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Song of the Summer

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God, Maxwell and Olethra's equal but opposite character arcs are really getting to me.

Olethra is sky-eyed from the start, granddaughter of the legendary adventurer Comfrey MacLeod. She's desperate to escape the boring life that her parents lead in Pilby and to follow in the footsteps of her grandmother. She's a huge fan of the Zephyr crew, and she read all of Monty's books about their adventures.

But as she goes on this adventure, she realizes that while it is certainly fantastical, it's also dangerous as well. She's lucky enough to have the mech, but the other people around her don't have that kind of protection. She watches them get beaten bloody and struggle to fight back. When she tries to get in a good quip for Monty's next book, he's distracted in the middle of his fight. Things aren't like the stories.

And on top of all of this, the grandmother that she adored so much is slowly revealing herself to be a not-so-great person. She was reckless and single-minded, prone to taking on debts that she knew she couldn't pay. She was sometimes unkind to the people who had once been family to her, and sometimes her recklessness really hurt them. Her grandmother is not the false idol that Olethra has made her out to be, she is a real and flawed woman.

On the other hand, Maxwell is incredibly serious and practical. While he holds onto his grandfather's idea that finding Zood is a worthy investment, he does not hold onto any whimsical ideas of exploring it. He simply wishes to note that it exists to restore the Gotch family name before immediately returning to Gath. Even his fighting is based in rules and structure, even if it's incredibly violent. Mordecestershire is "breaking the rules" by wearing a jetpack to escape instead of simply dying from being thrown off the ship. It's all logical.

But the longer that Maxwell spends in Zood, the more impractical and almost whimsical he becomes. Yes he's still incredibly serious, but he also believes for a moment that he could fight a dinosaur. He jokes with Monty about his books being terrible. He makes the "rowdy" and reckless choice to give Torse his heart. He throws a snowball at Monty when they're at the Ectic Research Station. Even the "you're meat" scene is its own kind of twisted whimsy, comically violent and highly impractical. Of course he's still a bit of a wet blanket sometimes, but he's slowly learning why his grandfather was so sky-eyed.

Olethra's arc is about a dreamer having to ground her dreams in reality, and Maxwell's arc is about getting a realist to start dreaming again.

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Inflict wounds

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teases my wrist at you like im a victorian woman flashing an ankle

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I don't get to have any fun around here.

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Given all the plot attached to Sky's parents and Steel's comments about her own children:

I wonder how The Citadel handles childbirth?

There are doctors, but you know the wizards have got to do magic about it. Do they speed up the gestation? Just teleport that kid out of there when it comes time?

If they do let the kid cook, does the pregnant person have to stop doing magic at a certain point of development?

Is any of this hotly debated within The Citadel itself?

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brennan blowing on his dice whenever he wants to roll well, emily putting her dice out for the new moon, lou refusing to let people clap for him while he rolls in case it’s bad luck, aabria throwing dice away if they roll bad…. i simply love when dnd players get mad superstitious

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Ayda and Adaine hit the hallmarks!

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so that finale on @worldsbeyondpod huh

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Our journey with the Bells Hells is ending tomorrow! Now feels like a good time to do this.

39 looks across 25 different characters, and that’s not even all of them!

From the moment I started working with Critical Role, I’ve been keenly aware of the privilege of my position. Not many artists get to experience the joy of seeing their designs cosplayed, drawn, loved, or even hated at the level I have. Every pitch, every sketch, every hour banging my head against every long render- it’s all been such a gift.

I’ll be eternally grateful for the years that the Lucky One was Me.

So sail on, Bells Hells. I’ll see you all the next time I’m in Exandria.

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wanders onto tumblr after an extremely chaotic two hours

I absolutely love Brennan’s worldbuilding (I have been fucking obsessed with everything revealed in Cloudward Ho, for example) so I’m reallyyyyy excited to see him DM in a new world. 100% going to miss All Exandria, All The Time, but I completely understand the choice to give it a breather. And Matt as a player is always fucking delightful, cannot wait to see that full time.

They. Really need to tell us who the rest of the cast is though so I can start processing the inevitable fact that someone (possibly multiple someones) from the founding cast is going to step back. No matter who it is I’m gonna be Big Sad XD

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Matt Mercer PC in a full campaign 🥰 Matt Mercer playing a character in a full campaign of critical role in a world he gets to discover along with the audience 🥰 Matt Mercer PC 🥰

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If anyone is worried about Brennan doing a long form CR campain, please note that his best mini campain with only 4 episodes had me bawling my eyes out about a bird dad lying to his bird son at 2 am on a school night

Brennan is gonna murder us and I will say thank you.

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JUSTICE FOR BOBBY DAZZLER

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