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elahogn · 1 year

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The Mighty Nein, it’s time to see them again!

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liann · 1 year

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Ok I’m sure their designs are already done but hear me out

#liann's art #critical role #critical role fanart #mighty nein #caduceus clay #essek thelyss #I will cry when they show up #that is a threat and a promise

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bloopitynoot · 8 months

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3 Shadowgast fics that made me ugly cry

Okay so I read a LOT of shadowgast fanfics and I wanted to share some of the ones that made me absolutely weep. (I was going to wait until tomorrow but I got too excited to share).

All of these have some intense emotional distress, but I promise you all they may be angsty but they absolutely have happy endings.

They are all set in very different AU's, are hefty completed fics, and have similar feels!

1. the breathe before the phrase

(171513 words) by @kmackatie Chapters: 20/20 Rating: Explicit Summary: The ringing note of a concert A is played by the oboe, echoing on its own in the space. It’s picked up by the wind section, followed rapidly by the brass, and the familiar feeling of an orchestra calibrating takes over Caleb. The tonal adjustments as each person brings their instrument into alignment sinks into him and something inside Caleb shifts in recognition as Essek leads the strings into their own tuning. It’s like something is waking up, like something unfurling and firing across long-unused paths of memory. His hands shake slightly, as he raises his bow and joins them, fingers fumbling against the pegs and fine tuners that give him control over his instrument. ---- Essek Thelyss is a leading violinist, his spot as Shadowhand of the Rosohna Philharmonic Orchestra has been uncontested for over a decade. Caleb Widogast is a recent arrival to the city, convinced by his friends to audition for one of the vacant violinist positions. After starting off on the wrong foot, Caleb and Essek get to slowly know each other, discover what brings them joy, create while defying expectations, and find out that what they can produce together may just be better than anything they can do separately.

Why I cried: The amount of pressure put on Essek made my heart absolutely shatter. That plus the pinning between Caleb and Essek had me weeping. The hurt/comfort energy. The bad parent Dierta and of course past Caleb Ickythong trauma healing. Other than the story itself Katie has put so much energy into explaining the music, the playlist is stunning, and the inspiration for the played pieces in the fic are grounded in actual compositions. No spoilers, but the ending is gorgeous <3

2.Till Human Voices Wake us

(66080 words) by @ariadne-mouse Chapters: 23/23 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Additional Tags: Merman!Caleb, no Mighty Nein but otherwise canon setting/events, Neutral evil Essek, Essek-typical anxiety and fatalism, Loneliness, Hurt/Comfort, spooky gothic vibes, some horror and disturbing imagery, the ocean as a threat/love language, Illustrations, drowning themes Summary: Essek Thelyss, lonely and ambitious prodigy, comes to Nicodranas to make a risky gamble with the Assembly. At the water’s edge, he finds himself swept up in another dangerous entanglement he can't seem to escape — and as time goes on, he's less and less sure he wants to. Will his treasonous alliance or the sea itself devour him first? (Or, the one where Caleb is a merman.)

Why I cried: okay so look, this story was so fucking sad I can't even begin to describe it. The love and longing between the two, the tragic backstory for Caleb. Treason = death for Essek (it's a happy ending though so do not worry, but I definitely worried so you don't have to LOL). It also has some stunning art in it!!!

3. what luminous worlds await

what luminous worlds await (178674 words) by @essektheylyss Rating: Mature Additional Tags: Champion of the Luxon AU, Alternate Universe - Future, Space Opera, Religious Conflict, religious trauma, Violence, Minor Character Death, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Dreams vs. Reality, Demisexual Essek Thelyss, Past Character Death, Grief/Mourning, Angst, Fictional Religion & Theology, Implied/Referenced Sex, Mention of Using Sex as Self-Harm, several immortals grapple with loss while trying to save the world, so so many liberties taken with consecution, this wouldn't be a problem if you'd EXPLAIN matthew mercer, and/or if a certain drow would give literally any straight answers, (I mean he can't give straight answers when he's not straight), Background Fjorester (Past), Post-Canon, …very post-canon Summary: “You seek my nature. It is a lonely endeavor. Would you like to join me on this path?” “Yes.” — After a thousand years, a divine champion awakes in a lightless cave above Port Damali with little memory to speak of and a beacon in his hands. Even as he struggles to piece the past together and process what he has lost while he slept, the future demands he answer for the crimes of his elders. It offers little in return, but perhaps there are fragments of possibility awaiting him.

