#a violent nerd

[mamawasatesttube]

the thing about generally-accepted broad fanon batfam dynamics is that even if you disregard the complete stripping of all nuance in order to make a perfectly nuclear family with no lasting or significant conflict etc etc, half of it is all just built on vaguely (or explicitly) racist stereotypes anyway, like .......... ah yes the little half arab boy is a violent feral gremlin who can't fit in with refined polite society. the half east asian girl is the golden child who never speaks and is good at everything and has no flaws because she's the favorite who holds the family together. the romani one is a slut. LIKE. okay...!

#and this isn't even getting into latino jason and east asian tim hcs. which aren't inherently racist and i do enjoy sometimes! #but sometimes it's just so like. oh you just went hm the poor guy who's violent uses guns and is in the drug trade... that one is latino now #and oh let's declaw this other guy and make him physically weaker but such a nerd and good at computers and ope now he's east asian #like. idk how people don't see it honestly i really don't. #rimi talks

[perpetuallyboo]

Listen, I love all of Charlie’s art, artists are so incredibly talented- BUT I SWEAR TO FUCK IF I SEE ONE MORE ART OF CHARLIE AS SOME NERDY TWINK IM GONNA LOSE IT Yes, yes, he’s still very much a nerd, but this nerd is jacked. Mans has been doing parkour his entire life and was on a professional swim team- HE FULLY PICKED UP WILBUR AND CASUALLY WALKED AROUND WITH HIM IN HIS ARMS-  CHARLIE IS ABOUT 5″10 AND WILBUR IS 6″5

I LOVE ALL OF CHARLIE’S ART BUT I NEED TO SEE MORE OF BUFF CHARLIE BEING DRAWN. 

#Rant over #not really a rant but still #he's so strong I forget and then get violently reminded #slimecicle #charlie slimecicle #he's such a nerd though I love him #HES JUST SO JACKED #qsmp

[plutoslvr]

I think it'd be funny if logan got to go crazy again and everyone assumes he's possessed by the phantoms again but in reality he's just really pissed off

#me when shy nerd chatacters get pissed off and violent #sorry its my fav trope ever #logan fields #school bus graveyard #sbg #logan sbg #aiden clark

[tcfactory]

Please consider: Liu Qingge and Shen Qingqiu role-swap

[LiuJiu, 2300 words]

After the fire, Shen Jiu doesn't sit around, he's aiming straight for Cang Qiong. Wu Yanzi tempts him, but if he is to ever find out what happened to Qi-ge then he can't play around with rogue cultivators, so he ditches the man before Wu Yanzi could take him as a disciple.

He arrives to the sect at a year when they are not doing the disciple selection - the women at the Warm Red Pavilion say it's because the Sect Leader is busy monitoring his cursed head disciple and if the Sect Leader doesn't take part then the rest of the sect has to wait too - but he's tipped off that Bai Zhan is always open to those who are determined enough to climb the mountain and demand admittance.

So that's exactly what he does. The Peak Lord sets him against one of his junior disciples and tells him there are no rules, if he can beat them he's in. It's a test he's not supposed to win, to see his determination and his reaction to failure, as a malnourished slave boy should be no match to someone in good health who has two years of training under his belt. But Shen Jiu doesn't know this, he has come too far to give up now and unlike the scrappy, but well-fed farmer's son he's set up against, he fights dirty.

He sets the basis of his future nickname - The Rabid Wolf of Bai Zhan - that day when he claws the boy's eye out and forces him to yield. His rise among the disciples is almost as meteoric as Yue Qi's and people are on the lookout for when the upstart slave boy will plummet back to the earth, but he never does. When the year is up and the sect is abuzz that Lingxi caves are finally opening again because they are letting the cursed disciple out, he's there in the front row among the curious onlookers and throws himself in his Qi-ge's arms as soon as the other boy steps foot into the light again.

