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Kingsley was almost certainly out doing hot girl shit when Luc ran away so I imagine that Veth getting ahold of him had a lot to do with Jester's morning sendings and tbh there's got to be a kind of comfort there. No matter what goes wrong, you'll be able to tell the entire network in under 24 hours.

"Good morning Veth! Well it's morning for me. It's maybe morning for you? It's raining here. It's really pretty but really cold. How are you?"

"JESTER MY FUCKING SON RAN AWAY"

#this is SO funny #but also i have maybe a disproportionate amount of feelings about jester consistently using the spells for sending and check ins #and the way that creates the net that the m9 fall into/hold onto so tightly #like most of the time its /fun/ its /good/ its Did You Hear Caduceus Made A New Plant And Yasha Cooked It Into A Pie And OOPS It Gets You #High If You Dont Have Poison Resistance (beau) Or Are Just. Built Different ( #(Yasha) So Now Kingsley (Who Was Visiting) Is High Off His Balls In Their Backyard #and other times its. Hey caleb is having a rough day. Veth and Essek are going to do something nice for him- beau can you make your way over #and other times its HEY MY FUCKING SON. IS. MISSING. #god. m9. post canon m9 my beloveds #great post #veth brenatto #kingsley tealeaf #jester lavorre #luc brenatto #critical role #the mighty nein #found family #TO ME. #shitpost

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i haven't seen the actual creators fashion show thinger (yet?) but i did see laura's instagram post with all the models and because i am a predictable sap i got big emo about the one person who was wearing a brjeaus ensemble (fjord long-sleeve tee with beau vest)

#Ooh didnt realize that was a thing #god that wouod get me. #pals and comrades in any form........... 🥹 #beauregard #fjord #brjeaus #critical role #creators fashion show #?

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Beau strikes me as the kind of person to be like “I hate kids” even while being in denial about having like. Eight of them. The Cobalt Soul library puts her in charge of the kids reading hour and she complains VICIOUSLY and then they try to replace her and she’s like “NO.” A kid complains about their parents ONCE and they end up sleeping at her and Yasha’s more often than their house. Veth asks her to do a lesson at the camp and she’s like “UGH do I have to? I hate children” while she’s holding a baby and correcting a teenager’s math homework and letting a giggly toddler hide under the long part of her robes and interrupting herself mid-argument to go “Hey, TJ, put that sword down, Mom said no blades until you’re 12, okay!”

#sobbing wailing. yep. #i habe an early meta kind of around a similar thought where its like. one of the big things about beau is that she tries so intentionally t #hear people out. to listen to them #she was rude and abrupt a lot but she was. trying. /hard/. bc she knew exactly how it was to have people not listen #ah beau. what a character #beauregard #critical role #character meta #beau meta #faves

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"why hasn't delilah taken over laudna at any point in the last thirty years if a new body or placeholder is her end goal" do you think THE delilah briarwood would settle for being TITLESS. didn't think so. next question

#lmfao #delilah briarwood #laudna #shitpost #critical role

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Listen. Smartypants Society? Fuck yeah. I'm going to come clean and admit that I am one of those people that kind of enjoys public speaking/ presentations, and in turn loves seeing people who are Good At Public Speaking/Presentations and enjoy it do their thing. Tricks of timing and emphatic delivery and precise rhetoric and structured argument construction all delivered with charisma dialed up to x100000% is just. 👌

Like, you can make anything sound legit with the right tricks, and in theory I find it SO enjoyable seeing it happen!!! Unfortunately in the context of the Real World this is often seen in contexts that tend to range from Impressive but Sobering or just Literally The Most Frustrating Shit because hey you're talking awful hurtful absolute bullshit but saying it The Right Way, Im Going To Lose it.

So. Therefore........ Smartypants Society generates a deep joy in my soul. Deeply talented speakers/comedians with phenomenal stage presence and quick wit, to use their command over delivery and rhetoric and comedic timing to dissect and break down the most nonsensical things ever? Meticulous argument construction and empassioned delivery about absolute, ridiculous, zero stakes bullshit?? Fuck yeah. Its like seeing someone with expert culinary training and a professionally equipped kitchen make the most 3AM drunk food meal with intentional precision. Tell me why vegetables arent real. Break down who's invited to the cookout. What IS the happiest birthday. Make me believe you. :')

#i love people being really good at what they do. and i love well articulated arguments on absolute low stakes bullshit. <3 #dropout #smartypants society #dropout tv #not cr #:] #spar speaks #some excellent clips and screenshots available #realizing i never finished my post about it but i love adventuring academy contested roll for the same reason #.........ok fine i lied. i dont kind of like presentations. i rlly like em.

