#taliesin the man that you are im DYING
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titanofblood · 1 year ago
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I love that ashton became a warning signal both to his foes in battle and to whoever knows anything about the hishari and the luxon, BECAUSE
You'll KNOW what fucking hit you, you will not forget this mess of a being with his superhero colorful outfit, he will make sure for you to remember these symbols and to be fucking afraid if you dare to mess with them again.
AND, he wants to know more about himself!! He is actively putting out basically a big sign saying "EXPLAIN WHAT ANY OF THIS MEANS" he is curious about his past and actually pursuing it, he is finally choosing to know what these means and accepts that regardless of good, bad or whatever form of chaos these things are part of him.
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malaismere · 4 years ago
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it sucks that since there’s no talks it may be a while before we learn who matt would’ve targeted if disintegration had failed...
Realistically, Vokodo would have redirected onto the biggest threats. Beau had been doing a lot of damage, Caleb was the spellcaster, but Jester? Jester’s the one who banished him.
I could do a whole bunch on how Caleb would’ve felt, but let’s be real, I don’t think it would’ve changed significantly person by person. It’s him killing his family, yet again, with absolutely no way to stop or save it, full of righteous confidence.
But the real interesting thing is that Jester, the most likely target, is also the most likely to...well, not survive. But I’m just saying. The Traveler is coming. He has hundreds of followers arriving shortly. His last interaction with Jester was avoiding a divine intervention after promising to keep her safe.
You think he wouldn’t break the universe to bring her back? Cause I do. And I’m pretty sure the Mighty Nein would’ve helped.
#critical role#critical role spoilers#cr spoilers#like i see people saying oh keyleth or pike could do it through vilya#but dude. dude. you think the traveler is just gonna let jester be dead?#you think this man isn't going to go fucking apeshit? isn't going to pester the raven queen herself to bring her back?#archfey dont get stat blocks because stat blocks mean you can kill something and you cant kill them because they are actually like mini gods#but casting a 9th level spell is not beyond them. especially not for artagan trying to bring jester back#also im just saying matt gives the vibes of someone who talks character deaths over with his players#like i think he talked with liam about how they felt like bring vax back post death#and i am like 90% certain there was a talk with taliesin where taliesin decided that molly was going to stay dead.#like i think it's definitely on the leaves you horribly scarred and maybe with a demonic pact level of returning from ultra death#but i do think that molly staying dead is more of a taliesin choice than a matt choice#so it may have taken a quest and a bit of work but like. they'd've brought jester back. the traveller would've brought her back.#that fucker would bother the raven queen herself to bring her back you think he wouldn't?#anyways just want to be clear that that is the specific thing that is caught in my head.#not the jester dying bit but the traveler breaking the universe to save her bit. and the mighty nein getting caught in the crossfire.
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c-kiddo · 2 years ago
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(this is a string-of-thought infodump. .. maybe it doesnt make sense but i just felt like writing something about it. . just out my brains. do not yell at me i mean this entirely in a special interest thinking way and not as an argument)
i feel like people get touchy about this but i do think its rly interesting to see, especially in this fandom, sometimes the unwillingness to accept death, i guess? like, thats the one great inevitability.. but people make au’s where caleb is turned to an elf so he wont die before essek, when really him dying within his human lifespan is a just as worthwhile lifetime than one lasting centuries. they can still love each other and care for each other in that time. like, this goes for all characters and relationships in anything really - a short life is a worthwhile life. oh man and especially (ik i’ve talked about this before but i got the ‘tisms im going to repeat it) with molly’s story.. right, like his whole ethos was living as much as possible in what time he had (because he knew, to some extent, that he was in a borrowed body. it wasn’t really his) so he left his mark and got tattooed and had sex and drank and everything else. and then he did die and the cycle continued, the original soul, and then a new soul, in the body. (and THEN taliesin made a character who’s entire purpose in life was carrying people gently from life to death, a gravedigger and priest. are you kidding me thats so cool... and i just want to say how much i love the moment when caduceus reaches down into the earth of molly’s grave and casts decompose... its such a lovely passing of the baton, a definite moving on and a goodbye... i made the earth remember him.. .. waugh.) and then i guess theres discourse now surrounding cr3, which, is odd since clearly Bells Hells are trying very hard to make this not a perma-death. so i just kinda want to see what happens, if marisha wants a new character or not.. (i do very much like laudna tho..) ... ok enough death rambles.. and please note that i dont even mean this as a judgement and maybe its that morbid autism trait people sometimes talk about.. its just very interesting to me. i love thinking about it. i love waiting to see what happens
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readbythestarlight · 3 years ago
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c3e1
HOLY SHIT HERE WE GO
okay idk if it’s my TV of what but something about the set loots weirdly cgi?
First Sam ad!!
So far so… normal…?
Ah there we go, that’s more like it
I hope this isn’t a trend of us not actually getting at the table ads but I do love a good Sam song
Ashley my wife I have missed you so much
Oooo I want that hoodie
I NEED THE HENRY CRABGRASS SET IMMEDIATELY
Wait okay so how long after C2 are we I need to know
HERE WE GOOOOO
Apex war okay
I’m not gonna remember any of this lore but I’m loving it
Oooooo!! FIRST CHARACTER INTROS HERE WE GO!!
I haven’t even taken in the table composition yet!! There’s so much to think about!!
Will they be siblings?
Laura: light purple hair, SOFT SOUTHERN?? shy. Human? Sorcerer!! Imogen.
Marisha: GOTH GIRL AW YES. Warlock/sorcerer. Helllll yeah. Oh very goth. Played by Helena Bonham Carter in the motion picture coming summer 2027. Laudna.
Oh good, they know each other already!
DO NOT DENY MY SWEET SOUTHERN GIRL WHAT SHE WANTS
how dare
I am so in love with Imogen’s accent.
First roll! What is our magic number gonna be?
12 it is!
"Nobody knows who is on the Taldore council—" :P
Sam and Tal?? Amazing
WHAT COLOR TAL
WHAT COLOR
Hobo… rogue? I’m betting rogue.
Taliesin: he/they EARTH GENASI IVE BEEN DYING FOR A GENASI PURPLEEEEEE I CALLED IT. Barbarian?? Ashton.
Tal once again killing cosplayers with his character design
It’s a robot holy shit
Sam: F.C.G. oh my god the robot shirt really was a hint I’m dying. A CLERIC ROBOT. A SOUTHERN. ROBOT.
Court of Miracles vibes are off the charts
I love how last campaign we had one character with a southern accent for half a campaign and now we’ve got two
Spire by Fire sounds rad
Awww therapy robot who wants to fix all the broken people awww
"I can’t taste."
FRESH CUT GRAAAAASS! :D
Robby??
Guest?? In the first ep?
Okay okay
Where is Travis I want to know who Travis is going to beeeee
It’s their?? EXU characters??
Ashley: Faunnnnn! Fearne. Druid!!
Liam: Orim. Halfling fighter.
I have some mixed feelings of having pre-established characters, just because I like the fully clean slate? Not a complaint though!
Robbie: Dorian. Bard. Air genasi heck yeah gettin’ all that genasi rep.
So is Robbieeeee like a guest or is he now part of the main cast because this feels like cast and I have some Mixed Feelings
Where is TRAVIS?
Wait wait wait aren’t Orym and Dorian dating?
Ooo please tell me this has to do with Travis
Uhhhh??
Travis? Where is? Travis?
Where?? Is Travis??
IM NOT GONNA BE SEE TRAVIS’ NEW CHARACTER BEFORE I HAVE TO GO TO BED
THERE HE IS oh thank god
oh my god I literally told my sister that I hoped he played an old man and he is IM CRYING
I love that so far the party alignment feels like it’s leaning towards chaotic stupid
"Eldritch blahst"
Traviiiiiiis!
Travis: Sir Bertrand Bell. A fighter. Highest intelligent of the group. I fucking love him.
OH MY GOD Sam and his gas can I’m wheezing
I’m calling it: Travis is a gambler in over his head who needs protection
Made it to break now I gotta go to bed but I’m so excited for this
"Motley crew" is 10000% right
Oh Ashton def has people after him xD
"Fair. *I* would know but."
Lord Estoros
Also I’m so fascinated by a character introduction also being like the first hook of the show
Mmmm they’re sus of Bertrand and tbh so am I
Leave Fresh Cut Grass alone about their name
Former Associate ooooo
Aww
Tragic Backstory right out of the gate?? Damn.
Y’all stop pestering the poor baby
Also if this is what Sam is willing to share episode one imagine how much worse is the actual backstory going to be
Oh fuck we’re getting into the "does this Unit have a Soul?" feels SAM IM NOT READY FOR THIS
Whitestone???
So Laudna right. Undead?
Ashton just being like "just go with it buddy live a little"
6 gold oh no xD
By the way I’d marry Ferne
Okay so the telepathy huh what’s that
The MOOD lighting
Okay okay what’s up with her I need to know
Strange things, huh?
Awww. Okay I like Dorian
Oh poor Dorian awww xD
Ferne is my WIFE
TWO mindreaders??
RIP to Ashton’s purse
The very clean one?? Dorian??
FCG stop you’re so sweet
Bertrand don’t get their hopes up
Travis is playing such a lying liar
I want this Lord Whoever to be a vampire and idk why
I want it
Please I’m such trash for vampires give it to me
He’s SO a vampire right?? Right??
DAMN
I wanted a vampire
Unless it’s a vampire orc
“This campaign is about silver foxes ONLY” god I hope so
God I’ve missed them
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your-turn-to-role · 4 years ago
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hi okay i hate sending asks to people without knowing them but you seem kind so im trying: during the break, i’ve been working my way through VM, and i’m at episode 75. my question, because i’ve read some of your more recent meta, is “what’s Percy’s deal?” i know he’s loved by the fandom, but i can’t find myself relating to him, and i find his assertions that he’s the only one with a plan offputting. is there more context you can give to me about percy’s character that explains his motivations?
aww, thank you!
(and yeah, asks like this are totally fine, i totally get that anxiety, good job on sending this!)
i mean, first off, you don't have to like a character everyone else does? if you don't relate to percy you can just, not relate to percy, that's fine
(and to be fair, as much as i love him as a character, i would not want him as a friend, because he's a very flawed person that has a lot to work on, but in fiction those traits are interesting to watch rather than difficult to deal with)
but, percy's deal! the short answer is people generally like him because taliesin's funny and charismatic and he does morally grey right, which is rare and a fun thing to explore (also in his relationships with other people, the entire vex-vax-percy-keyleth square is full of neat parallels and opposites and interesting things and i have whole essays in my head on all six combos there)
i don’t know which posts you’ve read so i’ll link this one here too, just to cover a couple more of the generally unnoticed aspects of his character, and things i like about percy
he’s also far from perfect, as you’ve noted, he does tend to believe he’s the smartest person in any given room, because he’s young and clever and used to being that, which you’re allowed to find off putting, but i will say i find he does that less than a lot of characters of his general archetype? he listens to pike, he listens to keyleth, he listens to vex, he respects when they have more knowledge than him on a particular subject, he’s not above asking for help. and generally most of the arguments he has with keyleth on that subject aren’t him asserting he knows more than her, but more a matter of principles and values (they’re a really interesting pair that way, they have similar backgrounds, both children of royalty running away from the crown, but they’re such opposites. percy is a natural leader who would rather anyone rule than him, keyleth fumbles her way through all of it but sticks to it because she doesn’t want to let anyone down, percy is a pragmatist, keyleth is an idealist, they both are too focused on the big picture but in two completely different ways, i could write a whole other post on this, but to get to my point, they wouldn’t be such good balances for each other if percy didn’t absolutely respect where keyleth is coming from)
for the long answer, i’m gonna break this down into parts and try to get to the core of percy's character and why he is the way he is
(under the cut bc this gets long)
1 - heavy trauma
like... this is the really really big one. percy, at age 17 or 18, had his entire life up to that point completely destroyed. his family was killed, his friends were killed, people he trusted like family (professor anders, who was a more present figure in percy's life than his actual parents) betrayed him and helped the briarwoods, he was imprisoned in his own castle's dungeons and tortured for information, they threw his siblings' bodies in there with him to make a point, cassandra helped him escape but as far as he knew she died helping him. he has two years of his life after that he straight up doesn't remember, his hair turned white from the stress of it. 
trying to go after ripley the first time didn't work, he was captured and left to starve in a prison cell, for the first few months of travelling with vox machina he genuinely believed it wasn't real, because realistically no one was gonna come save him, this was just a hallucination of his dying mind. returning to whitestone he was forced to confront the fact that literally everyone he ever knew growing up (with the sole exception of archibald) was either dead or working with the briarwoods, and even after retaking the city there's a lot that can never be repaired. 
