#C1 for both of them....

[jacquiarno]

Pain, so much pain....

#genshin impact #honkai star rail #fml #C1 for both of them.... #jacquiarno's screenshots #jacquiarno

[shorthaltsjester]

watching the sdcc panel and i am just very :) about how sweet their answers to “what are some of the micro moments from the game that have stuck with you the most over the years?” are. taliesin saying what the fuck is up with that which was the first like The Party Gets To Know Each Other moments of c3. travis saying asking his wife if he could kiss her in campaign. marisha going way back to the cannonball competition in campaign one. ashley choosing the beauyasha date but also just the silly goat noise matt made. liam adding onto that to compliment matt roleplaying grass so well and then saying his favourite moment was writing a story for laura and reading it to her as caleb for jester. and then matt saying that was his answer, and that his favourite moments of the game are when they find ways to give gifts to each other whether tangible or not. and sam saying his favourite moments have less to do with the story and is more so when he can just. see his friends across the table from him. when marisha perches and when laura and ashley are (badly) drawing dicks and liam saying he loves when sam sneezes and ashley tells him to stop it and just. yeah. they Are an extremely popular online powerhouse, but i’m so happy that they’re also friends building a world together out of gifts to and love for one another.

like i Am so enamoured with the characters and the world of exandria but the moments when you can feel the love that those people have for each other reach out from behind the stained glass of their performances (to steal a metaphor from brennan lee mulligan) are so extremely special and i am endlessly grateful that they decided to share their silly little home game with the world.

#it’s just the. laura and travis’ characters always being supportive of one another when they’re facing hardship #taliesin and marisha consistently making characters who challenge one another and still protect each other relentlessly #all of them being so fond of ashley’s characters always and literally seeing them light up in c1 episodes when ash got to join in person #sam and liam always making characters who offer one another reprieves into kindness that they don’t always get in the campaign setting #liam making orym after falling in love with keyleth as vax #marisha making laudna after matt’s storytelling with delilah and choosing vex as her body double #ashley using ‘i would like to rage’ and matt having kord ask her where she finds her strength #laura and matt always weaving these deeply complicated and emotional interactions between a daughter and a father #the gasps and yells and clapping when matt makes cool sound effects or reveals a map or breaks/ends on a cliff hanger #them ending both campaign 1 and 2 with ‘what a great/nice story’ and travis saying ‘let’s do it again!’ #and it’s like. yes yes i love the comics and i’m a fan of tlovm but . seeing this well produced thing that somehow mimics #the feeling i get sitting in my living room laughing with my roommates about my ranger’s giant rat failing to climb stairs #it’s very special it’s very sweet #critical role #sdcc 2023 #taliesin jaffe #travis willingham #marisha ray #ashley johnson #liam o’brien #matthew mercer #laura bailey #sam riegel #cr cast #critical role cast #my posts

[yashley]

“Wasn’t that close.”

#critical role #tlovm spoilers #the legend of vox machina #vexahra #vex immediately eating shit literally killed me these two together THEYVE GOT MY LEG IT’S GOT MY LEG #typing vexahra like it just feels good it feels right #yes them being so sweet with eachother in c1 was Good but also like ....... let em cook . .. . . . . .. . . .good fuckin food #them both being so fuckin smug when they save the other like ........ try kissing

[sparring-spirals]

Went through my kith and kin tag after that last post and once again lying on my floor thinking about. vex snarling at vax about his judgement being swayed by a pretty face-

(another person vax is brave enough to love, even if its dangerous. looking for the good and the kindness and the humanity among the darkness, trying to bring it forward, let vex experience it, even when it can leave him bleeding)-

and vax snarling at vex about her judgement being swayed by her desperation to be accepted-

(another time vex sees a way to secure safety and security and approval, which is safety and security, in a different form. for her, her and vax and trinket and everything she loves, safe in one place, where they can belong, they can stay)-

and. oogh.

