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They really are covering the full spectrum of phobias in this one, huh?

- Confined Spaces

- Falling

- Creepy Crawlies

- Fungus

- Elevators

- Drugs

- Creepy Children

- Betrayal

- Ghosts

- Body Horror

- Liam's Terrible Mouth Sounds

#these are the ten plagues. to me. #cr spoilers #candela spoilers

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happy lesbian visibility day! 🧡🤍🩷

#critical role #beauregard lionett

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Dating a prof

Original:

https://x.com/zwagreeus/status/1783306576402489667?s=61

#critical role #shadowgast #caleb widogast #essek thelyss

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for Candela they didn't show a title card which makes sense because I assume May will be the recorded live show but anyway take your bets for next GM because actually I would like to see Marisha if she has the time

#also rowan hall still #cr spoilers #candela spoilers

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Yeah, a lot of what bothers me about fantasy settings (especially D&D) is that people try to run wizards like they're academics, but their only exposure to academics is authoritative professors telling them The Truth, so they don't realize that all academics are always 5 seconds away from trying to strangle each other over questions like 'does time really pass or does it just seem to pass'

#truly. #queue

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He walks away 💛💔💙 Orym taking a moment and the whole scene in general has had my little heart in a chockehold, so I had to channel the feels somehow Like everyone else - no I am not okay 💛💔

#critical role #orym

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I will not bind him, I will break him

Atia you're so sexy

#hot 2000 year old radioactive alchemists in YOUR area #cr spoilers #candela spoilers

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So that's 2 out of 2 failed postmortem letters for Taliesin.

#someone see if ashton has a letter #cr spoilers #candela spoilers

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CANDELAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

#candela obscura #candela spoilers #cr spoilers

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So Matt was like: mushroom people (affectionate) and then Liam was like: mushroom people (derogatory)

#candela spoilers #cr spoilers

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Candela Obscura spinoff minigame called Fancy Man Does Arson in which you are a Fancy Man and the other player is The Obstacle and through d6-based Rollies you either do or do not do arson

#the fancy men who did arson are: howard margrove; nathaniel trapp; rajan savarimuthu; and malcolm trills #two professors and two military officers estranged from their wealthy families. someone let khary payton know it's his turn next #(they have a 50% survival rate thus far) #candela obscura #candela spoilers #cr spoilers

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Alex as Edgar: is the decomposition located in areas that would have been infected by inhaling a powder, i.e. the the face, neck, and lungs? *Focus roll to look closer*

Leo, briefly possessing Tal: *moue of distaste* I'm definitely not assisting

#leo amicus: a man of many moues #cr spoilers #candela spoilers

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not a Candela post but I was actually thinking about The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin w/r/t Liliana. Spoilers for a 50+ year old book, but it centers around a man who unwillingly has the power to alter reality to match his dreams and who retains the memory of the world before he changed it. He is required to see a psychiatrist due to his drug abuse, since that suppresses the ability, and the psychiatrist believes him - but uses him to try to fix the various ills of the world. This becomes a monkey's paw-like exploration of various dystopias - to solve overpopulation (really popular theme in the early 70s) his dreams create a world where most people died of a plague; racism is eliminated by the concept of race being eliminated thus eliminating a number of people and a good deal of art and history; world peace is achieved via an alien invasion that unites the people of the world against an external threat rather than each other (a la Watchmen). The man (Orr) who has the dreams becomes more and more insistent that this is wrong, but the psychiatrist does not listen, and things spiral out from there.

I really do think Liliana believes she is doing the right thing, but the fact is, waving away people's legitimate question of "what will happen if you get rid of the gods" - particularly since pretty much everyone not directly within the Ruby Vanguard, including one of the major representatives of planar stability from the natural side (Keyleth) and her wizard counterpart (Ryn) and like, every other wizard who isn't directly under Ludinus's sphere of influence is like "I think that ends in disaster" - is such a massive red flag. Treating geopolitical problems as neatly fixable by One Change that definitely won't make everything worse (source: trust me) is, even in fantasy, a fantasy.

#critical role #this is a weird niche but. anyway everyone read the lathe of heaven. lelache wasn't super relevant to this but. she is great.

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I can't remember where I missed the Foggs in the beginning so I'm rewatching some and these two. These two

that conversation so full of LINES

"How are you feeling?"/"I think I'm feeling how you look."

"I suppose money does things to people, I wouldn't know, I've never not had it."

"I've been watching you. I watch everybody but I've been watching you. Thank you for saving everybody."/"What else is a doctor for?"

"You are a bad liar."/"I guess I am."

"I appreciate the appreciation."

"Clearly you're mad."/"I guess so."

"You deserve answers."/"It's not fair."/"No it's not."/"It's good to say it out loud sometimes."

"To the race to the inevitable."/"Let's see who gets there first."

#cr spoilers #candela spoilers #TRULY A LINE-FILLED CONVO

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What are the WORST birthdays to have? Bad news, folks - it's MOST of the year...

Watch the full episode on Dropout

#prev this show is very good highly recommend #the smartypants society

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Edgar to his team: finally! you're all in one place at the apartment and you can't dodge your check-ups. I might as well do them all now

Edgar to his team: I don't have any idea what's going on with any of us btw

#cr spoilers #candela spoilers #edgar lycoris

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I think Needle and Thread maintains its position as my favorite but going into the second half I was questioning whether Crimson Mirror would win out! I think my only real criticism is that the final battle was incredible cool conceptually but I find that such things are often difficult to do within TTRPGs, especially ones recorded in the CR no-cuts style: cinematographically this would have been phenomenal to watch but adding, effectively, slo-mo, to an already very slow system caused it to lose some of the tension, though none of the pathos. Anyway: highly recommend this one.

#candela spoilers #cr spoilers