [Yesterday at 9:16 PM]: Maxwell: wait if you were recruited in a gay bar does that mean our boss frequents those or did he just go there to get you Jacobi: Believe me the question haunts me also Jacobi: sounds great i'm in

Gill [Yesterday at 9:16 PM]: Or, Maxwell: I am not joking for an instant when I say that I for one welcome our alien overlords "When I was 13 I tried to get myself abducted by aliens" except it's not a joke it's an actual minor headcanon of mine Also I almost typed "adopted" rather than "abducted" which shows you why Alana would probably want to do that

Kat [Yesterday at 9:19 PM]: she did say she's on bad terms with her family

Gill [Yesterday at 9:20 PM]: She grew up a pastor's kid in a tiny rural town in Montana, hearing that they don't get along is the furthest thing from a surprise to me. The surprise is that Maxwell has a restraining order against them

Kat [Yesterday at 9:21 PM]: tht implies the court found reasonable cause to issue one wack anyway i had a long day, i'm gonna call it a night

Gill [Yesterday at 9:21 PM]: o/ But yeah that Maxwell empathizes with nonhumans, apparently more than with most regular humans, that makes perfect sense to me I can see her frustration with the AI Ethics board in her last job Expressing Their Concerns and her suppressing flashbacks to many a Creationist rant, and trying to keep her eye from twitching visibly, and no I am not projecting I am just coloring in blank spaces in the narrative with my relevant life experience

#wolf 359 #conversations with kat #deliverusfromsburb

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Sydney McElroy is QUEEN of trashing wage workers! A goddess! She knew that guy would have the owners number. How dare he “argue” with her! So says the human lump of a man standing 50ft away and recording. White women doing the white woman thing in public will always be goals!

she is a doctor who was rightfully upset about a store claiming their cbd oil would benefit medical conditions when there is little to no scientific evidence to support it

fat shaming justin mcelroy is also a good look on you 🙄

#anonymous #asks #not randl

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heya. i don't intend to sound judgemental, and i hope it's not interpreted this way. it's only an opinion, and you don't have to care about it at all. i'm not cis, if it gives any weight to it, but i also don't know your blog, so it's more of a passersby's one than anything. i saw your recent post about things you've expected from ep 34, and, god, i get where you're coming from, trans characters in media are really fucking important, but this feels somewhat pressuring. like an expectation. [1/4?

Hey there!

I wanted to publish this because I also think it's really important. For everyone else, the gist of this message was that in my previous post, I very passionately wished that Duck Newton would be confirmed to be a transgender man, and this anon expressed concern that I was pressuring this idea on the boys, specifically Justin.

I just wanted to say that I totally agree. These characters are not ours, and the McElroy boys (who have definitely been the best allies by including all kinds of characters) do not have to shape their characters due to the fandom's wishes! And we shouldn't pressure them/be upset with them if we dont get what we want.

I am a transgender man so I'm always trying to find transmen and women in media and TAZ is one that represents people as people no matter what. Also I love Duck Newton so this is purely a personal wish and of course I would be happy if Duck Newton was a transman, but I would also be happy if any other character was confirmed a transman in Amnesty or maybe even the following campaign! I did not mean it as a direct message to Justin, nor will I be at all upset if it doesnt go through. I just have hope that if anyone is gonna write a transgender man and do it right, it'll be the mcelroys.

All that being said, of course it is their story to tell and if there are no transmen in this one, then that's that. There is plenty of need for other minorities to be represented as well! Thank you for the message and there are no hard feelings, you are very kind

#ick rambles for like ten minutes #ick answers

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Q&A post with the Mods!!!!

This is going to be a long one oh boy

How strict is the delineation of creative control vis-a-vis characters/plays between the mods? (@pedanticlecturer)

We generally have the plays split up along lines of “what we know”— we have a list at the very beginning of the blog. Sometimes we’ll draw the others’ characters (mostly me drawing some of Star’s…) but even then the final say on characterization is up to the “main” mod for that play — mod aster

what aster said -- mod star

What is your favorite play? What is your favorite character in terms of how they were written in the source material? (@pedanticlecturer)

I think my favorite play overall is Macbeth, just because I like the vibes (and the fact that I too could kill Macbeth), the fact that you don’t say it’s name in theatres, and the fact that it’s a play I did a full read through and analysis of in class. Favorite character? Puck from Midsummer. — mod aster

uhhhh,, hmm. ive always had a soft spot for midsummer since i saw it with aster esp bc of how fun the costumes were. of the comedies it has the largest potential to be the most visually pleasing bc of the concept of fairies,,,and im gay and dramatic so i love that. id die if i got to costume design for midsummer,,,or be in it,,,yeah. fav character. hmm. probably mercutio?? i recently saw a version of romeo and juliet where mercutio was played by a woman and oh my god it was amazing!!! not to mention mercutio’s portrayal in baz luhrmann's INCREDIBLE version of r n j!!! (I based my mercutio design on him) he just spends the entire time making dick jokes. love that. -- mod star