Holding these twins in my hands. squishing them like playdough. one of them fights desperately to find the kindness and good and light even when its a fools errand. leaves himself open and hurt for a little bit of light. if it keeps vex safe, happier. one of them counting and calculating and running and cruel because the world demands it. keeps the counter going and going and does the hard things if it keeps vax whole, and okay. one close range and one long.

they'll hurt each other if it keeps the other whole. they'll gladly get hurt if it keeps the other safe. the world is harsh, and they are surviving. what the fuck. theyre such a fucked up pair. they love each other so much.

#critical role #vex'ahlia #twins meta #spar speaks #vax'ildan #every time i set out to write about just one of them it turns into both- not because they arent rich individual characters #but the kith and kin versions of themselves especially are so intentionally wrapped up in each other and the safety and wellbeing #of the other that even actions that are exclusivelt about them- for them- just them- are irrevocably impacted by their long term goals and #the way they have so inextricably tied their lives and their modes of operation around each other and its So Interesting to pick apart!!! #also because if i dive too deep into vex's desperation and her pose as a cage and a shield in one and the cruelty and regret and constant #calculation. or how easily vax bleeds for love- and how easily he loves. i will scream :) even their flaws are so tied to how used they are #to having the other at their back like vax knowing vex will keep that long term vision and vex being brusque and calculating with her charm #bc vax will probably actually like them. its not swt in stone ofc but theres a default there and it makes me. Yell. #anyway if i ever watch c1 ill probably explode. thats all. #the twins #vex meta #vax meta #my meta #ish #ok sleep time!!! :) #kith and kin

[engagemythrusters]

rebels au lil 7yo ezra accidentally follows weird tall guy home to his green wife and sneaks onto their ship and hides in the vents for like an hour up until he finds and bullies the cranky orange droid

#hera: why did you lead a child to the ship! that's dangerous for both us and him! #kanan: i didnt even know he was there until you mentioned it! #hera: what good are those jedi senses of yours if you dont use them #kanan: ... oh goddamn it. hera. we have to keep him. #ezra: hey mister! your droid zapped me! #chopper: BWAHP BWA BWAH #ezra bridger #kanan jarrus #hera syndulla #chopper #c1-10p #star wars: rebels

[danmeichael]

i need to work on my chengxian fics....

#one of them isn't even chengxian really it's mostly just a character study of jiang cheng and his relationship with wwx #and i've built it up in my brain as my magnum opus which makes it impossible to complete #“oh danny you ship chengxian?” they live in my soul and take me apart piece by piece #it's not so much that i ship them romantically it's that they're two skeletons in the same pair of ruins #who were so close together where they were buried that when archaeologists found them #centuries later when half their bones are dust #and the world around them has changed #they are reconstructed as one body. wwx's femur to jc's pelvis. jc's skull to wwx's c1 vertibrae #the version of their relationship in my brain is too weird for platonic cheng&xian likers i think #they are yuri to me #in the way that yuri is about the love between two people as ambiguous and ephemeral and all-consuming #they have the same relationship that you had with your childhood best friend who you don't love anymore but you also Do still love #just because it's part of you just because it's in your blood #even though you haven't talked to them in years #and who you think you could have married if you had both chosen just one thing differently. #“danny that's an insane thing to say about a pairing you just said you don't ship romantically” well maybe you just don't understand love.

[curiouskinetic]

it only took me 30 years but i've finally gotten zhongli's weapon!! ;w;

#ooc #since i already have both boys at c1 which is all i really want for them #i focused on the weapon banner since i needed those far more dfkjhdf #only got grandpa's weapon but i will take anything i can get dkhdfj

[c6jpg]

my greatest fear... neuvillette is really fun

#0.txt #THE WATER CANNON IS SO STUPID BUT ALSO. LOVE BLASTING THESE MFERS #nah do i use my guaranteed on neuvillette... #i can actually get both of them if i just don't guarantee wrio's c1... but i didn't prepare for neuvillette at all lmao #okay im gonna go do the archon quest and see how i feel after i've actually met wriothesley lmao

[captainofthetidesbreath]

Yanno, the worst C3 take I'm gonna see all month is "Chet is almost more of a Sam character than a Travis one, I have to reframe my expectations and more approach Chet as a Sam character that Travis is putting a spin on, Chet is a love letter to Sam", so I think there's no need to compete this month for Worst Take That I Had To See, we can all chill for the next twenty-seven and a half days.

