#druid talk

[druid-delaluna]

Realize I forgot to explain why this all cause me issues with my art.

I believed I took things kinda well, you know it was just internet stuff and I had some positive upcoming months ahead that I could turn my focus on. But it did make me very wary of people and somewhat paranoid that I was being watched (something I've struggled to overcome). Plus it made me feel stupid about my art and ideas, and almost...worthless?? In that aspect? It just...it has a deep effect when it is not just popular artists mocking you, but the crew of the show you enjoy joining in. I thought I could shrug it off, but I just couldn't. It ate me up, my pride was deeply bruised, and I debated if I should even continue again. I look back and just wonder was stepping on me to get the spotlight worth it to these artists? Or was I that much of a threat to the crew being around? Was it because I have told them off for shitty behavior or that fact I don't let nonsense run amuck that made them that upset, won't really know. Could be any reason why they decided to do that to me then and before. Because as I mention this was an accumulation of past events boiling over.

I got some regrets, I could had handle situations better myself but I can say at least I didn't harass and chase someone away because I didn't like them. And with that, I realize I shouldn't even attempt to compare myself or feel sorry about my art. I can always improve where I find faults in my art or myself. I'm still changing and maturing and can admit where I fucked up, while they can't (from what I've heard they only have gotten worse). I have my own groups of good friends and I am happy again.

#druid talk #eduw

[kath-trashh]

but why does he do that

#my art #dnd honor among thieves #honor among thieves #dnd art #xenk yendar #xenk the paladin #edgin the bard #edgin x xenk #edgin darvis #holga kilgore #holga the barbarian #simon aumar #simon the sorcerer #doric #doric the druid #w rizz #why are you as a man offering to hold the hand of another man #they didn’t talk about the fact he has like infinite rizz

[volatilemask]

i love your v1mdk stuff so much i think it’s so cute but i cannot stop myself from thinking of owl just third wheeling constantly lol

technically i just avoid this by not drawing owl whenever i doodle them being very gay but. even when all 3 hang out i think 70% of the time is taken up by mdk and owl chatting with eachother so it balances out naturally. probably

#id in alt #ultrakill #v1mdk #v1 #mysterious druid knight #(and owl) #vm's art #i would feel bad about having owl be somewhere else alot of the time i draw them together HOWEVER #they had a million hours to talk to eachother endlessly in that fuckass coffin waiting puzzle #so i dont think owl would mind letting them chill alone for a little every once in a while. owl can have fun flying around in hell

[gloryinthunder]

His words are as subtle as his biceps, and I love him for it.

#halsin #baldur's gate 3 #halsin i know you're talking about me #yes i want to date #druid halsin #bg3

[druidshollow]

my kids absolutely fuck shit up

#druid games #rain world #rw downpour #yes this is the rivulet w like 11 babies file. i uh. lost some babies in a tragic event involving like 4 lizards #i dont want to talk about it

[mxkokopuff]

*slamming my head against the wall* GOING THROUGH IT RIGHT NOW BESTIES

i love my touch starved vampire bf

and also neil newbon did amazingly in this scene gOD I LOVE THIS GAME

#kit talks #kit plays bg3 #astarion #we're not gonna talk about after this scene where i had to break up with gale after accidentily romancing him and he sounded fucking broken #and it made me cry a little and feel really bad and i need to play on my druid girl bc gale deserves happiness too

[scrivenger-grimgar]

Every time I read Yiling Wei sect AUs and they start describing what the sect members and leader wears its like, (direct quote from The Yiling Wei Sect and the Black Robed Lan by IvoryDragon48)

"[Wei Wuxian's hair] was pulled up into a high ponytail by a red ribbon with a gold and silver headpiece ornamenting and helping to direct the flow of his hair. The robes he wore were expensive looking with black being the dominant color and reds as the accents. The inner robe was a red so dark it looked like blood and the outer robe had simple yet elegant designs."

--And like, I get the urge to make them really cool looking and with themes or designs matching the other sects but like??? there's massive wasted potential here!!!

First, the hair. that's all well and good, but there is no way in hell that the Yiling Wei folks (Wen Remnants and others reviled/ostracized by society at large) are going to buy a gold guan OR a silver guan. why the hell would they bother spending precious resources on trying to impress people who already don't like them for something they literally have no control over.