Shen Qingqiu grows up tall and willowy and unpredictable, an unconventional physical cultivator that bends with the wind, but never breaks. With Yue Qingyuan's support as an unshakeable mountain behind his back, he is untouchable. He never bothers to hide what he is, not his scars or his sharp edges or the slave brand burned into the meat of his shoulder, often bared to the world by his choice of outfit; he stands as testament that even the lowest wretches can claw their way up to stand among giants.

Liu Mingqu yields to his rich family and allows himself to be enrolled into Qing Jing. He is not as suited for spiritual cultivation and he has no head for arts, but he is still a prodigy and a really hard working one at that. He learns all there is to learn for a scholar and doesn't rest until he perfects them all - music, calligraphy, painting, poetry - and even if he's ever uninspired about pursuing them, the Peerless Beauty of Qing Jing is a competent teacher who stands head and shoulders over his peers. He masters his temper and his manners and takes to hiding his face behind a fan or sometimes a veil like his sister to discourage people from staring at him.

Their roles may be different, but their nature remains the same. Shen Jiu has always been more clever than he was strong and nothing changed about that now that he's essentially a spiritual cultivator playing at star athlete. He plants a bamboo forest on his mountain - for meditation and ambush practice, he says, but everyone knows he just needed a bubble of calm for himself in the endless war zone of Bai Zhan - and mercilessly beats any disciple who dares to damage the forest. In the serene calm of his little house he hoards books and maps and all the culture he can get his calloused hands on, always thirsty to know more, an endless pit his Qi-ge happily pours obscure knowledge into. He uses the standing feud between Bai Zhan and Qing Jing to spy on them, learn their cultivation methods by sight and listen to the senior disciples do ad hoc concerts, so he can practice music in the brothel or under a silencing array just behind his house.

It's during one of these trips when he discovers Liu Qingge behind the Qing Jing Peak Lord's manor, restlessly shuffling through the steps of a formal dance. Liu Qingge yearns to move, he yearns for the exertion of his wild youth, but there are only so many acceptable options for a scholar and as a cultivator he can't channel his restlessness into hunting or horse riding. That leaves dancing, but Liu Qingge is not a creative person. He sticks to the dances he half-remembers learning as a rich young master and maybe asks his sister for some more, but that's where his resourcefulness runs out on this venture.

Shen Qingqiu watches him go through the steps of the same dozen dances, swap to a few rounds of sword forms - perfectly executed and ethereal, an immortal beauty that earthbound Shen Qingqiu will never be able to replicate - and then swap back to the dances, increasingly frustrated and restless.

"If Peak Lord Qingge wants to learn some better dances, this shidi can introduce you to someone." Liu Qingge startles and almost turns him into a pincushion with a barrage of bamboo leaves.

"What do you want?!" They are secure in their respective positions, but they still don't like each other.

"Peace, shixiong. I'm just looking out for the sect. How would it reflect on me if I let my fellow Peak Lord work himself into a qi deviation and didn't step in?" Shen Qingqiu shrugs and smiles with an easy, predatory grace that makes Liu Qingge wish he had fangs to match the Wolf of Bai Zhan, but there's no malice in the offer. "Come now, shixiong. There's nobody else here. We don't need to do this stupid game of social posturing. Tell you what, as a sign of my goodwill I'm going to teach you a meditation technique to calm your qi after exercise, free of charge."

Almost everything with Shen Qingqiu is a transaction, so Liu Qingge knows better than to pass up the chance to get something from his shidi for free - and the meditation does help settle his roiling qi.

"What do you want in return, then?" It's almost terrifying how intensely Shen Qingqiu's eyes light up.

"That trick with the leaves - teach me how to do it."

Liu Qingge doesn't bother to point out that it's a spiritual technique. It's an unspoken secret that they would be better suited to each other's cultivation styles than that of their own peaks. Shen Qingqiu has a storm of razor sharp leaves dancing in the air before Liu Qingge is even done explaining.

He almost regrets agreeing when Shen Qingqiu takes him down to the brothel, but the women his shidi introduces him to are truly masters of dance - they were stars of an imperial dance troupe before their owner was executed for offending the Emperor and they were sold to the brothel. They take him to the back and teach him dances he could never have imagined, dances that make his heart soar and his blood rush hot in his veins, while Shen Qingqiu lightly dozes among the women in the main reception area, his very presence frightening all but the most unruly patrons into behaving.

