#crposting

[astralleywright]

peace and love, most of the "consequences" matt failed to deliver on were worst case scenarios that people talked themselves into thinking were near certain outcomes

[corkscrewrawks]

yeaaasss ok

[wavebiders]

it is SO funny being both a Critical Role and comic book fan. With comic books you're begging on your knees for fans to have at least glanced at the source material, and then there's CR fans having their own personal 9/11's about fanart taking liberties with characters' appearances

[jigglywater]

the relationship between a person and their cringe oc x canon au can be so special

[renchanters]

guys i watched a whole episode of mighty nein ^_^ <3 and now i’m like an hour into ep 13 wooo

[astralleywright]

ashrym and callowmoorym girlie, but never cared for callowmoore on its own bc its always been a very surface level relationship. the last private talk they had was 60 episodes ago! there's a mutual attraction and they're both clearly fond of each other, but i do think whatever romantic feelings fearne has for ashton aren't requited.

ashton and fearne have had wildly different lives, and i think they don't really get each other on a deeper level yet: ashton don't realize how intensely fearne cares about things, including him, and fearne doesn’t realize just how self-destructive and damaged ashton is. at least, she didn't until now.

ashton and orym also enjoy each other and share a mutual attraction, but they've actually developed a connection beyond that. its one ashton specifically went out of their way to cultivate in a way he hasn't with fearne, even after he became genuinely invested in the hells as family instead of just as a key to his past. orym and ashton have lived very different lives, but being a soldier and a criminal respectively have made them both pragmatic, highly valuing of loyalty and family (in whatever form they have it), and more than a little self-sacrificial. there's a lot of unspoken understanding and respect between them because of this. ashton always turns to orym first when it comes to strategy or their next move, and orym has put more and more consistent trust in ashton than anyone else in the hells for a good 40 episodes or so. or, well, he did.

and ashton just acts different with orym than anyone else. they can be quiet and sincere and gentle with anybody one minute and their smug asshole self the next, including fearne in this latest ep, but he never really does the smug asshole part with orym.

and it's interesting because both orym and fearne are sweet, soft-spoken people, but orym is very sturdy in the face of resistance. fearne is not! and ashton is, uh, ashton, and i don't think they intended to bulldoze over fearne (they were clearly trying to give fearne opportunities to back out during the original conversation!), but they definitely kind of did.

with all that said, this ep actually made callowmoore grow on me a little, because at least there's something to actually chew on now. i'm very curious to see where they go from here. but if ashton has actual feelings for anyone, i still definitely think it's orym.

i know that the callowmoore and the ashrym girlies have been going back and forth for months, but i've never really swayed one way or another because i think both sides made good points, but after ep 77 i think things seem clearer (to me at least)

fearne is 100% into ashton, i don't even think that's up for question anymore.

but part of the way tal played ash last night made me think that ashton is either 1) insanely protective of orym for some reason or another OR 2) actually kinda into him

here's my evidence that i remember:

ash kissing fearne but telling her "it's the only one you get"

ash telling fearne that she'll be like his sister if she takes the shard (which she didn't)

ash seeming to not care about fearne's feelings for him (but using them against her later on when he absorbed the second shard)

ash threatening to hurt the kids that jokingly called orym "old man"

now i need to hear what everyone else things so DISCUSS:

[voidtone]

was anyone gonna tell me matt wears nail polish in campaign 3 or was i just gonna have to watch it myself

[blackmosscupcakes]

Also Laura and Liam's understandably VERY different feelings about Artagan will always be deeply funny to me

[princesskuragina]

My notes look like this btw

[astralleywright]

ok re-reblogging bc i like the addition and also this is a side blog and i can't reply like a normal person

but yeah @dadrielle this was probably just me getting my biology mixed up; i agree that mutualism is probably the best term for it! a relationship between a follower and a god isn't necessarily exploitative. i would consider it inherently unequal though, at least in terms of what a god can offer an mortal (and what it means to deny them that) vs what the average mortal can offer a god (any one individual mortal stopping worship is not that noticeable i would think).

Thinking about how Tuldus said "we are not their beautiful children. We are their food." Thinking about Ludinus saying "Everything scales in the universe, even ecosystems. Tonight, we unleash the natural predator of the gods." Thinking about how the good shepherd loves and protects his sheep no less for eating them when the need arises. Thinking about how the Primordials were natural, wild things - destroying the gods' creations...but was it wholesale destruction? Or wolves taking advantage of the new concept of the domesticated? If mortals are the gods' food in Exandria, is that even a bad thing? If the afterlife is, as Deanna suggests, nothing to do with the gods, is life just a way of giving that ocean (of energy? of magic?) temporary, consumable form? Is the mortal concept of being alive just the side effect of gods cultivating fruiting trees of magic? Thinking about how people who think of themselves as children of the gods might balk at the idea that they are simply a flock, even if nothing else in that relationship has changed or was untrue. Thinking about why humanoids might think they must be special in order to matter. Thinking about whether when it comes down to it, Ludinus simply couldn't bear the thought of feeding anyone else, so he went looking for a wolf to let into the house.

I don't got any conclusions right now, but it's awful interesting to ponder.

[ludinusdaleth]

im sure to some im really really annoying for combining crposting & fatposting and in general allowing myself to post about loving my weight gain, but ive gotten a lot of support about it, and had more fun with my followers than ive ever had before, and im really thankful for that. it's been nonstop fun for days on here and i hope it is for some of yall too

i dont think im good at the whole friends thing, but everyone jumping in on this and even saying i inspired or made them discover something, it makes me actually want to be a person and talk with folk, and i want to be friends with many of yall.... thank you. im always here to discuss this stuff with yall on anon or personally. it's hard to describe how infinitely cool bearishness & transitioning & kinks close to it & fandom meta & fandom mixed with it are. it's wild to have people care about my interests. thank you.

[astralleywright]

decided to give Bells Hells some proper winter clothing <3

[corkscrewrawks]

штпрыыыы .😁😁😁😁😁

[wavebiders]

your tags are making me think that mn would DEFINETENLY release predathos for shiggles

nah they'd get 3/4th of the way to releasing Predathos and then just walk away to leave it to be resolved in a post-campaign one-shot

[jigglywater]

ananas update in ovenbreak that means its time to think abt my oc ship with them / au i got way too invested in

[variksel]

crposting bcs im honestly hyperfixating on it for the first time in like literally A Year And A Half? but ohmygod yall have we ever considered just how adorable of a name jester is