#kanafinwhy

[kimabutch]

Tethered to the Dark by Anya Marina feels like a Vax song to me, about his debt and obligation to the Raven Queen and also his family bond with the rest of Vox Machina (especially Vex and Keyleth), and the way those two loyalties conflict with one another. Also just the general imagery and mood in this song feels very Vax-ish, especially Vax in the final arc :(((

Damn, you weren’t kidding about this imagery!!

“I see an omen in the sky/ A blood red moon shines on you and I/ And the raven calls, "Hey do you believe?"/ I do believe, I do believe, I do believe” 

And I can see what you mean about the conflict between his debt to the RQ and his love of Vox Machina:

“We'll take an oath on bended knee/ Side by side, one and all, we're thick as thieves/ Cause nothing's gonna break this bond of blood” 

It’s sad!!! I love it!!!

Come yell at me about songs that remind you of Critical Role — but please note that there’s a long delay in responses! (Playlist | song spreadsheet & masterlist by disasterhumans | CR music tag)

[audible-smiles]

kanafinwhy replied to your post “cool. using Maximillian’s Earthen Grasp to dig a grave for a friend....”

That scene specifically hurt me and this arc is just a marathon of one upsetting thing after another with highkey background stress in between :( (Also I was already (just) caught up when I got to that point so I consumed the episodes week by week as they came out, but I can imagine listening to them back to back must be.......A Lot <3)

see, I was just thinking that listening to them as they came out, with a week of worrying in between, must have been A Lot!

[ehyde]

For the OC thing, (for Farah because your asked and because I want to get to know her!) 17 & 18 please? (Also 1 if you feel like drawing???)

17: goals or ambitionIf you asked Farah what her goal was right now, she’d tell you something vague like “to prove herself worthy” ... but really, her ambition has always been to be written about in a history book alongside her heroes, proving herself their equal.

18: pick a random fact!Despite her temple training and love of books she has absolutely terrible handwriting and has given up on trying to make it legible to anyone but herself. Also (perhaps related or perhaps not; I really don’t know how much of a thing this would’ve been in this world) she’s left-handed.

[laas-yahnir]

kanafinwhy -- here’s a whole bunch of replies because it’s MUCH easier to consolidate into one post and I’m lazy O:)

“don’t leave us, please” OH ANGO you know what the fuck I hadn’t...”

Imagine if they had left though. Imagine if it was just like... the cycles begin again year upon year, but now it's worse because they left everyone and everything that's happened between them and oh god this AU hurts to even think about and I'm so glad that didn't happen ;___;

IT REALLY DOES??? And like... I had somehow COMPLETELY missed the impact of that last time. Like Davenport was insisting that they needed to go, and I think I was just so sure it wasn’t going to happen -- because even if all the others could be convinced, Magnus would ABSOLUTELY NEVER -- that what would have happened didn’t even occur to me. But then it did the second time around, and I was momentarily stricken with this horrible fear even though I knew what was coming next

... all that said, how much do you wanna bet there’s fanfic about this out there somewhere??

“we need to lean into the dramatic irony of this episode” YEAH THANKS...”

My favourite is Justin's quiet "oh fuck you Griffin" when it's revealed that Lup made the umbra staff (also Taako's original reaction to it)

This and Justin’s delivery of “Who?” followed by Clint’s stunned little laugh are absolutely PRICELESS, because they’re such genuine reactions to being Swept Away TM but actually swept away this time, and I love it and also it’s destroying me slowly

“see but now I find myself in a bit of a predicament, because I don’t...”

DO IT, I would say (also ughhh your liveblogging is making me want to re-re-listen through right now immediately even though I can't at this moment :')

welp, I ended up doing it -- and I got SUPER lucky that I had to pause it so much and therefore couldn’t finish it during my shift, because uh. cried even harder the second time :))))

[astraveler]

"Limned" - inspired by @kanafinwhy‘s work Like Flying, Like Falling

“That night, after Imin had finished changing her dressings and fussing over how her broken hand was healing, Joona stood by the balcony, looking down the hill from the fort. It was a beautiful, clear winter night, the moon shining stark over the snow-covered landscape and the bare branches of the distant trees, picking out the line of mountains on which the little fort stood in shining silver. The wind was cold, and she shivered a little, but she did not turn and go back; not quite yet, anyway.” (Chapter 5)

[adreamingsongbird]

@kanafinwhy said:

*FIGHTS THEM BECAUSE YOUR WRITING IS BEAUTIFUL AND LOVELY??? Honestly? they don't know what they're missing. But yeah ugh that kind of thing always fucking hurts even if it's not a rational feel, so all the hugs <3

this message made me put down my cinnamon roll to hug a pillow bc the warm fuzzy feel was too much

thank you so much daniela ;n; hugs are very gratefully accepted and also ily thank you again idek what to SAY other than that but like,,, aaaaaa   

[taotrooper]

fic title: "freefall"

For Akayona, it just has to have a Ryokuryuu. So I’m thinking, first half is Zeno getting carried by an unwilling Shuten somewhere because of random reasons. Shuten is classic Shuten, so he’s a grumpy jerk that teases and almost throws him. It’s the first time Zeno flies with a Ryokuryuu so he’s a bit nervous, a bit in awe. Cut to modern days and the first time Jae-ha carries everyone around. He’s used to carrying his pirate family and other people he loves so he’s gentle and careful with everyone. Zeno finds this super cute, compared to that one flight with Shuten. And yet he wouldn’t change either for the world.

For Zelda: BOTW, Link teaches Zelda how to use the paraglider to her insistence. Somewhere, King Rhoam’s ghost is yelling. She has a lot of fun, but she can only get so far because she lacks the stamina and there’s slight pouting. At some point they try to fly together (for science! to see if she can get farther with Link’s insane levels of stamina!) They crash under the weight but they still laugh.

[paradife-loft]

kanafinwhy replied to your post: also based on the bits and pieces I’ve gathered...

Zeno is a small and fluffy golden troll who does stuff like this deliberately and I love him <3 (also ps. sorry if I’ve ever spoiled you for anything oops 8[ )

I kind of suspected considering the way he dropped the “so, you wanna go depose your childhood friend the king?” question on Yona XD

and don’t worry about it at all! you haven’t done so at all; I just tend to go looking through fandom content created with more knowledge of future material with a sort of hard to explain intuitive principle of what things I consider spoilers I’d want to avoid. and the few cases where it doesn’t work out, I have only myself to blame :P