#i don't think the gate is closed...

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[little-tyrant-gortash]

First of all: I'd love to have his pretty crossbow. Reminds me of the glass crossbow you can get in Skyrim through CC.

Secondly, 14 STR??? If Astarion looks like the way he does with 8, I really want to see that 14 STR. Y'know. For science.

His stats are simply insane. What the fuck, Gortash.

*spends 5 minutes rotating him around, purely to admire him*

Okay let's take a look at his features. I missed out on it when I first met him because I was busy running for Cazador's ass. 🤣

Resistant to magic AND high spellcasting? 👀 Permanently armed?? Unarmed attacks seem logical, but crossbow expert??? 👀

He's a fucking prize.

[janetfraisersmassivestrap]

with the sgc's main gate technician being named walter and considering a large portion of his job is announcing incoming choppers wormholes, he's got to be nicknamed radar by at least some of the people on base

[babydinosaur930]

Been sitting on this for a while and finally feel brave enough to post.

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 2 - Halloween Town

[wisdomcaster]

“You look a wreck, professor,” he teased, running a hand up and down Gale’s chest.

Gale just smiled back at him, too much adoration in those soft brown eyes for Astarion to handle, but he couldn’t look away. “Says the man with his lipstick smudged,” he countered.

“That’s because you’re wearing half of it.”

-Only Bought This Dress So You Could Take It Off (I Don't Want You Like A Best Friend) by wolfiewrites

Yes hi hello, I'm bad at captions, but have art!! and go read this fic!!

[naomiknight-17]

I hate that I am sitting in the living room and the cats and Jon are all sleeping and my baby kitten is locked alone in the hallway

I was just out there playing with her til we were both worn out, and she tried to follow me back in here, but Tim and Leon are not quite ready for her to be integrated into the main living space yet

... but they're both napping...

Maybe if I'm very very sneaky I can bring her in without them noticing...

[inkyzinky]

i feel like between sunk cost fallacy of "we've already put so much effort and money into the streamer we can't possibly backtrack" and their artistic vision for "tv caliber" shows, there's no way they don't double down on all this

[starsthoughtsonthings]

One of their first mornings in camp in the city, Ari is wearing something rather different from her normal outfits.

"Darling, what are you wearing?" "What? You don't expect me to go into the den of the bastard," because there was no way she was even mentioning the name if it wasn't necessary, "in a fancy dress, do you? There's a time for dresses, and a time for being ready to face who-knows-what. Besides, I can be stylish and battle-ready, don't you think?" "Mm... you sure can. It suits you, too. Give me a few minutes."

"There. Not as extraordinary as yours, but it'll do better than a suit." "Oh, you look great if you ask me. Both of us in black would be a bit too much, anyway." They exchanged a grin, and Ari nodded after a moment.

"Now, let's go get what should be yours." "Ours, my dear." Ari smiled at that correction. "Right. Ours." They were a team, after all. Or no, not a team. So much more.

[darkpoisonouslove]

Took me a while to figure out why Yukino would want to give her keys away to Lucy, considering how much she loves her spirits, but now I finally got it. Because of what happened with Sorano, she's grown up believing that she brings misfortune to anyone near her. Making it into Sabertooth gave her a confidence boost but being defeated and thoroughly humiliated as they kicked her out completely crushed her spirit. She believes she's unworthy of her spirits and that she'd probably bring even them misfortune. I'm so glad Mira could take over for Sorano for a sec and manage to get through to Yukino and make her see the truth.

[void-botanist]

Sharran AU: The Gods Part 1

In this AU (which I will probably come up with a better name for later, but I'm really excited to share it) I'm reconstructing the gods and the storyline of Baldur's Gate 3. I think the gods of the Sword Coast should be weirder, and the storyline should really make use of that. This first post is for the most important gods in this AU, which also happen to be the most important ones in BG3, for the most part.

This post contains vague spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3 below the cut.

Shar: the goddess of shadow, loss, darkness, night (and sleep), forgetting, shades, and opportunity. (Why opportunity? When one potential path is lost, another opens. To gain, you must sometimes lose. Without that loss, how can you find your way?) Unlike her twin sister Selûne, she is frequently seen in human form, which is why her temples are full of statues of her. She is often considered a petulant, petty goddess, which is true. But she is not particularly cruel or evil, no more than her sister. Despite her misgivings at the beginning of the world, she's come around to the idea of having living beings about, and isn't interested in getting rid of them anymore. Instead, she provides them aid that Selûne could never give them, such as taking away their painful memories of loss, which she then integrates into herself. People often turn to Shar when Selûne's so-called "healing" fails to address their emotional and spiritual ills. All Sharrans have had some memory removed—they get to choose which ones. They also all have scar-like markings on their bodies that represent their commitment to forgetting, and what kind of thing they forgot.

Selûne: the goddess of the moon, the sun, the stars (and navigation), heat, light, lycanthropes, and commitment. (Why commitment? In the real D&D lore, one of her past domains was marriage. But drawing from this classic post about the moon and Earth, I think it makes more sense to have her be the goddess of steadfast commitments of all kinds. The only exception is commitments to other gods, because she will not interfere with those processes.) Though she is sometimes represented in human form in art, her natural forms are strange to most mortals, and she has found that they'd rather not see her real human form. Eyes alone are enough, hence the way she is represented on her crest. Many consider her a peaceful, stable goddess, and her personality trends that way, but her power can equally be used for harm: heat and light can be extremely dangerous, the sun can damage mortals irreparably, and there are many bad commitments to be made in life. Selûnite clergy and Selûne's favored have golden cracks on their bodies, but all of her faithful develop cracks here and there.

