#it’s why I love Ashton so much

[brjeauregard]

Some of you want your favorite characters to have a happy ending, I want my favorite characters to make questionable choices and face the consequences of their actions. We are not the same

#critical role #for legal reasons this is mostly a joke #I do love watching my favorite characters reap what they sow though #I love when a character makes bad or questionable choices #who needs a happy ending when you have a compelling narrative that may or may not end in tragedy #it’s why I love Ashton so much #love me a rock person who is so convinced he’s subverting destiny only to rush headfirst into it #and possibly make the same mistakes as their father #give me a character who is surrounded by people who care about them and want them to succeed #but is so caught up in their own trauma and misery that they make rash decisions and push people away #and I will love them without question #and simultaneously want them to get better and continue making bad choices that make the narrative more interesting

[anotherawkwardfan]

break time but can we have a standing ovation for my man, the myth, the legend: Travis Willingham playing Chetney this episode.

he's balancing playing the comic relief, the heart, and delivering truths bombs left and right.

the way he spoke to fearne, trying to speak her language of mischief as form of comfort and letting out steam though he may not completely understand why she said no to the shard. and when that didn't work giving her space to work it out but asking her to come back.

vs talking to ashton. breaking the image of the fool and talking to him in THAT tone. it's the fucking disappointment, you can hear the rage on behalf of fearne ("you could have HURT fearne!"). telling him to work his shit out but to not bring everyone down with them and if they couldn't do that, then leave.

DUDE

#critical role #chetney pock o'pea #my favorite senior citizen #travis my guy #that old man loves fearne so much #i'm thinking of chet's line to fearne from early c3 #“someone should take care of you” #and i love ashton so much and i get why they did what they did #but they fucked around and found out

[finncakes]

a bit old and a redraw of this, but i miss these guys

#critical role #ashton greymoore #fcg #fresh cut grass #rock and roll #love that tag for them #ashton is gonna be running around screaming cause fcg cannot be trusted alone #and HE REALLY CAN'T BE. that lil bot is just. deeply concerning. #love them so so much though like. he is the character of all time. #idk why these two have been on my mind more than fearne and orym these days which is odd cause 9/10 times i am thinking abt the exu duo #anyway if fcg doesn't get legs i will sob profusely #i want them to have legs and to have lil rollerskates that can pop out so he can scoot around #i think he deserves the world :')

[danwhobrowses]

So Callowmoores am I alone in thinking it was cute that Fearne helped carry Ashton to the city? Like there's the parallel also with Ashton carrying her into the Bloody Bridge as well

#might just be that the callowmoore tag isn't showing everything it's just I didn't see it get brought up by anyone #Ashley/Fearne was well into Ash's Titan stuff too #2 points of exhaustion though is indeed rough can see why Fearne didn't wanna test everything at Mori's #Ash probably overdid it because they've been charmed/lured twice now and want to contribute positively #plus they couldn't tell Imogen to push themselves if they don't do the same #they're trying just like they promised and it needs to be shown encouragement and appreciation for it #Grog on the moon theory is at a crossroads next ep #still candela next so I gotta ration these crumbs; ironically this parallel will also carry me to the next episode #though I'd always be open to a big ol' slice of the shippy cake when time appropriate #Fearne could test her new rogue skills to mage hand pickpocket Ashton maybe? or just anything sweet and tender between them #or more sticking up for one another and endorsing each other's chaos I just need to be fed #also the New Mutants character Tal is thinking of is called Warlock btw - looks like FCG if he wore The Mask #Ashley hinted at possible 'talking and then bed' not to (totally to) insinuate #Dire Wolves also have high perception and adv on attack rolls if an ally is 5m from a creature so Fearne was thinking tactically too #maybe I talk too much on tags... #callowmoore #tag reader bonus: Fearne loves it when Ashton kisses the back of her neck - she got a tattoo of their name there to surprise them #fearne calloway #ashton greymoore #fearne x ashton #ashton x fearne #critical role #cr3 #cr3e86 #cr spoilers #critical role spoilers #rockwild #bells hells

[shorthaltsjester]

taliesin and laura remain truly so fantastic at making characters who… don’t necessarily have something extremely and inherently in common but do have experiences that were caused by similar sources and that lead them to have quite different opinions/ideas about things but in ways that are typically very reconcilable? which is a lot of qualifiers but it’s a through line of vex/percy with nobility, jester & cad with loneliness (and also god stuff but in a different post maybe someday i’ll talk about how actually their god stuff is intensely related to their different experiences of loneliness), and now imogen & ashton with being left behind.

