#post-canon callowmoore

[laterkatersays]

Some time later, Fearne calls Ashton home.

[towards-toramunda]

New chapter because, against my better judgement, I continue to have Thoughts and Feelings:

There were a few truths Ashton had come to terms with over the past several years of living.

1) Nobody owes you shit

2) Vulnerability makes you a target

3) They are expendable

Ashton learned all of this the hard way. Life (and, frankly, people) had tossed and ground Ashton down into what he was today, a thing not to be fucked with. Raw and scraped and hard like an attack dog on a barely strung together leash, they wanted to present to the world that they couldn’t be pushed around any more, and, more importantly, he’d push right fucking back.

But recently, inexplicably, they’ve found himself with a group of people who asked for vulnerability, showed care, and stayed with them through their fuck ups. Suddenly the shield they’ve constructed around their softness was being chipped away and cracked; then, all at once, shattered, to reveal a scared child. A child who craved the comfort and safety of family, of love, but who deep down knew that they were a wretched thing meant to be tossed aside.

Knowing you are wretched and unworthy of love does not discount one from craving it regardless, and, despite their better judgement, Ashton craved. Ashton yearned. And wasn’t that just the fucking worst? To want something that you knew was forever out of your reach?

Fearne Calloway was ethereal and chaotic and perfect. She poked and prodded his mind and his pockets in a fantastic dance of push and pull. She operated on the same wavelength as Ashton, one of fun and mischief that skirted the edge of danger. Or at least he thought, until they finally collided and danger came hurtling towards them both and everything came crashing down. Now their small flirtations felt like things of the past. Now Fearne knew how dangerous it was to come close to loving a bomb. Now they shared the shards of titan lovers, and didn’t Ashton want to fight destiny? Didn’t Ashton want to rebel against what was expected of them? Fuck.

Then there was Orym. Orym who was always gentle and consistent. Who made dumb jokes and showed Ashton that their pain mattered to someone else and worked in perfect tandem with them on the battle field. Orym who told them that he cared for them when nobody else would. That what they were feeling was okay. Who promised to pick Ashton up and asked the same in turn. Who always touched them with sweet reverence and intent. Orym. Who was in love with a dead man, and, Ashton guessed, a faraway companion. Orym who deeply understood what it meant to be in love. The kind of love that Ashton didn’t believe could be offered to them.

Suddenly Ashton was vulnerable and bared for the Bell’s Hells to see. They were a small desperate thing hoping for love and affection and family, and while they were beginning to believe they’d found the family that finally wouldn’t leave them bleeding and alone, they still craved something closer. Something sweeter. Something more intimate and vastly beyond their reach.

The fact that they were unlovable was oh so slowly melting into fiction, and yet…

They’d pushed Fearne away through carelessness. Now the most they could ever hope from her is a casual threesome with Chetney, but love? Out of the question. And Orym could never offer more than the present platonic closeness, he has loved deeply and lost far greater than Ashton, and, honestly, what right did Ashton have to wish for more?

Link to ao3:

[crescent-moon-mollymauk]

There's been no new posts in the Callowmoore tag for multiple days now. So I'm taking the opportunity to remind you all that Fearne has confessed to having a crush on Ashton, Ashton and Fearne have kissed multiple times, Ashton was seeking relationship advice from the Nein in order to get with Fearne, and Fearne and Ashton had canonically loud barbarian-rage sex in Caleb's tower.

[ship-ambrosia]

Hey who was gonna telll me callowmoore did like a major make out sesh this week???

You can scroll back on my blog I posted ep 1 that I shipped them and I cannot believe I’m now TWO FOR TWO because I clocked fjorester and I clocked callowmoore. Kinda still unsure if callowmoore is canon BUT ILL TAKE IT ITS MY BIRTHDAY ON TUESDAY

[utilitycaster]

Made up fic title-> "Forget About Today Until Tomorrow"

This is also a twofer bc if you are not someone I immediately recognize as either a Critical Role person or a DATV person I'm doing both just to give you something.

