[sophiamcdougall]

...why does no one at Critical Role have any idea how any stage of human ageing works? Why are they always "OK if older then grizzled veteran -- unless child, in which case now teenager." Luc should be eleven or twelve. Beau is a mere thirty-three, the same age Caleb was in the original show, younger than Orym is now, and one year younger than Marisha herself! She also has unlocked monk shit that stops her ageing. Why is she heavily salt-and-pepper haired in her new art? Caleb is now 40, younger than almost all of the cast except Marisha, and the same age as Ashley! Why does Matt's Campaign 3 description of him have to ensure that the Hells -- in low light, in a landscape swirling with dust -- can still pick out the grey in his hair? Why would Orym -- currently around 36?? - see him as a "zaddy"? Yes, there are people whose hair is noticeably grey at these ages, people who visibly age a lot over the course of seven years. None of the people creating these characters, though!

Why do they always seem to revert to a fifteen-year-old's idea of what turning 30/40/50 means when depicting characters the same age or younger than they are themselves?

[fuckblizzardbearlover]

I think they know what thry are doing. Like u said they are the same age. Maybe you are misunderstanding some jokes. Like for beau any body aches might seem like a big deal. Everyone over 30 i see acts like their body starting to age means they are dying.

And like “orym calling caleb zaddy” was literally just liam saying “my hot wizard is now a hot middle aged wizard”

Like the cast is just having fun its not a big deal

[cringefaecompilation]

okay it is now morning and i am here to talk about people in this fandom being weird about ashley johnson's characters but mostly fearne because i am way too in love with fearne for my own well-being.

because it doesn't stem from nothing. a lot of ashley's characters got truncated by her irl jobs where she was forced to miss sessions and a lot of people would rather just roll with her not being there rather than take the time and effort to give her more detail. oh, that's pike. she's grog's little buddy and likes scanlan. oh, that's yasha. she's mollymauk's best friend and beau's girlfriend. unless you're a massive fan of them or of ashley then nobody really talks about them outside of set dressing for fanfic.

and now that ashley is a full time cast character with fearne, i don't think people know what to do with her. they can't just file her away because she has strong ties to not just the other pcs, but to the overarching story of the entire campaign. and she's not this subtle, quiet, stoic or a devout gentle cleric that they can mill down into being "mom friends" 🙄, she is big and bold and in your face and full of energy! she takes the spotlight and runs with it! she's so far detached from what people assume An Ashley PC is that people aren't sure how to approach her. so, unfortunately, she and her backstory is oft ignored for the sake of other characters she's related to.

and it's not just any particular ship that does this more than the others, it's pretty much every single campaign ship that has ever been made. fearne is simply either a wingman to ensure the author's favorite OTP gets that little nudge in the right direction or she's the goddamn trophy wife for whichever character she's shipped with (not you imogearne fans, you are a delight to have around). and all of her interactions or decisions EVER are played off as jokes or flirting.

i want people to talk about the coin flip without making her out to be selfish! i want people to talk about her own fears about rudius and being ruidusborn and how she's worried it'll affect her and the fact that if ludinus wins, it'll destroy the feywild (i feel like literally everyone forgot that?), i want her to be open about all the times she's almost died and how much she loves unconditionally and how it intersects with her own honest-to-god fears about actually being in a serious relationship. AND THE SHARD THAT'S SHE'S SCARED OF TAKING MAC I BEEN DYING TO TALK ABOUT THE SHARD-

my point here is that fearne is an actual character outside of ships and shipping drama and "The Bit" that has fears and anxieties just like the rest of them. if you can complain that people don't take chetney seriously or if people are too harsh on orym or that people think all of sam's characters are jokes then why can't she get any respect on her name?

[fuckblizzardbearlover]

Ibfeel like you might be dealing with confirmation bias because whenever i see her come up i see ppl talking about her fears and attempts to comfort and of her anger and nihilism and vindictiveness

[absintheheartbeat]

It's kind of disappointing to what the characters get reduced during a one shot. I mean I get that you want laughs and reactions during a live show, but playing the character flat out dumb? Who even are this characters?
Also the only thing left for some of them is making comments about their romantic relationship? That's kind of sad.

Was Caduceus even there?

Yes they all did shine in the fight and I get that during a live show there is no time for actual character play, but some of those characters truly felt like a bad parody.

[fuckblizzardbearlover]

There is like 500 hours of a show in which u see more in depth about them. Also whats with the tone of acring like they are real ppl whos legacies are ruined by the *checks notes* people who made everything about them?

