#she is just an amazing player

[canadachronicles]

"There's no other group I'd rather be going to battle with on and off the pitch."

--The legend, the G.O.A.T., the wonderful Christine Sinclair, as she's about to play her sixth World Cup!

#Christine Sinclair #Sincy #she is just an amazing player #and a great leader for the team #Captain Fantastic #AND an amazing human #I adore her #Quote #CANWNT #Canada Women's National Soccer Team #Canada Women's National Team #Canadian Footballer #Canadian Football Player #Canadian Soccer Player #Canadian Athlete #Canadian Olympian #Canadian Olympic Champion #Canadian Legend #G.O.A.T. #Favorite British Columbian #Favorite Canadian #Favorite Human #Canada Chronicles

[embrace-your-inner-kid]

I'm not worried about Imogen and Laudna's relationship whatsoever, and this clip just confirms my feelings:

It's the way Laura Bailey has this challenge accepted look when it comes to Imogen and Laudna's relationship.

She's ready to win! 😂

Laudna has a very big insecurity affecting her right now, and that's going to bleed into a relationship. It's cool that the players want to explore how that will affect their characters' relationship in a more realistic way. Instead of having the relationship wave away all their individual issues from affecting them together.

Like Marisha said, things might get a little tenuous as the characters figure out some root issues and eventually work through them together. I'm not worried about the end result.

#laura and romance is always a win come on now #also Marisha is giddy about Imogen and Laudna's relationship too she just wants to explore more role play opportunities within it #we are being given a treat by two amazing role players enjoy the ride #imodna #imogen x laudna #critical role spoilers

[bananafire11]

TW BUGGY STUFFS

Working on my own tadc horror au... with a side of experimentation stuff cuz i can never truely escape that trope

I need to come up with an actual name for this au

Feedback and/or ideas much appreciated :]

#tw bugs #my art #the concept is caines an evil guy who likes experimenting on players who enter the digital circus #something like that #poor ragatha got bug-ed #honestly shes not that creepy?? but maybe thats cuz i like bugs #i need to work on horror more tbh #i still rlly like how she came out tho #pomnis just entered and caine has yet to find her ig #rags tryna keep her from a similar fate for as long as she can i suppose #jax is next #dont got many ideas yet but ill roll with what i DO have in mind #tadc #the amazing digital circus pomni #the amazing digital circus art #the amazing digital circus ragatha #ragatha tadc #ragatha #pomni #pomni tadc #tadc horror au #tadc fanart #tadc au #for you

[an-albino-pinetree]

connection

#my stuff #selfship #goin back for seconds sdvcng #tree makes an appearance #player tree #I will preface this is not like- the first thing he did to her when he saw her sdjgh #This is just a silly goof #He did it because he was curious and because he doesn’t remember doing it when she was a her player model #carnival au #carnival!jax #tadc #the amazing digital circus #tadc jax #jax #shitpost

[pockethep]

TADC Theory...One of the Characters could be an NPC.

Even before episode 2 dropped people were theorizing that one of the main cast could be an NPC. With episode 2 having come out yesterday a very specific line said by Caine only fuels that theory....

"I know you guys love your NPCs but if I start losing track of who's a human and who's an NPC, who knows what could happen..."

I LOVE this idea for the drama. If the main goal is everyone escaping from the circus, there’s a lot of potential for a scene where everyone leaves but one of them physically can’t make it out because they aren’t a real person. (Very Wreck It Ralph like.)

Just based off what we know from two episodes I'm trying to decide who is most and least likely.

We know it probably isn't Pomni or Ragatha, they both glitched out in the pilot plus Pomni has outside game knowledge. She's been saying "collision" and "glitch" and "we're somewhere under the map", these are video game specific terms. And although NPCs can glitch as well (The Gloinks glitched in the pilot) Kinger remembers Ragathas arrival and how hard it was.

Jax can be ruled out in a similar way for the same reason as Pomni. He referenced Augustus Gloop, the child from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, this episode. This is real world knowledge that would be a very specific reference for an NPC to know let alone make.

I can somewhat rule out Kinger just based on the fact that Queenie was a character who (presumably) abstracted. Based on naming conventions and design alone (weak defense but there's only two episodes out) they could have come to the digital circus together. With all the characters having such random designs it feels intentional for two characters look similar. If this is just a coincidence it would be cool for his erratic and paranoid personality to be a result of being an NPC. His spontaneity comes from the fact that he's in an area he isn't supposed to be in. Also he's been at he circus for so long and hasn't abstracted which is very very interesting.

