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an essek for @fuindar-valen !

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generative AI literally makes me feel like a boomer. people start talking about how it can be good to help you brainstorm ideas and i’m like oh you’re letting a computer do the hard work and thinking for you???

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fuck it *peanuts your faves*

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The eldritch horror of having to actively leave one place to go to the next place.

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I don't actually have the Chronicles of Exandria: The Mighty Nein II book to check it, but these here might have ended up in the book! 😃 Some people might recognize these fanarts from back in the day, but I actually did revise them a little when I was contacted for the book :> I hope people liked them! <3

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Me trying to arrange a D&D session

the group chat when i ask whos available to hang out next week

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The Weave Mind : "You may sit down and watch as we work, or we can finish this charade and send you on your way."

Veth, dramatically : "There's no chairs in here ! So I guess we have only one choice..." *cocks her crossbow*

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throwing a snarky (flirty) remark

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Are you normal or did Matthew Mercer tell you to your face that Essek Thelyss grew his hair out because he felt like he could finally settle down for a normal life and also because his boyfriend looks hot with long hair so why not him too.

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It doesn’t happen like that. You don’t just wake up one day and find that everything has worked itself out. You must get out of bed, morning after morning, and make a conscious effort to control the circumstances of that given day. You must learn to handle your issues with grace because you respect what they are attempting to teach you. You must drown your insecurities slowly, one self-realization at a time. You must allow yourself to feel the fear bubbling just beneath your skin but you must never allow it the satisfaction of crippling you; grit your teeth and march on. You see, they never tell you how hard these things will be. This fight to reclaim yourself is not easy or straightforward but, my god, is it necessary. 

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drew an imogen pin-up caus my brain isn't cooperating

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caleb being kind of in love with and attracted to so many people in c2 will always get me....... the man who pretends his will to live is hanging on by a thread, still with so much love (and occasionally lust) inside his heart

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thought about caleb and jester playing strip card games yesterday. what is more them?? possibly nothing. this is go fish and jester is definitely not cheating.

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i need mr matthew mercer to explain why essek appears to have such massive beef with astrid, but until he does i will headcanon crack scenarios only

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modern au volstrucker and it's not mazes but the circuit board lines carved into their arms

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No Mercy Percy

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Essek approaching Vox Machina, heroes of legend. They don't know who he is. Even if they did know he was Essek and not Seth, they still wouldn't know why he needs to know that the Nein are safe. They don't know they're his family, that one of them is his partner. I'm fond of them, is all he can say.

He introduces them to his brother. His sweet baby brother, the only member of his blood family he truly loves. Verin, who's going off into hell (just like their father did) - but maybe, if these heroes know him, they might help him, they might protect him. Verin is far from the Beacons here; he has no second chance if he goes down.

Essek who once said, 'I haven't cared about anyone for the century I've been alive.' Essek, now aching with love, so much that he'll grasp at anything that could reassure him that his family are safe. Essek, having to let them all go: friends, brother, Caleb.

It was so much easier, back when he didn't care.

(He still wouldn't change a thing.)