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[renposter]

excerpts from the TF2 wiki

[hey-bigday]

RAINCHECK!!!

(full thing and totally greyscale ver under the cut!)

[featherwurm]

Fun Karlach things revealed from party banter/dialogue/cutscenes (these are all 100% canonical to any run, as they are her talking about her past, these all appear in naturally accessable in-game dialogue):

She can touch demons and devils and other infernal creatures without hurting them, but opted not to in those ten years in Avernus as she says she's "not a masochist."*

She has had numerous past relationships, sexual in nature, which she describes as "quick to flare and quick to fade."

She says she was still sorting out "jumping into bed with anything with a pulse" and looking for more long-term relationships when she was sent to Avernus.

There are other infernal creatures running around with infernal engines in them but she thinks she's the only one from Faerun who survived the process (she knows others were tried but didn't make it.)

Loves a good bar fight/brawl (obvious but still cute.)

Likes walking around barefoot in the grass (which she calls "grassing", and she enjoys a good "frolic".)

Isn't keen to travel by boat down the Chionthar (from Moonrise) as her mum said the river was unlucky.

Liked to go swimming as a kid (presumably still does - after she's temperature corrected. Prior to that she mentions fear of boiling fish and her friends alive.)

Worries about being out of date, fashion wise, having been gone from Baulder's Gate for ten years.

Her mother's name is Caerlach (pronounced same as her daughter), and her father's name is Pluck. Their last name, Cliffgate, is the same as one of the lower city entries in Baulder's Gate.

Her dad was a porter and her mom was a laundress. They were poor but loving and fun.

They were poor but NOT destitute - Karlach mentions their household multiple times, and having her friends visit her family in their home. She also went to school (teasing that she'll cheer up Gale by saying she hasn't read "since school").**

When she was a teen her mom passed from illness during a plague when the family couldn't afford a healer quickly enough. Her dad passed a few years after when he was crushed by his own overturned cart on the road.

EDIT: This has been patched in later versions of the game - she does not mention her parents anymore fixing that inconsistency. There's some discrepancy about when she started working for Gortash, in the cemetery she says her parents would have seen him for who he was (implying she did not spend much if any time around him prior to their deaths). In the shadow lands she mentions he 'got his claws into her early' and that she earned enough to help her family move into a better place in the city under his employ (it's entirely possible she's referring to moving their bodies post-mortem though).

She was a young adult (describes herself as 'not-quite-kid') while in Gortash's employ, worked for him for a good span of time, and spent 10 years in Avernus. This means she's likely well into her 30s by the time of game events.

She, to her own admission in her origin, loved Gortash, but also explains that it was not romantic in nature (stating distinctly to the player character "not like that"). She clearly looked up to him as her boss and was deeply betrayed when sold to Zariel.

She lived with her friend Fitz when working for Gortash, who also worked for him at the time. Gortash lied to everyone around her about what happened to her (saying that she moved away suddenly.)

She does note up on meeting Gortash's parents and finding out they sold him to a warlock that he's repeated the same cycle on her.***

Fun fact: "Carlach/Caerlach" in the IRL is a relatively rare Scottish surname likely derived from MacThearlaich ("son of Charles" - typical naming convention dating back to pre- Norman conquest Brittan). Karlach is a very rare spelling of the name and probably was further anglicization on immigration to America (showing up in the 1920s.) As Karlach's mother has the same name as her, spelled differently - one could infer that perhaps her family passed it down in a way that felt more "Bauldrian" to them or was in some way easier to spell.

*Because I've seen this wrong elsewhere - it's not the material plane that's making her untouchable, it's the engine itself. Her engine stops actively hurting her when Raphael teleports you to the House of Hope in Act I - but she's still not touchable without fixing based on this dialogue.

**I've also seen this wrong - Karlach was never an orphaned street urchin and I don't know where people get this impression. Gortash did not "take her in" or mentor her, he was very clearly her boss, albeit one she was friends with and looked up to.

***She does not mean this as a literal one for one, of course, just that someone she trusted sold her to an infernal for his own gain.

[caratbow]

under the missile toad 🐸♥️🎄

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[ahfrickenfrick]

the batkids decide play a new game on patrol where they try to yell the most outrageous thing jumping into a fight

bruce bans the game after stephanie runs into a crowd of bystanders and muggers yelling

‘bienvenue power bottoms!’

and it causes jason to crash into a power pole from how hard he was laughing

[maiapoetica]

[kinky-cas]

i am imagining a scenario (pre destiel getting together) where dean is venting to someone, maybe donna, about cas going off and doing something dangerous without talking to him about it. take your pick of which particular incident. and cas does this for a lot of reasons which mostly involve being raised in a military cult, but it still reads to dean as a rejection of equal partnership.

so he’s venting! and donna is like *minnesota accent* “well of course you’re mad! who wouldn’t be? if doug had been pulling that kind of nonsense he’d have been in the doghouse for sure!” to which dean sighs and responds, “he gives me those sad eyes and i always end up caving. and he’s an angel. it’s not like i can make him sleep on the couch for a week, the guy doesn’t even sleep!”

and they continue having their spa night and dean is caught up in the girl talk and relaxing and having fun so it’s not until he’s laying in bed that night trying to sleep that he notices. and then he spends 45 min staring at the ceiling thinking “why did i say that. even if he slept I couldn’t kick him out of bed. because he’d be in his own bed. obviously. also that’s crazy i’d never kick cas out of bed. why wouldn’t i want to be safe and protected and know exactly where cas was? in this hypothetical. that doesn’t even matter anyways because angels don’t sleep.”

[solangelo-o]

god of blood

[felassan]

Dragon Age: Inquisition released 10 years ago today!

[lolliday]

Aaron, after two full years of going to Eden's on a weekly basis: I think this might be a gay club!

Andrew, who just walked out of the stockroom with Roland: Nothing gets past you, does it.

[r-inijhinix]

My personal favorite fanart of one Andrew Joseph Minyard

[waywardangel-wilds]

Peeta: Oh and if you speak disrespectfully about my wife again, I will kill you.

Everyone laughs.

Peeta: My bad, it sounded like I was joking. I will actually kill you.

[reel-by-reel]

new grad RN lee who gets stuck working on medsurg for like a year and absolutely hates it. he tries night shift for a little bit and plays solitaire at the nurses station when hes done charting

[you-askedforthis]

Haymitch: Congratulations on the toasting!

Peeta: Thanks, Haymitch.

Haymitch: I feel like my kids grew up and married each other.

Katniss: Stop talking.

Haymitch: It’s every parent’s dream.

[arcadebroke]