#ada bg3

[helyanwe4608]

This!! I love the mutual healing through love // let’s both learn hot to be loved together thing!!

[kamuizzy]

charas i like + close ups:]

[lesbianwyllravengard]

"I love her despite her crimes" well I love her crimes. Keep it up queen.

[helyanwe4608]

This comic is soooo beautiful ♥️ look at his adorable little face!

[helyanwe4608]

This quote is so brilliant and so sad.

Like my good self, my OC Ada has depression. I try to show that it is not glamorously dramatic or needs to involve a character crying nonstop. Ada is not lethargic, she’s fighting and trying desperately to stay afloat.

This can be true for fantasy heroes with tadpoles in their skull as well as friends who overwork themselves, stay social and seem to have it together. They are struggling and not letting go. Because quiet can be poisoned.

In my experience, depression is more often a deeply felt shame that you’re struggling at all, a conviction that you are always a step behind all others. That you just need to try harder to be fine again. You have a job, you have friends, you’re okay. So why are you this desperate?!

And that is when this question creeps into your head.

“Why am I alive and struggling so desperately?”

It’s not shocking or loud at first, it’s sad and seductive and easy to follow. Like a set of stairs curling towards the deep. And you may find yourself following it.

Down, down, further down.

And at some point you know you’re in trouble, but you lack the energy to climb all those stairs back towards the light. And you blame yourself for letting it get that bad.

And then those words come back. Why struggle? Why not let go? You’re so tired.

So for anyone struggling with this shit as well: you’re not alone! I wish you all the best and I hope you find it in yourself to ask for help and turn around. It’s never too late.

—Anaïs Nin, "The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934"

[wassidy-wanders-around]

HARK! MORE VERA FANART ✧⁠\⁠(⁠>⁠o⁠<⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠✧

Artist: @ada-melodies @firebones-art

🦋 firebones.bsky.social

I got permission to post! I was trying to be patient and wait for Ada to share first but I might literally explode if I sit on this any longer.

SHE'S DREW VERA SO BEAUTIFULLY!!!💕💕💕

RNJSJWJJDJQHAJ I LOVE IT SO MUCH ADA!!! LOOK AT THAT SMILE, OBSESSED WITH THE TEEFS! (⁠´⁠∩⁠｡⁠•⁠ ⁠ᵕ⁠ ⁠•⁠｡⁠∩⁠`⁠)💕💕💕

THANK YOU (⁠ ⁠˘⁠ ⁠³⁠˘⁠)💕💕💕

[spacemonkeysalsa]

For context, I’m putting together some training materials for my office, and something like this is going to make it into those documents. Though I will have to change the example to something that doesn’t reference BG3 or sex, since it’s like not appropriate or whatever.

I’m barred in Nevada but then I moved (dummy) and now I am studying to take the bar exam again in a different state because I moved somewhere that doesn’t have any sort of reciprocity (double dummy) and its fine, I’m not worried. It’s just a pain, but as I’ve been studying and remembering what the bar is like, I also have friends who are studying for the EA exam or the CPA exam. It's forced me to think a lot about this kind of test and here's my main takeaway from studying for it:

Say you have a question on the exam like: “Which of these statements is most correct?” and then the statements are:

A) Astarion tops his partner in all his romance scenes in BG3

B) Astarion doesn’t top his partner in every one of his romance scenes in BG3

C) Astarion bottoms his partner in all his romance scenes in BG3

D) Astarion may top or bottom his romance partner in every scene in BG3

And you think to yourself, “hang on, I am overly familiar with the 2023 Larian video game Baldur’s Gate 3 and I love Astarion, I’ve romanced him 30+ times, surely this question ought to be easy, except none of these are quite correct?”

Answer A bothers you because you know it’s possible for him to bottom with larger body types, and this answer seems to exclude that possibility in how it’s phrased. Or does it? We’ll get back to that.

Answer B bothers you because even if you can get a version of the scene when he doesn’t top, there still exists a version when he does, and this applies to all ‘his’ scenes. Circling back to A real quick, you might be able to save yourself some time if at this point you just recognize that with A&B they are trying to get you to fall into the trap of assuming mutual exclusivity where none exists, but let’s say you’re an overthinker like me and your brain needs to keep processing all your options…

Answer C is obviously wrong, but you might hesitate to dismiss it, because what if you missed something? It’s a huge game and if we are thinking about variations, are these options you haven’t considered?

