#xorhas

[aldercaps]

sipping some tea in the Xorhaus

[oriato]

doodle or wip? im not even sure yet

[shadowgast-recs-weekly]

Hidden Gems 10

This week, we have seven fics that you might have missed - hidden gems with under 150 kudos. Check them out beneath the cut, and of course, comment or kudos if you like them!

Live Along Some Distant Day by Dira Sudis (dsudis) (3224, Teen) Reccer's Content Notes: No Content Notes

While in the tower in Aeor, Caleb and Essek share childhood memories about watching the sun rise through stained glass. Caleb makes Essek a gift.

Reccer says: This fic is lovely! It’s short, sweet, and a little bit melancholy, with some beautifully vivid imagery and just as much kissing as you’d expect.

No Distractions, Dear by CaptainHollow (1201, General) Reccer's Content Notes: No Content Notes

A tiny slice of life for the wizards in Caleb’s home as they settle in to life together.

Reccer says: It’s short and sweet, with spot-on characterization. I especially love how it shows Essek allowing his good old pre-traitor reveal snark to resurface.

and in between us a distance greater than the ocean by LivThael (4116, Explicit) Reccer's Content Notes: No Content Notes

Caleb tries to seduce Essek into not betraying the Nein after the war is finally over, only to find himself in the uncharted waters of what their relationship could be

Reccer says: I liked it!

the sheep and the shadowhand by dragonslaeyr (7897, Mature) Reccer's Content Notes: No Content Notes

Caleb has a husband in Rosahna. On the walk from the Bastion to the prisons to the house the M9 try to figure out more.

Reccer says: Is it crack? No but it is quite sequel to crack. A good and funny read with neither Caleb nor the M9 being subtle.

Cover me is sunshine, shower me in good times by raretune (1599, General) Reccer's Content Notes: No Content Notes

Essek tells Caleb to find a hobby and Caleb becomes a C-popper

Reccer says: This was such a sweet read.

Statuesque by Chiakery (15682, Teen) Reccer's Content Notes: No Content Notes

Verin takes Essek to Jester's art exhibition and Essek falls in love with a statue that looks like Caleb

Reccer says: So well written! And even if you suspect what's coming it still surprises you. + super fun bonus content in last chapter!!

And then three recs for this last one: The Night Shift by Ghost Particles (27273, Explicit) Reccer's Content Notes: Choose Not to Warn

007 au where the mighty nein are spies and Essek is their handler.

Reccer 1 says: I love the build up of the Essek and Caleb's relationship. Reccer 2 says: It is an amazing AU, all of Essek's pov and it greatly showcases his thoughts and feelings and growing fondness. Keeping how in the campaign he was also distanced from the party by being in xorhas. Reccer says 3: I liked it!

Read all of those already, and looking for some good but not often recced fics? Check out some of our past hidden gems reclists here: [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

This is one of our weekly communally-generated shadowgast rec lists. Every week we announce a new theme and allow anyone to submit a fic recommendation. 

And hey, anyone includes you!

Next week, we'll be featuring fics that take place in Eiselcross or Aeor. Any fics coming to mind? Well, then use this form to submit!

[beawake]

I saw someone say they finally realised why the liked c2 the least, and that made me realise why it stays my favourite.

Other than the fact that I just like all the PC's, I feel like the interpersonal relationships are more different and unique.

The party feels more like a found family, and in part Molly is to thank for that, his dead shocked everyone into closer relationships, but also it feels like all the characters and their backstories mattered more.

VM, other than Percy's story, always went for the overarching bigger events and they were motivated by backstories but they mattered less. Even without the connection of Thordak killing the twins their mom, they'd have gone after them.

And BH has also been guided by bigger things, Eshteross guided them first, and they kept getting pushed into directions then (I'm fuzzy on the details) and while the big story is also important to some of their backstories it still feels like it matters less.

But the M9 were always motivated by their backstories and it feels more like their own motivations made them stumble upon the big things, ending the war that didn't matter all that much to them, and the Somnovum was important, but they got there because of Molly, they ended the cult because of Yasha.

In a way it cements M9 also as really some assholes cause the big good things they did were done because of selfish reasons, but it just feels like the every time they were motivated by backstory beats. Going to the sea, going to Xorhas, going to Eiselcross, etc.

[foggy-tea94]

More thoughts on recent Critical Role Campaign 3 recent episodes

Some of this might be hot takes. 🤷🏻‍♀️

People are all up in arms about somebody pressuring Imogen to do something she is afraid to do, and certain parts of the fandom and some of the characters themselves are all up in a tizzy.

