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30ish. Queer. Aroace. Nonbinary she/her. Fan and ocassional fanfic author. Primarily interested in Critical Role, the Stormlight Archive, Cosmere, The Expanse, and Mass Effect. You can find me on AO3 and ff.net. Profile pic courtesy of Mini Cat Maker (https://picrew.me/image_maker/35494)

[escuerzoresucitado]

[typhus-andronicus]

[slorty]

The fact that this is completely incomprehensible to me makes it funnier than if I could understand it

[silver-tongues-blog]

skill issue. i understand it completely

[lomakes]

wip I’ve been meaning to draw their house since the official art dropped

[drawsmaddy]

[ID: A digital drawing of Essek Thelyss and Caleb Widogast from Critical Role. Essek is wearing a simple purple robe and rimless blue sunglasses and Caleb is shirtless. Essek is holding a purple parasol over them both and fanning himself with a paper fan painted to look like the cross section of an orange. Caleb is eating a purple ice lolly and looking off to the right, Essek is glancing towards Caleb. End description.]

It's too damn hot

[ariadne-mouse]

While I'm talking about understated moments from the liveshow, let's talk about Frumpkin. Caleb notably frees Frumpkin from familiarhood at the end of Campaign 2, before the timeskips, after the Mighty Nein have just battled Trent Ikithon at the Blooming Grove. In his brief Campaign 3 appearance, Caleb says, "Well, it has been a number of years since we've had Frumpkin along." That's the most recent in-game mention of him. It's very possible that there was an offscreen reunion sometime between then and now, but I like the idea that there wasn't. Because that means that here in Projekt Funball, having not called on him in the years since their farewell, Caleb is in trouble and he desperately and instinctively reaches out to his dear once-familiar: "FRUMPKIN I NEED YOU!" And instantly Frumpkin is there, like nothing has changed. We don't know the exact circumstances, but I like to think an echo of their old link is still there even if the obligation is not, and so when Frumpkin comes this time it is of his own accord, as a friend who has heard the panicked cry of someone he loves.

The corrupted tower scene of Caleb's childhood at his family's cottage also gives Frumpkin what might be his very first look at the original Frumpkin, who is his namesake and the exact shape of the wound in Caleb's heart that a familiar was first meant to fill. Liam narrates Frumpkin looking at his shadowy original in particular: "Frumpkin, sitting on your shoulder, sits up at attention and cocks his head." This is firstly Liam helping the players understand that this scene is of is Bren's childhood, since OG Frumpkin is there, but it also serves as a genuine reaction. Jester asks, "Is that you, Frumpkin?" and the previously vocal Frumpkin says nothing. And then he watches OG! Frumpkin burn. Woof. (meow?).

There wasn't time in the liveshow format to really sit with his presence, but I like to think this is the start of a new rapport & that we may possibly see Frumpkin again in future Caleb Widogast appearances.

[halfinsihedthings]

Hehe I finished it

I tried adding colours but I think I like this better

(CR c2e97 spoilers)

Oh the beauty of two broken and twisted and rotten souls finding each other and reaching the end of the tunnel against all odds

[detectivehole]

what's that one thing where they asked how ripely from alien was so realistic and believable as a female character in scifi for once and they were like "well we just took the dude from the original script and made him a girl and changed nothing else. it works bc men and women are the same?" and people were like "woah no way" and then didn't learn anything from that for 20 years

[detectivehole]

"how do you write such believable men as a woman?" "how do you write such believable women a man?" and the answer people who are good at it always give is "i just write people. were literally the exactly the same. do you think the opposite sex is some sorta totally different animal???" and people respond "woah that's wild. yea i do. and im not gonna stop thinking that goodbye :)"

[anarchistmemedistro]

[self-loving-vampire]

[birdsareblooming]

Dorothy L. Sayers: Are Women Human (1938)

it's older than ripley

[memeuplift]

[ariadne-mouse]

a wild blink-and-miss-it moment from Projekt Funball is the reveal that (if we take puzzleconstruct!Caleb at his word) during the time Trent was in prison Caleb was visiting him to talk to him: "Listen to me, you old vulture. Just because I have come to offer you conversation a handful of times doesn't afford you any form of closeness or kinship."

