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andromedasummer · 3 months

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Hi! Can you explain more about what you told about Mitch Evans and NZ?

ive covered this like twice before? even posted screenshots of his meltdown which might still be around on my blog somewhere.

pretty much, during the height of covid in 2021 mitch evans went on an instagram rant about not being able to return home to new zealand for his grandmothers funeral.

mitch lives in monaco, because like many many racing drivers he loves tax evasion and parties. he was born in auckland, new zealand. when nz was briefly opened back up for travel at the start of lockdown so people abroad could come home, mitch chose not to reserve a spot to return to nz. nz was strict witn our covid rules because being strict fucking worked. we had one covid death in 2021, and that person actually died the same week mitch had his rant which was unfortunate timing for him to be sure.

he pretty much went on an insta story a tirade about how he couldn't get back in the country cos lockdown and how Jacinda Ardern (pm at the time) and the Labour party were ruining the country and nz should just open up again (rhetoric which went on to trigger a month long invasion of parliament grounds that i had to walk past/through every day to get to work. it also lead to ardern resigning from her prime minister role last year because people got militant and conspiratorial about our lockdown and it was genuinely bad for her safety and mental health.)

evans also retweeted anti-lockdown tweets by the twitter account for the ACT party, which at the time was our furthest far-right party in the country and which is now unfortunately in charge due to a coalition agreement from hell and christopher luxon not having a fucking spine. ACT (and NZ First, another right wing coalition party) got their votes by playing into anti-lockdown cooker crowds and now we've got two racist, transphobic, evil little men for deputy pms alongside a businessman who wanted to be pm for the title alone and is coming to the realization hes become a puppet for the two demons he signed a coalition agreement with.

I've little empathy for mitch evans. He had a solid month (and more, i recall months space between our 2020 and 2021 lockdowns) to return home and certainly had the money MANY nzers didn't to allocate himself a space in one of the hotels for the mandatory 2 week quarantine. It's awful he couldn't attend his grandmothers funeral but he had ample time to move back to nz for lockdown. i just cannot respect someone with the kind of audience and reach he has having the kind of meltdown where you repeat the complaints of sexist nutjobs about the prime minister on your insta and retweet the fucking ACT party. the fucking ACT party.

#anti mitch evans

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khozmoh · 1 year

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TAG PEOPLE YOU WANT TO GET TO KNOW BETTER . repost don’t. reblog .

FAVE COLOUR(S) : dark green ( forest, viridian, emerald ) and red ( wine, oxblood, burgundy ) FAVE FLAVOUR(S) : apple, berries, pineapple. cucumber, savory pastry, egg FAVE GENRES : supernatural or gothic horror, modern realism, fantasy FAVE MUSIC : indie rock, classic rock, heavy metal FAVE MOVIES : disney tarzan, moonlight, the last holiday, the holiday, a werewolf boy, the winter soldier, balto, ferngully, unleashed FAVE SERIES : the get down, blood ties, tarzan, dark angel, teen titans, x-men: evolution, inuyasha, shaman king, demon slayer, elfen lied LAST SONG : drown by seafret LAST MOVIE : descendants 2 CURRENTLY READING : moon called, patricia briggs CURRENTLY WATCHING : criminal minds . . . again CURRENTLY WORKING ON : my masters . . . it’s not going well. also working on writing up the lore for my other rp account and giving his blog a soft revamp to hopefully get inspired to write again. fucking around on photoshop, mostly just making muse centered tarot cards.

tagged by : @huntfracti ♡♡♡♡ tagging : @rotturn, @soulvalor, @gggno, @riselazarus, @girlpsych, @zloslwy, @letthefearin, @nightmarecountry, @korinthiakos, @jedilone, @coyotie, @dvarapala, @loetise, @rosalang, @rosewiltd, @luxoned

#. OOC . › from the bitch's mouth .

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quantummindclassicalheart · 1 year

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I posted 6,184 times in 2022

That's 2,433 more posts than 2021!

29 posts created (0%)

6,155 posts reblogged (100%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@/naamahdarling

@/ladyshinga

@/astridbecks

@/bunjywunjy

@/sashthesloth

I tagged 4,829 of my posts in 2022

Only 22% of my posts had no tags

#kqueuequeueoverrsquared - 1,824 posts

#critical role - 431 posts

#cr spoilers - 89 posts

#miraculous ladybug - 87 posts

#widojest - 59 posts

#the locked tomb - 58 posts

#ref - 52 posts

#essek thelyss - 51 posts

#this is an essek blog now - 49 posts

#the owl house - 40 posts

Longest Tag: 136 characters

#and a very sneaky implied rhyme in the lines that bookend the song– ‘we’re in for a scar’ is a five-syllable rhyme for ‘laerryn coramar’

My Top Posts in 2022:

twelve Essek Thelyss valentines/pick-up lines that no one asked for

Are you a Gravity Sinkhole? Because I'm feeling a powerful attraction to you.

Can I quantum tunnel my way into your classically forbidden region?

My favorite food is soups, but I'm thinking of eating out tonight.

Do you have truesight? Because you see right through me, valentine.

Let me show you a kindness.

No war crimes tonight, valentine. Unless you are into-- look, I said I was sorry--

Valentine, I'm walking on air whenever I’m with you.

The inexorable flow of linear time isn't the only thing I'm violating tonight.

Do you believe in love at first sight, or shall I invoke Fortune's Favor and reroll my Charisma check?

Can you clear the cats off the bed, valentine?

Have you been bound to a Luxon Beacon? Because I think you're conse-cute.

Of my many regrets, loving you will never be one of them.

(edit: now with art by @ultrainfinitequest! see also: nein Caleb Widogast valentines)

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There's something delightful about the Percy & Ashton interaction in C3E36 that speaks to a similarity between Taliesin's characters. Like, Ashton sees this formal, prissy old aristocrat who they sort of assume has never really known suffering or loss, and they treat him accordingly.

And while Percy definitely thinks Ashton is young and naive, he also sees something familiar in Ashton and the way he both lashes out and clings desperately to this bunch of weirdos he's found and has become determined to protect. It's not enough to make him like Ashton, but it earns a little bit of recognition, and Matt and Taliesin played both halves of this interaction so well.

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There is an old folk song that is sung in Exandria. It goes by a lot of titles--In Marquet it’s commonly known as The Liar’s Love, while natives of Xhorhas would know it as The Fey Groom, and the elves of Syngorn’s version has a title that translates to “The Sacrifice of Truth for Love.”

