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just started on drawing requests, totally obsessed 🫡💖

Live doodle from campaign 3 ep 117 📋✨

Happy Harvest🍂

Oh shit oh shit OH SHIT

OH SHIT - C3E52 CONSPIRACY THEORY ALERT (SPOILERS AHOY)

YOU KNOW THE DRILL BY NOW

EVERYBODY ROCK YOUR BODY

LOREM IPSUM BLAH BLAH BLAH

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Remember back during Chetney’s trial with the Gorgynei, and Ashton managed to open up that wound in his chest, then Orym tried to reach him by showing him the carving of the wolf, and red smoke came out?

[C3E41] MATT: You see in the middle of the chest, around the sternum between the fur, a little bit of red smoke (puffs) begins to trickle out.

And afterward, the ‘corruption’ was purged from him?

[C3E41] MATT: You pull the dagger free, and you all watch as a splash of crimson comes emerging from it. But it just drifts there. It is a red, spectral mist that begins to drift and emanate out… As this light begins to swell and fill the space around you with a bright, blue, midnight light, the series of emotions fill your head once more, saying, “I eat of the scar of an unworthy predator, and leave my scar in its place. You are a hunter, and the wilds wait with you to be unleashed.” You watch, almost like drawing the venom from a wound, this red energy drifts out, and you watch as this cloud of red drifts there for a second, and for a moment, it almost resembles a familiar, ruddy moon before it dissipates.

And just as the Malleus Key was being activated…

[C3E51] MATT: In the invisible space where Imogen is standing, her outline begins to appear as red mist-like energy– Fearne, a faint bit of red mist begins to emanate from you.

So bear with me here…

If Chetney was able to keep his powers because of the Wildmother’s grace and Sahyaadon eating the ‘scar of an unworthy predator’…

DOES THIS MEAN IMOGEN AND FEARNE DON’T HAVE POWERS ANYMORE?!

(I take it back, Fearne might because of her fey nature, plus she took A level in rogue, but Imogen’s powers come from Ruidus… she doesn’t HAVE anything else!)

Dorian's Bardic Inspiration 🎶💙☁️

Dorian Storm will always have a hold on my heart as my favorite cr character, so I was was ecstatic to work on him for #spellsnstuff for @artists-guild-of-exandria

*and they were roommates*

I really hope the Fandom Does the shapeakoo dance

Episode 86

Matt, why are u scarying us

Happy Campaign Three y’all!!!!

“It doesn’t seem real.”

so laura bailey’s lean in was probably just her adjusting her chair but I like to imagine a world where it was a WILD acting choice, either way this episode killed me and I missed laudna so much, so I animated for the first time in a hot second. sorry it’s so short and not great looking but my god marisha and laura kill it every time with these characters and by it I mean me, help.

laudna and imogen temult as joseph paelinck’s orpheus and eurydice

forgive me for the orpheus and eurydice parallel with these two but I can’t help but see it. these recent episodes have destroyed not just my pussy (sorry) but also my heart and soul. I had to paint something angsty and moon-washed and sad, so here you go!!! complete with some close-ups on their faces. I love them, I miss laudna, I am very excited for the coming episodes.

if you want a digital commission or just wanna support my art then here’s the link to my ko-fi:

https://ko-fi.com/thislifewasneverours

laudna and imogen temult as egon schiele’s death and the maiden.

crossed over to critical role for my third old painting redraw!! this one is a bit more obscure than the kiss or the meeting on the turret stairs but I love it very much and think it quite suits imogen and laudna.

was googling the time warp dance from just dance 4 for reasons and omg

laudna and ashton I didn’t know you guys were on just dance!!!

marisha and liam really have THE RANGE. heart-breaking love story between keyleth and vax, beau and caleb as bffs who are uncomfortable with emotions, and now laudna and orym as... mother and son?

bitches be witches

critical role women sketches (click for higher quality)

Oh god I promised myself no bell’s hells meta until c3 ends but my brain is turning the “can she be trusted?” line over and over like chicken at the shawarma shop. because there are layers to that.

