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My best friend just called him "Slavic Mario" and I'm dying 😭😭😭 It's a me, Marian wahoo

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*shows you this like a kid shows their mom a necklace made out of macaroni*

You have to take me behind a shed and put me down like a rabid dog. There's no cure for me.

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Stardew Valley is Baldur's Gate 4 if you romanced Shadowheart.

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I love your wolfheart sm, pls give her paw beans a kiss  (っ˘ڡ˘ς)

*mwah* done uwu

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I'm sorry but this has been keeping me up at night: what is the reason behind connecticut tav being called that?? Not a critique btw I think it's great

Okay - tl;tr: it's a reference to the Connecticut Clark meme/comics.

Longer explanation: When I was playing the game for the first time I had this moment of realization that my little guy is just "a little guy" - He never experienced any traumatic event, his backstory is quite boring, he's below average in basically everything, he doesn't have any super powers and his parents love him very much (that was his biggest character thing when I played the game. His motivation to push on was that he wants to go back home and hug his mom). I shared my thoughts on discord with a few friends and it became some sort of an inside joke. So, when I started posting my art of him, he still didn't have any real name (because I suck at naming my characters) so I was tagging him as Connecticut Tav (again, just as a silly joke) and I saw that people were finding that amusing so the thing that was originally just a joke became it's own entity.

Here's a screenshot of the moment I had my epiphany:

and tbh, Shadowheart fits the character of Malfina (from the same comics) so well too, like...

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What do you thin of Werewolf Shadowheart? Would Connecticut Tav still fall for her?

Big fluffy girlfriend that could scoop him up with one hand paw? Sign him up!

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Because the farm is really Shadowheart's ending I was thinking, what would be Connie's post-game thing (he loves the farm life to pieces, but I was thinking, you know, if he was a companion what he'd be talking about during the epilogue party). And I came up with this idea - he writes and illustrates the very first Guide to the Birds of Faerûn. I don't want to torment you with my words, so if you're interested, the rest is under the cut. It's long but there are some additional doodles there.

About the book:

The book is basically like Collins Bird Guide. Including very detailed descriptions of what sounds the birds make.

Connie's already in touch with a publisher (recommended by Volo)

While Shadowheart does proofreading to see if it's digestible for non-bird-obsessed people, Connie's stepfather and Arnell help him with fact checking.

Connie was consulting Halsin while writing about waterfowl.

The book's dedication reads: "To my dearest wife and our four dogs, eight cats, nine chickens, six pigeons, four sheep, Daphne the milk cow, the odd little squirrel, Buttons and last but not least, our crow."

He thought that dedication was hilarious.

After publishing the book, he's been getting at least one letter every week regarding it.

Thanks to these letters the book gets improved with further editions.

He gets invited to various schools across the country to hold lectures but he almost always declines. (Public speeches aren't his thing and he also doesn't want to leave the farm that often.)(He made one exception for Gale because he asked very nicely and didn't take no for an answer).

Far in the future nobody remembers him as one of the heroes who saved Baldur's Gate. He's being remembered as one of Faerûn's best ornithologists.

Other companions reactions:

Lae'zel genuinely liked the book. So much in fact, she read it more than once.

Tara hates Mondays.

I projected on Karlach how hard it is to read books sometimes.

The scary part of the book was the birds of prey section.

Jaheira didn't even read the book, but she does a bang up job pretending she did. She's still very proud.

Shadowheart read it so many times during proofreading she could recite some parts with her eyes closed. For a week she had nightmares about geese.

Details:

Because whenever I make a drawing with a proper background I like talking about the details I put there. So:

The picture of magpies on the wall is the same one Connie gave Shadowheart in this comic. She kept it in the same book she kept the first night orchid he gave her.

That brigs us to the night orchid next to magpies. It's the same one.

There's a doodle of Shadowheart and Daphne near the window.

As references for all the feathers in this drawing I used feathers from my own collection.

Wooden duck is obviously the one Halsin gives you in the epilogue.

The bird drawings are from this drawing I made almost 3 years ago.

Oof, thank you for reading all that, here's one last doodle:

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Every full moon belongs to them.

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Oh I am cooking like I've never cooked before 👀

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"Everything is perfect"

I did it. I drew all of these animals... and more. The farm ending is everything to me. Sorry for a long post.

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Self reblog to post this in a bigger size because I just love that armor so much. Also them.

I've been obsessed with this post by @chaosroid about all the creative ways to cast the Guidance cantrip for the past 2 days. I am pacing around my flat like a trapped animal, I want to chew on the cables of my pc - that's how much I'm obsessed with that post now. And what a nice way to show the development of the relationship. Man...

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Another Kelpie doodle because I really love that horse.

@mumms-the-word that tag killed me for real. I'll be collecting states like pokemon cards now.

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@mumms-the-word that tag killed me for real. I'll be collecting states like pokemon cards now.

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He promised her to scrub her back after defeating the Netherbrain. And he always keeps his word.

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Remember that outfit I designed for Connie? Yeah...

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I have fallen in love with your Tav x Shadowheart ❤️ absolute perfection!

Ah, warms my heart to hear it!!!

(they're listening to a nightingale)

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Rare TC big brain moment - figuring out it would actually make a sick cover for a playlist

*cough cough* MoonBird - because ain't no way in hell I'm calling them ConnecticutHeart.