✵fëanorian defense lawyer ✵

Like you do need to recognise sometimes that a person is not picking up your social cues and adjust your communication style accordingly. If someone isn't understanding you then you need to change up how you're communicating and not just say the same thing over & over.

there should be a term for characters you personally don't care about but you defend them anyways because the way people treat them is really uncomfortable. like ok this is a very middle-of-the-road character for me but the fandom's either been super misogynistic, racist, etc. about them or harassed innocent people who try to genuinely explore that character warts and all, and i find that more annoying than the actual character.

the term should by 'my client', like you're a lawyer defending your client that you are completely indifferent to but you are obligated by your job (or your morals) to defend

let’s all quit our jobs and just go on walks

unhappy side effect of "morally ambiguous" being treated as the pinnacle of writing is that you will often be made to experience what a not so talented writer with big aspirations thinks is morally ambiguous

Maybe I can convince y'all to act right by framing things in terms of social engineering. People will be a whole lot more likely to do whatever shit you're trying to hector them into doing if you're not constantly being a dick the whole time. Being niceys is a powerful social engineering tool such as all of the times I have maliciously manipulated people into fulfilling my whims using an evil sociopathic manipulation technique i like to call "asking nice and then saying thanks after"

that's twice now brennan has given hal the ability to roll a d12 bardic inspiration (which bards don't get until level 15+), and i love the symbol here of hal for just this night, at the culmination of everything hal has ever worked for, gaining more than ten levels in a single moment

A stage full of lots of low-level bards combines to make one single, enormous,, high-level bard. It's like that math problem with the 4800-player Beethoven blast

some of these blorbos don't have tragic enough backstories to justify all that I won't lie

its good to acknoweldge the hollowness of revenge but sometimes you really do just need a story about someone who gets hurt and then kills and kills and kills and kills their enemies. its cathartic, babey.

Julien and Teor need to continue to be in the same party just for the comedy potential of someone is minding their own business when suddenly two veterans of the Falconer's Rebellion leap 30 feet at them

kinda wild that House Tachonis is genuinely more powerful than they've ever been, but the withering House Royce at their historical weakest completely annihilated their forces despite the Tachonis having a surprise attack advantage AND wielding a magic completely poisonous to the fae AND there being no Royce present to stabilize the Orchard