#Critical Role Playlist

[deramin2]

Playlist: Ashton Greymoore: Disorderly Conduct

Not to be the person that posts a weird number of character playlists, but I channeled my queer rage about legalized discrimination into completing my playlist for Ashton Greymoore.

It's an exploration of punk and adjacent genres from folk-punk to screaming hardcore steadily ramping up in anger and gravely sounds until it sits in its pain with "Lambs' Breath, Godspeed You! Black Emperor's most dissonant piece.

I've deliberate included a lot of queer punk groups including at least two trans artists (Worries and Against Me!).

I wanted to explore where Ashton's Rage and self-destructive tendencies come from. The parts of themself they've put up as a protective wall and are only now beginning to question the utility of. (There's one song crossover with the Bad Ruidus Rising playlist because it was an Ashton song to me first.)

Includes: Bright Eyes, Days N Daze, Ramshackle Glory, The Jam, The Cramps, Nirvana, Against Me!, Anti-Flag, Worriers, Dog Park Dissidents, Dead Kennedys, Star Fucking Hipsters, Sharptooth, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

Art by me:

ID: A green brain with the fold lines made of purple crystals and an opalescent glow in the center. The background is dark with turquoise and purple lightening bolts radiating from it. End ID.

[kingofterrors]

Imodna / Southern Gothic Playlist

Feeling the brainrot in these post-Episode 65 days, so found myself wandering back to my Imodna playlist, which I've been gradually adding to over the course of a couple of years (October 2021 to be precise...). In the course of which I realised I really liked it. So in lieu of a new Laura Bailey playlist, here it is to share with you all! And a little word about each song, hidden under the cut for obvious reasons!

No Lights on the Horizon - Metric: "If it wasn't for your kindness / I think I might be dead / If it wasn't for the way you said / "Oh, stay with me instead". Pre-stream Imodna. We know Imogen was on the verge of giving up before she met Laudna. They face the future together.

Take Your Time - Martha Bean, Jon Dix: "When all seems lost / You’re frightened to death of it all / Hold my hand / I'll be sure you don't fall". Their wishes for each other.

Better Days - OneRepublic: "Every day is like another storm, yeah / I'm just trying not to go insane / Yeah, and the city's shining so bright / So many dark nights, so many dark days / But any time I feel the paranoia / I close my eyes and I pray". Both Imogen and Laudna have been struggling against the weight of the world against them - but together better days might lie ahead.

Waterbound - Fretless, Ruth Moody: An Imogen song - the sense of being ripped away from everything you've ever known and thrown into a new world.

Heat Lightning - Mitski: I'm not immune to Mitski for Imodna! This is so Imogen - yearning for Laudna with every breath, not sure how long she can keep it under wraps, and ready to surrender.

Talk - Hozier: We talk about Laudna not having "accessed that part of my brain" a lot, but I'm convinced that Imogen is very much in touch with that part of her brain. And equally convinced that she holds some of that lesbian guilt about feeling desire. She keeps it locked down. Laudna's not ready for it. Or as Hozier puts it: "I won't deny I've got in my mind now all the things we'd do / So I'll try to talk refined for fear that you find out how I'm imaginin' you".

Nightmares on Repeat - Emily Jane White: A Laudna song, for both lyrics and feel. Laudna doesn't know what she's feeling. She's been cut off from those feelings for so long. But she's sure feeling something. "Holding your hand, keeps me here / And all the ways you stand, keeps me here / For the light was not there / For years, upon years".

A Match into Water - Pierce the Veil: Episode 33. Laudna snatched away. This is all Imogen's grief and pain in song form.

Chasing Twisters - Delta Rae: Okay, I'm also not immune to this song for Imodna, even though I know it's on everyone's list. It just fits, okay?? Imogen's feelings for Laudna, her grief and desire to 'save' her one last time.

Autumn Rain - Rachel Sandy: Laudna's back, and Imogen is more aware of how she feels than ever. But is Laudna seeing something new in Imogen as well? "She feels like rain in autumn / Like the earth before a storm / Electric and deep-rooted".

Uphill - Lori McKenna: "When the road under your feet is dark and feels wrong / And you find yourself lost and all your confidence gone / And the stars over your head through the clouds won't be revealed / I'll walk with you, even if it's uphill". A new commitment to each other with this new lease on life.

