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Are u calling me stupid

Tagged by @rowanisawriter thanks bud 🙏

Rules: Make yourself using this picrew and then take this quiz to see how the fandom would see you as a fictional character

Tagging: @starlightweave @usherdownthesky @riddlerosehearts & @sunflowersandrolan 🤍

(Picrew credit goes to Fuzenia; the site kept giving an error code when I tried to complete it so I had to use snipping tool lol)

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have you seen [slop on netflix], the latest season of [slop on disney+] was okay —listen lol. Nobody ever ask me whether ive watched somethig movie tv nothing. Im not watching anything. imdone watching things for real. there are maybe 4 or 5 original things coming out a year. everything is a copy. think for a second when was the last time you saw an original movie. You will probably remember a title or two during oscar season. In 2025 like 70% of everything that’s released is part of an established franchise. if i open netflix i will see 20 multiverses on the front page because the network has crushed the creativity out of everything in the hope of giving you some marketable slop that you can have on in the background while you scroll your phone. in the movies you are more likely to see a disney property sequel prequel or spin off than literally anything else, half of all top studios’s movies this year are established ip, and disney also has a bad habit of snatching up talented directors and writers and trapping them into multi year contracts to work in the slop factory. I am done watching movies and tv i can’t do this anymore. nobody is taking risks nobody is incentivized to make anything actually good because the slop factory pays the bills and all the top studios won’t pay for anything but the worse shit you’ve seen as long as it’s advertiser friendly and fits within the blueprint they have used to generate billions in the box office each year. Why would they ever break out of that blueprint that they know works, and why would they ever let us deviate from their perfectly laid track to the land of billion dollar forever franchise slop ride eternal

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i hate this training we’ve all had in consumption like over the years we have learned to eat and eat and eat binge shows tear through books listen to podcasts on 1.5x speed. i know the world is running faster than us and our jobs make it seem like there is no time to do anything. But when people make fanart or write fic it’s different than the content that we see on tv or read in a book. this isn’t produced, it’s sincerely created, it’s made from the heart for free and out of very limited and measured time. It is inconceivable to me that people would not only treat this valuable and earnest community contribution like run of the mill mass produced bullshit content but would also be mean to the creator? i am holding a gun .

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Found out there was a crater on Mars called Gale Crater today and thought of you

WE DID IT GUYS WE FOUND THE GALE-SIZED HOLE !!!!!!!!

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I need someone to kick my ass to write 😭

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okay so my console literally will not let me enter the next part of the game so.... maybe i'm just gonna start over 😭 probably for the best, not a huge fan of act 3 anyway and maybe I can chalk it up as research for ategnatos lol?

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Okay but Gale putting his child to sleep and just getting waaaay too elaborate with his bed time story and ultimately keeping them awake longer

okay sorry i literally could not get this idea out of my head lol sorry for the surprise art, hope it's okay for me to use ms. evie AND to draw these weird little idk gnome-esque children (i can't draw children)

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some of y’all bout to be real mad at me. but it must be said. some of the shit u call corny/cringy is actually just genuine/cute/sweet and y’all r just afraid of expressing any type of positive emotion

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(crouching down to lay my hand on a post, trying to determine if my mutual could still be online) still warm...

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some of y’all bout to be real mad at me. but it must be said. some of the shit u call corny/cringy is actually just genuine/cute/sweet and y’all r just afraid of expressing any type of positive emotion

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I don't read a ton of fic but I tell ya. When I find a fic that feels like it was made for me it's like I start to get dizzy and I feel a bit floaty and it's all I can think about lol

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Fun Facts About Your Tav

Answer the questions about your Tavs (as many as you want) below! ❤️ Make sure to post their pics so I can see their lovely faces!

heartfelt thanks to @window-on-the-west for the tag <3 i have so many scattered little drabbles for her, but have never really sat down to consider the whole, so this was challenging and fun :') this was also how i found out that 90% of my screenshots of her are mad and dirty!?! i am always using soap and this bitch is always dirty

Az'zael (also answers to Az, Zae, Az'el)

Age: nebulously late 30s, early 40s. Strengths: excellent strategist. silver tongue can get her into anyone's good graces and any place she's not supposed to be. (she uses these forces for good, now. mostly.) determined, strong resolve. fierce belief in the principle of free will. elects to choose grace over resentment and believes in second chances, but isn't afraid of the nuclear option where necessary. suspiciously proficient in anatomy. Weaknesses: emotional blunting, disconnection and denial. growing up in an environment where feelings like affection and want were punished, she partitioned those things away long ago and has a hard time contextualizing her reactions to things. this is her central character development; slowly (and then rapidly) unlocking her depth of humanity through exposure and intimacy with her companions. also, neuropathy due to ~the meddling~, not a character weakness but it affects her physical strength so i'm counting it.

Class: storm sorcerer, emphasis on, we'll say, the effects of electricity on the nervous system. Race: human-- fought for and earned. Siblings: not anymore. :') Favorite food: meat, some things don't change. she's definitely happiest when gale gets his arsenal of herbs and spices back, but has an emotional attachment to the simple fish stew he would make early on the road to baldur's gate. he still makes it for her when she's sick. Least favorite food: very little of a sweet tooth, most sweets and candies she finds far too cloying. but i'm gonna shamelessly self insert here and say that she'll crave a very dense and dark chocolate or other such rich treat now and again, i think it suits her.

Tav or Dark Urge?: dark urge, redeemed, still a little freaky with it 😎👍 No-pressure tags: @chaoswritesthemultiverse, @waterdhaviancheeses 🫶

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Do you remember what you spent 2020 doing?

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the bg3 community in general does NOT talk enough about how ludicrously OP gale was pre-folly and pre-tadpole.

- archmage. not an arbitrary title - awarded to 18+ level wizards. meaning he could cast spells through 9th level.

- chosen of mystra. akin to demigod-level status. slowed aging, chosen-specific abilities, direct access to the depths of the Weave, plus more.

- lover of mystra AND protégé of Elminster Aumar. privy to the most advanced Weave manipulation and magical tutelage.

imagine a situation where tav/his partner falls in battle and gale loses it. magic explodes out of him in raw waves. his grief/rage calls on the Weave without verbal control. he reduces the battlefield to cinders. blood pours out of his nose as he casts far more than his body can currently handle. his eyes glow. runes appear and disappear across his skin.

and the party remembers that oh shit. this wizard who cooked them stew and rambled about planar theory used to be a living magical weapon. and still has the capacity to be.

perhaps expect more writing soon 😶

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Just going to try and be gentle with myself and exist this month

Literally so much is going on and I feel very foggy and I am optimistic that I will bounce back in a few weeks but I can't really be as active and "on" as I usually am, sorry :(

I'm going to be a little selfish this month and lose myself in self-indulgent fic and fanart and stuff so I may get a little annoying on here with that, you have all been warned 😅

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trying to have healthy relationships with bpd just feels like trying to be tactful and respectful while holding back your emotions with a brick wall that feels like it's about to snap like a twig

hiding. it feels like hiding.

yet I must hide, so it seems.

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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Baldur’s Gate (Video Games) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Gale/Tav (Baldur’s Gate) Characters: Gale (Baldur’s Gate), Tav (Baldur’s Gate) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Mpreg | Male Pregnancy, Angst, Dungeons & Dragons Character Backstory, Named Tav (Baldur’s Gate), Self-Indulgent, Other Additional Tags to Be Added 

Summary:

In which Gale is host to more than just a tadpole and a Netherese orb. Giliath will do just about anything to save him.

In death, new life. Always.