Month: February 2018

out-there-on-the-maroon:

source: https://twitter.com/mattcolville/status/960743011524096000

I try so hard to be polite. I wonder if it’s worth it if I’m just gonna get dismissed as “radical” regardless. 

Yeah, which is why she makes fun of their peasant mother not caring about them in front of a really offended Softboy!Vax. That adds up. Who wouldn’t be extremely crass about their shared mother in front of the one person they’re trying to take on the world with when that one person is clearly very attached to the mom. I do it all the time.

notaficwriter:

vex, to her nobleman father: if i could pull the blood of you out from my veins, and give it back to you, i would. i want no part of you.

comic!vex: father wasn’t worth a shit, but he was noble-born and as far as i’m concerned, once i graduated from The School (that is, Assassin School, for Assassins), so was I.

Man, elven nobility must be fun if you can get a foot in the door from training to be a fucking assassin. A training that you finish at age 13.

out-there-on-the-maroon:

Part of me is tempted to @ everyone who insisted that “assassin school for assassins” line was Vex being sarcastic or lying, to explain away that ridiculous moment. 

Turns out, nope, she was telling the truth. That is canon in the comics. That is genuinely what Col/ville thinks her backstory is. No bear, no love for her mom or brother, but plenty of snark, and also she was a trained assassin for some reason. 

But Trinket has been a thing! That she left behind! In the woods! To go into town! Like she did so many numerous times in those 30 minutes of every episode you need to watch to get every character down. Did you forget that extremely smart and well written line about needing to pick up a trinket from the woods? I guess his genius was just too subtle for you.

out-there-on-the-maroon:

vohalika:

Fun fact: I have seen about 20 times more posts about not pressuring the cast into starting the ships early and to chill with the shipping than I’ve seen people trying to pressure the cast into starting the ships early. By which I mean I have probably seen 20 posts being all concerned about not pressuring these poor babies into anything.

Like. Dudes. As if the cast could be swayed by us in what to do with their characters anyway. Let the people ship in peace. You’re not more legit or better as a fan just because shipping isn’t for you. Chill.

Yeah I’ve been real confused about that. I keep seeing posts screaming at people to not “pressure” the cast … and meanwhile the cast is talking shipnames, flirting in character, and posting the art-stream-appropriate ship art to the art stream. 

Nobody was pressuring Marisha to ask Yasha to hold her in her arms during the show in the very first episode. She did that all on her own. These are adults, experienced in fandom and fan culture, and after over 100 episodes they haven’t been pressured by fan demands once. IDK why people seem to think they’ll start now?

I see plenty of people snidely advising Liam, a longtime D&D player, how to “properly” play his squishy wizard, and him shutting that down over and over. I haven’t seen anyone making shipping demands, maybe they’re out there but they’re not a big force by any means, certainly not comparable to the people giving unasked for “advice” on their characters’ abilities on twitter each week.

Once, and only once, did the cast give in to fan demands. And that was about Scanlan not being on the cover of the campaign guide. Which is its own very different can of worms.

soleminisanction:

And another thing about the VM comic:

When they said “Vox Machina Origins comic,” I pictured, like, a retelling of the events from the “story so far” recap video. You know, the actual origins of the characters. Why isn’t the story that? Who is this weird evil elf woman we don’t care about? And why isn’t he taking advantage of the seven books he’s been given to spread the focus out amongst the seven characters?

Based on what I saw of the first issue, I would’ve paced the whole thing out like this:

  • Issue 1: Twins-focused, leaning towards Vax. They meet Keyleth and decide to head into Stillben to look for work. This is interspersed with bits of their backstory, and also Trinket is already there because fuck you Colville Vex was a teenager when she got him you don’t even have to watch the damn show to get that backstory do your goddamn research.
  • Issue 2: Scanlan-focused. Show what he and Grog are getting up to, hint at that mysterious past of his. End with them also returning to a pub in Stillben to look for work.
  • Issue 3: Keyleth-focused. Start with an explanation of her backstory and move into telling events from her perspective as the disparate parts of VM are brought together by an NPC and hired for their first quest. Maybe end the issue with the reveal of that fetal god monster thing.
  • Issue 4: Twin-focused, leaning towards Vex, who reflects on how it’s always just been the two of them. Fight the fetal god monster thing. Go back and kill the person who tried to trap them. Everyone decides to stick together and the S.H.I.T. is formed. They agree to meet up after taking care of their own business, and the twins privately discuss how it might be nice to have others around.
  • Issue 5: Grog-centric, but mostly in the perspective of the others puzzling over his absence when he fails to meet up with them. Travel to Westrunn, introduce Pike, investigate the missing Goliath, end off with finding him.
  • Issue 6: Pike-centric. They beat the lich and investigate the phylactary inside Grog. A trip is made to the wizard to learn of the ingredients they need to help him. Maybe rearrange the order a bit if there’s still pages to fill, and end off with them going to find the cult with the Nightmare.
  • Issue 7: Percy-focused. Spend a fair chunk of the issue flashing back and forth between his backstory and the current plot. The others find him in the cell, he shows off his guns for the first time. They save Grog and decide to head to Emon, Percy opts to come along (maybe because of encouragement from Keyleth and Vex), end comic with them all riding off into the sunset.

Just try to tell me that wouldn’t be more interesting than Colville’s OoC fanfic fearuring assassin school.

Fun fact: I have seen about 20 times more posts about not pressuring the cast into starting the ships early and to chill with the shipping than I’ve seen people trying to pressure the cast into starting the ships early. By which I mean I have probably seen 20 posts being all concerned about not pressuring these poor babies into anything.

Like. Dudes. As if the cast could be swayed by us in what to do with their characters anyway. Let the people ship in peace. You’re not more legit or better as a fan just because shipping isn’t for you. Chill.

vohalika:

Worst thing about the new campaign: The bad German accent, the badly pronounced German words, the fandom trying to write out the accent phonetically (don’t. Ever. With any accent.), people scrambling to spell the badly pronounced German words.

(Liam’s German is fine. And I’m sure his accent is fine by what Americans think Germans sound like standards.)

The town is called Trostenwald. Their beer is called Trost. That means solace. Naming a beer solace is a very German thing to do, to be fair. Wald means forest. They are in Solace Forest.

The family is called Baumbach. The au part is not pronounced as an o. We are not French. It’s uh-oooh. Or like “about” without the consonants. It means tree and stream. As in tiny river.

The German word “Vater” is pronounced just like father, but without the h. The V makes an F sound. Sam said it at one point.

I think Caleb referred to Nott as “Das ist meine Mädchen” or “Das ist meine Liebchen.” Couldn’t tell on the spot. It either means “that’s my girl” or “that’s my dear”. “Meine” is not the right form of my, though, because everything ending in -chen is a dimunitive and gets neuter pronouns. Kind of like the Japanese -chan, actually, but not used to address people at all.

(And that’s why the German word for girl isn’t feminine but neuter. Wheee.)

I’m not even going to try and explain how the “ch” is pronounced. There’s two different ways.

Okay, like, if you’ve read this rant up until this point, I guess I can put in the minimal effort of trying to sound it out on vocaroo. That used to have better recording quality back in my day. I am so sorry.

https://vocaroo.com/i/s1Q8CDbF8FnH

…I’ll stop now.