This is one bard’s rendition of the song in Common, as accompanied by ukulele.

(Best with headphones! With credit for the original idea to @ihaveatypeanditstrickstergods and the original characters to @quiddie and Sam Riegel. Album art generated by Craiyon.)

Lyrics below the cut.

Refrain: This sordid scene, my love, we're in, oh, We're in for a scar And yet tonight by morning light I'll fall for you once more.

Verse 1: There once was a fey who chanced one day From lands so wild and strange For stories told worth more than gold Exandria's face would change.

Among the clouds a city bright And there its beating heart Did kindle love within his own For her he'd craft his art.

Verse 2: A vision clear did guide his dear With this its one refrain Her city’d rise beyond the skies And loose its mortal chain

Beneath the streets his love did seek Her dream at any cost, But fortune claimed its pound of flesh, A friend too soon was lost.

Verse 3: The fey saw true that if they knew, Her legacy’d be blight And so he lied to deftly hide Her deeds from public sight.

And though his heart was ever hers, Her work, for now, meant more She’d fix them soon when she was done So he walked out the door.

Verse 4: And soon an hour of arcane pow’r Was finally at hand For on that night, with her Leywright She’d make them understand

But one thing more stood in her way Her masterpiece abjured She struck it down, and with that spell Calamity ensured.

Verse 5: And with her sin the fiends poured in With death and fire and hate, But one last spell at ruin’s knell Might change Exandria’s fate.

His healing words would keep her hale, Her spellwork holding fast, And at the heart they’d both go down Her work complete at last.

Refrain: This sordid scene, my love, we're in, oh, We're in for a scar And yet tonight by morning light I'll fall with you once more.

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I added some more lyrics to this post by @/mikkeneko and @/neraitsuze. Karaoke track from here.

lyrics:

i heard from our sweet boy you guys took a trip into the city and as i understand he said dad told him weird things 'bout demons and ghosts and then more demons while you both watched the band he said you got all weirdly intense when you talked about his future as he sipped lemonade darling will you explain them your reasons and what the fuck you meant by the so-called black parade

322 notes - Posted January 28, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

For those of you who weren't in Twitch chat last night, you missed this incredible bit of lore.

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tiny-huts · 2 years

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This is like old beef that I have but it's WILD to me when people sit there and theorize that the Luxon is evil or talk about the religion like a cult. Because like a) I love the guy but Essek characterized the Kryn dynasty for us and he was a very very biased source concerning religion. But, even then, there are reasons for someone to be cynical about their religion that aren't "this is a literal actual repressive cult" b) the religion pretty much in no way resembles Christianity AT ALL, which is the religion most people in the audience are, perhaps subconsciously, projecting onto it. c) From everything we have seen in how it operated as an ITEM and in it's backstory the Luxon stresses the power of free will and the ability of everyone to make their own choices. d) Do you want a cult? The children of malice are right there. Lolth mentioned them in exu: Kymal. e) so I LOVE forgotten realms Drow, like I've been posting about them on this blog lmao but isn't it?? Good?? That Exandria's dark elves are not depicted as being evil in any sense? Isn't that what we have all been wanting for Drow. Haven't we been wanting to move away from the fucking bioessentialism? So why are people sitting there going no actually they ARE evil and this is a cult like listen to yourself

#critical role #essek #the kryn dynasty #i am not throwing shade on my forgotten realms boys i love them djdjdj #it is very telling to me that everyone just assumes that esseks mother is evil too #like she is religious and they have a complex relationship i guess #so shes an evil bitch #like we dont know why are you making that call #please i would like more complex dark elf women

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fiionaamariiaa · 6 months

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For Te Tiriti, Against Racism! Julian Bachelor Blog

Tension rose as Julain Bachelor continued to stand his ground with the belief that Aotearoa should be a country that is anti co-governance. When we talk about co-governance this refers to the equal shares of management of affairs and supplies between two parties, the New Zealand government and Iwi (Bogle, 2023). Bachelor is a former school principal, however he is well-known for his organised roadshows that he travels to different communities to reunite people of Aotearoa who strongly disagree with co-governance in the country - Kiwi’s who believe New Zealand would be better off with Pakeha overruling the government opposed to Māori people having a say for our community. Bachelor himself has publicly expressed his problematic controversial opinions, not only his desire to revoke race based law-making and encouraging Kiwis to vote for parties who ban co-governance. He also believes the government and Māori groups are extremely racist towards non-Māori communities (NZ News Essentials, 2023). It’s also worth mentioning he claims to have no animosity towards Māori minorities, additionally doesn’t blame Māori to be the problem with co-governance, matter of fact he thinks Māori people will not have an advantage from co-governance and legislation revolving around ethnic groups in Aotearoa. (NZ News Essentials, 2023).

Not that long ago, 19th September, 2023 a post was published on Instagram from PAPA. PAPA, ‘People Against Prisons Aotearoa’ - an organisation who advocates for imprisoned people and hopes to end prisons, and ultimately fight for fairer, and safer Aotearoa. They had posted to attract more people to come along to rally against and challenge Julian Batchelor’s rhetoric that took place in the Commercial Bay area, at the bottom of Queens street. Not only was it to make noise to go against Batchelor and his beliefs but it was also to honour Te Tiriti O Waitangi. On the day of the Rally both parties faced off, people against Bachelor and the ‘Stop Co-Governance’ movement who was led by Brian Tamaki. Police were present during the rally, and had successfully separated both parties, according to an interviewee there were five boys who were shouting Nazi slurs and other awful offensive words, like ‘savages’ and ‘go home’, (Wilton, 2023) The Te Tiriti, Against Racism rally was organised and announced originally on Tāmaki Anti-Fasist Action Instagram page. Important to note this organisation promoted the rally for the liberation of Palestine recently that took place in Aotea Square on 14th and 21st of October, 2023.

