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Here are my new phone backgrounds ✨️ (all photos are from pinterest and have been lifted only for personal use)

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-vibrates- for the first time in eons i feel the urge to make character moodboards

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crossposted on my instagram @ blankdoesarts

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Where I go, will you still follow?

Will you leave your shaded hollow?

Will you greet the daylight looming?

Learn to love without consuming?

- 'Thus Always To Tyrants' by the Oh Hellos

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Agony~

crossposted with original and wip shots in my instagram (@ blankdoesarts)

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Thank you for including my fic (Mark of the Thay). Thought I should let you know that it's finished now 🥰❤️

for anyone who needs it or might enjoy it, here are the pearls i gathered after spending a couple days going through all the fics in the edgin darvis/xenk yendar ao3 tag. you’re welcome. <3

Sunlight is a Kind of Burning by letmetellyouaboutmyfeels E 23k Ed’s excited to get his life back on track in the wake of saving Neverwinter. He’s less excited at how a certain paladin keeps popping up everywhere he goes.

Except for how he’s starting to miss the guy when he’s not around.

Yeah, let’s not think about that too hard.

Braided Threads by stele3 M 13k “Xenk?”

Turning, Xenk watched Edgin enter the stables at a jog, then stumble to a halt. He looked at Xenk’s face and visibly blanched. It had been some time since he had done thus; Xenk could hardly blame him. The mark on his forehead had caused so many to recoil from him over the years.

“Nice, uh, nice horse,” Edgin said after a moment.

“Greetings, Edgin Darvis,” Tyr said aloud.

“Nice talking horse.”

Xenk wiped tears from his face. “Edgin, I present to you my god: Tyr, the Sword Above the Clouds, Keeper of the Door.”

“Your god is a horse?”

Curse of the Green Hag by Moorishflower E 16k “For the crime of attempting to parlay, the hag has cursed me to fall prey to my most bestial urges. Either to secret myself to the woods and there lose my mind, or else to succumb to overwhelming desire for the first creature to touch me. It is why…” Here, a spark of Xenk’s old self-righteousness flares in his eyes. “…I begged you not to touch me. And now here we are.”  

“In my defense, you weren’t really coherent,” Ed says weakly.

Three months after the defeat of Sofina, Xenk shows up on Ed’s new doorstep needing help with a very specific curse.

tys hard to be a seinte in the cytie by indigostohelit E 4k “The Material Planes are not realms of punishment,” said Xenk. “The gods no more deny us the warmth of physical pleasure than they would the warmth of the sun. They only warn us, through each, of the dangers that lie in excess.”

“…Huh,” said Ed again, and, lacking further retort, grabbed up the new tankard and swigged deeply. Then he spat it across the bar.

“This is water, though,” said Xenk peacefully. “You are going to have a hangover in the morning.”

Hero of Another Story by Banhus M 11k The largely accidental courtship of Edgin Darvis, or: Edgin and Xenk negotiate over a question of genre.

To the Ends of the Earth by Moorishflower M 20k “It is done,” Xenk says. He holds up his own right hand to demonstrate, displaying the golden light that is already sinking into his gauntlet and disappearing beneath. “We are bound, you and I, until the magic is dispelled.”  

“What the fuck,” Edgin whispers. He scrabbles at his sleeve, yanking it up to examine the faintly-glowing runes that have encircled his wrist. “What the fuck? What do you mean, bound?”

Sent by the High Harpers to retrieve a criminal to aid in a desperate mission, and authorized to use binding magic to ensure his cooperation, Xenk comes to understand and long for the former Harper agent Edgin Darvis during the tenday they spend in Icewind Dale, surrounded on all sides by ice, and cold, and endless lonely nothingness.

Mark of the Thay by BlankPersonality E 93k WIP Edgin didn’t escape the Beckoning Death untouched. He survived, yes, but it left him with a familiar mark. The visions of Zia that had haunted him since that day complicated things too. And now Xenk is at his door…?

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I know I've already posted this one, but I wanted to try out botanicals so I added more background detail for fun ~ (I just yassified it tbh)

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I used a translator

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Xenk needs Edgin's help to infiltrate a strange cult

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Xenk POV fic written like chivalric purple prose

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he basically acts the part of the court jester, keeping arthur's ego in check and telling it how it is and its honestly the best thing ever

Do you think the people who make the posts about being a court jester and seducing the king so that he falls in love by being around him constantly and being a silly little charming guy know about bbc merlin. It’s important to me that they know bbc merlin exists and will give them exactly that

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his reluctant harper

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AND Kira would become one of those min/maxed multi-multiclassers bc she's been taught a little bit of everything from every friend her Dad makes along the way 🥺

(originally i was thinking 1-2 lvls each in Rogue, Bard, Wizard and 5 lvls in Barbarian like that one Youtube vid about how to make a character that's a multiclass of every class and also bc Holga is best mom but then I overthought it by going "well she could also just have proficiency in some things like Survival bc Doric takes her foraging in the forest and she could also take lvls in Fighter instead of Barbarian and --)

alright okay but to me it makes perfect sense that while everyone else is one class (barbarian, druid, paladin), edgin and simon are both multiclassers (sorcerer + wizard, rogue + bard), so theyre not useless or weak, per se, just... weaker than the others, cause multiclassing be like that in dnd sometimes

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the prequel books is

1. telling me i'm very right in that the only redemption that would make sense for Edgin's character revolves very tightly around Family and Being A Parent and Taking Care of Loved Ones By Being There bc he wasn't there when Zia got killed

2. letting me know that MY DADDY ISSUES ARE ALIVE AND WELL

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ive got the dndhat brain worm. stuck on the next chapter of mark of the thay. is 60k my limit??? no!! no im so close to the end pls