[ID: The domino-effect meme template. The smallest domino is labelled “some dog disregards a velvet rope”, the largest one is labelled “You’re fighting alongside that dog, which is now a human hybrid in metal armour, in a war to save the world” /end ID]

Curtesy of @koscheyyy​ in a conversation with @mori-stuff​ on discord. Which got me thinking that Carter’s life is just so fucking funny.

Some dog disregards a velvet rope > Your funding gets cut > You become unemployed and get stranded in Cairo > An underworld mob boss hires you > You’re desperate and take the job > You break into an ancient tomb because you might as well get to explore it somehow > You get cursed > Everything's your fault > You pay for a goth girl's drink while her friends start a pub brawl > This is your fault > You get uncursed > You go to prison > You break out of prison > You break back into the ancient tomb > You fall into a spike trap > The goth girl nearly becomes your friend > You go back to prison > You are in prison for about a year > The guy who put you in prison breaks you out of prison > You try to get in his pants but fail > The world has gone to shit and you're told you have to save it > You have two more companions > All of them know the goth girl but nobody knows where she is > You go to Japan > It's raining > You get to stab a bunch of guys and steal a bunch of shit > This isn't what you went to uni for but it's still fun somehow > You get in the sailor's pants > Two of the goth girl's friends show up > You learn the goth girl didn't make it > You help the goth girl's friends, one of your companions, and a new person escape from Shoin's Institute > You all get wasted together for a week straight > Suddenly Kobolds? > You leave Japan on a flying bomb?? > You get turned into A Kobold??? > You get turned back and die > You un-die. > You live on a bear now. > This is fine. > You help make the bomb fly again. > You prepare to fly the bomb into a dragon. > Like an actual fucking dragon. > Einstein brings a bunch of people to help you fight the dragon. > There is a dog on two legs in armour. > Of course there is. > Sure. Fine. Whatever. > It’s just one of those days (TM) > You teleport off the bomb just before it hits the dragon. > You are on a tower fighting zombies. > The dog is helping. > You win and save the world. > You also doom the world. > The fight is over. > The dog is a dog again. > Did you hallucinate the last two hours or so??? > You learn this is the dog that disregarded a velvet rope two years ago and fucked you over in the first place.

I think the central theme of the LOLOMG is trying to be good even if not always actually doing it. Is also in a lot of ways about redemption.

Everysingle member of the team is flawed and they failed for some reason and everysingle one has a wish to be good, to help people.

From the most obvious case of Hamid that literally says he is trying to redeem himself. That knows he was bad and was bad because he was scared and had had friends but also because his priviledged made it easy, made so he didn't had to question things, that he never had to take responsability until he went too far. That is soo despreatedly trying to do the right thing even if he sometimes does the wrong one, that tries his best to be kind and caring and to not fall into old bad habits, that doesn't even recognize all of them at firstm.

To Sasha that was always good but never had the chance to be. That did messed up stuff because that's all she's been told all her life, she was raised to be a thief and almost all the adults in her life failed her. That even after scaping Barret somewhat, now an adult and her own person, still doesn't know how tk be annything else. But also who is in her own way kind and conforting and tries to help, that cares specially to the small voices, to the people like her who had no chance. And she still falls to old habits because change isn't easy and she doesn't always even want to, be she tries her best anyway.

To Zolf who is just trying to understand what being good even is in the middle of his grief. He was a navvy man than a pirate and a cleric than a mercenary. And he tried to suport the right people and do the right thing and serve justice but deep down he still didn't knew what his path into being someone he saw as good was, until he had to leave and try to find it somewhere else.

To Bertie who sucks and never wanted to be better, who likes being a piece of shit actually but has no choice but to try for a redemption anyway. Who never even understands his mistakes that keeps refusing to change until it kills him.

To Grizzop who thinks he has it all figured out. Who thinks he knows what is good and what is bad and who is good and who is bad and that the path to being a good person is to set clear lines and kill the right people. That has being a cop as his literal religion and the one thing that gives his life meaning and is not sure how, doesn't want to, but has to start to deal with the fact his lines are not really true and people, and life, is complicated.

