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Gale Dekarios in Baldur's Gate 3 (2023).

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Made a quick (almost) looped animation of this render ❤️

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Gale from @vannral's the wizard fashion, which I emphatically recommend if you think you'll enjoy some sweet married bloodweave smut and Astarion losing his mind over Gale wearing pretty lingerie (as he SHOULD)💜💜💜 I've been having a time these past several weeks and vannral's bloodweaves have been such a comfort, so I figured another fanart was in order as a show of thanks LOL

I've done fanart for the halcyon days ahead of us (post canon, only one bed RAAAA) and on these calm waters (act 3 falling in love 🥺), and I also really love in the middle of a maze (Gale peril!!!) and the price of loving someone (really sweet Gale & Shadowheart friendship plus some misunderstandings). The ongoing an act of bargaining also has me in a chokehold rn but honestly, I wholeheartedly recommend every one of vannral's bloodweaves as they are wonderfully written and sweet and ogugghgughg I love them so much 😭

Closeups and details under the cut because I love how this turned out and the clothing was a labor of love-

I feel like the shading obscures a lot of the iridescent effect on the corset & dressing gown so here's it without, and also what's under the gown because I think his underwear turned out really cute and you can barely see it (by design hehehe) -

Pookie 🥺

Getting the sheer robe to look right was a TRIAL but it was so worth it imo 😊 Multiple translucent layers stacked on top of one another to get the right amounts of opacity., and then a gradient map to get the pearly effect wehehehe

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He's so pretty when he cries.

gale

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It's a struggle man istg

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companion details: gale dekarios.

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NSFW -> Bluesky | X | Reddit

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Nooo this is so cute 🥹🥹

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for this fic i’ve written

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Have a sweaty, sexy Gale as a treat.

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saw the most whimsical ass tree in my life and I had to draw his face

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Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy Osaka Comic Con 2025 Opening Ceremony x

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moss mfriday #3: Glacier Mice

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That's right - it's glacier mice. One of my favorite things maybe on the entire planet. Let's talk about these freaky fuzzy little rats!!

Glacier mice are balls of moss that live in large herds like this in a few select glaciers. They are moss all the way through, with a center consisting of dead moss matter, implying that they begin as small growths of moss and simply accumulate over time, like snowballs. However, their outside surface is alive and well on all sides. Glacier mice have been observed, through tagging and tracking, to roll across the glacier like a majestic herd of wildebeest, exposing all of their sides to the sunlight. They trundle along at a pace of about 2.5 cm per day. That's 30 feet in a year! They're really schmovin'! Certainly further than most mosses can claim to travel.

What's really exciting, though, is that they all move in the same direction, and we're not sure why or how. Scientists experimented to try and attribute their coordinated behavior to wind, sunlight, and the direction that their grazing ground slopes, but to no avail. They speed up, slow down, and change direction in unison, based on some mysterious moss code that we haven't cracked yet.

Cross-section of a glacier mouse. Note the dead moss matter inside, and the short gametophytes on the outside, adapted to harsh winds and sunlight. [image credit]

We have figured out how they roll, though - while the moss ball sits on the ice, it insulates the ice directly underneath it, protecting it from melting. This forms a little pillar of ice that the moss eventually rolls off of. The insulating power of glacier mice also gives it the wonderful ability to host all kinds of microorganisms that otherwise wouldn't survive the glacier's harsh conditions, and their ability to move makes it possible for microorganisms to spread from one habitable spot to another. They're like a bunch of little tardigrade passenger ships, braving the dangerous glacier to go where no water bear has gone before!!

Glacier mice have been found to consist of several moss species, most of which must reproduce asexually in order to survive in the dry climate. They've been observed to live for at least six years, but are projected to live much, much longer. I love them. So much. I hope they know that I love them!! I LOVE THEM!!!!

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I'm tired of drawing my bloodweave comic in black and white