#lords rather

[cats-obsessions]

If Durge Could Recruit Gortash Headcanons:

Once agreeing to ally with Gortash, Durge can convince him to join the party, but only if they agree to kill Raphael. If Karlach is in the party, this may be done in exchange for Gortash to fix her heart if Durge can pass the persuasion roll on Karlach.

• Upon joining the party, Gortash shows up in a more practical armor set, still gold and black but not as decorated as his robe. There’s scrapes and dents on parts of it, clearly having been worn before. Durge can ask him about it in conversation and discover he has chosen to wear the same armor as he did when they robbed Mephistopheles Vault. He never repaired it and can tell a story for each scratch.

• He does a lot to try to jog Durge’s memories, and it works a some degree. We hear little stories around the city, some more suggestive than others.

• Old habits never die. He’s constantly touching Durge, always walks next to them, has a lot of strong opinions but will only concede to Durge.

• Durge persuasion rolls on Gortash are DC10 and under. Anyone else it’s DC30.

• He absolutely compliments Durge a little too much. And he’s always the first at Durge’s side after the fighting ends. Grumbles if he has to rez anyone else but dotes on Durge.

• Gets along well enough with Astarion, Shadowheart, and Laezel. Respects Minthara and Gale, sees them both as potential allies if they know their places. Absolute bitch to Wyll. Actively the number one Ravengard hater.

• If Durge can convince Karlach to stick around, she will only be in the same party as Gortash once or twice. She’ll confront Durge about it after and either has to be kept separate or leaves the party.

• If taken to Astarion and Shadowhearts’ personal quests, he’ll be surprisingly respectful, and will tell them they’d make good Banites, particularly if Shadowheart resists Shar. (Kinda think he would tell Astarion not to Ascend but for his own advantage of not having to deal with an Ascended Vampire and not wanting the hells to gain power from 7,000 souls)

• Random gifts pop up in Durge’s inventory. He says nothing about them. One is definitely the hand of an enemy.

• When in the House of Hope, Gortash will only allow Durge to enter the prison with him until the warden is dead. He’ll tell them everything, but won’t let the others see it.

• Killing Raphael is very emotional. He’s proud, happy, relieved, but being there shakes him up. Durge can hug him in private when they talk about it.

• If Durge chooses to save Hope, she tries to hug ‘little Enver, all grown up’ before they leave. He does not like it, but part of him is happy to see her free.

• Durgetash romance can initiate after Raphael is dead. Sceleritas is so fuckin' pissed. Like, he kinda ships it, but he CANNOT handle Durge getting labotomized again for this Banite fool.

• He has random little personal quests and pop-up events like his formal coronation celebration ball, taking Durge to a fancy dinner, dealing with fans, and assassinating a rude journalist who called him not-so-young-and-handsome.

• If taken to Lady Jannath's estate, she flirts with him. Durge has an option to stab her for this- just once. Just a little. She'll be fine! Gortash approves. He apologizes to her, but he's absolutely into it.

• His two allied pathways at the end are to remain fully evil and control the brain/Faerun with Durge or absolutely still be, ya know, Gortash but destroy the brain and become archduke without the tadpoles' help as he’s now viewed as the city’s hero. This is his least evil option and requires a Durge romance or at least a Durge that will remain by his side regardless and saving Hope as pivotal moments.

• Durge's alliance or resistance of Bhaal would significantly influence this. Resisting Bhaal lowers the DC on any persuasion. Failing the duel with Orin would block any option except controlling the brain with Gortash as he sees it as the only way to protect Durge. Because controlling the absolute would offer them a large enough following to grant them literal ascension to godhood, freeing Durge from Bhaal's control. Plus, you know killing a god would only inflate Gortash's ego more, and that would be his new goal.

#This got so long but I have so many thoughts #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #durgetash #the dark urge #dark urge #durge #enver gortash #lord enver gortash #headcanon #cats thoughts #honestly think hed be down for most quests #but like for the sake of order rather than helping people #like if they let a hag ruin their life thats on them #but he cant have a hag in HIS city #Saverok and Orin would throw SUCH a fit if you brought him to the temple #it would be delicious

[queruloustea]

a sketchy hornet and shade lord :)

not exactly sure what i was going for when i started this piece, but that's alright :)

i will thank @mxyzptplk for the rough idea, too! big shadow critter my beloved

#hollow knight #shade lord #hornet #i say this a lot but i will again apologize for the messy quality i am still rather unwell :') #sibling time :)))!! #queruloustea

[catcrumb]

tomatocat got some good deals at the antique mall, listened to some horror/scifi literature, and walked off into the sunset...

