#i've always wanted to be a wizard

[masterkeynobi]

is there anything better in the world than Aabria Iyengar Wizard Arrogance. is there ANYTHING BETTER IN THE WORLD than aabria iyengar wizard arrogance!!! i don't fucking think so!

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Aabria Iyengar I slam my staff on the ground, revealing it to be that tall, jagged glass spire of the citadel. [A sound of crashing glass] She's at her full 6ft tall, and pulled back a sleeve enough to see that, like, ring. This is a big enough city that they should know how to respond to this energy. Brennan Lee Mulligan Amazing. Go ahead and give me intimidate with advantage Aabria Iyengar Thirteen! Brennan Lee Mulligan What do you say to Oscar as he's standing in front of you? Suvi [Aabria] Move.

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[shatouto]

lysandre splash art

[icewindandboringhorror]

More misc. daily life pictures and such

[show-tunes]

Little guy

[wyllzel]

ok what if gale origin run + minthara romance HAHAHA

[blujayonthewing]

'wow I never would have guessed that melliwyk gets so strongly and instantly attracted to people for being clearly and overtly passionate about something, how funny' I say, as if her response to the warforged cleric with the life's mission of discovering lost and forgotten gods wasn't 'I've only had caretaker for five minutes but if anything happens to him I'm killing everyone in this room and myself'

[leoandbeholdclark]

🧡💙 Pretty old men being pretty 💙🧡

[gensymscribes]

making ocs is all fun and games until you try to write concrete lore about a nebulous yet core concept that you previously handwaved for the sake of "it's cool if this happens"

[shopwitchvamp]

Heyoo! I wanted to ask if you maybe happened to have more pictures of the joggers on plus sized people, on top of the couple on your store site? Your designs look so cool, I've just recently started to embrace more fun colors and patterns and would love your joggers but I live in europe and need to make sure I get the perfect size on the first try since the shipping costs more :D

Omg, sorry about not seeing this until now! Thank you!! Unfortunately, I don't really have any more pics than what are in the shop :[ Most of my jogger designs have come about after I left Fresh Hot Flavors, and I've pretty much only been modeling things myself these days since FHF were the other models (besides occasionally my brother modeling something, but he's even smaller than me..). There might be some more examples in my "happy customers" tag here on tumblr though!

[revvethasmythh]

so I have made a second save in bg3 because I am not immune to wanting to fuck around with other classes (and also see how I fare on Balanced mode now that I know what I am doing) and I am very quickly learning the perils of being a wizard with a wisdom of 8 in this world

[heartvisor]

thinking about a suit redesign i want to take a shot at but also i haven't really seen the original suit in question in action yet, so i wouldn't be able to make informed creative choices 💭

[mysterypigeon]

i think i have been sick in some way for a month. losi.ng my marbles.......

[icewindandboringhorror]

[karsussfolly]

tag allocation post for ease of access!

[cannibalisticskittles]

i'm considering a future baldur's gate mc

not super relevant bc the next run will. probably be. amity. again. with wyll. maybe not but it's likely.

anyway eventually i might do a dark urge mc, and i'm thinking about incorporating my bhaalspawn into their backstory

bhaalspawn #1, taev, is following up on a lead about another splinter of bhaal cultists and comes across itsy bitsy mc. decides that it's time to follow in gorion's footsteps and Raise The Murderbaby. ...but taev is human, and also bound to their paladin oath, which keeps them pretty mobile. and imoen, frankly.... doesn't want to. a mother? her?? no thank you. she's meant to be the fun aunt, and nothing more hands on than that.

bhaalspawn #2, kher, settles down a few years after the events of bg2, after she is finally convinced that her sisters are healed + powerful enough to rip apart anyone who might want to harm them. she's always ready to intervene, and will do so with unholy, murderous fury at a moment's notice, but. after a decade she can chill a bit. a Bit. and she's an elf. she'll live for-fucking-ever. plus, she got most of the murder rage when they got their souls ripped out, so she's the best candidate for teaching the murder baby how to contain the murder rage as they grow older. the only complicating factor is the company she keeps -- kher definitely, definitely resurrected xzar after bg2 and now they're, like, weird necromancy experiment partners.

kher is not. necessarily. great at raising babies. but she did alright as an influence on taev and imoen. so it'll be fine... right?

thus begins fitz, doomed from the start -- long before the urges got more prominent and their memories were eaten up

[stormsthatrage]

It bugs me that so many people's default example of published fanfic is 50 Shades of Grey.

What about West Side Story, a famous modern AU of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

What about Dante's Inferno, a self-insert RPF if I've ever seen one?

What about Wicked, a pre-canon AU of The Wizard of Oz?

Hell, what about Percy Jackson? There's definitely an argument to be made that that's a modern AU of various Greek myths.

Humans have been writing fanfic as long as they have been telling stories. In about the year 20 BC, our dear Roman poet Ovid wrote the Heroides, a series of aggrieved "letters" from the female characters of famous myths to their respective male heroes. Are you telling me that Ovid, writing a letter from the perspective of Queen Dido to Aeneas -- Aeneas, whose fantastical adventures were put into poem by Virgil -- wasn't writing an outsider-POV fic? A fic that is, in fact, translated in Latin classes world-wide today!

There is so much famous fanfic out there, but people tend to forget that it is fanfic once it becomes mainstream enough. And as a consequence of that, people who aren't into fandom don't see how beautiful fanfic is, and some members of fandom feel shame associated with writing and reading fic. But fanfic is beautiful, and it is something humans have always done, and it is nothing to be ashamed about.

So if you ever find yourself in a situation to give an example of published fic, think outside the box. Remember that published fanfics hide in plain sight; once they're famous enough, we no longer think of them as fanfic. And never forget that fanfic is a very, very old human tradition, and your ancestors who partook in it would not have wanted you to feel ashamed of it.