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she doesn't even get a chance. she spent so long agonizing over whether she could trust her mother with their safety. she asked gods. she wanted so bad to trust her. she could've asked liliana to return with her but she didn't trust her not to harm them. and now her mom is gone.

It's not her fault. It isn't fair. This will haunt her.

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blog like no one's following you

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The way everyone watching Critical Role immediately started on Ludinus like "this MOTHER FUCKER-"

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I don’t think Liliana is dead. I think this is a timer in a campaign that’s been full of timers. We know it takes a full hour to absorb someone, and Matt describing Liliana’s feet crumbling is the clearest visual marker I can think of for “we’re at the beginning of the hour.”

I don’t think she has plot armor! I think that if the coming events go badly she will certainly die from this. But if these events are kicking off a timer rather than marking a death, that leaves a lot more narrative room for interesting roleplay—either by letting Imogen save her, or by killing her in a crucial moment when Imogen is physically present.

Matt is an incredibly smart storyteller and there’s a lot more to gain from waiting for the Hells to get there—whatever happens when they do—than there is from killing her now.

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He said the thing!

Bells Hells are very capable

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MATTHEW you can’t leave bells hells there!! you’re telling me we have to sit with that cliffhanger for weeks?!?!!

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oh no. oh no oh no Imogen

Bells Hells and their brand of 'I couldn't prevent it I should have prevented it I love you I love you I love you'

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marisha coughing up a storm and sam (as veth) saying "why do you keep trying to eat [the slime]?"

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It never fails to amuse me when I get “hello influencer” emails wanting me to push questionable products to my followers.

Like worstie, I can barely promote my own published book without wanting to curl up and die.

The fuck makes you think I’ll shill your discount wish shit?

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This is such a bittersweet way for Liliana to end. For so much of the campaign, she’s spoken of herself almost as if she believes herself fully lacking in agency regarding her circumstances. As if she had no choice but to join the Vanguard, to stand by while Ludinus and Otohan committ atrocities, to leave her family behind, to put the world on the line. This was the only way she could see to 'save her daughter', so of course there was no choice but to do it. And when Imogen reached out to her, told her that no, I don’t want this, you can still walk away, there’ll be consequences but you can walk away, Liliana dithered. Suddenly there was an undeniable choice - to betray either Ludinus or her daughter - and she didn't want to make it, didn't want to committ to either choice, didn't want to accept that despite all her hardships she does, in fact, have agency.

In the end, she didn’t get to make that choice between Vanguard or Imogen. She dithered for too long, and the agency that she had so long denied having was finally, truly, taken from her.

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This is such a bittersweet way for Liliana to end. For so much of the campaign, she’s spoken of herself almost as if she believes herself fully lacking in agency regarding her circumstances. As if she had no choice but to join the Vanguard, to stand by while Ludinus and Otohan committ atrocities, to leave her family behind, to put the world on the line. This was the only way she could see to 'save her daughter', so of course there was no choice but to do it. And when Imogen reached out to her, told her that no, I don’t want this, you can still walk away, there’ll be consequences but you can walk away, Liliana dithered. Suddenly there was an undeniable choice - to betray either Ludinus or her daughter - and she didn't want to make it, didn't want to committ to either choice, didn't want to accept that despite all her hardships she does, in fact, have agency.

In the end, she didn’t get to make that choice between Vanguard or Imogen. She dithered for too long, and the agency that she had so long denied having was finally, truly, taken from her.

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Kind of surprised that the Kirk/Spock handholding short film hasn't breached containment more. It's not exactly a fast-paced watch, but I do love that Shatner stepped up to play Kirk for the first time in 30 years and possibly/probably the last time in his life for THIS. He EP'd it too!

Sure, the de-aging CGI is a tad unnerving, but really, how else do you go about resurrecting a ship where one actor is dead and the other is like 95?

https://home.otoy.com/unification/

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I guess we can fanwank (in the comics fandom sense, not the journalfen com sense) it as being ~wacky afterlife distortion aura~ or something.

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Alison Bechdel drew a Fun Home coda for New York Magazine. Panel 5 is about where I started crying at work. That’s definitely Oskar Eustis in panel 6. 

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I swear if Ludinus kills Liliana with the funnel, I will lose my shit

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it must be said the ancient greeks got a little funny with it