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nochi-quinn · 1 year

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legend of vox machina watch party episodes 7-9: kareawkward

EPISODE 7

ohGOD my headset clicked on just as they started yelling

they all spontaneously forget how to introduce themselves

"I play Pike! and that's it"

PLEASE HOLD THE WATCH PARTY ISN'T WORKING BC IT THINKS I'M IN A DIFFERENT REGION

jasper the fluff bunny luck dragon!

dagon ;-;

dagon was a conure

matt and marisha are going to kill you both

Please Forgive Me Percy

"think good thoughts. don't make eye contact."

"I have WONDERFUL sketches" "you also have many strange skills."

"I don't want to"

grog strongjaw: kind of a crackhead

Legend of Vox Machina: Put Down Cursed Weapons

cursed weapons: not even once

"FUCK THAT ROCK"

hey kurama check it out I'm a blood fountain

(I have resisted making that joke three times now, I am only so strong)

"if you wanna flirt with someone, stop being mean to her friends"

right, taliesin, a friend

keto grog

"what a DING-DONG"

"I fought for that butthole"

YES they also made me think of Stray

"how often are you gonna see a bear and a jackalope team up?"

"did they complain a lot about it, is what I'm asking"

and then cheech marin happens

"we've all been there before" "allegedy!"

augh tal's mic picking up his drinking noises

two emo boys being emo

"no, I'm alone" "no, I AM"

Dragon Zoom

"dad went out for a gold hoard"

I need the "bleh" noise from naruto abridged put over grog there

"she did [the reverb] herself, just with her voice"

flashbacks to early c1 when laura had to leave early for an audition and sam was making fun of her for where it was

"isn't this fun, watching tv with my frien - oh shit I have a job"

oh, fearne is on sam's shirt

travis how does the lavalier jabbing you in the neck like that not bother you. it's bothering me second-hand

"these are things people have told me about tripping out"

no I hate this

I'm so glad they didn't do this sdlkfjsl

bury it in the new mexico desert

"maybe we'll use it in the future!" "no, no I don't think we will"

I stepped away but I had my headset on so I got to hear "daddy garmelie" and I don't like it

The Nipples Are Implied

Bondage Keyleth

"vax in the knot" is an entirely different part of the fandom

ONE HUNDRED PERCENT thought she was gonna say "hey taliesin speaking of penises"

I was gonna say, taliesin that's you, you're the nerd who went to japan

The Criticalrole

"that's so much worse than in my head, I wanna do it again"

"see….seven characters is a lot to draw"

animators: pls kill someone

the little drama play that just went on in the back row

mica is gonna bully them into singing again

he's definitely never heard that one before

EPISODE 8

look I know he's friends with like two thirds of the cast but also: why

this entire operation is a shambles

oh I stand corrected, that's NOT sam. iphone brandon auman (?) sounds very much like sam

did this man just use "exotic" to describe a human person

edit from the future: a NIGERIAN human person, x2 Please Leave

lmao owlbear is still copyrighted

the fonz!

I also deeply enjoyed the backlight

"she's got issues! you got issues!"

mica saying all the shit I said in my liveblog like eight hours ago

a minor crisis happened in my house but honestly fuck it, I have not been enjoying any of this

imagine: we could have had liam in this watch party

"the scream I scrumpt" s a m e

I appreciate those leaf wipe transitions so much more now

troy baker also did not realize how long it takes to get to the cast, it gets me every time

no no let him leave

"we! are! professionals!"

that! that! that thing I said! god thank you for validating me cast of legend of vox machina

(check my individual episode liveblogs, true believers!)

"how much bernie sanders do we want?"

