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I'm not gonna just post Critical Role liveblogs every day forever, by the way. I mean, I am gonna keep making them until I catch up, even if literally no-one reads them but me. I love them and they give me a chance to have FEELINGS about the episodes, and also speculate wildly. 

Anyway, I have been wanting to post some personal stuff, but what with visiting my folks and my fatigue and pain having been fairly intense since the 27th, I haven't got to it yet. I was actually just about to start a post today when we had an unexpected visit to my sister and her bub, so.

Just so you know.  

Critical Role liveblog episode 31: If it's important, it's worth the risk

This should be a chill episode, gods willing. The Mighty Nein are doing a Lunar Interlude, basically.

( Low-key spoilers )

I feel like I could do a series of Critical Role posters with quotes on them, and one of them would be Matt fighting a grin and saying “Goddamn it, Sam.”

And that’s the end of episode 31, and we’re getting closer to Nicodranus and the Mighty Nein Pirate Adventure, so I’m excited.

The CR Liveblogs by episode: 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34

Trans Advent, door four

My parents had friends around for dinner tonight. Two of them, R & J, I'd met before I came out. One, Monica, a lovely woman from Berlin, I'd never met. I was fairly sure that R & J hadn't been told I was transitioning, but Monica had never met me before! Maybe she'd guess my gender correctly; who knows.

It was a pretty nice evening. And then, just before they all left, Monica told me that she thought the enormous picture my parents have on the living room wall was a good one of me. It was taken about six months before I came out, and I am dressed in high-femme mode, with lipstick and a sundress.

I had forgotten it was even there.

I can't express the crushing feeling I had from this one well-meaning complement. I don't know how it came across to Monica. I don't know if I managed to say something polite.

I really wish my parents would take those fucking pictures down.