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we're almost there lads, i'm still hammering out the tiny little details and the bigger ones like the deisgn on vex's dress and percys cape and then a tiny little series of sketches of them smootching and obvs the COLOR on this bad boy but im almost done!! and i made myself do some more fanart before i started focusing on my next little charm foray so soon youll see that i hope

not gonna super tag this cuz if this wip does better than this thing i will be so beyond sad but

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Part of me wants Delilah to come back for real just so Imogen can call her a bitch to her face and then murder her again in cold blood

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legend of vox machina text posts; percy de rolo edition

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I think the biggest problem plaguing society today is that my favorite piece of media is the private dnd campaign I am currently in & there is no fandom for it, so I cannot be constantly consuming content about it. This is the greatest tragedy I can imagine. no i will not make a podcast.

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So happy with how my playlist turned out for Anastasia Kissel, my 16 year old phantom rogue, heavily inspired by Selina in Gotham.

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The de Rolo Family

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*harp music*

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every day in fearne's head is just like: i'm a baby. i'm a threat. i'm a mother. i'm a slut. i am chaos itself. i am just vibing. i am on a singular mission to kill god. i want milk with my whiskey. i'm a queen. i'm a newborn faun. time is a weird soup. i'm the nicest person you'll ever meet. i'm stealing from your home in front of you. i'm with a business. i'm here alone. i'm lost in a forest. i am the forest and the forest is me. i'm a god. the abyss blinked first. god is dead and i slit his throat. i made flower crowns for my friends c:

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a backstory, ultimately, is a justification for the bad-but-compelling choices your character makes in game. 

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I cast haste

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The Eternal D&D Mood brought to you by Ashley Johnson

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Adventures with Jester ✨

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I call this the Sailor Moon Choice and it is my favorite thing.

when an author sets up a narrative choice where all the options are scary and bad and the protagonist chooses kindness and it changes everything because it opens doors that shouldn’t be possible and every single time i go FERAL

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Turn undead

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i think part of the problem the rest of the group keeps running up against when they try to listen to jester and understand her problems and comfort her is that they still don’t really believe the traveler loves her.

Most of the m9 have been badly hurt by people - sometimes people who should have loved them, like beau’s parents - but mostly by people who didn’t love them, and who they didn’t love.  caduceus is probably the biggest exception to this, and he’s still dealing with his own shit that’s stopping him from even recognizing his issues.

it’s so important to jester that they understand that the traveler loves her.  and to them, it looks like, well, if he loved you he wouldn’t treat you like that, so he must actually not love you all that much, and you don’t have to love him – we love you, we expect nothing from you, this is what love looks like.

but sometimes people love you to the very best of their ability and they still do hurtful things and fuck you up!  and it’s not just the traveler!  it’s her mother, too.  before they met marion, jester’s descriptions of her childhood really worried the nein because it sounded like she was being neglected by a mother who didn’t really care about her.  beau and caleb were both ready to be highly critical of marion if she turned out not to care about her daughter!  

but when it turns out that, actually, marion adores jester, and wants only the best for her, and tries her absolute hardest to do right by her, it makes it much harder to criticize her and her parenting!  it happened to the fandom, too!   “the ruby of the sea is the best mom ever!”  

she’s not.  she’s really not.  she’s a flawed, fucked-up person who loves her kid and does her best and sometimes she still fucks up.  that happens.  marion’s unconditional love for jester didn’t make jester’s childhood hidden away in her room any less traumatic and damaging - it just makes it harder for her to say “this hurt me.”  it makes it feel really bad to complain, because you know she loves you and you know she’s doing her best, and really shouldn’t that be enough?

i think it’s really hard for jester to open up about the ways in which the traveler’s behavior has hurt her, in part because she feels like she has to defend him, and defend their relationship, and defend his love for her.  someone needs to say, you know, you’re right, it’s amazing how much he loves you, he clearly cares about you an awful lot, and that’s a wonderful friendship to have - AND he’s fucked up very badly here and you are entitled to feel hurt!  because people can love you and still hurt you!  and when they do, they should apologize and try to make amends, because they love you, and they don’t want to hurt you.  and loving you a whole lot does not make any of the things he’s done here okay!  

i just think it’s very hard for the nein, who have largely been victims of intentional cruelty, to really understand how jester is feeling here.  veth came closest, i think, talking about how friends can call each other out on their shit and still care about each other. 

(i also think that none of them - with the possible exception of caleb - really understands what Artagan is and what that means, and how serious a promise from him really is, but that’s a slightly different issue.)

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cultural posturing elves with superiority complexes are way out, now we’re doing elves who literally cannot stop adopting other species and imparting elvish wisdom on them

because elves have a very low fertility rate to counterbalance their remarkable longevity, to the point that childbearing elves are lucky if they’re able to get pregnant, say, more than twice a century

but some elves just want to Nurture and they’ve noticed that adoption is a pretty sick deal, and that their human neighbors in particular always seem to have a veritable cornucopia of orphans sitting around in need of shelter and food and loving guidance and someone to teach them the finer points of communing with nature. 

elves reaching out to their human neighbors nervously for guidance because their beautiful adopted human son has decided he wants to get married but he’s only 25, he’s only completed one apprenticeship, he’s so young, is that really normal? are they sure? are they sure sure?

a 400 year old elf eagerly introducing her friends to her younger siblings: a 100 year old elf, 55 year old human, 27 year old tiefling, and 12 year old human. 

elf parents spending centuries proudly maintaining large and convoluted family trees where some of their great grand-kids are older than their most recently adopted children. elves highly prizing sprawling systems of family that span species and culture and share everything they can with each other.