#critical role blind

[foxqueen-katarian]

#critical role #Wizard Stupid meaning blinded by hubris to an and all possible negative outcomes #Astrid and Wulf are on here because they should be included in all wizard polls

[bzlgrmpf]

Working through my art block after accidentally deleting my whole folder of cr fanart

#critical role #critical role fanart #yasha nydoorin #mighty nein #beauregard lionett #my art cr #my art #Never draw while partially blind from a migraine #wanted to delete an empty canvas I accidentally created and didn‘t see what I selected #I‘m totally fine #I can just redraw everything #no big thing #at least I’ve got free storage space on my iPad again -.-

[happycattail]

Orym had such an epic takedown of the Juggernaut. Three attacks, three superior dice to make it a pushing one. Action Surge and repeat. I was so invested when I watched.

But I want to take a look at it from a role play standpoint.

Orym is usually the protector, the one who will make himself the target with his goading attacks. Or to do bait and switch and put himself in between the enemy and his friends. He does attack too quite often actually but when he does it’s usually to try and be fast.

In this case, it was fast but it was also angry. He used all his superior dice just to keep trying to push the Juggernaut into the lava despite it already taking 6d8 damage.

Fearne was right there. Held captive, across the lava from him. But he was angry and he chose to fight instead of to protect like he usually did. You see that realization on his next turn when all he could do was run and yell out Fearne’s name.

He used everything to kill that Juggernaut. But it left him with nothing to save his best friend.

#critical role #critical role spoilers #orym of the air ashari #cr c3e75 #that turn was so epic don’t get me wrong #it gave us something so cinematic #but I did remember thinking that it was just a little bit out of character #did you let your anger blind you Orym? #or did you wield it like a weapon just like Keyleth advised #and learnt that it was still not. enough.

[adiaxren]

#ashley johnson #critical role #the last of us #tlou #blind spot #nicki minaj #deftones #fan edit

[pocketgalaxies]

essek: i'll be the one who decides if you get to take yeza with you

everyone:

jester: essek you're so handsome and cool and i want to be friends

#and yet somehow it still comes off as genuine bc it's jester dfkjsdkfsd #1h19m c2e57 #text #critical role #cr2 #cr lb #essek thelyss #jester lavorre #r: jester x essek #i guess there'll be relationship tags for this guy idk y'all i'm flying blind here #(that's not an invitation to tell me spoilers to be clear)

[gorgynei]

personal chetney design inspired by agarthanguide's turnarounds ^_^

#doing my part sexualizing that old man by giving him a happy trail and making him super hairy. #also transgender + heterochromia agenda #the heterochromia actually started as a hc that he was blind after being slashed through the eye and so one eye was a milky #white/light blue. and i still like that hc but it just turned into heterochromia #aceart #critical role #chetney pock o'pea

[ariadne-mouse]

Going to be wild navigating tumblr after 6:30pm BST tomorrow. I will not be at the London liveshow (which I typo'd just now as loveshow, I thought you should know) so I guess I will be blocking every Critical Role related tag I can think of! But that also will make liveblogging on Thursday interesting - do I yeet posts into the void without seeing anybody else's? That sounds less fun.

Is there a spoiler tag people plan to use specifically for the liveshow? If so, let me know! I might risk unblocking the general "cr spoilers" and other CR tags during the Twitch broadcast so I can properly experience communal yelling.

#sidenote this is also a request not to send me spoilers if you are at the liveshow! #I'm doing my best to go in blind #critical role #the mighty nein #echoes of the solstice #m9 reunited #op

[caeslxys]

also on the topic of meaningful consequences re: character death I don't understand the take that death in fantasy requires physical permanency to matter or give a story "stakes". death is permanent regardless. Do you really think that if they get her back, they'll just go back to normal? That these characters are not forever fundamentally changed from this, that Laudna will not be fundamentally changed from this?

That Imogen's world will be less fractured, that she won't be even more of an anxious wreck now that what she stands to lose has been put into vivid clarity? That Orym won't still carry the guilt of being the chosen, that he will be less haunted by the connections he drew to his own grief with Will to Imogen's with Laudna? That Fearne won't look at Laudna and think of that coin flip, of her choice, and what that means for her and how she loves? That FCG and Ashton won't think to this and be reminded of the people they've hurt or been hurt by, and what this effort and what this grief means for how they view the hells?

