#specifically c3

[screamingatmyfandom]

The curse of joining a fandom while it's still producing new content is that I now am forced to choose between wanting to read fic/look at posts that likely contain major spoilers or blocking all new content until I finally catch up

[undead-knick-knack]

When you're the only woman in a stable relationship

[zwoftt]

at this point, every small gesture and moment from dorym feels like they're making out with each other

[nottanothercritter]

when all is said and done, orym looks to imogen and can only see hunger, all-consuming, scraping her clean from the inside out just like it had him back in the wildmother's domain. he sees the glint in her eyes, the way her head tilts, the drive. and something in him responds in kind.

hunger remains their close companion, at the end of it all.

orym, cracking apart under it, hollow and adrift, with wet eyes and bloodied hands.

imogen, chasing with wild abandon. pressing low with intent, digging deep, finding prey. hunting.

orym's hunger is an empty echo that still tugs at whatever mess the wildmother's overstep had made of what he was before. imogen's is wide awake, a snarling beast with the scent of blood in the air. when he looks at her, all he sees is the very thing that broke him to begin with, in the shape of his friend rather than that fallen star that had torn his throat apart with the need to scream.

he watches clawed hands tear and scoop, watches eyes narrow and lips pull back to reveal eager teeth.

he knows what he ought to do. instead, all he can do is remember, and hunger.

[maryallenc]

ashton, to m9: wow, you people are crazy :D

me: no, they're just from wildemount. i mean, look at chetney.

[greenteaandtattoos]

jester and fearne are ludinus' sleep paralysis demons

[astralleywright]

It's so hard discussing C3 cause I'll find myself kinda agreeing with an opinion and then the vibe ends up being 'and that's why the campaign sucks and BH should go die in a ditch' and I'm like oh... we're not talking about the same thing...I actually wanted to see a longer aftermath of many things for BH - not just in the finale either - cause I love them, my bad.

no this is exactly it 😭 there are plenty of criticisms i agree with, at least in part, and things i wish had happened differently in the finale or even on a more macro scale. but so many critiques of C3 just misunderstand the plot and themes and characters entirely and treat any flaws as indicative of a campaign-wide failure and well. i simply do not think that's true. and with the way fandom abhors nuance it's very difficult to make my own critiques without feeling like i'm contributing to that attitude, or at the very least spending time i could be spending talking about what i liked or defending it from the dumbest/most obviously untrue critiques instead!

[clar-a-m]

Happy Halloween!!! Have some Laudna form of dread sketches

[stone-stars]

a while ago i saw a post by @sideblogdotjpeg about how the cycles in c3 seem a lot more personal/familial. and i kind of went insane in the tags at the time and i’ve been thinking about it a lot since because like…

you have the heroic cycles that the band of boobs parallel/break on this large scale. the idea of these broken trios of adventurers is there throughout the campaign, but they really start to engage with it towards the end— with the divine hearts, and thiala, and the wheel of suffering/wheel of joy idea. the thing hardwon says as he takes the divine heart, that no matter what anybody chooses from then on it’s with love in their hearts, i feel is very relevant to how they break the cycle. they love each other, and they choose over and over to hold each other tighter rather than be driven apart.

and on the other hand, you have duck team’s refusal of fate vs their family’s resignation to it. look at swag working with mothership, oliana’s contrition, and the stuff that is currently ongoing with gowan. you know— sol is a version of swag who fully rejected mothership and found his friends instead. callie refused to be a part of her family’s business, and her love for the wild and the serpents is giving the world a chance. calder, when he makes the deal with ultrus, telling callie and sol that he trusts them to save him. and now calder is refusing to sit back and let gowan handle things in the ice knife.

it's not that duck team aren't trying to save the world. they are. and it's not that the boobs didn't have a personal connection to the cycles they were breaking. they did. but it's like... well... how do i put this into words. right--

the song melora's boon plays when the boobs arrive at the heart of the world and speak to melora. when she talks to beverly about duty, shows him the places he faltered and how at the last second, he gets back up. (later, when they face thiala, bev doesn't go unconscious once. at one point, he's the only one standing.) for sol, this is the song that plays when he expresses his fear of going down again. when he admits to callie that he's scared of the day that she and calder are down and he's the one that needs to stand up alone. when callie says she's not afraid of that day, and sol finds himself empowered by the mushroom in his chest. the moment that sets up sol's long death monk ability, where he's able to refuse to go down and keep on fighting.

melora’s boon is also the song that plays for moonshine’s boon at the heart of the world. there are actually two songs in this scene, hardwon’s is different, and the transition back happens when melora says there’s a part of herself that moonshine hasn’t embraced. when she speaks to moonshine leading her people to a better future like an alpha wolf leading her pack. for callie, it plays when she tells hardwon and sol that she’s a liability and she needs to change— to embrace winter— in order to get calder back, even as they reassure her that she doesn’t. it also plays when callie asks the others to help her protect honeysuckle while he’s weakened. when they promise to lead honeysuckle home and free him from his connections to gromdal.

the writing on the wall plays when the boobs reach the court of gods. there's the wall of prayers there, and they hear the prayers of the people of bahumia, reaching out to them. prayers of protection-- for and by them. prayers that put the future of bahumia in their hands. for callie, this is the song that plays when she sees aryox's carving of her reaching the cave. when she realizes her mother acted the way she did because she could see what was coming in the future. when she realizes her mother was leaving the world in her hands.

the songs that the boobs first encounter at the end— when they’re basically demigods stepping up to face thiala— return for duck team in these personal moments. when sol finds the strength to refuse death. when callie talks about embracing winter, her mother’s season, something she eventually finds strength in, to save her friend. when callie asks the others to help honeysuckle, one of the serpents that she’s promised to protect partially due to the harm her family caused to the wild. and when callie realizes her mother saw the future and acted as she did because of it, pushing callie to walk the path she’s walking now.

anyway. this was a post about naddpod music.

