#now you know my evil plan

[redhotarsenic]

THE STORM IS ABOUT TO RAGE!!

(for the lovely @nowfallc)

#hi hi very very sorry for taking a million years forgive meeeeee #please accept this humble offering. pulling it out of my trench coat like it’s contraband. I’ve got the goods. #I’ll do another btw. I’m already formulating MANY evil plans. my villainy WILL continue <3 #hehehehehehe >:3 #now! excuse me while I collapse into a pile of bones! because this one killed me fr! 🙏 #also listen to the storm by machine girl NOW right NOW that’s what this is supposed to be based around so DO IT okay I COMMAND you! <3 #there’s a vibe I was trying to match! I don’t know if I accomplished it! but this picture is DONE as FUCK!! #trigun #nicholas d. wolfwood #trigun stampede #trigun fanart

[originalartblog]

I just think Chuuya deserves to snap for this arc. Crumble under his unaddressed trauma. Be evil for a little while. Make Dazai face some consequences for a change. A little corruption arc, if you will.

#yes i'm evil sometimes. it comes and goes. #fyi i have a lot of thoughts about the prison break arc and i agree that dazai *thinks* he's prepared to sacrifice chuuya to get fyodor #he didn't know chuuya would be there but he already had his plan in motion and he can't stop now can he #but i also want this to be the start of skk's make-up arc. do you see my problem. #i often say chuuya gives dazai too much credit (like everyone else) for how much he schemes and knows #but. maybe dazai thinks chuuya is more resilient than he is. maybe chuuya can break. ever thought of that one dazai. #bsd #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd fanart #bsd dazai #bsd chuuya #bsd dazai osamu #bsd nakahara chuuya #skk #soukoku #bsd manga spoilers #nawy's art #posting this now is taking a shot in the dark but i am prepared for the potential consequences #i was supposed to post this much earlier but i got covid OUT OF NOWHERE so

[awyeahitssam]

Based on the idea that Malfoy could not get the vanishing cabinet to work effectively, and decided to mention, instead, that Hogwarts was taking the Great Hall wards down for a six-fucking-week course on Apparation. This is what wouldn't happen. But it's where my mind went, first. Warning: Graphic Violence

A loud crack signified the first successful Apparition. 

Harry’s eyes, closed in preparation for his own attempt, snapped open and his head turned. It wasn't a student standing at the other end of the Great Hall, though. Harry jolted for his wand as other students began to turn to the cloaked figure, but before he could take aim there were four more sharp cracks. 

Dark-robed, masked Death Eater’s were apparating directly into the Great Hall, the only place the castle wards were down for Hogwarts students to learn how to do the same. 

Bellatrix LeStrange was the first to appear sans mask, having no need for discretion. She took in the scene with a cackle, batting away Harry’s immediate curse effortlessly as she cooed, “Aww, look at the wittle student's trying to learn!” 

In his periphery Harry saw Neville lift his own wand, and they cast simultaneously. This time, Bellatrix twisted out of the way. “Do the wittle babies wanna play?”

“Sectumsempra,” Harry hissed with malice, fully aware of the spell's effects, now. Bellatrix’s eyes widened a bit even as she turned out of the way, quick as a dancer. The Death Eater behind her fell to their knees as their body was pulled apart by deep, horrible gashes. 

More cracks sounded; Harry began to send out indiscriminate stunners, hoping to catch the intruders before they realised they were being cast at. They all came prepared for battle to have begun, shield charms springing around them immediately. 

“Bombarda!” Ron called grimly. 

“Expulso!” shouted Neville. 

“Protego Maxima,” murmured Hermione. “Accio Susan Bones. Protego. Stupefy—students to the teacher's entrance!”

The frozen bodies of some of their yearmates seemed to jolt, realisation settling. Many students turned tail and ran. 

Susan Bones, having narrowly been pulled out of the way of a powerful cutting curse that had gouged into stone walls by Hermione, was casting stunners, petrification hexes, and disarming charms. Harry was not nearly so restrained, once he realised the stunners were ineffective. Sectumsempra broke through shields like a battering drill and Death Eaters were falling, ripped apart by his fury. Curses flew from Harry's wand as fast as he could think of them: conjunctivitis, blasting, jelly-fingers, reductors, even slug-vomiting. He conjured six venomous snakes that shot off without instruction, knowing his will. Yet again and again, Harry came back to the Half-Blood Prince’s spell, the most devastatingly effective of them all. People were dying from its effectiveness, but Harry didn’t care, because they had dared step foot in Hogwarts—  

A horrible pressure was building in Harry’s head as half the hall emptied. A wand prodded Harry’s spine, and he stilled, shaking with rage and adrenaline. “Call—call off the snakes, Potter,” a somewhat familiar voice demanded shakily.

