Some things I've recently listened to/watched

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Critical Role: I gave up on watching all of it because four hours every week is a lot and I wasn't that invested in the current storyline, but I followed what was happening and when it sounded particularly interesting I watched, and there were some great scenes. (I didn't bother taking notes for all of them, but quite a few.)
E86
0:23 yess Fjord very smart, stop a battle with diplomacy :D
0:42 that cathedral map is beautiful.
1:25 Ashley's back :)
1:36 Beau breaking the enchantment is so cool
1:38 Yasha with two ones here is perfect
1:57 Taliesin's expression ^^
2:17 shit, Yasha almost killing Beau, and like that… Matt doing the deliberate callback even.
2:27 BAMF Caduceus. And Ashley looking teary, and the Ashley&Taliesin hug at 2:31
4:56 Yasha getting the kill is indeed fucking poetic

E89
0:22 Jester sending a message to Beau's dad xD

E91:
Aww Essek is so awkward xD
~1:40 aww, "Jeff" roleplay to teach Jester to preach about the Traveler and everyone else helping xD
1:50 Fjord's name is Stone xD

E92:
1:27 Jester is a whirlwind, the Gentleman learns :D
1:35 aww, Fjord and Beau.
2:20 yess parent-trap xD
Ugh, poor Beau
4:08 hell yeah Yasha

E93:
0:43 The Traveler! (knowing what I do from #94 makes it even more exciting. He's probably never been called like this before!)
Jester with the cupcake <3 everyone else thought she meant to go through with cutting off her arms! But not Jester! Genius move.

E96:
2:59 Caduceus pranking his sister :D He got weirder, heh.
3:18 Jester describing the statue that looks like a dick and Travis "your parents watch this show" xD
3:19 "open your heart to chaos" "all right" oh no xD

E97:
…lots of good stuff xD
1:03 Essek revealed!
Jester dressing the party ^^
3:32 "what happened to our plan?" "welcome to the mighty nein, travis!!" xD
3:36 meanwhile, Fjord and Beau listening to Marion sing ^^ and True Seeing gets Beau high, apparently. These two are so great together.
4:12 welcome to the mighty nein xD

E98
3:46 Caduceus' beetle spirit guardians, and Matt wearing them as a crown :)
4:19 Beau screaming Fjord's name when she sees him get killed :(


I finally caught up with the Juno Steel episodes of the Penumbra podcast, which I started listening to because I kept seeing intriguing posts about it on Tumblr. It's fun! I don't love it the way I do TMA, but I do enjoy it a lot. Season 2 dragged a bit, but the character development at the end was very nice, and I love the set-up of season 3 so far.
Buddy Aurinko's crime family in space! :D Wonderful. Fingers crossed for Juno and Peter, they're fun together and they could be good. Getting "Man in Glass" from Peter's PoV was great. And now, "not poetry" at night xD
I suspect we'll get PoV episodes for every family member, meaning there will be a Rita episode… I was hesitant about Rita at first because she seemed annoying, and I've disliked her since the second "Rita Minute" where her ego was more important to her than endangering someone's life. But maybe she'll get character development too?
And of course now there's a hiatus, after the last episode ended on such a cliffhanger!


Thanks to dhampyresa, I also finally started listening to The Mechanisms. I listened to "The Bifrost Incident", "Tales to be Told" and "Once Upon a Time (In Space)" so far and enjoyed it a lot. Everything is space AUs, the tales are tragedies but not in a everything-is-futile way, and the songs are varied and catchy.


And finally, the season 5 trailer of The Magnus Archives is out! I'm so excited for this season! Tea is not to be trusted anymore – neither are your senses, or your mind. Well, it is a nightmare kingdom. And Jon is struggling with his monstrous impulses, excellent *rubs hands*
Also, this: "sorry i know this is a serious situation but the fact that the fucking lovecraftian apocalypse podcast had to slap a disclaimer on their new trailer like "sorry the world went to hell while we were on hiatus we didnt mean to echo whats going on irl" is just. so fuckin surreal."
Only a few more days.

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So you have met Caduceus! I missed Molly too at first, but by now Caduceus is one of my favorites (together with Beau.)

Yeah, I started watching during the first campaign. The plot of the first campaign is less meandering, and in some ways I liked it better, but character-wise I much prefer the second campaign. If you're interested, you could wait until the animated series comes out, that should be a nice intro to the first campaign.

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I mean, the guy makes tea out of dead things (sorta), what's not to like?^^

If there is an animated series, I will totally watch it!

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Exactly ^^

There will be (at least) two seasons, and iirc the first one is supposed to come out in late 2020 :)