andrewknightley

[andrewknightley]

#dragon age #da2 #anders

[andrewknightley]

More Wyllach because there's simply not enough of it.

They're, uh, problem solving until she can get that next tune-up. A preview of sorts for both of them until they can finally touch.

#tHIS ART IS SO CUTE IM DYING #wyllach #karlach #wyll #bg3

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more silly doodles of short haired shadowheart + trying new brushes !!

#aaah she looks cute!!!! #bg3 #shadowheart

[andrewknightley]

I haven't been able to stop thinking about this

#she is so cute i cant wait to continue her romance aaah #lae'zel #bg3

[andrewknightley]

Horniness is not intrinsically less pure than any other human motivation

[andrewknightley]

A shame my first brush with the famed Elminster couldn't be a tad more… optimistic.

#i love himmmmmm #wyll #bg3 #bg3 spoilers

[andrewknightley]

HEARTBREAKING: character actually mildly interesting to think about but I Dont like their fans

[andrewknightley]

Hey btw, here's a piece of life advice:

If you know what you'd have to do to solve a problem, but you just don't want to do it, your main problem isn't the problem itself. Your problem is figuring out how to get yourself to do the solution.

If your problem is not eating enough vegetables, the problem you should be solving is "how do I make vegetables stop being yucky". If your problem is not getting enough exercise, the problem you should be solving is "how do I make exercise stop sucking ass". You're not supposed to just be doing things that are awful and suck all the time forever, you're supposed to figure out how to make it stop being so awful all the time.

I used to hate wearing sunscreen because it's sticky and slimy and disgusting and it feels bad and it smells bad, so I neglected to wear it even if I needed to. Then I found one that isn't like that, and doesn't smell and feel gross. Problem solved.

There is no correct way to live that's just supposed to suck and feel bad all the time. You're allowed to figure out how to make it not suck so bad.

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it always struck me as kind of hilarious that you have to pass a 30DC check to convince shadowheart not to kill dame aylin but if you're just like "sure do whatever lol" she chooses not to kill her anyway. tsundere ass fuck. killing is bad unless it's out of spite. i have morals unless you try to tell me what to do

but i just got to that scene in my new replay and it made me realize that that's not what's at stake at all

because the persuasion check isn't "don't do this". the persuasion check is, your life is whatever you make of it. you don't have to do something just because your goddess tells you to.

convincing shadowheart not to kill dame aylin is easy. she knows it's wrong, and she doesn't want to, not really. if given the choice, she is literally unable to go through with it even if she clearly wants to, or wants to want to so badly she can't tell the difference

the problem is convincing her she has an option in the first place

the problem is convincing her that her life is her own

shadowheart has never belonged to herself since she was captured. not in body, not in soul, not in mind, not even her memories. she quite literally doesn't know who she is in more ways than one. she doesn't know her past or her family, she doesn't know who her loved ones are (including the sharran loved ones, like nocturne), all she really knows about herself is a fear of wolves that's been implanted into her by lies and an attachment to a flower she can't remember the details of. and a mission. always a mission. the will of someone else she has to carry on, that is not for her to understand or question or think about. she can't even want to serve shar, because she isn't allowed to pursue her intention to become a dark justiciar. she is supposed to be well and truly nothing, empty as the sharran doctrine

(oh, and pain that she doesn't know the reason of. no matter what, she must bear the pain)

how can she see herself as more than her goddess, when she quite literally doesn't know anything about who she is other than her devotion to shar? how can she choose her own destiny, when she couldn't even choose how to devote and give herself over to her?

she can't, which is why, unless you have infinite rizz points and/or roll a nat20, shadowheart attacks you. not dame aylin. you. and she never argues about whether or not it's the right thing, because she knows. what she's rebelling against isn't the idea of letting dame aylin go. what she's rebelling against is the idea that she could leave her cage and belong to no one but herself. because the idea is scary and she quite literally doesn't know where to begin. which is why her obsession becomes to find her parents, even though she doesn't remember them at all. because maybe they can tell her who she's supposed to be, and she can have the comfort of having her path laid out before her again

(which is also why she has to kill them. not because of some hand hurty curse bullshit. but because she just wants them and selûne to become the new shar, and she has to let that go if she truly means to claim herself again)

and now im sad. because it's easier for shadowheart to do turn against shar and everything she's ever had on the grounds of saving someone else than on the grounds that she deserves better than to be a puppet. even if you do nothing, saving dame aylin, to her, is easy. saving herself is a wholly different matter, one she's not sure she has any right to, or wants to, even if it's what she really needs. accepting a selûnite's humanity is easier than accepting her own. losing everything is easier than gaining her own autonomy. and she will fight tooth and nail to be allowed to stay in her own, metaphorical soul cage

#lying in the ground crying #shadowheart #bg3 #bg3 spoilers

[andrewknightley]

Fighter and the wizard he likes to tease

#AAAAAH I LOVE IT!!!! #the expressions!!! #gale blushy is so good #good stuff good stuff #gale of waterdeep #tav #bg3

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ianthe

#fjdisisiaiak #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #the locked tomb spoilers #gideon the ninth spoilers

[andrewknightley]

Discworld is so delightful because you get lines like "When banks fail, it is seldom bankers who starve" except it's spoken by a 7 foot tall sentient clay statue named Pump 19 and directed to a man whose name is Moist von Lipwig

#discworld

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every character playlist has the

-song where the lyrics are disturbingly on the nose

-song that doesnt suit the character but you havent taken it out cuz its a banger

-bad song that stays because it suits the character so good

-last five songs that may or may not stay depending on whether or not they pass the test of sitting in the list for a week

-oleander by mother mother

[andrewknightley]

it literally drives me insane that so many companies refuse to send rejection emails like it’s disgraceful tbh. you put so much time and effort into putting together an application and they can’t even be bothered tell you via some measly automated message that you didn’t get the job. you’re expected to just infer

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Ink Blobs! Which one of these blob sketches is your favorite? ☺️💕

#this sounds fun

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“Blade of Frontiers? No, no BLADE OF THE SWORD COAST” ⚔️

After +800 hours of game play I just noticed that Wyll’s outfit is the standard outfit for warlocks. Even Gale has some customisation to make his outfit his own (though it’s not really any better) I really love this hairstyle that I’ve seen mods for Wyll and made it more coastal/swashbuckler theme.

#HE LOOKS VERY COOL!!!! #wyll #bg3 #i also noticed is the default recently likd guys cmon #he looks fantastic tho

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Wyll should have had a tail and this is me telling on myself a hill I’m willing to die on.

#dsfdsfsfdoihsfo #wyll #astarion #gale of waterdeep #karlach #bg3