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Whether Lou is playing a man in his 50s from NY or a 21 year old he will make community feel so warm, welcoming and wholesome. Really makes you want to live in a world where a Lou Wilson character looks at you and claims you as part of his community.

It's really crazy because even playing a very lonely rich kid he's still throwing the motif of community around. From Fabian secretly buying gifts to his friends in freshman year to making his house into a comfortable student hang out spot in junior year only to not feel alone anymore, Lou's characters are always tied to community to a degree, what changes are the motivations behind those ties

Ok.  I want to step back from the brain slug ethics for a moment, and talk about Norman Takamori more broadly as an East Asian character and what that means both in general and for this show.  Because if you look at the role that Norman has occupied this season, it embodies quite literally how (East) Asian characters often get treated in Western media and by Western fans, and it’s a useful framework to move into thinking about how we in this fandom engage with East Asian characters.

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how many times does Lou’s character have to play a father figure to Ally’s character before i die of emotions

it’s so funny to me that lou wilson likes to play one of the oldest members of the party (tuc, acoc) despite being the baby of the cast by like a significant margin

I love rewatching Dimension 20 media because I already know the story so I can focus more on the visuals in my head than listening to the details and getting to know the characters.

Rewatching Fantasy High to get to Sophomore year, all I could see in my head was the story in comic book form, something like Gabriel Picolo’s style, really pretty but still containing that teenage punk style.

A Crown of Candy is definitely an animated Disney Movie in my head, the first episode containing sweeping cameras and bright colors that quickly takes a dark, bloody, and treacherous turn.

A Tiny Heist to me is one of those 3D Warner Bros movies, with a very particular and pleasant art style that’s a little quirky but still very charming and fun as it changes your expectations of a fantasy tiny adventure that truly is far more dark and dubious than first glance.

Escape From the Bloodkeep is just Lord of the Rings but filmed like The Office. What We Do in the Shadows if you will.

(Regrettably I haven’t watched Unsleeping City or Pirates of the Leviathan yet because I’m trying to finish Sophomore Year but I’m sure I’ll have thoughts lol)

literally nearing tears at work thinking about the second Emily Axford PC constant (after them being gay, that is): the need of community and fear of isolation/abandonment. Moonshine thrives in her communities but is terrified to take the throne in hell from Pendergreens. Fig plays the "I'm so isolated" as a bit but he biggest fear is being left behind while a persona of herself takes her place. Saccharina was abandoned and felt so cold and alone, yet found comfort in her team and Cinnamon. Sophia is left by Dale and that LITERALLY destroys her which sends her narrative into motion. Even Onyx feels uncomfortable with how she left her brothers. Simply, I am terrified to see what Fia - an isolated, alone witch without community - is going to emotionally put me through

Y’know maybe i’m not following enough d20 blogs but i haven’t heard anyone talk about how Lou was kinda, not upset but like maybe bothered about “another secret black person”. It seemed jokey and stuff and while it’s not necessarily a Big Thing i still get where he was coming from. Like while the audience knows how characters look since we get the art right away, it’d definitely be nice if the players knew too? Idk how to explain it i’m not very eloquent but like y’know how Brennan pointed out Garthy’s top surgery scars and was like “shoutout to pete the plug” and that immediately established that Garthy was trans and that they chose to physically transition? I wish Brennan could do something like that with characters of color? Like obviously I’m not asking for him to be like “You see queen Caramelinda, a tall black woman made of caramel” but i just wish there was a way to quickly and respectfully establish race. Maybe it’s just cus I trust Brennan and the whole Dimension 20 gang not to tokenize their characters of color or make their entire character about their race?

Also like with Alejandro in TUC, that accent? A very good nondescript Latine/hispanic accent but like… Is he Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cubano? Like… I am always happy to see good Latine/Latinx rep like Alejandro but Latine/Latinx covers a wHOLE bunch of ethnicities and it’d be dope if we could get some distinction y’know? I wanna make it clear I’m not complaining cus Dimension 20 does pretty well with their diversity and representation (they’re not perfect but nobody is) I’m just sayin i get Lou’s lil “Another secret black person!?!?” moment.

