Buck on his way to save Athena in an unofficial firetruck stolen by his dad

Uncle Buck and Jee 🥹❤️

This isn't good news. This is the best news!

Ok I’ll say it. Eddie playing keep away with Buck’s phone was giving when you’d playfully steal your crush’s phone so they’d chase you.

buck buckley baked. instead of calling his ex-boyfriend who was Not Good For Him. HE BAKED. like, can we please be proud of buck buckley. for that. because no, buck wanting to call tommy is not a sign that they were Meant To Be. it is a classic buck buckley move. a direct comparison to abby. who he DID cling onto, to his own detriment. for MONTHS. like, this is pattern. his family recognises that this is a pattern. because buck clings. buck clings because he's afraid to be alone and he's afraid he's not good enough. and his family knows this. MADDIE knows this, perhaps most of all. which is why she said what she said. bobby knows this too, has seen it. has seen the way buck throws himself into relationships (there was a whole conversation about it in the truck that one time) and clings to them even when (especially when) they are not good for him. he compared it to recovery, in fact. to being able to recognise when you are clinging on to something for all the wrong reasons. because you have let it shape so much of you that you don't know who you are without it. and eddie. eddie knows it too. knows that buck will shrink himself down, create a new version of himself to be whatever it is he thinks someone else needs. when, actually. he doesn't need to be anything for anyone. buck buckley BAKED. he baked. and when baking wasn't enough to combat the fear of being alone. his family rallied around him and refused to let him call his ex-boyfriend and shrink himself down again in order to be good enough. and i think that's beautiful.

eddie in s7 (in his destroying his life era): call tommy 🙂

eddie in s8 (in his eddie who is going to be okay era): i cannot in good conscience let you call tommy.

bobby in s7 (suicidal): tommy's good for you 🙂

bobby in s8 (fine ig): tommy is kinda like alcohol when you think about it........

Remember when I told you that the universe is gonna send a special person your way? Here she is!

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Oh, come on. Please tell me that's not a video of- The greatest British smackdown since the War of 1812? Yes. Yes, Cap, it is.

I understand the impulse to clown on Essek for walking around in Vasselheim with his recognizable voice with the Bright Queen's spearhead commander, and of course we could turn to the metatextual elements (the necessity of signposting the world for players on the part of the GM, the ease of using a familiar ally to introduce a relevant NPC and new point of contact) to dismiss this if we wanted, but I think it's more interesting—and funnier, as you'll see—to imagine this as simply an extension of the laws and logic that dictate the Mighty Nein as a narrative entity.

Fundamentally, the Mighty Nein within their campaign pursue personal and collective agency, often at the expense or in denial of political power. Where they do interact with more political forms of power, they evade its grasp upon them, most notably in their interactions with the war, but also while they engage with the Cerberus Assembly, the Cobalt Soul, and even the Revelry. The way they pursue agency, on the other hand, has far more to do with their own support of one another and their own individual power, especially where there is magic involved, and manifests in having the freedom to move and act as they wish in the world.

The culmination of this, as we know, is the mechanical ability in their final battle against Lucien and the Somnovem to manipulate the terrain of the battle map to their advantage with only imagination. At the same time, Jester and Caduceus can both call in free favors from their gods, one of whom is unlimited by the Divine Gate and in fact is far more governed by fey logic. Fjord has made three different divine pacts and is virtually unrestricted by any of them. Caleb's hallmark is an almost infinitely malleable home that almost literally seems to operate as a hammerspace, with a pinnacle dedicated to the potentiality of the universe, the application of which is one of his signature spells—against all odds successful in his initial goal, no longer fueled by guilt and grief, of bending reality to his will. It's narratively and thematically cogent that this be the calling card of the party as a whole.

The Mighty Nein are, in effect, dictated by Looney Tunes logic, and nothing else. They have been so successful in their pursuit of their own freedom that they no longer abide by the cosmic laws of Exandria, let alone the laws of physics or sense. So yes, from an external point of view, it does look exceedingly foolish for Essek to be traipsing around in Vasselheim under the Bright Queen's nose, but it's far more entertaining to argue that being a member of the Mighty Nein in fact simply confers the capability of ignoring the laws of reality without consequence when it's narratively convenient, characteristically interesting—or just really fucking funny.

The happiest cat at the pumpkin patch

what am i being advertised here exactly

For every one of you hating on willow on that ‘most streamed album opener’ post going around just know I am listening to her twice. Life WAS a willow. All of you will see.

Today my Advanced Clinical Pathology professor trailed off in the middle of class and said, “If I seem distracted, it’s because last night I was talking with a friend and she asked ‘Who’s that chick in Titanic?’ but all I heard was ‘Chicken Titanic,’ and ever since then I’ve been thinking about a chicken on the bow of the Titanic like Kate Winslet, wings held high. It’s all I can think about.”

My hand moved on its own

divorce OVER