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PRACTICAL EFFECTS AND WILLEM DEFOE?? Letterboxd is going to devour this

not my circus not my—

what? *unrolls paper* why are you giving me a deed to the.. oh, oh no.. fuck.

they're my monkeys now

A realization I have had about Riz and Adaine living together; Adaine would probably be the last one to see Riz before he dies and then would probably have to go through his things afterwards.

Adaine was the one to go through most of her friends things in the end but Riz was for sure the first. She could never throw out all of it though, most of his stuff ended up in storage boxes then placed inside his briefcase that lived in the spare room of any house she ever lived in.

Her kitchen cupboards always had a good half-dozen mugs she never used because they were Riz's too and every time she moved his furniture would be put right back the way he liked it.

For your head canon collection Do you know how little kittens wriggle their ears when suckling? Goblins kits do the exact same thing when nursing. They usually grow out of it as they age, but Riz never ended up doing so, and his ears still twitch to this day when he is sucks on something like a straw. He is completely unaware of this. (it doesn't happen when he drinks from a regular cup, which is why he never really realised, because before the Bad Kids came into his life, he didn't exactly go on a lot of ice cream and milkshake hangouts.) The Bad Kids have made a pact to *never* tell him, because they are worried that the moment he finds out, he will stop doing it.

Its part of the reason they'll treat him to his super fancy iced coffees sometimes, even if they're trying their best to cut back on his caffeine consumption.

He just looks so HAPPY drinking his sugar loaded, orc sized tripple shot monstrosity, ears wiggling the whole time and purring like a chainsaw.

Fig has SO many covertly filmed videos of him doing it too.

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Was thinking of the Big Goblin Eyes again and was thinking that the only three people who are completely immune to Riz using it are:

Sklonda

Penny

Gorgug

(sorry Pok, lol)

Sklonda has built up at least 14 years of immunity to her kid doing the big cute eyes at her. Mostly because he uses it EVERY time she's trying to get him to go to bed at a decent hour. No you little shit, not ten more minutes, NOW.

Penny has so many adorable younger siblings that if she WASNT immune it would be anarchy. Plus, she can also do big sad eyes. Not as effective as Riz (he gets a bonus for the slitted pupils) but it's still pretty powerful.

Gorgug lives with gnomes. All his neighbours are small folk. He doesn't see them as exceptionally cute or endearing like other tall species would, they're just people. Saying that though basically any kids he played with growing up would use their cute factor to get what they wanted, including some bullies, so it never works on him anymore.

Poks lack of immunity? That's his BABY BOY. Yes they're basically the same height now why does that matter?

riz gukgak purring riz gukgak chirping riz gukgak flicking his tail when he's annoyed riz gukgak with airplane ears mid-combat goblins with cat-like body langauge send tweet

I'm just wondering here

obligatory please reblog for sample size, I really want to know who is the most popular

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: Gen

Fandom: Dimension 20 (Web Series)

Relationships: The Bad Kids & Riz Gukgak, Riz Gukgak & Sklonda Gukgak

Characters: Riz Gukgak, Fabian Aramais Seacaster, Figueroth Faeth, Kristen Applebees, Gorgug Thistlespring, Adaine Abernant, Sklonda Gukgak

Additional Tags: Depression, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Overworking, Sleep Deprivation, Caffeine Addiction, Texting, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Sleepovers, this is a vent fic in the sense that i had one (1) coherent emotional impulse today and then had a ten minute panic attack over it, Campaign 01: Fantasy High (Dimension 20), Post-Campaign 01 Season 02: Fantasy High Sophomore Year (Dimension 20), Self-Worth Issues, [slaps roof of riz gukgak] this bad boy can fit so much projection

Summary:

"and when i'm lying in my bed / i think about life and i think about death / and neither one particularly appeals to me / and if the day came when i felt a natural emotion / i'd get such a shock i'd probably lie / in the middle of the street and die" - the smiths, nowhere fast Riz Gukgak keeps himself busy enough that he doesn't have time for nuisances like emotions or stress. His heavy schedule sits like a weight on his shoulders, holding down depression and anxiety that threaten to bubble up at any moment. But slowly, imperceptibly slowly, and yet somehow all at once, he begins to fracture under the pressure.

word count: 2050

dropout needs to put him in VIP S3

the emotion i just experienced is kind of indescribable

If your 13 or older and still sleep with a stuffed animal please rb this im tryna prove a point to my friend.

asking about the plot. asking about the plot. asking about the plot.