But Wei Wuxian would know that he has to play the game now that he has people to protect, and going to a Con as a Sect Leader and not doing what all the other sect leaders are doing (wearing guan to say "I'M BETTER THAN YOU!!") is essentially outright stating that he holds no respect for any of them except in a way that could get him and his people killed. so instead, he goes "fuck it" and makes a guan out of something incredibly ordinary, like iron or wood, so now if anyone brings it up he can say "Oh, well, I like feeding my kids." or "Actually, I made this myself, all the better for carving protective arrays into!"

--And that's it. Wei Wuxian is a street kid he absolutely knows that rich people don't like to think about poor people and that they prefer to ignore them or hurt them. except you cant just attack someone who's being perfectly reasonably polite in public, especially when you just pointed out that he's 'poor'. Wei Wuxian's strategy is make them so fucking uncomfortable that they leave us alone.

(This would of course be after several years of no contact and no fighting so things have cooled off a bit)

Next, robes. No expensive robes. Let them be very well modified normal robes that have subtle stains and colour bleaching from sunlight and washing. The (shown, non-array-work) embroidery is at best amateur level, and Wei Wuxian will proudly show it off, loudly saying "a-Ning started a while back to help with his fine motor skills, and he's really come such a long way!!" and that "Oh, Xuanyu started practicing only recently but he's already so good at it!"

The Yiling Wei are the exact opposite of Lanling Jin. Wealth is to be used to benefit everyone and everyone is to be loved and appreciated for their work. The refusal to spend money of frivolous things is strong, especially when its something you could make yourself.

Self Ornamentation would not be jade or gold or silver or silks. It would be some nice wood, these feathers from the bird that likes me, hey look at this cool rock I found I'm gonna polish it like a gemstone, I dug these awesome bones out of my grandmama's garden you think I can do anything with 'em?

Yiling Wei folks are death druids.

#druids who are also necromancers!! #but they use bard methods #thats kinda how i see guidao/“demonic” cultivation #lwj @ all who say wwx is poor: ah. so you have chosen death. #wei wuxian #wwx #mdzs #mxtx #mxtx mdzs #mdzs wwx #yiling laozu #mo dao zu shi #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #the grandmaster of diabolism #yiling patriarch #yiling burial mounds #yiling wei #mdzs au #modao zushi #mo dao su zhi #the untamed #grim talks

[kineticallyanywhere]

me: innocent

my brain: if Hero's full first name is Heroic then her full name is Heroic Ly'Oak-Swallows-Garcia

#dndads #dndads 2 #hero oak #me talking #i am Kinetical Ly'Anywhere #descendant of the nomadic druids of faerun #i guess

[oakfathers-embrace]

"Astarion please don't-"

Astarion disappears into a flash of golden magic, generally associated with wildshape. Emerging from it as an adorable little bat.

Halsin sighs, hand over his face. "I asked you to please not interrupt me while working on the spell." He says, gently picking up the small, white bat into his hands, looking him over with care, worried that something may have gone wrong with the transformation.

Satisfied that Astarion is indeed, not injured, he sets the bat down on the table beside him.

"Well, it's good to see that the spell works at least- but I've not figured out how to reverse it yet, I'm sorry love." He says, closing the book he'd read from to preform it. "It was supposed to help young druids find the wildshape they're most connected with. While it's fun to know that you're a cute bat...you're also not a druid, I don't know how we're going to turn you back to normal..."

(Intended for @astariondisapproves but any Astarion can hop in and reply!)

#also remember that halsin can talk with animals bc druid so. no awkward squeaking dkvsjqvsja

[druid-delaluna]

What happened in that official discord

I will not be listing anyone's names. Use your context clues or whatever I don't care, just don't send hate to anyone involved. This is just me trying to sort out my feelings on the situation and get some closure.

Okay, for context, I've been in the eddsworld official server since it opened in February 2019. I was a very active member and if you remember druid/laly that was me. In 2021 I was given the chance to become a curator thanks to an old admin(Also there were barely any adults and mods had to be adults to sign their NDA)

Another fast forward to July 2022, the mod team was told a few days prior that the server would be Patreon only. We made our case for being against the change but after a meeting with Bing, he change a few mod's minds (I still held onto it being a bad idea but it wasn't really like I could change the situation). The day happened, the announcement was made, and all hell broke loose. You can imagine what happen when you tell over 11,000 fans that their server is going to Patreon only when it has been free for the past three years.

