b4ldurians-archive · 1 year ago
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@abstractmoment asked : ❝you look exhausted. will you sleep at all tonight?❞
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❝ NO. ❞ the question itself makes her want to leave the conversation at that out of spite. lae'zel's learned behavior compels her otherwise. ❝ our enemies do not rest &. neither shall i when i watch over camp. you may not be my crèche but you are my greatest chance to reach them &. the cure , so i shall protect you with the ferocity that requires. what excuse do you have for your restlessness , emilie ? ❞
six of crows.
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ifightformyfriends · 1 year ago
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You seem to have some thoughts on the matter. How do *you* feel about Baldur's Gate 3
Not really any opinions on BG3 specifically, except that it's clear that Larian put a lot more effort into balancing the game than WotC ever has, and it's unfortunate for Larian that the game's development was used to harbor Zac S accomplice Mike Mearls so that WotC could state he was no longer on the D&D design team when people were calling for consequences for his roll in bringing on, enabling, and protecting known serial sexual abuser and transphobe Zac S as a heralded consult in 5e's development.
Mechanically I've seen a lot of talk about how...not even true RAW, but improved RAW 5e just isn't as fun for people when there's not a DM to handwave things or allow cool off the cuff "Greentext" moments that have nothing to do with the actual ruleset being ostensibly played and paid for. Even with some added stuff for Martials to do there's no "Describe your attack" or "Make a called shot" that is so often used to downplay that Martials are on a whole different, lower magnitude of agency to exert influence on the world around them. And this is after Larian went out of their way to improve them! Buffed Action Economy, setpiece combat with interesting interactions, some semblance of giving them actual abilities, but it can't make up for the fact they're 5e Martials. It is hilarious seeing people brought face to face with the actual ruleset for the first time instead of what their DM does to make the system a fun experience.
And I just saw earlier today, it's got people talking about how there's so much Fantasy Racism if you play a Tiefling that is just so unnecessary except for the fact that it is RAW and how the game is presented without your DM and table going "But we're going to ignore that".
Which is very much the same in that it is people being brought face to face with the actual system WotC produces and sells for the first time instead of their DM's system they've agreed to give WotC credit for. I maintain that 5e was a system designed for passive revenue generation because D&D is the property Hasbro got as a free gift when they bought Magic the Gathering, and it was designed specifically for DMs who were used to 3.5's brokenness and doing the heavy lifting to run games for new-to-TTRPG players and that's why the true north of the ruleset development was to not look intimidating to new players. And for that narrow purpose, it succeeds! But then it got popular and the system was not prepared for such wild ideas as "New DMs wanting to run games without an internalized encyclopedic knowledge of the system". To use a car as a metaphor, WotC realized they could design a game that used the DM as the engine instead of the driver's seat, saving a ton in development costs in doing so. And BG3 has some people realizing that what they thought was a car was actually just a frame they paid full price for.
TL;DR: No significant thoughts on Baldur's Gate 3 really, same thoughts as always on WotC and 5e that people will awkwardly ignore and sweep under the rug until their NEXT big PR fiasco that they'll shallowly ask forgiveness for and people will somehow give them and the cycle will begin anew.
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alpaca-clouds · 1 year ago
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Baldur's Gate 3 and the Grooming Theme
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I am on my second playthrough by now (the Astarion origin) and it really becomes even more apparent how grooming is kind of a central theme with all six of the origin characters. And funnily enough, I am not entirely sure whether it is intentional or more accidental. Mostly because I am not entirely certain whether the creators have realized how much the Gale-Mystra relationship reads as grooming and how much the entire Gith culture is basically about grooming their young into those perfect warriors.
The abuse aspect is fairly clear with Astarion and Shadowheart. If I am not entire mistaken, there is even dialogue in game that calls out Shadowheart's experience as grooming explicitly.
Let me go through all the Origin Six one by one.
Astarion gets basically groomed by Cazador, which kinda partly gets clearer if you consider that while under humans he would have been considered as an adult, among elves he would not have been. With him it is a clearer abuse situation, due to all the torture and violence we know he was subjected to. But Cazador in general tried to turn his spawn into what he imagined them to be. (There is a lot of speculation going on that he focused so much on Astarion, because Astarion reminded him of himself.) We also learn from Astarion that he tried to be what Cazador wanted him to be - though he clearly never succeeded.
