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A good man at war

#HOT #he looks so handsome #orym of the air ashari #critical role fanart

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hey hey hey

Assigning you a song that makes white people go nuts (from experience)

#my hero - foo fighters #definitely not my go-to on this list but definitely not a bad song!

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#the dominox is actually the aeorian name for a popular porno series #ludinus just really wants to get his collection back #someone had to teach caleb that magic can be found in spicy sections of a bookshop #and i highly doubt that it was trent

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Congratulations! You are now a Magic-User!!

#oooo blue blood #the implications biologically #the skin would be tinged blue #cool-toned blush?

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Orym's argument against Ludinus Da'leth and the Ruby Vanguard is essentially "The purpose of a system is what it does."

This is a systems theory coined by Stafford Beer around 2001. He posited there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do." It does not matter what someone tells you a system does if it does not reliably do that. The things it does consistently do are the actual purpose of the system.

Ludinus (and Liliana) claim the purpose of the Ruby Vanguard's violence is to free Exandria of oppression from the gods. Orym's point is that they have not consistently protected anyone from oppression. They consistently murder innocent people, indoctrinate vulnerable people into doing terrible violence (including children), support a ruling class that dominates the population through mind control and eugenics, and seek to release a predator so terrifying that the warring alien gods and native primordials worked together to seal it away as a threat to both of them.

So the logical conclusion is that the purpose of Ludinus' system is not to free anyone from tyranny, it's to install himself as the tyrant. And it does not matter what Ludinus says it's for or even what he believes it's for. The purpose of a system is what it does. And Orym has been personally and repeatedly victimized by what it does. Why wouldn't he keep reminding them of that?

Add onto that, the Ruby Vanguard is a death cult. They lure people in with believable lies. They use propaganda to control how people view them and to convince people to support them. Liliana has been groomed into a true believer who genuinely thinks what she has been told is true and that Ludinus' system does what he says it will. She has been convincing other people of this for years. Not because she's an inherently bad person but because everyone generally tries to convince others that what we believe is true. It is actually dangerous to let a cultist try to talk you into the cult's perspective. That's why Orym shuts it down.

Orym was already on edge but it's fully in a breakdown after FCG's sacrifice. One more iteration of Ludinus' system consistently murdering the people he loves. But he still told Imogen he wants her to have a good relationship with her mom again. He wants Liliana to make it through the other side of this. But that has to involve consistently stating the reality of what's happening against what she believes.

Ludinus believes in the rapture of the revolution. Burn everything to the ground on a fundamental level and a new perfect society will grow, with him to guide it. The reality is that kind of power vacuum consistently leads to horrific violence and conditions often get much, much worse. Especially for vulnerable people, who often do not survive. A lot about the gods' relationships to mortals probably needs to change, but this an incredibly dangerous gamble to fix it.

The purpose of a system is what it does. Any suggestion otherwise is cold comfort to Orym's family in the ground.

#ahhh cultists and their flawed philosophies #“vasselheim will kills us all” #“what? as retribution for all the murdering and coup-ing you did? that's unprecedented! how dare they!" #critical role #cr meta #orym of the air ashari #liliana temult #ludinus da'leth #ruby vanguard #predathos #in case you couldn't tell this is a ludinus da'leth hate blog

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Congratulations! You are now a Magic-User!!

#i'm a pale son of a bitch so i honestly think the red hair could work? #but moon pupils and metallic skin were pretty close behind

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Just a Keyleth straight out of my comfort zone. Did you happen to know that you can commission me? I'd love it if you commissioned me. Link in my bio.

#fucking gorgeous art op #keyleth of the air ashari #critical role fanart

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#the hyperfixations are real and valid and i love to see it

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Somewhere in Nicodranas...

#veth will never let any of them live this down #is the editing shit? mayhaps. have i made my point? also mayhaps #point is that king accidentally calling fjord 'dad' is something that has been floating in my brain for so long #i just had to get it out #critical role #cr shitpost #cr memes #critical role memes #the mighty nein #mighty nein reunited #cr fjord #fjord tusktooth #jester #jester lavorre #veth brenatto #yeza brenatto #kingsley tealeaf #brooklyn 99

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#god of the highway #LIFE IS A HIGHWAY #I WANNA RIDE IT ALL NIGHT LONG

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Happy 420 blaze it to Fresh Cut Grass

Who made it 420 days

And then Blazed It

#rip to the robit <3 #cr fcg #cr shitpost

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So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

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best first half ever

#i love them so much #felt good to watch everyone take turns verbally throwing down with liliana #cr spoilers #critical role fanart #imogen temult #ashton greymoore #orym of the air ashari #liliana temult

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some things never change

#the matron clearly has a type #critical role #critical role spoilers #cr spoilers #crown keepers #vox machina #cr shitpost #cr memes #critical role memes #morrighan ferus #vax'ildan

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Oh damnnnnn level 13 Crown Keepers?

#critical role #critical role spoilers #cr spoilers #crown keepers

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OH I FUCK WITH THIS GUYS I FUCK WITH THIS SO HARD

CROWN KEEPERS MY BELOVED YOU'VE COME HOME FROM THE WAR

#critical role #critical role spoilers #cr spoilers #cr shitpost #aabria iyengar #crown keepers #bells hells

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AABRIA STYLE EPILOGUE SCENE MID-EPISODE???

#aabria iyengar #critical role #critical role spoilers