#cr neg

[fiovske]

I have all cr tags blocked but i always look at your cr posts, because i really like your art and what you have to say about it. So it was so nice to see your new yasha art. And then i scrolled down and saw the original, i couldn't belive it, i really thought it was a joke. So i had to look it up and like what is going on over there. Who is that?! I swear if that picture did not have her name on it, i would not know who that was and i watched 99 episodes of that fucking show. I feel like Lou when he needed to smoke after acoc, just so i won't think about how much of my time i spent watching that shit show. Anyway sorry for the rant, i don't know why this affected me so much, i just had to get it out of me. I hope you have a nice day.

I too have all the tags blocked 🤝 i came to learn of it by happenstance and seeing that yasha Official Art™ filled me w so much rage like she is supposed to be a six foot tall barbarian at the very least, I would even argue for eight feet tall bc I like gaint buff barbadian lady... and the Official Art™ makes her head feel so disproportionate to her body I mean look at those arms. they will break like twigs. and that waist? no girth whatsoever, a couple of friends of mine said she has the body proportions a young teen would have, not a grown woman and they are correct! why does cr hate buff fat ladies so much, why is everything so boring cishet centric lens?? we all know why but let's not get into that.

thanks so much for the compliment tho! 😊 I am very glad to hear you enjoy my art! I don't think I'll be drawing her anymore but maybe some beaujes down the line maybe? I have been in a bit of a mood abt those two lately so I think that self-indulgent beaujes thing will probably be my only remnant of anything cr related.

#those two are just... they're for me. #so i dont know or care whats going on w cr bc my vision is superior xx #thanks for the love on my art! #mail tag #cr neg

[pocketgalaxies]

crazy how in c2 they'll have three extensive convos checking in with each other while traveling like an hour in-game meanwhile in c3 they've been on the moon for days and still haven't discussed the following:

laudna fucking ate a guy

imogen's mom is a mythical legend amongst the enemy

orym vs. laudna's response to imogen giving into predathos

how did chetney suddenly learn to make hypnotizing toys

delilah briarwood

"some of us are expendable, we should get captured"

anything and everything they said during the trust exercise, including but not limited to:

laudna not being able to distinguish her thoughts from delilah's

imogen's disgust at delilah's inevitable presence

chetney's fear that his new family will leave him

orym's feelings about dorian

fcg relieving stress through murder

fearne's insecurities about their chances of success

ashton's guilt about the shard

and more!

#i'm not complaining i'm just complaining #the difference between the two campaigns is SO STARK and i don't understand why #that's a lie i do understand why. it's bc there's been a ticking time bomb in c3 for a full year's worth of episodes at this point #if not longer #so i get it. but also i'm gonna go crazy. #if they had a full 4hr ep of just debriefing and talking i'd be so much more engaged than another 4 hours of traveling through ruidus #ik there are a lot of ppl out there enjoying the moon lore and the npcs etc but i feel like personally my brain is in a tiny gloomy prison #and the only thing that can free me is SOMEBODY AT THIS DAMN TABLE ASKING 'ARE YOU OKAY?' #anyway! back to c2 :) #2h30m c2e59 #text #critical role #cr2 #cr lb #r: mighty nein #cr3 #cr negativity #r: bells hells

[luckthebard]

Polygon’s article covering how the SAG strike might or might not effect Actual Play had, in my opinion, a bad headline and a weird framing (I care more about worker’s rights than if my “favorite show will be impacted”), but even that can not be entirely to blame for the behavior exhibited below:

I would complain about twitter but I know it’s not just twitter. Jumping in to dog pile on information without even bothering to read an article and confirm if it’s correct, just because it confirms biases a person has, is a plague on the entire internet.

This isn’t even about CR I’m riled up about the concept of media and information literacy in general. If you see this take it as a sign to never trust a headline. Don’t trust what people are telling you something says. Verify shit yourself.

#rant #critical role #actual play #also I’m mad that this take seems all over the comments section #just so people can be mad at CR for something the CEO of another company said #who are currently getting away with no negative call outs because people WONT READ

[hand-of-devotion]

The take that Ashton should be punished/"nerfed" by losing his dunamantic abilities and having the hypothetical elemental themed ones replace it is? So wild to me tbh.