(In reference to this ask)

This is the part where I would drop a snippet. If i had one. But since I don't, you just get my snarky explanation.

So. The geopolitical situation:

Yes we have to start with the geopolitical situation. That's how you know this AU is fun.

It's not too different from PoMo (can you tell I put all my Sylvaire Kingdom thoughts in that story because I haven't written this one yet?) Fallinel and Sylvaire have tense relations, but hey, there's a permanent diplomatic mission there, and the Abernant girls get along with the heir well enough that some people think Riz is going to marry one of them. Relations with Highcourt aren't amazing either because Pok & Sklonda (and Sylvaire) as a whole are 'godless,' but there are a lot of Helioic missionaries, which goes a way to maintain those relationships. And they have a very close relationship with Solace. Similar values, and Sylvaire works hard to become a Technological Power, which means they can actually trade high-tech goods with Solace. And Sylvaire has a lot of natural resources, which also make them good to have a good relationship with.

All this to say, for a young nation (the bulk of this story takes place when the Bad Kids are, like, 19/20. A little older and more mature but still Young, so Sylvaire is, like, 16/17 years old) Sylvaire is doing very, very well. Better than anyone anticipates.

Until Pok is assassinated by Fallinel, that is.

Cue the declarations of war, from Sylvaire and Solace both. The Abernants get the hell out of dodge but abandon their daughters to do so. Luckily, Sklonda's reasonable, they can stay free so long as they use their considerable magical talent for the war effort. Fig enlists against her mom's wishes, Gorgug does too but shifts to the engineering corps when an injury puts him out of commission. Fabian's captaining a naval ship, Kristen's working as a field healer, and Riz...

Riz is grieving and angry and he hates Fallinel. But. There's something more going on here, he knows it.

He just needs to figure out what it is.

queer stories matter i'm gay and i saw a bird today

i just remembered a story my first plug told me. she's butch and gets mistaken for a man a lot. one time she was walking home when a guy pulled a knife on her and asked for everything in her pockets. panicking, she said "ok" and the guy hearing her voice was like "oh shit, are you a girl?" and she was like "yeah" and he put the knife away and said something like "sorry. i can't do this to a woman" and left. feminist ally.

Listen All Systems Red is so so funny from Gurathins perspective imagine you grew up with Space Socialism and was hired to go help some pal with science but you weren't allowed to go unless you rented AmaTeslas Torment Nexus Alexa Dot and then when you get there you find out a whole continent of people got annihilated by their Tourment Nexus rentals so you take a moment to check yours quickly and find out it already had disengaged its Don't Kill People box, the only thing you've ever been told prevented them from mass homiciding their clients, something that LITERALLY just happened to people you knew a day ago, and when you say to your fellow socialist doctors HEY I think our Tourment Nexus is fucked up and it's files said it killed dozens of people barely a year ago and we should probably get the hell away from it the same doctors are like look at what you're saying. You're hurting the Tourment Nexus' feelings. The Tourment Nexus is just a little construct who likes Netflix Gurathin stop antagonizing it on the plane ride.

Gorgug has tusks and Riz has fangs and they are such creatures and they are. Friends. Gorgug growls and Riz hisses and they actually both do some variation of a chirp or chitter and Gorgug's rage is a frenzy and Riz's bloodlust is a fury and it is. Good. They are not human and they do not have to be.

Also Riz claws and tail. Also you know how dogs and I think other canines but idk I'm not a mammal guy start drooling/foaming at the mouth because of overexertion or stress or anxiety? Gorgug when he's raging. This is less because he's half orc and more because he's specifically a berserker* and that subclass goes crazy. Frenzy, mindless rage, okay bitch we're snarling and drooling and animal and taking a level of exhaustion afterwards. Love that.

