#brinn watches critical role

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fearne calloway at any given moment:

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I have spent quite literally all day - a fuLL twelve+ hours - reading a 200k critical role fic that I think rewrote my brain chemistry

it was. well it's canon compliant up through 137 and then takes a stunning detour but it hits so many of the same emotional beats as the actual finale of the campaign to be roughly equivalent but it's more....complete, somehow. because cr is great but it is, fundamentally, a game, and that means nothing is really ever tied up neatly. but to take the same basic emotional beats, extend them into a full narrative that comes to a satisfying conclusion while taking nothing away from the source material and in fact incorporating emerging canon seamlessly is just...

idk it's interesting as a microcosm of how transformative works...well, work. because it doesn't exist without the source material but it extends it in a way that provides a degree of closure that the source material doesn't really provide - and can't provide because of the nature of the medium.

anyway this was the fic if anyone's interested https://archiveofourown.org/works/31382297

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“it’s the wrong body but it’s the right me” that is VERY transgender sam riegel what the FUCK I’m gonna cry real tears

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something something trans veth something something nott's goblin body being afab for the extra fuck you misery of having a "female" body but it's a goblin and her halfling body being amab something something loving the body you're born with rather than a body that is the correct agab but isn't yours something something transmografication could have given her her ideal body but she chooses instead to get her own back, the same body that loved and was loved by yeza

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holy SHIT is there gonna be CONSEQUENCES for beau getting forcibly carted off to the cobalt soul holy shit matt mercer out here like yes we are doing the consequences of systematic abuse and we will be punishing those that perpetuate it sir I would like to kiss you on the mouth

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LAURA FUCKING BAILEY Y’ALL

canNOT believe that modify memory worked that is CLUTCH i fully believed jester was about to let this bitch chop her goddamn hands off or at least that she was gonna do a stab or something but no she fucking defeated a misery witch with FUCKERY

WITH FUCKERY

laura fucking bailey

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OH FUCK fcg acts JUST LIKE charlie before he got fixed in cr2 holy SHIT okay yes excellent this is perfect of course dancer didn't actually build him right right cool cool neat I fucking love critical role it's so layered no one does backstory reveal like critical role fuck yeah dude

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“You wanna go to the fish market” “well it is my favored terrain”

why is ashley so FUNNY god beau and yasha making awkward sex jokes to each other while fjord Suffers nearby this is incrEDIBLE the caliber of lesbian jokes on this show which contains no actual lesbians is top tier. it’s the bisexuality probably.

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on the one hand I’m kinda proud of beau for holding her tongue but on the other hand I am dying for someone to give trent the “caleb built himself in spite of you not because of you” speech because fuckin hell someone should

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beau’s reunion with her parents is 1. fucking fantastic 2. explicit me representation the way you just fucking. go cold. not to project unduly but like those are DEF parents that did not encourage emotions, having them OR feeling them, which is beau is well you know Like That and she’s gotten so much better about opening up but get her back to her parents and she’s right back to that sullen, cold, walled off place. and they’re polite enough to her friends and just fucking. gaslighting her into thinking she’s blowing everything out of proportion it’s. woof. it’s. it’s good. marisha’s on some next level shit.

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I'm watching four sided dive and liam demanding laura slap him and then she?? does??? what kind of bdsm shit are y'all DOING ON TWITCH god like is this a regular activity??????? it's fine I'm normal about the cali actor hippies

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cool well I'm ten minutes into the first episode of exu calamity and I'm already yelling "HORRIBLE MAN. AWFUL. TERRIBLE MAN." at brennan so that bodes well

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very gender of travis to put his elderly gnome grouch in a silver sheath dress for this very fancy ball I'm very into all of this where's the art at I want the art

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beau with the tiefling disguise and dick like “oh shit I might be trans actually”

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I really do appreciate the way cr handles nott’s alcoholism like it’s not just haha nott is an alcoholic it’s like. it has mechanical consequences and her friends want to help her through it but she’s so scared without it and it’s just. nuanced and good. I never really cared for scanlan, but I love everything about the way sam plays nott

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"My only regret {...} is that I will only have eternity to torment them" hey BRENNAN quick question what the FUCK he just fucking says stuff huh just fucking. just. jesus christ. fuck. this shit is wild woof calamity is fucking right