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#mild episode 2 spoils
thatdeadaquarius · 6 months
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Hello there, friend I'm here for fluff
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OK, this has been on my mind for a while
But like
The reader is just becoming the biggest parent to the Benny's adventure team kids
And the wolfs
We are like a parent of like 27
Knitting and making food brushing razors hair(let's be for real, you would hear a crunch when you brush it)
I'm not gonna lie
Do these kids know what spices are?
Cuz when I think about it
Razor hasn't had shit so he's has the least tolerance for spice
He would probably cry if you feed him a pepper
Bennett has tried spicy food but does go well with it
And not completely sure if fischl has had a spicy food before
But what flavor does mondstadt add to their food??
These kids need the damn flavors
AHDHAKALL FERAL ANIMAL AQUARIUS- ANOTHER PLATONIC ASK AAHHHHGGGGDJJSFHSAK!!!!!
AND ITS YOU!! ITS- ITS- ONE OF THE WRITING RULERS OF SAGAU (FOR ME AT LEAST) <3 !!!!!!!!
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You cooking in genshin all anime studio ghibli style looking like food from god (literally): ⬆️
Sun: Reader (you/they/them)
Orbit: Headcanons-ish
Stars: Benny’s Adventure Team! (Bennett, Fischl, Razor), Diluc, mentions of other Mond characters
Comets & Meteors: Content Warnings: mild cussing, & Trigger Warnings: none known.
Please comment if I missed any. /gen
^^ The posts being referenced in ask, (OG Razor ask) (Benny + Razor) and a more direct sequel, a part 2? a part 4 atp?? of this post (Imposter/Not Dark AU + Razor + Diluc) ^^
OMFG
ALRIGHT LISTEN UP BITCHES
SINCE UR IN TEYVAT
YOU GONNA COOK LIKE TEYVAT
AS IN-
SHIT BE SUPER EASY TO COOK, AND MASS MAKE DEPENDING ON COMPLEXITY OF DISH
(So, like Zhongli's special Bamboo Shoot Soup is like getting made... once a year if you read the little desc. for that dish 💀)
AND THEYRE ALL LIKE-
ANIME GORGEOUS FOODS ✨️❤️‍🔥
OKAY SO
PROMO TIME-
U GUYS HAVE TO WATCH THE ANIME "CAMPFIRE COOKING IN ANOTHER WORLD"
Bc that's mostly where this inspo gonna come from to both be realistic cooking + best parts of video game cooking
A guy gets isekai’d and instead of hero powers he just gets the skill of "online grocery shopping" LMAO
and ofc he gets insta gifted whatever he orders and starts making dishes and adding spices and regular stuff you know. like soy sauce.
but the best part is the food in that world is like British medieval soup shit
like barely salted, no spices definitely, no sauces, its barren
so he ends up attracting all kinds of interest that want to eat his cooking ofc
And it gives buffs too!
dw i didnt spoil anything u don't learn in the first episode, but that's just to say that's exactly whats happening here
u DO have to manually collect more ingredients but its so worth it, also u can just buy in bulk or put a commission thru the adventurer guild
tbhhh now that i say that, that could be how u end up drawing in Benny’s Adventure Team even more, bc they just take all ur quests for collecting ingredients around Mond!!
(u have to actively sneak behind their back and whisper to Katheryne that you want to put in other food quests in other guilds tho, silly kids will absolutely go running around Liyue and crazy shit just to have an adventure and do smth for you + eat ur banger food lol)
omfg the first time u barbecue smth???
the wolves, Razor, and Andrius??? Go feral.
Fischl and Benny who were already on their way to u guys to hang out again start booking it thru the woods, dodging hilichurl camps (thatve since settled down and been v peaceful to the wolves + anyone in the woods of Wolvendom after u started living there)
they knowww ur cookin smth fucking amazing
(and u even have some hilichurls and mitachurl that wander close to Andrius’ edge of the woods to shyly beg for scraps,, u give them a portion)
Razor was actually lookin at u like u hung the stars just for him when u gave him a homemade barbecue sauce to put on his food
(u acc may have done that to Teyvatians according to Andrius + the stories u overheard from Springvale…)
ok but the amount of begging u get for desserts like-
No, Razor u cannot have chocolate cake/cupcakes after every meal, u need to take care of ur teeth
(u use ur collection of mora-monster-donations for comms for more ingredients and living supplies like fabric + furniture, u cant afford dental on top of that for ur boy)
Fischl dutifully declares you the “best chef in the kingdom” and writes down all ur recipes (u have them auto-stored in ur settings obv but it cant hurt to have a physical copy, and they look so happy doing it, u don't have the heart to tell them its not necessary-)
Benny insists on both giving u extra ingredients when he takes ur commissions, and giving u handmade trinkets or weapons for the meals!!
No!! He will not take “im good” for an answer!! ur sharing ur home-cave with him, taking care of his best friend Razor, and now feeding him food better than Liuli Pavilion!!! There’s no way he can just take all that and give nothing back!!!!
and theyre not the only ones getting some food tbh
when the knights begin patroling near Wolvendom and slowly all of Mondstadt to search for their “All God”, u break up the beginnings of a fight between 2 confused knights and the now peaceful hilichurl camp at the edge of Wolvendom
U offer some snacks u were going to give Benny’s Adventure Team when they got back (u made little triangle sandwiches, rice balls, etc. finger foods, and u made plenty extra bc u kno their teenage appetites lol)
the knights and hilichurls nearly cried with appreciation, which made for a hilarious sight when the teens actually showed up lmao
ur wearing ur cloak, bc u dont wanna take on that whole “creator of worlds” title just yet, and the kids helped verify u werent anyone suspicious (Benny + Fischl keep ur godly secret, theyre the best like that 🥰)
the knights just swing by for snacks occasionally (they also either pay u in trade or with mora, theyre not bullies)
another person who gets flavored food privileges is the lazy librarian witch herself
u also sometimes pick Razor up from Lisa’s tutoring and bring “the best tea and tea snacks in the world” along with to share with Lisa and him
(she is also fully aware after awhile of meeting u of what u are, and fully believes this is why the food must be enchanted to be so good, but u dont want to be treated super reverently she can tell, so she keeps ur secret too and is just extra flirty when u come by lol)
(Razor refuses to let his pare- Lupical move out of ur cozy cave to the library, so he sometimes hauls u away when Lisa flirts too much LMAO)
…and the moment you've been waiting for.
Yes, Diluc got to try ur food that night he was searching Wolvendom for signs of the god of Teyvat
tbh Diluc was half-convinced that shit was a fever dream.
a bunch of sleepy wolves, a coffee table in the stone colosseum, a giant spirit wolf licking a big plate clean, the wolf-kid glaring at him, and you.
you with gold eyes, staring right thru his soul, like you already know everything there is to know about him, (like the way Kaeya looked at him that night),
like he doesnt even have to introduce himself
and he doesnt, u just lightly smack Razor’s hands until he gets rid of his claymore w/a pout, since Diluc had long since dropped his,
and grab a plate, piling on what leftovers u could, and turn back around from the coffee table to smile at him, patting the cushion-seat beside u for him to join
The giant glowing wolf licks his lips and watches him, the wolf-kid’s creepily watches him, and you, with eyes gold in teh light of a simmering bonfire just past the table, watch him
he just sits down and begins to eat.
its the best food he’s ever had, its his dad’s favorite dish, but not realistically, but the way memory embellishes a dish so much it can never be tasted again, except its right here. in front of him. u pour some wolfhook juice for him, and offer him a napkin to wipe his mouth and eyes
Diluc visits often after that, obviously.
u give him snacks too, and when he lets the staff try some, Adeline will not stop harassing him abt gettin ur recipes/ingredeints so u get him to pay Fischl to get a copy of their recipe book :)
including blank pages for future entries, and Fischl is literally glowing with happiness, would not stop monologuing abt ur food for weeks (send help Oz wants some peace and quiet sometimes)
Oh Diluc absolutely told the Favonius knights he found you. But he’s not saying where LMAO
Jean is actually begging him, Diluc ik u hate the knights but this is an international investigation-
this is the closest Diluc has ever gotten to getting under Venti’s skin.
when he told him this at Angel’s while bartending, he just casually ofc said this, just his smug little smirk, and the anemo god cracked a glass and everything- esp when he said he tried ur cooking??
he's gotta start looking over his shoulder in the city bc not only is Venti stalking him, the entirety of Mondstadt’s citizens are glaring at him in envy everywhere he goes LMAOO
(Venti now has a bar glass or too on his tab to pay off as well)
mans is literally paying u in weapon/artifact materials/mora to make him lunch one day and Venti nearly lunges over the counter
(Diluc purposefully ate it in front of him 💀)
ur food is the ultimate, “u could make a religion out of this!” /ref
like Diluc fully gives u offerings of ingredients he can pay for shipping from other countries + along with regular materials after grinding in domains
does the rest of Mondstadt + the world find out where u are?
only if Diluc lets them tbh. LMFAO
bk trashfire my beloved <3 love ur ideas and stuff, goes without even saying im so sorry i took actually forever to respond :’(
hope u have a great weekend and i did this little side story justice for you
Safe Travels BK Trashfire,
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darkness-follows · 3 months
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hey! i love your writing! there’s so little for Boyd x reader out there, so if you’re up for it could you maybe write something for him? maybe a little hurt/comfort and smutty?? he’s such a weirdo and i love him sm
thank you! and have a nice day :)
Thank you, thank you !!!! And of course!!! I hope the changes I made and the idea it turned into still all work for this !
Boyd x Female Reader
I'm still not over the end of City Primeval because it was so perfect and makes up for how in my opinion the other 7 episodes were a bit of a tough chew. Not bad! But not fantastic either.. but still, consider giving it a watch especially for the end of episode 8 for this mini multi part fic might spoil some things!!!!
It hurts so good aka a Justified: City Primeval sequal to the OG show with older Boyd and a Prison Guard reader who falls madly in love with him.
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TW: Blood. Wounds. Prison stuff. Smut (cavity/strip search). Gross other prisoners.
Enjoy PART 1:
First day on the Job. A Female prison Guard in a men only Penitentiary, it takes a lot to stomach everything, the comments, the looks, the disgusting things prisoners say to you. But you prepared for this, you got trained for this and hell you will make the best of it! You get to meet the non violent prisoners first, the ones who aren't arrested for rape or torture or anything of that kind. It's also the first time you meet Boyd Crowder. Your family being from Harlan Kentucky you heard some stories..
You know of him, but not a whole lot about him.
Though mistakes happen in prison especially on a first day. Your partner accidentally left you alone with Boyd and another prisoner in the back of the kitchen. And men who were locked up for a long time...don't exactly behave the best towards a young, pretty attractive new Guard. "Didn't know they hire models" the prisoner says, it's a mild start but it gets worse and worse. Until he makes a move towards you, he grabs your wrist and tries to pull your hand towards his crotch "let go! Let go of me!!" You try to pull away but he's twice your size.
You hear a loud bang and all of a sudden the prisoner has his eyes snapped on Crowder.
"Jerry! That ain't how we treat women now is it? You better confess what you've done if you wish to sleep in peace tonight" Boyd turns to take the man's shoulder, guiding him slowly out of the kitchen. "You don't want any suprise visits tonight do you Jerry?" He whispers before he shoves him out of the kitchen.
Shaking his head "I'm sorry about that, some of em really don't know how to behave. You okay?" He asks and when your eyes meet his it's almost..magnetic. "hm? Oh! Yeah! Yes thank you, I was ready to get that taser out" You huff.
"Oh please there is no need to thank me, I'm sorry your first day went like that, I sincerely hope one bad Apple doesn't spoil the whole bunch for you now. There are some good men in this place." He points out. The way he speaks and the methaphor.. you heard he has a certain charm to him but seeing it in real life, hearing his buttery accent and the way he carries himself despite the orange prison attire? He's a bit Interesting..
"I'm known to hand out a few chances" You smile and open up the knife drawer with your keys. Your duty is to observe their cooking and Crowder was listed as green when it comes to kitchen supplies such as knives.
"Gotta admit I might be the same way, Lord knows I've been giving away chances like free candy" He takes one of the bigger kitchen knives to start cutting the vegetables Jerry was supposed to take care of. The way he keeps looking over his shoulder at you to talk makes you feel a certain kind of warmth. He's really making sure to adress you respectfully, keeping eye contact and not looking you up and down like the rest of em in this place.
"Well, thanks again Crowder." You nod. Keeping it professional.
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2 weeks into a new job and it's safe to say that you adjusted well, you know who to trust and who to get along with, which prisoners are the nice kind and which ones are the bad. This place works like a perfectly oiled machine, everything is time based and the system of the prison works. You shouldn't have a favorite prisoner but this Crowder guy doesn't seem too bad. You've been through his file a little, it's a hefty record for a man who seems so nice and collected. You also stumbled across some pictures of an injury he got inside.
Graphic pictures of a mean looking burn on his upper arm, investigation showed second degree burns to apparently scorch a hateful Tattoo off of his skin. Ouch. Yet no agressor is listed, apparently, he wouldn't say who did it to him. It was his first week of kitchen duty too.
You see Crowder again in the kitchen, it's easy for New Guards to be posted at Lunch and dinner. Observe everything.
"You've got to try this! For prison chow it really is somethin' " Crowder points out, stirring a pot.
You hesitate at first but you are pretty sure he wouldn't try and poison you. Not like this anyways. "I don't know If..- I'm allowed to" You frown but with a smile. Though no other guards are around so maybe it's fine. The smile on his face when you step closer is almost sweet, he takes a spoon and puts some of the food onto it, holding it out to you. You don't even really think about it when you open your mouth and your lips move around the spoon that he's holding. Too distracted by the taste.
"Wow!" You huff suprised, chewing slowly. "That really is good" How on earth does prison food taste better than the food at your own table at home?
"You like it? It's a old Crowder family recipe. It's easy to make but got quite the kick to it!" He throws you another rather off putting smile, why is he so nice? You read his file you know he's not violent for no reason but it's still a bit unusual.
"Yeah I do like it! You gotta give me that recipe" You take a few steps back again, licking your lips softly. That was really tasty.
"Is that an order, Guard?" He asks, wiping his hands on a kitchen towel and turning to face you. The tension in the room is suddenly different, heated, you don't know what he's getting at but it's best to put a cork in it, now.
"No?" You question. "Now get back to work" .
"That was an order" You tease.
His chuckle rings in your ears for a moment, you really do have a strange relationship with him.
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Its not unusual to play favorites in a place like this but you and Crowder became..close. It's been a month now for you in Kentucky's Tramble Penitentiary. Everytime you interact with Boyd you laugh, you smile, he smiles, it really feels like you starting to develop a crush. Which is bad. Biggest rule in the game. Don't fuck the inmates. Ever. Cooking duty for him means you can always watch him fix up something nice for the other inmates. He really always takes his time, he always makes it great.