The Veilguard version is a post-canon one in which Harding tells Evka the whole backstory on the titans and the dwarves and why dwarves cannot dream, and Evka, having been holding the Wardens together by sheer force of will for months, is like "you know what. I am going to get extremely drunk about this, Antoine my love, you are acting first warden for the next 24 hours" (it's a tragicomic story) (this has been a topic of discussion with @wardensantoineandevka)

For Critical Role I think this would make a really good Callowmoore fic set right around, well, where we are now. Maybe going into detail about their hookup in Caleb's tower, or maybe set right after the next couple of episodes when they do, in fact, take those shrooms.

[hekahte]

chapters: 5/? (either 8 or 10, whichever scratches my brain better.)

rating: explicit.

warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings.

relationships: fearne calloway/ashton greymoore, imogen temult/laudna, background orym/dorian storm.

characters: …a lot. all of the above and more.

additional tags: alternate universe — canon divergent, stealing as a love language, canon disabled character

summary: fearne calloway and ashton greymoore, two individuals heavily disinclined towards therapy, discover the next best (or worst) option: each other. [aka stealing, found families, character studies, and so many people with problems working their shit out as best they can.]

hi, this is my second published fic in a decade and i’m pushing it on all of you since i just posted a new chapter! — today i give you callowmoore, tomorrow who knows. this writer loves feedback, pls and thank you. c:

[zeephyre]

CRITICAL ROLE CAMPAIGN 3 EP 104 SPOILERS

Oh critical role cast you have done me a great service. i will remember bells hells playing truth or kiss/spin the bottle for all time. so many ships, so many sweet moments, so many funny moments, so much sincerity and so much canon lesbian imogen hating man kissing. it had everything. (everything except.... IMOGEN FEARNE AND LAUDNA SMOOCHES WE WERE SO CLOSE FUCKING GOD DAMMIT).

also. i love braius and i think he should have sex with callowmoore before they both explode.

(this also will likely be my only post abt this episode --- this campaign has been so great but I'm also shit at talking abt episodes when they drop in a consistent way and also I've been using twitter to rant more)

please tell me there's a fic out there of bells hells playing spin the bottle in that room they rented just before the aeor mission....

ashley said it jokingly and took it back almost immediately but GOD i wanted them all to commit to the bit. it would have been very fun.

[blorbologist]

Squinting at the blorbos like rats in a lab

Tags are minimal unfortunately, this is a personal blog so it’s a barrage of all sorts! I DO tag critical role spoilers with #critical role spoilers and #cr spoilers, given I often liveblog, and will tag until the episode is on YouTube. 

I also do fanfic! You can find me on AO3 at umwelt! 

My main ongoing project is my 'Age of Arcanum Perc'ahlia AU', where Vax is the Warden of Ravens, Vex'ahlia his (lonely) Champion, and Percival is the creator of aeormatons. I tag posts about the au #age of arcanum AU if interested!

Prologue ... CH 3

Cat's Cradle is currently a WIP on hiatus, under #cat’s cradle AU, a lil modern Perc’ahlia AU with foster kittens. Compiling chapters on AO3, but tumblr stays a few chapters ahead:

CH 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15

My big completed project is my 'Raven Queen’s champion instead ' AU. You can find posts about it under #vex is the raven queen’s champion AU.

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Projects:

Architect of our demise [onwards to Vasselheim!]

Cat's cradle / Kitten AU [on hiatus for Uni]

Daughters or Dolls [plotting, title is a wip]

Second chapter to My heart’s a vessel for ill intent? [not started]

Perc’ahlia travel troubles comfort fic [half-done?]

Recoil chapter 2 [dusty wip, like a quarter done?]

And so will I chapter 3, Jester [dusty wip]

Nursery rhymes as told by briarpatches chapter 4, Greypool [dusty wip, half done?]

Vex’s menial duties as Grand Mistress of the Grey Hunt [got one thing done?]

Kyssandra hide and seek fic [birthday gift for Burr <3]

Vex and Vax in the Slayer's Take in TLOVM [Vexahra for Nova <33]

AUs:

Vex is the Raven Queen’s Champion AU [One for sorrow / Two for joy]

Modern AU bottlefeeding kittens [Cat’s Cradle]

Age of Arcanum AU [Architect of our demise]

Delilah controls Laudna’s heartbeat [My heart’s a vessel]

Filles du roi Perc'ahlia AU [historical Québec au, plottin]

Ruidusborn!Percy AU [just ideas]

Leona runs off to the Cobalt Soul AU [maybe a quarter done?]

