#also ExU: Calamity movie please thanks

[winterpinetrees]

I’m curious how everyone’s year was so please tell me what you favourite ----- from this year was! Answer as many or as few as you want! (Feel free to send this to other people and change it if you want)

Favourite Movie/Show you watched: 

Favourite Album you listened to:

Favourite thing you learned: 

Favourite book/comic: 

Favourite project you completed: 

Best impulse purchase?

Funniest joke you heard?

Strangest building you went in?

New food you discovered?

Most memorable conversation?

Prettiest sunset?

Favourite new outfit?

What are you proud of this year?

Favourite Memory from this year: 

Anything you would change? 

Anything you’re looking forwards to in the new year?

~Gumi

Thank you for the ask! I have been perceived and it’s crazy.

Favorite Movie/Show (from 2023): Nimona.

Favorite Album: Unreal Unearth I suppose. I don’t listen to that much music.

Favorite thing I learned: Jack Kirby was an unbelievably cool person.

Favorite book/comic: Lord of the Rings & the silmarillion. Also Tales of Suspense #81 from 1950 something. It’s just so silly and I think about it every day.

Favorite project: either the EXU Calamity embroidery or a school project that I will not explain here for anonymity’s sake.

Best impulse purchase: A physical copy of the 2022 Spiderpunk comic.

Funniest Joke: uhhhh. Hbomberguy’s “You know all of my tricks, the student becomes the master” right before pulling down a physical thing of wallpaper and screaming.

Strangest building: planetarium dome.

Most memorable conversation: many conversations about the silmarillion with many interesting people! Honorable mention to every time that I talked with someone about my ocs.

Prettiest sunset: at field hockey practice at the end of a long afternoon

New outfit: Too Fancy Denim Jacket

Favorite memory: Laughing about Spy Kids between shows at the planetarium

What I’m looking forward to: I will be traveling several hours north into the literal woods in the hopes of seeing a total solar eclipse. That region has an 80% chance of cloud cover on that date of the year. It’s a fool’s endeavor and you cannot stop me.

[saystheonewithaguitar]

Dear Matt,

Thank you. As a new Critter (2022, how did it take me this long to discover D&D and Critical Role??), all I can say is that the arts has saved me multiple times in my life. The stage. Movies. Music. And now a TTRPG, of all things. I never thought I could be so emotionally invested and enraptured by a game. Sure, some games have tugged on my heartstrings-Final Fantasy 7, The Last of Us, and many more that I can't think of right now because I'm EMOTIONALLY WRECKED FROM EXU: CALAMITY?!??!!??! Like I legit had to go take a nap and I've just caught up on the first half that I missed and had to stop there. I need a few days to process before I rewatch the finale in one go, it was THAT good. Laughter. Sorrow. Heartbreak. The catharsis was much needed.

It's almost 5am in my part of the world, and I'm a sensitive soul who has been going through some really heavy shit in my own life, and Critical Role has been a light in the darkness. So even though ExU: Calamity broke me in the best possible way, it was, at the end of the day, a masterpiece in storytelling. Lightning in a bottle. This is what happens when talent, friendship, trust, kind hearts and a love for storytelling come together. Magic is created.

I wish, more than anything, that we, the human beings that populate this world, planet Earth, could work together like that instead of letting the "real life" equivalents of the Betrayer Gods fill our minds and souls with lies, greed, betrayal and evil. But for now, we have the containment and beauty of the arts to escape to when our hearts are weary.