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Every unhinged fic writer needs an equally unhinged friend who "yes ands" their ideas and encourages them to write all their most far fetched and insane stories.

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I need someone to do a video essay-length deep dive into how 75% of the BG3 fandom fell so hard for Astarion's manipulative seductor act that they believe that's his actual personality. This man has to practice his lines and still fumbles them constantly. He flat-out says it's all a front because he believes his sex appeal is the only reason anyone would keep him around, which is tragic. When he drops the act, he becomes this kind of silly man rediscovering what it means to be himself, and what it means to both love and be loved. He says "I'm all pointy ears, love." while turning his head to show off those pointy ears. Let him be silly, let him be awkward! It's so much more authentic then him being a walking innuendo.

He has a mid charisma stat with a bonus for deception and rolled a nat 20 on all y'all.

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Hi. Angel on your shoulder here. It's totally ok to kill that guy

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Having a normal one with the gang

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Dress

1910s

"Black silk evening dress with sequins, beads, chiffon overlay, long net skirt panels to create a lampshade effect, and a train."

Maryland Center for History and Culture

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As a general rule of fantasy and sci-fi naming, the closer to the back half of the alphabet the average letter in their name is, the eviller they are. A name that doesn't contain any consonants north of R is poison frog colouration. If it uses Y as a vowel in a non-terminal position you're basically fucked.

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"exercise will give you more energy" gets said a lot as a common piece of health advice but I think it needs to be expanded into "exercising will make you tired while you do it, and you will continue to be tired immediately afterwards, sometimes even the next day too, but over months of consistent exercise, your muscles will get stronger and therefore get less tired out by everyday activities, making you feel like day-to-day life takes less physical energy than it used to"

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I was looking for pathetic Gromph moments in Maestro and stumbled on Jarlaxle begging to be called a friend 😭

His true motivation is being their best friend but he hides it too well 😭

President of the Catti-brie fan club

He wants to be part of the found family

[10 seconds later….can you get my boyfriends sword back from the lava monster?]

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i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again fiction readers don’t want to read about realistic relationships they want to read about dubcon in a country house library with a mysterious baroness

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The wonderful Lord of the Rings Portfolio by Frank Frazetta (1975)

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I have I think made this post before but I really do genuinely want a fantasy story where the main character really is a False Dmitri or counterfeit Anastasia or scheming royal uncle or younger/rightfully and legally illegitimate prince/ss or whatever who nonetheless is entirely morally and practically correct in usurping the throne.

The more metaphysically correct and load-bearing the fantasy setting makes lawful succession and the person of the Rightful King the better, really.

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i was thinking about how vampires are often surrounded by candles for aesthetic reasons but then i considered that they might also light candles because it's the closest they can get to experiencing the warmth and light of the sun and got so upset that i had to go outside and stare off into the distance with my hands behind my back for a while

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the legally blonde mentality isnt just for law students. u can bring that attitude with you into every field of work. be the whimsical force of positive change. wear that neon outfit. snaps for us all.

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Pandora and Evils

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I want to own a house and have a garden in the back and a fruit tree in front and I want to tell the neighborhood kids that they can come pick the fruits when they want as long as they leave some for others, and I want to host dinners for friends and make too much food and make everyone go home with some leftovers, and I want to grow vegetables in my garden and beg my neighbors to take all this zucchini off my hands or I'll have to eat zucchini for every meal for the next few months, and I want to give and feed and love but I need more goddamn money first

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*gets different kinds of pseudoscience confused* you only use 10% of your brain until you're 25

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*dipping a dart into an unlabelled flask and loading it into my crossbow* you better not try anything stupid because i don't even remember what this one does