#and forgot that bg3 is a massive game and people are gonna be playing that dont think about it that deep

[ode-to-fury]

Just to be totally clear, are you a blog that actively dislikes *anyone* who does the Ascendent Astarion ending? Or are you cool with people who find it interesting or compelling, just not the ones who think it’s best? (I ask because I don’t think it’s actually healthy or good for him myself, it’s absolutely ‘the bad end’ but I sort of like it as an ending in relation to my own abuse traumas, and I’m trying to work out how welcome that makes me reading your posts, that I generally really like! <3)

Oh no! I find it weird that people will go back and change the ending *just* so they can have the sex scene at the end! I really don’t care what people do in their videogame playthroughs I was just trying to say that in those specific tik tok comments people were being really fucking creepy specifically about the sex scenes at the end of his arc and to me that speaks to a problem with critically thinking about his character. Literally anyone can read posts on this blog lol I’m not the media interaction police I just like to point out that maybe people should think a little bit deeper about the media they’re interacting with. If you picked the Ascendant ending for roleplay or some such I have literally zero problem that vid was just really creepy to me

#had to be there I guess #ig im ised to asoiaf blogs on here dissecting themes and character arcs so i just did it here too #and forgot that bg3 is a massive game and people are gonna be playing that dont think about it that deep #anyway its all good vibes here you sound like a completely normal person and that post was not directed at you! #ask #bg3 #astarion #do i tag this as a spoiler? #ig #bg3 spoilers

[thessalian]

Thess vs The IMDB Game Again

As I may or may not have mentioned, I preordered Horizon: Forbidden West the minute it came up for pre-sale - the first time I've done that for a game since Dredge (and before that since ... I think Dragon Age 2, honestly). And then I thought: "Sylens. Lance Riddick. Oooooooooooh that's gonna hit different, given he passed not long after that..." So, at least in part to cheer myself up, I played the IMDB Game with Forbidden West. You know, "I've Heard That Voice Before", but with a restriction of "What have they been doing since HZD, if they were in HZD?". While doing that, I answered that question about a whole bunch of other bits of media that I hadn't run through the IMDB Game that comprehensively yet.

For instance, Erend - John Hopkins. ...Well, to avoid spoilers for a massively huge game, if you're playing BG3? Look up "Arnell Hallowleaf", because they don't really name the guy in any IC way and it's easy to miss any indication of it OOC because that's some fraught shit in the House of Grief. And if you really want irony, his first introduction to video game VA was "Sword Coast Legends", so hopefully his poor character got more of a look at the Sword Coast than poor Hallowleaf ever did...

Varl - John Macmillan. Those of you who watched The Sandman? That's the version of Morpheus Nala sees, when she sees him in hell. Was also in a couple of episodes of House of the Dragon as Ser Laenor Velaryon, if you're into that kind of thing.

Tilda Van der Meer? That's a new character. Let's see ... Carrie-Ann Moss?!? TRINITY? ......Wait. No, I'm sure I knew that Aria T'Loak was voiced by Trinity from the Matrix movies and just forgot. There is no way I would just not know that.

Kotallo - another new one. Hrm. Noshir Dalal ... Huh. That reminds me that I need to actually sit down and watch Candela Obscura. As it stands, I've probably heard him in Guild Wars 2 somewhere. (I really should log back into that...)

Regalla, another new one... Angela Bassett. Well. They got some names for the sequel, didn't they? Seriously, while she's Ramonda forever for some people, for me it's mostly everything she played in American Horror Story.

Erica Luttrell. I know that name. I know I know that-- Ah. Aura Lorelei. I'm sure it says something when she's done so much and I mostly recognise the name through Critical Role-- Huh. Wait. Various voices in Dragon Age: Origins!

Right, that's enough of that. Mostly because I should probably nip to the shops now, if I'm doing so, because a big dark cloud just kind of blotted out the nice partly-sunny day and I'd rather not walk out in the rain.

#Thess plays video games