like vex was this character who technically had a claim to nobility due to her blood but at the same time was burdened because of that same claim. and percy who was born into and raised by nobility but that nobility ended up making his family the targets of a massacre. and then vex who lets down her walls and Do I Look Like I Come From Money? and percy giving her the title grand mistress of the grey hunt because it has nothing to do with blood, or his love for her, or anything aside from the fact that it’s something she can prove herself worthy of simply by virtue of who she Is, not who someone makes her. and percy and vex’s conversation about forgiveness and it’s necessity for growth as probably two of the characters most inclined to hold grudges.

and caduceus clay who gets left behind with nothing but his Belief while his family goes off into the world. and jester lavorre who gets shut inside with no company except her Belief as her mother protects her from the world. and they both get the burden of loneliness and the understanding of love’s nonmalicious imperfection. and caduceus having a panic attack on a ship and jester telling him that the world is a lot bigger than his cemetery and that means he has to break out of his comfort zone to find his path. and caduceus telling jester that he doesn’t think she gets as much credit as she ought to and she deserves more pastries. and jester thanking caduceus for showing her how cool it is to actually heal people and caduceus asking if she wants to use his shield while he doesn’t need it.

and ashton who was left broken and dying on the ground and was given inescapable pain as their means of survival. and imogen who was left behind by the only person who could provide true understanding of the pain she’d one day come to feel. and ashton who’s a barbarian, who wields their rage casually and unapologetically and who sees the Shittiness of the world but is unrelenting in his version of optimism. and imogen who is weighed down by pessimism she doesn’t Want to have but hasn’t cracked how to undo and who doesn’t admit her anger until it comes up again and again and again and carries it like a burden or like guilt, who we only see really Grasp and feel Confidence about her anger being something good in front of others when she has those conversations with ashton. and like. ashton who looks at imogen and sees a superhero. imogen venturing through ashton’s mind and holding his bleeding and exhausted head and saying i’m sorry. i’m sorry. and imogen who looks at ashton and sees someone special. and fucking “we got him killed.” and “no, we didn’t. don’t you dare. […] we are not what fucking killed that man. […] we are his eventual victory. we are his fucking revenge.” and “i’ll be his revenge.” and “i have no fucking doubt.”

and in general rp wise they both tend to make some of my favourite characters (also typically the ones i find most frustrating) because they both tend to make flaws that are easy to hate and they make those flaws very central to their characters but i think that’s also what makes their character interactions so deeply compelling because so frequently it’s like. yes yes these two characters have like. a helix of things they have in common but also things they deeply disagree on but they’re going to spider-man point at the things that are the same and they’re going to honour their differences while doing so. and it’s just. i always enjoy it so much and i was psyched when i heard about an imogen and ashton side pit stop in last nights episode and i was not let down when i watched the episode today.

#also gotta emphatically say that i Do Not Mean their characters understand each other better than others or completely #i just think those two consistently have characters that have opinions that would perhaps naturally be the most at odds but then #they always craft these dynamics that like. web together pieces of sameness so that their characters end up having deeply #meaningful relationships with one another. #but like. ashton and imogen really do Not get each other in a lot of ways. cad and jester were very opposite in a lot of ways #percy and vex i think probably had the most in common but also like . they had and have vast differences . #idk this probably is worth a longer post that lingers in my brain about how relationships between characters whether romantic or not #are actually Much more compelling and rewarding when characters Don’t just click and have perfect matching experiences #because. to have to Choose to want to understand someone and what they’ve experiences and why they differ from you #if actually a much stronger act of love than searching for your reflection in everyone you meet. #someday i’ll string together that post but. until then. tal and laura my beloveds. storytelling duo truly #cr3 #cr2 #jester lavorre #imogen temult #vex’ahlia #caduceus clay #ashton greymoore #percy de rolo #cr1 #critical role #cr spoilers #no molly and jester input here because i haven’t watched early m9 in a Long time but. i’m sure there’s similar scenes in there. #honestly even like. jesters Earnestness with her still manipulative trickery vs. mollys much more . not necessarily Cruelness but just. idk #there’s something there with the way that when they meet jester is all in for the tarot cards for the experience that they both get out #of her choosing to believe what molly says vs molly going in to get something out of jester? yk. #but they’re still bestie icons. jester still tears a man in half in the hopes of saving molly. molly still died trying to help get her back. #anyway. beloveds #laura bailey #taliesin jaffe

[catboyidia]

the groovy of the newest grim anniv card!!! :) i didn’t know what to expect from it cause they already went through all the students but im so happy that they went for the nrc staff! especially being an nrc staff (minus vargas… ugly bitch) stan that has been living off of tiny crumbs this whole time! too bad crowley and crewel arent kissing though 😔

#give me my ‘old man’ yaoi!!! (crewel is in his 30s and crowley is ??? years old so not really old) #so happy for nrc staff content… plus the recent crowley ssr?! my prayers for playable crewel seems more possible now… plsplspls #i love crewel so much… im so desperate… i need him so bad #i despise vargas though… why tf is even trein better looking than him! ugh… ew #twst #twisted wonderland #nrc staff #twst grim #dire crowley #divus crewel #mozus trein #ashton vargas #twst sam #why doesnt sam get a last name??? :(

[annemarieyeretzian]

fresh cut grass telling ashton “I care about you, and other people do, too. and I just wish you would care back.” and ashton saying “I care about all of you so much. I just don’t think I care about me at all.”

