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K I just read a reddit thread with like 3 comments using Malfurion's "routing the whole demon army by conjuring a massive storm" moment from WOTA as evidence of how TOTALLY BADASS he is so I had to draw that moment as it happened in the books:

and then he helps fix it after being emo again and then his head is hurty and he's literally just a sad wet nerd it's great.

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Bel'ameth

that's Malf's herbing hat btw

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oh yeah i forgot to post this, i was like alleria's design should be way cooler but then all i rly did was give her her old tattoos lol. and she should have scars like turalyon

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MERRY SMISSMAS FROM TF COMICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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ok im caught up on stormlight archive

and honestly like these books are really not my thing lol, im having fun discussing them but like hhhhhhh i just dislike or am uninterested in too many of the characters and magic and stuff lol. But I did draw one thing from the last book. cut for spoilers

when they booby trap u but theyre still your blorbo

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Started reading (listening to) the Stormlight Archive series cos husband is a sando simp and male human paladin fan. luckily as a Bitch Enjoyer there are at least a couple things in here i can enjoy too

I'm about a 3rd of the way through book 3, pls no spoils 😭

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Latest Moira short story is good

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[mouth pressed directly onto the microphone] yes i drew this part of the book again when malfurion frees tyrande from a trap and she's unconscious and fucked up and grody but is otherwise OK and it's the first time he's held her with his physical body in years and he cries bc she's ok and he's a huge baby and it's very sweet

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I was enjoying your old Tyrande, Malfurion and Illidan arts but I have to ask because I never read any of those books but am morbidly curious - what was going on with Azshara and Illidan and Azshara and Tyrande, what was she doing to them? 😭

Lol Azshara was basically just doing Saturday morning cartoon evil things, she's supernaturally sexy and seduces ppl and stuff for power. Tyrande is captured cos Azshara's forces know the Stormrage bros + Tyrande's army are fighting against Azshara and are generally being meddling kids, plus Tyrande has just been made the new high priestess. So Azshara is just taunting her and saying she's going to be her new slave/handmaiden, which I think is implied would actually have worked if Tyrande's Elune levels weren't as high as they were? Azshara's magic is powerful enough that even her statues compel everyone including Tyrande to drop to their knees and worship her.

And then Illidan's thing is Azshara just fucking with him after he gets Sargeras juiced. And I think with both, Azshara's also just trying to make other peons jealous, Vashj of Tyrande and Varo'then of Illidan? She's just being generally evil and horny. Her whole motivation for summoning Sargeras is she wants to bang someone actually worthy of her so lol

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It was honestly hilarious watching your 180º with Malfurion. I still love the senile comics, you were hilariously mean to him but now watching you be truly invested in them is :3

Also send my regards to your dwarfaboo nelf.

dude lolll ty honestly dwarfaboo nelf is great im gonna repost

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hey i hope it's ok for me to ask your opinion on this but like, as someone who hasnt touched WoW since bfa, do you think it's worth actually getting back into playing rn for the Dragon Lore??

Nah def not for lore. DF was a welcome change post BFA+Slands suffering, but it's been very "I have no strong feelings one way or the other". Like, not just my reaction but the characters seemed like they felt that way too lol? Nothing really grabbed my attention. There were 4 bad protodragons, we killed 2, one Enough'd and went away, one joined our side. And our dragons I think got aspect powers again? idk

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Interestingly Thura did get added to the game for the orc heritage questline. They should honestly do stuff with her tbh, she is full do gooder, but also just a very young orcish meathead who is a badass. I feel like she'd be perfect for the "everyone is paragon only now" style of game they're going for now and still be fun.

Part of the charm of stormrage to me is Thura and Tyrande are the same character lol, it's just one is in night elf priestess packaging and one is in orc warrior packaging. I don't know that this is an intentional dichotomy as it's not explicitly stated by an author who seems to be outright offended by the idea of "show don't tell"... but whatever, doesn't make it not true

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So Lucan is a little pathetic Milo Thatch type human dude who has the ability to teleport in and out of the Emerald Dream (but he can't do it on command). He just constantly is getting manhandled by Broll and Tyrande as they drag him around this book lmao.

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well i did draw some orcs. i tried to make usha a longer faced orc but that just becomes a troll??

idk if i ever posted this sketch of my dk, anyway i did a new one in the corner yay. also lets gooooo got those inflated ranks from having a regular group and playing one of the least popular specs lol

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whoaa Thura soloed a faction leader cheevo what a goddam hero

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was looking through some of your old art and the nelf trio tags and saw you mention "But I s2g I can’t help thinking about if Illidan ends up being treated better overall by the narritive than Sylvanas I’m gonna hulk out or something" so i'm curious how you feel with where we are currently!

hahaha yeah, ok went back and found it- that was from the very beginning of BFA (it launched in August 2018 and this post was in November2018). So.. yeah I mean, today I think Illidan's treatment in game is easily one of the best- maybe the actual best in the whole series?? So it's a hilariously ironic thing to have hoped for. Like if I had said "oh boy, I can't wait to see what kind of character growth Varian gets!" at the beginning of Legion.

At the time I was thinking like, ok well Illidan was a villain that gets defeated in BC, but that obviously wasn't the end of his story, and he didn't die or lose who he was... then he got to come back and be a super fun main character of a successful expac.. surely they know how to use a very similar headliner big $$ character in the same way?

And then I basically just spent the next 5 years like

as Sylvanas just got ground to dust. And I feel like I did do lots of hulking out lmao.

That post was also the original senile Malf comic which I enjoy very much bc

How I draw Malfurion when I thought he was just a male power fantasy gary stu in a chemistryless pairing with Prize Woman that he randomly spoke rudely to that one time (but has funny wizard voice):

How I draw Malfurion now that I know he is a sweet nerd-himbo just trying his best and who blushes and cries over his wife

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Lol ok so for Warcraft lite ppl- last art post was from Stormrage which took place after Wrath and before Cataclysm. So it's old stuff. The actual recent canon events for Tyrande and Malf was just that all their bad storylines from the past 3 expacs were mercifully wrapped up with a very cute and happy ending and they are retired now.

Spark notes for Stormrage is: Xavius is the nightmare lord, he's spreading the Nightmare out of the Dream and into the real world which is giving everyone nightmares and manifesting nightmare creatures everywhere, and he's captured Malfurion in the emerald nightmare who Tyrande has to go rescue, but he was rly just bait for Ysera.

If this sounds familiar, it's because the plot of Val'shara in Legion is literally just the plot of Stormrage repeated but worse.

Also if you've ever seen ppl talk about how badass "book malfurion" is they're probably talking about this book bc he has double dmg basically because the dream and the real world are merging, but the real Uhm Ackshually is that it's both him and Tyrande putting their powers together and they win bc they wuv each other soooo much uwwwwu 🥰🥰🥰💖💖💖