#notallwerewolves

[lilithsaga]

The fog in the Underworld is pretty thicc coming out of work today. Felt like I had entered a lycanthrope forest area...

[missannoyingtam]

Guys

oooooooooookay so I don’t usually do this because I choose to not let this kind of stuff bother me due to the fact that I enjoy critical role for what it is: a dnd show for charity made by a bunch of nerds having fun.

But I need to let this off my chest because of a buildup of general “we hate said character”(this is involving stuff like Snape from harry potter and other things I’m not even gonna bring up cause thats not the point) and just a general idea that its a good idea to fight venomous acts with venom.

Hint: if creature is spewing venom they are prob immune or resistant to venom.

DnD jokes aside. I don’t enjoy a toxic atmosphere, and altho I love hearing everyones thoughts an opinions i believe their is a point where people start to become rude for no other reason then they think thats how you act when you get on a soapbox. Please don’t. Say what you need to say about the issues but please don’t be a dick about it, be kind, be understanding. You don’t have to agree, but you don’t have to be a dick. YOU choose to act the way you do in response to being annoyed or insulted.

now that I’ve said the first part lets talk about the second issue. Jester.

Jester is a good character, Terry is also a good character. They should not and cannot be compared. Terry entered the campaign after a DRASTIC change in dynamics and with a lot of mixed feelings. Vox Machina itself didn’t like Terry and even after his baby cry about his daddy issues the party was (or at least some of them) where suuuuuper ok with leaving him for Kraken kibble. It truly wasn't until a year past in game that we saw that he was ACTUALLY being accepted into the group as a member.

Whats happening with Jester is that she, along with the rest of the group, is stumbling her way around trying to figure out what to do next. The group has no idea what it wants or what its doing and they are very clearly not ready to be 100% honest with each other.

Jester is a girl who was pampered, we have no idea what her relationship with her mother was like other then her possibly being ignored. The little that we can gleam from her is that she's a lonely girl who wants friends and doesn’t interact with anyone or has anywhere near enough people skills to understand that her blatant disregard for others feelings kind of messes with the “having friends” part. Dose it make her look kind of like an asshole? yes. Dose it make her a bad character? no. Does it make her a bad person? Thats something for her and the group to figure out as they go along.

Caleb is a man who started from nothing, lived his life with nothing, and suddenly has something. All we can gleam from his actions is that he’s a guy that is afraid of achieving things just to let it get away from him. He’s afraid of being rich because being rich is an unknown element. Hes afraid of not being Caleb anymore and afraid of being some rich asshat that used to be caleb, and he pushes people away because he dosn’t want to explain himself or maybe even has some dark shit that, for all we know, makes him believe that that idea might actually be fact. Dose that make him look like an asshole? yes. Dose it make him a bad character? no. Does it make him a bad person? Thats something for him and the group to figure out as they go along.

It has been 9 episodes. Vox Machina has two years prior to their first 9 and the group already pretty much liked each other aside from a few rivalries and trust issues. They where for the most part partially developed characters when we met them. Let these people breath. Let them be shitty characters that will eventually get their shit together.

We are on chapter 9 of a 63 chapter book and theirs a possible sequel book after that. They are NOT gonna be perfect, and i don’t want them to be because then whats the point of watching them grow up? Haters, let the characters be shitty, give them time to whip the mud off their face, maybe in the end they’re grow into something you’ll love. Also seriously these people play this game for fun, yes for your entertainment, but mostly their own. Haters of the haters, they just started reading the book, let them hate Snape from Harry potter, let them hate Durzo Blint from Night Angles, Maybe at the end they’ll actually really like them. But let them have the chance to like it on their own, and you know, they don’t have to like it just because you do.

Above all remember the first rule to table tops: Don’t be a dick

[pandorkful]

notallwerewolves replied to your post “Mattel’s Bait-and-Switch: THEY DONE ME DIRTY!”

Omg wow--so that's three different pink versions of the starfield dress? Yikes. (Tbh I do sort of like the pastel one with the lines and five-pointed stars, tho)

I actually wouldn’t be surprised if there were even more versions out there at this point. What the hell, Mattel. What the hell.

[gothiccharmschool]

notallwerewolves replied to your post: Today’s frivolous wardrobe question! For going out...

Red is more festive. Or intimidating, whichever you’re going for.

I WISH TO BE FESTIVE AND INTIMIDATING!

(Shut up, @fanboy-news-network. I can too be intimidating.)

[lunamoonstone-demigoddess]

My Response To A Washington Post Piece About Donald Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/redskins/donald-trumps-idea-of-locker-room-talk-is-as-demeaning-to-men-as-it-is-to-women/2016/10/10/7e34718a-8eee-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html

So here I am, bored on a slow retail day at work, when I pick up the paper to pass the time. A calm, relaxing read, right? WRONG! By the time I was done, I was shaking with rage. Anger. I immediately addressed the author, and demanded she apologize. What she said bordered on libel and shook me to the core.

“It’s just embarrassing to be caught talking like a werewolf.”

EXCUSE ME?! I can’t even... As someone who species-identifies as part wolf, I felt personally attacked. Is she even aware some werewolves can’t speak at all? It’s really hard for some of us to use a canine mouth structure to use human speech. That this writer is so ignorant of this fact shows the lack of concern or basic understanding for the cano-human population.

And to compare us to Trump?! First of all, our hair is WAY thicker and fuller, and all of us(at least those not struck with werewolf-pattern baldness, those poor souls...) have much more of it. The claws at the tips of our digits are bigger than his tiny little hands. And we know Trumps feelings on women, Mexicans, African Americans; basically anybody who’s not an older white male(for the two of you that don’t; he doesn’t care much for them). How do you think he’d feel about those of us who don’t even entirely identify as even human?! We may be part animal, but we are not MONSTERS!...

...Well, most of us aren’t. Like all groups, we have our bad apples. #NotAllWerewolves

I’m formally requesting the Washington Post issue an apology. on behalf of the semi-human community.

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

i would like to formally congratulate you on your excellently-crafted tag, 'sassy swearwolf remus lupin'

thank you. i am very proud of it.

[wolfmonsters]

How to Tell if You’re Dating a Werewolf: They go on frequent Twitter rants about werewolf depictions in film & TV, using the hashtag #notallwerewolves.

[fairysharkmother]

For the person who was asking about labeling people: the difference between whether someone is comfortable with a label or not is usually whether they've chosen it themselves or not. Putting labels on other people is usually not cool, but accepting the labels someone has chosen for themself is A+ v cool and is recommended.