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I miss Ashley and Travis sitting next to each other

#critical role #bells hells #ashley johnson #travis willingham #cr3 #c3

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I am absolutely in love with Deanna’s penchant for just screaming at bad things to stop and go away. Absolute icon. Queen. Everyone should listen to her always.

#deanna leimert #c3e56 #bells hells #c3

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i am late to the party but i’ve been screaming FOREVER ABOUT THIS. 

MY BABIES MY BABIES MY BABIES MY BABIES I’D GIVE THEM EVERYTHING

#critical rambles #cr3 #cr spoilers #critical role #critical role spoilers

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Endless Bells Hells

#liam o'brien #laura bailey #critical role #cr3 #bells hells #cr spoilers

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Endless Bells Hells

#critical role #cr3 #cr spoilers #imogen temult #orym of the air ashari #there's something about sam and marisha's nonreactions juxtaposed with travis's laugh #that really just does me in #and then the look on ashley's face is just-- #god they're perfect #they're all incredible #i'm distraught

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I love what an asshole Ashton really is.

Because they look around at this group they’re in and say that no one in it knows loneliness like they do.

They say this to Laudna, who was alone for decades.

And in their party is Orym, a widower; Imogen, who pulled away from everyone because of her powers; Chetney, who we know had a lot of time wandering alone; Fearne, left behind by her parents; and FCG, unique among automatons and rejected by their creator.

And Ashton says, you don’t know what I know.

But then we get to the crux of it.

“What was it like for them to be there when you woke up?”

It’s that loneliness that the others don’t know.

To be in a group just like Bell’s Hells. A group that you love and trust. People who help shape your identity, because none of you had one, and at least you can be Nobodies together.

And you give everything for them, and they leave, and you spend years of your life making things right for them, and they never come back.

And that’s what Ashton thinks he knows. That the people in this group could leave him at any moment. That no matter how close they are or what they go through together, eventually they will choose to save themselves and leave him.

I think Ashton would like to trust the group. I think they long to feel that safety and connection again.

And so he’s jealous.

The rest of the group doesn’t know what Ashton knows.

That he will always be left behind. He will always end up alone.

#critical role #cr spoilers #ashton greymoore #cr3 #don’t mind me sobbing in a corner #Ashton is everything

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ashton greymoore is the taliesin character for me, i think. it’s been true for a while but after that chat with laudna... holy fuck. 

#critical role #cr spoilers #ashton greymoore #laudna #cr3 #critical rambles #i will never let this go #you can pry ashton from my cold dead hands

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Looks like Sam/FCG is getting on peoples nerves (fandom wise) the last few episodes. Saw someone say that FCG was hypocritical, and putting others in danger, relying on the changebringer too much. Someone was also annoyed with the FCG’s insistence on going to Imogen’s hometown when she clearly didn’t want to. It seems like I only see criticism and hatred to FCG and not to Imogen or Laudna or any other character when their being annoying or assholes.

You know, anon, fantastic timing on sending this because I've been debating whether I wanted to write something about this exact topic for a little over a week. Because, at least imo, I agree that I've seen quite a bit of...disgruntlement? anger? mean-spiritedness? over FCG's more (intentionally! it's part of the bit! and, like, his character development!) annoying traits, most recently his turn to blind faith with the Changebringer coin, but it's certainly something I've seen pop up other times in general. And I think it's interesting that FCG seems to exists within the confines of a sort of....conditional tolerance by a lot of people? And that condition seems be to whether he's supporting their favorite character (or, god forbid I talk about this, favorite ships) in a way that they like to see. It's like, as along as he's supporting who the viewers want him to be supporting in a way they see fit, he's fine. Hell, you even get the "fcg/sam riegel supremacy" comments sometimes if they do something the viewer particularly approves of. But the second FCG deviates from that and does something solely to further their own story, or even just, well, doesn't cast guidance on Imogen, it's like we're backtracking to this really strong point of negativity regarding them that really just seems to culminate in the idea that their behavior is plain on old annoying and could they stop, please?

