#critrole blogging

[venndaai]

I truly just cannot get Zerxus Ilerez off my mind. Oath of Redemption paladin who will throw away everything for the chance to redeem Satan, but doesn’t hesitate to smite “traitors” into the dust and says nothing when his best friend murders prisoners who have surrendered. Who saw his friends bleeding out and knew he could help them, but turned away and went to pull the Lord of the Hells into the world instead, not even out of pity but out of desire for “answers”. Who lives in a world of teleportation circles and still didn’t visit his traumatized young son for seven years. Who asked to have his memory wiped rather than live with the understanding of failure. Character of all fucking time.

[distorted-prince]

They're looking at ants

[ashandcinders]

A little Yasha in an abandoned church. Full process of this is up for patrons!

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[saccharinescorpion]

when you’re going down the path of darkness but then a beautiful woman gives you a little kissie on the cheek

[ziocorvid]

just a round lil mint green wombat taking a shiny purple gem for her lil marsupial pouch

[cringefaecompilation]

me: hmm i think i will headcanon orym as having ocd and ocpd, he reminds me of myself and my friends who struggle with compulsions and routines we have troubles breaking out of

liam o’brien choosing to portray the most upsetting yet accurate depiction of someone with untreated unmedicated undiagnosed moral purity ocd by sheer accident:

[undead-knick-knack]

Me when Veth talks about her marriage

Girl leave that man already your marriage is a farce 😭

[squidos-goodies]

when the little guy in your brain

[c-duceusclay]

Okay, I'm going to bed gn

[daily-green-character]

~ Day 4!! ~

Today’s green character is:

Fjord Stone/Tusktooth from Critical Role Campaign 2, The Mighty Nein! ⛵️💚

[venndaai]

who cares about this Thelyss guy I just need to talk about the Archmage of Civil Influence forever

[sky-scribbles]

No tumblr poll tournament is complete without some propaganda, and with @spy-battle happening, I had to weigh in on behalf of my favourite disaster spy. Ty to @disaster-bi-shan for peer reviewing and reminding me of some of the chaos antics I forgot!

Head over and vote for this loveable space bisexual!

[nellasbookplanet]

Every time i replay mass effect I go a little bit bonkers thinking about the endings and how they almost work and how they are, in a vacuum, interesting. It really makes apparent the fact that in a narrative for an ending to work, it isn't so much the ending itself that’s important but rather how you set it up.

Destroy/control/synthesis are all interesting, and they all force you to think about what you are willing to sacrifice in the ultimate choice. But they are all on a narrative level completely non-reliant on the character you’ve built throughout the game and the paragon-renegade system which has been essential throughout. If synthesis had been presented as the paragon choice of saving as many as possible (at the cost of your own life and agency of the galaxy), destroy as a ruthless renegade choice of victory no matter the cost, and control as they outright evil renegade choice where you value power more than anything, there would've been weight, agency and character to the choice. Instead they're all presented as sort of morally neutral, with equally happy epilogues with no real time spent reflecting on the darker consequences.

But even had the consequences been accounted for, the endings are all presented as the enemy's solution, what the reapers/catalyst think will fix things, not what you think will do so. Honestly it would've been really cool if the catalyst presented you with control and synthesis and you could choose them, but there was also an option to tell it to fuck off and then yourself find a destroy button sort of as a secret ending.

[gorgynei]

a huge number of wenclair haters just followed me what do i do. someone come pick me up i dont want to deal with wednesday fandom drama

[bloodkeep-escape]

HAHAHAHAHA MATT IMMEDIATELY OPENING WITH THE DRAMATIC “water.....” AND AABRIA AND BRENNAN LOSING IT. SO GOOD. SOSOSOSO GOOD.

[cringefaecompilation]

it'd be sadistic, bad faith, and shitty to say "orym is a hypocritical cunt that's up his own ass about being a hero and just as bad as ludinus! he deserves to die for holding the team back with all his stupid biases or watch the gods nuke everyone he loves out of existence to teach him a lesson about being so whiny!" but when it's ashton, i guess it's fine