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It’s so important to me that the animated Mighty Nein shows Essek being uncool. Yes, I want to see him being the ice cold Shadowhand. Yes, I want to see him cast Dark Star. But I also want to see him trying to explain what soup is and anxiously chugging whiskey hot cocoa and making weird noises while being manhandled by Caleb polymorphed into a giant ape.

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Okay, the thing about Liliana's relationship with Ludinus is that she genuinely seems to not like this man. she's not about him. she thinks he's dangerous and doesn't contradict Imogen when she calls him evil. that said, she has bought into his rhetoric and DOES think he's right, which means their professional relationship is basically just:

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there's this moment in the otohan fight where Sam just. closes his eyes. for a good ten seconds. and then he opens them, and picks up his pen, and starts writing things/checking things. and like I went into the episode with spoilers so I got to be like oh, I just watched this man decide to kill his character.

(it's several minutes AFTER that, fun fact, that Laura starts jokingly being like "can't you like choose to detonate?" and it's also after that that matt references the idea of a tpk. he's way ahead of them)

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I swear there's always a point in Critical Role where I fall really far behind and i only get vague spoilers about what's going on and then suddenly there's the fandom equivalent of a mushroom cloud in the distance and I'm just sitting there like damn, that can't be good.

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The kids are playing!!!

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it's so funny to me that caleb and veth really did just trade off the job of intensely pining for the other at like the halfway point of the campaign. like, imo, nott in the early days did not behave in any real romantic or even romance-adjacent ways toward him--I imagine it would be very hard to even think in that way when you hate what you look like so much, have such low self-esteem, and are actively lying about your entire past, including a secret husband. caleb, on the other hand, is kind of diving directly back into the sort of relationship he had with astrid and eadwulf. very close, very intimate, we-huddled-for-warmth-together-and-oops-it-led-to-something-else sort of thing. he is the one who expresses that he's fine with it if people think he and nott are romantically together when they're talking to keg. nott is the one who pushes back on that. he calls her his life partner. unknowingly, he compares his feelings for nott to nott's feelings for yeza. his behavior only really starts to change after he finds out about veth's husband because suddenly all of that other stuff is rendered inappropriate in retrospect. but even then he compliments her to yeza over dinner in the most awkward of ways, he admits to being jealous, he calls yeza "a lucky man" to have her, he stares at veth and yeza closed bedroom door for far too long, he creates an entire arcane tower with room for her family just so she'll stay with him. in general, his behavior is not, um, totally and completely platonic about it, you know?

like, veth's feelings for caleb are canonical and therefore indisputable in their existence, but caleb in the early days was not that dissimilar to how veth was acting near the end of the campaign. it really paints a picture of "right person, wrong time" in the way things just didn't line up for them. or, as veth would say: "in another world, maybe"

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I see people saying that FCG's sacrifice means that Orym is free of Nani Morri's bargain but they did return to Exandria safe and sound. They took the portal in the elven ruins back to Exandria safe and sound then decided to return to Ruidus.

They bargained for one trip.

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"the only unchangeable thing about all inhabitants of lucien's body is that they all flirt with caleb" may i add a second one: beau drives them up the wall (the feeling is mutual)

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matt: you can go around and take the hollowed path for 5 days, or go through the barbed fields for 3 days

marisha: i'm assuming the barbed fields are more deadly and less traveled.

matt: the barbed fields was the ground zero for the final battles of the calamity.

marisha and travis: OH HELL YEAH ROAD TRIP THAT SOUNDS FUCKING AWESOME TAKE ME ON THAT TMZ TOUR

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Some tumblr people have pretty accurate guesses about how the moniker “critical role’s heartbreak prince” came to be. Would like to add that it also involved me lying on the floor for hours thinking — what would be the thirstiest non-thirsty way to describe this man that wouldn’t get me fired?

Anyway check out the actual article and help me keep the nerd world beat alive lol: https://www.businessinsider.com/critical-role-candela-obscura-liam-obrien-gothic-horror-gaming-2024-4

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[ID: A digital illustration of Orym and Will from Critical Role. They're teenagers, sat on a branch in a tree. Their hands rest on the branch between them and Will's pinky finger is touching Orym's hand. They both are looking away, looking flustered, and Will is partially hiding behind his long hair. End description.]

Dorky teens

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ONE CRITICAL ROLE SCENE PER EPISODE C2E7: Hush

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Sticker shop open! Worldwide shipping! Get a Fearne or Little Caduceus sticker from me!

#I BOUGHT THESE STICKERS AND THEY'RE REALLY GOOD #the fearne one is shiny!

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got the urge to draw child Laudna in shadow Whitestone, she was such a sweetheart 🥹

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I cast Guiding Bolt...

On myself, straight through the orb portal glass thing. And I will aim it at my heart, and I will trigger a nuclear reaction, if at all possible. I get to roll with advantage...I'm Blaze of Glorying. That's a 14 plus 11 to hit, so that hits. It hits me....I wouldn't know what the blast radius is, so I would, with all of my movement, I would just charge into her and push as hard as I can as I power up. The rage that I feel, the stress being so high, the fuel pumping through my core, it has reached a level it has never reached before, and it is so intense that for the first time I realize that I am made of metal and wires, but I am alive for the first time. And I am alive not because I was made by D or Dancer, or even the Changebringer, but I am alive because they made me alive, and it's the connections that I made with all of them. And it's a feeling of joy, and I'm happy to do this, because they saved my life, and I'll save theirs.

Up the butt

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increasingly dumb Essek polls day 4... the revenge

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keyleth about to have the most insane debriefing for this PRELIMINARY RECON mission.

"okay we have information that thull is dead.............. because we killed her" "liliana temult is actually a double agent............ after we successfully convinced her" "half of underground kreviris reported to be collapsing................ we blew it ourselves" "there are five weave minds and they are everywhere................... because they talked to us for a bit there actually haha"