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I feel inclined to share that for the "imogen laudna well tethered centrifugal disc of doom" post, the image preview for the post in my notes looks uncannily like a concerned face. just a spot on 🫤. or :-/

So every time the post starts making the rounds again, i just get a flood of this in my activity page. he's so worried about those sorceror sapphics

#critical role #spar speaks #imogen temult #laudna #Vaguely. #imodna #sorcery pact #shitpost #funny 2 Me. ok.

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Imogen is really just walking proof that the things Liliana did were not “necessary.” And I kind of think Liliana’s deference to her daughter in their last conversation is indicative that she is slowly realizing this. Being confronted with the essentially younger version of herself who also left home to seek out answers, who has pretty successfully avoided the pull of Perdathos (something Liliana told her to do, weird that), and who is proof that Ruidiusborn can successfully work with those on Exandria aligned with the gods and not be “persecuted,” like Ludinus told her, all really shines a light on how weak her justifications to herself have been. 

And that's the tragedy here! Liliana thinks she's made this huge sacrifice for her daughter and for people like her, but she's been taking the easier path this whole time. And now she is seeing that! Imogen is making the bigger sacrifice by fighting to keep Perdathos at bay, despite the pull and the welcoming feeling and it (possibly) being a literal part of her. So like, if we want to talk about why Imogen is a counter to a lot of great CR villains because she choses to do good, well, we need to acknowledge that Liliana is one those villains. And Orym and Ashton and the rest of BH have every right to dunk on her because they see someone just like her make better choices every day.

#OGH good post good post #critical role #cr spoilers #orym #liliana temult #imogen temult #character meta #c3e92

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It's hard for me to fathom why you think that whatever comes next isn't bad.

+bonus:

#god DAMN ashton. get her assssss #critical role #cr spoilers #ashton #taliesin jaffe #liliana temult #orym #c3e92 #scene #quote

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in these trying times on Exandria and Ruidus, as the Vanguard and the Weave Mind chip away at Predathos's prison, as the gods desperately and fearfully search for what defenses they can, as even those not beholden to the divine rally their forces and resources, one does ask: where is Gelidon

#where!!! is!! she!!!! #critical role #shitpost #gelidon

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I got to say I really liked the episode (despite only having watched exu calamity of the exu series) and I think maybe Matt needed a breather after so many fast paced, lore filled episodes.

however, I am kinda bummed that the fcg processing has been put on hold for (at least) two weeks now and that means that, despite them being great actors that truly merge with their characters at the table, their reactions will be much less raw and there’s a chance some of them will forget tidbits of information, emotions they felt when it happened because they (as role players) will have had time to process it out of the game and it might create a dissonance in the game. tbf I kind of felt the difference even between the end of ep 91 and the beginning of 92 but it made sense because technically they were still running and couldn’t afford to process. idk. I have hope that we’ll still see that raw emotion, but I fear it won’t be as impactful as it could’ve been, especially if they’ll have to put the “reporting for duty” hat on immediately when they get to the camp

I think being a little bummed about the sort of unexpected hiatus on the Bell's Hells/Post F.C.G processing is super understandable! As someone who also really did enjoy the Crownskeepers return (hello im still yelling about Opal internally), I'm kind of in the same camp of being kind of thrown/disappointed about not getting to really dig into/sit with the Bell's Hells post-F.C.G loss. Like, LOVED the Crownkeepers, fascinating second half, kind of meh on the specific timing.

I'm holding my reservations about whether they're going to have to keep running/moving once we return to their portion of the story, since hey, until it happens (or doesn't!), we don't know, so I don't feel like getting too in my head about it until then.

That said! I do think that in general the cast puts characterization and staying true to the emotions of the character/story as a very high priority within the campaign. I think you're right that it won't be the exact same as if they had done a big emotional blowup/goodbye/processing scene in the same ep where they lost F.C.G, or immediately after. I don't think that means it has to be less impactful, just that- yeah, they'll have had more time to actually think/process it.

But they're also all professional voice actors who have, IMO, thus far shown how much they think about the inner lives of their characters and enjoy really digging deep into the emotional/interpersonal aspects of roleplay.

My assumption (my hope?) is that with additional time to think about + process a devastating/deeply emotional loss for their character(s), they'd choose to lean into that more, and not less. It wont be the same as the immediate raw reactions, thats true! But i dont think that means it has to be less impactful, even if they (as people) have had more time to process, and will be choosing how their characters, fresh off the loss, react. I dont think thats a guarantee it will be less impactful/emotional (maybe the additional thinking would actually enhance the reactions being true/insightful to the characters vs gut reactions from cast), but it will be different.

But if the cast chooses to lean into the heartbreak/emotions, and the circumstances of the BH in the upcoming ep enable it, I'm sure they can still kick my ass (emotionally), timeskip or not.

