#critical role rant

[krillbot]

"the shark does not bother itself with the krill"

Unless it's a basking shark

Or a mega mouth shark

Or a whale shark

Get your facts straight Ludinus

Actually while we're at it "I have no aspirations of leadership" motherfucker you're the leader of the Cerberus Assembly which at this point is controlling the ENTIRE Dwendalian Empire

Try saying things that are true idiot

[littlefankingdom]

I fucking hate when one of my silly incorrect quotes post is successful and people reblogged it with some Bruce's slander. Get the fuck off my post.

"Talia took care of Jason because Bruce abandoned him."

Wtf are you talking about. Bruce didn't abandoned Jason, he died. And he didn't abandoned him when he came back, Jason was not in the right to ask people to prove their love to him by killing others. And he also tried to kill the Joker after Jason died, he thought he had succeeded. Like, shut the fuck up.

"I don't give Bruce credit for anything regarding Dick's education."

Well, who the fuck raised him from 8 to 18 then? Alfred Pennyworth? The same Alfred Pennyworth that raised Bruce Wayne? The one that maintained the "employee/employer" distance with the grieving child he raised. Look at young adult Bruce Wayne and I dare you to tell me Alfred Pennyworth can raise a child better than Bruce, I dare you. And don't you fucking dare blaming Bruce for it, that would be ableist af to fucking blame him for being mentally ill and labelled it as "difficult", I don't tolerate that shit. Bruce Wayne was there for Dick when he lost his parents, he helped that kid through grief and showed him love, he held him close contrary to how Alfred held him. He taught him how to be a great detective, how to be a great fighter, and all he wanted was Dick to be a better man than him. Go tell that bs to your fav and see if he agrees (he doesn't, Dick doesn’t agree and would bite your head off for saying that)

[iamsweden]

[patopq]

wHY did cr had to make liam sing 'O mighty nein' im CRYING

[jimbodyson]

ngl im so fed up. i literally just want to sit and enjoy and talk about the show and all i see on all of my pages are mfs complaining about the most trivial things. they're focusing on some romance this season? that sucks. they did Glintshore differently? that sucks. Scanlan didn't have a mental breakdown for no reason? that sucks. just enjoy something for once you joyless fucks. and most of all let other people enjoy it too. i wish i could see people fucking talk about this season without it just constantly being a barrage of how people hate every fucking change and decision they made. and it's especially frustrating when 90% of the hate comes from people going 'oh, if they do this, this will suck'. stuff that isn't even written yet. or just people who think they know the characters better than the people who created and played them for several years. or people who say they don't hate it and yet every fucking post is them chatting shit on it.

im so tired of things i enjoy being hated that it just feels like a huge slap in the face. or that im just wrong for liking it. just fed up with seeing people being negative all the time. sorry, i really loved TLOVM season 3. no, i don't fucking care that you think the og game is better.

edit: made a separate post but i was very overwhelmed and therefore irritable and angry when i wrote this. while it's still frustrating to constantly see negativity surrounding it as i love it (especially so because i muted all the relevant tags), i was unnecessarily aggressive. sorry. although i would like to add, it's harder to belive some people when they say they didn't go into it wanting to hate it or that they like some bits-- when the only parts they talk about are the parts that they didn't like.

[uselessgayshit]

some of y’all watching critical role have never played d&d and it shows… even in the show, plenty of times, they use AOE spells that negatively affect their friends. and y’all are asking FCG to not use an intrinsic part of their character class because it’s disrespectful to laudna????? there is never a fear that he could destroy her using that. her level is always going to be higher than what FCG can destroy. there are mechanics in this game and sometimes they exist completely outside of character choices and that is okay

[tevintersoldier]

are people really hating on the finale because the ending was too good?? bc most things and character storylines wrapped up too nicely? tbf i have limited knowledge of c1 and c2, having just watched tlovm and like 14 episodes of c2. so most of my knowledge is through c3, but like..... i loved the ending so much. but i was scrolling the main tag for like 5 minutes and i see so much hate and disappointment. especially directed towards matt???? calling him a bad gm for not actively fucking things up for them? like he tried to kill off ashton. taliesin really seemed prepared to let them die. do some of you guys really mean matt shouldn't have allowed the other players to save them? do you just hate happy endings?

