#esp with gale (((':

[lazylittledragon]

it’s being normal about dad gale hours again

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #dadkarios #galemance #your honour they are So tired #i think gale is a very ‘10pm is a late one’ kind of person so he’s not thriving #esp because cyra was Very unwell for a while so he was looking after a brand new mabel by himself #do you think he ever thought a tiny redhead pulling him out of a portal would lead to a morgue being installed in his house #it's v on brand for cyra to be literally about to have a baby and still hacking up corpses #i love that she isn't even my durge she is just like this #tw blood #cw pregnancy

[lunian]

i just think these 2 kisses are neat for no reason, yeah :)

#third one is uhhhh nice bc forehead touching but kinda looks a bit more drafty in some stuff with hands #esp when i checked it with my taller Tav ough #bloodweave #astarion x gale #baldur's gate #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #bg3 #bg3 clip #bg3 video #astarion ancunin #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #bg3 astarion #bg3 gale #gale romance #mystuff

[sophsun1]

I will always remember that scene where Brian sees Justin admitted to the hospital after Justin was bashed. I once read a quote from a director that said to always keep the camera rolling for 30 seconds after you call cut. That’s what they did. There’s a close-up of Gale and he was so in his own sorrow that his nose and eyes began to pour. I don’t think he was even aware they called cut.

#queer as folk #userbbelcher #cinematv #filmtvcentral #userthing #smallscreensource #userrlaura #dailyflicks #userstream #mlmsource #usergay #tvarchive #dilfgifs #mancandykings #usernuria #usersource #brian kinney #userrobin #userkitkat #gale's ability to act with his entire body esp his face is incredible #this man truly gave his all to this role #forever thankful he was my brian kinney #1x22 #gale harold #qaf cast #blood tw

[galedekarios]

Hello, big fan of your Gale content um I just saw this post on X that really annoyed me that was a graphic saying Gale would use 3 in 1 shampoo implying he is lazy with his hygiene and that another character was more like that and it had like 6k likes and I just wonder why everyone mischaracterizes our best wizard so much? Generic male expectations? Justice for Gale. He deserved that lavender bath.

thank you for your message and kind words! 🖤

i haven't seen the post you're referring to so i can't say too much about it, but if we talk about the general concept of hygiene and personal care, in my heart i know the following truth:

gale loves his little indulgences and that includes the finer things in life, like taking long baths, perfumes, massages, and the like.

once he feels better again and has the spoons to fully appreciate it, he would have a ridiculously elaborate 13 step self-care routine, beard oils and all of that.

(we know his year of isolation likely led to him neglecting himself, given tara's repeated lines about not eating enough, as well as gale letting his beard growing out.)

in early access, he had this dialogue with the protag, about dreaming of a nice lavender scented bath:

Gale: Time is a precious gift. With time, we may even reach Baldur's Gate, a city rife with magic, wizards, scholars, and perhaps: solutions.  Player: In that case I share your optimism. Here's to the journey ahead.  Gale: And here's to your company.  Gale: Oh, I can picture it now: academies, libraries, laboratories – the assembled knowledge of centuries that may just set us free. Better yet: soft beds, home cooked meals, and all the other little luxuries this wilderness so brashly denies us. Gods, I'd pay a king's ransom for a hot, lavender-scented bath – minstrels serenading as I close my eyes and let the water's warmth dissolve all woes. Plenty to look forward to.

this was sadly cut.

i also seem to recall another line of dialogue in early access where a companion commented on gale using a waterdhavian scent/perfume, which had woody undertones. if i can find it, i'll be sure to post about it.

but still, he still has similar lines in the full release version, like in this banter with shadowheart:

Gale: I must tell you, Shadowheart, the bathing waters here leave much to be desired. devnote: A bit know it all Gale: The ablutions offered at the Temple of Beauty in Waterdeep are far superior. And they have the most excellent soaps. devnote: A bit know it all Shadowheart: Hmm. I was wondering why you always smelled like a wealthy dowager. devnote: Teasing

bathing waters, excellent soaps and ablutions at the temple of beauty in waterdeep. the temple of beauty is a temple to the goddess sune, the goddess of beauty and passion.

