#taliesin did not

[ilanarose7]

"Don't trust a man who just kissed somebody! That's a man who's saying fuck it." - Taliesin Jaffe, Vox Machina Campain episode 73, The Coming Storm

This was originally was said in reference to Percy kissing Vex, but it 100% applies to Ashton kissing Fearne now too

#critical role #cr spoilers #cr3 #cr1 #taliesin jaffe #percival de rolo #ashton greymoore #vex'ahlia #fearne calloway #callowmoore #perc'ahlia #GUYS CALLOWMOORE IS REAL AND KISSED RIGHT BEFORE ASHTON DID SOMETHING INCREDIBLY RECKLESS AND STUPID

[criston-cole]

Side note, it’s really fun watching you guys. I was like, ‘I. Love. This Game!’

#critical role #criticalroleedit #laura bailey #marisha ray #ashley johnson #matt mercer #travis willingham #sam riegel #liam o'brien #taliesin jaffe #myedit #critical role spoilers #still obsessed with the choices laura made #within like a split second she did that

[aguita-mineral]

✨🎭A bard and his muse🎭✨

Based on this Pic ⬇️ c:

#Did I already mention they're my favorite characters?? #also this is not ship art! #I mean. you can interpret it however you want #I just don't personally ship them #Eider's art! #digital drawing #drawing #digital art #art #digital illustration #my art #my artwrok #fanart #Skullgirls fanart #Skullgirls #Taliesin #Muse #skullgirls taliesin #Skullgirls Muse #Wiwuwiwuwuwuuwuwu

[chaosgenasi]

oh, i'm THE cleric?

#critical role #criticalroleedit #critical role spoilers #cr spoilers #sam riegel #laura bailey #taliesin jaffe #basil.gif #cr3 #cr cast #twitch timestamp; c3e37 at 3:27:00 #LOVE the cleric shade. laura getting her revenge & taliesin giving advice followed by sass. incredible #also i did my best with taliesin's subtitles but he said it kinda quiet so asdjhfg

[definitionofacritter]

I just know that this is going to be a situation where Matthew has to post about boundaries/trust/etc because the fandom is going to be so at war over Taliesin's actions. Oh boy.

#cr spoilers #critical role #taliesin jaffe #ashton greymoore #matthew mercer #cr discourse #for the record i respect taliesin's decision #ashley said she/fearne did not want and even FEARED the shard. she and taliesin discussed it. this was a decision they made together. #it was incredibly in-character for ashton. it was also a situation where taliesin was expected to kinda shift his character away from it. #but he didn't and that was his choice and in the end resulted in what will be an INCREDIBLY interesting storyline for ashton. #i have never respected a decision so much while also wanting to put someone in time-out

[aq2003]

masanori shimizu deserves an award for this one

#percy de rolo #tlovm #critical role #vox machina #cr #cr1 #when taliesin named percy did he think about the violence he would inflict on the people dubbing the future cartoon in other languages </3 #sorry for watching the fuckin japanese dub again but my prime free trial is running out and i feel like i gotta use it somehow

[aeons-behind]

critical role c3e90: a story told in captions

#it wouldn't be a bells hells mission without at least one chaotic catastrophic incident let's be honest #or even a dnd mission tbh #although it also could've been a LOT worse so #this was around the 3 hour 10 minute mark if anyone's curious #also if anyone has ways to improve the image description please let me know #i did my best but i also have no experience with alt image ids or screen readers #critical role #bells hells #critical role campaign 3 #cr spoilers #critical role spoilers #ashton greymoore #taliesin jaffe #fresh cut grass #sam riegel #cr3 #c3e90 #matthew mercer #matt mercer #dnd #dungeons and dragons

[quicksilverdrabbles]

Taliesin: *stares at the dragonborn longingly*

Inigo: ... My friend, you are staring.

Taliesin: Wha-? What? I am not staring!

Inigo: You clearly are. You have a little thing for our mutual friend, yes?

Taliesin: Why would I?! They drag us all around Skyrim! They constantly smell of sweat, always running off into danger and somehow manage to keep themself alive! Do they even know how much we worry about them?!

Inigo: I feel the 'we' in that sentence does not include anyone else but you.

Taliesin: *ignoring him* They have the worst sense of direction! Always getting lost and then somehow finding where we need to go after stumbling about for literal hours! Kaidan swears they hold their map upside down! And! And they always have us carry their heaviest items! Who on earth does that?! Not to mention their absolutely unreasonable strength! A brute no matter what size they are! Do you know they once picked me up just to get me away from a dog?!

Inigo: *barely listening, drinking his mead with an uninterested expression* Mhm. That is veeeeeery interesting.

Taliesin: And how can one person be so attractive when they are always covered in dirt and blood?! I can't begin to count the amount of times I've gotten distracted because they so something so outrageously desirable and it is incredibly irritating!

Inigo: Is that so.

Taliesin: Just- everything about them! Their hair, their eyes, their insatiable need to help everyone around them! The way they fight, the way they.. *trails off, distracted by the way the Dragonborn laughs at something Xelzaz said* ... A-Anyway. *clears his throat, a golden flush spread across his cheeks* There is absolutely no way I would be in love with the Dragonborn. Everything about them is too.. insufferable.

