Hello, new friends! Welcome to my blog. I'm updating this because I used to have a very eclectic blog filled with many interests, but it has slowly morphed over the months to heavily feature Critical Role. Anyway here is a guide to my content!
...if you like Critical Role
you are in the right place! I also post about CR over at Bluesky at @kaeda. The content I post here tends to be my fics, occasional meta posts, and I reblog a LOT of other fan content for a variety of fandoms. I also love to reblog original art. My Bluesky account contains more stream-of-consciousness nonsense, talking about writing, and lots of tweets about shadowgast/Essek, so it has more original content. Feel free to hang out with me in both places!
...if you’re a new fan of The Mighty Nein
you should be careful of spoilers as you navigate my blog, but I’m trying to make my tagging system more friendly for new fans. If you want to avoid spoilers from campaign 2 of Critical Role while still enjoying animated show content, I’ll be tagging posts with major spoilers with “c2 spoilers”. Please note any posts earlier than the animated series won’t be tagged with warnings! You can also block “campaign 2” to avoid all campaign content.
...if you're making your way (🎶making your way🎶) through Campaigns 2 or 3
my tagging system is organized by episode, although I don't consistently have a lot of posts for episodes until I started watching live at episode 100 of campaign 2. If you want to find old posts for the episode you're on, simply use the tag format "c2e##" or "c3e##" to find what I've curated through my 5+ years in this fandom. I also have a few of these tagged for campaign 1, but not very many. I'm not watching campaign 4 (yet), so at the moment I don't have anything from that.
...navigation
I recently went through and reorganized my original content, although I will admit some of these are not sorted as well as I’d like. Here is a handy tag guide if you’re looking for stuff that I’ve posted:
my fics: the fics I’ve written on AO3 and tumblr
my wips: sneak peeks, works in progress, and wip wednesdays
my meta: all of my meta posts in one handy place!
my writing: writing process posts and information about my wips
my shitposts: occasionally I have been known to shitpost
my memes: I also sometimes make silly memes
my liveblogs: sometimes I post while watching/reading stuff
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The whole gang is here! I made some mighty nein stickers for some cons I was doing and then forgot to post them anywhere oops lol
I'm also playing around a lot with art styles and colours so idk if this'll be a style I stick with forever but it was really fun to play with colours and more straight lines than I normally use!
Thinking a whole lot of thoughts about the information we got regarding the attempts by House Tachonis to (probably) create a celestial, and how all their attempts so far have apparently failed. I think there's probably a few potential factors, some of which have already been floating around the CritRole theory space.
(I may have to go back and rewatch the episode a couple times to really digest the lore we got, 'cause there was a lot, and I've only watched the episode once.
Based on what Occtis found in the Tachonis correspondence he discovered in the abandoned tents, Primus and company have already tried a couple of human sacrifices from the Old Obridemian priestly houses: Occtis' cousin, Tertia Tachonis, and an as-yet unnamed Halovar. For reasons that aren't entirely clear, the ritual failed both times - the correspondence suggests that the failure was related to the innate sorcery present in both the Tachonis and Halovar family lines. That could maybe be the case, but I think it actually has less to do with what they ARE (sorcerers) and more to do with what they're NOT.
(Putting this under a Read More because it got a little long.)
In the Legend Lore vision that Occtis got from using the Kibbenimkedaz, Tansul stated that creating a celestial would require the sacrifice of something precious to him - implied to be a member of one of the priestly houses. He specifically pointed at the heart of one of the Halovar priests (presumably Tansul's High Priest, given that he was speaking to them face-to-face. It definitely at least suggests a high-level cleric to Commune with a god directly like that).
The modern-day Tachonises have already tried to sacrifice a Tachonis and a Halovar, and apparently both of them were sorcerers. And the ritual didn't work. So bloodline alone is not enough to guarantee results.
A lot of people have already pointed out that Tansul demanded the sacrifice of something precious, and the people that Primus and company have already put to that use were not precious to them (and therefore it's not a real sacrifice to lose them). I think there's probably some merit to that, but Tansul didn't ask for a sacrifice that was precious to THEM. He asked for a sacrifice that was precious to HIM.
And what could be more precious to a god than their most devoted follower(s)?
The Tachonises and the Halovars may have descended from priestly houses, but they are not themselves priests. Not anymore. Wick THOUGHT he was a cleric, but he’s ACTUALLY a sorcerer, and even if he WAS a cleric, he wasn't devoted to Tansul. Brennan has made it pretty clear so far that Yanessa has no devotion to Tansul, and that the Tachonises and the Halovars forsook their god in the Shapers' War in favour of ensuring their own survival (whereas the other Sundered Houses remained loyal and fought to the death to protect him).
