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Bard casts vicious mockery: “Hag-shouldered scum-vestige!”

Graphic designer casts vicious mockery:

[Another 100% fake cover to go along with the first one. Note, no burn intended on Withers here! He’s currently the most sought-after party planner in Faerun.]

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Commissison

For Spainst8ofmind on twitter

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Riven did it! She got the BEST interaction with Astarion, I'm so proud of her!

This is the love of your life, Astarion. You just haven't acknowledged it yet.

How to actually get this interaction from him is somewhat tricky and folks online have been frustratingly vague and unhelpful about it, so spoilers about the Githyanki Creche and the Blood of Lavender Lathander quest in Act 1 under the cut.

The Blood of Lathander is a relic weapon you can acquire in the Rosymorn Monastery. Solving a puzzle and obtaining a crest will disable all traps and essentially deem you worthy of claiming the relic.

You have to ignore solving the puzzle and getting the crest entirely and choose to steal the relic instead. Stealing it will activate the temple's defenses, a large Solar Lance, and Astarion will need to perish with at least one of your party members making it out. (I don't know if any other companions have a cutscene if they die like this, but it's worth exploring.)

To get this dialogue:

Go to the Inquisitor's office inside the Githyanki Creche.

Locate the statues in an alcove to the west.

Turn the right statue so that it faces east towards the rising sun.

Use the Grease spell or a scroll to WD-40 the left statue and turn it west facing the setting sun.

Pay attention to the plaques if you get confused.

Go past the now open hidden door and destroy the crystal powering the magic barrier.

Disarm the traps immediately as they can one-shot your party.

Go around the next magic barrier using a curving path on your left.

Disarm the next trap and shoot the crystal on an unreachable lower level to disable the last barrier.

Dismiss the party members you don't need back to camp, but keep Astarion with you.

Save save save.

Take the relic and ignore the cutscene warning. Astarion will approve this, which makes this even funnier.

You will have four turns to escape the monastery before the Solar Lance on the roof destroys the place and kills everyone inside. Astarion will tell you not to worry your pretty little head about it.

Misty step out of the forcefield and run to the portal in front of you. Do not go back the way you came.

You can either have Astarion semi-accompany you or leave him behind. It's imperative that he dies on the premises once the lance fires.

Dash like hell across the roof, and use a Feather Fall potion or spell to allow you to jump off straight to the ground.

You can either ran to the map-marked safe zone, which my rogue managed, but you can apparently also use the monastery Waymark as your goal.

After the cutscene, Astarion's soul orb should appear next to you. Do not use magic or a revivial scroll to resurrect him because you won't get the cutscene.

Go to camp and have Withers revive him instead. Payment is 200 gold.

Sit back and laugh.

Consquences:

Everyone left in the creche WILL die, so make sure you wrap up all the things you need to do there. I had already made enemies of the creche and killed most people inside, so it was very low stakes for me.

Lae'zel will be understandably pissed at you and will initiate a cutscene as soon as you approach her. I had already gotten a lot of approval up with her and convinced her that her queen and the creche were up to some shady shit, so I don't know if this is a deal-breaker for her to leave your party with low approval/mistrust.

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Halsin tiddy shots never get old.

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every time i draw them being cute together i have to also draw them being deeply irritating to maintain perspective and universal balance

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When no one is looking...

I'd say it's a wip, but I'm not sure if I'll continue, more like do one( or more) better

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Drakka 1/?

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Miss Congeniality (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

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Hi!

Just finished re-reading Desert Blooms and Western Wind, and gearing up for Becoming Whole and wanted to remind you how awesome you are!

But my actual point, I stumbled across you during my AloyxDrakka phase and then you managed to suck me right in to Kotaloy…

And then I got in to BG3, which you were right behind with Kiss me on the Mouth & Someone Great. And I have to confess I wasn’t all too keen on exploring a Halsin ship, let alone a HalsinxAstarionxTav ship but you’ve sucked me right in to that too…

And while my brain festered away on Rolan, I stumbled across Catskarky’s Mass Effect comics which preemptively started my GarrusxShepard phase (and forced me out to buy the trilogy which I’m now just concluding). And so anyway, that got me thinking and I vaguely recalled that I’d seen you had previously dabbled in the ME fanfic space and I was right, and I’ve come to this conclusion:

You are the ultimate source of good games and great ships (ignoring your unfortunate Shakarian oversight lol). So please, please share your wisdom! Recommend anything and everything. I literally value no one’s opinion more in this!

HAHAHA OKAY BUT this made me laugh, both with delight that you've enjoyed so many of my beloved ships -- but also because Shakarian is my OG ship. Garrus Vakarian is my first-ever OG videogame boyfriend LMAOOO. The reason I haven't written any significant fic for him is that my Shepard picks the control ending, meaning that she sacrifices herself to save the geth and EDI and thus she essentially "dies" and leaves beloved Garrus alone... and I could never write that. I can write angsty-ending ships, but I just don't have the heart to write a ship where one member of the pairing literally dies. (And no, I've never considered doing a non-canon workaround because I really like the control ending as it is, which may be an unpopular opinion, but I'm sticking to it!)

