#asking for a worried friend

[spaceofentropy]

I've rewatched season 4 of Stranger Things not that long ago and it still drives me up a wall how the Duffers and their writers' room managed to write Eddie as (almost) the perfect prototype of a shitty, toxic DM. I've been roleplaying and occasionally GameMastering for the past 22 years (give or take). I've played with good GMs, mediocre GMs, terrible GMs, stellar GMs. And Eddie Munson, for how he's written in the show, is a shitty GM, holy fuck, folks!

1 He scares his younger players into doing what he wants. The first time I saw season 4, my brain went "Feels like they're setting him up as the new human baddie of the season, feels like they're gonna pull a Billy-with-switched-plates on us..." because Eddie is introduced as seen through Dustin and Mike's eyes, and those are scared eyes. Not scared as in "he's gonna hurt me", but scared as in "he's volatile, unpredictable, and he's gonna make my life literal hell". Like a bully. Like he's not a hero or a good presence for those two kids. And then...

2 Eddie refuses to move that fucking D&D session. Which... WTF, man, what the fuck! You don't want to know the number of times my groups and I had to postpone a session because too many people couldn't be there because life! The way we played with one or two players less, knowing that M. would use his brother's character for combat, that while E. was away his character would conveniently get bonked in the head and pass out for the duration of that session! But it's an important day, I hear you say. It's the end of the campagin, you say. Then... dude! Since you've built to that session for months, it's the culmination of your whole campaign, you want YOUR PLAYERS to be there! It's a big day for the whole group, not just for the DM! What's the fun in having one of the main characters in the story being absent?! Which leads us to the fact...

3 Eddie demands that Dustin and Mike find him a replacement player. On your big fucking day when your campaign ends you DON'T want a random player to sit at the table and risk to have to decide the fate of the whole story (which, coincidentally, is exactly what ends up happening, how fun...)! You want YOUR players to be there for the grand finale! How can a rando appreciate the way you bring all the storylines to their conclusion? How can a rando know why that tiny detail that ties back to the second or third session is important? A rando can't! Bringing in a rando is just bringing in an arm to swing dice, at this point in a campaign. You've built to this session for months, then it won't kill you to wait for a week or two longer to play it! (And this ever-important session happens just before spring break, there are weeks and weeks left before school ends. They can fucking wait for Mike to come back from California and Lucas to not have basketball games! Which, oh, look at that...)

4 Eddie knows he's forcing two of his younger players to ditch their friend's big game, and he doesn't give a single fuck. D&D is clearly the best, superior past time ever, in Eddie's eyes, and fuck anyone who thinks differently. Fuck anyone who dares put anything above D&D. Sadly, Dustin and Mike are not old enough or emotionally strong enough to ditch a bad GM, not when he has painted himself in their eyes as their saviour from being high school loners and pariahs, so fuck their great friend Lucas, I guess?

5 Eddie's an elitist piece of crap to Erica. Saying "Oh, you play D&D? What level is your character?" is not only inherently stupid in D&D terms (you can create a 17th level character from scratch, tailored to the sole purpose of playing with a high level group, it's... it's a ttrpg, not a fucking videogame where you have to grind all the levels! Ghaaaaaaaaa!), but also the equivalent of going "You're wearing a Metallica t-shirt? List 5 of their songs!" on her. The kind of thing where you look at the tool in front of you, flip him the bird, and leave with a "Go get fucked by balrog, dickwad!"

In all of that, the problem is the shitty writing. I know that thematically and symbolically it's so juicy to have Lucas, who's been torn between the jocks and the nerd, stay with the jocks while he his nerd friends LITERALLY replace him with his sister. Oh, it's so tasty to have the Sinclair siblings throw the deciding ball/die in their respective games and win everything for their teams. I can almost hear the Duffers orgasm (sorry for the horrid image!) at the idea of it all, typing it down and then going to their editor asking for the alternating cuts, the parallels, and then, oh, the stark difference between Lucas' face falling because none of his friends is present on his big day and Erica being cheered on by these older guys she just met! And that shot when the basketball team leaves the gym and Lucas sees Erica so seamlessly incorporated in his other group of friends, so angsty, right? Right? You get it, audience, right? He's sad! So sad! *nudge nudge wink wink*

It's such lazy writing. It feels like paint by number and also unfaithful to the characters, and to Erica in particular. She may not love her brother to pieces, may not have been enthusiastic at the idea of watching a boring basketball game, but I can't see her having a single reason to go play one D&D session to close a campagin she knows nothing about with a group of older strangers (who treat her like crap), when up until this point she's been a closeted nerd.

