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the growing urge to make House of Leaves my next read… i feel like the sims medieval ‘blinded by hubris’ debuff has been placed upon me

Hahahhahahhahahah there are fewer things funnier to happen to a character than getting your alignment forcibly taken away from you because some fuckers think you’re ‘cool’. Truly the NPC of all time imo, get Grinched, nerd

But also omg Verin!!! Aww baby!! Sweet sweet boy 🥹 currently rewatching the Bazzoxan leg of C2 and mannnn so close we could’ve been to seeing him…

Imagine growing up playing DnD and then DnD itself reaches out to you and asks if they can make your homebrew into an official campaign guide. Can’t even begin to think how crazy that would feel

Finally got my hands on a second-hand copy of this damn DnD book (module? Idfk).
Will I read this front to back? Probably. Are you supposed to? Not sure. I’ll take any and all peeks behind Matt’s stage curtains.

Okay so while having the same illustration artist as Yasha’s, Nott’s story has a different colour artist and I think that helped the artstyle a lot. This one had way more distinct and readable backgrounds and foreground focuses. I liked the style more for Nott The Brave.

«How would you like to get out of here, Nott the Brave?» uhuuuu these two🥹😩

Gods, yeah this story is as climactic as always - it lends itself so well to a cinematic narrative and visual storytelling. Good solid story beats.
Caleb’s book is artfully illustrated, very life-like, but still surprisingly modest to its content?
Expected to see more detailed gore/body horror and violence than it showed tbh

I have so very violent fantasies about the ways I’d like to crush that nasty old despicable man into gory pulps beyond recognition of human remains.
Oh, the ways I wanna use graviturgy to fuck up Trent Icky-thong……….
But alas, the evil bastard would want to go in a spectacle and I understand the power in relenting to give him what he wants… still… the hate burns… ooohhhh this nasty man

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHUUAHHHHH cat snuggles🥺😫😖
And then the magic… aching in the near gentle visual beauty of it, the way it flows… awful
So well crafted

WOW IS THIS EVEN MORE EXPLICIT THAN I EXPECTED !
like i knew there was gonna be fooling around but woah !! straight up !! fuckin’!!
yet not a single nipple in sight, all artfully covered up. wow
delightfully contrasting panels on this page though, wonderfully cinematic, reads like movie cuts

«Little Spark»… :(

Bren looks a little like Beast/the Prince in Disney’s Beauty and The Beast, esp in this last panel

Frumpkin chasing the cart AUHUUUAAGHHH😖😭😭

Anyways, ready to get my heart burnt to cinders 😇

Hm.
To begin, I was surprised to see that each book has different artists, I missed that detail! Interesting and even fitting art-style choice for Yasha’s aesthetic, though for me the story suffered a bit for it.
I found the art hard to read at times, especially in the beginning. Maybe just not my cuppa tea.
Shame, as Yasha’s story has much to explore.

They got her hair right though, which I appreciate.

Okay okay okay!
Jester Lavorre down!

They def lessened the lonely child and ‘imaginary? childhood friend’ aspect, but it looks gorgeous so I’ll take it.
Funny that the comic book has made the Traveller less imaginary, and the animated adaptation has made him more so.

Yasha next!!

WOW they made the Traveller fucking HOT
Crazy town!!

Go time, baby!!
Jessie!! Holy friggin’ character design dude, the costume design is so good

when i first commit to the bit, it’s long term

Holy fucking landscape art WOW
«Himmelsschloss» was beautiful.
and Little Sparrow so cute🥹

Die Waldhexe wow
The illustrations remind me a little of Theodor Kittelsen mixed with the other fairytale illustrations I’m used to - gorgeous and eerie, love it.
The blumendrei of it all though… :(
Maybe it’s been too long, or I never caught wherever it aired yet (still not past EXU), but I can’t recall this one told in C2 anywhere. Now I’m curious

Der Katzenprinz 🥹 just love how it nails the classic fairytale vibe, mystifying with a touch of the melancholy, yet remaining hopeful and bright.
Liam O’Brien is gonna make me fucking cry about cats again.

Sometime, 2006 or just about, a young Norwegian girl was reading the German classical illustrated fairytale of Hansel and Gretel before bed. This time, 20 years later, she is reading a similarly illustrated German-inspired fairytale book, in her much bigger bed.
They are both content.

That ‘white haired elf’ is a goddamn member of The Mighty Nein and you ought to respect him as such!!!
Aww, are you jealous?

I read the hidden message in the text, I saw, I am very perceptive, call me Sherlock, Benoit Blanc even.
I liked that - fits well with the ever present presence of the Somnovem within the Nonagon. Could’ve been more of it through the entire book actually, as it’s more subtle. Like there could’ve been entire convos between the Somnovem that you could literally read overlapped with the text

Fuck!! it’s happening!!!!!!
I’m stressed. !! Also dying to see names on a page. !!!!!!

It was all fun and games when it was just Caleb and Lu trying to out-bitch each other lmfao these cats, they are so funny

Caleb Widogast, the funny little man that you are. Put on a page like this he is so ‘old cranky wizard in tower’ coded, he cracks me up.

And Mollymauk!! my beloved😭😭 I’ve missed you, as colourful as ever

Chapter 31 just being a sentence with a footnote? I kinda fuck heavy with that

Just had a very immersive experience by contribution of my kindle (spoilers!):

As he is pulled back to life, and there is only a single word on each page, I must’ve accidentally double clicked somewhere and that shit went lighting fast, pulling me with it, barely giving the next word/page time to appear before the next came. Amazing how it felt like rushing to the surface, like: and the light pours-in.

«Transmute»
Transmutation really is a common theme among the mighty nein huh

Omggg here we go, this fuckin’ leitner ass book

oh buddy…

(Blah bla blah ignore me)
Okay, Mighty Nein spoilers ahead, but I’ve gotta ask:

How much of Lucien’s backstory was established before this was written? Like did this author alone come up with the family story or was it given to them from the intended campaign lore? I do wonder. Cause idk how I feel about the near parallels to a certain wizard’s backstory yknow? Is it intentional? Just… curious about that. Hm