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It's about the forced complicity for me; it's the becoming the things you hate and fear

Eva Perón Wikipedia | Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride | A. R. Moxon, Twitter | Trust, this version from Rebelshop on redbubble| Andrew Kane, How to Be a Dog

#so so so good

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#actually barking #bg3 #ketheric thorm

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Literally been thinking all day about that poll about cranking it to fanfic.

(For transparency I am a I get excited reading it but don’t ever and have never done anything about it during or after, it’s just fun to read for me.)

The poll results were so unexpected to me! Like a vast majority doing it while reading which like. Logistically is interesting to me, as well as thinking about how people read work (and how imagination and imagery works for people!) but it also makes me understand readerfic a little more. If it’s literally serving the core purpose of titillation, for want of a better word, and you are an allosexual individual, then you would place yourself at the heart of that reading experience?

But just so alien to me! For me sex irl is like… a bodily function, and sex in fiction is a tool to explore other dynamics and metaphors and relational threads. There’s a big definition. Then again, despite what some of my haters might think, I would view myself as acespec so maybe it’s not surprising that I have that disconnect going on. It also makes more sense to me that some people are weirded out by my work - I’m not sexually motivated in like 99% of the sex I write.

Anyway.

However you engage, you do you. And hey, if you found my fic hot, you can always anon me, I’m genuinely interested!

#I’ve genuinely been thinking about this all day lmaoooo

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imitation is the sincerest form of flattery (Ascended Astarion, His Majesty)

“So the thief has come to grovel before me?”

Astarion stared at the cat, stretched across the burgundy velvet pillow situated in the corner of the room. When they had arrived at the tavern, it had insisted on having the biggest pillow placed near the sunniest window. The sun loved its features it had proclaimed but the dreary shadow lands had dampened its style.

“Thief?” Astarion tutted at the smooth cat laying leisurely before him, barely giving him so much as a glance.

His Majesty stretched and yawned before finally deciding to sit up and give Astarion a modicum of respect. Whether he would retain it during their conversation was another matter entirely.

“I heard you chatting with the short one.” His Majesty leaned his head slightly, pointing towards the person seated near the fireplace.

“I’ve inspired you so that you’ve taken to speaking like me,” the cat retorted as it licked one of its paws. “Allowing them to speak to you, much like I’m doing now.”

Astarion crossed his arms and glared at the cat. He’d stolen a lot of things from a lot of people but never anything from a damn cat. He was insulted at the insinuation.

“I beg your pardon??” 

“You’d do well to remember where you hear such things in the future.” And with a final yawn, His Majesty began kneading the pillow to return to his nap. The conversation was over as far as it was concerned. 

“You’re dismissed,” he said as he curled back up, his tail wrapping around him.

“Don’t you take that tone with me. Remember who fetches your milk, feline.”

Astarion was left standing there in silence, irked that a cat had just scolded him. His Majesty had already closed his eyes and gone back to dozing in the sun beaming across his pillow.

#Astarion #bg3 #fics!!!

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Body of Christ

@nullshocked’s Jack, inspired by a scene in Circles

#river this art is crazy!! #the lighting is so good #cw drugs

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i love that specific ao3 phenomenon where you get a sudden influx of kudos on a work and it’s clear someone shared your fic but you have no idea who they are or where they shared it. it’s like being a dickensian orphan receiving money from a mysterious benefactor.

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#this poll has blown my mind #what!! #boosting for reach and also to analyse with my mutuals

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Why am I still in this hell

These were my tags on the 13th August. It’s taken less than a month to plummet into the abyss.

#I hate him #not even affectionate

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Set myself the hilariously feasible task of drafting 2 short stories today and polishing them by Monday and, possibly, finishing a bit of fanfic on top of that.

Lmao

#why am I like this

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The DAO/DA2 poll can be found clicking here!

I'd be interested to hear if they're the same person as your inky romances or not if you'd like to share!

#bull 100% #I love Blackwall but he would annoy me #Cassandra is too religious for me #Josephine maybe #leliana yes with my whole chest #Viv too

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“Why is God Gale his bad ending? That’s the only one where he stands up to his abuser!”