"Her temples usually held social salons and displayed mirrors for use by lay parishioners. Some of them even had public baths for the local populace. Her shrines often stood on the corner of busy city streets. They would have a small ornate overhanging roof with a mirror underneath. They were used to check one's appearance while honoring Sune with prayer. Some shrines even held perfume and cosmetic items for those who could not afford such luxuries themselves." [x]

volo's waterdeep enchiridion says this in particular about the temple of beauty in waterdeep:

"If you need to refresh yourself during your travels, or perhaps to primp before an important meeting or a night out, visit Sune’s faithful at the Temple of Beauty. Its marbled public baths and mirrored salons are open from before dawn to after dusk. There’s no fee for these services, or for the advice and aid of the temple’s many pleasant attendants, but donations are encouraged."

there are some other banters & lines of dialogue in the same vein:

Player: I want to be with Gale. I'm sorry. Shadowheart: Don't be. He's charming enough, well-read and well-groomed.

there are more banters and comments like this from other companions as well (including minthara, for example), so yes, i think it's safe to say that gale is not a 3-in-1 shampoo type.

#gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 meta #ch: gale dekarios #vg: baldur's gate 3 #series: baldur's gate #meta: mybg3 #text: asks #gale also has a quadrillion comments about being really sensitive to smells (esp bad ones) #it's pretty funny #i need to make a compilation #also at some point i hope we can address how prejudiced these takes are and what they are rooted in #gale is not the toxic manly man or the token straight bc he has a beard & is mature #and was in a 'relationship' with a female goddess

[balgur]

Gale having a previous relationship with a woman doesn't make him straight and Astarion having a previous 'relationship' with a man doesn't make him gay why is bi erasure still happening in 2024!!!

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #gale dekarios #astarion ancunin #why why why do people hetlock gale it makes me sad and uncomfortable #idk why I see it so often esp with gale

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

man the dev notes w/ the stormshore tabernacle convo. whatever they're there for it's kind of remarkable how so much of the notes there for her are just textbook abuser stuff.

#tbd #after all the advantages I gave you -- i have the visceral skin crawl reaction its the abusive parent anthem #things that make my skin crawl bruh #it's everything I did for you #child who i groomed #I'm being so magnanimous towards you giving you time == child who i groomed #look at how merciful i am even though my first instinct is that i don't like how you didn't obey me #the dev notes of that convo genuinely make it worse boooy #which well done but also i will throw hands #dming helm pls kill her again #anyway i think it's kind of fascinating that most gods in this game show themselves as these larger than life figures but mystra? #you are seeing the person who did that to gale you are seeing that person #that person came to him as a child #like that divine separation has just not been there #esp with the build up #where she first dispatches elminster and then again when he tells you about the grant but at the end it's just her in this human figure #i genuinely feel like it deliberately strips that divine separation away & its another layer of insidiousness on her part #it's grounded in the sense of the damage she'd done to gale idk i am waffling but its just something about it is worse when it's so..wow. #idk i think in this game? i think she's not written like the other gods in this game and i think it makes her worse not more sympathetic #bg3 spoilers #abuse tw

[sotc]

You are perfect, every time.

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #bg3 astarion #*emyr #i had to slow the gif down because the lingering look he gives you is just so heart eyes... IT WAS SUCH A SWEET LIL INTIMATE MOMENT #esp after that line lmao. thank u larian for letting us smooch our romances whenever we want #anyways astarion romance is SO SO sweet and with how outwardly affectionate astarion is with his words slays me (and emyr) #god how they ended up to what they were in the beginning is like. such a journey #i could talk endlessly about these two and how they found a safe haven in each other #and i can't wait to see the gale romance with emyr too bc he has two hands <3 #bg3 tav #my gifs

[wizardsix]

the gale discourse only gets worse when you realize a large amount of people only hate him bc his romance is bugged to happen even if you didn't initiate anything. people are mad about something that's literally not supposed to happen.

#ive done a playthrough of just being his friend just ignore the bugs and turn him down its not that difficult guys #his romance is also the one that progresses the slowest and yet people are actually out here calling him a sex pest. actually fucking stupi #oh right and i remember seeing people get mad that they have to give him like a million good artifacts. you only feed him like 3 times bro #absolutely nothing to complain about esp when you can buy throwaway ones #hate it here #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #gale dekarios #six speaks

[wildmelon]

i don't understand the urge to write hate think pieces about video game characters/their writing on here like at all

