#a distant threat

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

During the Classic Series, the Infinity Knights were (usually) a distant threat that the Inspector only had to deal with on occasion.

In the Revived Series, the Infinity Knights and Kayaclasch were repeatedly ‘destroyed’ (but not really), but when they turned up, serious shit was about to go down.

#Inspector Spacetime #Infinity Knights #Classic Series #a distant threat #the Inspector (character) #had to deal with #on occasion #Revived Series #they and their home planet #Kayaclasch #were repeatedly 'destroyed' #but not really #when they turned up #serious shit #was about to go down

[blackpilljesus]

I find community discourse incredibly annoying. People are often like "Wheres's the community? We need community! People are so individualistic these days". Individualism gets a lot of criticism but nobody ever questions why this happens. While there are some merits to communities, historically communities have mainly benefitted the priviledged. Most communities evolve into divide-and-rule politics where some are seen as more deserving than others (based on things that cannot be controlled). If you're a marginalised person, more often than not you get bs from communities, not love and protection as advertised.

When you're on the short stick side of the divide-and-rule politics in communities, communities are dangerous for you. It will be seen as acceptable to abuse & put you in horrible conditions simply bc of what you are. Those who abuse tend to be in higher positions in communities so when you call them out people wouldn't care or believe you. You'll be punished when you fight back however. When you're marginalised in a community you receive the worst brunts from people and it's seen as okay to be less deserving of support. You wont be supported in community.

People talk about "safety in numbers" but when the community faces trouble, they will have no problem abandoning or sacrificing the marginalised to save themselves at large. Communities have no problem throwing others away or isolating them once it benefits them. Alot of the time people are used & abused in communities so they're fed up with that, fed up of being treated like second class citizens in communities.

Look at the way communties people reminisce about & yearn for actually turned out. "We had community back in the day" yeah the same ones full of predatory uncles that would abuse women & children and get defended, the same communities full of victim blaming & shaming women + girls for being abused, the same communities where some were implicitly told they were more inferior but if they obeyed those higher up in power they can be forgiven. People talk about a lack of a "third place" bc of the rise of secularism so less are going to places of worship but many people leave those communities (even if their faith is still intact) because of corruption & abuse. The judgements & hypocrisy in these places is a lot (one of the reasons I personally left religion & the community too).

Best believe if you can hold your own down, being in a community is more dangerous than being alone bc like i said when things go south your ass will be on the chopping block first. Hell if people just want to abuse, they'll go for the marginalised first & so much abuse is enabled in communities. They'll ostracise & shun you and the threat of that alone keeps many in line to uphold abusive structures in place in communities.

"But humans are natural social creatures that want to be in groups" is something I hear often & that should make you stop and think of how so many people going against this instinct to survive says a lot about how dangerous alot of communities are. It's our nature to socialise, be in groups yet it's chosen to be independent because of the danger groups actually present when you're not seen as a valued member of them.

At this point people would either say "look inwards" or "find better communities out there" but the problem is that status in communities isnt entirely based on the merit of the way you behave. Finding communities where you're accepted & valued IRL tends to be based on things you cant control. It's not like the internet where you put yourself out there & eventually find your community even if they live all over the world. In reality it's another ballgame, people are more closed off & judgemental if you dont fit certain standards so it's more difficult to find places where you'll fit in. Also, as mentioned the determining factors of the way you'll be treated in communities are based on things you cant control, your characteristics will do more speaking and determination for you. So it's not as easy as just "find a better community". Given the way activism is on the internet, many people forget how conservative & hostile the real world actually is. Things like sexism, colorism, racism, ableism, homophobia, lookism etc; play a big role in most communities irl which is why many people seek alt communities online even though those come with issues of their own but to not stray away from the point this is why many people arent fucking with -irl- community shit anymore.

This discource pisses me off because when you constantly receive crap from communities people blame you for it but when you leave you get badgered for not having or being part of community. Communities benefit the priviledged as they uplift those on top, they get to take more from communities & enrich themselves while those at the bottom get fucked over and it's no wonder so many people get fed up and decide to put things into their own hands than risk being in/trusting communities that wont hesitate to risk or end your life over bs. I know that not all communities out there will be horrible but as mentioned finding communities IRL where you'll be accepted as a marginalised person is difficult. Finding equitable communities where everyone is held accountable for their actions, where people genuienly help each other to get by & survive over divide-and-rule politics is difficult.

