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jensencart · 23 days
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Tales of Exandria: Artagan issue 4 [Dark Horse]
I didn't even notice when this issue finally came to print and I would be allowed to share this with you all! There are few things I like more than drawing characters known for their pride and bearing in embarrassing situations. So when I was told that the man of the hour Artagan would be making a less than graceful entrance into the fourth issue, I knew I had to immortalize it.
Edit: I was wrong, it's not actually getting published until this July, the issue went up on the website and I mistook it for being published and available, woops.
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utilitycaster · 9 months
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It's weird to me that people are like ORYM'S GOING DARK like sorry but while mechanically I don't think he's necessarily going to become a paladin this is like... righteous strength of conviction, not murderhobo. It's not like, dark to go after a death cult or someone who tried to assassinate you.
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measuringtheabyss · 1 year
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Caleb: So anyway, dear, I became a blue dragon and I incorporated my arcane focus into my eyebrow like a piercing because I thought it would be clever. Also I had Mirror Image up so I looked like four separate dragons and nothing could really hit me because I kept using Shield, which I could do, obviously, because of Shapechange. And then I cast Gravity Fissure (you know, that spell you taught me) on a demigod and…
Essek: *already missing several layers of clothing and continuing to remove clothes* Go on. Tell me more, Caleb Widogast.
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critterpages · 6 months
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Let chaos reign!
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“The series will see Artagan in court as he explains his influence on the land of Exandria.”
“Fans interested in what's next for the NPC can see for themselves in Critical Role: Tales of Exandria II - Artagan, on sale January 3, 2024.”
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hyperrbolic-orange · 14 days
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If I had a nickle for everytime in the last year we got a movie that was a loose retelling of Frankenstein with a woman at the centre of the story, heavily featuring themes of personal automony, defiance of conventional norms and female sexuality, I'd have two nickles. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.
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winekita · 1 year
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Rip to the animators who have to do Molly and eventually Caduceus
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ludinusdaleth · 3 months
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The Tales of Exandria II: Artagan covers!
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nateofgreat · 1 year
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Dave Filoni can honestly be so petty in the ways he tries to get Ahsoka to one-up all the other characters in Star Wars. Just to make sure his original OC’s still the best.
Rey: I can hold a slow moving ship back with the Force!
Dave Filoni: Oh yeah? Well I’ll just have Ahsoka hold back a fast moving ship, piloted by a Sith Lord, while surrounded by hostile Clone troopers! Take that Rey!
Fans: Aww Grogu’s so cute and it’s cool he can use the force so well!
Dave Filoni: Oh yeah? Well here’s baby Ahsoka and the story of how she tamed a ferocious predator as a toddler! See? She’s still the best! Take that baby Yoda!
Luke Skywalker: I’m the son of Anakin Skywalker.
Dave Filoni: Oh yeah? Well Ahsoka’s the padawan of Anakin Skywalker and actually has this really important backstory with him that Vader’s never mentioned! Take that Skywalker!
Anakin Skywalker: I’m the Chosen One!
Dave Filoni: Oh yeah? Well Ahsoka’s chosen by the goddess of the light side herself and is now Gandalf the White! Take that Chosen One!
The Jedi: *All die in Order 66.*
Dave Filoni: Oh yeah? Well Ahsoka survives thanks to some never aforementioned training that makes her smarter, faster, more skilled, and therefore better than all the other Jedi! Take that Order 66!
Everyone: *Dies eventually*
Dave Filoni: Oh yeah? Well Ahsoka’s going to survive all the ages of SW without physically aging past 30! Just so she can stay young and pretty for all canon! Take that Father Time!
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redberryterf · 9 hours
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"prostitution is where you sell sex without reproduction, and surrogacy is where you sell reproduction without sex, and in both cases, the woman being sold does not get to enjoy either sex or reproduction."
- kajsa ekis-ekman
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antianakin · 1 year
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Unpopular opinion: I think Ahsoka is at her best and most interesting in the first two seasons of TCW and has only gotten progressively less nuanced as the years have gone by.
Ahsoka in TCW intentionally has flaws. They're pointed out more than once, there's ENTIRE EPISODES dedicated to Ahsoka having to fix her mistakes or being punished for disobeying orders or having to learn how to be better after she messes up and hurts people. Ahsoka has to keep learning lessons from Tera Sinube, and Aayla, and Luminara, and Padme, and Yoda.
But by the time you hit around season 4, Ahsoka starts being PERFECT. She is suddenly FLAWLESS as far as the narrative seems to see it. Even if she's doing the wrong thing, you're supposed to recognize that she is doing it for the right reasons. She's constantly level-headed, wise, and often treated as though she's practically an adult Jedi by the other Jedi around her despite having been young to be a Padawan at all and with only 2 years of training tops. It's no wonder so many people were so ready to believe that the Jedi were ready to Knight her at the end of the Wrong Jedi arc, Ahsoka's being written as though she's suddenly 25 years old with a decade of training, similar to how we see Obi-Wan acting in TPM instead of the barely trained child she should still be.
