#awnp

[pocketgalaxies]

MARISHA RAY in All Work No Play: Fire Spinning

#critical role #criticalroleedit #marisha ray #all work no play #awnp #gifs #* #*cr #cr extras #1k #flashing // #sexuality adventures #marisha ray supremacy #scheduled #this gifset was brought to you by the lesbionic urge to get bashed in the skull with a fireball swung by marisha ray #she is the coolest woman in the world............

[xombigirl]

I have just been having A Lot Of Feelings about these two lately. They just love each other SO MUCH.

Liam: "That's MY Husband" O'Brien and Sam "I'm crying over our friendship!" Riegel

#critical role #liam o’brien #sam riegel #the husbands #awnp

[abalonemacaroni]

Wait what do you mean liam picks sams characters?

Short answer: there is a running bit where Liam decides the race and class Sam will play for each of their campaigns!

Long answer: Liam and Sam have/had a podcast called All Work No Play that they started back in 2012, years before it became a CR show. In the second episode, or something like that, they mention that they are going to play D&D with Matt Mercer and some friends soon. Sam doesn’t know what anything is or what to play and jokingly says “maybe I’ll play just the worst, like what’s the worst one” (paraphrased) and Liam says “I dunno, gnome bard?”. That’s how Scanlan was born.

Then, for C2, they have slightly conflicting stories. Sam says that he asked Liam to pick a character for him again and Liam picked goblin rogue. Liam says it was just a suggestion of a cool idea. But, for C3 Liam fully admits that he picked robot cleric for Sam to play.

Which (idk if this is a real theory) actually gives some credence to a “the Menagerie is a campaign 4 playtest” theory because I’m pretty sure Sam said Liam picked that oneshot character as well.

#critical role #cr spoilers #critical role spoilers #awnp #daggerheart

[fcalloway]

Travis discussing Laura's dream come true

- AWNP Unplugged

#critical role #awnp #all work no play #sam riegel #liam o'brien #travis willingham #laura bailey #dante basco

[dailymarisharay]

#critical role #marisha ray #sam riegel #alex ward #all work no play #awnp

[beedreamscape]

In my wildest dreams, AWNP would get revival but now they'd do even stupider stuff for our enjoyment. I'm talking skateboarding, fabric aerials, clay sculpting, another one about massages bc that ep was hilarious, something about fashion, one of those treetop adventures, cosplaying bc why not, going on insane amusement park rides. I DON'T KNOW. I'LL HAVE ANYTHING.

And this time it's imperative that Matt be a guest.

#critical role #cr stuff #awnp #all work and no play #i miss these two sitting down and having some of the most insane conversations I've heard in my life

[dailyliamobrien]

#liam O'Brien #dailyliam #critical role #awnp

[thequeenofmyownscreen]

I took time to watch the first season of “All Work No Play”

And then, after that, because a) I have no self-control b) I felt like I was missing on a lot of stuff c) I just could listen to Sam and Liam fuck around and talk about themselves and their lives for forever ??? d) I saw a Tumblr post detailing the facts we learn on the original “All Work No Play” episodes and just could not believe what I was reading... I listened to the original “All Work No Play” podcast only.

So under the cut, details of what I thought of each episode, and the glorious run of the 15 episodes podcast that started it all, really. But yeah, contrary to my preferences, it does not follow chronological order. Which is fine, because if there was a way to describe this experience, it's "drunk delightful clusterfuck", in my humble opinion.

Sword fighting : the start is awkward, the middle is epic, the end is awkward. So yeah, on parr with the rest. I do love a good pun, so the whole knighting sequence was hilarious to me : "I knight you Ser...Pent, Ser... Cumvent, Ser... Vival." I love Will Friedle dry sense of humour and wish we've seen more of him. The mini-movie was awesome ! Put some swords into actors' hands and it does not matter if they were bad at sword fighting (they weren't !), they will sell it with yells and tragic death scenes.

Tap Dancing : Sam doing the worm in that stupid colorful costume... I was expecting no less of him. Liam has NO coordination, this is true, and again demonstrated it in this episode. Courtenay Taylor was a necessary addition, because she knew what she was doing, and her "mom jokes" were unexpected and dry and hilarious. Sam tells the story of the birthday of Macaulay Culkin, whom he went to school with, and the birthday was this : they were in the biggest toy store in New York, which was privatized, and for 10 minutes all the kids could run through the alleys and get any game and toys they could want. Liam, hearing this story of privilege, boiling inside : "It is super fucking hard to be your friend and love you. I try and I try, and everyday you make it a little bit harder."

Rage Room : Liam can run a half-marathon (I'm not surprised), Sam can't (I'm not surprised). Sam is a night pooper and Liam a morning pooper and they both like to take this time to destress. Liam looks at the stars alone at night when in his backyard (relatable). Sam does not feel stress in general because he's weird. Rage room was fun but not as cathartic as the name would suggest, I think it's because rage cannot be in a controlled environment. But Stephanie Sheh was so fun, and seeing the bass fish get destroyed was nice. Also Sam has no darkness inside of him, and maybe he has no soul ? I would watch Sam and Liam take ayahuasca in Brazil, tbh.