The point of view expressed in the post by this Instagram post aligns with my views, as I agree with being a co-governance nation. Ideally it’s about people coming together to work with equal contribution and equal representation. With co-governance significant decision making is shared, along with having respect for the Treaty (Hamilton, 2023). It’s important we educate ourselves with the Treaty of Waitangi as today New Zealanders have limited knowledge of the treaty, so we’re not easily misled by people such as Julian Batchelor himself along with Chris Luxon who take advantage of the lack of knowledge New Zealand citizens have (Hamilton, 2023). We can agree Instagram is a public web sphere where the youth enjoy spending their time, constantly exposed to a lot of information. With the internet, it has empowered democracy and many movements, and on the other hand the internet has also been used to censor, monitor, and disable social movements. As citizens we are allowed to voice our own beliefs, hence why this enables Batchelor to voice out his opinion and spread his belief and to put together a ‘tour’. I find it completely ridiculous how he claims to advocate for equal rights however continues to be racist towards Maori people and is homophobic. Not to mention he believes pakeha should be only part of the government, completely disregarding this, considering the first settlers of New Zealand were ancestors of Maori.

The notion of DIY citizenship promoting the rally against Batchelor and their point of view expressed I completely agree with, It publicises the movement and builds momentum as you go. In my opinion the post is very eye-catching, with the use of vibrant colour. At first glance with the use of an edited witty picture of Bachelor himself we can already get the sense of the type of person people perceive him as and catches the attention of people. The fundamental information is straightforward as it provides the date, time and location of the rally and the pure reason of the rally. Digital public sphere like Instagram reaches more people, as posts can be forwarded and shared to other social media platforms. This is why digital DIY citizenship has gone mainstream, as social media has become a massive part of people's lives and now is being used as a tool for political purposes (Boler & Deibert & Ratto, 2014) . This is very smart as Instagram and social media platforms are over populated by Youth and young adults. Scrolling through Instragm has become a daily routine for many young people, social media is a source where the youth get their news. Research claims that after the 70’s young people have slowly become less interested in political issues and events taking place (Bennett & Freelon & Wells, 2010). Young people today are lacking in political knowledge hence why platforms like Instagram are a great way to promote and publicise the rally. Utilising massive social media platforms into organising political protests into advocating what the community wants enhances citizenship, as citizenship grants you to have rights and liberty to explore interests, alongside with rights to have a say and practical way of sculpting the government. (Faulks, 2000). Assembling or participating in a protest strengthens your citizenship because it gives you the ability to have freedom of speech, the right to protest. DIY citizenship has allowed the possibilities of political participation and unites us as a nation as you assemble with other citizens who share the same belief system and morals as you, and take action on it. Today in modern work, citizenship isn’t just about voting and paying taxes, which is one of the duties which citizens are obliged to obey as citizens but it's also about protesting, and striving for policy changes for the country, diverse action and participation (Boler & Deibert & Ratto, 2014) . Political participation has increased amongst youth with the help of the media, as the media presents many opportunities for young people to take part and voice their own political views, and become involved with events, voting, petitions.

Taylor Swift - 35000 New Registered Voters.

Never underestimate the power of ‘Swifties’. Taylor Swift, a successful American singer and songwriter. She has quite the reputation in the music industry as five of her songs are topped in the Billboard Hot 100, and has woman Grammys. Swift has no problem with sharing her political views in the digital public sphere. She has a history of informing her international fans of political statements and posts. In the 2020 US election, Swift endorsed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the presidential election (Ahlgrim, 2020). Additionally, promoting Phil Bredesen as a candidate in 2018 for senate in Tennessee (Bell, 2023).Young people not only gravitate to her music but also her beliefs and morals as she advocates for women, people of colour and the LGBTQIA+.

September 2023, had posted a 24 hour story on her Instagram with her 272 million instagram followers encouraging her fans to register into voting. Her post was simple, with a light blue background, white text, and a link. However, this had a massive outcome as she caused a web traffic on Vote.org. Research shows that the site had 13,000 visitors every 30 minutes and it’s really important to recognize how Taylor Swift snagged 35,000 new registered voters, and 157,041 eligible voters confirmed they were registered (Kight, 2023), (Desk, 2023). I think this is so significant and really puts into perspective , there was a 155% increase in 18 year old registering compared to the year before in the US (Kight, 2023).

What’s surprising is her post is very plain as mentioned before but still drove young people to register. This is fascinating as her post wasn't flashy to typically get young people's attention. Nowadays, to get attention from the young, especially with the context of politics, it has to have an element of wit, for the young adults or teenagers to keep their attention span going. Today in the modern world young people are most likely not receiving the news via radio, new paper, and television compared to back in the day, young people look towards Tikok, Instagram, and Facebook etc as their source of political information intake. According to research conducted in 2008, it indicates young people are slowly declining and becoming uninterested in absorbing news with each generation for the past 40 years (Bennett & Freelon & Wells, 2010).. It’s fair to say young people are becoming less politically knowledgeable and engaged because of the lack of interest in politics and participation (Bennett & Freelon & Wells, 2010)., (Manning, 2015).

It’s important that we don’t underestimate the power of celebrities and influencers. This can be a factor of how young people can take interest in politics, seeing their favourite celebrities and influencers they trust to endorse a message or a product. With the help of social media it is easy for posts to be seen and shared; celebrities can use their popularity to draw attention for what they stand for, like their political views whether it's through song, television, advertisements, and post (Bernhard & Majic & O’Neill, 2020). Considering the amount of followers Taylor Swift has. It's not surprising she snagged 35,000 new registered voters, making young people politically engaged. With fame comes a lot of responsibilities and power, some use it for good. Other celebrities use the media to share their controversial political stance, such as Kayne West, who has bad blood with Taylor Swift. West Utilises his Twitter and makes it known he endorses Donald Trump, which can also cause his fans to stand with Trump himself. Social media is important in modern elections as it reaches the youth, for youth voters to participate. Not only do they benefit the celebrities to promote their political views but the politicians themselves. As we can see in today's New Zealand elections politicians are using the media to reach young people to encourage as young people are less likely to be politically engaged, although the majority of young people take part in civic activists like protest, they often neglect to vote. Christopher Luxon is present on social media, promoting the National Party with the policies National will implement. The social media post Taylor Swift posted raises some interesting arguments. Whether celebrities or influencers should be public with their political beliefs and promotion of politicians. Yes, I agree totally agree when celebrities and influencers to encourage young people to be politically involved like registering to vote and participation of civic activities as it is one of the privileges of being a citizen, which is being able to vote and freedom of speech to act on your opinions and beliefs, however what I don’t agree with is that massive influence celebrities who heavily influence and determined their fans votes - this is because young people are easily influenced with their favourite celebrities. I disagree with celebrities and influences with getting too involved in politics because quite frankly the majority of celebrities are not experts in politics (Kshirsagar, 2020). I think it is important for young people to individually do research and read media and decide for themselves who to support in elections, rather than be influenced by celebrities just because their favourite singer voted for a certain party or candidate. It’s also worthy to mention how celebrities and influencers can’t entirely relate to the average working class person. It may be harsh to say, but how does a celebrity relate to the struggles of an individual working minimum wage who barely can afford groceries at this current cost of living situation. Let’s not be blindly influenced by who our votes should go towards, however I do not oppose celebrities encouraging people to take action on protests as young people are taking part in rally’s today, like the Black Lives Matter, and Free Palestine protest which is great seeing people come together as citizens.

