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Translation: sorry for not answering, had very important conversation with moss

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i’d really love to figure out. this

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Once again you focus back on this object and the warmth is comforting.

You look up again at the stars; they've stopped passing by. They're held in place. And for the first time in a long time, you feel at peace.

That's the end of your dream.

- c2e13 "found & lost"

ko-fi

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Caleb using his lucky stone, his transmuter's stone, to hammer in the marker on Molly's grave, when in 113 episodes, he will use that same stone to initiate a resurrection ritual to try and bring their friend back

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People who act aggressive and negative as fuck and then when you’re like “hey can you stop” they’re like “I’m going through some stuff 🥺🥺🥺” like damn dude that’s crazy me too - for example right now I’m going through YOUR behavior.

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I'm now WAY more curious about the echoes of Exandria tour tbh; without any Exandrian main campaign that opens it up to really any possibility. Obviously they may play with the existing three main campaign parties but I'm wondering if we'll see more darrington brigade or even new characters!

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this is never going to be not delightful to me, this entire bit was so funny

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Wow new campaign, fjorester wedding, mighty nein tv show… October/november looking GOOD

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He's never going to have time to make those shoes for American Girl dolls 😔

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I wonder how Evoroa is doing. Is she thriving? I hope she’s thriving. Man i need to finish my Evoroa and Gona fic

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. 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

🕯 prayer circle for 🕯

🕯 Third Person to do🕯

🕯 candela obscura 🕯

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I’m SO excited for the Mighty Nein animation and had some time this week to draw new Essek design while I was on the plane! He’s soooo cute I cannot wait to see him animated 🥺

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wha t if oregon trail was called wagon age: oregons

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Translation: It’s not a war crime if you were having fun/not having fun anymore

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You know, Veth often advocates for acts of retributive justice and she's a strong believer in vengeance as a concept. This comes up a few times during the campaign, and I think it's one of the most interesting things about her and she has a line in Episode 20 on this topic that is genuinely perhaps the most fascinating thing she says in the whole campaign (which I don't say lightly). It's a conversation between her and Caleb about his past, which she only just learned about two episodes ago. She assumes outright that what Caleb must want is to go get revenge on Trent for what was done to him, and says that of course they can go do that before dealing with any of her issues, then hits him with this: "The thing is, your story that you poured out to me and Beau, the other day-- it was very sad, and I'm so sorry that you had to go through it, but I have to say, in a way, I'm a little bit jealous. [...] All I'm saying is, I feel like you can get revenge. You can maybe even get redemption for what you've done, and you can become a better person. You can do good to counteract the bad that you've done in your past, and maybe someday there will be an end to your suffering." (Emphasis by me). That connection here between "I'm a little bit jealous," "I feel like you can get revenge," and "maybe someday there will be an end to your suffering" is not lost on me. At this time in the campaign, the idea of getting turned back into a halfling is something relegated so far into the future she can barely see it (and we know Sam was more than willing for it to never happen at all). Just one episode earlier, she was asked to give some backstory about herself and lied out her ass so she didn't have to cop to what had happened to her. She wasn't ready to trust anyone with it or ask explicitly for the help to get turned back. As far as she is concerned in the moment, there may never be an end to her suffering in this form. So she's jealous of Caleb, because he can get revenge and someday maybe his suffering will end.

On the topic of vengeance itself, I think it makes a lot of sense that Veth would be vengeful because she is impotent to achieve it in her own life. What is she going to do, go home to Felderwin and get vengeance on her brothers for what they all did to her? The town for how it treated her? No, she can't do that. She never gets to come face-to-face with the goblins that kidnapped her family, had her killed, then enslaved her during the campaign or after. As utterly fantastic as the blueberry cupcake moment is, she didn't even get to kill Isharnai, the hag who actually, physically held her under until she drowned. Veth has never gotten to achieve personal vengeance, or even really had the opportunity to face the concept of it as it pertains to the injustices perpetrated against her in her life. Like, she is, for sure, a highly reactive individual who jumps to wanton killing often just based on her extreme personality, but there is some real meat to the fact that she can get so fixated on revenge. I think she really wants it for herself, and she can't imagine that other people wouldn't also want it for themselves. She has never gotten it, so she always suggests it. She's jealous of Caleb because he can get revenge on one, simple target that will represent his trauma (even if it's not actually that simple for him), and that's something she can't do. And she never gets to even try. I'd be all hornt up over the concept of violent revenge if I was her, too.

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9th floor of the tower