Liu Qingge is an honest man and he knows, deep down, that he got much more out of this exchange than his shidi. He’s on the lookout to see how he could repay him, but Shen Qingqiu seems to want for nothing. What he can’t get on his own Yue Qingyuan gifts to him, doting relentlessly on his sharp-edged little brother. So when he hears that Shen Qingqiu is to set out to assist in a night hunt against a particularly dangerous demonic beast that made its way over the to the far shore of the sea, he hops to the opportunity to compile a scroll of all the unspoken rules and etiquette of the island, as well as a short history on the ninja clan that asked for their aid. It’s all information that Shen Qingqiu has no way of learning otherwise, but should ease his time on the hunt.

When he can’t find Shen Qingqiu at the bamboo house he goes looking for him and that’s when he finds the silencing array, that’s when he sees his shidi sitting with his guqin in a clearing, composing music. Liu Qingge’s mouth goes dry, his heart skips a beat - his shidi is like a vision from the heavens and for the first time since he started this scholarly lifestyle, Liu Qingge wants to paint. He wants to etch this scene in his heart and condense it into a poem.

He slinks away before his shidi can notice him and leaves the scroll in the bamboo house. In the three years Shen Qingqiu is gone, hunting that elusive monster that decimates one village after another, he becomes a man possessed - or more accurately, a tender hearted young maiden yearning for her first love. He paints picture after picture, sometimes of a wolf stalking among the bamboo, sometimes of Qingqiu with his guqin as the scene lives in his memory. Rarely he paints his shidi stretched out on a couch in the brothel, languid with feigned sleep and one eye opened a crack as he vigilantly watches over his sisters - he gifts one of those to the brothel, much to the ladies’ delight. He starts writing poetry, yearning, horrible poetry his sister mocks relentlessly, but slowly he finds his words and his latest attempts are almost good. He is the first to hound Zhangmen-shixiong for news on Shen shidi and learns every word of every letter by heart, no matter how short or impersonal the progress reports are.

Liu Qingge knows that his martial siblings are not blind to his obsession - he has caught Shang shidi muttering “bro, really?!” under his breath more than once. He’s not familiar with the expression, but he can understand the sentiment. Yue Qingyuan watches him with patient exasperation, but he knows that the man doesn’t disapprove from the mild comment about how Shen Jiu will need a new ceremonial robe for his return celebration because his old one is ten years out of fashion.

Embroidery is, technically, within the skill set of the Qing Jing Peak Lord. He hounds An Ding until someone supplies him with Shen Qingqiu’s measurements and the finest materials he can bully Shang shidi into acquiring - “That’s the same stuff demon royalty wears, try not to waste it, my contact had to go through the royal seamstress of the northern kingdom to get it in that color.” - and sets to work. Bai Zhan’s color is steel blue, but that never fit his shidi, so he picks greens instead to match his striking green eyes. He creates a design that accentuates the deceptive slimness of Qingqiu, then embroiders the robes with bamboo patterns and a wolf on the hunt and when they are done he crafts a matching fan - Shen shidi hides from nothing and nobody, but Liu Qingge thinks he might enjoy being a little mysterious.

He is daydreaming about his shidi during the next Peak Lord meeting when the Sect Leader breaks the news: the beast has finally been slain and Shen Qingqiu will be on the next ship back home. Liu Qingge stays barely long enough to not be impolite at the end of the meeting before he rushes off to finish the last touches on the robes. He wants to leave it all set out for his shidi in the bamboo house.

In his haste he misses the look Shang Qinghua and Yue Qingyuan exchange behind his back.

“So, about those arrangements we made…”

“Yes, please. Let’s get Xiao Jiu home before Liu-shidi pines himself into a qi deviation.”

“Yeah, he’s down bad isn’t he?”

“Are you certain your prince doesn’t mind? If you are in any danger, shidi…”

“No! It’s fine, I’m fine, he already agreed to it! In fact, my Xuebao likes your brother so much I’m almost a little jealous.”

