#tangereendream

[daggersandarrows]

CHOOSE VIOLENCE!!! 7, 8, 10

choosing violence!!

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

ok this is going to be a weird one but. fjord.

TO BE CLEAR i fucking love fjord and i think his arc is one of my favorites but there came a point sometime after he'd sort of settled into being a cleric of the wildmother when a certain meta writer--who i respect very much, they seem very smart--started to make meta posts after each episodes where i was nodding along enthusiastically, ready for them to draw me into the conclusion....where they inevitably went "which is why this was all about fjord and his journey."

i got...so...sick of this, especially as the story focused more on caleb and then on beau and yasha. and this person's meta is super popular, so i saw it EVERYWHERE even after i unfollowed. i just wanted to scream "not everything is about your blorbo oh my god". and i started to roll my eyes any time fjord said anything before i was like wait. what. i like fjord. and i realized it was just dread at the anticipation of looooong metas that were Just About Fjord.

in retrospect this is totally on me, i should've just blocked them, but their only crime was being slightly annoying so i chickened out.

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

that jester is innocent and clueless, especially wrt sex. it is absolutely incredible to me how many people completely forget that she was given a pretty thorough private education and oh yeah that her mom is a sex worker?? who's VERY frank with her?

no--jester is inexperienced. jester is that one friend you know who has kinks you've never heard of and reads piles of smut and has never had sex. she knows Exactly what goes on, she just has very unrealistic ideas about the possibility of being railed by the pizza delivery man.

bringing me to my final point: why don't more people do an aspec or arospec of jester?? it's RIGHT there

10. worst part of fanon

i'm so incredibly bored by "and then they were happily into peaceful cottagecore domesticity for the rest of their days" type shipping (with ONE exception), espeeeecially with queer ships. y'all think yasha "i'll throw you under a bridge" nydoorin is gonna be a quiet, settled housewife with her adhd, violence prone, poison immune wife? caleb "i want to bend reality to my will" and essek literally started a war thelyss are going to find a nice place in rexxentrum and settle down? with KIDS? (i find it impossible to believe shadowgast would want kids. i Get the impulse and i will never yuck anyone's yum but i personally find it incredibly out of character). (conversely, i do find ridiculously sweet/cutesy/fluffy shipping of these characters to be generally kind of funny but really endearing. it's just the "settling down" bit--like. i just can't believe these guys would ever sit still.)

my one exception is of course percahlia, in part because their cottage is less a cottage and more local government, and more relevantly because i think the two of them getting a quiet comfortable existence is actually sort of a radical idea. "i was going to be a clockmaker once" just fucking kills me. for a character to be, as taliesin put it, karmically fated to have a bad ending, to get the typical fairy tale happily ever after treatment...for vex to gain both wealth and importance...it just feels right.

thanks tangereen :)

[spottedenchants]

@tangereendream

drop the playlist bestie

as you wish uwu

Sometimes you're just supposed to eat black moss cupcakes while listening to evil era essek songs

[burningdarkfire]

WIP ask game!

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

i was tagged by @critterfloozy 🫶

if you've followed me for a little while, the concepts of most of these are probably familiar, but i've been extremely lax about posting snippets recently so i'd be happy to share some of those:

CR university AU

CR/LoL WF/JV underdark

V SB the body

succession tomgreg

CR B3 gorgon AU

CR WF blood moon notes

CR SG ancillary justice

CR B3 modern vday dinner

CR B3 brenwulf weird vibes

CR SG free use

CR SG werewolf

CR WFJ early heat

CR sedoretwo

CR SG simulacrum

i swear just about everyone i know has already been tagged in this, but just to toss some into the wind with no pressure, as ever: @callingvoicemail @capitola @demenior @nocttvrnes @saturdaysky @mllekurtz @tangereendream @perpetualnovelboyfriend

[devourm0us]

Collared

A piece commissioned by @tangereendream which was an absolute DELIGHT to do, please check out their writing!!!! They're amazing at what they do and are an awesome person in general.

If you’re interested in getting similar art, shoot me a message or submit a commission request form HERE!

[moonsp1r1t-artblog]

Essek and Eadwulf for @tangereendream! Thank you so much!!

[essektheylyss]

#veth and yeza only call him shadowhand when they're talking about the bad stuff #and Essek when they're talking about their (veth's?) friend #luc never knew they were the same person (via @tangereendream)

I am taking this as my firm official headcanon from now on, there is no funnier way to do this, this is it folks

I'm just thinking about those family secrets and drama that people don't tell the kids about because kids can blurt things out in mixed company even with the best intentions, that you only learn when your mom says something offhand about "And that's why your cousin lived with us for a year," while you're helping in the kitchen at 11pm the night before a holiday and it recontextualizes a whole bunch of stuff from when you were nine and things didn't quite add up but also you were having a great time having sleepovers with your cousin, but also this context raises a LOT of other questions.

So in that regard, it is so funny to wonder like, how much Luc actually knows about Essek. Has he actually met him? I presume he has, but in that case, was he in disguise? Does Luc know him by an alias? Is Essek one of those family members who shows up to events very intermittently and no one really talks about? For that matter, how much does he know about Caleb's history?

I'm just imagining him hearing the "Shadowhand" comment in the Archive and not knowing who the fuck this geezer is talking about let alone why his godfather's being threatened until Aunt Jester says, "And he's going to hurt Essek," and putting a lot of things together that also raises more questions than it answers like

[daggersandarrows]

weirdly specific asks: 7, 16, 29

7. what animal do you look forward to seeing when you visit an aquarium?

stingrays!! i just love petting them ;_;

16. thoughts on mint chocolate chip?

better in cookies or cake than in ice cream. in ice cream it just tastes like toothpaste to me

already answered 29 :)

thanks tangereen!

