Batman & Robin #20 - "The Gotham Cycle" (2025)

I finally found it again!!! This one really is a gem.

Matthew Mercer lip-syncs Build Me Up Buttercup

The one and only Scanlan Shorthalt

Tips to finishing creative writings

Have one main piece and several smaller ones The story you are most eager to write and has some form of a developed plot should be your main story, but don’t limit yourself to only that piece. That’s when you abandon it. Instead, tell yourself, “I have a good idea for another story. Let me write 500-1000 words of it.” This allows you to put what’s in your mind on paper. You can also get a feel for it and see if it is really something you think you could write an entire story for. When you finish your main story, come back to it and make that your new main if you still want to write it.

Use your desire to write another story to finish the one you’re working on Continuing with the point from above, if you are still extremely excited about your small work, use that enthusiasm to fuel your current story. Tell yourself, “I need to finish X story before I can write Y story.” You will write so much more and so much faster than you ever planned. You can also be proud that you finished something you originally planned to abandon.

Love your characters This may seem obvious, but writing is hard if you don’t even know or like your characters. Draw your characters together. Give them funky clothes or send them abroad. Even make an AU of your story in your head. If you can’t draw, find an avatar creator and give your characters a tangible image. The more you love your characters and give them personalities, the more eager you will be to write about those characters.

Take a break Be kind to yourself. You’re only human. If life is stressful and writing is more of a chore than it is fun, take a break. When you have more free time and are excited to write again, sit down, grab a pen, and find yourself happily immersed in a world you haven’t visited in a while. Good luck with your stories and be kind to yourself <3

I could spend the next couple of years mostly doing Vox Machina art, but I’m juggling things as is, so I tried to squeeze in everything in a four month project. Since the file is so ridiculous I cut it up for posting here, but you can see the whole assembled thing over on my Patreon.

Thank you to my patrons as well for sticking with me during this project! I’ll cover the last quarter of the painting, from Kashaw and Lyra (under the white dragon) and down to the end, in one of this month’s tutorials.

Eastern Exandria

Full size image [HERE]

I’ve spent the last several days poring over the map of Tal’dorei from the Tal’dorei Campaign Guide, as well as all four maps of Wildemount and the map of Tal’dorei made by Deven Rue. This gigantic 5488 x 3432px map is the fruit of my labors.

Thanks to Wildemount’s close proximity to Tal’dorei, we know that we can use the same scale from the Campaign Guide’s map for the other continent,

Every single location, from Kingdoms to rivers, capital cities to villages, and mountain ranges to roads, are all labeled.

Just as in old maps, the monsters represent unmapped regions. We know Eiselcross is north of Wildemount, but we don’t know how far or exactly what it looks like. The Shattered Teeth are south of Wildemount, but again, we don’t know how far. We also don’t know what land is east of the Penumbra Range, and what the eastern coast of Wildemount looks like.

Let me know if you see any errors, I’d love to have them corrected asap!

Stretch Goal: Flask Level-up

The Legend of Vox Machina S2 titles, per IMDB

Looks like they’re rearranging the timeline to do the Feywild before Umbrasyl.

bless laura bailey and her dirty dirty mind

Bonus:

What if Rob doesn't feel comfortable role-playing romance? He's new at this table and maybe he's uncomfortable with it, or it's not his style. The cast only begins their romance because Marisha and Liam break the ice first. And Travis only got into this because his WIFE made him feel comfortable role-playing romance. It's sad, but maybe that's why both of them don't take a bigger step.

Official character art for CR has been on my dream work list for a long time and now it is real. Thanks for all the love already, I gave it my all ❤️