Well firstly I don’t think any of the endings are a binary of good or bad, they are breaking and perpetuating cycles.

And secondly, there is a lot of nuance in the relationship between mortals and gods. It’s a terrible, awful dynamic because they are not even starting on the same footing, they are so far from equals that it becomes reductive to frame it that way.

Because to meet her as an equal, to be able to address the awful thing that happened with the orb, he would have to sacrifice parts of himself (parts that she as Midnight had to sacrifice to become Mystra too) that make him human. To pursue his view of justice, which is really based in anger, shame and a desire for vengeance and recognition, he would have to let go of those things.

Sometimes the greatest victory isn’t that. Sometimes it is moving past survival into something new. Sometimes it’s looking across a room and seeing the patterns that made a person who they are, or even stopped them being a person at all, and deciding you just don’t want to lose yourself to the same things.

All of the endings where people break cycles come at a huge cost. Shadowheart and Lae’zel have nothing in the world but the clothes on their backs. Astarion loses his ability to walk in the sun. But they are able to start carving something for themselves, as imperfect as it is, and that’s the victory of this kind of choice (I won’t go into Wyll and Karlach here because I think their writing is even less defined in the binary of a good and bad choice, but that’s for another post.)

To be a cycle breaker is never the perfect neat conclusion you want it to be, and I’m glad they didn’t make it that. If Gale wants to practice magic he will always, always have to make peace with Mystra as his God, not his lover, and this is something that I think older people have probably experienced in a myriad ways in their own lives too, and that strange sadness is really profound to me.

#not putting this in the tags but #my TikTok is full of this stuff and I just think I was so profoundly touched by how well it was done actually #I still think originally they were only going to have lichdom or sacrifice for gale #but it’s interesting they put in this third way and I like it

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has this been done before or

#ha remember this #my true gift to the fandom

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#other! #she’s a composer whose works are known widely #splits her time between being an academic and an adventurer

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IF YOU'RE TIRED OF HOUSE CATS YOU SHOULD PET A WILD LION!

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Listen, the greatest greatest compliment I could ever want to read is that it sparked something in your own creative journey! I literally could not be more pleased! Thank you so so much ;_;

Fan Work Friday

I was very generously rec'd by @rowanisawriter (in both senses of the word, what a glowing recommendation!), so I wanted to pay it forward and rec some fanworks as well. I'm not certain who's been tagged yet and who hasn't, but if you have some fanworks you want to shout out, consider this your sign. Go forth and spread the joy!

Fanart:

This piece by @weenwem, I mean, my god, it's firing on all cylinders. The lighting, posing, composition, and brushwork. It's like a romantic era painting, it's so masterfully composed with such clear storytelling of a moment we don't often see in canon (the first meeting between Ketheric Thorm and Minthara). Just. I adore it, go give it some love if you haven't yet.

Fanfic: The Portrait by MightyMizora/HardingHightown ( @mightymizora)

I would like to credit this piece for knocking me out of the writing slump I'd been in for the past few years. My brain felt like it was on fire after reading this, I could not stop thinking about it for the rest of evening. It's such a brilliant snapshot of the relationship between Gortash and the Dark Urge from an outsider's perspective, as well as insight on how Gortash operates as a political player in Baldur's Gate. I want to say more, but I don't want to spoil the experience for anyone who has not read it yet. Heed the warnings, but please give it read.

#!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #this made my absolute fucking day!!!! #thank you so much and thank you especially for the beautiful write up #this piece was so special because it was just something that was from a place of passion #I wanted so much to write an outsider story and thought hey this may have no audience #so to still read things like this?? #so special to me

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💌 hellooo

What can I even say! Best Fandom Pal, you are such a smart, empathetic person, and an excellent writer, and just an all round top notch human being across the board. I am so pleased to call you friend <3

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💌

Buddy! Pal! You are SUCH a talent, you have such an eye for details and inference, your writing AND art are both insane (very rude to be so good at both) and on top of that you have been such a delight to get to know over our Gortash illness. <3