Fools are my theme, let satire be my song

hi. i'm zoe. 26. any pronouns. i really like making lists. northeast US. librarian. previously oscarbilde. I tag TV spoilers until a week after the episode airs. icon by aplaguetales

[villadiodatis]

I've been going a little stir-crazy waiting for season 5 of The Magnus Archives, so I made a map of every location where a statement took place/something ~spooky~ happened. You can toggle by season, and each location is color-coded by entity. Some of them are approximate locations (Point Nemo) or just cities (Toulouse), but I've been as accurate as possible. Please let me know if there's anything I've missed. Peruse at your leisure and enjoy!

https://t.co/LqqlzRzqBq?amp=1

[villadiodatis]

Man, I really wonder what Hal’s reaction to Yanessa’s attempted censorship would’ve been if it had happened before Thjazi’s death/if he hadn’t been forced to take the full plunge into the rebellion yet. His art is so important to him, and Yanessa is coming after the way he’s chosen to dedicate his life to the Rungjani and building a better future, but I’m not sure if he would’ve had the courage before, or the full conviction that you can’t work with the Houses.

[villadiodatis]

Dr Calliope Torres?? In my legend of Vox Machina??

[absolutechaosss]

Overall, I'm glad (if slightly scarred) that we, as well as the characters, saw Occtis die. It could have been easy to come to terms with him just being kind of creepy and dead if he started this way, but there is such a sense of grief when Brennan says Occtis will never get to catch his breath again. Even though Alex planned to go with hollow one, in universe it feels like Occtis was robbed of so much. If he started as undead then it would be a shame, but because it happened live in game, it felt preventable, which is what pushes it into tragedy for me

[kathrenax]

[ghostdexd]

can’t stop thinking about the day vaelus is having, she’s spent the last 70 years sequestered away in constant quiet mourning for a dead god, she’s sent on essentially a fetch quest and by pure chance meets this weird virgin who has performed the astounding feat of reconstructing dead foxes back into life and then hours later performs the impossible miracle of coming back from the dead himself and between all that you get a divine vision from the universe that your soul is tied to a hot wolf lady and it’s very important that you let her in and also maybe make out,, if I had that many spiritual revelations in one day they’d probably have to make me pope

[bittersweet-mojo]

hes chill guys! dont worryyy about it!

[emily-axford]

CRITICAL ROLE: CAMPAIGN 4 Episode 4: Stone-Faced

[revvethasmythh]

the thing about "I walk into the blade" is that thaisha says it like it's the simplest, most obvious thing to do. no hesitation. she's not just standing there and letting julien level his blade at her, through her, but she is also an active participant in this. "i walk into his blade" in an attempt to show comfort to a grieving man she doesn't even particularly like. it's extremely illustrative of both who thaisha and julien are as characters, one using literal weaponry to try and stave off attempted comfort in a angry, grief-driven haze, and other actively ignoring the pain of the blade in order to what feels right in the moment, even if she can't stand that man on a good day

[emily-axford]

CRITICAL ROLE: CAMPAIGN 4 Episode 4: Stone-Faced

[ruedesfillesducalvaire]

me writing fanfiction: [wracking my brain to figure out how a character can learn a piece of key information]

victor hugo:

[medusaslover]

He's currently having the worst time at disney land

[missgingerartist]

When you and your friend are having a normal conversation with only your minds.

[paradife-loft]

one worldbuilding detail that stood out to me from the most recent episode - because it was contrary to what I would've guessed beforehand if asked - was that each of the peoples of Aramán specifically killed their own god. as opposed to it being primarily a non-denominational cross-species teamwork affair for all the Shapers as a collective.

it's just interesting to me because my understanding is that aside from the orcs, the other cultures didn't really have massive pre-standing beef with their gods - it was specifically the other Shapers riding to Azgra's defense that tipped the rest of the world over into the wholesale revolution basket.

but, then even despite the basis of the war being implied as (to at least some degree) a matter of class interests superseding personal/cultural affection! each group forging their own weapon(s) to kill their own god suggests there is still an aspect of... what one people chooses doesn't necessarily dictate what anybody else has to? it's not "we're killing one god == we gotta kill all of 'em, that's just how it works!". there's an amount of cultural autonomy and self-determination in each decision to kill each Shaper.

and I imagine there's probably additional metaphysical considerations going into it as well - different Shapers not necessarily all being susceptible to the same kinds of tools, and the primary peoples they have a relationship with being the ones best suited to understand what the right tool would be, for example. but on a social/political level, I think it being the choice (on the level that matters at a large scale) of each people to take that same action of overthrowing their Shaper, does make for a specific, distinct texture for how the last 70 years of history have played out.

[oddthesungod]

Something very still, something that's not meant to be there.

[critcatbar]

C4e4 out of context spoiler:

[olessan]

Lady and Knight

(Critical Role 4x04 "Stone-Faced")