Raven Queen’s Secretary

Mostly here to talk about silly DnD shows. Any Pronouns. 22

[isuara-ez]

*inhales* Thank you Aabria and Aimee for giving us our first look at Latino coded culture in Exandria by using Laredo, a formerly Mexican, Texan town where most of the population are brown indigenous/Spanish chicanos, as the main inspiration for Byroden, the town where Vex and Vax’s mother is from, as well as where they were raised, therefore making Vex and Vax the Exandrian equivalent of mixed race Latinos *exhales*

[spacefjords]

Detect Evil and Good

LOVE my non-regular-humanoid guys, and also had a lot of fun messing with the limited palette for this! especially painting tyranny was SOOOO FUN, im gonna draw her a bunch more for SURE! these three i think are my top three fave characters atm (though i definitely have many others i ALSO love) <3

[therosecleric]

💀"Why are you big?" 🌿"I don't…I don't know!"

needlemancy hugged for the first time i needed to draw them!!

[drawsmaddy]

[ID: A digital sketch of Occtis Tachonis and Thimble from Critical Role. Thimble is human sized. Occtis is resting his head on Thimble's shoulder, leaning into her, and Thimble is resting her head against Occtis'. They both look sad and tired. End description.]

A kofi doodle for @blueboxesandcats!

[drawsmaddy]

[ID: A digital illustration of Thimble and Occtis Tachonis from Critical Role. Thimble is the size of a human and grinning as she hugs Occtis, lifting him slightly off the ground so his feet dangle just above the floor. Occtis is hugging Thimble back and looking very surprised to be in the air. End description.]

Big Thimble!! Strong Thimble!!

[isuara-ez]

There’s a scene in the Dalen’s closet wedding oneshot where Percy and Vex argue over whether Keyleth will be the best man or the maid of honor, because Vex had assumed Tary would be Percy’s best man, but they settle on it making more sense for him to be the maid of honor, this tracks in the campaign as Keyleth is definitely Percy’s closest friend, and Tary and Vex become very close during and after the arc he’s introduced.

I have realized in TLOVM, if any version of this wedding oneshot is adapted whether literally a single scene in the finale, or a special released down the line, this really wouldn’t track. Percy and Keyleth’s friendship is, in my opinion, the biggest failure of adaptation in TLOVM, and Vex and Tary don’t really have much either, for these versions of the characters it really would make sense for Percy’s best man to be Tary, and Vex’s maid of honor to be Keyleth, as they did do an actually really good job of adapting those relationships to the show, yet not the ones that were more ‘important’ in the campaign itself.

This is due to a decision that, although leading to the loss of one of my favorite dynamics with Percy and Keyleth’s friendship, is a decision I don’t think I wouldn’t made differently either: Prioritizing Vex and Keyleth’s relationship.

TLOVM has ~ 22 minute episodes, sometimes a long one runs closer to 27 minutes, but always less than half an hour, with 12 episodes a season, that’s less than 5 hours a season with a LOT of plot to get through each season, Matt threw a lot out there in each arc! You really can’t get to everything, and outside of the romances which had to happen for the ending to like… work, you have to figure out what’s the most important parts of the story so you can fit it all and hope that it has a similar impact as the original story, everything needs to be cut altogether, cut down (Id argue Keyleth and Percy’s friendship fits here as they do get *some* stuff), or reworked.

Knowing Keyleth and Vax’s scenes and relationship are essential, the second most essential relationship in Keyleth’s life TO the themes and emotional core of the story, is her relationship with Vex, despite the fact that she was closer to Percy, you weirdly lose less cutting the Keyleth/Percy scenes than you do cutting the Keyleth/Vex scenes. And it works the other way for Percy too, in the campaign Percy was closer to Keyleth than anyone until he and Vex got together, but the story necessitated prioritizing his scenes with Vax over his scenes with Keyleth.

It was just an unfortunate casualty of the format and pacing of The Legend of Vox Machina as a show.

[isuara-ez]

Not really no

[yudol-skorbi]

soldiers gonna soldier

[askmeaboutmyoctopustheory]

ye olde terrible children

[lethallana]

jessie doodles no brain pressure alternative anatomy

[altereiii]

valentines doodle from like february lmao

[thehobbitwithstickyuppyhair]

her soul and mine / they're one and the same

[prismantis]

vaxleth patreon sketch 🍂

[gorgynei]

how long before you have to go?

[revvethasmythh]

wait SCREAMING marisha independently invented imodna marriage and laura didn't KNOW???

[revvethasmythh]

not to be like, this is a reminder of the specific type of problems this relationship had during the campaign BUT LIKE

[laurbailey]

CRITICAL ROLE: CAMPAIGN 4 Episode 24: Good Tidings

[isuara-ez]

I think you all need to come to terms with the fact that the animated bells hells show won’t even be a campaign 3 adaptation really, it going to be Critical Role: Endgame

TLOVM has made this somewhat clear to me