I have written one (1) Shakarian oneshot, though!! It was shortly after MELE came out and one of my BFFs got into Shakarian, so I wanted to see if I could bring myself to write them, but this oneshot is as far as I got, sadly 😭❤

(more below the cut!)

As for other game recommendations: off the top of my head, Dragon Age and the Witcher come to mind -- specifically Dragon Age: Inquisition and The Witcher 3, which are both the third installments of their respective series. DA:I has historically been the greatest source of fic inspiration for me, and my Geralt/Reader series might actually be my favourite body of work. You can play both of these games without having played the previous two games -- this is what I did, and both games are among my top 5 favourites!

To prepare for playing these games, beloved friends had recommended some primer articles for me, which basically just introduce you to the lore and the worldstate so you can jump in. Those articles are here, if you decide to check out these games:

The Witcher worldstate for dummies

The Dragon age worldstate for dummies

As for the rest of the Witcher and Dragon Age games: I can't speak for The Witcher 1 and 2, since I haven't played them, sadly! I played the first Dragon Age game (Origins) once, and I... struggled a lot because the gameplay shows its age now. I'M SORRY TO EVERYONE WHO SWEARS BY IT, but I just didn't enjoy playing all of it. The storytelling is good and the companions are a treat, but I wouldn't be able to play it a second time.

I loved Dragon Age 2, and I adore the companion dynamics in DA2 even moreso than in Inquisition, but I actually have only played DA2 one and a half times, mainly because the gameplay is also dated now. It's definitely playable though, certainly moreso than DA:O in my humble opinion, so I would recommend it! And I will say this for DA2: Fenris is the canon romance that I fell the hardest for and have written the most for, of all my videogame LIs. Take that to mean what you will. 🤣

If you like anime, my top two favourite animes are ones that I've also written for: Samurai Champloo (which would be considered retro now 😭💀) and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Both of these anime made me cry for very different reasons, and I highly recommend them! You also don't need to have played Cyberpunk 2077 in order to follow and enjoy Edgerunners (I haven't played it), so don't worry about that!

In terms of other recommendations, you can check out my writing masterpost, which lists all the fandoms I've written for and the ships within them. This could help you decide on what you want to play (or watch) next! ❤

If you want any more recommendations (movies, shows, books etc), feel free to hit me up with another ask or a DM! NOT THAT I CONSIDER MYSELF ANY KIND OF AUTHORITY ON ANYTHING LMAOOOO, I'M JUST A POTATO SMUT WRITER, I swear I'd only offer this if someone asked first 🤣🤣🤣

Enjoy!!! And THANK YOU GENUINELY for the praise!! You don't know how much it thrill me when people tell me that they got started with one of my ships and trusted me enough to try ones that they'd not considered before. It means the world! 😭❤❤❤

-- much love from your friendly neighbourhood Pika! xoxo

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Genuinly just inhaled the chamomile and gwent series and I don’t know how long it’s been since you even thought about it but thank you so much honestly for writing it. I only know the Witcher games from my gamer friends (I just suck so bad at video games and have given up) and i am so glad I did or else I never would never have found this amazing piece of writing. Honestly I don’t know much about the relationship between Gerald or Yennefer and now I don’t even want to from how amazing this relationship was. Again, thank you for being your talented self and I’m so excited to read more of your work!!

Ahhh omg this is the nicest ask, thank you so much!!! 🥰 I'm so thrilled that you got to experience the game through your friends -- it's honestly one of my top-three favourite games of all time! And okay, I'm obviously biased, but I'm extremely flattered that you enjoyed my fic enough to not be curious about Geralt and Yennefer's past LMAO. 🤣

Thank YOU for taking the time to leave me this wonderful comment and for brightening my day!!! I will leave you with this happy Geralt in thanks!

For anyone who is curious and wants to check out the series: Chamomile and Gwent is here on AO3! Geralt x f!Reader, 3 fics, 600k+ words, rated E for smut! 🥰

-- love and thanks from your friendly neighbourhood Pikapeppa! xoxo

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Breaking Bad 2.13 "ABQ" Better Call Saul 6.08 "Point and Shoot"

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We all know Scratch is the best boy 😁 (sorry Gale)

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Finally posting the HFW zine piece I did over a year ago. Meant to put it up a couple weeks ago and completely forgot, but it works out because today is Aloy's birthday!

While physical copies of the zine are sold out at this point, leftover merch and PDFs are still available to buy until the 6th here!

This artwork gets the award for longest I've ever spent on a single piece, clocking in at somewhere between 200-300 hours

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Astarion References

uncompressed + unedited full size images on google drive here

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Halsin References

uncompressed + unedited full size images on google drive here

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It's Drakka loving hours again, don't mind me

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