and he's just... never really dealt with any of this? like, he gave vox machina the technical details of what happened to him in the briarwood arc, because they needed to know that information, but the first time he actually started processing his trauma, the first time he admits it out loud to anyone, is the final episode of campaign one. before then it had been occasional snide or handwavey comments, and like, he'll let himself feel the anger over it (in the beginning of the story he encouraged it, because then he didn't have to feel anything else), but he's never processed the grief, never admitted to himself how badly that affected him
which means he's got a lot of pent up emotions in there that he just keeps burying, and sometimes they come out in unhealthy ways. having so much taken from him also makes him really motivated to keep the things he does have - he’s got some deep set abandonment issues and takes any kind of betrayal really badly, don’t know if you’ve got up to the scanlan stuff by the time i post this, but that’s something to keep in mind as to why he acts the way he does there. (and it’s not more explicit because percy was raised nobility, keeping a brave face through anything is part of who he is, he tends to cover emotions he’s insecure about in snark or indifference or, for the intense ones, anger, because those are the things he thinks he’s allowed to show, but the real emotions show up occasionally, when they’re particularly strong, or if you’re reading between the lines. he really does care a lot about vox machina)
2 - legacy and loyalty. 
speaking of nobility, it's hard to do a character study on percy without mentioning whitestone and the house of de rolo. this is the number one thing to percy. he was raised to respect title and name, and most importantly, raised to respect the people he represents - both the townsfolk of whitestone and also percy's ancestors and future de rolo generations. whitestone is more important than any one life, he has a duty to protect and serve it, and that comes before any personal wants he may have. it's also important to him for family reasons - he was a pretty lonely child, but he loved reading about the history of the city, all the weird ghost stories whitestone had even before the briarwoods. it probably made him feel more connected to all of that, this is the place he belongs. and after his family dies, it becomes even more important, because this is his connection to them. the soul of a city lives as long as its people, by protecting what's left, he keeps a little bit of what came before
(and also in just tidbits to understand percy's character, he sees all cities and man-made things the same way - in a world where some races live for centuries or millennia, their history exists mostly by word of mouth, you can physically talk to people who were around 500 years ago and get their take on things - humans don't have that, they get 100 years at most, so the things they build are vital to their heritage. this is how you keep people alive long after they're gone, by honouring what they created. and especially for someone so concerned with legacy and history, percy literally says abandoning westruun would be blasphemy, because the place people grew up is important, yes it's better that they live, but letting the city be abandoned and destroyed would be an irreparable act of violence.) 
this is the number one thing on percy's mind when evaluating anything about himself, where do i come from, and what do i leave behind? which is a question that has a lot of moments to be tested, because of my next point...
3 - pragmatism and terrible thoughts
when it comes down to it, percy is a very ends justify the means kind of person. he finds it very easy to square away any kind of collateral damage as long as it gets him to his end goal. see: trial of the take, where he's fine to catch his friends in the blast radius of a new bomb design because he's so excited that it worked, preparing to fight vorugal and resigning himself to potentially having to kill innocent people to kill the dragon (he wasn’t okay with that, but he would do it), also his conscious decision to let ripley go, knowing she would lead to the deaths of thousands because it was her or the briarwoods and he wanted revenge 
(this is by his own admission his lowest point and worst mistake, because as mentioned, he thinks about the consequences of his actions near constantly, he knew she would reproduce his guns and they would lead to a whole new form of warfare. but in that moment he was just blinded by grief and way too emotionally burnt out and did not have the capacity to care. and he spends the rest of the campaign and honestly probably the rest of his life trying to make up for that one)
he's also, by his own admission, someone who has a lot of bad thoughts he doesn't act on, he's very clever and creative and ideas for ways to use those skills for violence or vengeance come easily to him (like, percy as an actual villain would be ripley but worse, ripley's intelligent but a very direct point a to point b kind of thinker, percy has multiple times criticised her lack of imagination, a percy with her lack of morals would be terrifying)
(honestly this is why i was seeing percy so much in taliesin's narrative telephone, because "sometimes i wake up having dreamed of a terrible thing, and normally i just file that away for things that i would never do, because i wanna maintain friendships, but then LIAM did something to me." and the whole being absolutely fine with throwing the rest of the cast under the bus just to enact revenge on liam was quintessential percy)
but we’ve seen the pragmatic anti hero everywhere, anyone can be a terrible person, and have reasons for it, that alone doesn’t make an interesting character (at least not for me)
what does, is my last point
4 - trying to be good
i still vividly remember when i first watched campaign one, being really surprised at how much percy asked for help? like, i went in expecting the usual full on demon possession storyline, i expected percy to hide how bad it was, i expected him to make poor decisions without realising he was doing it until he was in too deep to back out
and like, he had some of that. but at the first sign of things being out of his control, he asked his friends for help. he let pike greater restoration him. he told vax to kill him if things ever got too out of hand. he was really, genuinely scared about what he got himself into and what he might do because of it. there was never a point where he pretended, even to himself, that making a deal with orthax was okay. the minute he realised there was a demon involved, he was working to stop it. and yeah, by the time he realised it was already a bit too late, there were already some things out of his control (and also taliesin kept having the worst rolls against the whitestone corruption which was really fun on a meta level), which is how things got as bad as they did. but honestly, all things considered, there’s very little to criticise about the way percy handled himself in the briarwood arc. 
and he keeps doing that, trying to get better. he struggles with it, he struggles a lot, against his anger issues, against all the trauma, against the fact that he really doesn’t want to be here and things would be so much easier if he were dead. but he recognises he holds grudges too easily, so he starts actively trying to forgive those who’ve wronged him (this is something he and vex have in common, and something they were working on together before they were together, which probably helped a lot in getting them to that point as well). he recognises he makes poor decisions when he’s angry, so he starts learning to step back in those moments and leave the decisions to someone else. he has never not owned up to his mistakes, he takes responsibility for everything he’s done, and if he notices a problem he can’t solve himself, he asks for help.
and i find that fun to explore. like, percy’s been likened to hamlet in the actual show, and i was the kid who got super obsessed with hamlet when i was like 15 because i was in that same mental space of suicidal self hatred and existential melancholy but also thinking i was the smartest person in any given room and being too young to have gotten over the arrogance that makes you ignore everyone else’s needs for the sake of indulging your own problems. and then i got older and realised there are smarter ways to go about things, like having empathy and appreciating the light in the world and not being a dickhead to people because it makes you feel better, and maybe hamlet can be justified and in the wrong at the same time. and while there’s some stuff i won’t spoil for you, percy after ripley kills him is definitely starting to learn that, which you rarely see in the hamlet archetype, bc everyone’s like “ah yes so Deep so Important who cares what bad things this person did they had Trauma and are Clever”
well, percy cares about the bad things he did, and cares about not doing those anymore. so like, he’s still a disaster of a person bc he’s like 23 and no one has their life together at 23, especially not someone in percy’s situation, and honestly i find that fun to watch as well bc i like watching characters make stupid mistakes and do stuff i’d never approve of in real life, and as i mentioned at the start, taliesin makes captivating and funny characters. but yeah, that’s generally where percy’s at, most of the time
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eponymous-rose · 6 years ago
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Talks Machina Highlights - Critical Role C2E52 (Feb. 26, 2019)
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There’s a lot to unpack here.
This week’s guests are Laura Bailey and Liam O’Brien!
Announcements:
Travis Willingham’s Yeehaw Game Ranch debuted today on CR’s Twitch channel! Travis and Brian will be livestreaming every other week at 4 PM Pacific (alternating with MAME Drop). Today’s episode will go up on YouTube on Thursday. On Monday, March 4, the Kickstarter for the VM cartoon will go live! They’ve been talking about this almost since the start. This episode of TM will be uploaded to YT on Thursday morning, and will be available on a one-week delay in podcast form!
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The cowboy hat makes the rounds. Laura points out that she was actually in an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger.
Okay, on to episode 52: Feral Business. (Liam, just as the splash screen comes up: “That means masturbating.”)
Laura: “I think everybody should refer to their penis as a tiefling. Anyway, continue.”
There’s a discussion about classes for said tieflings. It gets a little out of hand.
Stats! Jester got her 5th HDYWTDT of the campaign against the shoosuva. Caleb has now dealt over 1,400 points of damage. (Liam: “Really?”) Frumpkin got his first natural 20 to perceive the rats and shoosuva. 
Laura and Liam have a heated negotiation about who gets to cuddle the Jester and Kiri plushies.
100% of the out-of-character motivation for the Disguise Self was just Liam missing being Laura’s twin. Liam: “You know, I like to have fun in my D&D games.” They enjoyed getting to sit next to each other again at the live show. 
Brian: “What were you gossiping about?” Liam: “Your tiefling.” Laura: “Specifically yours.”
Jester’s view on Caleb hasn’t changed since his backstory reveal. Laura: “I feel like it makes more sense that he’s more standoffish, and it made me feel much more guilty for the times I gave him shit for being muddy and stinky and stuff.” She points out that Jester got to see a lot of different types of people pass through, not to mention listen in on their conversations, and probably has a broader experience with a variety of people than some might expect.
Liam talks about how Xhorhas is “rough, and the customs are different, but it’s a real place” and not the bogeyman often presented to the Empire.
He objects to a question talking about how Caleb’s planning to take down people in the Empire, pointing out that he’s never confirmed that. Laura immediately concocts a theory about Caleb being a top-secret spy for the Empire.
Laura: “Jester has no idea that her charisma isn’t as high as... Beau’s or... is Beau’s very high?” She loved leading a diplomatic conversation, and didn’t know how it would turn out, but she feels like she killed it.
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Snoozy Henry!
Liam: “Caleb’s not scared of being manipulated. I think that’s done.” It feels off being away from the Empire, not because he still feels loyalty, but mainly because everything that matters to him is still there.
Another round of dick jokes comes to a climax (sorry) with “Cocks Machina”.
Gif of the Week! Jester learning the ways of the goth.
If the opportunity presents itself, even in Xhorhas, Jester will 100% pull a prank and try to spread the word of the Traveler. “Nothing is sacred to Jester!”
Laura mentions that she has no backup character planned if Jester dies; she feels like having a backup will make her more likely to accept the possibility of losing Jester.
Jester doesn’t really care about the Empire vs. Krynn conflict. “Political bullshit. I don’t think the Krynn are necessarily evil, but I don’t know.” Liam points out that nobody really knows the motivations behind the conflict in the first place. Caleb mainly sees it as a big mess. “Caleb will still have emotional ties to where he was born and raised, but he knows they’re flawed and awful. They’re really terrible people.”
Laura’s theory: “The Empire stole a lot of artifacts. They stole the dodecahedron. The Krynn just want it back. And now we have it. And we’re fucking everything up.”
Big Tiefling Energy.
Jester on tattoos: “Nah, I’m not afraid of the pain! I can take it! I’m really strong!” She’d totally get a tattoo if the right idea came along.
Caleb isn’t too concerned about the group getting sidetracked, since he doesn’t really have “an agenda for where he wants to go”. He wouldn’t want to do something boring, but that’s not exactly a worry with this group. “They keep going to places with things he’s interested in.”
Laura on Jester’s changing dynamic with Nott: “It’s interesting to find out that Nott’s a mom. She knows what that relationship means, and she is just devastated for Nott that she can’t be with her son.” What seemed the worst was that she didn’t have someone who thinks of her the way Jester thinks of her mom. “I thought about so many times just her not taking a bath. It just makes me so sad.”
Fan Art of the Week! A giant city-tortoise.
Liam: “Man, get a load of Brian’s kenku.” Dani: “This has to stop.”
What the heck does “consecuted” mean? Laura: “I think it means something about being reborn.” Liam: “Yeah, reincarnation.”
Liam on potentially picking the wrong spells: “I don’t worry that I will. I just know that I will.” Marisha warned him.
Brian asks Laura about where her vote’s hovering in the vote for DnD Beyond’s president. Laura: “I feel like Liam has a stronger platform.” Liam: “Is that a dick joke?” Laura: “I’m sitting next to Liam. So Liam.”
Dani: “Contractually, as Sam’s campaign manager, I have to vote for Sam. But he’s also not paying me, so I’m just saying, Liam, if you paid me, I could maybe switch sides. Look, I’m working for exposure only, and I’m feeling very exposed.” Liam: “Listen, my shell corporation will talk to your shell corporation after the show.”
Jester’s not too worried about the group being disrespectful by hanging onto the dodecahedron. “It’s a powerful thing! Look at it! We can play with it!” Liam: “Yeah, it’s not her god.”
Liam: “I miss playing twins.” Laura: “I do too, buddy.”
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Henry is moved to the couch when Liam starts literally curling up on the floor to be closer to him:
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Jester would create a Magical Viagra spell. Dani: “Like the Wand of Smiles, but for dicks!” Laura: “The point of it would be to just make people feel awkward.”