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essektheylyss · 6 months

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It's very interesting that both Allura in this episode and Essek in 2.124 frame the Luxon as a pre-Founding entity that has been in Exandria since before the Primordials or the pantheon, because it really does complicate the idea of gods as a single unified classification. Discussions around, say, the Raven Queen's ascension and Artagan's godhood are interesting of course, but lend themselves to a hierarchy of being and power—mortals and archfey must be elevated to a higher position to reach a place among the gods—but the Luxon throws a wrench into the hierarchy itself.

Fandom discussions around the Luxon referring to it as an entity tend to feed into this hierarchy as well, even when framing the Luxon in a positive light, by placing the classification of god or deity as a literal higher power in a contemporary and very sociopolitical conceptualization of "power," positioning anything in that role as inherently oppressive, and I think this also does the conversation a disservice. A better metaphor, in my opinion, is to compare deities to the fundamental forces of physics.

The way that dunamis has been said to intertwine with reality on a minute level and the Luxon's extension of divine power without direct communication suggests to me that its power in relation to other deities is somewhat akin to gravity itself—gravity is the weakest of the fundamental forces, but much farther reaching, and therefore it exerts a massive influence on the cosmos in spite of that lesser strength.* This echoes the complexities of trying to rely upon a hierarchy of being in this discussion, because such hierarchies are always constructed and imposed, not inherent. Sometimes they are constructed by those positioned at the top, and other times not, but from any angle, regardless of field, they tend to be used to justify some moral stance and standing.

This is utterly negated by the Luxon's existence. Whatever can be said about it as an entity, it seems to be an inherently amoral being—it does not seem to concern itself with moral questions, and very possibly has no capacity to do so. At the same time, dunamis seems to be enmeshed within the reality of the Material Plane and the Weave itself, perhaps even the Skein of Fate—as described, dunamis may well be the very particulate matter comprising the choices of everything in the cosmos and how those choices intertwine.

The Raven Queen, as an ascended mortal, can look upon the individual heroes of the story and acknowledge them, validate them, but the Luxon has no inherent position from which to look, and as such evades any positionality within the constructed hierarchy upon which the questions of this campaign hinge.

*Complicating this metaphor is the fact that gravity's weakness means it doesn't exert significant influence on a micro scale, but I do not ever purport to suggest that dunamancy is a one-to-one mirror of the realities of quantum mechanics, not least because Matt is definitely no more a physicist than I am.

#the return of the meta footnote #very important honestly #anyway all systems of classification are constructed and discourse would markedly improve if people actually recognized that #also I'm not gonna lie. the brevity of this already long meta is a fucking miracle. I nearly went looking for crit theory to quote.#I could've gone on WAY longer about both the constructedness of hierarchies.#was about to open up my book on the theory of taxonomies.#cr meta #cr spoilers #luxon blogging #critical role

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legendary-alliance-stance · 8 months

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That's totally fine! worked sucked today and I went to bed suuuper late lmao so like I'm only just decompressing now anyways

ALSO SCREAMING AND CRYING RN OMG thank you so much for the dialogue recording!! I literally spent a half hour doing the dishes today with my wireless headset on just camped in the wizard's tower listening out for their lines lmao

GOD put makeup on the man!! Give it to him!! AH it's so GOOD 👏DARK👏SKINNED👏ARCHEMORUS!👏 AND THAT HAIR ON THE YOUNG ONES GOD IT'S SO YESSS

GOD THEY'RE SO CUTE THEY LOOK SO GOOD!!

Also doing a bit of research it appears tattoos were a common occurrence among the Luxons??? so like. any tattoo headcanons u know like a sleeve, a tramp stamp, neck, thigh, ankle, full body etc like what are we thinking

and YEAH the clothes don't make sense to my brain I'm definitely not like a concept artist kinda person I literally have no idea where to even start with something like that lmao but maybe one day I'll. think about it... or maybe just. make it a modern au. or skip the clothes whateverr who needs em >.>

ALSO have this quick little post-it note doodle cause I can't GET THAT MAKEUP OUT OF MY HEAD NOW that's SO FREAKING UGH I couldn't go to sleep without a scribble i really really couldn't n it's only fair tbh u show me urs i should share mine ri ght (even if i hate it gotta do it for the vibezzz) IT'S BED TIME AND U GOT ME DRAWING BY PHONE LIGHT BRO also it's impossible to take pictures at night without natural lighting and sorry it's MASSIVE idk why phone photos be saving like that

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/947194586055446589/1145964630225723483/Vik_8_28_23.jpg

(if that link doesn't work i'll like. find some other way to show u lmao) I might like upload this one day somewhere if I ever bother to like. make an art blog or a gw2 blog or smthin' but if you like this and wanna save it u should cause idk if I'll leave it on discord forever so the link might break lmao

k goodnight

SOMEHOW I DIDNT SEE THIS ASK UNTIL RIGHT NOW??? THANKS TUMBLR MOBILE UR A WORKING APP

IM GLAD U ENJOYED THE DIALOGUE RECORDING!!! I love listening to them so so SO MUCH

AND IM!!!

SO HAPPY THAT U LIKE MY ART OF THEM!! THANK U SO MUCH!!!

and I haven’t actually figured out what I imagine archemorus’s tattoos look like yet!! he has some on his arms in the factions trailer but they’re also the exact same as the generic luxons there so lmao I don’t think anet put too much thought into that aspect of things FJSKFKSKS I’ll have to work on designing that for him at some point!!!

AND HONESTLY A MODERN AU IS SO VALID. that’s truly the easiest way to handle characters with complicated outfits lmao

AND!! IM ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED TO SEE UR DRAWING OF VIKKY!!! HE LOOKS LOVELY!! I HIGHLY ENCOURAGE U TO DRAW MORE!!!!