[lunalikestowriteanddraw]

I’m at the point where I can’t tell if I actually have a crush on a fictional character, or if it’s just a by proxy thing because I like their actor

[fuckblizzardbearlover]

Honestly the great thing about thr characters is thry are all a piece of the actor. One shot characters they more often do things that dont mesh with them (i.e. talesin having fun being the ocerly broody batman). But they think alot about what their character might do and think. Talesin is essentially minor hollywood royalty. Grandson of a director and child actor percy is who ue sort of sees himself as, a rich boy with priviledge who uses that perspective to tear down the rich and powerful who deserve it. For many interviews i heard him talk about how percy was a terrible person, yet he never really did anything more morally ambiguous than the rest this is because the THOUGHTS he had and things he considered, tal thought were bad. Essentially “im a terrible person for thinking this”.

Cadeusus is essentially the person he wishes he could be for others. Like cad, tal has wisdom, quirks and kindness but doesnt see himself as morally pure.

Imo ashton is essentially mollynauk whos been through hell. Molly was his attempt to create what Tal WANTED to be. This goth chaos gremlin who did what he wanted and only interfered to help someone(discretely so they wouldn’t thank him) or stick it to those who deaerved it. And you can see how this relates to the others insofar as molly is: thr culmination of the enviroment he was raised, a good person with no soul, and a self proclaimed asshole.

Reflecting on percy i think tal sees his inner thoughts and the privilege he had and resents it and himself and molly was a way for him to explore the idea of identifying based on the family he chose and rejecting the past as unimportant to him.

And you see in ashton a sort of continuation that he wasnt able to explore with molly. A begruging acceptance of the past , but a rejection of having deserved the bullshit. Ashton is molly without the luxary of a working body or the amnesia to shield him from the past. Instead of being a goth accepting hedonism for fun, hes a punk rejecting the parts of the world that rejected him. And thinking of him mentioning how HE has to deal with chronic pain, i feel like ahston was made from a perspective of recreating molly but years later with more wisdom, perspective, anger and pain.

[orymsblueflower]

So I enjoy mixing and matching animated intros to shows, and of course messed around with the new Bells Hells animated intro and my god I was SHOOK when I linked it up to the RWBY vol 7 intro song like it fits too well

Even a number of the lyrics, like "...through love your power just shines" when FCG gains control back, and "the truth is there but sometimes in disguise" when Laudna reveals her form of dread...

[tlaquetzqui]

“This is a picture of an ogre getting a drink in the local tavern. #dnd #dungeonsanddragons”

If you want every fantasy creature to behave exactly like humans and be a completely unremarked participant in human society, go fuck around with Second Life. These creatures are not just supposed to be cosmetic skins on humanity.

I will take early Pathfinder’s “The Hills Have Eyes meets Deliverance” ogres over this glorified furry shit.

[fuckblizzardbearlover]

Its ok to be incorrect. But you dont have to be such a bitch about it. Fantasy has utilized racism to much and making someone a monster cus they were born that way is lazy world building. Your way piterally means you have to do less work. “Oh whats the motivation for this persons villainy? Idk im lazy ill just make em a savage”

[fallloverfic]

Dolph/Alex stuff from Captain Laserhawk

I've seen some people looking for these. Spoilers below the read more for Captain Laserhawk: Blood Dragon Remix

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[manywinged]

idc if you think it’s toxic if you’re in an enemies to lovers relationship i think you should be able to look back and laugh about all the times you almost killed each other violently

[manywinged]

my former nemesis turned lover: oh my GOD who did this to you

me: [smug despite my open bleeding wounds] well clearly not you lol *passes out in their arms*

[fuckblizzardbearlover]

Alternatively, dealing with shapechanger

“If you were her, i couldnt have blocked that!”

[aragornsrockcollection]

Isn’t it funny that you never see anyone throwing a hissy fit over the inclusion of flora not native to Medieval Europe in Tolkien or other fantasy works.

Tomatoes, tobacco, POTATOES, tea and sugar, are all perfectly acceptable and normal for Tolkien to have included in Middle earth, but depict a single character with brown skin, and suddenly it’s not realistic, and WHAT ABOUT OUR HERITAGE.

Forget that we don’t analyze the heritage of white actors playing these rolls to make sure they’re from the proper culture to represent Tolkien’s extremely English story. Has a single person ever complained that Frodo and Sam were played by Americans when Hobbiton is CLEARLY based on rural England?

