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I’ve been literally writing this fic for four months thinking oh this is gonna be an interesting little twist about and then today it turns out it’s… a huge theory on a big gortserver and a huge load of theories and edits dropped….🫠

I know I know it’s zeitgeist and obviously those morsels are for everybody to find but people are 100% gonna think I just copied it and it’s taken…. So long…..

#it’s fine it’s fine I’ll do it anyway and just note somewhere but man #this one has just taken so long to piece together

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Lets talk about Stillmaker, Durge’s other canon blade

Okay, so we already know that Durge had the Bloodthirst dagger which was created from Bhaal’s own blood and carried by his chosen.

But there is another dagger in the game you can find that also canonically belonged to Durge, Stillmaker.

We see Stillmaker portrayed in Dark Urge’s official artwork, and it’s also Durge’s blade in Idle Champions, as you can see.

I’ve noticed that Stillmaker matches Bloodthirst in design, but it is conspicuously green, as opposed to every other Bhaalian weapon I’ve seen which are red.

You know who else’s canon weapon has the same green coloring? Gortash. And who is the color green associated with? Bane. Stillmaker looks like it was made in the same design to Gortash’s crossbow.

I posit then, that being close to one another as they were, Gortash either made or commissioned Stillmaker to match with Bloodthirst and gifted it to Durge. It’s far more his style in looks, and I feel it’s something he would have done as he describes Durge as his nearest and dearest, and we know they worked very closely together and admired one another.

It truly makes my Durgetash heart flutter!

EDIT: Here is a close up of the weapons together in game!

EDIT #2: We were discussing on discord yesterday, Orin would have of course kept the Bloodthirst blade after dispatching Durge because it’s made of Bhaal’s blood and carried by his Chosen, but she would not have wanted some sugary gift from her sibling’s Ex and probably tossed it away and Dolor ended up with it, and that’s how it ended up in his stash.

EDIT #3: @arikandkade made an EXCELLENT addition to this theory and I’m adding it because it’s just such great information, thank you so much for this info!

#I’ve literally been writing this into something for months lmao struck by the zeitgeist once again #durgetash #to link in with the open hand stuff too oh well #hey lads this is going to seem like a wild coincidence now….

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RANDOM DASHBOARD INSPECTION!

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#twice... a day. #I have this thing where I am stinky #like horribly stinky #I am so envious of my husband who can do like 2-3 days

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Cause I'm thinking about Glim and Gale right now: When did they first realize they were in love? How did they react to the realization? Would they even describe themselves as being in love or would deep adoration fit better?

AUGH RAZ THANK YOU! I too have been thinking about them recently. I might... start a Glim playthrough from the top again...

I think it was a classic case of Glim realised she liked him early on and just. Stopped that feeling sharply and redirected it into being friendly, because it was not the time, and he obviously had a lot going on, and she cared enough to put it aside and try to be the friend he so obviously needed.

And Gale is much slower to even realise it is a romantic interest, because what he had with Mystra was all-consuming, passionate and full, and what he has with Glim is quiet and companiable.

But then! He realises very sharply that he is falling in love with her, actually, when he reveals the orb to her. She is hurt and disappointed and it guts him like a knife, and he knows almost immediately why he feels like that. But for her, that moment just solidifies that she has to double down on being a friend to him and she is so deeply in denial about it possibly being anything else that she doesn't realise until he says it out loud (yes, she even takes the infamous "I read a book" line as a flirtatious teasing.)

Once they've confessed though, man, they are in LOVE love. They are insufferable about it, even though years later they would both probably say they were in an adoration phase.

#Thank you pal this was lovely lovely lovely #I miss them #glimmergale #I can write nice stuff honest! #I have non evil characters #bg3 #glimmergris

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She stills, her brow furrowed for a moment as she looks over every corner. Then he sees her lips part ever so softly, and her hand moves to trace the edges of the lines.  “Is this how you see me, Enver?”

From The Portrait.