#crumblings #this is my first time w animorphs and good lord. this is some bleak stuff #or 'animporhs' rather. #the sunset pic is one of my fave photos ive ever taken btw. i giggled the whole time while taking it

[scribbleshanks]

a mutual I follow on twitter recently beat the mantis lords, and i remembered these old drawings from 2021 of my favorite honorable battle hungry ladies.

looking at these old pieces, I'm quite fascinated by the direction that my style took 

#hollow knight #the knight #mantis lords #or rather #jock lords #hehehehehe #anyways i love the mantis lords #scrib art #old art

[g1ngerbeer]

KING OF HEARTS

#id in alt text #my art #dw #doctor who #tenth doctor #funnypost machine broke heres another vaguely sad ten art from me. bless #(me @ myself) stop thinking about 'time lords have 2 hearts but ten says his companions break his heart Singular' or draw 25 #the gallifreyan is supposed to say “king of hearts” btw im not very creative lol #cw eyestrain #<- just in case. the red is rather bright

[the-cloudy-dreamer]

"You know me. We've met before. I have many names. I am the King of Dreams and Nightmares: I am Morpheus, Dream of the Endless"

( can you tell I ran out of clever captions? anyway I think this concludes my nightmare dream era for now! this was my own fun art exercise and I'm happy with the results! if you missed the other two illustrations here's the first one and here's the other one! )

#the sandman #dream of the endless #morpheus #lord morpheus #sandman fanart #sandman netflix #neil gaiman #cloudy illustrates #art #feels like this one is missing something but I can't say what so I'll let it go for now lol #maybe its because it's more figurative than the other two? ehh #I'm just rambling now lol #dave mckean #or rather Dave Maclean inspired!

[mrkida-art]

Children of Durin

#sorry for the double upload #I just made this additional version and I wanted it in it's own post rather than as a reply to the OG hehe #the hobbit #my art #lotr #tolkien #dwarves #the lord of the rings #durin's folk #longbeards #thrór #the line of thrór #thorin #thorin oakenshield #erebor #ered mithrin #the fall of erebor #the fall of ered mithrin #smaug #dwarfling #stripling #young thorin oakenshield

[achillyscomedown]

boromir trying to engage in conversation after the fellowship was formed:

boromir: alright, which one of you is merry and which one of you is pippin?

merry:

pippin:

boromir:

merry:

pippin:

boromir:

boromir: okay, let’s try that again and pretend you guys aren’t weird-

#i love the lotr post on here abt how good the fellowship is at telling merry and pippin apart #or rather how bad i should say #like that’s so real #clearly theyre not *that* similar but the others would def struggle #but it’s so funny to think that the two mess up who they are too #lotr #the lord of the rings #lord of the rings #incorrect quotes #this is actually based off of a 21 jump street 2012 quote #merry #pippin #merry brandybuck #pippin took #boromir #boromir son of denethor #tumblr

[neon-catarina]

ITS THE ROUND BOY

ITS THE ROUND BOY

ITS THE ROUND BOY

OH GOD THERE'S MORE OF THEM

ROUND BOYS UNITE!!!!!!!

you can't stop them

chosen has tried many times 😔

#YES I KNOW VIRABOTS USE THEIR BITE RATHER THAN A KNIFE I AM JUST TRYING TO GET MY MESSAGE ACROSS #neon's nonsense #alan becker #animator vs animation #animation vs animator #ava dark lord #ava chosen one #pixel art #pixel animation

[mantish]

#lord of the rings #would you rather have a gay son or a thot daughter #faramir #borimir

[captain-astors]

Creature. (The rendered ones are referenced from manga panels)

#mediocre art #tokyo ghoul #On some level I think I should like Kaneki more than I do but there's this weird sense of detachment #I have not only from him but being able to perceive him as a character? #I don't even dislike him it's just that I can't feel any which way about him at all. He's a catalyst for events #feels more like the conch from Lord of the Flies or something rather than a fictional person. #He doesn't suffer and learn from the consequences #he just suffers and does what got him there again. It's arguable that the lack of punishment denies him the satisfaction #but if that's the case why does he end the story with everything working out perfectly for him? #Why do his friends oblige his flaws and accept his lack of change? #Is the problem my lack of understanding or his lack of good writing? #Is he well written? #Why do I like a certain character from a different anime who's a very similar person with very similar dynamics #but with a goal and acceptance by himself and those around him that his actions really are reprehensible and cannot truly be atoned for #not only more but to the point that he's actually one of my favorites? #Am I just sitting upon a throne of entitlement #because his thought process and experiences are not catered to be applicable to and understood by myself? #GOD IF I KNOW ANYMORE #I'm not pressuring myself to like him or anything I just don't understand anything about kaneki these days and I don't know why

[silverbastardgoldenfool]

The Fool (notoriously in love with Fitz):

FitzChivalry Farseer (notorious heterosexual):

