#ignore my rambling

[dearasteria]

Major Gale romance SPOILERS below, so please DO NOT read and watch if you don't want to get spoiled.

I was REALLY worried about how romance with Gale would go, especially after talking to him right after he gets Karsas' book. My Tav wanted to believe and trust him, but something didn't feel right. At the end of Act II, when Tav tries to convince him not blow himself up for his ex's forgivness/to save Faerûn, it can be summed up with that one gif from Grey's Anatomy: "So pick me. Choose me. Love me" 🤡. Honestly, she asks not only to choose her, but also not to kill her and the rest of the team. Gale is so easily swayed and tells Tav that he loves her, even more than Mystra. Tav should be happy, right? But I'm like WAIT A DAMN MINUTE, it was faaar too easy, I mean, no protests from him, I didn't even have to use persuasion to convince him. At that point, after the trauma that Bioware had caused us with Anders and Solas, I'm getting paranoid. Gale doesn't love Tav, he's definitely hiding something. But I'm thinking to myself, "Okay, calm down, he just doesn't want to die, super understable. Maybe he really loves her and he needed to hear it? He needed reassurance that he has something to live for? Yes, it must be it". But then I go to the quest journal and see this:

DAMMIT GALE, you snake 🐍 My poor baby Tav (especially since the romance scene in Waterdeep was so warm and tender). She's so in love in him. Now I'm convinced that he will definetly betrey us, stubs us right in the heart.

At the beginning of Act III, he becomes obsessed with a book called The Annals of Karsus that may help him learn more about the crown. He becomes obsessed with how powerful he can become. When Tav gives him the book and says, "We already know the crown's dangerougs. Wouldn't that make things worse?" he replies:

"Worse? It could be the best thing that ever happened to me. To us."

After all this, Gale tries to convince Tav to help him reconstruct the crown. We have this beautiful scene on the boat and when I tell you my jaw dropped. HE CHOOSES TAV, listens to her concerns and simply chooses her.

The way he says it, the way he corrects himself… damn. For Tav, it's like a bucket of cold water. And I'm like, "Here we go again" 🤡

Furthermore, when we visit the Stormshore Tabernacle in Baldur's Gate and interact with Mystra's statue, he seems to feel so uncomfortable, he doesn't want to be there. Tav starts to think he's definitely hiding something. She would like to hear Mystra's version of what happened between her and Gale (I hope we can talk to her at some point in the game, it would be very interesting).

My Tav, however, disagreed, and Gale replies, "I hope you're right. I truly do. Godly power, perhaps I can live without, but you? You're everything". Has the curse of dating mages that leave players heartbroken been broken?

But I have to admit, when he said: "With you, I forget my goddess. I love you. Tell me you feel the same way. Tell me you want what I want. Please" - OH GODS 😳. I was so close to agreeing to this madness. The VA did an amazing job (side note: so many talented VAs in this game, it's mind blowing), the writing is amazing, the music is incredible, I was blown away, really.

Next day, after the boat scene, he's so adorable and full of love for Tav. Then I remembered his gratest flaw (for me it's more like his biggest fear) from the scene with Zethino in the circus: "He thinks he, and the world, might be better off if he were dead". At the time I thought he was lying, manipulating Zethino and his answers. My distrust of mages in games… Yes, I have a problem 😅

I haven't finished the game, but I have high hopes for a happy ending. No spoilers please, thanks :)

What a rollecoster of emotions, I love it, I love Gale. It felt like I was playing Dragon Age: Origins for the first time, way back when I was a teenager. It's really insane how this game makes me feel, how much I care about its characters and story.

EDIT: Okay, so we have an audience with Mystra, I mean only Gale, but we see the whole conversation between them. My only complain is that Gale doesn't mention Tav when Mystra asks him why he defied her 💔 The outcomes are different depending on whether you do it before or after the boat scene. Personally, I think doing the boat scene before meeting Mystra is much better. I get the impression that Gale is abandoning the plan to reconstruct the crown solely for Tav and his love for her. And the drama 👌🏻 it gives me life.

[livwifeofkarl]

Time for some personal OFMD appreciation. I know there are a ton of posts like this but I wanted to say my piece.

As a trans queer person who is still figuring myself out in my earlier thirties without any queer community support I had pretty much all but given up on finding love (self, romantic or otherwise). Then I watched OFMD and I could see a light at the end of my tunnel of loneliness and self-loathing. All of the sudden I had hope again. Hope that I can find a crew of like minded people to call my family. Hope that someone could love me even when I can’t love myself. Hope that it wasn't too late.

OFMD has brought me so much comfort and joy. It has pulled me out of a really dark space. It has changed my life for the better and for that I am so grateful.

