#cr 1/2

[marvelousbelladonna]

Truly amazing

[criticalrolememes]

Is this anything

[demigoddessqueens]

I LOVE the attention to detail to the heroes’ armor

[gotham-at-nightfall]

Vox Machina // The Mighty Nein

By Al Dente

[ludinusdaleth]

artagan's opening lines each campaign

Critical Role Campaign 1, Episode 63, "The Echo Tree" // Critical Role Campaign 2, Episode 9, "Steam and Conversation" // Critical Role Campaign 3, Episode 116, "The Weavemind"

[helimir]

coming to the hilarious realization that allura might think of the mighty nein as the least disfunctional of the adventuring troops she’s met

[shorthaltsjester]

me when the campaign with characters i’ve praised for being essentially pawns/npcs in the greater world is ending by underserving the main characters by [checks notes] highlighting the role those characters have played as quasi-npcs who are nonetheless still the narrators of their destinies within the limits of a world beyond their control

[pha55ed]

Pasilyo | F2 (kimi bday celly)

type :: fluff tw/cw :: none contains :: kimi!, paul, pepe, zak, jak request :: beach day kimi bday celly prompt for our one and only summah KING PAUL ARON OFC!! and pepe, zak, jm, jak 🫶 (i have no idea who jm is buttt i know a litttleee bit about jak so this is my first time writing for him!) link to kimi bday celly!

Kimi Antonelli | 04

Going to the beach with Kimi during summer break had to be one of your favorite things ever. Not only was his family super sweet with you, but you got to meet your mini-best-friend, his sister! Kimi loved how well you got along with his sibling, it was always heart-warming to see you bond with her.

As you and his sister played together, Kimi came towards you both. Except, he was swimming underneath the water. This meant that he was playing his favorite game: "shark". Basically, he would go underwater and grab either you or his sister and drag you under.

Although you and his sister hated this game, he always forced you guys to play. As you screamed alongside his sister, trying to tell her to swim faster, you were too late. You watched as she instantly sunk to the bottom as Kimi grabbed her foot. If it wasn't broad daylight and if you didn't see Kimi's ugly teal and orange shorts, you would have been mortified.

You did your best to run away, leaving his sister behind. But you were too slow for Kimi, who was so fast for some reason. If Kimi wasn't a racer, you always thought he would be a swimmer of some kind, maybe a lifeguard. Distracted by your thoughts, you felt a hand grab your foot, you let out a scream. But your cries were muffled as you were quickly pulled under the water and met with Kimi's face.

The only thing you hated about beach days was the lack of PDA that you and Kimi could do. You didn't mind doing small PDA in front of his parents usually, but since you were both in such little clothing it felt 10x times more inappropriate for some reason. Kimi always insisted that his parents don't care and that they're super chill - but you refused to kiss whilst in bathing suits.

Knowing this, Kimi took his one opportunity to do what he's been wanting to do all day: kiss you. Whilst under the water, his hands cupped your face, pulling you closer as he gave you a quick peck on the lips.

Paul Aron | 17

"Paul, I'm literally going to shit myself in the water!!!" You yelled at him, but your pleas were unheard as he laughed. His smile was so bright that you'd rather look at the sun instead of his pearly whites. Although you begged to not go for another round of surfing, Paul insisted that you try it once more.

You borrowed his surf board and was only going on baby waves to test out surfing. Despite the waves being the size of a "pea" in Paul's opinion, to you, they were massive. Although it was your first time, you were doing really good thanks to Paul's help.

So once again, you made your way towards another wave as Paul cheered. Although there were other families at the beach, Paul didn't care and continued to shout praises as you rode a small wave. If he could, he would have recorded you like a proud parent.

The entire day, he's been glued to your side as he helped you learn how to stand on a board, swim you back to shore, and give you handfuls of compliments on your surfing and looks. Even though you felt bald with your hair wet and slightly insecure in your bathing suit, he always made sure to tell you to shut up as he gives you a kiss.

