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Can't wait for Exandria Unlimited: Divergence? Check out its intro, as posted to the Critical Role socials!

Visual Effects by Christian Brown, 3D modeling by Axolote Gaming, and musical theme by Colm R. McGuinness.

Divergence is a four-part miniseries and premieres tonight, February 13, in all the usual places.

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Whenever I take a long car ride I end up exhausted afterwards, and I’m always like “why am I so tired? I was just sitting around doing nothing all day.”

But the answer, it turns out, is I was doing something. Riding in a car jars your body in many directions and requires constant microadjustments of your muscles just to stay in place and hold your normal posture. Because you’re inside the car, inside the situation, it’s easy not to notice all the extra work you’re doing just to maintain the status quo.

There’s all sorts of type of work that we think of as “free” that require spending energy: concentrating, making decisions, managing anxiety, maintaining hypervigilance in an unfriendly environment, dealing with stereotype threat, processing a lot of sensory input, repairing skin cells damaged sun exposure, trying to stay warm in a cold room.

The next time you think you’re tired from “nothing”, consider instead that you’re probably in situation where you’re doing a lot of unnoticed extra work just to stay in place.

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Do you ever just think about Fingon? I do. I think about him a lot.

A hero prince, and a king who should have left the heroics to those who could afford to die. Common theme with Noldor kings, actually.

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What's stronger than death?

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On Reddit someone suggested that theoretically, Tiamat could be reincarnated into 5 kobolds (I. A trenchcoat) and I kinda need this in my life now.

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also it helps me walk or whatever

[ID: a digitally drawn two-panel comic. / Image 1: Text reads: “How I expected using a cane would feel:” Panel depicts a miserable person in tattered clothes, hunched over a cane and shaking as she walks. / Image 2: Text reads: “How it actually feels:” Panel depicts the same person, now standing tall and wearing flowing wizard robes and a long white beard. Her cane is at her side, glowing with magic, and she looks confident and powerful. /End ID]

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women want her, gods fear her

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This is how blood of arlathan went right?

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moral questions in the Silmarillion

is it wrong to murder people for shiny objects

what if you REALLY want the shiny objects

what if they were your dad's and a bad guy already murdered your granddad for them

like that's basically justified right?

what if you made a very serious promise that you were going to murder people for the shiny objects and you hadn't really thought through the implications at the time

admittedly you then started murdering people more or less immediately so the implications became obvious quite quickly

in fact you murdered some people and stole their stuff in literally exactly the same way that the bad guy murdered and stole from your family

but maybe you're just quite stupid and don't know about narrative parallels?

what if you felt genuinely bad about the murders

not bad enough to stop but you know, there was some emotional torment going on there

what if you were going to be condemned to eternal darkness for not doing the murders

...because of that very serious promise, which you made on purpose, no one forced you, the promise was your own idea

what if you kidnapped some small children and were nice to them

not even kidnapped, you adopted them, they were orphans

admittedly they were orphans because you murdered their whole family

but being nice to children is a redeeming quality right?

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I think we really tend to forget about Fingon being an only-partially-excused murderer and not just a heroic laughing prince. Heck, I tend to forget too, but it is such a fascinating contradiction to him when I do remember.

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Now I'm just imagining a mortal gods scenario where braius just. Refuses to leave Asmodeus alone. You promised him family, and now you better pay up, bud. You've got a hopeless romantic cow man trailing behind you like a lost puppy, and no matter how many rocks you throw at him, he won't go away. I love toxic yaoi.

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Let's all say thank you to Abubakar and Aabria

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prdatos mouth perfec t size to put orym in to nap! inside very soft and comfort orym sleep soundly put orym in predathos mouth. put orym in predathos mouth. no problems ever in preddatos mouth because good shape and support for orym neck weak of big halfling head. apredathos mouth yes a place for orym put orym in predathos mouth can trust predathos for giveing good love to orym. friend predathos.

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for all of those who doubted imogen would make it out of the predathogen situation:

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Laura Bailey being the most important person on the entire Exandria right now feels absolutely right

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Origins: the world is ending and you and your one remaining coworker are the only option left to save it.

II: the unavoidable tragedy of a queer friend group/polycule trying and failing to save their fucked up city

Inquisition: you went to a conference and accidentally ended up in charge of saving the entire world (again) with a team of colleagues who are (mostly) professionals and outstanding in their fields.

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Veilguard:

Rook: hey, I suffered from “sudden field promotion” after “fucking everything up worse than it already was.” I’m putting a team together to kill at least one, maybe three, Gods

Seven of the most unwell people in Thedas: say no more, I’m in

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I am so, so obsessed with your art. Your Círdan is now THE Círdan in my head, and can see him in no other way. The latest Fingolfin has also been living rent free in my head.

Wondering if you've ever done a Fingon? I'd die to see him under your pen (this, no pressure, just praising :))

aw thank you! i draw círdan the most and i’m holding back from posting more of him otherwise my entire account would be círdan art haha.

here’s a very quick fingon sketch since i’ve been working on his sister. his color is sky blue to me :)