[bookhugers]

I get so sad over Panic! At The Disco sometimes bc they had SO MUCH POTENTIAL and they were sooo young :( like they were KIDS in afycso like its so fucking insane. Like these barley legal teens got pushed into the spotlight out of nowhere (because pete signed them without them playing a show ever) like thats so jarring for them. Going from practicing in a basement to sold out shows in a year or so. And like one of the main reason why the music sticks so much now like 20 or so years after it being released is how much of a raw/genuine writer ryan ross is/was like those songs are so well written its fucking crazy and combined with brenden uries (formally) amazing voice they were kinda unstoppable.

I cant help but credit the fact they got to famous so quickly to ryan ross and jon walker leaving the band. Like thats a band break up that still to tjis day makes me sad. Like brenden and ryan clearly were SUCH GOOD FRIENDS and now they never fucking talk (also bc of the internet stalker thing.) and its just so depressing how fame tore the band apart. Even in interviews from after the split it's clearly affected ryan and its all so :(((

(Sorry for silly ramblings i just wanted to post it somewhere :3)

[godhurts]

Why do I blush so easily, I feel like I'm too shy to dom sometimes 😩

[little-book-of-me]

As much as I really enjoyed A Glitch in Time, all the detail it added to the Ghost Zone lore and how ghosts work has made me start to miss the simplicity and mystery it all had in Season 1, where the Ghost Zone was set up as a kid-friendly version of purgatory or limbo and the ghosts were just...ghosts.

It's probably because I'm now appreciating it more when stories don't spell out everything about how the world works, and you have to connect little pieces the writer leaves for you instead of explaining it in full.

[rabbastian]

Honestly, I’m really hoping that we are seeing Snake’s backstory from cinematic records that some reaper is reviewing because getting another near death situation as Bard’s would be meh :// But IF someone is actually watching Snake’s cinematic records, who is it? It would make soo much sense for this grim reaper to be William considering his involvement in the circus arc and all of that but we saw both him and Ronald in the previous arc🤔Besides there was already a scene in circus arc with William watching Joker’s records, wouldn’t be weird for Yana to do similar thing twice?

[flowercrown-bard]

since witchers can see really well in the dark, there’s no need to light the hallways of Kaer Morhen with torches

So the first time Jaskier visits the keep, he keeps bumping into things bc he can’t see a thing and the witchers keep forgetting that he’s practically blind in the dark

obviously, the only solution is that Geralt always has to hold his hand to guide him.

(especially since the torches all seem to mysteriously disappear)

[rainbowcrowley]

my internship is fun, i really enjoy the work and the people here are nice–

why is it still hard to get up every morning? why does it take so much willpower to get on the train to come here? why can't i shake that slither of constant anxiety while sitting at my desk, doing my stuff? while do i feel a sort of panic every time i'm alone in the mornings? and why the fuck do i constantly feel so fucking overwhelmed??

[starr-vivs44]

Mini Rant about Zelda’s Trauma

I feel like Zelda’s trauma is overlooked in the franchise, like in most games she probably has as much trauma as Link.

Especially BotW/TotK Zelda, I personally believe that she has more trauma than that game(s) Link does.

Yes BotW Link dies protecting her but Zelda still held off Ganon for an entire century.

Don’t even get me started on Zelda’s trauma in TotK alone..

TL;DR: Zelda’s trauma is very overlooked in the franchise, especially BotW/TotK Zelda.

(I might expand on this later, it’s nearly 1am and I’m tired)

[nightglider124]

They just look so good together?? I really just want this show to make them kiss already. Like, i just need that. It is not much I’m asking for here! 😭😭

[burgundykicks]

I just absolutely love it when I follow s1 and they follow me back ,and then I get the lik purple 'mutuals' sign :)

Usually It's a mutual of my other mutual, but it still makes me so happy

Tumblr is the best social media fr.

[cubicalleaf]

I love dnd! I love dnd! let me tell you about my dnd characters!! I promise it won't take 4 hours and be a mentally exhuasting process for the both of us!!!

[satansfavoritestripper]

Googling "what to do with my life" at 3:43am: This is how people get lured into cults

[meerealsssss]

theres someone here with my irl name

so whenever someone calls her name i always look at them like an idiot

of course they wouldn't be talking to me, why would they?

the other [irl name] is more popular, a cast, and prettier

[flowercrown-bard]

I am once again pissed at diet culture. I just watched three tiktoks in a row. how to cook dairyfree. How to meal prep without carbs. How to make healthy snacks without sugar. I keep getting (and stupidly clicking on) those articles that are like "ten things you shouldn't eat if you want to lose weight" and "why xy foods are bad for you" and wouldn't you know it last week i got recommendated articles that said those specific foods were super healthy and great for weight loss and now i should "never eat" them?? Is there any food we're still allowed to eat without being made to feel guilty?