It's an interesting dichotomy. And, like, this isn't really about whether people actually like or dislike FCG as a character (a person's opinions about him as a character is actually not the point here!), it's the fluctuation of the opinion that stands out to me. The loud approval if he does something the audience deems as "good" and the loud dismissal if he does something the audience deems as "bad" or "annoying." Hence "conditional tolerance" is sort of the phrase I've landed on to describe the phenomena. This is something I think has shown up in shades with other Sam Riegel PCs as well, though to be fair I wasn't active in the fandom pre-90s in the M9 campaign. But I feel like something similar did happen with Veth in parts of the M9, as memory serves. I feel like it has to have something to do with people's inability to look past the "bit" and see the deeper character work that seeded into those bits. If the audience member is assessing the character's actions as nothing more than a silly bit that's getting in the way, perhaps they become quite aggravated by it? (Also, I'm not going to get into the specifics of how people's christian-centric view of religion is absolutely affecting the way they're responding to the "blind faith" thing, but. You know). Like, there is something to be said here about people not wanting to actually delve deeply into the character work happening in Sam's PCs, I'm sure. It's a...unique way of engaging with his characters that is simultaneously so annoying to me as fan of Sam's PCs and also, like, weirdly fascinating as someone who did reception studies in grad school? Like, it is genuinely a unique, if irritating, aspect of the fandom discourse.

#sam riegel #fcg #this is great honestly #as someone who had a really hard time with scanlan until i didn't #this makes so much sense #and i think a lot of it has to do with personal perspective #i'll say more later

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My girlfriend, who has only seen LoVM and not the campaign, just commented that “Grog’s story has a weird amount in common with Hamlet” and now I can’t stop thinking about.

#tlovm #grog strongjaw #cr1 #shut up i'm an english major #i'll never stop thinking about this

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Twins!!

#cr1 #vex'ahlia #vax'ildan #this is gorgeous i'm crying

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“…like my mother before me…”

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#tlovm #keyleth of the air ashari #cr1 #shut up i love them so muuuuuuuuuuuch

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Bell’s Hells

#cr3 #bells hells #these are so sick

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One of my personal hopes for whenever Mighty Nein Animated comes out is that, similar to how they cranked up the dial on Vox Machina being kind of underestimated loser mercenaries at the beginning to make their rise to legendary status more satisfying, I hope they really place notable emphasis on just how fucking shady the Nein are. Like, Vox Machina are crass dumbasses who aren’t above a little pickpocketing or B&E on occasion, but the Nein are on a whole other level. They will have done absolutely nothing wrong and they still act like they’re hiding a body under their floorboards. One of their first adventures together was framing a political figure for sedition and attempted murder. They stole a beacon just because they felt like it. Beau casually committed mail fraud in like episode 4. They have worked for the mob and have committed piracy. These guys are straight up criminals and I would like that to be made very clear. 

#cr2 #THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS #i love the mighty nein for a thousand reasons #but a lot of it has to do with the fact that they really were like *shady ass* bitches at the start #who didn't trust each other worth shit for a while #and even then kept secrets that were like genuinely HUGE FUCKING DEALS #until they couldn't keep them anymore #they're so fucking real to me #idek #lmao

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Shout out to Syldor for being so committed to hating his children that he was openly dismissing the idea that they could ever be worthy to hold a Vestige  while Vax was wearing one.

I bet Devara just brought it up casually after they were gone and then Syldor had to pretend that he totally knew that and didn’t just realize right that second that he’d missed the elephant in the room.

#literally all of this #i cannot possibly explain how the twins' relationships with syldor deeply and endlessly fucking fascinate me #vax is hemorrhaging love in every single fucking facet of his life EXCEPT with Syldor #and Vex is a dam keeping it all at bay all the time #and it's so deeply fascinating that the two of them basically trade places when they're in the face of their father #i honestly feel like it must have been such a weird sort of whiplash for the other members of the team to see them like that #just immediately trading roles without any acknowledgement for it #i think sometimes maybe they both saw the strength in how the other handled their father and chose to emulate that once they got out #anyway the twins make me scream #cr1 #vax'ildan #vex'ahlia

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Art by Brandon Shigaki

“The Arbor Exemplar is a lone, giant tree that grows in the midst of the barren wasteland that is the Barbed Fields. It is four to five hundred feet tall, about 30 feet in diameter and the lowest branches are approximately three hundred feet from the ground, with a lush, leafed canopy defying the desolate barrens surrounding it.”

This scene of Campaign 2 was, in my opinion, a good representation of a turning point in the group’s abilities. They had previously been a bunch of ragtags that happened to excel in certain skill sets, but by the time they’d met with the Bright Queen and were out in the wastes of Xhorhas playing anti-hero for the Kryn Dynasty, the demonstration of their magical and physical prowess in this moment felt almost god-like. Big Tier 2 Energy.

#cr2 #fjord stone #jester lavorre

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Some Pike sketches

#pike shorthalt #cr1 #loml #i love her so much

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We love some good foreshadowing

#tlovm #tlovm spoilers #artagan #garmelie #the traveler