[celtrist]

*sigh* I feel a lil obligated to share this vid considering past ramblings. And I understand shippers of any aroace characters are VERY tired of the conversation, I get that and you should be free to have fun with the characters as you see fit. But there is a conversation I think both sides just never wanna get into. And I highly recommend EVERYONE, EVEN PEOPLE WHO ENJOY SHIPPING AND IDENTIFY AS ARO/ACE, to give this vid a watch. Like damn, the shit about Gwenpool was SO disheartening to hear.

It's never been the shipping itself that's the issue, it's the pushback against the aroace identity.

Just as a reminder, I (nor the video) are against shipping or spectrums and all that. There is just immense invisibility on the core parts of the aroace identity when it comes to popular characters, and (to me) the spectrum comment typically doesn't sound genuine but more of a hopeful defense that a character isn't aroace (from what I've seen). It always reads more like they're grasping as to have their favorite ship become valid or possible within the media the character is in. That's obviously not the case for EVERYONE and genuine-ness is difficult to read in text form, but that just happens to be how it typically seems to me when people make the spectrum case. And I think if having something like shipweeks is important, something like aroace weeks should be celebrated too! And they definitely exist! They're just severely ignored when compared to something like ship weeks.

The overabundance of shipping aroace characters can kinda feel like if, say, the most popular ships/ships that are everywhere in a fandom involve a gay character in straight relationships. By itself it is genuinely harmless. But there is a sort of underlying tone of being against that character being gay, even if not intentional. Everyone should be allowed to have their fun shipping characters however they like, no matter their orientation because they're not real. But there's an undeniable trend that if a character is popular, Their aroace identity will be challenged, ignored, or pushed back. Which doesn't really feel great (personally, not everyone is me and I don't speak for all).

Might I reiterate from my previous post on the subject:

The aro community is allowed the scraps but not the dinner.

[cupidsncheerios]

so many small things about arcane season 2 bother me, but one of the biggest is how sky was treated.

like i'm not even saying she shouldn't've died but it would've been so easy and made more sense for everyone involved if viktor had said "it killed sky, jayce. she had such dreams..." and jayce said "you told me she quit?" instead of just muttering "no" and then saying "anyway i quit politics btw can we stay lab married forever <3"

like. listen you can think jayce is an asshole and that he never cared about sky, that's your choice, but even if you do think that you still need to understand how out of character that scene was. for jayce, who has been shown to cope VERY poorly with loss of human life and who would at the very least be SURPRISED, and for viktor because aint no way someone dissolved in his lab and he didn't even come up with an alibi. sky had a job! she couldnt just disappear with no explanation! viktor is her boss & he would be the first guy they ask! what, did they ask him "hey viktor where is sky and why is the floor covered in dust" and he TOLD THE TRUTH?????

seriously, NO POSSIBILITIES for that scene make sense. if you're gonna kill off another black woman for a white guy's character development, at least write it half decently.

[nellasbookplanet]

Do you remember when c2 ended and a bunch of people got angry at Matt and Liam because they thought they didn’t make shadowgast canon enough. Anyway Caleb and Essek have been dating for 7 years and Caleb calls Essek dear and Essek calls Caleb in the evening to chat and drops german zemnian words in casual conversation and once turned into a fish on one of their Aeor dates and Caleb carried him around and they’re both absolutely smitten

[ohmaillegode]

As a freaking therapist, if I see another post about how Imogen and Launda are co-dependent, imma throw something.

Having someone you can count on, someone who validates you, reminds how strong you are, how loved you are, listens to you and accepts you without jugement, someone who's with you no matter what IS NOT co-dependency. Everybody fucking needs that! They have also been traumatized by their forced separations, and it is very valid that they are scared about it happening again.