Like. If we're being honest, the titan abilities could literally be ANYTHING. So instead of introducing an entire new set of abilities for a functionally new subclass while getting rid of the ones we've been seeing all campaign? If the rewards would really make a single character THAT unbalanced? It would probably be 100 times easier to just nerf/adjust whatever hypothetical abilities they were supposed to be adding in the first place to make it more "fair".

Because they already have the Ka'mort shard and the only mechanics "benefit" it's given thus far is the fact that it changed Ashton's pre-campaign race from half-elf to earth genasi. Which is arguably not even a benefit because he didn't keep the features/traits of a half-elf. Then the only known narrative benefit has been the fact that they seem to have an unnaturally heightened connection to nature/eidolons. Which has only ever been for ultimately inconsequential narrative implications or adding a little spice to explain/"justify" the effect of certain dice rolls.

So we have no real established expectations for what the "awakened titan" abilities will be. It'll be sad to have them watered down but would make way more sense than just scrapping an entire homebrew subclass's mechanics?

#critical role spoilers #cr discourse #critical role discourse #i didnt look too hard into the handful of folks i saw regurgitating that take #but i absolutely wouldnt be surprised to find theyre the same chunk of audience that has a vengeance against the idea of dunamancy #or that they're upset the shard didnt just kill ash completely #i will say id love for this to have lasting negative effects. just that the total loss of that aspect of the character seems like a boring #solution. on the other hand having their titan and dunamancy shit at WAR seems very fun and potentially destructive/dangerous #maybe lean MORE into the fact that the subclass was based around the fact that tal found wild magic barbarians 'not chaotic enough' #(which again would likely be about ADJUSTING instead of throwing everything in the garbage)

[nellasbookplanet]

Okay I've talked about the tragedy of Laudna now let's talk about the tragedy of Imogen.

It’s been a while, but her moment in the Feywild truth exercise where she says "I think I’m tainted. I don’t know if I want to save gods that don’t love me" has really stuck in my mind. The thing is, I don’t think she’s specifically talking about the gods here, but rather summing up and projecting her entire experience as a ruidusborn. She isn’t thinking "Why aren’t I the gods' special little princess? Why haven’t they come to save me specifically?? You better love me or I'll let you die" (which we have seen does seem to be a common attitude in the Vanguard) This is her fear of being against her own will tainted by something evil. Her fear that, despite knowing how wrong it is, part of her longs for the power and belonging that comes with giving in to Predathos. It’s knowing that this thing is the antithesis of the gods, and that no matter what she does and how much she opposes it, it is still part of her. And because of that, the world doesn’t love her. Her mother left, her father can barely look at her, her own body will betray her with feelings and powers she doesn't understand, her community ostracized her, her allies view her with suspicion, the gods will not lend a hand in their own rescue when she asks despite Imogen putting herself and her loved ones in danger for their sake.

And Imogen is tired. Tired of being the bigger person, tired of resisting. Logically she knows the gods don’t hate her specifically but it ads up, and as the lure of Predathos does promise love and belonging part of her wants to give in because why should she risk so much to save a world that has never once tried to save her.

And that’s where she, as well as Laudna, get so interesting. They have deeply sympathetic reasons for their doubts and flaws, as well as for why they value each other so much higher than the entirety of Exandria (tl;dr because they have only ever gotten genuine understanding and unconditional love from each other). But that doesn’t mean it isn't flaws. It doesn’t mean Imogen, if she hadn’t met Laudna and the Hells first and realized the harm the Vanguard is causing and that their promises are ultimately lies, couldn’t have been drawn in by the Vanguard's ideas. It doesn’t mean they aren't wrong in blaming gods for bad things in their own lives, or in demanding special treatment. But it’s deeply understandable, which is the very reason they and people like them're such excellent targets for the Vanguard to convert. And once in the Vanguard, it doesn’t matter how tragic and sympathetic you are, you are still doing evil.

