#knowing mistress

[romeofantome]

Melora, Kord, and Ioun.

Here's my piece for @artists-guild-of-exandria End of an Age: Calamity project!!

The three neutral aligned gods of the prime Deity! 👁️⚡🌳

[belphegor1982]

Brennan Lee Mulligan, Matthew Mercer, Aabria Iyengar

the weavers of tales of Exandria

[overseer-picard]

his cat got transmogrified into a lizard.

[phantomrose96]

Actually the funniest part of the entire James Somerton debacle is the response his cowriter Nick gave. For context, Hbomberguy talks a bit about Nick as a cowriter, and there is not any strong evidence implicating Nick of also plagiarizing, so Hbomberguy takes the angle of "Nick is probably not (also) responsible for the plagiarism".

Nick's response?

To claim he could not be part of the plagiarism, because he does not read. And does not do research...

SOURCE: I Fact-Checked The Worst Video Essayist On YouTube - YouTube, video essay by Todd in the Shadows.

The second screen cap is maybe a tongue-in-cheek joke... but bold choice when everyone's eyes are on you to respond to serious allegations. And this screencap doesn't include the other wishy-washy statements, pre-video, from Nick saying to the effect of "I write based on vibes. I come up with an idea and ruminate on it." For research videos. For educational videos about queer history and queer media culture.

Adds flavor to the Todd video, which goes through two-dozen examples of Somerton videos which just claim... provably factually incorrect bullshit.

This guy is a writer. An author. You could not waterboard "I don't read" out of me if I were aiming to launch a writing career.

Beating the plagiarism allegations by confidently asserting you suck too bad to ever get that far.

[sillysiluriforme]

that's such a normal well-adjusted way of seeing your loved ones thank you mrs agreste

[egophiliac]

SOON we shall know what the bat wears to sleep!! Is it gonna be a centuries old chemise with ridiculous frills?? A hot pink bat kigurumi?? Or perhaps he learned from the young'uns and he just goes 'casual sweatpants and tee'. And there's also the possibility of him going to sleep still in uniform and with the shoes on; just to not waste precious mmorps hours. I really hope they went with the most absurd option

I think you're 100% correct about those being the options, but after Rook in his little Dickens cosplay I couldn't honestly say which one is more likely. like...if they're going to put anyone in a onesie...

if I may offer some predictions:

(with an alternate version because I couldn't decide between them)

[somewhatsentientspellbook]

There's just something so fascinating about the way the Exandrian pantheon has decided to handle the Aeor Situation™ - by electing a few of their kind to be born as mortals in order to infiltrate the city.

The first to bring herself low was Ioun, and I can only imagine how lonely that must have been for her. To feel infinite wisdom creeping into her adolescent mind? To rise through Aeor's ranks knowing what they'd do to her if the authorities discovered the truth of her existence? Waiting, hoping, perhaps even praying that the other gods would follow through with the plan.

Sarenrae has a husband and children as Trist. I can't help but consider the parallels to Liliana Temult, with a 'higher calling' pulling a mother away from her family. The conversations in the temple suggest that she would have been aware of what she was by the time she started her family. Yet she loves them, cherishes them, even knowing that she might not see them again. Will Amaris, Haylie, and Topher learn that Trist is a goddess? Or will that only be discovered when they find their way to her realm in Elysium?

The Matron was once mortal, and she willingly returned to that form in order to help her newfound siblings dismantle the Aeorian threat. Her steward since childhood was Purvan, helping raise and guide her despite his old age. Imagine being a little girl, guarded by the Champion of Ravens himself and his wolven companion, completely unaware of your own divinity until later in life. Imagine the night she woke up, remembering her ascendency, seeing Purvan and recognising him.

And what of the families that gave birth to and raised the four Betrayer Gods? What of the halfling family who watched their precocious daughter scale a fence with far too much ease than it should be? The day the tortle's parents found him crying in pain and tearing at his skin to distract himself from a memory so distant and yet so real? Or Milo, who became a priest, not to follow in the light of the Dawnfather (like his parents may have thought), but to mock his brother even as a mortal?

These gods spent entire childhoods with families and friends, taking refuge from the skirmishes caused by their other siblings. Who, despite those similarities, have very different opinions of humanity, of Aeor, and themselves.

[toaarcan]

Molaesmyr, or "Why wiping out a city is okay if you're me", by Ludinus Da'leth.

