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So so normal about this game

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I was editing a YouTube video and this still just-

Instantly reminded me of this:

Same energy.

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#bg3 #100% agree with all this #ants are awesome

My barometer for friendship is whether or not a person will let me talk about ants to them. Ants are the best animals in the world. So, as the sane person I am, I decided to speculate whether or not BG3 characters would let me talk about ants.

1. Gale

He would not be interested in the ants themselves, however he would enjoy learning previously unknown facts. He'd be genuinely interested and thank me afterwards for teaching him something new.

2. Shadowheart

In the game she states she loves animals, however I get the vibe this mostly means larger animals. Especially in the state she's in for the majority of the game, before she leaves Shar, I do not think Shadowheart would listen to me talk about ants. She'd not see the point in talking about something so trivial.

3. Lae'zel

Her first response would be something along the lines of: "cht, we do not have ants on the astral plane, why should I care?"

But then I show her the resemblance between ant culture and githyanki culture and she'd be impressed how all ants are ferocious warriors, who also care about the collective and have a queen. She'd come to appreciate ants through my stories and be willing to listen.

4. Astarion

As much as Astarion is one of my favourite characters, there is not a chance he will listen to me talk about ants. He will tap out after the first 10 seconds because of boredom and he would not see the point. He likely thinks insects are pests.

5. Halsin

He would be pleasantly surprised I'm showing such interest in a small and heavily under appreciated animal. However, when he hears how at least part of my admiration comes from their talent in warfare, he is not so pleased anymore.

I think he'd listen to me out of politeness, but not enjoy ants in and of themselves.

6. Wyll

He wouldn't be interested in ants, however he is too polite to show this. He would let me talk about ants and thank me for sharing afterwards, but not because he is interested in what I'm saying and more because he thinks its good I am sharing something important with him.

7. Karlach

A difficult one. I think it can go either of two ways. Either I manage to catch her attention about the battle prowess of ants within the first 10 seconds of this conversation, and she'd get pretty excited about what I am telling her. Or I do not and she zones out after the first 30 seconds because she seems to have a short attention span.

I'd have to throw in the impressive stuff right at the start, while I personally save best for last.

8. Minthara

She is my favourite character, so at first I was a bit sad that she likely wouldn't listen to me talk about ants.

However, then I realised this is not true. In game she mentions showing interest and asking questions about githyanki culture to Lae'zel, because she admires certain qualities it has. I think when she learns about how ants have perfected the art of warfare, live in an exclusively matriarchal society, have managed to take over the entire world without anything in the way to stop them, she'd be equally impressed and eager to learn more.

Thats is guys, hope you enjoyed.

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Fcking wild that I can read and narrate 200+ hours worth of visual novels but if I pick up a piece of paper in BG3 that's got more than two sentences on it my brain goes "too much text, we're not reading that".

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Low-key obsessed with the idea that this means you get married by way of fist bump or high five.

I was looking up weddings in Waterdeep for no reason and

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Should've known the thing that would actually bring me back to Tumblr is autistic-coded wizard brainrot...

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Reblog to have Kiryu find a cat for you

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My kingdom, my kingdom for friends who like Yakuza / RGG

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No ones asking you to go outside and make out with a wasp or become the worlds #1 wasp advocate we’re asking you to stop making “death to all wasps” and “wasps are evil” into a personality trait because, for people like me, who do work with and care about these creatures and their importance public perception is so incredibly interlinked with conservation

“Save the bees” for example, is incredibly popular but public is almost entirely applied to the European Honey Bee, a commercial species that is farmed by humans and therefore has the benefit of human protections. The bees actually dying out big time? Native bees. Unsurprisingly the commercially beneficial honey bee often directly competes with native bees, harming their populations, and those native bees (which are often solidary species) don’t get the benefit of human care. But most people aren’t thinking about the native bees when they want to help, because they don’t even realize that the bees really struggling are ones that buried 3 feet in dirt and not the cool honeycomb building ones. 

Wasps? Who have an actively harmful, negative stereotype where people hate them because their “big mean bully bugs”? do you think they’re getting researched? Funding for conservation? You think people are looking to donate to campaigns that focus on helping obscure wasp populations? Research for obscure flies? Tracking parasite populations? No. You can’t even make a positive comment on social media without getting a literal hoard of people telling you how much you need to know that they personally hate wasps and will kill on sight. The research done for these species that people hate so much? It’s usually done by a literal handful of people.  People who like bugs and wasps aren’t asking you to be their best friend and invite them over for tea. We’re asking that people remove this public, widespread unfounded hatred for an entire group of species, a species group so diverse some people think it might actually outnumber beetles, so that people who do care about them can.

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Drew a rosy maple moth (Dryocampa rubicunda)! Reference image can be found here.  The colors turned out nice but I couldn’t resist adding the grayscale version.    Might draw more moths this week too, probably on stream.

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Well that Twitch link didn’t work as I intended it to... Taking a break now but gonna be back in an hour or so with more M O T H E 

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I’m bored and had a bad day, time to draw a moth!

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Painted my record player for the ArtStation InMyHomeJam. Never gonna get over how wonky the shape of the record is compared to the reference photo but the rest turned out pretty alright. 

Timelapse/process video here~

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Drew a squirrel for my grandma. Made a timelapse/process video to go with it too! 

And here’s the reference photo. 

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Self portrait. Real messy, which is half for The Aesthetic and half me being lazy.

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Sketch dump part 2 

Chameleon reference Rabbit reference Chick reference

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Being-A-Creative-On-Tumblr-Culture is going through all of the 24 reblogs on your post with 357 notes just to get just enough serotonin to get through your day by reading what the five god sent people who left tags wrote