I like bloodweave. Okay. But I DON'T like the version of them in fanfic where Astarion is a dick and Gale is like. Whining and pleading for him to be emotionally vulnerable (or just. Nice to him) prior to the relationship being established. Because that is just not accurate. Gale needs the player to express interest in him during his weave-teaching scene before he even considers hitting on them properly. Gale is entirely resigned to his fate and needs someone else to pull him away from it. Gale only starts being sweet and romantic and devoted after you accept his love confession and give him hope for the future. Gale says fuck all and then slinks away to cry privately if you break up with him.
Like he isn't chasing after people lmao. He isn't dropping to his knees and crying about anything much less this dickhead he met a week ago. He is overwhelmingly passive about literally everything personal to him up to and including his own death (provided there are no casualties/there is a good reason) until after the player expresses that they care about him. Astarion is not doing that in any of these fics.
Like Gale is friendly and a dork and doesn't wanna get murdered but he fully has a suicide plan. He thought the artefacts would help him survive but he didn't believe he'd ever truly live again. If Gale confessed and Astarion said/did like one (1) mean thing afterward Gale's romance is closed off forever. He's wandering into the forest to cry. He's killing himself immediately. His fragile ego and self worth can't take it. You have to understand that when we joke about him being pathetic it's not bc he's like. Sopping wet and chasing people down and begging for a scrap of attention. It's because he craves affection but would literally rather die than ask or even hope for it until someone else forces that hope back into his serotonin-deficient tadpole brain.
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If there was one thing you needed to know about Steve Harrington, it was that he did not let anyone touch his hair. Robin learned this pretty early on, when she had been on the receiving end of a glare that could kill. This small fact about Steve led to what could quite possibly be considered the weirdest interaction Robin had with her best friend, even more odd than being drugged by Russians and ending up becoming friends on the floor of a mall bathroom.
Steve and Robin were working their shift at family video, as usual. Robin was distracting herself with whatever tape they had in, and Steve was combing his fingers through his hair repeatedly, with a scrunched face.
Robin assumed he was just trying to fix his hair, he did that often, repeatedly shifted his hair saying it didn't 'feel right'. At least thats what Robin thought until Steve turned to her and asked "Does my hair look greasy?"
"What?"
"My hair, does it look greasy?"
"No?"
"It feels greasy."
"It looks the same as always dude." Robin assumed this would end the conversation but Steve turned toward her again a few seconds later.
"Feel it."
"What?"
"Does it feel greasy?"
Robins hand shot toward Steves head. A chance to touch that hair? No way was she giving that up. Her fingers ran across the top of Steves head.
How the hell is THIS greasy?
If clouds felt how they looked, rather than just feeling wet, Steves hair would feel like that. It was so silky.
Robin only had about a second of sensory heaven before Steve was snatching Robins hand off his head.
"So? Does it feel greasy?"
"No."
"Well does it feel any different than usual?"
"I wouldn't know what it felt like usually."
Just then the door swung open, Eddie walked over to the counter, probably planning to bug Steve.
"Eddie, I need your assistance. Steve has himself convinced his hair is 'greasy'."
Eddie scrunched his eyes at Steves head, before looking down to see Steves face.
"It looks the same as always?"
"Well does it feel different?"
Eddie ran his fingers through Steves hair, and Robin swore Steve practically leaned into the touch.
"Jeez, it does feel different. You forget to wash it or something?"
"I washed it! Your the one who doesn't wash his hair!"
Robin didn't hear what the two said next, she was too caught up in two extremely important questions.
If that was Steves hair greasy, what did it feel like normally.
Has Eddie touched Steves hair before? AND STEVE LET HIM?
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I'm drenched in sweat when I wake up, need to hang up my sheets
Pour up a beer and walk out with no shoes on my feet
And I don't need nobody tell me how to dress
I look in the mirror saying, "Man, you're the best"
And I'm sorry, honey, but I gotta confess
Don't give a fuck about you, I could really care less
I ain't your average normal dude
It sure ain't glamorous, but I keep things loose
I ain't your average punk rock loser
Yeah, I'm a savage, I'm really cool
Love this song by Viagra Boys. Gives me big Shitkid/Superstar Cop/Pre-Martinaise-Harry vibes. He ain't your average disco loser.
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