more under the cut because i let this run away from me:

so first off, there's the obvious: dorian initially seems to start to address the whole group, everyone who's left in the inn room, but turns and just locks eyes with orym when he asks. orym, who of everyone has the most reason to be biased against laudna right now. orym, who just got into a fight with laudna over the sword that killed both of them and orym's husband and father-in-law. that's who dorian thinks to ask, because he trusts orym not to let his judgment be clouded.

dorian first saw orym again after months of being separated, like, three days ago, and despite how much orym has visibly changed in those months, dorian doesn't hesitate to believe that orym will still be objective. he trusts that orym will be the one to look at this situation and tell him the truth.

because dorian has experience with orym telling him the truth. dorian knows firsthand how willing orym is to shuck his personal feelings in favour of what's true. dorian just saw what he could have become, had orym not stepped in to stop him taking the circlet of barbed vision. he owes the fact that he's alive and beholden to no gods to orym's willingness to be rational and objective in a situation involving a powerful magical item. by his own admission, "i wouldn't be here without you."

so of course dorian trusts him right now.

and there's something to the exclusion of the others, with that. dorian doesn't look to fearne and orym, although that would make sense because he's known the two of them the longest. he doesn't look to chetney, who's proven to be able to get a handle on this with the scream needle compromise. he doesn't look to ashton, who's been extremely levelheaded through this whole mess. he looks at orym, exclusively. he is asking orym, exclusively. not the group, although everyone decides to jump in to answer and then imogen comes through the window to complicate the matter. just orym.

dorian is the kind of person with a lot of potential for darkness in him. he hides it well because he's also deeply kind and friendly, but it's always been there. he's just been through something massively traumatic, and that was after the original circlet conflict back in exu prime. he had his alignment forcibly changed from good to neutral. but even after all he's gone though, orym's alignment is still good.

as much as orym doesn't want to be a leader and prefers to be a protector and follower, he does very well in situations where he takes on an amount of responsibility. when he's in some level of control over a situation, he takes to it naturally. he's a very good babysitter to his gaggle of weirdos. the "can she be trusted?" might have been an attempt on dorian's part to give orym a bit more control here. to reassure him that regardless of anyone else's feelings—regardless of how laudna's reaction might have affected him—orym deserves to be trusted, and he can make a decision that dorian will trust.

back in exu and all the way into early c3, dorian and orym slotted into a sort of parental position in their groups. watching over the crownkeepers' clothes when they went skinny dipping in exu. orym repeatedly steering everybody away from bad ideas. matt even described dorian leaving dariax in zephrah in 4sd as "dad just going out to get cigarettes." there's always been that underlying sense of "we are two of a pair" with dorian and orym. not to say that either of them don't see the others as adults, but they do have that rapport of being the babysitters in the gaggle of weirdos.

that kind of bond is just part of their dynamic. but especially in light of what's been happening while they were separated, and then what happened between them earlier that evening, "can she be trusted?" is a reminder of that bond. orym's been lonely, by his own admission, and one of the secrets he divulged at nana morri's was "i really miss dorian." he broke down crying during his last message through the sending stone, and then again on the bench not a few hours before this whole incident went down.

dorian came to comfort him. he flat-out said to orym's face "i'm here now." he reminded orym that he needs to rely on other people, that he can't always be the one saving everybody else. he gave orym the room to not be the strong one, and told him he has that room because dorian's there to support him. they can be two of a pair again.

he knows orym's been feeling like he can't do anything, like he had to resort to what he stopped dorian from doing with the circlet. and so dorian both gives him a choice to make, something to do, and shows him that he still trusts him unconditionally. "can she be trusted?" also means "i trust you" and "i'm here with you" and "this is how we've always been."

we know from liam in 4sd that orym has feelings for dorian that he's not sure are reciprocated. but even regardless of the romantic element here, dorian and orym have always had a partnership. they have always been two of a pair. the sequence of events leading to "can she be trusted?" is a perfect microcosm of he relationship between the two of them. it's just incredible.

Gruumsh: I AIN'T TOUCHING THAT SHIT YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN.

Vasselheim soldier casts divine intervention to The Ruiner, but gets scared off by Imogen

“Discuss with who” -soldier

“Certainly not you, why don’t you step aside” -Laudna

I've got the feeling the party will have a lot more sympathy for the Matron, she's clearly in for it more than just her own life. She's probably the only deity i would have stay on exandria if i could