People complaining about lack of community but wont address the rampant abuse that happens in them tells me they dont care about community spirit as they claim they just want pools of people to exploit and are disguising it under communal spirit & protection. I dont fw communities & sometimes people will tell me i cant do everything alone, no man is an island -good thing i'm a woman then lol- but fr the people this crap comes from are the type of people that make communities suck & i wouldn't want to be in a community with them anyways bc they're horrible & would just exploit. Individualism is on the rise because so many of us marginalised people who grew up in communities realise we're better off alone & idc what anyone says if they feel they're better off within communitities then bet but a lot of the time others are better off alone. And icl one positive of capitalism is that it gives you a chance to rely on communities less & have a more independent lifestyle. Yes there's still a level of people/community engagement but we're not as tightly bound to a community like a small tribe in a village bc tbh i'd probably be dead by now if i had to live & rely on others that way.

Instead of just criticising individualism & guilt tripping people to join communities, if people actually care do inflection about your "communities". Except this wont happen bc this isnt about community spirit but looking for others to exploit which is why it's being aggresively pushed.

#Also communities isolate people anyways #Yes being alone can also make things dangerous; it isnt perfect & if communities see you they'll view u as a easy target but overall #i personally find it better to be independent of 'community'; doesnt mean i isolate myself tho #If you find good communities out there stick with them; Im not saying isolate yourself; you can work with people but keep distant #dont tie yourself into community #Personally I think people fearmonger around being independent so they cant hold the threat of being ostracised from communities over you #anti community #community

[s1ithers]

wish i knew the forgotten realms lore better...how am i meant to make my little ocs in this state of ignorance

#i'm so interested in how people relate to the gods in this world which is sort of hard to glean from the wiki #thinking abt those notes in the ilmater temple - 'even bhaal has things to teach us 😔🙏' otoh but the absolute cult is 'heresy' #like who decides that? what does heresy /mean/ in this polytheistic setup where each god's cult seems to p much do their own thing #& it seems like even among the good-aligned gods ppl tend to pick one to hitch their wagon to in a pretty committed way #what does polytheism mean to the average joe in this world #i need to know #i need to make a little guy about it #wrapped up shadowheart's quest and....idk man! #just going off the lore as presented in bg3 so far it's set up distrust for deities pretty much across the board #like babe is your new cult better? bc they've got angel imagery? i guess so #the whole problem of evil thing - the dead three shar et al being so extant & active in the world makes the (apparently?) more distant #benevolence of good gods pretty limp by comparison #so much of what draws lay people to them seems to be protection from the very real material threat posed by the evil ones? #& at least SH is in a better place to choose than say. the goblins #vast swathes of people just born under a bad sign in this world #i heard somewhere that if you don't get a god to claim your soul for their afterlife it just kind of withers away in limbo for eternity? #kinda fucked up #some protection racket shit dude #being a mortal in FR like you're just a little guy in a precarious cosmological situation aren't u #to be clear none of this is a criticism i think it's very fun & chewy #rife with cosmic horror potential #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #edit: i mean it's a little bit of a criticism in that i don't think the game sells SH's conversion super well #if the intention is just to be like. yay white-hat god good ^_^ #but i don't hate the worldbuilding implications if we take the iffiness as read

[elminsters]

I made Eurydice's parents hehe

Daeron and Delphine are a pair of Harpers who met in the early 1300s DR after being assigned to aid a secluded druidic circle in the protection of a pool of radiance. Nigh on 25 years into the assignment they welcomed their first and only child, a daughter. She was the light of their lives: clever and witty with a knack for mischief-making, they knew she was destined for great things (and told her as much... often).

They were proud when she struck out on her own to attend a bardic college in Cormyr, prouder still when she started making a name for herself as an adventurer. But their proudest moment was also their darkest, watching in horror as their only child flung herself into the pool of radiance to stop the Cult of the Dragon from seizing its power. A blinding silver light flooded the grove of ancient oak trees that housed the pool. When it dimmed, the pool was still and their daughter was gone.

Distraught, Daeron and Delphine jumped into the pool after her, its magic now drained, searching in vain for any sign of their daughter. They mourned her for nearly a century, never straying far from the circle, always hoping that one day, somehow, she would find her way home to them.

Hope and belief are two different things, and that was never more clear than when, 98 years later, the circle's archdruid barreled through their door and told them that something has happened at the pool. They raced to the oak grove, where they found two healers crouched over a sopping wet figure at the pool's bank. They couldn't bring themselves to believe their eyes, afraid to blink and disturb the illusion before them. The figure looked up at them, eyes wide and afraid, and when she opened her mouth any doubts about whether this was real faded in an instant.

