to the ladies of critical role and of my heart

main @sumersprkl. multishipper but there are some ships I don't like. you can figure out which ones they are only by their absence from this blog

[mayapapaya33]

Between Percy knowing Grog's favorite color (6), knowing that Grog was holding up one finger to him while he was blind to test his eyesight (Grog's middle finger), knowing how to win a cannon ball contest that Grog was judging (by exploding himself with raw sodium and drawing blood from both himself and Grog lol), and Grog getting Percy a broken pocket watch as a gift (because he knew Percy would enjoy tinkering with it), I genuinely think Percy and Grog's relationship is one of the most slept on in all of Critical Role.

Plus this little exchange that I love so dearly:

Percy: I know we don't always agree, and I know that I can be unkind but... you know you're family, right? 

Grog: I don't know much, but I do know that. 

Percy: It's nice having an older brother again.

[starling-illu]

jessie ✨️💞💫

[obibail]

beset by Game Mechanics Thoughts again. now that we've known for a while that azune is only paladin 1, there's no way he's blessed warrior because he has no fighting style so he's getting guidance from another source. i'm assuming it's the magic initiate feat and originally i was thinking it was magic init for cleric but now i'm wondering if it's magic init for druid, because it could explain both guidance and mending and also give me more reasons to feel insane about azune and thaisha

[stardustedknuckles]

FJORD USING THUNDER STEP TO GET YASHA OUT OF THE FORCE CAGE "IF YOU'RE WILLING"

THE LAST TIME HE TRIED TO THUNDER STEP HER OUT AND AWAY SHE WAS NOT WILLING.

THAT WAS KINGS CAGE.

The narrative parallels of the Nein have always been above and beyond even most scripted stories but it never fails to delight and amaze me.

[medusaslover]

Age of umbra has everything, dark atmosphere, high risk of death, and puppet shows with Mr Beaks

[the-caleb-widogast]

[projekt] funball memes part 2

[kerosene-in-a-blender]

There's something very poignant in how Abu is approaching playing Mercy where he's so clearly aware that how he looks makes other people perceive him as a threat and so he is constantly and consciously diminishing his presence to come across less threatening given that Abu is himself a black man. Mercy goes out of their way to be deferential and polite to Bowen, avoids eye contact with Archon Exemplar Petra so as to minimize the amount of perceived threat he poses. His first word he says to her is "mercy". There's this awareness in Mercy and how he's played of how people make snap judgements based on looks and how that can lead to people reacting violently to otherwise neutral acts (Mercy going into a town seeking community and instead finding steels and fists) which speaks to the reality black men live in

[flailypichu]

Julien killing Koral is such a good character moment - that whole scene. He's made it a life goal to kill as many Tachonis as possible, but because Occtis asked him to, he was willing to talk to Koral first and maybe spare his life. It's only when he realizes Koral was an unrepentant actor in the massacre of his family and home that he decides to kill him.

The Julien Davinos of two weeks ago was so angry at his losses that he wouldn't have hesitated, but he's calmed down just enough, bonded just enough with Occtis, that he waited to be sure that Koral deserved to die before killing him. I said ages ago that everything Julien does has to be viewed through the lens of someone furious in grief, and that he would probably change as time went on, and I think we're see the start of that.

[your-turn-to-role]

Episode 29 || Episode 30

bonus, from cooldown:

[revvethasmythh]

unparalleled content, truly

[confuse-the-masses]

The face of a man about to roll 3 nat 1s in a row

[mingus-archives]

Projekt Funball vibe prediction

[mslanna]

wait a minute

Termina is broken in a box (but she shares some kind of headspace with Bolaire)

Azune casts mending on Bolaire and "the spell energy goes into something"

we never find out where the spell energy went

it certainly is never mentioned what/ if it has an effect on Bolaire

Termina jumps out of her box all kintsugied

lemme get a tinfoil hat real quick here

[hollyevolving]

The face of someone who has just been smooched by Matthew Lillard

Flabber entirely gasted

It's always fun to see somebody so cool get so thrown

From the Nord VPN ad read at the opening to C2, E95: Blessing In Disguise

[essektheylyss]

ik ik it's to quickly explain not-standard-rules-stuff away but essek was literally 1) hacking sending so it works continuously, across multiple people, and across planes, 2) stabilising the funball (which seemed demanding based on matt's acting) all while 3) SIMULTANEOUSLY SLOWING DOWN TIME so the time distortion wouldn't affect him and the nein!!! what's sexier than wizards!!!

LITERALLYYYY he was like "actually I'm the more powerful one" and then he proved it. 😌 Though point of order, I do believe he was using Rary's Telepathic Bond, but honestly even more impressive since he fully hacked the primary limitation of a 5th level spell under pretty extreme stress just kind of on a whim. Spent the show absolutely flouting the rules of spacetime. Not just a dunamancer but THE Dunamancer babey!!!

[essektheylyss]

It's delightful how Essek is both unbothered by showing up in Beau and Yasha's bedroom, them being fully naked, and then being asked to make them coffee. It's extremely clear he knows his way around this house.

[corrya]

Nothing just Azune constantly resigning to stay in the city, where he is needed, despite how much it's affecting him.

[tess-talks-inc]

"my boy's sense of duty is so profound it's becoming a gaping would in his chest" how does it feel to be so right holy shit