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PLATONIC INTERPRETATIONS OF CHARACTER DYNAMICS ARENT ANY LESS VALID THAN ROMANTIC ONES PELASEE

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I'm trying to prove a point to my brain: Reblog if you think fanfiction does not need sex to be good.

There is a trend I’ve noticed that smut fics tend to be much more popular than anything else and honestly I just want to have something to look at to remind myself and that writing doesn’t have to have sex to be worth putting out into the community.

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Chapters: 6/8 Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Zevlor (Baldur's Gate)/Original Female Character(s), Cerys/Rolan (Baldur's Gate), Mol (Baldur's Gate) & Other(s), Cal & Lia & Rolan (Baldur's Gate) Characters: Zevlor (Baldur's Gate), Original Female Character(s), Cerys (Baldur's Gate), Lia (Baldur's Gate), Original Male Character(s), Mol (Baldur's Gate), Mattis (Baldur's Gate), Mirkon (Baldur's Gate), Silfy (Baldur's Gate), Rolan (Baldur's Gate), Tiefling Refugees (Baldur's Gate) Additional Tags: Family, Angst, Pregnancy, Drama, Adopted Children, discussions about death, Anti-Tiefling Racism (Dungeons & Dragons), Post-Canon Summary:

Three years after they made the perilous journey to Baldur's Gate, the new High Observer has requested the presence of Zevlor and his family on the Grand Duke of the Wyrm's diplomatic visit to Elturel. Though hesitant, they reason, this may be the only chance they get to see their old home for the rest of their days...and end up dealing with more than they bargained for.

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Writer’s block and losing a chunk of the chapter can’t keep me down forever. It’s the calm before the shit REALLY hits the fan next chapter. MWUAHAHAHAHA.

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I think it would be really funny if you could get Wyll out of his pact by having Withers reclass him

Mizora over here pissed off because she didn’t anticipate Wyll being friends with the god of paperwork who would get him out of his devil contract for 100 gold, meanwhile he’s punching trees in half because he’s a monk now and giggling the whole time

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One more thought on the BG3 fandom critical blog (I'm not tagging this so whomever finds it, finds it):

I am sure the person creating it believes they are doing it in good faith. So did the people who started the anon journals on LiveJournal, etc., in fandom past. The problem is this type of thing goes toxic very, very fast. The only difference with publishing the asks is that the person running it has to approve all of them, whereas it was a free for all on the anon journals.

My feeling on this is the same as the fic reviews blog that I'm not sure if it's up or not still. Fic review sites were big in 2000s fandom and were MEAN.

Again, I do believe these ideas are well-intentioned, but my elder millennial self has a lot of concerns over history repeating itself.

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That blog is a stupid idea, and it's only going to introduce more negativity into the fandom.

Yikes, never blocked something so fast in my life. Not that I think people can't have reasonable issues, but this is an inevitable trainwreck.

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WIP whenever time!

I finally, after a month, dusted off the final chapter of Rolan the Quick. Wrote this interaction this morning before work and liked it a lot. These idiots. 💙

If you see this post, it's your sign to share a WIP!

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He knew he was about to poke the bear, but Zevlor, wise as he was, was still a man, and he was still prone to frustration with his beloved but often infuriating partner. “Are you satisfied?” he couldn’t help but ask.

Mavari’s tail thrashed violently. “I love you very much,” she replied in a tone that said if you don’t leave me alone, I’m going to shave your head.

He, wisely, decided not to comment further.

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bicep meme 2 electric boogaloo with dame aylin and isobel

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cal (Baldur's Gate)/Original Character(s), Cal/Tav (Baldur's Gate) Characters: Cal (Baldur's Gate), Original Non-Binary Character Additional Tags: Dancing Lessons, Waltzing, Slice of Life, Cute, Tiefling Tav (Baldur's Gate), Nonbinary Tav (Baldur's Gate), Sweet Summary:

Hired by Rolan, Diadon teaches their clumsy partner to dance so he can hold his own at society functions.

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I realized I forgot to share here, as well! <3 A commission I did for @turquoiseoverthesea. Thank you, Turquoise!

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they moved wyll to the center for good pr

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I love this picture. Gary knows what he did. Face of a criminal.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Bex/Danis (Baldur's Gate), Cal & Lia & Rolan (Baldur's Gate), Tilses & Zevlor (Baldur's Gate), Guex & Pandirna (Baldur's Gate) Characters: Zevlor (Baldur's Gate), Zevlor's Cat, Guex (Baldur's Gate), Bex (Baldur's Gate), Danis (Baldur's Gate), Tilses (Baldur's Gate), Rolan (Baldur's Gate), Lia (Baldur's Gate), Cal (Baldur's Gate), Pandirna (Baldur's Gate), Tiefling Refugees (Baldur's Gate) Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Slice of Life, Cute, Fun, Cat, Pet Cat, Alternate Universe, is this the new evelyn? Summary:

If only the Tiefling refugees had a certain one eyed, damaged eared veteran with them, things might have turned out very differently for them. AKA "what if Zevlor had a pet cat that everyone took seriously."