To Azu who is good actually and has no need for redemption but also has other people from her temple acting as if she does, as if she isn't really good and she doesn't really notice them but they still give her another reason to try and prove herself. To go in a journey. To try to help even more people and became the Hugh Pristess of Afrodite.

I FORGOT GRIZZOP IS TEN

Me, early into Rusty Quill Gaming, playing around with the idea of a self insert character: oh haha yeah they’d get along really well with the gang!

Me 100 episodes in:

It makes me just a little sad listening to the rqg s3 q&a, and hearing Alex say (and I’m paraphrasing) that there is no version of events where they don’t have something similar to rqg lined up. Because yes chapter sort of happened, but it never really went anywhere because we just got transitional specials and one season, and the entire premise of using different settings and systems never really happened. Don’t get me wrong, I love protocol, trice forgotten, cry havoc and the network shows, but nothing with the same vibe of rqg has happened since chapter was stopped and I do sometimes wish there was something in the same vein.

i love the bit in rqg s3 where alex decides to let the players come up with names for places, which lasts about half an episode until they decide to name a hotel “hot tropics”, and alex stops letting them name anything

TMA SubTags: Episode Art, Characters, Artists

General Tags:

#tma, #tma fanart, #tma art, tma comics, tma text post, tma animatic, tma animation, tma audio, (audio), tma fic, tma au, meta, song comic, tma spoilers, 

#tma season art/ tma episode art: pre s1, tma s1, tma s2, tma s3, tma s4, tma s5, scottish safehouse period, somewhere else,

jonny sims, (goddamnit jonny, jonny dug his own grave), alexander j newal, q&a, rusty quill (general, includes: interviews, rqg, etc), the mechanisms, (the bifrost incident), meta (theories, connections, background info, help from rq/jonny), tma quotes,

TMA Characters:

#jonathan sims (s1 jon, s2 jon, s3 jon, s4 jon, s5 jon, ace jon, autistic jonathan sims, enby jon, monster jon, moth jon, selkie jon, jonsimsandcats2021, eye jon, jon madrigal 

Allies/Neutral: martin blackwood, jonmartin, georgie barker, melanie king, the admiral, what the girlfriends, jon and daisy, daisy tonner, basira hussain, sasha james (Archivist sasha), tim stoker, agnes montague, gertrude robinson, gerard keay, michael shelley, helen richardson,

Enemies/Antagonists/Monsters:  elias bouchard, (elias bouchard has a punchable face), peter lukas, lonely eyes, not!sasha, the distortion, (michael distortion, helen distortion), annabelle cane, nikiola orsinov, not tea

#the entities: the web, the lonely, the vast, the hunt, the eye, the spiral, the dark, the extinction,

Artists:

everchased, roboomic, megzilla87, linecrosser, skyberia, ggracee, blueberry star, satturn, yesoksure, luftballons99, beansmakesart, yamiiino, dudeiwannasleep, tatumsdrawing, coralreefskim, honeycakelion,  amarearts, lazyperfs,  disasterzoo, reidspng, tolbyccian, speakerunfolding,

Specific pieces/ series: theyellowmistress (Great series of episode art), ashsweet (Cursed teacups), octos art (Cassette tape art), lescarnetsdehaku (Great comics), planplantsilus (Pixel art),

glowbat, cael does art, oceanbrine (gifs), (a collection of yearning), ghostbri,

Pre S1: Martin’s Birthday, The Dog Incident,

TMA S1

01, 02 (Do not Open), 03 (Across the Street), 04 (Ex Altiora), 11 (The Dreamer), 13 (Alone), 22 (Colony), 26 (A Distortion), 32 (Hive), 34 (Anatomy Class), 38 (Lost and Found- Vase), 39, 40

TMA S2

41 (Too Deep), 50 (You’re dating the cop? -no Tim, I- Won’t tell anyone!) 51 (High Pressure), 60 (Observer Effect), 67 (Burning Desire, You can trust me with the key to the tunnels!), 74 (Trophy Room)  79 (Hide and Seek), 80, 