"Mum? Dad?"

#anyway that happy reunion lasted all of 5 seconds because she had to go on the run #i do like thinking about sometime in the distant future eurydice and astarion kill enough dragon cultists that theyre less of a threat #and she can finally visit and is like btw i have a different name now and also like 100 fake ones and this is my vampire husband #and her parents do not know what to do with the fact that their golden child is a hedonistic con artist and public menace #also can i just say that these face presets are so believable as her biological parents omg #like she looks like such a good mix of the two of them #eurydice teurimil

[itissadbutitsmy-artblog]

blaine: --and a peppermint mocha for me

blaine: >:D [DOOOM sfx]

#they are going to Eat pepper. they Hate him #Threats and Violence in the friend group #I drew this before fnc. but surprisingly it has (somewhat) more relevance now. I’m too lazy to digi it but here y’all go #adventure time #blaine #peppermint #traditional #distant lands

[distant-screaming]

Real image of me rn

#GUESS WHO WATCHED THE OS2 EPISODE. YEAH #AJFJKSKFKFKDKD #I WILL make more posts (threat) but I need to just sit in this for a bit #our skyy 2 #our skyy 2 x my school president #my school president #msp #my school president series #distant screaming screams into the void

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

I love this scene because even after everything, the first thing Naesala does when he gets into the room is react in panic about Reyson and Leanne being unconscious. In that short moment, he just reacted on the instinct that he's always cared about them, despite how shaky things had gotten with Reyson a few years ago and how he was forced to do the things he did (including with the Laguz Alliance in RD).

If he was thinking logically and had a moment to process the situation, he might've stood back and pretended to care less than he actually did, as is usual for him. In this case he didn't hesitate to react and ran to them as soon as he walked in, because it was a knee jerk reaction.

If he sat back and thought about it, he would've known Tibarn was going to start making threats and trying to pick a fight, but his genuine desires overcame logic for just a second long enough for him fear for Reyson and Leanne. As long as the two of them are alive and well, he can continue putting on that mask and faking his way through it. If there's any chance they're in life threatening danger, he'll change course to make sure they're safe (such as refusing to fight Reyson when he was in service to the Crimean army, even at his own expense).

Since Naesala wasn't aware how badly the herons were being affected by the medallion, he wasn't aware in advance that they were in any danger. He doesn't know what happened here, so he walks in and suddenly sees them unconscious on the floor. For all he knew, it could've been life threatening - hence his instant response that didn't wait for his brain to register that he's supposed to be playing the bad guy. I think the only reason he could calm down and conclude it wasn't is because nobody else was panicking/grieving with the implication of a possible death.

(And fwiw, yes, he did have to technically sell Reyson to Oliver in PoR. If he didn't abide by something the senate wanted, Oliver could just make up some story to Lekain to get him to trigger the Blood Pact. Naesala knew he was being a snake to get the whole thing to happen, but he did technically have to go through with it the moment anyone from the senate wanted something from him)

#DCB RD Run #as long as they're alive and well Naesala can play the bad guy just fine #but if he sees a bad situation and for all he knows they might be dying he drops the act instantly #I think the only reason he put it right back on was bc like I said #he realized they weren't in that kind of immediate danger based on how everyone in the room was acting #there would've been anger and sadness and not a serious group discussion #I think that if they were really dying or something that Naesala wouldn't GIVE a fuck what Tibarn said to him #I don't think he would just revert back to being the bad guy once he had a moment to process everything #I think he would ignore Tibarn and his threats completely bc he'd be so distraught #while he's acting like the bad guy he's doing it while expecting that they're doing just fine elsewhere #if they weren't fine I think he'd too upset to care what anyone said or threatened him with #bc at that point he'd be responding with raw emotion. I think he'd ask what happened to them first #and if Tibarn kept tossing Choice Words at him I really don't think he'd care #I don't think he'd be like yeah you're right I deserve it and all that other stuff he says when he's perfectly fine #I think if he was sitting there with the realization that they were dying/dead that none of that would matter #he can pretend to be distant and play the part but it doesn't change what his real feelings are #and those feelings would be his instinctive response to something like that