Ievaal: known as Bhaal in D&D lore, Ievaal is the god/dess of murder, the hunt, and ritual killing. She has three forms: the Slayer, a humanlike form that wears the raw flesh of its enemies as clothing; the Hunter, a velociraptor-like form that always catches its prey; and the Priest, a gnarled form that vaguely resembles a human but is unknowable under its cloak. His believers, who double as clergy when needed, typically follow one of his three forms, and he has two Chosen: one to bring together the clergy, and one that is best at killing and his favorite. Ievaal considers their gender to be shapeshifter, which is to say all genders, and none of them. It is most often called a deity, but god/dess is also acceptable. Those who follow her are granted the ability to shapeshift, though many can only master one or two forms.

Myrkul: the deity of souls, bones, and the liminal space between life and death. They are not the deity of death as a concept—that's Kelemvor's domain—but of death as a process, of something that happens to most beings eventually and requires the collection of their souls. Their most common form is a lavishly decorated assortment of bones of all kinds formed into a loose humanlike shape. Most claim that the bones change every time they take this form, and they neither confirm nor deny it. They are more withdrawn from the affairs of mortals than Bane and Ievaal, but counts them among their staunchest allies. They are not worshipped so much as remembered.

Bane: the god of power and tyranny. He generally appears as a figure of shadow with two ruby and black crystal gauntlets. Because of this, much to Shar's chagrin, he is sometimes called the Lord of Darkness. He has no fully corporeal form and is known to possess mortals to do his bidding, granting them magical armor crafted of his own shadowy essence. His primary goal in life is to cause trouble and sow discord to put himself at the top, something his right hand Ievaal is only too pleased to assist with. His rigidly structured clergy can be recognized by the red teardrop shapes on the backs of their hands.

Mystra: the goddess of magic. She acts as a conduit between the Weave, the substance of magic that permeates the universe, and spellcasters, partly to prevent them from casting magic that is too dangerous and partly to prevent them from being overwhelmed by the Weave. Her normal form looks like a human-size doll, held together at the joints with shifting threads of magic that weave together—the Weave itself. She boasts a wide variety of clergy and adherents, who are gifted slightly increased access to the Weave that tends to make their eyelashes or fingernails turn Weave-like.

Riodda: known as Oghma in D&D lore, Riodda is the deity of learning, ideas, knowledge, and bees. Her main form blurs the line between human and insect—she has the fluffy clawed arms of a bumblebee, but ten of them, as well as a set of compound eyes set next to her human ones and two long antennae. Bees of all kinds, but especially bumblebees, are considered her messengers that report new information back to her in her study. She, too, is always busy learning something new or playing music. Her faithful typically have six dots on one or both ears, representing both the six feet of a bee and the necessity of listening.

Lathander: the god of the dawn and beginnings. He typically appears as a human, though the details of that human have changed through the ages. The one thing they all have in common is that they are very tall and have a laugh that can be heard for miles. He frequently does not bother to mark his faithful because they do that themselves, adorning themselves with gold jewelry and tattoos in his image.

Jergal: the god of fate and the end of everything. He has always looked impossibly old and lich-like. For the most part, he has no adherents, and is not even considered to be a god by most, not since the ascension of the Dead Three, Ievaal, Bane, and Myrkul. He's still kicking, though, and those he resurrects slowly acquire a set of tally marks along an arm. Enough deaths and resurrections would lead to a full body's worth of tallies.

Aylin: a goddess in her own right, but she focuses on being Selûne's Chosen rather than ruling over a domain and believers. She is the daughter of Selûne and Shar, though she rarely acknowledges Shar's parenthood. She was created in the midst of one of Shar and Selûne's early fights when Selûne used a bit of her own essence to knock out a bit of Shar's essence, and that combined essence formed into Aylin. Aylin chose her first mother as her true mother and deity, though she can't deny she has aspects of Shar as well.

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[mercymaker]

good morning everyone how's yall doing i'm waking up to thoughts about astarion torching cazzy's palace some time after the final fight

and how that ties into the malstarion lore

[hrtached]

cleric of sune letha godfrey you will always be famous.

[b4ldurians-archive]

anonymous asked : why won't you interact with anyone who writes ascended!astarion

the short answer : i don't want to.

the longer answer : i want him to be happy &. healing.

the long answer : exactly what larian said about the ending : it's objectification of astarion which is something i don't want to explore with people i don't trust. it's not even only if you think ascended astarion is sexy or not , he hasn't grown or healed in a way that allows him to see he isn't the sexy vampire seduction trope. he's supposed to be an inversion of that , so allowing him to ascend doesn't sit right with me regarding his trauma. the only time i'd be willing to explore it is with my friends because i know they aren't on the literal objectification side of things or anything else that might make me uncomfortable.

anonymous ask.

[dothegravitybounce]

me on the little websites on the internet: but do we actually find out who whithers is?

also me: omg spoilers noooo

[starsthoughtsonthings]

Honey I know you don't really care for the details of a plan or anything, but,

no sleeping while we're talking!