So I’m behind in C3 but watching again and I have only just realised that apparently Fearne is on deaths door??? Or something???? If my Queen dies tonight, I think I’ll be devestated
Ashley Johnson is such a fucking good actor I cannot get this moment out of my head! Her voice sounds so…. UGH so hurt and my god I love when actors fucking ACT
let me make it so abundantly clear right now that taking the shard was a fucking amazing choice. obviously not from a logical standpoint, they were warned against doing that like eight billion times, but it was SUCH a good move narratively holy shit. i think ashton would have given it up to fearne if she wanted it, but she didn’t, and oh my god did they want it. they have been recklessly throwing themself into answers this entire time. they threw themself into a fucking volcano without any hesitation to get that shard. the fact that it made them feel anything at all? of COURSE they were going to grab it. he told evontra’vir that he was owed power. nobody else was going to give it to him, from his pov, so he took it himself. also it was fucking hilarious how bad of an idea it was. literally just the worst possible thing you could have done. but also it made total sense, i love it, taliesin jaffe what the actual fuck, i owe you my life, aabria iyengar i owe you my life more,
After 470 days of Ashley, we finally hit 1000 followers!! I don't even know how to express my gratitude. This blog has connected me with so many amazing people and I feel like I've truly created a little community.
Thank you to everyone who's joined me on this journey. Every like, reblog, comment, and DM fuels me like no other. You have all made me feel so special.
This feels like the right time to share something i've been working on for a few months now, as well.
AotD has expanded! I now have an official Pinterest for this account where I've been consolidating every photo I have. You'll find a much more organized gallery of all the pictures that didn't make the cut for this blog as well as everything I've posted here. Funny story actually, the same day this blog hit 1k followers, ashleyjohnsonarchive reached 100!
Thank you all once again. Here's to another thousand!
...kinda petty but wow oh wow i am happy that ashton did that because it saves us from all the "delilah is just a poor sad mommy that misses her husband and laudna is evil and power hungry" takes. thank you taliesin jaffe for taking that bullet. thank you.
Just learned that Fearne gave Ash a forehead kiss?? Not to throw anything new into the ring with my hat, but holy fuck you guys the pickpocket couple stay winning even when the world's ending
given ashton's specific issues, it's quietly tragic that they don't have someone on team uthodurn to specifically remember them, the way orym and laudna do. fearne goes to the wildmother shrine specifically to reach out to orym, and imogen- well, thoughts of laudna run through everything imogen does. fcg is ostensibly that person, for ashton, but they've known each other for significantly less time than fearne and orym or imogen and laudna, and fcg wasn't emotionally reliant on ashton in the same way. and fcg's had his hands full with meeting frida and all the new feelings coming with that, and maybe it's an intentional reflection of the fact that, as much as they care, fcg is a little self-absorbed, and also still very bad at processing and expressing their feelings.
but when frida asks if they ever had a person like frida has deanna, they mention dancer. which is- fcg was essentially a servant to dancer, she told him what to do. ashton's place in their life is much more parallel to deanna. and i think it makes sense for fcg to mention dancer, given their own issues and belief that someone else has to give them meaning (which is something that could be very interesting to explore in their relationship with frida!!), but. ashton's definitely gonna be worried sick about fcg when we eventually get to team ???, so seeing them apparently occupy fcg's thoughts so little is sad.
nothing more morally reprehensible than a cleric (checks notes) using the key features of their class…? surely that can’t be where we are regarding analysis of character actions in cr at this point.
FUCK romance we need to talk about fearne loving strawberry rhubarb pie and orym getting or baking a pie for her. i don't care if it was ashley that wanted it i think it'd be fucking adorable
WE KNOW I LOVE HOW MUCH ORYM LOVES PIE OKAY??? SO HEARING ASHLEY AND TALIESIN BOTH SAY STRAWBERRY RHUBARB/JUST RHUBARB AT THE SAME TIME MAKES ME WANT ORYM TO GET AT LEAST ONE OF THEM A PIE OR MAYBE ALL THREE OF THEM CAN HAVE A PIE IDK I JUST THINK THIS CAMPAIGN NEEDS MORE PIE.
But the idea of Orym making a strawberry rhubarb pie for Fearne has me just… 🥺 I love the nature besties so fucking much. The idea of orym in an apron covered in flour making the first pie he’s ever made and making it FOR FEARNE HAS ME SO AHHHHHHHHHHHH
I’m still so happy Orym bought and ate a whole apple pie by himself. Thank you Liam O’Brien for that gift to me specifically.
I was also FASCINATED by Fearne and FCG’s whole conversation about the coin. Fearne not being willing to give up the coin even when it was clear that FCG was upset about it. Fearne saying that she’s not sure she feels anything. FCG saying it’s fine that Fearne didn’t want to give up the coin even when it clearly wasn’t fine. They’re both so fucked up, I wanna study them under a microscope.
people insisting they're being "coddled" for people empathizing with them being traumatized by the actions of other pcs, people victim-blaming them by saying that they deserved to be traumatized because they "knew what they were getting into", people implying all their fans are bigoted for being upset with the masc-aligned characters that made them feel terrible and/or want the masc-aligned character's players dead irl, people insisting that having any sort of sympathy for them is misogynist and removing agency from women
i saw someone in chat go “oh so the hells like gods if they’re EVIL AND HOT?” and like. YEAH OF COURSE THEY DO. this party of mentally ill, authority troubled, chaotic bisexuals would absolutely cause the next calamity if a demon with a fine ass told them to. literally yes evil and hot is their entire game