essektheylyss
essektheylyss
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megs. luxon stan first and wizard second. this is an earth sign supremacy zone. Days since our last reported wizard hubris incident: 0.
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essektheylyss · 5 minutes ago
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Some kind of Jester sketch while listening to Critical Role 
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essektheylyss · 35 minutes ago
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can you believe. we might have a teaser trailer in less than twenty-four hours.
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essektheylyss · 1 hour ago
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A caleb warm up
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essektheylyss · 3 hours ago
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”I have this artistic idea but not the skills to achieve it to the standard I want.”
congrats! Now you have a motif! A recurring theme! A focus for your art! Something to haunt you!
Seventeen still lives of dandelions? Three hundred poems about grief? A sketchbook dedicated to your grandmother’s house? Two books trying to unravel the complexities of familial relationships?
Don’t let the fear of it not being perfect on the first try stop you from being Weird About It!
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essektheylyss · 4 hours ago
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stop being silly in front of me
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essektheylyss · 6 hours ago
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i had to sketch him real quick before bed or it would have been a no sleep kind of scenario for me
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essektheylyss · 7 hours ago
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Cosmos is adorable!! Would love to see more puppy photos if you have them!
Thanks! She's such a sweetheart.
Very important puppy activities:
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essektheylyss · 12 hours ago
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Hey so if esseks involved enough in s1 that they're releasing promo images of him that theres a lot of essek right? which means they're spending a lot of screentime on the beacon plot right? which means we're going to see other npcs involved in that storyline early too right? right? please. please ill do anything.
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essektheylyss · 21 hours ago
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i dreamt of a house with too many rooms, which sounds lyrical and all except most of them were just full of different kinds of couch
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essektheylyss · 23 hours ago
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boss you don't understand. this is a category five fandom event
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essektheylyss · 23 hours ago
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When people will do a really bizarre reading of some media and then accuse the author of writing it that way.
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essektheylyss · 1 day ago
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Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner's roadblock to art isn't even technical skill it's frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach's capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That's how you build on the technical skill. Throw that "won't even start because I'm afraid it won't be perfect" shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck.
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essektheylyss · 1 day ago
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Shadowgast Study Session
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essektheylyss · 1 day ago
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i think a really funny project that a statistics professor could have their class do is like. put a bunch of random, patently untrue demographic statements into a hat. "the most popular tv show among white men ages 24-27 is Bluey." "the majority of business majors are middle children." "bisexual women love hot chips." and each student picks one out of the hat and you gotta like. design a whole study and survey a group of people to specifically achieve that result. you have to prove it true. by whatever means necessary. you have to construct the most biased study possible and wrangle in your exact demographic to make that statement a statistical reality. i think people would learn a lot.
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essektheylyss · 1 day ago
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On an entirely different note I have NOT gotten around to sending out initial zine responses yet (if you're still interested please submit before July 31st!) because I have gotten utterly derailed by such activities as "finding new healthcare providers" and "getting back to some networking contacts that I ghosted while moving" and "getting a puppy" but I shall endeavor to get them out this week! I'll post an update in the #FjoreverToJester tag when I've sent them, so if you're wondering if you need to follow up because you haven't heard from me, keep an eye out there!
And in the meantime please have this baroque ass photo of Cosmos who almost derailed me from finishing this post about four times:
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essektheylyss · 1 day ago
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OK, but I love that Essek might be appearing in the Mighty Nein series before he meets the Nein! It's not just me wanting More Essek (though I do) or wanting to see more of what was going on with his dealings with the Assembly (which I also do). I think this could be super fucking interesting from a narrative construction standpoint.
Because I cannot see how you can include Essek from early in the series and not make it clear to the audience that he's the Dynasty traitor loooong before the Nein find out. Essek having stolen the beacons will not be a surprise. It looks to me like the cast are swapping out surprise for a fuckton of suspense. (Suspense vs surprise was explained to me when I was studying narrative structure as 'surprise is when a bomb goes off that the audience didn't know was there. Suspense is when they see the bomb being placed and have to sit there begging the characters to realise it's there.' In this analogy, Essek is the bomb.)
When we watched C2, the question was is Essek the traitor? In the M9 show, the question for new watchers will be when will the Nein realise that Essek is the traitor? When Essek meets the Nein, the countdown starts ticking; people will know that he is a danger. He is manipulating them. He is going to hurt them. Will the Nein realise before it's too late? But then Essek starts really befriending them, showing more of his loneliness and vulnerability, and... I think the mood will shift. Oh, shit, he really cares about them, doesn't he? What will the Nein do if they find out? Do I even want them to find out? What if they reject him and it makes him worse? He can't keep this up much longer, this is unbearable, they're going to find out - OH FUCK THEY'RE FINDING OUT -
It's such a fascinating choice and I think it goes to show that adaptation is an art form in itself! The actual events in the world will be the same, or at least very similar, but a new format means you can show those events in a totally new way and create a completely different tone! Narrative structure is the fucking coolest! I'm so excited for this show!
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essektheylyss · 1 day ago
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