The Tachonises seem to have claimed that their sorcery was a gift from Tansul, but the Halovars didn't receive a similar gift, and in fact their sorcerous bloodline seems to be a fairly recent development (thanks to Yanessa using celestial blood to create part-angel descendants). Presumably, prior to the Shaper's War, they WERE actually clerics, completely devoted to their god. I'm thinking the Tachonises were too, even if they may have also been given sorcerous gifts.
They're not devoted to Tansul anymore. They abandoned their faith the second he died, even though he told them to their faces that, if they followed through with the ritual, he would come back to life. The Tachonises and Halovars have both shown pretty clear disdain towards people of faith - the Halovars only created a new religion to maintain their social power, and the Tachonises apparently (according to Occtis) raise their children to consider people of faith to be less intelligent than them.
Just being a descendant of one of Tansul's priestly houses isn't enough to complete the ritual. I think the sacrifice candidate has to actually be a serious devotee of Tansul for it to work. Hence why the Tachonises have been running around experimenting with the process and failing every time. They don’t actually care about resurrecting Tansul - they just want a celestial that they can control and use as a weapon (among many other things, I'm sure).
If this is the case, sacrificing Occtis, even if it had gone exactly as planned, probably still wouldn't have worked (though, granted, since it didn'tgo as planned, we'll probably never know for sure). Occtis isn't a follower of Tansul. Primus and co. focused on the sorcerous bloodlines of the Tachonises and Halovars being the reason the ritual failed, and decided that Occtis would be the ideal candidate due to his lack of innate magic. Because their sorcerous power is the only thing Tachonises truly value, they got tunnel vision about it and decided it made them too special or too different for the ritual to work.
The sorcery is not and never has been the problem. Their lack of faith is.
i love when people are like “Oh my god, I couldn’t possibly imagine being asexual, how sad, you’re missing so much…” Bitch!!! You know what’s sad? Being gluten intolerant. If you placed two pills in front of me right now, one which would turn me allosexual and one which would enable me to tear into a freshly-baked oven-warm olive-and-rosemary ciabatta without utterly destroying my body, it would not even be a choice. “hyuhhh-duhhhh aren’t you worried you’ll die alone” aren’t you worried i’ll just launch myself over the bakery counter in our local grocery store one day and stuff croissants in my mouth like a starving racoon til i die and the whole place has to be closed down as a health risk while they peel my bloated body off the linoleum floor? You should be
What i have learned from the tags of this post is that there is a whole community of gluten intolerant asexuals and we are all DESPERATELY horny for bread
[Start ID. A colored drawing of Taako, Magnus, and Merle. The three of them stand together against a turquoise background, while the phrase “We do that” is spelled out in block letters behind them.
Magnus stands with a smile on his face and his hands on his hips. He is a man with tan skin and a large, muscular physique. His hair is dark, pulled back in a bun. There’s a scar through one eyebrow and a blush on his cheeks.
Taako and Merle stand in front of him. Taako is on the left, standing in profile and looking towards the viewer. He has brown skin and light, blue-tinted hair that falls in a thick braid. His cloak and hat match, colored dark blue with speckles that resemble stars. The underside of the brim of his hat is bright yellow in contrast. He is winking, and holds a finger up to his mouth as he smiles. He has a gap in his front teeth.
Merle stands to the right. He has pale skin and rosy cheeks, as well as a thick, gray beard. He wears tiny spectacles and a nurses cap, where the red cross is designed as a four-petaled flower. His eyes are closed and he gives a thumbs-up with his soulwood arm, which has tiny sprouts growing from it. End ID.]
Thinking about how Caleb and Essek’s types of self-loathing are almost represented by their magic
Caleb’s is loud, aggressive and violent: the type that would make him keep an hand over an open flame because he thinks he deserves to suffer
Essek’s is sad, cold and lonely: the type that would make him want to get swallowed by a black hole because he’s resigned himself to think there’s no hope for him
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i hope caleb widogast has fun being corrupted today i hope he gets to be a little mean so that he can regret it and ruminate on it once hes uncorrupted haha
Where's that tweet about how American chants are "let's go [team name] and some other country (Irish?) fans are "I've made up a song about the other team's drinking problem to the tune of London Bridge Is Falling Down one two three"?