This is fine and normal. And also funny, considering that up until his escape, Trent could not speak due to the arcane silencing collar attached to his neck with sovereign glue. So I guess Caleb would visit and just. brood and monologue at him, unless Trent was afforded a pen. Mr. Nastygram post-it notes

[catgirlthecrazy]

Don't forget that Caleb has Trent's old ring of telepathy, which he could presumably use to let Trent reply. Which is its own brand of fascinatingly messed up to consider.

[badasserywomen]

Aasimar Yasha in all her badassery

[fovfvk]

All of them in one place 💥💥

[kyoshi-lesbians]

my controversial opinion is I don’t think Zuko was confused by “my first girlfriend turned into the moon”

[kyoshi-lesbians]

he was there during siege of the North. he infiltrated the spirit oasis. he has an uncle who studies spirits and the spirit world. he watched the sky go dark then the moon suddenly reappear like everyone else in the entire world did. and most importantly he watched zhao get eaten by a giant godzilla fish spirit.

[kyoshi-lesbians]

his entire life since he saw that beam of blue-white light in the south pole has been ‘this day has already been so goddamn weird’

[edgar-allan-possum]

The only really new information was that that was Sokka’s girlfriend

[library-graffiti]

Important opinion in the tags that I need to have be part of the post:

[clearascountryair]

Also, Iroh was there? He literally watched Sokka make out with the moon spirit. And you want to tell me that a romantic sap like him would not have immediately told Zuko about this romantic tragedy? Please, Zuko has known about this for ages, he just knows that this is not an acceptable situation in which to say “yeah, I know.”

[terriwriting]

Sokka: “My girlfriend turned into the moon.”

Zuko: “I know.” “Yes.” “She sure did.” “Uh huh.” “Tell me something new.” “Are we still talking about that?” “That’s rough, buddy.”

[alexseanchai]

[image: tags by samwisethebold: #it’s not that he doesn’t get what sokka means #it’s that how on earth do you respond to that]

[uberguber89]

When you put it like that, this is actually a legendary display of tact on Zuko’s part

[thedailyshow]

[gay-hopeless-romantic-deactivat]

The U.S. in a gif series.

[pdawgz]

Pls keep reblogging this till this become a classic tumblr post , because it needs to be

[fael-draws]

Spoilers for [Projekt] Funball! I came out of the Berlin liveshow with the urgent need to paint basically everything that happened, so now that the VOD is out on beacon, I'm posting some of that! Fun fact, there's 21 hands in this illustration...

[darrengrave]

You should be extremely suspicious of any movement attempting to shut down nuanced, intelligent, good faith conversation and debate. Especially when it's being used in a way that infiltrates and shuts down every conversation, any conversation, about anything. Especially when it's being used in a way that halts gaining any ground at all in steady incremental progress. Especially when it's being used in a way that only seeks to divide and halts any efforts of reparations.

You should be extremely suspicious of any movement attempting to paint any part of society or history as simple. In any direction. For any reason.

You should be extremely suspicious of anyone and especially any movement that speaks with flagrant disregard to human life. It does not matter who that life belongs to.

[sluglover666]

Hot take, but even if you ARE punching up (instead of punching sideways at a group that is in the same boat as you), there's a limit to what you can say without sounding like a violent facist but woke this time.

Making fun of a group of people that are privileged over you is one thing, but wishing non-cartoonish violence and death on them ("they should fall off a cliff" vs. "they should be wiped out"), wishing sexual violence on them, dehumanising them, claiming that they're less capable of creating art or living meaningful lives, saying that their relationships are inherently shallow and fake - these things are fucked up. I understand venting and saying extreme things when in pain, but when you find yourself regularly posting about wanting certain people tortured and killed, you need to examine that.