#yeah #that's exactly it #exactly #I'm not saying it's good #or that it's healthy #I'm saying that's exactly it #the whole 'you can't love anyone until you love yourself' thing has always been fucking bullshit #'I care about all of you so much' #'I just don't think I care about me at all' #why would I #critical role #annemarie watches critical role #fresh cut grass #fcg #ashton greymoore #ashton #bell's hells #fractures #c3e78

[difeisheng]

#sorry i just love this face. why was he making it so much for abyss specifically #dmbj #mystery of the abyss #hei xiazi #dmbj cast #ji chen #ashton originals

[undead-knick-knack]

#we both have the same favorite word #must be why i love him so much #critical role #cr3 #cr c3 #critical role campaign 3 #critrole #bells hells #bell's hells #ashton greymoore #fucking fuck #untitled goose game #cr memes #cr shitpost #courtesy of me #god he would love untitled goose game #it'd probably be their fave game

[sidleyparkhermit]

Laura Bailey did so good. She finally walked this thing around to Laudna and gave that talk the time and space it needed and let us see why only Laudna could really pull her out of this

#critical role #cr spoilers #the two of them are so good together #and marisha being so smart about what needed saying. imogen’s freedom of choice is ALREADY there #no one can take away what they have #god there was so much stuff tonight that has needed to be said for a long time #(also taliesin got such a cute little expression while laudna was talking about how Imogen is why she can #keep it together in spite of everything. I really think ashton wants love and I really hope he finds it)

[daydadahlias]

Honeysuckle

oh boy. so i wrote this last October and now I’m sharing it bc im in my insane era <3

Summary: Ashton realizes fairly soon into touring that remembering names isn’t worth his time.

or, it's the 1970s, Ashton is a homophobic lead singer and Luke is the new gay roadie on tour with his band.

Word Count: 28,837

Pairing: Luke Hemmings/Ashton Irwin

Rating: E

Content Warnings: alcohol / drinking / drunk kissing, period-typical homophobia, toxic relationship 

READ ON AO3

#lapis #im actually going to choose to say no words #and im just gonna thrust this one out into the world #and when yall read it if u do #u will see why i kept it hidden <3 #actually wait i do have words to say #so this is inspired by the Panic! at the Disco fic THROAM i read when i was 16 #and fell completely in love with #so there's like two scenes (?) in this fic that very closely mirror THROAM #but the rest is kind of... just me being weird #uhm ashton is the worst in this fic and i sure dont say that lightly #and u will power through 30k of this fic only to feel like u read 5k #that's how this fic is #and i know im hyping it up as being horrible too much #but #i just would like everyone to know what they're getting into #this fic has been infamous for me for. nine months #so #OKAY AND ENOUGH OF THAT !! #i have to go take a test <3 #i reserve the right to take this fic down in a week if i decide im ashamed of having it on my ao3 just saying #also very funny that i was like 'itll be urs within the week' and i meant 'tomorrow'

[carter-is-a-disaster]

Decided to post some of the critical role sketches i did this year.

Fcg/ Nott, Caleb and Jester hug/ a pokemon meme from bell's hells fight with Lady Emoth from the beginning of campaign 3/ Beau/ Laudna and Imogen/ an Ashton drawing i'm never gonna finish/ a scene with Beau and Caleb from early campaign 2/ a greystorm kiss doodle i did for a friend

#critical role #critical role campaign 2 #critical role campaign 3 #critical role fanart #the mighty nein #bells hells #i just realised there's no one from vox machina in this post and now im sad cause i haven't drawn them in a while #drawing ashton's head is very hard #that's why i gave up on this drawing #imogen and laudna are gay for each other and no one can tell me otherwise #imodna #also i love beau and caleb's friendship so much #please ignore my terrible attempt to take photos of the sketches from my sketchbook

