#midst

[unending--lust]

wow jonas spahr is so hot. and sexy.

APRIL FOOLS!!!!!

[foldbaron]

The first of CR's 10 Year celebration live shows begins this week!

Hope everyone attending C2E2 and/or the live show have a blast this weekend.

[sapphirerose467-blog]

Snorting moths will fix everything - (moth)er trauma 

[midstpodcast]

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[artyowlsstuff]

Lark: "I'd love a super slick super defensible bunker for a house and I want it to have booby traps and sniper windows and a secret compartment for my secret guns and-"

The Fold: "Of course, anything for my favorite child, here you go sweetie. How would you also like telepathy to fuck with your enemy?"

Moc Weepe: "Hi I was murdered and I'd like to just not die again."

The Fold: "Tough shit bitch, I'm goiNg to tAkE yoUR FUCkiNG ORGANS"

[wardensantoineandevka]

I only realized with them all put together in this post that this is essentially the arc of the scene

[gorgynei]

a goth, a princess, and an academic walk onto a magical ship...

[messyjester]

“Lark doesn’t really have many friends. She would laugh at you if you suggested that Landlord was her friend. Landlord is her dog. He’s not even HER dog; he’s A dog, he lives in the hut, she lives in the hut.” -Unrise, S1E1

The best monster hunter and the best boy <3

[kerosene-in-a-blender]

I'm thinking again about how Bells Hells repeatedly insisted they had "no choice" but to release Predathos in the finale, when they very much did have a choice even as they felt it was the best of a series of bad options. They might not have liked the choice, but they did choose to go into the Hallowed Cage instead of doing something else. And the thing is, this refusal of their own agency is something they've done the whole time. One of their most aggravating traits as an adventuring party has been repeatedly asking everyone they come across (gods, world leaders, Predathos itself) what they want as a way to avoid choosing what to do for themselves, to the point that the Raven Queen eventually calls them out on it.

And the fact that the larger political and theological implications of the finale were carried out largely without Bells Hells only further highlights their lack of acknowledged agency. It was in conversations between Vax and Morrighan and Deanna with their respective deities that the implications of the gods becoming mortal where dealt with and the question of whether saving them was worth it was answered (yes they were worth saving, because everyone is). The logistics of what to do with the Ruidians who want to live on Exandria and the establishment of diplomatic relations with the moon were settled by Vox Machina and the Mighty Nein, with Bells Hells taking pretty much no part. Bells Hells lack of involvement in either of these series of conversations makes it feel like these events occurred outside of them despite being spurred entirely by their actions and choices.

But what really makes this stick out to me, is that I've written about characters who actively defer their own agency to external forces before in regards to Moc Weepe and Jonas Spahr of Midst. But where I think both of their arcs work and Bells Hells falls flat is the narrative of Midst acknowledges their deferral of agency and directly grapples with it. Learning to acknowledge that he is making choices and those choice have consequences that he needs to take responsibility for is a key component of Spahr's character arc, which climaxes with him finally making a decisive choice for himself. Weepe in contrast continues to deny his own agency even in the face of the woman he loves begging him to take some accountability (on her deathbed no less!) and this ultimately leads him to his ruin. Whereas with Bells Hells everything worked out just fine in the end despite all their waffling and refusal of responsibility without any consequences that would make them take a good long look at what they did, or bite them for choices they refuse to acknowledge that they made.

[ariadne-mouse]

It's a good look.

[demynom]

Don’t care, didn’t ask, plus you’re being court martialed

[chaosgenasi]

Once again, all is quiet. There is nothing this far out in the desert. And now… not even us. Art by Frank Liu.

[the-enfolded]

Saw the Granddaughter on a journey.

[midstpodcast]

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[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

Sexiest Podcast Character 2024 — Unscripted Bracket — Round 2-1

Propaganda

Jonas Spahr (Midst):

never married and early 30s but has the energy of someone who's just coming out of a divorce and going through a midlife crisis

is genuinely going through a huge internal crisis over the cult that he's in and the disappearance of his apprentice

probably really needs to be told he's a good boy

only kisses once on screen but it's a good one

just hot as hell tbh I mean you can just look at all the art of him (official and otherwise) he's sexy af

oh really sexy voice too

Canonically an incredibly hot celebrity. A sad, sad man tasked with being the embodiment of Good and Enforcing Good in a corrupt system he grows to see all the flaws in.

Spanks Sinatra (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...)

He/him lesbian drag king Frank Sinatra impersonator

Is too old for this shit (is 30)

When not performing, is drinking. When not drinking, is beating people up for money. When not beating people up for money, is performing. Life is purposefully structured to avoid encountering a thought for as long as possible

Loves to use his fists

Is so tired