And then you hit Rebels and she's literally making entrances BATHED IN LIGHT LIKE AN ANGEL, incapable of being beaten by anyone except Darth Vader himself, she's got lightsabers of PURE WHITE LIGHT, and the other two Jedi characters treat her like a Master. And then she dies, walks off into the shadows, and comes back swathed in white robes and with a white staff, haloed in light like a wise shaman of some kind.
At least Din manages to push back against her choices in The Mandalorian, it's probably the first time we've seen Ahsoka have an opinion that someone else disagreed with and that the narrative explicitly treats as WRONG, forcing her to reconsider and make a different decision.
But by The Book of Boba Fett, she's schooling Din now, back to being the wise shaman who knows everything and can do no wrong.
In Tales of the Jedi, Ahsoka is practically perfection incarnate: more skilled than any other Jedi, more compassionate and connected to the galaxy than anyone else, someone who tamed and rode on the back of an apex predator before she could walk.
I want Ahsoka to have FLAWS again, I want the narrative to let her be WRONG and reap the consequences of that, I want to see Ahsoka LEARN SOMETHING again, I want to see her GROW as a character for the first time in over a decade.
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marvelousbelladonna · 3 months
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Just got the first issue of the Artagan comic, and I love the little cameos from campaign 1 and 2 moments
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rainystressed247 · 4 days
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Flower boy 🫣
P.S. have I ever altered the way you view the tales character? because if yes, the spreading of Cornelius supremacy is working 😈
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caliburn-the-sword · 8 months
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The School for Good and Evil (Somain Chainani) to Ever After High to Descendants to The Land of Stories (Chris Colfer) to Once Upon a Time pipeline is REAL and needs to be talked about more
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lexxieannie · 25 days
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@ggyweek2024 day 3 - found family, change
i feel like greg would rlly struggle with guilt over all that’s gone down, but don’t worry. his friends don’t hold a grudge :,)
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decided to redraw the fnaf the silver eyes panels as gregory and the gang!!! they mean so much to me
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utilitycaster · 7 months
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I've talked before about how the metaphor of Imogen's powers as queerness or neurodivergence fails miserably in trying to understand her time in Gelvaan due to the implications it bears; but a place where it does work is in understanding her relationship to Liliana.
It's a bit difficult because Liliana left when Imogen was so young, and so they lack a strong parental bond, but it reminds me of some parents who grew up without their neurodivergence or mental illness being diagnosed, or who suppressed their sexuality or gender expression due to the time in which they grew up and are then confronted with a child with that diagnosis or with that information and improved acceptance. Her response, rather than to nurture Imogen and perhaps even learn from the way things have changed is to stick to the "right" way to deal with her own issues and insist her child to do the same despite their wishes - with fantasy Qanon thrown into the mix.
It's not a perfect one-to-one in real life, obviously; there are plenty of parents who, when confronted with their child's autism or genderfluidity say "oh, huh, this explains a lot of things about myself" and learn from it and explore what they thought was "wrong" about them and often find new joy in adulthood from it. But there are many Lilianas as well; the people who say "well in my day you just needed to work harder and stop getting so easily distracted", and who punish and who push their own coping mechanisms they understandably developed for themselves but which are not healthy for their children, in a slightly more informed and understanding world, to adopt. Liliana is representative of this deeply sympathetic but also immensely conservative and harmful mindset.
I think what tempers my sympathy for Liliana is that she was not there for Imogen at any point, and is now pushing this without even attempting to listen to Imogen's repeated requests for answers or assistance. Had she been present, and had she been guiding Imogen through her powers when they appeared, then this would be a much more heartbreaking scenario, of Liliana genuinely trying to help but being stuck in her ways after so many years (and perhaps even terrified to try something else, given how hard it was to get to a place of numbness rather than outright pain). As is, however, her story is tragic, but my heartbreak is entirely reserved for Imogen. To continue the metaphor, Liliana left the people trying to understand and mitigate and even fight stigma, and fell in with the liars promising a cure, and in the process not just abandoned her child without even the flawed resources she'd had, but indeed worked with people who sought to destroy them.
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essektheylyss · 24 days
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I'm glad we have a firm answer about how Artagan's affected by the Malleus Key's effects but I now need to know how the Luxon's handling it more than ever. What's the Dynasty up to. Vasselheim is religiously governed but like, by rotating appointment, and their gods can talk to them. Meanwhile there's a beacon in the key itself and the Dynasty's a theocratic monarchy. How's the divine right of kings holding up these days, Leylas.
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