How do you answer asks so fast? I mean it's great but I'm impressed 😂 (Anon)

Personally, it’s a mix of: notifications on, quick drawing speed, and using the blog to avoid my class work — mod aster

aster is fast and (as you can see from all of my answers) im lazey -- mod star

Are there any elements/characters of the plays you're covering that you would have liked to work into this blog's plot, but couldn't due to the constraints of the setting or the synthetic nature of the blog? (@pedanticlecturer)

I wanted to make everyone gay but unfortunately due to plot constraints we have to have some hets but that wont stop me from making it lgbt as possible. -- mod star

I did want to make The Tempest more of a central play, but it just didn’t translate well. Similarly, other supernatural elements like the witches in Macbeth. This isn’t so much a constraint mentioned, but my own time/energy means that I want to show the Macbeth backstory, in a specific format, but I can’t right now— mod aster

Is there a hierarchy of import when it comes to each play's individualized impact on shakespeare high's general arc? If so, what plays are crucial to the foundation of the story? Which ones did you do mostly for shits and giggles? (@pedanticlecturer)

This is phrased like an ACT question and i might not answer it right so sorry in advance but: mod aster and i only selected a few plays for each of us to do given we dont know all of shakespeare’s works, but we tend to put more emphasis on the the more well known. But it also comes down to 1. How much we have plotted out for each play and 2. What the followers ask about most. Our two most popular are hamlet and macbeth bc people are familiar w those but around march caesar always becomes relevant again. I didnt even have designs for some of the characters until someone asked about them. -- mod star

I would say the same as star— it generally comes down to what people ask about. I will say that the overall plot is sort of separated into “has happened” and “is happening”. Like, the human potion of Midsummer, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth are all in the “aftermath” portion, while Twelfth Night, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet, among others, are happening. We’re trying to incorporate as much as we can, and I don’t think any of them were really put in without some thought.— mod aster

What personal significance does shakespeare hold in ur guys' lives? (@pedanticlecturer)

I go to a theater school rn and so ive dealt w shakespeare (although not all of them) it also helps that i was in loves labours lost last year as moth and that i read hamlet and r n j. Theres also a theater in my state that always does One Big Shakespeare per season and they always do them super well!!! My love for shakespeare probably started w seeing midsummer at that theater w mod aster!!! So. Theater kid rights!! -- mod star

To be honest, I got back into Shakespeare Because of the blog. I’ve been friends with some people that got really Pretentious about Shakespeare, and it kinda put me off of it. I did have a book of abridged plays (the plays’ plots written out in prose, basically) that I read as a kid, which is what got me into not only the plots of a lot of the plays, but also the idea of having them illustrated. And, same as star, the theater in state does the One Big Shakespeare— and they tend to do some really cool things with the costumes, setting them in diff time periods. I haven’t been able to see any lately since I’ve moved, but they still slap. — mod aster

🥰😘💙🥰🥰💜💟🥰I 😍💗💚😍😍LOVE🖤🖤 YALL ♥️♥️🧡💛💚💝❣️💕💘💖💗💓💞💝❤️💛💜 okay now i have a question i swear— how long have the two of you been doing art??? and what were your first shakespeare plays??? (@hellaghosts)

Uhh i started drawing when i was like idk 12 and i have the giant boxes of sketchbooks to prove it!!! I moved to digital art at abt 14-15 but mostly stayed traditional until this yr when i got a Neat New Tablet so some of my sketchbooks are sitting abandoned rip. My first shakespeare was either romeo and juliet or midsummer nights dream and i love both of them v much!!! I have a very old piece of art that i did for r n j for my freshman class assignment on it and it hasnt aged well alsdjfjafd circa 2016 i think??? -- mod star

Oh man. I started drawing when I was about 10, but it was Bad. I don’t think I got much into drawing again until I was about 14? Sometime around the end of middle school/beginning of high school. I would say I started getting into drawing as more than doodling/coloring edits sometime around 2015-16? I would draw on my iPad with my finger, then I got a tablet for my computer, and now I pretty much stick to my iPad with an Apple Pencil. My first Shakespeare play was….. uh…… probably Midsummer???? I have No idea. We would go to plays when I was little, so I honestly don’t remember if I saw others before. It may have been Romeo and Juliet— I had that book where it was the original and the “modernized” with the little dog that explained things— which, if you know it makes sense, but if you don’t is probably a bonkers answer. — mod aster

Do you think this blog has like? An overarching thesis (be it b/c intentionally or simply b/c ur own take on the world has bled thru to the point where u believe it’s central to the piece at this point)? (@pedanticlecturer)

Not gonna lie, I had to read that like three times AND dm you to figure out what you were asking from us and all I have is “be gay, respect women, write your own happy endings”. — mod aster