#critical role #cr3 #imogen temult #meanwhile Laudna's negative attitude towards the gods is a bit more complicated #in that she really does blame them for not saving her #she's repressing all of her negative emotions about her fate and situation but those feelings are still THERE #and lately they’ve been heightened due to the stressful situation of trying to save the gods #and laudna doesn’t want to save anyone she just want to chill and enjoy what little life she has #and so when the negative emotions do come out she projects them at the gods bc she needs SOMEONE to blame #and since she’s never interacted with a god they’re easy to blame bc in a way they aren’t entirely real to her #something that isn’t entirely real but very powerful can’t be a victim but it can be an easy scapegoat #bells hells travel past the divine gate and physically interact with the gods challange #it would be so juicy to see imogen and laudna be forced to face and process this projection of guilt against the gods they both share #i think it would help them realize that sometime randomly bad things will just Happen and it’s no ones fault #and in seeing that stop looking for someone to blame (both themselves and the gods) and start to heal #nella talks cr

[funscarypdr]

I'M ALWAYS SAYING THIS

#mirrors parallelograms photographic negatives #reflections that move the same but in reverse #critical role #cr spoilers

[danwhobrowses]

Okay so we are doing a very rare third post about the events of Critical Role campaign 3 episode 91 so avoid if you still haven't watched it because there will be spoilers again

Right. So I'm not gonna talk more about the Reincarnate vs Stay Dead debate with FCG, I still prefer Reincarnate for reasons I put in my last post but now I'm gonna talk about the other route, if FCG stays dead, what becomes of his remains?

It is almost ironic that a PC death happened a few episodes after Matt created the Ruidian custom of making weapons from a loved one's remains, something Ashton and Fearne were quite intrigued by, so I wonder if the Hells would do the same - in a way carrying a little bit of FCG with them to continue the fight. Outside of his loot it's hard to tell what the Hells can use, if it were me I'd have each of the Hells have a bracelet from his hair at the least, but the rest would probably need to be left in the hands of tinkerers to create things that may enhance the Hells' combat; maybe a conductive whip for Imogen to use for her more lightning-based magic for instance, I can also see Ashton fixing FCG's head onto their outfit or hammer and Chetney and Laudna maybe making little FCG dolls for each of them too.

Loot-wise I had to look at the wiki to remind myself of all the stuff FCG had on them, as well as see what Otohan had but outside of the backpack and swords it wasn't quite descriptive at this point, and even then there's no guarantee it'll all be undamaged from the blast, but there were some notable things that could end up in the Hells' hands to use. I feel like we're all in agreement that if FCG doesn't come back that Ashton keeps the Coin of the Changebringer, perhaps even have it affixed to their hammer so to feel like FCG is still fighting with them. The full extent of its magical properties were not shown outside of the Yes/No question and 1 bout of Lucky per day, but on Ashton's hammer the daily reroll might end up being helpful, though they are not a fan of the gods a little FCG-aided divine buffing could go a long way. Other than that, Ashton probably should claim the two Potions of Possibility FCG had, my earlier post mentioned my belief that Otohan's backpack should go to them because Dunamancy (I didn't however mention how echoes can work as temporary meat shields for Ashton to better negate enemy attacks that'd otherwise be aimed at the party) and the logic is the same here, Matt would probably have to try and balance Ashton's Dunamancy and Titan buffs so to not take all four potions (or more, think Fearne and Orym have one too right? *checks* oh and Laudna so that's 7 potions!) at once but those seem to be key loot Ashton should keep a hold of.

Outside of combat FCG would be helpful in using Identify when the Hells came across new objects. While Chetney has Grim Psychometry to do something similar, the Goggles of Object Reading that FCG used could be taken by Imogen - which in turn may provide Laura and the fandom a means to canonize glasses on the character - along with the Staff of Dark Odyssey that she has used before.

Fearne is another who could hold the Staff, but I find it unlikely. She would probably take the rod used to plane-shift to the Fey Realm, in a way being a key to home if she needs it. I can see her taking the Ivory Branch as well, albeit temporarily until a new healer presents themselves, due to the +1 Spell attack and +1d4 Healing. She might keep the Ruidian mood ring but I feel like that wouldn't survive the blast, same with the recipes FCG collected, though it'd be nice if someone were able to carry on his memory that way; Fearne, Ashton or Orym would be likely candidates for that.

Laudna would perhaps be able to use most of the scrap remains of FCG for her constructs, perhaps a little buffing for Pate is in order plus she doesn't use Sashimi often. Chetney only really works in wood so he probably won't take the remains, stuff such as his saws and propeller could be used to empower Laudna's own creations, maybe even the fake legs too.