MILF and DILF Perc'ahlia marriage of convenience [posted part 1!]

Percy is the pact weapon AU [Get your hands dirty]

2/3 Vampires Bashter AU [got that one snippet to work off of]

Tiefling!Percy AU [brainchild with Essay <333]

FMA AU [A whole mess, one ficlet posted]

Fox woman dreaming AU [1/2 posted]

Just tons of random Gilmore/Vax’ildan/Keyleth shit bc i lov the thems

Perc’ahlia Atlantis AU [just in my brain and that One Screencap Redraw]

Accurate Jurassic Park AU [just vague mushing my two special interests together thots]

'The tale of Merciful and Lex' [Jester reads a smut novel 100% inspired by the de Rolos]

Ships:

OTPs are currently Perc’ahlia, Imodna and Laudmoore in that order. I usually only read fics of these ships bar rare exceptions.* NOTPs that are common enough to be worth mentioning are Widobrave, Widojest, Riprolo, anything remotely incesty or toeing the grooming line. I don’t want to interact with this content don’t fuckin make me.

Ships that aren’t my absolute feral loves, buuut that I’d be happy to write for are man. All canon CR ships, plus Beaujester, Bashter, Kiki/Vax/Gil, Callowmoore, Dorym, Chetney/Fearne, Widomauk, Kiki/Vex/Percy [with a huge *], onesided Tary/Percy, all fun! Also getting into the rarepair of Cassandra/Laudna for Reasons, and any Ace!Cass x NPCs her age.

Beyond that, just, y’know. Use basic critical thinking. Do I really need to write ‘hey! Don’t send me, a stranger, things you wouldn’t talk to a stranger about’? I have faith in y’all not to, for now ktrgnkrtnkgn

Have fun foraging through my blog - hope you find a few things of interest, writing or otherwise! <3

[undead-knick-knack]

As a Laudmoore shipper, I was wondering if you noticed the fandoms weird deflection of Ashton's behaviors at the end of the fight against the frog-dragon? I don't know, but I've seen some people commenting on how sweet it was that Imogen used telekinesis to pull Laudna along and Ashton using his rage to pull Fearne along. It kinda neatly separate's the four of them into the two most comfortable ships for people (Imodna and Callowmoore) but it does nothing to address the fact that Ashton was also pulling Laudna along too.

It feels weirdly simplistic? Like, because Imogen has feelings for Laudna, Imogen saved her. But because Fearne and Ashton steal from each other, Ashton saved Fearne, but not also Laudna

I'm not sure, what are your thoughts?

Oh yeah I've definitely noticed people ignoring that Imogen using telekinetic shove directly pushed Laudna into Ashton's Gravity Well which is what ultimately got her out of harm's way. Like objectively that is what happened and it's weird that people feel the need to separate these 2things and only focus on Ashton helping Fearne, and Imogen helping Laudna Ashton even doing that really isn't surprising since this is what he's been doing since getting Laudna back, looking out for her; and as the party's Tank, it's basically they're fucking job to try to keep the Glass Canon from getting pummeled. Like I have no doubt in my mind that if the scenario would have been different, Ashton would've pulled Imogen along too with no hesitation. Personally, as a Laudmoore and Callowmoore shipper I view the whole thing as "Ashton is being a good protector of 2women they care about :)," and am thankful everyone came out ok Side note tho, as a joke, when I watched the episode with my friend I made this meme with no intention of posting it, but I'm feeling silly tonight so I'll post it here :3

PLEASE NOTE, this meme is in fact a joke I made taking the piss out of people who view literally everything thru a shipping and romantic context, and is not really how I view the whole situation

[theabominableblogger]

All right, this is gonna be a long one... 1, 5, 10, 14, 15, 20, 25, 30, 32, and 37 for the CR questions.

Legit the first words out of my mouth were "oh Jesus!"

Here we go! CR time bay-beee! I've only been in the fandom for about a year and a half but I'm raring to go!

1- Character you don’t particularly like, but will defend vehemently when people dislike them for the wrong reasons.

