#critical role my beloved

[son-of-the-sun23]

Hearing the news about Sam's recovery from tonsil cancer made everything make sense as to why C3 was taking so many breaks. I mean, at the same time they're also branching out as a business and creating new series but spreading things out to pace the production of C3 while Sam got the treatment he needed makes me a lot less inclined to get irritated about the frequent breaks as I've seen people on Twitter are. If anything, I'm glad about this mini-hiatus C3 is taking with having Brennan Lee Mulligan DM another EXU spinoff for a bit.

[funkylilfellow]

this is also probably why the critical role fandom does so well on tumblr

no offence but the reason tumblr is “dying” is, well, yes, of course the cursed like/reblog ratio and the change in user behaviour (because of people being used to how instagram and tiktok work) BUT also the lack of weekly shows. i say it with my whole chest, they don't produce captivating and engaging stupid weekly tv shows anymore because streaming killed that so you have spikes of activity here when Something happens in general fandom or up to three days after a new season of whatever drops and then it's a wasteland. this is obviously an old woman yelling at a cloud missing supernatural and the vampire diaries and pretty little liars and all these other shows type of post but honestly give me back weekly tv shows where i have something to watch for 40 minutes almost every day of the week after work so then i can read and reblog it on tumblr give it back for the sake of my sanity

[danikatze]

[ID in alt text]

I listened to the new ep twice today

[loveisalwayswise]

CRITICAL ROLE | C3E110

The return of the boy

[whoopseydaisy]

someone get this man and Emily Axford at a table together and let me watch i beg

[nellasbookplanet]

An interesting aspect of Laudna and Imogen's relationship and how it has developed is the fact that they got together early in their campaign, long before either of them had any chance to work through their respective issues. Vax confessed his feelings for Keyleth early on (relatively so; c1 had been going for a while before it started streaming), but she explicitly turned him down at the time, and they didn't actually get together until she felt she was ready, later in the campaign. Percy and Vex didn't get together until after Percy had worked through his figurative and literal inner demons. Jester and Fjord didn't get together until he had moved away from Uk'otoa and his self-worth issues, and she from her romanticized ideas of romance. Yasha and Beau didn't become a couple until both of them had moved away from their self-destructive tendencies and Yasha had let go of Zuala and Beau of Jester. Caleb and Essek didn't get together until the epilogue, when Caleb finally let go of the past and embraced the future.

When Laudna and Imogen got together, Laudna was at one of her lowest points (and has since started digging), having just invited Delilah back in, and Imogen was (is) still struggling against the temptation of Predathos. While Imogen has since gone great strides in growing, Laudna has regressed, using her feelings for Imogen as an excuse to further give in to Delilah to protect her. She's too bogged down by her own self-worth issues to uphold a healthy relationship, and keeps hurting Imogen by hurting herself, not realizing how or why this upsets Imogen.

And I can't help but wonder, would Percy and Vex's relationship have been as destructive had they gotten together before or during the Briarwoods arc? Jester and Fjord if they got together during the pirates arc? Yasha and Beau if they got together before or just after Obann, when they were both self-destructing massively? Caleb and Essek if they got together while they were still low-key manipulating and honeypotting each other for information?

But even without the romance, Laudna and Imogen likely wouldn't have escaped the situation they're now in. They started out already kind of co-dependent, and remind me of Vax & Vex and Caleb & Nott in that way. But whereas the twins and Caleb and Nott's arcs had them learn to question each other and embrace love for other people rather than isolate themselves, Imogen and Laudna has only gotten more entrenched in each other's issues, and more unwilling to push each other to grow.

[floweroflaurelin]

Huevember day 11: Proposal in Blumenthal 💖🌿✨💖

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“Oh, Admiral Tusktooth, yes I will!”

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Huevember is back with another Echoes of the Solstice painting! I had to take a week off to focus on work for my job but I’m glad to be back on the huevember grind 💪🏽 In this one I thought it was just going to be the fjorjester kiss but then I remembered Artagan made that wreath and decided to go a bit extra with it 😆🌿✨

[ludinusdaleth]

"It's all I wanted. Whatever it would take, to be able to keep [Opal] safe."

-Critical Role Campaign 3, Episode 93, "Bittersweet Reunions"

[nowyoursoulisforfeit]

Percy de Rolo thigh-high nation is thriving.

[roll4gay]

Not Aabria still being restricted on Twitter in 2023 AD (Aabria DM) 😭

[keen-on-euphemisms]

Celebrating me losing my mind over first official animation of The Mighty Nein with pen in hand!

[jae-birde]

The Legend of Vox Machina, Season 3, Episode 2

God I love them

[sky-scribbles]

Essek details from this episode that I can't stop thinking about:

His quiet realisation of exactly how Liliana could cast Time Stop. You could hear the weight of everything he's done hovering over him again, how everyone in the Ruby Vanguard who uses dunamancy does so because he gave Ludinus the beacon. All the work he's done, all the growth... and the consequences of his actions are still there. They'll always be there.

The impression (which I got, at least) that 'Seth Domade' is one of his go-to aliases. He's obviously been to Zadash before; does he hang out with Beau? Did she introduce him to the rest of the Cobalt Soul as 'this is my friend Seth from a few archives over, let him hang out where he likes'?

Trent implying in Echoes of the Solstice that the Bright Queen still doesn't know. Like, is Essek still the Shadowhand? Does he still have a home in Rosohna???? What does his life look like right now????

The fact that he introduces himself as a member of the Accord and an enemy of Ludinus. He is still working to fix what he did. He will not let his actions hurt more people. He will not let Ludinus continue to profit off the loneliness of a younger, crueller man.

Him showing up as a palette-swapped version of Caleb. What a dork.

[convallariacrow]

Musical

[thewhalelord]

“I can take it and put it inside of me…”

[loveisalwayswise]

CRITICAL ROLE | C3E111 : The Nein Hells

I just want you to have the real thing. I do too. Yeah, and plus, it's a vote of confidence in us. Yeah. Don't want to rush it with something small. I mean, don't get me wrong, I would be thrilled, but you deserve all the finest things, and I can only imagine what your imagination has in store. I wouldn't want to short you. Oh my gosh, it's going to be so beautiful, Fjord.