One weapon I think will not end in Laudna's hands however is the Grapple cannon, which could suit either Orym or Chetney. Orym is the better candidate to use it though, given the 20 Dexterity compared to Chetney's 14, additionally there is the +1 Mithril Half-Plate Armor, which could be an improvement for either.

If Orym were to get both I could see it being a trade for Chetney not getting anything, in turn granting Chetney both of Otohan's swords to use - since Orym may want nothing to do with her equipment given her role in killing their family. Otherwise I can see Chetney maybe grabbing the saws ahead of Laudna, maybe the goggles but he does already have the monocle, and any utensils he can repurpose for crafting. There is also the possibility of him getting the Aeoran Scrambling Devices that we know little about, maybe adding a little 'this wouldn't happen if it were wooden' catharsis for Chet if he used them on machines.

The only other thing that is left from FCG are the bolt thrower and the All-Minds-Burn drugs. The latter could go to anyone but Ashton, Fearne and Imogen are more likely (she still needs to plant that seed), the bolt thrower could go to Laudna, she never used Bor'dor's slingshot with the Draconic Rune that Prism added to it, or to Chetney to fire a chisel. His coat he designed like FRIDA's would probably be kept for her to be given too. Outside of that the only other specific loot we currently know from Otohan is the Fake Treshi Ring for Scrying (not its official name), which won't be of use to the Hells since the next time they get close to a major enemy they will be fighting, but perhaps it could be placed in the hands of Liliana Temult, either to keep track of her or to plant on Ludinus so the Hells can track his movements instead.

#critical role #critical role spoilers #cr spoilers #cr3 spoilers #cr3 #cr3e91 #bells hells #bell's hells #fcg #fresh cut grass #ashton greymoore #fearne calloway #imogen temult #laudna #orym of the air ashari #chetney pock o'pea #liliana temult #otohan thull #matt mercer #sam riegel #taliesin jaffe #ashley johnson #laura bailey #travis willingham #marisha ray #liam o'brien #I think too much I know but I need to play it out in less negative scenarios in order to cope #they have lost the one who keeps trying to keep them united so it'll either divide them or push them to finally work together #I forgot how much loot everyone had like apparently Orym still has an unopened burlap sack! #sure hope no new portraits were commissioned for lv13 because the poor artist probably had to scribble a bunch out

[nothingwithdignity]

Campaign 3 has a momentum problem.

The thing about actual play is that there’s no predicting where it will go and when you’ve got a core cast that you can trust, it’s easy to ride that momentum until it peters out before you start the next story arc.

With Campaign 3, bringing in party splits and different POVs, they’ve lost that ability. The cast are great actors but having weeks or months between the emotional moment and your reaction to it makes it hard to get into that headspace again and they will always be fighting an uphill battle to get the audience back to that point with them making it much harder for the audience to feel that there has even been a full story arc much less a satisfying one.

Don’t get me wrong, I love that they are finding ways to ease the burden on everybody, especially for Matt. I think in terms of the cast’s physical and mental health this is probably a good idea. These kinds of switch ups allow them to take breaks and find some breathing room in what is clearly an increasingly complicated company. Something had to change for this to be sustainable and they’ve clearly done their best to make it fun for us at the same time.

But the thing they’re losing is the story telling that made their brand work in the first place. Different actual plays have different niches and theirs is emotional epic storytelling driven by player choice. That’s what they’ve lost in Campaign 3 in so many small ways. And on top of that they’re starting to run into the MCU problem where if you have to watch all the spin-offs to recognize the main story, only the very dedicated are going to stick around.

I don’t honestly think there’s a solution. To get characters and DMs at the level they’re at, they have to plan so far in advance and work around schedules that are even crazier than theirs. To set stories time and again in a living, breathing world like Exandria, they’ll have to run into echos of past campaigns. To have a campaign on the same level, the world always has to be ending.

It was always going to be tough. I hope they do find the balance someday and get that momentum back.

