man i have zero feelings about essek so far but i think i utterly despise what he represents in a way that i may not be able to look past moving forward

i feel strangely foolish about it now but it didn’t seem foolish before????????

if fandom as a cultural concept didn’t exist and if people weren’t weird about sam playing nott and didn’t project their weird complexes about women and motherhood onto her and if critical role didn’t exist in a perfect storm of parasociality with a chat running live for four hours straight every week where people could invent parallel versions of the story in their heads widobrave WOULD be canon like in a vacuum of pure dungeons and dragons romance it would be beautifully perfectly understood by all