And we all know that the D&D session must be there because we can build up Lucas' dilemma and introduce an audience who knows nothing about D&D to the concept of Vecna. (As one of my friends said when Vecna came up in the show, "Vecna? Again!? Haven't we already killed that squirrelly third-rate spellcaster at least once a decade for the past 40 years?!")

And you know what? It's double shitty writing. Because if it weren't for Joseph Quinn good performance, I probably would have ended hating Eddie all the way to the end of the series and not given much of a fuck about his death! Because, as I said, I actually disliked him for a good chunk of episode one. My first gut reaction to Eddie Munson was "Nope! Stay away! Bad guy! Shoo, shoo!"

You've written this guy as an asshole who can't be arsed to postpone a fucking D&D session; who thinks he's better than everyone else; who walks on the tables where other people are eating (EWWW!); who scares his youngest minions and forces them to do his biddings; who doesn't give a fuck if he's forcing said minions into ditching their friend; who treats a middle schooler like pure crap... And no, I don't think it's a matter of "oh, the guy has so many nuances", just... Fuck that guy! The guy the Duffers wrote is a shitty GM that I wouldn't want to play a single session with. I don't give a single fuck about the fate of the guy who leads the Hellfire Club. He's selfish and crappy to everyone. The guy who interacted with Chrissy, on the other hand? Yeah, I give many fucks about him. Just... keep him away from young, impressionable players that might learn from him how to become toxic GMs in the future! 😬

#eddie munson is a shitty DM and you can't change my mind #also Mike and Dustin are shit friends to Lucas #period #I love the guy but let's keep canon Eddie away from the roleplay table for a few years so he can mature ok? #you're the GM so your job is to have your players have fun #not fear you and your volatile moods #there's no session that can't be postponed! #the duffers are bad writers #have they ever played a single session of D&D with a decent DM? #asking for a worried friend #long post #sorry for the rant #stranger things the mess you are

[thebibliosphere]

I'm scrolling through some ambient noises to help me write, and it got me thinking. Y'know those white noise machines people use for sleeping?

Do you think there's a very specific brand marketed at Gothamites?

Like everyone else has rainy nights on the beach, whale song, the crackle of the campfire, and everyone's all-time favorite "rickety fan about to oscillate off your shitty ikea desk at four in the morning."

And then there's "The Sounds of Gotham," a nighttime ambiance made up of heavy thunderstorms interspaced with the wail of police sirens and the occasional smattering of gunfire.

If you upgrade to premium, you can get the added sound effect of "small vigilante child dropping onto your apartment roof followed by the heavy pitter-patter of their combat boots as they dropkick a criminal off the fire escape."

Mm. Cozy.

#they go to metropolis to visit a friend on the weekend #ask their friend if it's okay if they use their white noise machine #friend is like 'sure' #proceeds to spend the rest of the night wondering why their guest room sounds like an active crime scene #'oh that' says the Gothamite 'that's just my white noise machine' :) #Metropolites continue to be very worried about their goth counterparts #invests in earplugs from the drugstore asap #batman

[chloesimaginationthings]

IS THAT JEREMY!?

I’M GLAD YALL NOTICED THIS DETAIL! To answer your question,,, oh yknow

#ask reply #I kinda worried the photo would be too small to read fully #but I’m glad yall saw it like immediately 😭 #whatever you think the answer is to this question that’s probably right #ask your heart.. it knows #it actually makes me sniffle teen Michael just having a good time #just the fact michaels life is filled with sm turmoil #the idea he had fun with his bully friends is bittersweet #dude loves his Bonnie friend homies forever #besties!! buddies! just guys being dudes!

