#permanent ^-^ vs permanent >:(((

[yuridovewing]

[ambivalentlandscape]

shoutout to the mountain goats for making the intimate violent and the violent intimate

[tomurakii]

I like bloodweave. Okay. But I DON'T like the version of them in fanfic where Astarion is a dick and Gale is like. Whining and pleading for him to be emotionally vulnerable (or just. Nice to him) prior to the relationship being established. Because that is just not accurate. Gale needs the player to express interest in him during his weave-teaching scene before he even considers hitting on them properly. Gale is entirely resigned to his fate and needs someone else to pull him away from it. Gale only starts being sweet and romantic and devoted after you accept his love confession and give him hope for the future. Gale says fuck all and then slinks away to cry privately if you break up with him.

Like he isn't chasing after people lmao. He isn't dropping to his knees and crying about anything much less this dickhead he met a week ago. He is overwhelmingly passive about literally everything personal to him up to and including his own death (provided there are no casualties/there is a good reason) until after the player expresses that they care about him. Astarion is not doing that in any of these fics.

Like Gale is friendly and a dork and doesn't wanna get murdered but he fully has a suicide plan. He thought the artefacts would help him survive but he didn't believe he'd ever truly live again. If Gale confessed and Astarion said/did like one (1) mean thing afterward Gale's romance is closed off forever. He's wandering into the forest to cry. He's killing himself immediately. His fragile ego and self worth can't take it. You have to understand that when we joke about him being pathetic it's not bc he's like. Sopping wet and chasing people down and begging for a scrap of attention. It's because he craves affection but would literally rather die than ask or even hope for it until someone else forces that hope back into his serotonin-deficient tadpole brain.

[sonic-rebellion-official]

beepo alert

[harbingersecho]

grif's surgery but just a little more... obvious?

I actually rly rly ADORE frankengrif but I don't have an in-show reason why he'd have extensive long-term allogeneic skingrafts on his face 😔

[barksbog]

so i know i´m being communist on main here but i do think that even small businesses run by artists need to do their best to not exploit other peoples labor. I know how hard it is to source every material ethically but i see more and more people getting labor intensive things like clothes, bags, plushies, ect. made in factories. it worries me how untransparent a lot stores and kickstarters are about the conditions in the factories that produce their products. especially when those factories are located in countries with poor labor rights.

of course you can go ahead and tell me there is no ethical consumption under capitalism and that even someone who handmakes everything and does their best still needs to f.e. buy materials that were produced in unknown conditions BUT

i think that the moment you actively are in control over production you are responsible for making sure it is done in a way that doesn´t make you profit from the exploitation of other people.

[commsroom]

there's an interesting statement being made about identity if you accept all of the wolf 359 characters are equally themselves as of the finale: eiffel is form without memory; hera is memory without form; lovelace is both, but without continuity of experience; minkowski is both with continuity - and she's still not the same person that goddard recruited. if we're never the same people we were, but we're always ourselves, then the only way the self can be defined is through its own assertion - and maybe it can be argued that "my name is-" (and later, being able to say "my name is hera" reintroducing herself to pryce) and "i am captain isabel lovelace. no matter how hard you try, you are not taking that away from me" and "without me, who are you?" / "renée minkowski, and that is more than enough to kick your ass" are all the set up for (and part of the answer to) "am i still doug eiffel?"

[winola-heart]

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[jellyfosh]

HUH

Well

I- my headcannon of Dark’s height is actually canon. But then again it could be Alan just joking cause i haven’t watch that vid but still- Holy crud I got it right :0

The Dark Lord is Smol- The Smol Lord

Maybe that’s why he immediately killed the CG in the Showdown. Bro got offended by their height. or Dang Second’s overpowered laser totally downsized him. He took the Neko Neko kneecaps fr.

[teansouprmyjam]

Thinking about both keyleth and essek saying "it's not fair" in the face of death

[smilysstuff]

South.......💕

[icantbelieveitsnotdeviantart]

TFW your coworker has a soft spot for ugly-cute things and finds the weirdest cat you’ve ever seen outside the Archives.

Alternatively, TFW you travel back in time to fix things undercover as a cat, only to immediately be dragged in thru the front doors by your future boyfriend.

(Inspired by @xenolinn’s cat Jon sims au art)

[inkcovens]

Maybe its just bc I grew up in a super academic area and was the type to be on r/applyingtocollege (ik how lame that is lol) so its personal to me but i hatee when fics make Shauna give up Brown to go to Rutgers with Jackie?? Like?? No?? She shouldn’t have to give up an experience that would be super amazing for her, just for her to be with jackie. Shauna Shipman would have loved going to Brown with the awesome lit program and writing clubs and getting to be her best broody, poetic, writer self. like omg literally why would she give it up. If anything, jackie should transfer to some state school in rhode island instead, since most fics characterize jackie as not caring about college very much. Idk man, let shauna grow independently as a person, like thats the entire root of her character. Her main issue that she wants to feel like an independent person from jackie, and now you're going to make her give it all up to go to rutgers

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

do you ever just sit there thinking about your favorite ocs while violently shaking. god. clenches fist. They're So.

[nevesmose]

Somehow the idea of Curze whispering poison in his sister's ear repulsed Perturabo most of all.

[utilitycaster]

Ok why is the going theory somehow simultaneously "if the gods die, people who are only alive through divine magic may die" but also somehow "if the gods die, Vax, who was only able to live even as a revenant following his disintegration due to the intervention of divine magic, will be a-ok"