"Down boy" 😳

Don't worry, I'm sure he's fine :)

Vaelus got jokes!

Shapes and colours... Curse the show for actually getting me into critical role. Now what, I'm going to care? Uncalled for. Molly is my baby now.

they can't all fit in "my life is a living hell" unfortunately

From Critical Role C4EP11

One last pathetic moment from Wic before we move tables

quick thing for laerryn😌😌 just finished calamity, im obsessed.

my holy thoughtful analysis of The Character's trauma and speculation on how those life experiences could influence future actions/general character arc vs their heathen angsty fanfiction of the blorbo based entirely on gross misinterpretation and popular whump tropes. (it's the same character.)

is this a safe space? can I bring something up that has been bothering me since episode two?

the line was "passed me off." it wasn't "traded." it wasn't "sold." it wasn't "sent me away." it was passed me off, which could mean a lot of things. being "lucky to get a second chance" could also mean a lot of things. people misheard this and zeroed in a quick and easy sorcerer trope and fucking ran with it. when in truth, Mr. Nayar could have very well been trying to save his son's life when he passed him off to the mercenaries for all we know. granted, it could have also been malicious. I have been wrong before. but I swear, all of the worst interpretations of Azune as a character come from taking one single and most uncharitable interpretation of these lines as a fact about Azune's backstory instead of recognizing it as just popular fanon.

thaisha being like "they're so desperate to return to a time that was worse" in front of the woman whose time was Better

honestly obsessed with the way Kattigan himself just acts like a dog. Says his piece, then wanders off. checks in, then leaves to go look at stuff. brings you a Thing he found, and two minutes later he's gone again. Robbie Daymond your work DAZZLES

Brother put those baby blues away now is NOT the time

local priest experiences being the narrative's favorite little meow meow: bursts into tears on the spot (more at 8)

Campaign 4 Episode 6 // Episode 11

[Image ID: 4 screenshots from Critical Role Campaign 4 overlain with text. The first two show Brennan, Travis, Laura, Sam, Whitney, and Robbie sitting at a table. Text reads: "TRAVIS: If we are confronted with a decision in which you have to decide if it's your family or your idealism, are you prepared to make that decision?" and "SAM: Oh, definitely not. I--." The second two show Brennan, Liam, Marisha, Taliesin, and Luis sitting at a table. Text reads: "LUIS: Are you ready for this, Hal?" and "LIAM: (laughs) No. No, I'm not." end ID]

There’s a really interesting dynamic between Thaisha and Valeus when it comes to mourning.

We don’t know much about the culture Valeus comes from, but so far it seems like mourning is sort of an individual act. Valeus made her journey alone, and she explicitly says she hasn’t traveled with people before. She seemed to have a very personal relationship with her god, and the loss she feels is a personal one. She has made being in mourning part of her individual identity, her clothes, her actions, her way of life, all demonstrates the loss she felt.

But let’s look at how the old path mourned Thjazi. It was a community event. They laid out Thjazi and had everyone in his community come to pay their respects to him, but importantly, support each other in grief. They eat and drink and cry and chant and sign together. Little moments like Thaisha taking over a chant from another Old Path member shows how they hold the burden of grief together.

This speaks to the kind of loss they’ve felt. Valeus lost her god like you lose a person you care about. She lived in the happy world where her god was alive, and now she doesn’t, and she has no framework for how to live in a world without her god. She is an ageless elf, she does not come from a culture that knows how to mourn.

But Thaisha comes from the Old Path. The Old Path never had the space to mourn like Valeus does, because they existed under the conditions of survival. The gods attempted to eradicate the Old Path, and the Old Path was forced to mourn what they’d lost at the same time as they tried to preserve what they could. Besides that, the religion itself is based around the cycles of life and death. To Thaisha, a member of the first generation born post-gods, the loss her people experienced and still experiences must be a constant presence. Dealing with loss is a part of her way of life. The gods are gone now, but that doesn’t mean that the Old Path gets back what was taken from them. And a community that’s experienced so much loss and survived through it knows that grief must be experienced together.

So now we come to the statues. This is such a perfect metaphor for the dynamic at play. A woman mourns the loss of her gods, in a town that’s built statues to those lost gods. But those statues are built of Druidic words. They build their mourning on top of the constant mourning the Old Path faced, they overshadow it. The grief Valeus feels cannot exist without the grief Thaisha has felt, and her obvious grief looms large over the grief Thaisha has had to live with her whole life, that has been baked into her culture.

have some random julien warmup sketches while I keep working through my feelings after the last episode 😩

This AU idea of “what if they met as children” has been living in my head for a while. By chance they meet, Caleb shows Essek a place full of cats, and Essek doesn’t quite know what to do with them. And maybe a small adventure begins, you know.