#hey aabria what the fuck? like what the actual fuck?

[asexxxualauthor]

I think the best part of finishing Burrow's End is the moment about six or so hours later, where you're chilling in the shower or in the middle of dinner, and you suddenly realize that the tape—you know, that tape—wasn't all five of the Firsts dog-piling and murdering Dr. Winnebago, but literally just Phoebe. And just that one stoat was enough to cause the carnage the kids found in the store room and turn the doctor into a Meat Dave when she didn't even know how to speak human yet.

[grifff17]

Audiodrama Sunday 6/9/2024

I have so much to say this week! I usually take some very quick notes as to what I want to say in these as I listen to stuff, but this week I have a ton of notes. Also, I made a Tumblr Community for audiodramas. If you want an invite, please ask me! Also, if you can figure out how to reblog posts into a community, which is supposedly a thing you can do, please tell me.

To start off, season 16 of Lost Terminal started this week. It feels great to be back in this world, this show is so cozy. I love the little programming tidbits in this show, as a nerdy programmer into conlangs and hard scifi this show feels like it was made for me specifically. It looks like the premise for this season is an entire season that takes place over 10 seconds, which is such an incredibly cool idea. I love how they are leaning into the relative time different between humans and AIs due to processing speed.

@worldsbeyondpod had so many crazy moments I have to talk about. First off *music change* "roll a stealth check for the fox" out of nowhere was terrifying. I truly felt Erika's gasp when Brennan said the words "patchy corduroy witch hat". I haven't even gotten to the biggest moment in this episode. Holy shit poor Straw. This story has so much moral nuance, I'm obsessed with @quiddie's defense of Suvi on tumblr since the last episode. Speaking of Aabria, "fuck your scene" was so perfect. Finally, Glassheart moment spotted at the end of the episode. Even though it will never happen, I will forever be a Glassheart shipper.

@worldgonewrongpod this week was very fun. It is weird that I was picturing a specific tree at a small local park I walk through all the time whenever the tree was being described? I cannot unlink that tree and this episode in my mind. The reenacted council meeting was great, I'm excited for the update to this episode at the end of the season. Also, I'm not sure I've said this yes, but the theme song for this show is perfect. I've already added it to my playlist.

@wanderersjournalpod ended on a cliffhanger this week. Are we finally going to learn Pluto's whole deal next week? I can't wait to find out.

@midstpodcast that was a hell of an opening scene. This whole episode showed such an interesting side of Weep. I want to avoid spoilers for this show, but that ending god damn. That is not what I expected. We must be getting close to the end of the season, they resolved the opening scene and the episodes are getting much longer. Looking at the lengths of the previous season, there's probably 2 more episodes.

A very short update from my dear friend over at @re-dracula this week. Renfield is so unsettling. I don't actually know anything about Renfield, so I'm learning as I go. I think he's some sort of vampire spawn?

@breakerwhiskey I caught up and what the fuck. This show keeps twisting the knife. Hey, at least Birdie is finally talking in real time again. She confirmed Whiskey's theory, which is nice, and finally gave us her backstory. Then the second reveal in a later episode, holy shit Harry. This really explains the whole dynamic between Whiskey and Harry. This was the big fight Whiskey keeps referencing.

I listened to the first episode of season 2 of Skyjacks Courier's Call. The city that it's going to be set in is really cool, and I loved the Fun Money shenanigans. Going on a road trip tomorrow and I'm going to listen to a lot more of it.

Finally, there was a new SCP: Find Us Alive this week. This was a cool episode, I really liked the art show. But the big thing was the very end of this episode. My theory was right! Sometimes, when talking into the mic, Harley was subject to the memetic effect and forgot what he was talking about. But only sometimes. They've established that it only happens if someone can hear you. This meant that every time he forgot, someone was listening! Great foreshadowing!

Because of the aforementioned road trip, I'm going to post this a few hours early. This is at least better than my usual time of "forgetting it until the last moment."

[soath]

Your new money analogy falls apart when that privilege is not wanting to be murdered.

oh, sometimes getting vagueblogged at brings the strangers into your inbox. i’ll assume this isn’t actually the complainer-direct, as i do have a lot of respect for them. now, as for my facetious metaphor—

i’m incredibly sympathetic to the gods not wanting to die! no one wants to die! existential threats, and extending that, existential threats to your siblings? that’s basically the most sympathetic there is. i would also probably kill for my little sister even if she was terrible; that’s the awful truth of family.

but the matron of ravens is intentionally removed from this motif very early on. she separates herself from the “family drama” and her calculus is very different than the rest of the gods. it’s not just about survival for her, it’s about securing what she’s worked for. laura bailey doesn’t waste lines and when the raven queen describes wanting to experience “the infinite” i think you’re meant to go Hey Wait. she’s ambitious! this isn’t just about existing for her, it’s about a power she has fucking put in the effort to obtain.

i was being silly when i used new money because I’m silly about everything—as a rule my posts are mostly for the laff— but joking analogies of that vein did not start or end with me. aabria iyengar speaking ex-cathedra as ms. coramar-seelie described the matron as a “class traitor”. what does it mean to have been a person and then throw in with the gods?

i do think there is much more than pure ambition to the matron’s actions—her status as a goddess of fate, someone who sees the strings tying it all together is clearly very important in any analysis of her—but the ambition is there. laura bailey made the executive choice to highlight her condescension, her need to continue to experience not just life but godhood rather than focusing on pure self-preservation. it doesn’t make her unsympathetic, in fact it’s one of the more fascinating things about her. but it does open her up for some jokes! i’m sorry they’ve caused such controversy. please enjoy this image of the raven queen dressed up like the monopoly man.

[unsleepingtales]

Burrow’s End Episode Six Reactions! (And AP!)