Solace is fantasy racist sometimes and I think they both separately had some trouble accepting themselves and their less palatable features and I probably rambled about that in a long post I can't remember rn but they do now and they are so good and I adore them.

*"For some barbarians, rage is a means to an end – that end being violence. The Path of the Berserker is a path of untrammeled fury, slick with blood. As you enter the berserker's rage, you thrill in the chaos of battle, heedless of your own health or well-being." - The Player's Handbook

The Bad Kids Are Funny because they're all fairly violent and get really aggro really quickly (hey that's what you get for making a highly competent adventuring party a bunch of teenagers who don't go to therapy) but then Riz is somehow just two steps above everyone else and they barely acknowledge it. Fury of the Ball is the most wonderful thing.

The "face" of their party around school would probably be like Fig or Fabian, maybe Gorgug. Wow they're so strong aha. Hey who do you think is the most brutal, probably the half-orc barbarian who seems to mostly repress his rage until it's time to throw down right? Right?? No it's the little guy in the corner. Yeah, the one who just hid in the shadows and now you can't see him anymore. Yeah, he shot a pixie's fingers off one by one to get information, yeah, he ate a live dragon, yeah, he offered to tear someone's eye out for his best friend, yeah, he said the words "make sure his head is cut off so he can't be revivified" about another student. Yeah, he's a fucking goblin and so unapologetic about it at this point.

I always imagine his "fury" (which is a goblin trait which implies Sklonda has it too btw, never forget) being like oughhh pupils blown so wide, hair standing up, hissing claws out, kill maim stab. Just for a few seconds. You can elect to use it after hitting, I imagine him sinking his sword into a big meaty enemy and going "hm wow this guy's pretty tough. I need him dead though. Needs to die." and he twists the blade puts his whole weight in it and just drags it down no matter what's in the way. It HAS to be so gross and brutal every time and his friends are just like oh there he goes, the Ball cleaning up again.

Especially fun with the Kipperlilly thing. Oh two rogues fighting without sneak attack, that's gotta be a slow careful battle where they chip away at each other. Oh she does like seven damage rushing past him, oh he's gonna do the same wait never mind he uses his fury he stabbed her SO badly. No rogue finesse no show about it just the intent to kill. Kid with traumatic past does in fact end up fucked and it isn't actually fun or quirky or interesting, who would have thought. Shoutout to hold person over the lava that goes disgustingly hard and is also so gruesome, imagine being paralysed and watching yourself fall into a pit that will burn you alive.

The thing with classic rogues is that you're "dead before you know you're being attacked" and it's "quick and easy and possibly painless" but if Riz kills you it's gonna hurt. You're gonna know and it's gonna hurt but hey high chance you don't get to do anything about it still. Phenomenal character.

There is a certain feeling of longing. Not sexual, not romantic, not specifically about anyone. Just a painful longing that has been destroying me. I want someone to cuddle. I want to have someone to call stupid pet names. I want someone who I can feel safe and vulnerable with. But, nobody knows what it is. Nobody who I have ever met has wanted to be my queer platonic partner, and I don't feel like this melancholy feeling will ever stop. I feel like I will never meet someone who wants to sit with me and play with my hair. This might sound stupid to others not experiencing this melancholy feeling, but to me, this feels more hurtful and more heavy than any romantic or sexual longing, because it has a feeling of unattainability. The feeling feels very bittersweet for some reason. It almost feels like something is so simple, but you specifically will never experience it. But, it is also beautiful in many ways, hence being bittersweet. I am sorry to the random strangers who come across my account with this post; this is not my normal content. As for my community, sorry for the venting and ranting.

tiny death roll

listen I don't think this is where I'm going with the main fic of the au so I feel fine sharing it.