TMA S3

81 (Mr. Spider), 83 (I could be on drugs!),  86 (Blanket), 87 (Uncanny Valley), 89 (Jude Perry), 91, 92, 97, 99, 101, 102 (Melanie’s got a knife), 111 (Family matters) , 118, 119, 120 

TMA S4

121 (Far Away), 122, 126, 127 (There’s a door in my mind), 128, 129 (I miss you), 131 (Flesh), 132 (Entombed), 135 (Dark Matter, Basira beats up Elias), 136 (Puppeteer- “Boo hoo, I’m all alone and a monster”) 139 (Chosen), 140, 141 (Doomed Voyage), 142 (Scrutiny), 143 (Heart of Darkness), 146 (Thresholds- Confrontation/Intervention), 151 (Big Picture), 152 (Gravedigger- “When will the Eye make me monstrous?), 153 (Love Bombing), 154 (Bloody Mary, Let’s Gouge out our eyes and Make out), 157 (Rotten Core), 158, 159 (The Last), 160, Scottish Safehouse Period, 

TMA S5

tma s5 trailer, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200

! GENERAL SPOILERS FOR RUSTY QUILL GAMING !

Couple of random doodles mainly based on requests from the discord server. Plus, my redesigns for the kobolds Skraak, Meerk and Sassra! Thank you for the requests. I decided it was time to change up the kobolds to make them more redrawable and fit better with the human designs.

If you want to request a doodle, you can find me on the official Rusty Quill Gaming server. Or, if you’re feeling generous, you can donate to my Ko-fi or commission me for more refined, finished pieces!

[ID: A bust, pencil sketch of Vesseek from Rusty Quill Gaming. Their expression is shocked with their ears pointed downwards and shoulders slumped.

Vesseek is an adult goblin with black bangs parted around the middle and a ponytail resting on their right shoulder. They are wearing a collared white shirt that is tied together by string around the collarbone.

The background is black with a scribbled marker effect. There is a heart monitor line behind Vesseek and a white outline around them. Under them, it reads "he's gone" in all white lowercase letters. /End ID]

so metacast 9 huh?

i kind of stopped live-blogging because i didn’t have too much to say in terms of ideas or thoughts that weren’t various outputs of eeeEEEEEEEEEE (excited) and *internal shrieking* and laughing alone in my room much too loud, but that was a VERY good/fun/sad/intense/every emotion run of episodes at the end of s3. i have been punched in the gut. due to my own foolishness, i do have a general sense of character plots in terms of deaths and stuffs, so i’m psyching myself up for beginning of s4, but meanwhile i’m giggling myself silly because lydia was ON the past 10 episodes and honestly the whole party was just infected with the Great Podcaster juice. it was really really fun to listen to. yeah. not much to say beyond that that was probably my favorite small arc so far, or one of them.

Hey, you mentioned that you like all those queer hopepunk horror podcasts in some tags and I wanna know: which podcasts are you talking about? Ever since tma ended, I've been looking for a podcast that could fill its place

Hello!! :DDD

So (in true fashion of a Good Memory™) I suddenly forgot Everything, so I enlisted a friend's help! ( @followthatgoose, who has also listened to all of these, some multiple times. I'm still kind of working on them because I hit sudden No More Podcasts™ a while back sadly, and am currently back to audiobooks for the most part. But I'd trust Soren's podcasting taste with my life, sooo :D) So the proper premise-descriptions are mostly provided by them <3

- Hello from the Hallowoods (kind of like how I'd originally hoped Welcome to Night Vale would be! It's a radio broadcast-esque story about queer survivors at the end of the world, really nice mix of following the characters as they live and also their fight against the horrors of the hallowoods. It also has some of the Best Quotes and the narrator has a fantastic voice <3 fantastic vibes overall)

- The Sheridan Tapes (found footage horror (with very nice music and soundscaping), following a detective as he tries to piece together what happened to a missing horror writer. monster of the week type recordings mixed with what is happening 'real time' to characters. a lot of Very Good emotional moments. also very queer)

