Podcast Yelling

I know it was a joke, but hearing Barry repeat “my name is Barry Bluejeans” after every sentence while relistening feels less like a dm mocking a name and more like a man fighting to remember his own name

I’m thinking about the stolen century again and it’s so incredible the way they adjust the stakes like. The Big Bad is getting dealt with in present time so like narratively we have to step away from that, and it could easily have felt like nothing in the century mattered, but a reset *once per year* and someone has to live for it to work keeps the stakes within the century so perfectly balanced…. Like it’s still sad and stressful when they die!! And also you’ve opened up a situation where YOUR PCs CAN DIE! MORE THAN ONCE. And it’s impactful every time!! Fucking wild, really skillful storytelling.

"there's something about the dying that feels familiar" fucking unbelievably metal thing to be told. you die and you could swear you've been here before. the last thing you feel before your breath leaves your body is intense deja vu. you've never died before but somehow you know how this goes. you have an uncanny feeling being dead is a temporary gig for you, but you have no idea what gives you that impression. and then you're alive again. and you remember dying. and all you remember is that there was something about it that felt familiar.

Lucretia is the most fun character in the world because she is set up exactly like the guy who has been a villain all along, but instead the big reveal is that she's your best friend. And she loves you and thinks you're hilarious.

I'm sorry but I'd be so good at eskew. What's that down that alley? I'm takeing a diffrent alley. It's down every alley? Just don't look at it. Make your death narratively unsatisfying

If you do this, I have it on good authority that the city of Eskew pokes you tentatively a couple of times, says "aw man" in a put-out voice, and then lumbers off, bored and disappointed

carpenter and faulkner as siblings who just met did not grow up together do not share a guardian and are not genetically related WORKED because their entire storyline was based around how fucking miserable it is to have someone who's family and who nonetheless is so fundamentally opposed to you and who is so much like you and yet so different from you that it's torture. they were a chosen family that really wanted to Unchoose each other and yet couldn't fucking stop themselves and that is SOOOOO COMPELLING. silt verses did found brother/sister right. & no one is ever going to do it that right again, so. we don't need to try. No More Found Siblings .

been considering parallels between paige and faulkner for the last few episodes of tsv i've been listening to. both ending up in positions of leadership that makes them miserable, as prophets of a god they've grown to hate. their relationships with their fathers seem thematically similar, both unexpectedly running into theirs when reatreating to their old homes, something about the responsibility they wish would be taken for the things that happened in their childhoods, something about lack of real closure. transgender 👍

i feel like a lot of people see it as a flaw in storytelling when an actor's personality bleeds into or eclipses the typical characterization of their character but personally i think one of the funniest things abt taako adventurezone is that he is sometimes temporarily possessed by a deeply socially anxious nearing middle aged suburban father . its a core component of the character that i feel cannot be ignored