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thank you kingsman for searing the image of harry hart's mass and gruesome murder of a church of white supremacist religious extremists into my brain whenever i listen to free bird by lynyrd skynyrd. you dont know what youve done for me

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Barbie Princess and the Pauper fanart in 2025? It’s more likely than you’d think

so, for the last five years, I’ve redrawn these girls! Had to skip 2024 cause of college, but here is the 2021, 2022, and 2023 versions. Which is your favorite?

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Magnolias as a symbol of perseverance, endurance, and purity.

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Happy 20th anniversary of Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper!

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“A heart that beats, a voice that speaks the truth” <3

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Princess Annelise

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Annelise and Julian💗

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Barbie as The Princess and The Pauper turns 20 years🦋✨

“Live your dream.”

🎥 Barbie As The Princess And The Pauper (2004).

🎶 Livre, Kacau Gomes & Sylvia Salustti.

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moodboard request: princess anneliese from princess and the pauper moodboard, without a paci and not super feminine?? age 5-6 maybe 🌸

Here you go!!

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your grace

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When discussing the content disparity between Wyll and the other Origin characters+Halsin, it’s not about “pitting” the characters against each other.

It’s highlighting what content and suggestions got green lit and what didn’t.

It’s the writers for Asterion and Dark Urge working closely together, and allowing for Asterion to have a completely unique experience with Dark Urge that other Origin characters, not just Wyll, do not have despite budget and time constraints.

In contrast, Wyll’s entire character was scrapped, shoddily rewritten, and recast incredibly close to launch. Despite fans reaching out to Larian, very few patches were made regarding his content and his dialogue/quest line continued to be underwhelming and, frankly, glitchy.

You can hug and kiss most romanced (and even non-romanced) characters in the epilogue.

In Wyll’s Blade of Avernus ending when you both go to Avernus with Karlach, there is no unique romance options, not even to hug or kiss him. Even when Wyll is not romanced, there is no option to hug him like the others.

At Pax East, they revealed that Wyll had a “big moment” that was scrapped and then did not elaborate. This was also in the midst of their announcement that they would not be adding new content to the game.

Wyll is the only Origin character that lacks a persuasion check or a “let Wyll make his choice” option at the climatic point of his character quest (breaking his pact or diving deeper into his pact with Mizora).

Wyll is also the only Origin character to lack a unique hairstyle not available to the Player. It’s a small detail, but it shows, especially with their one Black character, to not have a dedicated hairstyle for him.

And, most glaringly, Wyll does not have an overt sex scene. Now, as an ace person, Wyll having a sex scene isn’t super important to me. But, for those who enjoy that stuff and that the fact that he is the only one, yet again, is objectively unfair. I can skip it. But I can’t even do that because it’s not even there.

I’m not saying Larian should keep making Baldur’s Gate content if their “heart isn’t in it” or if it’s later revealed that they were getting a bad end of a deal. More power to them. They created a great game that gave a lot of people community and a sense of belonging.

But not for everyone. The disparity and lack of acknowledgment of their lead Black character should not be swept under the rug as they bow out.

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nobody took my pen away so the hades-crossover-fever continues. i’m ill

others: astarion, kotallo

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HE IS SO BEAUTIFUL

My problem with Wyll is that I don't really stick with positive characters, but he's very handsome and deserves more art

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there are of course many different appealing aspects to bladeweave but one that i feel is underexplored in the few works in this fandom is this: what happens when you put together two people who are not only givers, but who actively see taking as inherently bad, selfish, almost antithetic to romance?

both wyll and gale not only want to wow and woo their partner, but also refuse to ever have it be the other way around because they so desperately believe they have to make themselves useful in order to be attractive, after being used for their talents and abandoned when inconvenient for so long

you'd expect their romantic notions to make them compatible, but in reality neither of them is ready to accept the other's advances, and so they're at a standstill

what happens when wyll offers to massage gale's bad knee, and gale almost flies off the log he was sitting, assuring him that he's quite fine and it's in no way necessary? when gale tries to wax poetic about how wonderful wyll is and wyll deflects every compliment, you are too kind to me, don't waste your night on me, go and dance and enjoy yourself? when gale tries to woo wyll with his stars projection, but wyll wants to woo gale with his dance, and neither of them wants to let the other be the one to do the work?

i love you, let me be useful to you, let me stay with you. i love you, please don't waste your time on me, i promise im still useful, stay with me

and in the end, they both feel rejected in their advances. they can't meet the other halfway, because they love him too much to take. they're too scared of losing them, and so they never meet

what happens then?

how do you convince two chronically insecure romantics to be the one wowed every once in a while?

how do you tell a devil and a sinner that they're enough for the god's chosen and the hero they fell in love with?

how do you make it work when you're too similar, too enamored, too kind, and too romantic to make space for the other?

how?

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I usually only post wips on twitter but I want to be more active here, so here's a wip of Wyll and Ansur 💕

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