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BG3 — A Spawn's Best Friend🐾

(Astarion & Scratch)

Exactly year ago, I made people cry with this animatic... So I'm bringing it back 🫡 Since I wasn't active on Tumblr back then...

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When your group is full of weirdos

(Yes I think Astarion would smoke slims)

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Ok gooners HAVE SOME MORE OF HIM 🗣️🗣️🗣️

(feat. mage hand poor guy)

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Loviatar's Blessing prints | patreon (this is the mini in the print club for the month of May!)

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All eyes on me

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I have a proposal towards the bg3 fandom:

✨Them✨🥹

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I couldn't r e s i s t...🌶🌶🌶

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Shatterworld

Barely employable, millennial disaster, and perpetual undergrad Ellie is transported to a fantasy world that is unfortunately more disposed towards war and ecological disaster than elf orgies and pipeweed. She immediately meets the chosen one, destined to defeat the Evil King™, but the BBEG is offering better job security and benefits.

^ the portal fantasy series I self-published while in law school, because law school was a whole time and I needed to hyper-fixate on nonsense to cope. It's very pre-2016 vibes and I am planning a rewrite, but the original version is still available.

Princess In Another Podcast

My friends and I talk about video games, covering important topics like did the Fable games actually do sex scenes better than Witcher 3? Is it okay if I name my first born daughter Bayonetta? (yes and yes)

Trope Town

A discord server where I have my WIPs listed on different channels, with links to the rough drafts so that people can alpha read them and bully me <3 but for real, I am very interested in getting critical feedback, especially as I work on several projects in a genre I don't have a ton of experience with... it's romantasy, I'm trying to get into writing romantasy.

SpaceMonkeySalsa on Ao3

I also write fanfiction. For the last couple of years I've been a bit obsessed with Baldur's Gate 3. Here's my three main fics and their statuses.

God of Ambivalence

I haven't written on this one in a while, because I got a bit discouraged when I discovered Gale's canon fate inside the rock, but I do want to go back to it, because it's fully outlined and I think it's kind great. Basically, Gale "survives" getting maimed by a durge at the beginning of this playthrough. But, flash forward about a hundred years and he's finally freed from a state of Netherese stasis to discover... very little has changed. Oh, except that about a hundred years ago a bunch of adventurers (including someone who ate his hand) saved Baldur's Gate by making a deal with the very devil that Gale had been trying to score an audience with, to help with his orb problem. Now, he's the archdevil Raphael, and a major player in a war in the hells that's raged ever since. And he still wants to talk to Gale.

^Based off of a playthrough with my resisted durge Prisia. She did start off rough by chewing through Gale's wrist, and making a few other mistakes, but she eventually got her act together, fell madly in love with Wyll, defied her father, and helped everyone achieve self-actualization.

Appetites

This was supposed to be a short smut piece about an unromanced and depressed Ascended Astarion, about five years after the game, figuring out that getting everything he wanted hasn't made him happy. It's turned into more of a project about how even the shittiest possible versions of ourselves aren't truly hopeless, and deserve love. The hook would probably be that he inadvertently starts a torrid affair with a woman who he later figures out is the only remaining Gur in the city, after he murdered the absolute shit out of the rest of her family five years ago. Oops.

Her Embrace, Her Tears

This naturally evolves from the above-mentioned idea "even the shittiest possible versions of ourselves aren't truly hopeless, and deserve love" and follows Shadowheart as the Head of Shar's church, and her strained relationship with Lae'zel, who is one of the few characters from this campaign that turned out OK. It crosses with Appetites, sharing a few scenes, though I switch up the POV. The hook here is Shar has a new Chosen, and it's someone with significance to Lae'zel, which finally brings their long-buried issues to a head. Shadowheart begins purging her memories of Lae'zel in an attempt to better serve her goddess. So, really just a vehicle for Lae'zel v. Shadowheart lesbian angst and smut.

future projects:

Bring No One - Same universe as Her Embrace, Her Tears, and Appetites, this one is about Duke Ravenguard who had his heart broken by Gale after they saved the city together. Gale became a god, as one does, and because duty and common sense kept Wyll from joining him in Elysium, they haven't spoken since. Being Duke has kept him busy enough. But, being a god doesn't actually offer the kind of stability one might hope, and when things get very bad for him, Gale needs somewhere to run. Wyll just can't say no to harboring the renegade god in Baldur's Gate, even if it puts his people in danger.

In Her Name - Also in the same universe, Minthara couldn't let Karlach go to hell alone. At first, it felt like nothing more than a futile, foolish romantic gesture, or maybe even a ruse to stay close to her until she could convince her to burn out her light in the pursuit of something great, but it ultimately became a mission to conquer hell, so Karlach can finally know peace.

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Hello! Today is my birthday and I'll be glad if you share my arts❤

Thank you so much for your love guys! You're my brightest light. Love you! ❤

last month was quiet because of hiatus. But it's time to start fresh 🍃

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Took a break from writing a book to draw characters from my book 💜

I haven't liked anything I've drawn in a while enough to share, but I gotta get better about that 😤

This is Senta and Florenza, they are in love but neither of them has admitted it yet.

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Spectacular give me 14 of em right now

(painting studies) <3

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"Hope"

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He's in his home, don't bother him.

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I noticed this excellent wing mod on consoles, Soaring Ambition by Nikjima, and it gave me an idea for a modded playthrough.

I made Arueshalae, so now I will be able to see my girlfriends kiss 🥰

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went to a spa the other week and thought about absolutely nothing but this the whole time. gale was a team effort so thank you @ladymurgatroid for the phrase ‘retired old lady workout regimen’.

i know shadowheart can learn to swim in the course of the game but there is no way she’s good at it. she is forcibly removed from the floatie when karlach cannonballs too close to the sun, and spends the rest of the day on a lounger insisting that she isn’t sulking.

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It's all coming up Astarion.

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I clean this one a little more! ✨ Based on Il Bacio (1859) by Francesco Hayez