#realm of the elderlings #fitzchivalry farseer #the fool #fitz and the fool #realm of the quarantine #robin hobb #rote #fool’s quest #i just. 🤦‍♀️ #first of all 'lord golden had been a handsome man' like........ it's so suspicious #that you're not even like oh no my childhood friend no longer looks like himself #you're specifically grieving the loss of the beauty of a character he played who you didn’t even like #like why are you singling lord golden out specifically rather than Fool or Beloved?? #and why his handsomeness and not just like his health or vibrancy #idk bestie if my friend was disfigured obviously i would be devastated for them but i wouldnt be like #damn they were so gorgeous and sexy and this is a loss for me personally #like you would just be sad that they no longer look like your friend right? #I'm explaining this terribly cos I just woke up but anyway. gay jail. #also let's be real 'handsome' is such a radical understatement for how enraptured fitz was by lord golden's beauty lol 💀

[near-dareis-mai]

Vote for your favourite horse/horse-adjacent character from Fantasy and Science Fiction books, and yell at me in the replies/comments about your fave that i missed.

#no pegasus or sleipnir bc i'm strictly keeping it to fantasy/scifi books rather than cultural mythology #i tried to limit to one per source except lotr which gets two bc it was The First #the horse and his boy #the narnia chronicles #lord of the rings #the neverending story #the witcher #the wheel of time #a song of ice and fire #the last unicorn #valdemar #shadowfax #bela #bree #binky #artax #bill the pony #roach #the silver #lady amalthea #yfandes #heralds of valdemar

[warrioreowynofrohan]

It’s aro week, and even though I still don’t feel like I fully have a handle on what aromanticism is, I do get the impression that The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings fit well with it? because all the main character’s most important and most central relationships aren’t romantic ones.

Bilbo is considered odd (“queer”, even) in the Shire for being a lifelong bachelor; his close relationships are with dwarven and elven friends, and with his adopted son Frodo. Frodo shows no romantic interest in anyone; his close relationships are with Sam, Merry, Pippin, Gandalf, and later Aragorn. And the later relationship with Frodo, Sam, and Sam’s wife Rosie all living in Bag End - which is specifically proposed by Frodo - seems like it fits the definition of queerplatonic? Whether or not you see Legolas and Gimli as a couple, their closest relationship is clearly with each other. Merry and Pippin also seem pretty clearly the most important people in each others’ lives, and remain close with their friends in Rohan and Gondor even after returning to the Shire. Boromir’s almost canonically aroace, going by the appendices. The close friendships between Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli are prominent, while the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen is relegated to an appendix. Most members of the Fellowship (6/9) do not get married or ‘fall in love’ in any traditional sense (and of the remaining three, one - Pippin - is only noted briefly in an appendix). The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings both have the characters’ relationships with each other - and the importance of valuing and cherishing those, not possessions or power - at their heart, and almost all of those relationships are non-romantic ones.

#tolkien #the lord of the rings #the hobbit #bilbo baggins #frodo baggins #aro week #i don’t know if it’s that this book is aro so much as that it’s not amatonormative #even when people are married their spouse isn’t the core of their story (usually) #as with the unfinished tales material - e.g. elrond stays in middle-earth rather than going to valinor with celebrian when she is injured #because caring about middle-earth and its people is ALSO important #galadriel goes to valinor because she needs that and celeborn stays in middle-earth at least for a time because he needs that #and that doesn’t mean they don’t love each other! #correct me if i’m wrong in my understanding of concepts here

[magnusbae]

“Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.” –Mary Stewart

#I don't know what to say. #I wished to... something. #It's a rather big canvas‚ if you wish‚ open it in full size to see. #buns.d #the sandman #sandmancentral #dream of the endless #lord morpheus #morpheus #dream #the sandman fanart #buns.all #tsm art #Mary Stewart

[tiredmoonslut]

I think I get why the writers chose to make Nynaeve sort of underwhelming in the Power in the second season, but it does irritate me nonetheless that they've equated her not being able to channel unless angry to...not being able to channel at all. Something I loved in the books that I feel the show is sleeping on is that Nynaeve is angry so much of the time. She channels all over the place in the books because she just has that much residual rage in her. She learned how to break the damane collars, heal, use telekinesis, throw fire and lightning, make balefire, create whirlwinds, and reverse stilling before ever dissolving that block. And I feel like the show's writing is robbing us 😭 I wanna see my girl tugging her braid and getting pissed and kicking ass all at the same time

#I get it though #I think their plan is to make her block worse than it was in the books so that she'll dissolve it sooner #and if she's gonna break through it earlier than it needs to still pack that plot oomph #but also they gave Nynaeve more of a generic contempt for Aes Sedai than she has in the books and I find that irritating #she *wanted* to be Aes Sedai in the books and I feel like that's important #in the show it's like she'd rather not even be there #wheel of time #the wheel of time #nynaeve al'meara #wot book spoilers #wot on prime #wot #lord of chaos