#theoakandthemistletoe

[noamuth]

POV you've woken up and the weird paranoid drow is interrogating a rat while shirtless at 1am

[butleroftoast]

New blog!

The Oak and the Mistletoe

A druid and a politician walk into a tavern...

A BG3/D&D/general fantasy RP blog for Pol Morris, the Skullduggans, and any other characters I feel like messing about with.

Will it ever get used for any RP other than terrorising @noamuth with suspicious rats? Maybe!

[dalamusrex]

hey there! used to write with a bunch of yall ages ago, back when tes tumblr was popping. lionofmara, booksandbrimstone, and more. where is everyone writing these days? (posted anon bc im not using my writing blog to send this)

Ahh, I see!!!

Some of the closest people I used to write with are still on tumblr! A good chunk of them have just fallen out of TES and are on their personal blogs most of the time, or fallen into another fandom, or both (hello I'm both haha). My personal is at @dragonbleps where you can catch me blabbing about Dal or his many AUs, among other typical tumblerian reblogs. Any Dal art is typically posted to the corresponding blog and then reblogged there.

A small handful of me and my friends made BG3 blogs that we write on now! Dal's is at @noamuth, which is a sideblog to this blog. I've written with @roquenxnar (@dragxnsfire's writer) @fxrest-bcrn (@aetherianxarchive's writer) @theoakandthemistletoe (@boarchasers writer) and @yaivai so far! Some may be multimuse, multifandom or both.

There's also @tadfooled and @lockpicksandjuggling (both @whatoddities writer) but most of the writing I do with her is on discord! We like throwing ideas back and forth and talking about them and fleshing them out a little :)

Some people RP on discord but I've tried that before and it feels weird to me, but that's just a me thing. Maybe I'd get used to it. There miiight be a few people who've moved to Pillowfort? But I haven't seen anyone I write with really move to any other site. I have a Pillowfort but it's empty, made during one of those annual Tumblr Is Dying--Quick, Backup Your Blog And Jump Ship panics lmao.

TES Dal isn't going anywhere, and like I said, all his AUs are a sideblog of this blog, so any ask to this blog doesn't go unnoticed if someone still wants to RP with Dal! I think about him all the time and am more than willing to talk about him, I've just kind of run dry on story ideas for TES, so having AUs lets me keep those Creative Juices flowing while I continue to think about Dal haha.

I think at this point I'm just gonna drop all RPs I currently have in TES drafts aside from the one with Seldo which is fairly recent, and have a (mostly) blank slate :) Or maybe not, because I'm indecisive lmao

Check the replies and notes of this post to see any additions!! Like me, some are more than willing to still RP TES, it's just been slow going bc of lack of content and also irl stuff <3

[noamuth]

"He cannot coddle the boy, as much as he wants to. As much as he wants to just take him away from here, out of the city, and raise him like his own son if he must." - What might Dal's life have been like if Nilaufein had somehow found a way to escape Menzo with him? Does (or will) Dalamus ever wonder the same thing?

Ough, good question!

If Nilaufein had somehow managed to escape Menzoberranzan with Dalamus in tow, he would have gone to the Surface. There, Nilaufein would set up a farm, as he enjoys the physical labor of and the rearing and caring for animals. He would have little Dalamus help him, too, if only to teach him a bit more about the land and get him used to the sun over time.

Dalamus would still tend towards wanting to cut gems and make jewelry, and Nilaufein would not stop him.

It would take a bit of time to get used to the freedom that being on the Surface provides, but children are surprisingly resilient, and outside of a toxic environment, he would thrive. Without being forced to be the best of the best, no longer under pressure or punished for failing, no longer raised to be arrogant nor believe in Drow Superiority, Dalamus' childhood would take a softer turn rather than a sharp nosedive into Lolthite Cult conditioning.

Being allowed to grow up more slowly would allow more natural progression through stages of his life and natural personality changes as he figures out who he is and who he wants to be. He is allowed to be shy and uncertain and nervous. He is allowed to second-guess himself and state his worries openly. And this helps him grow into a more resilient individual who can form bonds with others without the trauma of fearing death should he slip up or get too close.

He would still become a jeweler, but for himself (and Nilaufein or any future family). He would share the fruits of his labor because he wants to, not because he is expected to.

Right now, Dalamus does not think about it. He still thinks the way he was raised was, of course, the best way. And despite pleasant memories of Nilaufein, they are faded around the edges by now.

But I have plans for him to eventually meet certain people who will make him think about what Could Have Been. And there is a moment where he finally gets to mourn, both his brother and himself.