“Really now?”

“Zhangmen-shixiong, please stop looking like you are plotting murder. It’s not like that. As the Mobei prince, he really doesn’t have a lot of friends. Of course he misses A-Jiu.”

“If you say so, shidi.”

Liu Qingge is all jitters when he walks down the path to the bamboo house. He can’t understand why because Shen Qingiu won’t be back for months, but he still feels like a maiden on her way to ask out her love on the first date.

He almost drops the package with the robes when he opens the door and finds Shen Qingqiu standing there in the sunlit room. His shidi is too solid, too real to be an apparition, his clothes worn from travel, his heavy pack still unpacked by the table. He stands with a letter in one hand - Qingge recognizes his sister’s wobbly, childish handwriting - and with Qingge’s notebook in which he wrote all his stumbling, horrible poetry in the other and Liu Qingge wishes nothing more than for the ground to open up and swallow him whole.

“Are those my new robes?” Shen Qingqiu asks, as if they have only met this morning, as if that was a reasonable thing to ask when Qingge’s heart is about to explode from nerves. He can only mutely nod at his shidi. “You know shixiong, I can see that you have put enormous effort into courting me. I would have loved it if it happened when I was here to experience it.”

Shen Qingqiu sets the notebook and the letter down and stalks up to Liu Qingge, his eyes sharp with an emotion he can’t interpret, but it makes Liu Qingge want to bare his throat to his teeth and be devoured.

“So, Liu-shixiong. Are you going to help me try on my new robes?”

#svsss #liu qingge #shen jiu #shen qingqiu #liujiu #tc writes #I'm tempted to draw something for this ngl #not putting this under readmore bc there was no good spot to cut it and it doesn't feel that long... #LQG going 0 to 100 in love like the nerd he is #Bai Zhan SQQ takes a more direct approach to protecting the sect #so of course he found out about Moshang #and beat Mobei's ass when they were still teens for treating hamster-shidi too rough so he got promoted to best friend status #that's just enough context for airplane to remember what he wrote about violent demon bonding #and clean up that no humans don't find physical violence directed at them sexy #mobei is a security risk to the sect but a calculated one #no other sect has a way to go to japan and back in five minutes so he can live for now #they are still pretty young here btw #Mingyuan is just old enough to write #she's old enough to bully her big brother for being a really bad poet though #tough crowd

[vampirecatprince]

V for Vendetta was on one of the TVs in the break room at work yesterday and it was that scene with V making breakfast in the really dumb apron and casually talking about how he steals butter from a fascist dictator and I'm only just now remembering my massive teenage crush on him oh no

#i.... i guess the mix of dorky nerd and violently proficient killer has always twitterpated me oops #also... masked guys oops

[wormy-worm]

ok u know what maybe if the world isn't ready for sunrazer post that means that the world IS ready for Amoveous siblings post. This is Milo and Enho and theyre my DARLINGS and i love them SO MUCH. i have. SOOOOOOOO many thoughts abt them but after the previous post massacre i do not really feel like typing all of that xoxo love <3

