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C3 haters insisting divine magic should no longer exist after the gods stepped down as if Jester hasn't been a cleric wielding divine magic without a real god since she was a little girl because her faith has been enough

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The little grins shared between Matt, Liam, and Brennan when Alex reads off the name "The Orb of Avalir" are so funny. Everyone in chat had already figured it out, of course, because everyone and their sibling has been on the lookout for Patia's orb since she/Marisha sent it to Maya Agrupnin during EXU Calamity. The fact that it, a very much mortal created item of mortal power and knowledge, is here amongst all these divinely created tools, including several vestiges, is interesting. One of these things is very much not like the others.

Also, what a delight when all of them give Alex a hard time after he says Jasmine's dice, on which she just rolled yet another natural 20, are illegal.

Liam: What are YOU talking about?! Jasmine: Yeah, Mr. Natural 20 Alex: What? I got one yesterday. Celia: You had three in one day, guy. Let's not.

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Essek is not built for the tropics.

Critical Role Imagined Screencap series [The Mighty Nein, c2e95]

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Gaz Tomo being hot and cool for 10 gifs

+ Bonus Liam and Laura

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Every so often I still can't believe that the Mighty Nein got Essek to stick his his feet in the hot tub after dinner. Give this refined noble a glass of wine and some cheese, and a little friendliness, and he's speaking heresy and rolling up his pantlegs

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[ critrole ] long may he reign ;) 🔮

mollymauk 10cm (3.9") holo charm up for preorder now! ✨ https://peachcott.bigcartel.com/products

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RE UPLOAD - POST ACCOUNT DELETION ERROR

You said it Dairon!

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Here's the fully color blocked piece. I got this far before realizing that I used the same reference for Fjord as my Caleb piece, lmao. Thanks @adorkastock !

Rendering is slow going, as always.

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Okay, jumping forward to where I left off on Thursday, am I right in my understanding that not all the gods went behind the Divine Gate at the same time? I mean if Nia was the first cleric to experience divine power through the Divine Gate, that would mean the Moonweaver was the first to go behind it. I always imagined the gods just created the gate between themselves (wherever they go when they're not physically on the world) and Exandria so that it happened all at once. This makes it sound like it was a barrier each of the Primes had to choose individually to cross, which makes it a vastly more interesting and dramatic choice. What was that decision like for each of them? I'd love to know.

It also means the gate was always permeable in one direction, in other words divinity could always cross over the Divine Gate leaving Exandria, it was returning to it that was blocked. I'm going to have to sit with that a bit to suss out all the implications there, but it's all very interesting.

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Picking back up on watching the third episode of Divergence on the weekend means I can rewatch the intro as many times as I want and FINALLY notice that Ruidus is behind the Divine Gate in the animation. Of course it should be, given all we learned in Campaign 3, I'd just failed to notice that detail until now.

Add it to all the other amazing details in the Divergence opening introduction, I guess.

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They never learn

And a close up of the two gremlins

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Modern AU version of this comic panel

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“Pratchett went back to older throwaway jokes (like dwarves being apparently unisex) and used them as metaphors to discuss social change, racial assimilation, and other complex issues, while reexamining the species he’d thrown in at the margins of his world simply because they existed at the margins of every other fantasy universe. If goblins and orcs and trolls could think, then why were they always just there to be slaughtered by the heroes? And if the heroes slaughtered sentient beings en masse, how heroic exactly were they? It was a long overdue start on redressing issues long swept under the rug by a parade of Tolkien successors who never thought of anyone green and slimy as anything but a notch on the protagonist’s sword, and much of the urgency in Pratchett’s last few books seemed to be related to them. “There’s only one true evil in the world,” he said through his characters. “And that’s treating people like they were things.” And in the last of his “grown-up” Discworld books, that idea is shouted with the ferocity of those who have only a few words left and want to make them count. Goblins are people. Golems are people. Dwarves are people, and they do not become any less people because they decide to go by the gender they know themselves to be instead of the one society forces on them. Even trains might be people, and you’ll never know one way or the other unless you ask them, because treating someone like they’re a person and not a thing should be your default. And the only people who cling to tradition at the expense of real people are sad, angry dwellers in the darkness who don’t even understand how pathetic they are, clutching and grasping at the things they remember without ever understanding that the world was never that simple to begin with. The future is bright, it is shining, and it belongs to everyone.”

— John Seavey, The Evolution of the Disc (via pornosophical)

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I like you.

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Carol 

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“Usually when people seek a priest in the small hours, it either follows a sin or precedes a death...” -- Nightcrawler

Cover art for Way of X #001,“Way of X”

Art by Giuseppe Camuncoli and Marte Gracia