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Also idk how canon the wiki is because im sorry im not going to read. Who knows how many books and novels and campaigns worth of stuff to create my own version of the plot

but I choose to interpret Lolth and her "fall" as the very reflection of sexism that DnD used to have. So I interpret Lolth, before she fell, as a woman who had married a man but was only ever considered a "consort" (at least the wiki never specifies if he actually considers her his wife? But makes clear that he is her husband) and as such always had felt belittled. Never truly equal to him and so it bread resentment.

This resentment came from her feeling that she wasn't truly equal to her partner in the way that he required of her and so she would find power, obtain it, and prove to him that she was of equal if not greater than him. This did lead her to looking into more of the infernal and demonic magics but it was by her own free will she had done so. I want to believe she wasn't "corrupted" by the demons and people she had entwined herself with to obtain the unholy and demonic power but instead learned from them and obtained it through her own right.

As it makes her descent wholly her consequence. Due to this fall though she would reach out to other elves, people she had ruled over before she had fell into the demon web pits and offered them a way out of their similarly oppressive male-dominated nature. By creating drow in a similarity to spiders she would place female/femininity above the patriarchy and establish a matriarchy among her new followers so that she, and her people, wouldn't suffer the same as she had. Although, she would lack the foresight to realize she was doing the exact same as her ex-husband had to her only flipping the script.

By making women more physically powerful, bigger, and overall stronger in some aspects biologically she challenged the established patriarchies of the underdark and other civilizations of how they ruled. Of course Lolth was not without fault and her aspect as a goddess of Chaos would come back to bite her.

As she needed chaos to thrive, and so had her people create as much of it as possible. Justifying starting wars, infighting, and sending them to the surface to wreak havok as a way to grow her power and also establish bonds between the powerful and cull out any weaker forces among her ranks. Since Lolth needed power. She needed to never feel weak compare to her fellow gods and goddesses so that no one could put her in a position she had been in before feeling lesser than others.

of course this is a self destructive behavior and her attempt to ascend, the silence of lolth, would backfire horribly for her. After all, no one tells you how to be a goddess and after being stripped of her power and scrambling to find shreds of her godhood again in the demon web pits she struggled and was unsure how to proceed. Drow now have learned to be more tolerant of their fellow male counterparts, even allowing the ruling house males to rule over important parts of the city. It's a small change but one that Lolth doesn't know how to handle, much less face, as times nd social standing change. Worried she is losing her grip and control, terrified especially with how more male drow start this revolution against her and her tyrany that it would end the same as it had been before she attempts to keep as many followers close and ingrained with her ideals as possible.

In my view Lolth is a woman/Goddess who had been scorned while in marriage, but took the most extreme route to solve this issue and instead caused the same pain that was inflicted upon her. A Goddess that has to struggle with how her children / the people she created now are moving on, moving past her, and bettering themselves in a way she can't understand and grapple or has extreme difficulty in grappling. Yes, she is evil. Yes she had harmed many people and took advantage of many, and doesn't regret her decisions but she also is a Goddess attempting to keep power and learn of self worth when not compared to other Goddesses and Gods who continuously shame her for having fallen so far, been exiled, and grow in hostility for her simply wanting to be seen as equal and part of one whole, not an attachment to another God.

She's still a badass bitch, but i feel she's more lawful evil than anything as she holds her own ethics and reasoning for things even if the actions she does harms others and even her own people to better herself. She took an extreme reaction and method to counter her struggle with inequality and while obtained the power she wished ended up creating a race and empire that was not too different from her ex-husband. Showing that neither method, patriarchy or matriarchy, are the "right" way to go and it's cooperation between all that will keep bonds strong

Something Lolth still has yet to learn, if she's ever able to accept it.

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" If you're knees aren't sore after you're done praying can you even call yourself a worshiper? "

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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH 🔥\o/🔥

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What if. I take DND. And write my own version of Lolth. I'm gonna do it. Fuck the canon that was based on sexism and racism

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She pauses, her cheeks tinting a darker color just slightly as she looks away. " I suppose. You are allowed to misbehave. . . but only you. "

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" Am I to expect anyone had behaved themselves while I was gone? "

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What kind of love are you?

