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[tinkaton]

☆ Phew finally an update that's not just going on about GotG3. I hope everyone had a good Memorial Day who celebrated, or who just had the day off at least. We never do anything particularly exciting for Memorial Day, this year as usual we just had the family together and did some grilling since the weather was nice. I made them watch Black Panther Wakanda Forever since I wanted to re-watch it lmao I've rekindled my love for MCU Namor.

☆ Other things I've finished since the last non-GotG update... I watched the D&D Honor Among Thieves movie! It was really fun, you definitely don't need any D&D knowledge to enjoy it. The most unrealistic part of it was that everyone was straight lol nobody has an all-straight D&D party. But even so, Chris Pine was enjoyable as your standard Chris Pine funnyman character (this is not bad), though my favorite character was definitely Xenk. Wish he'd been in it more, his interactions with the team and Edgin especially were so good. The epitome of a one-off NPC that the players love so much they force the DM to bring them back into the story lmao. But yeah if you like fantasy action movies I recommend watching!

☆ I also watched the final season of His Dark Materials, which was...interesting. I've never read the books--I tried to read The Golden Compass twice when I was younger but never got hooked enough to finish it or the series, so I went into the show not knowing anything past book one. I think the show was very well made, everything looked great and the acting was very good, though I don't know how accurate an adaptation it was. I never understood before why some Christians hated these books so much, having only read part of book one; I was like, is it because the animal souls are called "demons"?? And then you get into the real plot with the Magisterium and Asriel's war against Heaven and it's like oh sjdhfskjhdf yeah that'll do it. So yeah it's NOT subtle at all in it's messaging but as someone who never read the books it was interesting to finally see what it was all about since the books were very popular when I was in school.

☆ And then there's Lycoris Recoil oh my god. They lured me in with the yuri bait and girls with guns trope and then hit me with the unexpected old man yaoi backstory drama. Where is my Mika/Yoshi prequel?? But yeah I really hope whatever "new animation project" they've recently announced is a proper sequel or something, I don't feel like Chisato and Takina got any real closure to their story, especially after what happens in the last couple episodes? Even so I think it's worth watching overall, it's only 13 episodes and the characters/their relationships really make it since the plot imo is kind of weak. But the animation is nice, I loved the characters, and the action sequences are decent. I don't have any real hope for Chisato/Takina becoming canon lmao but we can dream.

Comments

[dewladen]

Haha I totally agree with your no D&D party is entirely straight point!

[tinkaton]

smh at them not understanding the modern D&D demographic, they were halfway there with Chris Pine fans and then dropped the ball.

[kalechipskid]

I watched the DnD movie alongside my roommates who ARE hardcore Dnd nerds, they were quite literally shouting out the spell and type as the characters cast them. It's a really fun popcorn movie, the antics with the magical objects felt like a real campaign.
LycoReco is super charming and super stupid at the same time. I lost interest in the plot immediately but the characters acting like dorks with each other was totally the best. I about screamed when I learned Chisato and Takina are essentially yuri gajinkas of ace combat planes... XD Wish they got some closure too but oh well...

[tinkaton]

Haha I'm glad it was good for hardcore D&D types too, I've only ever casually played D&D and we make up our own rules a lot of the time so I only knew some of the references and things in the movie.

Yeah I wish the plot had been a little tighter, but it's definitely more about the characters than whatever was going on with the DA and Alan Institute or whatever else lmao. I'm hoping for more news on this supposed future animation project for the series because I liked Chisato/Takina a lot so I want more :(

[vriddy]

I really enjoyed the DnD movie as well, it was such chill fun :D We need more movies that don't take themselves too seriously, it was a good time!!

[tinkaton]

For sure, it's fun when a movie knows it's fun and leans into that. I was trying to figure out if there was going to be a sequel and I saw something about them doing a spin-off show instead? So hopefully that turns out good.

[vriddy]

Interesting, I didn't know that! Not sure I really want to invest the time in something longer, but we'll see what they come up with :D

[got_quiet]

Headcanoning everyone in DnD as very much not straight is just correcting a lore error. *nod*

[tinkaton]

Very sad the creators made such a major error but that's why we're here 🫡

[svgurl]

DnD is on my to watch list so it's nice to keep hearing that is fun and that you don't need any prior knowledge because I don't have any. :D

[tinkaton]

Yeah! It has references and things but it definitely reads as just another fantasy movie if you don't know anything about D&D beforehand.