On Jester checking on Fjord’s tusks: “It’s important to her that he appreciates himself as much as others appreciate him.”
Liam: “My character will probably die soon anyway.” Everyone: “LIAM O’BRIEN.”
Laura points out that Jester’s come closer to death than Caleb. “If anyone’s going to die soon, it’s me.” Brian: “Stop it! Stop!”
Search for Grog Questions (SPOILERS FOLLOW!)
The group played a private home game as Vox Machina for fun recently (”It didn’t make sense, but it was fun!”). Liam was envious of the group getting to play their characters again, so he wanted to play something at least VM-adjacent. He also loves building out the world and wanted to continue fleshing that out. “She saw VM, unbeknownst to them, a couple times.” He also wanted to be able to keep people from dying and “breaking the universe.”
Laura on playing VM again: “It was really crazy, and me and Taliesin gave each other the biggest hug after the show. I missed Percy and I missed that relationship so much!”
Having Lieve’tel around was painful, but Vex “didn’t have the same reaction to it the way Keyleth did. It was bittersweet. I think she appreciated that someone appreciated what her brother did.”
Gilmore and Allura’s voices were big moments of nostalgia. Percy-Vex banter. Scanlan wanting to kill Trinket. (Laura really thought she’d have to leave Trinket behind, and the “I can carry him” killed her.) Scanlan’s singing. Pike! Liam: “Roasting the shit out of Travis.” Laura: “Oh my god.”
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I finished Critical Role, Campaign 2, Episode 31: “Commerce & Chaos” which is honestly a very fitting name. It was basically that one episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender where they do random stuff in a random town for like a week and I have zero complaints about it, my children deserved a rest.
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- Nott making explosive arrowheads,,,,,,,, omg. 
- Nott forging a letter to Astrid without telling Caleb, and Liam’s reaction to it…. WHY IS MY GOBLIN DAUGHTER SO CHAOTIC TODAY 
- Caleb to Pumat: “Do you have something that can catapult things around the room a bit?” / Jester who has a magic spell: “I can do that for you!” / Beau, who does not have a magic spell: “Yeah, me too.” asdjkl I can’t believe no one even chuckled at that, it was comedy gold
- I’ve not seen Campaign 1 yet, but I do know of Taryon Darrington so the fact that Pumat Sol is reading a book about him (by him?) is such a wonderful little easter egg and I love it so very much!
- More time travel hints… Caleb what are you up to
- So a dunamace(?) is like a modern time-weaver person? Is that going to be Caleb’s endgame to an extent? Aaaah Im so curious as to what he’s up to!
- So was anyone gonna tell me Fjord has a Wis of 7 or was I just gonna have to look at his character card in the bottom left corner myself?!?! 
- The stories that Kree is telling to Fjord… how Lucien led some sort of cult before dying and disappearing for two years?? How she senses Lucien’s soul is somewhere cold and far away?? Anyway I feel so robbed of the Molly/Lucien lore and I want to know who Mollymauk was before he was Mollymauk, and aaahhhh I wish we could have seen more of that storyline, I really do
- At 2:09:11 ish the whole conversation where Nott (diguised as the priest’s assistant) says to the dubious follower: “His Holiness is going on a spiritual journey, and there’s only room on that train for one dude!” And Jester (disguised as the priest) holds up one finger and says in an old man’s voice “One!” is so funny asdfghjklfjflg I had to timestamp it so I can continuously come back to that on bad days
- So Sabian was the guy/crewmate of Fjord’s that ransacked his ship and he might be out there still… I can’t remember if Fjord has mentioned before but that is an interesting bit of plot thread!
- Caleb talking to Nott about his long-term goals: “You know what I’ve done.” / Nott: “I do. I just don’t know how you’re going to undo it.” / Me, slamming my fists on the table: TIME. TRAVEL. ARC. TIME!! TRAVEL!! ARC!!!
- Okay I love Nott and Caleb’s friendship (Caleb grabbing Nott’s hands and saying “you’re my greatest friend, do you know that?”) and also Laura and Taliesin’s friendship (every time Laura rested her head on Tal’s shoulder he would rest his head against hers) and basically I am very soft and full of love :((
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Good As New (Pt. 1)
{ hi henlo
Uhhh i wrote this up at maybe 4-5 AM and im just now posting it djdhhdbd
Y'all know im into Critical Role but I'm not gonna put this in the main tags jdndbhdhd too scared
Tags: @maybesortaahazel @shadlicious @vampire-fucker-3000
Varan Luro is a dnd oc of mine. He's,,,, an odd one, let's just say that.
Mollymauk Tealeaf is a character off of Critical Role, and belongs to his creator Taliesin Jaffe. This is purely just fun writing, and I'm not trying to claim the character in any way. Even though this blog has a small following, I felt I should preface this for future followers. "^^
Enjoy, y'all!
Usual warning: some possible misspellings bc I did write this pretty late at night }
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He remembers passing out.
Was it passing out? He wasn't sure.
He had felt the pain in his chest for only a moment, yet he still hasn't grasped what happened.
It was just...
Empty.
Empty.
Empty...
....
Crimson eyes opened once more.
Everything was a blur for many moments, he didn't dare to try and sit up. He would let it pass for a moment before he felt comfortable.
Said moment felt like ages, but it came eventually.
The tiefling slowly sat up, feeling the cloth over his body shift down slightly. He caught it before it could easily fall off and reveal his full form....
Wait.
He wasn't wearing any clothes.
No wonder it was so cold in the room.
He looks around, hearing the familiar soft jingle of the jewelry that decorated his horns. Well, He thought, at least no one took those.
But the more important questions at hand: Where did everyone go...?
Where was he?!
"Ah! You are awake! Finally!"
The tiefling's head snapped into the direction of where the sudden voice came. The accent sounded familiar. Like a wizard friend he knew... But this definitely wasn't him.
Standing in the doorway was a Drow Elf, with dark purple skin; a very stark contrast from the tiefling's own lilac skin. He had white hair that reached a bit past his shoulders, red irises that seemed to stand out against the black scleras of his eyes. He wore some sort of fancy garmets, as if he was of high regard.
It took a very long time before the tiefling spoke up. "Uh... Hi," He started. He took a moment to look around before looking back to the Drow. "Where... Am I? Who are you? How am I here?"
Too many questions. Time to take it down a bit.
He rubs the back of his neck a bit. "Ah, sorry for the amount of questions. I guess I'm just... A bit confused, to say the least."
The Drow chuckles. He isn't sure if it's all in good fun or if it's quite the opposite. "It's quite all right. I'll answer as best as I can... Allow me to introduce myself first. My name is Varan Luro. And who might you be, colorful one?" The Drow says, holding out his hand for the tiefling to shake.
Molly. That's it. You actually remember this time.
"... Mollymauk Tealeaf. Molly to my friends... Since I, uh... I guess we're friends now, aren't we?" The tiefling speaks up, gently taking Varan's hand and giving a small shake.
"Huh... Mollymauk... Molly... Peculiar, but unique name. Almost familiar, and rolls off the tongue." Varan says, with that weird chuckle again. "Beautiful tattoos, by the way. Thought I would mention that."
Oh, right. He wasn't wearing anything besides a sheet over him. Molly smiled sheepishly. "Uh... I think this conversation might continue better if I had my clothes back. You got those anywhere?"
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It was surprisingly quick, and Molly was back to his old look in no time...
Save for the giant scar across his chest.
He shuddered a bit. Is that what happened to him...?
Damn Lorenzo-!
"Mr. Tealeaf? You alright?"
Molly quickly snapped out of his conflicting thoughts, turning to look at Varan. "Oh. Sorry. Just... Trying to figure out things. This definitely isn't the first time I've experienced this sort of thing, but I'm surprised I'm still... Myself."
"You... Have been through resurrection before?"
"Something like it. Wasn't my body before. Thought it was gonna end with two years of having it... Guess not." Molly explains. He then gives a chuckle. "I don't know whether to thank you or be actually creeped out."
"Both would be natural reactions."
A laugh was shared between the two. Varan then spoke up. "Come, Molly. We should... Discuss this whole thing and I should catch you up to speed. Sure you've been dying to know."
"You could say that."
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"... Huh."
"... Is that all you can say?"
"Well, Varan, forgive me if I'm taking a moment just to think about it."
Molly sighs, then chuckles. "Never thought I'd end up meeting a warlock that could bring me and practically almost anyone back from the dead... With a little work, of course. Necromancy, man. Wild... I've only ever been near one warlock in my life, and his powers were vastly different from yours. Something with the ocean or whatever, long story I probably wont get to know." He rambles, laughing softly... Followed by a sigh.
Varan knows that sigh. "... You... Miss your companions?" He says, genuine worry in his voice.
"Is it that obvious, my friend?"
"... Heartbreakingly."
Molly chuckles again, and proceeds to sigh once more. "Yeah... They're miles away now, I know that. There's no way I'll be able to catch up with them. I just hope they're doing alright without me... And no one's blaming themselves..." He goes on, putting a hand over his face and leaning against it. "Oh, gods... Yasha... I can't imagine how she took it..."
Varan could only offer a small, hopefully reassuring pat on the back. "I'm... I'm sure they miss you dearly, Molly. You seem like you were the light of that group. Sure, some... Mistakes here and there, but you likely brought joy to their lives. I'm sure you'll cross paths with them eventually... Everyone finds their way."
Molly looks up at Varan, smiling sadly. "I... I guess you're right, my friend... I just hope that meeting isn't too long from now. Maybe it's just right around the corner... We can only hope."
"I suppose...."
Molly suddenly remembered something. "Say," He started, "You... Didn't perhaps see a long, red and beautifully gaudy coat where I was buried right? Bunch of symbols on it?"
"Hm... I'm sorry, no. However, there was something there that I figured had it resting. A staff or something... A log? I don't know. All I can figure is that it was holding up something. Perhaps your coat?"
"No. No one would just... Steal the damn thing. I mean... Who would even dare to off of a grave? It was either one of my group, or an old friend."
He hoped this was the case. He really hoped.
Molly then switches gears. "Hey... Varan. You'll let me stay here until I get my bearings... Right?"
"Of course! What reason would I have to deny hospitality now?"
"... Fair point."
Varan had secretly formed a plan in mind as Molly rambled on. Really, he had one in the works ever since he heard the tiefling's name fall from his lips. That's why it was so familiar to him. He knew why now.
Because of her.
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uhhhhhh notes HURT WEEK im pains
"They call me eagle-eye fjord where i come from." "maybe raven. i dont know." that theory about Fjord being the Hawker is suspicious rn (Apparently theres a third i missed whoops) sam apparently similar thoughts maybe bc Nott brings it up
Jester finally teaching kiri basic phrases, like "go fuck yourself"
Beau + Fjord taking first watch
Caleb checking out the dodecahedron
(Unrelated odd point: i have a current dislike/distrust for liam, which is bullshit bc... i love liam. and caleb and vax. but apparently smt is wrong.)
Dodecahedron is Very Old, and has been shaped/polished Cay uses the haversack as a pillow
BEAU/FJORD Beau: "I think I messed up. I think I should apologise." I HURT? Oh beauregard. oh marisha. "i wanna try, I guess" F: I think he deserves that. He's been good to us. i regret not writing fic now 8(
"OOH, terrible" "YEP." "five" "five" (collective "ooh")
Nott + Jes second. they roll not great.
Tinkle tinkle "nnhnohfishnott"
Kiri is poofed up asleep aAW
trident goin for FRUMPKIN NOOO (pause whilst they look for range on dismissal)
Kiri wakes up "Go fuck yourself :("
Theyre waiting for fish head they could just reappear Frumpkin tho...
Jester is sacred flaming, Molly has a sword active + stabs, Caleb fire bolt, Nott fires an arrow, Fjord eldritch blast, Yasha stabby
Molly + Nott + Caleb miss Fjord hits, Beau hits, Yasha hits dunno bout jes
frumpkin poofs back but doesn't see anything else.
???? alarm lasts 8 hours, not until triggered yall it should still be up. they need to look up the spells smh
Nott messaging to tell yash to hide the bodies
LAst watch is Yash and Caleb i need to stop shortening names
Caleb asks Yasha for people advice :') He's writing it down... i love him Yashas advice is basically "Fucking Bathe" And cay confirms he keeps himself gross because people ignore him more that way 8( Baby
C: "Do you know what i miss? shaving." Y: "I could shave you right now with my sword. I've done it before, you know, to... not have hair on my arms-" Omg shes doing it omg theyre doing it omg I DONT HAVE TO DRAW FACIAL HAIR IN MY FANART ANY MORE FUCK <3333
cay forgets he has a dagger jesus fucking christ
i love everyone making comments + taliesins just amazed like, borderline heart eye emoji look at this whole scenario
M: (to Caleb) "Well done, she [yasha] likes you!"