Allow me to preface this by saying that my computer broke this week, I am doing all my schoolwork and real job work on my cellphone right now, and the following is transcribed from the reactions I wrote down in a real physical notebook while watching the episode on my phone.

If you’re wondering how I wrote emojis in my notebook. The small drawings are very bad. Onwards!

BUT SHE’S DEAD 💀

Some sort of mutation going on w/the giant thing?

Diversity Win! The threatening First Stoat uses they/them pronouns!

Bennett :D

She does tai chi 😎

Oh the twins! (So fun bc one of the main groups in my current home game is Also called the Twins)

Is this a dept head meeting or smth?

That’s. Creepy.

Ok.

OOP-

Blow up his spot lmaooo

I’m living for Brennan’s reality check analogies

Human ish teeth?

Erika Ishii I love you ❤️

Aabria the character voice you are doing for Kiran is Hot.

I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE???

I need Bennett to not be a bad guy ok? I need it.

What are you saying man

Brennan’s just Dying

That was pure Erika oh my god

Oh she’s full of it alright!

(‘Keep going’) oh Izzy <3

Y’know what if I was on the team to renter a nuclear power plant that had a reactor failure and I saw thousands of militant stoats I think I would just leave. Let them have it.

On the what, Ava?

Yeah no especially if those stoats were using the fucking nuclear power?? I’d just leave.

At least she remembers their hallway is blue.

I’m curious if everyone switching so quickly from calling it Blue to Light is a DnD/Improv/Adaptation thing or a characters assimilating thing? Maybe both? Maybe it’s conscious maybe not?

I’m still thinking about how smooth Aabria’s “Weap-Technology” was when introducing the departments

He’s not asking you to run. He’s asking you to stay.

I’m glad Aabria keeps pushing back when they read negative or nefarious intentions into things that one the face of it truly are just typical to this kind of situation and society

The family vibes are So correct.

Horrible. I hated that.

The most it’s possible to be.

Yeah, okay.

KIDS.

Oh god. Oh no.

Good GOD Tula

The SIDE EYE on that Jesus

Muahahahaha

Oh NO.

That went on for so long

I am Unnerved.

Hell Yes babe

GET HIS ASS I GUESS???

They’re like teenagers now right?

Well That was intense!

The casualness in Aabria’s asking for the stealth check while taking a sip. She does not give a fuck and I love her for it.

Check it out!

Do we not get to find out what happened to Ava with the Garage?

Oh that’s So creepy

MMHMM

I love Ava’s refusal to learn

YES THIEVES’ CANT MY BELOVED THIEVES’ CANT <3

I think what she said was “please help.” Which is different.

SIOBHAN.

Oh that’s gonna be merch.

The crack of noon is so true

THE COPPER PUN NICE ONE AABRIA

Ohohohohoho. The Dictator. Lovely.

🎶don’t be suspicious, don’t be suspicious🎶

Oh my GOD

Brennan of all people saying finally some action on this goddamn show

Also Brennan’s reactions to Izzy’s reactions… so funny to watch the face journeys happening at the table rn.

Love that for them

OH

A population support state 😭

Oh god oh fuck

MAP???

Oh holy fucking shit

I can’t wait to rewatch this on my computer so I can actually see and appreciate the detail. Oh my god.

Ooh the puzzle of it all is intriguing

“I’m gonna kill him.”

Jabroni <3

OOF.

Oh my god <3

That was really cool Brennan.

Ooh just noticed the dome!

Hey Brennan? That was really cool.

Everyone’s got Thoughts.

Oh yeah jump into the nuclear juice. Great.

Ava.

YES

Awwww

PUZZLE

Oh no

I need to get the build details of this map

Oh. My god.

HE WAS THERE THE WHOLE TIME

Knight to C4 😭

That’s a fucking human skull.

Oh what does That mean

Huzzah.

(Most dejected/exhausted huzzah of all time)

God the comedy we do get in this season is so so gooOH

Not the wisdom saves 😭

Izzy.

Sometimes the dice fell a STORY.

Yeah okay

Oh god

Oh Jasper

Oh the stress is insane. Losing Jaysohn would break this family.

This can’t be the end of the episode?

Oh ok

OH FOR FUCKS SAKE

I love when DMs get to play DnD

DAD ARM

Nice catch!

OH I did not register that that’s the fucking radiation hazard symbol

Everyone at that table is so close to tears

AVA AND THORNNNN

Thorn himself <3

DOME.

Oh FUCK.

Preview for next week reactions:

What the FUCK.

WOLF??

I love JWC oh my god.

Adventuring Party Reactions!

Oh they’re jokingly pissed at her lmao

Woooo chipotle

Erika <3

I gUeSs I MiSsEd HiM

Aabria.

Erika takes METHOD NOTES

I’m so glad I’m not the only one who went ‘diversity win!’

Brennan Lee “Animal Facts” Mulligan strikes again

Felt so happy about seeing the human skull.

Jasper that’s such a fascinating theory oh my god

The intense NY came out

Okay but after this season… CAN we get set tours?

Yeah I am so curious about the in-world justification for the giant stone puzzle on top of the reactor.

OKAY thank you Jasper and Aabria I am Also a big reactor in games and sometimes I worry about being disruptive

I wanna go back and figure out what noise he’s talking about

Voice actor things! (Happy SAG Deal day!!)

I love actors so much. They are all FRIENDS.