Why I cried: Omg oh boy, this one made me BIG cry- honestly one of my favourite fics I have read so far. A true space opera, a story of love, in many forms, over time, space, and multiple lives. I sobbed from chapter one literally until the end. Though I think you will need an A03 account to read this one, but it is worth the wait to set one up. My partner watched me cry so much while I read this. I totally did download and save this fic to send to pals so they can cry with me. It is worth the agony for this happy ending. I might still be crying LOL

#for the shadowgast shippers #shadowgast #shadowgast recs #caleb widogast #essek thelyss #cr m9 #mighty nein #critical role #honestly some of them I sobbed while explaining the premise to my partner because I have a lot of feelings #these are all worth the length

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stardustedknuckles · 1 year

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Even more than the eventual show, what this means is the promise of more Mighty Nein in general. Between now and the M9 show will be a trail of treats. Glimpses of art, of sound. Voice actors called in for beloved NPCs. More oneshots in their timeline. Merch.

It's not just that we're getting a show that's probably three years from premiering. We're getting little morsels all along the way.

#Extra content to get thru the horrors you know #The Mighty Nein #Critical role

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chi-arts · 1 year

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art has been going real slow these last couple weeks but I promise I’m working on stuff!

anyways, happy valentine’s day everyone, have a wip of my favorite OT3 from the Mighty Nein :D

#shadowidomauk #wip #molly is the one who needs the most work still #but I AM getting somewhere with this piece yay #critical role #I'm also drawing akutagawa for the bsd folks so you can look forward to that too :D

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rockislandadultreads · 11 months

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New Title Tuesday: Graphic Novels

Land of the Dead by Brian McDonald

There is wisdom in the land of the dead, for it is the place that all stories lay to rest. And what is a story, if not a simulation of survival?

Wielding his massive experience from film, tv, comics, and more, Brian McDonald lays out a history of storytelling and shows the reader how the best tales tug at our truest biological the need to survive. Readers will see how different forms of survival―physical, emotional, spiritual―inform the arc of character development in a way that makes them more complex and compelling. And how plot and circumstance must then force your protagonist to meet their worst nightmare. Toby Cypress’s electric art guides the reader through the underworld, visualizing each narrative masterpiece, and bringing the ideas to life.

Whether you’re in film, books, comics, or simply a story enthusiast, this book offers a way to see character development and the crafting of plot through the lens of human questions of morality and mortality.

Critical Role, The Mighty Nein Origins: Nott the Brave by Sam Maggs

When you become that which you fear most, how do you carry on?

Veth Brenatto doesn't have an exciting life, but she likes it that way. Unlike her childhood, it's safe. Predictable. And her husband and son love her almost as fiercely as she loves them. But Veth's cozy existence is turned on its head when she and her family are captured by raiders. In order to save them, Veth will commit an atrocity that will sever her from all that she loves--maybe forever--and lead her to become Nott the Brave of the Mighty Nein.

This is the fifth volume in the “Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins” series.

Last on His Feet by Adrian Matejka

On the morning of July 4, 1910, thousands of boxing fans stormed a newly built stadium in Reno, Nevada, to witness an epic showdown. Jack Johnson, the world’s first Black heavyweight champion—and most infamous athlete in the world because of his race—was paired against Jim Jeffries, a former heavyweight champion then heralded as the “great white hope.” It was the height of the Jim Crow era, and spectators were eager for Jeffries to restore the racial hierarchy that Johnson had pummeled with his quick fists.

Transporting readers directly into the ring, artist Youssef Daoudi and poet Adrian Matejka intersperse dramatic boxing action with vivid flashbacks to reveal how Johnson, the self-educated son of formerly enslaved parents, reached the pinnacle of sport—all while facing down a racist justice system. Through a combination of breathtaking illustrations and striking verse, Last on His Feet honors a contentious civil rights figure who has for more than a century been denied his proper due.