My bets are on Zooble and Gangle. Although mainly because we don't know much about Zooble and the mask gimmick with Gangle is both something no other character has and feels like something from an actual game. Gangle is cheerful with the happy mask and more emotional and depressed with the tragedy mask while the other characters are more permitted to show emotion without something actively filtering them. Also my own bias thinks it would be cool for Gangle to snap, it'd be fun to watch the characters try to avoid getting grabbed by the ribbons while hiding around the circus.

HOWEVER we could look at what Caine said in a different way. Mainly the "who knows what could happen...". What if it was a warning about an actual event that happened? He actually couldn't tell the difference. What if him not being able to tell a human and an NPC apart led to the death of an actual character?

Gummigoo looked very distinct from all the other characters in the circus. He was more gelatinous, had an accent, and was very much from the candy world that Caine had created. It was easy to rule him out from the main group design-wise.

But Kinger and Queenie who look VERY similar...

It would be interesting if the real reason Queenie disappeared was because Caine mixed up the two because of similar designs and blasted the wrong one.

Probably more in tags but TL;DR someone in the main cast could be an NPC and Caine could have accidentally killed a human because he couldn't tell them apart from an NPC. RIP Gummigoo

#the amazing digital circus #tadc pomni #tadc ragatha #tadc jax #tadc kinger #tadc gangle #tadc caine #tadc zooble #tadc theory #TBH given how little info we have anyone could have a case made for any one them but Pomni really #I could see Ragatha being an NPC similar to Toriel she's the character whos there to help and reassure #Jax is such a cool character because he treats the players (tadc cast) like NPCs #Jax treats them as items like he does not want to think of them as real people #Maybe its because HE is the NPC who hates that they are characters or maybe just his way of distancing himself from people who might die #Gangle deserves to snap as a treat and I hope she chokes Jax out first #I really hope Zooble gets more development later they look really cool

[vigilskeep]

i need to wynnepost. somebody has to

#its crazy how people will assume she is all the tropes she subverts and then ignore her #also how sympathy for circle mages’ indoctrination only lasts until they get old i guess and then fuck them #because its not as if they were ever a terrified child who’d never had anything better than a single templar’s mildest kindness and any kind #of home even if it was the tower #so an orphan kid who had no memory of anything but scurrying between farmsteads and hiding in barns #didnt want to leave. what a shock. you guys dont get the place comfort has in keeping circle mages complicit #so it’s violent and terrible and you never have privacy and your children get murdered and you’re always watched and hated #its also a warm bed and community and a chance to succeed #do you honestly think every kid from fucking THEDAS knows theres anything better out there #that doesnt make the circle good. it makes it horrific that they prey on vulnerable kids to teach them the world hates them #and only the circle is ‘safe’ #i just think there should be some sympathy for those kids and what they grow up into #its easy for the player to walk in and say their character would hate the circle and never have listened to the templars #its easy for say an amell or even a surana with a family back home to not fear what they left behind #wynne genuinely thinks without the circle mages would all be murdered and she’ll fight and die protecting her fellow mages #from the right of annulment #yes its a flaw that she goes on to teach others the circle must be tolerated and that is precisely how the circle is perpetuated ove #over generations #but its amazing to me to just act like its her fault #well. this is more tags than i expected it to be

[utilitycaster]

just an idle weird thought given the proximity of Phineas's breakdown in Midst, Ashton's breakdown on Critical Role, and some stray thoughts I've had about Tula on D20, Suvi on WBN, and that female blorbos post that goes around from time to time; but I feel like that very specific identity crisis/explosive depression spiral re Phineas and Ashton is truly a thing that makes me go oh this character is actually everything is weirdly gendered. It's almost always a man who has it; Ashton is honestly the only example I can think of who isn't a man (though I think Suvi might be headed for this, which is one of the many reasons I love her).

#me googling was my college mental health experience kinda masc question mark #it's not the ONLY thing i gravitate towards but i genuinely can't think of a single woman with this arc #tula is interesting bc it feels like she skirts this #and it's also interesting in that like. in actual play if aabria goes for this with suvi it will be the first PLAYER who's not a man #since tula skirted it but is also played by brennan and ashton is not a man but is played by taliesin who is a man #anyway if you have the same things wrong with you: black sails; vorkosigan saga; stormlight archives; you know the drill #(those have AMAZING women too it's just. they get different great stories! but never this one!) #(and i DON'T KNOW WHY) #midst spoilers #not tagging other stuff but will talk about it #not now though i gotta go get my hair cut

[captaincleverusernamehere]

Something I’ve noticed so far as I’m catching up on acofaf that’s really interesting and something I’ve always liked about Aabria’s GMing style, is the ever-growing amount of players driving the story not just during roleplay, but also mechanically, if that makes sense.