Nott is Not Happy About Water N: I'LL STAY WITH KIRI everyone else: Convincing her to come N: I'll stay with kiri, and if there's any trouble... we'll see what happens
Fjord goes first, he sees, with his 60ft darkvision, architeture of room. mistly natural, some bits not.
Fjord botches his stealth roll but matt botches his perception even worse. and my thing crashed im so mad.
Fjord is Not a good swimmer. hes like. 30ft swimming speed. Things being left: Caleb's books (2) Molly's coat
travis willingham going "kiris gotta die" then dragging everyone who gasped through the dirt
beau gets fucking 37 on her stealth check Matt: "That's some vax numbers right there!"
The visual aid is... so extra. lights. smoke. what the fuck matthew. (note: when ur best friend is called matthew this is a phrase you say too much)
Surprise round for erryone but Molly and Yasha (purrsonally, i think they were too busy talking abt how beautiful cay is now ;3c)
everyone rolled shite for initiative tho
Caleb casting haste on molly O:
Fjord is very very adept at everything
everyone on crit role can do maths better than me 8(
the marrow fuck beau and fjord royally
watching call lightning forming + marishas face as she slowly realises :)
jes gets the first hdywtdt + crushes a fish with a lollipop
Caleb is taking blind potshots with the glove of blasting boyy. One even hits!
moll gets 3 attacks i love my beautiful devil child
N: Are you guys alive and do you need anything? you can reply to this message~ C: FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK N: oh,, alright.
Taliesin's relief when ashley actually hits is very good.
Beau goes down! D:
hi unrelated taliesin sticking his tongue out at sam fills me with indescribable joy
NEW: Horny twink gets double penetrated by feisty wet ones.
... which is to say two fish dudes stab molly.
Jes heals Beau, but we all know fine fucking well if she hadn't, Yasha would have done it on her next turn. still might since she's only on 11
Cay using dispel magic O:
Molly gets the second hdywtdt "I'm literally just a windmill at this point"
FJORD gets the third F: "I see Molly loojin' around, give him a little wink-" (murders) M: Fucking arsehole F: (witty comment) PEACE OUT (blinks out again)
"Sevens are scary" - Taliesin
Yash gets the next hdywtdt Xorhasian Neck Tie Jesus christ
I was right tho Yasha was seriously considering healing beau, it just takes her action
Two more fishfucks 8(
More call lightning
Sams flask says "lost my best friend over a bowl" and that hurtie
caleb is boutta die. Yasha is boutta die first lmao oh no. i love taliesin jaffe an inhuman amount. Yash gets pulled OVER beau and marisha makes like grabby hand motions which is VERY cute
ok NOW caleb boutta die. he Shield's, and then fragments "Caleb will remember this"
Beau looks at Yasha, looks at Caleb, and goes to CALEB (sobs) blasts a ki point and everything
Molly gets a nat 20 oh he's such a babe
Nott spending her turn justifying herself to Kiri
Fjord blinks back in and fucks up ANOTHER fishfuck
Yasha casting healing hands on HERSELF good.
"You dont have a printout of your character sheet????" "Oh yeah I do after you asked me nine times" liam wh
both yash and caleb are at ONE hp
B, spening her last ki point: HEYCALEBWESHOULDTALKLATER
Beau gets the HDYWTDT tho
Molly is Very Sick from losing haste
Caleb goes the fuck down Fails his first save
everytime tal says "im gonna try something weird"  i heart eyes emoji shame he cant do jack fuck though
Nott Burning Bolt shoots the fishfuck for 24 damage jeeeeez doesnt die but drops lightning
Fjord: (appears, fails, disappears)
if Caleb permadeaths i WILL cry
PLEASE YASHA PLEASE GOD JESTER PLEASE THEY KILL IT IM CRYING SO HARD no like literally i am actually crying bc matt very deliberately did that so that he didnt kill Caleb
Jester uses her pearl of power to regain a slot, and use it to cast prayer of healing for SHIT rolls.
Jester goes back to Kiri <333 baby. baby bird.
Matt mercer keeps using words ive only ever seen written and im ALWAYS ???? about their pronunciation
Fjord finds some L00t Like boxes and longswords and a pool of water with dozens of metallic objects mostly outlawed diety symols. changebringer moonweaver. others i forgot. stormlord. everlight. asmodeus ooh, bane strife emperor. and tiamat.
"a little black bird that's fluttering to try and get dry" fuck thats so damn cute. Marisha has the :D face
Calebs books are dry
wooden box + pool are magic. like. WITHIN.
Enchantment in the box. Molly collecting the moonweaver pieces
JESTER FINDS TWO SYMBOLS FOR THE TRAVELLER? HOLY SHIT Different make, pure silver one, burnished bronze another door arch with the road
Molly gets 12-13 symbols
Nott mage hands just so good even drunk
in the box is a blade, gold, jewel encrusted Molly shoves Nott aside to get it cause its a scimitar style
Caleb finds the arch-heart symbol? Takes one
Yasha takes 4 symbols for the storm god.
Bane/strife emperor symbol Fjord is curious about chained coffin he throws it into the pool. nothing happens.
JEster goes to pll it out and gets a big catseye yellow gem,  magical, but not a school of arcane magic. it has a line groove in it, very deliberate, an oval.
"something about that [orb] is very familiar"??? (Matt to Travis)
i was right about the orb being familiar
C: (abt the gold sword) This blade is called Summer's Dance C: "Mr. Mollymauk," M: "Mr. Caleb."
Blade allows user to cast Blink basically, and is stronk
official-europa replied to your post: uhhhhhh notes HURT WEEK im pains “They...
i think its probably misty step and not blink 
official-europa replied to your post: uhhhhhh notes HURT WEEK im pains “They...
on the sword i mean
caleb tries to ID the orb
fjord touches it "sky is moonlit + cloudless, clothes not your own, nor body, overcoat + human skin. thick calloused skin. left hand stone. look down, see body of previous owner, dead in blood. natural landmass seawater night. flash. right hand grasps falchion. voice booms. potential. jams the stone into gut, cCONSUME. vanishes into belly. looks into water. REWARD." "Vandrin."
i dont kn ow what the fuck is going on.??? everyone else sees this o shit
oh shit is the eye the symbol of Fjord's patron?
"he was my mentor, a captain of mine. a man named Vandrin." Y: What happened to Vandrin? F: I'm not sure. he captained the ship i worked on for many years, and their was an incident. an explosion, terrible weather, waves, "i was knocked overboard" when f woke up he was back on shore
"how did you survive" "I'm not entirely sure."
explosion was sabotage.
the pool is saltwater.
Molly shoves Fjord's head into the water
comes up "You okay???" "Do it again" "Tap three times when you're done!" Fjord drowns
they take as much as possible up and out and decide to dynamite everything in. dramatic exit..
They take the bodies down and lay them in the swamp to rest and decompose.
Beau tries to pull Caleb aside and he just stonewalls her until she actually apologises.
Caleb "I give beauregard a hug and say 'idont know what im doing. just. go with it." BEau very AWKWARDLY hugs him back Beau consulting Fjord, Caleb consulting Yasha The entire other side of the table clapping.
Beau: UH. GOOD TALK. FRIEND. (awkward silence) Beau: Seriously though. Friend? (pause) Caleb: Uh. Ja. (brb dying)
there is a single yellow eye on the hilt of the falchion.
episode END
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How the "Wednesday Club" Helped Normalize Autism
Geek & Sundry has a new show called the "Wednesday Club" where Amy Dallen, Taliesin Jaffe, and Matt Key discuss comics to make them accessible. Wednesday at noon PST on Twitch and Alpha (taking questions from Twitch chat). It's a fabulous show. They do a good job of talking about broad topics without getting too into the nitty gritty of a particular story. They're really good about checking themselves when they do get detailed and explaining the specific character, comic, or plot better. It's easy to follow even if you're not already familiar with the comics they're discussing.
This week's episode was talking about "Legion (TV show) and portrayals of mental health in comics." I was really psyched for it. As in--this is not hyperbole--I woke up in the same horrible pain my disability's inflicted for the last few weeks, dragged myself out of bed, forced myself to eat a peanut butter sandwich with an unhealthy amount of ibuprofen, and staggered into my chair to watch this episode. Use that to gage my expectations for how good I was expecting it be. It was mind-blowingly better.
This is just one example of what made this episode incredible: A viewer, who identified themselves as autistic, asked about comic book recommendations for people with autism. Everything about how they took the question, how they answered it, was so spectacular. I was too engrossed and shocked to really process what I'd just seen the first time. Partly because it was so bloody normalized. I went back a few hours later, rewatched this part, and started crying. Half from joy that this happened, and half from sadness that this isn't just normal. They took the time to answer a question to the best of their abilities that almost any other show would pass up as unimportant or inconvenient, especially if it challenged them.
That whole nine and a half minutes was a textbook example of how autistic people constantly ask to be treated, and almost never are. They gave him agency and authority over his life, and respected his perspective as valuable and interesting. They just generally acted like he was any other human being, and greeted him with warmth and enthusiasm. It should be obvious that that's how you treat anyone. I should not be talking about like I just stubbed my toe on the Maltese Falcon half-buried in a sandy beach. But I am because it's that rare in real life. I've never remotely seen it in front of a live camera. I'm writing this, transcribing this, and sharing this because good examples of how to be a decent person are how we educate ourselves out of ignorant bigotry and stigma.
I'm not autistic, but I am neurodivergent in a way that's given me a lot of similar experiences to my friends who are. One of those close friends, who I met through D&D, is a teacher and autism rights activist. I've run most of these thoughts by her to check myself through her perspective. I don't want to speak for her, but I do want to help amplify her voice.
Her research has put her into contact with good examples of the everyday abuses perpetrated against autistic people by mainstream medical professionals, ignorant people, and other bigoted people in power. They show how autistic identity is erased and despised, their personhood stripped. Not in a way that helps any autistic person manage better in the world, but in a way that seeks to hurt them. She frequently shares some of these examples and deconstructs why they're awful. If you're not autistic, it's important to understand the context of what autistic people frequently face because it will help you understand how truly spectacular this response was.
  Neurodiversity
I have personally found the framework of the neurodiversity paradigm to be useful, if squishy. The bounds of 'neurotypical' to 'neurodivergent' are their own debated spectrum. Sadly, simplicity is useful, but untrue; whereas complexity is true, but useless. There's not a lot of debate that autism is neurodivergent. This episode is labeled as discussing "portrayals of mental health in comics." But it is perhaps more accurate to say that it discussed neurodivergence in comics. Autism is not a mental illness, it’s a consequence of how a person is neurologically wired from birth. But there's a reason we tend to talk about managing it and experiencing it similarly to a mental illness, and neurodivergence is that reason. To varying degrees, neurodivergent people mentally function differently than people their society deems 'normal' (neurotypical). I'm not wired like my autistic friends, but because all of us never did and never could pass for normal because of our wiring, we have a set of shared experiences. We understand elements of each other's personalities where our brain wiring creates the same pattern, which may not exist at all in neurotypical people. Same reason I can commiserate with another mentally ill friend about where we overlap, but we have to explain the rest.
  How autistic people are frequently & abusively described
(Collecting these made me want to throw up and cry in disgust.)
"Autistics as Undomesticated Humans" https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-imprinted-brain/201608/autistics-undomesticated-humans
My friend's response: "I don't believe they ask this in the US, but when I was institutionalized in Germany, I was told that I was not worth treating because I would use up resources and kill myself in the end anyway. Eugenics is alive and well and applied to autistics daily." https://twitter.com/Alice__Kirby/status/835209015445553156
This "treatment" gave my friend PTSD. https://twitter.com/tbccautismABA/status/830511026730856449
Philosopher Peter Singer: "For me, the knowledge that my child would not be likely to develop into a person whom I could treat as an equal, in every sense of the word, who would never be able to have children of his or her own, who I could not expect to grow up to be a fully independent adult, and with whom I could expect to have conversations about only a limited range of topics would greatly reduce my joy in raising my child and watching him or her develop." http://www.thismess.net/2017/02/peter-singer-milo-of-philosophers.html
Unpack the very idea that if, very hypothetically, vaccines cause autism (they don't; dear gods how many times does this need to be proved), risking your child dying of a preventable disease is better than risking them developing, living with, autism.
  How autistic people describe themselves
"autism is just the way our brains are wired. we still have unique personalities." http://autpunk.tumblr.com/post/157740045930/oops-i-think-im-autistic
"We are not made wrong, or wired wrong, or something to be fixed, or worse—eradicated. … We are different. Innately born to see the world through an alternate lens. … We understand the torment of living in a world, where you not only feel like you don’t belong, but are told from the authorities that be (parents included) that your condition, your being, your very existence has 'affected' everyone around you." https://everydayaspie.wordpress.com/2016/08/09/affected-by-autism/
  Everything the "Wednesday Club" got right in their response
Saying that it's great that an autistic person is being open about it. That it's not something to hide. (Autistic people as so often punished for that. Even autistic rights activists that identify themselves as autistic can lose standing with professionals who claim to want to help autistic people.)