Superman: Space Age by Mark Russell

Meet Clark Kent, a young reporter who just learned that the world will soon come to an end (Crisis on Infinite Earths) and there is nothing he can do to save it. Sounds like a job for his alter ego…Superman! After years of standing idle, the young man from Krypton defies the wishes of his fathers to come out to the world as the first superhero of the Space Age. As each decade passes and each new danger emerges, he wonders if this is the one that will kill him and everyone he loves. Superman realizes that even good intentions are not without their backlash as the world around him transforms into a place as determined to destroy itself as he is to save it.

Uniting the critically acclaimed writer Mark Russell (One-Star Squadron and The Flintstones) and Eisner-winner Mike Allred (Silver Surfer and Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams) for the first time, this series promises fans an unforgettable journey through U.S. history and culture starring our beloved characters.

This is the first volume in the “Superman: Space Age” series.

#Graphic Novels #new books #new library books #new books to read #Book Recommendations #book recs #Reading Recs #reading recommendations #TBR pile #tbr #tbrpile #to read #Want To Read #Booklr #book tumblr #book blog #library blog

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sadmages · 1 year

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as someone who's watched the entirety of mighty nein I love seeing you being obsessed them so early in the campaign like... you don't even know what's coming! the best and worst times are still ahead of you!! I'm so excited to see you get to certain events ans see you go insane over them lol!! (also can't wait for you to potentially make more mighty nein art!) I'm sorry if I sound like a weirdo I'm excited to see you get into a thing I love hah

IM ONLY 18 EPISODES IN AND I CARE FOR THEM SO MUCH IT'S ROTTED MY BRAIN.....I'm so excited and sooo terrified to see what happens next I can almost promise I will be making more art soon <33 ALSO dont be sorry i understand soooo completely

#reply #i love these assholes #i love getting into media 4 years too late

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too-many-sabers · 1 year

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masterpost!

hey y'all! i'm mars & i use ne/nem/nir, they/them/theirs, and he/him/his pronouns, and i write fanfic, a lot. i’m too_many_sabers on ao3 too, but here’s the link anyway: my ao3

i will be taking oneshot requests, but not just yet because i'm still getting set up, and i make zero promises about how long it's going to take me to get to them

masterpost key:

fluff: 💕

angst: 💔

hurt/comfort: ❤️‍🩹

slow burn: 💘

fix-it: 🩹

smut (not that i'll use it that much): ❤️‍🔥

request: 💫

star wars oc: ⚔️

dnd oc: 🏹

other oc: 🔮

ongoing multi-part fics:

The Dancer from Downtown: star wars modern au/dance studio au, centered on an oc and characters from the bad batch & the clone wars; endgame is crosshair x oc 💘

Let's Go Save Cody: star wars au in which cody gets retrieved from the empire; endgame codywan, of course 💔🩹

Dancing Alone: critical role modern au/dance studio au, centered mainly on caleb widogast & his previous relationship with astrid and eodwulf as well as his current relationship with the mighty nein; endgame is blumendrei, among others (lowkey abandoned, but i want to write more for it again) 💔💘

oneshots (canon characters):

Critical Thinking: Droidpoppers & Order 66: star wars au in which the entire 332nd doesn't die, thanks 🩹

Obi-Wan and the Art Of Self Care: little snapshot from during the clone wars where everyone's actually at the temple & they get to relax; heavily implied codywan 💕

oneshots (original characters):

Everything Stays Right Where You Left It: pasi's near-death experience 💔❤️‍🩹⚔️

Blood All Over The Ground: delara & tozen have to run from some imperials 💔❤️‍🩹⚔️

Bring Them All Back Down to Their Knees: delara is helping crosshair in his sniper's nest, shit happens 💔❤️‍🩹⚔️

When I'm Alone & Blue As Can Be: delara & crosshair discover their yearning is requited; crosshair x oc 💕⚔️

Like Constellations a Million Years Away: crosshair takes delara on a date, nicknames happen; crosshair x oc 💕⚔️

oc menagerie:

Clira Mannen 🏹

#mars speaks #masterpost #mars's writing #mars's ocs

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revvethasmythh · 1 year

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Regarding Zeenoth, it gets worse.

We know that in the Mighty Nein art book, Beau sends her letters and notes to the Soul, and it's Zeenoth that receives them and is essentially pruning them and doing some redactments and "revisions", no doubt out of spite towards her for actually achieving things in spite of everything.