Shadowheart embodies one of the most classical grooming scenarios. Often these day we use grooming to refer explicitly to sexual grooming - but the word is also often used in religious contexts, especially when it comes to cults. And yes, basically Shadowheart got kidnapped as a child and quite literally brainwashed to be a follower of Shar. We do not have that many details, but those we have actually do fit rather well with grooming inside of cults. And in her case this happened very clearly with the implicit knowledge of the people doing the grooming of what they were doing.
With Karlach we do not quite know how old she was, when she started to work for Gortash. But from all we learn she was probably in her teens. We have not many dialogues of her referring explicitly to what exactly happened between her and Gortash, outside of him selling her off to Zariel. But we have bits and pieces that sound a terrible lot like lovebombing. Of Gortash always knowing how to praise her that she would feel good about herself. Which, too, is a very typical grooming tactic. And what we know sounds like he kinda groomed her into the perfect bodyguard - before he sold her off.
With Wyll it is the clearest in so many ways, because we see him and Mizora interact with each other quite a bit. And make no mistake, Mizora very much groomed him. He was fucking 19 when he made that contract - and all we learn sounds like tons and tons of gaslighting happening between them, denying him to have any sense of reality. And I mean, just look at the official artwork with the two of them. While canonical there is nothing sexual happening between them (unless you do a Wyll playthrough and do the one night stand with Mizora)... It definitely feels at least somewhat sexually charged and she is quite touchy with him.
There has been a lot of discussion about Gale in this regard. Most of all because we do not get to know that much about how his relationship with Mystra went on. With Gale we do not know how old he is now, we know even less how old he was when Mystra took him in. But it for sure feels a lot like grooming, especially once you consider the inescapable power imbalance between a god and a mortal human. Given that Gale is still very enarmored with Mystra as we meet him - despite her abandoning him - we mostly hear rosy memories from him. But just his entire interaction when she fucking commands him to kill himself... Yeah that sounds a lot like grooming.
Finally there is Lae'zel. With her it is also more the cultish kind of grooming. Because the entire Gith culture under Vlaakith is basically a cult. We kinda see it when we interact with the Gith kids in the Monestary, who very much have absorbed this idea of the culture, going so far as killing and torturing each other. We also see that in Lae'zel if we talk with her about it and she looks at this and is like "Yeah, nothing wrong with that." Personally I found Lae'zel hardest to deal with because of this. Because she has absorbed all this stuff from her culture and when she follows those ideals she still thinks she is doing good/right. Like, Shadowheart can be a shitty person and Astarion definitely is. But they both kinda get that their behavior at times is shitty - while Lae'zel goes "this is right and good!"
Technically speaking we even see this partly in the villains. Orin definitely was groomed into the murder hobo she is. That makes her not the least bit less evil - but it was not as if she ever had a choice to become anything other than a murder hobo. And while I would argue that technically speaking Gortash was not exactly groomed (or maybe he was groomed by Bane?), he definitely also has been turned into a shitty person through childhood trauma.
To be honest, it is all this trauma that comes from all those experiences, though, that makes me just wanna write for this fandom so much. Because... Well, there is so much healing to do for those characters. And all those healing stuff is kinda the stuff I am all here for, when it comes to writing.
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cannibalottie · 2 months ago
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📍I'm Nunu, a lesbian who's emotional dependent on Lottie Matthews and her fangs >.<
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ABOUT ME:
I'm twenty years old!
ISTP 9w8
Neurodivergent
I live for jackieshauna, lottienat, taivan and lottielee !! (basically all the good ships on yj
English is not my first language but i'll try my best ;p also, i'm brazillian.
I go by she/her, but i don't mind being called by any pronouns.
I mainly talk about YJ, but i have other interests such as: valorant, rdr2, baldurs gate 3, TLOU, until dawn, life is strange, american horror story, SARAH PAULSON???!!!!, slashers but actually horror in general, twenty one pilots, mitski, ethel cain, boa, big thief (adrianne lenker!!! :0), kpop (mainly girlgroups), deftones, radiohead, fleetwood mac, women.... women. uhh... women.
- Anyway that's it :) Feel free to interact w me in any kind of way ;p .
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fandomshatepeopleofcolor · 8 months ago
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Hello!