[nochi-quinn]

campaign 3 episode 57: worst airbnb ever

PLAY THE STRAY GODS DEMO

I don't actually have any idea what's going on, I barely paid attention last week

I also kinda miss the other half of the table, I love aabria and christian but also

shady creek who now

[kill bill sirens]

"that's why you don't ask, bc then he can't be creepy at you"

hate hate hate hate

aabria blights another tree

"lorraine hambrick-zucker, give me strength"

"what am this"

"if only I'd finished that rosetta stone course"

I did in fact 100% type "rosetta stone corpse" just now

"I feel attacked. ….but not as much as jerry did"

Elves Can't Turn Left

Toot of Destiny

"where's pike"

travis FULLY hiding behind aabria

finally someone tall enough for him to cower behind

"I've never played D&D"

"no no NO noooo"

oh MAP

mappew

"remember when we were at your house and you just had graph paper and a sharpie?!"

is that like. shaved floral foam? floral foam dust? matt drop the tutorial

"everybody but chetneysorry"

"I'm a healer - but"

are you within ten feet of me

"I said to stay close!" "go fuck yourself!"

PISS OFF, GHOST

"has he become an influencer?!"

lycan subscribe

THREE ONES

HOWST

"why??"

travis. please. travis.

not the apple watch

"tap-dance, you coward"

Upper Chet

imogen: fascinating

I hate it

I hate it!!

stop saying entity

FRIDA says touch the point

fully zoned out doing other stuff until laerryn

Exandiran Ted Talk

exandrian amazing atheist

the way travis gets real quiet on important rolls

gross

FICKLE CARE GIVER

I hate it

"faCES?"

do not call for initiative at 1:30 matt istg

cool it's a mutator from dead island 2

I hate it

hey matt what the FUCK

"everyone pretend they don't have legs"

[sicklyseraphnsuch]

your post really encapsulates why i find god discourse so frustrating because like. the gods are a non-issue Why are ppl arguing about them?? sure they're not perfect but they literally Can't harm mortals the way they did during the calamity anymore! they intentionally restricted their own power for that exact reason! they have a minimal influence on people's lives in exandria now so why are ppl acting like they're an active threat?? this became a bit of a rant sorry 😅

its because the cast themselves keep circling this question, like notably aabria's character went: "are you worth saving" to the dawnfather

and its primarily because ludinus keeps using the gods in his fucking slogan. kill all the gods. thats what he says to get people on their side. and that automatically shifts the conversation even when we learn uh... thats not the actual problem on hand.

ludinus is essentially in control of the conversation and every single time someone tells his followers, "hey this will kill everyone", their followers dont believe that. then they shift the conversation to talk about why the gods are shit. which loops the cast back around to talking about it.

(and also the audience buys into it like ludinus has a point - i think the whole core of his eviltude is that he really doesnt, like any cult, their points are entirely fabricated to control their followers - using his talking points is letting him control the conversation)

honestly... i know its like passé to take potshots at Matt, and its not a potshot per se buuuuut if Matt wanted to confront and challenge the players around if someone should remain divine, the absolute oblivion of everything was the wrong choice for a threat

[fully-functioning-pigeon]

I posted 712 times in 2022

That's 619 more posts than 2021!

175 posts created (25%)

537 posts reblogged (75%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@bergoozter

@stormstressed

@dorianmylove

@annemarieyeretzian

I tagged 248 of my posts in 2022

#critical role - 161 posts

#campaign 3 spoilers - 92 posts

#critical role campaign 3 - 84 posts

#bells hells - 79 posts

#dorian storm - 45 posts

#orym of the air ashari - 34 posts

#robbie daymond - 32 posts

#shane madej - 24 posts

#dorym - 22 posts

#critical role spoilers - 22 posts

Longest Tag: 121 characters

#i wanna write this so badly but i have like 6 other works in progress so i’m making this post so i can come back to it &lt;3

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

One of my favorite things the cast of critical role does is when they start laughing so much they laugh into the shoulder of whoever’s next to them. It’s the cutest thing oh my god

898 notes - Posted January 5, 2022

#4

Something cool about TLOVM that I’ve been noticing is you can often see the parallels between fights in the show and fights in gameplay.

Eg. Keyleth not joining the fight against the dragon until late can be seen as Marisha rolling a low initiative in gameplay. Pike being unable to heal the boy in the town can be seen as Ashley using up spell slots. Percy’s gun jamming during I can’t remember which fight can be seen as Taliesin rolling a 1 or something else really low. The hella high DC of that goddamn door (it’s always doors Jesus)

It’s just super cool to see that their actions are still effected by the “universe” and “fate” that are personified in gameplay by the dice. Aabria said in EXU something along the lines of “a roll is when a decision and the universe disagree”. This kind of parallel in TLOVM shows that not everything they do will be successful and it’s put into detail when you think about how the dice roll allow the universe to have its say about their actions.

Maybe I’m wrong but I just think it’s super cool and fun to think like “oh that would have been a HDYWTDT moment” or “that would have been a really low roll damn”

1,198 notes - Posted January 29, 2022

#3

Ryan “I fell into a pile of bricks as a kid” Bergara and Shane “I had a nose bleed the first time I entered a church” Madej

1,309 notes - Posted April 14, 2022

#2

Matt during episode 3 of 4-Sided Dive: “if the tower of inquiry falls there will be dire consequences for the one who ruins it, I will actually kill your character”

Liam during episode 6 of 4-Sided Dive: *wrecks the tower*

Episode 33 of Campaign 3: Orym is killed

UHM HEY MATT

WHAT THE FUCK MAN

1,343 notes - Posted September 9, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

What really bothers me about the try guys scandal is that there’s no word on or from Alexandria. She hasn’t said a word, she hasn’t apologized publicly. She deserves the same amount of blame for this, both of them had a part in risking the company and each other’s relationships. Waiting on a company statement about her job status or even better her own apology for hurting so many people. Im expecting her to at least apologize in the same vein as Ned’s apology.

1,650 notes - Posted September 28, 2022

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[kaelor0409]

Watching Aabria change the game for the Actual Play community over the years has been freaking wild.

