fate touched

where @stochastiz quietly screams about ttrpgs

[exandrianpunk]

this blog is full of campaign references that will spoil the critical role animated series

spoilers for most recent episodes of Critical Role are tagged with "cr spoilers" until the Tuesday after they air on Beacon. most recent animated episode spoilers are tagged with "(tlovm/m9a) spoilers" until the monday after they air

i also try to use the following persistent tags:

"cr c#" for general campaign stuff

"c#e#" for main campaign episode spoilers

"cr (special name)" for one-shots

"(series name) e#" for limited-run series

for animated series:

the legend of vox machina = "tlovm", " tlovm spoilers", "tlovm s#e#"

the mighty nein = "m9a", "m9a spoilers", " m9a s#e#"

[work in progress] other tag information & directory

is it Thursday yet???

[phaeton-flier]

Bear religion probably fucking rocks. You're a fucking bear, you're the deadliest thing on earth, once a year an endless supply of salmon just flings itself up the river to gorge on and then you nap for 3 months.

[bread-box-ing]

[ohmyeightpastlives]

Mighty nein shitpost 115/?

[galacticjonah]

Official Illustrations for Critical Role's Previously On recaps of Campaign 4!

And this makes all three tables: The Schemers! What a nerve-wracking chain of events, huh? It's been a massive honour yet again to bring all of them to life!!

[lalalyssh]

Everyone's favorite punk rock 💎✨️

[squirrel-stowaway]

watching the legend of vox machina really makes you aware of how well you know the cast’s voices because you end up being able to recognize liam o’brien from an npc’s labored breathing noises

[dorothylarouge]

[littlebosslady7]

The Lord and Lady of Whitestone along with the other Protectors of the Realm have decreed to tag your animated series spoilers with LVMSpoilers on Twitter.

On Tumblr, we’ve been using TLOVM spoilers to distinguish from the main campaign.

[exhosionn]

so i got into the mighty nein and critical role as a whole recently, heres me struggling to figure out how i want to draw caled 15 times

[trailertrashgrog]

the removal of agency from wicander halovar is honestly like, the most frustrating part of encountering people who ostensibly like him and project onto him. people who make grand sweeping statements about how his family hates him or try to equate anything happening to him with being queer in a conservative christian home in a modern american sense of the concept i think are just fully missing the mark

the inciting plot with wick is not that his family hates him for being a nice guy and they lied to him out of malice or resented his faith. he's very clearly coddled and loved by his family to the point of believing he can stop a state execution by asking nicely. him saying his older sister doesn't like him isn't indicative of anything other than zebani, who has been noted by multiple characters to be unpleasant, not liking him, because sometimes older siblings are bullies and it's a mundane fact of familial relationships. maybe she resents him getting to be the face, but that's an individual relationship between individuals.

otherwise it's pretty clear his family loves him and would let him get away with whatever he wanted, even if he didn't act in accordance with the Creed...because they categorically don't care about their own rules. yes they lied to him and there's plenty of discourse you can make about how cruel that decision (made solely by his mother who everyone wants to pretend is the nice one) was, but i don't think "we let you believe a lie for our own benefit and you grew up coddled and sheltered and spoiled and always had a safety net in the form of your family" is the level of abuse that people wanna make it out to be.

what earnestly bothers me about the perception of the halovars as personally disliking wick and that causing a rift (or fanfiction modern AUs that just straight up turn it into a "gay/trans kid whose religious family kicks him out" style narrative) is that wick made that choice himself and his family was clearly ready to let him do whatever he wanted as long as he supported the family business.

wick had a moral objection to the way his family was behaving and decided, actively, to act in defiance of their wishes, and then he left town because he wasn't sure how they'd react. his moral revulsion grew with everything he's seen on the road. wick was not forced out by his icky family who don't understand him. he decided he did not want to be the kind of nakedly corrupt huckster that his grandmother has been for the last 50+ years, and to remove that element of his character, to take away "wicander defied his family because he was horrified by their hypocrisy and is now having a crisis" is taking away what makes wick interesting. even if he does come back to the table with the goal of infiltrating his family in the city, he is making the active decision to separate himself from them. they did not throw him out the door, he opened it and walked through it himself because despite his whole vibe, he does have a spine.