I hope I'm not being invasive by posting this ask.
My names is Zade and I run a blog dedicated to Baldur's Gate 3.
Both the game and its fandom have a huge racism issue.
About the game: There is only one black core companion in the game, Wyll, whose story ties directly to the events of the game. He is a textbook prince charming. He also is the companion with the least amount of content and a lot of it is bugged. The writers even publicly mock him and dismiss the issues he faces in-game (he is subdued by a devil that is white-coded). Fans have been sending reports to the developpers for months and are consistently ignored in favour of fans of the more popular (white) companions/NPCs.
A new patch was released a few days ago where Wyll was once again sidelined. This led to a lot of outrage and some responses to that outrage tap directly into the fandom's antiblackness.
About the fandom: Since the game was released, gamers have repeatedly dismissed Wyll as being boring and go to great lenght to justify why they don't interact with him. They purposefully ignore the fact that the character was rewritten late in production in-part because people who played the beta version of the game couldn't handle him having flaws and depth. As of today, he is the least represented in fanarts and posts concerning him will generally receive less engagement than those featuring his white counterparts.
It's no mystery that a lot of Wyll's fans are POC. Those same fans are consistently called aggressive and hostile by the white fandom when they demand that all main companions are treated with the same amount of care. They refuse to see the racism the only black companion faces both inside and outside the game. Our reactions and demands are described as disproportionate and entitled.
I thought this ongoing issue could be of interest to you.
Bonus: A petition is going around to tackle his lack of content and care by the developpers here.
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hey thanks for messaging us!!! this ask is not a bother at all :D this is what we're here for. Sadly I know more about bg3 because of the fandom antiblackness against Wyll than anything positive at this point. (I found this article which was similar to an ask one of our blogs got I'm so sorry I can't seem to find it https://www.themarysue.com/baldurs-gate-3-is-the-latest-target-of-racist-dog-whistle-mods/)
Thanks for this summary, blog promotion, and fandom racism breakdown I looked through the first page and it looks great so far!!!
Followers please go give Zade a follow on the blog @absansombre and check out the petition!
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animentality · 1 year ago
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It's tough because I hate the Astarion haters on Reddit, who are just misogynistic and homophobic and dismissive of the character because they hate how gay he acts and also how many women love him.
but I also hate BookTok Astarion fangirls who feel the need to assert how superior Astarion is on every fucking Gale, Wyll, Halsin, Shadowheart, Minthara, Lae'zel, Karlach or pretty much any BG3 video at all. Like we get it. He's white.
And then I'm ambivalent on the Tumblr Astarion fans because there are the people who simply like him and make fun art and fun meta analysis about him, and then there are the people in my inbox currently telling me that Astarion's Ascended ending is morally correct and it's not a bad ending for the character, and if I disagree, then I hate women.
You're correct that I hate women, but it has nothing to do with Astarion.
Also, I once again point out, that your own husbando literally tells you outright in both endings that being Ascended ruins/ruined who he used to be and also your love for one another.
Your man literally says that your love would have been corrupted by becoming his spawn, and you still cling to the idea that your character is living happily ever after.
He's not making you a vampire queen, he's making you a vampire pet. And it's fine to like that ending. I don't care if you LIKE bad, unhappy endings. That is your prerogative. But you are simply incorrect if you say that it's the "happy" ending for the character, when it clearly is not.
No one ever said you had to use your skull for anything other than cold cut storage, I just don't see why it's even necessary to argue your point to me.
Stay in your Astarion echo chamber, and block me. I don't have time or energy to block all of you.
Anyway.
It sucks because I really like Astarion, he's my favorite love interest.
I really enjoy his storyline and his growth as a person and how sweet he is. He's also very funny. All the companions have great voice acting behind them, but Neil really knocked it out of the park, and I honestly think the character would be far less popular if they'd picked any other actor.
But the fandom around him is just...awful.
It's a mixed bag of normal, unnormal in a fun way, and unnormal in a "you need to fucking step off in this Walmart bitch" way.
It's why I'd rather interact with Dark Urge and Gortash fans.
Much smaller subset of the fandom, so I don't have to deal with the generic crazies, and we're all such freaks that we don't feel the need to go around acting like Gortash is a good person.
I also only ever see people saying these two are fucking disgusting and horrible and I'd murder them in real life and honestly, true and based.
