all witches are selfish

fanart/fandom/general nerd blog. follows from @bansheewhale.

[littlebosslady7]

Thaisha Lloy Lore drop from @quiddie on her instastory.

[redjennies]

like Murray couldn't have been more clear in her talk with Azune after the sewer fight that her protectiveness over Demodus has everything to do with that Demodus took a job through the school and ended up almost dying because of it. she wants the Penteveral to be a safe place for young arcanists like Demodus to learn magic, and within a day of the Sundered Houses' power grab, they exploited a financial aid student and framed him for theft, which directly led to him almost bleeding out in the sewers. making sure things like that don't happen is something Murray considers directly under her responsibility. this lines up with the fact that while she's less fond of him for being a rich boy, Murray also sprang into action to find Occtis when it became clear he was in danger from his father and literally performed a miracle to resurrect him. may I remind y'all, while it wasn't as explicitly about that, she also immediately stepped in when Azune suggested Occtis go in Demodus' place.

you can boohoo as much as you want about Azune but he's a grown ass man who isn't one of her active students. she's still pretty sympathetic to him, but he's a peer in her eyes because it's a whole ass different situation.

[redjennies]

I know some of y'all zone out and go into selective hearing mode when a woman is talking, but if you pay attention to her personality and values, Murray has actually been remarkably consistent in the way she treats all three of these men. she puts in a sort of gruff tough love approach with all of them and is, unsurprisingly, the most protective of the financial aid student directly under what she considers her responsibility. any other interpretation is just woobie googles rotting your brain.

[redjennies]

it feels like there's a direct line from the question that kicked off the Shapers War being "why can't I keep my family safe?" and the reveal that Sylandri directly controlled which elves were allowed to have children. between "we were the only people that knew we were doing it without a reward. the land that was promised to us after death was the same as life, just more suffering. endless wasteland, choked by ash and fire." and "an eternity, to have all of your complexity, all of your possibility, all of your dreams folded into an idyllic paradise where you would be punished for the most minor infraction?" no wonder the orcs were the first to kill their god and the elves were the last. whether it was a certainty or not at the time of the Shapers' War, the elves had to know there was at least a chance this rebellion would end in a slow extinction event for their people, and I'm inclined to believe this might be in part the reason they named their god-slaying weapon The Last Arrow. therefore, Vaelus and those who fought for Sylandri were likely asking themselves the same question that motivated the Lloys to build the Pariah Blades.

it's also interesting in the difference between the elves of the Old Path and the practitioners of other races. if the ability to have children was decided to only be granted to the most faithful then elves like Hannan and his wife were foregoing the possibility of ever passing on their traditions to their biological children as the other races of the Old Path could. of course, biological family isn't the only type of family, but it does mean the elven druids had to put themselves in more danger in order to find others who shared their beliefs. there were no generations of secret worship. they had to intentionally seek each other out just to learn about the Path, let alone find community with each other, and if they were discovered, if they confided in the wrong person, they were persecuted the most harshly by their goddess of life and nature.

in the blessing of Azgra, the orcish druid Agari Shadow blesses him most of all for "his honesty, because of all the gods of Aramán, ours was the only one who never lied about what he truly was." Sylandri is initially set up to be seen as the kindest of the Shapers, the Green Mother who allowed her people to live in an eternal paradise even after death, and slowly, that portrayal has been peeled back as we learn more about Vaelus and Hannan to something just as malicious as Azgra. for all his cruelty—and make no mistake, he was cruel and the orcs suffered greatly under him—Azgra did not leave a blight on Kahad as he died, as far as we know. his Barrowdell is deemed the only positive Barrowdell in Aramán. in her final moments, Sylandri was so spiteful thst she damned her people, both those who were faithful to her and those who weren't, to genocide rather than see them flourish without her.

[cureofthenonesense]

My request this pride month is everyone's favorite resident barbarian lesbian, Yasha

Be strong Beau!

FIRST PRIDE REQUEST KNOCKED OUT! I started drawing and for some reason I have artists block.. but I got this out🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ I hope this also suffices for the person who asked for beauyasha for Valentine’s Day and I never saw the inbox 😔

[gvalesdraws]

picture "raimond davinos' genes never stood a chance"

[yudol-skorbi]

[falconscry]

once again feeling like chewing drywall about murray calling demodus a kid when he’s just a few years younger than azune. something about the running theme of who gets the privilege of youthful innocence and who is forced to grow up fast.

[klimtsonian]

pick a card 🃏🌛✨

[cometcrystal]

rachel coded text posts from pinch rest

[gros-chat-fait]

The Gala Incident - The Three Parties*

*(minus the Magpies)

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Rounded out the sketches I did while figuring out King Gus' design for the last drawing.

[danikatze]

Like I mentioned below the Jester and Yarnball drawing, some more Moorbounder reunion drawings :))

[samirasystole]

ahhh so you're shown to be capable of recognising that people's trauma can make them act irrationally and unpleasantly! you recognised it in the white man! can you also recognise it in the brown woman? no? she's mean and bitchy and uncaring? i see

[leo-nid-as]

everyone hold my hand and think about caleb’s relationship to patriotism and nationalism ok?

[bravelittlescrib]

We NEED Drow tradhusbands. House Patron from down the street making TikTok videos about how torturing underlings is a woman’s job and men need to stay in the kitchen where they belong

[lakevida]

starts talking about my emotional state with 2 degrees of abstraction instead of 7 and the sniper across the street who i pay to keep me in line fires a warning shot thru my little hoop earring

[115x8]

wait can someone explain what this means to me I really want to know

[lakevida]

if i am candid about how i feel i will die like john f kennedy

[ruvigapo]

That's what happened right????

(Based on that one post somewhat)

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[liarsblade]

Happiness. Right here. For the first time ever.

8x10. All dialogue is from the Mighty Nein Origins: Nott The Brave comic.

Kind of an experimental piece for me. Using comic panels in a collage is something I've wanted to do for a while, but this is my first time actually taking a crack at it. I'll probably use different printer paper in the future, just in the interest of making things easier on myself (this stuff is crazyyy thin and it tears more readily than I'd like it to) but I'm still really happy with how it turned out!