#cr thoughts

[your-turn-to-role]

i know clowning on primus tachonis for his shitty recipe following is all we've been doing all week but god i still can't get over the fact that okay, you figured out the modified ritual would only work on an alive tachonis without innate sorcery, meaning there was ONLY ONE CANDIDATE IN THE UNIVERSE this could have worked on, and THIS is the time you chose to go fuck it we're doing it live???

i swear, "something's wrong with the boy - primus, you fool, what have you done??" gets funnier every week. yeah, primus, what have you done, with this once in a lifetime opportunity? well first off you failed to keep track of the kid, because you told him to his face you didn't care what he did with his life as long as you didn't have to hear about it. second, you didn't actually test that the ritual could be done from a distance, you just assumed, which even if you were right, is extremely poor scientific practice to suddenly add in other variables when experimenting on your, and i cannot stress this enough, only viable subject! you also threw in the complete demolishing of two other noble houses at the same time, because you were planning to destroy them anyway, no harm in splitting our forces because surely the experiment will work out and then it won't be a problem!

i know you were under some amount of time pressure but given that your house hasn't imploded yet in the week since you failed the ritual that's time enough to check your working

the ritual calls for replacing the subject's living heart with one carved from celestial bones and you just shoved the stone of nightsong in there wholesale. primus that's not a heart that's a fucking bird

[ashesofwidogast]

Anyone who thinks Hal is boring either doesn't understand the character or doesn't want to understand him.

[chillinglikeashilling]

I really like that Thaisha's Druid magical abilities are somewhat innate. Or maybe it's better to say - I like the narrative that is opened up for Thaisha by making her magic a call to adventure that she'd been shutting the door on for the first 20 or so years of her life.

I think there can be this idea that Druids, because they are wisdom casters, and because they are some associations with the ideas of Druid being more connected to the 'natural world' are all possessed of a specific type of wisdom.

But Thaisha was never planning on being a Druid, at 19 she fully thought she was going to be a jewelry maker. She was the family baby (at least in her immediate family).

She is capable of great wisdom, and kindness and compassion. She's also capable of being a little gossipy and reckless and having blindspots just like anyone else.

I like that it's a choice!

It's a choice to try and fix the world!

It's a choice to try and extend understanding to Vaelus and Julien!

It's also a choice when she does not extend that understanding.

There is no innate Druidness that she was born with that makes her a caretaker, or a diplomat, or a peace maker or a warrior. Those things are part of her being a Druid because they are a part of the person she has built herself to be, but we've seen that there's very different types of Druids out there.

I just love that this is not a story about a wiser than their years 20 year old who is naturally capable of (and naturally good at) all of these things. This is a story about someone at 40 years old who has been working to make themself into this Druid and is still working, is still improving and learning about her own shortcomings and deciding to make new choices.

Thaisha Lloy's story is about Change and Reinvention all the way down, for herself, for the Orcs, and for the world of Aramán.

[curapicas]

Let's not kid ourselves, this is the real reason Percy was written off of the Thordak fight

[tess-talks-inc]

Wiccander taking up a similar role to Azune in being a mole, a spy on the inside, but this inherently making him untrustworthy to others like Kat who don't know.... something something Azune's "sometimes you look at me like I'm a part of something that you know I'm not" or something.... two sorcerers both alike in their lies and the fact that they will be held at arms length due to the fact they are lying as their role in the rebellion to gather information..... shaking them

[occtis-shredded-soul]

HYPOTHETICALLY Occtis could carve out all of his insides and use it as storage.

HYPOTHETICALLY bag of holding in a dead boy's dead body

[i-think-therefore-i-kattigan]

I have a theory about Yasha and why so many men are uncomfortable and leaving bad reviews of the Mighty Nein animated. Especially after the most recent episode.

Men are used to seeing other men committing acts of violence on screen. Almost every piece of media has at least one man who commits lots of violence. It’s a very common trope and plot devise. It’s also usually framed as a good or at least powerful thing. It makes the male views feel powerful, they can put themselves in that man’s shoes and life viscously through his story. They can feel powerful and important and maybe even some catharsis.

However, woman are used to sitting back and watching men commit violence on screen. Either against other men or so so often, against women and non men. That’s what they get used to. Wincing at the violence and moving on to other parts they enjoy more (not saying woman can’t enjoy violent media! Just that most of it isn’t directed towards their enjoyment).

Yasha throws a massive wrench into this pattern. The same way Breanne of Tarth from game of thrones did. She’s a big strong woman, committing gruesome acts of violence without care or kindness. A position that a lot of men feel is reserved for them and those of their same gender.

Men hate Yasha because she forces them to feel the same way while watching her scenes that most woman feel watching almost any other modern media! (Especially fantasy related!)

Yasha is brutal, she is bordering on unstoppable. She’s skilled and graphic and destructive. She’s also a lesbian. She is a character in no way built for men and they hate it!!! There’s nothing about her for them imprint on or apply to themselves. Yasha isn’t written for men and most men hate it when everything’s not about them.

Good work Yasha and the team at the mighty nein animated. Keep it up!!

(Also to clarify, I don’t think that’s the only reason it gets bad reviews of course. It’s just a running theme I have noticed. This also applies to Beau, Nott, Astrid and even Dairon. Yasha was just the easiest example! And of course, as always, it’s just a theory, a critical role theory!)

[immablogaboutcrnow]

Bolaire Lathalia - Social and Bitchy

One thing I really enjoy about Bolaire is how much he enjoys forming relationships, both good and bad.

I think often when you get these tropes of 'become a real boy' or 'recovering living weapon' they're either really naive about how society works or really gruff and sad about it. They have this 'what the hell am I doing :(' feel. But Bolaire doesn't have that. He has a feeling of 'I'm going to live how I want and I'm going to enjoy myself, and if you don't like it that's on you :)'. He acts like he has a right to live and is spiteful about it, in contrast to Azune's 'I can only live if I'm useful' apologetic sadboi. (I love you Azune but you are a sadboi)

I especially liked his interaction with the other museum currator. He took so much joy out of calling him dull. It's like 'Hah! I have opinions! And no one can stop me from saying them!'. The mix of theatre kid and living weapon (the weapon that is theatre!) is really interesting to me.

I'm also facinated by the juxtaposition between him being caring and social (see: the way he took care of Demodus Blix) and being a cruel manipulator and mostly unrepentant killer (see: the bodies he takes). I think he probably has the most flawed moral compass of any of the player characters, and yet the other half of the time he's genuinely a very nice guy who is good with kids!

Anyway, I stan a dramatic mask.