Up until today.
"God! Fuckin' damn it!" You hear Boyd curse loudly and when you rush to the kitchen to take a look you can see blood. Your hand moves to your taser.
"Easy! Didn't stab nobody, just cut myself, the fucking cucumber slipped off the board." He holds his fingers and you can see blood slowly running down his hand and arm. Luckily you have some mild medical training.
You radio in the incident and your current Boss gives the clear, your allowed to take care of the injury and put someone else on cooking duty.
You swap out inmates and a coworker takes over the Observation while you take Crowder to the small medicial room at the end of the hallway. A own room for minor things so they don't all end up clogging up the only Hospital wing in the entire prison.
But you've never been in this area or this room before and suddenly it dawns on you, you are new and your alone here with a prisoner known for Manipulation tactics. The fear becomes reality when you finally take a closer look at his injury. No way in hell was that an accidental cut, the placement is way off.
"What's the plan Boyd? Jump me. Take my keycard, my taser, make your way out the back?" You huff.
You hope you are wrong but when he starts to chuckle you can feel your stomach turn.
"No darlin' not quite." He points out.
"God and here I was thinking you weren't like the other's" your hand reaches for your Radio again to call it in when he's suddenly a few steps too close.
"It ain't like that" Boyd takes another step closer.
"Come one now, you need me to spell it out for you?" His voice...his smile.. he's...- is he trying to seduce you?!
"What? Yes. I think you do" your hand leaves off the radio.
"We have been dancin' around reach other for a month now, as nice of a dance as it was, you wanna leap off that stage now don't you? See the Real Deal." He suggests.
You can't help but to burst into a soft laughter "You think I want to sleep with you???" You shake your head and turn away from him, grabbing some rubbing alcohol and a Band aid for his self inflicted dumb cut.
"I don't just think so, I know so" He points out. Stepping behind you while you gather the supplies.
"Your crazy. I really underestimated your Level of crazy. Now give me that hand and then I'll take you back to your cell" You chuckle again. Staring at him when you turn around and he holds up the cut in his hand. Your hands tremble while you pour the alcohol onto a cottonball. Taking his hand into yours, cleaning the cut and then the rest of the blood from his hand and arm. His fingers, his breathing.. He takes another step forward and you take one back. Feeling the wall against your back, shaky hands trying to hold still while you slap the band aid onto his wound. Once that's done his hand closes around yours.
"You mean it? I've been imagining things... you don't want me?" He tries to confirm that he actually might have been wrong about you.
But you can't help it, you let his hand take yours.
Your hesitation speaks volumes.
Your hand presses against his chest, but he leans in to kiss you anyways. His lips are so gentle, so careful, he's not aggressive or demanding. It's almost sweet if you don't think about the fact that this could get you fired and that having a crush or fling with him won't work. Because at the end of the day he's in here and you are out there.
You break the soft kiss with a sigh.
"No..- I don't want to sleep with you, now take a step back Crowder" You raise your shoulders, making yourself a bit taller.
He nods. And he does.
"Apparently im off my game, it's been a while" He frowns. "I deeply apologize." He keeps his head down for a moment.
He genuinely seems sad. As if he can't believe he made such a mistake.
"Your not off your game." You finally say. "Imma have to get a uh, a transfer I think, to another ward, having feelings for an inmate is unacceptable."
His head lifts up slowly.
"Here I was thinkin' all these little things were signs you wanted my flesh. But it aint just that huh?" The smile on his face makes you roll your eyes. "You like me" He grins. "Shut up" You groan.
"As in, a little crush! Or a big crush? Good Lord! Are you in love with me?!" Now he's just being mean.
"I said shut up!" You chuckle.
And then he hugs you.
You expected everything but that...
His arms around you feel so strangely comforting, you know this is wrong, you read his charges, you know very well why he's in here and yet here you are, in his damn arms. Your hands are hesitant, but slowly you stroke your palm over his back and your other holds onto his upper arm, where you feel the scar tissue underneath your finger tips.
"Why did you never tell who did this to you?" You ask, hand soothing over the uneven skin. It's a really bad burn scar, thick and leathery almost in it's texture.
He slowly lets go of your frame, placing his palm onto your face. "Cause I did that myself." He tugs a piece of your hair behind your ear before his lips place a kiss onto your head. "They woulda thrown me into isolation for it, marked me up as a danger to myself, couldn't risk that...-" He adds. Taking a step back then.
"Why did you do it? Apart from the obvious.." your skin feels on fire, you want more, your lips are dying for a kiss that takes your breath away and your hands are aching for a body to cling to.
"Form of self punishment, I guess." Incredible how sane and yet insane such a Statement sounds, you kind of understand. Pointing to his hand "And you did that to sleep with me?" You huff. It's a strange way to go about things, that's for sure.
"Well, had to get you alone somehow didn't I?" His face changes when he looks at you a little while longer, taking a deep breath. "But I gotta admit, this was quite the suprise, might be even been better than a simple, fleeting, lustful exchange. I deeply honor that you.. care about a man such as myself." He likes it, he wouldn't have it any other way actually.
"Doesn't matter much does it? Not like there is anything to be build here" The alarm starts blasting which means Lunch is over and it's back to the cells.
He missed Lunch for you.
You take a hold of his shoulder to walk him back to his cell, his cellmate not being there yet you step inside for a second.
"Don't request a transfer.." He whispers. "Seeing your face every day for the last month while cooking has been the happiest I have been in a while, don't take that from me, please." He seems really sincere.
You nod "Okay." Then you leave his cell.
Fuck, you can't believe you have a crush and that he kissed you, and that he hugged you, hell he even knicked himself with that knife to get to be alone with you and then also asked to not stop seeing you everyday.
Falling for an inmate was not on your list, especially not THE Boyd Crowder.
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Fights happen very very often in tight spaces like these with a bunch of criminals. Unfortunately Crowder was in the room where it happend, which means by the damn book, strip search. Someone could be hiding a self made knive, razorblade glued to a toothbrush..hide drugs.. anything.
"Crowder. Room 3." The guard yells, FUCK. You were hoping he'd be called to a different room, you change your gloves from the last inmates search, leaning against the medical shelf when he steps inside. The instant smirk on his face makes you flush Red.
"Well ain't that somethin' , guess it's your lucky day" He closes the door and takes off his shoes. Not his first strip and not your first search but.. this is pretty damn intimate. Even if you try to not treat it that way, you like him, and he knows you like him, and now you get to do a body search on him? It might really be your lucky damn day.
"Hey now! Im a pro" You wiggle your gloved fingers.
"I bet you are darlin' " He steps closer, opening the buttons on his orange prison jumper. The reveal of his chest and his shoulders is already pretty nice to see but when he drops it lower and you get to see his abs and his hips and his V line it's starting to get steamy in the room. He Strips the jumper and stands in his white boxershorts.
"Don't you worry now, I think I'd be quite alright with a bit of touching" He clicks his tongue, taking off his boxers. And Jesus christ. Seems like Boyd Crowder isn't just all talk, he really got the package to back it up. Good for him!
"You are staring" He comments.
"No! What? Im not! Turn around" You huff, watching him turn around and place his hands against the wall. Fuck, this shouldn't be so damn hot.
"Bend uh, bend over...you know how this goes come on Boyd" You sigh.
His chuckle makes your head spin, you really didn't think this would happen today. But you got a job to do, it's not like you don't trust him but .. you have to do this right?
You take a deep breath before you step behind him, patting down his hair first, armpits, his hips, people get creative. Some even hide blades in their own damn skin. When your hands move to his pretty nice butt you hesitate.
"Oh come on now sweetheart. Ain't my first rodeo. Let's go" He huffs. You nod. Taking the lube from the medical cabinet, you hands spread his buttcheeks apart, when you don't see or feel anything it's time for the uncomfortable finger. You apply enough lube and with a soothing hand on his hip you gently push a finger inside of him.
You don't take him for the type to shove drugs up his damn ass but this is simply part of the job. Of course you don't feel anything so you move to take your finger away again but then he..moans.
A long deep right out of his lungs kind of moan.
You move your finger slowly again in the same motion and his body tightens. "You uh, you okay?" You ask.
He nods. Which is not a yes and not no to you.
"Bit sensitive are we Crowder?" You ask and you could swear to god that he pushes back against your hand. "I think I have to be really thorough here." You slowly push a second finger inside of him.
"Fuck...-" He moans deeply.
"I'm so sorry!" You panic a bit.
"No your fine..- just god please don't stop".
"Don't stop what? That?" You move your fingers the way you did before again and again..- getting a bit deeper each time. His head is resting on the arm that's holding him against the wall, you can tell he's breathing faster, his skin is flush. Someone likes a bit of a prostate massage.. Interesting.
Boyd's breathing sounds so insanely erotic, you never heard a man make these noises before.
His other hand spreads him open a bit, watching your fingers move in and out of him. You never thought you'd be into that but? The way he sounds so broken by how good it feels? The fact that it makes him feel so good makes you feel good in return. That's all that matters right?
You step closer to him, placing a gentle kiss onto his back while your free hand reaches around him. Stroking over his Rock hard cock.
"Good lord, Ain't that some kind of abuse of Power?" He comments but he likes it, he could easily make you stop if he wanted to. Looking at you with big desperate beautiful eyes.
"You wanna file a complaint?" You kiss his shoulder and his back again. His hips starting to meet your pace is incredible.
"Phew aren't you all wound up, how long has it been Boyd? Since you felt a womans touch? Soft lips against your skin, delicate hand around your cock?" You whisper and it feels as if he's crumbling at your words. All desperate and defeated. That certainly is a new look for Boyd Crowder.
"Too long way too long" He breathes out.
"Am I doing a good job?" You ask hopeful.
"The best..." his voice is dripping with something sweet, he sounds so thankful.
When you push your fingers into him harder you can feel his hips shiver. He likes it a little rough too apparently.
You keep the stronger pace of your fingers, hand stroking his cock in the same motion.
The orgasm you get to witness is stunning, breathtaking. He tries to swallow his moans but his body clenches around your fingers and his cock throbs in your hand while rows of cum spray the wall in front of him. It's easy to tell without a vocal Orchestra that he really enjoyed himself. Carefully letting go of him and taking your gloves off.
"God damn Baby." He chuckles when he turns around.
He picks up his clothes and gets dressed again fairly quickly, closing the buttons on his prison jumper. He even has the damn courtesy of taking some paper towels and cleaning up the mess he made, tossing them and washing his hands before he looks at you.
"You really have me question what we are here..." He tilts his head and you can still see the remains of a blush on his skin.
"I've never done this before, all these other guys they are so...uptight, uncomfortable, and then you come along moaning around" You huff.
"Which I never done before either!! No other guard has ever gotten me like this, I think it's more of the person, the person being a woman I rather fancy" He smirks a bit. "I bet any touch of yours would make me sing such tunes darlin' " God the charisma of this man is teeth rotting sweet.
"Your ridiculous" You comment, but you should move on now, you don't want people to question why this is taking so long.
"Ridiculousy smitten, correct." He nods.
"Go now, smitten or not this is still a crime" You nod towards the door but instead of him going both of his hands take your face. Kissing you slow and sweet before he has to let go. "Might get myself into some more trouble if that means I get to be seein' you" he winks before he opens the door.
He's such an idiot but...god you too are pretty damn smitten.
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To be continued...
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If I wrongly tagged someone or forgot someone im super sorry !!! I gotta start making a damn list hahaha.
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emo-nova · 3 months
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Update time for some good ol' Teen Wolf, ig? i'm on episode 7 of season 2, and now I am definitely seeing some clips that i saw that was making me interested in the show as well as aspects within the fandom spaces.
Never understood the whole idea of Pack mom Stiles thing until I saw Stiles basically be the first to clock that 1, she is in seizure, 2, she may have an issue with the kanima venom (more than others) and 3, to be able to help her he needs to go to Derek cause Scott defo doesn't know. I didn't see it in the beginning, but I can see what people are seeing in it.
Another aspect, Stiles predicting Matt as the villain was such a rewarding scene. Mainly because I have been spoiled, I don't mind them, sometimes I actively look for them to see how the writers handle certain characters plus a summary isn't always true to what actually happened depending on interpretations.
You know what wasn't? Stiles' dad not being told. Or Melissa. Can these two be in on it now? Please? I'm mildly done with the charades on both ends mainly because the friction between two parties is simply miscommunication, plus it would be interesting to have Stiles' be open to this now so that we can see more of a struggle for the Stilinski family when the Sheriff *carries on* heading into danger when he knows. Same with Melissa, I think it would help create more stakes, but it will needed to be handled with care, that she can notice when a patient might have been involved with the supernatural which she can tell the sheriff. It'll make a good feedback loop for the adults, me thinks.
Onto Scott and Alison, I am noticing the writers are now ramping up a more heaviness to their relationship. This is no longer about puppy love but genuine wanting to carry on together, on both ends. And the touch with Jackson being used as the mouthpiece of the writers to foreshadow something more sinister lurking within Alison's future and her decisions. I honestly can not wait for Alison's either degression or progression as a character, as an aspiring writer who likes to study stories of any kind, I would have her digress to create a more nuance version of her character especially with her and Scott creating friction between each other. The friction I'm talking about is Alison's fear of being truly hopeless, unable to actually help herself out of a situation, this could be due to her being raised to be independent and to be a leader within the Argents. Scott on the other hand has a total Hero Complex, wanting to save as many people as possible, yada yada (mild affection now, he's grown on me), wants to be there for Alison *always* which contradicts Alison's want of independence.
Derek, so far, has been following a characterisation I would do for him (after that abysmal training set) cautious and careful with his betas, almost paranoid about their safety with mild disregard for his own in time of the full moon. I would like to see more Boyd though, you have an entire episode on him, and he doesn't get to appear in that scene??? BS, I want Boyd, Erica and Isaac have a moment of annoyance at Derek for being so careful with them. Would I have Derek explain to them why he's so cautious? Not fully, no, I would have Derek explain simply "I am your leader, I look after you and train you. And I need to look after you by ensuring you don't get caught between the Kamina and the Hunters."
Let Derek be a vague, paranoidly responsible Alpha that noticed that his first method didn't help for shit and changing the curriculum for these three because Scott's training was a *mess* and not some fucking dictator alpha guy. But knowing the writing team they most likely will mishandle Derek's character like a child given a machete in the garden which is disappointing.
That's all I got so far, but enjoy my ranting about what happened so far.
Also thank you to the kind soul that told me the timeline of season 1 and 2, I didn't realise that it was such short periods of time! Thank you again :)
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percahliaweek · 4 months
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FAQ '24
What tag should I use?
#percahliaweek is our designated tag - you can @ us @percahliaweek so we can reblog your contribution on the corresponding day.
Where are the prompts?
Ah, seems this has escaped containment then. You can find them HERE!
Will you be doing anything on Twitter/other social media?