No happy endings for those two, and that's fine for me. In fact, it's great.
See, Astarion girlies, this is called...knowing your ship doesn't deserve a happy ending after all they have done, and knowing it wouldn't be a happy ending if they got together, but being able to acknowledge that and not get bent out of shape trying to justify it.
Stop tying your irl morality to your tastes in fiction.
I never said that liking the ascended ending made you a bad person in real life.
I just said that pretending it's good and happy and great and not continuing the cycle of abuse, is factually incorrect.
And it is.
Every single bad ending for all the love interests is literally continuing the cycle of abuse. Why would Astarion's be any different?
But maybe I'm being bold in assuming you even know the other love interests exist or have stories. Maybe you don't even know the general story of baldur's gate 3, because it is, as you say, the vampire dating sim, and it's definitely not about anything other than banging the sexy vampire.
Media literacy weeps.
Anyway.
Not ruining my enjoyment of the game.
Just my general tolerance for the fandom that is not Durge and Gortash obsessed.
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liliewrites · 3 months ago
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i really love strawberries, i love women and pink is my favorite color!
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the wonderful woman in my pfp is none other than me, kylie! drawn by my lovely irl friend:))
my current favorite women are ; arlecchino (the loml), stelle, karlach cliffgate, falin and tennant (from r1999).
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asexualbookbird · 4 months ago
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Immediately forgets everything that happened in June. Uh. I threw a tea party! Finished a knit hat! Did one (1) queer corvid piece! Started playing baldurs gate! Read some good books! SAW SOME SANDHILL CRANES!!!! Found new enrichment in the form of a new walking route! A busy busy month! Didn't read as much as I intended, but I did get to check off five more books on my Reading Books I Own chart so I call that a win.
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The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakranorty ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐- WHAT A FUN BOOK! "Adventure" is the perfect word for this. Yes, it's a trilogy with only one book out, but this also works so well on its own, as individual books SHOULD! It's its own little thing. Wrapped up neat and tidy with little threads to pick up in the future. I had so much fun and the audiobook was a DELIGHT, I want to read it again immediately.
The Novice by Taran Matharu ⭐- This has been sitting on my shelf since its release. It moved homes with me. It will not be doing so again. Bland, generic, poorly written. Proof just because you were an internet success, doesn't mean you don't need an editor. Also proof that publishing is about Luck and Connections. I know goodreads ratings mean Nothing, but come on. Why is this one so high. Did people really enjoy it that much? HOW??
Translation State by Ann Leckie ⭐⭐⭐⭐- Okay. Look. This was not my favorite Leckie novel. In fact it very well could by me least favorite Leckie novel. HOWEVER. Even then, it was still fun and enjoyable. I wish it ended differently, but I still loved all the characters and how they interact. I do want to reread this as well, because I remember enjoying Ancillary Justice more the second time around and I wonder if the same will happen here.
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What Moves The Dead by T Kingfisher ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - A reread! To get ready for What Feasts At Night! Even knowing all the secrets, it's still a perfectly bite sized creepy read. My favorite thing about Kingfishers writing is how even with the darkest subjects she still manages to add humor. And it never seems out of place! It's a great breather for the reader but doesn't detract from the tension. Do not recommend reading this while walking through a field of bunnies.
What Feasts At Night by T Kingfisher ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - I gave What Moves The Dead four stars at my initial read through, so I wonder if this will ALSO change to five stars upon rereading. I had to read the first few chapters twice for them to stick, and ended up switching to the audiobook which was very well done. I really didn't expect another book about Alex Easton, but I'm hooked now to be honest. I mean, stop putting this soldier in Situations, but also. I want to know what other Situations ka gets into. Angus and Miss Potter are adorable.
The library has a few summer reading games with prizes so my reading in the upcoming months will be influenced by those. Someone said there might even be a local bookstore gift package in the mix and I Want That. I do still want to do the Bone Season updated read, if for no other reason than to get rid of those books so I don't have to pack and move them. Other than that, no reading plans. I've read nearly every book that's on the shelf in my bedroom, which, wow, so it's getting harder to choose what to read. I guess that's a good thing! Leaves more room to reread old favorites.
