I just watched Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga for the first time and ??????? It was really fun! Deeply weird though. It had three good jokes that really worked for me:
1. Salvador Sobral’s song (I really love it, it won for a reason) being an absolutely magical piece of ost that was revealed to be sung by him as a street musician performing for money, which shows you the true cultural significance of the competition, sorry.
2. The fact that it was obvious from the first second that the Russian singer was gay.
3. Will Ferrell hating on Americans.
It’s really weird to know it’s an American movie because I don’t see it working out there at all. I liked everything that wasn’t straight from a script writer’s textbook (misunderstandings, forced conflict etc). But yeah, I had a lot of fun! It was weird!
I have to admit, I finally got round to watching this, I enjoyed the story of fire saga. LOVED the Eurovision contestant cameos. It was a good story, enjoyed all of the characters, especially Alexander and Mita. Really hated how much of a loser Lars was though. They could have toned down the patheticness of the man.
Tucking a Zevlor x Tav fic into the future WIP folder--
My written-in-between-work-tasks idea below
Okay, so imagine that Tav and Zevlor are married/in a relationship prior to the Descent. They live together in Elturel and have a comfortable, content life together.
Now, imagine that Tav is away from Elturel visiting Baldur's Gate, and they receive word that Elturel has simply been wiped off of the face of the material plane.
They hurry back and confirm the worst has happened.
Through various means, they learn that the city was dragged to Avernus, and they take it upon themselves to find someone who can send them into the hells.
Here's the catch: to make it to Elturel, they need someone in the hells (on the other side of the planar traveling spell) to keep the gate open and to prevent any demons/devils from tampering with the portal.
The logical answer is Zevlor, right?
So Tav works with the person facilitating their planar travel. They reach out to Zevlor and ask him to keep the way open.
But just as they activate the portal, just as all of the painstakingly gathered materials are burned away and the spell takes shape, Zevlor drops his end of the connection--effectively cutting Tav's path off.
In their panic, Tav casts a Sending and learns that Zevlor is alive--he just refuses to let them join him in Avernus.
I know it's only march but I've been listening to the Eurovision-movie song (Double Trouble) so much already & I'm NOT ready for Will Ferrell to be in my next Spotify wrapped 💀💀💀