Showing that a question from an autistic person is worth answering. (This rarely happens.) It's worth answering thoughtfully, seriously, and honestly, equal to any other question. (This practically never happens.)
Casually saying that autistic people and non-autistic people are friends and understand each other. I cannot overstate how normalizing that one sentence was. (Not can be, not should me, not technically capable of being, but are. Far from can't, or doing the autistic person a favor.)
Differing to autistic people as the authority on their experiences, on who they are. Not pretending you know better because you're not autistic. Saying that autistic people are different from each other and don't necessarily have the same experiences. (This barely even happens at autism conferences after autistic people have fought tooth and nail to be heard there for years. A lot of medical professionals claim they know the experience of autism better than the person experiencing it. That the autistic person should have no agency in helping them manage their lives. The worst abuses are derived from that line of thinking.)
Acknowledging that autistic people are a marginalized group who are looking for their own strengths, and need and want their own community of similar people.
Says that getting depictions of autism wrong is harmful. "Because in getting it wrong, you can perpetuate a stereotype into a wrong direction, or you can normalize something that shouldn't be." Saying that depictions of autism, even tacit ones, can be problematic. (Legitimately the first time I've seen "problematic" used anywhere near a discussion of autism as if they were any other marginalized group facing discrimination.)
Saying that there aren't a lot of direct depictions of autism in comics, but there are not‑labeled‑as‑autistic characters who have facets of their personality that autistic people can identify with, and those are still useful. (Autistic people are often maligned by bigots as incapable of understanding other people.)
Saying that not being normal is interesting, that sometimes crazy can be a super power. (For any neurodivergent or mentally ill person that's up there with "bullet proof black man" as an empowering statement of power of character to a marginalized group.)
Saying that the opinions of autistic people are valuable and interesting. Saying that an autistic person's draw to special interests, "wonderful hobbies," is fascinating. Saying, repeatedly, that autism can make someone valuable in ways no one else can be. (Autistic people are often ignored and erased. Their hobbies are often treated as boringly narrow, and derided as a waste of time. The contributions of any neurodivergent person are often treated as inferior to neurotypical people. Or exploited while denying the person respect or accommodations that would help them thrive.)
Acknowledging the feeling many autistic people have of "not being human." Acknowledging that many autistic people feel like they're mimicking and scripting social interactions with neurotypical people. (Because neurotypical society refuses to acknowledge or accommodate how autistic people experience the world.)
Acknowledging, like it's obvious, that autistic people can and do fall in love. That they can and do enjoy conceptually challenging art. (Autistic people are described by bigots as incapable of feeling emotions and lacking 'theory of mind,' the ability to understand that other people have different thoughts. Imagine being told that to your face by people who claim they know you better than you ever could and are thus there to help you. Imagine being told that as a child. Do the math on the psychological abuse.)
Showing an actual desire to give a better, more through answer. Acknowledging that they don't know as much as they could, and should seek more knowledge. That this question is worth researching. Taliesin followed up on Twitter saying, "we're gonna revisit it at some point, once we've dug a bit deeper." (Autistic people are routinely dismissed as unimportant, and inconvenient, their identities erased. A non‑autistic person's life being 'affected' by an autistic person is almost always used with negative connotation. But the Wednesday Club tacitly said, "Thank you affecting us," and that is basically what moved me so strongly.) https://twitter.com/executivegoth/status/837213450778468352
 To Amy Dallen, Taliesin Jaffe, and Matt Key, thank you. THANK YOU. You helped normalize autism. You helped keep someone's identity from getting erased. Your actions told someone they matter who, I suspect, has repeatedly been told and shown that they don't. You have garnered a tremendous amount of respect from me.
I have only one request for Geek & Sundry: make this episode available on YouTube. Help me share the best of what your network stands for with others. If you want people to tune in for this show, let them see this episode.
  Transcript
Times from: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/125658409
 01:10:23 Taliesin: "Somebody, actually, I want to say AutisticCosplay, which is a great handle, was asking, 'I'm not a Marvel or DC person, but people have told me I should look in the X-Men because I have autism.' And I don't know if-- You should read the X-Men because they're fun. But what would be a good comic book-- I'm trying to think of a good comic for someone-- I'm trying to think of my own friends who are on the spectrum and what they read."
1:10:46 Amy: "We'd love recommendations from anyone in the audience who is in this category."
1:10:49 Taliesin: "I'm really digging Shade the Changing Girl in that direction, actually. You read the first issue… So, this is a reboot of a new… It's a little psychedelic, if you're down. It's not a classic superhero, it's kind of a--"
[Amy puts out the comic.]
1:11:02 Taliesin: "This is the original."
1:11:03 Amy: "Got the classic here."
1:11:04 Taliesin: "Shade the Changing Man."
1:11:05 Amy: "Well, the semi-classic. Once again, like Doom Patrol, this was an older, '60s, character who got revamped under this wonderful Vertigo wave of DC reinvention."
1:11:14 Taliesin: "And crazy is his power."
1:11:16 Amy: "He wears something literally called a 'madness vest.'"
1:11:19 Taliesin: "And he's maybe from another dimension, but he makes people crazy-- So, again, problematic. But the new version is a popular girl, she's kind of a bitchy popular girl at a high school somewhere in the Midwest, who…"
1:11:36 Amy: "Previous to the events of the book, has fallen into a medical coma."
1:11:40 Taliesin: "Yeah, she was, not to give too much away, but she went skinny dipping with her kind of friends, with the kids who hung out with her because they needed to hang out with a popular person. And she hit her head, and they all just disliked her so much that they took a while dealing with it. So they're all [feeling] guilty. And then she woke up weird. And that's because there's a thing living inside of her that is shade."
1:12:04 Amy: "There is an alien creature using the power of the madness vest."
1:12:07 Taliesin: "So, it's not really even human anymore. So, it's this very off-kilter, not normal… thing. And they just think it's trauma, but maybe it's not, and I'm really liking it."
1:12:19 Amy: "I want more good recommendations. So, I'm wondering--"
1:12:22 Matt: "I don't know anything about what you-- I feel like an idiot."
1:12:24 Amy: "It's a really good, a really fun book."
1:12:26 Matt: "Whose is that!? I want to borrow that comic!"
1:12:28 Taliesin: "It's mine."
1:12:29 Matt: "Can I borrow...?"
1:12:29 Taliesin: "Of course you're going to borrow it."
1:12:30 Amy: "But the new one, Shade Changing Girl, which we might have a picture…"
1:12:32 Taliesin: "I have a copy here somewhere. Oh! Did I put a picture of Shade the Changing Girl in the…? I may have brought a digital copy of it, 'cause I don't own a physical copy of it. There should be a Shade in there."
[Comic is brought up on the screen.]
1:12:40 Amy: "The X-Men in general are turned to by people in all sorts of marginalized groups because they're almost always telling stories about people who don't fit in or don't feel normal, and the way that those people can find their own strengths, and find community, and come together. Which means they speak to tons of people in different groups. I'm curious about, specifically, heroes or things for people on the spectrum, and I'm not sure off the top of my head."
1:13:07 Taliesin: "I know; I'm feeling like a mild failure here."
1:13:10 Amy: "It's interesting, because one of those examples I eluded to in the intro was-- it's the dangers of applying labels to comic book characters. And there's a chance that I'm remembering this wrong, but I think it was James Tynion, who has been writing Cassandra Cain, who was talking about the fact that in some versions, Cassandra Cain, who, as a character became Batgirl, and was nonverbal for many years,"
1:13:38 Taliesin: "Completely."
1:13:38 Amy: "that she has been-- in some cases, people identify with her who are on the spectrum or who are borderline non-verbal. But there are other-- I think-- And please-- I'm worried to even say this because I need to fact check it, but I think it was James Tynion who was saying he was reluctant to but that label on it because the Cassandra Cain character has a history of specific traumatic abuse, that he wasn't sure-- that's not exactly fair to say-- that doesn't resemble the typical, if there is such a thing, experiences of a person who is on the spectrum. So, he'd rather treat her without that label then get it wrong. Or imply it where it doesn't belong."
1:12:16 Matt: "Yeah. Because in getting it wrong, you can perpetuate a stereotype into a wrong direction, or you can normalize something that shouldn't be."
1:14:25: Amy: "I should have checked on this before I said it. This is a memory of, probably, a Twitter conversation that I saw months ago. I should really nail down."
1:14:34 Taliesin: "I will saw, one of the great things-- I've been having this quote saved for the correct moment. 'One of the great things about comic books,' and this is paraphrasing Grant Morrison, who said, 'Sometimes superheroes exist to settle complex moral arguments by beating each other into the ground. Don't laugh, that's the way we deal with things in the real world, too.' But the nice thing about super heroes, though, is that they do break down these complex stories into more symbolic and metaphorical struggles. Which is why, sometimes even when they get it wrong, it's still useful. I had a weird thought for our AutisticCosplay friend, The Vision. The Vision book. It's very…"
1:15:10 Matt: "In fact, the Tom King... Oh! The reason why-- Oh my god, that's a good call."
1:15:14 Taliesin: "So, you all know The Vision from The Avengers. Now, it's kind of dark, and if you know The Vision from the Marvel movies, he's an android."
1:15:26 Amy: "A synthesoid."
1:15:27 Taliesin: "Synthesoid. And the book, he has built himself a wife and two children."
1:15:34 Matt: "And a dog."
[They discuss when in the story the dog was built.]
1:15:56 Taliesin: "And I would be curious-- Actually this is not a recommendation. AutisticCosplay, I actually would love for you to pick up a couple issues of this and tell us what you think. 'Cause I would be genuinely fascinated by your opinion of it, of how you feel. It's not a representation of autism, necessarily, but it's such a spectacularly interesting point of view, and it creates one of my new favorite characters. The Vision's daughter is now a character."
1:16:21 Matt: "Viv."
1:16:22 Taliesin: "Viv, in the Champions. And I cannot wait for the cosplay of this character. She's so cool! And so, I would be really curious to see what you think."
1:16:32 Matt: "I'm going to…"
1:16:34 Amy: "They're struggling with emotional issues and relating to people."
1:16:37 Taliesin: "Yeah, 'cause they're whole thing is they want to try and pretend to be-- they're like, we're going to try and be human, and we're going to be a human family, but they're not."
1:16:48 Matt: "Yeah. I want to tread carefully in saying this, because I myself am not autistic."
1:16:52 Taliesin: "We are in tread carefully territory."
1:16:53 Matt: "No, I know. But I also want to make sure that I'm respecting those of you who do deal with this. But it does feel like, even though they never label Viv, or Vision, or anyone in the family as having autism, or being on the spectrum in any way, their behavior, and their interaction with the world, does seem to 100% mimic…"
1:17:14 Taliesin: "Fall into that direction."
1:17:15 Matt: "or fall into that category in a way,"
1:17:18 Taliesin: "It's very analytical."
1:17:18 Matt: "that someone with autism might be able to actually really identify with that character, but still see the strengths of being who that person is."
1:17:26 Taliesin: "And then watching these analytical characters fall in love, and experience theater. One of the characters falls in love with Shakespeare and starts really identifying really heavily with Shakespeare. And there's this intense romantic relationship that one of the characters… It's fascinating."
1:17:44 Amy: "There is also-- You get really heartwarming stories like one that went around after Guardians of the Galaxy hit theaters,"
1:17:49 Taliesin: "Draxx."
1:17:50 Amy: "Where someone said, 'My brother,' I think it was they were talking about their brother, they watched the movie and their brother was just incredibly struck by watching Draxx."
1:18:00 Taliesin: "In the movie!"
1:18:00 Amy: "Literally for comedic effect, in the movie, their brother said, 'That's how I see the world!' And so, that's one of those, without intending to necessarily create a representation in an old hero, they did something that reached that viewer in a really special way."
1:18:18 Taliesin: "Please don't read Draxx in the comics, by the way. Nah."
1:18:20 Amy: "Quite different!"
1:18:20 Taliesin: "Not yet, not yet!"
1:18:21 Matt: "Very different. But I think there's something to be said for seeing-- I feel like so many times-- And I know this from my dealing with depression, you can feel-- I'm saying, me dealing with my depression and extrapolating that to someone who's dealing with autism, and that's the best that I can do. But it's good to see people who I know are depressed, who also kind of are able to manage it and see their own value, and continue to push through into the world and do their own thing. And I would imagine that someone with autism, on the spectrum in any capacity, would also enjoy that. And see that Draxx actually has an immense amount of value, and is invaluable to the team."
