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pinned post time! i post a lot of naddpod and 8bbc clips these days. tags for them are naddclips and 8bbclips. i always put the episode in the album field on the audio track if you want to find it.

if there's a bit from either show that you want to see clipped, a moment you'd like a timestamp of, or a scene/lore you'd like transcribed, feel free to message me!

timestamps for the first use of naddpod songs: campaign 1 / campaign 2

also, a note: i don't main tag most of my personal screaming/reactions to things. instead i use the tags "naddplog" for naddpod and "[season acronym]lb" for d20 (currently: fhjylb)

Transcript:

[ID: a comic of Aryox. The background is black, and the lines are a faintly-blue gray. The drawings are on a diagonal through the center of the page, and mist cuts across the corners. In the top left is a shattered image of Raedak killing Aryox, distant as Havoc begins to swirl around them. It's cutting into the black background, piercing through the head of Aryox, who stands with his eyes closed. He opens his eyes, then looks back up at the image of his own death. text reads: "well. that's that, then. time to wait". Faint wisps of a melody trail down the page, to Aryox sitting with a smile and humming to himself.]

thousands of years is a long time to wait.

[ID: Four drawings in bright blue of Alexandrite, an AI with a dryad-like appearance. Her features are deer-like, with rounded ears and small antlers. Her eyes are pupil-less, and her form glitches slightly. In the first two, she looks unimpressed, and then smiles. The bottom two are of her at the end of c3e59. On the right, labeled "moment of impact", the right half of her face is glitching out, small boxes covering her features and breaking her apart. The left side of her has no glitches, but rather her eye is wide and has a pupil, black lines like tear tracks down her cheeks. She looks shocked. On the left, labelled "assimilation", she is angry, her entire form glitching. She is yelling, revealing sharp teeth. While her right eye is still pupil-less, her left is black with a white pupil. The tear tracks have been replaced with geometric lines like a computer glitch, cutting down her face. Wisps of black smoke come off of the left side of her, and a single hair is out of place.]

i really, really like @sideblogdotjpeg's alexandrite (ft. her getting stabbed)

i'm thinking abt fig and specifically "the second you see her you're gonna feel like yourself again. i get it, your girlfriend's out of town, it sucks"

it's like. fig's fear in the nightmare forest, that everyone loves the illusion of her and not the real her, that no one wants to hear a bass player solo. the one person in the world she has irrefutable proof that that's not true for, who she saw sees the real her with her own eyes, is ayda. ayda, who is gone and traveling across time.

and in the meantime, fig doubles down on helping her friends. she focuses on helping kristen and cassandra, helping riz with the mystery, solving things for the bad kids. she becomes a paladin because she's so devoted to her friends. that conversation she has with sandra lynn where she says she feels nauseous when asked about herself but so excited about other people. "i don't even wanna exist." sandra lynn suggests she asks the bad kids what they think of her and fig says no, she doesn't want to. it's scary to her.

and it's just... fig doesn't want to think about herself and she doesn't want to try to figure out what her friends think of her either. she's so content to focus on them, and almost everything she's done this season is for her friends. in rp and also mechanically-- becoming a paladin, focusing on mystery and fucking with ruben in the downtime, even just... going to school. she's doing that for the bad kids.

and she looks at ankarna, who has been corrupted by the things other people wanted her to be. the bad kids' influence on fig is positive, but it could just have easily been not, if she had different friends. if she was dedicated to people who weren't trying to do good.

"what do you think happens when i wear off and ayda notices the real you?" "i hope she finds something that i didn't know was there."

there's one person fig knows for a fact has always seen through the illusions of her, and sees something worthy of love. and she's out of town. so she gets it. it's hard.