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art reflects reality

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there’s this extremely kind soul of a woman on instagram that makes accessible recipes that don’t require standing, chopping, or a stove and she might just have a permanent place in my heart

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God i love reading before bed im so glad i started doing it again

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MY BOY LEOOOOOOOO!!!! GOD this is still so so sick and I gotta kick my feet everytime I see it

Artfight part 3! You can fight me here King Leo for @chloecorvid Lucienne for blumouseart Nova for Zeldaspreciouslife Deathwish for Yamigician

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from “baths”, 1987.

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$20 used to mean something

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Do not come on my posts with “Black Women Are Superhuman Beings Who Can Handle Anything” takes. That’s a dangerous and reductive rhetoric rife with misogynoir. No, black women cannot take more negative and harmful attacks than other women can. Black women are not primed to withstand more attacks and harassment than women of other races. Stop. That is horrifying. Black women deserve grace, compassion, and a soft place to rest, not constant burdens.

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been deep in the re-write/revamp trenches for my oldest story to eventually be written as a book series instead of a comic.. but i'm still working on my webcomic buffer too. ough if only I could split myself in two and work on both of them at once waaaaah

but anyway yeah you LONG TIME followers may recognize this dude even with the style update. Drew him in the book description style and my comic's style for style comparison and funsies lol

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me when i have a bone to pick Lol idk.. im not really sure which one to choose

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idk i think what is interesting about astarion to me is the fact that you have a guy who started out an asshole (normal type) and then spent two hundred years in a very carefully and specifically crafted (by the writers of the game) Become A Terrible Person Or Die nexus. like it wasn’t just a Torment Nexus, he wasn’t just in hell, i feel like this is very important not to forget, he was in hell but it was specifically a hell designed to, over time, kill the empathy of anyone trapped in it, kill their brain’s ability to prioritize other peoples’ survival, to numb one’s conscience.

and then he gets yanked directly out of that nexus and despite that the fact that he spent, again, two hundred years in a situation that was sort of a rock tumbler for the human soul, there’s still a pebble left in there. and it’s a pebble that can be grown if placed in the right environment and provided with a support network.

so i think it becomes interesting because it really does i think force you to start thinking about the limits of free will even on as basic a level as the human personality. i think the fact that he becomes such a different character based on player choice, that his end morality is so hugely dependent on player choice, is uhhh. a big part of what the devs were going for probably.

it makes a lot of people really uncomfortable to acknowledge some bad people would be good people if literally nothing changed except they had a good support network and different circumstances. especially because it means the opposite is also true. which is even more uncomfortable.

you know that part in the beginning of fellowship of the ring where gandalf is talking about how gollum is ultimately only like that because of the ring and gandalf thinks his story is sad? astarion is kinda like if they sexualized gollum.

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i always underestimate just how many people on tumblr are blogging from work. very beautiful. very powerful.

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when your friend asks if you have any plans like nope just me and the skull lol

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Officially caught up!! Attack no. 6!! For @chloecorvid !!