#critical role is wild to me

[momentary-ecstasy]

Absolutely wild that, in one of the most famous soccer stadiums in the world, sold out crowd, everyone chanting the name of a made up character because the woman that created her rolled their favorite side of a little 20-sided piece of resin

#critical role is wild to me #like theyre rock stars #entire stadiums of people watch them and get pumped and chant and cheer #batshit

[aq2003]

grog's favorite color (x)

#grog strongjaw #vex'ahlia #percy de rolo #vax'ildan #scanlan shorthalt #critical role #vox machina #the legend of vox machina #tlovm #cr #cr1 #my art #mt #i finished everything but the last panel then proceeded to forget abt this for weeks </3 #this is currently doing numbers ™ on twt which is wild to me. critrole twitter sure does love their artists huh <3

[kazz-brekker]

as someone who has never watched any of the episode of critical role that they’re adapting into tlovm it’s very wild to me that the show will drop absolutely banger lines like “you’re at the bottom of my list” or “darling, take off the mask” or “do not go far from me” or “take me instead you raven bitch” or “i was made to pass through fire” and then i log on here and learn that they were all originally IMPROVISED in the original campaign

#like?? HOW!! #i am currently emotionally overcome by take me instead and i was made to pass through fire #pie says stuff #tlovm #the legend of vox machina #critical role #you're telling me taliesin jaffe would just sit down at a dnd table and stay stuff like i wanted you to know it was me?? #laura bailey and liam o'brien improvised all the lines that make me emotional about the twins? #wild!

[sea-buns]

SO insane that Sam has seen AND liked this... I'm so cozy in my little tumblr corner that I forget my words can escape containment and be perceived beyond Aabria Iyengar

#aabria interacting with my posts are precious gifts that i hold close to my heart #but also she walks amongst us down here #i could not begin to fathom the depths of horrors that she has witnessed #but SAM. thats wild. #also hilarious given the post. man is stressing HARD lmao #every once in a while i scroll through the meme accs on insta cuz yall are what got me to get back on tumblr #so i like to see how things are going. its always a good time #criticalrolememes <3 #critical role #sam riegel #the sam riegal tag was made to make me doubt myself every goddamn time #sea rambles

[thequibblingking13]

Fearne Calloway, the woman that you are

(Zoom for better quality bc this file is big as fuck)

#critical role #critical role spoilers #cr #cr spoilers #cr3 #cr3 spoilers #bell's hells #fearne calloway #fearne cr #critical role art #cr art #bee draws #this piece was really just one big art experiment for me which is why it's as wild as it is #also ignore that she's missing 95% of her core outfit. i was just having fun #ANYWAYS. Fearne getting the hellboy treatment was literally incredible and her new look sounds so so cool. so u know i had to draw something #this has been my only art of the campaign and its bc it brought on SUCH a strong image #obligatory tags for if aabria iyengar ever sees this art: thanks for willing burn-fearne into existence and letting me draw hot women 👍✨

[prismantis]

slow morning  (available on inprnt!)

#shadowgast #caleb widogast #essek thelyss #critical role fanart #critical role #shadowgast fanart #fantasy #dnd #d&d #dungeons and dragons #wizards #art #art prints #artists on tumblr #myart #it's personally wild to me that i get the opportunity to append a million billion relevant tags on tumblr but on twitter i have to pick THE #MOST IMPORTANT POSSIBLE #TAG

[luckthebard]

Genuinely confused as to how so much of the fandom watched the first 2 CR campaigns and Calamity and yet still ended up in a “Ludinus is right let’s kill all the gods” position. Like it’s baffling to me how much content/context people have just decided to completely forget? We had 2 full campaigns of very positive interactions with the gods and the moment there’s some hypothetical and interesting musing and speculation about their roles in the world from a more disconnected place we’re just throwing that out the window?*

Tbh the number of people who watched episode 4 of Calamity and still saw Asmodeus as sympathetic or having a legitimate point is unsettling to me, but while that’s a related issue it’s not quite the same conversation.

But like legitimately how did we so quickly make a hard turn from “The Stormlord teaches his barbarians to use the power of friendship, he’s a funny kindergarten teacher” memes to…this.