Goat Yoga : this is a thing. Call me stupid, but while I think Yoga is a real thing, I think Goat Yoga is a scam and brings NOTHING to Yoga. But the goats were cute !! We learn that Sam got high with Snoop Dogg on his first week in L.A., that Liam once got arrested because he was too busy rehearsing a scene with an object that was not even a fake gun outside and being too good at it to notice the neighbors were calling the cops. And I'm just going to leave this quote here : "She's an anal sniper. She aimed my ass right at the cameras."

Creature Makeup : I barely recognized Alex Ward from the Elden Ring one-shot (he was so good in it), he seems really talented in his specialty. We learn that Sam nearly got himself killed by locking himself in a coffin and discovering after someone was sitting on it, and that Liam's aunt once saw her long-gone father talk with her child in the rearview mirror. Sam and Liam do want to make out with each other while wearing makeup that makes them look like the other. After hearing Sam talk about how snot accumulated in his latex mask, I do not want to do Creature Makeup personally anymore. But I do want to see the movie for which they shot the trailer !

Fire Spinning : Ok ok ok, I am but a simple wee lesbian, Marisha doing the fire spinning did things to me. Just hearing Sam and Liam talk about how cool she is and how she always has the best style is wonderful. What we have learn : Sam technically committed apostasy since he converted to Catholicism but "crossed his fingers the whole time", and on his wedding night he hurt himself so much by stepping on glass (Jewish tradition) that he had to go to the ER after.

Mame Cabinet : Felicia Day !!! I love Felicia Day. We learn that Sam might have more of a chance to develop Alzheimer’s thanks to his t-rex arms. Why was this the most emotional episode yet ? I don't know but the hug Liam gave Sam almost made me cry.

The Hot Tub with, like 12 people : Ok this was just fun as hell. I want to do this with my friends all the time !!! We learn that Courtenay CAN do the cherry trick of tying it up which is HOT, the S'mores Martini takes a century to do, and that the censored nipples of Liam are Sam's pixel face. Thanks Twitch !!

The original podcast : They're so young (it starts at December 2012)! Travis and Laura are mentioned on the very first episode, and so's Liam fear of skydiving. Malaysia is mentioned on episode 2, also Kit Buss ! Episode 2 is where they decide to do a “Laura Bailey harp music”, after they talk about how great she is. Also Sam and Liam are excited because they've decided to play D&D together, and mention Matt and his glorious hair. Sam asks Liam to pick his race and class : "- Can I just be the worst ? - You could be... A gnome !" I CAN'T BELIEVE I HEARD IT LIVE, THE INCEPTION OF SCANLAN SHORTHALT. Episode 3 is the recap of said session of D&D, and you know what's better to hear them screaming into their mics that they loved it so much ? A FREAKING EXCERPT OF THE VERY FIRST SESSION THEY PLAYED TOGETHER ! (there was even Marisha, who was - if I understand - helping Matt and not playing). Episode 3 is also the episode where we learn that if they were abandoned on an island, Liam and Sam would start to fuck "immediately" according to Liam, "48 hours later" according to Sam, who wants to search for help and shelter before fucking. I love the guests they brought in occasionally : it's so good to hear Mary Elisabeth McGlynn, to discover Jennifer Hale who's chill and funny and Roger Craig Smith who seems insane and is also funny as fuck, and to hear Travis and Laura bickering sweetly. Episode 6 is where we learn the very cursed fact that Liam did gymnastics when he was young, and was pretty flexible, so much in fact that he "could reach it" (Sam, not understanding, at first : "You could reach it ? what do you mean..."). About episode 7 I think this is where their lives became much more complicated ; from this one, I just love the recurring "we promise we're gonna do a podcast next week !" only to have the episode after that dated 3 or 5 months later. I loved the episodes they did at conventions, the questions and horrific and convoluted scenarios they put their friends through were funny. Episode 8 is where we learn that Sam's first and only fight, that he WON, was over tickets for Dave Matthews Band. "- We'd obviously like to nail Travis Willingham. - Of course !" Poor Travis ; in the episode with Roger Craig Smith, when put through a horrific scenario of a plane crash in the snowy mountains, he says "I immediately eat Travis Willingham" to the choices offered by Sam and Liam. That does not seem to deter him, since he later admits All Work No Play is his favorite podcast in the world, and he has listened to all the episodes. They do talk a little bit about Critical Role once they've launched the ship in 2015, mainly how is has changed their lives already. By Episode 13, they're not sure of what the format is anymore, and they nearly start reading their e-mails live. We learn that Liam has worked with Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford, and how he was very turned on by Harrison Ford. He also likes Gwendoline Christie “because she seems like she could wreck me, with weapons.” (fair). We learn that when Travis was courting Laura, he wanted to be on her level, so he read the books she was reading at the time... which were the Twilight books : “I've read. Every. Single one of the Twilight Books ! And because there were werewolves, at the end... I kinda liked it.” He went by himself to go see the third movie ; Laura wouldn't go with him because she thought the movies were so bad. By the way, the sound effect for Travis is SO ridiculous, and retrospectively I'm laughing so much more because of Travis Willingham's Yeehaw Game Ranch. Episode 15 is really the end : the show has no format anymore, it's either them reviewing cat videos or them doing podcasts recommendations to each other. But Liam and Sam still talk about their kids with incredulity and so much love. We learn that Liam wants his daughter to learn how to kill a man, to protect her, because he knows “98,7% men are terrible”. We end with a cliffhanger : “Hey, Liam, are we gonna get tattoos ?” Really, what more could you want ?

