#opened roles

[shellem15]

Can I just say, I really appreciate how Critical Role plays the Devil trope straight. There's been this phenomena in a lot of modern media (I'm not going to mention specifics but I'm sure a few examples pop up in people's minds) where Hell and the Devil aren't scary or malevolent forces. Hell is portrayed as being basically the same as our world just "edgier", and the Devil is a pretty decent guy actually. Heaven are secretly the real bad guys!

But Critical Role doesn't do that. In Exandria, Asmodeus *feels* like the Devil. He's malevolent and manipulative and terrifyingly powerful and he hates you, personally. We never see that type of portrayal anymore! And it's amazing! And he still manages to be sympathetic and tragic without losing his edge!

And the "Good Gods" are portrayed as flawed without being secretly evil or something! Like, actual nuance? In my Heaven/Hell dichotomy? What!?

It's just such a breath of fresh air after so many "The Devil was right, actually" stories. So props to Matt and Brennan and the cast.

[moonsun2010]

5 June - The Dracula Drought begins

a redraw of this art from DD2023!

[zhellers]

first drawing of the year! my take on level 20 Veth Brenatto

[ariadne-mouse]

[liltaireissocute]

kiss kiss fall in love

[jaderavenarts]

Cute Empire siblings commission for @peneloperolle! Thank you for your support!!

[vartoids]

bitches be witches

critical role women sketches (click for higher quality)

[yashley]

I know. But listen to it and you act like you’ve never heard it before. 

[revvethasmythh]

Thinking about Caleb “I-use-people’s-full-names-to-show-intimacy” Widogast and the way he calls Veth “Veth the Brave.” It’s not all the time—it’s rarely used, actually, saved for specific moments, only when he’s using the fondest of tones, with the most admiration, and how calling her that is more intimate than just “Veth Brenatto.” Because Veth the Brave is both of her identities. It’s Nott and it’s Veth, it’s their co-mingling, it’s her in her entirety. Veth the Brave. That’s why it’s so intimate, because he is speaking to all of who she is

[cringefailvox]

alastor is such an insidious dealmaker because he's so reasonable. he doesn't ask for anything outlandish, especially not right out of the gate—he agrees to make a commercial so long as he's never asked to engage with anything tv-related again. he turns down charlie's soul and readily concedes to the stipulation that her favor doesn't have to hurt anyone. from the way husk describes their deal ("when you're down on your luck, you turn to anything to keep you afloat"), it heavily implies to me that husk went to alastor, not the other way around. alastor gets his foot in the door by making himself freely available, and by making it easy to tell him no the first dozen times he nonchalantly offers a deal, so by the time he starts angling for a deal he actually does want, you're less likely to notice immediately how predatory he's being, or how he's backed you into an inescapable corner. he makes himself an inevitability. you know he's a monster, you know that he's manipulating you—but he's also become your only choice, and so you don't even get the consolation of being able to say he tricked you, because you chose it

[criticalyasha]

The CR cast reacts to the brand new Critical Role opening featuring Bells Hells!

[ohbeauregard]

C3E94

As the rest of you find your respective beds, sharing, those who wish, until eventually, the exhaustion takes over and you all go into a long rest.

[setsailforthestars]

Thinking about Nick Marini’s performance as Ayden and the tone he uses when he speaks. So calm and soft and sure, how he doesn’t just cast a spell so much as he describes why it happens. How the whole table goes quiet almost automatically every time he speaks. And then remembering that in character all that is coming from the body of a 15 year old

[zhellers]

modern titans

[iidaonni]

Hotboi(s) at your local smut shop!!

[soath]

one of the last barriers keeping jester from sending ludinus da'leth the most threatening four part save the date to her wedding has finally been removed. only the cage surrounding the moon still protects him.