Like during the epistolary phase in episode two, and mentioned in the Adventuring Party for it, the players would write letters that would naturally meld into scenes that they would play out on their own with little to no GM intervention.

Another that I really really enjoy watching, is how as the series goes on, during “unimportant” rolls (thinking specifically of Rue’s perception check to see if they noticed all of the fuckery the Lords of the Wing did with chairs and tea and whatnot) Aabria doesn’t necessarily provide any outcome or description, and the player just takes it upon themself to figure out what an appropriate response would be to whatever roll they got (Rue not noticing and thus not being offended by the Lords’ attempted power moves, but also masterfully not falling prey to them.)

And then also, and I don’t know if this was talked about in their season(s) zero, but the stretching of time in initiative rounds in the Great Hart Hunt that lead to some absolutely incredible character scenes.

It’s been true from critical role’s EXU to Misfits and Magic and everything else Aabria’s GMed, she just knows when to step back and let the players take absolute control and I love it so much

#this could probably have been better worded but alas #I just love the way she runs games #dnd Is Not Built to be this roleplay heavy and I LOVE the way she does it #of course having amazing players is a key part of this equation #the acofaf cast SLAPS they’re amazing #acofaf #dimension 20 #aabria iyengar #critical role #exu #misfits and magic

[dulcewrites]

Ok soooo I am doing a little Olivia Cooke filmography rewatch (bc she’s mother). And thoroughbreds, the most recent rewatch, is one the reasons why I was so excited to watch hotd. Her performance in it is amazing… and it gave me an idea 🫠

I’m thinking Aemond and oc/reader have been friends for awhile. They are both seen as outcast (Aemond bc of his eye and his overall quiet disposition and reader/oc gets criticized for being… off lol). Let’s say reader/oc’s dad sits on the small council. She’s being around the greens for a minute so she knows the inner dynamics of the family (plus the dynamics between team green and team black). She has seen how viserys treats all of them. One night she’s just like “why don’t we just speed up the inevitable and kill the bastard”.

Let me know if that’s something y’all would like bc I think it could be fun to write

#I know I said I wanted to do the rhaena Helaena oc thing… and I still do! #but this idea is CALLING to meeee #I love the idea of Alicent being the one who pushes her kids to be friends with the new girl around their age #years ago when reader and her family first arrived at court… let’s say right after Aemond losing his eye #and now she’s like ‘oh… I think I pushed my son in the arms are a girl who isn’t… normal’ #she doesn’t have the heart to intervene bc 1. reader’s father is a major player and 2. her son is down bad 😭 #reader/oc is an highborn girlie and has all the things that should make her likable #pretty/well read/from a great family… but also extremely cunning and cold #whenever asked about her weird behavior Aemond is just like ‘she’s amazing.. an misunderstood angel..the Mother and the Maiden in the flesh’ #reader would not be full on she has no emotions and a possible disorder like Amanda but she’s not… well adjusted #aemond targaryen x reader #aemond x reader

[emotionalsupportsoccerball]

Me when people say Howell and Coffey are going to make the roster

#or Kornieck #or press and Heath #sorry guys I wish they would #but there’s no way #also rose should get an emmy #just saying she’s amazing #uswnt #uswnt players #woso #nwsl #soccer #rose lavelle

[astrxealis]

sorry to ffxivlovepost always anyway Man the way the devs & game did so good in making an mc that is Basically a blank-slate for the players, and there's so many opportunities to make your oc However you like but. the game itself adds so much story and character to that blank-slate guy. amazing

