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30s, living in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, and before that 🇩🇪🇺🇲🇬🇧. Primarily Critical Role, but also plenty of BG3 and Veilguard

[deludedrambler]

[blackmosscupcakes]

For around 18 years I have wanted to learn the Bayeux stitch as used in the Bayeux tapestry almost 1000 years ago. Decided the best subject for doing so would be a panel of my beloved OC fighting my friend's beloved OC outside a McDonald's.

I am avoiding adding the part where she's biting his hand until I'm no longer in public because I fear that's the point where I lose plausible deniability about this not being weird.

[were--ralph]

the problem with tumblr spells is all of you lil sluts are casting and not giving it time to charge so you're all casting cantrips and not 9th level death spells. everyone wants to be the one to take them down no one wants to be the one who assists

[were--ralph]

we're going to try again witha little but minimal casting

IT will happen in August of 2026. like to charge and reblog to cast but cast sparingly

[were--ralph]

Wait stop. everyone +like now and spread it a little but cast on the same day in August. lets try August 6th or something.

[were--ralph]

CAST NOW

[bluestrawberry7]

every day i wake up frienzied and gasp is it august 27 yet and then look at my calendar and cry and cry and they pat my back and say let's get you back to bed

cr memes part 14

[elucubrare]

i'm generally alienated by the current atmosphere of calling characters "failures" and "pathetic," mostly because i like my characters hypercompetent, but also because i'm really interested in failure in fiction, from crushing defeats to partial wins to pyrrhic victories, and I especially like it when my hypercompetent characters can't or don't win (because the forces against them were too great; or because this was always a no-win situation; because they were outmaneuvered; etc). and so i find it really frustrating to see the character who made it almost all the way, against great odds, described as #cringefail, as though the fact that they didn't actually manage to take the world off Atlas' shoulders means that all their skill, all their work, all their strength, was always comedic, or worse, that they have no skill at all ("they're so bad at things!!") . and most of all i just think it's boring. there's so much more to any instance of failure than "haha, they just couldn't get it done," if we're willing to look.

[zmeess]

you can't tell me this did not happen at some point at Fjord's bachelor party

[thequeenofmyownscreen]

I see myself in the audience !!!

[blackmosscupcakes]

Ooh! There's me!

[revvethasmythh]

unironically "yeza never forgives essek for what he did to him even if he's too passive to start a fight abut it, but it does make the vibes real weird whenever they're in a room together" has got to be like the best interpretation of that relationship. it's deeply awkward and fun and would be extremely valid as the one thing yeza can't be budged on. and also it fundamentally complicates the shit out of the entire yeza-veth-caleb-essek greater dynamics if yeza and essek never manage to really get along. which is awesome

[hiyaluronic]

[chipthekeeper]

another day, another equally personal hanging

[vintageandroid]

i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.

What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?

It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.

My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂

[absolutelynotclassicusernam-blog]

I remember walking down the street and seeing a sign protesting George W. Bush’s war on Iraq, so I think that.

[blackmosscupcakes]

Just finished a 22 hour travel day. 😑

On the bright side, I get to say interesting and cryptic things about it like "we didn't arrive with the same number of teeth we left with" and "at least we all made it in one piece, except for [11 year old].

[gooseplumes]

The “Always muscles?” being so high up on the who am I board is so funny. Grace like ok i just woke up from a coma. First question: why am I Ryan gosling

[ariadne-mouse]

So disappointed that the Darktow liveshow recording didn't have a good shot of the castle cannons firing after the intro! That was such an incredible unexpected moment, perfectly timed, epic as fuck. They show a peek of it in the Road to Edinburgh behind-the-scenes but man wish they could have really showcased it because it was SO COOL

[aceofwonders]

Liam notices Sam’s flask

[ramavoite]

Moonward - Part 2

[unseenbox]

So, one thing I've seen a few times in the short time I've hung out in Critical Role fandom is almost every round of dashboard swallowing discourse is kicked off by a player or character making a mistake. Things like Occtis setting off all the traps in the Manor (or the party not sending enough people there in the first place), or Julien leaving Teor and Cyd behind, or the players/characters not realizing the play ritual wasn't evil, or that time Kattigan yelled at Tyranny, or every time the players panic because they didn't roll high enough and their dice hate them.

Like, the fandom tends to treat dnd like an optimization problem where there is an objectively Perfect decision you can make and every time the players/characters don't metagame hard enough to get it, it's a failure.

The thing is, this creates two issues. The first is that playing under such a hypercitical microscope is actually not fun and *will* cause the kinds of circular arguments that typically pop up at the Critical Role table because obviously there must be a perfect decision so we need to stall until we find it.

The second is that this clashes with Brennan's style. Brennan loves players who take big swings, make big choices, and commit to them, and if you don't believe me, check out every time Lou Wilson flubs a speech because it's what his character would do, because it's often.

So, like, basically, if you want the good character juice, you *have* to give the players more leeway to fuck it up, or otherwise you cause the exact kind of choice paralysis that makes characters weaker in the first place because the player is too afraid to make a choice and stick with it.