Cold Water Swimming - Quiet Houses: Imogen's hope, but kept closely under wraps. "I’m still in love with you / But telling you is just too much of a risk".

Pockets of Stones - Charm of Finches: Both Imogen and Laudna realise their own vulnerabilities, their capacity to hurt. Their love becomes security and strength in the face of that.

Easy Silence - The Chicks: The strength both Imogen and Laudna have in the company of the other - the space they have for each other. Exandria is going to hell in a handbasket. But they make it bearable for one another. "Easy silence that you make for me / It's okay when there's nothing more to say to me / And the peaceful quiet you create for me / And the way you keep the world at bay for me / The way you keep the world at bay".

[littlepinksapphire]

(via https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0eM3rjOwKWEsFiQlj6qJn0?si=w5_vskxrTTa4OWeBebgLng)

Here’s an Imodna playlist to get you through the next week. Yes, I cried while making this.

[elzorton]

When my skin feels like a barrier between Everything else in this universe and me Then I try to remember That there may very well be a link between us That I can't see Something underneath the surface Buried In among the weeds

- Fungus, The Narcissist Cookbook

[yashley]

I trust they are capable. 

[yudol-skorbi]

nice *adds them to my collection of cool rocks*

[throwmethatcello]

Marisha's playlist for Laudna: This song speaks about the hopes and dreams Laudna had as a child, this song is about her relationship with imogen, this song speaks a lot to me about Laudna's quest for something and whether she knows what it is.

Taliesin's playlist for Ashton: This song is great, fucked up my knee in a mosh pit to this one, this one slaps, this one makes me feel like setting shit on fire, man punk music is the best.

Travis' playlist for Chetney: Wolves, wolves, wolves, wolves, fucking murder santa, wolves, wolves.

[piratespencilart]

The boy who lost his soul to fire and the girl whose soul was drowned.

[scvlly]

Oh, to drown in your mind, I would, I know I would

[deramin2]

After a couple months of off and on listening, I have made my way through the Critical Role Pop Culture playlist. "An incomplete playlist of all the songs the cast have sung/referenced in their stream."

It's very entertaining. So many songs that good or bad left a skid mark on Xenial culture. Especially white theater and D&D nerds with some broader cultural awareness who moved to LA. Some of it is nostalgic. Some is goofy. Many are musicals (it's mixed around but there are 13 songs from Hamilton alone). It is a ton of genes. It's a ton of eras.

Now to let it percolate further and see if I can make a character playlist using only songs from this set.

[pocketgalaxies]

remember when laura bailey said "i'm so excited to depict a totally normal friendship in my dnd game" and then when she made her character playlist, the song she chose for that relationship had the line "hold me still, bury my heart next to yours"

[shorthaltsjester]

ON RUNNING; Imogen Temult

Critical Role Campaign 3, Episode 3 “The Trail and the Toll” // Critical Role Campaign 3, Episode 12 “Make It Fashion” // Illustrated Horse-Breaking by Matthew Horace (1905) // Critical Role Campaign 3, Episode 17 “Heart-to-Heartmoor” // Critical Role Campaign 3, Episode 19 “Omens Above” // Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile // Critical Role Campaign 3, Episode 34 “What Dreams May Come” // Legends Never Die by Orville Peck and Shania Twain // Queen of Peace by Florence + The Machine // Critical Role Campaign 3, Episode 40 “Compulsion”  // Wild Horses by The Rolling Stones // Critical Role Campaign 3, Episode 48 “An Exit Most Fraught” // Critical Role Campaign 3, Episode 78 “Fractures” // On Horse-Breaking by Robert Moreton (1877) // Critical Role Campaign 3, Episode 83 “Ruidus” // Critical Role Campaign 3, Episode 89 “Divisive Portents”

[littlepinksapphire]

(via https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5GAUtiCzCf3QRpBbCbKCxq?si=lHzhlmJ_SyO392IHZFZi3Q)

Happy Halloween Critters!

[revvethasmythh]

you ever think about Ocean (ft. Khalid) on the first Fjord playlist and how it's dedicated to the Mighty Nein? you ever think about "you could put an ocean between our love, it won't keep up apart"? you ever think about "you could build a wall, I would burn it up, just to get to your heart"? you ever think about how much Fjord loves the Mighty Nein?

[yashley]

Bitch, break her back, she protect and attack.

[elzorton]

Static electricity