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[vashito]

Yasha from Critical Role comm patreon

[patetemult]

Great job, 10/10

Bonus, Sam and Dani god bless:

[mydoorin]

unpopular CR opinion: i really dont like the live action C3 intro. the song isn’t really good at all. like it’s actually really bad and corny in the most unboring way, i stopped watching C3 kind of because of it

[lorn-art]

🌊

[min8taur]

anything 4 my queen

[mini-minish]

felt that.

[mydoorin]

the discourse about whether or not Imogen wears glasses is so dumb. it’s literally because Laura Bailey wears glasses and Laura Bailey is pretty so it’s fun to draw her player character pretty with glasses too.

[commandermorgan]

Yasha, catch me!

[aduck8myshoes]

Look, I just think that if Kiki, Beau, Caleb, and Laudna all end up in one scene together, it would only be fair to take some of the former PC acting burden off Matt and have Marisha play Caleb

[tshortik]

she would like to rage! 😤

[mydoorin]

it’s messed up rewatching the briarwood arc, getting to the Tree Scene knowing that’s Laudna

[baesarenraes]

under the moonlight🌠

[ashandcinders]

Happy Valentine’s Day to Beauyasha and Beauyasha ONLY

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[jdestamtiunm]

😳

[redjennies]

tbh the Critical Role fandom, along with most fandoms, has a problem with centering easily digestible metaphors for white queer experiences (and even then only those that check all the boxes of the purity list) at the cost of seeing stories through the lens of race, class, mental and physical disabilities and how those can intersect with queer experiences.

for example, putting an unnecessary amount of effort into proving Jester's attraction to Fjord is compulsory heterosexuality while ignoring that Fjord and Jester were both explicitly biracial characters from different class backgrounds and how that class difference intersected with their self image. a general refusal to really interact with Chetney as a character that is heavily coded as mentally ill and uninterested in being "cured." Veth being deemed the token straight Karen despite being a young rural mother of color struggling with addiction and having an arc that was heavily coded as trans, and Ashton, a nonbinary lower class punk with chronic pain, being considered just a man when it comes to ship wars. etc, etc.

[redjennies]

okay this post is not about just stupid discourse in the fandom and how I should block more people (I do). this is about a continued trend in both this fandom and others to center narratives that are extremely familiar to middle class white queer people at the explicit expense of engaging with narratives that are unfamiliar to us. I do not need to be a young mother of color struggling with alcoholism for Veth's story to matter to me (i am in fact a childless white woman who is decidedly not an alcoholic). while I personally don't see her that way, Veth can be a cisgender heterosexual and still have a story that resonates with young moms, with women of color, with addicts, to trans people regardless if Sam considered her to be trans, and with anyone who may be a combination of those things, and dismissing her complexity as a character in favor of "well she's just some straight suburban mom" is actively shitty to people who see themselves represented in that character.

Fjord, similarily, is another character who canonically grew up in an abusive, impoverished environment and is deeply shaped by that as well as being canonically a biracial man in this setting who is, again, heavily coded as a man of color, and there are white middle class queer people in this fandom who will proudly announce they actually don't have any interest in relating to him if he's cishet. like do you understand what you're saying there to any cishet men of color in this fandom who might relate to Fjord's experiences? do you understand what you're saying to even queer people of color in this fandom when you say a character who was so heavily stigmatized for his race that he engaged in self harm to appear less threatening doesn't matter unless he's relatable to you, a white person?

and I use these two as very specific examples because these are two characters I love who have very different lives than me. I could talk about my experiences with type I bipolar disorder and how I see Chetney's lycanthropy as a metaphor for that, and how only people with physical and mental disabilities are the only people who want to talk about characters through that lens, but that's not really the point. the point here is the continual lack of compassion in regards to oppressed groups that aren't like you that's the problem here. it's preaching intersectionality in only so much as it benefits you. it's about how even though Ashton is an explicitly queer character, the diet terfs in this fandom so very clearly want to call him a cishet man every time he interacts with Laudna because this is the framework that fandom allows for. it's about centering a very narrow and honestly fairly privileged experience within queer spaces and it's frankly fucking exhausting to deal with.

[owlshaven]

she needs to smother my head between [redactedredactedredacted]

[ailustrarte]

POV: You are an air elemental in a basement in Yios.

I wanted to experiment with a different kind of style. At first, I wanted it to be sexy or funny but the more I thought about it, if I was the one entering to that scene inside that basement, I would think this was a creepy naked witch cult aquelarre for summoning werewolves and shit.