#This take is from late July so proof that you're never too old to achieve your dreams (of making me so tired). #Critical Role things #CR #Anyway I'm not gonna unpack this beyond 'people really continually behave as if Travis can't do anything on his own huh' #Imagine being so dumbass that you're gonna say that Chet is more of a Sam character #bc you reduce Sam to 'haha funnyman with some sad moments' and apparently don't engage with Travis PCs enough to recognize Chet is very him #Like. Really just outing yourself as someone who thinks of both Sam and Travis as players at the table in incredibly reductionist ways huh. #Really proving you never REALLY watched or engaged with them as players and with their characters beyond whatever opinions developed in C1 #Also kind of wild given Chet is a reworking of Chutney and incorporates Travis' love for werewolf media (esp. Lon Chaney in The Wolf Man)

[electric-plants]

actual footage of my account loving anemo characters almost as much as it hates geo

#genshin impact #collection is COMPLETE #caught them ALL #every single one of the five stars were 50/50 wins #jean was my first five star and she’s c1 #sayu was my first c6 #xianyun AND kazuha both came early #OH and i believe sucrose was one of the very first four stars i pulled if im remembering right #the unluckiest thing here was my inability to get faruzan up to c6 tbh #i cant believe im out of anemos to pull #(stares meaningfully at their weapons and cons👀)

[hydrodragons]

my brother keeps trying to convince me to pull on the weapon banner for neuvikazu's rerun but the only way im ever touching that banner is if xiphos moonlight is on it 😤

#if xiphos is on it im fucked LMAO im so set on getting c3 kazu and c1 neuvi #also i rly don't need both of their signature weapons like they're good don't get me wrong but im satisfied with my current builds for them #the only upgrade im looking for weapon wise is just xiphos for kazuha lololol #anyway we'll see....... im still prioritizing the constellations bc i Despise the weapon banner #the only time i ever pulled on it was during kazuhaitham's rerun for lofi #(also i did one 10 pull on my birthday to see if id get lucky and get mistsplitter but nope LOL) #getting c1 neuvi is more beneficial for me + im working to get c6 kazuha through his multiple reruns #knowing my luck i'll get c1 neuvi early and then lose on kazuha's banner....... for the FOURTH TIME 😭😭😭 #hoyo knows he's my favourite of all favourites it's why i always lose on his banners 💔 #lou.txt

[aeoris4lovers]

seeing the beginning of campaign one again, it's so wild to me that vax became known as the Broody Emo One.

i know he gets more broody as the campaign goes on and shit goes down, but his main personality trait at least at the beginning really is just like...charm?

like the dude's A People Person, he's buying drinks for a whole inn's worth of people and lightheartedly sympathizing with npcs about how his friends are all idiots and giving vex surprise hair ruffles while stealthed and generally just so far from the way he's portrayed by a lot of people.

he's such a likable person (very intentionally so) when things are more relaxed and i feel like that makes it hit way harder what he does withdraw bc that's not just what he's always like.

#not to mention even when he does get darker he's not an 'i don't need anyone' type by any means #like sure he takes time to himself a lot but he'd 100% be lost if he were actually alone #which is also true of caleb and i think that's why they work as part of a party even when they're more Broody (TM) #because as much as they might withdraw they also Desperately need their friends so they never fully bail #and that's such an important part of both their characters especially when you consider their attachments to vex and veth respectively #liam's characters always have Very Important Friends they're never really that Loner Type even though people tend to paint them that way #if anything it makes more sense for caleb to be talked about as the loner type because of how close he gets to bailing on everyone but nott #but i feel like vax gets much more of that treatment?? like okay the dude likes to Walk Away #he also Desperately Needs To Be Liked And Will Make You Like Him If It's The Last Thing He Does a lot of the time #it's not a one-dimensional thing by any means if you ask me and it's so weird to me that it's what defines him to a lot of people #c1 rewatch #c1 liveblog #cr liveblogging #vax’ildan

[shorthaltsjester]

the venn diagram of people who actually understand pelor’s complexity and the people who understand vex’s character is a circle and a very small one at that