I need y'all to know that there is a version of Aasimar au junior year in my head where one night Kristen and Riz have a very sincere conversation about Riz's fear of being left alone and where Kristen basically says "I know you're really worried about this, but I am not going anywhere and you're not getting rid of me. and I promise that as long as you stick around with me I'll stick around with you" and they do a whole pinky promise and everything because they are dorks.

and then the next morning Kristen wakes up and "oh huh that's weird I've never felt this spell before I wonder what it does" and she accidentally Eldritch Blasts herself. turns out that making a very sincere promise to your aasimar paladin friend who you have an extremely devoted friendship with is an EXCELLENT way to accidentally take a level of Celestial Warlock.

Kristen is absolutely delighted by this. Riz is losing his shit because "KRISTEN I ACCIDENTALLY STOLE YOUR SOUL, WHAT IF I MESS IT UP???!! KRISTEN STOP ELDRITCH BLASTING THINGS AND FOCUS". the rest of the Bad Kids think this is the funniest thing that has ever happened

Love it when people write Riz as like an actual creature like give me chirping Riz give me Riz with a tail give me Riz who literally perches on peoples shoulders like a cat just like creature Riz rocks

IDK I was drawing a lot for more AU noodling with @dullgecko and in the BIG AU DOC we have Riz and Fabian having kids together, and anyway this is them I was in another baby goblins mood. I say baby but they're like 5 and 7 here. Still. Baby.

on endlings, and despair

Hey, y'all. It's...been a rough couple of weeks. So, I thought--better to light a single candle, right?

If you're familiar with wildlife conservation success stories, then you're likely also familiar with their exact polar opposite. The Northern White Rhino. Conservation's poster child for despair. Our greatest and most high-profile utter failure. We slaughtered them for wealth and status, and applied the brakes too slow. Changed course too late.

We poured everything we had into trying to save them, and we failed.

We lost them. They died. The last surviving male was named Sudan. He died in 2018, elderly and sick. His genetic material is preserved, along with frozen semen from other long-dead males, but only as an exercise in futility. Only two females survive--a mother and daughter, Najin and Fatu.

Both of them are infertile. They still live; but the Northern White Rhinoceros is extinct. Gone forever.

In 2023, an experimental procedure was attempted, a hail-mary desperation play to extract healthy eggs from the surviving females.

It worked.

The extracted eggs were flown to a genetics lab, and artificially fertilized using the sperm of lost Northern males. The frozen semen that we kept, all this time, even after we knew that the only living females were incapable of becoming pregnant.

It worked.

Thirty northern white rhino embryos were created and cryogenically preserved, but with no ability to do anything with them, it was a thin hope at best. In 2024, for the first time, an extremely experimental IVF treatment was attempted on a SOUTHERN white rhino--a related subspecies.

It worked.

The embryo transplanted as part of the experiment had no northern blood--but the pregnancy took. The surgery was safe for the mother. The fetus was healthy. The procedure is viable. Surrogate Southern candidates have already been identified to carry the Northern embryos. Rhinoceros pregnancies are sixteen months long, and the implantation hasn't happened yet. It will take time, before we know. Despair is fast and loud. Hope is slower, softer. Stronger, in the end.

The first round may not take. We'll learn from it. It's what we do. We'll try again. Do better, the next time. Fail again, maybe. Learn more. Try harder.

This will not save the species. Not overnight. The numbers will be very low, with no genetic diversity to speak of. It's a holding action, nothing more.

Nothing less.

One generation won't save a species. But even a single calf will buy us time. Not quite gone, not yet. One more generation. One more endling. One more chance. And if we seize it, we might just get another after that. We're getting damn good at gene editing. At stem-cell research. In the length of a single rhino lifetime, we'll get even better.

For decades, we have been in a holding action with no hope in sight. Researchers, geneticists, environmentalists, wildlife rehabbers. Dedicated and heroic Kenyan rangers have kept the last surviving NWRs under 24/7 armed guard, line-of-sight, eyes-on, never resting, never relaxing their guard. Knowing, all the while, that their vigilance was for nothing. Would save nothing. This is a dead species--an elderly male, two females so closely related that their offspring couldn't interbreed even if they could produce any--and they can't.