So I had the absolute bloody (ha) delight of being able to commission the incredible @lokorum to paint the sadly unnamed portrait of an anonymous sitter from Lord Gortash's private collection. I am just so thrilled at how it turned out, thank you for your patience through this process, your encouragement and your kindness. It's been a delight, and I love it so much, I can't stop looking at it!

#this gets a like it gets a reblog #still so in love with how this turned out #bg3 #manva warhelm

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The Push, The Grind, and the Metal Mind

When Enver Gortash's first child is born, an era of change is ushered fourth.

The Absolute plan comes closer to execution each day, his alliance with the Bhaalists prove fruitful, and his position as Chosen is cemented. This is expected, a pre meditation of well laid plans.

What he does not expect is his wife, and his growing, newfound wants from her.

Read on AO3

#for some uh reasons I was thinking about this one again today #what a fic #durgetash #heed the tags tho

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observation

bg3, durgetash, rated e, 2300 words

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Anara wonders if he can actually see her or whether he’s just looking where he expects she will be. Maybe she can even pretend not to have seen anything, or even been in the same room later when he waits for her reaction. That would bother him to no end. But her own heart beats so hard against her chest that she’s sure he can hear it in between his own heavy breathing and the woman’s little moans, the rustling of their clothes, the sound of his fingers sliding through her hair as he holds it away so he can look at Anara.

#rowan how do you keep hitting #bg3 #fic rec #durgetash

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Inquisition version of this poll can be found by clicking here!

It'd be interesting to see who your wardens/hawkes actually romance vs. who you'd romance in the tags if you wanna share!

#either Leliana or Merrill! WIVES #I love them both so much it hurts

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To me, personally, knowing "oh this fantasy exists because of x!" is like. Step one of understanding something. The next step always has to be "and in a societal context it means x"

Because it genuinely is fine to be drawn to things to process things in my eyes, but it is really disingenuous to pretend that the perpetuation of those things at scale doesn't run real risks to other people normalising it without that critical step, or isn't potentially harmful to people who are in more vulnerable positions than you might be!

It's never as simple as "well I'm using it to process my trauma so that's okay," and neither is it as simple as "every instance of depicting this is gross and wrong."

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Do you guys remember how kidnap fantasies were popular on wattpad because young girls and queer teens were both made to feel shame at the thought of their own sexualities, so the fantasy of being kidnapped totally against their will was a way for them to engage with a romantic or sexual fantasy without feeling morally in the wrong for doing so? Added bonus that the fantasy involved being whisked away from repressive environments like home or school, right?

Finding out that Bram Stoker was in a sexless marriage and that scholars believe that he very likely was closeted gay puts the entire book into perspective as to WHY it reads EXACTLY like a self insert wattpad Dracula kidnap fic:

“I TOTALLY love my wife and would never do anything that an upstanding Good Straight Working Man wouldn’t do but oh nooo, big strong man with broad back and strong enough arms to carry me back to bed like a princess trapped me and claimed me as his, completely against my will 👉👈 But he protects me against the bad evil sexual women (who I assure you, I am TOTALLY sexually attracted to, as any straight man with a choice would be) but trust me, I do NOT want ANY of this. What’s that? The Count is not capable of feeling love? Would be a shame if I had the special ability to change tha-”

#it's extremely interesting to me that so many women's fantasies are grounded in their autonomy was further taken from them #because I get it it's a way of allowing as this post says! #but to me as somebody on the other side of that I wanted my desires to be heard #to be acknowledged and accepted #I think it's so important to interrogate WHY #it's not about justifying to some kind of purity council #but it's about knowing what is informing this and how that status quo might be harmful to perpetuate uncritically #I loved the conversation around didactic kink that went around like #be aware of what you're saying what you're presenting and how it fits in the real life oppression of peoples #and be able to engage with that and own why you're processing desire #in the way you are

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The post-game failspawn graveyard scene that lived rent-free in my mind. Then they went to the Elfsong and proceeded to lose ten rounds in a row.

Read more about those guys in here if you may... https://archiveofourown.org/works/52946215/chapters/133933714

#I adore this #astarion #bg3

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tiramisu am i right

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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