#NOT constructive criticism HATE #the wyll fans esp are critical geniuses #i mean actual mean spirited morally superior hate posts #like guess what guys: i used to dislike gale #and i just kept that shit to myself bc why would i come ruin everyone's fun why does it matter #then i spent more time w the character and engaging with him and it opened my eyes! love him now! it's chill #there r a couple things i do find triggering also... wyll's first kiss being locked behind a persuasion check #and really just the whole premise of astarion's first romantic encounter #but like ik that's a ME thing and it's not inherently evil and there are many ways to interpret etc #but yeah i just never kiss wyll that night #astarion i have more trouble with and im trying to headcanon my way out of it after avoiding his romance for awhile #i just personally can't deal with the idea of someone engaging in sex while dissociating/not being wholeheartedly engaged #now im rambling lol but yeah confessions #lush.talk

[sofancydancy]

Bad Omens "Bad Decisions" is both Astarion and Gale's anthem

#esp with their story lines going either way #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #astarion #bg3 #astarion ancunin #Youtube

[catinbluerain]

Wizard Towers and their unimaginable horrors... for example, bad lighting. I will now proceed to have nightmares about this until unforeseeable future. (Also, unfair, but Astarion is also getting his share of the bad lighting and he still manages to look pretty)

#q talks to the void #bg3 #gale of waterdeep #astarion #astarion just looks so otherwordly #pretty in an unsettling way #love me some creepy kind of pretty elves really #this was supposed to be a post about gale #oh well what can you do the elf is distracting as always #btw that robe looks so good on gale esp in light colours #bg3 is a dressup game #honour mode shenanigans

[chronurgy]

I think a lot about how he's very circumspect about it but if you ask the right questions or make the wrong choices Gale will basically straight up tell you that the life and will of a god's Chosen is basically subsumed by the will of their god. That they have no choice but to obey. I especially think about it a lot when I think about the fact that Mystra was his teacher and mentor and he must have become one of her Chosen pretty young

#Gale dekarios #It's in how he talks about Elminster it's in what he says to Durge when he finds out they're a Bhaalspawn and if they accept Bhaal #All these hints or blatant statements that add up to a very nasty picture #Oh it's also in the gale origin specific Elminster interactions #bg3 #Man the relationship thing is not great but I think this might be worse #Once it all comes together it's hard not to see all of the chosen in a different light #Esp when combined with the Orin transformation where she doesn't want to do it but Bhaal forces her #It's just bad from all angles!

[lunian]

I made up a parallel in my Gale playthrough which actually doesnt mean anything in the story but it means a lot to me personally somehow

#was just walking around in my screenshots to find something and then noticed this #bloodweave #baldur's gate #baldur's gate 3 #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #astarion ancunin #bg3 astarion #bg3 gale #gale origin #bg3 screenshots #mystuff #chose to mentally connect to show feelings to astarion instead of iconic hug #felt like more right esp for gale

[ortanthaig]

Hardcore Gale fans are just like Anders fans except they smoke crack

#I pray for the day that you can just like. dislike a character and not be treated like a terrible person for it LMFAOOO 💀 #art.txt #Me: yeah idk I just don’t really like Gale that much I think he’s a little annoying sometimes esp to sorcerer tav’s #Gale fans: ‘he is TRAUMATISED and was GROOMED 🙄’ ‘but you like Astarion/Minthara???’ Or they tell you how they graphically killed your fav

[galedekarios]

Honestly that was something that I had noticed, they some parts of his story seemed to have less than others. For example, I didn't even romance Astarion and yet his story seemed to have more conclusion than Gales

yes, absolutely.

that's what i meant by the scene disparity and that larian has an obvious bias. there are far better posts detailing it, but you can feel how much the other characters needed the same amount of scenes and attention that have been given to ast*rion in spades, who has 9 regular scenes and 6 romance scenes.

compare that to gale who has 6 regular scenes and 3 romance scenes, some of which don't even trigger properly at all, like the boat scene in act iii.

and speaking of conclusions or having fulfilling arcs, i'll very briefly here speak on how much the whiplash you get from the way gale's arc has been written bothers me:

(i still have to order my thoughts a bit better on this so excuse me if i'm rambling again.)

in act i and ii, the narrative is very obviously set up in a way that recognises that gale, too, like all other companions was in a relationship that had a great and massive power imbalance and that the person (or god, in gale's case) who holds the power intends to use him for their own ends.

the player can voice that to elminster, to gale, and the other companions voice that as well, including their disapproval of what is demanded of gale by this powerful being using him (well, most of them do, apart from ast*rion).