[bestworstcase]

this bodes

#rwby v9 spoilers #i mean it’s a reversal. true. #people coming together #reaching out across national borders #humanity’s last stand and all #but it’s also. um. #there’s no visible threat #no grimm. vacuo isn’t under siege #you have this ragtag bunch of ships #arranged in a military formation #looking outward toward an external threat #that isn’t actually there #in a kingdom that barely survived a coup #like a few months to a year ago. lmao #‘when youre needed most’ is perhaps #more about vacuo’s internal dysfunction #than the distant threat of salem #Who Is Probably At Beacon

[journey-to-the-attic]

Holy shit that chronodae lore drop just made God so much more sinister. Why is he pretending to be an overseer? What did he do to the proto-angels? Is he FEEDING on the angels somehow?? What's his plan here?!?!?

hahaha.... well who knows :)

#answering asks #anon asks #i think letting the idea fester is more effective than also writing out a bunch of lore for this too #i feel like i risk overshadowing the stakes in jtta if i start talking about something so much Bigger than any situation in the three realm #he's a very distant but very enormous threat #like a black hole. you know it's there and you know of its magnitude but it's so far away that it doesn't affect you #it's not even necessarily malicious. this is just its existence #and it isn't governed by any realm's rules #also important to note that the behaviour of the celestial realm's high council is separate from whatever rulings god makes #not to say they're completely independent but the angels generally make their own choices #make of that what you will

[aprillikesthings]

I've been reading a book that's a fictionalized account of a year in the life of a serf woman in the middle ages. There's no real plot in a traditional sense, it's more like a "slice of life" kind of thing? The main point is to teach you about the daily life of an average person.

The author doesn't say when in the middle ages it's supposed to be taking place. It's definitely somewhere in England, but while some of the characters' names imply post-Norman invasion (which was 1066), the way things are portrayed implies a couple hundred years before that. I could quibble with the accuracy of some of it--soap was commonly used starting in the 800's; also they totally had linen before that!, why are they amazed and confused by seeing a piece of it; also England was Christian but people still engaged in a lot of folk religion and you don't see much of it in the book, if any.

But on the whole it's a very empathetic way of looking into the past.

It's a stressful read sometimes!! Which I suppose is part of the point. The POV character, Marion, has two living children. She had a toddler son die, and a 12-year-old daughter die, and three other infants that died; and that was not in any way unusual for that time period.

Life is just incredibly precarious: A cottage burns down because of a child's innocent mistake. A healthy adult man dies from a wood splinter wound getting infected. Marion spends all day spinning wool (the village's major trade good--she's required to give a certain amount of it to the lord every year) and a day's spinning is destroyed by accident by her toddler and she's understandably upset.

(Every spun on a drop spindle or seen someone else do it? That shit is SLOW even when done by someone with a lot of practice. And you have to spin SO MUCH to make any clothing!)

Making sure they have enough to eat takes up the vast majority of everyone's time and back-breaking labor, and a spell of bad weather could cause the whole village to starve. Marion is constantly checking on the peas in her garden, and wondering is her goat still giving milk? How many eggs did the hens lay? (how many does she still owe to her lord?) Have mice or mold gotten into her flour? And that's on top of making sour milk/cheese, and bread, and deciding when to slaughter the pigs, and making sure every last bit of those pigs is used for something or safely preserved for later. A tremendous portion of every day is just growing, preparing, and preserving food; by herself or with other villagers.

The lord and lady of the hall are fascinating, because while yes they "own" a few dozen people (because they own the land they live on, really; the serfs belong to the land, legally speaking) and pay/hire freemen, they're not idle rich people. The lady of the hall is constantly making decisions and is hardly above doing physical labor herself, including making bread and ale. The lord and lady clearly take their role seriously and are trying to make good decisions that keep the entire village fed and clothed and housed, including caring for widows and orphans. Nevertheless, they do have a higher standard of living than any of their serfs, and still have an inordinate amount of power over their lives; including deciding who can marry, and they mete out punishment when they feel it's necessary.

They just own so, so little. Marion has two wool dresses, and for most of the year she's wearing both. She has one pair of shoes, which she only wears in the winter. When the lord comes back from trading their wool thread for (among other things) a year's supply of salt and a few new iron pots, the lady of the hall has to figure out who, out of many families, needs a new pot; most families only have one. Marion's husband is the village carpenter and he knows exactly how many nails he owns, and saves bent ones for the visit from the tinker who straightens them out.

ANYWAY. Tl;dr: It's an absorbing book, and every time I put it down and am yanked back into the current day, I just think: holy shit. I am so comfortable, all of the time. And I have SO MUCH STUFF.

My life is so, so easy.

