extremely enamored with the image of ludinus in aeor trying to figure out where the fuck all of the ancient technology he was relying on disappeared to, followed by a smash cut to essek in a cozy demiplane, wrapped in a handmade sweater and casually labeling all the artifacts from his third aeorian honeymoon with caleb

Happy 420 blaze it to Fresh Cut Grass

Who made it 420 days

And then Blazed It

Do I miss him? Yes, I do. 💚

It's SO funny that Travis made Bertrand to die in The Search for Grog, Matt legitimately tried very hard to kill him but failed through no fault of his own, Travis brought him back for Campaign 3, he and Matt designed to on-rails kill him and did so successfully... and now he's back as the example character for Daggerheart character creation. Sir Bertrand Bell is forever.

I was explaining to my friend who's only seen c3 that the abyssal rifts from c2 were created by a guy who was ludinus' assistant and she immediately hit me with, "jesus, ludinus da'elth is the fucking ronald regan of exandria" and I'm never going to recover from that

Legit though I love that Bell's Hells made their own Orb of Otohan Detection. Otohan all like "i can sense you on the moon and I'm coming for you" meanwhile she hasn't noticed the ring they jammed up her jetpack tailpipe. get tracked idiot

so cute so cute so cute

for about a minute after receiving the Sendings from Imogen, Keyleth wonders if magical communication has returned worldwide, or if the Hells alone found a way to bypass the interference

she gets an answer when Vilya taps her on the shoulder and informs her, tiredly, that they have just been invited to a destination wedding on Rumblecusp

It’s about this time, another voice pushes into your head, like a bat out of hell. 

*banging pots and pans*

Come get your Jester

god that last post really reignited the corner of my brain dedicated to Lovin Fearne hours.

Fearne is the Most Sincere Liar you will ever meet. Yes she is lying to you but she does mean it. Also she loves you <3 and that's why she's taking your wallet <3

My fav thing about Shadowgast that I don’t see people talk about nearly enough is how yes, narratively, they’re foils, parallels, cut from the same cloth, truly poetic storytelling... But aesthetically they’re opposites attract in the funniest possible way.

Cause on one hand we have the epitome of elegance. Essek-fancypants-Thelyss. So graceful even walking is beneath him. He’s beauty he’s grace, he’ll lie to your face. He floats. He brings fine wine to your dinner party and has only the most well-manicured feet.

And on the other hand we have Caleb-“bush man”-Widogast. Stinky, dirty, sanatorium-escapee who hasn’t bathed in months. To him, rain=shower and warm bread=gloves. Sometimes he has conversations with skeleton heads cause he’s so normal. He definitely smells like wet cat.

Aesthetically, they are Eve x Wall-E. They are the Lady and the Tramp. They are fancy man x trashman. What’s Essek gonna say when he sees Caleb eat bread off of his hands like he’s eating chicken off a drumstick? Idk but it’s my favorite thing to think about.

Visual aid:

Malevolent Finale BINGO!!

I felt like making a progress video of this drawing (which I've posted here), but I've not had success actually filming colour pencil drawings, so I just scanned it a couple times and then did a fancy transition effect using the CSP time-lapse function hehe

[Video description: a process video of a colour pencil drawing of Jester and Fjord from Critical Role. It starts with a grey pencil sketch and ends with the fully coloured drawing. The two are lying in bed, undressed, but covered by yellow sheets. Jester is lounging in Fjord's arms with her own arm hooked around his neck. The two stare lovingly at each other - Jester with a little mischief in her eyes. /End video description]

Another episode 62 gem, the topic of volstrucker comes up and Caleb says he had been in training to be one, but that he failed - that he broke - and Jester replies "you'll always be an assassin to me :) "

Bonus table reaction highlights:

ACTUALLY Laerryn's actions in episode 2 are not at all condemnable because they're the high fantasy equivalent of like. You've finished your super cool piece of code and it's actually passed all its unit tests this time, but when you try to run your first integration tests then it all works perfectly except it slows your system to a crawl. So you (a non-habitual Windows user) grudgingly open up task manager and see that some unrelated system file with all numbers in the name and a file extension you don't recognise is taking up a huge amount of your CPU and memory. You Google it and get no clear documentation, and so you check Stack Exchange and there's like 2 answers saying "don't uninstall this" with no good explanation. So you're like "well how bad can it be" and you kill the process, and your code starts running perfectly! You tell your friends about it! It's great! Then you find an ancient forum post that's like "hey don't do this it will brick your computer, here's why" and you find out the file you stopped running was actually a crucial, load-bearing component of your antivirus software

Anyway, the moral of Calamity is that you should be running your flying cities on Linux. What was I saying

big fan of essek thelyss, not the fanon interpretation, which is either "smol bean, tiny fragile elf who's a sweetheart and basically a child" or people mistakenly calling betrayal of one's home country a "war crime" and then proceeding to be flippant about it anyway, but the real Essek

pretentious motherfucker that committed treason bc he though he was smarter than everyone else

learned to float literally just to impress other rich people

canonically neutral evil

basically head spymaster of his country and master of lies but sucks shit lying to his friends

stayed bitchy even after his redemption arc

"there is nothing I would love more than to not be around you all for the remainder of this day"

a space wizard that crushed someone with telekenesis just to show off (the person was already dying)

sexy feet, nice ass, overall hottie

fell in love with a traumatized wizard of his enemy country and it was mutual despite all the betrayal

faggot

gave away state secrets to enemy wizard bc he though he was sexy

discovered time travel with his boyfriend

proceeded to say they shouldn't use time travel (bc now he's a good boy) but was willing to sacrifice everything and help if his bf wanted to use it

once confessed he had such a bad fight with his dad that his dad ran into the demon caves and never returned (essek doesn't feel bad about this at all)

young for an elf but still 120 years old, he called his bf "young man" and flexed on him about how much more evil he is