*(This is not, btw a comment on the characters having philosophical debates in-world because I think those are interesting and on-theme for the campaign and are also nearly always concluding with “our personal relationship to individual gods and feelings about them are irrelevant actually, the people trying to destroy them are doing wider harm and are in the wrong and must be stopped.” I’m actually loving the engagement with this by the characters in-universe but the fandom is exhausting me.)

#people stop engaging with all fantasy religion like it’s the same as bigoted evangelical American Christianity challenge #oh also the ‘the gods are colonial invaders’ take is also super weird to me because that’s applying recent human history to what is #basically standard like Greek or Roman creation myth? #like a ton of European pagan lore has a ‘the gods we worship came from afar and tamed the wilds of nature’ narrative #it is a metaphor #cr discourse #legit saw someone this morning confidently posting ‘well Ludinus just is right though!’ and I wanted to close down the whole internet #critical role

[elzorton]

Just another Caleb

#critical role #critical role fanart #caleb widogast #cr2 #mighty nein #my art #have yall heard 'the horror and the wild' by the amazing devil? #it always makes me think of caleb

[captainofthetidesbreath]

it's wild to remember that Chetney has siblings (a couple of them, he says, in 3.27), they were never close, he hasn't seen or spoken to any them in three hundred years, none of them know how to find each other because they never left word how, and he isn't interested in seeing them again and presumably neither are his siblings

#while we're making jokes about him being people's dad it reminds me that he's spoken in broad terms about his family and it's wild #Critical Role #Chetney Pock O'Pea #Critical Role things #CR spoilers #for the tag

[ariadne-mouse]

just a little FLIRting, (Forward Looking InfraRed)

a scene from the fire kept closest (burns most of all), aka Volcaleb, a spooky shadowgast AU

#ariadne draws CR #fic: volcaleb #the recent surge of readership inspired me to draw! thanks everyone who has read/kudos'd/commented this wild crack-treated-seriously #and thank you discord friends for the art feedback and pointers! #shadowgast #(feels odd to tag it that when they're not intuitively recognizable in the image but this is indeed them per the fic) #critical role #op #c2

[undead-knick-knack]

Wild Card bitches!

#critical role #cr3 #cr c3 #critrole #critrole memes #bells hells #bell's hells #imogen temult #fearne calloway #it's always sunny in philadelphia #charlie day #wild card #cr memes #cr shitpost #courtesy of me #cr campaign three #crit role #critrole meme

[sparring-spirals]

There is a universe in which i was caught up properly on CR whenever what the fuck went down and Imogen verbally and definitively declared that- after everything leading up to this and the back and forth and indecision- that she'd be willing to take down her mom if need be. and i would have been deeply insufferable and writing 20+ separate meta posts and liveblog yelling posts and shitposts. This is not that universe so instead we will put this post here where i can have wildly uninformed (aka 20 eps behind) Emotions about it until someday i actually catch up.

(I know. i accidentally wrote potentially wildly off base/deeply out of date meta again. what can i say. i like shaking the concept of An Imogen (even if it is Outdated Imogen) in a jar. sorry.)

Because i was watching long enough, I think, to see Imogen in the throes of the hope for something better, to understand that Imogen was viewing her mom was a figure and an idea and an answer, that would make things easier. Her mom was- gone, so early. And so her mom, in her mind, was not a person she was an idea, and there was so much hinged on that! Dogged determination and anger at her father and a deep seated dislike of the powers in her hands and head even as they gave her a guilty rush. There were promises there that maybe no one else had made, but Imogen believed. Things built up. Expectations made. Lore crafted, even unconsciously, around someone who was, yes, important to Imogen, but more importantly: Missing. Gone. A blank slate to be filled in. A promise of an answer guide to open questions.

And then she meets her mom, and Liliana Temult goes from a figure to a person- with all the bells and whistles and rough edges. She meets her mom and her mom turns her away. Tells her to run. Tells her she should go. Tells her to leave.

And Imogen doesn't. In the same way she kept visiting libraries, keps asking, kept pushing for answers when it was just about her magic and her headaches and the voices. Imogen always, always wants to know. She keeps digging, she keeps trying, she reaches out, over and over and keeps trying to touch this figure in mist until she's real under her hands, and. Evidence piles up- of deeds gone wrong, blood on her hands, a figure standing next to Otohan (her friends bodies scattered, lifeless, around Otohan). She keeps reaching out, keeps trying, and is rebuffed, over and over. Things get worse and the skies get redder and magic goes dead and she's still- unsure, because what if there's a better reason, what if there's a better way, there has to be a reason, why. There has to be, right- maybe if- maybe. Maybe-

Its just like- a person as an idea. As a symbol. As a promise. One you build yourself up around and towards. One you talk about, not talk to.