Love as a Threshold

Your love does not ask for much. Your love does not take. Your love is free, and unquestioned, and here for wherever needs it. When you fall in love, it is as gentle as a breath in the night. It is quiet, and it is effortless. It is tender. If your love was a house, it would readily welcome all who come through. If your love was a hearth, it would warm the hands of whoever stopped by, whether for a day, a month, a year, or forever. When you fall for someone, it is without strings, without conditions, without need. You love for the sake of loving, for the sake of caring for those who need it. You love with a giver’s heart and a giver’s hands and are made so much stronger for it. Being loved by you is to always feel at home. Your love may not always be well-received by those unprepared to linger, but it is unforgettable all the same.

tagged by @notyetfixed and @necromanticdancer tagging: anyone who wants to do it

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various things spoken in an adventuring party pt.3

a little assortment of quotes and sayings i've found doom scrolling through pinterest that i think an adventuring party would say during their never ending perilous adventures . please do not copy/repost or add to this list, thank you!

Affectionate ❛ how terrible it is to love something that death can touch  ❜ ❛ i never craved attention until i tasted yours  ❜ ❛ i don’t want to have the world’s attention. Yours is enough.  ❜ ❛ you cant just touch my soul and leave  ❜ ❛ your hands are scarred from murder, and yet I trust them completely  ❜

Questions ❛ you seem somewhat familiar. have i threatened you before?  ❜ ❛ why am I so fascinated by you?  ❜ ❛ you risked so much for me. why would you do such a thing?  ❜ ❛ it’s time you start talking! what did you do?!  ❜ ❛ do you really think they were a tender flower you could trample upon?  ❜

Banter ❛ i just like to argue with you cause it’s funny.  ❜ ❛ unfortunately for everyone, i will keep doing whatever i want.  ❜ ❛ i think god is gonna have to kill me twice.  ❜ ❛ the next time i open up to someone is my autopsy  ❜ ❛ you walk a fine line between beautifully macabre and uncharacteristically psychotic, you know that?  ❜

Tragedy ❛ i thought we’d have more time  ❜ ❛ if i disappear, will you look for me?  ❜ ❛ let us live, since we must die  ❜ ❛ i cant live in a world where you dont exist  ❜ ❛ i talk to the gods, but the sky is empty.  ❜

Fierce ❛ do not forget what i am.  ❜ ❛ this destruction will be your rebirth.  ❜ ❛ you are filled with poison but blessed with beauty and rage  ❜ ❛ when you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives  ❜ ❛ you have no power over me.  ❜

Antagonistic ❛ leave them at the bottom of the grave they dug for you.  ❜ ❛ and you call me a monster  ❜ ❛ being against evil doesn’t make you good.  ❜ ❛ so, tell me little one, do you want to punish those that have wronged you?  ❜ ❛ i’m the friendliest evil person you will ever meet. ❜

BONUS

FROM THE HERO TO THE VILLAIN ❛ running doesn’t matter. I’ll hunt you down if i have to  ❜ ❛ no one wearing a crown comes in the name of peace  ❜ ❛ our bones are stained with sin, scorched from fire, broken by betrayal, soaked with blood, and yet we still keep fighting!  ❜ ❛ you want to kill me? fine. get in line.  ❜

FROM THE VILLAIN TO THE HERO ❛ i’ve met scarecrows with more spine than you  ❜ ❛ can you hear the screams of the people? can you hear them serenading me as i ascend? their pain is my pleasure in the heavens. they worship me with their grief. and now so will you.  ❜ ❛ if bravery had a face, it certainly wouldn’t look like yours  ❜ ❛ my power knows no bounds, and your efforts to defy me are like whispers lost in a hurricane  ❜ ❛ oh, look at you, attempting greatness! pity it’s just an attempt.  ❜

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" If people deserved happiness they would have it. No one is owed anything they do not take for themselves. If they don't have it, they simply weren't good enough for it. "

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Clicking her tongue in annoyance. " I can't even think of being with someone, women or man, that has issue with my worship. I might have considered something but your matches mean nothing when you can't accept my Goddess. "

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" Hm. . . very well. If you do seek some sort of physical release and partnership I will consider it. While not everything is checked you have substantially filled it out enough to be satisfactory. "

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"Don't punch me again without consent, darling."

Looking down at the sheet she squints and then looks back at him. " And what if I said that punching people is a sign of physical affection? "

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" Don't act so disappointment. We both know I far outrank your standards. "

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; ) ; )

She looks down at the sheet and then back up at the devil. Crumpling it up and throwing it back at his face. “ I do not enjoy the company of men. No matter how well you can cook. You have not won. “

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‘damn! i almost got the whole board!’ - nox

Barrae looks down at the sheet, and then back up at Nox. Back to parchment, then to Nox.

Crumpling up the parchment she would throw it over her shoulder before grasping Nox's face in both hands and pull her in for a deep, and passionate kiss. Not bothering to care if they were standing in the middle of the Bailey or not.

" You still win. There need be no others who try to best you for they can't. "

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are you able to turn your submit on?

should be on now!

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" I don't understand the point of this, but I have written one out regardless. May the best potential match win. "