Overall, the podcast holds a charm from the not-so-distant past who is incomparable. But the VIDEO revival can allow so much more ! They did so many activities, some of them dangerous. Also the editing of the videos is a plus, because it allows things like "let's put cards on the screen to directly contradict what bullshit Sam and Liam are saying", or "Yeah, FAO Schwartz is definitely gone". I'm really glad I discovered another piece of the house that is Critical Role.

#my thoughts #critical role #all work no play #awnp

[drdone]

I wasn't looking at the screen and heard a thump and then "Jesus, Liam" and it made me laugh

#critical role #cr spoilers #i wanna rewatch awnp now

[wlwdisasterr]

criteria for comfort critical role video:

1) chaos in fucking buckets

2) terrible captions or none at all

#yes this is about 4sd 5 and 7 #and also a bunch of talks machina #there are exceptions to this like ukotoa and awnp #critical role #cr cast #marisha ray #laura bailey #critical role #matt mercer #travis willingham #sam riegel #liam o'brien #ashley johnson #cr 4 sided dive #4 sided dive #all work no play #this is also about that pub crawl thing #cr i love you but as someone who has trash english i need them captions

[pocketgalaxies]

I say marisha ray fire spinning, you say?

uhhhhh i'm super gay??

#anonymous #ask #answered #critical role #marisha ray #awnp

[xombigirl]

Dear CR,

When will AWNP return from war??

I need Husbands content! I need content of my faves!!

#critical role #liam o'brien #sam riegel #the husbands #awnp

[jewishsuperfam]

also i am both excited and terrified about whatever they're apparently announcing on social media tomorrow morning

#new oneshot? new guest star? new non-dnd show like narrative telephone or awnp?

[myryathedreamer]

Quotes about the strange nature of Taliesin's existence - Day 51

Sam: "We're gonna check in with a friend, I believe his name is Taliesin Jaffe?"

Liam: "That's not how you pronounce it."

Sam: "That's how you pronounce it in this century."

Liam: "Yeah, couple of umlauts were removed in the 16th century."

(AWNP: Unplugged with Taliesin Jaffe)

#taliesin jaffe #sam riegel #liam o'brien #critical role #all work no play #eldritch taliesin

[beedreamscape]

I think what is missing with 4-sided Dive that Talks Machina had was a third party to have those character discussions with. It's not the same with a fellow PC. Also someone with interviewing abilities, sometimes I feel like they meander so much.

And I do like to watch them talk, I do watch old episodes of AWNP, fireside chat, etc, but for discussing the game/campaign I think the mechanics of it muddles with the flow.

I personally feel no value is added from the tower of inquiry or the cup questions, though I don't mind the game playing at the end since at this point who had their curiosity satisfied can simply leave, but answering while playing which they tried doing at least once I watched didn't work at all.

Edit: Btw when I say no value is added I mean the format (being in a cup, pulling from the tower) and not the questions themselves.

#and. idk about y'all. but the broom bit just goes over my head #does anyone actually find that funny? #i can see some of them either don't want or don't like 'hosting' #them reading off the teleprompter also ruins the mood #i wish there was someone prepared to guide them through these conversations #maybe not dani bc she's prone to adding her own insights. which i like! but not in a host #SOMEONE TO CONTROL SAM #i *love* him but he derails so much #anyway. I'm not saying 4sided dive is doomed. but I think it has a *long* way to go before it's on TM level #unless you hated brian then all I'm saying must sound like bs xD #AND btw i have no nostalgia for TM. I hopped on this train in c3 and I haven't watched c2 #i just really enjoyed their conversations #talks machina #4-sided dive #critical role #cr stuff #4 sided dive #(late addendum: this was written b4 the shitty dude's debacle. im really sad he ruined to show for everyone that admired him in the past #BUT i still recognize the value it had. not just from his hosting but from the format. the questions submitted #while my opinion remains. my admiration for him does not. i still wish for a host for the new show. obviously someone different)

[dailyliamobrien]

#liam O'Brien #dailyliam #critical role #awnp