I've also seen people say that they don't challenge each other enough. So what?! Are all your relationships 100% blunt and unbiased? Of course not! That's why you need different people you can trust to be honest with you. You can not depend on your partner to be everything you need.

[ittybittyremy]

“Orym’s family was able to heal but he was not. It’s been years but he refuses to move on”

Golly gee I wonder why… It’s almost as if Orym has been willingly cutting open old scars and putting salt in them for months

TLDR: It’s not that he refuses to move on, it’s that he can’t.

People who never watched EXU don’t know that Orym was healing and was moving on. There was a sadness to him but he was healing. His tattoo was a part of that healing. Every day was one foot in front of the other.

This mission is what is taking out years worth of healing. It was bound to happen.

The initial mission of investigating an attack that was similar to the one that killed your husband and father is opening old wounds. Everything else is just putting salt in it.

And Orym is willingly putting salt in those wounds for the sake of there being a tomorrow (C3E77) for Exandria and everyone living on it.

It would be one thing if the rest of his family was with him on this mission but they’re not. The closest person would be Leeta but that is not even close to how deep Orym is in it (as far as we are aware).

Like no shit Orym is having a hard time healing. I would be too if I was constantly exposed to things related to my husband and father’s death to that level. No matter how long ago it was

Orym could start moving on again once he’s not as exposed to his traumas. He could leave and give up on the mission but he’s not gonna do that. Not while knowing that his husband and father would be on this mission with him if they were alive.

So he really has one option: stop the Ruby Vanguard and Ludinus from releasing Predathos and potentially destroying Exandria and killing (more) people. And maybe then he can start moving on again

[beauregardlionett]

did i rant to my friends about dorian and orym just to be called a simp? yes i did. and i'll do it again.

these two characters? consume my waking thoughts. because just fucking think about this from a timeline/literary point of view for a second with me.

orym lost his husband and his father-in-law (who he always calls dad because he didn't have a dad growing up) in a violent attack on his leader a while ago and whatever magic was used to kill them kept them dead - no reviving magic worked to bring them back. in the space of a single attack, he lost two of the most important people in his life, and now he's a widow who still mourns and loves in equal measure even while far from home trying to save the world. he loves even though he's scared of losing again.

dorian is a runaway heir to a title he never really wanted, a musician for himself, a charlatan hiding behind an easy smile, who has really only ever wanted to see the world in his own time and make real friends for once in his life. and he did that! all on his own! he was with the group at the beginning of the campaign but then they ran into his older brother who was in trouble and needed to lay low and dorian went with him, falling back on old instincts that family by blood comes first. he ran from the group and from the foundations he was building with them. because dorian has only ever run from the things that scare him. but now he's back, re-traced his frightened footsteps toward the daunting promise of tomorrow - not yet with the group, we're getting his side of the story first. and he even said it himself, that he ran from the group and now he's not sure why he did it, why he left, when he stands here now and realizes everything he wanted was already in front of him.

they have sending stones, a once a day chance to say something to each other in 25 words or less. they've been using them, keeping each other updated on where they are, that they're still alive, and kindling this flame even without dorian at the table, without even seeing each other, and liam has been carrying this torch alone for 78 episodes but damn it the flame is still lit regardless!

and orym always updates on their progress and location first, and with whatever words he has left he drops in a sentiment to remind dorian that they still care - that orym still cares. and orym is practical through and through, he's a strategist so he always always always uses his words wisely because he's so fucking limited by this spell but the last message he sent? he repeated himself, he admitted a weakness, he faltered.

he told dorian where they were. he asked if dorian could come their way. he admitted to struggling while his voice broke. he asked again but in a different way if dorian could come their way. he ended the message with the most heartbreaking "fuck, i miss you," i have ever heard in my life.