#cr spoilers #critical role #cr meta #campaign 3 #c3 meta #negative

[autisticfoxgirl333]

If Lance & Shadow Milk Cookie met each other:

Shadow Milk Cookie: Isn't this great? The two of us forming a vengeful alliance! With your negativity and my tricks, we will conquer both Wonderworld and Earthbread, new bestie!✨

Lance: Can you stop calling me that? We hardly know each other.💢

#lance balan wonderworld #bww lance #negative #negativity #balan wonderworld #bww #shadow milk crk #shadow milk cookie #crk #cr kingdom #cookie run kingdom #cookie run #what if #fictional characters #fictional villains #villain meets villain #autisticfoxgirl333

[naseemredhorn]

There’s a moment from two episodes ago that’s wormed its way into my brain and won’t get out of there and I feel like it encapsulates so much of my issues with the main narrative of C3.

It’s the moment where Taliesin upon hearing about Asmodeus asks Matt if Ashton would know of him and then states in character that this would be something they were into.

And that, in and of itself, broke me because no matter what anyone interprets Ashton as, I think we can all agree that punk and anti-authority is supposed to be the crux and core of the character. There’s nothing that has happened to indicate that this is some persona Ashton is putting on, that their hatred for authority is just some front.

So why the approval of Asmodeus? Asmodeus, to be clear, is the Devil. The blueprint of all other devils who are lawful evil as a whole. Devils embody all the social ills and structural corruption that Ashton should be entirely opposed to. The Hells are not just a fascist state, they are the Platonic IDEAL of a fascist state and they exist in that form through Asmodeus’ command and rule.

If Ashton knows about Asmodeus, as Matt indicates and makes no moves to correct the assumptions of, he should be aware this is the embodiment of everything he despises. But instead, they express their support. Why?

I’m not going to beat around the bush and pretend there is an in world explanation for it. We can bandy about imagined scenarios where this is actually Taliesin working through three layers of character vs player knowledge to distill down the exact reaction Ashton would have but I think it’s much cleaner to just say the image of Lucifer just supplant Asmodeus in the group’s interpretation and they moved forward if that was the case.

And so much of the gripes and complaints about this god plot goes back to this point: the players are speaking through the characters not to the NPCs but to a representational point behind them. This isn’t the characters in the story grappling with questions of divinity, it is the players of the game projecting their own world’s struggles and critiques of religion into the game world.

So all this arguing, all the irritation, all the questions are in the service of a faulty metaphor and it makes the whole matter exhausting to listen to. It’s why I cannot accept any of the story as nuanced because the players have refused to buy into the demands of the story. The Exandrian Prime Deities do not possess the power, knowledge, or inherent benevolence of the Abrahamic Omni-God so philosophical arguments against that Omni-God towards the Prime Deities is a mismatch. It’s built on faulty logic and presumptions that a regular listener could easily point out.

And because there is this heavy reluctance to ever admit when the cast or Matt makes a narrative misstep, we can’t just say these are obvious retcons or clearly the cast is projecting their own beliefs into the game, we have to bend over backwards to provide new explanations to synthesize contradictory information.

#cr discourse #critical role campaign 3 #cr c3 #cr negative #ashton greymoore #Asmodeus #critical role

[densitywell]

oh, when Orym looked right at Imogen, days after his talk with Fearne abt what to do if she switches sides, and tells her, "I'm not worried about you." and Imogen didn't insight check him, or push into his mind; she just believed him. and I believed him as well, even though it could have easily been a lie, and then Liam confirmed that Orym really did trust her when he said that. he really did believe that Imogen would stand by the Hells, and she did. she looked her mother in the eye and she didn't waver. and it's not specifically because Orym trusted her, but his trust really does mean something to Imogen. she sought him out that night for a reason.

and now the solstice is still happening but things are so different, and Imogen is one of the most vocally opposed members of the Hells to Ludinus, and the Ruby Vanguard, and Predathos. they're bad. they need to be stopped. she'll kill her mother, kill herself, if that's what needs to be done. her questions and her doubts are gone- or at least, hidden away.

and if they are not, if she's suspicious in any way, Orym has personal orders from the wise and benevolent Tempest (and she is wise and benevolent, is the thing!!) to remove her from the situation however he sees fit. to "do the thing," in the parlance used in Orym's conversation with Fearne, a phrasing acknowledged as vague even at the time. Orym, who loves Imogen, and who shows her kindness and empathy, and who stared the fathoms of nuance and pain defining the actors in this conflict in the face and rejected it in favor of revenge just last week. Orym, who told Fearne she would have to "do the thing" because he couldn't - I always assumed it was because he knew he couldn't match up to Imogen on his own, but it could just as easily be that he couldn't bear to do to her what he thinks would need to be done. Imogen still doesn't know they had that talk. the leash has been held so loose that she didn't even know it was there.