[thought-42]

You ever just really take a second to think about the fact that Asmodeus looks like the most beautiful person you've ever seen

[undead-knick-knack]

Let it be known that Sorrowlord Zathuda fucked many a time in his day

[one-little-nerd-stayed-home]

Ok I said this was coming weeks ago so here it is: FURTHER THOUGHTS ON WEIGHT AND NADDPOD

Weight: A common point of comparison in Animal Agriculture. There are number of important types of weight when dealing with livestock:

1 - Live Weight - The actual weight of a live animal. This weight may feel lighter than it is because live animals instinctively balance themselves when lifted.

1.a) Calder - Its strange being the biggest. But Calder knows what that means. He has to look after Callie and Sol because they’re smaller than him. He has to carry them even when they flail and attack things behind him and twist in his arms. He can’t drop them when they cuff his ears accidentally because you have to be gentle when things are smaller than you. But he can’t get to them every time. He can’t save them every time and he’s always been the littlest but he isn't anymore. He needs to save them. So he takes the helm. He makes the deal because it saves Callie and Sol and they’re alive and if he has to wait on the frozen plain for them to come for him well it’s easier to wait knowing they're still alive.

1.b) Live weight is easier to carry because it is Alive

2 - Adjusted Weight - The calculated weight of an animal at a particular age. Commonly used for comparison between slightly older or younger animals of the same herd.

2.a) Sol - 'If I’m dead weight just drop me.' Sol is always a little surprised when he comes back staring into Calder or Callie’s face He’s surprised when Swag says looking at him isn't like a broken mirror at all. Calder and Callie talk about siblings and families and how you have to stick together. They grew up bickering and fighting for their places but Sol grew up alone. He stares into his own eyes and sees a glimpse of a life slightly to the left of the one he's lived. Defined by absence the same way his was. It doesn't feel... good. But it is good right? To have a blood relation - a family… that's what family is isn’t it? It’s hard to account for something he’s never had before. 2.b) Adjusted weight is used for comparison but as a calculation it may not reflect the real world

3 - Rail Weight - The weight of a carcass once it’s been prepared for butchering. Usually about 60% of the live weight.

3.a) Callie - It feels… different, nice maybe, to watch Glen fumble and scramble and beg and to feel nothing but a mild disinterest. He’s a hollow man and anything left in her heart for him pales in comparison to the cold fury at the fact that they lost Calder to his stupid scheme. Calder saved them and Callie… doesn’t like being saved it turns out. So she reaches for her mother's cool logic. Oberon speaks to her and Callie feels the anticipation of the hunt in her veins but she remembers the gutted eladrin hung from the branches of the enormous tree. 3.b) a gutted, prepared animal, though lighter is still a load to carry.

4 - Dead Weight - The weight of a dead animal. this weight can feel heavier than live weight as there is no instinctive balance when lifting a dead animal.

4.a) Hardwon -No matter how much he’s done or how far he’s gone Hardwon has always been the human kid in a dwarphenage who never fit anywhere quite right. He fits with Moonshine and Beverly, as long as he can pull his own weight and take the hits then they can be Beverly and Moonshine and he can be a titan too, at least for a while. Except that when he can’t take the hits. When he isn’t fast enough, strong enough, hero enough... then people get hurt. And Hardwon has never been good at keeping the people he loved alive. 4.b) Dead Weight is harder to carry because it is dead.

[stardustedknuckles]

The knowledge that a giant number of the people who made the b/y Fandom absolutely miserable by never shutting the fuck up about b/j were so fucking smug about getting their "owed" Laura/marisha pc romance only to have to swallow a functionally asexual relationship (and a plot heavy campaign that has allowed for very little of the character magic of c2 and even c1) genuinely makes me smile sometimes. Because there are some who took that very in stride and they're doing fine, they're here and going a little hard on the whole cottagecore thing because for some reason that's what fills any wlw space where sex is missing or downplayed, but that's no real big deal apart from the broader purity culture implications. The ones who think relationships should look a specific way, say, like beau and yasha did... Well those people left and we don't have to hear from them anymore and I think that's just beautiful. It's so peaceful.

[vault--of--amber]

me when i like the official art: all of these people are drawing this character completely wrong and bad. i mean the official art is right there like why dont you just percieve it and then draw exactly like it says forever

me when i dont like the official art: wow... people really think that you have to draw characters exactly like the official art always. SAD

[ariadne-mouse]

Braius Doomseed (gloves) and Ira Wendagoth (shoes), an unexpected love story

[maluspumilaa]

edited a template ive seen around and thought it would be fun to do this with fearne (who is probably the character ive been drawing the most differently from canon) !!