#my posts #omg there's so much more i could say about this book #the family relationships are so interesting #marion is genuinely fond of her husband for instance #when another villager's husband dies she is just as grief-stricken as any of us would be #being constantly faced with the possibility of death did not make any of them mourn their loved ones any less #I always think about that when I think about 'pre-modern' people: #that whenever we read about them we have to remember that all of them have suffered through immense grief over and over #death and pain were never this distant thing they were always near #things that would be no big deal to us regularly killed and disabled them and hunger was a constant threat

[glavilio]

me sprinkling in a little bit of romantic baggage into all my characters with a uniquely transgender flavor. no one is safe

#i'm making pernelle and calisone ex lovers from way back #and his guilt over hurting her is a big reason why he doesn't obey the court's order and kill them as a knight and vassal #also prince mirse (the current partner of callisone and true vassal of the court) doesn't see citinri as a threat #he's certainly more of a strategist politician than how the king sees himself as a divine ruler. he understands that citrini has no #economic power or political leverage and that they own no land. the king's religious and fanatic fears are not shared by his court in i #it's entirety. so his vassals don't necessarily obey him but don't dispose him because he is easy to manipulate and change to the status qu #would inevitably harm the monarchy and the power the lesser princes can use. marse especially understands that but also sees pernelle as a #major potential ally in case things do go sour. the island is inferior technologically and she is one of the few insiders with #scientific and technological expertise that compares to the early modern mainland and other continents #because of calisone and pernelles history calisone also acts a little bit like a father figure to citrini #though a temporary and very very distant one. since both of citirnis grandparents are dead and half estranged. and their cousin is the same #age and also quite distant emotionally and geographically #of course plenty of the vassals do share the same religious and political ideals with the king #or familial ties #those are the ones that pose a real danger to young arrant errant citrinitas

[joshuaalbert]

ngl collective did kinda slip past the borg burnout because it’s another episode that does a really good job of having a conversation with a tng episode (in this case I, borg). it never really feels like picard might release the virus in that episode regardless of his trauma because there’s not a super immediate threat and because he, generally speaking, has the opportunity to be idealistic, but in voy’s episode there are more tangible stakes (captured crew members who will die if they’re assimilated, deactivation of the warp drive which would prevent them from getting home) and they’re in a different genre where they’re on their own and can’t always have the exact same type of idealism. and I think that’s been one of the really interesting things about late season voy! when early episodes redid a concept from tng, it felt like a rehash and like they weren’t confident enough that it would stand on its own, so those tended to be the weaker episodes, but when later seasons voy does it, it feels like a deliberate dialogue. they may come to the same conclusions—in this case janeway IS able to do the idealistic thing and find another way in helping the borg regain their individuality—but it still feels like it’s interrogating the concept. under what circumstances does a starfleet captain begin to seriously think about killing the borg, or killing children? picard thinks about killing off the borg, sure, but he’s not in a position that might force him to do it quite the same way. it’s like. how far can you be pushed and how many other people’s lives are you willing to risk for the sake of your morals?

#idk it’s interesting! ds9 obviously does a lot of this kind of questioning tng as a whole but it doesn’t often do it with #individual episodes quite the same way #voy liveblog #also yes theres the implied threat in tng of another borg attack but it’s a distant threat it lacks the same narrative immediacy

[mudstoneabyss]

I think before they actually interacted Kevin was following Carlos around without letting his presence be known so there was around a week when first in tdow that Carlos could feel that he was being watched and could occasionally hear something around him but never find what

#one day he turns around and Kevins RIGHT behind him (once hes deemed Carlos no threat) #wtnv #joyousposting #its a desert ik Kevin was just always distant enough to be able to pop out of sight

[frogeyedape]

I'm tired of seeing antisemitism on my dash, in all its subtle forms. War is an atrocity, and Israel is not unique in that. Where is the outrage against Russia's ongoing genocide of Ukrainians? What about China's genocide of Uyghurs? What of all the other atrocities being committed around the world? Why is there *so much attention* devoted to hating Israel and seeking, not an end to the conflict, but the end of Israel? Is it just that they're a little country, an easy target to potentially dismantle, compared to the big fish of Russia and China?

Keep calling out the atrocities, by all means, but for the love of humanity maybe broaden your targets and reduce your own genocidal wishes?

Any ideology that says: "They did horrible things so 'they' [the group they belong to] all deserve to die horribly" is an evil one.