#THESE DRAWINGS HAVE BEEN SITTING IN MY DRAFTS FOR MONTHS LOL #meart #original character #robot oc #ily enho ily milo my darlings my angels my loves my funny robot guys. #ive posted abt Andromeda on here b4 if u remember her Enho is her best friend !!!!! #Enhos a battle robot who doesnt want 2 fight people.. #hes the oldest sibling and theres a lot resting on their shoulders! #shes supposed to be this big metal protector but U.U she just wants to hide in his room.. and make music for the internet.. #him and andy have this whole arc abt like. autonomy and identity and junk #being as andy is a government experiment who was raised to be a superhero who. has not yet realized that she HATES being a superhero lol #Enho inspires her! #milo um. does his own thing. he was the second amoveous bot and he is lucky to have been built without the responsibility of a battle bot #which means hes a LOT weaker. doesnt have a million weapons and lasers and such like enho does. no one expects much of him. he HATES IT!!!! #he wants to be POWERFUL! he wants to HURT PEOPLE!! he wants to be USEFUL!!! hes ANGRY ALL THE TIME #its EXSAUSTING. #yk that tinkerbell thing thats like. cuz shes so small she can only feel one emotion at once. and its so big it consumes her entirely? #hes that. he lives entirely in extremes. everything is 100% for him #he jumps to conclusions so quick and so violently.. hes incredibly impulsive and it gets him into a lot of trouble. #hes also a total NERD!!! GOOB!!! says mlady unironically. likes bad computer games. wears a stupid tie everyday. cartoonishly schemes 24/7 #enho for the record is also a pretty angry person. they just dont rlly express it. they dont express much of anything lol. #shes semiverbal on a talkative day. he can be REALLY REALLY PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE THO. THAT MF CAN BE SO PETTY. GOOFY ASS #but shes TERRIFIED she'll lose control of her emotions and her body and that shell hurt someone someday. absolutely terrified. #enho is as afraid of his strength as milo is of his weakness. theyre both two ends of the same extremes in a lot of ways. #polar opposites and yet exactly the same. they resent each other a lot. they need to learn to meet each other in the middle. #anyway ''i dont feel like typing all that'' and then i ramble in the tags for ten million years lol ToT I LOVE THESE GUYS #theyre my oldest ocs in this universe and i have so many thoughts if you have any questions feel free to ask me lol

[traveleroftimereduxx]

Finally a real pinned post, refer to me as K or Sir(I'm from the south of america its just polite). I am taken by a sweet little puppy, that said she knows i have girlmoots ya know I just won't be inappropriately sexual with you.

This is a NSFW blog you need to be 18+ to enjoy. Blank blogs, no age in pinned, or if your bio says +18/+21(these are not ages) If you don't want people to know your direct age 20s 30s etc is best.

DNI: Over 50 most of y'all are really fucking weird. If you're homophobic, transphobic, or a gunsexual(you care about guns more than kids). Actual misogynists and everything down that line radfems terfs etc.

Kinks: Ddlg, Breath play, Breeding, CNC(somno intox free use yk*), Degradation & Praise, Humiliation, Impact play, Voice kink galore, Petplay, Throat/Face Fucking :3, cock/bulge worship(rec), I like to eat for my own pleasure :3.

Purple, Green, and Black are my favorite colours. Purple above are favorites, seriously talk to me about video games or send me asks if you're a scardey cat. I've been gaming since before some of you were born. spooky.

I wear pink, I paint my nails, messy(fro) curly hair that's greying. I'm a big book slut(definitely have not ever thought about subtly fucking someone while there). My favorite genres are Fantasy, Sci-fi. Also my musical taste is huge send me songs yo I'll write a summary if you want to do it as an ask. Also I smoke a ton of weed, blaze it fellow kids.

#a real pinned #im a big sadist :3 #also maybe a bit of a hedonist as well #i promise im not intimidating #just a big(tall and wide) nerd with violent fantasies #i wish sometimes i could become a werewolf so im able to smell her being in heat and using her yk. #maybe ill add more or less to this later

[render-bomb]

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[star--nymph]

It’s so important to me that the basis of Eurydice’s and Dorian’s relationship, the core of it, is that they recognized each as abuse children. Eurydice not understanding Dorian’s speech or coping mechanisms until she met his father in the tavern and knew intimately—though maybe not consciously—what this was because she had known it. She knew a father that did not love his child as they were, did not understand them, did not want them, violently tried to change them to fit his preferred mold. That all he wanted was an object, no a son. And she marveled at Dorian’s ability to acknowledge it and refuse to play into any longer.

Brave. When Eurydice meant Dorian was brave, she meant in a specific way and he knew it. That’s why he paused—because Dorian is smart and perceive in a way she isn’t and he doesn’t need that many clues to know how they were bonded.

and yet for all that Eurydice curled around him like a protective older sibling, offered him the elven name of ‘brother’ and stood vigilant over him.

and later that night when they were drunk and Eurydice spoke the things her father had done to her and then begging Dorian not to say it, not to make it real because she would not—could not— hear that her father did not love her (that she wasn’t ready), he let her have it.

