Has anyone said dogbomb yet because one of the most harrowing experiences of my life was watching someone accept their fate live on the twitter timeline and loving art of their fursona cozy and healthy in heaven. You can't keep a good dog down
He's GAY..he's HOT...he's a DAD.....HES THE FIRST KNIGHT OF AVALIR...he's got a GRIFFIN........HE'S READY TO TAKE ON THE APOCALYPSE
#criticalrolespoilers
Pikelan divorce is so fucking funny. Can you imagine the Sam and Ashley conversations about this that led to it being in an official widely sold dnd campaign book
Remembering how Caduceus saw 9 butterflies right before meeting tm9 and completely forgot to mention it the entire campaign despite being on the first page of his character sheet it makes me laugh every time
My favorite critical role joke? Every time they correct gender in a progressive way it makes me laugh SO hard
"Is there anyone upstairs?"
"YES. THERE ARE MEN UPSTAIRS."
"Oh well we were looking for a woman"
"OH. YES. THERE ARE WOMEN UPSTAIRS. MEN. PEOPLE. MY APOLOGIES."
Crying over Caleb being the one to name the mighty nein and then the 9th member is his boyfriend *I am dragged off the stage with a giant wooden hooked cane*
Genuine answer post to
#longessek
- I am hosting a Shadowgast collab/multiple animator project where I put like 60 artists in a discord.
- fataldebonaire wanted to host a jackbox night. I said yes
- bloodfliess created this shirt. The rest is history.
Please Vex just got her shit rocked by the raven queen you're ALSO going to make me watch Lorenzo carve Molly's chest in in graphic detail while the mighty nein watch in horror and the episode ends with Jester pleading to her God to save her but he doesn't come
I'd like to thank whoever made the executive decision to give Caleb his xhorhas outfit but give him a beard I owe you my life bc if he was baby faced I'd cry
Sitting here crying all over again and revisiting his livetweets and just SOBBING. He donated his body to science and left this note for them and I'm just bawling remembering that he was someone that once existed but said goodbye and isn't here anymore
My body is willed to the UCI Medical School, so I wrote a note for the student(s) who are stuck with my weird husk. I want them to have fun AND learn valuable skills. Life is too short not to enjoy a good giggle.
A SERIES OF
#SHADOWGAST
#CRITICALROLESPOILERS
EVENTS
- essek drags caleb out from under cathedral rubble
- caleb touches their foreheads together
- caleb holds esseks arm as he casts
- caleb goes unconscious
- ESSEK HOWLS AND LETS OUT HIS 8TH LEVEL SPELL
CAMPAIGN 3 IS SO FUN BECAUSE ALL I CAN THINK OF IS CALEB AND ESSEK IN AEOR PRESSING THE POWER BUTTON ON EVERY ROBOT/DEVEXIAN DOING IT AND THEM LOOKING AT HIM LIKE ".....MIGHT AS WELL!"
My favorite thing? Esseks representation as gay and demi. And how absolutely everyone saw it perfectly throughout the campaign (trolls and aggressive lgbtphobic dnd cishet boys aside they dont count lol)
The way that Matt has just stopped correcting them bc it got so exhausting and repetitive for him to try that they/them characters just merged into he/they by assumption...I've said this before and it went nowhere so I'm glad smn else is speaking up bc ughghhhh
this isn’t “hate.” i know they’re trying and the fact that cr has so many nonbinary characters is amazing. i just wish, for example, i didn’t preemptively steel myself for seemingly inevitable misgendering whenever they mention xandis despite matt correcting them multiple times.
"Matt can we just call the dragon he"
"NO GELIDON IS A STRONG WOMAN AND YOU WILL RESPECT HER AS SUCH!!!!!"
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"Otis is a female correct???"
"Actually Otis uses all pronouns"
"OK well I hate Them"
"Your hate is earned because They are the worst"
ANYWAYYYYYYYY SEE YOU ALL WHEN THE OPENING SEQUENCE TO THE MIGHTY NEIN IS A CLOAKED FIGURE STEALING THE BEACONS AND TELEPORTING AWAY AS PURPLE BLACK MAGIC CREATES THE LOGO AND SNAP CUT TO CALEB OPENING HIS EYES
Animation reference?? Noticed that a cat front walk cycle is.. really really hard to capture correctly!! Some free footage for you to use, no credit needed 💖
EGTW - essek is a high member of the government. hes fascinated with the deadlier aspects of dunamancy and hes strangely involved in the war. people fear him.