When the only thing stopping you from completely dehumanising someone is your own judgement regarding their privilege level relative to yours, you are not a safe person to be around.

[darkladynyara]

[emfrots]

"convince your followers that their Oppressor Class (whether real or imagined) is less deserving of human rights" is the oldest and most reliable trick in the book to incite mass violence, and you're not immune to it because you're a Good Person with Correct Opinions. you will continue to be a potential breeding ground for fascist thought until you stop dehumanizing people in any context, regardless of whether they deserve it or not, or how serious you are. there can be no acceptable targets.

[standwithdaanes]

Rwandan genocide - Wikipedia

The Rwandan Genocide: From Colonial Roots to a Contested Future - Explaining History Podcast

In the spring of 1994, the small African nation of Rwanda was engulfed in a maelstrom of violence that saw at least 800,000 Tutsi and modera

I always think of the Rwandan Genocide when it comes to this. Thank you for bringing it up.

In particular, from that second link:

As we have already seen in this series of articles, Rwanda’s ethnic division between Hutu (around 85 %) and Tutsi (around 14 %) had deep roots in colonial rule. Under Belgian administration, identity cards fixed ethnicity as a rigid category, and the Tutsi minority was favoured for education and government work. After independence in 1962, this hierarchy inverted, and Hutu elites consolidated control. [...] When RTLM launched in July 1993, it combined pop-culture style with extremist ideology. This hybrid made hatred sound normal, even entertaining. Music, jokes, gossip, and death threats co-existed in the same broadcast. [...] RTLM’s language fused entertainment with ideology. It mocked Tutsis as arrogant “cockroaches” (inyenzi), accused them of conspiring to enslave Hutus, and encouraged listeners to “work” to eliminate them—a euphemism for killing. Humour, music, and familiarity disguised the lethal message.

[brainscrems]

“Anything goes as long as it’s punching up” is also the central tenet of antisemitism. Leftists think Jews are the ultrawhite ruling class, worst of the worst of whiteness, and conservatives think we’re a race secretly controlling the world and pretending to be white as a plot to bring down the white race. People who believe the latter are in charge of the US government rn. The nature of antisemitism is that we serve as a misdirect for the people with real power. Whatever issues you care about, people in power will find a way to blame the Jews. I cannot remember the exact quote or who it’s from, but I will paraphrase it anyways. Depending on who you ask we’re communists, capitalists, nationalists, rootless cosmopolitans, white, least white, liberals, conservatives, fascists, anarchists, or whatever other “existential and powerful” threat one may believe exists. But what we never are to these people is human. We’re the monsters who hurt them and so it’s okay to hurt us. The truth doesn’t matter, of course, because they aren’t actually afraid of us. We’re just a safer and easier target, and the lie that hurting us is dangerous and makes a change is easier than the hard truths and dangers one must face to fight real power. As Jean-Paul Sartre said, “If the Jew did not exist, the antisemite would invent him.” Because it is not about the truth, but having a comforting lie that you can make positive change through abusing the vulnerable.

[phoukanamedpookie]

Remember Audre Lorde, "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house."

Are you dismantling the system or just taking it over?

[essektheylyss]

Anyway if you need me I'll be lying in a puddle thinking about Caleb calling Essek dear one and immediately shunting him out of the room to get him out because Essek wasn't going to leave him otherwise.

[st-just]

A character trait/dynamic that I'm endlessly compelled by is someone dealing with (or, like, failing to) being the child of people who were too busy being good people to have the time and attention to be good parents. This can be anywhere from 'was a public defender who gave a shit working 60 hour weeks with basically no vacations' to 'left their family behind to join the revolution/war effort and is now a universally beloved martyr-hero who saved/remade the world with their final breath' on the groundedness spectrum. The important thing is a viscerally felt but confused and ugly mess of longing, resentment, and guilt about feeling the resentment.