#me when dorym does anything

[zwoftt]

“do you think we’re together in every universe?”

art by me! it’s a wip of a bigger video with more color and stuff :)

[waltwhitmansbeard]

an interesting pattern i’ve noticed in the 2+ years i’ve been in the cr fandom, something i’m seeing pick up again with the premiere of tlovm s3, is the way that perc’ahlia shippers seem incapable of talking about their own ship without shit-talking another ship in the process. totally get having an otp and loving to see them happy and in love or whatever, but when i think about the ships i love most, i never think about them in the context of other ships. i never feel the urge to compare them to other couples, and i never feel like victory or schadenfreude when another couple is “suffering” or whatever. i ship my ships and that’s that. of all the major cr canon or canon-adjacent ships—perc’ahlia, vaxleth, pikelan, shadowgast, beauyasha, fjorester, imodna, callowmoore, dorym, whatever the hell fearne/chet is called—i really only see perc’ahlia shippers post about their ship while dragging another for being more dramatic or less happy or not as successful or whatever the perceived flaw is. and i find this phenomenon interesting. i joined the cr fandom years after c1 ended, so idk what the rhetoric was like while that show was airing. as i watched, i assumed vaxleth was the predominant fandom ship, bc it was my otp and yanno bias, but then i started interacting with the fandom (current day) and quickly came to see that perc’ahlia takes up much more of the fandom discourse than vaxleth does (at least pre-orbification). maybe that’s a change that’s happened over time, idk. doesn’t bother me, i ship both of them and am happy to write and talk about vaxleth with the ppl who care. but also many posts i see about perc’ahlia come with this weird smug arrogance* that seems to come from nowhere, like there’s this urge to “prove” something, but i don’t know what and i don’t know to whom. it’s just very odd, and as someone who likes percy, vex, and their relationship, it makes me reluctant to engage with that ship in fandom spaces, bc quite frankly, it’s annoying. i don’t ever wanna have to prove my ships of choice are better or more interesting or more romantic or whatever than another ship, and tbh, to me, if you can’t talk about why you love your otp without shit-talking someone else’s, it belies a lack of anything genuinely interesting about your otp to engage with.**

*i shouldn’t have to say this, but this is the internet, so i will: obviously this is not ALL perc’ahlia posts or ALL ppl who make those posts. this is just a pattern i’ve noticed in quite a few posts that i’ve seen here in tumblr.

**and i don’t think that’s true! i think perc’ahlia is deeply interesting, and romantic, and funny, and worth talking about!! so i find it weird that so often that can’t happen without having someone else’s name in your mouth.

[genderlesssinner]

Life has been.. Well. Rough. Hope everyone is doing well ♥️

This is technically my rewatch of 112, I did watch it that Monday but I wasn't doing well enough to post

Okay okay okay

A Coppala of Cages I cannot with these guys. This episode is going to be insane

The live shows! *cries in broke ass bitch*

Man, I still haven't watched the end of TLOVM s3, but I'm hype for s4!

These costumes.. This is so chaotic

"this morning.. Chetney's got wood"

TRAVIS.

IF CHET DIED RIGHT NOW I FUCKING SWEAR

Ash leaving / being kicked out of Fearne's room and then being like "What the fuck just happened?"

Love the confusion over room set ups

"did you sleep okay?"

"I always sound like this."

I'm gonna die

Jes wanting to know who fucked is so on brand. So is the "what? What?!" "Oh so it was you two, okay"

I'm sad we didn't get a Dorym waking up together scene but things moved quick at the start, there was a lot going on

The chaotic ass planning I can't. No one knows what they're doing or where they're going, ever

Liam getting beat up by Laura's wings and pretending to no them, I love these two

The whole sequence with Imogen making a map for Veth too, *rolls for map* nice map. Caleb memorize this. We don't need it anymore. *tosses it*

*Ashley getting ready to count for Sending*

"You got this, it's just counting."

*Ashley makes the most uncertain face*

Mood girl

Watching Laura struggle between Jes and Imogen,, poor girl

Sometimes I don't know how either of these two groups ever got anything done, they're such goofs and can barely make any solid plans

A coppola of Ludini 😂

SERIOUSLY THOUGH IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME WATCHING WHAT ARE YOU DOING

OH NO JES JUST TELL HER

Oh NO don't murder sprinkle

The voice gets me every time

Fjord being traumatized by Pàte is kinda hilarious

The sucklist- I forgot they called it that

Ash having a minor panic attack when they put on the funnel is so real

Guys shadowghast may be cannon but we are still getting crumbs and I cannot describe how crazy it makes me every. Single. Time.

