moonweaver take the wheel

[roll-for-stupid]

I forgot that they got to use background music from the witcher 3 at the beginning of TM9 campaign, and now I want to play wild hunt again

[quietsphere]

yeet the feels.

original idea HERE

[renquise]

Mmmmmmm I love art that captures just how sharp-edged and deliberate Caleb’s change of presentation was when they landed in the Dynasty, in the aftermath of offering the beacon in that throne room; the way he was so very deliberate about going clean-shaven and including Kryn elements in his clothing. 

Like, how fascinating it was to see Caleb move from one survival instinct to another trained survival instinct–to go from presenting himself in a way that will be deliberately overlooked and underestimated, to presenting himself in a way that shows his power and skills and his determination to court this new alliance and strengthen their connection to the powers of the dynasty. It’s so interesting, because I think before this, the only time we see him pull out this tactic and this way presenting himself is when he was cutting their deal with Ophelia Mardun in the aftermath of episode 25. It speaks of Caleb being so desperate to keep his friends safe in these new precarious circumstances and desperate to help Veth, since they had just found out her entire situation. (I also forget that the table was convinced they had burned every bridge to the empire. I’m still thinking of Travis being like, THIS ENTIRE PART OF THE MAP?? WE CAN NEVER GO BACK HERE. Hilarious.)

And it makes the early shadowgast dynamic still absolutely fascinating to me, because all the careful charm that they aimed at each other was completely underlaid with this wary, sharp-edged maneuvering for position and favors. Especially since it later became apparent that Essek was also frantically trying to collect leverage over the M9 to be able to deal with them as necessary and cover his tracks from the beacon heist.  Even after all this time, I feel as though I’m still teasing apart what exactly Essek’s objectives were at this point in time, or at least what he thought his plan was–because it certainly wasn’t to be befriended by this bunch of chucklefucks and turn his back on everything he’s worked for up to this point. Like, why give spells, why teach these bits of highly-classified knowledge, when there were so many other things that he could offer them in terms of connections to the Kryn ruling class, which Caleb was himself trying to forge? (I mean, there’s the Doylist explanation, which is Matt giving Liam cool dunamancy spells to play with, haha. And there’s the explanation that Essek had no fucking clue what he was doing and was just frantically trying to collect favours and see it he could shape it into something to his advantage.)

Like, I love the way the 12-persuasion dunamancy lessons were underlaid with the both of them operating on crisis mode under several layers of masks to appear as impressive as possible and ingratiate themselves to each other, and all the while trying to piece together each other’s motives for doing this. And finding a connection despite and because of that. Fantastic. I love it.

[thechekhov]

True love is when you uhhh (checks smeared writing on hand) exhaust yourself playing 3D chess with your narrative foil so hard that you both end up bonding over how fucked up you are

[vethbrenatto]

BEAU! MOLLY KNEW THINGS! MOLLY KNEW THINGS!

[roll-for-stupid]

if CR ever, ever, decide to animate The Mighty Nein, I need them to include bits from the end fight of Sprinkle’s Incredible Journey in the background of the Open Quay fight

[r-h-e-t]

How Taliesin’s Characters Tell Someone to Fuck Off

[r-h-e-t]

Caduceus Clay | Divine Intervention

Wow, the Wildmother really loves him.

[beckyblah]

Arsonist’s Lullaby

[antivanruffles]

Since it's Anniversary Week for Critical Role, put in the tags what your first live episode was.

Mine was The Echo Tree.

[halandilfang]

pov your character’s best friend just accidentally let it slip to another character who knows nothing about your character’s backstory that your character killed his entire family

[gluzzo]

He begins describing each of your companions visually to them.

[roll-for-stupid]

liam: that’s a natural 1, which I will re-roll *eyeballs Sam*

[utilitycaster]

I still can't get over the exchange where Travis is like "what went into creating this character" about Laudna. Like, okay guy who is playing a character who you originally created for a one shot that became a two-shot because your first character got sucked into one of the outer planes, who you are going to kill off shortly so that you can play a character who you have ostensibly loosely based on a character you played in a one-shot in which you tried to kill Santa, in order to hide that secretly, that character is a werewolf.

[roll-for-stupid]

laudna’s out here making things that belong on the bad taxidermy fb page and I love her for that

[erisperitas]

A doodle of Ashton Greymoore from Critical Role Campaign 3 that I had originally drawn on paper and coloured digitally! Something about them always sort of catches my eye~

[Carrd | Portfolio Site]

[roll-for-stupid]

liam: suddenly fearne is essek-ing around the room

*meanwhile, in wildemount*

essek, jolting up in bed: why do I suddenly have the feeling I just became a verb?

[moghedien]

ok so since the Legend of Vox Machina is gonna be airing this week, there is a 100% chance of Orion AClowna doing something to get attention, so just a heads up for all you guys that aren't familiar with the guy and/or weren't around when this shit went down:

do not interact with the man

do not give him attention

he is not your friend and he is not the friend of anyone related to CR anymore and its entirely his own doing. a brief summary of just the things we know he did:

he sexually harassed Laura Bailey live on twitch

he harassed and blew up on fans online for selling "unapproved" CR art and shirts

he is literally a scammer that used his post-CR clout to kickstart a show that he never made and that's rewards never got fulfilled despite having reached its goal. who the fuck knows what he did wiht the money

he is a known harasser of people within his own community

he again financially scammed his community with fake fundraising drives that the person who was supposed to be getting the money never asked for (they also didn't get the money)

he is known to have sock puppet accounts on twitter that are solely used to harass people and start rumors about the cast of CR (like how he claimed that Marisha got him kicked off the show because she was sleeping with Matt and thus controlled him)

his ex posted very clear evidence of his abuse that is very easy to find online but I'm not gonna post here

He literally tries to become relevant every time CR is in the news and with the show airing he is almost definitely gonna be doing something, but he is not your friend. he is not a good guy. he is not someone that got wronged by CR. he was removed by CR because he was a problem and he has never once given any indication that he has stopped being a problem. don't bother with him.