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The tyranny of Messmer's flame

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🔥 The Impaler 🔥

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O lightless creature… Embrace thine oblivion, as shall I.

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Have you watched Hannibal (TV)?

i have actually ^^

my friend from college got me into it, and i read quite a few fics back in the day lol

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I might get some hate for this but I think people give the rite of profane ascension a little too much credit. All it did was amplify that which was already there. All the possessiveness, the theatric demeanor, the strange coping mechanisms, that's all Astarion. He had those traits already. The rite didn't have a personality baked in that possessed Astarion once it was completed. If you had finished the rite instead, it would act differently.

Astarion, after getting unfathomable power is going to do the one thing he knows he can. Be the biggest prick on the sword coast lol. He thinks himself untouchable now so he's going to rub it in the face of anyone in the vicinity.

Something else I find really interesting. When not romancing Astarion it is MUCH easier to talk him down from going through with it. Alot of his desire to complete the ritual comes from fear of losing the one person he cares for. So the ritual corrupts that too and turns it into possessiveness. It was already there. He's so afraid of losing you that he does the vampiric equivalent of a marriage and now you both have a mind link along with the one from the tadpole. (Lots of interesting stuff about vampiric spouses in DnD lore that explains alot of what happens and what Astarion views the relationship as) The vampiric spouses happiness becomes everything. He dotes on them.

"Ask me anything, and it will be yours".

But he also establishes a clear dom/sub type dynamic. I think because it's what he has known the most and is also maybe a liiiiiitle drunk off the power still. Which isn't everyone's cup of tea. So post ritual Astarion can quickly become very uncomfortable for people. But it's not necessarily "new" or Cazadors personality baked into the ritual. He has always had the potential to be like this. Even without killing over 7000 people. That's what makes his character analysis so fascinating. A!A and spawn Astarion are so detailed and well written and analysing them both just makes me realise how much work was put into these companions.

One more thing I'd like to mention. Aside from the occasional difference in wording or his greetings, most of his voice lines are exactly the same. It's still Astarion. And of course this is due to resource management but I also think it works as being intentional as well. He's still in there. He's just really lost in the power sauce at the moment.

Do I think ascended Astarion is the "better" ending? Objectively, no. From an RP standpoint, maybe! I think almost every companion has an arc where lust for power or blind devotion becomes their downfall. Even Durge! It's what makes them such compelling characters.

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When vampires are portrayed as mainly preying on women that's so unrealistic like I'm sorry but they're too careful especially around strange men. Dudes are much easier. You could literally lurk in a bush in the park at night and call out "whoa look at this fucked up looking squirrel" and have 3 grown men climb in immediately

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☀️ hope nothing happens to ruin his smile! ☀️

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new chapter for twisted does it grow!

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Chapters: 2/6 Fandom: Naruto (Anime & Manga), The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence Characters: Uchiha Obito, Glorfindel (Tolkien), Elrond Peredhel, Éowyn (Tolkien), Bilbo Baggins Additional Tags: Im trying for a very specific feeling, so i'm not adding a lot of tags, sorry if that's not what i normally do, pairing would be spoiler, so not added, marked as other as a result, i'll put the themes here if that helps:, Redemption, Being stuck in the past, Impermanence, it's a crossover yay, author is biased for love of characters, both Obito and Glorfindel, good luck, I'm not sorry Series: Part 9 of Stupid "Short" Crossovers Summary:

If the trees didn’t stop singing, he was going to burn the entire forest down.

OR; the one where Obito ends up in LOTR, promptly nopes into a tree, and then is dragged into a whole mess because the elf with the pretty golden hair makes his heart flutter

new chapter! yay!

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New fic!

"twisted does it grow" a LOTR x Naruto crossover ^^

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make a girl smile today.

give her a sword.

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With Steady Steps chapters 31 AND 32 are UP! finally...

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Reblog if you're not homophobic

Every url that reblog’s will be written in a book and shown to my homophobic dad. 

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Sun Tzu is so fucking funny to me because for his time he was legitimately a brilliant tactician but a bunch of his insight is shit like "if you think you might lose, avoid doing that", "being outnumbered is bad generally", and "consider lying."

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Random writing thought: the best stories are often the ones that only you could have written — but also the ones that you could only write at this one moment.

I couldn't write All the Birds in the Sky from scratch now if I tried. But the me of 2013 couldn't have written The Prodigal Mother either.

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After raising the price of COVID-19 vaccines more than four-fold this year, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told investors Monday that the company will also likely hike the price of its lifesaving COVID-19 antiviral treatment, Paxlovid, raising further concern about access and healthcare costs.

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in an empty hall drops of water sound like applause