"my relationship is a little more fluid" ���👀👀

"this one regret will haunt me for the rest of my life. You don't know what that's like" GIRL

Orym getting to absorb Ishta is pretty poetic

Get that 22 dex booiiiiiii

I'd love to actually see Yash and Braius 1v1 though

Dorian and his disguise kit,,, poor boy. He was so ready

Okay going through the city this should be interesting

Ah shit well they found Ryn finally

I love that Liam said that Orym had Ryn in mind but when Matt described the statue everyone was like !!!! Shit it's her!!

The chaos of the distraction & Restoring Ryn, and then Laura trying to throw something into Marisha's basket only for it to bop Robbie right in the face, god these fools I love them

Aaand she's bleeding

Probably should have seen that coming

Okay well. We'll have to find her later I suppose

Ashley counting for sending is hilarious I love her. I also could not

These absolute heathens

Imogen and Jes talking to each other is always fun, poor Laura

Orym you can help grow her arm back later probably it's fiiinne

I forgot how much fjord is basically just Travis

....a dire mole

Leave it to Jester

The scale of Kreviris is insane for it being underground

Ah yes, Gaz's voice

Dorian does bring up a good point of the possibility of ruidus being destroyed. It could happen either way really

I don't wanna think about everyone dying I will absolutely loose my mind

I am so glad they used the Gate to get down that could have gone so badly if they did Fly and/or Feather Fall

Ooh Gaz buddyy Liliana fucked him up

Loving Fearne tailing Gaz. That rogue multiclass paying off

I'm so curious about who the stranger with Rashinna is

Gaz is trying so hard. Doing a good job

I don't know if this whole group just has communication issues or if no one knows what the hell they're doing

"You can trust me with any messages I will convey them to you with no problem"

"..okay"

"unless I'm out of spells, then you're shit out of luck"

Yep that's Jester

Everyone so judgey about messages lol

The juxtaposition between Jester and Imogen using Sending is crazy and I love it

Okay break time!

VOX MACHINA MY LOVES

Oh this is totally gonna make me cry

They're in their old seats!!

Ohh I missed Marisha playing Kiki so much, I've missed them all

THE NEW ART YALL I love it so much they all look so good

Keyleth totally has all of the frustrations and rage to take out in battle my poor girl

Of course Pikey and Grog are drinking where else would they be after a long ass day

Pike's first roll being stealth and her failing is just, so on brand.

Ohh Grog thinking that the divorces are his fault,,, honeeeyyyyy

Oh. Grog has NEVER cleaned out the bag of holding? I THIRTY ODD YEARS? gag

The bitchy wiggle

Ooohhh Cerkonos fuck yeah let's get it, two lvl 20 druids

Robbiiieeee get it pretty boy hell yeah

Same Pikey I would not be able to leave a book on the last page

The Sun Treeeee I still love him

("I'm lonely okay!" 😭😂)

de Rolo babies!!! Darlings 🥰🥰

It's so wild to me that Vesper is a grown ass adult. She's older than me by a couple years.

Gwen!! Sweet little tiefling babe

Percy's voice and that hair. Taliesin. Oof. So weird

"Vox Machina?" "HEY PERCY" "Oh god." 🤣♥️

"He was always my favorite." Robbiiieeee

And the sex jokes, of course

And now we have to track down the little crazy fucker, and apparently Dranzel and Co. Too

Grog totally killed someone for that

"Do you need a slap? I can slap you

Do you want the triple?"

I love him.

Robbie with that cold ass "No."

Leave it Scanlan to just be like "you said horny?"

Look, yall, I always get shit for this but Scanlan has always been my least favorite. Which doesn't mean I don't like him. He's just bottom of the list. He's a great character just not my vibe

Percy being a closeted fan is hilarious

Okay so Percy and Vax both have implied that there's something going on in Whitestone? Or are they talking about the assault.

"You have the twins. I have this one." ugh I love them so much. I would watch episodes of just de Rolo shenanigans

WHAT IS THE PAPER PERCY. AND THE MASK??

Groogggg eww going from near barfing to eating, eugh

Did I mention that I missed Percy and Keyleth interactions? They're not always at odds I promise

It must be a little scary to see the de Rolos let alone most of VM assembling in their practical gear

The twiiinnnssss and Vax ll oh my heart, all the babies

Vaxy's attitude shift when they talk about saving his uncle Vax ugh

Gwen is so going to be a female tiefling version of Percy (well already is in ways) the little hellion

I love the older Scanlan look but I just. Cannot with this motherfucker. He turned himself and his crew into fucken centaurs

KEG Holy fuck oh my god how did these two cross paths

It was hupperdook wasnt it

Percy using Keyleth's hand to cover his eyes, this is what I mean I love them

'this is like my third midlife crisis'

'he looks so happy'

Oh Grog

And now I just need to know what Liam is gonna do tonight

Holy shit okay

[dorymweek]

Dorym Week

FAQ

What is a ship week?