You always thought you couldn't fall deeper for him, but you always did. And the same goes for him: watching you smile, hearing your proud giggles as you say "I did it!" to him, and seeing you without any makeup in a nice swimsuit - he'd marry you right then and there if he could.

Pepe Marti | 21 there's no beach photos of him :(

Swimming was something Pepe only did if he had the proper gear. Not in the cool way, like swim caps or a nice pair of swim trunks. But instead in the loser way, in which he NEEDED his stupid little kid googles and his stupid baby paddle board.

So, as you hurriedly slap sunscreen on him before he ran off, he snapped his dumbass googles onto his face. Just like a dog, he dived into the water and as you looked at the beach, you realized he had matching googles with a different little kid who looked roughly 7 year olds.

And despite being roughly 7 year old, the little boy gave Pepe a weird look, silently saying "Aren't you too old for this?" You couldn't help but snicker under your breathe as you walked calmly towards Pepe, who was splashing around as if he was drowning.

"(Y/N)!" He said excitedly as he handed you his paddle board. "Let's play a game!!" A large smile was on his face, making it impossible for you to say no.

"Okay, what game?" You said with a sweet smile.

"Let's see who can hold their breathe the longest!!!" He said excitedly, before you could agree he started a countdown. "3, 2, 1 GO!"

You watched as his head dived into the water as he held his nose. Little did he know, you weren't under the water...

Zak O'Sullivan | 02

Day time at the beach was something Zak liked, but didn't love. He liked the view, the sound of the waves, and seeing all the happy families. But he hated the sand betting stuck between his toes, the way his hair would get dried out from the sea salt, and the cold breeze that hit him while wet. It just wasn't his style, he'd much rather go to a pool than a beach.

But one thing that he did love, was late night bonfires with his friend group on the beach. Roasting s'mores as you talked with everyone, wrapped in a big jacket as you laughed at stupid stories. It was much more fun than splashing in the water in Zak's opinion.

As you chatted with his friend group, who gladly accepted you into their group, you felt his hand snake around your waist. His head rests on your shoulder, his warm breathe hitting your neck slightly. He felt comfortable around his friends, enough to be affectionate with you.

You smiled, having any of him touch you was an instant way to make you happy. And you smiled even wider as you realized his spare hand reached in front of you, holding a perfectly cooked s'more just for you.

If making a perfect s'more was a competition, Zak would win every time. You laughed at his surprise offer, taking it from his hands as you took a bite. Chocolate was perfectly melted, the graham cracker was lightly warm from the gooey marshmallow.

You felt his hand pull back from your waist, signaling he was going to go back to cooking. On instinct, you grab his hand, placing it back onto your waist. You gave his a small look, that was a silent way of asking him to stay instead of cooking like a manic.

He smiled at you, shaking his head gently as he then placed both hands on your waist as he nuzzled his head into your neck slightly. But it tickled slightly, you laughed as you tried to push him away. But his grip on your waist was stronger as he pulled you in closer to him as he continued to tickle you. His friend group didn't even cringe, only looking away and murmuring how they've never seen him be so soft and gentle.

But he would always be soft and gentle with you, how could he not?

Jak Crawford | 07

Despite how cheesy it is, he loves walking on the beach. Of course he loves the water and jumping in, but he loves talking to you whilst looking at the beach. Watching the light hit you and making you look as if you were sent from heaven. What can he say, he's a big "girlfriend" guy.

Even cuter, is his ambition to find the prettiest shell for his pretty girlfriend. As you chat and walk alongside the shore, laughing at stupid jokes and stories, he'll randomly freeze. He grabs a shell, runs to the ocean to quickly rinse it off and see if it's worthy of giving to you: which is always.

As you walk further along the shore, you're struggling to hold all of the little shells he's gathered for you. But you don't have the heart to tell him to stop. His small gasp when he sees a shell, and then his goofy smile as he runs back to you - how could you ever tell him to stop?

