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Me finishing a WIP? It’s more likely than you think.

After completing this, I have lots more respect for those artists who upload comic chapters every week.

Anyway, this scene has been stuck in my head and I immediately started it right after the episode it’s in but then procrastinated BUT THEN decided to finish it after the latest turn of events in the campaign.

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how good do you think Nott’s disguise self was when they met Yeza in the dungeon? do you think she was a perfect copy of her old body — maybe even too perfect? more like she walked out of a painting than standing right there. like the pure concept of Veth Brenatto distilled into the image of a woman come back from the dead to save her husband

or do you think she got a few details wrong. you know how self perception is, you never look quite the same as you think you do. face just a little too round, a little off shape; eyes a little too dark, skin a little too pale, hair just a bit the wrong texture. details only a loving husband would notice

do you think the goblin body almost made more sense to Yeza than the illusion of his wife?

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Them…

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Imagine two wizards… making magic together~

comms

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Let’s see how long it takes before this gets flagged

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“If one is to keep their nose in a tome somebody else needs to be paying attention.”

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love and empty

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Im thinking about the M9 and languages. like languages and what is spoken and how it can add so many little extra layers to the story, and how they can be used to show insights into the characters. Cause like

Molly Viciously Mocking someone sounding like hacking up a demonic hairball, undermined by Jester always giggling in the background. Then suddenly Molly is gone and Jester is hugging her mother who is kissing her forehead and switching out from infernal to common every other sentence and the nein realizing that Molly was just telling dick jokes and playground insults in the scariest voice he could manage. Jester canonically writing her journal in infernal (which I hope to see in the series because fiendish hell runes written in a kawaii style compete with hot pink glitter gel is something I think everyone needs).

Nott telling a Halfling in Halfling that she ‘had an accident’, and it seems more likely to be a translation error on her end than the truth. Nott shouting at goblins that ambush the Nein in simple, halting Goblin, especially compared to the sentences they fire back at her. Nott knocking on Edith’s door, suddenly speaking Halfling fluently as she hugs a little boy no one had known about.

Beauregard’s high school level, clumsy Halfling and Dwarvish morphing into her reading undercommon, her understanding Zemnian, her studying books written in several different languages as the series goes on.

Fjord being able to read some orcish phrases but consistently messing up the pronunciation, because he basically taught himself, afraid of getting caught learning it but more scared of getting caught not knowing it.

Caleb’s whole interrogation with the scourger, his conversation with Astrid and the political side conversations, juxtaposed with the soft demeanor when he speaks to himself about his parents and the past in his tower. Him canonically dropping his heavier accent whenever he speaks Zemnian.

Yasha, never speaking Abyssal, only reading and translating it, as opposed to having little conversations in celestial when prompted by Caleb, who wants to brush up on his knowledge.

Caduceus speaking in what sounds like normal ass common to plants and animals. Him chatting amicably with giants, stopping every once in a while to ask if he’s pronouncing a word right.

Essek muttering to himself in undercommon as he studies, teaching everyone a few words to be polite. Getting bullied into sharing more by Beau, who had to learn it somewhere, and he acts like it’s a great inconvenience for about three minutes before getting swept up in the joy of sharing knowledge, of teaching and learning, taking concepts and thoughts and ordering them into something neat, precise, definable.

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"no one is saying that" this is directly in response to things that ive seen with my own two eyeballs. i never said there was anything wrong with needing/making money. youre getting defensive on behalf of people who do not know you based on words that i did not say and, in fact, had already reclarified that im not saying exactly what you said im saying in the tags.

as much as a i very much agree that matt's the DM and therefore, based on RAW, his call is the final one and can override any rule for any reason, it really irks me when people go on about how its their game and that we should be thankful for them sharing it with us, as if CR isnt a very successful IP thats acrued them an actual insane amount of monetary gain. we can have both that matt's the DM and if you truly dont like it, you shouldnt watch, and that critical role is hardly a grassroots project that doesnt owe anything to its audience.

#like the behaviour im talking abt has got nothing to do with the actual cast and crew #its all abt how the fandom parasocially latches onto them bc dnd style podcasts really lend themselves to that kind of relationship #you made quite a few leaps in logic there #i hope you revaluate

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as much as a i very much agree that matt's the DM and therefore, based on RAW, his call is the final one and can override any rule for any reason, it really irks me when people go on about how its their game and that we should be thankful for them sharing it with us, as if CR isnt a very successful IP thats acrued them an actual insane amount of monetary gain. we can have both that matt's the DM and if you truly dont like it, you shouldnt watch, and that critical role is hardly a grassroots project that doesnt owe anything to its audience.

#is this thing on? #critical role #cr #the fact of the matter is that if critical role wasnt making them a lot of money they would not be doing it #which isnt to devalue it or say that thats inherently wrong. #but its continued success is based on the fans engagement and willingness to part with money #and TIME. #if not money #TIME. #which ALSO isnt to say that they need to cater to every fans whims just bc they dont like where the story is going or how smth was handled #like my problem isnt that ppl are saying that you need to get a grip if youre flapping your gums about RAW and matts final decisions #my literal only issue is acting like critical role is somehow generously bestowing us with content as if theyre doing it out of the good of #their own hearts and they recieve absolutely no benefits from it. #its very parasocial.

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See if I can send a message to Keyleth. We're back. We're at the surface of the Malleus Key. Just trying to find a way to get back to you.

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One of my absolute favorite CR moments ever is still in ExU when Ashley and Aabria were trying to figure out why Fearne had disadvantage on stealth rolls and Robbie Daymond, playing his first ever game of D&D, looked at them in absolute disbelief and said "because you're a six foot tall goat lady?????"

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Behind the curve as always, but finished season one of Fantasy High recently. I don't usually like doing fanart, but am a huge fan of the Gorgug.

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Never gonna be free from them...

wip

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and they were best friends.

#critical role #cr #critical role art #cr art #cr fanart #cr2 #mighty nein #the mighty nein #cr m9 #cr mighty nein #shadowgast #caleb widogast #essek thelyss #caleb x essek #critical role essek #shadowhand essek #the gallery

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the fact that season one of the mighty nein animated series will likely end on mollymauk's death is already crushing me, and we don't even have a release date yet.

#critical role #cr #cr2 #mighty nein #taliesin jaffe #the mighty nein #mollymauk tealeaf #m9 #cr m9 #cr mighty nein #mighty nein animated #is this thing on?

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How come I've never posted it here?

It's old but I still really like it 😌