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canmom · 8 months ago
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baldur gate
belatedly joining the bg3 train. I played BG1 when I was a kid but never got around to BG2. here are my observations:
the hair and skin rendering. good god. the rest of the game looks decent enough but they really went all out on the characters. I have to know what technique they're using for that hair there, it responds to light so well, and it can handle a variety of hair textures and stuff. ...look I know what a nerdy start this is this is literally my job ok >&lt;
the character designer gives you four different types of penis to choose from, but there's no face customisation sliders, just a choice of about ten presets. i know this game is basically an eroge but still, lmao.
no body sliders in general actually. might need to look into mods because the bodies in this game are kinda weird. everyone's sorta uniformly ripped, I can't make my boobs smaller, etc. etc. (and of course the whole 'nobody can be fat' thing that has been commented on often). I think I need to get some mods.
mind flayer body horror stuff is tasty. that opening cutscene goes so hard. og Baldur's Gate games would have some fun in their cutscenes - I still remember the one with the blood flowing around the cobblestones - but a plane-hopping battle with multiple dragons and a big squid spaceship is setting the bar pretty high. look forward to seeing if the rest of the game can live up to it.
there's something wonderfully tabletop about the first two companions being... well. the first player I can imagine being like 'yeah so here is my lore-accurate gith, I learned the gith language and everything, I've written a thirty page backstory for her' and the second player is just 'yeah here's my elf, she's called... Shadowheart'. they shoulda made her a warlock (but it's lucky they didn't because then we'd have two warlocks)
the starting armour for those two companions looks absolutely shit. it looks like it's spraypainted plastic, especially since it's skinned in a way where rigid metal parts bend at the joints. just way too busy as designs. I need to find some better drip for these girls asap.
of course I played a warlock. I almost always play warlocks in D&D. it's such a chuuni class and there's a lot of conflict potential in the patron thing. also I hear this is a game where it pays to have good cha on the MC, which pretty much limits you to bard, sorc and lock. I hope they make patron interactions a thing in this game.
the implementation of 5e combat as a CRPG is pretty thorough! also, D&D combat works way better on the PC where you can resolve everything in five minutes than it does at the table. I put it on Tactician mode but so far it's been pretty trivial, I look forward to more interesting encounters down the line.
the d20 rolling UI is kinda ostentatious huh
overall, seems promising. that said this isn't a liveblog, probably. unless I run into something particularly interesting.
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endless-petals · 3 months ago
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Stories Untold, Ready to Unfold...
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Welcome to my word garden!
This is a safe space for all, a place for me to share my silly little fics and original characters among pretty pictures of flowers.
You can call me Petal!
Amidst of rebranding, I'm embracing my softer side though I still will regard this as an 18+ blog as adult content does make an appearance. Besides, I am almost 30 and would rather not interact with minors. Though you are encouraged to follow when you're 18 or older!
I appreciate positive interaction and love discussing fandoms in both the canon and imaginative variety. My brain has been devoured wholly by Baldur's Gate 3 for the last year though I enjoy many things.
Always Welcome for Discussion:
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roleplayfinder · 1 month ago
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Hi, you can call me Hanami! 26F with ten years of RP experience, looking for 21+ canon/oc doubling partners for Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail, and Baldur's Gate 3!
I am very big on plotting and OOC chatting, I enjoy being creative and incorporating art and/or music as well as just gushing about our characters: having fun is what is most important. That being said, I do specifically look for literate writers, and I typically write at least 300-500 words per side. I highly value characterization and development between characters (gimme that slowburn 🤌🏻)
I always incorporate mature themes into my writing, which includes smut. If you have any triggers, limits, or things you're just squeamish about, please let me know! Also LGBT+ friendly! (I'm bi)
I've used both Discord and Gmail for roleplay, and I don't have a preference for either (they both have different merits)!
I've listed the fandoms and preferred love interests for my characters below (I'm generally flexible, but I do have a preference for the bolded characters).
Honkai Star Rail: Aventurine, Boothill, Sunday
Genshin Impact: Kaeya, Kaveh, Childe, Heizou, Beidou, Diluc, Cyno
Baldur's Gate 3: Lae'zel, Astarion
If you're interested, please interact with this post and I will reach out to you <3
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blood-feathers · 1 month ago
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Sorry Spy, couldn't help but see your notes just then. However, I am more than happy to clarify about some terms 😄
So fandom is a term meant to refer to a community of people with a similar interest. It often revolves around a show or movie, for instance, and it's just when a bunch of passionate people create stuff for said show or movie.
