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Critical Role Spin-Offs and Life
Jul. 8th, 2021 08:09 amThe heat finally broke yesterday and I have been in heaven. I love cool/cold mornings and moderate afternoons. My sweaty little halfling body is not built for Global Warming/Climate Change. (Of course, no one is.)
In my poll yesterday about what I should read next, Darcie Little Badger has pulled ahead by one vote, but I am thinking of reading Zen Cho first, which actually came in second (in a dead heat with Kate Elliott) because that book is so slim. I should be able to read it fairly quickly, even with my dyslexia. (For me dyslexia, mostly just means that it takes me twice as long as anyone else to read a single book.) You can still vote, if you want to influence my reading choices? I have not actually sorted my books yet and made a formal decision.
In other news, Mason got me addicted to the new Critical Role spin-off, Exandria Unlimited. I was up way too late last night watching the first episode. I have no hope of catching up to be ready to watch it live, tonight, even with only one more episode to go. Their sessions are long! Thing is, I also have Wyrdsmiths tonight, so I would have had to skip, anyway. If people don't know Critical Role--in a nut shell, it's a bunch of voice actors playing Dungeons & Dragons. Mason was initially drawn to it because Matthew Mercer, who is often the Dungeon Master, is the voice of McCree in the game "Overwatch." Oh my god, I just Googled Mercer. He's a Funimation dub actor! He played Levi in Attack on Titan's dub, FFS. I'm technically one degree of separation from him since J. Michael Tatum probably still remembers me from the time we were both GoHs at Gaylaxicon? In my universe, Tatum is most famous for playing Sebastian in the English dubbed version of Black Butler, but he was Erwin Smith in Funimation's dubbed Attack on Titan--with Mercer, obviously. Perhaps, less obviously, this means they were also a popular Attack on Titan ship together, one of my personal favorites Levi/Erwin. But Levi gets shipped with everybody, so there's that.
My connection to Tatum was one of those insta-friendships where we hit it off immediately, but then... I felt two things that made it awkward: 1) I had a very weird feeling that Tatum was kind of out of my league in terms of fame, like the lines waiting for his autograph were literally around the block, and, 2), that I was maybe not clever enough? Do non-extroverts have this problem? Like, I totally judged my friendship with him in terms of my ability to perform it, and that got weird for me? Like the more pressure I felt to be clever, the less clever I felt? So I kind of stopped trying to seek him out when he was in town, and, now, that's technically the third thing that has destroyed any vestiges of our maybe-friendship. Although he did still seem to remember me and say 'hello' the last time he was here for Anime Detour only a few years ago, so I dunno, maybe I could still talk to him at a party??
ANYWAY. Exandria Unlimited is of a sort? Mason and I also listened to the entire Amnesty arc of "The Adventure Zone" podcast together. Basically, that was a podcast version of Critical Role, only with a group of brothers and their dad, who are/were slightly less famous for other things. (Technically, Clint McElroy is a comic book writer, so famous TO ME, but voice actors tend to get fan squee?) "The Adventure Zone" folks also tend/tended to play things that are not strictly D&D, but still are role-playing games with dice and rules and the like. My point is, if you like these kinds of things, you will like Exandria Unlimited. There are probably better ones out there? But, this is easy, fun low hanging fruit.
So, today, I am trying to decide if I will try to hit a park today since the weather is so good, or if I should spend some time weeding my gardens... or both.
Somewhere in here I also need to work on my lesbian space opera, too, since my writers' group is expecting more of that in two weeks.
In my poll yesterday about what I should read next, Darcie Little Badger has pulled ahead by one vote, but I am thinking of reading Zen Cho first, which actually came in second (in a dead heat with Kate Elliott) because that book is so slim. I should be able to read it fairly quickly, even with my dyslexia. (For me dyslexia, mostly just means that it takes me twice as long as anyone else to read a single book.) You can still vote, if you want to influence my reading choices? I have not actually sorted my books yet and made a formal decision.
In other news, Mason got me addicted to the new Critical Role spin-off, Exandria Unlimited. I was up way too late last night watching the first episode. I have no hope of catching up to be ready to watch it live, tonight, even with only one more episode to go. Their sessions are long! Thing is, I also have Wyrdsmiths tonight, so I would have had to skip, anyway. If people don't know Critical Role--in a nut shell, it's a bunch of voice actors playing Dungeons & Dragons. Mason was initially drawn to it because Matthew Mercer, who is often the Dungeon Master, is the voice of McCree in the game "Overwatch." Oh my god, I just Googled Mercer. He's a Funimation dub actor! He played Levi in Attack on Titan's dub, FFS. I'm technically one degree of separation from him since J. Michael Tatum probably still remembers me from the time we were both GoHs at Gaylaxicon? In my universe, Tatum is most famous for playing Sebastian in the English dubbed version of Black Butler, but he was Erwin Smith in Funimation's dubbed Attack on Titan--with Mercer, obviously. Perhaps, less obviously, this means they were also a popular Attack on Titan ship together, one of my personal favorites Levi/Erwin. But Levi gets shipped with everybody, so there's that.
My connection to Tatum was one of those insta-friendships where we hit it off immediately, but then... I felt two things that made it awkward: 1) I had a very weird feeling that Tatum was kind of out of my league in terms of fame, like the lines waiting for his autograph were literally around the block, and, 2), that I was maybe not clever enough? Do non-extroverts have this problem? Like, I totally judged my friendship with him in terms of my ability to perform it, and that got weird for me? Like the more pressure I felt to be clever, the less clever I felt? So I kind of stopped trying to seek him out when he was in town, and, now, that's technically the third thing that has destroyed any vestiges of our maybe-friendship. Although he did still seem to remember me and say 'hello' the last time he was here for Anime Detour only a few years ago, so I dunno, maybe I could still talk to him at a party??
ANYWAY. Exandria Unlimited is of a sort? Mason and I also listened to the entire Amnesty arc of "The Adventure Zone" podcast together. Basically, that was a podcast version of Critical Role, only with a group of brothers and their dad, who are/were slightly less famous for other things. (Technically, Clint McElroy is a comic book writer, so famous TO ME, but voice actors tend to get fan squee?) "The Adventure Zone" folks also tend/tended to play things that are not strictly D&D, but still are role-playing games with dice and rules and the like. My point is, if you like these kinds of things, you will like Exandria Unlimited. There are probably better ones out there? But, this is easy, fun low hanging fruit.
So, today, I am trying to decide if I will try to hit a park today since the weather is so good, or if I should spend some time weeding my gardens... or both.
Somewhere in here I also need to work on my lesbian space opera, too, since my writers' group is expecting more of that in two weeks.