[seiwas]

everytime i think about ex!bakugo, i get so emotional thinking about how he carries on with his day-to-day like the breakup didn’t happen.

he doesn’t even give himself time to mourn the relationship, to process the loss of you. he throws himself into work, practically drowning in it because he can’t bear staying idle.

you’re everywhere, still—

in the picture frames scattered around his home, in the decorative pieces that each hold their own memory. some of the clothes you returned to him smell like you.

when kirishima asks him how he is, he never answers, always redirecting the subject back to work. deku notices longer bouts of silence during joint patrols, and when he pries, bakugo’s only reply is, “s’not a concern.”

it’s unusual, because bakugo is loud and rough, he barks and barks and barks, but with this, he stays quiet.

#i think about ex bakugo so much if i spent the same amount of time thinkin abt him as writing him i would have finished the fic by now #JOSNXKSJXKSKXJDK #you’re still friends bc same circles and work #but because he throws himself so much into work you don’t really see eachother much a few months after the breakup #you worry for him still because you know his tendencies #you know he’ll push this to the side and keep it to himself until it all spills over one day #you find out he’s been staying completely quiet about it when mitsuki texts you and asks when you and katsuki will come for the holidays :( #he doesnt delete your photos HE DOESNT DELETE THEM. i dont think he has the heart to #bakugo x reader #shotorus.bubble #sigh

[emptygoldstudio]

Silly horses sketches i did during a call!

Got inspired by @horsewizardart at first and then ideas just kept coming

#my litte pony friendship is magic #main six #mlp art #emptygoldstudio #ask to tag #- ig cuz theres no imagery only joke that exists cuz my friend had a top surgery #personal art #if horsewizardart is reading it down here - MAN i love coming back to your poney arts #makes me happy every time))) #also friend described last picture with realistic twilight as “well drawn but worrying”XD #horse tw

[carlyraejepsans]

hibiscia!!! Sorry if youve explained before but is there something specific about reset-remember fics that you hate? I don't really like them either but for me it's just because I feel like a lot of authors type sans in very ooc ways

They're completely antithetical to Sans' character arc for the sake of cheap and easy angst. The nature of his brand of cosmic horror isn't in reliving his life again and again, that's Flowey's. Sans knows OF the anomaly, knows that it's manipulating time and knows it's a threat to the entire universe, but he doesn't know how or why, because he doesn't remember.

And that's crucial! him being mostly in the dark in spite of the MANY warning signs about us... because it's in that doubt that he remains hopeful. YES we could potentially end the world... but what if we don't? yes we have unimaginable power over everyone else and we can bring back time, but what if we're just.... sad? he needs that gap in his knowledge so he can take a leap of faith across it, it's his entire character arc in the pacifist run. sans THINKS he's given up, he wants to have given up, he chose to do it because there's a comfort in that. in contenting yourself with good food and bad laughs. there's peace. but he hasn't given up, not really. on himself? maybe. but not in us.

there's no way to have that arc if he remembers resets.

#this is also why i don't like post pacifist sans angst where he worries about resets. unless there's like a Reason for frisk to reset #kinda like sam did in UG with the incident with the blasters #because ppl take his lines during the NM fight as a given without considering that... it's the fucking NM run? lol #he's talking about reaching the surface from the point of view of a sans who's only ever been antagonized by the anomaly #ie reaching the surface meant through asgore's plan being successful #pacifist achieves that in a scenario where he actively befriends and loves and cares about the anomaly. he trusts us!! #it would feel unfair to his friend if he were convinced they were going to shit on their happy ending. that's a really shitty thing to thin #it's actually sth i wanted to handle in dv. having a kid REALLY fucks with his paranoia. it's irrational but understandable #that doesn't stop him from feeling guilty towards frisk for worrying about it. or feeling worried at all #undertale #sans #answered asks #metanalysis

[crabsnpersimmons]

I’m curious about the onesie now

also @pizzaplex-stargazer cuz you noticed too!

here's what Moon was rocking before Clip started making clothes:

after their PizzaPlex went under, the DCA bois had to figure out a lot of things, one being: clothes. unfortunately, Moon's really big, so he struggled to find things that fit him and were comfortable. the onesie is the first thing he found that fit him and made him feel really cozy. so he still wears it at home (he prefers comfy clothes at home anyways) when he needs a pick-me-up.

of course, he can't work at the salon in a bunny onesie, so here's what Clip made him (under Sundrop's direction):

Moon does prefer comfy clothes, but he has to admit, sometimes he likes the attention these clothes get him. he's iffy about them though, he feels that they show too much of him and he prefers the specific kind of comfort that comes from being an amorphous bundle of coziness.

