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[ID: A digital drawing of Kattigan Vale from Critical Role. He's grinning, saying "Oh-ho-ho getting tense!" and cracking open a can. A little doodle to the side of Occtis and Julien looking angry with each other is labelled "posh boys bickering". End description.]
Rich pretty boys fighting is a spectator sport
I have 🥺 a living room 🥺
like I'm more and more considering learning a little arabic for work, I'm in a neighborhood with such a high percentage of moroccan people, but everywhere I look it's egyptian moroccan or modern standard arabic or maybe levantine but I've yet to find a good course of moroccan arabic online 😭
alhamdullilah it's been over a YEAR since the last time I put out a fic and I managed to write something 😭😭😭 it's not incredible but it's SOMETHING
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
In this life, Cal is all hers. And Sol cannot take the guilt of knowing he shouldn't be.
A small character piece on the effect of the loop on Sol's psyche.
Pulled myself out of writer's block for this little I Was a Teenage Exocolonist one-shot.
its awesome that neither mind reading nor god are real and all of the thoughts inside of your head are completely private and consequenceless forever #myprivacy
*sobbing* i love em
CRITICAL ROLE 4.27 Complicated Questions
+ bonus Kattigan reaction:
Thaisha x Hal (and Kattigan can watch) 💖
jokes are fine but like...I do find the dismissal of the soldiers to feel like a poor understanding of the campaign as a whole and last episode specifically. Like, yeah, Teor and Kattigan don't have a ton to add to a conversation specifically about whether Thjazi would have done some elaborate arcane machinations in the theater, because they're not primary spellcasters or experts in afterlife cosmology nor had they recently been close to Thjazi or intimately familiar with the intriciacies of post-Rebellion Sundered House politics. Teor doesn't particularly wish to deal with demons and Kattigan isn't particularly familiar with the Candescent Creed, so their primary role in the episode is to serve as backup should things go south. Sometimes, the smartest thing to do is watch and listen if you are not an expert in the topic, rather than run your mouth in ignorance. I think Kattigan said as much this past episode, and I think he had it in one.
was asked to elaborate on my tags so: #also the fandom has ALWAYS embraced explicit ableism directed towards Travis so it's sadly typical if frustrating to see it resurface. I talked a bit in the replies as well but:
Travis first mentioned he had ADHD quite early in Campaign 1 when there were two conversations going on at once (in terms of saying he had trouble processing it). This is a very common ADHD symptom. I mentioned it on this post because I think it's very reasonable to assume that in addition to Travis not talking much as Teor because Teor legitimately, as a character, had little to add to that specific conversation (as discussed above), I would not be surprised if Travis is not really a "let's jump into the 13-person table talk that is already not very much a thing my character would add to" kind of guy because, as we saw, a lot of people were talking, frequently simultaneously. I do not think everyone joking about this is being shitty (and I know newer fans might not be aware Travis has ADHD) but to dismiss Teor outright as a joke character instead of saying "hm. I wonder why someone might not talk during the giant 13 person conversation for legitimate reasons" is not leaving a good taste in my mouth.
For some reason, and I was very much at the frontlines of this during Campaign 2 and in the leadup to Campaign 3, people in the CR fandom, which in my experience has been generally pretty neurodivergent-friendly (and indeed itself pretty neurodivergent) have consistently been completely comfortable saying shit like "Travis's head will explode if he tries to play a druid" or treating all of his characters except Fjord as stupid joke characters he can use to fuck around. In particularly unpleasant cases, they will even treat Fjord as a character he only made to make Laura happy and not like, an extremely thoughtfully and deliberately crafted character that is both a means to play more seriously and with more emotional depth after Grog - who, I should note, was created for a one-shot for the first time he played D&D and just happened to end up, through a series of events, as his character in what became Critical Role - and in conversation with his own feelings about fatherhood at a time when he was expecting a child having lost his own father in his teens.
It was not just common to see people calling Travis or Fjord stupid during Campaign 2 for things they would never call out other cast members for (eg, forgetting character abilities during the first ten episodes of a new campaign; not knowing everything about boats). It was considered weird and even hostile of you to push back on this. If you said "I think Travis should play a wizard at some point," someone literally would just come on your post and be like "I don't think he could. I don't think he's smart enough."
Now I think the root cause for this behavior during Campaign 2 and 3 was partly people equating players with their Vox Machina characters and partly backlash against the misogynist Reddit/YouTube comment types who decided Travis and Sam (and Taliesin with Percy but no one else) were the only valid players, even though said chuds have long been pretty irrelevant to the fandom conversation. I think since mid-Campaign 3 it's more commonly come from people who specifically hate that a lot of Campaign 3's sharpest and most persistent critics, myself included, are fans of Travis, who is in fact an incredibly strong and versatile actual player who happens to have ADHD. As discussed here, that sort of fan only cares about bigotry to win fandom arguments. But regardless of the cause, it's always been wild to me how immediately an unconscionably large proportion of the CR fandom will jump to "haha Travis and his characters are all so stupid and impulsive! no it's ok! It's because he has ADHD." and then turn around and be like "oooh! I have some neurodivergent headcanons about my most special guy, and if you don't agree with them then do you hate neurodivergent people? do you hate me? Are you bad and evil?"
Occtis Tachonis has been sighted at the Dol-Makjar pride parade!
happy pride month from our favorite queer people
it's so melancholic that a place could be a home for many years and when you leave it behind, it's a space again
This Pride Month I'm answering one of the most important questions of Campaign 4.
To shreds you say?
To shreds.
To shreds.
To shreds.
To shreds.
Unknown.
I think I'll try to make my life happier in this apartment by having other areas than my pc desk be enjoyable so I don't default to gaming all the time every day. I have a ton more space to spread out and I'm really gonna try and create zones to enjoy that aren't cramped and stressful but instead relax me and inspire me to sit there and take them in
