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Update: Progressing towards opening! All pinch hits and extensions are in, as well as some lovely treats. Many thanks to all participants and pinch hitters, you are incredible.

I'll be able to open the exchange as soon as I get back from a family outing. Let me know if you need any last minute editing time, and don't forget to change the publish dates to today's date.

Baldur's Gate Gift Exchange - Reveals Coming Soon

Progress toward reveals:

1 pinch hit + 1 extension still in progress. Thank you to all participants and pinch hitters. I can't wait to see it all open!

This is my best attempt at a countdown in Australian time. We'll keep you updated here depending on pinch hitter time.

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Epigenised (Opal-CT, Lussatite) Helix Ramondi snail fossil, from Dallet, Puy-De-Dôme, France.

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Baldur's Gate Gift Exchange - Reveals Coming Soon

Progress toward reveals:

1 pinch hit + 1 extension still in progress. Thank you to all participants and pinch hitters. I can't wait to see it all open!

This is my best attempt at a countdown in Australian time. We'll keep you updated here depending on pinch hitter time.

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Mizu - Blue eye samurai fanart

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One of my favorite approaches to painting is to select a 'domestic' scene, many times hinted at within a narrative but not directly described by an author. This is one such example with Bilbo writing his will for Frodo and contemplating keeping the One Ring. Frodo's Inheritance 11" x 14" Oil on panel private collection

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This suave lady is Daphne. Both sets of wings are silk, and her body is an incredibly soft silk velvet✨🩵✨

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This gold and seafoam beauty is Nyima✨🩵✨

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Another extra fancy baby. Both Virgil‘s body and forewings are silk velvet✨

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Incredible!

~THE PRINCESS BRIDE~

But it is (loosely) historically inspired by the late 1400s... I'm also starting to understand horses now

[Prints are available on my shop!]

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Baldur's Gate Gift Exchange - Updates

Pinch hits all claimed!

Request 1: Kalua - Claimed!

BG1: Jaheira/Khalid, Xzar, Khalid

BG3: Halsin/Sorn, Gale/Karlach, Astarion, Sorn, Haarlep, Kar'niss

Request 2: NikoruSanzo - Claimed!

BG1: Xan, Kivan, Any relationship

Request 3: Writesoftheratt - Claimed!

BG3: Alfira/Lakrissa, Alfira, Lakrissa, Alfira/Minthara Baerne/Lakrissa, Minthara Baenre

Targeted reveals date: 25 June. If you need a slight extension for a pinch hit, just let us know.

Request details are here

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Trope - Fans Treat Fictional Characters Horribly, News at Eleven

I'm not a fan of the trope, 'This character reincarnated or travelled into a fictional world and treated the fictional characters like things, therefore they're a bad person'.

Treating people like things is very bad - read the collected works of Sir Terry Pratchett, I'll wait, they're very good.

But when you write a story you inflict a lot of pain on your likeable protagonist, when you play a videogame you make the main character behave anti-socially in order to find out what the writers wrote for those contingencies, when you run a D&D game you make your NPCs do horrible things that drive the plot. Fictional characters aren't people.

So when you get the highly extreme scenario of reincarnation into a fictional world, which is not a thing that has ever happened in real life, complaining that the character is treating fictional characters as things reads as you making up a fake crime to get mad at.

What I'm saying is that when I reincarnate into Bubble Shooter, I might start shooting some bubbles.

I'd like to think that if I went into a fictional world and the characters seemed like sapient beings, I'd treat them as such and be a good companion as much as possible. But, is it really the reincarnator's fault if they see the characters behaving in the exact same way as the fictional version, and assume they're all the same cardboard playthings they were in the real world? Maybe the original writer just did such a bad job that the reincarnation versions are still cardboard.

As a fanfiction writer I treat fictional characters like objects all the time with no regret.

I think This Isekai Maid is Forming a Union! has a good take on this trope because it's combined with a criticism of classism, which is a genuine problem in the real world. When reincarnated, the 'bad' reincarnators bring with them biases from their old world that they take out in toxic ways in the new world.