#i/p #israeli exceptionalism: they're just So Different from other places! (do you see how your focus is maybe a bit antisemitic? #antisemitism #genocide #russia-ukraine war #china's persecution of uyghur #and yeah you horrible people commenting that “but hamas...” is just an excuse--HAMAS COMITTED WAR CRIMES TOO #hamas is a serious threat to israeli security. period. and hamas hides behind civilians. and discourages civilians from evacuating-- which #is itself a war crime!! #where are the calls for hamas to follow international law regarding civilians? why is it all israel's fault to you people? #*multiple people & countries can be at fault and they're all still just people/countries like you/your country* #*you are not a paragon of virtue for hating a distant genocide when you look away from the native genocide ONGOING beneath your feet* #seriously missing and murdered indigenous women ought to be in US headlines a hell of a lot more!!! #like fuck just...you're not special. put you in a war and see what war crimes you commit. #god and the child soldiers! where is the outrage for children pressganged into war?! forced to kill or be killed? #just. god. hate the individuals responsible not whole fucking countries. please

[thevalleyisjolly]

I don’t think Matt is setting up Calamity 2.0, mostly because on a meta-level, it contradicts the idea that Vox Machina and the Mighty Nein get to live out their lives in contentment and (relative) peace.  Maybe the Mighty Nein would be down to deal with another world-ending threat, they’re only seven years into their epilogue, but Vox Machina?  They wouldn’t stand by while another Calamity happened of course, but it’d still be a fairly serious disruption to the endings they got.

(It’s also why I don’t seriously think we’ll see any kind of trip to Whitestone while Delilah is still in Laudna’s head.  If Delilah’s still around, she’s a part of Laudna’s story now, not Percy’s or Vex’s or Cassandra’s.  That chapter of their lives is done with, and it’d be a disservice to all characters involved to make Delilah Vox Machina’s problem once again.)

What I can maybe see Matt doing is setting up some kind of long-term recurring problem that Bells Hells are directly responsible for.  Perhaps a Tree of Names moment where the party destroys Ruidus out of an earnest desire to save their friend, not knowing that something malignant is imprisoned within.  Or the Bells Hells attempts to interfere with an apogee solstice scheme causes something to go haywire and what was originally a medium-level antagonist suddenly becomes super-powered.  Maybe even reluctantly working with the Nightmare King to find out what’s happening with Ruidus, only for Ira to reveal that they’ve actually been helping him all along and his plans are nothing good.

Then Bells Hells has to slowly gain resources, power, allies to face this threat that they’re responsible for unleashing, while the villain engages in mysterious plots in the background.  Sort of like how Vox Machina had to get Vestiges to fight the Chroma Conclave, or Obann and the Angel of Irons plot, or even Uk’otoa haunting Fjord like a bad apple.

Also, while it’s true that Vox Machina and the Mighty Nein did not deal with threats of the particular scale that Matt seems to be hinting at with Bells Hells, Matt has frequently dropped hints about potential BBEGs long before the party was ready to deal with them.  The first time Vecna was mentioned was during the Briarwoods arc, and apart from Vex rather brilliantly continuing to research this plot line, he didn’t become an active threat until Episode 100, nearly 60 episodes later.  Cree and the concept of Lucien first came up in C2x14, but the actual Lucien/Eyes of Nine arc didn’t really start until C2x111, almost a hundred episodes later.  While there’s no telling which plot hooks the Bells Hells will choose to pursue, Matt simply dropping names and clues does not mean that they are imminent threats which a party of Level 6 adventurers will have to deal with right away.

#critical role #critical role spoilers #is part of this wishful thinking because damn it; let vox machina have their happy endings? maybe #to be fair; i could see most of the mighty nein being ready to throw down with another world ending threat #but even if we are headed for another calamity; i don't see matt dragging previous parties back into it in any kind of direct role #maybe as quest giving characters or distant allies like allura was for the mighty nein #convincing people in charge to listen to bells hells; or maybe even being the people in charge #who is on the tal'dorei council?!? #and yes; i'm aware vox machina was not responsible for the chroma conclave attack #and that neither yasha nor fjord were responsible for obann or uk'otoa #the comparison is about overarching threats lurking in the background; not who is responsible for what

[drakonovisny]

maybe i'm overly sensitive about this, but chornobyl jokes from westerns just rub me the wrong way 😬

#like it's not some distant historical event #it's been only 36 years since the incident‚ thousands of people who've been affected by it are still alive #and as the russian invasion demonstrated it still poses a real threat to thousands more #but again maybe i'm just overreacting...