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All the world's a maze

@ariadne-mouse / ariadne-mouse.tumblr.com

30's, queer. Many fandoms and interests, currently a lot of Critical Role.  Sometimes I do art and fic things.  Mousecookie on Ao3.
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Ahoy! I'm Ariadne, also known as mousecookie on Ao3, and ariadne-mouse over on Bluesky. This is a personal blog that meanders with my interests, which right now includes a lot of Critical Role. Follow or unfollow as you see fit!

For Critical Role spoilers: I use the tag "cr spoilers" for a week after an episode airs, including for non 5e content like Candela Obscura. For Beacon-exclusive content I also tag "beacon tv" and if applicable the content name, e.g. "narrative telephone".

Regarding Midst: I am currently listening to UNEND via the public release schedule, so please no spoilers from early access content. My personal post tag is "ariadne unends" and general spoiler tag is "unend spoilers", which like the cr tag above I use for the week following a public episode release. Also, listen to Midst, it's very good.

Other tags you may find of interest are:

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*teletheric crackling noises*

Have you enjoyed MIDST and UNEND? Want to show your appreciation to the fabulous creators, Third Person? Do you like pushing buttons?? Well they're nominated for a Webby and you can vote for them at the link below! Midst is currently in 2nd place in the Experimental & Innovation category with 25% of the vote. Get on over there and cast your vote!

Vote for the best of the internet
I just voted in The Webby People's Voice Awards and checked my voter registration.
vote.webbyawards.com

Note that while this post is being shared on April 1st it is NOT a joke! It is an entirely UNjoking post! Seriously if you have enjoyed the show, go vote. The deadline is April 17th.

#midst#midst podcast#unend#unend podcast#op#third person#critical role#tbh I am not entirely sure which one it is for since the listing says midst but the art is for unend#but either way: voteworthy
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Reblogged fireryn
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i think the funniest and realist thing i’ve realized lately is how troubling idealization can be. every person is just… a person. the very people you want to impress or be apart of are just people. even if they seem wildly intimidating because of the way they look or because of their reputation, every one is just a person. human. as embarrassing, as remorseful and they are going through stages of growth just like you are. we only see what we want to see and then drown ourselves further in our own depression and we don’t have to.

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truly and i am learning the less i idealise others, the more willing i am to meet people where they are warts n all. and the more willing i am to show myself too and bring my whole self into things. my own embarrassment becomes a new normal and fine thing. stumbling becomes more endearing.

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had a teacher once who told us “idealizing people is just as dehumanizing as demonizing them” and that stuck with me so much

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Reblogged mareastrorum
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✨🔥Embers burn hot again as two old flames reconnect. Will Ira the Nightmare King be able to reignite the fires of passion and win the affections of Morrigan the Fatestitcher once more? 🪡💞

My piece for @artists-guild-of-exandria's latest project, Critical Rolemance!! Please check out all the pieces because they're all amazing!

✨do not repost my art | Reblogs are love✨

#the speed with which i reblogged lmao#nana morri#ira wendagoth#critical role#april fools
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yesterday a colleague asked me to review a document for him that would appear in an internal team newsletter. it was about a project he worked on and its positive benefits to a bigger project I am working on. So towards the end of the requested review period I sit down to read it and... the first paragraph was just grossly wrong, emphatically stating that his project was "critical in the value and long-term stability" of my project when actually it was only relevant to 1-5% of use cases. Beneficial yes, but far away from being the bread and butter. This isn't even a matter of opinion - it's bald, inarguable fact. His project is mechanically not relevant to most of the use cases in my project. He also knows this and isn't a nefarious credit stealer, so I was confused, especially since I thought I was arriving in the document after others had taken a pass. I made some polite but clear comments/edits pointing out how the relevance and influence of his work on mine was overstated, and mentioned it in the next meeting we had to make sure there was closure.

He says: oh yeah, we wrote it with AI. that's the AI.

folks, he did not edit it at all before having me do that work. he had the knowledge and awareness to make the exact same edits I did, and did not. 1) I am furious to have been relegated to the fact-picker for AI slurry, and 2) if I had not done so this might have become the document they published. like this is what is going to keep happening when people use generative AI to make work documents. even when they are well-intentioned (and my colleague genuinely is! he means well!) they will plan to edit past the AI slurry, get too busy, and then won't. and the bad documents will be called final, in all their garbage glory.

#this is not an april fools day post but the joke IS on me#turning off rbs because I don't want to hear the broader webbed site's opinions on AI#but folks when I say the murderous urge was strong in me... hoo boy#op
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it's funny people are still acting like every C3 critic hates the gods becoming mortal thing when, like, many of us very much like it as a resolution and think it's the single most interesting thing in the campaign

we just wish the landing there was less hurried through and tangled and undercooked and that we got to actually spend time with it within this campaign and got to watch these characters talk about it and how they felt about it over a longer period

like, many of us who are critical of C3 and have been critical of how the campaign has handled the gods, many of us do like the gods being mortal now, very much — we just feel the getting to that was narratively rushed

so, it's really funny seeing the concept of hating it brought up as if it's a uniform stance among people who were less than enamored by C3

#critical role#c3
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