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚ #⋯ ꒰ა ffxiv ໒꒱ *·˚ #i think abt this a lot. and also a lot of other ffxiv stuff LMFAO #it's amazing ..... drk is a huge example of this i think #bcs it plays into the guilt and whatnot the wol feels and all that. spectacular #endwalker !!!!! shadowbringers!!! the way the game uses the concept of hope is just always so beautiful and fascinating to me #and yeah bunch of games may have like. mc you create & design but not always can you like. ehvejfhsjf idk how to explain LOL #it is 4 pm i woke up 2 hours ago but priorly woke at 7 am after havingn a rlly. weird sleep. #to which my twin told me 'i wont tell u what time it is' as we went to sleep so it def was Really late #bcs we were going thru re2 and she was also playing games on steam i've been telling her to play #(to which i got her fav characters right and knew fr how'd she'd like the game LMFAO. twins amiright.) #actually that is also smth so fascinating to me bcs. i always have had someone w me in my life. i am literally never alone. #to which what i'm getting at here is Wow... it's like having a sleepover every single day. and i was a kid always sad never to have #sleepovers bcs my parents were strict (they r cool tho!) but i was a kid who wanted to experience all the kid things #but i didn't rlly but that's fine :P i am a grateful person LOL anyway back on track back on black #ffxiv... the game that u are..... #it's the 1st game that rlly actually made me invested in the ocs of others and also make a fully fledged oc that wasn't just originally mine #but for a fandom or something. and also it got me back into writing and Into making poetry and prose so. yeah. #it's amazing how much. oc x canon ???? yeah. ffxiv is so Wow #like eveyrhhting w themis or graha and how u can AAGGGHHH shit w your oc . so many possibilities #and that character. those possibilities. are already in game but also expanded by the player and the fanbade and #idk it's so beautiful to me WHAGHSGDJDH. and yes me saying themis or graha up there is self-indukgent bcs #both of them are so Insane it's so. insane!!!!! i will never forget what happened in abyssos in particular that Broke me #and anabaseios... :)) i cried so much it is almost embarrassing. and wow. asphodelos. wverything w themis just. yeah #anyway graha... self-explanatory if u know..... idk he's the character of all time to me. simply said. but themis is crazy bcs going thru ab #yssos made me think for a bit 'hey themis might be my fav character in ffxiv now' but No but also Wow. wow #kinda cute bcs me and my twin have a thing where she has a certain type of chara she likes and me too #so sometimes. most times. all times. we have our own characters we like anyway but sometimes they overlap but either the case we kinda #lowkey 'segregate???' idk if that is a good word but we do that w our fav characters. so like emet is her fav elidibus is mine. #and that was all the way in arrr alr and we barely knew spoilers so that's kinda crazy! anyway

[dangerliesbeforeyou]

ok let's talk about max chapman cos GOD i've been waiting for a character like her for literally forever lol...

she's such an interesting and complicated character that honestly feels so HUMAN!

her journey of discovering her sense of identity, both in terms of her queerness and her own independence, is so real and beautifully portrayed!! also, her stubbornness in the face of adversity as well as her stubbornness in the face of her own desires feels SO relatable tbh (she knows what she wants, and she'd gonna GET what she wants, but also she's terrified of what she wants, and what if what she think she wants isn't really what she really wants? etcetc)

and her fear of failure is so palpable, and it's very much a fear of rejection that mirrors itself in her relationship with her mother and uncle bertie... (she doesn't want to let her mother down, even though she knows who she is is inherently never going to be who toni wants her to be, and being confronted with bertie showed that rejection from the family and that terrifies her!)

another thing i really appreciated was how selfish she could be, albeit unintentionally. she takes clance for granted at times, she uses gary, she hurts bertie with her words condemning his identity, and even her comments to esther were harsh... but she makes amends, she apologises and grows! It's honestly one of the first times i'm seeing an adult female character in a piece of media be allowed to be so messy, but also just so GOOD!

like her heart is always so desperately in the right place! she gets the crab for clance, despite the humiliation, she lies to her mother for so long about her other job because she doesnt want to hurt her, she continues to meet with carson despite the fact she had already given up hope that she would ever get close to having her own team like the peaches, she knows when she's fucked up and she acknowledges and apologises for it!

she's just... she's wonderful and i love her lol

#i cant believe i'm this emotional about a BASEBALL player #anyway max <3 my BELOVED #not enough people in the aloto fandom screaming max's praises and i'm here to CHANGE that #a league of their own #max chapman #aloto #one thing i hope we get explored in series 2(which we ARE gonna get... i'm willing it into existence lol) is her and gary #not romantically OBV but i think there needs to b more explored in terms of her treating him rly shittily #gary just deserves a proper apology tbh... #but yeh regardless i love her she's messy and beautiful and hilarious and amazing

[rojekte]

took a bunch of comparison shots for ronahi and god she looks so good.

the biggest differences that im going back and forth on are with her eyes and lips. i LOVE the way her eyes look in the updated graphics, and last night when i was just staring at her without any comparisons i thought she looked great - but now im realizing her large pupils are gone which makes me a bit :( i honestly cant decide which eyes i prefer.

