Carly RAE JEPSEN

+bonus:

"you say it doesn't care about us? what makes you think apathy is any better than disdain? to a god eater?" normal meet-the-parents convo

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

almost merged this with the sketch layer

also a baby

I wonder if during his Aeorian excursions Ludinus has ever been wildmagicked into a potted plant

opal’s back, baby. and her twin. and the goddess who is also in there with them.

i love the crownkeepers babey and a sketch is all i can manage with time rn

noooo girlieeeee

[ID: A digital page of doodles of Orym, Dorian Storm, and Opal from Critical Role. In the top left corner Orym is crying while speaking into his sending stone, saying "I'm - struggling. Sorry. Can you get here? Fuck, I miss you." To the right is Orym facing to the left with his eyes closed, looking distressed. In the top right corner is Opal with Lolth's circlet on her head and her eyes completely black, facing three quarters to the left. Below that drawing of Opal is a similar one but she is facing fully forward. In the bottom left corner are three drawings of Dorian. The largest is the only coloured drawing on the page, Dorian is smiling and an arrow is pointing to him is labelled "on his way to be gay with Orym if Opal doesn't kill him first". The two smaller drawings of Dorian show him facing with to the left with a neutral expression and him playing a note "doot" on his flute as he faces three quarters to the right but looks to the left. End description.]

Episode 92 doodles of Orym, Dorian, and Opal: Sad Times, Doot, Oh No!

can I just say, I'm still deeply haunted by the fact that the vanguard at the malleus key laid out around their perimeter symbols of worship that were trophies from the fallen. they were put there as "a warning, and a sign of pride." can i just bring that up again because that was so, so haunting

#its not like putting skulls on stakes or something#they specifically chose to use the symbols of what people were fighting for#what their purpose was#their morals#their beliefs#who they probably tried to reach out to in their final moments#it feels like such a mockery of their victims @tin-cant

exactly. it's making a mockery of their deaths, laughing at their faith and how it couldn't save them. it's genuinely stomach-turning

Wyll has the hardest entrance in bg3 and no one can argue with that. They had him entering the field like a smash bros character, like:

Me and my girl don't argue. I just kill myself to force her ascension to divinity and then walk it off. Like a man.

I'm listening to fantasy high. All these player characters are really charming, I can't really pick a favorite. Love the adopted orc, the delusional private investigator goblin, the neglected elf girl and the punk girl tiefling. Not good at names

They got the first genuine laugh out of me

"Can I get a perception check to see if this dude actually rules? Cause right now I think he rules. I rolled a 9"

"this dude fucking rules"

WHAT WAS THAT EPISODE 2 ENDING BRENNAN WHAT THE

THIS IS A THING YOU GUYS HAVE A GRAPHIC FOR??

Me, remembering that Opal’s birthname was Georgina —

Thinking about Liliana's little speech about how the Temples and governments will "hunt us down."

She means "us" as anyone who is Ruidusborn. And she's probably not wrong that there will be extremist groups/orders/cells that will do exactly that. Government attempts to collect and/or cull Ruidusborn. That the already existing stigma of a cursed birth will now be taken as a truth.

But she's kind of missing that the why of it all is that her group, the Ruby Vanguard, are the reason it would escalate to that level. Thousands of years since Predathos was sealed and started making Ruidusborn, and it's never been an issue on that level because any potential attempts to reach the moon and release the God-Eater weren't organized or empowered enough to actually be a global problem, much less get there and prove a real threat. Ruidusborn were just people with an unlucky birth, possibly strange powers, until the Ruby Vanguard started broadcasting their plans to kill the gods specifically by messing with Ruidus with the help of Ruidusborns.

It won't be fair to all the Ruidusborn who are actually trying to be regular people and not a God-Eater's tool. It won't be fair to Ruidusborn like Imogen who are actually fighting against Predathos. And it wouldn't be a problem if the Ruby Vanguard hadn't made them out as a viable world-class threat.

Liliana says they'll be hunted because the world knows. She doesn't mention that the world knows because of the Ruby Vanguard which she works for.

Which comes to the real truth of "us." "Us" is the Ruby Vanguard, and they have created a reason to be hunted by the world in all the people they've killed and the chaos and destruction they've caused in the name of their goal. It's not good, but when you're willing to kill, you shouldn't be surprised when that mentality is turned towards you.

If the Ruby Vanguard fails, the world remains strong enough to tear them down in the aftermath. Not only that, but the world is motivated to do so by the damage done to it and the fear of what would have happened if the Vanguard won.

And if the Vanguard does win, all of the clerics and paladins are depowered. Some of the greatest healers and devout warriors in the world, unable to draw out their full might. How much of the world is crippled and left defenseless without divine magics? And the Vanguard has a Ruidian army they're allied with and bringing down to Exandria. Who can resist them? They will be the hunters then.