[a-lilac-lyric]

@tangereendream

#wish there was purple skin for my boy#but i don't think there's an purple skin in star trek

Dal R'El from Star Trek: Prodigy begs to differ

Star Trek Picrew v 1.3 is out !! (finally !!)

I added a bunch of haircuts, and 3 hair colours. It was SO tedious, I hope you're happy with what you've got because I am never adding anything else hair wise lmao

Next update, god knows when, will probably focus on adding hand gestures and rank pips

[burningdarkfire]

i was tagged by @tangereendream to post a poll of my current wips and let everyone decide what to work on .. the rules said 24h but i'm going to make it longer because i want attention <3

pretty much everything is what it says on the tin - i do not have creative WIP names lmao. mystery boxes are fics that will end up on the second account. all the above are at varying levels of complete but about half of them are essentially done, i just need a kick in the ass to actually post them, so you may get lucky!

tagging @capitola @callingvoicemail @nocttvrnes @iniquiticity @astrid-beck @operafloozy and anyone else who wants to do it - if you take the open invite, tag me in it because i love voting and seeing what people are working on :D

[devourm0us]

I was tagged by @tangereendream: Post a 24 hour poll of your current wips and let the votes decide which one you work on. Add at least as many sentences as the top vote gets (or work on for 10 mins per vote for my art stuff lol).

Sweet as Honey Sharp As A Knife: Shadowgast-into-shadowidomauk dark mafia au Ravished: Shadowidomauk Molly-Focused misuse of Evard's Black Tentacles fic Greater Timestop: Shadowgast noncon/dubcon???? Not started there are just vibes - honestly maybe even some other ship with essek Fynn Family Dinner: Huge dark OC piece Essek Daki: What it says on the tin Shadowidomauk Bang Prompt Fill: prompt is 'witch' but otherwise I cannot say :3c

I'm realising this is all CR or CR adjacent I need to add more to my projects.

tagging.... uh... uhhh... (y'all don't have to of coruse) @sun-pathos @aithilin and anyone who wants to!

[archivebottles]

small brain: daisy could pick up jon / medium brain: martin could pick up jon / large brain: melanie could pick up jon

oh lol i actually was thinking of sketching everyone i thought could pick up jon picking him up just a while ago i havent gotten to it yet tho

the list was daisy, martin, melanie, georgie, and tim

[rainbowcaleb]

@tangereendream “hunger” huh 😈 oh boy I have many uses of this verb, here’s one that isn’t posted yet!

There’s a sweet threaded through the sour now, yeast-sweet, salt-sweet. A drying blanket in the sun, he wants to run to it and press his face into the warm fabric, a raft in a hungry world that still reminds him of home. Caleb propels his thoughts outward again, forcefully, to follow the present trail rather than the tendrils of a memory. Something familiar, a comfort in this nightmare, is waiting for him. It feels like doom to walk forward, a sweet trap is still a trap, but some gentle kiss of instinct sends him forward knowing he will, at least for a time, be safe.

WIP WEDNESDAY!

Reply to this or message me any word, yup any at all, and I’ll drop a snippet from a WIP that uses the word!

[miketownsends]

tillsend........i have been forced to care Tillman Henderson................if beams court was open i would sue.........

hflaksjdfhs Tillsend made me go from “Tillman getting incinerated and then accidentally revived is so funny can’t wait until he gets incinerated or something again” to “i unironically love and care about this goblin man and i will be devastated if he is taken from me” in the span of about 2-3 days and i will never forgive myself or anyone else for it, probably

(shh don’t let Sins hear you say the words “Beams court” and “sue” in the same sentence, it’ll probably incinerate you just to be on the safe side)

[ciphergem]

yo your Jonah in Wonderland post is amazing, but adding the full incantation over Wonderland, because that would be an absolute banger and what a way to start an eye-pocalypse

i’ll keep that in mind! i don’t know how to download the full episode myself but if any TMA fans know how, then I will made it for y’all! 

[critter-genfic-events]

@tangereendream and others who may not know what Gen Weeks are:

A Gen Week is a week centered around what fandom calls Gen content where Gen is shorthand for general. Pretty much anything falls under the Gen content label so long as it's not romance centered.

This is Ao3's definition: "no romantic or sexual relationships, or relationships which are not the main focus of the work".

A fic where FCG and Ashton meet is Gen.

A drawing where Caduceus and Fjord are praying together is Gen.

A moodboard made for Vox Machina as a group is Gen.

A meta-analysis about Opal is Gen.

Mostly Gen Week/Events are about giving love to characters, dynamics and friendships that live outside of mainstream shipping culture.

Hey, critters! Just wanted to do an interest check on how many people might be interested in a gen week for Critical Role.

The event will be hosted regardless, but I just want an estimate of how many might participate. Please reblog if you vote!

In addition to running the event I hope to do fic recs for each week leading up to the event with particular themes that will be listed out as well as deep dives into favorite characters or relationships but more details on that will come later.

[elifinchsart]

A commission for @tangereendream of Eadwulf and Essek and their fankid Ellie! [Image ID: A drawing of Eadwulf and Essek from Critical Role. They have their arms around each other and Eadwulf is holding Ellie, a tiny baby who is grabbing at Essek's finger to chomp on it. Eadwulf is a stocky man scruffy hair and maze like tattoos on his arms and Essek is a drow with dark purple skin and freckles that look like stars. Ellie resembles Essek and is wearing an outfit covered in stars and moons. End ID]