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Whoa you were one of the interpreters for the Crit Role Sydney show? :O

How was the experience if you don't mind me asking? Interpreting an unscripted nine person cast with crosstalk and fantasy terms seems like it would be a challenge

Hey there! Yes, that was me 🤩

As a D&D fan, it was one of the most fun experiences of my career.

Unfortunately I was a bit late to the Critical Role train, and I never joined later on as I found it as a piece of media very large and intimidating, but I've been a D&D player since high school, and a Dimension 20 and Baldur's Gate fan. Please accept my back tattoo as proof of my credentials.

Working to interpret the show was me and two other interpreters who put in a lot of work before and during the show to make sure that our audience of 3 Deaf Critters were able to access the show all night. As the D&D super fan, I had to prepare some common vocab for the different skill checks and classes that exist in the game. Especially for the character classes, they don't exist in Auslan but I took inspiration from other Deaf D&D fans who use ASL and BSL. I recorded a video of that and sent it to my fellow interpreters and to the one Deaf Critter I was aware was coming.

During the show, we chose to have only one interpreter "on" at a time. After watching the London show recording, I noticed that barring a few moments of cross talk, the cast don't really talk over each other much, and give plenty of pauses between lines of dialogue, especially when Matt is narrating during scene setting. Having one interpreter meant that we had to "roleshift" by moving our body to different angles to show which character was speaking.

We worked in 15 minute blocks, so we got to have 30 minute breaks when not actively interpreting, but I was watching my co-interpreters the entire time to help prompt with different terms or signs they may need help with, as they weren't as au fait with all the fantasy terms as me.

The Melbourne show is also being interpreted by a team of 3 interpreters who are all D&D fans, and I've made sure to give them as much of a rundown as I can so they can do the best job they can during that show too. I hope it's a good one and I can't wait to hear how it goes! 🤩

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Pike the stealthiest of them all

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MOVIES WATCHED IN 2025

#032: The Birdcage dir. Mike Nichols

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Cast on stage of the live show (x)

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Had to put the rowdiest lad up front

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I know people are disappointed that Van isn’t a lesbian but isnt it so cute how Van is this large, rowdy woman who is respected by her pirate clientele while her husband is this small, loving man who has the voice of an angel and likes to write the trivia questions?

Vanellope “I support my husband’s aioilis” Chapman and Bert “my adventurous wife can beat you up” Chapman.

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Another Everything is Content incoming.

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HAPPY PRIDE TO HER 🩵🤍🩷🧡

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Expositor Beauregard

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Unend S2E3 The Mourning After really said: "What if the universal experience that unites all beings regardless of anything else is their experience of grief and guilt and loss"

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can you believe we got this first take

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since the Nein Hells is in a split reality or something in Tag Team at the Teeth, with like parallel copies of the Nein Heroez, this means there's the potential to sink the Nein Heroez TWO MORE TIMES

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points at her