This blog started with an ides of march shitpost and you think we have enough brain energy to write a whole thesis? I projected feelings of found family onto my half of the blog but idk if that counts. Be gay do crime 420 69 -- mod star

What’s the nature/rough dynamic of ur relationship? How do y’all know each other? (@pedanticlecturer)

Met mod aster when i was like 4 and even tho we didnt live close we became like, best friends although the Best part didnt start until we were like 13-ish and eventually we talked like non stop (about anime and homestuck. Yknow. 13 year old kid things) and we didnt see each other a lot bc of Distance and now its even worse bc aster is in colleg.,e but we consider each other siblings regardless of family bc we’re adopted into our own respective families so that bled over into our friendship and it would feel weird calling him anything other than my brother now. We’ve seen each other at our best and worst and if you really want a good insight on what we’re like as siblings watch griffin and justin mcelroy’s overview video of catlateral damage wherein i am griffin and he is the long suffering justin. -- mod star

Star is basically my long distance sibling and functionally the only cousin I recognize bc like their parents are basically an aunt and uncle and like our dads look enough alike that we’ve both accidentally gotten the wrong dad for a hug or similar so like. Anyways yeah Star is the Griffin to my Justin, complete with our absent middle brother who we love dearly— mod aster

Dubiously relevant q but what kind of music do y’all listen to when u do art (if that is indeed a habit either of u partake in) (@pedanticlecturer)

It can depend on the piece? I was working on some (unrelated) oc prints that were song-focused, and for those I just listened to said song on loop. Sometimes I have playlists. Sometimes I’ll just be in a Mood and throw a song on loop. But a lot of time for the blog, I’ll listen to The Adventure Zone for the billionth time, because I have Too Much Attention. I’ve also, on request from Star, linked the most recent “loop song”.— mod aster

I tend to obsess over the same like 3 songs every few weeks so those get listened to on repeat but it also depends on the tone of what im drawing or who im drawing i might genre switch bc of that. If im drawing ophelia i stick to lana del rey and if im drawing hamlet its the neighborhood, horatio is sufjan stevens etc. i have categorized,. Most of the characters i draw into different songs/genres/energies of music but not like i ever follow that. Sometimes i just pull up a really long nonsense video and forget to draw. Essentially: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- mod star

How’d y’all come up with ur pseudonyms? (@pedanticlecturer)

I love space so much and my main blog is starryeydsailor space gay rights!! Im also tiny and full of energy and bright so basically i;m star -- mod star

Uhhhh i was like “hey i want to do uhhhhhh flower?” And then I google searched flower names until I found one I liked —- mod aster

How did you end up deciding the rough timeline of events in canon? (@pedanticlecturer)

It’s mostly determined by like. How we choose per story? If that makes sense. Like, we just take story by story, and decide “is it happening, has it happened, and when?” And then we fit them together in relation to each other just by dint of. All existing at once. Like, I knew I wanted Macbeth to be in aftermath, because like, even though there’s no murder, the way I’ve translated it to the AU is still kinda heavy, and it’s something that I don’t know that I could do properly if it were happening right now. Also, it’s more interesting IMO to have them at different times. Tl;dr we wing it per story and slot them together— mod aster (mod star agrees I just can word better, in theory)

If you could tell the story of shakespeare high in a different format than an ask blog, would you? Obviously y'all are making very good use of the format, but would you want to write this as a animated series or like? a comic book? or is the form inseparable from the story? (@pedanticlecturer)

I kinda wanted to do a webcomic or maybe to plot develop through like, animatics but the element of surprise comes from the asks we get and really makes us think so the blog is a good start. We didnt think we’d get this far -- mod star

Pretty much what Star said— there are certain elements where it’d be neat to do as a comic or as an animatic. Like, the fantasy dream is like, an anthology webcomic of each story, where you can like, see other characters in the background and stuff. But to be honest, we develop a lot by what we’re asked— there was a post about developing worldbuilding by being asked questions and then pretending you’ve thought about the answer, and it’s not far off. Personally, it’s hard to just lay out a story, because I have a whole WORLD and what’s relevant? What are people interested in? It’s by getting questions that I can then focus in on an area to develop. And yeah, we Super didn’t think we’d get this far lmao — mod aster

Any headcanons about your characters that you don't think will ever come up on the blog through asks or plot posts? (@pedanticlecturer)

I could make a whole separate post for this!!!!! Mostly its voice headcanons (and by mostly i mean like 1 or 2) or relationship hcs!!!! -- mod star

Honestly same. I don’t think I have voice headcanons for mine, though I bet I could find some. I’ve got a bunch of miscellaneous headcanons that just kinda float around, but like they’re scattered, too numerous for this post, and also not always things I’m sure are canon yet.— mod aster

#mod post #mod aster #mod star #q and a #birthday #we cant seem to read more AND tag so like brb gonna go kill god

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