#callowyn

I feel the same way! like, if nott is rewarded for being good by getting to turn human, it sort of reinforces the idea that only humans (or y'know ""the fair peoples"") are truly good. maybe it's unfair to burden her with redeeming her whole species, but I want nott to prove wrong every person who would arrest a goblin on sight. let her be happy and let her smile be through vicious teeth. hashtag nott all goblins

Replying old-school because I don’t trust Tumblr’s interface, but this is a really good summary.  the idea of entire sentient species being predisposed to evil is one of the D&D narrative tropes I think most needs to be interrogated, so I really, really hope that Nott isn’t actually The Only Decent Goblin in Exandria. and I think it’s a much more interesting story if she isn’t, tbh. 

the thing that breaks my heart is that she did say outright that even if there are other good-aligned goblins out there, it still wouldn’t do anything to help her dysphoria. and I’m not really sure, narratively, where to take that? 

I will say, if she does become something other than human, I hope it’s at least the midpoint of her story, not the end. If it’s not her happy ending, if we don’t (almost literally!) wave a wand and solve all her problems, but instead she changes and we get to see her navigate not only what that solves but what it doesn’t. 

but my ideal is still, definitely, nott reaching a place of comfort in her own green skin. I’m hopeful. 

(...also, I really want Molly to slip her the name of a tattoo parlor that specializes in nonhuman skin tones. there’s more ways than true polymorph to change your body up, you know? Just. Picture Nott with flowers tattooed across the back of her hands, the vines reaching up under the bandages on her arms, so she has something to see when she looks at her hands besides monster.)

I both do and absolutely don’t want to know your family’s opinions on kansas and missouri

liz do they think texas is yankees. I’m losing my mind I thought this was a feud with the upper east coast not the ENTIRE REST OF THE COUNTRY

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