Answer D makes your stomach drop because you realize that three of these questions specify ‘his’ scenes, but the last one says ‘every scene’ and if it just removed the phrase ‘in every scene’ it would be correct, but the fact that it’s the one that’s different makes you fixate on it, even though you know it can’t be right, because it says ‘every scene’ not ‘every romance scene’ and therefore on its face implies every scene in BG3 is a sex scene, which isn’t true.

And you really wish there was an option that read “Astarion can top or bottom depending on player choices” but that’s not there. You have to pick from what’s there.

And, maybe you get distracted for a moment, wondering if by ‘his scenes’ they really mean just the scenes written for his character---that’s what you assumed, at first, but now that you’ve kept thinking about it you wonder if they may just mean a scene that he can participate in, as a player character, in which case B is true, because it implies that there’s at least one scene where he’s always a bottom and you can think of some that would count Also, they purposefully used the similar phrases “all” and “every one of” for A & B because they are hoping you will waste time considering whether these two phrases have the same meaning or not, and if there was any purpose in writing it in a way that was inconsistent. To be clear, the only point in switch up the wording is to mess with you.

Finally, you decide that the phrase “his romance scenes” has to refer to the scenes written for his character. Because anything else would be too unclear for the purposes of this question, since those other scenes ‘belong’ to other characters.

A is the correct answer because even if it’s not the best way to summarize this topic, it’s the only answer that isn’t technically wrong. All his romance scenes show him as a top, even if variations exist where he’s also a bottom. That just means “Astarion is a top in all his romance scenes, and a bottom in some romance scenes,” which would also be another example of the kind of ‘more correct’ answer you might wish was on the page, but it’s not there, and you can’t write in your own answer. Saying ‘all’ doesn’t exclude other possibilities. He tops in all the scenes, and he also bottoms in one of the scenes, and both of these things can be true at the same time. There’s no mutual exclusivity.

They purposefully write these options like this because they want to trick you. They don’t care that you are knowledgeable on the subject, they are barely interested in testing your knowledge, what they really want to test is whether or not they can trick you into making a mistake.

And, on the one hand, I don’t think this is a great way to test people on a subject. Especially a subject that is dense all on its own. You’re not showing that you’re unfamiliar with BG3 if you get this one wrong, you’re just showing that purposefully unclear communication and pedantry can trip you up. That’s nearly totally meaningless.

On the other hand, the meaning that is there has to do with being careful when you read, and understanding common logical fallacies like false equivalence or fallacy of division. You know, the kind of thing lawyers are supposed to be good at.

It isn't so bad if you can stand how tedious these kinds of exercises can be, or if you’re a weirdo who kind of likes tedium, like me. It will make it more likely that you take psychic damage while interacting with normal people, though. And people will think you're a pedant, because in fairness, you are a pedant.

[rottenhoney0324]

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[helyanwe4608]

This is why Ada and Gale will have such a great learning arc in their romance! Because not being enough is a dear the youth harbor, but based on different experiences and met with different ways of coping.

And yet another thing I love about Gale’s romance is the boat ride in Act 3, where he tells Tav they will ‘always be enough’ for him.

There’s a dialogue in Act 2 that happens if Tav is deciding between Gale and another romance partner. Before ultimately choosing Gale, Tav can explain that they “Didn’t realize you felt so strongly, Gale.”

And Gale will say:

You can see how devastated Gale is at the thought of not being ‘enough.’

Then in Act 3, if Tav convinces Gale to give up the Crown and let go of his ambitions entirely because they love him as he is, Gale will say:

What has always struck me about his declaration in the boat is that it’s what Gale himself needed to hear.

He chose a declaration of love that cuts to the heart of his deepest insecurities. A declaration that says everything he’s ever needed in order to feel secure and loved. It’s the most powerful statement of love he could think of—

—and he gives it to Tav 💜

[astarionposting]

elf ada

[hanscapons]

doing a big sale bc i need more space and also money. also open to price suggestions. shipping is already included/ free

[kod23pm]

spawned in bg3

[a-lesnikova]

bg3 graphics | bg3 gifs

[formiito]

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[wouldtheyfuck]

[churning-the-sea-of-milk]

Romancing Astarion as Dark Urge is so funny to me cuz it be like

(First meeting) You'd be so much cuter dead.

(A month or so later) I will strangle every asshole who looks at you funny, my precious darling baby vampire boyfriend.

I headcanon so much angst into this pairing! I feel like my durge boy has only two moods: stab stab kill and complete lack of any emotion. He fakes emotions like he breathes, so as he began to care for Astarion, his first real emotion was empathic pain. Now compare that to the fact that Astarion is a fake-ass hoe until he himself begins to care and pass the blunt, it's hitting me real good.