But he kept that secret and watched her, waiting until she was ready—when it was her turn to be break apart and be brave.

#I’m not saying that’s the only thing about them that makes them siblings #Because they’re both social awkward nerds who freak out at ANY emotional connection they do not understand #But I am saying THIS is such a connecting tissue #Hurt sees hurt and wanting to grow past it together #Eurydice Lavellan #Dorian Pavus #Writing #Abuse tw #I think the violently changing them is what really gets me #Because even though Lycus has no magic he used his own methods to change her #I think if he had the choice he would have used blood magic too #I’m so careful about Eury’s abuse because I don’t want her to be saved in her narrative but I want her cared for and supported #Like realistically if the inquisition knew he’d be dead but what would that do for Eury #who can barely contend with the truth #it’s why Dorian IS so important because he did it on his terms and he’s still going! #Also they both seem to have neglect mothers too

[gray-doestheart]

Running P;TA3 is such a joy

#nothing like the group of: #rich kid; saddest boy in the whole wide world; their nerd friend with her violent beast (tinkatink)) #getting into their arcs all at once kind of to a certain degree #Riley just learned his dad is Up To Shot #Shit*** #Octavia is learning that some people don’t have the comfortable loving home life they do #and Alicia will be learning more about her dad (who is not around anymore)) #also Riley and Octavia were lying to Riley’s uncles and Alicia just watched from several feet away #we’ve also confirmed that Riley is a Beyblade enjoyer

[liesonthefloordramatically]

Tiny round-up of TTRPG characters I played this year:

Oleander (she/her), the Wild Spirit in Wickedness

Julia North (she/her), the Secret Girlfriend in Alice Is Missing

Not pictured:

Picker (they/them), a warforged rogue in a D&D one-shot

(obligatory picrew link)

#LARP is just pedagogy for nerds #Queenie actually says something on this blog #Oleander's specialty was beast magic and she was constantly overextending herself #and constantly bickering with the Old Soul #also her bonded beast was a shrike :) normal :) #she wound up falling to being corrupted by the Underworld and uh. caused the apocalypse? oops #sometimes when you make yourself into a weapon and systematically destroy yourself someone else finds you USEFUL #Julia was just in a state of nonstop panic the whole time #was hypersensitive to anything Alice had told others that she hadn't told Julia #blamed herself for everything that was happening even when that made no sense #Picker I rolled up in like five minutes at a wedding???? #a bunch of us in the bridal/groom's party decided to play D&D inexplicably #the plot of the one-shot was that we were all warforged and were tasked by our shared mechanic with rescuing his bride #anyway their main claim to fame was finding a way to completely circumvent a task by using lateral thinking and gymnastics #also being the only one who was mildly effective in the combat puzzle? baffling #also not a proper character but shout out to the violent old man who committed so many atrocities in The Quiet Year #truly a character of all time. Atrocities Georg.

[begaycommittreason]

the real reason that bruce found out jason was back in gotham is because he was fighting people on goodreads forums about jane austen

#bruce saw someone defend classic literature with that level of swearing and violent threats and just Knew #jason todd is a book nerd #jason todd

[diseaseriddencube]

i need to reread wof to finally figure out who my absolute favorite character is

#rave ramblees #like particularly from the first arc #I Hate All Of You #except Clay #he's a perfect boi who can do no wrong #but he's not my favoriteee #i always think i like Glory but she kinda sucks actually...she's just a pretty girl #sunny annoys me but she's so based #starflight is the one you'd THINK i'd like but honestly. eh #his character is so absurdly hard to pin down #like he's kind of introduced as an arrogant nerd emoji guy #and then he's more of an anxious wimp #and then he's just like a kind hearted nervous smart guy???? #tsunami is just like. that sort of boisterous angry character i don't love #she's violent but she's not even sexy about it 😔 you should enjoy being covered in blood more smh #when it comes to the SECOND ARC THOUGH #it's the opposite problem. i can't choose a favorite because i love them all #except winter who is me fr but i just hate him #everyone shits on moon but i love her she's my everything #KINKAJOU DESERVED HER OWN BOOK #turtle is perfect. PERIL MY BELOVED. qibli is a silly guy #third arc...ehjyutjhfghjskdjf i guess i like cricket #i kinda dislike blue but his book is the best one so it gives me bias to think i like him when i don't #luna and snowfall though? i can't tell if it was because their books sucked but iiiiii don't like em #and sorry to the sundew stans but she's like tsunami to me