A ship week is a week-long event to celebrate a specific ship within a fandom. It usually has themed days and a dedicated blog.

How do I participate?

You can participate simply by reblogging things created for the week, but if you would like to get in on the celebratory spirit you can create your own fanworks! We will have daily word, sentence, and song lyric prompts to inspire you! Simply tag your works #dorymweek or #dorym week so people can find them later!

When is the event?

This year’s Dorym Week is May 19-25, 2024. If all goes well and we do this again, it will probably move earlier in the year to coincide with the anniversary of Robbie leaving. (I am very emotional about this.) (Mod Note 4/5/24: Dear reader, we did not do this XD)

I don’t have a tumblr account, how can I post works to this collection?

We have a dedicated AO3 collection you can submit your work to, but you can also message the mod team if you would like us to post for you (with proper attribution of course.)

How does this blog work?

We do all the back-end organizing (planning and prompting and promoing and such) and then during the actual week of the event we try to queue everything we see in the event tags. We will also continue queueing in the week following the event to try to catch stragglers. So, watch this space!

I don’t ship them romantically but these characters and their relationship are important to me, can I still participate?

Of course! If you would like to submit platonic works for this ship please do so! You can even tag them as platonic if you do not want them interpreted in a romantic light! 

Guidelines

Play Nice. Character bashing and hostility is not permitted. Hate speech, racism, and harassment will earn you a block. Please be kind and share this space with others.

All Ethical Media Types Welcome. Not every transformative work needs to be fanart or fanfic! You can participate in other ways too! Meta analysis, character study essays, fanvids, cosplay, moodboards, playlists, and anything else you can think of are all welcome. We only ask that if you use photos you didn’t take yourself that you properly credit the source. 

No AI. Unfortunately due to the ethical concerns surrounding AI data scraping we ask that you do not submit anything that was created with AI, either visual media or fanfic.

Use the Event Tags. We will try to queue up everything we see that has the tag #dorymweek but we are only human. If you feel like we might have missed something, wait a few days to see if it was in the queue and then shoot us a quick message. You should also tag whatever prompt you use so we know how to tag it for the blog.

Regarding NSFW. These characters are grown-ass adults so NSFW participation is allowed… with a few important caveats. If your post is on Tumblr it MUST use the Mature Community Label. If it is missing that label and is NSFW it will not be added to the queue. We will also not be relogging anything that involves explicit non-con of any kind. If it is mature content and it doesn't involve consenting adults it will not be added to the queue.

[fia-bonkginya]

alone outside the warehouse, watching bertrand and imogen run off, dorian takes a moment to reflect. later, alone in his room, still feeling the aches of a long day, orym does the same. (critical role c3e3 missing scenes)

(link in the reblogs to part 1 of this, or to where you can read all my dorym missing scenes on ao3!)

Dorian waited until Bertrand and Imogen were out of sight before leaning against the wall of the warehouse with a sigh. He didn’t know if he had made the right choice, letting them leave, but he couldn’t... he couldn’t walk away, not with Orym still inside. That was the plan, that Orym would sneak in and the rest of them would be there, ready to help, because he was alone.

But even waiting here, what good was he?

He couldn’t communicate with Orym, the way Imogen and Laudna could. If something went wrong, he wouldn’t know. Something could be going wrong, right now, and he wouldn’t know.

“Stop it,” Dorian muttered to himself, rubbing a hand down his face. “You’re spiraling.” 

This was, maybe, becoming a problem. Dorian could admit that he cared about Orym, more, even, than he cared about Fearne and Dariax and Opal, and he was trying to avoid thinking about what that meant. But he also knew, he knew, that it was going to make him stupid. 

Was already making him stupid.

Dorian sighed again, staring off into the distance. If something happened to Bertrand, or to Imogen, would it be his fault for not going with them? If he had known that something would happen, would he even have made a different choice?

He didn’t think so, and that scared him too, a little. He had told Fy’ra, once, that he would do anything for his friends, and he knew that he would do twice that for Orym.

Their conversation from a few hours earlier still rang in his head, too- Orym had asked Dorian to be there for him, to be ready to pick him up when Orym fell, and Dorian had no intention of failing him.