#it’s about them both being secretly kind hearted with harsh and dickish exteriors to protect the things that matter to them #like. please rewatch c1 and the info we get about pelor in it #where it is reiterates time and time again that pelor faced a significant brunt of the calamity. who watched ioun get struck down. #who shares a plane with sarenrae after her believers were essentially extinguished #and tell me again how his actions (of which we have. still very little info) are unreasonable #they are Absolutely asshole actions #but yknow. vex was also inclined towards asshole actions when her loved ones/the stability of her life was threatened #anyway this isn’t discourse this is just how i feel about two of the fandom things that irritate me the most and their correlation #honestly i don’t super want anymore vm cameos for a While but also i would love a vex one if it was regarding pelors champion stuff #especially now that we won’t have deanna around #vex’ahlia #pelor #the dawnfather #vex’ahlia de rolo #critical role #my posts

[chompe-diem]

just started eldermourne and aaaaaaahh i love it sm honestly i love the vibe it has it mustve been a bit tough for the crew to try and get away from c1 at the time but truly it quickly established itself to have its own energy, which i adore

#is that a liveblog i see? #eldermourne #(on ep. 8 rn) #i fucking love the vibes!!!!! #no blorbos yet but i love all the pcs #and i just love the new vibe new setup new dynamic #my fave dm is back and the lovely players are back but they found something new and it’s soso good !! #like. and ik this is from a fundamentally diff perspective from listeners that were keeping up with in real time #(i binged sm of their content so fast it’s just in my memory differently) #but literally not even thinking of bahumia or comparing to bahumia while i’m listening. #it doesn’t even feel like a juxtaposition or a response to c1 it’s truly just It’s Own Thing #fuckin love that for them that they did that <333 #sorry if this sounds like im overemphasizing the comparison/lack-of-comparison between the two campaigns #genuinely when im listening to the play im not even thinking of that #but i feel like it comes up semi-often in the short rest #and like!!! y’all did so good ik it was probably hard to distance from c1 and step back from c1 #both in terms of marketing(?)/public image w their audience and also playing those characters in that world for some good few years #but honestly truly they did a great fuckin job #anyways ill stop talking now

[all-thestories-aretrue]

Ok the three way rock paper scissors was funny.

Caleb "i know three ways and this is not how you accomplish them"

#critical role #mighty nein #cr2 #cr2ep104 #omg they took a bream because they couldnt stop laughing #i was cleaning my hamsters cage and adding some more enrichment to it during the last half of 103 and the first part of 104 #i also sent like a 10 minute video to my friend who is watching c2 #shes behind me #somewhere in the 80s ready for the fighting pit!! #we were talking about caleb and agency #and the conversation with astrid #and she was asking if she should start c3 or c1 next #so i gave her the rundown of both of them #and threw in calamity as an honorable mention #she also complimented my analysis of nott and said i made her see nott #and no one else is really seeing nott #i have so many feelings about nott!!! #and i dont think veth's story is over with yet either #yeah she changed back but all of her problems are still unresolved #i was also thinking about caleb while i was in the shower earlier and it made me sad #this bright young hopeful boy off to study magic only to be manipulated and abused for years and then told to murder his parents #and he complies #and like replace that with astrid or wulf and its the same #how horrible #and such an effective method #so many feelings about caleb always #i just want someone to hold him #also i gave my hamster btw i named her dahlia #i gave her more of these seeds she really likes and she shoved ALL of them into her little cheek pouches #it was adorable

[gorgynei]

i think....... c1 is superior in my heart to c2. BUT by very little and in very specific ways. i like the mighty nein more than vox machina in vacuum but god vm's story and campaign and everything is just so incredibly impossibly perfect. the briarwoods, the chroma conclave, VAX, vecna, perc'ahlia, just all of it. god. never a dull arc with vm. so i prefer c1 to c2. maybe if (when tbh) i rewatch c2 in its entirety i will change my mind but. vox machina i love you ^_^

#i love c1 and c2 both so much its hard to pick but like. vm stans... i understand you. wowie #c3 is. well. lower than both of them but does that really count. theyre barely out of their second arc. #ramblings