Weekend Plans: Fannish Edition

Oct. 17th, 2025 09:02 pm
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The brain weasels have been out in force this week, so I've fallen behind on some fandom things. Because of that, I really want to try to play catch-up this weekend, and I thought it might help to type up a quick to-do list.

D&D

Finish story #1 from the POV of Siân from Aurendor D&D game
Finish story #2 from the POV of Siân from Aurendor D&D game
Finish story #3 from the POV of Siân from Aurendor D&D game
Play Titansfall D&D on 10/19
Record/upload summary video for 10/10 Pyra Cantha D&D game
Record/upload summary video for 10/15 Aurendor D&D game

Fandom

Finish fic for the Dragon Age Reverse Bang
Post letter for The Joining Exchange
Post letter for Yuletide
Rewatch this past Thursday's episode of Critical Role
Sign up for The Joining Exchange
Sign up for Yuletide
Work on assignment(s) for the Dragon Age Poly Exchange

Let's see if I can manage to get it all done?

For Sale: Nintendo Switch games

Oct. 17th, 2025 12:20 pm
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My financial situation is even more precarious than usual thanks to some news I got this week, so I'm desperately trying to raise money yet again. I'm going to try to make it to my storage unit this weekend, so I might have several virtual garage sale posts going up, but for the time being this is the only one as I'm running out of things that I have in the hotel with me to try to sell.

Would anyone be interested in any of the following Nintendo Switch games?

Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! (example on Amazon)
Spyro Reignited Trilogy (example on Amazon)
TemTem (example on Amazon)

For payment, I have CashApp ($Settiai), PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle (nancy.lynn.foster@gmail.com).

If you're interested but know someone who might be, please point them my way.

Critical Role: Campaign 4, Episode 3

Oct. 17th, 2025 02:52 am
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I'm trying to type up posts each week as I watch the new episode of Critical Role. It's a combination of quotes, random thoughts, and some speculation, and it's full of spoilers (albeit vague ones in places).

Spoilers under the cut. )

Story: Daughter of Luck (D&D)

Oct. 16th, 2025 11:30 am
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Daughter of Luck (2467 words) by Settiai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Original Half-Elf Character(s) (Dungeons & Dragons), Original Human Character(s) (Dungeons & Dragons)
Additional Tags: Background Poly, Dungeons & Dragons Character Backstory, Family, Illegitimacy, Loss, Mother-Daughter Relationship, One Shot
Summary: Siân Valinta might be what half the city called her, a good half of them mockingly, but Siân Breyer was who she was and who she always would be.

Aurendor D&D

Oct. 16th, 2025 01:26 am
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To add to a previous post, my cleric, Siân, has had a really bad couple of weeks in-game. Over the course of the last two-and-a-half weeks or so, she has:

A list of bad things under the cut. )

Poor Siân is well on her way towards a complete and total mental breakdown at the rate she's going.

Aurendor D&D: Summary for 10/15 Game

Oct. 16th, 2025 12:14 am
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In tonight's game, the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Exchange Season

Oct. 13th, 2025 10:00 pm
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Well, we're definitely moving into exchange season.

The Dragon Age Poly Exchange already has assignments out, the Joining Exchange (a Dragon Age exchange focusing on Wardens) just opened sign-ups, Yuletide sign-ups are almost upon us, and Holly Poly has made a few posts implying it's coming up soon. Plus it's not really an exchange, but the Dragon Age Reverse Bang's deadline is at the end of the month as well.

And those are just the ones I'm probably participating in. I'm sure there are plenty of others, including some that might catch my attention.

Let's see if at least a few of them will properly kick my muse into gear... 🤞🏻

Hotel Life

Oct. 12th, 2025 12:45 am
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Ever since I moved into the hotel, I've felt about watching television too late at night because I know from personal experience that sound carries. When I watch something after 10pm or so, I've turned it down low, which means I miss things. And that's been a big pain especially when it comes to Critical Role since it doesn't even start airing until 10pm, so if I want to watch live then I end up missing things because I have to keep it quiet unless I want to be an asshole.

As I mentioned in my most recent Critical Role post, though, I finally figured out an alternative that seems to be working well. It doesn't work for anything that I'm watching on the hotel's cable, but since most of what I'm watching in the evening/night is streaming, that means I use my Fire Stick. And my Fire Stick has the ability to connect to Bluetooth devices. Such as the ear buds that I usually keep in my purse for when I'm out and about, which I realized earlier in the week.