#fnaf moon #fnaf sun #fnaf dca #dca fandom #New Do Same You AU #Moon New Do Same You AU #Sun New Do Same You AU #this AU is full of silly and angst i swear #look Moon in a rabbit onesie! (: #he likes it because it hides his body and he can momentarily forget that he was forced into a body that isn't his ): #he can be a silly little gremlin again (: #and not think about what he looks like under the fabric ): #the bunny onesie was honestly just a silly idea i had early on even before i thought of Moon's body upgrades #i just thought it would be in-character for Moon to like comfy clothes and would wear comfy clothes when he's not out in public #but i was worried the bunny onesie would be too silly? #but after chatting with friends about it #i just #i had to keep it in #look at how happy Moon is! #he's a little moon bunny! #let him have some joy #i've wrote a painful backstory for him anyway let him have this #traditional art #crab art #bright colours #ask the crab

[musubiki]

scaralumi

#genshin impact #lumine #traveler #scaramouche #wanderer #art #fanart #based on that one scene from ranma #im reading through the manga again and this scene is so THEM #right down to the fucking sword #ready 2 rock and roll at any moment #when nahida asks lumine to give him a room inside the teapot so he can ~*make friends*~ with her #love that theyre just forced to get along for nahidas sake #dont worry they become friends....eventually #she learns how to deal with.....him

[hellsitegenetics]

heeeeyyy…it’s me again…sister lucifer…

i got dumped. on valentines. turn out they’re a lesbian.

sorry to bother but uh, think i could get a new organism?

String identified:

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gt . at. t t t’ a a.

t t t , t c gt a ga?

Closest match: Cylloceria caligata genome assembly, chromosome: 1 Common name: Parasitoid wasp

#tumblr genetics #genetics #wasps #insects #bugs #parasites #sent to me #requests #asks #valentines day #sister-lucifer #dont worry my friend. introducing the hellsitegeneticsrelationshiptherapy sideblog

[moonilit]

Modern AU Doodles

#Don’t ask me what is this i made it in 30 min #Yes everyone is around and alive and fine #Clive and Jill managed to start their own life away from Annabella so good for them #This is for my Jote loving heart #Sorry for my handwriting #Jote #joshua rosfield #clive rosfield #jill warrick #Kinda joshua x jote because i love them #Don’t worry everyone hangouts in the hideaway and shenanigans ensured #I didn’t draw it but Cid and Joshua would get along #Mid and Jote are friends #Ffxvi #final fantasy xvi #Ffxvi modern au

[mewnia]

Anyway, @the-east-art , @browniefox , and I found the camera angle in this scene to be interesting during our playthrough the other day. Couldn’t get it out of my head haha :P

Bonus:

#tales of graces #Asbel Lhant #Richard Windor #I find it funny that once I finished these doodles I get an ask #asking if I’d draw Asbel one of these tales of Sundays #hope you like it anon #I’ll draw him someday tho don’t worry!!! #richard really don’t have a last name do he #but yes I am currently doing a playthrough of tales of graces with my beloved friends :3 #I haven’t played this game in like 7? 8 years? It’s very fuzzy #it’s been fun :P #mewnia's pawprints

[daily-hanamura]