Also it kinda rubbed me the wrong way that someone was like “You’re the one assuming all the characters are white” and then that devolved into the italian jokes but like… that’s… the default in most media? It’s kind of what you grow to expect? I know that as a person of color who listens to podcasts it took me a while to be comfortable being like “I headcanon Rita Penumbra Podcast and Martin Magnus Archives as Mexican based off the sole fact that I love them and also cus I want to” cus I got that specific internalized racism directed at myself where I’m afraid of being “too Mexican” or “too loud” about my experiences, and I especially have the fear of being “that poc” and it’s like, logically I KNOW that’s dumb, I’m proud of being Mexican, I can talk about my experiences all i want, and most importantly the only people who would consider anyone to be “that poc” are racist assholes and their opinions don’t matter. Idk i think i got off track and idk if was gonna make a point but like… yeah

I have been re-watching Fantasy High Sophomore Year and Emily playing Fig as overly paranoid pertaining to The Nightmare King in the early episodes makes so much sense in the context of being caught up with A Crown Of Candy and all the betrayal done to the party. Like, for me it makes sense that Emily as Fig would be distrustful of Cathilda (streamed live months after the recording of  Crown Of Candy) after the heartbreaking but inevitable betrayal by Calroy Cruller in A Crown Of Candy which led to the death of Jet (Emily’s original PC), knowing that Fantasy High Sophomore Year was different and had a more terrifying threat (compared to the first season) combined with not knowing what Brennan might be planning, it makes sense that even in a much tamer setting such as Fantasy High compared to A Crown Of Candy, Emily would be distrustful of any in-party NPC regardless of closeness to another PC because who knows what Brennan might have up his sleeve.

Ally's natural instinct to questions, mystery and darkness leading to all their cheerful, carefree characters to eventually live in the realm of uncertainty (gloom stalker ranger, twilight cleric, wild magic sorcerer) after traumatic experiences..... Iconique.

maybe its silly but i always love hearing about/seeing people in actual plays being genuine friends like…idk hearing that its not just for the screen and the d20 cast have in jokes with the dice where they dunk on murph just. idk it makes me feel really happy and warm to know that it’s not just on screen, that they’re really enjoying themselves and making the show is Fun for them.

theo staying with liam in jail all night and keeping him company before his trial the next day.... riz staying in fabian’s room and standing guard over him all night after his encounter with whitclaw... kugrash staying with sofia and helping her sober up all those nights he found her black-out drunk in a back alley... it’s the murph instinct

I know this is incredibly random and probably rude to bring up, but after binging so much Dimension 20 in the past few weeks I couldn't help but notice Brennan's very consistent pattern of repeating the last sentence he heard someone say in order to process said information and then respond to it accordingly. This is something I'm incredibly used to doing myself, but have NEVER seen others do often, let alone do so on camera in front of an audience. I've always considered this to be a trait that came with my aspergers. I refuse to diagnose someone without a degree, and even if I did have one that would be rude af, but that being said I see a lot of myself in Brennan's mannerisms and outward mental processes. I look up to him a lot, him being able to juggle ALL of that is insane, and I am somehow able to picture how he does it sometimes. He has been such an unexpected find for me lately, and I'm so glad I stumbled upon his work and Dimension 20 as a whole <3

it’s good that the real villain of every d20 season is always Capitalism

also sandra-lynn is SUCH an interesting character, and the way brennan is playing her to draw parallels with fig, both their needs for intimacy in order to feel good about themselves, deceiving others, etc, is extremely smart. i hope that now fig is working on herself and finding validation in a meaningful relationship that’s not just based on physicality sandralynn can learn from that and do the same! and then the parallels of healing and learning to accept themselves and their sexualities! also also, i love that she’s allowed to be complex and complicated and fuck up without her abilities as a parent ever being called into question, because so often female characters are villainized for adultery in a way that male characters aren’t. just. fig’s parents are the best parents, man

there’s this really cool thing abt dnd where no matter what, any character you create, ultimately, has pieces of you informing them, no matter what you do. every dnd character from the same player has some sort of throughline, and sometimes that says something abt the player [not necessarily directly, ie zac’s tendency to play really dumb characters is 100% abt his sense of humor]. so if you’re talking abt two characters played by one person meeting, the question is always 1. what is the throughline, and 2. would they relate over it, or would they hate each other about it?

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