So once again, he handed you yet another shell with a bright smile on his face. Once again, you smiled back and accepted his offer, barely able to hold onto it. As you struggle to walk and hold all the shells, Jak notices and frowns.

"Let me hold some," He says gently, hand reaching out as he grabs a few of the shells he just handed you. As he takes some of the weight, you both continue to walk, giggling and laughing at his stupid jokes and stories once more.

[utilitycaster]

I am treading quite carefully here for reasons that will be immediately apparent, but: I am well aware I have a lot of followers within the CR fandom. I am also aware that mutuals with a fraction of that following have been called "BNFs" for simply making occasional popular posts with a cohesive argument. (I wouldn't be surprised if non-mutuals have as well; I just haven't talked to them)

I can also say, with a fairly high degree of confidence, that most people who have gotten the "evil BNF" moniker dating back to Campaign 2 era (when it was more frequently for liking the canon ships and end of the story) and especially people who have been called that for not liking Campaign 3 are pretty much all women; unsurprising given that the Tumblr population skews heavily towards women and nb people. It's also increasingly, in recent months, come with accusations of being either too confident (the "stating ones opinion as objective fact" complaint) or too emotional, even to the point of pathologizing and concern trolling. And especially in the past couple of months, the posts that compare and contrast other works to Campaign 3 have been on the whole calm and measured; one would be hard-pressed to call them emotional at all let alone a cause for worry or a sign of unwellness.

While I can't say for certain this is coming from a place of misogyny, at least not consciously, I can say that as a woman in a male-dominated field in real life it follows extremely familiar patterns: if you're too calm and confident, you're coming on too strong and need to tone it down, but then when you tone it down, you're too emotional and crazy and not smart enough. It has also not escaped me that several of the people making these claims about women - and most recently about a nonwhite woman - have been white men. Which is also a familiar pattern.

I do not, in fact, expect nor demand a fandom where everyone agrees with me, and I think one can look at fandom trends and see that no one controls overall opinion, so I think my advice here is to internalize and accept that and decide if you're okay with being in a fandom where people might be saying things you don't like for a very long time. It's fine if you're not; it's obviously not misogynistic to merely disagree with people who happen to be women; but it's your responsibility to either curate a space within that or find a new one if said disagreement is upsetting you or leading you to make these accusations, and I'd appreciate it if, now that I've brought it to your attention, you cut the misogyny, for which I'll grant benefit of the doubt that it was, until now, unintentional.

[marvelousbelladonna]

Intro

This is so adorable

[luchsammain]

[samuraiko]

The Critical Role Heartbreak Prince Battle Royale

Okay, I made this joke over on Twitter and now I'm curious how this would actually shake down.

If you put all of Liam's CANONICAL love interests across all three campaigns in a battle royale, who would win?

(Before anyone gets their knickers in a knot, these are people for whom there was RECIPROCATED AND ACTED-UPON INTEREST.)

For sake of equality, we're gonna level-set EVERYONE at level 20. Let's have the fur REALLY fly!

Also, once you vote, please reblog for a larger sample size? Thanks!

EDIT: I am *LOVING* the commentary in the tags. :D

[dwueth-var]

So, so curious about how the fandom came to be, and where y’all started. I’m especially interested to see which events (start of a new campaign, TLOVM, Calamity) brought in the most fans, and which campaign most people started with.

I know lots of folks start and finish campaign in between campaigns/across many years, so please mark when you started your first campaign. I’m also not necessarily asking about campaigns you’ve finished, so if you’re in-progress, just mark your primary starter campaign!

[sadmages]

I miss this guy so much it's unreal

[criticalbeauregard]

Vox Machina: Pays for passage on a ship to where they need to go.

The Mighty Nein: Improvises the massacre and theft of a ship before accidentally becoming pirates (twice).

Bell’s Hells: Voluntarily calls a ship of vengeful ghost pirates who they trade a cursed sword (that’s trying to kill a member of Vox Machina) with for passage.

[nonexistent-tales]

need to draw the funni cookie game more. anyways thought this was funny, fire spirit are you alright.