"EVERYONE in the trickfoot family" he said pointedly into the camera

"thanks for making everything feel worse" truer words

I love all of those

Phantom String

taliesin just casually creating character and world lore mid-game it's fine

EPISODE 9

oh thank god he's gone

matt's not here to sing with the intro, everybody else has to

PALETTE cleanser

I saw chris in the credits, did NOT catch him here

I am upset with myself

grog is canonically a swiftie

"vox machina muppet babies" PRINT IT

oh THAT'S what that was, I thought I was just not remembering something from campaign 1

SHE

Cute Cat Babies

kittenari

"everyone was fantastic this season" as opposed to last season

grgreagrandfather

I'm crying againnnn

animators cried over goop monster, confirmed

cries in digital artist

if a dragon wore pants how would he wear them

"if your skin peels back when you hear it, it's taliesin"

Evil Falcor

"DOES JET FUEL MELT STEEL BEAMS"

does dragon acid melt metal hands

"horrible father" "I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, LAURA"

"there were so many pigs!" "and now they're bacon"

I have appreciated all of the animation so much this season, the color and the light and the aaahhhh

I like pike's little turn on "wwwwhat do you mean"

someone confirm if the guy in the back is supposed to be pipsqueak from atla

"the saddest cannonball"

the toothpick barricades!!

oh shit that's right the last episodes are in like two days

"using blender" the overwatch porn program?

I have something bouncing around my head about how pike and wilhand let grog learn how to be silly but I haven't been able to words it

sketchy pike and groooog

sketchy grog's little hip jut

it's me I'm questions

"because it's cute" is a completely valid answer

I think I commented on matt's jaw dislocating in my original liveblog lmao

"is this gonna kill the animators??"

Grog For Scale

OH WAIT I JUST REMEMBERED THE BEAR TATTOO

…and what happened to the bear tattoo

I feel like sam needs a nap

like mood but also someone let this man sleep

oh no he broke arthur

mica's leaving. mica's just gonna walk out.

all the herdspeople wear collars to hide where the neck seam meets the body

"just say yes"

The Button Arc

wasn't that a veth thing

ashley trying desperately to keep up with sam

"I don't know what I just saw, it doesn't make much sense"

oh good lord

I've said this before but if I would love to hear Sam sing without being a goober

dflksdjfslk

laura breaks IMMEDIATELY

and made NO attempt to try to bring it back

"that's as close to top gun as life is ever gonna get"

"why am I getting southern. you guys have tainted me."

ooh, phil bourassa! there were ostensibly other names in there, I was just typing and didn't hear them.

#crititag #lovmtag #critical role #the legend of vox machina #liveblog #reaction post #spoilers #watch party

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bitterbeanren · 5 years

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The best March 17th of my LIFE

My first ever day at Emerald City Comic Con

Scroll to the bottom if you’re only here for my CR cast (sadly incomplete) hug reviews.

So this year, 2019, was the year that I went to ECCC for the first time in my existence. And it was only for one day, but I have a ton of feels. What I’ve written here is incomplete, and just what I can remember, Sunday was a busy day!

I only started getting into Critical Role about a year ago because of posts I saw on this platform and wow, it was really cool. This was after my wonderful month in the hospital and my life-changing trip to Japan. It was mostly something I watched to pass the time, but I am an avid lover of storytelling and of dice collecting so... it stuck with me. Deciding to go to ECCC was kind of a spur of the moment thing that my Partner and I decided to do when looking through the guest list, because most of the CR cast was going to be there, so yeah! Just one day. Hotels are expensive and the 4 day passes were already sold out when we decided to go. And even though I am jobless and stressed and exhausted, it was worth every cent, every minute, and to me the day was everything.

I am a Canadian human, so we woke up hella early to drive to the convention. The plan was to get there, line up to see the vendors, then hurry our booty’s to our photo op, then chill until our autograph sessions and then hopefully check out vendors again before grabbing some dinner. I got to meet someone I befriended on a Fjorester Server (Dunno if I’m allowed to tag them so imma just nott), and they were so nice and cool and their cosplay was very very pretty! So many CR cosplayers let me take pictures with them, and if I’m honest my social energy had started to wear out, but I was having fun (even though I’d forgotten my Tal’dorei campaign book across the border, still kicking myself for that). Since I left behind what I’d wanted to get signed, the hunt was on for something that I loved enough to get autographed. Oh! and I ran into a rl friend of mine and got a couple good hugs so that made me happy and helped recharge my battery a bit.