#imogen temult #orym of the air ashari #critical role #cr3 #orym #cr #now i have explained before how i think people generally respond to being held under constant unshakeable suspicion (badly.) #but apparently acknowledging that imogen might feel and react negatively to this is coddling her and hating conflict in stories so. #for the record i don't really expect orym to do anything on this front - like if it came down to it he WOULD follow keyleths order. or try #but there would almost certainly be second and third and fourth and as many chances as he could possibly give before that were to occur #if only. at the very least. bc the resulting blowout would tear the entire fucking party apart lol. and i think imogen's conviction is real #ALSO this is not me being upset at this story beat or saying that orym and keyleth bad imogen good or anything. i am simply saying words. #bc i find what is happening compelling and emotionally resonant. u wld think this wld be obvious. and yet #crposting

[fiovske]

just remembered the fandom elderification of these handful of crit role blogs that would just about say anything and fans would turn it into gospel regardless of whatever. they could say 'my meta-writing abilities say the sky is green and we are all just hallucinating it as blue bc the cr cast made it blue the same colour of jester's skin' and boom 3k notes, the fans going bonkers like 'omg true!!' 'BEST cr meta' 'op u are SO HASHTAG GURU'.

like damn... idk if y'all are still doing that worms for brains kissarse shit but that should've been one of top 3 🚩 red flags 🚩 of the critrole fandom™. the other two being The Liam Thirst Cult™ (🤢) + those mfs who LOVED to pretend that c2's story was narratively cohesive and briliantly so and if u disagreed u are just Too Stupid to get it. as if the cr cast wasn't at all times literally pulling it out of their ass and shitting in ur mouths as y'all ate that up like a 3 course meal.

what's even funnier is that all three of these were the same handful of "meta-writing" fandom elders™ lmao 💀

#maintagging this bc im a hater ✨ #critical role #if yall still worshipping those three or four sycophantic idiots you guys are even dumber than i thought. #cr neg

[pocketgalaxies]

I feel like the breakneck pacing and more of a plot focus is a very intentional choice to separate this campaign from others (which I respect), especially because I feel like matt has been doing that slithers in the latest eps thing of interrupting conversations with a new problem more frequently in c3 (or maybe I'm just noticing it more?); and the thing is, I do think these things are interesting ways to drive tension and push characters to extremes, and can definitely work (in fact I think it has worked for stretches of this campaign in the past). However. I feel like we're missing some balance. It's been what, 20? 30? 4 hour episodes since the party had a meaningful conversation, which is such a long time. And I'm not trying to shit on matt or anything, I get what he's doing, but I feel like even the cast are maybe feeling like they're not being given the opportunity to stop and talk? idk it seems that lately every time they do 4sd or a panel or something there's a moment of being like "we haven't talked about this!!! we need to talk about this!!! but when??" you know. Of course I could be wildly off-base since I'm not them, but yeah.

yeah i get you!! i like that idea of pushing character to extremes but i agree i feel it's getting stretched a little too far at this point. we've passed go 5 times over for some of these characters with nothing to (externally) show for it

i think it's a perfect storm of matt imposing a certain amount of pressure on them + the cast responding to that pressure by wanting to move things forward quickly. because i do think when they take rests or travel distances, there is opportunity there to talk and matt provides uneventful stretches of time in most episodes. but i would imagine that the cast feels a need to bypass those opportunities because it will make things feel like they're moving quicker, even though in-game it's still the same 8-hour long rest or 1-hour short rest or whatever it is. i think i would def feel the same way so i most certainly am not blaming anyone, i'm just sad! i feel like things are getting lost!! even in this most recent ep, zhesh given time to work on all these random little upgrades for the party but not a single person asked to talk with another lmao. imogen asking how everyone is feeling in the ep before that and everyone ultimately just focusing on how to get that box open. it's just get the power-ups or the next lore drop and go go go. i'm fuckin exhausted