yet in act iii, it's all turned on its head. in order for gale to have what the game clearly intends to be the "good" ending, you have to push him towards seeking mystra's forgiveness. it's the only way to have the alternate version of the boat scene, too.

he is the only companion who is made to do so. the only one. imagine making shadowheart return to shar after everything she has been put through and have that being portrayed as the good ending. or forcing wyll to continue to be indebted to mizora.

companions who, so far, have voiced their negative feelings on this relationship speak like that never was a thing with the exception of a handful of them, like a selunite shadowheart.

elminster does a 180 as well, going from at least implied to feel sorry and doubting what he had to do in act ii (even more so in a gale origin playthrough) to fully supporting mystra's actions and chastising the player if they dare to question her intentions/remark on how she hurt gale.

it's... i don't know.

#also esp in the context of gale being a victim of gro*ming like #ch: gale dekarios #vg: baldur's gate 3 #series: baldur's gate #text: asks #text: personal #larian critical #bg3 critical

[dumbstupidfandomblog]

Man. I just can't help but imagine Critical Role x Baldur's Gate 3 drabbles or a fic or something of that some sort. Idk, I just think it'd be really funny and also a chance for some really cute scenes. Especially with the Mighty Nein.

Now obviously there'd probably be SO much mistrust between the two groups, but just imagine if you will(possibly very minor spoilers under the cut):

Caleb and Gale(and maybe Essek) talking about wizard stuff and cats.

Jester introducing everyone to Artagan. I think Astarion would either like him or fucking hate him.

Karlach, Yasha, and Beau just working out together. Buff lesbians

Fjord and Wyll bonding over shitty patrons. If it's post Ukatoa then Fjord giving Wyll some hope about his situation. I just think it'd be sweet.

Caduceus and Halsin. That's it. I think they'd talk for literally HOURS, just drinking tea and talking about random shit and their respective circles 'n such. ALSO, I'm just imagining them sort of gossiping about and spilling their respective party's secrets to eachother. They'd be silly lol

Jester overhearing the whole convo with Astarion and Tav(if there's a tav in this??) about him not being able to see his reflection and immediately getting to work drawing a portrait of him. As soon as she shows and gives it to him, he's his usual sorta sassy self about it but he absolutely cherishes it.

Also I feel like Astarion would see different bits of his own past in some of the Mighty Nein, specifically Caleb and Yasha, and it'd piss him the FUCK off.

Jester and/or Molly reading the groups fortunes just for fun, the Oracle of the Moon Deck has some cards that would make the groups fortunes REALLY INTERESTING. Maybe Molly also pulls out some of the old circus tricks for fun.

On the topic of Molly, I think Lae'zel would have this very confusing respect for Molly? She'd find them really foolish at first and not think much of them, but I think she'd then see them actually in combat and be impressed with their skills.

I feel like Nott/Veth would just start mothering some of the bg3 party. Like not heavily, but a bit similar to how she does with Caleb. I could def see her pairing up with Astarion to steal some shit. Maybe King joins in if he's there.

Jester giving some of the group tattoos. Not everyone would get them obviously but I could definitely see Karlach and I suppose Tav going for it.

Nein Sided Tower shenanigans. That's all.

#obvs there could be some rlly fun stuff w the other campaigns but I'm extremely biased for the M9 #esp tho with Percy/Laudna and Astarion #OH but also #if ur curious about what I meant about the fortune reading comment and the cards that'd be rlly fun with the bg3 group #I actually have the Molly/Jester oracle deck so I can tell you exactly what cards I mean #very specifically a past/present/future reading with Astarion being Death/Dawn Hunger/Sacrifice and Judge/Tyrant #the others I have are looser and not a full spread but yknow #Spark/Blaze and Sword/Anvil for Wyll and then Moon/Mirror for Shadowheart #Gale could have any one of Bond/Betrayer Lust/Tavern and Hand/Eye #but yeah please feel free to add on if you wish whether it be more M9 stuff or VM/BH shenanigans as well #minor bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 #critical role mighty nein #wyll ravengard #halsin #astarion #karlach #gale dekarios #lae'zel #shadowheart #jester lavorre #caleb widogast #mollymauk tealeaf #yasha nydoorin #beauregard lionett #fjord stone #caduceus clay #nott the brave #bg3 tav #dumbstupidfandom stuff