And then it was Photo Op time.

I got the team up picture with my partner, because I just wanted to be around the group that created such a wonderful community for me to become a part of and even though my partner isn’t as hype as me they are very supportive and also a Sam Riegel fan.. Now I don’t know about the rest of you, but the longer I stand in a line the more anxious and nervous I get. So as the line of critters kept moving, I got more and more panicked. One of the people helping with the line stopped me to ask if I was alright, to tell me that it was going to be fine, and then it was our turn. The first thing out of my mouth was “MATT MERCER WILL YOU CURSE MY DICE?” while awkwardly holding out my Wildmount dice bag. The lines for photo ops always move so fast, and I wasn’t able to pre-order a mercer autograph session so I knew that would be my one opportunity to interact with him. And I felt SO DUMB. But they laughed, and it felt like I actually did something funny, and Marisha and Laura stood on either side of me and we got ready to pose, and I think Matt said “Wait, curse?!” and I was like “YEAH CURSE” because in my mind, cursing my dice would go one of two ways: 1, it would roll FANTASTIC and screw over my players, or 2, it would roll horribly and help my players succeed. Plus, I don’t think I could actually trust any of them to bless my dice. The drive down to Seattle was spent listening to a Vox Machina episode where there were so many natural 1′s.

After the photo was taken, I was exhausted. Didn’t help that I hadn’t eaten since the night before. Didn’t help that I hadn’t had a single sip of coffee. It’s possible that everyone has bad convention habits, but I’m kind of mad at myself for mine. Seriously Ren, you need to eat and stay hydrated!

We went to the Nintendo thing and I pet a couple of dogs that were helping out for at least twenty minutes. There’s just something about petting a dog when you’re anxious that makes all the stress melt away. Then we decided to grab some past 2PM lunch and surprisingly ran into my online friend again! we all ended up grabbing chipotles together, it was a good time (but sadly the last time I saw my online friend for the rest of the day. I’m glad we had goodbye hugs after we ate!). Then it was autograph time. Since I’m an awkward canadian human, I brought some flash cards with notes on them so I’d remember what I wanted to say to people. And since Ashley and Matt were impossible for me to talk to, I wrote a couple things to give to the others to give to them. First person we saw was Sam, which went relatively well. Got a hug, it was a good dad-like hug, if that makes sense. And then my awkward showed and I pulled out the card of things I wanted to tell Liam and said “Please give this to your husband!”

No lie, instant response: “Yeah, of course!” <-Or something of that variation.

Next was Travis. We spoke to him about his work on Ouran and I couldn't find the notes I’d written so I didn’t talk about Fjord, but I made 2 requests. The first was for him to give my note for Ashley to Brian, which he did AUTOMATICALLY. The second was for either a hug or a crisp high five. We both received the crispiest of fives. My partner said that he probably didn’t give me a hug because I’m short and he didn’t want to hurt his back. I MEAN I AM NOTT THAT SHORT TRAVIS IS JUST VERY VERY TALL.

After that we hopped into the Laura line and I chatted with some of the critters around me. Jester and Cad are my two favourite characters, but Laura Bailey is a human I actually needed to read off of my card for because I was so nervous to meet her. I gave her a recipe that I’d been working on for awhile tied with a pretty pink bow. “The Traveler’s Cinnamon Scones!” I’d named them, and one of these days I’ll be posting the recipe for everyone else to try if they want. We’d even brought a few scones and offered them, and she took them, and she gave me a great big warm hug and said in her Jester voice “The Traveler is with you my child” and when we lined up for Liam next, I sat on the ground and cried a little. I felt so bad, because with each of them that I met the more anxious I got and it made it harder and harder to talk to them. For Liam it was the hardest though, because I’d stupidly given his note to Sam. And he asked me for my name, and I broke because I didn’t think he would. And the only thing I could remember was how I loved him playing so many random NPC’s in Fallout New Vegas. My partner talked to him a bit more than me, but I told him that Sam was hopefully going to give him my note later because I just... couldn’t remember through the panic. Liam was the first to give me both a crisp high five and a hug.