#like. i'm sorry. i don't watch this show for the lore. the lore is an amazing feat of human creativity but #without the characters to fill it out and interact with it and impress change upon it and be impressed with change in return #there is No point in it for me. that's my opinion! sorry! #like. red moon is neat! please tell me more about the girl who is fucking haunted by it!! #ask #answered #anonymous #critical role #cr3 #cr negativity

[stardustedknuckles]

In love with the fact that this pack of feral assholes were all playing a game of emotional chicken wherein nobody wanted to break and admit they missed each other lest they be asking too much - because none of them are used to being vulnerable and they've never had to ask each other to be wanted, so how could they ask now - it was Caleb who took a look at what the roughly other half of the crew had been up to, Caleb who regularly sees Veth and Beau and Yasha and knows caduceus messages everyone, Caleb for whom vulnerability has meant survival, and he does what he did for Beauregard so long ago. He takes stock of everyone circling a very obvious hunger and neatly takes asking out of the equation. You're coming to the tower one weekend per month. I will personally come get you.

And just like Beau would've rather died than admit, everyone exhales in relief. These people who thrive on choice and autonomy say yes. We will come. Because the choice was always theirs and it has been made a hundred times over already.

It's something caduceus would've almost certainly noticed as well, but even he wouldn't have been the one to make the offer because he's the worst out of all of them at asking for anything that would benefit himself, especially if he assumed it would disrupt the lives of the others. He was just quieter about it. It had to be Caleb with not only the drive but the solution and yeah, maybe the presumptuousness to make it happen. To keep their family whole. To tell everyone what they needed not from a desire for control or anything born of arrogance, but because he knows them and he knows that the in-between restlessness he and Beau have tried to soothe in each other during their quiet moments is there in Fjord and Jester and even Kingsley, who is still potential made manifest. And I love Caleb for making that call. So much. He has earned being the exact right person to make it, and we watched all of that growth and love culminate at once in a very familiar refrain: don't go.

#Caleb widogast #cr spoilers #The Mighty Nein #Critical role #I have no patience for people who act like arrogance or assertiveness in a man is only ever a negative trait #Assertion in kind people is a rare and lovely gift #Caleb is a gift #As is Liam

[burr-ell]

Why am i dreading everything else being drowned out by the fandom this week

because you've been around long enough to know that's exactly what will happen.

look, if you like the ship, more power to you, but it's become such a black hole that's absolutely impossible to get away from and i've been tired of it for a very long time. it just sucks in everything else about the show and for what? it's a lukewarm bowl of nothing. it's built entirely on aesthetics and static boring fanon and utter lack of conflict, just spewing out the same rote dialogue over and over and dramatically crying each other's names.

every other relationship on this show has actually mattered for the characters' personal development while this hasn't changed since episode one, except now they kiss i guess. and in the meantime, what did their conversation just now accomplish? the same nothing. like, even the noncanon c2 ships had chemistry.

#asks #i want to be happy for my friends who like it but this is such a notp #if you want me to tag my negative posts just lmk #for now we're going with #cr discourse

[chungledown-bimothy]

Have you seen any of critical role? I really like a lot of the cast and Matt is a great human being but the 4-5 hour run time plus the huge amount of knowledge in the world is just so intimidating to get into. And idk I feel like I've been spoiled by D20s animations and more audience friendly graphics like how much hp each player gains or loses in a battle, etc.

But mainly saying this cause Critical role has these mini 3 episode arcs in it's new game Candela obscura, and Aabria has been announced as the new GM for the newest arc

ooh you weren't around during ravening war, were you? lol (affectionate)

i tried cr, couldn't get into it. partially because they're so goddamn long, partially because there's so much and i've been told so many different places to start, but mostly because i don't particularly enjoy matt as a dm. he's great, no doubt about it. just not my jam.

i'm working my way through chapter 2 of candela obscura and am absolutely in love with it and every single person and character at that table, and i'll likely go back for chapter 1 at some point. the system is really, really cool.

AABRIA'S DOING THE NEXT CANDELA OBSCURA???? you made my day. maybe my whole week, we'll see.

#i'm not tagging this bc ooh boy cr fans do not like when people say negative things about matt