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essek: caleb did you fight a demigod. caleb answer me did you fight the fucking ocean.

caleb, tenderly cradling his face: you’re so hot.

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I hope you guys aren’t tired of wizard hugs yet bc it’s all I wanna draw lately

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Caleb casts Widogast’s Vault of Memories.

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[ID: A digitally illustrated gif of Orym from Critical Role. Orym stands with his hands resting on the hilt of his sword. His eyes are closed and his expression is peaceful. As the gif plays text appears reading "Breathe in" and the numbers 1 2 3 and 4 appear, one each second, and then the text changes to "Hold" and the numbers count up again, then the text changes to "Breathe out" and the numbers repeat, then the text changes back to "Hold" and the numbers repeat, then the gif loops. With the breathe in and out counting, simple swirls grow and shrink beside Orym, in time with the numbers. End description.]

Had a bit of a day so I thought I'd make a little Orym themed gif to breathe along to

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i am resuscitating a year-old shadowgast comic wip and felt like posting some faces I redrew last night

it's a very happy comic, as you can tell. only the best things for my favorite characters

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i am resuscitating a year-old shadowgast comic wip and felt like posting some faces I redrew last night

it's a very happy comic, as you can tell. only the best things for my favorite characters

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In Ashton’s defence, I forgot the name too. But I loved how excited they were about their successful bribe! Pity his other attempt went so poorly. 😂

[ID: a fanart comic of Ashton from Critical Role campaign three, episode four.

Panel one: Ashton, with a frenzied smile, shouts "GAH! YES! HA! I DID IT!" There are flame effects in the background for extra intensity.

Panel two: Fearne asks "Did what?", and Ashton replies "Bribery!" They look very proud of themselves. Imogen and Laudna stand next to Fearne.

Panel three: Orym asks "How much?" He looks sceptical.

Panel four: Hands on his hips, Ashton says "I paid… twenty gold!" Fearne, Imogen and Laudna collectively say "Wow! Woah! Wow!" There are gold sparkly clouds behind them all.

Panel five: Laudna asks "Did you do the cool push?" Ashton replies "I did the cool push!" Ashton is gesturing with excitement.

Panel six: Fresh Cut Grass cheerful asks "So, what info did you get?"

Panel seven: Ashton, who has forgotten the info, says "Aw fuck- Hang on." End ID]

#cr spoilers #cr campaign 3 #cr c3e4 #cr ashton #critical role #campaign 3

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Pros to having the wildemount gays all live together: 

Gardening buddies

Empire sibs collectively dying from queer exposure

wlw mlm solidarity

xhorhass gays get to welcome empire sibs home after a long workday and honestly, i think we all need this

collective couch snuggles probably.

THERE ARE LIKE TEN CATS AND DOGS COMBINED HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE THIS CONSEPT I’M-

Cons:

There are none.

Everything is as it should be. UwU<3

#hi i love them so much #and your art is like a warm cup of tea and the end of a long day #your style is like fresh whipped cream on a strawberry cheescake #posts from you make me feel like the first breeze of fall after a hot summer #i love it #critical role fanart #shadowgast #beauyasha #essek thelyss #yasha nydoorin #caleb widogast #beauregard lionett

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in which i project my small person gardening experiences onto Essek bc i want to lol

Honestly gardener essek is the best thing to happen on this show. Heck yeah healthy ways of processing trauma.

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Thinking about the Jester/Essek friendship when Jester gets pregnant, because Essek has absolutely zero experience with babies or pregnant people but he’s really fascinated and kind of enamored with the concept. There’s a tiny new soul? Inside his friend’s body? And sometimes you can feel it kicking??? Jester lets him feel her belly whenever the baby kicks when he’s around and he’s just spellbound by it.

He also fully cries when the baby is born and he gets to hold the little turquoise nugget.

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Y’know, I find it really moving how Matt and Travis gave genuine dignity to Bertrand’s death.

It’s an odd thing to say about Bertrand Bell, a throwaway joke character with more bravado than braincells who ended up getting unceremoniously shanked in an alleyway. But I felt that the joke suddenly stopped in a way that reminded everyone - actually, he’s a person, he’s dying, and that’s important.

There’s the way Bertrand stopped being a joke at the moment he drew his rapier. Travis could have chosen to play it for laughs, to have Bertrand try to run and get cut down. One last useless screw-up. But instead Bertrand holds his ground, draws his sword. I think that’s close enough. I have you at a disadvantage. Having bravadoed his way through seventy-plus years, he’s not going to stop now. It’s useless, because he’s old and he’s drunk and he’s been through one fight already today, but he chooses not to run or to go quietly. He makes his stand, because… well, for the same reason he went to find the Windowed Wall in the first place. Sometimes you just have to hold up your head.

And that was the moment when I remembered - yes, this man was an eighteenth-level fighter once. Whatever he might have pretended to do, he really did go through Pandemonium to retrieve Grog’s soul, he really did battle a corrupted Empyrean, he really did fight a horde of bugbears single-handed to get Percy’s arm. Bertrand lived a life, and it wasn’t the life he pretended it was, but he did things, and he could have done more.

Except he couldn’t, because Travis always planned for him to die here, before he could be the hero he pretended to be. Idk, to me that sudden realisation of the fact that he could never have fought with this party, gained back all those fighter levels, bragged about things he’d actually done… that suddenly felt like a goddamn tragedy.

There’s the narrative framing of it, with Matt bookending the scene with Imogen’s dream. At the moment Bertrand dies, Imogen’s dream turns cataclysmic. Like her powers sensed the death of the man who only a few hours ago was making ridiculous attempts at subterfuge with her. Like the universe responded to that loss. And the last thing that a member of the party sees of Bertrand Bell isn’t him drunkenly stumbling into the night, it’s him walking, dignified, into the storm.

And that final ‘Lieve’tel’? Yes, it’s Travis being a troll, twisting the knife and making Liam’s day, but it’s also a reminder: there were people who mattered to Bertrand. Whatever shape his and Lieve’tel’s relationship took after Pandemonium, she meant so much to him that her name was on his lips as he died. He was a person, he had a life, he had at least one person he cared for deeply. And he died, and that matters.

Tl;dr: Matt and Travis played Bertrand’s death in a way that acknowledged that, out of universe, he was always totally disposable… and that in-universe, he was never disposable at all.

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@witchy-and-dorky TY SM FOR THE CUTE PROMPTS!! 

Sheepleb is Helping! Get you a man who will try to EAT the source of your discomfort.

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I loved this scene a little too much… and decided it needed its own rendition. 

Welcome to Being An Adopted NPC, Essek. Good luck getting out of this one.

12 Persuation, huh. 

#im sorry but this is the hottest essek has ever been #critical role #essek thelyss #the mighty nein #shadowgast #caleb widowgast #caleb widogast

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Quick doodle of Orym of the Air Ashari, destroyer of doors, flasher of abs

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anyhow, you should read amongst the things left unforgiven

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it's our week :)