That Laudna, who has been so blasé about life and if she's alive and what being alive even means for someone like her, won't wake up surrounded by family and by love and be driven to reexamine everything she's taught herself in 28 years of isolation to cope with the trauma of Whitestone? That this, maybe, will be the driving force she needed to realize that there are things she wants to live for?

It might be that I'm just biased, but I'm not sure what stakes Laudna perma-dying adds aside from just presenting the characters with the knowledge they all already have that they can, in fact, die. that what they're up against is incomprehensibly powerful and dangerous. The stakes already feel so impossibly high when you think of what and who they are preparing to face. frankly the aftermath of this combat alone, even if everything had gone perfect and everyone had gotten back up a-okay, would have set that tone.

I don't know, regardless I'll be happy to watch whatever story they choose to tell unfold as it does, but it strikes me that so many people seem to think that death only matters if there is a physical absence.

#critical role #laudna #bells hells #I do want to specify though that this is my own interpretation of the situation from my view as a writer of the narrative #and my own interpretation of the situation as an audience member #I know death does not care for narration in real life and that dnd can be cathartic for those very reasons #that. to me. is a separate argument from what I'm trying to say here #I also have Thoughts about how. narratively. laudna coming back is the better story for Specifically bells hells and how they operate #individually and as a unit #and how I think a lot of people are blinded by the specific way molly effected the mighty nein #and I just do not think this is the same scenario At All #and also. if I may put out a more biased take. I don't necessarily Want the same impetus and the same story Again #this is bells hells! I want theirs! and they want to bring back laudna #also. like. the whole death only matters if it's permanent thing falls apart immediately bc like. it's laudna #y'know. the undead one. is her story lesser for having lived? is vox machina's? #anyway feel free to ignore this I'm just throwing thoughts out into the wind bc if I keep them in my brain I'll implode #and Twitter has a 140 character limit and I am long-winded

[essektheylyss]

"Why are we observing physics? In the game we're playing with our pretend brains???"

Honestly, mood, but also this is being asked of "DM who introduced post-relativity physics to fantasy religion and wizardry," so he might be the wrong audience for this question.

#critical role #cr spoilers #I love Matt for the absolute dichotomy of things he fully abides by vs things he will never remember #the wildly inaccurate child ages is funny but also I will never get over everyone during eiselcross like 'MATT??? SNOW BLINDNESS???' #honestly this is also how my knowledge base is. just WILDLY disparate levels of accuracy. #tbh in general that is a mood but also the fact that the expertise matt went for in his worldbuilding was '20th c physics' is HYSTERICAL #such a fuckin mood

[warningstandbygo]

I just let out the ugliest most feral scream I think I may have possibly ever made in my life when Matt stood up from the table. I legit stopped breathing waiting because I thought there was absolutely no way.

And then @quiddie took that seat and my sobbing just intensified by about 10 fold.

MY CROWNKEEPERS ARE COMING BACK.

MY BARD IS COMING BACK.

HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY TO ME.

#critical role spoilers #c3 spoilers #critical role #bells hells #dorian storm #my blue boy #exu #exandria unlimited #exu ck #liam already had me in tears #and then panic #and then just blinding joy

[gilmores-glorious-blog]

if f.r.i.d.a. becomes a werewolf, i think that automatically makes them the sexiest critical role pc to ever exist.

#non-binary robot werewolf with questionable morals and a blinding devotion to the person they love?? #obsessed. #critical role #critical role spoilers #f.r.i.d.a. #eli.posts

[rhaenin-time]

#I mean they also could have just made the Targaryens biracial but sOmEtHiNg tells me that was never on the table #asoiaf doesn't share our structure of “race” but it's CERTAINLY not colourblind #And it's a little disappointing that they spurned the chance to explore diversity in a world without our system of white supremacy #Like I'm sorry you can't pull the “colour-blind” card and proceed to reduce the roles of all the characters played by Black actors #just to make room for green characterization that didn't exist in the books #while simultaneously exaggerating the importance of the Velaryon boys' appearances #I'm begging HBO to just take the answer the fandom offered #and establish that Valyrian features are passed down regardless of our world's concept of race #and that either Corlys's mother or grandmother was Black. It's that easy. #hotd #hotd critical #asoiaf #hbo #hbo racism #hotd racism