Even if it meant leaving the others behind.

~~

Orym couldn’t sleep.

He was exhausted, a bone-deep tiredness that only came from a long day of hard work and hard fighting, and it felt like every inch of his body hurt. Those creatures- the shade creepers, Esteross had called them- had had some kind of poison in their attacks, and the aftereffects felt like they were still coursing through Orym’s veins.

But still, there he lay, staring at the ceiling, alone in the room he hadn’t paid for, more than an hour after saying goodnight to Dorian and Bertrand.

Part of him wanted to find Dorian, to find Fearne, to push open their doors, to say, I don’t know how to sleep on my own anymore, I don’t think. I don’t know how it happened, but somewhere along the way, I got used to it, to seeing all of you there whenever I opened my eyes, to feeling Fearne’s warmth against my back, to hearing Dariax snore, to feeling Opal’s cold feet press against my legs, to hearing Dorian play us all to sleep. I don’t know how to be alone anymore, and that scares me, but right now, I just want to sleep. 

Another part of him, a smaller part, one that he kept buried deep in his chest, wanted to open Dorian’s door, to curl up beside him, to whisper, You are the most important person in my life right now, did you know that? And you keep coming after me, and I don’t know what to do about that. I don’t know how to tell you how much it scares me, caring for you. I don’t know how to tell you about the ways that caring for people has hurt me in the past, and I don’t know how to tell you that I want to love you anyway.

But he wasn’t going to do any of that, couldn’t afford to do any of that. They had a job to do here, and while things had changed over the past 48 hours, that was still the same. They were here on a mission, to accomplish a task, and Orym couldn’t let anything get in the way of that, wouldn’t let anything get in the way of that. 

It was hard, though, when Dorian acted the way he did, rushing into danger after him, saying things like no debts between us with that look on his face, the one that was just a little too sincere. But that was just... that was just the way Dorian was. Orym had to believe that that was just the way Dorian was.

“Stay on task,” Orym whispered to himself, curling into a ball on the too-small bed in the too-quiet room, and he tried again to sleep.

[zwoftt]

WEEKLY DORYM MOMOS N OTHER STUFF!!! (in no particular order)))

the chemistry between bells hells and the mighty nein is just so good. i had an absolute blast watching

the settle nod orym gives when jester says dorian is “really handsome” when shaking dorian’s hand

”mr. dorian” cad says when calling over to dorian, who looks a little startled at the professional nickname

dorian nodding in agreement to orym’s plan, as he normally does.

the way dorian tries to show off his abs next to beau after orym asks her what her routine is. the laughter afterwards when he gets embarrassed!!!!

jester winning over braius and getting more backstory than anyone else. so golden.

the jealousy of dorian when he sees how many people are in relationships and [not him] because he’s being a scaredy cat

caleb knocking sense into orym. CALEB KNOCKING SENSE INTO ORYM!!!

anybody else think dorian was trying to set up braius and veth really hard just to get him off of orym??

no thoughts just dorian and yasha bonding over music

the nervous glances robbie and liam share when they’re thinking about what to do with their characters …. especially after robbie tried to knock on orym’s door earlier in the episode but it was drowned out by shenanigans

the frantic inspiration dorian gives to braius when he’s painting orym

everyone getting so silent and so excited when dorian knocks on orym’s door. so is liam! his eyes light up immediately!

the whole confession scene was just so, so, so good. so beautifully well done. it made sense for both characters, and honestly so satisfying to see the moment happen after three years of consecutive pining/yearning. dorian giving orym the chance to make his own choices, and orym curling up in dorian’s embrace immediately just to be there,,, “not wanting to spoil the moment”. some of my favorite lines though, “let me comfort you for once,” from dorian; unaware that he WAS[is] in fact orym’s form of comfort but also implying that dorian finds immense comfort in orym, and orym’s “this is okay.” accepting the fact he is in love with dorian, finally, and truly. INTERLOCKING THEIR FINGERS. sound familiar??? something he couldn’t do with will in the vision???? but he instead does it now with dorian????? uuuuuhghhhhghhhhhh …. dorian fantasizing about them before falling asleep to the sound of orym’s breathing,,, orym staying awake longer to once again watch dorian sleep before passing out too.

also the fact the confession scene wasn’t too dramatic but still surprising and amazingly done just makes that feel so much more REAL. like how REAL LIFE confessions would be with highly traumatized people. not even mad they didn’t kiss yet because boy… just—- ugjjjjhh it was so beautiful, so raw. and it was robbie’s first time doing a romance roleplay too!!!

in the cooldown and [from introspection] robbie says dorian is very inexperienced with love and the feeling of it- since he was sheltered for so long; so orym is basically his first love(but dorian is just also super nervous and respectful towards will and orym’s relationship so that explains why he was so careful about expressing himself too.) and liam mentions orym was too shy to do anything himself so that’s why he had his other character go in there and just slap him on the ass because he wanted orym to talk to dorian somehow. which means that both robbie(dorian) and liam(orym) WANTED to have that exact moment between them, BOTH WANTED them to talk. and also the entire cast was fawning over them, matt getting teary eyed and the girls whispering and laughing to each other, sam getting excited himself and tal just smiling like a dork. everyone was just so proud of them!