[SAVES IT SAVES IT SAVES IT]

AND I ALSO ENCOURAGE U TO MAKE A TUMBLR!! partly so u can post art and also it’s so much easier to communicate via reblog/messages/replies than via asks!!! join me in gw2 blog hell <333 EITHER THAT or if ur comfy with it u can add me on discord!!

#vindicator ghostposting #HOUFH I NEED TO DRAW MORE VIKKY/ARCHEMORUS SOON #I’ve been drawing a lot but it’s been pokemon oc shit instead fjskcksk

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erzmagier-arc · 1 year

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tags 6 : blog specific dynamics

➤ jester lavorre / chaoshe ┊ 𝚂𝙷𝙴 𝙶𝙴𝚃𝚂 𝚃𝙾 𝙰𝚂𝙺 𝙸𝚃 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙸 𝙶𝙴𝚃 𝚃𝙾 𝚃𝙴𝙻𝙻

➤ rebekah mikaelson / deathwrung ┊ 𝙸𝚃'𝚂 𝙷𝙰𝚁𝙳 𝚃𝙾 𝙱𝙴 𝙲𝙷𝙰𝚁𝙼𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝚂𝙼𝙰𝚁𝚃 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙳𝙸𝚂𝙰𝚁𝙼𝙸𝙽𝙶

➤ jester lavorre / diviinedevilry ┊ 𝙰𝚂 𝙸𝙵 𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝚆𝙴𝚁𝙴 𝙰 𝙼𝚈𝚃𝙷𝙸𝙲𝙰𝙻 𝚃𝙷𝙸𝙽𝙶

➤ beauregard lionett / flurriedblows ┊ 𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝙲𝙰𝙽 𝙱𝙴 𝙼𝙸𝙽𝙴 𝙻𝙸𝙺𝙴 𝚃𝙷𝙰𝚃

➤ bren ermendrud / hellesfeuer ┊ 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚆𝙾𝚁𝙻𝙳 𝙸𝚂 𝚃𝙾𝙾 𝚀𝚄𝙸𝙴𝚃 𝚆𝙸𝚃𝙷𝙾𝚄𝚃 𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝙽𝙴𝙰𝚁𝙱𝚈

➤ caleb widogast / hellesfeuer ┊ 𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙰𝙽𝙶𝙴𝚁 𝚆𝙷𝙾 𝙺𝙽𝙾𝚆𝚂 𝙰𝙻𝙻 𝙼𝚈 𝚂𝙴𝙲𝚁𝙴𝚃𝚂

➤ blumendrei / hellesfeuer & valurent ┊ 𝙰𝚂 𝙹𝚄𝚂𝚃𝙸𝙲𝙴 𝙻𝙾𝚅𝙴𝚂 𝚃𝙾 𝚂𝙸𝚃 & 𝚆𝙰𝚃𝙲𝙷 𝙴𝚅𝙴𝚁𝚈𝚃𝙷𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙶𝙾 𝚆𝚁𝙾𝙽𝙶

➤ essek thelyss / luxoned ┊ 𝙻𝙸𝙺𝙴 𝙳𝙸𝙰𝙼𝙾𝙽𝙳𝚂 𝚆𝙴 𝙰𝚁𝙴 𝙲𝚄𝚃 𝚆𝙸𝚃𝙷 𝙾𝚄𝚁 𝙾𝚆𝙽 𝙳𝚄𝚂𝚃

➤ aelwyn abernant / stormlashing ┊ 𝙸𝚃'𝚂 𝙷𝙰𝚁𝙳 𝚃𝙾 𝙿𝚁𝙴𝚃𝙴𝙽𝙳 𝚈𝙾𝚄'𝚁𝙴 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙱𝙴𝚂𝚃

➤ mollymauk tealeaf / tcaleaf ┊ 𝙲𝙰𝚁𝚁𝙸𝙴𝚂 𝙾𝚄𝚁 𝙴𝚇𝚄𝙱𝙴𝚁𝙰𝙽𝙲𝙴 𝙰𝚆𝙰𝚈

➤ rune grieve / trinketh ┊ 𝙸𝙲𝙷 𝙷𝙰𝙱𝙴 𝙰𝙽𝙶𝚂𝚃; 𝙳𝙸𝙲𝙷 𝚉𝚄 𝙻𝙸𝙴𝙱𝙴𝙽

➤ eadwulf grieve / valurent ┊ 𝙳𝙴𝙴𝙿 𝙸𝙽 𝙼𝚈 𝙷𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃 𝙰 𝙲𝙷𝙰𝙿𝙴𝙻 𝙵𝙸𝙻𝙻𝙴𝙳 𝚆𝙸𝚃𝙷 𝚈𝙾𝚄