I was waiting for a drop like that, to be honest. To find out that Ludinus has already done what was, for the gods, their darkest moment, and for him it was Tuesday.

The gods destroyed Aeor because Aeor was pointing a gun at their heads, for them it was self-defence and they still tried to find other options first. Ludinus destroyed Molaesmyr to try and reach the moon, and wrote it off as an acceptable loss.

And the thing is, the people of Molaesmyr were just as, if not more helpless against Ludinus than Aeor was against the gods! Aeor had a god-killing weapon in their basement that they were gearing up to use! And when the gods did attack Aeor, they had to do so in mortal form, which rendered them much weaker. For the first half of the battle in the Factorum Malleus, Aeor is winning, the gods are losing HP and falling to bad saving throws and getting interrupted at every turn. It's only once SILAHA gets free of the stun and manages to drop his Meteor Swarm on the wards that the tide turns.

There was no such chance for Molaesmyr. They probably didn't even know what he was doing until he'd already exploded their homes. They weren't pointing a gun at him. They were just in the way.

But it's okay when Ludinus has vastly more power than anyone else and throws their lives away to achieve his goals.

I think gods like the Dawnfather, the Everlight, the Arch Heart, the Lawbearer, the Knowing Mistress, and the Matron of Ravens care vastly more about the mortals that Ludinus claims to champion than he does. I think it broke their hearts to kill as many as they did, while for Ludinus, it was easy.

[smilelikeawolf]

Ioun: "The only way to protect this world is to step away from it and seal the door behind us."

The Matron: "This is the only home I've ever known."

Melora: "This was ours. We, we... no! No!"

Erathis: "Look how far they came, my love. They almost overtook us by force."

The Matron: "If we do this it protects them from the others as well."

Pelor: "We protect them."

Erathis: "Do we? Look at what you've wrought, Dawnfather."

The Matron: "I have ushered many souls this day."

Erathis: "We killed them for being good. My heart is tired."

[onehellofajellyfish]

at first all i was gonna share was the circled text bc its hilarious but i wanted to share the whole photo bc sebastian somewhat implies that one of the roles hes filling in for is ciel's wife

[floweroflaurelin]

Please, please, please. If anything is possible, let this be possible.

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The whole hospital sequence last week broke my heart, and now I can’t believe it’s almost over 😭😭 I was so busy this week but I finished this just in time! Now I can clear my brain and have room for all the paintings I’ll want to do of tonight’s episode :D

[rhiangalaxy]

Bingge meeting Shen Yuan or Shen Yuan meeting harem for doodle rqs! :)

Sorry Bingge! That's their Yuan-di now <3 Thanks for the rq!! :D

[ID: A Scum Villain doodle. Shen Yuan (in his Peerless Cucumber form) stands dressed in hanfu with a nervous but happy closed eye smile as he is surrounded by various of Luo Bingge's wives. One of SY's arms is being pulled slightly by Qin Wanrong, who has a pitiful look as if trying to get his attention. On that same side, Liu Mingyan has an excited expression, partially hidden by her veil, and a hand on SY's shoulder. On the most right is the Little Palace Mistress, who appears to be sternly giving advice, with one hand raised with her pointer finger up as she gestures. On the left, Ning Yingying has her hand on SY's other shoulder, smile widely with closed eyes at SY. And lastly, on the most left is Sha Hualing who has her arm around NYY, and the other arm raised up towards her own chest as she winks at SY. In the upper right corner is a bubble of LBG who is pouting as his wives take all of SY's attention. End ID]

[copias-juicebox]

A big round of Applause for Ashley!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[alilyhn]

King's mistress

[abyssal-ilk]

caught myself thinking about what gaspard and vivienne think about each other and how they'd interact during WEWH and ough. drama. gaspard playing into their shared concern/connection to bastien to try and get vivienne swayed to his side so she can sway the inquisitor, but even besides this there is a genuine level of respect he has for her just by virtue of the fact that she plays the game very well and they have known each other for so long. he was married to bastien's daughter, after all. and it feels significant that he never remarried. gaspard leans on vivienne's assumption that celene has already cast her aside; bastien will die soon, they both know it, but gaspard could protect her when he does– if she supports him here. vivienne needs to hit this man with a comically large hammer and cartoon splat him

[sojutrait]

affair montage 😍

she even asked to move in this woman must have lost her mind