CR - essek likes to garden :) hes afraid in combat and dearly loves his boyfriend x
You cannot convince me that shadowgasts first kiss wasn't interrupted by Jester sending them a message. There is no way. Artagan would literally spy on them and hit her up like "You haven't called essek in a while" and send that poor man to the ground in surprise
GO BACK TO THE SHADOWBAKER. GO BACK. WE SKIPPED OVER HIM A LITTLE TOO FAST AND ME SAYING "THATS ESSEK TRYING TO SPY ON HEXUM" DOES NOT SOUND CRAZY ANYMORE!!!!
#criticalrolespoilers
pelaspesalpsaepl exu was so fucking tragic aabria went "GENTRIFICATION ROBIN HOOD PLOT" and before she could finish her sentence the party called the cops on the npc and aabria was so frazzled like "Wait i thought yall wanted to be cool and anti rich"
Me, asleep at 3am -
Me, ROLLING OVER TO GRAB MY PHONE - ASTRID IS NOW IN CONTROL OF THE VOLSTRUCKER PROGRAM AND THEY LISTEN TO HER AND SHE HAS THE COMPLETE POWER TO CALL OFF THE HUNT ON ESSEK FROM THE ASSEMBLY SIDE AND SHE JUST SAW HOW IMPORTANT HE IS TO CALEB
Here's your psa:
> Caleb Widogast and Essek Thelyss are characters from the dnd show Critical Role
> Esseks job description is to be a Shadowhand (don't ask what it means we don't know)
> Their ship name is Shadowgast from his job and Caleb's last name
> Yes they're canon
The funniest part about campaign 2 is essek flaunting how much of a bad bitch he is then he gets hit once and Matt rolls and goes 😬😬 "esseks looking rough you guys"
Punching the wall and crying and wailing over Qifrey being the father Coco never had and how I can't wait for him and cocos mom to have their "so you're the one who's been taking care of her?" "Actually she's been taking more care of me" moment
Essek fighting for his fucking life against arguing with Caleb over working with a literal child abuser only to be asked by Caduceus to strip seconds later
Essek has a plant start to wilt and die on him and he has a breakdown like "CADUCEUS WHAT DID I DOOOOO" and caddy is like ":] that just happens sometimes" and essek rethinks his entire existence
Constantly thinking about how matthew mercer woke up one morning and went "I'm gonna make a character named Essek Thelyss" and I haven't been the same since
Please I'll never get over "this world was so much easier when it was black and white" "but it's so much more beautiful in all the shades of colors" AND ESSEK IMMEDIATELY STARTS CRYING
Thinks about Caleb pinned under the rubble and his boots failing on him as he writhes to get free and essek GRABS HIM AND PULLS HIM OUT WITH HIS BARE HANDS
My favorite shadowgast dynamic that I'll never get over
Essek - here is a haste spell, I've condensed it into a mote to use at will
Yasha - how do I use it?
Caleb - you eat it like a jawbreaker
Essek - NOOOOO
Is essek just going to keep showing up with the name "shadow-" and weird specific things because why did the tall dark and handsome shadowbaker just offer a cinnamon roll that is specifically the color of him and his boyfriend
#CriticalRoleSpoilers
God i love shipping shadowgast because Matt could say "yea sometimes they sit on the same couch together" and we'd all be like woahhh holy shit they sit on the same couch together and then we'd wake up to 38 new fanfictions titled "the cushions between us"
I think it's worth noting that long essek doesn't exist "because critters got bored during a hiatus" HSHDFJDH IT WASNT. INTENTIONAL. WE ARE MAKING A DEDICATED ART PROJECT AND WERE PLAYING A PARTY GAME AND WELL. I GUESS THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE COLLECTIVELY SHARE A FOLLOWING,
SHUT THE FUCK UP MATTHEW MERCER HIMSELF DID *NOT* JUST LIKE MY ART OF SHADOWGAST KISSING WHILE WRAPPED IN PRIDE FLAGS OH MY GOD OH MY GOD ARE YOU FOR REAL
caleb leaning down to kiss molly and say goodbye as essek storms off to cry because its SO unfair and he can tell how much he meant to caleb/the group esp with the parallels..................................... jesus christ