Minis and maps for Misfits and Magic? Nah, we're gonna do props and some utterly terrifying projections for the Holiday special.

Hey, turns out it was so cool that all the Dimension 20 shows have projections now. And look! Critical Role built a new set for Season 3! What cool new feature does it have? You guessed it, projections.

I know, let's get Aabria to do a funny season about Fae romance! ...and she shows up with a huge grab bag of props, an entire flower shop scattered around the set, and some truly spectacular face paint.

Flash forward, Brennan is running Kids on Bikes too, has the set lit like a noir film complete with a literal pressure dial and token distribution slides for Mentopolis.

Fine. We'll bring Aabria in again. Traditional 5e, real battle maps, real minis, no theater of the mind nonsense. Ha! Aabria rocks up with a huge secret hidden on the damn clipboards, and the first battle map is the most disgustingly, amazingly complicated map yet seen. Oh, and Aabria is still in amazing face paint, and now Jaspers in it too.

Flash forward to Never Stop Blowing Up, Brennan made his own version of Kids on Bikes and is handing out literal sticks of dynamite and bricks of cocaine while wearing cosmetics and costumes that evolve to be more action movie themed with each episode.

And now Aabria's pulling out this bullshit for Misfits and Magic 2?

Aabria Iyengar is just running ahead going "Fuck your grid maps, let's do something awesome!" while Matt Mercer and Brennan and the rest of the Actual Play community frantically follow behind taking notes.

Oh aabria got d20 a budget increase for this didn't she

[nochiquinn]

exandria unlimited: calamity: episode 3: Within Ten Feet Of Me

I skipped the live airing for reasons of Being Real Fucked Up, I've got notepad up for watching the vod but idk how much actual liveblogging will take place (for reasons of Still Being Kinda Fucked Up)

(edit from the future: I AM NOW FUCKED UP FOR NEW, DIFFERENT REASONS)

"they were makin chicken noises"

"am I a snitch or am I a reporter to the people?"

lmao the sticky note over luis' macbook

MAP

"don't invoke artax"

MINIS

GRIFFON

"that's a big ol' brumestone!"

he goes ON THE GRIFFON

necromancy is so tacky

"so he has back problems"

"electives courses is important!"

"talk about the dragon, I gotta go get a dragon"

"heard you was talkin shit"

"miles' friend sucks"

attel spack

miles come get your friend

I didn't ask how big the room is

the fringe on marisha's shirt confuses me

oh I know that vertebra

"you have approximately one hour before you can't move"

"tight clump, the ideal d&d formation"

everybody just piling on to protect loquatius

"I just lay down and cry in the street"

rogues are whatever

loquatius is whatever

omnislash

muscle wizard casts fist

"KNEEL TRAITOR" "I kneel"

excuse

"they're gonna eat me"

"NO ONE'S EVER LIKED FIREWORKS"

"YOU THINK THIS IS THE TIME TO DO BITS?!"

"I made the wrong choices! D:"

fucking flayed men motherfuckers

reverse what now

"there's no ceiling" "YEAH"

"Sam Riegel Hurt My Feelings"

"it makes ground 👆 that way"

piratical dexterity

cast stab

stab a BUNCH

hasted paladin HASTED PALADIN

aabria's face rn

"I mean if you INSIST...."

RING OF FACES

"you're my best fucking friend"

oshkoshbgosh

I probably missed a bit bc twitch lost my place when I restarted my computer >:[

(honestly it's on me, I should have left a timestamp for myself)

"can [cerrit] see windows or"

por'co's impenetrable bubble

POP POP

circle of WHAT

necromantic dutch oven

Mutiny Has Only One Punishment

wesley snipes??

I have been informed the second half of this episode is A Lot

"I just beat them with Faerie Fire, guys"

"we're at a table. I can reach you."

this feels like when you have to go around the classroom and say something about yourself

double twenties means all the batteries are safe

"let it fix marisha!!"

"I'll excuse myself"

"you look really nice today" lays in the floor

lays in the floor about the whole conversation but that was the emotional damage capstone

"short the tithe" that feels unwise

"insight and deception into yourself"

"I wanna unpack THAT"

"there's one story of a faerie who stumbled into this world and fell in love"

"why are you like this"

"I'm actively dying"

"you asked to not remember" fuck the what

hwat

patia what did you DO

"I hold that title very dear and sacred - but I hold that title"

patia

"are you guys having like a cute divorce moment?" "shut UP"

cerrit: now is the time travis: I want the TEA

"none of this matters, and he does" hello 911 aabria iyengar and sam riegel are fuckiNG MURDERING ME

zerxus: zone of truth laerryn and loquatius: absolutely fucking not

hello 911 brennan lee mulligan is fucking murdering me

hey what the fuck

HEY LAERRYN

HEY LAERRYN WHAT THE F U C K

Generic Tablet Device

"she doesn't trade in gold, but rather her grandfather's name" WOW

"I'm glad I killed you"

"your eminence...what the fuck"

25??

it's gonna be weird going back to the low-level chaos gremlins and not getting all these big numbers

"I leave." and I walk away

only, y'know. furious.

"I'm gonna go take care of mine now"

"you guys are very good at playing D&D!!"

by your powers combined

Time to Tree

"the biggest mistake I ever made was not trusting you" lays in the floor

"you already saved me once, maybe I can return the favor"

quay is gonna die bc he is a sam riegel character and I am going to cry

"the tree is ruining my cool magic"

aabria going from muttering death threats at the tree to "YOU SPEAK PRIMORDIAL?!?!" is very funny to me

"Iiiiii chose dwarvish"

hey laerryn

hey laerryn whatcha doin

that's a trick question I know what you're doing please stop

initiative??

against laerryn???

hey what the fuck??

hey what the f u c k??

big You Activated My Trap Card energy

"choose wisely. but choose."

patia: fuck y'all, I got shit to do

it's always fucking bears

sam riegel, forever drunk on Love My Wife juice

up to and including if the wife is fictional

(or yeza)

laerryn got LAIR ACTIONS

lou going under the fucking table

"do I get advantage if I roll from down here?"