#p4 #p4g #persona 4 #persona 4 golden #hanamura yosuke #yosuke hanamura #MAN I SWEAR WHEN THIS CONVERSATION HAPPENED I WAS SWEATING BRICKS IN WORRY #anyway i forgot to save before speaking to yosuke so i dont know what the other options are BUT YOU KNOW YU HAD TO ASK IF HE WAS OK #thinking about that comic where yosuke was being harrassed by some punks #theres something about the way hes telling this story that feels like he was treating it as being incidental. as whatever. #like “oh yeah im fine?? anyway thats not the point of the story i wanted to tell you about how they were so terrified of kanji” #LIKE DUDE. BUDDY. YOUR LIFE WAS IN DANGER. DONT DISMISS IT LIKE THAT #the fact that bro came so close to being beaten up and it was a conversation that could have been easily missed #like if yu hadnt run into him at night was yosuke just going to... not bring it ip? #(yes of course he wouldn't you know what hes like!! he wouldn't want to be a bother on yu. nothing happened after all!!) #BBYGIRL PLS!!? YOSUKE MY BOY PLS RELY ON YOUR FRIENDS TOO.... #anyway i think a yosuke protection squad should form they should start going home in pairs #he's good with his queue

[purplebehittindifferent]

Battle won! You got 66g and crushing guilt!

That’s the end of chapter 2! Who’s ready for chapter 3? ME! ME! But wait- what’s THIS?

Masterpost

Prev (ch:2::8)/ End of chapter 2!

Next (INTERLUDE)

#reconnecting #tissue warning b****** #art #my art #fanart #deltarune #kris #deltarune comic #reconnecting comic #well yeah I got mildly sniffly drawing #can’t wait to see the dub of this :3 no rush tho my friend #deltarune fanart #undertale #got questions? ASK EM! visit my askbox if you wish #interlude is a one shot 30 panel long thingy before chapter 3 #so not a long wait don’t worry! #also hiiii! all my new followers! #and Lily if you read this I want to extend a thanks I would have #never gotten this far if you had never found my page #FOLLOWERS IF YOU DONT READ LILYBUG02 S COMIC NOW IS THE TIME #SHES WONDERFUL #:3333

[teaboot]

Question:

I have a Sikh coworker who only wears his turbans on alternating days. I'm curious about why but don't want to bother him about it. I can't find anyone mentioning it being common practice online- Does anyone know what this means? It's not really any of my business and I don't intend to change anything, but the curiosity is killing me. Is this an appropriate question to ask the internet at large? Is this common practice? Please tell me if I'm out of line, I can remove this post

#We're not very close so I don't think it's okay to just open up asking out of nowhere #I've only had a couple Sikh friends and coworkers in the past and I never saw any of the dudes without theirs so I thought it was like #An all the time thing #Should I be worried #Like is he being harassed #Or should i shut up and stay in my lane #Aaaaaaaagghdhg

[yu-melon]

Going wild with this new graphic tablet so theres another warm up but with another one of my faws (ft. little things w Shadow and Blaze)

I love this fluffy boy

#my art #sketch #fanart #sth fanart #sonic the hedgehog #silver the hedgehog #a little bit but also #shadow the hedgehog #blaze the cat #also I saw somebody asking to draw more foxbee Tails #dont worry bro hes on his way #some of this little sketches exist because of my friends

[emry-stars-art]

I know sharks are overdone in meer context and I love that you picked bit more unusual species for twinyards (not the ones that actively hunt other fish) but have you considered any shark designs for anyone else before ? I love how natural the tails you draw look it's my favourite thing about your meer arts

Also do you have favourite fish?

Art idea your favourite fish as tail for meer of your favourite character

It’s just that sharks are so coooolllllll

I have a lot of the Trojans team as sharks in my mer au! I like them being a fun loving group lol they can PROTECT they can ATTACK but mostly they just wanna tussle 😌

And I can’t say for sure I have a favorite fish (bc I love so many fish, it’s such a huge group to choose from) but I did see a pic of what I believe is called a pinnatus batfish?? And I lovedddd the coloring so much, it’s what I was going to draw my oc Q as before I landed on regal angelfish for him

So sorry it’s not an aftg character but I doodled Q to see what might have been lol 🤲

(Though if you wanna see him as an angelfish that’s here)

#important to me that it’s Jeremy that’s the classic great white lol #not to worry Jean will be over the whole teeth thing eventually #my art #ocs #mer au #quinton bell #asks #chibi #digital #lol. Bo’s little tiny goth mer friend #Bo appreciates the aesthetics either way I think #pretty bright colors or pretty velvety black #Q is a cute lil thing either way