this bitch would stay behind a curtain for twenty minutes to build suspense and the audience would happily wait. no way they were there just to see a neat trick
What? Nik, after like a month, is finally updating about the dnd au again? Shocking. Sorry lads I hit a major block because it just wasn’t working. Writers block is a bitch.
BUT I come with an actual update. Originally, this au was the boys in a dnd setting world and as fantasy rpg characters. But… now that I think about it… I think that’s what’s blocking me. I Just Can’t Do That For Some Reason
SO I present to you a Thing. Instead of it being the boys ARE dnd characters, it’s the poets PLAYING dnd (wow, so wild, I know. Im an innovator. Ahead of my time. So creative). In a modern au. Mr Keating runs a kinda not so secret dnd club at Welton (which is probably still a shitty school just now they’ve got a dnd club). The Poets join the club and yeah. You get the point they’re playing dnd.
Now. Dnd is wild because you learn A LOT about your friends and yourself through stabbing theatre of the mind monsters, tossing dice around and honestly it gets really emotional. So… combine that with these depressed very gay teenage boys who have just so Many Issues to work through… and an emotionally in touch and all knowing dungeon master like Mr Keating…
Aka: the dnd au is now The Poets Get Therapy Through Dungeons and Dragons. So, yay! I’ve got something that should hopefully work better! But also, this means I sorta have to scrap my whole original post and start over from essentially scratch since a good chunk of it No Longer Works. So YIKES. Sorry for the wait, but hopefully the dnd au can now actually work and actually be good instead of the clusterfuck currently sitting in my drafts.
Went to bed after I wrote this then woke up and had a think and maybe instead of Mr Keating being their dungeon master, I keep it more accurate to the movie and have Neil be the dungeon master and Mr Keating as support on the sidelines.
Neil being the dungeon master would line up with how he’s the sorta head of the DPS in the film, and also allows me to explore his love of acting since I think Neil would enjoy being LITERALLY EVERYBODY ELSE. Plus, Neil would finally have control (mostly, dice and players can never be tamed) over his life (in a roleplaying game) and could do whatever he wanted since he gets to write the story and he gets to choose who he wants to be (everybody else). He can be anybody now, literally. Also, with one of the boys being the dm compared to Mr Keating a lot more shenanigans can occur between the dm and the players
OMG yes, I sorta had this in my notes if I wanted to make a DND au XD (They seem like the type to do that)
the joke I wanted to add was they all wanted to be Bards or at least Charlie/ Todd being unbelievably into Vicious Mockery (because you just have to insult people) and Charlie would like to roll with the most random "yo mama" jokes or "you're a stinky poopoo" lines but still rolls high,
and todd would have the most gut wrenching insults ( not swearing) like: "Your mother never loved you and now you seek to fight our group as a way of therapy for your heart that has become a void" and everyone's like really shocked, and he rolls a well and gives the enemy a disadvantage while everyone is secretly worried for him.
I have a dnd session tomorrow so if I'll try and remember some quotes so I can use it for this.
Meeks absolutely finds loopholes and Neil has to tell him no, he can't eat a whole field of belladonna to take away the poison because it isn't even food in the first place
also i can imagine Pitts picking to be a rogue but rolling so bad at sneaks and also cuz he made his character as tall as he is-- hahahah
I could also just imagine the CHAOS in session 0s
As someone who's VERY BAD at keeping up with character sheets, I can vouch for charlie giving Neil the hardest time setting things up.
"How do I get spells" "how many cantrips can i have?" "can't i have more tho??" "can i have a pet?" "can i fly? why not??" "what do you mean there isn't a spell like that??" "cant saxophone be my instrument??" "how do i get better stats?" "can i flirt with the shopkeep? i need a discount"
alright wilson just strangled taub so the final three remaining are wilson, cameron, and foreman. wilson has 5 kills, foreman has 1, and cameron has 3 lets see how this goes
I feel like with the new ~fandom drama~ or whatever going around, I should re-introduce my favorite theory of fandom, which I call the 1% Theory.
Basically, the 1% Theory dictates that in every fandom, on average, 1% of the fans will be a pure, unsalvageable tire fire. We’re talking the people who do physical harm over their fandom, who start riots, cannot be talked down. The sort of things public news stories are made of. We’re not talking necessarily bad fans here- we’re talking people who take this thing so seriously they are willing to start a goddamn fist fight over nothing. The worst of the worst.
The reason I bring this up is because the 1% Theory ties into an important visual of fandom knowledge- that bigger fandoms are always perceived as “worse”, and at a certain point, a fandom always gets big enough to “go bad”. Let me explain.