Inigo: ... Wow. I never even said you were in love with them, you know.

Taliesin:

Inigo:

Taliesin: Wait-

Lucien: *from across the room* DENIAL IS A RIVER IN HAMMERFELL

#couldn't decide which db should go with this so I just did a general inclusion lmao #skyrim #tes #the elder scrolls #modded skyrim #dragonborn #lucien flavius #inigo skyrim #skyrim taliesin #taliesin skyrim

[jinlian]

ashley: i don't think i want it. fearne doesn't want it. i think ashton should have it, i think it belongs to ashton

taliesin: i'm curious about the big red button but you (ashley) get a say in it. we'll talk about it

fearne, in game: if i have a say in it, i think you should have it, i don't want it

ashton: okay, i'll take it then. are you okay with this plan?

internet: ashton was manipulative and took it from fearne

???????????????????????????

#HOW IS ANYONE SURPRISED THAT THEY DID IT? #including matt tbh even if he didnt think it was likely he had to know there was a solid chance #i think after 4sd it was like... 60/40 ashton would take the shard. maybe 50/50 #yes i think callowmoore primordials would have been cool but this was telegraphed and discussed both in and out of character #'manipulative' is like. sure as hell a choice word to use lmao. #critical role spoilers #yeah matt was clear that trying it would very likely go poorly #ashley was also clear that she didnt think fearne should have it and that it was meant for ashton #and taliesin was very clear he wanted to try it #AND that ashley/fearne got a choice about it

[captainofthetidesbreath]

every GM in history at some point, apparently: Travis, your character is our hard-in to the exposition and plot, you are the rails to keep us on track or at least to key us into the right initial direction.

#Taliesin did this in Shadow of the Crystal Palace. Travis was tasked with keeping everyone on the mission and ensure nobody bolted. #Cerrit is the hard-in to Vespin. Bertrand is the hard-in to the Eshteross contract. #Critical Role things #Candela things #Candela spoilers #Candela Obscura

[jasperthehatchet]

I dont usually write posts about critical role but this episode did things to me and I have to talk about it right now right now right now don't mind me just yelling into the ether for a minute

the last half hour of ep77 just made me love Ashton (really everyone) so much more. They're being an INCONSIDERATE DICKSHIT and a HYPOCRITE with a MARTYR COMPLEX who makes HORRIBLE DECISIONS yesss gimme the complicated relationship dynamics and the morally gray moments AND THE ANGST. There's gonna be some good ass roleplay moments from this I feel it in my bones and it's gonna be DELICIOUS. Hey ashton greymoore my beloved shithead what is wrong with you <3

And it was such a sweet thing to look at Ashley Johnson/fearne and say "I see you don't want the shard and I want you to keep your characters agency I will take it" but then they were a fuckhead about it!!! Literally did a nice thing in the most fucked up way possible that it circled around to being terrible. I love that!!! Say what you will about this episode but by god is it entertaining. I ship callowmoore even more now that they have shit to work through. I love complicated relationships in fiction I am living!!!!

(i genuinely didn't like the very real tension at the table and had to skip it on Thursday night but! Im excited anyways!!! I'm having the time of my life)

Anyway <3 i love this show thanks for reading

#writing this partly because i knew immediately after watching there would be disk horse. i dont know about yall but im having a blast #like i totally understand that so many people are very attached to these characters and we want the best for them #i feel that way too. but im also seeing posts from people genuinely so mad at not only ashton but taliesin jaffe as well?? #I understand if youre upset about what they did but!!! so much Good Shit is gonna come out of this #good roleplay moments and angst and weird mechanics and its gonna impact the plot on the moon and angst and changes in character dynamics #and angst. #critical role #cr spoilers #critical role spoilers #critrole spoilers #ashton greymoore #fearne calloway #callowmoore #cr3 ep77 #ep77 #i will admit that if ashton had died i would've definitely been so upset and mad i wont lie. like im not gonna pretend i wouldve accepted it #but still. i respect everyone at the table too much to genuinely be upset with any of them for their character decisions #y'know

[ilanarose7]

I was rewatching some old 4-Sided Dives this morning bc I'm still in a weird mood since Thursday night. I'm watching episode 8 and -

Then a little bit later:

CURSE YOU 4SD FOR SPEAKING IT INTO EXISTENCE!!!!

#cr spoilers #critical role #bells hells #4 sided dive #sam riegel #taliesin jaffe #marisha ray #matthew mercer #cr fcg #fcg #original convo was about what marisha was doing backstage when laudna died #why did they speak it into existance?!?! why?!?!?

[marcus--666]

what are they looking at I wonder?