Tumblr is a hub for these interactions between people. It's like a pit stop for people using a machine like this that can then connect to something called-
A website! A website is just a general term for those pit stops I just mentioned and people can get to these websites with machines that connect to-
The internet! The internet is basically this large scale system that connects various people from all over the world. People access it through machines, like the one you're talking to us with, and when they connect to the internet they could go to various websites from there.
Now, feed is just a term for when someone is looking through a website and they are seeing a bunch of different stuff. That term just goes back into all the other ones I've already explained.
Finally, Baldur's Gate 3 is just a game. It's a rather popular one that many people are a fan of (making their own fandom) and have played.
I hope this helps a little 😅
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Mm. Yeap. Got it.
(He's not making an effort to hide the journal anymore, now that you all clearly know about it.)
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alpaca-clouds · 2 months ago
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Kids in certain media spaces/fandoms
While a certain part of my dash has this discussion - and I have heard some friends (like real world physical friends), who are in their mid 20s complain about this too - let me just try and put everyone's minds at ease: Yes, it is perfectly normal for "kids" (read = teens, maybe tweens) to consume supposedly "adult" media. And with that I mean, well... try and be a part of certain fandoms, that technically are based on media they are not old enough for if we go by rating.
Most currently I have seen the discussion arise around both Hazbin Hotel and Baldur's Gate 3. Honestly, I am not sure about the English rating system for video games, as in Germany we use the same one for games and other media, with Hazbin being "16+" and BG3 being rated "18+" over here.
And yet, obviously, there is a ton of kids younger than that hanging in those fandom spaces - and some people are very "concerned" about this.
Meanwhile I am sitting here like: "Yeah, I watched 18+ stuff at age 13 or 14 as well. Watched 16+ stuff even earlier, even though I was not allowed. And don't get me started on the books I read at age 10."
And every person who I have seen being "concerned" about this has openly admitted that, yes, they have consumed some media that technically legally they were not supposed to be exposed to at that inappropriate age, too, but "that's different". Usually this will be followed by some arguments about the abuse-themes in either piece of media.
And I am like: "Yeah, but that is actually a good thing, right? Both Hazbin and BG3 call out romantic/sexual abuse out as what it is. They show it as abusive and destructive. That is a good thing for teens to learn about." Because let me tell you one thing: No, the fact that I read 18+ Smut manga as a kid did not fuck me up. But you know what fucked me up? That back then a lot of those smut manga had stories that featured abusive/toxic relationships that were depicted as normal or even good. Because, yeah, to me when I was 14 it was indeed not quite comprehensible why my then bf doing the same stuff I read about in those manga made me feel bad. Took me into my 20s to realize what was going on there.
Sure, I kinda get what people are on about when it comes to "but what about grooming?" But... Like, most of the big fandom grooming things that happened where in kiddy-fandoms. Like, the cases I know about where in the fandoms of Pokémon and My little Pony. Because... Let's face it. The person going out of their way to groom a kid will more likely just go into one of those kid-friendly fandoms and find their victim there, than going for the teens in "adult fandoms".
I kinda feel like people are overthinking this. It is just something that happens and will always happen. Especially teens will take some interest in "adult" shows, movies and games. That always was like that and always will be like that. It was like that before the internet even, only that getting your hands at it got easier with the internet.
... Also, keep in mind that generally speaking, those age ratings are not exactly based on science, but instead mostly on moral outcry. Do I think that a 13yo will be able to comprehend the entire story of Angel Dust? Nope, probably not. And that is fine. Do I think that watching Hazbin, that is mostly rated the way it is because the characters cuss a lot, there are sexual themes and cartoony violence, will actually harm most 13yos? Nope, probably not.
Look, I do not feel comfortable with teens in most of my fandom spaces either. Especially those fandom spaces where the media deals with some adult topics. So, for the most part, I just do try to avoid interacting with them.
Just do the same. You will not be able to keep the teens out. Not by shaming them, and not by shaming their parents. And unless you want the parents to 24/7 watch their kids online (which you cannot want if you care about queer kids)... Just relax. If those kids really bother you, block and move on.
