why am i here

sam | he/they/she | early 20’s critical role sideblog: seasonchancje talk batman to me

[hiddenwarlock]

the secret history oc: erica “heather” campbell

half italian | upper middle class | sapphic | accessory to murder

[silvaaart]

are you superman enough?..

[hiddenwarlock]

should i read crisis on infinite earths now or wait for the compact comic to come out? 

[hiddenwarlock]

i see a lot of potential in a storyline about red hood having to learn how to be a mentor to the new teen titans team. but i don’t really trust dc to actually write that well, considering how much easier it is for them to just write him like the angry guy who shoots guns. i hope i’ll get happily surprised. 

[renviary]

cleaned up an old sketch :)

Also im trying to make more prints for the shop so!

This is a gallery-quality giclée art print on 100% cotton rag archival paper, printed with archival inks.

[watchingwisteria]

just finished re-reading under the red hood and it really is the perfect story to explore the costs of both consequentialist and principles-based moralities.

because both of them do come at a cost. so how do you decide which is better? is it the way that bloodies your hands in the name of sparing the innocent? or is it the one that keeps your hands clean while giving the wrongdoer another chance to either turn it all around or keeping hurting people? if you kill to spare future victims, you risk spilling blood you have no right to if you misjudge someone, but you assure the protection of many if you’re right. if you choose not to kill, you guarantee that you will never shed innocent blood and leave open the possibility of redemption for the wrongdoer, but you jeopardize the welfare of countless others by not doing what it is within your power to do.

neither way saves everybody. not everyone can be saved. if you can accept that, then which is better? which set of consequences can you live with? whose future, whose safety do you prioritize? and what does your choice make you?

[cuprumbao]

star-crossed buddies 🥺

[artsy-moonwalker]

fundamentally a good man

[nugbrownies]

[clowndraws]

mimicry

[bringbackavac]

ortiz!rocky naming eridian!grace “grace” because the first time they met grace kept tripping and stumbling over his own excitement meeting an alien…

[localcalico]

Running out of time

[alexxuun]

Grace think fondly of his scar if you even care.

[dudethatsmypillowcase]

On the way to Erid shenanigans.

[ramqiu]

the upgraded xenonite suit was invented shortly after

inspired by this tweet

[ynnu-64]

WeAlien 💚

Inspiration 💚💚💚💚

[loving-jack-kelly]

grace and rocky get to erid and both of them are hitting every eridian squarely in the uncanny valley because they've both absorbed so much of each other that they feel both too eridian and not eridian enogh. rocky faces in the direction he's paying attention to and it feels like he's trying to hide something, the way he and only he of the eridians seems to always be showing the same face of his carapace when he speaks to somebody. he speaks in metaphors that only make sense to somebody who understands light-based vision. his intonations are funny, rising on questions when they otherwise wouldn't, falling flat, his sarcasm goes to space dry and restrained and comes back with such force it almost feels like he's lying instead of joking sometimes.

and grace who is so alien, but reflects eridian mannerisms that they've never considered strange before but coming from a creature so soft and strange, it just doesn't feel right. grace who stomps his foot twice when he asks a question, and it rings out flat and dull instead of the strong, sharp sound of an eridian hand on the ground. grace whose voice is so alien, so one-note, so full of articulations that are sharp and round and everywhere in between, but who echoes the melodies of eridian poetry and music, sometimes on accident but sometimes perfectly in time with what rocky translates him as saying, and later, perfectly in time with his keyboard.

rocky and grace who mirror each other more similarly than they mirror their own cultures. who speak to each other in a strange pidgin eridian that nobody else quite understands fluently. who share jokes from movie and tv shows from earth filtered through eridian folktales, plays, and musicals until they only make sense to the two people who know both cultures. they're not strange to each other, but it puts other eridians on edge. even adrian, at first. they've changed each other, you see.