DORYM NATION HOW ARE WE FEELING FOR NEXT EPISODES??? IM SO EXCITED TO SEE THE AWKWARD LAUGHTER, LOVESICK FLIRTATION AND EVEN MORE FROM OUR FAVORITE BOYS now time to start the cycle again of waiting years for them to kiss (i hope not please god)

[waltwhitmansbeard]

Another order coming up; can i uuuuuh get a #12 with either or both Orym/Will and dorym?

12. Mapping out your lover's features while they sleep in your arm, smoothing your thumbs down their cheeks, throat, collarbones, chin and nose. *muffled over microphone* yeah #12 with orym and will, please drive up to the next window

Orym may be physically small, but Will has always admired the way he takes up space. He never does so with arrogance or entitlement, but rather a calm confidence, one that says, I'm here, and you will see me. It's what makes him such an excellent Blade; in addition to his acrobatic skill with a shortsword, he possesses an aura of strength, of implacability in the face of danger. It is, frankly, what Will finds sexiest about him.

All of this falls away, however, when Orym is asleep. Instead of his wide stance, his straight back, Orym's body curls into a tight ball, pressed close to Will's side in their bed. Will thrills in it, keeping one arm draped around the curve of his spine, feeling the gentle rise and fall of his chest right against the side of his ribs. So many people assume he finds Orym cute, which they would only say if they hadn't seen the definition of his arms, the rock-hard planes of his torso, but here, like this, in the softness and stillness of night, alright, maybe he does, just a little.

Will always finds it hard to sleep the night before an assignment—tomorrow he is to accompany the Tempest to a meeting in Vasselheim, something about the distress beacons, maybe, he's never been one for politics—so he lays awake, his fingers stretching across his own body to gently trace the delicate features of Orym's face. And they are delicate, though so little about Orym is; the point of his nose, the slope of his cheekbones, the gentle curl of his smile, even in his sleep. (What is he dreaming about, that he would smile like this?) His fingertips dance along the shell of his ear, which twitches when he gets to a tip; so sensitive, these ears, especially when Will takes them into his mouth.

Not wanting to wake him, he brings his hand down to the column of Orym's neck, running his thumb along his strong jawline. He is sexy, his halfling husband, almost unbearably so, and though the two of them are often looked at askance—Will is tall by half-elf standards, a fact only magnified when he is in proximity to Orym—Will cannot imagine having eyes and not seeing the stretch and pull of those ropey muscles, the devilish glint in his eye whenever he's about to play a prank on a fellow Blade or one of Will's sisters. Will worries sometimes that he doesn't know, that he thinks that Will, so tall and broad, like his father, is the one who settled—foolish. Will remembers so clearly when they were young, when puberty absolutely ravaged him and saw Orym becoming something else, something Will stayed up late at night having sinful thoughts about. Orym has always been the only object of Will's desire, and on nights like tonight, when Orym is curled tight against him to ward off the late autumn chill, he cannot believe that he picked Will.

His thumb catches on the shadow of scar, just below Orym's ear, on the edge of his jaw. A training accident from years ago, early in their careers with the Blades, nothing dramatic or worrisome, but Will still remembers the stutter in his heart, the way he ran to Orym's side in the middle of sword practice as if he'd just been run through the heart. Orym had laughed him off, told him he was being silly, and he was, but what Orym didn't see was the earth-shattering realization Will was having at that moment: that he was deeply, stupidly, unendingly in love with Orym, and had been for longer than he could remember.

And here they are, in their home, in their bed, and Will is the luckiest man on Tal'dorei. The trip to Vasselheim is expected to last about three days, and he can't think of anything more excruciating than three days away from the man he loves. He slips down a bit lower onto his pillow, so their faces are closer, and presses a kiss to Orym's forehead. There is so much he wants to protect, so much he would die fighting for, but this man, with his beautiful ears and his eagle eyes and his laugh to stop the world, this is the thing will not live without.