[feralnott]

i cannot believe this timing literally oNE DAY AGO after watching the last 4sd i decided i was certain imodna wasn't gonna happen romantically. and. thEN I GOT PUNCHED DIRECTLY IN THE FACE BY LAURA BAILEY JUST WHEN I LEAST EXPECTED IT

#critical role #imodna #i'm usually spoiled for the eps too and i went into this one blind this is the most WILD DAY #i'm THRIVING

[pocketgalaxies]

C3E37: marisha + nonverbals

#critical role #criticalroleedit #laudna cr #marisha ray #gifs #* #*cr #cr3 #angst tag #cr meta #nova shh #marisha ray supremacy #scheduled #2h45m c3e37 #i almost went blind staring at her face to pick scenes for this. worth it :) #sorry matt for making you look so red in the last one. it's bc your wife is pale and i wanted her to look good 😌 #OK FIRST. THE NODDING. listening to imogen...burning those words into her mind and playing them on loop....... #bc they are the only things that have brought any semblance of hope for what feels like an eternity of being trapped in this space #even if she doesn't believe them she can pretend to. a bandaid at best but something to ease the fear #and then 'can you get out of the tree' just the sliiightest hints of a head shake. a gulp. a 'god have i tried. god i wish i could.' #'god god god i would do anything to get out of this tree. how do i tell her that i can't.' #and then blatant doubt when it comes to fighting delilah #LIKE...after sharing this space with her for so long...of COURSE it chips away at her confidence like this...makes her feel weak #even if she thought she could fight her off in life everything is distorted now. has she ever even gotten close to fighting her? #it feels like an impossibility now. of course not. never not for 30 years has she been able to fight her. #and then as the cage closes...the flinch...the hyperventilation... #it's the hopelessness /everything/ here feels weak and scared and tired. like she was about to give up. like she still might give up. #i think marisha ray wants me to die <3

[danwhobrowses]

Okay sure just split the group again I'm sure nothing could go wrong this time dividing them into sub-groups to sting at high levelled and relatively unknown areas with high risk and high threat of boss level enemies in the vicinity and then go on another break to make us stew on that, it's fine IT'S FINE!

#critical role #bell's hells #cr spoilers #c3 e89 #critical role spoilers #the volition #ruby vanguard #the imperium #ruidus #unseelie court #universe really gotta hit me with Frieren season finale and CR going on a break AND One Piece going on a break! #it's like you want me to have nothing to do on Friday #honestly how many times in all 3 campaigns has splitting up worked? Not a lot Matt it's just evil PCs have died #my Callowmoore heart of course is relieved that Ashton and Fearne are in the same group this time - they're not gonna lose her again #maybe we can sneak in some combo moves for Bearne and Bashton - play a bit of holies #but still it's difficult to gauge how to deal with Athion plus maybe a dragon indoors plus Ira's willingness to leave people behind #Otohan and Ludinus can be lurking anywhere too #we still have no idea where Ryn is being kept either #the Liliana assassination attempt is doomed to fail and as much as it's a terrible choice I think Imogen needs to let her go #she talks about Ludinus like an abusive lover but acts blind to the cries of the people she says she's protecting #like woman go home! If they need you then removing yourself from the board stops them that's why there's a target on your back #but we all believe in Gaz supremacy at least #and more moon lore always gotta have the moon lore #tag reader's bonus: turtles live in every continent except antarctica #idk usually I have this many tags in ship posts so I drop a headcanon but this is more just panic so you get a nice turtle fact

[ariadne-mouse]

been dodging spoilers for Echoes of the Solstice on multiple social media platforms like

#excited to go in blind tonight!! #I have managed to avoid everything except a few vague statements that were not spoilery except for their existence/tone providing inference #op #critical role #let's GOOOOOOOO #btw I am peeking through my fingers at tumblr to make this post because it amuses me but I am not checking notes or replies #echoes of the solstice