This is slowly going to become a critical role blog, the way they (all of them) have me in a chokehold. And now it's become all about Agatha. oh well, I do what I want. (35+, they/she)
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I loved this show so much haha
Prints!
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Other things that make me insane about Agatha/Rio:
the fact that Rio has spent the last three centuries watching Agatha age and change from a teenager to a fully middle-aged woman
the fact that they've spent so much of Agatha's limited lifespan being angry at each other
Rio being so in love with Agatha - perhaps more in love with her the more Agatha tries to run away from her and all she encapsulates (mortality, aging, and death) - that she refuses to let go despite the inevitable end that, as the natural order of all things, she's known is coming from day one
the general metaphor they are about not only self-destructiveness (Agatha being in love with Death), but also fear of aging and death (Death being in love with Agatha and impossible to escape)
the incredible humanity of both of them in such different ways, and what it means for Death in particular to present as a woman, practice as a witch, and be susceptible to something as human as love
Are we still insane about them, y'all? I'm still feeling insane. Just wanting to do a vibe check.
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imogen temult x the last of us (commission for @fearnesbells)
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Agatha kissed Rio because she wanted her to be the last thing felt. The last thing she tasted. The last thing she smelled. The last thing she saw. She wanted Rio’s love to be the last thing she experienced before she died.
It was the only way Agatha could say she was sorry and ask for Rio’s forgiveness.
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‘And Death wept for Agatha Harkness,
Done done done done!!! Still not sure how i feel about this but given that i havent painted with acrylics in a while this was fun :3 thank you for the nice response on previous posts love u silly people on my phone
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I just realized something about Agatha All Along. Everyone who walked the Witches' Road got exactly what they wanted.
Jen went on the road to find her powers (both inner and outer), and that's exactly what she got. [She was really the only one who went specifically for power.]
Alice went on the road, not really for answers about her mother, but to end her curse. Her curse ended.
Sharon (Mrs. Hart) went on the road 'cause she wanted to go to a party. They went to a nice house, hung out, and drank wine.
Lilia went on the road, not to get her powers back, but so she could remember herself and realize her full potential as a witch (not relating to magical power, but to the power of identity).
Billy went on the road to find his brother. He found him and made it possible for his brother to come to the physical world.
Rio--yes, she technically walked the road--wanted Agatha's forgiveness. I believe that kiss was Agatha's way of saying she forgave her, even if she still couldn't face her (and Nicky) in death and became a ghost. Some might say she had to kiss her to syphon her power, but I think she could have done it another way. She chose the "kiss of Death" as her way to go. And there is the beautiful metaphor of Agatha "accepting" Death. She accepts that this is who Rio is and forgives her for having to hurt Agatha by doing her job.
Agatha, again while saying she wanted her powers back, actually wanted closure. Death would not stop pursuing her. Their history, and Billy's presence, meant that she was continually reminded of her grief over her son. In order to protect herself, emotionally, Agatha had put up walls and hid herself behind a thirst for power. It's why she says in the beginning, she's vulnerable "only physically". On the Road, Agatha became emotionally vulnerable to Billy, Rio, and even the others. And while the last trial was meant to be for the Green Witch, Agatha did it herself. Alone. She was forced to feel that sense of powerlessness once again. The Road taught her that her feelings of vulnerability, of powerlessness, what probably felt like the death of herself, would lead to new growth in the form of a connection with Billy, an understanding and forgiveness of Rio, a true connection to a coven (it was Agatha's encouragement that led most of them to discovering their own truths), and a true surrender to the powerlessness of an actual physical death. So, I guess you could say, she did gain power (the power of vulnerability). It just wasn't the kind she was expecting. But I choose to call it closure, because she "settled" a lot of what was causing her to seek magical power in the first place.
Everyone got what they wanted but maybe not in the way they were expecting.