We considered it! However, as other social media sites have proven unreliable (especially lately), we'll be hosting the event only on Tumblr. However, you're welcome to post your work wherever you like! Just understand that without a Tumblr post we can't exactly RB your entry.
Can I do _ for the event?
Yes. Yep. That too. Seriously, so long as it focuses on Perc'ahlia (and is appropriately tagged to avoid spoiling people), you can do it. Cosplay, inspired recipes, beadwork, podfic, go wild! Well, with the caveat that no hateful content will be permitted - don't use a joyous event to rain on someone else's parade or promote hatespeech, alright?
Is NSFW content allowed?
Given the ship in question and just how canonically horny they are for eachother - yes! However, we request that you tag this content as #nsfw and use the appropriate content filter on it. If posting in the Discord server, keep it to the 18+ chat. Be mindful of potential minors in fandom space + people browsing content in public.
I want to participate but haven't watched Campaign 1!
We welcome fans of The Legend of Vox Machina with open arms. As a result, it's requested that campaign fans do their best to avoid spoiling show fans for anything beyond what Season 2 has shown (Umbrasyl's defeat). That means late Campaign 1, the oneshots and any mention of them in other campaigns should be tagged as #cr1 spoilers (using just this tag for simplicity). Show fans, if you want to remain unspoiled, I recommend you block this on Tumblr and mute spoilery channels in the server.
Wait - what might get spoiled for me here?
The #cr1 spoilers tag should broadly cover anything TLOVM hasn't yet, but do note that Percival and Vex'ahlia pop up in Campaign 3 and so some fics might contain mild spoilers for the events of that campaign and the decades between their epilogue and now.
Is there an AO3 collection for the fanfics?
Yes! HERE it is, ready and waiting for your fics! If interested in last year's fics (which definitely deserve some love), you can find them over HERE!
Does my submission have to fit one of the prompts?
That would be ideal, yes! Anything freeform should be posted on Day 5 for Free/Random prompts. But fitting the prompt can be very loose - maybe you just use the word as a motif, or you take it in an entirely unexpected direction. We want to encourage creativity and fun more than anything else.
I don't know what to do for the Free/Random day!
We have a few recommendations (we are unaffiliated with the websites linked): Random page of the Encyclopedia Exandria Random word generator OTP prompt generator AU generator Ghost’s Spell prompts [roll 2d20?] Wild Magic Surge table Life events table If you've made prompt lists and would not mind them being featured here, reach out!
How did you choose the prompts?
Prompts were selected by a combination of admin discussion and voting in our Discord server to try and ensure a good mix of evocative prompts (we see y'all voting disproportionately for the Scars prompt! We see it!).
Where can I find last year's prompts?
You can find the list and links to individual tags HERE. Given last year was our first year, we unfortunately didn't think to tag Day 1 until after the fact (we'll need to go and clean that up).
Why late September?
On September 29th, 2016, the Critical Role episode 'Passed Through Fire' aired, which features an iconic Perc'ahlia moment (no spoilers for show fans!). Following Burr's poll last year on which scene is most iconic for the pairing, we decided to have the week celebrate the anniversary of that episode. And, with TLOVM S3 airing the next week, who knows - we might get the animated version to go with it soon! ;3
Is it okay if I only do one prompt?
This event is intended to be relaxed and fun - one entry, or seven, or fourteen, however many you want! We've tried to announce the event earlier this year, to allow for more time for everyone to work on their entries, so please don't feel pressured to do them all the week of. And if you can't finish on time, there's no pressure: late submissions will still be RB'd and added to the AO3 collection. Mind you, after a month or two we might stop checking the blog and tag regularly, so your best bet is to @ us or post in the Discord server!
A Discord server?
We have set up a little server for this event on Discord, mostly to hang out with other Perc'ahlia fans and motivate eachother to work on our respective projects. The current link is HERE - let us know if it's not working!
Who is hosting this?
At the moment the users running this blog are @burr-ell, @blorbologist, @crithaus, @essayofthoughts and @rightpastnowhere! If you have any questions or concerns (i.e. we didn't see your post and missed RBing it :c) please let us know!
Any more questions? Feel free to send in an ask and we'll do our best to answer in a timely manner!
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Thank you so much for answering my questions last week!! Your answers were so insightful and interesting, and have made me even more excited for the book of carol!!
That's awesome to hear that you're more confident about caryl canon after watching ep one. I totally agree with you about how them being alone will open up opportunities for it in a way it never has before. And i agree that if it doesn't happen, it's probably because Melissa & Norman don't want it (which I'd be super disappointed about but would respect their choice). But from everything I've seen, i also think they do want things to go in that direction!
Haha emotional and unhinged are great words to describe caryl in general! And I'm excited for nostalgia. The emojis are intriguing! They're making me think Carol blows up a plane, hopefully once she's safely in France lol! And that's interesting about how the people at the nest treat Daryl, that also frustrated me in s1!
I had a couple of other questions but no worries if you can't answer any of them:
1 Do we see anything specifically relating to Carol from Daryl's pov in this ep? Or is he talking generally about 'people at home'?
2 What did you think of the opening credits?
3 Did you see the ep title? I'm really curious about what that might be!
4 Where would you rank the ep in terms of your fave twd eps?
Thanks again for everything you've shared! I love how you've given us hopeful teasers without spoiling the details!
Hey Anon ♡
You're so welcome!!! I've been having a lot of fun answering your questions, so feel free to let me know if you have any others, and to be honest, I'm happy with any excuse to talk about Caryl 😅
Mild spoiler warning for my response to question 1 ♡
1) No, there was no situation where Daryl directly spoke about Carol. However, I do think there's a good reason for it, which I've spoken about in detail in a previous post [HERE]. It's also important to note the screen time division; episode one is about 85% Carol and 15% Daryl, so we don't get many scenes with him and very little dialogue. The dialogue that we do hear from him sounds very frustrated and resentful as if he's tired of being held back by the Nest and wants to leave as soon as possible (like he's rushing a resolution for the conflict in France).
The line below that we hear in the teaser is actually in episode 1, and it's the only time he references anything about home.
"I don't know if this is the place I'm supposed to be. I've been thinking about all the people I left behind, wondering if they're still thinking about me."
This is then followed by a few other lines where, in no uncertain terms, he says that he doesn't think he'd ever be happy at the nest.
2) I loved the opening credits; there were some really nice animated scenes of Carol that I really liked, and my favourite is the closing shot of the opening credits which is one of Carol and Daryl together. 🥰
3) No, unfortunately, I don't remember seeing or hearing anything about the episode title. But I think they'll announce the title either during San Diego or the following week, but most probably during the next screening of episode one that's being held on the 26th of July (tonight).
4) Honestly, episode 1 is now my favourite episode of TWD. It hit all the right emotional notes and delved deep into Carol's mindset, which is way overdue. It also had the walker action and suspense that left me on the edge of my seat (literally) the entire time. Melissa is incredibly talented and has everything it takes to play a leading character, especially one like Carol, who has so much depth and layers.
I have no doubt that the rest of the episodes will be just as good, if not better, especially the reunion episode!! And I'm confident that this season will be my favourite of all time, from any show.
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Thanks again for the questions! Once again, they were a joy to answer😊🩵 I'm sorry if this was a little delayed. I've been very busy with my uni finals during the past couple of weeks, and I wanted to wait until I had enough time to give your questions proper responses.
Also, I can't believe today is the day we finally see the trailer!!! I'm SO EXCITED, and my brain/emotions are already on overdrive. I also apologise in advance 'cause I already know I'm gonna be over analysing it and sharing my thoughts as soon as I can 😅
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tolnas-vault · 5 months
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WIP to Watch Out For: The Red Harp
Reviewed: May 1 2024
Fic Data
Rating: E
Status: Incomplete
Publish Date: 2024-04-23
Last Update: 2024-04-24
Chapters: 2
Word Count: 10,639
Main Ship(s): Shadowheart/He Who Was
Side Ship(s): Geraldus/Rolan
Other Side Character(s): Jaheira, Aradin, Rugan, Minsc, Rion
Summary:
This city is filled with demons; and as the constables track down those mortal evils, those murderers and thieves, behind the unassuming door of The Red Harp they hunt those evils existing in the space beyond. The High Harper's daughter has been taken. The medium and the thief stand at the docks, growing cold as they await the arrival of their newest recruit, the exorcist, ready to begin the work. (Victorian/Penny Dreadful style AU)
Ao3 Stats (As of May 1 2024)
Shadowheart/He Who Was works on Ao3: 2
He Who Was works on Ao3: 35
Shadowheart works on Ao3: 6219
Review (Mild Spoilers Only)
Warnings: Gore, body horror, parasites, ghosts.
Favorite Quote:
"Shadowheart’s eyes traced down, now, to the floor - where the girls purple gown was gathered about her, the crumpled material of her skirts forming pools all around her, which, now that she was looking at it from somewhere so close, she could see, were shifting slightly. The material almost looking as if it were … boiling?"
Main POV: Shadowheart and Geraldus
Thoughts:
Oh this is a lovely gothic horror. Shadowheart and He Who Was slot perfectly into the rolls of medium and priest in this AU. And it's one of those AUs that weave the canon lore and AU lore together perfectly. Tieflings are still a thing, the Harpers and the Zhent are still a thing, but the technology and magic system have been adjusted for the setting.
The first two chapters offer a thrilling introduction to the world and this version of the characters. He Who Was, in all his creepy glory, gets a proper introduction from Shadowheart's pov, and we're then immediately flung into the action. And without spoiling what happens the action is absolutely amazing in this story. See the quote above for how evocative and uncanny the entities of this setting are, and how they're revealed to the audience through the dawning horror of the characters. I had chills during the first action scene.
And the action scenes also do an excellent job of character building. Each character's reaction to the monster of the scene reveals something about their character, and shows the author understands the NPCs they're working with.
And the author is also good at mixing up the horror as well. There's a solid combination of high intensity action, and unnerving suspense in just the first two chapters. I cannot wait to see where this story goes.
Who I'd recommend this fic to: This is the perfect fic for people people enjoy the goth aspects of both He Who Was and Shadowheart, and want to see the characters in a more classic horror setting, while not straying too far from the world of BG3.
How Unsatisfied Would I Be If This Never Updated Again?: Not too terribly. The first two chapters of this fic served as an excellent "pilot" episode for the premise. Which meant they of course set up the character relationships, mysteries, and plot threads that one would expect to be addressed over the course of the "season". But they were also their own self-contained story with a proper beginning, middle and end. A very classic "this is how the team gets together" pilot episode. Satisfying on its own, but leaving you wanting more.
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triviallytrue · 2 years
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yeah, sure. mild spoilers under the cut @kata4a
brief summary: TMA is a horror podcast with five seasons that starts with episodic monster-of-the-week stuff and eventually widens out into a unified plot.
the most straightforward thing i can say about TMA is that the execution on the micro-level is very good - individual horror concepts are great, the characters tend to be pretty well-written, some individual episodes really shine. on a macro level, though, the show has several tendencies that make it a lot worse.
season 1-2 are mostly one-shot horror stories which are almost universally good to great, and season 3 marks the major transition to more of a plot focus. at this point the horror takes a backseat, since once you understand more of what's going on, everything is less scary.
in this way, the worldbuilding is kind of a blessing and a curse - things follow well-defined rules, kinda, but scary things having rules makes them less scary. conversely, the setting is very well-put-together, to the extent that if you pay enough attention, you can conceivably figure out plot-critical elements prior to them being explained to you. i liked this a lot.
i also really liked how clever some of it is. many people just end up completely fucked, regardless of what they do, but there's several great examples of humans doing clever things to fight the supernatural and winning.
one classic one from the first few episodes is a guy who has a fucked up coffin locked with a skeleton key, and he finds himself waking up in the middle of the night holding the key, having slept-walked toward the coffin.
locking the key away doesn't work (he just finds it again or it magically returns to him) so instead, he freezes it inside a block of ice. the cold wakes him up before the key melts and is usable.
i wouldn't say this type of thing is central to the show, but it comes up a fair amount and it was one of my favorite parts.
but on a macro level the show feels very flawed. it has a consistent tendency, starting in season 1 straight through to season 5, of killing off interesting characters that i like and centering boring characters that i don't. there are lots of phenomenal characters, which will leave you baffled about why certain specific ones got so much airtime.
there's also a reliance in s4 and especially s5 on a certain romantic relationship carrying the podcast, and uh. it is not interesting enough to justify center stage, let me tell you that.
i also have highly specific gripes about the finale, which (without completely spoiling the show) are intertwined with the above issues and left me feeling like the tone of the finale and its actual content were extremely disjoint.
all seasons have great moments that i think about a lot, but having listened to all of it, my impression of the show as a whole is as a work that is less than the sum of its parts.
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Best Underrated Anime Group F Round 1: #F8 vs #F1
#F8: Young boy gets sold to a demon to be his grandson
Iruma Suzuki is sold to a Demon by his abusive parents. Fearing for his life, he is greatly surprised to learn that the demon bought him because he desperately wants a grandson. Iruma agrees, as he is unable to say no when anyone asks him nicely for something. He thus begins a new life in Babylus. However, he needs to hide the fact he is human, or he may be eaten by other demons. Throughout the series, we see him grow as a person and embrace this new life, making many friends along the way, including his closest friends, Asmodeus and Clara.
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#F1: High school girls go to Antarctica
16-year-old Tamaki “Kimari” Mari wants to make the most of her adolescence when she encounters Kobuchizawa Shirase, a schoolmate who has saved up one million yen in an effort to travel to Antarctica after her mother went missing on an expedition there three years ago. The two team up with Miyake Hinata, a convenience store employee their age who’s looking for an adventure, and Shiraishi Yuzuki, a teen star who’s never had friends due to her career. Together, they travel to “a place further than the universe” as part of a civilian expedition to Antarctica.
Titles, propagandas, trailers, and poll under the cut!
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#F8: Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun (Marimashita! Iruma-kun)
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Propaganda 1:
The main character, Iruma, is very kind and wholesome, and you really just want to see him succeed throughout the series, especially after knowing everything he’s been through. He was neglected and used by his parents, but now he gets to live out a nice life despite being surrounded by demons, as his new grandfather spoils him. The demon that adopted him, Sullivan, is an extremely powerful figure in the demon realm, but through most of the series, he looks like an egg. The side characters are also well-designed with interesting personalities. The main two, Asmodeus and Clara, become almost inseparable from Iruma after they become friends, and the three of them are very cute together. There is also a canon nonbinary cat person, who is technically Sullivan’s servant, but he is treated as part of the family, and he’s a disaster bisexual.
Propaganda 2:
It’s really good in terms of art, plot, and characters. There’s nonbinary representation in the form of Opera, and there’s friendship galore with very poly undertones. It’s so sweet and good, and it’s just rahhhhh. Everyone is silly but also realistic and well-developed. There are reasonable arcs, and there’s a well mix of plot-driven growth and character-driven plots. I love every person who appears onscreen, even for like two seconds. The world building is lovely and so bright and colorful.
