#ive cracked the code as to why just one episode hit as hard as it did for me

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“...Both of these types of stories are reactions to the Industrial Revolution, and specifically the worsening of quality of life associated with that for many people. The quaint English countryside is being choked by mills and smog, and there’s public fascination with figures like Jack the Ripper, all of which come about from the increased alienation of industrial population booms. So you have on the one hand strangers and murder mystery and gaslighting. And then a reaction to that which tells stories like ‘what if a little rat and a little mole had a nice picnic in the field.’ Combining those two things is interesting, because these genres actually did grow out of the same soil. But there’s also something so interesting and dissonant about them, because of what their reactions to the culture of their origin were.” —Brennan Lee Mulligan, Dimension 20: Brennan Lee Mulligan Unravels the Mystery of Mice & Murder by Alexander Sowa

Dnd shows like Dimension 20 and role-playing games in general have become increasingly popular as the pandemic continues to disrupt people’s lives. With factors like “increased alienation” and general instability parallel to that of the Industrial Revolution, crafting a story with both the cultural reactions of an applicable time period and the format of a cultural reaction from ours is such an interesting way to explore how history and culture and storytelling all intersect with one another.

In Mice & Murder’s source material, the base reaction was a fatalistic, doomsday outlook of violence and grief and suffering, which then spawned hopeful, simple children’s stories. The cultural implications of both are still felt today (For example, spring has brought out the Peter Rabbit picture books in our house; meanwhile I am watching an adaption of The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie), but are usually kept separate in modern interpretations.

Dnd, already, is an amalgamation of these two genres’ base purposes. On one hand, dnd adventures tend to involve fighting a powerful evil—a societal injustice or a government or, most of the time, just a monster—and characters get hurt, compromise on their beliefs, and die. But dnd also has those fun, goofy, sweet moments of friendship and family that characterize the mass appeal of the game. Through improv, groups decide the balance they want of each, but it’s nearly impossible to make it through a whole campaign without one hilarious or heartwarming moment.

By purposefully calling back to opposing Industrial Revolution genres, and incorporating details of them in a format that’s having its own cultural renaissance—which already has elements of these two opposed types of fiction—the backdrop of Mice & Murder creates both a rich, comedic world, but also an important historical parallel. A parallel which is,, just,, so incredibly cool.

#ive cracked the code as to why just one episode hit as hard as it did for me #its cause this is my Exact shit #anyway sorry this is So long and So wordy and i just aaaaa #the sentence structure and word choice in this Sucks im sorry #belletalks #dimension 20 #mice and murder #brennan lee mulligan #i could also write one of these for. just a lot of different things. the intersection between history and storytelling is The Best

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rebels s4 first-time watch liveblogging! (just jedi knight on bcuz i only wanna watch the good eps of this show)

sorry. the hair is bad. maybe dont let a blind man give himself a haircut

kanan and hera r the only too bitches i care about in this house

theyre soooo cuuuute ugh

y go to the fuel depot tho that seems like a recipe for disaster

kanan didnt have to b dramatic about it i think they all cudve gotten away if he had just got in the ship. theyve been in tighter situations before

can kanan b a force ghost tho? just to talk to hera. idc about the others. hera seems rly broken up about this

hera: *crying*.  chopper:  bur bur. bur bur bur bur bur.    hera: *sniffles* youre right

ezra and hera reminiscing about kanan is actually really good and really hits :(

the side plot is stupid. y not just use a bomb-bomb and kill that little grey bitch. a fuckin paint bomb? r u serious?let zeb kill him bitch goddamnit zeb deserves a little murder. as a treat

what the fuck is happening

god fucking damnit dave u fucking furry ive had enough of these fucking wolves

i hate how they talk

EZRA SAID “AHSOKA” <33333

leave hera alone she needs like 5 fucking minutes to grieve her baby-daddie’s death goddamn

FUCK YEAHHHHH WE R GOING BACK TO THE JEDI TEMPLE i love the jedi i miss the clone wars :(

im gonna say it. the loth-cats cudve been cuter

ohmygod dave finally made his dream come true of having his characters ride wolves (bcuz he said he wanted ahsoka to ride a wolf at some point. but these guys riding wolves r fine too i guess. ahsoka makes anything cooler tho... jus sayin)