Say you have a small fandom, like 500 people- the 1% Theory says that out of those 500, only 5 of them will be absolute nutjobs. This is incredibly manageable- it’s five people. The fandom and world at large can easily shut them out, block them, ignore their ramblings. The fandom is a “nice place”.
Now say you have a medium sized fandom- say 100,000 people. Suddenly, the 1% Theory ups your level of calamity to a whopping 1000 people. That’s a lot. That’s a lot for anyone to manage. It is, by nature of fandom, impossible to “manage” because no one owns fan spaces. People start to get nervous. There’s still so much good, but oof, 1000 people.
Now say you have a truly massive fandom- I use Homestuck here because I know the figures. At it’s peak, Homestuck had approximately FIVE MILLION active fans around the globe.
By the 1% Theory, that’s 50,000 people. Fifty THOUSAND starting riots, blackmailing creators, contributing to the worst of the worst of things.
There’s a couple of important points to take away here, in my opinion.
1) The 1% will always be the loudest, because people are always looking for new drama to follow.
2) Ultimately, it is 1%. It is only 1%. I can’t promise the other 99% are perfect, loving angels, but the “terrible fandom” is still only 1% complete utter garbage.
3) No fandom should ever be judged by their 1%. Big fandoms always look worse, small fandoms always look better. It’s not a good metric.
So remember, if you’re ever feeling disheartened by your fandom’s activity- it’s just 1%, people. Do your part not to be a part of it.
This was actually one of the key takeaways I got from researching the Msscribe video. One incredibly devoted troll was at the root of nearly half of all drama in the 2000s Harry Potter fandom. Just ONE PERSON can create a whole novel’s worth of insane bullshit if they’re really committed, and there are always going to be people out there who love that stuff so much that they’ll do it
minecraft: "yeah souls have power and they can suck light out of things and there's sand in literal hell that have the screaming dead in them and when combined make a literal demon that rots everything living in sight and in the deep dark there's plants that can detect movement and hisses when broken and there's a warden that protects the caves and can kill you in one hit and it has souls in his chest and it makes a heartbeat sound and all the lights around it flicker off if its near"
don't forget the giant fossilised remains of god knows what that used to be and also the implications of the fact that villagers turned into zombies look different to the normal ones wandering around that just so happen to look like you. also the endermen speaking thing.
"Lightning has transformative powers, gold has regenerative properties so strong it can save you from death, ghasts are trapped in Hell, piglins built the bastions and the zombification virus nearly wiped them out, the ancient peoples created some kind of apocalypse so fucked up it almost wiped out all life and basically severed the link between dimensions, and also none of this is real, the universe is just a story we're telling about ourselves because we're all stories and stardust and not ready to perceive the true nature of existence yet."
When Charlie closes his eyes, he sees Neil. He sees Neil in the back of Mr. Perry's car. Every time he replays that memory it hits him that Neil knew exactly what he was going to do. When Neil met his eyes for the last time through that window, Charlie realizes that deep down, they both knew, this was the last time they'd ever see each other.
When Charlie closes his eyes he thinks about lost promises. He thinks about when they were young and skinning their knees. He thinks about a blood brother pact where Neil promised him forever. He thinks about long, tearful nights where Neil swore he would never leave him. He was his best friend and he left. He left Charlie alone. He wants to be mad or sad, but all he is is numb.
When Charlie closes his eyes he thinks about the fact that Neil died alone and it kills him inside.
white lgbt ppl will constantly have to be informed about racism and nonwhite issues bc they're only ever friends w other white people, speak over lgbt ppl of color when it comes to representation and problems in media, not acknowledge when white supremacy feeds into intracommunity bigotry. and then say things like "the lgbt community shouldn't be at odds with each other! 😤" i don't know if you guys know how big a split there is between you and us at the best of times
full offense ya’ll don’t have to announce you’re white, very white savior-y, just reblog the post and stop trying to use people’s struggles to make yourselves look good
the saw blood drive began in 2004 as a marketing tool for the first film, but after receiving a significant amount of donations, the crew decided to continue the tradition of giving a pint of blood in exchange for a free ticket to see the new film. lionsgate partnered with the american red cross to help save an estimated 360,000 lives; as of the saw vi campaign in 2009, 120,000 pints of blood have been donated.
in 2017 with the release of jigsaw, the campaign decided to focus on the restrictive nature of blood donation rules for LGBT+ individuals and featured many LGBT+ models as the "saw nurses" of the new campaign. the jigsaw "all types welcome" blood drive encouraged fans of any gender or sexuality to donate blood and fought back against discriminatory practices by the FDA.
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