#➤ jester lavorre / chaoshe ┊ 𝚂𝙷𝙴 𝙶𝙴𝚃𝚂 𝚃𝙾 𝙰𝚂𝙺 𝙸𝚃 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙸 𝙶𝙴𝚃 𝚃𝙾 𝚃𝙴𝙻𝙻 #➤ rebekah mikaelson / deathwrung ┊ 𝙸𝚃'𝚂 𝙷𝙰𝚁𝙳 𝚃𝙾 𝙱𝙴 𝙲𝙷𝙰𝚁𝙼𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝚂𝙼𝙰𝚁𝚃 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙳𝙸𝚂𝙰𝚁𝙼𝙸𝙽𝙶 #➤ jester lavorre / diviinedevilry ┊ 𝙰𝚂 𝙸𝙵 𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝚆𝙴𝚁𝙴 𝙰 𝙼𝚈𝚃𝙷𝙸𝙲𝙰𝙻 𝚃𝙷𝙸𝙽𝙶 #➤ beauregard lionett / flurriedblows ┊ 𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝙲𝙰𝙽 𝙱𝙴 𝙼𝙸𝙽𝙴 𝙻𝙸𝙺𝙴 𝚃𝙷𝙰𝚃 #➤ bren ermendrud / hellesfeuer ┊ 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚆𝙾𝚁𝙻𝙳 𝙸𝚂 𝚃𝙾𝙾 𝚀𝚄𝙸𝙴𝚃 𝚆𝙸𝚃𝙷𝙾𝚄𝚃 𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝙽𝙴𝙰𝚁𝙱𝚈 #➤ caleb widogast / hellesfeuer ┊ 𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙰𝙽𝙶𝙴𝚁 𝚆𝙷𝙾 𝙺𝙽𝙾𝚆𝚂 𝙰𝙻𝙻 𝙼𝚈 𝚂𝙴𝙲𝚁𝙴𝚃𝚂 #➤ blumendrei / hellesfeuer & valurent ┊ 𝙰𝚂 𝙹𝚄𝚂𝚃𝙸𝙲𝙴 𝙻𝙾𝚅𝙴𝚂 𝚃𝙾 𝚂𝙸𝚃 & 𝚆𝙰𝚃𝙲𝙷 𝙴𝚅𝙴𝚁𝚈𝚃𝙷𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙶𝙾 𝚆𝚁𝙾𝙽𝙶 #➤ essek thelyss / luxoned ┊ 𝙻𝙸𝙺𝙴 𝙳𝙸𝙰𝙼𝙾𝙽𝙳𝚂 𝚆𝙴 𝙰𝚁𝙴 𝙲𝚄𝚃 𝚆𝙸𝚃𝙷 𝙾𝚄𝚁 𝙾𝚆𝙽 𝙳𝚄𝚂𝚃 #➤ aelwyn abernant / stormlashing ┊ 𝙸𝚃'𝚂 𝙷𝙰𝚁𝙳 𝚃𝙾 𝙿𝚁𝙴𝚃𝙴𝙽𝙳 𝚈𝙾𝚄'𝚁𝙴 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙱𝙴𝚂𝚃 #➤ mollymauk tealeaf / tcaleaf ┊ 𝙲𝙰𝚁𝚁𝙸𝙴𝚂 𝙾𝚄𝚁 𝙴𝚇𝚄𝙱𝙴𝚁𝙰𝙽𝙲𝙴 𝙰𝚆𝙰𝚈 #➤ rune grieve / trinketh ┊ 𝙸𝙲𝙷 𝙷𝙰𝙱𝙴 𝙰𝙽𝙶𝚂𝚃; 𝙳𝙸𝙲𝙷 𝚉𝚄 𝙻𝙸𝙴𝙱𝙴𝙽 #➤ eadwulf grieve / valurent ┊ 𝙳𝙴𝙴𝙿 𝙸𝙽 𝙼𝚈 𝙷𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃 𝙰 𝙲𝙷𝙰𝙿𝙴𝙻 𝙵𝙸𝙻𝙻𝙴𝙳 𝚆𝙸𝚃𝙷 𝚈𝙾𝚄

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duskoscrawl · 1 year

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I posted 333 times in 2022

That's 250 more posts than 2021!

275 posts created (83%)

58 posts reblogged (17%)

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I tagged 328 of my posts in 2022

Only 2% of my posts had no tags

#chill to reblog - 285 posts

#critical role - 168 posts

#campaign 2 - 113 posts

#wip - 86 posts

#finished fic - 61 posts

#beauteousmajesty - 46 posts

#campaign 3 - 27 posts

#cinderbrush - 14 posts

#september wip - 12 posts

#atla - 11 posts

Longest Tag: 137 characters

#like no i cant write the kamordah wine trade but yeah i can add endless detail to the agricultural labour and culture of the zemni fields

My Top Posts in 2022:

i dont get crit role shipping discourse because the cast love each other so of course all the characters are going to have the capacity to love each other. it's just a matter of how they're going to love each other

114 notes - Posted January 23, 2022

Stronger Than You - ATLA Post Canon

A vision from Agni is not something to be scorned, especially not a vision of a Firelord. By why, just why, are Azulon and his family being confronted by this upstart little wretch?

Aka: Zuko briefly pops back in time to stir shit up and then leave.

sometimes you look at a whole load of @ash-and-starlight's art and get compelled to write time travel zuko at 3am. if it helps i've been humming 'im a bitch, im a boss' throughout the process of uploading this. no idea what the rest of the song is. but it works. anyway im gonna be late so fic. tah dah

115 notes - Posted January 24, 2022

i think what kills me so much about Astrid is that she never gets to stop running, and i know if she got even a moment to stop she'd snap, but she's been running at breakneck pace since childhood. caleb gets to stop and grow a garden because he turns down the role of archmage and runs off to aeor with essek. but astrid doesnt. caleb hands her the empire and she just keeps going. race you to the top, she said, and caleb just let her run alone, because she's a better dancer

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ok fam. rereading egw just learned that phoenixes are sacred in Kryn culture bc they are believed to hold an innate bit of the Luxon due to their ability to be reborn in flame. Ok ok ok ok. So clearly this sets an excellent basis for a Phoenix!Caleb au, wherein he is reborn in flame again and again and he truly did die in Astrid and Wulf's arms before burning up in the Sanitarium. Then he meets Essek, who so desperately doesn't want to believe in the Luxon until he's cornered on a boat with a symbol of his culture's faith offering him a chance to be figuratively reborn because he was not born with venom in his veins

149 notes - Posted May 7, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

thinking about fjord and caleb tonight. my tired working class boys who just want to go home, but have no home to go to. thinking about how they find homes with certified rich bitch best friends. thinking about how they go from shipless sailor and vagrant to figures of protection over their own relative spheres. thinking about how directly they work to leave the world better than they found it. they return to places of trauma - orphanages and academies - and root out the corruption that burned them. they become the heroes that they deserved, the miracles that people will pray for. but most importantly, they get a home, they get a family, they get the mighty nein

175 notes - Posted August 12, 2022

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orlandoking-tewaharangatah · 2 years

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The Harm of Christopher Luxon Refusing to Rule Out Working With Brian Tamaki

This post social media post posted to Facebook, made by Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand Grant Robertson discusses the danger of Christopher Luxon (Leader of the Opposition) refusing to rule out working with far-right extremist Brian Tamaki. This point brought up by Robertson, about the danger of working with extremists and far-right political figures aligns with my own views. In this blog, I am going to explain and elaborate my position with supporting evidence and examine how this issue ties into citizenship, democracy and media.

On the 23rd of August, far-right conspiracy theorist Brian Tamaki announced a new coalition of three parties called Freedom NZ (Dreaver, 2022). The next day National Party leader Christopher Luxon told Morning Report while he did not anticipate Tamaki’s group making it into parliament, he could not firmly say that he would rule out working with them. When proposed this question, Luxon responded with it was “way too early to talk about that or speculate it” (Dreaver, 2022). In the post, Robertson points out the danger of what Luxon and the National party are doing. By refusing the rule out Tamaki and his party, as Robertston points out, you are then giving legitimacy to Tamaki and his extremist ideologies.