AHSOKA

this is some force-power-bullshit that i can GET BEHIND. TELEPORTING WOLVES HELL YEAH

WHY CUDNT THEY JUST FUCKING KEEP THE STORMTROOPER OUTFITS THAT THEY STOLE THE FIRST TIME WHY. DO THEY HAVE TO DO THIS SAME BULLSHIT EVERY. GODDAMN. EPISODE

they literally have no asses

who the fuck is this crusty bitch

COURUSCANT lets go there. i miss the clone wars :(

wait wheres rex. is he safe? is he alright?

y does sabine have to b here

good job ezra u got it. u cracked the code. ahsoka is the daughter <3

sorry nothing was happening so i blanked out for a bit but now we are in the world between worlds AND I AM HEARING THE VOICES OF ALL OF MY FRIENDS GOD I LOVE U GUYS OBI WAN AHSOKA ANAKIN I LOVE YALL

this scene is very cool tho

ugh stop can i skip the sabine scenes? i wanna hang out w ezra in the world between worlds

AHSOKA AHSOKA AHSOKA AHSOKA AHSOKA AHSOKA AHSOKA

SO FUCKING COOOOOOOL

she shud do the thing again where she falls onto her back and kicks the enemy away i think thatd b rly fun

hellooooo hottie

ahsoka  <3

does she know shes the baddest bitch in the galaxy? i feel like she doesnt know. i feel like sabine thinks SHES the baddest bitch in the galaxy but rly its ahsoka

is it like ahsokas job is to dramatically go “anakin...” 

when did she name the fucking bird

ok god complex ezra

ahsokas been through so much shit in her lifetime. she can literally understand any trauma just name it

cud we not have done one more take to have my guy palps say ahsokas name correctly? i mean its not a huge deal but like. was he payed by the second???

“i will. i promise” ahsoka ur so fucking cute

wh

whered it go

how can the entire temple just skrrt away

REX

KALLUS

AHHH MY FRIENDS

WOLFFE AND GREGGOR

HONDO

okay what the fuck is happening y did everyone just show up

ahsoka said “ima take a nap hmu after the finale”

i hate this fuckin grey dude

hondo ily

sorry i stopped paying attention but wolffe just had a line so im back now

OHMYGOSH

BOYFRIENDS

KALLUZEB IN THE SAME FRAME OHMYGOODNESS

oh my fuck this next episode is HOW MANY MINUTES LONG?????

hera in this ep b like ‘am i gregnant?’

kallus ur the coolest bitch in this whole show (minus ahsoka)

go hera <3

yo what the fuck

this episode is 47 goddamn minutes so that we have time for this pig catapulting bullshit?

the whole second half of this show is just the writers making excuses to have thrawn do absolutely nothing while still pretending like he’s a threat

why r there 2 separate animal dues ex machinas in this finale?

yoooo ezra i actually rly like u bro :(((

hey where the fuck is darth vade y did he just dip out of the show. i feel like he cud help the empire out in this situation

very weird that thrawn supports sabines patreon or whatever the fuck

heyyyy palpatine what the fuck

they were rly broken up about kanans death for like. an episode. but theyre chill now theyre over it

y is palpatine into ezra?

can kallus and zeb smooch? just once? please? wud that b so hard?

how is this pig not dead

oh lmao he is dead hahahahahahah

im still confused about how greggor didnt die in clone wars. i thought he died? was i tripping?

palpatine is trying so hard not to saw “dewit” right now

what does destroying the temple accomplish?

HOW R THEY STORMTROOPERS MISSING THESE SHOTS WHAT THE FUCK HE IS A STATIC TARGET

oh so NOW ull kill the little grey bitch

GOD FUCK THE PIG IS ALIVE????? ARGH U AINT CUTE BITCH. JUST DIE

y cant he get out of there tho

bro a bitch is crying

yooo

theyre dating

hera’s makeup

the way i broke down when i saw ahsoka

tears