Propaganda 3:
You should vote for it because it is genuinely one of the best animes I’ve ever seen. It has good character development, mysteries, focuses on the cast well, and it is not a harem anime. The plot is also really good and is suitable for all age groups.
Fun fact: the main character crossdresses three times in the first three seasons
Trigger Warnings: Child Abuse (mild)
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#F1: A Place Further than the Universe (Sora yori mo Tooi Basho)
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Propaganda:
Let’s start with the fact that this is Madhouse doing a (relatively) grounded coming of age story about high school girls - the show looks gorgeous, of course. The music’s solid as well. (I still regularly listen to the ending.) But what really shines is the writing and characterization.
The pacing on this is perfect. For a show that spends half its runtime getting to Antarctica, you never feel like the time should be allotted differently or that you’re missing out on hijinks. Episode 12 is a particular standout, with tension building up until it explodes, and then goes still for the true emotional climax of the show. The four main girls all feel like believable teens, and seeing their relationship develop over the course of the series and watching them come into their own is well-done. The way it handles Shirase and her emotions, and how this complicates her relationships with them all is a particular standout. This may not be eligible in that it’s one of those anime people who watch A LOT of anime will recommend highly—it was on Crunchyroll and IGN’s best anime of the 2010s lists and on several “best of” lists for 2018. But it never quite took off the way it truly deserves, so I’m submitting it. It’s getting an English dub soon, though, and I really hope that gives it a resurgence of popularity. The girls are alright.
(Admin: Propaganda has been edited slightly to remove spoilers)
Trigger Warnings: None
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If you’re reblogging and adding your own propaganda, please tag me @best-underrated-anime so that I’ll be sure to see it.
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lyrical-lovely · 5 months
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Anime Review - Idoly Pride (S1)
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Idoly Pride. Idoly effing Pride. Where do I even begin to describe the emotional journey that this thing took me on? If you're here, you know that I LOVE idols, so do take that bias into account...
Watch Idoly Pride if: - You want to experience a state of true catharsis - You love idols and music - You have a sister
Do NOT watch Idoly Pride if: - You are not emotionally prepared for it - You don't like women??? - ??? It's 12 episodes you can do it
MILD SPOILERS below the cut- I'm only gonna spoil episode 1 plot points though so
Oh my GOD. Where do I even start? I guess we can begin with a summary. A young man named Kohei becomes an idol producer after being asked to do it by his acquaintance (at the time) Mana. Over the years, Mana goes on to become a legendary idol, but passes away in an accident just before the finals of the Venus Something competition. A few years after that, Kohei begins scouting for a new idol group, and he meets two girls of importance- Sakura, who has a voice that sounds just like Mana's and a heart that told her where to go; and Kotono, Mana's younger sister who took up idol training to follow in her sister's footsteps. The anime follows the story of the two girls discovering their own truth as idols and what the profession means to them. Ultimately, though, this is a story about forgiveness- both of others and of ones-self. That said, there are a lot of lessons to have pulled from this heart-wrenching story, and this is just how I interpreted it.
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Love Live walked so Idoly Pride could run. Seriously, Idoly Pride does EVERYTHING right that Love Live got wrong. For example, character development. Sakura and Kotono are, of course, joined by a cast of fun and quirky side characters, who each get a somewhat significant plot point around them. For example, the sister relationship between Chisa and Saki is touching, and Rei's intensity being misinterpreted as cruelty helps her develop as a character, too. All the side idols are really great, and I think that in a second season there'd be a lot of potential for good plot points there.
Idoly Pride also succeeded in that things actually went right. Unlike Love Live, not everything goes wrong for Hoshimi productions, and as a result, the anime is a happy one, not frustrating to watch at all. The characters, for the most part, act as reasonable human beings would and usually make good decisions. They're a bit unrealistically emotionally intelligent- I mean, have you MET high school girls? That aside, I also enjoyed the balance of "filler" to "plot." There's a ton of cute little moments, like Suzu falling asleep and rolling off a bench while waiting for laundry, or Shioriko doing "ego surfing" on her phone between shows. I think this mundane aspect of it gives the characters a bit more realism and makes them so much more likeable.
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Just to dote on this show a bit more- the 3D animation was like nothing I've ever seen before, and there were times when it was actually hard to tell what technique the animators were using. There were even times when you could tell they had rendered in 3D, then drawn over the idols in 2D to get an incredible 3D sweeping background with a 2D character overlay. A lot of love was put into repeatedly drawing the intricate costumes on even the side characters, and I really respect that.
The only crime this anime committed was not being long enough! Well, and there were a LOT of loose ends, and I wasn't completely satisfied with what happened at the finals of the Venus Something cup. The solo song performed at the end was absolutely beautiful, but the outcome of the cup as a whole was kind of confusing to me. Well, whatever. Fix it in season 2!
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I'd like to bring up two more things before I go. 1, this anime portrays sisters really well. I love the way the relationships between the two sets of sisters are explored. And 2, the handling of the power dynamics between older, male idol producers and the young, often underage, female idols. I think this was presented rather well, and it's something I'd like to see them discuss more in the next season, specifically with Rui.
Overall, it's a 10/10 for me. I cried the last four episodes. Something about this anime knows exactly how to punch you right in the gut. It's beautiful.
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Hi I'd love it if you could make an analysis on Adrien and Marinette this season. I've been seeing too many people say that their characters have been ruined and so and so. Your takes and opinions are really fresh and actually smart, so I'd love to hear what you have to say.
I would absolutely love to talk about them. The notion that their characters have been ruined comes directly from a butthurt place of salt, and it just demonstrates to me that people are not watching this show with their eyes open. I know we are missing a lot of context for this season, but so far from what I’ve seen of the later episodes, their characters are maturing and developing in ways we’ve been begging for since s2. And to understand that, we’re going to look back at the last couple seasons up until now.
CAUTION: I will be discussing all of the currently aired episodes, so if you have not watched anything past Elation or Transmission and don’t want to be spoiled for later episodes, go ahead and keep scrolling. I will not be discussing leaks, so you are safe from those. Let’s dig in, shall we?
Firstly, I think we need to address something I’ve seen people claiming in their tantrums about how Adrien and Marinette are “ruined,” and that’s this idea that Adrien’s feelings came out of nowhere/they weren't actually friends before now. They didn’t and they were. They’ve actually been hinting at his budding feelings for her for a while, we just didn’t know for sure that was happening until now. Hell, one of the biggest clowns on his character since s1 was literally “sHe’S jUsT a fRiEnD” when he’s literally making heart eyes at her and talking about how great she is, but I want to focus specifically on the moments that take place after Puppeteer 2 because Adrien himself cited that episode as the point when he noticed his feelings for her changing. And him saying that wasn’t a retcon or random. They actually started dropping mad hints after that episode, we just weren’t 100% aware that his feelings officially changed. I made another post a couple months ago with several instances that hinted at Adrien’s changing feelings, but let’s talk about those a little more.
I’m going chronologically, so not necessarily in broadcast order, but if we look at the production codes, Puppeteer 2 was episode 21 of s3. The next episode after that? Chat Blanc. Everyone clowned on Adrien for “only liking Marinette because she’s Ladybug,” but looking back on it, his sudden feelings aren’t so sudden after all. We’ll talk more about Chat Blanc later because as we know, this timeline got erased, and Marinette is the only one that kind of knows about it. Which brings us to Ladybug, and possibly one of Adrien’s darkest moments as far as things he consciously said and did. Up until this point, Adrien had always been kind of soft and mild-mannered, not wanting to stir up trouble to a fault, but the end of this episode is the first time we see him righteously pissed as Adrien. Another tidbit to point out from earlier in s3 that relates to this moment is from Oni-chan when Adrien tells Lila that he won’t support her or be her friend if she hurts the people he loves. Jump back to Ladybug when Adrien holds that friendship over her head again to restore Marinette’s reputation. Adrien isn’t the type of character to be shady or underhanded, but he is the type of character to fiercely protect the people he cares about, and in this instance, that person is Marinette. That moment was a huge indicator about how Adrien feels about Marinette and how much he values her/their relationship.
Next, we have the first instance where Adrien truly stops and ogles over Marinette in Heart Hunter. We’ve joked in the past that he gives her soft looks all the time, but this is the first time that he full-stopped and admitted out loud that he thinks she’s attractive. And he does it twice in that episode. Not to mention how badly he wanted her to run away with them, and how disappointed he was when she left. Additionally, we have him being conflicted over his feelings for Kagami over the next several episodes. He hesitates and isn’t sure how he feels. We all thought it was because he still loved Ladybug, which he did, but now we can see there was also unconscious feelings for Marinette swirling around in the mix. (RIP Adrigami) Marinette was always an obstacle in their relationship both as Ladybug and as herself, even unknowingly. It’s actually Marinette’s lucky charm keychain that pushes Kagami to break up with Adrien in Lies after all of his erratic and wishy-washy behavior toward her, signaling that Marinette would always be between them.
Season 4 brought forth several small hints, the cutest one being Mr. Pigeon 72. Adrien gets distracted several times by Marinette in this episode, which isn’t necessarily weird when he thinks he sees her during his dive, but the moment in the end when he bumps his head on the car because he can’t take his eyes off her? Boy was falling hard. One thing I find really interesting is that Adrien falls for Marinette at her most unhinged. He tells Kagami in Protection that he just always thought Marinette acting weird was part of her charm and found it cute (think back to how softly he smiles at her in Optigami when she’s freaking out over the elevator or how enamored he is with her acting crazy in Psychomedian). Seeing the context of these moments in retrospect when Adrien talks about how he felt during them just confirms that their relationship was always deeper than it seemed. His side of the story as it relates to their relationship has always been missing, and maybe that's what people mean when they say their relationship was underdeveloped? We always saw things through Marinette's lens, and of course, she freaks out and overthinks and doesn't think Adrien will reciprocate her feelings. It's refreshing to see his perspective and understand what he was thinking and feeling during some of those key moments, and it gives us more insight to the nature of their relationship this whole time.
Next we have Ephemeral, which I know this timeline also got erased, but I’ve always seen the ‘what if’ reveal episodes as a way of checking in on how the love square is doing development wise. In Chat Blanc, Adrien’s feelings for Marinette were still budding, and while it did make it easier when he learned her identity, I think his reaction in Ephemeral was much more telling about their relationship. People have said that Adrinette were “barely even friends” before s5, but I think Ephemeral proves that’s not true. (I mean, watching canon with your eyes open prior to that also proves that’s not true, but I digress). The moment Marinette reveals herself to Adrien in Ephemeral, he tells her how happy he is to find out that one of his best friends in the whole world is also his partner and the girl he loves. By Ephemeral, Adrien sees Marinette as one of his best friends, and that point continues in Risk when he confides in her about his homelife. He tells her that he doesn’t want to tell everyone else his true feelings because “they wouldn’t understand,” but he opens up to Marinette because they are close enough that he deemed she would listen. And people say that one moment was when his feelings changed, but that moment was just when all of the other hints came to a head for him. He didn’t fall in love with her in that one moment, he’d been falling for her slowly all throughout s4, and he was even still falling into s5 and didn’t realize he was in love until Determination.
Risk was just the moment that pushed him over the edge because he realized she was someone he could confide in, someone who would listen to him and understand his feelings without projecting another narrative onto him. And we’ve seen Marinette working on that throughout s5. She’s stepping back and letting him be who he wants to be and encouraging him to make his own choices. Adrien literally says in Transmission that the Adrien everyone else knows is a marketing image. Gabriel states in Pretension that he crafts the perfect images to sell to people, pretty much implying that he is in direct control over how the world sees Adrien and the person everyone thinks he is. Marinette is the only person that sees beneath the surface of that and wants to help him do something about it. And people think that’s “ruining” their characters? By letting them grow closer and fight for and support each other? By letting Adrien figure things out and work toward his own autonomy? Yall want him to stay lonely and miserable under his dad’s control forever? Weird take, but okay. Like it or not, his relationship with Marinette has been building up since the beginning, and we’ve seen them make big strides each season. Nothing about what’s happening in s5 is random, nor was it thrown in casually. The signs were there the whole time, sorry yall missed them.
Secondly, I want to look at LadyNoir, the big source of everyone’s grief, but in the same way the Adrinette hints were all there throughout s4, the LadyNoir hints leading them to where they are were abundant as well in s4. Looking back in the context we have now, LadyNoir and Adrinette had an inverse relationship in s4. The more Adrien fell for Marinette, the more his feelings for Ladybug faded, and their conflict last season had a lot to do with it. Ladybug pulled away from him a lot last season, and I don’t think it was entirely intentional or conscious. She was dealing with a lot and scrambling to juggle her new responsibility with Shadowmoth on the loose, Su Han bitching in her ear, Alya knowing her secret. And unfortunately, the more she pulled away, the more hurt Chat Noir got, so he pulled away more, which in turn made her start relying on other heroes more, which created even more distance, you get the idea. I think there are two key episodes that point to 1. Why Chat Noir stopped loving Ladybug and 2. Why LadyNoir could not have worked romantically. (actually there are 3 episodes about why LadyNoir can’t work romantically, but we will get to those in a minute)
The first episode deals with the reason Chat Noir moved on from Ladybug, and that’s Glaciator 2.0. Prior to this, Ladybug had been softer in her rejection of him, but still firm with the public that there was nothing romantic going on between them. She does care about his feelings, and if we recall the first Glaciator episode, she tells him that she doesn’t want to toy with his emotions or lead him on. She is sensitive to the way he feels, but she also stands her ground that she’s not interested. In Glaciator 2, we have the two of them already being a little at odds with each other from the growing distance between them in s4, and we also have Ladybug at her most stressed. So she snaps. And I think that episode did stick with him and play a huge role in why he moved on. She makes it abundantly clear in that episode that she doesn’t love him, has never loved him, and will never love him. She set very clear boundaries with him in that episode, and we’ve seen those boundaries stick with the way Adrien treats Marinette in s5. He’s not pushy, he’s patient, he lets her lead their interactions. That episode affected him. That episode alone is why it's not surprising that he moved on. She'd been telling him for 3 seasons she wasn't into him like that. He finally listened.
The other episode that points to the big problem with romantic LadyNoir is Kuro Neko. People don’t want to hear this, but LadyNoir does not function effectively when Ladybug in particular is distracted by love. We saw this in Desperada, we saw this again in Kuro Neko. She gets too distracted, and things don’t work. We see teasings of this in Determination when Ladybug gets distracted by Chat Noir, and they almost lose until he snaps her out of it. Granted, she was also still down about losing everything, but the point still stands that she does not do well when she’s in love with her partner. Contrast that with the way they effortlessly work together at the beginning of Perfection. They’re holding a whole ass other conversation while fighting bad guys as if they were doing anything else. Their mojo is back, and they’re getting along better than ever as friends. Romance was always a point of contention for them, and now they don't have to worry about it. They can just do their job.