And then the fog clears, and they are a human.

(And she's your mom, and she's not what you imagined. She's done you wrong. She's done your loved ones wrong. She's hurt you. She's hurt others. She's going to keep hurting you. She is going to keep hurting everyone. She is too far gone to reason with. She is not listening to you. She is flawed. She is. dangerous. She looks so much like you. You look just like her. You are so similar. You have always known you were similar. You always hoped. You.

Are not her. You are not hers. She is not yours. She is not who you thought she was. She was always someone else. So are you.)

Imogen walks through the bases pretending to be her mother. Liliana is a known face- a powerful one, a figure people fear. A well known silhouette. Imogen slips into the shadows of it, sometimes, when it serves her, but we know- she knows- its all an act. All a lie.

Liliana, after all, is alive, and well, making choices that she believes in and fighting for things with a dogged determination maybe only matched by her daughter.

Imogen knows this. I think. There's a part of her that maybe wishes that wasn't the case.

"There is no loyalty with this blood." And after all- only living people bleed.

#im so sorry for yet again writing deeply uninformed. idk if this counts as meta. its more me going 'hey if this IS whats happening. WILD.' #critical role #cr spoilers #c3e88 #imogen temult #spar speaks #liliana temult #this is REALLY just a word vomit based on gut assumptions from what i actually watched. my vague knowledge from posts ive seen. and now thi #im functionally playing connect the dots here which is. Not How Meta Should Be Written so take this more as fun speculation prose i guess?? #no one take this too srs its mostly so if/when i finally watch everything i can reference how off my assumptions were #this is def based off where things were around when the solstice happened bc thats when i was last mostly caught up #so the odds of me fully MISSING some important imogen dev and character things since then are. actually its not odds. its like.definitive. #but maybe this is true for at least early campaign imogen to ep 50 imogen #and it would be VERY cool if it actually applied to her now #i kept saying 50 eps but looking at my last liveblogs it might he closer to 20-30. ... still.

[actualfandomtrashcan]

a love letter to aabria iyengar & lou wilson

this may just be a shout of gratitude into the void, but i feel the need to share. watching d20 and cr and listening to worlds beyond number makes me incredibly emotional because of aabria and lou.

in a society that wants to keep black people down and stereotype us, a society that doesn't want to see us in fantasy worlds, being what would be labeled as "nerdy" and "weird" openly and unapologetically is revolutionary. thank you for making space for black creators at the table. thank you for playing as black characters and showing that we can be so much more than what is expected of us.

thank you for inspiring me and showing me that i can do it too. it means more than you will ever know to so many people. i hope i can tell you in person one day.

#aabria iyengar #lou wilson #dimension 20 #critical role #worlds beyond number #dungeons and dragons #on a real note i don't expect them to see this but man. they mean the world to me. #d20 #cr #wbn #the wizard the witch and the wild one

[ithinkthiswasabadidea]

THE SHADOWGAST SEEDS HAVE BEEN SOWN

I REPEAT. THE SPARK HAS BEEN LIT

ROBYN YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S COMING

#Critical Role #Shadowgast #Essek Thelyss #Caleb Widogast #The Mighty Nein #🐻 tag #the series where i go wild over robyn's messages to me as she watches critical role

[pocketgalaxies]

#wild to me that marisha got the most nat20s in c2. i feel like her luck is so so so so so so so so bad always #1h49m c2e51 #sc #critical role #cr2 #cr lb #marisha ray #cr curses #edit: this was my 63000th post. DKFJSKDJFKSJDFKS i couldn't be more thrilled #milestone

[aq2003]

alexa play curses by the crane wives

#vex'ahlia #percy de rolo #perc'ahlia #critical role #vox machina #the legend of vox machina #tlovm #cr #cr1 #my art #no i didnt put these colors there on purpose they just came to me in a dream. gbless #kinda blacked out and suddenly the background was just there #i am . unsure about this one chief ™ but i do like some of these funky colors so i'll send it into the wild for now