Taliesin was next, and my awkward was showing. His hair is just as majestic in person as it is on camera. I told him about how Cad is like, the best big brother in my eyes and how he’s basically the M9′s big bro. He thanked me and told me that that was what he was going for. We both said we were tired and I told him to travel safely. Tal said that he was going to sleep on the plane and I was kind of just like “Lucky! I’m driving so I won’t get to sleep!” I don’t know if his laugh after was because of me or because of something else, but it was a nice laugh.

Last person I got to see was Marisha. Me and her con assistant (?) were talking about a character that the con assistant (?) was making/playing. It helped me calm down a bit before meeting Marisha. I told her a couple things that my friend had (probably jokingly) asked me to say. Like how they love Marisha and that they asked if they could be like Marisha when they were older. I mean, I already said that she could because both of them are awesome. And what Marisha said to me has stuck with me “You can be whoever you want to be.” But then I RUINED THE MOMENT by saying “Yeah! I mean, as long as you don’t steal someones identity!” I told her about how her lipstick is always spot on, I think I rambled for a few seconds about the Fjorjester chat I’m in because that’s where I always compliment her lipstick. I was able to tell her that I appreciate her existence and that I hope that she will continue to be a good role model! Then my partner made a fantastic observation. “I’m surprised you’re wearing sleeves.” Because, as we all know, sleeves are bullshit. But Marisha was so cool, probably literally because she said it was so cold in Seattle, then she pulled back the sleeve to show that she was wearing a sleeveless shirt underneath. The green fish CR shirt iirc! But I actually started crying in front of her, because it had been “a day” and the nice con assistant (?) gave me a tissue STAT and Marisha asked me for my name and hugged me and I told her about the scones.

I really, really hope they liked them.

She said she’d give Matt the note I’d written for him, and I hope that my notes made it because there’s a silly part of me that wants them to know how much they mean to me. It’s dumb, because they definitely hear it from fans all the time. They ask a lot of people for their names. Asking me for mine doesn’t mean anything. But I struggle with self worth a lot. I know that more often then Nott I’m going to be unnoticed. And there are so many wonderful people in the fandom, there were critters that spoke to me first and were understanding about my social anxiety. At least for that day, I felt like I mattered more than usual.

And it really helped.

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Anyways, hug reviews. Let it be known that from my experience the hugs were all very much top notch!

Sam and Liam give very good dad-like hugs. Considering the running for president of DnD Beyond, however, I do have to say that Liam’s hug was slightly better. Is it the minor height difference? Varying exhaustion levels? Well, it also helped that Liam gave me a crisp high five.

Taliesin’s hug is tied with Liam, as I found his hug a bit more comforting. Definitely some Cad energy up in that hug. And his hair is very nice.

Laura and Marisha were probably my favourite hugs. Marisha hugged me over a table, which made it a bit harder to gauge but there was female strength!!!! Bonus points are given because she had to see me completely crack from the long day of actually being around people. But man, Laura’s hug was so good. Jester voice, the nicest reactions to my stupid gifts, warmth! Kindness! However I am biased, I feel a lot more comfortable hugging females than I do males, even if I am the one requesting the hug.

Really though 10/10 for all of them minus the ones I did not hug. But Travis DID give a very crisp high five. And Matt cursed my dice!

Oh, and if anyone was wondering, we ended up getting them to sign the picture of us together.

It was a really, really great day.

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