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rp-partnerfinder · 1 month ago
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Hi, you can call me Hanami! 26F with ten years of RP experience, looking for 21+ canon/oc doubling partners for Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail, and Baldur's Gate 3!
I am very big on plotting and OOC chatting, I enjoy being creative and incorporating art and/or music as well as just gushing about our characters: having fun is what is most important. That being said, I do specifically look for literate writers, and I typically write at least 300-500 words per side. I highly value characterization and development between characters (gimme that slowburn 🤌🏻)
I always incorporate mature themes into my writing, which includes smut. If you have any triggers, limits, or things you're just squeamish about, please let me know! Also LGBT+ friendly! (I'm bi)
I've used both Discord and Gmail for roleplay, and I don't have a preference for either (they both have different merits)!
I've listed the fandoms and preferred love interests for my characters below (I'm generally flexible, but I do have a preference for the bolded characters).
Honkai Star Rail: Aventurine, Boothill, Sunday
Genshin Impact: Kaeya, Kaveh, Childe, Heizou, Beidou, Diluc, Cyno
Baldur's Gate 3: Lae'zel, Astarion
If you're interested, please interact with this post and I will reach out to you <3
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fatale-distraction · 9 months ago
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If you're still taking Barcus romance option requests I'd love to hear what you'd think his "Romantic Greeting" would be (like how Wyll goes from "Well met" to "I'm here for you, always."). Also, just general ideas about him with specifically a good-guy Drow TAV and the clunky awkward start that implies<3
Work has destroyed me today, but here are some musings I did on this! I hope you enjoy them, and anyone who sees this, please feel free to add on with your own ideas, too!
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Barcus Romantic Greetings
In the hypothetical event that Barcus joined as a permanent companion, I see him providing camp services as an alchemist, so he’d probably spend most of his time tinkering with some new invention or chemical concoction. So, a basic romanced greeting might go something like:
“[fussing with a compound at his alchemy table; slightly distracted] What can I do for you, my dear?”
“[Distracted again] Ah, there you are. [Slightly suggestive] I was wondering when you’d find your way over here.”
This one I picture in the same tone of voice as he uses in Last Light when you tell him you want to trade and he oh-so-suggestively replies “I bet you would.” What even is that, Barcus???? How are you gonna be that sassy and not be down to get pegged smooched by Tav????
I feel like he’d also try out some truly terrible lines the others feed him.
“You know, I enjoy watching you leave almost as much as watching you c—I’m sorry, Astarion told me to say that. Don’t know why I listen to him.”
Good-Guy Drow Partner
As a drow PC, there are two distinct instances where he expresses distrust based on their race: after you save him from the windmill and when you invite him to your camp. There might be more, but I’m still in progress on my Drow run, so these are the ones that stuck out to me so far.
It does make sense for Barcus to be suspicious of Drow Tav at first. Deep gnome settlements in the Underdark are frequently raided by the drow, with survivors becoming enslaved. It is a little hypocritical when he accuses Tav of ignorance for asking what a deep gnome is doing surface-side, though! I feel like this is a pretty defining characteristic of an early Barcus/DrowTav relationship. Each has the prejudices against the other formed by their backgrounds, and learning to overcome those is a crucial element of their interactions. The more they interact, the more they realize their pre-conceived ideas are wrong.
Barcus is still pretty wary of Tav in general up until they rescue him and the other gnomes in Grymforge. When he gets invited to camp, he says he might be safer in a mind-flayer colony than a drow camp. But by the time he arrives, he is already warming up to them and confiding in them regarding Wulbren.
That trust is increased when Tav finally rescues Wulbren, especially if good-guy Tav is vocal about how Barcus gets treated by his so-called friend. That moment is what really flips the switch on Barcus realizing a drow Tav isn’t the evil bastard he thinks of when he pictures a drow. Even a drow can’t be that bad if they’re willing to do so much for so little in return, and to stand up for Barcus on top of it.
Tav’s Good Samaritan points are racking up by the time they get to Baldur’s Gate, and Barcus is forced to acknowledge that he was wrong about them from the start. Barcus has forced Tav to reexamine some of their own biases, too. A Barcus/DrowTav relationship involves a lot of growth and understanding not just of each other but of themselves. They’d have a stronger bond than anyone because of it, and neither of them is afraid to call the other out on their shit if necessary.
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