I don’t recall ANYBODY being in a tizzy like this when over half the damn party was trying to pressure Fearne into taking the shard, which she said on multiple occasions over pretty much every episode since they got the damn thing until she took it in the Feywild, that she didn’t want it, that she was scared of what it would do to her.

Where are the people calling Imogen and Laudna out for pressuring Fearne to do something she said she was scared to do, on more than one singular occasion? Where are the people calling them bad and evil and awful for that?

But Orym telling Imogen that they need her here in this fight because they can’t win this without her, and pressuring her to use her connection to Ruidus, which she has been all gung-ho to do—even excitedly done, in previous episodes, is the ultimate bad guy here? 

The math ain’t mathin’ here people.

Either villainize all attempts at peer pressure within the party, or just maybe, look at things in the context of the situation. Don’t pick and choose which ones are acceptable and which ones aren’t.

If Orym is a piece of shit for pressuring Imogen, then so are Imogen and Laudna for pressuring Fearne.

Now putting that rant aside, I love all of the cast and I love all the characters of Bells Hells. None of them are perfect and they all have their issues, and I love it. I think it’s all so juicy. Let these characters become like people, let them feel like people!

I actually really like this campaign. Not more than I liked campaign one, but I feel like I get the story line more than what I did with campaign two. To me, campaign two didn’t feel cohesive until Eiselcross, Aeor, or heck just before the Somnovum. The story doesn’t get cohesive at least until they were in Xorhas at the very earliest. While with campaign one and campaign 3, their goals/purposes/linear story arc overall, has been way more cohesive from the start. Things tie back in at every twist and turn, leading towards the overall story.

So I’m all down for good inter-party conflict and found family. Whatever the cast of critical role wants to throw at us.

[camelliasblooming]

mighty nein teleporting to xorhas from the spa has me laughing so hard lmao

[inkyu]

!NOT MY HOMESTUCK OC THIS IS AN ARTFIGHT ATTACK :3!

anywhooos this GIF took ALL. DAY. and I like how it turned out :3

It looks bad on tumblr but it looked fine on artfight qwp I wonder why JKFBDGJHDGFB

Character(s) attacked: https://artfight.net/character/3172935.tahhae-kileer | https://artfight.net/character/3159717.latana-xorhae

[average-lesboy]

LATANA XORHAE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

most normal indigoblood why would she ever be a mutant um er erm uh hm er

[thatonegaybastard]

Actually. Fuck it ask my homestuck ocs questions if its Q&A time you van also ask lorem ipsum characters because I've been thinking snout them lately

Homestuvk ocs you can ask

Olly

Jay

Jess

Susan

Drizee

Lizzos

Romzis

Zerzia

Lurzar

Jadeblood who's name is UNIMPORTANT

This random girl I made in the dollsim named *checks hand* Latana Xorhae

[terresdebrume]

Wait, wait, wait

They just found a GIGANTIC tree in the middle of Xorhas' no man's land, and I'm *pretty sure* something got mentioned about a big tree in Calamity... Are there old gods/titans in this fucker????

[sfaira]

I love all the Essek fanart on here, I had to finally draw the floaty boy myself. I love him. Cleaner version and a concept sketch I did.

[aeor-falls-to-ruin]

God, I thought nothing could make me like the Dynasty more, but then MATT FUCKING MERCER made their monarch GAY and so now I guess I'm just a Xhorhassean now.

[fluffmonger]

Things I think about at midnight, apparently: Fiber crafts and traditions across exandria, feat speculation on traditional xorhassian method and motifs vs traditional zemnian method and motif

[kcdahippie]

Watching them fast travel across places is so weird considering they spent forever crawling underneath a tunnel to get to Xorhas. 

[ophelialmx]

Interesting implication from the Bright Queen.

A crime was done, so someone must pay, full stop.

Thus, regardless of whether the Taskhand ever willingly participated in that crime, if his is the only head available, it may still roll.

[quazarpancake]

Memorable moments this episode

Beau being paralysed the entire fight

Jester sending a message to kiri

Fjord's dream with the wild mother breaking in

Caduceus weaving a hat for yasha

Beau and yasha's talk

Beau doing parkour all the way up the giant tree

Jester falling out of said tree

Fjord IMMEDIATELY DIVING AFTER HER and then shooting all the way back up

All the imagery of the tree and the view of the landscape

"Bazozan is over there!"