#maybe. fjord

[mintt-tea-2]

a beauregard for your (cobalt) soul

[saturnvs]

but imagine this: a fjording that is also a unicorn :)

[shorthaltsjester]

the mighty nein - critical role

this is a place where i don't feel alone. this is a place where i feel at home.

[arcaneworms]

now obviously i had to raise from the dead to draw fjord with long hair. it's just necessary.

what an amazing episode too!

[mybrknhrtt]

lots of fjord pt II.

[varethane]

I finished listening to season 2 of Critical Role (600+ hours after I decided to check it out, haha). Anyway I spent the entirety of the finale drawing this! The Mighty Nein was a fun crew. :)

[nellasbookplanet]

One more from the mighty nein coloring book. Im love them.

[c-kiddo]

saw a gif of spirited away and so ill show yous this for the next probably half an hour ill hyperfixate on it. old sketches Jester spirited away au .. i get rly into it for a couple hours now and again lol

[somewhatsentientspellbook]

What the McFuck am I featuring some of the characters I thought of when the combination came up

[yashley]

marisha said laura I see your GET THE GIRL motivation and I raise you KEEP THE GIRL

[captainofthetidesbreath]

[blows a kiss out to sea] for the Mighty Nein pirates arc

[thechekhov]

This one has been spinning around my head for a while now, and I’m glad I finally got to do it. Also quite proud of myself for condensing it into so few pages, although there is a lot to read. 

I put the rest of the comics up on tapas for easy reading, by the way, in case you have trouble finding them on my tumblr:

tapas.io/series/The-Mighty-Neintales

[shorthaltsjester]

honestly as someone who has been in various fandoms for a long time now and who also watched campaigns 1 and 2 without really getting into cr fandom it isn’t Shocking but it is annoying how often people will look at the stories that cr tells and make absolute claims about the goodness of characters (goodness here meaning Moral goodness, not I Like This character and think it’s well made goodness, which is a separate post entirely). particularly regarding the gods and pc parents. and honestly like, typically in fandom i get annoyed by people bending over backwards to woobify characters who are active in their choice to be unkind and generally horrible but in the cr fandom it’s tended to be the opposite where like. a character is just. a human being (in the sense of being Average not in the sense of Fantasy Races) and huge swaths of the fandom act like that’s the most unforgivable thing someone can be. and maybe it is, but one of the most powerful things about fiction is that it tends to encourage people to expand their empathy and exercise their ability to forgive. because fictional characters, no matter how much people like to project onto them, tend not to cause anyone harm, so it’s easier to learn how to forgive and accept things you don’t understand without also villainizing them.

this is mostly prompted by the recent 4sd and the fact that matt’s response to what’s up with the dawnfather was a very insistent “He’s not bad!” and also seeing the online reaction to the mention that the matron would punish vax for saving keyleth that has taken the as usual completely bonkers tune that the raven queen (Who When Met With A Brother Asking A God To Kill Him In Favour Of His Sister, Gave Him A Job, and Later Extended His Natural Life To Help Protect The World And Have More Time With His Family And Allowed Him To Visit His Sister On Her Wedding Day) is a horrible evil abusive bitch of a god. like. can we grow up? can we understand the world and fiction that represents the multitudes of experiences found in it in shades of grey? is that too much to ask (i know it is).

but also specifically the like Extremely Adamant way that both matt and laura were like no no no no relvin isn’t Horirble he’s average. he’s not good he’s just. he’s A father, not a good or bad one. and on the surface it’s hilarious that they’re both so like. enthused to point out that he’s Average because typically when people respond to a claim of a characters badness with the level of immediacy they both did it’s a rebuttal of “no, this character is good actually.” but it was just to affirm that relvin did harm imogen, but not because there’s some aspect of his character that is inherently cruel or especially Bad. and like. yeah actually. yeah you should react like that to a claim that this average person who Has hurt someone, the way that nearly every single person has hurt someone in a way they cannot repair, with immediacy to say this person is a Person and thus imperfect and capable of great harm, but that isn’t some all encompassing judgment on their morality or capability to also do good or be fine.

anyway this is kinda just a rant post but also is just me saying i’m very grateful that when surrounded by a fandom that tends to paint characters as Good or Bad and even while using a game that can encourage that with its alignment system, cr has always told stories that see goodness as a persistent choice that might sometimes falter and that can be chosen even after a lifetime of Badness. i can’t remember exactly what the quote was so forgive me if it’s incorrect but when jester is talking to caleb after he claims he’s not a very good person and she says “good people do bad things sometimes. even bad people do good things.” that’s it! that’s one of the most consistent themes across campaigns. and yet.

[utilitycaster]

I do actually try hard not to make assumptions about people's real life behavior based on fandom behavior but also when people are like "here's why my favorite character should get every reward and macguffin regardless of the narrative" I struggle to believe that they weren't the sort of person who threw temper tantrums at other people's birthdays WELL past the age where that was vaguely excusable.

[aeoris4lovers]

“pain doesn’t make people, it’s love that makes people...it’s love that saves them”

[viiriidiian]

gazing longingly out of a window: when will my wife (expositor beauregard lionett) return from war (the apogee solstice)

i also have a matching caleb page here for all of you caught in a bisexual maelstrom