orym, the man who messaged dorian 52 episodes ago and said "glad you're not here, wish you were anyway." because they're constantly in danger, and he wouldn't wish that on dorian, but he still aches to have him near. orym, the man who confessed 13 episodes ago during a trial with his friends that he's lonely, that he misses dorian and sometimes he thinks it's okay and sometimes he doesn't - because he was married and is still mourning and how dare he have feelings for someone else? how dare he move on even when his husband would WANT him to be happy again? he indicated dorian was missed by everyone in three of his previous messages before the trial, before finally shifting to 'I, orym, me - it's me who misses you'.

and dorian, the one who replied to a message orym sent him with "stay steadfast, sending you fairer winds" in the most longing tone i have EVER heard. dorian, who kissed orym's forehead when they parted ways but that is the closest they have come to acknowledging whatever is between them. dorian, who has been to orym's home between exu and c3 and met orym's mom and knows about orym's husband.

when orym died 58 episodes ago, he went limp and the sending stone slipped out of his hand because he was trying to message dorian before he died, before he ran out of words and breath. before he was revived, there was a moment he stood in the beyond and saw his husband and he told orym "you're not done," and orym said "i really wish i could stay," and then his husband said "i'll still be here," and orym said, heartbroken, "oh, i miss you so bad."

he told dorian, "i've really missed you," and "fuck, i miss you." i miss you is orym's way of saying i love you.

they're so close. they are so close. and orym fully died 19 episodes after dorian left, but he was revived and then never told dorian via sending that happened. part of me wants dorian to find out and the other part hopes he never has to feel like he failed orym by leaving. because nothing could have changed that from happening, not even dorian.

they are so close to reuniting, orym has needed dorian back for WEEKS and he's so close. i'm begging them to hold on so they can hold each other again.

and, again, from a literary point of view, you know the wildest part about all of this?

none of it is scripted.

[jimbodyson]

This a huge mega rant (/pos) about Bard's Lament, Scanlan's feelings, Pike's feelings and how the rest of Vox Machina respond to him. Putting it in the (more) thing because it's long and spoilery.

I love the whole set up and eventually pay off so much, because it's so real. Of course VM loves and cares about Scanlan, but the entire time they've been together he's always been a nonchalant, sex obsessed, drunk asshole. The character development he's been having has been happening either by himself or with one other member of the team (Pike or Vax). Of course they don't know he wants to change! To them, seeing Scanlan lying in a pool of his own vomit, ranting about a girl he fucked up with is normal because that's how he's always been. The difference now is, he's talking about his daughter and not a random girl. Pike is the only one that knows Scanlan's daughter's name, so she's the only one that knows what he's talking about. The rest (maybe bar Vax?) don't think twice about being a dick to him after because, again, that's how it's always been with Scanlan.

His feeling like they don't care about him is completely valid because- to him- he's been trying his best to change who he is and they still treat him like a nonchalant, sex obsessed drunk asshole.

Vox Machina being confused as to why and how he thinks that is also valid, because they have no idea he's changing. They don't know he cares more than anyone. They don't know he's stopped going to brothels. They don't know he drinks away his feelings.

The reason Pike knows something is up with him is because she's arguably the most perceptive when it comes to insight. She loves Scanlan in more ways than one and is arguably the only member of Vox Machina (bar Vax, again) that knows that Scanlan cares more than he lets on. She loves the side of him that is sincere, so she's always looking out for when he shows it. Which is why she above everyone else, she notices the little things when it comes to him: because she's ALWAYS been looking for the little things.

Scanlan has internalised literally everything. The few times he's tried not to (I.e. with Pike in the balcony in 3.3) he thinks he fucks up and distances himself more.

[uselessgayshit]

*the most horrifying laudna/delilah mash-up mini ever to be created*

Laura Bailey: Baby!! 🥺💗🥰 💖

[captainsparklefingers]

I bet Brennan Lee Mulligan is jealous of Nana Morri for having a second tummy face.

I'm sure this observation has been made already, but hey, never a bad time to bring it up again.