[bashergnax]

I feel like Murray Magnessun could fix Suvi Worldsbeyondnumber.

Here we have ONE brainwashed child prodigy who is finally waking up to the fact that her love of magic has been hijacked by an expansionist empire and ONE tired professor who doesn't give child prodigies and kids from prestigious families special treatment, but who nonetheless believes desperately in protecting the students in her care instead of using them as pawns.

I mean...I feel like they're gonna yell at each other a whole bunch probably. But eventually! Healing friendship! Worthy mentor! You see my vision.

[frogenthusiastt]

i'm so in love with the mirroring gone wrong dynamic in shadowgast (and also caleb's relationships in general). like yeah i see myself in you and thus we are an exclusive set of outsiders; we understand each other intrinsically and can safely show each other our ugly soft underbellies. but also i see myself in you and i don't believe i deserve redemption, and what are you supposed to gleam by that other than that you don't either? i see myself in you and i despise myself, and so i ought to despise you too, and the fact that i don't is another moral failing. i'm going to hell and therefore so are you, yet i claim to love you. every time i preach to you of forgiveness and change i sound like a hypocrite. i see myself in you; thus i am blind to all the ways in which you are different to me. i think this particular aspect would be so interesting to explore further, especially post-canon when they're trying to build a relationship and wanting to heal and are no longer distracted by the apocalypse or international warfare every 0.5 seconds<3

[aromacaque]

It is kind of amazing to me how strongly social conventions, heteronormativity, and amanormativity have such a strong hold on people that even a relationship between a canonically polyamorous man and a demiromantic/demisexual elf who will outlive him by centuries doesn't shake away the specific construct of marriage being the "ultimate perfect idealized romance everyone desires/deserves/wants" idea to some.

Liam says Essek and Caleb never marry, and some people find that disappointing because, I don't know, we're told marriage is the end-all-be-all of a longterm relationship of any kind. Or they'll only accept this by saying they're married in spirit/unofficially because their unconventional approach to romance feels lacking without calling each other their spouses regardless (when they do not refer to each other as such in canon).

Liam says that at some point they "break up," but they remain very close for the rest of Caleb's life. And this is somehow... unsatisfying? Like friendship is a downgrade? As if friendship, or any platonic relationship, is a Specific Thing just like marriage looks and behaves like a Specific Thing (despite the fact that friends can kiss, or possibly share a living space, or do anything a romantic relationship traditionally does and have it still not be inherently romantic). Some think it's stupid because it feels meaningless, but even if shadowgast decided to change up their boundaries near the end of Caleb's life (which they would inevitably have to do this at some point when his health starts to deteriorate) it doesn't suddenly mean Essek can't help take care of him or anything. And they used to be romantic, so their relationship will always have a little bit of that.

Circumstances out of their control, Caleb's polyamory (even if he never gets with anyone else other than Essek), and Essek being aspec makes their relationship very unconventional and dubiously queerplatonic in nature. And somehow the end result of that is... less valuable in the long run? How? Why? Why would a polyamorous man or someone who is aspec subscribe to those social beliefs and systematic structures anyway??? Genuinely?

They don't need to be married to know they love each other. I personally think marriage is the disservice and less valuable direction to take their characters. Why would they ever get married? Why would you think they need to?

[wickedcircle]

Circus shenanigans

I finished Campaign 2!!! This was so good!

I have a lot of thoughts that need a long and dedicated post that I'll do later but for now all I have to say is this - I'm so glad I started this journey

Next stop is Vox Machina let's goooo

[warmer-gaze]

sliding in here with a quick sketch for day 7 of gen week for @cr-fem-fanwork-fest (food/cooking | family)

[naniya27]

The party sure was lively!

Lord Thain had the time of his life!