Also, through undisclosed methods that the Soul would find "uncomfortable", he had retrieved missing pages from Beau's journal from where she had written about the time Caleb shared his story with her. And she had written Trent's name in them. And clearly she wanted to dispose of those pages because she promised to keep those secrets.

And yet, Zeenoth recovered them. Why? Was he intending to eventually use them as a bargaining chip to get Beau to comply with whatever he wanted? We don't know, and we may never find out as he is already in prison.

Still... I wonder what would have happened had she learned of this fact... because that is just one more bullet point in how corrupt he was.

I absolutely meant to reply to this earlier, so sorry about that!

But yeah, ngl I'd forgotten that the art book has his annotations in it, despite having read through it all back in the day. I'm sure I'd made this connection at some point, but it was lost to winds of time, so thanks for reminding me. Zeenoth sure was a piece of shit in the end, wan't he?

#asks #tiamat-zx #answered

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casukaga · 3 years

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forget everything that happened in ep 127 for a moment, let’s just think about beauyasha being cute and making each other daisy chains.

beau didn’t know how to make them at first, yasha taught her how, and now they’re just having fun.

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sketchmre · 2 years

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a portrait from may 2021. honestly.. might either redesign yasha or reuse the lightning veins for imogen

#old art #my art #critical role #cr #cr2 #critical role 2 #the mighty nein #mighty nein #yasha #yasha nydoorin #crit role #cr fanart #cr art #god.. old portraits. pain #learn to use a lighter background color damn #promise i draw better a year later

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kixslle · 3 years

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i am deeply sorry to admit this is my first time drawing vax

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mockingmolly · 3 years

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*bursts in with 3mo old sketches, drops them, and promptly jumps back out thru the closed window

#critical role #beauregard lionett #jester lavorre #mollymauk tealeaf #the mighty nein #my art 2020 #me @ myself: what are even DOING #trying to pass these off as valid contributions to the fandom when u literally haven’t drawn cr stuff in months #for SHAME #😔#I wanna come back u guys #i promise #i just got nothin left #my brain has wholeheartedly been on keg/Reani over the last week or so if that makes anyone feel better #the idea of them makes me Quite Happy sfhgjd

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astralwhat · 4 years

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[ID: photos of the cover and an interior page of the Critical Role Chronicles of Exandria art book, and then the artwork featured on the photographed page, which shows Nott leading four horses through a grassy field at night. End ID]

i have been so excited to get this book in my hands and! it’s finally here! it is big and beautiful and i can’t wait to settle down and admire it page-by-page.

thanks again to everyone at Critical Role for putting this together, and for telling stories that inspire such an incredible community of artists.

#critical role #mighty nein #the chronicles of exandria #ALSO SORRY for #making things confusing w different Art Names and changing usernames #it's me i promise #and i am also confused

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malaismere · 5 years

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first sketch/storyboard of a mighty nein animatic i’ve been working on! super unfinished and it’s probably gonna stay like that but i’m really fucking proud

#critical role #cr spoilers #CriticalRoleFanArt #mighty nein #look i have been slowly forcing myself to work on this idea for like a month #and the character art update is what i needed to make that push #(which is why i just threw it all in at the end instead of the character growth scenes that were meant to go there)#(whatever its not like this is even pretending to be finished)#actually digital sketching will happen....eventually? hopefully?#yeah no promises

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josefir · 5 years

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gal pals on the beach

#beaujester #beauregard #jester lavorre #mighty nein #critical role fanart #critical role #fanart #my art #digital art #i think ive officially switched over from sai to clip paint studio bc ive figured out brush settings that i like #which is exciting!!! theres so much things u can do on cps!!! t e x t #ivee been messing aroud with a comic that was supposed to be light fun and no plot and now im 50 pages in and its a thing #i might post some oc sketches at some point idk idk i feel weird posting things again #how does the internet work again ah a h aha ;_;#im probably just gonna stick to posting fanart for a while until im used to uploading my stuff again #im open to requests but like requests #not commissions #i wont promise anything but itd be cool to know what kinda stuff yall are interested in seeing?#i say here in the tags yikes idk i dont think a lot of people read these #but if u do and have any opinions please do tell! :)

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