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the moment I heard elphaba's delivery of "there's a girl i know..." in i'm not that girl i knew i had to draw this comic, i strongly recommend listening to it while you read for the full experience!

this comic is a companion to this piece (which was inspired by glinda's delivery of the same line in the i'm not that girl reprise).

pages 1-4 are from elphie's pov, pages 5-8 are from glinda's.

prints of individual pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

flower meanings in order of appearance:

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I think the reason I could never actually watch shows like the original Superman or Miraculous or whatever is because there is ONLY SO MUCH refusal to reveal your secret identities that I can take, before I start gnawing on the furniture.

Like, HOW MANY dramatic near death experiences or unconventional misunderstandings does it take to cross the “…actually just telling you who I am makes more sense doesn’t it” line?

Like, don’t give me that crap, Clark, nobody even thinks Superman HAS a secret identity and they ALREADY know Lois Lane is at least as close to him as she is to you anyway. “Protecting her” isn’t exactly a believable excuse. Besides which she’s a reporter so she’s already screwed.

Batman? Ok him I kinda get because his Rogue’s gallery is a whole new level of irrationally insane and he doesn’t have powers… Just that though. And his collection of assembled orphans and miscreants all DO know each others identities.

There was this series called Ace Lightning I used to watch and… ok to be fair they DID pull the “tell the truth but nobody believes him because it sounds insane” trope which WAS AT LEAST FUNNY. But for the most part, I just get so annoyed because like… Boy, that girl would 100% understand if you kept skipping dates because a videogame supervillain is trying to wreck shit at the local carnival again and you got unwittingly drafted into stopping it, heck, SHE’D HELP YOU.

And I have never seen an episode but I can tell JUST from the random posts that cross my For You page that Miraculous has done everything from the fake out reveal, to the memory wipe reveal, to the reset the frickin’ timeline after the reveal, to the “how the heck has nobody figured this out yet” reveal.

You care about one another.

You trust one another.

You are assured of one another’s ability to defend yourselves and each other if necessary.

You are ruining your social lives due to contextual misunderstandings.

JUST. FECKING. TELL EACH OTHER. YOUR SECRET. IDENTITIES.

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Baldur's Gate Gift Exchange - Seeking Pinch Hitters

Request 1: Kalua - Claimed!

BG1: Jaheira/Khalid, Xzar, Khalid

BG3: Halsin/Sorn, Gale/Karlach, Astarion, Sorn, Haarlep, Kar'niss

Request 2: NikoruSanzo

BG1: Xan, Kivan, Any relationship

Request 3: Writesoftheratt - Claimed!

BG3: Alfira/Lakrissa, Alfira, Lakrissa, Alfira/Minthara Baerne/Lakrissa, Minthara Baenre

Please contact me to claim a pinch hit.

Targeted reveals date: 25 June. If you need a slight extension for a pinch hit, just let us know.

Request details are here

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heathers or something i don’t know man.

i’m not really 100% sure how much i like this one, but i’ve fussed with it enough. i think it looks kinda cool at least.

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How gorgeous!

Here's what I've been up to for the last two week 🐈‍⬛ Not a lot of work done, and a big chunk of work already done will have to be redone, but I already have something to show you :3

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Baldur's Gate Gift Exchange - Seeking Pinch Hitters

Request 1: Kalua - Claimed!

BG1: Jaheira/Khalid, Xzar, Khalid

BG3: Halsin/Sorn, Gale/Karlach, Astarion, Sorn, Haarlep, Kar'niss

Request 2: NikoruSanzo

BG1: Xan, Kivan, Any relationship

Request 3: Writesoftheratt - Claimed!

BG3: Alfira/Lakrissa, Alfira, Lakrissa, Alfira/Minthara Baerne/Lakrissa, Minthara Baenre

Please contact me to claim a pinch hit.

Targeted reveals date: 25 June. If you need a slight extension for a pinch hit, just let us know.

Request details are here