1:19:09 Amy: "Not related to his ability to pick up social cues."
1:19:09 Matt: "And despite his shortcomings or whatever else, despite all of that…"
1:19:12 Taliesin: "Which actually just makes him adored, and fabulous, and fun, and great. Without that he'd be less of a character."
1:19:18 Matt: "So, there's something to be said for, yes, this is something that you have to manage, and maybe something that you have to deal with, and maybe even something that you get made fun of, but that's also a wonderful part of who you are."
1:19:30 Taliesin: "And we have this-- Thanks to these cameras we have this wonderful community of people who can litmus test some stuff for us and tell us what they think."
1:19:38 Amy: "Are you checking us? Because that's important."
1:19:40 Taliesin: "Please! I'm so excited. I'm so excited to have people read some of these books, and I want to hear what you have to say."
1:19:47
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Oooookay the ad is freakishly normal so far
Nott: I stole this statue because fuck your dad
Fjord harassing the man just sitting listlessly in the bar
This poor old guy xD
I like how Fjord is like “it’s time to find out all about Beau’s wild days”
[[MORE]]
Cary: “you good with a shovel?”
Cad: “I am actually.”
“They are... disappointing.”
Jester is so grossed out by these rooms poor thing
Okay what’s the joke with Sam’s flask this week
HOLY SHIT THEY ALL GET TO SEE THE TRAVELER FOR THE FIRST TIME
Oh fuck what does that mean
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN
So that means he’s.... not a god right
I’ve heard the theory he’s an archfey who Jester is helping to ascend to godgood because of her belief in him?
lol the Nott and Fjord banter is the BEST
He was?? A kid?? When she met him?? I do not remember this!!
The disappointment over that Nat20 cause they wanted to fight xD
Oh boy it’s been a while since they faced a harpy
The whole jar, Caleb?? Come on that was fun boba
Now you’ve lost the boba AND you have to fight
Nott’s drinking has gotten bad again
Have we seen Cad’s spirit guardians? I can’t remember. It’s probably bugs.
Called it
Cad coming in clutch with the dispell to save the wizard
Oh boy double crits
Ha nice tho! Fjord fjucking it up with the armor!
And the second one too DAYUM that armor is good
Oh frick it’s acid
OH NO
THE HORSES
Sending the horses back alone is a dumb idea they’re def gonna die
Good trying to deceive his way across the swamp xD
Poison fog?
Ghost fog
This which really does not want visitors
People skin leathers
I half hope it’s NOT the witch’s hut just because it would be funny
They just come across some really really weird hermit’s hut
SHIT there she is hiding on the roof
SHE SCARY
Thanks Matt I hate it
Wtf is she
I haaaaaate her
Also they’re gonna be fucked with a point of exhaustion
Hate the voice god dammit Matt
Like y’all I’m not easily freaked but she is definitely freaking me out
NOPE
NOPE
DONT LIKE HER
I’m with Travis this one time
“One at a time” hahaha hell no
Fjord really stepping up here I’m proud of him but also FUCK DON’T GO IN ALONE
Fjord don’t go promising favors to a witch
Thank god for that low roll
Fjord you little shit xD
Oh no Beau
Beau don’t do it
Nott wouldn’t want you to do it
MARISH RAY
NOOO THE STREAM IS DYING
Beau Beau Beau don’t
God I hate this no no no no no no no no no
I won’t allow this
MARISHA
GODDAMN
RAY
DONT YOU DARE
BEAU DONT
NO
Please Beau don’t
Please Beau
Please
They wouldn’t want this you’ll be hurting them too
BEAU
Oh thank god she left
Beau please don’t
Beau
ASK HER WHAT SHE MEANS BY NOT YET
What if she agrees to change Nott because she senses that Nott’s misery of being away from the M9 would be enough new misery to make it worth it
NOTT
NOTT YOU BAD
DONT DO THAT
Jfc Nott DONT WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU
ALL THOSE LIVES??
Jfc this is THE MOST SELFISH I am appalled
That puts your own family in danger!
Beau was going to sacrifice all her happiness for you and you’re going to fuck over two nations?!
Nott
Don’t you dare
Girl
If this pushes Beau to make the sacrifice instead I will rage
Has Nott been really off lately or is that just me
“Things that don’t really affect us though” Nott you lying selfish
I am so disappointed in you
Oh Beau’s gonna be MAD
Nott you LIAR
Beau tell them
Tell them the truth
Beau
Please tell them
So they can tell you how miserable they’ll be without you
BEAU DO NOT
MARISHA PLEASE DONT DO THIS
SOMEONE STOP HER
STOP
HER
PLEASE
hug her!! And hold her!! And walk away from the goddamn witch!!
PLEASE DONT LET HER
Jester hug her
Group hug her
Don’t let her
Yasha
oh god
Not gonna let Beau do this
I’m crying so hard please just kill this witch please don’t give her anything
Jester Yasha somebody grab Beau and just hold her and tell her you can’t lose her
All of you do that
And Yasha please don’t listen to the witch
She feeds on your misery, she would bring your wife back as a husk
DAMN RIGHT GIRL
What’s she gonna give her
Oh no the flowers I’m
I’m crying really hard right now
Please roll well
“Oh I just meant I would kill you”
YAAAAS YASHA
Just do it please
Jester no
Can we not
Let’s just fight her let’s just KILL HER
I want Jester to kill her with sunshine
Oh no her artistic expression
Oh that would be so sad
Just KILL HER
JESTER NO
JESTER
JESTER NO
OH MY GOD
I’m gonna throw up
N: “let her do her thing” FUCK YOU NOTT
Oh damn, was that clever of her?
Oh. Oh my god.
She’s using modify memory
BABY GIRL
that’s THE SPELL
ITS NOT GONNA WORK BUT IM PROUD SHES TRYING
HOLY SHIT
SHE SUCCEEDED
I can’t breathe
That persuasion dice roll for the fucking cupcake
LAURA GODDAMN BAILEY EVERYONE
I literally can’t breathe
Taliesin is all
Of us
Marisha is the only one keeping in character
Oh my god oh my god oh my god
I can’t believe it was all that darkness and all that emotion and then Jester saved it with a moldy cupcake
Anyone feel like Jester did that as much to keep Beau with them as for Nott?
I’m shaking man what a ride
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Evil queen Chewbacca xD
Travis and his undying loyalty to the Dallas Cowboys is super cute and I want them to actually win something just for his sake
heyyyyy congrats Laura!
Oh god here we go
Oh Sam
The DM will remember that
[[MORE]]
Can’t wait to see Ashley!!
(She’s gonna be here if I believe hard enough it will happen.)
fuck so are the Krynn actually there?? I hope not, I don’t want this to backfire on them
FLASH YOUR BADGES
Matt: “The Krynn is rushing at you”
Laura: “WHY?!”
Matt: “....because they’re attacking the city”
Good smart Fjord using the symbol
I hate that they’re stuck choosing sides when there’s shit so much bigger than this war going down and it’s so DUMB
SHE’S HERE
WHERE
IS
ASH-O-LEE
I feel like they’re very outnumbered even with Pumat there so idk what they’re gonna do when they get inside
That is a NICE map Matt
So some of them def seem like they’re just here for the Angel of Irons and don’t know what is really going on
Okay fuck here we go
Nat1 for initiative, bad. Nat1 for charity, good.
How is she making the earth rumble....?
I have some concerns that Caleb using his fire magic here in Rexentrum is going to get back to Trent...
Also I wish they’d not use up all their high levels on this fight they’re gonna need those against Obann
GUYS
Please stop wasting your good stuff ajskalskak
Okay so obviously they need to use their big stuff but specifically on HER
Caleb’s health is already real low so suddenly I’m nervous
Goooooo Pumat!
P: “hey wanna help us out here? Thanks buddy” I FUCKING LOVE HIM
Oh boy what’s coming
Fiends?
YAAAAS NOTT
Fuck gonna be the laughing hand right?
At least
YASHA’S COMING
At least he’s killable
Oh god
YAAAAAA ASHLLEYYYYYT
MY GIIIIIRL SHE BACK BAAAAABBBBYYYY
Okay okay but maybe Caleb can dispel the magic before her turn
Beau and Yasha in the same boat now and I hate it
Beau’s doing COOL MONK SHIT
YAAAAS GIRL
monks are the fucking BEST
Marisha that was EXCELLENT god I love her that was SUCH a move I love the way she played that and described it
“I would like to rage” I want to be excited but I’m not because she’s raging at Nott
YEAHHH SHE ROLLED DOUBLE ONES
good for Nott good for charity!!
Oh no here she comes
Wait didn’t she rage not reckless?
NAT20 YAY
Fuck him up, Nott!!
Make that save Nott
Fuck
I’m starting to get a weeeee but nervous
BEAU
OH GOD
I DONT LIKE THAT AT ALL F U C K
Enervation?
Nice! Fjord hurts her and gets healing
And Taliesin looked suddenly like he thought of something big
Ash: “there’s the slightest look of relief” I cry
Pumat plz be safe
Pumat... smash??
“Pumat Swol” xD
Pumat SMASH
Taliesin looks like he has something prepped and whatever it is I hope it’s good
Fuck I just had the worst thought what if Beau and Yasha both go down and they have to choose who to save?
Dispel? Dispel?? GIVE MY GIRL BACK
YAAAAAS
IM GONNA CRY GUYS
YAAAAS STORMLORD
I’m WEEPING
Spare the dying with his beetle WILDMOTHER BLESS CADUCEUS
He has saved their butts in the most desperate moments so many times
Babygirl is FREE
I’m cryyyying
Taliesin Ashely hug guys please I’m crying enough as it is
Oh man Beau missed Yasha being freed tho
YAAAAAS KILLING THE LAUGHING HAAAAAAND TAKE THAT YOU MULTI-MOUTHED FREAK
C: “get the fuck away from my friends”
Nott bb stay
Do you think Yasha’s wings will be feathered now?
Pumat please be safe
Matthew Mercer if he’s not okay I’m gonna be SAD
Someday I will win the Wyrmwood giveaway, but it is not this day :(
Ohhhhhh nice
So Yasha... can’t die?
Okay so interesting. Like the laughing hand couldn’t, we know that, except that they destroyed the heart so then he could.
Oh man I just realized Yasha doesn’t know about Fjord being a paladin that’ll be neat
Do NOT step in those circles
Nott’s free yay!
But also not in a great position
WHISPERS
I just got a look at the circles and realized they’re definitely the ritual circles so FUCK
Obann and the Inevitable End just hanging out in the ceiling
Okay so can Obann use ANYONE to help break this chain? Does he just need sacrifices?
Matt please it’s 1am already
Fjord’s just pulling all out sorts of new things tonight (probably because there hasn’t been a really big fight since he became Paladin). Fairy fire also sounds cool.
Lol he sparkles now??
Yeeees girl you rage and you fuck Obann UP
Oh damn the Inevitabel End is too?? NICE DISPELL HER AND LET HER KILL OBANN
Although I mean she probably still needs to die tho
Oh god Fjord please make it
Nooooo
Jester NO DO NOT STEP IN THE CIRCLE
IF YOU FAIL THIS HE HAS FOUR FOR THE CIRCLES
FUCK FUCK FUCK
Fuuuuuck
Yeeeees Cad getting Fjord free very nice
Oh thank god Jester resisted
Oh god Caleb
46pts piercing fuck
But at least he resists poison okay
Guys I have to sit through class tomorrow can we wrap this up
Aaaaaand then he fails it the second time and is poisoned fuck
YESSSSS
do it whatever it is babe Yasha deserves it
Please crush his skull in with your bare barbarian hands
Okay okay ripping his wings off is cool too
Niiiiiice!! I’m SO glad it was Yasha who got the final blow
Oh wait... maybe he really did believe it was the Angel of Irons
Oh don’t like that
Matt That was scary
WHAT DID HE SAY YASHA
“You failed, and so shall be punished.” Oh boy
Oh daaaaaaamn
So this mean’s he’s gone-gone. No being brought back. HELL YEAH.
Oh fuck he’s not gone-gone he’s fucked UP ew ew ew
I’m so glad we’re ending because I need sleep but that last mini is the stuff of nightmares and also two week hiatus
It’s gonna be bad tho they are all pretty much spell dry
Obann is gone so that’s good, this is just a messed up monster made of what’s left of his form
WELCOME BACK ASHLEY AND YASHA
We love you too Matt!
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I can’t believe it’s time to find out the consequences of Fjord’s accidental mistakes and bad decisions
lol I almost panicked when Travis wasn’t at the table like he HAS to be here for this
I like the “oh nos” coming from the rest about Sam’s ad
SAM NO
LOL MATT’S FACE
Sam doesn’t know what any of his Scottish means he probably just insulted his own mother
He’s gonna give Cad Molly’s necklace IT’S FINE IM NOT EMOTIONAL EXCEPT I AM
Wow okay Cad and Caleb can y’all chill and not give me emotions? Thanks.
