Your Soul Is Forfeit

Critical Role and DnD blog, 23

[your-turn-to-role]

Episode 30: Here in the Dark

(gifmaker's note: there is nothing to caption in that second to last gif. travis is genuinely making no noise whatsoever)

[kittiemitties]

Long time no see! I am not immune to chin tilting for science!!!!

[teaweltzer]

The Emperor of Fire & The Empress of Earth

[shadydruid]

✨️WIP✨️ Tyranny 😏💓

[kitattack]

im late to the party but essek and caleb in their projekt funball fits!!

[consulships]

i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls

[literaryreference]

Time to take this post entirely too seriously:

I often wonder if this is why you so commonly see the sentiment that we are in an era of uniquely bad literature, or at least that the fact that most books don't have artistic aspirations and are not aiming to be anything other than mindless entertainment is new. In fact what's new is the idea that everything is worth preserving (and also the internet making it easier to preserve it). The dumb artistically unambitious trash books of the past have survived only sporadically, because people thought of them as literally disposable.

When I was in college I had a professor who was an expert on detective fiction. He had a longstanding beef with the idea that "Murders in the Rue Morgue" was the first detective story. He thought that it seemed way too polished to be inventing a new genre, and also that the whole orangutan business had the vibe of someone subverting preexisting audience expectations and maybe engaging in a bit of stealth parody. With the help of some student volunteers, he went trawling through old magazines and newspapers and found hundreds of detective stories from the early 1800s that just hadn't garnered enough individual attention to be remembered. This was because most of them sucked balls. He created an online archive of them, so you too can read these mostly terrible stories.

[tricky-pockets]

I've spent a ridiculous amount of time on Project Gutenberg sifting through forgotten old fiction and lemme tell ya. a lot of that stuff sucks ass.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Tremendously comforting, really.

[twinklestarss]

Campaign 4 Episode 31: Trick of the Light

[sarghost]

Listen everybody I am obsessed with them so now I WILL be doing this to every post I find on pinterest that reminds me of them

[nat1quoteunquote]

[scattergoriesofevil]

Thimble knows who and what Thjazi was better than anyone. She didn’t know the details of his half of their operation, by design, but she ran half of it. She was his partner in crime, full stop. When Thjazi was betrayed by an old ally, Thimble immediately went to find him, stabbed him in the eye, and slit his throat.

Laura Bailey has been extremely clear from the beginning, when she told us “Thimble is a stone cold killer.” I’d argue Thimble is a ruthless adversary with vast criminal expertise who only a fool would cross, but in no scenario is she a “good” protagonist unaware of the general nature of what her “morally gray” partner was getting up to. Thjazi’s business was her business. Thjazi was a pretty complicated hero, and so is she.

[kiwimintlime]

Hal and Thaisha are not divorced. I definitely thought so at the start of the campaign, but by the time we get the end of the Conference, it's clear to me that they aren't. for one thing, they were never married so in a literal sense they can't be divorced. but more to the spirit of what people mean when they call them divorced, I personally don't believe Hal and Thaisha's romantic relationship ever ended. she still has a designated room at his house despite having a family home in the same city. they still canonically sleep together. and throughout the Convergence we can see how deeply they still love each other, through words and actions. I can understand why people assume they're divorced/broken up. their relationship decidedly functions very differently from what is average and conventional. if I had to put specific terms to it, I'd call it a long-distance open relationship. but that feels rather clinical and like an attempt to shove it into an easily understood digestible box, which seems silly to do considering they're a completely different species with a completely different culture from a completely different world. whatever the case, I love the two of them and what they share for its unique view of what romance can look like. and I'm excited to see how their relationship develops, as well as their individual relationships with other characters

[nat1quoteunquote]

If you haven't done it already, could I suggest Veth's quote from C2: "No structural damage, only damage to the creature. That's how I see it going down"

[experienceplace]

cr spoilers

I do have a superpower to wake up to cr live when astrid beck does cool shit

[Id: colored sketch of Astrid, Caleb and Eadwulf from critical role. They sit in the grass, Astrid is crying. Caleb touches her forehead with his, and her shoulder, saying something. Eadwulf half-sits behind Caleb, looking worried. end id]  

[angrydack]

3\5 ode to punks

[cuewulfir]

obsessed with whatever these two have going on

[ID: a digital drawing of thaisha and vaelus from critical role. they are facing each other and are depicted as silhouettes in light blue floating on a dark blue background. they both reach towards the stone of nightsong, a glowing circle in the centre of the canvas. a flock of small birds, also depicted as light blue silhouettes, fly from behind thaisha, through her, and towards vaelus. where the birds intersect the figures of thaisha and vaelus they become the dark blue of the background. on the background behind the flock and the two figures more birds are faintly visible. border panels around the edges of the canvas depict a gingko tree behind thaisha and a battlefield scene behind vaelus.]

[quest-draws]

[A digital drawing of Veth Brenatto from Critical Role - Veth is a dark skinned halfling with partially braided dark hair. She wears an A-line grey dress with poofy sleeves, a brown and purple lace vest, a necklace made of buttons, lots of trinkets and chains, and small gray boots. She has her head turned to the side and looks at the viewer from the corner of her eye. End description.]

Me listening Veth’s description in the new episode: Hmm, how do I want to do this?

[ariadne-mouse]

The Plank King and the Horrible, Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day