#throwing my phone at the wall#throwing myself off a cliff#i cant move on#love this take#agatha all along#coven of chaos
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KATHRYN HAHN Afternoon Delight (2013)
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something i find very compelling about agatha is that for a self-protective character, she is surprisingly unconcerned with her own redemption. selfish villains usually try to make people see them as the hero, but after being persistently villainized and punished for things outside of her control (her mother trying to execute her, generally living through the witch trials, losing her lover and son bc of things tied their identities), agatha was essentially like — fine, you want a villain? i’ll give you a villain.
she knows that a large part of it is a performance and she lets people believe it because it’s the only thing that gives her control over bad things happening to her. salem seven wanna kill her? yeah, makes sense. every other witch hates her? yep, did that on purpose. nobody can hurt her more than she’s hurt herself.
and like, yeah, she’s still a villain and definitely having fun with it lol, but it really does seem to come from her realizing that nobody is ever gonna see her as anything else, anyway (except for rio, who she’s absolutely fucking terrified of, despite also being madly in love with her) (i would like them to get back together please and thank you)
and idk! there’s something really special to me about a queer person being like, actually, fuck you all, i’m going to be every bit of a menace you told me i was.
#love this take#we're for womans rights and wrongs#gaslight gatekeep girlboss#agatha harkness#she is babygirl#agatha all along
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‘Critical Role’ Cast Teases Its Future and a Potential ‘Passing of the Torch’ Photos by Heirlume Photography
#they all look so good#so so so hot#all of them#taliesen usually isnt my flavor but damn#the fit is fitting#critical role#laura bailey#travis willingham#liam o'brien#ashley johnson#sam riegel#matthew mercer#taliesin jaffe#marisha ray#im in love with them all
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i'm weak
the parasites... they're taking over...
i'm gonna start howling and whooping like a monkey
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I'm still here 💚💜
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i love when tragedies are like —
happy birthday, @elssbethtascioni ❤
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I’ve been rewatching Agatha All Along episodes 8 and 9 repeatedly and every rewatch I just love it more.
Could it be more perfect?
Sure.
In an ideal world where there was money and time, and Disney+ aren’t skittish.
But I’m meeting the show where it’s at, and it’s more than most things we used to get.
Also, there’s so much heart in the show.
I do wonder if people just stop watching after Agatha physically died. Because some of the comments I see in some boards make me wonder if they really think Agatha is dead-dead.
Because… she’s not.
I think part of the issue might be that the show didn’t, as Mary Robinette Kowal said, properly close off one story nesting tag.
(for example:
<Character Story> <Event Story></Event Story> </Character Story>)
Because Agatha committing suicide by kiss, was, in all honesty, not the closing tag of the Rio and Agatha storyline introduced in episode 1.
That felt like an open tag, and episode 9 just opened another tag for the Rio/Agatha relationship story.
Also, still weird to me that episode 5 of a season, is the 'midseason finale' in a 15-20 episode season that's just the show starting to rev up. My true enemy is streaming shows with mandated truncated seasons.
There is a time and a place for a truly fantastic limited series show. But a story like Agatha All Along with such an expansive character with a fantastic, complicated backstory should be deepened.
Alas, this is the nature of the beast of being an MCU property.
Hopefully, we do get a season 2 of Agatha All Along and sooner rather than later.
These 2-3 season hiatuses with less than 10 episode seasons KILL ME.
What do you mean season 2 of The Diplomat is only six episodes on Netflix??? WTF is that.
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Xena and Gabrielle, as well as other characters, acknowledging that they have feelings for each other as early as season 2 💃
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Aubrey Plaza says it was a “dream come true” to play Kathryn Hahnʼs romantic counterpart in #AgathaAllAlong:
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Aubrey Plaza VMAGAZINE
“Kathryn and I are both very intense in our approach to acting, so I knew it was going to be really charged. Adding that it was a dream come true to play Hahn's romantic counterpart."
#ma'am#i cant#that last photo made me feel#so hot it hurts#kathryn hahn#aubrey plaza#new hyperfixation just dropped#i need them in an interview together now pls
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