Northern white rhino conservation was the most devastatingly hopeless cause in the world.

Two years from now, that dead species may welcome a whole new generation.

It's a holding action, just a holding action, but not "just". There is a monument, at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, where the last white rhinos have lived and will die. It was created at the point where we knew--not believed, knew--that the species was past all hope. It memorializes, by name there were so few, the last of the northern white rhinos. Most of the markers have brief descriptions--where the endling rhino lived, how it was rescued, how it died.

One marker bears only these words: SUDAN | Last male Northern White Rhino.

If even a single surrogate someday bears a son, we have erased the writing on that plaque forever.

All we can manage is a holding action? Then we hold. We hold hard and fast and long, use our fingernails if we have to. But hold. Even and perhaps especially when we are past all hope.

We never know what miracle we might be buying time for.

I like to imagine that as he gets older, Riz stress bakes. Especially when he's stuck on a case, he pulls out a cookbook and starts making cookies and muffins and cakes. He like measuring out the precise amounts and having control over something and getting things to come out perfectly every time (because baking is a science) helps relax him from spiraling. He learned from Adaine. She learned from Jawbone and since Riz refuses to seek therapy, Adaine passes along Jawbone's tips in her own secret way to make sure Riz doesn't go crazy. So when the Bad Kids suddenly get a knock ont he door only to find plate after plate of baked good wrapped in plastic sitting on their porch they know someone needs to go do a wellness check on Riz.

I cannot stress enough to you that all American government agencies are falling apart at the seams right now and they will not be put back together for the foreseeable future. EPA DHS ED VA FDA NIH IRS CDC HHS NPS etc... Elon Musk is dismantling everything. Anyone who resigns or is laid off now, the word we (I am an agency employee) are receiving internally is that their position will be abolished, not backfilled.

Do you like eating clean, safe food?

Do you like having clean, safe air and water?

Do you want experts monitoring developing infectious diseases?

Do you like getting tax returns?

Do you want your children to have free, quality, public education?

If so, you need to write to your senators and representatives RIGHT NOW. Trump is not obeying the rule of law. He is illegally firing all the inspectors general of these agencies (they are literally being escorted by security out of their offices) so that there is no one left to stop him from doing quite literally anything he wants. He has bypassed the internal structure of all of the agencies by plugging in external email servers to push typo-filled emails and memos written by employees of the heritage foundation directly into the inbox of every federal agency employee in the country, threatening to terminate them.

The rule of law is dead. The only mechanism left to stop any of this is mass public outcry via convincing your state's congressmen & women to do something, because right now they are staying absolutely silent and none of us in these agencies can figure out why. A massacre is happening right now and every single American will feel the material, concrete consequences of this in their daily lives very soon if nothing is done.

Please help me boost this information.

Head canon: Riz and Sklonda are tall for goblins

since Sklonda's only other goblin in Elmsvile the Riz and the rest of the BKs assume he's average height, until Riz meets Pok and realises he's taller than his dad, who's actually average height for a goblin

TIME FOR THE BIG FANTASY HIGH AU DOC!

Please keep in mind this is a LIVE document, which means while everyone has view-only access, Myself and @dullgecko are updating it every now and then

Google Docs

THE BIG D20 FANTASY HIGH AU DOC

THE BIG D20 FANTASY HIGH AU DOCBy Deathcomes4u & Dullgecko (and featuring headcanons and AU’s by other tumblr handles mentioned where relev

Not all the sections are complete, this is an idea pinboard kinda thing, so we throw whatever we come up with that we feel like typing out into this doc.

There are links to actual fics, music that is relevant is also linked, and there are embedded images as well.

Please make sure to read the disclaimer at the top before getting into the document, it's over 25k of idea stuff, and the AU arcs have headers to help with navigation.

Most of this is Riz-centric, and also FabRiz, but there's plenty of other stuff in there for anyone looking for ideas to vamp off-of.

Have fun kiddos!

Franz Kafka, 1912

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