Sally: He's insufferable and blah, blah, blah...you've said it a thousand times. But you know what, if he was really so unbearable you wouldn't have kissed him!
Elizabeth: I was drunk!
Sally: The second time you weren't.
Elizabeth: He kissed me forcibly.
Sally: And the third time?
*Elizabeth threw a pillow in Sally's face and left the room thinking about the other times she didn't tell her friend*
Summer Nights (2024)
Glen Powell & Monica Barbaro
Gifs multiple vias, one of those is from @natashatrace . The other ones a I don't remember where they're from 😓. If the gifs' owners are around here, please don't be mad at me. I'll take you all the credits 🙏
i'm not sure if it's a regional or a big city thing or if this has actually changed and i also don't even want to contribute to this discussion bc it annoys me nearly as much as the bi-annual daylight saving times disussion but i remember a time when people would yell 'too early' when someone lit fireworks at like 11pm on the 31st of december... and now (or here?) it goes on for at least 3 fucking days??? all day long, all night long? all the time?! i genuinely do not enjoy new years anymore because it annoys me so much... like they don't scare me or anything it's just the constant thought of 'are you for fucking real?' with every single bang... and i'd say i'll just leave town but (as per usual) i have to work on new year's so i have to stay and there is nowhere to go and i'm... straight up not having a good time
here is the link which will redirect you to #384 medium gifs of Monica Barbaro as Sophie Wilder in At Midnight. All gifs were made from scratch by me so please don’t claim them as your own and credit me if you use or repost it
started reading at midnight a collection of short stories of fairy tale retellings and theres so much good rep, like im deeply obsessed, i cant wait to finish it!!
Today Critical Role's development and production company, Metapigeon, has announced the acquisition of the narrative podcast Midst. Midst is a semi-improvised audio drama that already has two seasons under its belt with a third on the way. While Critical Role has expanded multiple times in recent years into their publishing branch Darrington Press, creating board games such as Uk'otoa and Till The Last Gasp, and into animation with the first two seasons of The Legends of Vox Machina available to stream on Amazon Prime this is the first time that Critical Role has purchased an existing entertainment IP and brought it under their umbrella. The first three remastered episodes will release for free via Critical Role's YouTube channel on April 11th, 12th, and 13th.
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I am so intrigued with this direction for Critical Role and the expansion of Metapigeon as a production and distribution channel.
I have been wondering what CR would do for additional content.
It felt like, especially after the pandemic the cast have been exceptionally busy in other projects but also as I was going down the line of CR’s other shows, I felt like it wasn’t sustainable to always rely on the same cast members to always be hosting different shows or playing games.
But also, Critical Role didn’t have to play the same grind and hustle wheelhouse twitch streamers seemed to find themselves trapped in. They already have a dedicated audience, and as Kevin Kelly once wrote sometimes all you need is 1,000 true fans.
At the same time, they do still need to produce videos/content to keep an audience engaged.
This feels like a good direction CR is heading towards, it is in line with their brand, and doubling down on their statement about uplifting indie creators. Something they’ve said before and reiterated during the whole OGL fiasco. Marisha and Matt weren’t just offering lip service to Linda Codega.
I wondered when Worlds Beyond Number was released with its fantastic audio design if Critical Role will also do something similar but re-releasing Midst and producing its season 3 feels like such a good first step in both expanding and also helping indie creators get boosted.
Midst is also on brand because it seems to be a fantastic narrative story with semi-improvisation.
But also, I hope Marisha will talk about the thought process of adding Midst to CR’s stable of content. I loved when Marisha (in Google Talks) discussed how she broke down what made CR popular and created shows towards that.
Adding in another show is also going to give the CR cast members more bandwidth, while also giving fans something new.
I’m looking forward to all the lore and artwork this new show will add!
At midnight you said, Come out,
and in the dark there we saw the sky of August
explode with its stars.
Eternal, unconfined, night's pale sheen
trembled above us.
eBooks
The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer (m/m YA sci-fi, $1.99)
Running with Lions by Julian Winters (m/m YA contemporary romance, $1.99)
The Daughters of Izdihar by Hadeer Elsbai (Sapphic adult fantasy, $1.99)
Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco (queer epic fantasy, $1.99)
Out on the Ice by Kelly Farmer (f/f contemporary sports romance, $1.99)
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire…