[ID: A digital page of doodles of Orym, Dorian Storm, and Opal from Critical Role. In the top left corner Orym is crying while speaking into his sending stone, saying "I'm - struggling. Sorry. Can you get here? Fuck, I miss you." To the right is Orym facing to the left with his eyes closed, looking distressed. In the top right corner is Opal with Lolth's circlet on her head and her eyes completely black, facing three quarters to the left. Below that drawing of Opal is a similar one but she is facing fully forward. In the bottom left corner are three drawings of Dorian. The largest is the only coloured drawing on the page, Dorian is smiling and an arrow is pointing to him is labelled "on his way to be gay with Orym if Opal doesn't kill him first". The two smaller drawings of Dorian show him facing with to the left with a neutral expression and him playing a note "doot" on his flute as he faces three quarters to the right but looks to the left. End description.]
Episode 92 doodles of Orym, Dorian, and Opal: Sad Times, Doot, Oh No!
Absolutely vibrating at the thought that Mollymauk could get his own theme song in animated mighty nein and then a discordant, warped version of it plays when we meet Lucien—
The mighty nein’s backstories are really like. Abused and kidnapped. Abused and killed own family. Orphaned and kidnapped into new tribe and abused. Woke up in own grave. Orphan who became a normal sailor then almost died. Family slowly disappeared one by one. Kept hidden inside a brothel and then sent away. Totally 100% normal life until horrifically killed and resurrected as the monster that killed you.
Wheat fields are more mystical than fields of other crops. You are 7,000 times more likely to meet an old god or see a portent of doom in a wheat field than in a field of like… soybeans.
listen i'm just as obsessed with Lucy Frostblade as any other person when presented with this beautiful and sweet image of a character the PCs will never interact with... but there is something to be said about dead girl fascination. and that is precisely the whole thing that emily was ironically pointing out with the Complicated Women podcast and the "nothing i could get my rocks off to" comment : the fact that we won't ever meet her is what allows people to milk the character out of its inherent tragedy and ultimately of its depth. we only get to know her through two-line statements that obviously are unable to describe a full person and can be summarized in a few words - beautiful, sad, kind - reducing her to the most idealized traits ever... i wish we could have seen the complexity of a living Lucy Frostblade. i wish we could have witnessed her struggling to engage with her goddess whenever the cold and the loneliness felt like too much ; seen her wondering about who she would be if she wasn't made from frost and sadness, trying to balance her cleric domain and her will to live and be happy ; i wish we could have seen her get mad at her friends for stomping on the rats, or trying to talk them out of hating those other popular kids who didn't even know of their existence. i wish we had seen Lucy alive, because then people would have loved more than just the idea of her, more than just this tall shadow cast on her aborted future, this perfect image frozen in time, because she wasn't allowed to live long enough to show all of its cracks.
You remember L̶̢͇̩̤̳̩͖̲͚͚̳͚͕͉̗͋̓ͅư̵͓͖̥̥̦͇͍̬̪̑́͐̏̂̐̎̾̐́̑̋̽̇͆̃̾̈́͌̈́̀̉͛͑̓̌͐́̊͂͒̈́̈́͘̚͠p̸̥̳͈͚̊̈́̋̀̄͐̓͆̇͑̿͊͌̍̕̕͝͠͝͠͝, of course. How could you forget L̶̢͇̩̤̳̩͖̲͚͚̳͚͕͉̗͋̓ͅư̵͓͖̥̥̦͇͍̬̪̑́͐̏̂̐̎̾̐́̑̋̽̇͆̃̾̈́͌̈́̀̉͛͑̓̌͐́̊͂͒̈́̈́͘̚͠p̸̥̳͈͚̊̈́̋̀̄͐̓͆̇͑̿͊͌̍̕̕͝͠͝͠͝?
To accompany my post about Taako’s speech patterns, i wanted to touch on how Lup uses vocatives and nicknames! and even though i’m saying “touch on,” i’m still gonna put it under a readmore because it got too long and i can’t shut up about these twins? sigh.
I started looking into this after reading several fics featuring Taako where his speaking voice was…kind of jarring to me? Mainly in the usage of vocatives. Taako uses vocatives (my dude, homie, darling etc) but he uses them in particular ways, and they’re often very overused when people write dialogue for Taako.
Anyway, as I started researching this, it felt a little…mean-spirited? so I stopped lol. but the more I thought about it, the more I was interested in these particular quirks of Taako’s speech and how they add to his character. A bunch of you seemed interested in it too. So here I present the essay nobody asked for but some wanted after I mentioned it: Hot Linguistic Take on Taako’s Speech! Under a readmore cuz it got LONG, y’all. Buckle up.
i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point
Girl are you the Hays Code the way you consider media irredeemable if it depicts anything that strays away from the norm you're comfortable with or depicts anything morally questionable without definitively condemning it and anyone associated with it, therefore creating worse stories and content and making it difficult for people to engage with complicated issues from a nuanced and controlled perspective?