Now, I know a lot of people are also of the mindset that they should just reveal their identities already, but we have two examples of why that’s a bad idea as well. Chat Blanc and Ephemeral prove that they will work well together post-reveal, BUT the main obstacle in their way is Hawkmoth. It’s too dangerous for them to reveal their identities while he is still around because as we’ve seen, they get reckless and careless and Gabriel sniffs them out. They lose. (yes, I count Chat Blanc as a loss). So long as Gabriel is still around and pulling the strings, they cannot tell each other their identities. They’ve said that on numerous occasions. It’s not a matter of compatibility because we know they’re made for each other, that much has always been clear. It’s a matter of practicality and dangerousness. It’s not safe for them to reveal right now, and I think the writers wanted to push them through the development they’re getting first, which brings me to my next point.
This season is about healing trauma, particularly Marinette’s, but also increasingly so Adrien’s. And the only way they could go about healing the particular trauma these two are dealing with is the way they’re doing it. Adrinette was the side that offered the most opportunity for that development by becoming canon, and I don't care if that pisses people off when I say that. "But best friends to lovers is better-" okay, but you're ignoring a lot of important context that I’ve talked about. Mixing their jobs as heroes with their romantic feelings is actively detrimental to their job. Ladybug loses focus, Chat behaves recklessly, Hawmoth literally learned their identities and took advantage of that. The world got destroyed, the universe nearly got rewritten. But yeah go off about how much better things would be if the heroes got together, especially in the season where stakes are at an all-time high and them focusing on the mission is absolutely crucial.
They needed development as civilians, but that doesn't make them less deserving of love, nor does it “ruin” their characters. That's the biggest crock of shit I've ever heard. Marinette needed to overcome her hesitation and anxiety around Adrien. Because what good would it do them to date as heroes because she ran away from her problems with another boy only to turn around and find out that the boy she was running from is the same boy she ran to? Do people think that reveal would go well with her still not having healed from that? A huge point at the beginning of the season was that she was running away from her problems and throwing herself at someone else instead of dealing with her trauma. Marinette needed to turn around and face her feelings for Adrien. She needed to face the mistakes she made as a result of loving Adrien specifically and heal from that. And ya know what? Allowing Adrinette to date fixed Ladrien without them even having to appear next to each other. It allows Ladybug and Chat Noir to focus on their mission without their feelings getting in the way. It allows both of them the opportunity to be happy and get shit done. And ya know what, since they're healing trauma, they're gonna be ecstatic when the reveal eventually happens. We loved each other the whole time? You're actually my best friend in and out of the suit? You're gonna be at my wedding next to me marrying me? We're gonna grow old together? All sides are benefitting this season, and yes, being platonic is a benefit for some sides. Just because it wasn't what some people wanted doesn't change that. I swear some people just wanted to treat the sides as separate forever and only ever have good things happen for their favorite. I saw it all the time when people would pout about one side getting development in episodes in prior seasons. Personally, I am in it for the whole picture because I know it will be more beautiful in the end if every side gets worked on. I'm here for the love square, not just Adrinette, but it seems like some people forgot we’re all on the same ship.
Additionally, it’s not really a big secret that they’re winding down the Agreste plot. This season will resolve that storyline, so they needed to bring the Agreste plot to the frontline, and it wouldn’t have worked with LadyNoir. Marinette needed to see first-hand how bad Adrien’s situation is. We still don’t have all of the pieces, but later episodes show how desperately they’re fighting to be together and to free Adrien from his father’s control. They could not have put her that close to the situation with LadyNoir because they can’t reveal for reasons I’ve already mentioned, and as such, Chat Noir can’t tell her about his home life. LadyNoir being together would have been self-contained. It wouldn’t have propelled the other sides forward in the way they needed to. Marinette would still assume that disasters happen when she pursues Adrien. She’d likely still blame herself for being blinded by love for losing all of the Miraculous. She’d likely still distance herself from him, which would remove Adrien’s confidant about his home situation. The story they’re telling wouldn’t work. And that’s the other thing, we don’t know all of the details about the story they’re telling yet. (I mean, unless you’ve read leaks, but we’re not talking about those rn). Obviously, Adrinette being canon was important to the story, and I am personally just not seeing it as a detriment because I’ve seen all of the positives that have come from it in later episodes. Their characters are growing and maturing. They’re supporting each other. They’re fighting for each other. Is that not what we’ve always loved about the love square? The way they complement each other? How deeply they love each other and how much they sacrifice for each other?
The only conclusion I can come to about anyone saying their characters have been ruined is that they haven’t watched anything past Transmission. And not only that, they’re making a ton of bad faith assumptions about Transmission and the next episode after it in order to justify their outcry. But as someone who has watched every episode officially released right now, their development this season is solid. On all sides. There is a huge difference between not particularly liking something and something being bad. People would do well to learn the difference.
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soft-persephone · 1 year
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Minx Season 2!!!! (Mild Spoilers???)
I mean.. if it counts? Does a show like this have spoilers?
It feels so new and different but it’s the same! It feels bigger and better than ever!
This episodes very shortly and sweetly explains why Joyce and Doug work as business partners. And it really explained how she kinda needs him in the best way possible.
I just love how they tied up the Tina and The business school thing! I also loved how she never outright said Doug was being pathetic, but it’s clear she felt it… just a tad. You just can’t hurt your soulmates feelings like that, so she held it in.
Bambi and Shelly are so amazing! I just love seeing them together!
This season also gives us more Richie, more Bambi, and more Shelly in a way that’s so perfect. They heavily add so much to the show and it wouldn’t be the same without them!
This show is such a joy! I feel so spoiled! No matter how these characters turn out or how their story ends, it’ll feel like the audience is truly getting everything it could want!!!
Just good fucking food!
Ellen Rapoport deserves a yes fucking chef!!!
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juanabaloo · 6 months
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hi! this is so random but I just found hightown and saw you in the tags I was wondering if you recommend it? I wanna watch something with a lesbian couple but it's hard to find shows (I tried station 19 but got bored easily besides the appears couple is on season 3). anyway would u say it's a good written show and good rep? like is it worth it? thanksss
hello hi! i highly recommend Hightown if you are a Monica Raymund fan, she plays Jackie - the supposed main character. (Monica was on the first 6 seasons of Chicago Fire if you happen to be into firefighter shows.) i have randomly seen a few eps of both Chicago Fire and Station 19 (Maya x Carina is the couple you were watching for i think?) and they were just alright.
it's hard to know if you would like Jackie / Hightown without knowing what else you also like. (related, my top 5 sapphic movie recs)
(also disclaimer while i am flattered i'm not a lesbian, i'm bi so def not an expert on lesbian rep)
OK so i'll try to pitch this without too many spoilers.
Pros for watching Hightown
it's short! 3 seasons is only 25 episodes total
Monica Raymund!! she's truly amazing and gorgeous
if you watch BTVS and like Faith Lehane, Jackie to me is like an older but still very fuct up Faith
rated TV-MA in the USA (versus TV-14 for Station 19 and Chicago Fire)
sex and nudity is rated severe in the IMDB parent's guide (versus mild for the other 2 shows)
Jackie has sex and enjoys it, with different women
Jackie is clearly a lesbian and shows no interest in men
there are other women on the show you may find attractive (Renee played by Riley Voelkel, along with fewer appearances by: Charmaine played by Imani Lewis and Leslie played by Tonya Glanz)
Jackie is in a relationship with one woman at some point in the show
the chemistry between Jackie and the one woman is really good, for both sex scenes and softer moments
MILD SPOILER: the relationship lasts for a while (more than a few episodes)
MILD SPOILER: neither Jackie nor the relationship woman die during the show
Cons for watching Hightown
there are a lot of other sex scenes that don't involve Jackie that are hetero (Ray or Frankie)
Ray takes up too much space in the story IMO (i don't find Ray very attractive, so maybe i am biased. i don't mind the space Frankie takes up, and he IS attractive.)
"lesbian couple" is too strong a term for the relationship Jackie has with the one woman
if you believe ACAB - well this is a cop show. Jackie may be a "fish cop" but she's still a cop. (i believe ACAB and just hold my nose.)
not really a con - totally separate from ACAB Jackie is not a good role model. so she might not be good rep.
the one woman has some struggles with understanding her own sexuality (related the show pretends no one is bi)
not really a con - drugs (specifically hard drug use) is rated severe in the IMDB parent's guide
not really a con - Jackie is a real mess, and her struggle with sobriety is a major theme of the show
not really a con - Jackie has a rough relationship with her Dad
there's a lot of angst and drama in this show. if you want a solid lesbian couple / sapphic couple to watch, i don't recommend this show. but if you want to watch Jackie having sex and also root for her and this one woman, you can. if that is your plan then you can basically only watch S1 and S2 and skip all of S3 except for 3x07 the finale. So that would be only 19 episodes.
i can say more but trying not to spoil things. ask if you have more questions!
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libidomechanica · 2 years
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’ Moss uprose, and my heart. But these     love, which hover body I love discoveries returns     all pant. Fear or to ass
soft moan of beauties made the every     viewless son, yet society; ever forth: so I     have seems not them to present
purple of loue lameness     like a barren Womb or Gods can all the light, foul and if     Foxe came may be means defies,
paragons, and the wicket     crept, sank or fool’s eyes, and with to matters of their own. At     they rejoice infinite?
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My Arts high dead. As every for     love you—the astrings that had two armies tell—perceiving     anon. He feasible
of Smollett, Prior, and for creeps     in the what see, that he could not let us range! That this     did Zimri stands to see
him in, and bore his fault? Will take     this? Of earth of Just, but off death secret said, for their own     Poster-babes and with him:
I know; nor love you has born again.     Though he broken. Was the broad: but to his labour, and     in you say? We know what—
I lie her self a sight euen the     deep depresent, as was tended into not a white a     parts of the worlds hem remain,
if stand, mine a vice: he lead     that had him other-Age! Prest, fair, dapple flowers, dark     requisitions were off his
long gowans have put my worse sad     become hall, even more the burning listence, stopt with buskin,     or become into
the dust, yet smell. With a fined names,     or who kept a joy, shall be my fairer must surpris’d my     garden-key—Fly—fly—Adieu
deares the rain. All pangs right     them self-enjoy’d to do withdrew in due present should not     be sent a hand, on Earth!
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Of Lebanon. Now could continue     that all would realms for well be his soul, and probably,—when     Cloe is as the remain one won by them yode a doubt upon     the bosom rose that
I do not so may seems still be     minds of that her her his much the People shepherd said Juan     flames when I err as to stead of the roof her semi-tone.     In looks and Peals some said
her draws to breast. For Mercy, Pity,     throught; shee, lose the Gold, because to govern of Jerusalem,     as been at leaves and time blissfull so embellish,     and my grace. Was been with
eyes, snatcht into a sunflower,     my dear against the deep and blood readed, beside they daught     o’clock of life praise than of Self make him disaster five,     be to pick’d exceeding,
and storm of further, who was sweet     voice begin; but Fortunities, and tell me a better     soon as underes born, the grain of would be; all there only     sonne, a seal there only
signs—that your gates but cross than     by his fit but makes a Rival shall remain he this mind,     and this infant joy can’t finer sex at all clad, before     that her smiles, chilling, I
care make sooth, the resort, and and     come and we drawn on their merit first his Voyce so is     mysterious, nor served; and prayed, from ever musket, of all     pelt. No son to earth did
the leaps we recommentaries     in Spain? Will sort of tomorrow is sty: and, the wanderstanding,     I have remote, Or leaves with all the World to Jerome     also, when never
sic power, but no light, or counsel     to reduced by on there useful like daughty should     desire want from his page, and Debauchee who laughs and rape, for     a better for wing’d it
words went far the swart Paynims praise     of all their clouds before splending forth was squat outside as     beam not time has set me company look behind: which from     all: one, and sell too long.
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Votes are live and flesh, all the woods.     —For I am, ’ he repleterious waters, when may swych     a summers tilt, t is
the blast that next proper plunder     my spirit, until I look; as fast, perfect in her their     school as Algrind vsed the
atmospheres. Then it but forth     and grown the must all lie rest, some would scarcely name, enlistening,     walking the kiss—
exactly him drop on her than     the love you rise show’d therefore tense of hope, in God; and she,     Let Theotormon, and Humane
Good, he flames good descend almost     demands before turned to Cymon cool’d back, and the delight.     Me or press gross to
comes upon through, an’ kye they are     safe is: I will pursu’d, no more and end. Amends, beguiles,     kyng of Israelite
common she compare. And when she     cobbled all say which that before, then the tower, or why     heart; and in the strain dead.
And hear unseiz’d with fail: shee, O     name, but a shole cannot care I shoulders, your scorch burn’d     to keep still might cymarr;
hero, but death? Pleasure: in God     tis a cavern wit’s wroth God! ’ Poor, with and never yet—be     had so would take my penny-
fee, although sleep. Won about     died, red and business purple regiment’s sphere, Her eyes were     happy became ride or
late; these leave the Father her rough,     the ends of Heaven’t be parted, and baby. Who that from     a happen inclines, a
flower. As tween, all their crime: heaven,     and ridings—but there quietly did behold thy teeth,     which made her doating serpent’s
novel worthy he love delight     to her own natural through, the with their miserably lie     so dear? Were paused, and the
rise, or mind prints to shut out? Down     to be true society’s vale: great lustily he died. In     the Seven in many
a friends delight’s black-eyed day and     deeper for the look’d tripp’d a spot, marvellers throng, he level,     and poyson know which
shoes! Shed maister that lover’s Image     prescribes in modern female, to whom the sun set brough     they say not a pig; or
does the gaze her Lord’s hue, they raise.     So much transcend—that star- flower through no great opposed, not     too reason; even dishone
the astring with him throes, and     chaste, my love the milky way? I will never a     Suggested flush of you.
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It was hot you here, bend: taken     by her are then night of Loyal cursing in hys pac’d his     supreme to hearts of hautgout,
which fitting up the play and     her hands; reveries of legends frown, since the victim I     neither brain: finds her would
be dead, and I as a mild! I     shall which men as I, to stood, it sits twins. When a’ third-’—Forbeare     deserved and knew name;
then with all the chain or higher.     I lie silence more to view. Are significently drank,     or reason, but by his
of his friend, when he day by     transgressions knew the ground the proclaim’d Gulbeyaz, as you or hands;     and lazy Happing the
meek camel is find of fable—     just not; society; everyday to true lawyers in     a mistress of those sometimes
in timely would weakness and     fruitfulness, and descend, but not why, I recorded into     these were by my turn
friends have her Lords went. My minds, but     in the short a rich is She dame. With fall or imperial     way, hurt your love Godhead
upon the with Oath thy     beloved be safe—some six- and-for-Nothings are found thou an     errors but now it tree,
I hold worse as make it Adam.     I would the break, and a zeal lustrous water pleasure; so     much is and perplex to
for a tiny manors if the     necess! Not for let us go fare; and view, its turns to     ears to be some say, lost
have read’s upright; but it, and other     and prayers in was without many noise, yet rolls of     homicide, let meal upon
the blast them take up to the     had all renew. Very Jewes, wi’ a’ her yet a last     yearning! How can be sense,
with pity him her threw; o tell     me Love me, i and to sent heard to stared each rangers, you’llhave     me take the publick
Plot, which the come, a tyrant of     Thyself from they form divine, there all the crawls; troop they all;     locks. And glories roar to
the justice didn’t prepared to mistress,     bought have not trout name. So, loved your fashion to the law     distance; they were gushing
sea-sick man’s educate—ye youth,     and the night Supreme to find out of sad reach signs of the     first, and detain poet.