And, well, it's working great. The last few nights I've been able to watch movies late at night without accidentally disturbing anyone in the rooms next to me or above me. The video is playing on the shiny new TV that the hotel gave me, but the audio is entirely in my ears and not bothering anyone else nearby. For example, right now I'm finishing up watching The Martian, but it's essentially silent in my room because the sound's playing on my ear buds.

Now if only I had thought to do something like this ages ago...

Pyra Cantha D&D

Oct. 11th, 2025 12:05 am
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Oh. My. Gods.

I've been playing clerics in D&D pretty much nonstop for ten years now, and in all that time I've never, never, never succeeded on a Divine Intervention roll.

Until tonight. With Kes, my adorable dumbass. We're level 14, and I rolled a fucking 11 on a d100. An 11! It succeeded! And it was fucking Kes!
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In tonight's game, the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Yuletide

Oct. 10th, 2025 07:40 pm
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The Yuletide tag set when live yesterday afternoon, and I've spent the last day going through it to figure out A. what I want to request this year and B. what I want to offer.

I think that I've just about figured out what I'm requesting this year, although I'm still wavering back-and-forth when it comes to my final spot (or maybe two). There are a few things that ended up in the tag set that I wasn't expecting, and I'm hesitating a little on the decision because of it. I'll hopefully have it figured out within the next few days, though.

That said? The list of fandoms that I'm considering offering is currently sitting at a whopping 111, which is at least a fun number if not necessarily a reasonable one.

The Legend of Vox Machina

Oct. 10th, 2025 03:20 pm
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What can I say? There's been a lot of Critical Role related things happening this week thanks to NYCC. This post is about the adorably hilarious (and not at all safe for work) summary of the first three seasons of The Legend of Vox Machina that they released. In song format. Sung by Grog.

Critical Role: Campaign 4, Episode 2

Oct. 10th, 2025 02:25 am
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As I mentioned last week, I'm going to try to type up posts each week as I watch the new episode of Critical Role. It's a combination of quotes, random thoughts, and some speculation, and it's full of spoilers (albeit vague ones in places).

Spoilers under the cut. )

Yeah, that episode was a winner too. So far, this campaign is starting off strong.

My biggest issue last week was that I couldn't turn the television's sound up enough to properly hear things without disturbing people around me, so I decided to try something new this week. I couldn't get my Fire Stick to connect to the headset that I usually use with my computer, but I was able to get it to attach to my ear buds, so I was able to properly listen to the episode without worrying about disturbing anyone else this week. And, hey, it worked! It was much easier not to miss things.

The Mighty Nein

Oct. 9th, 2025 12:18 pm
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Oh, they've finally released the trailer for the first season of The Mighty Nein! And it looks amazingly good!

I've gotta admit, I'm very curious to see what they end up doing for this series. While I love CR2, the fact that the pandemic happened in the middle of it and they had to unexpectedly take a multiple month hiatus really caused some disconnect in the campaign itself. They've already said they're reworking some plot-related things for the animated series, and I'm really hoping that will fix some of the campaign's weaknesses because the story itself is amazing.

I really wonder what they're going to do with the release schedule. For The Legend of Vox Machina, it's had twelve episodes per season and they've released it in four batches of three episodes each over the course of a month. This series is going to have hour long episodes instead of half hour ones, so I really wonder A. how many episodes the season will be and B. if they'll release it one episode a week.

My suspicion is that it will be eight episodes released weekly, since that's what Amazon does for other hour-long shows like The Rings of Power. We'll have to wait for them to officially confirm it, though.

Aurendor D&D: Summary for 10/8 Game

Oct. 9th, 2025 12:04 am
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In tonight's game, the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Dragon Age Poly Exchange

Oct. 8th, 2025 02:12 pm
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Assignments just went out for the Dragon Age Poly Exchange, and I've got to admit that I'm very excited about my assignment(s) for this one.

As is the case for most single fandom exchanges, I offered Any and offered to take multiple initial assignments if needed for matching purposes, so I had no idea whatsoever what I would get. That said? My muse is definitely interested after reading the prompts that I was given, although some of them are very much not relationships that I ever would have considered myself.

I'm very curious to see just what I end up writing.

D&D

Oct. 7th, 2025 09:22 pm
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Well, I wasn't worried about tomorrow's game until the DM posted this message in the Discord.



Now? Now I think that I'm a little worried. What on earth is Erin planning on doing to our poor characters tomorrow?

ETA: It got worse.

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