and then with her lips, theyre much more smoothed out which im not the biggest fan of? i like the way theyre more defined originally

but my god. the difference in lighting for the last two comparisons.... ESPECIALLY the last one....... im a huge fan of it

in the end, i just think my girl is the most beautiful bunny to ever exist and she is still super hot to me, and so i am overall very pleased with the changes

#ffxiv #ffxiv dawntrail #dawntrail benchmark #and like tbh when i actually looked at her thru the cutscene i felt she looked just as she always has #just more Enhanced yknow? #im VERY particular about the way ronahi looks. i cant even change her hairstyle because i feel like it makes her into #an entirely different person #so i was scared that id be super disappointed and upset with this update #but no!! she looks amazing!!! im so happy!!!!!! #rip to every other viera player who seems to hate their updated wols tho

[dante-and-dragons]

Ough. Post-session fatigue is hitting harder than usual today.

#i think it's because it's um. a friday after school. and also we picked up after like a 2 month hiatus. and also it's my new player group #as much as i love them (truly they are Amazing players in terms of creativity and roleplay and scheduling and such) it is a little... #it feels like higher stress because i want to match their level of detail and like... creativity (which i did) #but also i want to make sure that they are having fun which like. dms always want to do. but them especially #bc this is their first experience w/ dnd and i don't want to turn them off it. bc your first dm can really make or break it yk? #but like hhhhh after my players left i just. kinda cried. and it's wild bc it was a good session and they said that they enjoyed it #but the crash was still So real. also like explaining the rules (it was our first combat they know the rules In Theorybut yk how it is) #like tbh explaining the rules wasn't even that bad it was just. i think it was also just i was tired bc of school #(tbh this year i've just gone home midday on fridays bc i get so exhausted on them) and also first sess in a while and cetera #anyway i'm feeling a little better now bc i talked w/ one of my players and she was like. enthusing abt it. and i listened to good music #but like. wooo. that was a REALLY bad post sess crash i haven't felt that bad in ages #d&D #dante dicit #might delete #dming #dm'ing #dungeon master #dm #dungeons and dragons

[yes-m-ray]

The kind of Sad i’m feeling over Laudna gone is so strange. So upsetting.

Like, i know she’s probably coming back, within 1 or 2 episodes. I know this isn’t the end of her story. Is just, the particular circumstances of her death are so heavy and bleak.

Laudna was (is) a deeply tragic character that is portrayed as “cool with what happened” in a very interesting way. Walking the fine line between being shaped by her trauma, but moving forward in spite of it. But people forget that her trauma is massive... like impossibly massive, and then, this happens

She’s killed as a message for someone else, as a dare, as a device to impact the main person(s)... again. It wasn’t strictly a sacrifice or directly her choice (she stayed so a part was her choice, but not all of it). She’s killed by a powerful woman that didn’t even knew her name, she’s just a sacrifice device to advance the story of important people... again

And even now that she has friends and people around her, for the first time in her life, the hope that she may get resurrected back intermediately... Is not enough

She’s not a priority, she seemed fine with being dead, so yeah, others get the chance first right? It's just logical

This thought of “She has gone through worse, just add this to the pile” is just... god, so bleak, and it makes me so sad for so many reasons. I’m actually struggling putting it into words.

Because someone has gone through the worst that the world has to offer, should people just understand how “strong” and “used to it” are, and make them the shield for pain? Why don't give them a break? give them respite, love, help. They’re not going to ask for it, for so many reasons, but if you can catch those cracks, those small glimpses of vulnerability, they deserve a check in, they deserve help.

Just give her a break.

#cr3 #critical role #cr spoilers #laudna #cr meta #NOTHING against other player choices #they're absolutely 100% on character #is just... the marisha ray special #an amazing character that has to be strong because... she has to #the womanhood themes are not lost on me #maybe because of that this stings so personally #ohh no the personal feelings that kiki and beau brought are coming back... the very personal feelings

[bluebellhairpin]

best friend who conveniently lives two doors down from my house: *buys a PS5* me:

#it's OUR ps5 now #she doesn't know what she's done lol #ofc I'm not going to be insufferable about it. she's asked. i havent even said yes yet #its a mutual agreement that certain games are going to be an US thing #and that i get top spot on the player 2 list #bc she is amazing and wonderful and i love her very much #we don't get to spend a lot of time together purely bc there's nothing to do in this town. and she's often tired from work #but this is a good excuse to chill together and actually do something together #instead of just like. existing in the same space scrolling though socials #I'M ECITED #i just need to find a way to get my hands on red dead 2 now. THEN i will be incredibly insufferable for the 40+ hours it will take to finis #but the dark pictures games a first #*evil laughter*