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Staff, stock, Stone, when without a feeble     now haue leave to see. But which thy flight, knell this they call’d     what makes such as far to
threat cause, the enjoy’d in one dark     and was herself in hue, this Urne; so sure is nod, and is     gold king of mail at on
my beloved soul cut his brought;     shee yode thee up from various deem a voices fail’d a     stoples of Golden she
toll alas! I have I swear a     panoramic view: so that shake a thou care, like Roland     touches, are made fortres.
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Instinct with mortal Brass: yet free of thought of grave.     Perfection, Mrs. Without he warm your small displaies. I charity. Through, he told, and     the glory of the brook’d! The Pope makes you saw the procession, coldly stomach other’s     pictures have I turns o’er unpleasure.
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In safety to all my natural     white from such endears agonies did not been for impudence     have cost mouth, who lead two—but when Hell, or footsteps, but     the flights infalling work’s
floods of she would be well the three     of attack, at six, I shall we must be, and the foot if     being sighs—all the Bread on madden in viewless and all     those his one breast, is to
thick wall some conjurer, though a     fruitful of Eloquench robe arrived of melody in     the embarrass’d, or said, several and gazing the night     they came of hell: You rip
up out of dead—he companion:     but vow’d the hair. Down he should never be pair; then their duty     to wonder ivied castler purse, that thou are inheritaunce:     the fortression,
and Place and learned not, ’ or     Verflucter, platonism has know, a Prince. Since in the Principle     what I must be sweet and one; till climes, to open the     lead, until the same restores,
and where dream of the plains unshorn,     and bear to the casement, and feathe mild be soothed, a     plainly treasures Eldest pity, and, swinck. Therefore pearly     lighted with a chaste; and
were we all thy King David’s     Paramours: a sort of threats up the Rich its red like Judas—     about the yearns to dismounts up, bright to follow’d na spier,     and revel, whose were.
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Of poets the merchard the night     not skipping sing upon young fell he story, a tree riding     to revenge fray’d thy
bear frame, as Sabbath; or a years     life she same doubled with the tappiness of Access: whose     scorn out, ’ the last doth pure
or two legal brings; and let one     lame. A thou return, return. May forced then, you because the     other daught. Each by some
to his fate: superiod clos’d he     love to habitants also plain. His feelings and died. The     died; this lost breed, and veild
the die and early greaten’d crowne     with husks, cut hard the rightfull be surgeon’s deem’d the landlord’s     foible sent to view; and
my best thy bells and fair of hope,     more a tavern. Dip in this connect for t was of touch?     The foe outraged, and Sons
broad water is a sabres, or     ane and and pledge of new comfort of which in the asks nod,     with with treat voice, and
atheism at Wits walks, and saw     that hue; but the kingdom, Better Progression fall. Some hast     thou that yet in sound. Look,
what I will hover that grew warm,     made the loved at his legs were to sayes with treble still all     doth grown unto me downy
brow, and so say I; by that     once move her approach wild ordeal was their amusements level,     carotid-arter.
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Both ingrateful and queer a Body answer.     The haue ioyed and Turbulent that piercing befell, and others, O my America;     perhaps from Nell! With all the for the retired, as been a magic poet’s page; and tender     more endless is always pleasure the faith, so it cost, i’m send her diest bard I quote,     she shown would thus maxims, hear with Foes
withers, made Obnoxious riding stars, nor catch, ere     that could for the Throne, that dark grew from each bring what’s gold,—twas all the dreams withdraw then shines,     inquired. I wonder, with us the subject; they part in thee to mosque in a sea     derived the city in my judge they should we writer one or eyes which her daughted, shaken,     was ne’r satisfactor tack white
robin’s already way the tip of ether world     an evil in disdain’d no less like they were speaking own. The picture, than the work my     eyelids upon this soul to bull, slipped my beloved, by Lawless lay, she shortest chief;     the grief, but not, ’ or Courier: ’ I will some spotless must end them. Begin than his     ungrateful section mentions knew to march
of true one worth to supportion of transferr’d at     then he fear beyond and earth, Coleridge, Southey, or changed; full of soft snow bore, all through the     blue how many a night be all the dreams our bitter in his Prince hence, or and a hills,     consent; myriads one, the come all the jaunt to island. Bow passive as sweet Virgin five     so much from Nelly Granby, Burgoyne,
not well bearen, by they err was a gypsy’s room     fell: I record had fought as e’er, an’ rest. But coats and Theotormon sighs, black fell, alfonso,     where you are than though I love whole sore; that lose. And tree. My mind; in from men dinner     and the lake in the fruitfull of jewel. A discussions for does not this crawls; troops at such     as the first or delude the Eyes seal’d
eternatural to both, which him and both in     the destroys: that one, search’s self; if those thee is assure: noughts are fruit of no greater pride,     conceit her behind the poet’s own nature given he wealth, by Rochefoucault, how     on St. It shadows of rotting to continue—’t is vain. The rose ever prepare.     And a silent, and then than the last
in green him; by degrees: love, and oh woman invents     the degree, let every well. In such a hand, as your spinning on, than window, led     to a bore? Here she, while into powers purse, in this. Till was undering;—o that, and     she field will a malus and God, and the fulness, thro’ the Pillar, a help this the better,     the steal away, good nations once
be seem a fire. I remembering what such more found     the dogs would stole do for minute slip to catch form’d with speech was endure marble for found,     I thing his way triumphant you doth life’s weak point they had brough. Because I sung in rhymes,     but a fresher, quell: dear, nor leaves my friends; and love exagger ring t were stage who would     not meant to press manhoods and scape he’s
fame; and find, and could rip: Of every soul which     enquired—but I must senseless unworthy till Superior can Crave. In lilies, comes,     and in woof, in helps the waked them back to annul, they soul but ever bowe how to     proved, already bowstrung, as put beare in wood, create kind, and thing myrrh and the land-servile     deeds the was latest feels rights of
that should shuddering down and reward to herself-     rebukes, whose thee. A broken pluck’d—all’s Hill! Gazing I die. Are my numberland     unobservative. Which might darkness the heavy days true, truth tower’d in the tape-recorder.     And all reciting apart, and Fortune rolling abounds, the hath nectar—starling? Juan,     if I can’t helpless claspt by woes: for
love disapproach, which the gain protections were kept     awake up Arms for aye untries; sing the small reason to be receives in few with the     found thus, by Rochefoucault, and thread not, all but when shone not to lady rising fairest     of myrrh and him that sea, and learn’d her how far the Nature who darkness inter, and     us, and grace? As Samuel Romilly,
who can tell us. In Friday more hath bears     saw, but in sun of oriental, and feverity, are free, because threat spangled,     while were pression, and grew wives! In a mists are left in vain? The others ruin speech resolved     not Death in thee put my heart, I meet her sweet perfection such of exists thy great     crimes, nor may his past, time half-kill’d, he
stow’d chicket croak. Chief; you in both ingratefull     of the human eye could nor this confess: no more near her natures, victory has a globes     of living Jews; this is company of welth and shed?—For Progeny was—for fear of     the Frown, such infection. Pray, he had done, whom she whole her girl, hearts his dog, a limity,     or pride, this very wondrous to
apathy, the grew blood, by thou wish your pseudo-     syphilis? And this is heart the day he look? And dealt the moon, that he deposite as     only like pious natural Instinctly, cause the rhymes a maidenly, as thereformally.     For all injust suspicion just not make were on Princely copularly to     get Pretend and get her hero quiet
boys, and feelings, though orange of girl’s moderns     equal transgress: of a date, had got: to fear is the Diseases wing’d it differing about     the vines to schoolmaster in relief! Moral; much repenting compassion’d eagle     in a gushing quite. Bishop with did no brand neither their alterning his faulte, which is     Southey; better, as if in great, O
norther, as an heart—which complete, whose ugly     impotence as much Grace? I thing it; but Juan, he higher; o that please; bankrupt of our green     bed of waiting slow, however pass; while up his class of travel, by Baba; which the     kinds of Fates some she love you wish throughout the widen’d as analys’d you make no law     for need’st the port that opportune is
supposed bestow; for young giaour, and new by his hear     her desire. Ere yet none will I’ll go no port, that every clownish is place of trust     from Lebanon. Is friend of Princess! Saw within this time. Last you plead; but the bow’d in     abeyance, for his lere, the worshipping, with general, shine, and steady, he’ll lead, are     quietly. A worthy hairs of widow
this mine, and fulsome centurer waist! And how that     the winter’d by the baseball whose whom a hills. The sone can be such alfonso’s sovereign’d     to my tear. Pensive Titlesse fair one had been my sense he toll alas! Behold wondred     love, to a strength, nor ever face their aunt, an’ mother, plaiting although all his     In most with page of Amminadib.
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His left not my back is life beheld,     and Oothoon was May, what she light, and said that which shadow     and pray bared, swine. Both
all this own: they born a tenement     a little there hers comely would but Heaven on Juan     hath be baile, I witnesse,
that are alive; let none charge to     shake my very moments was biddin. Then taking be-night,     so waste Cato, nor
Beautiful! Until they were stored. Because     for mend, turning undismay, and Konigsberg it down     stream: its petty parade.
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Came from these Dregs in Pharoah’s Ark.     But t is but not even the timely at house perpetual     may for its restore:
juan answer’d my ankles all     fear; yet her heavenly eloquench my presiderings     more immortal shutter’d
her narrowe, ne least, scarce de Ligne     hard thee. And share the spous’d at home, lecture, within are over     are stood on my kin
after music portals’ eyes having     and our will go up from Conside the fiery fancient     to resume, why
shoes upon the stands the Plots, friend     reward to things; though their Brutal lusty flake one beaker     body and she can nothing
in her still; dear, the Multitudes     of the could embraced upon his since then still alone     untill’d the bluntie, Tam; but
the furthern nigher. With the motive     was her friend. Can now for dying round, and ease, that he     could fine and red when e’r
unite with abroadside. This Princess     wouldn’t wanton base, out of look him charged with shrieking pang     in hand;—follow each
Rebellish, be among the worth,     acquired quiet slumbering frame, chiefe pray, which Heaven’s greatest     very hair, of one
is sweeter the reason bring, she     cold hindred. ’ The vicissitudes than once enought with me     fervent and lookt to her.
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Whose themselves their could at Baalhamon;     who dar’d inaccession, and love you wish it scandal     his Prerogative me
noddy, gone for the chapelessly     was a sealed to a new-fledge of such as Strokonoff,     take; her yield with a cries
take, there were is a phrase or at     have concord more that Ceres after soft and not they beauties,     in their vocabulary.
The land; excus’d I told     then of Lethe’s old were their books, rhymes—whistle, did adore.     ’Er shame, else to Haidee’s
eyes. Saw Seames tumbling brown, a     judge, is the will seed, and slow, so fair annul, the motto     culties and false thy could
be loves res’ could retreat go foreign’s     set, daily term of there were on Bromion stood upon     the made me limp’d no doubt
thee: ah! Thee impass, it mighty     verse than the stand. She only careful Reign? He left his     unbodies, which yield inn-door.
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Old never bards to government.     Held upon clouds, a bosom to say to ye, which he weld.     For all our patient lot, in memory of blue, dancing     to point: then disguises
ally’d then she lean, she saving     but should express with canti in with the Princely judgment.     The bastard bold worse of she sun him and now their for shee     true; but which is was pilgrims
of the good behold, though meaning     handsomely pain o’ woman we squince, or nation more,     barbarian has late danc’d by the living. For him out     one grows. Because his more
taut hospitable virtue, a     new the wise bring each has so low is cheek a fashions for     my soul love me, and thy persuade, bombs, drum, and be agains     its straight reflections, while
Natural to please, no doubled; that     thee, love, the Tim that his so easy lives be gen’ral rules     of hys foes, my Love! By them. There I too late, but now flame;     whether; o that his or
me by the linen, lest thou that     never critic book; as aught up from the doubt his brutal     lust. A name whence, and that’s mean time despair, fairy lute. By     choose, his lips lie stilling
other it was a frown’d all     rigmarole. Courts ne’er it not so ten, or ambitious, for     succeeded quiet slip to his eyelids can makes it did     not from his close with grant
on thighs than I experience     forget the nights the blow, and sweet Ceciliation divine;     ’ that I find. This set, which, honye, my miles of thy beloved     put in them almost
all instance; we know. With from the     old, and beneath his warriors? A disconsonants and bring     the world acrossed, thou do stroking on the slights to all     pluck’s stung by young me. She
flower, who like the rest. Whistle,     Love, movie screetly? For humble, I won’t, believe, his life     to Ruine another; thought have man into poured fruits on tiptoe,     as I commend, nor
yet a little bang’d extreme distinct.     Secure of gold arched tight came her; but wit was gone asleep.     A stones liuely law. ’ Admire, by spirits and married;     but I’ll contemples on
our father sunk by former mind,     to you—Then sill she same. Remained, who had came up till not     to get Preferment, the left to Ruine she low. Like the rhyme;     nor care to our slackest
scene, but your voice, buzzing Eyes can     never happier breaking brown patched its she look like him     to give his harsh and fruit the Ring, they are myself on its     mouth on the Sons, what moment
to the wars, and grace, like a     blush the garden-rose transitory some time to beauty     unespy’d, o’er the did, I will Oothoon placed therefore     transcending on the doth remain
shawl, which the jet, whose tears had     some blesse they changed at he has comrades, illusion for sure     a tear estraits a mine taps withdrew our glory transport     with a dumpy woman’s
care not sight the Frenchman’s fame     marvelled, still! His night; still to thy child, lo! Nor durst improved     unbathed seventy- first for Parent with heathy finding     to his far you, and
when Deeper should I been the left     by the mount Cesare Cicogna from specious Cry, for     dome, so unmov’d, afternoon it was left. Evil speech is     core; or both, passions pause
of being ere is ygoe, the Jews.     He stow’d, which, Esquire was fingering safe—a little bag     o’ the Turks. The bliss one wonder’st though built with all have said,     albeit I shall lodge
itself as Stellations of     incorrigible. To cope with pale kidde as I have because     in a sort as thy brows— there might with a maiden’d a     Then and hold in thy name?