According to some, Hobbits can grow food and other crops that were only introduced into Europe through the violence of imperialism, but to have the hobbits look like the people who originally grew those crops is sacrilegious.

Medieval Europe, which wasn’t as homogenous as people think anyways, is only ever trotted out to justify hating the inclusion of black and brown characters.

If Sam can wax poetic about potatoes, he can look like came from Peru, like potatoes did.

And if that idea bothers you, maybe examine why.

[vbartilucci]

Let's Not Forget Who Won Marvel's Change in Direction for TV Shows

In the wake of a new direction for 'Daredevil: Born Again', Marvel Studios has announced a wider change for all of its TV shows

The Mary Sue

When most people heard that the Daredevil series Born Again was being effectively scrapped and restarting from first position, the assumption was that this was a Bad Sign.

But @themarysue does a good job of pointing out that this is, in fact a positive, as it reflects one of the wins from the WGA strike, that the showrunner of a show should be a writer, and not simply a marketing executive.

As they point out, you'll probably see studios come out and make statements like "We hear you - No AI writers" as if it was their idea, when it was actually a point won by the writers' strike.

[h0neytune-cherub]

Shirow Masamune, 1: Frontispiece for Appleseed three, 2-4: covers for Super Comic Workshop Machine Head

[probablyasocialecologist]

Deny and deflect is Israel’s usual strategy for dealing with high-profile civilian deaths.

The deflection has come in three forms: One is claiming Palestinians killed the civilian (famous examples are British cameraman James Miller, 10-year-old Abir Aramin, the three daughters and niece of Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish inside their home in Gaza while he begged on live television for Israel to stop firing).

Often Israel claims that the victim was near a site from which Palestinian gunmen were attacking Israelis and, hence, got killed by accident by Israeli gunfire (four Gaza children on the beach, 40 people taking refuge at a U.N. school in Gaza, the British U.N. worker Iain Hook in Jenin).

Israel has also claimed that the civilian was involved in an attack on Israeli soldiers or was a member of a Palestinian militant organization (photojournalist Yaser Murtaja in Gaza).

In other cases, Israel said that the facts around a killing are unclear, but definitely not Israel’s fault (Palestinian family killed by shell on beach in Gaza).

In the case of the 2003 death of American pro-Palestinian activist, Rachel Corrie, who was run over by a military bulldozer, the Israeli army claimed “a slab of concrete” was likely what killed her.

When Israeli missiles brought down an 11-story media building last year in Gaza, where Palestinian media networks and the Associated Press were located, Israel justified it by saying it was being used by Hamas.

Orly Halpern, The Problems With Israel's Version of the Killing of Reporter Shireen Abu Akleh

[theres-a-body-here]

Scumtober- Day 13 (Somnophilia)

Reinhardt x Reader

In the middle of the night, Reinhardt couldn't sleep. His mind kept wandering to thoughts of you, the newest recruit. There was something about you that made him infatuated...maybe even obsessed. He sated his desire with passing looks and touches, but Reinhardt wanted more. It wasn't long before he started to pay more attention to the things you like or do.

You like to spar with Cassidy and go get a coffee afterward. You like the color (f/c) on your gear and like to go onto the roof at night to relax. He knew all this and made sure to figure out more. He followed you around and made note of your every action.

He figured out you took sleeping pills to deal with your insomnia.

Reinhardt couldn't take it anymore. He slipped out of his quarters and made his way silently down the hallway to where he knew you slept.

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[where-is-the-nuance]

Sometimes I think of how we went from the simple little line “you’re gonna love my boyfriend” in Paranorman (2012) which felt groundbreaking in children’s media at the time (and ticked off a fair number of people who consider lgbt+ content too ‘adult’ for children asfsdf)

To actual gay weddings in Steven Universe and Arthur, to openly gay and affectionate dads in She-Ra…

Progress for lgbt+ representation is slow and there’s always backlash and opposition. But it feels like there’s hope and I’m so happy lgbt+ and queer kids get to see themselves in media.

[likealittleprayer]

It blows my mind how much credit we owe Misha Collins and the people who helped him bring the Love Confession to the screen for having some hand in the WWDITS Guillermo “im gay” coming out, the Good Omens kiss and OMFD kiss between the leads. Misha basically said to everyone including TV execs, “people want this, they want to see these relationships play out on screen, not just a couple market research individuals, there is a massive audience for these queer stories”. It’s not even funny how much he contributed to queer fandom and even more largely queer media. Props to this guy you can think what you want about him but I genuinely believe he caused waves with the confession.