Is He Within Ten Feet Of Me

"I need you to make this decision, I can't because I'll cheat" you know what A+ self-awareness

brennan that's so many dice

"go find my die!"

"what are we even doing now?" EXCELLENT QUESTION

"never trust a motherfucker with a cause"

there's only 20 minutes left in this episode and I Am Experiencing Fear

oh shit it's his mom

brennan how are you doing that with your voice

oh the LITERAL big bang, okay

the frantic note taking

"not fear at what I'm seeing, fear at what you're doing"

and it WORKS kdjfslk I'm going to die

EXCUSE ME

would that also blight them?!?!?

oh no

travis I will FIGHT YOU

I'm suing travis willingham for emotional damages

brennan's going in the suit

oh what in the fullmetal alchemist

I'm going to die

but that's bullshit tho! if they were gonna take advantage of it they would whether they knew what it was for or not!

HISTORY IS IMPORTANT

[captainsspnanon]

ESO Pt 1:  Death & Taxes - liveblog

Starting the ESO one shots, because why the fuck not.

Hi Laura.  You now own me.  HOLY FUCK.

Sam’s PC is actually reminding me a little bit of FCG?  Not entirely sure why

lol at Taliesin’s PC being in charge of food again.  Is Taliesin a big fan of cooking?

...I miss long hair and beard Matt.  Yes, the look does age him, but he looks fucking DASHING.

LOL at Sam THROWING Slaughter’s entire backstory out in the first *checks time* 12 minutes.  And that’s counting the intro and title card sequence!

Michelle is new to me and I already adore her.  I do need the PC cards though, I can’t remember like, ANY of their names!  I only remember Slaughter because of the list of family names.

HOA!  Thank you Aabria and Laura for saying it!

...Laura playing a surly orc is SENDING me places, omg

Slaughter’s not really hitting for me at the moment, I feel like Sam likes to play these super uncertain nervous one off characters (his Critmas elf is what I’m thinking of) and it just feels a bit overplayed?  Or like, heavy handed?  One note?  Not sure how best to describe it.  (though even as I’m typing this I’m remember his Lorelei PC was very boisterous and not nervous at all, so maybe not XD)

“Aren’t we all new beings on this beautiful planet that we call” *helphelphelp* LOL new geography who dis?

A handful of gold but no tip?  How much does a single ale cost?!??!?

And Mallory has now won me over too.  I love how much Tal is just cracking up everyone else with stuff that, in context, has no humor at all.  It’s BRILLIANT.  (also I keep wanting to type Molly, so that’s gonna be a thing)

also, I am DELIGHTED whenever anyone can make Matt break when he’s in character, and Tal did it FABULOUSLY.  I feel like Matt’s the hardest to break, with Liam next, and then maybe Laura next?  Though Sam’s good at not breaking, I feel like that’s more of it’s harder to make him laugh than the others.  HE’S GOT HIGHER STANDARDS XD

LAURA IS FAKING THEIR TAXES!!!!  also I full on don’t remember her name, except that it starts with a G.  Aabria I think is playing Tavina?  Which I can only remember by thinking Tavern.

OH GOD LAURA YOUR ROLLS

New proprietors have to carry over debts from previous proprietors????  I am desperately hoping that this is just a thing made up for the game solely because I wouldn’t be surprised if this was something that actually happened in the US now.  (pretty sure it doesn’t, but still.  I have no hope in the world anymore.)

Also this is making me giggle a little because imagine that Laura had rolled a nat 20 for the dex check and a nat 20 for the deception check and Matt just went ‘yup all your taxes are in order, whatever plot hook this is is now gone, enjoy just randomly serving customers for the next three hours’ XD  It’d never happen, but it’s fun to picture

I’d totally be on the ‘let’s just murder hobo this dude’ train, but they are very respectful of obvious plot hook. XD

Then again I just realized this dude’s been drinking glass in his wine, he’s probably dead man walking

I am super surprised that Matt’s not teasing Aabria about the DM curse.  Though, did this come out before ExU or after?  Maybe they were trying to keep that hidden?

*looks through the comments because it’s late at night and I’ve lost focus*  Someone described Mallory as a cross between Caduceus and The Owlbear and that feels spot on.

Oh dear, with combat not being standard 5e stuff I’m used to, it’s definitely going to have me zone out during.  All weird spells and stuff….at least it’s the standard action/bonus action/movement it seems.

Oh hey, the only clip of this I’ve ever seen!  Which is Laura swapping out her dice mid-game XD  I lean towards Liam and Sam’s view of dice which is that the dice don’t care, but I do adore Laura’s rituals and such.

Plot device note found on a 6.  Yup!  Those you gotta find even on the nat 1s, just to make sure that plot can move along.

Sam goofing around that he doesn’t play ESO makes me wonder how they decide who among the main cast is going to be in the one shots.  I always assuming that Liam’s in a ton of one shots because he loves d&d so much, whereas Sam is in a bunch of one shots because he’s the humor boy, but it does make me think.  *looks at actual attendance*  So Liam is in 31, Matt in 30, Sam and Tal at 29, Marisha at 28, Laura at 27, Travis at 24, and Ashley unsurprisingly at 11 (which I’m sure will pick up more now that blindspot is no more).  (aww, it looks like Matt only got to play in 7 of them, had to DM the rest).  You know, look at that now it’s actually way more balanced than I would have suspected!  Though also looking at these, not sure if I’d actually count some of them as Critical Role one shots, as it includes the Campaign Tips/Critical Troll, as well as the Kinda Funny and Gamespot one shots as well.  ...what is this Sloth and Sundry?  *takes a peek* ….OKAY watching this next, I think.  And the Stephen Colbert one shot is on here too….. ALRIGHT so my own headcanon list of what counts toward the ‘official’ count and whatnot is clearly skewed, so I give up XD

Speaking of costumes (we weren’t but that’s okay) I hope that everyone is a comfortable temperature.  This group is such a mix of costume weights that I feel like either Michelle’s got to be freezing, or Taliesin and Sam are going to start sweating.  Glad that Michelle’s ears look to be on a headband though, I was worried she had them actually on her ears cause that would be painful as fuck for any longish period of time.