So why am I speaking about my experience? Well, I wanted to put it to rest, I wanted to go into the new year not feeling like I held my tongue on a shitty situation. What happen is this artist during the situation made a comment about how happy they were about the change. Now I'm all for opinions, speak your mind you know. But in that situation where the mods are scrambling to handle a SHIT TON of angry and upset kids, it wasn't the time nor place for that. Also, I knew that this artist would get hate, so I reach out and told them pretty much to not fucking do that. It was taken wrong, maybe my tone or message wasn't clear of my intent? But this artist is an adult, they should have known better. And I honestly was just saying it, to help them out. They later come on to say they got death threats and I'm just thinking, what did you think I was trying to do by telling you to knock it off?? I knew that shit would happen and wanted to prevented it.(now I DO NOT condone death threats, earlier I told the mods to close their dms because I knew it would happen and it did) .It's the evening and this artist seem to have gotten their friends involved?? And I notice this tone and reaction to anything I do or say and I'm not one to beat around the bush, I ask what's up, get shit in return, okay whatever. It was when troll accounts were brought in to mock only me. Mind you there are other mods doing the same thing I'm doing, but I was the only one targeted by these trolls and members. Now I would think nothing of these trolls, we get them all the time. It's the fact this artist, their friends, and then crew members join in reacting to the trolls messages mocking me, with smiley emojis or something (I have screenshots of all these situations due to the server channels all getting deleted in the Patreon change). Mind you I am trying to help in the situation, I'm trying to calm people down, and do my job and this is how I'm getting treated, like horseshit. And I wish I could say this was one time, but no, myself and other mods have been treated like absolute crap by certain crew and server members. And nobody higher up did anything and it finally click they weren't ever gonna do anything.

That's what kinda started the downward spiral of my position there. I was heading out of state on a trip so I stepped back and focus on that and the trip itself and when I came back it was the end of the world party. I made that eddbot art, which pretty much sums up my feelings. I didn't take part in the party really. The change happen, 11k drops to 150ish. Now, mods DID NOT have to pay for Patreon. That was our gift from Bing/Matt (along with a store discount, which I never got). We were allowed to stay in the server with the paying members. The new main channel was the old Patreon one, so still emotional about that troll event, I looked up my name. Yeah....Not very good messages but I didn't want to cause trouble. So I just took it on the chin..again and kept my head up. I thought you know what, maybe it just was me and with time everything will calm down.

Then the Patreon leak happen. Once again, I never had access to Patreon, because I did not have to pay to be in that server. I saw the leak on Twitter and Tumblr, and I rb to my tumblr to keep an eye on it because wow that was fast. Went to bed, next day it was the talk of the server, a member earlier was caught sending leaks to other servers and was scolded but not kicked. It was brought up again and I told them, its on tumblr as well, thinking it be helpful for them to understand the situation. Then that one artist friend chimes in with a screenshot of my tumblr with the leak, pretty much saying this you?? So of course, I can't lie, I'm honest, my bad. Then two crew members come in and I kinda realize yeah this might be it. Due to one of them disliking me due to things that happen in the past between us. (whole another story). I delete the rb and apologize. I go to another server to chat and then see, I've been kicked from the server. I admit, did not take it well. My mod friends are all confused because none of them did it, and it comes out that the crew member who dislike me, kicked me even tho they arent suppose to act as mods. (it a whole mess man). The reason I was kicked was due to they thought I was the leaker?? Once again, did not have access to the Patreon, so wasn't me.

After my moment, I realized that I would be constantly dealing with shitty people and my socials being stalked to find something to charge(??) me with.... this was the push I needed to leave that situation behind. Most of the mods left after that in support of me. Bing reached out to me a few days later apologizing on that crew member's behalf, that I wasn't in the wrong and that I was more than welcome to come back. I declined and promptly removed bing from my friend list to cut contact with him.