Throughout his career, Tamaki has been well known for making homophobic and bigotry remarks. In 2019, Tamaki blamed the cause of earthquakes on gay people and as early as this year, criticised the New Zealand parliament for having the querist parliament, with 10 per cent of the 120 MPs being a part of the LGBTQ+ community (Lasona, 2022). Tamaki is also famous for creating and spreading Covid conspiracies and Covid misinformation. Tamaki has organised and led many anti-lockdown and anti-covid restrictions protests causing him many legal troubles (NZ Herald).

As we can see, Tamaki is indeed an extremist and (as Robertson points out), for someone as powerful and influential as the Leader of the Opposition, Christopher Luxon refusing to rule out working with Tamaki is a very dangerous thing. We can see many examples of the harm caused by powerful political figures working or refusing to rule out working with extremists and/or groups. A specific example of this is former President Donald Trump and his ties and links to alt-right individuals and groups. During his time as President, Donald Trump had many right-winged extremist groups supporting his campaign and his presidency, groups such as the “Proud Boys” and “Oath Keepers” (Hugo, Lowell). Trump, throughout his presidency, took no effort to condemn these extremist groups and even went on to work with alt-right figures. During his 2016 campaign, Trump began to legitimise his connection to these groups by hiring far-right figures such as Steve Bannon, the editor for the far-right media outlet Breitbart (Mondon, 2021).

Trump’s strong connection to these extremist groups and individuals lead to several alt-right uprisings, such as what happened in Charlottesville on August 22nd. Many neo-Nazis and extreme-right activists took to the streets of Charlottesville trying to promote their alt-right rhetoric, the protest became deadly as the death of anti-fascist activist Heather Heyer made it clear how dangerous these individuals are (Mondon, 2021). Many see this uprising occurring due to Trump, with white-nationalist figure Richard Spencer saying quote “There is no question that Charlottesville wouldn’t have occurred without Trump. It really was because of his campaign and this new potential for a nationalist candidate who was resonating with the public in a very intense way” (Lowndes, 2021). Trump himself made no effort to condemn the fascist event, furthering the blur between the far-right and the mainstream saying there were good and bad people “on both sides”(Mondon, 2021). Events like this continued during Trump’s presidency, most famously during the January 6th Capital riots. Trump’s alt-right supports such as the “Proud Boys”, and “Oath Keepers”, as well as many extremists individuals stormed the United States capital after Trump and other members of the GOP claimed the elections were fraudulent (Lowndes, 2021).

This issue and debate of political figures working with far-right and extremist individuals and whether or not these groups or individuals should be represented in the mainstream political landscape at all ties into the idea of media, democracy, and citizenship. Many argue in order for there to be a truly fair democracy, all opinions must be heard and represented. Famous philosopher John Stuart Mills argues in his 1859 book On Liberty that it is essential to have free-flowing ideas that contributed to a marketplace of ideas, even if these ideas may be seen as hurtful and or wrong (Mills, 1859). The argument for letting someone like Tamaki’s voice be heard and represented can be linked to the idea of the public sphere and citizenship.

The idea of a public sphere can be described as a place where ideas are freshly discussed, considered, and evaluated by citizens and the general public on the basis of merit as well as the public good. It can be seen as the domain of social life where public opinion can be formed (Habermas, 1991). By not letting Tamaki's views not be legitimised and taken into consideration by someone as powerful as Luxon, the Leader of the Opposition, we are preventing citizens from having a truly fair democracy by letting his voice be represented so that, in the public sphere, his voice and opinions can be considered and discussed by citizens. However, I argue that the opinions that Tamaki has are illegitimate and does not create genuine and intelligent discussions, and instead spreads hateful bigotry and causes harm to other, as seen by the examples of Trump and his promotion and collaboration with far-right ideologies.

In conclusion, the point that the Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand Grant Robertson brings up in this Facebook is a point that I firmly agree with. There is a great danger with the Leader of the Opposition Christopher Luxon refusing to rule out working with far-right extremist Brian Tamaki as it will legitimise these bigotry and hurtful ideologies and cause real harm to our society.

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haorev · 2 years

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My legacy apparently.

Spot the special interest.

#my tumblr 2021 year in review #critical role #cr1 #cr2 #Ashton Luxon brain theory #yeah July to now just really took over my blog huh

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firefrightfic · 2 years

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I posted 151 times in 2021

85 posts created (56%)

66 posts reblogged (44%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 0.8 posts.

I added 183 tags in 2021

#my fic - 34 posts

#asks - 32 posts

#critical role - 22 posts

#essek thelyss - 16 posts

#shadowgast - 16 posts

#fic rec - 13 posts

#skalidra - 13 posts

#ask game - 13 posts

#next day reblog - 12 posts

#shout out - 12 posts

Longest Tag: 123 characters

#also let me also reassure you that should there ever come a day where i decide i'm 100% done and not coming back to a story

My Top Posts in 2021

The Dick focused story in Batman: Black & White this week is a suprisingly lovely look back over his (pre-New 52) history and I appreciate it.

139 notes • Posted 2021-04-27 10:47:59 GMT

Hi! Legitimate question, I'm not trolling, but why do you ship JayDick? I started liking the pairing after delving deeper into the DC fandom/reading some fanfics and it made me curious. I also wanted to say that I binge read your Talon and the Hood series and I absolutely loved it!

So wow I sat on this one for a while, because I have legit not had the energy since I got it to give what I think is an adequate answer. But I’m off work for the moment so here we go.

I ship JayDick for a lot of reasons. Back when I first stumbled into DC fandom proper (after being a casual fan since childhood) and was searching for fics about my best boy Jason, JayDick was the pairing I read that immediately hit right for me, and the one that’s stayed that way no matter what other ships I’ve delved into alongside it. They just have the most interesting, fun dynamic that speaks to me. I love the differing ways in which they can connect (or disconnect, as it were). The feelings, the drama, and the possibility for understanding if you just nudge them in the right direction down that path.

There’s so much appeal in Jason, insecure in his new position as Robin, looking up and seeing Dick as this ideal, and blinded to his faults as a kid because how could he not be? Both resenting and wanting to be Dick all at once (added to in my preferred headcanon to insert an adolescent crush in there as well). Then there’s Dick, who’s equally insecure in his own way as his and Bruce’s relationship has deteriorated and all of a sudden there’s this new kid in his place. A kid he does his damndest not to resent in turn, because god knows it’s not Jason’s fault what Bruce decides to do, but at the same time he struggles to connect with him, not because he doesn’t want to, but because the timing is all wrong and his life is currently pulling him in a whole other direction.

