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some of my favorite nakedpastor cartoons 🏳️‍⚧️ ✝️

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Hey so this interaction is devastating

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idea: isobel with autopsy scars

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absolutely FERAL at one of Gale's new kiss animations in Patch 6. He tries to give you a chase little peck on the cheek only for Tav to go "OH NO YOU DON'T" and pull that in for 10 seconds of passionate furious making out.

(also tonally holy hells is it a 1000% story match for a satyr tav druid who got scooped up after years and years of frolicking in the feywild and a brief trip to the material plane paired up with a reclusive wizard that's spent years in a tower largely cut off from contact with anyone else and thus kinda awkward) (I think she's eventually going to wind up with Halsin unsurprisingly, after having already told Astarion he needs a friend more than he needs an object of love who may or may not be gone when this is over, but not yet)

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if you rescue the prisoners from Moonrise, after you go to Last Light Inn the boat you escape from...winds up on the roof!!

I choose to believe it's somehow Wulbren Bongle's fault. Don't drink and drive kids!

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Patch 7 coming in hot with new bad endings

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my personal character design opinion

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king minos: get this monster out of my sight!! put it in a labryinth so i never have to look at it again!! gods holy fuck!!!

the minotaur, born like a day ago:

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Do centaurs (especially the Runners) wear horseshoes or do they have a different way of protecting their hooves?

Anon: I’m not sure if you’ve touched on this before, but what are your thoughts on shoes for centaurs? Would they have classic horseshoes or would they wear booties that they can put on as needed? I adore all your posts, they give me so much inspiration!!

Ok I definitely have a few thoughts about shoeing centaurs!

In general I think centaurs definitely use horseshoes as we know them, but it's not nearly as common as how we shoe our own horses. Nailed on metal shoes are a pretty long term solution that require specialized maintenance, but they can't really be beat for protection and durability. So they're kinda like steel toed boots, mostly used by those with physically demanding jobs in rough terrain and punks. For shoe-inclined cultures like the merchants, sandals with hardened leather or wooden full foot soles are the preferred hoof-gear for the average taur as they can be easily customized and used to protect tender frogs or support healing cracks with medical shoes available to correct issues in addition to just looking so fashionable and most importantly- relatively easy to take off at the end of the day. Slippers are comfortable lightwear, leather sleeves that are maybe hardened on the bottom but only really good for tooling around town on cobbled streets, soft earth, or in a house or business. Mule shoes are called so because they make the hoof tall and narrow like a donkey's hoof and are pure fashion. Basically centaur clog heels, they require a precise custom fit to wear properly and usually greatly restrict mobility and so are a mark of high-society. Though the most extreme versions are worn at festivals by specially trained dancers, sometimes with sparking metal embedded in the bottom for extra flash. These are usually attached to nails in the hoof like metal shoes to try and keep broken legs to a minimum.

Riders in particular don't tend to wear any shoes at all, preferring to go barefoot to avoid the fuss and maintenance of any sort of footgear with their active lifestyles. Their culture in particular does not have much in the way of metallurgy and certainly not anything in the realm of infrastructure necessary to maintain regular shoeing. Pretty much the only shoes they wear are war shoes, with spikes on the bottom to really make infantry rethink getting close on the battlefield. But those are pretty rare, it's just not worth the expense and difficulty of ensuring you have a well-trained farrier on top of expensive iron in their culture. But of course there's always a few bigwigs willing to take the expense, particularly in the bigger herd-families who range further south near the Merchant city-states and have a passionate scion who can be encouraged to learn the practice and supported in their work!

The merchant culture on the other hand has the built in metal-heavy culture and infrastructure built in given their close relationship with dwarves so shoeing is a pretty common and easy practice.

For the most part though I think most centaurs would just maintain their own feet as part of regular grooming and walk barefoot on toughened feet. It's just easier when you've got 4 feet and losing a single shoe can easily cause pretty significant strain or injury depending on the circumstances!

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i am so continually fascinated by this satyr mod for bg3. just, like, the physics of trying to climb/descend ladders with the goat-like legs and the way it necessarily alters the geometry of movement itself.

and the mod author did such a great work here that at some point it's almost become more interesting to watch how a reality-adjacent physics system truly works up against the mythological and metahuman etc.

also, like, would centaurs or minotaurs or satyrs (or fauns) or any similar hooved semi-human wear horseshoes? How does THAT work.

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oh so when vampires have heightened sensory awareness it’s cool, but when I have it it’s ‘autism’

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in retrospect i should have figured out 3 seconds in and not at the end of act 1 in my FOURTH run of BG3 that "You're playing as a satyr druid? girl that is ABSOLUTELY going to be a Halsin romance like papa bear's gonna be on your tail (literal) 3 seconds after you free him" like let's be real honest here even in forgotten realms that is the OVERWHELMINGLY the romance that makes sense for that character and no one save MAYBE Gale (sweetheart and a bit freaky) or Lae'zel (all are istik to her) is in the same order of magnitude

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considering that one story where shadowheart was outnumbered but still picked a fight with other sharrans because she was done with the bullying she and nocturne were enduring i think it's safe to assume that shadowheart punched transphobes and will do it again

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Silfy is Mattis sister?!?!? I literally just thought they were both two of the orphan kids and like, either friends or paired up together by Mol on the con.

Oh wow. THAT'S why he's suddenly disproportionately nice to you the rest of the game if you don't get mad at Silfy for the con.

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[ID: Illustration of Wyll from BG3 with the tiefling kids from the grove. Arabella is hanging off Wyll's shoulders and hes ruffling the hair of Mirkon and cheering Umi on. Umi has a play sword in his hand and looks nervous. A sketch of the grove is in the background. END ID]

Wyll Week Day 5: Heart of the Gate / Coming of Age

This maybe only vaguely fits the prompt but it's nice that he's so good with kids

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just started rewatching a show called Knots Landing that started in 1979 and ended in 1993. 344 episodes plus a six hour epilogue movie. Most seasons have at LEAST 25+ episodes, and some have as many as 30.

THIS is the way.

I love you shows with 50+ episodes, I love you shows with filler episodes, I love you shows that aired over 5 years+, I love you shows that weren't unexpectedly cancelled after one season because they didn't reach an unattainable goal, I love you prestreaming shows

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it frustrates me to see people saying modern Gale would be an AI bro. Modern Gale would hate AI because there is no soul in it, no creativity; it is attempting to 'solve' art with math and he would find that stifling and depressing.

GORTASH IS THE AI BRO stop robbing him of his title. He would be blackmailing people with ai-cloned voices and likenesses, living his best life.