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Happy New Year!

In your own space, update your fandom information. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

So my old welcome post is a) no longer at the top of my page because the "far" future date I had set it to back in the day was 2020, and b) kind of a hot mess. I plan to redo it completely, so it's more than I can do today. Consider this my resolution to do it this month if I can.

But I have now updated the bio and interests in my DW profile. I've also gotten started on making posts for the fics I have up on AO3 that I'd neglected to link here.

So... done(ish)!

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From:

nonesensed

Hullo hullo! Dropping by from

snowflake_challenge to say hi since we seem to have several fandoms in common 😊

From:

potentiality_26

Hello! We do have a lot of fandoms in common, don't we? Always happy to find someone else into JSAMN in particular.

I'm just starting to watch some Dimension 20. Any recs?

From:

nonesensed

JSAMN is such a good time, I really need to get more fic written for it 💖

Oooh, Dimension 20~! You're in for a treat 😊 I haven't seen all of the campaigns, but the ones I have I adore. You can watch most of them in any order, except of course for the ones with sequel/prequels (i.e. Fantasy High, The Unsleeping City and A Crown of Candy/The Ravening War).

My absolute favorite thus far has been A Court of Fey and Flowers. It's basically the Feywilds version of Pride and Prejudice with a heavy dash of Bridgerton. I can't exactly tell you why I adore it so without spoiling several twists along the way, but if Regency era romance shenanigans mixed with mystery solving and people with conflicting loyalties having to Deal With That is your thing, I highly recommend it!

I also dearly love their Lord of the Rings parody Escape from the Bloodkeep. It's all about affably evil villains sort of saving the day with the power of evil friendship 😆 I remember it took me a while to get into that one, but about halfway through I was seriously invested in this foul group of friends 💖

Mentopolis is a puntastic take on "What if Inside Out was a noir story?", as well as an interesting murder mystery and a heart-warming tale all throughout. And I'm currently working my way through Burrow's End, which is basically Watership Down meets Annihilation and is just as dark and full of body horror as you can imagine, but it still has its lighter moments and great family relationships between the characters (also, Brennan Lee Mulligan basically plays Mrs. Brisby from The Secret of NIMH in stoat form and is killing it!).

So those are the D20s I know I can recommend, but I highly suspect that they're all super fun, so go with what catches your eye 😊 And if you enjoy meta, you should definitely check out the "Adventure Party" episodes where the players discuss what's happened in each episode!

From:

potentiality_26

I'm actually watching Escape from the Bloodkeep right now and loving it. I picked it because I always loved watching Matt Mercer as a player in CR oneshots, but the whole group and tone of it is so much fun.

I'm sold on A Court of Fey and Flowers from that description, I may go there next, but Burrow's End is tempting me too. Thank you for the recs!

From:

nonesensed

Matt's character in Bloodkeep is one of my faves! It's such a fun campaign - would love to talk more about it once you've made it to the end 😊

I hope you enjoy whichever you pick next! Happy watching 💗

From:

potentiality_26

Matt's character is so great! Will let you know when I'm finished <3

From:

potentiality_26

I finished Escape From the Bloodkeep! It was so much fun. Definitely cried real tears once or twice. I love Leiland so much.

From:

nonesensed

Yay! I totally get you on the tears, that show gets EMOTIONAL at points ❤️ I adore how the enemies-to-BFFs sub-plot between Leiland and Maggie played out, Leiland's "Bugs Bunny" interactions with "absolutely-totally-not-Sam-from-LotR" and adore that Brennan Lee Mulligan's plans for a Player VS Player campaign failed due to how D&D has such Power Of Friendship 😆 Did you end up with any favorite ships or parts of the campaign?

From:

potentiality_26

I do love just the love that was so obvious in the end. I think Leiland and Galfast's dynamic was probably my favorite -- particularly the "Do I see a parachuting halfling" moment.

Leiland/Marcus definitely had potential. I lol'd at Leiland's reaction to the mask coming off.

From:

nonesensed

The cast is so full of love for each other and for evil and I adore them all 😆💖 And yeah, Leiland + Galfast, they are brilliant in how they play off each other, A++++

Oh yeah, Leiland/Marcus is absolutely a ship I'm down with - did you see what Marcus' player wrote on Twitter in response to the question "What's Marcus doing now, post campaign?"