Starting things off with a bang (hehe), I'm gonna go with Scanlan. A lot of people overlook him as the archetypal horny bard, which is the point of the character. His growth is subtle and doesn't really become extremely noticeable until he leaves in "A Bard's Lament." He's saved Vox Machina's butt on countless occasions and yet the team still kinda pushes him aside. They touched on this a little bit too in the first season of TLOVM with this little teases of foreshadowing and shots of him looking disappointed and I thought that was really cool. Also the clutch counterspell at 8th Lvl against Vecna is just *chef's kiss*

5- Meta you would write if you did not fear people would be SUPER weird about it. This is also an invitation to write that meta and block the haters.

I feel like a bunch of meta I've thought about has already been talked about. I've seen a bunch of phenomenal posts by many Critters on this site, including @captainofthetidesbreath and it's very intriguing and sometimes refreshing to get different perspectives on things that happen. One of my favorites I've read was a breakdown on the infamous Trent dinner scene in C2 which IMO is VERY reminiscent of the dinner sequence in Curse of Strahd. Matt defintely takes elements from well known DnD campaigns and salt bae sprinkles them into Exandria.

10- Favorite and least favorite Matt Mercer Original Subclass.

Super easy. Favorite is the Blighted Druid from Taldorei Reborn mainly because of its AoE in higher levels and addition to AC. Least favorite is the Blood Magic Wizard because as a piddly widdle wizard, your hit die is A D6. And you want your wizard to WILLINGLY cause damage to themselves?!? Hard pass.

14- Describe the art you would most like to create or commission if talent/money were no object.

God, there's so many things I wanna create. Right now I'm working on the Callowmoore supercut (which sits right now at about 35 min) and a few attempts at animatics here and there. The main two animatics I wanna try my hand at are Fearne and Ashton's fireside chat in C3 and Capeleb in C2.

Cosplay is also a thing I wanna get more into. I did a few CR casual cosplays this year (Imogen and Vax) for a ren faire and GenCon and I was so surprised by everyone's compliments on them.

15- Favorite one-on-one conversation (can be between two PCs, or a PC and NPC).

Oh God. So far Fjord and Essek's conversation after Molly's failed return made me bawl like a baby and so did Orym telling Will he couldn't stay in C3. Also for the Mighty Nein Reunited, Essek stopping by. 10/10 will die happily.

20. What non-D&D TTRPG would you most like to see Critical Role run a one shot in?

Arkham Horror would be pretty cool, I'm not gonna lie. Or Dresden Files. Or Balikbayan: Returning Home

25. What class do you most want to see Matt play if he is in a future EXU campaign as a new (not Dariax) PC?

Matt sure does love his spellcasters so let's mix it up. I wanna see him as an absolute madman of a paladin.

30. What is your favorite theory or headcanon that has absolutely no bearing on the plot and isn’t important at all, but which is completely compliant with canon?

I still think Caleb and Essek would have tried to go back for that freaking necrotic gem that Caleb almost got nuked trying to get. That whole scenario is freaking hilarious.

32. If the CR main cast were to play the original 7 tombtakers per The Nine Eyes of Lucien (Brevyn, Cree, Jurrell, Lucien, Otis, Tyffial, and Zoren) in a one shot, who should play whom? Assume Matt DMs, but you do not need to have Taliesin play Lucien.

Oh absolutely Matt plays Lucien. I would have Ashley be Brevyn (because it only makes sense given the connection), Zoren be Liam, Sam be Otis (because karma is a god), Cree be Laura actually, Travis be Jurrell, and Marisha be Tyffial. Have Taliesin switch out with Matt sometimes when Matt comes in as Vess DeRogna. Double DM!

37. You have to take a 16 hour road trip with one NPC from each campaign (all at once, ie, three other people). The NPCs cannot shorten the road trip in any way and the road trip must be via driving but you can do it in two 8 hour days and share a motel room if you’d like. Who do you pick?

Oh geez. Probably Gilmore and Essek and Weva and I'll explain. Essek would be the person I would talk to for small talk and get along with (and talk about how exhausting it is to just be) and Gilmore to absolutely come in and be like "I got the music!" and slams on the soundtrack from Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Weva would also be the one who tells really extravagant stories because she has to be some sort of death cleric who has stories from being a magical mortician.