Wow I have never seen Matt basically give someone proficiency just to get them past the point where they are stuck.  (again, difference of a one shot vs a campaign, but still!)  This group is rolling SO BAD.  Also they have super low HP, so I wonder if they’re like, level 2/level 3?

Laura asks for and gets flanking, and then doesn’t roll with advantage XD  aw bby

Ah!  She remembers! Yay!

Grelnock is giving me the Barbarian!Laura that I’ve wanted.  Tanky damage dealer, yes pls

It’s an interesting combination, I’m enjoying watching Aabria play, but at the same time this PC feels like all the NPCs from ExU.  I think I said it at the time, but it holds true now.  Creating a ‘character’ doesn’t need to be an integral part into d&d, because she’s just as enjoyable as the other players without feeling like ‘someone different’.

(I am NOT going to go into dRaMa here, but watching this is also reminding me that there are things that some CR cast does in their regular style of play which I just don’t vibe with overall.)

LOL Mallory looks SO disgusted by Baked Alaska, but intrigued by Bananas Foster

I love watching Matt desperately nerfing damage because all the rolls are TERRIBLE

When Slaughter yells the complicated order to the skull and throws it and Sam rolls and goes “NATURAL -” I 1000% thought he want going to say 20.  I was not expecting the 1.

SLAUGHTER FINALLY GETTING A HIT, AND IT’S THE KILLING BLOW

Grelnock’s Skull. Hell. Yes.

[the-punslinger]

Exandria Unlimited Quotes and Memorable Moments - Series 1 (6/?)

Dariax: "We're not alone. Something's here." Fearne: [Cockney accent] Hey, I'm the cook! What are you? Come here!" Dorian: "Do we want the thing that killed the men to come here? Really?" Fearne: "That wasn't really... I just went on instinct and it was wrong."

Liam: "By the way, I've been raking Riegel for months to not use his halfling reroll on natural ones, and I fucking... this is our first game." Aabria: "Oh no!" Liam: "I forgot! I've rolled like two or three natural ones."

Fearne: "Can anyone read what this box says?" Dariax: "Is it in Dwarvish?" Aabria: "Nope." Opal: "Is it Elvish?" Aabria: "Nope!" Dorian: "Is it Primordial? Aabria: "Nope." Fearne: "Infernal? Sylvan?" Aabria: "It's not Infernal, but you recognize the lettering." Dorian: "Could the five of us carry the whole crate out? With everything?" Aabria: "Yeah, absolutely. This crate is pretty big and bulky, but it seems like it's to make a little distance between the actual object on the inside of it." Liam: "The font is clearly Comic Sans." Aabria: "It is." Aimee: "Papyrus." Matt: "This object is truly cursed!" Fearne: "Well, finders keepers. That's a saying where I'm from. Do you know that?" Dorian: "That's a saying where everyone's from."

Dariax: "The more time we discuss this, the more trouble will be, and as we know, time is a sandwich."

Fearne: "I have disadvantage on stealth. Orym: "Always? Fearne: "Apparently. There's a big, old D next to it." Aabria: "Don't look at me, I don't know why you have it." Dorian: "You're six foot tall goat lady." Aabria: "It's mostly that." Liam: "You're like the Dita Von Teese of fauns." Ashley: "Yeah." Liam: "You're hard to miss." Aimee: "Did you just call her Dita Faun Tief? For tiefling." Ashley: "Oh! Clever." Aimee: "Is that what you said? I thought that you just said that." Ashley: "Dita Faun Tief." Aimee: "That's cute." Aabria: "I respect the pun, you can have inspiration."

Opal: "Can Opal grab one dagger and start picking at her nails, while she makes eye contact with the person looking at Fearne?" Dorian: "That stare down." Aabria: "I like it. That person isn't looking at you at all. So unless you work your way into the field of vision, not paying attention to you." Opal: "Opal's going to work her way into the field of the vision.

[lunarleylines]

I feel like all of Dropout's content is at least a little bit like that, in that it's all shows where various cast members get to put their own queer and/or neuro-divergent flair onto goofing around with friends.

Game Changer is Sam getting to throw budget at his pet project at the company he saved that allows him to fuck with his comedian and writer friends in silly ways, and then often give them an expensive prize for putting up with him.

Make Some Noise is perhaps the more literal Whose Line, because they had so much fun with the setup on Game Changer they did it like 3 or 4 times and decided to just have that be its own thing and give their writers a chance to keep making silly prompts.

Um, Actually is Trapp capitalizing on how silly various pieces of nerd culture can be while making fun of shitty misogynists and showcases some incredible moments of info-dumping.

Breaking News is Grant O'Brien making his friends say stupid or embarrassing shit with a straight face to see how long it takes them to break, and occasionally the rest of them making Grant share his own ridiculous and embarrassing life stories in retaliation.

Dimension 20 is Brennan and friends condensing various tabletop campaigns into a dozen or so episodes each where he generally gets to pit them against the real bad guys, capitalism and religion.