- The Mistholme Museum (monster of the week format combined with 'real time' moments too, an audio tour guide takes you on a tour of the mistholme museum's exhibits. there are canonically queer characters, though so far it is not as Queer™ as the others. set in australia)

- Kane and Feels (in the words of Soren, "can best be described as a Vibe that is really good to zone out to and just exist in (liminal space my beloved). it's done in a noir style (which is IMPECCABLE) and the main characters are an academic who studies the supernatural, and his ex cop friend who punches the supernatural when it is causing problems. other than having canonically stated queer characters there is also Very Nice queer subtext around the main characters (particularly kane). also the academic is named lucifer kane, i feel like that speaks for itself xD")

- The White Vault (this one isn't as queer sadly, (though it does have Two Gays later on) but it has the most fantastic creepy-horror vibes that kinda feel similar to tma's horror vibes, and it's fairly short and really cool! It's about a multi-national group (the cast being from those nationalities as well, it feels amazingly real in that sense <3) sent to an arctic outpost to repair a broken radio, and then a blizzard keeps them from returning and everything escalates in the most deliciously terrible way. I've binged it two or three times so far >:D It's currently on hiatus but we'll get a fifth (final?) season staring in October!)

- I can always and forever recommend Rusty Quill Gaming as a honorary mention, just because it's partially the same people and it's fantastic and even though it doesn't start out as horror, alex has been knew (that man just can't help himself from putting horror everywhere, it's GREAT). It's a very good time and has made me cry and there's a lot of content to listen to with familiar voices, and I love it a lot even though I'm usually not a ttrpg listener <3

Apart from these I've also heard that Old Gods of Appalachia is good (though I personally didn't like the vibes), I've listened to a big chunk of I Am In Eskew which had some extremely nice episodes and some I didn't vibe with quite as much (it also lacked the queer, if I remember right), and by the same people (and apparently very queer?) The Silt Verses, though I haven't listened to that yet. I think that one has a lot of body horror, from what I've seen, and an aro character, which makes me go very :hypereyes:, but yeah :)

I hope these help!

If anyone wants to add recs, please do!!

Also Soren / @followthatgoose wants to find other people to scream with about the sheridan tapes so if anyone following me has listened to that pls message them xD <3

Everytime I remember RQG Oscar is not a D&Dads Taylor Swift situation but he truly is an alternative universe version of real historical Oscar Wilde I have to pause for a second.

And while this is true for all historical NPCs, the fact Oscar is basically a party member at this point makes him in particular weirder for me (and Eisnten at s3 but I grew up with Einsten look alikes and fictionalized Eistens in tbh a weird amount of cartoons and educational math games my school sometimes tried to make us play on their one PC).

And that came up again twice in like 10 minutes I literally was listening to RQG and uploading some PDFs that I got recently in my phone (by totally legal means not even a bit related to the guys with parrots and skull crossed flags and ships) into my kindle and it got into An Ideal Husband and my brain just broke. Literally broke. And when I was better from the "oh yeah that's a thing" and reopened the podcast, Alex goes "Wilde is wearing the fur coat of the famous pictures of irl Oscar Wilde" and I just had to control myself to not laugh out loud like a weirdo.

BRO NO FUCKING WAY I'M ALSO AT THE ROME ARC DURING MY RELISTEN

We can suffer together

🤝🤝🤝

YOU AND MEEEEE

I forgot eps numbers but ya know

grizzop crashlanding in AR then popping into the afterlife, full of righteousness and a thousand red bulls: so this is what’s next

artemis, cannot see the future, has no idea how grizzop got here, the barest clue who he is, desperately trying to figure out what the fuck is happening but absolutely on board: fucking superb you funky little paladin

#1 for the ask game

1. who is/are your comfort character(s)?

for rqg, skraak and the kobolds, and sasha. though i will also shout out my favorite party group, which was the s3 team of hamid, sasha, grizzop and azu, they had a great dynamic