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Something silly and fun and dumb for your morning!

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Getting a lot of likes on this lately, which was a little surprising but definitely not unwelcome! I need to do more Hellcrow art.

And we're getting closer to Zevlor and Urich meeting in the main fic, hee hee hee~

When your warlock patron decides to introduce himself to your paladin boyfriend...this will go well.

"Oh, is this Daddy?" "...that's Commander to you, demon." "Okay, Commander Daddy."

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plane touched and pixelated

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unable to form coherent thoughts abt wyll ravengard so i made this to best represent how i feel abt him. i am scratching at the walls

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Figuring out Dammon in the story.

Been mulling this over in my head since I started writing the recent chapter of Time and Again. It was out of sight, out of mind until the resurrection ritual for Reasons. But, now that I'm at the point where Heartforge is happening, I'm having second thoughts.

In the end I have my decision for how I'm handling it, but I need to word vomit some feelings about the whole thing. Spoiler warning for the fic and cw: Fr*zer.

We're a bit away from the blowup with Fr*zer. A lot of the fandom's heavy focus on Dammon has moved on, as it does, but the impact of what FB's said and done still lingers, as it also does.

I'll be upfront here: My enjoyment of Dammon as a character has always been that he was a vehicle for Karlach and HER story. And I was okay with that, because, damn, I LIKED that the female character was the important one and a male character was her prop. How often does that happen? And, although I loved Heartforge a lot, liking that ship was ALSO because of Karlach. In Dammon, we have a character whose function in the game is to further Karlach's story; without his involvement, he might as well be any of the other Tiefling refugees who fade into the background for the majority of players. (And, if Twitter is to believed, DID despite him being the reason Karlach's engine worked the way it did.)

I've said to people before that I didn't care much for Dammon until I started writing him, and then I liked the voice I came up with for him. I liked the angle of someone going through the stages of grief over the potential of a person. It led to some fun moments and more that were slotted into a "let's write this later as a companion piece to the main story." I like him developing a friendships with Rolan and Zevlor, and the mostly off screen friendship with Lyric. I really liked my voice for Dammon, and, frankly, getting to explore feelings I don't often get to in writing.

Now, to sidebar slightly: Fr*zer. If you've looked at his social media or Cameos at all, you'd know how heavily he pushed for Heartforge, and how much he DIDN'T want Dammon in other ships. Heartforge was very much the actor endorsed ship, which, at the time, didn't really bother me, since I liked it.

But then, of course, everything came out. And, although many people can still enjoy the character outside of Fr*zer's involvement, many others had trouble with Dammon despite that, and even more so in their ships. At the time, I was more focused on what was happening with the community rather than addressing him in my own writing, and so I put it out of my mind.

Then, of course, we reach the chapter with the resurrection ritual, which I had been building up to for months. And, as I was writing it, I realized a few things:

To me specifically, writing Heartforge felt like it was ultimately rewarding Fr*zer. And, while I have the capacity to write it in such a way that would make it work still, I don't like the ship enough to put effort into it. I'd rather spend that effort on the ships I love in the fic.

The way I had written Dammon's reaction to Karlach's death and his focus on her in his grief sets him up for having very high and potentially unrealistic expectations for her and the relationship. Same with her in response: They built up this idealized version of each other in their heads, and now they have to face who the other person is.

Fr*zer's weird obsession with Heartforge can be translated pretty easily to Dammon having a weird obsession with Karlach.

And, at the end of the day, I'm much more interested in writing things I feel that others aren't exploring. Writing an awkward breakup and figuring out how to navigate that sounds both fun as a writer and cathartic for me personally (to let me sort out my own feelings). It may not make me popular with Heartforge fans, but, let's be real: Fans of Time and Again aren't reading it for Heartforge. ;)

So, Dammon's strange feelings that something was off and the fact that Karlach thinking about returning and not immediately focusing on Dammon were purposeful decisions, and I'm excited to write where that leads.

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HEY, GUESS WHAT? IT'S FINALLY TIME FOR KARLACH'S RESURRECTION RITUAL. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

Chapter update and the accompanying fic from Karlach's point of view!