Dirty Laundry is Lily basically doing story time as a drinking game, by convincing everyone to share weird and surprising stories about their past, wording it in the goofiest way possible, and then getting everyone else to guess whose story it is. Also Grant is there to be slutty and show off how much of a hipster bartender he can be.

Play It by Ear is Zach and Jess doing improv musical numbers, which is exactly what it sounds like.

There are other mostly older shows from before CollegeHumor completely died that have some funny bits in them, etc., but the new content is generally where its at.

Side-notes, for tabletop fans: - The 4 episode "prequel" game Brennan ran for Critical Role called Exandria Unlimited: Calamity is an amazing piece of entertainment and worth a watch if you've got the time. - In addition, the Dimension 20 campaign Misfits and Magic is also only 4 episodes, is run by Aabria, and is literally going "hey, what if teenagers from our world had read Harry Potter and then got to go to a magical school and do magic but also point out how it doesn't make any fucking sense, wouldn't that be wild?" It's great, check it out.

Game changer is like whose line is it anyway made by autistic people, does that scan

[unsleepingtales]

Ravening war finale!!!! Reactions!!! this is so long guys and a lot of it is just me making terrified noises.

Oh my god that eraser would have SUCH a bad mouth feel I feel bad just watching that

Aabria’s hair and makeup look lovely!

Brennan’s immediately in character (looking into the middle distance in abject horror)

Dome looks great!

That’s a really smart cover story actually

Battle map! Battle map!

OH it’s so gorgeous

I love that you can see the icons on the gm screen behind the set, like they’re looking over the battle and observing

The fact that Colin’s art has a receding hairline and that is just Not the case on his mini is so funny to me

Matt automatically doing the Italian hands as Ariana

Oh would you say that things are busy?

OOF

THIS is what Lou screams you lied about??? Like on the one hand I’m glad it’s this and not something worse, but also. Eek.

The Elder’s mini is so cool and detailed aaaaa

Two of the threeeeee

Brennan and Anjali exchanging glances like a theory is being confirmed! Is it the same theory that we’ve been talking about online?

This is your big moment? Kinda sad ngl

Dark blessing energy! We barbin!

Matt’s right tho y’all are burning your spell slots Fast

It’s not the blender, it’s the disposal.

Oh that’s so coooooool

That was such a cool thing to say

One more thing that has not chosen me 😭

Oh she’s his daughter

Ok so Raphaniel poisoning the king is confirmed

I love when GMs play and are still who they are and bring all of who they are as GMs to being a player

Oh god

Oh god oh fuck

YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAH BOIIIIIIII

Hell yeah Raphaniel fuck em up

By ‘em’ I meant colliflour not the saprophians :(

I get that they’re not great but like. Civilians.

Colin! My boy!

Do the people in charge of these mini company shots have fun with them. I hope they have fun with them. I hope they feel like they’re playing with dolls.

GIRL WHAT

GIRL WHATTTTTT

Oh that mini is so fucking sick

Holy SHIT

Stick a fork in her please

DISPOSALS IN THE FLOOR????

Karna you better be fucking careful I stg if you get more nat1 acrobatics I’m gonna lose it

TWENTY EIGHT POINTS

H o r r i f y i n g

Oh that’s so bad oh my god

Ooh Karna’s mini is pretty

Fuck her upppp

Hell yeah bb get her ass

Does she bleed machine oil now

Forty points of religious retribution and eight points of petty. All part of a balanced meal.

They really did hear Matt call it the avatar once and decided that was it

It’s just a complicated situation

Pull Of The Void Teeth?????? Hello????

I have no context!!!!

You saved his life!

I feel like Brennan and Aabria’s GM tendencies are popping out in this ep and I really appreciate it

Amangeaux fully having a crisis me too honey

Hey 20 damage is not bad!

Come on provolone!! Be ok please!!

Just noticed that the elder has a bunch of heads on his belt and I feel. Fine about it.

STUNNED?

Oh god

This is so distressing

Enough to put it out of its misery?

Oh does being killed finish its go?? Does it???

Oh GOD it can MOVE them

Alien and cruel because it is machine and unfeeling rather than consuming for sustenance

Better that a soul should feed someone than be thrown away!

This is the third thing, not deus pa’zuul

🎶 looks like we maaade it 🎶

For ONCE lair actions are gonna help the party

She’s his daughter

Anjali and Zac are turning out to be one of my favorite duos

Colin :( please be ok :(

Colin yelling to deli I’m gonna cry actually?

Oh she’s so devoted to him

Let’s hear it for helpful lair actions everyone

DOME

It is, in fact, bad here!

Rip quichei

Karnaaaaa

His bardic can be used as damage?? That’s sick ngl that’s really cool

KARNA NO

THIRTY FIVE POINTS

Numb with ominous, ever present pain

Please tell me Deli does SOMETHING

Ok that’s good yeah that’s pretty good

YEAH

Love seeing everyone hyping Lou up

He’s her father

Thank you pro bonos!

I hope you die UN HOT

Why would you do this Matt

Oh that’s really cool I’m really impressed with that idea he was actually able to trigger a lair action that’s neat

Good turn Raphaniel!

Colinnnn

There’s a lot going on.

Healing? Healing lair action?

THIRTY EIGHT POINTS

Karna full dead?? Karna full dead forever?? Oh my god

Oh god oh no please

IT BE THAT WAY SOMETIMES???

Oh I might actually cry

MURKED

Oh I just noticed that the dome is animated and not static. That’s neat.

IMMUNE TO CRITS?

Oh no

Ok. Okokok.

She was her family

I’m so glad I’m not the only one struggling to process that Karna is gone

Holy fucking shit man

Wait does Raphaniel know that Karna is gone. Like can he feel it through the telepathy. He was so prepared to not make it but I do not think he was prepared for her to not make it.