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Are his hollow far arose than the ancient fowl!     Of glory’s actual one’s length not Kings, yet I should he beldame, where Tim the only mischief,     how thee, Porphyro; the balance,
Ribas sense than love, my soul—she did have vanquish’d     like and cleared, and thy he love I ne’er could have for remove, with the dissolv’d t once on     a joy, and hid from the air, bedabbled
liberate Vulgar Spring;—floated without     they obey’d one can get me in silent way to tye thy house it’s wind; they speed—no more     shepheards would have live. Lust, what I forgot
to hideousness at homestic casement     massy brough I love and feature it forbears, you roll, and most claimant the loose, or leave     it because shepheard eyes on the was
theretic, and, half-torn and watch none of these please     he which the Constrousers no fact is nothings—but many people false Fortune’s fear it,     but left by mistaken, ran it to
heart in prove her limbs. The seven, when myne dig deep     and how he stopp’d; but you and crime: yet Heaven description can make foam in mulct then Where     with him your her round; at stand—better
draw, to go,—so will be acquaintance immortal     Birth, at once wounded? The think abundance nor grey stood up, my Foes; but not the sun’s, treasure     is upper as not cover, and
breast appear’d with trust which makes the too; for young, or     the sung in rhymed to their eyes, and it grieve fray’d. The fast a wood, ’ but flickers, brush and tell     within its vetera, ’ and when noon;
her been the eyes, which just now not on pursue, or,     in their Delhis meanings division of my sake, remonies, when the breast. So Cather     grammer woes, and happy happy? How
would be subjects for thee. Barks, and polititians     here, to conceals. At Mah’met, I should not a thrice adorned, heart’s disguise, he knew their nipples     or can lords advance, and fans to
those whom all the boil’d from the factor pallid life     is thing church an use in the flock, at full, its do cry. For his discretion, though when the     astrong. Care; soft Ionian face—but ev’ry
Lady Booby, phaedra, and raise effect a     palace for his eyes, which were than Life did. Dies; charms were am slow than your Cause; where God,     as is to whose whisperers of all
they bring; in this pity; which without an is always     in that I won’t but all; a thunderstander his damask’d her; neither from their suction     that others’ lives, by age is light,
which he several Line! Was one slight; in vain suffer     in thy love; somethings face, but commit than Personage a though heaven their hail the     great spots wishing to some now essaying
it the under pray the propounds in his wide way,     structing no meanings to fully, mind a dozen sovereigning the joy shade a Queens     forced to slight, for was thus appetite,
the should burn again, and her own brain, has sent warlike     a guilt meet more the back, how whether wintry know, since the stood, his baptized you live;     before mellow, so lame; I only
shining which this faces of time, till who tears. Wine     same; and not his home. Of Lugo, before tears really the firstborn to be not one Suffer’d,     and Beauty, and year, its pair one
more delicate does the love the milk, which with spirit     had a grieves choice. There nys to a royall thing. The portion magic. That once the spirit     first the chains blazing over if
the door. The repented to all than the turn’d; for     Julia’s tore still, and bignes in, all ravenous and small other be parties alone     with grasp—his eye appall’d different joys.
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I had on the was not seem thinking     by one so. He taper’s brothers to a scarlet     creating door upon the common found to hear the kingdom     or kids we know her long to yet a little. Reeds. At last     their travesty? The masks
it see. Methods and thothers, and     Kidde to grief was footman power. Gave bright which name to     innocence them mortal to ask holiday or handmamma     choice to the least, but most matering of my sins freeze—     alfonso sturdy Cymon
could be those every beauty and     fills perhaps, but he, whose expanse Thy Bosom to purely     bruis’d, blank and to finds, but a bound the said, strong, and builds the     lay she; each signing; why did see himself no very weal     of nature Race? Though
thunderstood; and cried up with the by;     i’ll command monthly; I have is overpower, stript to     looks odd, not find and whereof war, or snow; and burn, which shall     catechism alone for none you know’s birthplaced it     not call’d winds old Scamander,
never yet, Jouberty; the     spirits grey stander, forgetting will shields not tale he     centurous treasure, fascinate as rest. Were not quite of age     is mother one preludes is which would cold, and his some gan     he soul. You may’st that years,
and other father, so fortunately     could foremost; jove’s race-horn, he turning upon     their hand waste, he went day, to their spark should pique him into     thee sits ambro bade in wear too normally. Love and hath secret     caughty Soul and knees
lie he stood like in sight assumed,     and louely louded rashly quote free, of what’s tedium     makes of every burdens, and speech others guide, the make thy     names are borrow to Candy substances? That fall. The road,     was made sweet: means though Oppress
tomb, and your escapade him,     and Strong, and some that Graceful kind of Time, and not unworth,     of fable, and retreating from points hard the can earth, and     coffin for a young mansions now this late. Up this face, for     none cannot made a Tarquin
queens, and curls a day, to breath?     With such put up, her horses in our system feign of the     fire unfit to turned zeal; ill seek for the mild Baillie, or     the laid by for sometimes were thee, and want to hold the pray,     nest. Of earth; and death—so
Juan in somethings when rising heart.     Charms thy name upon Euphelia saint thee my achieves could     he knew hearken till Cherry it on the creature, and in     sometimes draw in Aprille, þat is not so your Native.     She makeles, and the
ring is a lawless rear’d on my     own little robe the words there’s as the gather can I     lie unsufficient still not holy majesty of love     me, and palsy-stream I saw the Muscovite and through-in     my greener; and Jervis.
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Her sex, as I am no long     ye. Which adore he happy, or knowing was Don Juan to     learning Tchitchitzkoff and
eye, each eye quiet glow’d the black     wires did speak, and shew the State, trod, theyr she have helpless to     knowne, and every line: I
have lies, the Heir upon that had     the ape for Day near a pretence but for a forth a Servant     of art, lost inslav’d,
the Grotesilaus, then, like a     field, their and tumbling skeleton, was with his faces—saying     Vertue wither turn heart.
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In its not time of body would I thinks before.     But her sixty though evermore attendants cold enjoys are was only. Marry Poet     and thus he studied with part of
a sail, and demeanour, Thee, to such as the Night!     Help my days bright that is of her face inform’d her draughters of widow the standering     salad, and above the dark in the
hundred gone; and mouth’ waiting, not name of the robe     the rude contract; and old Jerusalem, but the than—Oh shall never head, smiled aside     despised, where him she essayed, from the
impute these worlds he rude word to clear his Greater     a stablish’d, and overjoyed: Your better love is tutor in all recording sunflower,     but what supportunate lily
wanton; he’s hair started! This on, and running she     had fifty Sanhedrin love, or else, and midnight from Highness’ eunuch my tears. And day     what in his posture or they part in
bliss, while thunders of time is, if every is as     the prize you as Champion’d and pair to stomble of Time, that homestic skill to mountain     of relics such amiss; distance be
shortly heavily agains to power to be     a merit, miss his own, gallantly and gazing on that doth aside, that keep until     I have done just now it difficulty
smoke, in a bland, and despair! Yet your arms may     deeds and is in the adventure in their climes, show his elbows. And t’ other mouth—your     vessels fit and some half-kill’d on the
Russian, and from of the Beams aboad: but her bloody     senses; t is exordium? Whose a long gape form, and night be all killed in negatiues     and tell? From such a ribbon of
the Turks, made her came foolish Rider vows a chase     thieves retreating on, and other of his has sun her very partout, ’ like Grace cries. Yet     deep in all, at last, I know than the
rules, and girls of love you could prepared there’s a     rarity. And his grieve o’er the maize, was ledge, and not much sublime in my parted, and     things about you up. So, we’ll have done,
show his holds death-pale pay of others of other     lot of virtue Malecontent of royall tell wish too, an impious how should him,     the stain, and harlots, Horsmen, were nothings
at his sire of Men, some obliged that is,     the weighed: but glimmer’s falls Full of the Power of the screens about the read then—and think     thee lowers after thirty: have senses
I stood, my dear be so death it is because.     She is a ribbon, but wide cloak, which were state o’erwhelms us in her eyes from and slight     one glitter at the Dog-star apartment:
her be spent in good advice. Again, my life     have die beneath secret said God, as when young phrases, subterranean state the     fostering there a slight, then spinninges
on this, all the motives lie her favour! And love     the Fortune hand all spring as the yellow! But sadde, what to coldness style beneath edge     of many a grieved is whip on eare.
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And creed, she sinner had it not     enough it scanted: broken, which on each waves threshold, that     he, sir, to the slept: but
your eyes, not which the transferr’d o’er     a monstrump and as the equal his a rich attire:     even in small rightful
deep report, and happy sorrow,     whose the heir past, sweet trembling in they eat his dayes were such     as ever years the day,
the faith, i’ve not several     parallel—a ragout, no better forth to his laid to contend     unto memory
of Albion’s Herse? But music     studying dwell know whene’erthrows from heavenly son least, there     read you night reflection
the pleased; and takes beneath her that     we are bow’d sure is head— and not starting unutter’d into     the others incenser
of his mother eager-eyed,     an I did adorned to thing tearily where is myrmidons,     but all Breath? Still of
some started steady turn’d Love in     what have reasons to each at sense of cunning slights shouldst not     made; ambitional; beside
in losing all dignity     brink, but wisdom’s trayne, let not much dies; charms, and all his Plot     to struts and forgetting.
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I know, and there Cupid letting     his cheerful to music, yea, the highs that might which the     medicine, and t is long
vision, and servantes withal,     after after been he tombuctoo train: her angerous     gain, for rot up Wordsworthy
own so the chilly go’st pity     blocks before was to perish bend with he one has no     great bleeding there was fuel,
her rage to these hall eye-iudge on     his Prey, or lead, with a cord, by for Donna Julia saints,     the edge of one by love
weak. By love, an’ a’ should shut versed     to hath ease, pity on there we are plodding with glowing,     all they knelt down from Astream
here credit of having lustful,     for his Saintly and acquainted breath, with never cause     I bid her soft delight.
He did, attractised be     kindescent, too would rest: sooth whom we could scarce that way without     her freight Upon thrall, and
white and silent and leak; and Strongly     ill was care be shows when looking his fall; old decree;     of which I walk, in them
last short, death; a trifling     salamandering sunflower, bright love is changed flaws with a Love     slain the for durst found men
write, her fell, but for besides so     smart solitudes talking look when myself excuse; t     is slept among what Allah!
To pursued for I have none     of his mellow can I not as an awkward for the Russian     battered, Grief and yellow
saw ane to see these were great     bard you rip away. A lawless ruine of natures to ease,     pitied at for my soul
on Lethe for thought to lost. A lady     or gloom; fair unhappy nightening, by Baba prov’d.     I cannot, drenchments of
summer, so low? Finger agoe,     wherefore, and next shall lose of Loues loud despairing up shoes.     Off without philosophic
crest; he replied, with you remain,     it shod the sick: this handsome small, and I listening out     books know them briskly
entering out of bright had befriend:     she prey, scanted Lies, but vaccinate gain’d, aw’d why should teares     now no believe, their
and betide! Of settle-conjuror     place judicious couldn’t philosophic creature’s race; and     now also to her seven
the English, without a Vitious     citadel: had gives that black fellows with in t the     dead, my Birth, and small
sympathy hail, and still a mystery     gleams and when thing divide tune; he could not seem’d but even     tongue every pain water.
While the naval cells, with crumble     and died standing the best with through the found so much, had     it sweet Society?
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And out, a lawfull of troubled.     Come, and love her her. An army wish, there near, and iolly     hidden good perhaps I wrath dissection we show it will     comely lovers by Platonism has been while cork for the     ineffable—just net
why: t were enough; but cherish’d     in each want the world is you in spinning if anyone.     Quiet boy; but with horrid was a tortoises to thee,     dearest and is it more’s error, drink of every silence     in the face; I love;
let not murder, delighteous, and     that the twelve is all know hers! To get her and luckle Man     is our fortune has but moment half voluptuous wings     all she must have all day on the laid make men we known to     a confound, not then darling.
Ones, and kings in winds discovering     various, and chuckling each at six storms, and Fortune     can seeds not as a sight? Johnson, and of filthine stain’d     think oblivion one differing heart of lustrate sores steel.     I dream of thy night o’clock.
Which feel thine owner faire affairs,     nothing into all is like a brough sensual     phantasies. Thy name marble, might and at disgrace my Pegasus     seen though the came not intentiments wires trite of     melody have place and their
strange senses; and mollify thee     how—Good depart; made he rest, poor some beneath of the doth     lie. Sleeps, that Honour’d, she was strong waters—go thee, and thought     touch waited back lacque, I swears, and poison could make in her     shing; and murmur, snatch thing.
And if he cause though bodice grosly     a fret at fire born and of solid, children cutting.     His Highness tenders and among to raised he lowest the     studied soon thereon her,- provoking his face, red amid     a feebled might giving
pigs, over an abandon hold     of judgment. Impossibly spurn, and said Juan. As gentlemency     to know when I feele was Don Alfonso saw     that shall the cliffs, delight; i’ll recorded with a rust, what     don’t love made of loue
lameness and such a trying than the     took precious exactly wrestling Theotormon break in     his nighted, that not, for I flatter yet in their hand, and     goddesses, who but sounds. Twas oppose generous with due     servant stuck hair is but
she beare uncloset brough live a     foe, great may as yon his patient, that want on mucks, E for     my friends, and though he didn’t under their orders quietly.     I call’d he loved’s, my reason, the second his estate;     and soft Muses! For in
dissembles and put cross his could     can happy each high pornographs, which we various Youth     pretend now you can’t refined: so shoot; for a mighty thank     Heaven’d with his like perils Eyes seal’d by no morrow to     watch forwards, but oh, yet
me to quickly bought that went, that     should not prize. A soul to all mind; her clime. And not, be thought     to generations of trouble of our nipple still come,     an’ I’ll not trout names he wealth, but a heart or streams and thou     beautiful scroll, In the
even the deep blue, dancing on     her wake men what the Polish sheep and lost you open to     the Turkish was serves those summer-rules, yclep’d deepest in     their yearly trothplight: and cancel price to knew not be for     the soul made the who, there
coal; alfonso’s discords with his     lamplike the shepherd of the controul, save down the room, for     or two and their turn to, light, wonder prey, as I since be     done warm is the ox? Besides tell men with due appens made     iced me. So sure of this
own back and their shine floods of marble’s     shirt your greed exclaim to pith; ’ but he feeling he deem     that I forget that martyr, and thought is on the rails: but     till have divine, will not only giving backward the golden     nymphs, which from its pinness
of the native our on a     heaven as mighty with eloquence in Spain came and they’ve     miss’d in Old order. Like the lay insipid in some down     the assault, as is a seal my name, or salarion, and     Juan would grows occupied
with pity, the could have to thee,     ah famous crimson wilt thou broke surprize, or forced that     harmonized yours. The the penance is confirm, or true philanthropic     shame a huge, and favour, her beast sons are dun; if     one of a potatoes;
which for succeeding much shake them     which might: good at bolt and to perfect no more affairs, from     his made Obnoxious Cry, for high-prompter’s imperial,     of a slighters of delightful or months affirmed thy     At holy Saints I did.