[edge-oftheworld]

ashton really did be like ‘I’m reading the bible’ in his story

#like most christians don’t even read the bible #which is something I took way too long to realise how much of their pressure was projecting anyway #I can’t be the only one who had a good cry about that #like. not in a Must Convert You way. but like. i swear once it was something you were drawn to when #you were scared of the future and wanted security or just to feel loved by someone who’s not also dealing with being human #like I swear we used to just be like ‘oh this is a weird violent love story where Guy In The Sky tells temperamental little dudes (us) #that it’s gonna be okay and he was really extra about ensuring that. #like I was just thinking yesterday about how mum is like a prayer song to me. how sometimes we just want cosmic parents #who you know. we don’t have to be in charge of the emotions of and we don’t have to parent back as they get older #anyway I’m fully tangenting here and ash didn’t even write mum obvs that’s lukes song and like good for him. whatever #but to normalise trying out not even Christianity but this weird long ass document we’re obsessed with?? when did we lose that #when did we let people take it to oppress people and why did we not fight to take it back from them? #anyway ash please find my faithfromanewperspective blog so we can talk about the bible #or any of you. send me an as about the bible pref on my main blog but I’m not fussy #ashton irwin #5 seconds of summer #5sos

[ashtonisvibing]

i just had the funny thought of normalcy!intruanalogical's first time having sex together (like all three of them at once) and it starting with them doing a "raise your hand if you..." type thing. were probably either completely or partly naked (remus would probably be the completely naked one)

"raise your hand if this is your first threesome"

[logan and virgil raise their hands]

"wait, remus, when did you-"

"don't ask cuz we were all super wasted and i don't remember shit"

"so this is basically your first time lol"

"well- first time with people i'm actually dating- so-"

"well on that note, raise your hand if this is your first time with someone you've dated"

[only virgil raises their hand]

"wait, did you guys fuck and not tell me-???"

"nah, mine was with a guy i dated in high school. we fucked on my 16th birthday cuz we were both legal. and both really fucking wanted it"

"okay, yeah, that sounds about right. then what about you, teach?"

"... [sighs] it was with roman."

"wh- remus' twin-???"

"yepppp"

"how the-"

"i would rather not discuss... anything pertaining to that relationship"

"okay, yeah, that- that's fair, sorry-"

"it's fine, obviously you didn't know"

"bright side is ya pissed ro off when ya started dated me after the two of you split"

"okay, that- honestly was a little satisfying"

"well, since remus and i asked our own questions, you wanna ask your own?"

"... raise your hand if this is your first time with someone you haven't dated"

[only logan raises his hand]

"y'know, ya never did peg me as a guy to fuck strangers"

"oh- are- are you, um, comfortable with- well- [they gesture to themself and logan]"

"yes, you're not a stranger. while we're not dating, i do consider you a very close friend. while this is entirely new in every way, i am also completely comfortable with the situation. i... i trust both of you to not over step any boundaries."

"aww, geez..."

"who knew the stone cold teacher could be so affectionate? [snickers]"

"[playfully rolls his eyes] don't push it, you rat"

#ashton is talking #normalcy au #virgil sanders #logan sanders #remus sanders #intruanalogical #suggestive #anyways i love these three #remus and its partners that are also besties :} #who like chatting over tea about whatever (especially remus lol) #they love their feral gremlin rat so much #anyways don't ask why i wrote a full ass thing for this lololol #i just started writing and my fingers didn't wanna stop

[mostlyanything19]

Oh you guys weren't kidding, the Ashton/Percy confrontation is fantastic

#critical role #c3 #cr3x36 #p #somebody said ashton went on the offense so hard that he accidentally dropped every defense #laid it all out for percy; where he's coming from; the miseries of his life; how angry it makes him #percy recognizing all that anger as something he knows al too well. he rarely got hot-headed about it; he didn't rage or shout #but he knows anger alright. he knows /hatred/ even. and he speaks from experience when he tells ashton to #try to make that anger into something that creates; that builds; that /makes/. and then defend that with all you've got #it's probably good advice. it's not hot air at the least. #and ashton being like ''fuck love and joy and hope and all that crap that's not why i'm here #begging for laudna's life at the doorstep of some lord. it's because there's something important here and she's important for it.'' #like i mean he might be right or not but that's beside the point the point is that ashton cares about his friends SO MUCH even if #he thinks he's hiding it well #and i can't understand why some people are complaining about percy being an asshole i mean - first of all Duh. where have /you/ been #he's always known how to act righteous and condescending and come across rather coolly. but that's not even very relevant imo?? #bc he absolutely has the right to take the stand he's taking i mean jesus #if /anyone/ has the right to say a hard no to delilah briarwood coming back to life in any capacity #it's percy. he's suffered more than enough at her hands to have that right and be foreceful about it #and i'm glad obviously that his isn't the last word spoken on the matter but all that still is true #also just the /juiciness/ of taliesin going up and shouting at his own old pc with his new pc. amazing. #love the layers of it. love how right and wrong they both are.

[she-aint-no-slow-regard]

Ashton whyyyyyy 😭

#critical role #cr spoilers #critical role spoilers #campaign 3 #like okay #tal wanted a character that's nothing good ever happened to #and its was getting better for them #but like why #cause like if there's no Ashton and no shards #idk man I love Ashton so much #I don't know how he could survive this