[ferinehuntress]

◈　 ⇢  @apalestar　 ⋯　 random ask 　　⸻　Astarion swiped the latest volume of the Drizzt Do'Urden from a merchant. He was propped against his pillows outside his tent, reading away. "Are you just here to stare, darling? Or is there something you want?"

It had been a content evening, the moon shimmering down against the water's edge, as she climbed out of the lake. It didn't take long to dry off with an internal heater of her own. Her hair was washed and dried quickly, a little bit of steam billowing as her hair was dried. It hung down to the middle of her back, with no braids or anything to confine it for now. It had been a good day, or so far at least. A hearty meal made by Wyll, Scratch bouncing around happily, and Karlach was ready to settle down in her tent for some well-deserved rest.

Her fingers pulled on a simple black tunic, and her pants, as she fiddled with her hair, braiding it a little bit when she nearly came to a stop. Was that.... did she just see...

Her bare feet took one step back, then another, and tilted her head.  Golden eyes flashed over the title quickly. "The Grand Adventures of Drizzt Do'Urden". Karlach nearly squealed as her eyes were wide, and her pupils would be as large as moons if they could expand. She had the curiosity of a feline as it was hard not to try and peak over Astarion's shoulder when he spoke up. "Well, you have um... the Grand Adventures of Drizzt Do'Urden!!! And I haven't read that book in ages!" Karlach tried to contain herself but her fangs flashed into a brilliant wide smile as her tail swished around from her giddy excitement.

"Do you think...maybe... later on, I could... borrow it? Just for a little bit, I miss reading these books. Is this the one where he was on a quest against a Pirate King? Or was it the fight against Thay and the Netherese? Or.. oh maybe, when he first met Guenhwyvar!? Oh, you have to tell me which adventure this book is about!" Karlach's engine rumbled, as she had the biggest smile on her lips since the day she joined the crew. Despite her barbarian nature, she wasn't a brainless fool either. She knew how to read and loved to do so as a child even into adulthood, and always enjoyed reading about heroes and adventurers alike.

#apalestar #[ karlach answers ] — this had better be violent ; sexy ; or both . #[ karlach interactions ] — i am free now and i am never going back to that prison . #[ karlach default verse ] — the legends who protected the city from evil . #oh uh #you just set off Karlach's inner nerd Astarion XDDD

[bigdreamsandwildthings]

Home sick, time for books and video games 🤒🤍

#booklr #book photography #book picture #book stack #call down the hawk #city of brass #our violent ends #bookworm #bibliophile #ya fiction #ya fantasy #na fantasy #book community #book aesthetic #i read ya #book lover #book nerd #my photos #mine

[parzivval]

There is no fucking way you had strangers coming up to you more than once a week in public to compliment your face(? lol), zero chance, why the fuck are you lying on a tumblr poll.

the fan behavior…. people are nice to pretty teenage girls, idk what to tell you

#violent reminder there are losers on tumblr and not just innocuous nerds #also. looking through the NOTES to pick a fight is crazy #anyway. didn’t know how to process this outside of responding. literally never happened before #let’s do some sleuthing! guessing anon is either 15 or 35 #and prob a boy #at first was really thinking it was a woman but women know that girls compliment each other’s looks all the time #ie “you’re so pretty!” #and then either below or well above college age #bc ppl in college go out & meet a high volume of new ppl pretty often & thus are used to talking to strangers in party/positive environment #despite the petulance it carries with it the bitterness of age #very much giving harry potter adult #with all that in mind…. 35+ y/o man who transplanted from Reddit final answer