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[elfietheespeon]

I really thought this was a Midst comic until it got to the part about witches. My brain was fully willing to accept, "Oh, maybe Jonas grew his beard later in the timeline?", but no. Still sad gay podcast boys - different couple.

Childhood dreams~

This ask made me think about how Jon would talk about his past (also trieing to word build in actual comic form for a change :'D )

The Magus Archives on ao3

(Also fyi, Lonely Knights have a special armour that can be removed without help, normally)

[midstpodcast]

NEW TUNES FROM BEYOND MIDST 🧡

The uncanny #UNEND theme is now available in the music downloads section of Midst.co!

Experience the sonorous soundtrack addition from the supernatural series with your Fold membership today!

LISTEN NOW ⬇️

[ariadne-mouse]

Thinking about that Midst appendix content of Phineas's childhood drawing of the Delta while seeing here now exactly what it was referencing and hoo boy that is some heavy shit

[lyadrielle]

Here are all the NPCs I got the pleasure to design for MIDST - MOONWARD! It was a blast and super nice to work on some sci-fi Also super fun to watch the cast discover them during the episodes. And mission accomplished because they found most of them hot

[godaweful]

every new thing the bells hells learn about essek is hilarious. he wears a face mask to rest. he was once turned into a fish. he knows ludinus's successor was in a porn shop. he fucked up transporting them a solid four times in a row. for some reason he considers himself surrounded by danger and responsible for some terrible things, yet they've only seen this absolute fool of a purple floaty guy who's kinda bitchy sometimes.

[threewishgoldfish]

I am begging everyone to listen to UNEND, it's absolutely awesome

[starry--eye-s]

Omelet

A small omelet has snuck its way into my appartment, can you believe it?!

Look how cute they are!

[danikatze]

[ID in alt text]

✨ This scene ✨

[gorgynei]

a goth, a princess, and an academic walk onto a magical ship...

[wardensantoineandevka]

I only realized with them all put together in this post that this is essentially the arc of the scene

[kerosene-in-a-blender]

I'm thinking again about how Bells Hells repeatedly insisted they had "no choice" but to release Predathos in the finale, when they very much did have a choice even as they felt it was the best of a series of bad options. They might not have liked the choice, but they did choose to go into the Hallowed Cage instead of doing something else. And the thing is, this refusal of their own agency is something they've done the whole time. One of their most aggravating traits as an adventuring party has been repeatedly asking everyone they come across (gods, world leaders, Predathos itself) what they want as a way to avoid choosing what to do for themselves, to the point that the Raven Queen eventually calls them out on it.

And the fact that the larger political and theological implications of the finale were carried out largely without Bells Hells only further highlights their lack of acknowledged agency. It was in conversations between Vax and Morrighan and Deanna with their respective deities that the implications of the gods becoming mortal where dealt with and the question of whether saving them was worth it was answered (yes they were worth saving, because everyone is). The logistics of what to do with the Ruidians who want to live on Exandria and the establishment of diplomatic relations with the moon were settled by Vox Machina and the Mighty Nein, with Bells Hells taking pretty much no part. Bells Hells lack of involvement in either of these series of conversations makes it feel like these events occurred outside of them despite being spurred entirely by their actions and choices.

But what really makes this stick out to me, is that I've written about characters who actively defer their own agency to external forces before in regards to Moc Weepe and Jonas Spahr of Midst. But where I think both of their arcs work and Bells Hells falls flat is the narrative of Midst acknowledges their deferral of agency and directly grapples with it. Learning to acknowledge that he is making choices and those choice have consequences that he needs to take responsibility for is a key component of Spahr's character arc, which climaxes with him finally making a decisive choice for himself. Weepe in contrast continues to deny his own agency even in the face of the woman he loves begging him to take some accountability (on her deathbed no less!) and this ultimately leads him to his ruin. Whereas with Bells Hells everything worked out just fine in the end despite all their waffling and refusal of responsibility without any consequences that would make them take a good long look at what they did, or bite them for choices they refuse to acknowledge that they made.

[messyjester]

“Lark doesn’t really have many friends. She would laugh at you if you suggested that Landlord was her friend. Landlord is her dog. He’s not even HER dog; he’s A dog, he lives in the hut, she lives in the hut.” -Unrise, S1E1

The best monster hunter and the best boy <3

[midstpodcast]

A FABULOUS GALA AWAITS! 🌸 💎

Find a stunning new high resolution art download by the talented Annalise Jensen in the extras section at midst.co and explore a fantastic floral affair straight from the Fold! 🧡

🎨 https://midst.co/extras/downloads/

[alicedyers]

Moonward Teaser

[chaosgenasi]

Once again, all is quiet. There is nothing this far out in the desert. And now… not even us. Art by Frank Liu.

[ariadne-mouse]

Marisha was so committed to the mime, I just had to put Horace in there.