(I cope with my skyrim not loading my damn mods by drawing self indulgent shit when i find good references) (also khajiit faces are so hard to draw bro)

#skyrim taliesin #talisen #skyrim custom followers #skryim #tes #skyrim oc #oc: ahira #khajiit #the elder scrolls #also why did i have to make ahira's canon clothing so complicated dude

[immeasurable-depths]

I’m having some feelings about Fearne. Fearne who doesn’t usually worry about consequences, who always wants to do the most chaotic, the most fun option without a second thought. Who in making that choice and going along with Ashton’s secret switching plan, had a front row seat to exactly how dire and catastrophic those consequences can be. And having to immediately deal with them, to be the one to literally hold Ashton together while they break and combust in front of her, to witness first hand someone she deeply cares about getting torn apart because of a choice she helped make. And how it seemed neither of them had fully considered just how wrong it could go - how making the fun, chaotic choice doesn’t always end well.

And then thinking about what would have happened if Fearne hadn’t been the one to help him - if she’d been outside Allura’s force field, if she hadn’t been close enough to cast Aura of Life, Ashton didn’t have a chance. Being both the cause and last desperate hope of salvaging the disaster - thinking about destiny, and being the granddaughter of The Fatestitcher…

What gets me most is this was one of the most honest and vulnerable we’ve seen Fearne (except at certain points with Orym, perhaps) - opening up to Ashton with her doubts about taking the shard herself, bringing up the ‘sister’ comment to find out what it meant. Earlier in the day, we saw this and then saw her run away after expressing that she thinks Ashton is hot - this was a new timidness, a vulnerability we so rarely see with Fearne. And then later, right before they do it, she’s once again open and honest for the first time, expressing her concerns, reconsidering that maybe this isn’t a good idea, that they should stop and think - a forethought we so rarely see with Fearne, she is met with a confusing kiss (the only one you get - what the fuck is up with that, Ashton?!), let’s herself go with it anyway, and it almost immediately blows up in her face.

I just really need them to have a serious chat afterwards. About trust, and vulnerability, and being allowed to change your mind if something doesn’t feel right. Because I think Fearne, sweet, loving, carefree Fearne, is going to feel responsible in some way, and she got a brief glimpse into how awful it could have been. I think this guilt thing that she has only recently discovered is going to eat away and consume her if she doesn’t get the chance to be mad, to be upset, to feel guilt and regret and come out the other side with the support of her friends.

Basically I really want there to be consequences from this. I hope Ashton sees what a horrible situation he put Fearne in (not that it was entirely their fault, but they definitely played a big part in persuading her and then didn’t listen to her concerns) and reckons with that, lets her be mad or angry or whatever that feeling is rather than being arrogant because it worked (entirely thanks to her).

Wow this ended up long! Also please note I say this as someone that didn’t like the choice Ashton made or how he went about it, but I am so here for the giant shift in relationships and group dynamic that should come from it. I just need them to talk about it properly and not just gloss over the trauma it caused Fearne and the rest of the group.

#critical role #critical role spoilers #fearne calloway #cr campaign three #c3e77 #ashley johnson #fearne x ashton #ashton greymoore #taliesin jaffe #callowmoore #also please note I’m not mad at taliesin #I did not like the choice he made but it’s his character and his game #and it’s certainly going to make for some interesting character development #I just need them all to talk jfc

[dent-de-leon]

MOLLy mERCH—

#did I buy this immediately because I have no self control? absolutely #mOLLYMaUK #the tattoo and coat designs!! #also taliesin looks so good here I am looking respectfully

[danwhobrowses]

Well another week of Tal and Ashley putting Callowmoore through the emotional ringer. I'm kinda okay with where it's at right now (okay less kinda but I can still see an end goal for them), of course it wasn't the most ideal direction I thought up in my head but it rarely ever is. There's time, there's room, and maybe in 2 3 (again guys? mental torment for 3 again?) weeks time - because no show on Thanksgiving and then Candela Obscura - Tal and Ashley will pull the trigger and not leave me an anxious mess like they have the last month and a half every Friday Morning when I have to work XD

#don't get me wrong I expected Fearne to show stress and it is good that Ashton apologized as personally as they could #I just desired a sweeter shippier flavour of events...but I can wait #not forever mind you I still crave the positive emotional payoff #kinda bummed after all that the shard rejected Ash though seems a bit like sour grapes from Matt - but it's his decision #like if you can make callowmoore a thing as an early birthday present that'd be cool just throwing it out there #Ashton did make some good character steps though and it was cool they had a talk with Percy #critical role #bells hells #ashton greymoore #fearne calloway #callowmoore #ashton x fearne #fearne x ashton #taliesin jaffe #ashley johnson #glad we can get rid of this manipulation discourse though they were pretty clear that it was just stupidity rather than manipulation #feel like they have to have their talk before going to the key so I'm hoping for something even more precious and irreplaceable being share #cr3 spoilers #critical role spoilers #c3e78 #the whole feywild 'couples retreat' would be a good way for Fearne to realise her fear of losing Ashton is because she loves him #the whole 'love is enduring pain' theme being thrown in a lot this ep #While Ashton uses the feywild to connect to the earth and be better and realise that he loves Fearne and they're (k)enough as they are now #probably some Orym guidance/ass kicking needed for that too #idealism of course but I need to hope it goes good because if it goes bad it just ruins my week(s)/life #Chet was great this episode with the tough love and challenging Ashton to be better but of course Laudna needs to be kept an eye on #I accept the character directions but mentally and emotionally I am not okay