B: *hands over Frumpkin*
C: “You have three or four more days you know”
B: “DO I?!” *grabs Frumpkin back and sticks him in her pocket*
I sure hope Sprinkles is alright after almost drowning along with the rest of them, poor thing
FJORD WAS HER FIRST SEMI-KISS
This whole interaction is super cute im dying
Fjord listen no pressure but try not to break her heart
Nott somehow always makes me a little sad
LOL oh this advice Nott. Amazing.
lol the clerics spoiling Matt’s plans for a supply stop
YES GOOD PLEASE ACQUIRE THE SKILLS NEEDED FOR SAILING
Marisha looks so excited
JESTER NO CRUSHING UP YOUR DIAMONDS FOR TATTOOS DO YOU UNDERSTAND
y’all need those
for revivifying or whatever
listen though, they absolutely all need matching sparkle tattoos someday though I want it real bad
OOO are they gonna do pirate shit??? Attack the ship and steal stuff?
This is a test if I ever saw one
Guys don’t do it please it’s such a bad idea
I just feel like Avantica is testing Fjord with basically everything
Guys please just don’t
Cad’s right it’s a bad decision
FJORD
YOU
FUCKING
IDIOT
FJORD IS A FJUCKING FJOOL
this is such a bad idea
Jester giving him the salty shoulder
“I feel like this is somehow connected to your previous bad decisions” yes Cad please keep shaming him
lol Not going crazy with the canon stuff
oh damn fjord
lol buddy Nott doesn’t even need that anymore goofy boy
Sam’s gonna roll really bad and Nott’s gonna hit the ship I can feel it
A NAT 1
okay it didn’t fire okay
Nott darling you’re going to blow up your own ship
“fire boy! go, gogo!”
“Alright, so you owe us a canon.”
Oh lord
20 thank god
SHIIIIIIIPS
They’re gonna end up with wanted posters when they get back to shore
Fjord honey what are you doing this isn’t even like you. Is this about gaining Avantica’s trust? At what cost??
Caduceus the Cool Calm Guy
God this is just… so bad
I’m serious they’re going to end up being wanted criminals
fjord
why the fuck did you give him your real name
Caduceus is the only smart one, hiding his face
stop using you’re real names Fjord for fuck’s sake be smart
Caleb plz stop
oh god guys this isn’t worth the trouble
this is gonna be so bad im so on edge
this is where the fight will break out
Jester what are you going to do oh no
Poor Liab
JESTER YOU CANT TATTOO SOMEONE AGAINST THEIR WILL
here we go I hope you’re ready to live with your bad decisions Fjord
Are they even considering that whatever this magical item is, it’ll probably go straight to Avantica?
“I don’t trust Avantica” Beau says to Caleb through Frumpkin while members of Avantica’s crew are present.
Frumpkin being able to attack is cool as frick I like that
Don’t die Frumpkin
“twelve renegade points, one point paragon!” lol Matt
I like how Beau’s like “we’re trying to be good people” but then threatens to slit his throat. Like FYI Beau, threatening someone over something you don’t have a right to, that you’re STEALING, after ATTACKING THIS GUY, is not how good people act.
Beau leave him alone
Seriously
Somehow this was only a minor disaster. So far. If they don’t end up with wanted posters because they’re pirates I will be shocked.
I don’t like anything that Avantica approves of. I don’t trust her.
She knows. She so knows they’re hiding something.
Caleb so cute talking about cats and books
They need to not look right now. They need to put it in the bag and leave it until they get far away from Avantica.
PAPERRRR
The Not There Fairy, cousin to the Metagaming pigeon
Ohhhh Beau you gonna get a tattoo like Molly’s??
Okay… darling… but maybe not an eye though that just seems like it’s inviting trouble
“But you know he’s dead” WOW
IT’S THE BARBIE RAPUNZEL PAINTBRUSH
Jester. I’m begging you. Save that paint for when y’all actually need a door.
(Also @Taliesin just tell us all what Molly would think of it please Inquiring Minds want to know)
Let Caduceus have the shield
I hope you all feel like guilty fucks tbh that was just not necessary
Oh no mediocre perception check….
Beau please don’t try sneaking into her office my god that’s a terrible idea
lol Laura you little shit xD
“You should seduce her” and Fjord’s over here like lol right uh sure totally that’s a good idea uhhuh
B: “I think if we don’t do anything, it means your eventual demise.”
F: “Well that’s… fucking dark.”
At least they’re finally thinking and really really realizing how bad things are for them right now.
Cad: “If we want to find the ship I think I can help.”
F: “With the seducing?!”
Cad: “What…? no!”
Beau really wants to seduce Avantica.
Caduceus with his naps. He is me.
Fjord and Caleb conference! It’s been a while.
MMMM I LIKE THIS
“Have you ever sacrificed anything to achieve a greater goal?” OHHH FJORD IF YOU ONLY KNEW
Talking about Papa Widogast
“I have tried to live up to the man that he was, and I have… largely failed, but I picked up what I could.” IT’S FINE IM NOT CRYING (yeah i am).
“I think traveling with all of you has emboldened me some. I was alone for a long time. And I… I like this group. I like traveling with you, Fjord.”
Okay Fjord what are you trying to get at now?
FJORD TRUSTING CALEB TO WATCH HIS BACK WITH AVANTICA my heart
oh.
“can i count on you to… right the ship, if need be?”
oh i don’t like the sound of that at all.
I don’t like this conversation
What is Fjord asking? That Caleb take him out if need be? That he makes sure the group gets out if Avantica manages to kill Fjord?
THE TRAVELER
I don’t trust him at all
J: “We’re pirates”
TT: “I know. :)”
TT: “That seed of chaos” DO NOT LIKE
“Well there are many different enchantments—“ RED FLAG RED FLAG BIG RED FLAG
he’s such a creep i hate him someone protect jester from him
he has literally gotten more and more creepy every fucking time
this is absolutely a sinister voice Matt is using too
“Preferably where it will be the least expected… and the creepiest to find” okay that was kinda funny
“the time is coming soon when you will meet the rest of your brethren” DO NOT LIKE
Like I’m not sure he’s EVIL but he creeps me out and I don’t like him
Fjord dream Fjord dream Fjord dream
Fjord dreaming about them bare naked ladies.
From ocean to sky to ocean again.
I don’t think I like this.
Watching, learn, reward.
Nope don’t like.
Smart move grabbing the map
But shit, did Avantica see the same place? If she was in the dream too I bet she did.
Nott, my darling, can you not
LOL
MATT YOU TRICKSTER
a handful of pepper made into a pepper bolt
“The Revelry” oh lord it’s a pirate colony with a court of captains or something isn’t it. Like in PotC3.
Or like Tortuga.
“The Plank King” I KNEW IT
pirate court
Avantica is absolutely gonna challenge the Plank King?
“Welcome to Dark Town” thanks Matt
I’m loving all this history/lore stuff Matt is so good at this kind of thing.
“Takes some notes” I do NOT like that
Poor Orli and the crew.
I thought for sure Avantica was gonna stab Gimati.
Caduceus really wanted to have some Words with Gimati.
B: “Marius the Mariner…. LePua…. LePain….?”
Cad: “That was really good, do me! :D”
B: “Caduceus the… Juices…?”
Listen, Fjord, guys, you owe these people. You hired them and then dragged them into SO MUCH SHIT you didn’t tell them about. And you can’t just leave them here, or refuse to pay them
Like you hired all these people and dragged them into your shit and now you're like "you can keep working for no extra money or you can stay here on pirate island" wow Fjord I’m massively unimpressed. Like I know the whole moral leanings of the whole group have been shifty but come on. This is really not cool.
“By the way, you guys are members of the Revelry.”
So first they joined a crime lord's syndicate and now they joined a pirate gang
*insert faceplam gif here*
Uh-oh…
James Tybalt, assistant to the Plank King
lol Fjord is the worst pirate, forgetting to deal with the money.
As much as I enjoy having a less than perfectly heroic group, I do wish they'd try to be just SLIGHTLY less awful sometimes
Harpy jerky as a gift. I love Nott.
Yasha is very Done with all of this.
Cad: “I serve nature and I’m the maker of fine graves.”
N: “I just love water so much.”
Y: “I like to punch things?”
Hnnn why notes
I’m glad y’all didn’t ALL give them real names
Oh lord, so now if they attack Avantica (and don’t manage to kill her and everyone else) they’ll have the Revelry after them
They’re super doomed
Oh
Oh lord he took the previous king’s hair
Oh man don’t try hitting on Beau
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh SHIT he asked Beau to keep an eye on Avantica and to snitch on her
That’s good. That’s a good. They finally have something going for them (as long as Avantica doesn’t find out)
God this night was a continued disaster. But it was super good. Stressful but fun.
“How did this happen?” The question we all want to have answered, Sam.
“Good shit, Matt.” Agreed!!
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Sam’s rejected ads
“All over my Emmet Smith commemorative snuggle!”
“IT’S A TROY AIKMEN SNUGGIE!!!”
SAM THAT SONG ROUGH DRAFT WASN’T FUNNY omg
I like how Sam’s ads are clearly 90% to make his friends die of laughter and 10% to actually promote D&D Beyond
Not immediately knowing that Jester was drawing a dick with her sparkler smh
Fjord seems really not sure about this town and I love it
Marisha/Beau meanwhile is really into it
I like how Fjord, the shiftiest fuck in the group, is concerned about other people being shifty fucks
I MISS YOU ASHLEY SOMEONE BUY YASHA A FLOWER NECKLACE
Beau just bought so many explosives
BEAU BUY FLOWERS FOR YASHA
the flower vendor’s voice I’m crying omg
omg they’re gonna explode the firecrackers with firebolts in the street these nerds
They are all so giggly tonight I love them
Oooo here we go Jester on the piano
“I’m going to sit down and try to play Chopsticks” I knew it xD
“blamblamblamblamblAMBLAMBLAMBLAM”
Beau and Molly with their charisma flops
“I like you, you’re colorful.” Molly flirting with the innkeeper is giving me life
Oh god drinking contest later
Fjord is regretting sharing rooms with Molly now lol
They are being SO GOOFY tonight I’m living
Aww they ended up with a sad babby outcast gnome
Molly stepping in like a total dad
MOLLY HAS THE WORST CHARISMA AND INTIMIDATION
oh fuck this gnome punk flicked him off
omg Molly blood maledict?? ….actually since it won’t hurt him he probably deserved it.
GUYS OMG
So is tiny gnome chick’s name Reesa?
Beau continues to prove that she is the ultimate disaster lesbian
Nott and Jester choreographing a dance oh boy
TEAM DRINKING COMPETITION OMG
DONT. FUCKING. LEAVE. KIRI.
sure Nott let’s pay a working woman to babysit your baby bird
YA’LL. DON’T.
Oh right just have Yasha babysit Kiri that’s using your noggin there Molly
The innkeeper flirting with both Molly and Fjord
IM
CRYING
Fjord is so awkward
“She’s small, I can hold her down” Matt that was perfect and the most in-character way you could have played Yasha
Please stay safe Kiri my baby bird daughter child light of my life
OH DAMN JESTER
Jester being jealous trying to be catty with the innkeeper
B: “Did you just put a hooker on layaway?”
F: “Did you just say I’d had sex with your mom??”
J: “Yeah as soon as I said it I realized it sounded really creepy.”
Insight checking to find out if Fjord is a virgin omg
Caleb back to looking for bookstores that’s my boy
Molly please tell me you’re getting flowers for Yasha
Ah frick Nott you should be more careful please
Aw Nott don’t be sad :(((((
I’m glad Beau is trying to reassure her about not feeling bad about herself
Ooooo some Beau backstory
lol Beau was a bootlegger juvenile delinquent I love her even more
Holy shit her dad paid the monks to abduct her no wonder she has issues with authority
Jester is basically offering Fjord free sex at this point she wants him real bad
Meanwhile Travis is dying
Yoooo my boy found his bookstore
They’re closed, of course. But he can go back in the morning.