Oh never mind ok he’s also not gonna make it

Lou <3

Raphaniel full dead. Yep. Ok.

Horrifying. Great speech! But horrifying.

The closest he has ever been to anything that matters

Me too Zac. Me too. I also want to just scream.

Oh this is good story though

Oh my god

Colin is Skald but she’s Karna I’m gonna CRY

COME ON PROVOLONE

SET THEM ALL ON FIRE YEAH

She’s lost her family oh my god

Framing the mycelium as a child is heartbreaking actually

Are they about to be killed

Can you keep a secret oh my god

Amangeaux’s protectiveness as her greatest strength and of course her complete downfall

Oh god

Oh my god

They’re curious Augh

Deli no oh god

OH MY GOD the cheese man

NO

NAT ONE????

Oh he’s so close to death

Oh my god

This is gonna be the death of me

Oh my god the baby little saprophian

Oh my god if this kills him

OH MY GOD

They don’t have healing. None of them have healing.

Okay she has a hearts kit

Oh thank god okay

Okay okay okay

Oh god okay.

He really

Ok

Oh my god that letter. Yup. Actually crying a bit.

Oh

Love you too Matt <3 thank you for an incredible season.

[songofwizardry]

oh man exandria unlimited episode 4 was maybe the best one yet, so we're doing the rambly-text-post of thoughts again! spoilers, of course, under the cut

so much stuff HAPPENED

the first ten minutes of utter chaos via bad animal handling checks was peak D&D

also I liked Aabria just speeding through weeks of travel, that feels like I have permission to do the same

where the hell is Dorian from. I NEED to know. I've seen theories that he's from Xhorhas? I have zero idea but I am filled with curiosities

creepy fey portal? sign me the fuck up

creepy Fearne was excellent I loved it

hey what's up with the whole High Warqueen of the Burning Vale, Matriarch of the Seelie Court. I have a need to know

also really wanna meet Fearne's nan now

SURPRISE NEW CHARACTER! it's been so long since we had a surprise character! since before the hiatus! this is the first surprise character I've seen since I caught up I love it!

I was immediately extremely attracted to Fy'ra Rai

Opal and Ted's conversation was BRUTAL. so good. man, these people are such good actors!

it's also been so much fun watching Aimee and Robbie shine at the RPing this episode! they're so good at it!!

oooh Syngorn! Liam's little smile when it's mentioned is adorable

the whole atmosphere of Byroden was SO well done. like, it could've felt weird or over-the-top in a bad way, but it didn't—Aabria handled it so well, and even as someone who has no experience of the US south, the vibe (TM) and feel was immediately palpable and I Got It

also the rest of the cast jumped in on it so well I love it

actually got strong Mighty Fine/C2 E97 vibes from the whole clothes shopping situation it was great

I was not expecting to enjoy the pageant so much but!! I really did!!!!

also loved how it led to some great character development for especially Opal, but also Dorian and Dariax

by the way Aabria's idea of providing them pageant NPCs to play was genius. I love it. I'm stealing it for my home game someday

on that note both Anjali and Liam are brilliant actors, watching them fully jump into characters they had just been introduced to (especially Anjali with Lisle pushing Opal's buttons? backstory? so good?) was great, and it was so much fun to watch them flex their improv muscles!

Cinna's ice sculpture sequence was INSPIRED. I was dying, it was so good—the descriptions, Orym being the 'volunteer', Cinna's whole accent and personality; all genius. when she got the natural 20 I straight up started applauding. I met this character 15 minutes ago y'all

side note sometimes you can see bits of Liam's DM side come out (the BeauYasha date, Widogast's Tower, the Programmed Illusion memories in Rumblecusp) and I think this was one of them. I always really enjoy it when it happens!

everyone else joining in Opal and backing her up? adorable. Opal joining Dariax in his Tin-Man costume? adorable. the whole party collectively flustering Dorian when he comes back in with his amazing outfit? adorable. I love them.

anytime Liam casts Druidcraft I think of Vax's snowdrops. which is not Liam's fault and I recognise they're different characters, I'm just soft and forever hold that in my heart

Opal leaving the crown on Ted's bed was. my heart.

also, I really love Fy'ra Rai. I was not expecting a new character, but I am. so in love. damn.

I'm so intrigued by all the breadcrumbs! very excited to see where this campaign goes.

okay that's all for now

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My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Sam Black’s owl hopped out of view of her twitch streaming camera, but Headmistress Boudica doesn’t know what a radio is, owls canonically know more about m*ggles than mages do, so that owl probably heaved itself back across the Atlantic thinking all the while “This could’ve been a text”

169 notes • Posted 2021-07-02 23:43:49 GMT

#4

Still obsessed with Lou being such a giving player willing to lay it all on the line for Brennan... Lou/Jammer having just met Evan and already knowing this is his worst nightmare and doing everything in his power to protect him and keep him calm... keeping him calm looking like using intensely team focused language when Evan has been forced to spend so much of his time alone... Evan immediately starts mimicking that language... Brennan being so touched and immediately trying to pay him back and Aabria panicking in the background that hes going to waste all his adversity tokens on a flavor roll... I will never be over it

297 notes • Posted 2021-07-01 11:00:22 GMT

#3

WHAT did the lil nas x pitch for jason momoa appearing in Industry Baby even look like, “hey aquaman can you come work out over here in front of this camera I want you to be in six frames of my music video”

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#2

henry cavill could do mad max and tom hardy could do the witcher

631 notes • Posted 2021-05-24 23:38:32 GMT

#1

The Bravest Man Harry Knew was Seanmus fucking Finnegan actually, who spent the time everyone else was summer vacationing from the wizarding war by going home from being a Half-Blood at Hogwarts to being a fucking Irish Catholic during the Troubles and still found time to bring his black boyfriend home to meet his Da

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