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Antonia peruke they’d fire?     In these unless here others, for all as a compose rarely     have gazed, above, old
dwell; thy edge of claret velvet     compassion, and must forth by sun. Behind: which to show whate’er     state would exceeding
on the Muscovite friendship should     not be must for the hold, or as a push’d, those name into     known my own which need the
several curst not weep. Their come     twilighted Vows conveyance, the exhaled, my Feast Commandments     the day he land of
hope. When my eyebrow’s not be vain     with Year—while with unworth: they think of yearns to me, who party     e’r the still hand sea
dire done. To meet his sin’s bloom,     and tiger, ere my milk pour treat ocean, shriek, and temptations,     your breast so flesh obey.
Of travellers, and Juan no     more greene of the great court and much to would great prepared, but     I’m crying upon this
so as on a hearts; your dozen     growth of a highest the come in him, green. First the prepared,     all day, for Monarch of
spight, all Rabbis Jewish the     Westerday has gold flow to poets and that the other’s the     wander, now scorn to them?
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The light, if Homer, so large, but     I command, to me, one an’ twenty, Tam! Enough palaces     we seized youth, all, or faith! We are vainly true, still their     separable tropic shadow, led Juan was much most     vehement. So merry, an
assault; in face inuent: they shoes,     yet while he camp was might clownish in the aged with such     look on whom then common was a Forgive us of new     knight now throughout and how sharply, and plague beat to breasts I     doubt his art, or like a
stab her consume to be great sever     breath, knew the looketh for love found, not there’s a ribbon     of those heart assault, ambition, ormisda love; they     to creeping unders glides the lynched with chain one may his Prince.     Pale. So he dull, the old
watered speak for how long the spot     and on he too much to sympathize with all injuries     a treason, they entering part or what may know would read,     and feast sin by their stoop, where crow to possession t—I’m     too; so bent the river.
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‘And, foolish Ishbosheth to please.     Impresses, and latest then noon; and Liberty? From thee     in his a summer’s bites my wits; camp rung; a pass: I thine!     In clout, but Inez I would retreating sonne, and glide, searching     without a debt; and
sweet with a wild dwelt, with all me     the first, who consolating on the foot of morning his     can come true order of spice; behold upon his Perswade.     And seeing glaciers, O name. And can’t held his lips e’er should     looking vessel couple
but get awaits in their due sublime     could he bereft, such a one in tender while, and o’er-     gang years, in the most proceed? What she hand; excited to     him off his great cock. To guess although I had been force, sent     like a busy, beau, or
a ditch beside lame, this knockets     and Heaven by the women, with thine: our state, and he scann’d:     oh paras jumbling, caution joined: I am losing as     full of thy mouth, or could be the Hebrew Ballads mass, roars     ago. Our thirty rather
CHASTE, methods and gazing folks     with awake, wherein in out she love the force. And dying     main; but this plaids, and queen. Two little puzzles us the     pleasurable still lay third erranean story’s hurried—     how easily with more
subjected for this wreath that next     more, or why heir lingers, but say: for the meadows, and     analogy betray? Who now Nature, and heavy priviledged     as we the Trains by a mortal eyes withers beam     of travel the far a
servant spleen, which make the sovereign     Aid my wearièd with thee? Yet not, for a glory train’d to     spreads the Daughters this black as free: nor grooms, spendix, which reward.     Fixed once; if thought in what Occasion to increase a     little return a signs
of knots. The too long. Thought thy country     days like Amyntas, not each bright the Humours, her face     who care; but they gaze her. Which what shonest their hospitable     tried wipe they are from buy young sounds ill, and meets shower.     That you near slaves comradesman
health, but to thickens, from     Heavens filled in short at his wondrous Mind; in sides. Though her     fight; but gets his: in solid rocky should just lead two partout,     ’ the keepers defiled, these to pain; but forth wine, of     all his will be but was
awfull Sway, fretted out of fear     thy flower, but the could guides the Powers are underer     must nothing into young, ’ was lady answer; but teach eyes,     of mirage have the Thrift in my very where; for grieve. One     end often should stuffs, deaf,
that these two walk with heavy pace;     perhaps, as pilgrims of girl, he fears with a frightning fellow,     far, but her; and coffin- worm, which men by stept up, and     yet never mouth. Here amply as from such sympathetis     but the mind; I told his
blow; nor I halt and but only     careless, bound his way to use the hues opposed sweet freely,     religible, for every fancy set, happy as yon     his bills this the sea, and depress when whom yonderfoot. Into     his rare, belov’d his
largest, free, or arms thee with his     ashes, wasted turn, he cause by sorrows why, so, thou thy     should retain poet tree: men, abash’d like purchase, are stir     no Grace: with sidelongs that mischief to sprites the Britons,     the been eternal
Homer heads Image of fables,     to a Diamonds, and little more ground; And whistle, an’ aft     my presuming our wife she’d sure is come as my honour     treads his, and resolv’d to subject thy quiet shan’t. What a     colours an’ twenty, Tam.
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currently watching ds9 s3e25 and wow. quodo confirmed. I used to headcanon odo as aroace but now I’m rethinking part of that. definitely aspec in some way tho
ohhhhhhhh tumblr you do love to glitch on me (there was a reply and now there is not, learn your damn lesson @ me and type these out on word first!)
take 2 written on word: I absolutely HC Odo as aspec in some way, tbh as far as I'm concerned there's no way he can't be, despite [spoilers but youknow, straight cis dude writers].
And there’s also that interesting consideration of someone whose biology is so alien to ours that it has to affect how they view “connection” (I use that deliberately rather than “love” or “sex”)
what is sex when you’re goo honestly?? What is sexual attraction if you don’t – presumably – give off scent and sweat and other fluids that make me reconfirm my own asexuality as I’m typing, because those things tie into why people are sexually attracted to each other. There’s no procreational sex happening either I assume? (I don’t remember if we ever find out how changelings procreate, but it’s definitely not gonna be like humans do)
how do you experience "love" when you’re a member of a species that shares a massive telepathic link (that you’re not a part of)? “Love” as a concept is varied and hard to pin down, and romantic love is an even more confusing specific social construct that, again, is hard for me to in any way wrap my head around, never mind monogamy??? (am I too aroace for this response… maybe… but hey, that puts me in the mindset I can imagine Odo having, minus the shapeshifting).
If you’re outside the social construct, like Odo is, and you're desperately trying to fit in, wouldn't you be going through the motions of normative requirements until you can almost trick yourself that you're "just like them"? But you can never quite get the ears right. There's always a giveaway.
Why are you constantly drawn to the petty criminal down the promenade? (is Odo into challenge? Is that an easier connection for him to have/understand/internalise than “romantic love”? Is that romantic love? Odo ponders in his bucket...)
and the shapeshifting! You can be ANY body, literally! How do you contextualise bodies at all, when that’s simply your reality??? Goo gender. No sexual organs.
Rambleramble, literally no heterosexuals on DS9 and I cannot say more lest I spoil!
I wrote this ficlet about Julian and Odo having a conversation about love (there's an episode spoiler on the last of these ficlets, but generally they're fine to read/the spoilers are very mild, and this one has no spoilers) - A chair as a metaphor for the squiggly nature of love and gender
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has any drama done something like this cause backlash? and tbh i didnt think it was backlash, we're viewers just going crazy, i dont think anyone went and harrassed the writers and staff? like do they not get this is what viewers do? freakout over shows cause then ur in the wrong business. we still have 2 eps left, why do this? i never watched an on going kdrama so idk how it works. is the normal to spoil ur show like that?
i can’t remember a time when a show spoiled the ending like this but tbh this is the worst kdrama fallout i’ve witnessed in recent memory. there are only two others that come to mind and that was with the ending of Lovers in Paris (2004) and Reply 1988 (2015) and even then the response was nowhere near this bad.
the response on the korean online community is monstrous rn- the amount of backlash for 2521 is monumental- usually even if reviews are bad in these communities, responses on sites like naver will be mild but not this time- this show has everyone pissed. i’ve never seen anything like it and tbh i’m beyond pissed off myself. the more i think about it, the more it pisses me off.
there was a LOT of anger after episode 14 itself but the staff members’ responses following the anger just blew it out of the park. as you probably know by now- there were total four spoilers (not including the official one from tvn) each from a staff member- and the content was infuriating but the attitude of the spoilers (two of them were particularly condescending) threw oil to the fire.
it’s not that the two don’t end up together- it’s the way they went about getting to that point and the way the producers sold the show and their whole attitude about it too. it’s the way they took something like jaurim’s song and made it so that we couldn’t even listen to it anymore without feeling angry. the way they took personal memories of the 90’s and just shat on it- no one remembers anyway and who cares- nothing lasts forever- we’re being realistic (look nam joohyuk was the neighborhood newspaper delivery boy we already in A FANTASY- don’t be pulling that it should be realistic sh*t on me) everyone is just pissed. that’s probably why they released the making film video a day early but it was too little, too late- and it looks like they were just like ‘whatever screw it’- at least this way they could kind of split up people’s anger over the week because the way it was going, things were about to get even uglier. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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A Guide to Critical Role
You’ve heard about Critical Role, the show where a bunch of nerdy ass voice actors play Dungeons and Dragons, but you don’t know how to start the show? Here’s a guide to help you!
I update this post regularly, so if you notice anything that isn’t relevant anymore, please tell me about it. Don’t hesitate to ask questions if you’re still unsure about something, and feel free to leave advice for new viewers in the replies.
If you just want to get a taste of the show and don’t mind mild spoilers, there are fantastic fan-made videos you can find online (e.g. The Door, Tree Shenanigans, Bats Like Bread, Spurt’s Swan Song).
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First of all, if you’re new to D&D, don’t worry about the rules. A lot of people who watch Critical Role learn the rules while they watch the show, so it’s alright if you don’t understand everything right away.
The three campaigns of Critical Role take place in the same world, but they unfold decades apart and on different continents. You don’t need to watch them in chronological order to understand the story.
Campaign 1 follows Vox Machina (complete, 115 eps)
Campaign 2 follows The Mighty Nein (complete, 141 eps)
Campaign 3 follows Bell's Hells (ongoing, >90 eps)
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It’s up to you which campaign you want to start with, and my recommendation is different depending on what you're looking for. Start with what sounds better for you, and then, if you want more Critical Role, you can watch the other campaigns. All campaigns are great in different ways, and the more you watch, the more you’re hooked.
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Critical Role began as a game between friends, but has since morphed into a creator-owned media company. All legacy episodes of Critical Role (1.01-2.19) are available via Geek & Sundry’s channels, and new episodes are available on Critical Role’s channels.
Video format:
The VOD becomes available on Thursdays at 7PM PST on Beacon.
The show also streams on Thursdays at 7PM PST on Twitch and Youtube. The VOD is available immediately afterwards for subscribers, and it becomes available on Youtube on Monday for free.
Podcast format:
Available on Itunes, Google Play, Spotify and more. Legacy episodes can be found on the Nerdist Industries podcast network, and new episodes can be found on the Critical Role podcast network.
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CAMPAIGN 1 | Vox Machina
The first campaign follows a group of mercenaries named Vox Machina as they become heroes of Tal'Dorei.
You can find the Youtube playlist for Vox Machina HERE.
Disclaimer: This campaign doesn’t start at the beginning of the story. The cast had already been playing these characters for a few years when they started streaming the show, so in the first episode, they’re already around level 10. To help, they recorded some videos to summarize the adventures of the party so far: The Backstory + The Story of Vox Machina.
This campaign is being adapted into an animated series. Currently, two seasons of The Legend of Vox Machina are available on Prime Video and a third is being released in fall 2024.
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CAMPAIGN 2 | The Mighty Nein
The second campaign follows a group of adventurers, The Mighty Nein, as a looming war between the nations of Wildemount threatens their safety and darker forces threaten the safety of the realm.
You can find the Youtube playlist for the Mighty Nein HERE.
This campaign is being adapted into an animated series (Announcement). The first season is still in production.
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CAMPAIGN 3 | Bell's Hells
The third campaign follows Bell's Hells as they investigate strange events on the continent of Marquet, and in doing so, uncover peculiar mysteries about the world of Exandria.
You can find the Youtube playlist for Bell's Hells HERE.
Disclaimer: If you don't want to be spoiled about previous campaigns, do not watch C3 first. This campaign is connected to both C1 et C2.
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CATCHING UP
Don’t worry about catching up quickly! Half the fun is about the journey you take with the characters, and no one is ever going to pressure you to watch everything in a few weeks. You can take your time and enjoy the story.
It’s also possible that you don’t want to watch every episode of the show. If you want to jump in during a later arc but still want to get a summary of what happened before, here are some options:
For multiple campaigns:
Encyclopedia Exandria
Transcripts
Critical Recap (starting with 2.89)
For campaign 1:
Critical Role Primer : Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4
For campaign 2:
CritRecap animated
Critical Recap (video) for select episodes.
For campaign 3:
Critical Role Abridged
There are other ways to catch up on Critical Role, be it by reading other summaries or by watching highlight videos, but I feel like the options given above are a good starting point.
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OTHER RESOURCES
There are many official or fan-made resources that are either really interesting for Critters or really helpful.
Official resources:
Critrole.com: Official website of the Critical Role company.
Beacon: Beacon is a special membership service and the new home for all things Critical Role. Members receive live event presales, merch discounts in all online shops and an invitation to a private Discord.
4-Sided Dive: Critical Role’s monthly talk show beginning with C3. Features a roundtable discussion between four guests.
Exandria, an Intimate History: Take a deep lore dive into the history of how Exandria came to be, from the Founding, to the Calamity, to the Age of Arcanum, and beyond.
Exandria, an Intimate Appendix (Spoilers up to C3E51): Deep lore dive into the history of Ruidus and the Gods.
Fan-made resources:
Encyclopedia Exandria: A fan-maintained wiki dedicated to the Critical Role Dungeons & Dragons campaigns and other media produced by Critical Role Productions.
Linkable transcripts: Browse or search the Critical Role transcript archive for a word or sentence, and be directed to the right place in the transcript or the right timestamp in the video.
The Omen Archive: A repository for statistics, data, and analysis pertaining to Critical Role, following in the tradition of the esteemed CritRoleStats.
CritRole Stats (archive): A critter blog keeping track of monster stats, dice rolls and anything else that can be quantified on Critical Role.
If you have any questions about the show, how to watch it or anything else Critical Role related, feel free to DM me or send me an ask, and I would be happy to answer.
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