SOMEBODY BUY YASHA A PRETTY SILK FLOWER THING DAMMIT PLEASE
Matt’s little girl voices are the fucking cutest things help me
Jester setting up a playdate for Kiri I’m not crying you are
Tara is the cutest baby gnome child ever
Save a flower for Yasha please I’m literally begging
Caleb encouraging Nott to dance my heart
The Wand of Smiles thing kills me every time they use it
Matt is having WAY too much fun playing this innkeeper dwarf
30 gold just to get blackout drunk my god
Caleb needs to blackout he’s probably a lightweight
Oh damn wait Jester should probably
If anyone wins this for them it will be Nott she’s practically always drunk already
Aw poor Jester
Matt stop with all these adorable bird and gnome children I want to adopt them all
NOTT’S GONNA USE THE DAILY LUCK smart girl
SCOREBOARD TIME Molly’s round: Molly: loses, wins, wins, wins Duncan: wins, loses, loses, loses MOLLY WINS and he’s drunk as fuck Beau’s round: Beau: TIE, wins, loses, wins, loses, loses Ruth: TIE, loses, wins, loses, wins, wins Beau loses… and pukes. Ew. Caleb’s round (oh boy…): Caleb: WINS, loses, loses, wins!, WINS!!! Valkin: loses, wins, wins, loses, loses (Nott and Jester distraction dance) CALEB WINS WITH A NAT20 HEEEELLL YEAH THAT’S MY SON THAT’S MY BOY Fjord’s round: Fjord: wins, loses, WINS!, WINS! Tanya: loses, wins, loses (loooool fjord flirting with his competitor) (Jester plz stop you’re gonna make Caleb puke) FJORD WINS WITH DOUBLE NAT20s OMG!! oh no don’t do it double or nothing please oh god they’re gonna do it here we go Nott’s round (please kick his ass Nott plz): Nott “Otto The Bottomless Pit”: wins, wins!, loses, WINS!!!!!!!!!! Blemy “The Whale”:  loses, loses, wins, loses (making herself look gross lol. And using mage hand to pour. Jester trying to bless him.) NOTT WINS HEEEELLLL YEAH
I really thought they were all gonna lose omg
oh no
oh thank god he passed out before he could out her as a goblin
WOOOO FREE DRINKS
Please go to bed everyone
“The mighty nein, the mighty nein, the mightiest nein to ever neeeiiiinnn”
There’s a lot of love between this group right now. They just need to be wasted to show how much they like each other lol
Awww Jester and Caleb waltzing that’s cute
Molly and Nott join in and suddenly its a dance party
OH SHIT CALEB SAID SHIT HE SHOULDN’T HAVE SAID I’m crying he was into Astrid and now he’s sad
And Jester gets him into bed I CRY
I didn’t need Caleb feelings WHY
Wait what is Molly doing?
Ah blood magic stuff
I’m beginning to expect that Taliesin is drunk irl
MOLLY OMG THAT’S DISGUSTING
Matt’s just like “no, no, we’re not doing that no” he’s a total dad
BEAU GOT PICKPOCKETED
she lost 300 gold wtf
who was close to her I can’t even think of who it might have been
THEY HAVE ALL BEEN PICKPOCKETED
OH MY GOD
NOTT, MOLLY, FJORD, CALEB, AND BEAU HAVE ALL BEEN ROBBED
that’s bad
The only inconspicuous figure I can think of is the little girl but I mean…
Are they gonna accuse the little gnome girl omg you guys I wasn’t serious
Whatever happened to Reesa/Risa?
Oh there she is
JESTER DO NOT
Hnnn they gotta learn not to cast the spells so casually on people it’s gonna come back to bite them in the ass
Awww buying Kiri a cute little music box
Repeating crossbow aw damn Nott’s gonna want it real badly
ENCHANTED repeating crossbow
“The Tinkertop Bolt Blaster 1000”
two thousand gold i choked
REESA BE NICE TO YOUR ADORABLE DAD
Reesa and her dad are adorable I like them
Casting suggest sure let’s just cast more spells on random people smh
You made Fitz cry you guys and you’re probably gonna get them fires it’s not their fault you were dumb enough to get robbed this is a dick move I’m with Jester y’all are taking it too far
Okay good at least now they won’t get fired
OH OH OH THEY GOT A BLIP CHASE IT
god please protect kiri she only has 6hp guys please
IT WAS THE KID OMG
Molly’s about to give him all his gold look at his face
Or Beau will give them gold and Molly will give them advice on how to steal and not get caught stealing xD
…Fjord are you seriously planning a jailbreak right now
Do you even know anything about the prison
Nott is like “the solution is obvious we just adopt them like we adopted Kiri it’ll be great it’ll be fine”
…Fjord that’s soft and sweet I hate you because I can’t decided whether I love you or not
Nott playing on Beau’s backstory to try and prompt her to help find the kid’s parents
“leaving them as cold heartless resting bitches” xD
FJORD KEEPS BEING NICE AND IM. JUST. I WANNA JUST KEEP PICTURING YOU AS A SHIFTY FUCK STOP BEING SO NICE
Also yeah listen Fjord grew up in an orphanage
aw Fjord…
Caleb’s a little salty about this but Caleb come on they’re kids
I can’t believe they’re gonna try to pull off a jailbreak
Leave Kiri with these kids yes and now Matt I beg you do NOT, do NOT let her get dragged away please I beg you
Matt’s ability to perfectly mimic Fjord/Travis is amazing
MAN THIS WAS POSSIBLY THE BEST EPISODE? I loved it. I was laughing so hard for all the first half. Fantastic job @the cast
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Can you guys believe it’s been 20 episodes already?? I can’t
LOL oh Sam we love you even if you are a nerdy loser
“IM A REAL ACTOR AGAIN”
I hate him and his ads
I knew it wouldn’t take them long to get into mischief over Nott’s never-empty flask
“How many fingers am I holding up?”
“I think four?”
“How many members of the Mighty Nein are there?”
“Nine.”
“She’s fine.”
Good job changing the subject Caleb xD
F: “Are we not worried about the ambush thing?”
Everyone: “nah”
Yasha liking to snuggle Frumpkin gives me life
Molly just… using the Platinum Dragon tapestry as a blanket and Nott wanting to make it into coats smh
Clouds??
OH ARMY
oh no the cart!
leave the cart get away from the army plz go go go
or ask for help that’s possibly a good idea maybe…
Oh yay Jester, magicing it up!
Aw not enough tho…
Hey @Matt why make them lose their cart that was rude
They are SO BAD at planning on the fly it’s amazing
Hello Captain Maximillian
Laura, grinning: “What do he look like?” Laura is me I wanna know what the NPCs look like always
NOTT
NO
omg Nott plz
omg did it work
lol its food xD
Female solider: looks at Yasha
Yasha: *most awkward grin ever*
I apologize Matt thanks for letting them keep the cart
Jester loves showing off her strength and it’s the best thing ever I love it so much
Beau asking Fjord about his dreams. Beau is gonna singlehandedly dig up everyone’s backstories.
Fjord being a shifty boy about the dreams…
So much rain…. I don’t like it, it’s going to take Ashley/Yasha away soon isn’t it I can tell
YOOOOOOOO YASHA BACKSTORY
IVE BEEN WAITING
baby giiiiirl
BABY GIRL
matt I asked for a week without being sad for one of my children. just a week. that was all i asked for.
jesus matt why do you have to make me sad
Storm god??
stoRM GOD????
“You walk the right path. Be strong. Don’t forget who you were, and decided who you will become.” IT’S FINE IM FINE.
Ashley’s face is the same face I’m making right now
Yasha being an umbrella for Nott lol. For all of three seconds.
My life gets better every time Yasha speaks I’m not even kidding
Yasha and Nott bonding over collecting things is cute
I swear Sam just adds strange new things for Nott to collect every week
Seriously Nott and Yasha are just so precious
Caleb wants to poof in a house all the time
Molly and Nott are the Caleb cheerleading squad and totally believe he can magically poof in a mansion someday
LOL Caleb and his one push up
Please don’t melt the cart, Nott
YAY one vial of acid good for her
Idiots doing bird calls and Fjord and Caleb are jus like “oooookay really tho”
omg are they gonna find a pet crow in a trap i want them to
“THANK YOU OSCAR—I MEAN FJOOOORD”
creepy moving thing in the swamp 0/10
BIRB PERSON?
CREEPY SWAMP LIZARD
goooo Jester!
B: “What are we saving??”
N: “I don’t know, we’re—right now we’re saving Jester!”
SWAMP MAP SWAMP MAP
Haste on Nott, nice!
Oh wait except haste in a battle can be bad…
Matt with a sneaky second gator monster
Nat1, the bird lives!
“A 2, are you fucking serious!?” lol Matt! He’s so salty.
LOL then being like “wait the bird is restrained…” he really wanted to fuck up the bird xD
Fjord just like “why are we doing this”
Enthrall?? Have we seen that happen yet?
I love their enthusiasm about their new spells/attacks
Travis gets so excited every time Yasha rages its my fave
And Liam gets excited every time Nott does something sneaky/rogueish
Not how do you always end up pinned by/inside something
HURRY THE BIRB IS DYING
fighting in a swamp is the worst they’re so slooooow
oh wait i blinked and Yasha is the one in the gator’s jaws now I’m confused
My girl Yasha with the first HDYWTDT of the night again I’m so proud.
RIPPING THE GATOR’S JAWS APART LIKE SHE’S KING KONG YO
oh man poor Not! grappled again. thank goodness for uncanny dodge tho.
Nat20 to beat it on the nose go Beau!
Curse of the Eyeless?? What are all these things??
Liam all like “no no no matt no hurting nott” is such a mood
SAM DONT RISK IT WHAT THE FUCK
Jester is the worst cleric/Laura is the best worst
poor Fjord has been so useless xD
I TAKE IT BACK showed up just in time to get the other HDYWTDT
“Nott today!” xD
“A slop-dolly of epic proportions!”
Oh the bird! Yay!
Adorable little bird person!
IT SPEAKS
A LIL BABBY BIRDIE??
I LOVE HER ALREADY
i can’t believe the mighty nein are gonna take care of a kid
she wrote thank you awwwwwwww
Four she’s four she’s such a babby
Kiri I’m gonna adopt you
SHE’S LOST POOR BABY
Jester/Laura is in mom mode and I love it
I can’t believe she got stuck and her family just left her poor baby Kiri I’m cryyyying
“Nowhere to go, can I come with you?”
I CRY
“Can you handle a weapon?” CALEB SHE’S FOUR SHE’S A BABBY
omg she put her little wings like she was gonna fight I cryyyyyyyyyy
LOL the way she mimicked Fjord’s voice
omg Nott got that pouch of oats and corn. How convenient!
Beau please don’t hit Kiri
LOL she rolled a Nat20 to hit Beau good for her
OH NO DID THEY EAT KIRI’S FAMILY
Caleb totally playing dad to keep Kiri away from the talk about her family possibly being dead I cryyyyyyy
BEAU YOU CAN’T JUST ABANDON HER
she’s so tiny i love her
YOU WILL NOT DROP HER OFF YOU WILL KEEP HER AND LOVE HER UNTIL YOU CAN GET HER BACK TO HER FAMILY
The mighty nein have 8 members now!
Nott and Jester losing their shit over how cute Kiri is is such a mood
Aw poor baby is scared of Frumpkin xD
Caleb sharing his comfort cat is the cutest sweetest thing ever
Ashley why are you insight checking my sweet bird child
Nott gives to Kiri, Jester gives to Nott, Caleb tries to give to Jester. What a bunch of nerds.
Jester and the cranky old lady
“What the FUCK is pocket bacon?!” xD
Caleb is NOT getting into this place lol. An eight foot climb up a rope? Skinny boy can’t handle that.
Beau, honey, please don’t antagonize the Crown’s Guard
“I don’t like you”
“I get that a lot” Poor Beau
LOL then the awkward face off I love Beau so much
“that was me at 16 with every cop” Taliesin Jaffe backstory
NOTT NO ALCOHOL FOR KIRI
“We’ll get her a Tirly Shemple”
“Is it haunted?”
“….Do you like things that are haunted?”
“Yeah.”
“Then it’s haunted!”
Caleb making an intimidation check oh no
Oh wait it worked? holy cow
“It ain’t worth the coin!!”
“What if we gave you a hundred coin?”
“I’d come for that.”
lol Jester forcing the dude to sing
omg is Matt gonna sing??
I’M CRYING
do not trust the guy to take the cart that’s probably a horrible idea…
Nott darling sweetheart light of my life your problems are not a burden talk to Caleb if you need to
wow listen can we go like three weeks without making me sad about Caleb’s past and Nott’s issues
CALEB MIDDLENAME WIDOGAST DO NOT CALL YOURSELF A GARBAGE PERSON (unless you mean it ironically which I know you don’t) I WON’T STAND FOR IT
Matt’s face while Beau and Jester are talking about Captain Max
DO NOT LET KIRI READ YOUR SMUT BOOK JESTER
Molly like super locking up his room is smart, 10/10, that’s using your head
Fjord are you really just gonna sleep in two inches of swamp water
Yasha is having none of this gross guy’s shit good for her
This episode was sooooo good! I hate that I missed it live. It’s all good though. I’ll be back next week!
ALSO I’M SERIOUSLY GONNA ADOPT KIRI
ending it on teasing Marisha about her notebook
GUEST GUEST GUEST GUEST GUEST
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