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Asking Gale what you thought was a simple yes/no question

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Mahbe...just a little....

🐸 #LAEZELMANCERWEEK 🐸

Chk. Spread the word...

It is here again and happening.

⚔️ Lae'zelmancer Week is back, starting from September 1 to September 7. Anyone can join: artists, editors, virtual photographers, writers, etc. ⚔️

All Lae'zel ships are included:

Lae'zel/Tav

Lae'zel/Durge

Lae'zel/Origin Companions

Lae'zel/Non-Origin Companions

Lae'zel/NPCs

Lae'zel/Crossovers

Lae'zel/YOU

Double Prompts are featured again because I like giving participants options and it's more fun that way too. Do one, do both, or do a combination; the possibilities are all endless.

Hosting on:

Here, Tumblr Twitter BlueSky

Make sure to tag your work as #laezelmancerweek and/or #laezelmancerweek2025

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Aldiirn and his cousin Taldiirn

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I can't comment directly but I can speak about my browsing habits and its more of an open letter to Tumblr. I don't like being drowned in content. I like finding OC's I like and getting to know them and their creators more than an endless deluge of memes, screenshots and quotes with 'Mah OC' scribbled on it. I prefer reading about OCs in linear fashion, but tumblr hurls things at you like a Pollock and if like me you go away for a couple days chances are I'm going to miss what you updated posted in the endless tumblr waterfall. Its why tags and a nice tumblr layout mean a lot to me. I also tend to prefer following people who invest in a single OC, rather than dozens because I like seeing a long list of them because, well I don't remember that OC posted about once or twice. Not gonna lie, I have an excel sheet with OCs I keep an eye on to remind me little tidbits about them. I have a link folder of those OCs which I just work my way through rather than Tumblr's FOR YOU or FOLLOWED pages because its often like gobbling at an All You Can Eat Buffet, filling up on cheap stuff, rather than relishing high quality content.

I call it The Endless Waterfall, flushing your hard work down the river so that maybe back accident someone will stumble upon it. It must suck as a new creator, with a new OC, trying to get

I'd kill for personal fansites to come back into vogue (geocities, angelfire is oldschool, neocities.com and wix are around) so I can just indulge in what I'm looking for- cool OCs I can really love. I prefer Quality over Quantity. I don't gravitate towards 'hey I'm posting so you don't forget I exist' which I totally get, algorithm and all that, but not my poison.

I'll comment with my thoughts and feelings because I know how uplifting and rewarding personalised words are for motivation. Emoticons are nice, comments are cherished. I hope that if I commented on your stuff, your day was a little brighter. I know what its like to work really hard on something, feel that emotional connection to your art, and then get lost in the Endless Waterfall is disheartening, knowing its going to be a while before you can post something again for that little dopamine hit of 'I see you, you are not shouting into the void'.

But if you take your time with your creations, with love and effort and care, it's worth it. Rather than stumble across you on my days off threw endless scrolling, I will look for you because you are worth it.

be honest with me do I post too much

edit: conclusion in comments: no :)

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😗🦶 [Gale disapproves]

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Two more companions in battle

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More Tav’s to meet! I have to say how much I appreciate cast diversity. Each has distinct character design, silhouettes and even with quick summary, personality. Keep going, I’m here for it!

Issue 2 Cover: The Wilderness

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The sanity break is going good, I'm getting some stuff done IRL, and HatG is on track to start up again on time on July 1. Since I'm at a cover I'm going to attach the "What even is this???" post again, both for the pinned post on my main and because I started sharing this a few new places like 2/3 of the way through issue one and people definitely missed it.

What is ‘A Host At The Gate?”

HatG is a Baldur's Gate 3 fan comic where I tossed a whole bunch of my Tavs together into a single huge party. Hilarity ensues. The title is a pun I came up with on the fly that ended up sticking; I can't decide if I regret it or not lol.

Who Are the Tavs?

