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You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

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I get sent into Area X but I have a transformation fetish so I’m smiling and frolicking the whole expedition

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The dog.

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I made this animation a year ago but I'm still very happy with it so I'm gonna give it some new life! I'd love to remake this sometime, but that's gonna be a far away future project I think.

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I'm half hoping the Hells run into some devout kryn, because it'd be interesting to see them deal with the parallels with the predathos followers of "all the gods are shit except this thing" and the doomsday goal where they could destroy the planet like mercer pointed out. Not to mention their method of lite immortality and reincarnation into people's children running against Ludinus's deal.

talking about the luxon is hard because my thoughts on it are wreathed in layers of meta like nothin else.... let's just say first off we're definitely getting that pov, as the kryn have aeor encircled (as we know from both the c2 aeor arc/frida & deanna during the c3 molaesmyr arc), and the discovery of ashton would be.... heresy? ascension? to them.

i think the luxon, in all its parralels to predathos and its domain of space & time, is kind of.... the answer to all this? the kryn are incorrect in their belief that the luxon was discovered by them, but i dont think theyre wrong about it in other ways. frankly i, someone who people think is a god hater for my analysis of the pantheon's actions, trust it. it has been used & abused throughout history whilst not even fully formed. where the pantheon & betrayers have had entire lives to make choices the luxon is a fetus who has been able to make none. as we understand it, it came to exandria because it was lonely and hungry to learn, to experience, to feel. it allegedly started life on exandria as folk worry predathos will end it. i presently think predathos & the luxon are both ancient, cosmic entities of higher power than the exandrian gods; one has lived and been beaten like an animal. one has seen eons of mortal history through an egg sac lens.

i think the kryn they can be extreme in how they wish others to join their faith, and i dont know how much of that counts as (for lack of a very non christian word) evangelizing; though ill say notably they ask others and try to win faith through mighty feats, over bulldozing & building temples with brute strength as vasselheim does. and frankly, while both wish for their cosmic entity to be free, the kryn certainly arent on the vanguard's levels; they want to understand the luxon and nurture it til it's ready to Become. the vanguard wishes for predathos to Wake and will rend the universe apart to watch it Devour. i think it is worth noting how beaten xhorhas is by wynandir; the society headed by a man who wants predathos freed does not sympathize with the luxon but despises it for being seen as a person and abuses it himself. ludinus, i think, sees predathos as a caged beast he can use or at least watch burn his worst enemies, and the luxon as a younger kind of it to force into service. the kryn see the luxon as a person-to-be like them. and maybe thats the key. understanding that even this galactic entity should feel care & grief & love right beside mortals. as if it's their child, even if they're by all means a parent to every living thing. as if it's one of Us. i think the real question i have isnt necessarily about the kryn parralels to the vanguard now, but rather the parralels in how they treat predathos when they learn of it; will they see it as alive and as worthy of care as the luxon? as well as the parralels of what actions the luxon will take compared to predathos; because i think, as predathos rages, the luxon will choose love.

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After sunset, padded footsteps softly pace down every hall.

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Some Caleb x Essek fan shipping because I CANT HELP IT. I MISS CRITICAL ROLE. 

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something about stories with an island off to the north, a place cold & dead yet surviving like a corpse filled with maggots, like fungi in a flood, littered with the bones of dead societies & whales, near inhospitable and yet it feels more like home more than anywhere you've known.

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Just another flower, crushed.

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She read Orym's mind. That's how she knew. (requested by anonymous)

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Otohan was such a great character.

Honestly, I'm kind of bummed that we're not going to get more of her because I would've loved to have delved more deeply into who she was. Maybe in a future book installment.

One thing that I think Matt did so well with Otohan was instilling so much fear within his players towards her. I've never really seen the group become as fearful when facing down one enemy as they did with Otohan. There's definitely been enemies that they've been really nervous going up against, but a lot of the times they were still confident in their stance to stay and fight. But with Otohan there was a moment (for both of their encounters with her) where nerves got the better of them and they ended up trying to flee.

That's not to say that fleeing wasn't a valid choice in those moments. It definitely was. But it was just intriguing to watch the fear creep into all of them the longer the fight went on and how much they genuinely seemed nervous to face her. Hell, even as an audience member I was so scared whenever she made an appearance! Literally every single time she was mentioned to be in the same area I always was like, "Fuuuck!" and would instantly get nervous. I can't think of the last time an enemy has made me that worried for the party just by announcing their presence. It was wild how powerful and terrifying she was but it made her such an enthralling character because of it. She felt like the Dark Souls boss of the campagin and has become one of my favorite villains we've encountered to date.

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Laura Bailey

The Elder Scrolls Online-Laura Bailey as Isobel Veloise

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I never asked to be... like this

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Re: the fan propensity for twink!Essek, there could be literally anything under that mantle, we don’t know 😂

together we can mass hallucinate essek has a stretch-marked love-handled belly with a slight but stark white happy trail under that cloak

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smiley ghoul

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Lord Asriel and Stelmaria / Marisa Coulter and Ozymandias / Lyra and Pantalaimon 

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"will it be excused because it's cute when a man they see as a twink does it" Love the implication you do not see Essek as a twink

i mean i certainly do not see him as the 14 yr old the vast majority of folk draw him as yes

i accept he is probably "twinkish" as caleb says he cant grow facial hair or at least is smooth faced, and he is youthful compared to other elves, but he is still a whole Man. i like that his official art by hannah friederichs gives him slightly broader features especially shoulder-wise when some tend to draw him scarily waifish.

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Critical Role Via TikTok: “The Crown Keepers are back Thursday next week as @/Robbie Daymond and @/Aabria Iyengar prep behind the scenes of #criticalrole!🎲✨”