In general, I'm cautiously optimistic about what could happen next! Even if I don't love the timing thus far. I think there's still plenty of ways for me to get what I'm hoping for wrt F.C.G/BH. :] There are plenty of ways for me to get let down too, probably, but until it happens, or doesn't, I'm opting to not get too doomery about it. We'll see.

I uh. Hope that helps? A bit? Being bummed about specific things you were hoping for being off the table is totally reasonable. just hoping to lend an alternate way of viewing it, if desired.

(i wrote the sentence: "don't be lamenting your chickens before they hatch" and then went "what the fuck" out loud. i spent 4 hours at work today just doing systems diagramming and my brain is fried. clearly. keeping this here for my own entertainment.)

#im kind of tired im sorry if this makes no sense lmao. i appreciate the ask! sorry if my answer comes off as flippant. i do get where you're #coming from and wanted to share how im personally choosing to approsch it haha #critical role #cr spoilers #c3e92 #bell's hells #spar speaks #ask away! #speculation #fcg #imo its like how we probably wont be getting situations like marisha shellshocked live tweeting after jester saved beau with a cupcake #but we get the cast doing sneaky little tweets before the episode airs but after theyve already experienced it #different for sure. doesnt have to be worse. thats more up to personal opinion i think #i fully wrote that chicken thing and went. thats the idiom right. and then stared at it and went. ... no. its not. #should i have waited to answer this ask? maybe. but oh well. #i should probably get some sleep though

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Possible d contact, maybe this person can help the bh

okay, first of all, sorry, did not see this ask in my box. second of all 👀 hmmm? Do you mean. Ive gone back to check the VOD: Dominox? or is there a different D person who may or may not helo the Hell's.

(they gotta get more acquaintances whose names DONT start with D. Really strikes up confusion when i say "The D" and it could mean Devexian. Or Delilah. ... or dick.)

#i am both out of the loop generally and was also driving while listening to this part of the episode so. 👀 i assume this means dominox. #critical role #cr spoilers #c3e92 #speculation #ask away! #spar speaks

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When people talk about needing to network/know people in showbiz. They're actually talking about "i need a cheerful, polite young man who is good at playing up the "horrified beaurecrat" while in a mildly sinister role in a premise that steadily gets more horrifying" and Sam Reich going "Oh I can get Brian David Gilbert!". They're talking about "I need a someone willing to completely straightfaced create a gag video parodying classic youtuber formula with a ridiculous premise but completely deadpan tone' and Sam Reich going "Oh I can get Sungwon Cho!". They're talking about "I need a guy who is willing to just be the creepiest most sinister clown with the goofiest voice and mannerisms" and Sam Reich going "Oh I can get Josh Ruben!". They're talking about "I need the goofiest guy possible to incompetently eat spaghetti and scatter it all around the set and onto my competitors podiums while doing witty banter" and Sam Reich going "Oh I can get Grant O- he has WHAT. Shit. Zac, Zac Oyama, where are you-"

#game changer #LOVED all the cameos #game changer deja vu #dropout #dropout tv #sam reich #zac oyama #brian david gilbert #sungwon cho #prozd #josh ruben #grant obrien #its also about sam going 'i need people i trust and who trust me to Torment. i can repurpose everyone i know for this <3' #not cr

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#you get former um actually host mike trapp on your psychological torment show and DIDNT expect this kind of solutioning sam????? #game changer #mike trapp #sam reich #dropout #dropout tv #game changer deja vu #game changer spoilers

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sigh.... everybody do the wenis 🫳🤜 the wenis is a dance ✊🔄 everybody is a genius 🫵 🫵 who knows it in advance 🦵👟

#game changer #dropout #dropout tv #game changer deja vu #game changer spoilers

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Pour one out for the timeline in which Brennan isn't available and they put Siobhan through Bingo and Time Loop on the same day

#hzshhfjahfjshd its just escape the green room and this. sam says siobhan is too powerful and wiley to NOT psychologically torment #when shes here #game changer #game changer deja vu #game changer spoilers #dropout tv #dropout #dropouttv #siobhan thompson

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to anyone who loved tonights game changer, PLEASE go and watch brian david gilbert’s horror on youtube, especially “teaching jake about the camcorder” and “welcome to the neighborhood”

#just watched the ep and like. truly a perfect ep to bring in bdg for a cameo role.for #brian david gilbert #game changer #game changer spoilers #dropout #dropouttv #dropout tv #gamechanger #game changer deja vu

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imogen & fearne in c3e91

#i think fearne should get to kiss everyone in bells hells. i think it would be good for everyone. #critical role #c3e91 #imogen temult #fearne #pastel powerhouses