#VM 1

[keyleth-clay]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Venture Maidens (Podcast) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kara Brynehilde/Gidget Glitch Characters: Kara Brynehilde, Gidget Glitch Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Canon Compliant, (up to the end of campaign 1), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, (and by that I mean the legacy games aren't real and can't hurt me), Fluff, Fluff and Angst, Getting Back Together, Fix-It Series: Part 2 of We Ripped Up the Pages and Wrote Our Own Ending Summary:

Two months. Two fucking months since the gods fell, and it still felt like absolutely no progress had been made.

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Heyyyyyy, my post-canon Kara/Gidget fix-it is (finally) done! The biggest of shout-outs and internet hugs to @sketchy-fey for being an awesome cheerleader for the final stretch of writing 💚💗.

[volatilemask]

yayy!!!

[moghedien]

Artagan: Welcome to the Feywilds Vox Machina *looks at the twins’ daddy issues* I’m gonna make Vex and Vax have a reunion with your dad

Artagan: *looking at Keyleth’s mommy issues* This one is more of a long game thing

[pyrotechnicdarts]

grinning and giggling and kicking my feet about the placement of this burn mark i see you tlovm twitterrr

[keyleth-clay]

Oh, this is so lovely! I love the poses for them, especially Gidget leaning in to Kara like that!

Little doodle inspired by Two Months by @keyleth-clay May 2024

[ginalongillustrations]

Keyleth & Vax'ildan

I didn't know how much I would love these two paintings until I saw them in warm afternoon light. Even though they are test paintings and there are things I would change if I get to make them again, I love these two so very much.

Vax'ildan looks.. incredible. I knew when designing his armour the way I did that he would look great but this exceeded my wildest dreams. He looks like the champion he is. Bless my friend Em for helping me fix the things I was unhappy about originally.

Keyleyh has the most beautiful colouring and it shows when the sunlight passes through and him purchase on wall or ground. Her mantle is so vibrant and her dress was worth all the hassle. She's beautiful.

Also, I'm gonna be posting like 4 more videos of these guys, I've got so many drafts on tiktok. I'm not sorry. Vaxleth has my heart, what can I say.

[olessan]

Re: TLovM episodes 3x07-3x09

[artificialhaunts]

It's loving Vex'ahlia hours... it never stopped being loving Vex'ahlia hours...

[iamindifferenttolamp]

Scanlan: *can't remember the name of the continent they're on*

Also Scanlan: *remembers that 55 episodes ago he awkwardly asked this one guy that they haven't seen since then if he was married*

[utilitycaster]

The answers Marisha gave in this 4SD felt a lot more realized than in the past, which is good! But it still makes me feel like this character concept is incredibly ambitious and when juxtaposed with the various "I don't want to think anymore"/"go with the flow" statements I'm not sure she realized that.

The biggest example is that Laudna has two conflicting traits: she is extremely sensitive to betrayal, and she is very quick to trust even after experiencing a number of betrayals in her life. And when I say "conflicting" I mean that they are in conflict with each other, not that it doesn't make sense for a character to be a complicated person with traits that frequently work against them; in fact that's in my opinion a fantastic way to create a compelling character. But it feels like the why is only just starting to get explored in any capacity, and because of that even good choices raise more questions: why is this only coming out now; why so young a regression; why has it peeked out so weirdly and inconsistently in the past; why haven't the repeated betrayals in the past two months affected her mindset and made her more closed off. It once again makes me really wish we'd gotten a sustained outburst after the party reunited, because that would have made far more sense - a fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me situation.

I agree with the opinion that Laudna conceptually just fits far more with being an actual child herself - her desire to befriend children frankly comes off slightly weirder (not line-crossing or anything, just a little off) than it would had she died younger, as does her approach of dolls, and her failure to do anything with Delilah would make a lot more sense if she was at an age to be much more reliant. It would also make her inability to just blend into a city much more reasonable; no one is going to rent to a lone 11 year old. It really does feel that when the creepy child idea was rejected - which is a valid choice - it wasn't reworked sufficiently to fit someone who died in her late teens or early 20s.

I also don't really get the idea of her childlike nature being without malice. A pretty consistent theme for the various traumatic childhoods the characters of Bells Hells (and, tbh, past parties as well) has been the cruelty children are capable of - Ashton even says it in 3x78. Delilah being stuck with someone without malice would honestly lead to a situation in which Laudna was very trusting of her, which isn't the case, which again goes back to the conflict of betrayal as a trigger vs. being so quick to trust. Given that Laudna was frequently bullied and rejected as a kid, one would think she'd be aware of this. The specific example of Delilah calling Ashton a child and Laudna making him a doll still works wonderfully, but the overarching theme falls apart in places.

I think things have been on an upswing as of late, but ultimately we're at a point where, without some retcons I don't think Laudna will ever truly make complete sense because it's just such an intensive concept that did not get the work that required, and still feels reliant on a now-rejected premise.

[keyleth-clay]

Venture Maidens Ship Moodboards: Rem/Isolde Tristane

[exandrianpunk]

Vax talking to the girls after Scanlan left (around 2hrs in the podcast) is hitting me especially hard this time around. he's so scared that more of his family will leave, that Vex won't understand if he leaves her to go with Kiki for a while, that he isn't doing enough to keep them all together, that more people will blindside him by suddenly exploding and walking out on him, that he feels so deeply how his fate is interwoven with those of the rest of the members of Vox Machina but the threads are getting tangled and he can't see the way through, and he's just so scared of what's to come now that they have time to think about themselves instead of the world-ending forces of evil that have loomed over them for so long...

[volatilemask]

you cannot imagine the holiday cheer you'll face here

[keyleth-clay]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh my god, thank you SO MUCH!!!!!!! This is so gorgeous, that's exactly how I pictured them while writing that line!

🖤❤️🤍🖤❤️🤍🖤❤️🤍

She cradled her head in her hand like a melodramatic actor holding a skull in a soliloquy and pressed a shaky, lingering kiss to her crown like a benediction.

Inspired by Two Hours by @keyleth-clay, Oct 2023

[espejodejade]

Inspo for my next handmade project

After my first handmade skirt I got excited and now I want to make a full OP ▼⁠・⁠ᴥ⁠・⁠▼

This is something that made me fall in love with lolita since the very beginning: the strive for creativity and experimentation. I once again want to use the fabric of a garment that I no longer use to create a new and unique piece!

Maybe I'm getting a little too excited, after all I've never done a full dress from scratch before, so I'll be kind to myself if I make some mistakes and learn from them. (⁠✪⁠㉨⁠✪⁠)

I'm still new to lolita, so getting brand pieces and filling my wardrobe has been hard since I don't have a lot of money (I work selling my art and it doesn't pay off much lol). I've been buying clothing from local lolita brands since their more accessible for me, but I think that learning to sew it's gonna save me from bankruptcy :⁠,⁠-⁠)

I'm gonna follow some instructions that I found on the internet, I plan on documenting the process so I will share the tutorial that I'm gonna follow when I finish it in a future blog. Wish me luck! (⁠♡⁠ω⁠♡⁠ ⁠)⁠ ⁠~⁠♪

[pyrotechnicdarts]

noticing a lot of similarities between percy de rolo and the dawnfather. authoritative. hypocritical. willing to do a lot of bad things in the name of family. bordering on paranoid (re: the desperation to claim the leyline at hearthdell through any means) merciless to his enemies. cold and intimidating to strangers. much softer and protective to the people he loves. violent. kind. angry. gentle. complicated. etc