And that's where it ends, I've blocked eddsworld, all the crew, and those artists' socials and been doing grad school and my own thing. I believe it was just a very emotionally charged situation and that nobody was thinking clearly. After the server change, it was the majority of adults but that meant absolutely nothing in common sense or correct ways to react to situations. From what I've heard thru the grapevine the server has spiraled into very toxic environment if you arent buddy-buddy with that artist who had an issue with me and their friends so take that as you will. I just want to get my voice out there so I don't feel inside that I let myself get hurt and did nothing to defend myself?? Look I get that I'm difficult to understand or I've rash and impulsive but I honestly never acted out in malice, I did a lot of things, in defense of others or just the greater good. I've stood up to the crew a lot due to shitty situations and still, I stayed because I thought well I can make someone's day, make it a good time in the server. I didn't stay for fame or to be featured in their spotlight just to make the day-to-day good. But it was a very hard lesson to learn that I can't save it all, that server crashed and burn and I felt I wasted time of my life on something that would eventually stab me in the back in a way...But there still good memories and I made wonderful friendships. Everything gone now, but I hope the good memories are alive in others spaces. So yeah, that what happened and if you have any questions feel free to ask.

#eduw #wont being using any other tags because once again this isnt a callout or anything just myself and my feelings #druid talk

[incorrect-dnd-classes]

Fighter: You’re a kinder soul than I when it comes to bugs. I like to think that I’m a nice person, but if there’s a bug in my room, straight-up murder happens.

Fighter: To the bug. 

Fighter: Not to me. 

Fighter: Yet.

#fighter #incorrect quotes #incorrect dnd quotes #incorrect dungeons and dragons quotes #incorrect dnd classes #dnd #dungeons and dragons #submission #source: tumblr #mod meme #prolly addressing Druid? who's to say #it's delightfully ambiguous #maybe they're talking to Barbarian who will murder anyone EXCEPT bugs

[ride-a-dromedary]

Halsin: Shhh, I'm listening to the trees.

...

Halsin: They say ur a little bitch.

#BG3 Musing #Halsin Posting #Halsin #the wind thinks ur mean if you even care #you know what he'd be too nice to say this BUT ALSO he does get a little testy if he doesn't like ur avatar so #all i can think of is halsin talking and communicating with trees like *literally* #because he was lonely as a kid and made friends with a literal nature spirit and whatever was around him #so he fell into the habit of just...talking to them - feeling them to hear what they had to say - interpreting them #and was very serious about it #halsin became a druid not for the magic and power and such that came with it - he just wanted to be #as close as possible with the thing he loved most - everything else just....fell on him #i mean druids have very very strong connections to trees so

[imaginary-wanderer]

I know Halsin was supposed to be an NPC, but they really made his romance storyline the hardest to achieve. All the other characters almost jump on you for being a basic person for a bunch of days, but Halsin? You have to work to get him and I read you can even lose him just by changing location at some advance point of the game.

For this second playthrough, I hesitated between romancing him again or going for Gale... but since Gale won't share (and Halsin is more than happy to lol), I went for the bear once again. Sorry Gale, but you have a very good Tiefling friend.

#bg3 #halsin #gale dekarios #i didn't talk to gale so much on my first playthrough #but he's actually pretty sweet for a fuckboy #and funny but also because his voice actor is so funny so there's that #with halsin... it's something else #it's the combo of nature lover; sweet man; and a bear (real or not) #but patience is key with him it's insane #i also love the druid class so much though i really have fun being a paladin oathbreaker

[love-toxin]

sorry i haven't been posting guys i have a huge beefy druid rotating in my brain rn

#baldurs gate 3 is the new dragon age for me......gonna spend hundreds of hours feasting on all the hotties i can get my hands on <3 #love is stored in the druid #halsin #baldur's gate 3 #ellie talks

[druidshollow]

when your new boyfriend is heavily indoctrinated

#not maintagging this lmao #druid draw #flowers #descent #oc posting #suggestive #<- VERY lightly #“please dont talk about the natural urges. theres no bigger turn off”

[mxkokopuff]

*sobbing quietly* this is the better timeline. don't make the same mistake i did. don't let him do the ritual. save him from himself pl ea se....

#kit talks #kit plays bg3 #astarion #bg3 spoilers #now i just need to replay all the end game fights again to get his post credit scene for this outcome... aaaaaa #but i think i'll play on my druid girl for a while before that #as a small break from the harder fights LOL