A guy who was just trying to do crimes and is furious to realize he has just become a paladin accidentally

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The skrunkliest little rat boy of a drow you've ever seen

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Disney's first gnome princess, getting more use out of her doctorate on this quest than anywhere else tbh

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Halfling bard making heart eyes at Karlach from approximately knee height (gay)

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Knowledge cleric banned from the set of Mythbusters for safety violations that could have lost them a bunch of permits

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Good Eilistraean dad of Imberlur origin who will make you tea after your big, dramatic character moments

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Exactly one (1) competent project manager fighting all the gods at once to make sure we don't game-over because someone lost a Nether Stone in the bottom of the camp chest.

Do I need to have finished the whole game for this to make sense?

Not really. It helps if saw out the opening cinematic but it should otherwise speak for itself for the most part. Spoilers left and right though.

If I get my way about it, I will eventually go through the whole game with this cast. That is a years long project if I succeed, so life being what it is we'll see how far I get in reality.

How often do you update?

Whenever the next page gets done, so it depends on what my week has been like. I made myself a little sticker chart on google sheets to track my daily drawing goals, so you can usually get a pretty close idea of when to expect the next page.

Next regular page will be July 1; I’m taking some time off at the end of June so I don’t go fully insane looking at the same project constantly.

Content Warnings?

In the long run, about the same as the game its based on. Mature rating overall. Dead dove etc.

Also

1 million thanks to the handful of people who have been following HatG so far, it genuinely means the world to me.

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Belaufein has a name! He's also teeny. I was always surprised that the average height's of drow, but he's on the smaller side even for them! That is a fantastic group shot and I do appreciate seeing body differences between the characters. I feel the same way; Lae'zel is tall and sinewy, Shadowheart a tad more voluptuous.

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I always love it when there's a page like this at the end of stuff. These gags predate most of the comic so far lmao.

REGULAR PAGES RESUME JULY 1

The Issue 2 cover will be sometime either this week or next week, and then I'm taking a break for the rest of June. Happy Pride month, y'all!

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Hell yeah! Your first chapter was so satisfying. I love the colour palette and how easily you can simplify the complex structures of the Nautiloid, the illithid, the cambion without taking away their readability. Mate, what a triumph!

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I did not expect to get these last couple of pages out so fast, but I've been laid up this week, so I've done pretty much nothing but this for the last three days. Might take a bit of time off once I post the Issue 2 cover just so I don't fully go insane lol.

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Lae'zel, you are epic. I love seeing the explosion fling her back, I can feel the momentum!

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As you can tell from the third update in three days, I've had some time on my hands this week lmao.

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Bold strategy! Let's see if it plays off! Those cambion, jabbing tridents at me! Cool perspective!

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This bluff probably would have worked better if he weren't himself holding the the dead guy's sword.

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Ahh! I know, Us that greedy little kill stealer! I got back at him by accidently selling his summon to a random seller and not being able to find him again.

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Fun fact, this is based directly on my own playthrough. The only time I ever beat Zhalk without mods, Us got the kill shot.

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I can really fee the force of panel seven, a perfect cleave!

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IDK if that panel 2 moment of Shadowheart offscreen helping Lae'zel get closer to the console reads as well as I hoped, but I really like that it happened this early.

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Oh, good look at that crown! It's nice to see screenshots, but nothing will compare to your magical, stunning art.

My pookies can be real in my stupid mechanical box under my table...

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I would totally dig her as a recruitable character!

Did you know that you can fuck up Babette's quest and she turns into a hag? That's creepy!

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I had never encountered the term Hexblood before but it led me down a rabbit whole. Your Babsi has a wistful beauty about her and I will look forward to findout out more about her.

Alternative timeline where you don't recruit Babsi and she travels along the tiefling refugees.

I am so not normal about them.

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My god, they're haunting and I love it!

Did somebody ask for the solo pieces from the little comic? No?

Too bad,