Then Jason dies, and Dick is wracked with guilt. All the should haves and maybes, all the ‘I should have done more’ that comes far too late. Until suddenly Jason’s back again, angry and vengeful. And Jason for a while still holds Dick up as that impossible ideal and resents him for it, and Dick in turn is angry at Jason for his actions and resentment, as much as a part of him still strains to correct a mistake he never really made, and change a past that can’t be changed. They argue and they fight and keep coming at each in disconnected ways, never quite able to attune to the other’s frequency. There’s always something in the way. Always something, on either side, causing them to slide jagged edges against each other.

But then Jason calms down, whether just through time or the Outlaws, depending on your favoured canon, and starts to see Dick as who he really is, rather than the idea of perfection he built up in his head as a kid. He realises Dick is just as flawed as any of them, trying his best but still coming up short despite it, and that he can be angry and petty as much as he is self-sacrificing, compassionate and inspirational. That Dick is terrible at taking care of himself, at maintaining the life-work balance, that he has some of Bruce’s worst habits, and is also terrified that he has them. And it... stirs something in him. Causes him to remember that old crush and readjust, as he starts to ache for Dick in a way that’s not someone he wishes he could be himself, but someone who always does his best despite his flaws.

Dick in turn, starts to see past Jason as the unjustly angry murderer, and as more than a tragedy. Starts to see the wounded man underneath, longing for connection. Starts to see how compassionate Jason is in turn, and how fiercely protective of the people he cares about and the city. That Jason is incredibly loyal to those who earn it, and as such why he takes it so hard when he feels that loyalty has been betrayed. That he’s fierce and committed in everything he does, but always shielding himself out of a fear of getting hurt again, which stirs something in Dick in turn.

And it starts from there. From short, hesitant conversations and getting to know who the other really is beyond first impressions. Fighting and commiserating together over shared grievances and frustrations. Taking care of each other, being there to help the other up when they fall. Understanding, but also being standing their ground on the important things and ultimately being able to help each other be better in the different ways that they need.

Just... gosh, the potential here. It’s all about the potential, and the misunderstandings and misconceptions, the connections they could have if they just stop to give each other a chance. Unspoken longing transforming to understanding and realisations of attraction they didn’t even know were there. The shared insecurities and strengths and all the ways they can come together through them. I adore this pairing, so much I kind of wrote a mini fanfic to try and explain why I love it. Two wounded, needy, compassionate boys fitting together in ways neither of them ever suspected ❤

159 notes • Posted 2021-01-02 14:46:30 GMT

Hearing the Critical Role Exandria Unlimited discourse going on right now is both interesting and exaperating, because if you can somehow put aside the fact that whenever this kind of criticism happens it is almost always aimed exclusively at the female players (with fans who can't seem to separate a character having negative traits from the actor playing them), it really paints a portrait of the different ways people play DnD. More importantly, the way certain people can't seem to let go of the idea that if someone plays DnD in a different way than their own group does, they're doing it wrong.

Some groups like to follow the rule books to the letter. Others prefer to think of them as just guidelines. Some players are just there to kill monsters and build the most powerful character they possibly can using the mechanics available, while on the other side you have those that are there for character and story first and foremost. Both approaches are okay, but the problem comes when one group tries to inflict their opinion on the other (and tbh, it's pretty much exclusively the rule lawyers side doing this). DnD as a game to win vs. DnD as an experience.

CR to me has always been a show that favours story/character before mechanics. They largely stick to the rules as set out in the books as a framework to give the story stakes, but character journeys and roleplay triumphs over 'how efficiently can we kill monsters' time and time again. ExU, Aimee and her character Opal, are just the latest example of this, and reading Aimee's commments on twitter about she approached building and playing Opal purely through the lens of character rather than making her powerful in the traditional sense really spoke to the kind of DnD player I myself am. Especially as Aimee is new to the game, vs. the main CR cast who have several years of experience playing at this point. Aabria too, is a fantastic DM who has shown she is more than happy to bend the rules in favour of the story.

It really boggles my mind that some fans still, even now (six years into the show being aired), can't grasp this. Or be forgiving towards someone new to the game. That everything Aabria and the ExU cast did in this mini-campaign wasn't without the full blessing of the main CR cast (Matt was right there playing in this group too, people). Just, if at this point CR's play style isn't for you, move on. There's plenty of other DnD shows out there now. Let these people have their fun and be grateful they're allowing us to be there with them for the ride.

233 notes • Posted 2021-08-15 12:26:49 GMT

I'm still not over how short D&D elves can be, especially drow. Which shouldn't be the revelation that it is, but when you cut your fantasy teeth on LOTR where all the elves are tall by default it can be easy to forget, despite having also read a few Forgotten Realms books in the past, as well.

For most elven races, the recommendation is to start with a base height of 4'6, then roll 2d10 to generate a random height for your character. Which puts the majority of elves at anywhere between 4'8 and 6'3 in height depending on if you get the best or worst rolls possible (with an average of 5'5) provided my math is right, always a shaky prospect.

For drow, that base height is 4'5, and you roll 2d6. Which means the minimum and maximum height for their particular subrace is 4'7 and 5'5, respectively. Drizzt Do'Urden, the most famous drow character out there, is 5'4, while Ryld Argith from the War of the Spider Queen books, described as being unusually big and burly for a drow, was 5'5. Given that in most settings drow generally live their entire lives underground, it makes sense they'd be shorter.

Which means (because obviously this was coming back to Critical Role and Shadowgast eventually), even if Caleb is a perfectly average 5'9/5'10 for a human, he probably still towers over a non-floating Essek, who I can't imagine is particularly tall for his people either, given that he's also a squishy wizard. If we give him an average drow height, he'd only be 5', maybe 5'1 or 5'2 at a push.

In conclusion, #Shadowgast size difference rights. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

(5e.tools source for anyone who doesn't own the d&d books: https://5e.tools/races.html#elf%20(drow)_phb )

(https://www.mrinitialman.com/OddsEnds/Sizes/sizes.html for easy height comparison)

286 notes • Posted 2021-07-06 13:01:50 GMT

The fact that Essek's relationship with the Luxon can now be summed up as 'Local Atheist Only One Who Truly Understands God' is hilarious and I love it.

2728 notes • Posted 2021-06-18 10:38:09 GMT

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#my 2021 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review #got some high hitting posts this yea #r #essek champion of the luxon my beloved #combine this with the one on my main blog and you get a truly accurate assessment

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