“I’d rather they bite your father, Nott,” said Harry coldly. “Drop your wand before I have to make you regret it.” 

The wand trembled, for a moment, against his spine. “C-Cruci—”

Harry drove his elbow back, hard, and slammed down one foot on Nott's. The taller boy stumbled back in pain, and it was no great difficulty to stun him. He hit the floor, hard, and Malfoy’s grey eyes were large and frightened as he stared at Harry, still as prey. 

At once, Harry realised what he had done “You,” he said, scar pulsing horribly. “You did this. You brought war to a school filled with literal children, you stupid, useless brat. You're scared of what Voldemort will do to you? Just wait, Malfoy. His punishment would be bliss compared to what you deserve for this.”

“Such a temper, Harry Potter,” came Lord Voldemort’s cold voice. He had made no sound as he apparated, not like his followers, but Harry’s viciously prickling scar had made his imminent arrival clear. “You have done well, Draco. You will be… rewarded.”

Malfoy’s eyes darted in fright from Harry to the Dark Lord, and Voldemort was barely in time to hiss “Stop,” to the snake that had snuck up on the boy. 

“You don't obey him,” Harry hissed, “you’re mine. Do what you’re made for, dear one.”

Draco turned just in time to see the snake strike out at his neck. It vanished before its fangs could load the boy with venom, and Harry turned his hateful scowl to Voldemort, who’s gaze already rested upon him, intent, heavy and fascinated. 

“Deal with it, Hermione,” he snapped. 

“Harry—” came Hermione’s warning voice, but Harry couldn’t listen, had to dodge out of the way of Voldemort’s spell. The Dark Lord tilted his head, stare thoughtful, and then turned his yew wand… away. 

Harry watched him with a wariness not misplaced: Romilda Vane, nearly out of the Great Hall via the Professor’s entrance, fell to the cruciatus curse with a cry of pain. 

“Drop your wands, children,” the Dark Lord said, red eyes still locked on Harry as his soft, cold voice echoed through all corners of the room, carried by wandless magic. 

Harry grit his teeth at the seeming opportunity, well aware of Voldemort's objective. And yet, truly, he could not have picked a worse target to try and bring Harry under his control than the girl who had nearly raped him. He cast a wordless sonorous on himself to refute the order: “Don't give an inch. There are First Years in these walls. Do to them what you would to Umbridge. They're twice her threat. Any student who raised a wand to help Voldemort’s sect will be treated as hostile. See how I handle my enemies, Goyle, and ask yourself if that cheap shot is worth your life.”

Even as he spoke, Harry turned from Voldemort, dismissive, and focused on thinning the herd. Thirteen Death Eater’s still stood, including Bellatrix, who was engaged with Neville and Ron. Harry used every spell that came to his mind, even those from the Half-Blood Prince’s book he had not tested before. One man was effectively eviscerated, much to Harry’s disgust. He only used that spell once.  

When he saw one of his snakes change course he pulled the magic from them, an effective banishment, cold eyes finding Voldemort again. He had not heard the man speak parseltongue, and indeed he was still holding the crucio, face twisted strangely as he watched Harry. 

“My, my,” said Voldemort, immediate once he had regained Harry’s attention, two more of his people fallen, “so vicious, little snake. Does Dumbledore know you have venom?”

“I don't give a fuck what he knows,” Harry said harshly. “This is a school.” This is my home. “Focus on the bloody Ministry, and leave children out of it.”

Voldemort had the gall to laugh, high and cold. “This is not merely a school, Harry Potter,” he said. “There is a reason you children stand your ground and fight. This is where Dumbledore trains his small, young army to go to war and die, as their parents did before them.” 

Wrath bubbles in Harry, heavy and explosive, and he must look as unhinged and inhuman as the man watching him as he cages it behind his teeth. He flicks a shield charm around Bones and Abbott before a reductor hits, and a disarming charm hits the perpetrators back. He breaks the dark-wooded wand into two pieces the moment he catches it. 

“You truly think Dumbledore has taught us anything? Even my ‘private lessons’ with the man are just memories of your life, as if I care that you got away with murder when you were still sixteen.” Hermione pulls Vane’s still writhing body from the room, and Voldemort’s cruciatus ends, but he does not seem to notice or care, eyes locked on Harry. “The only reason I fight is because I do not believe in the world you are trying to create. Because you say things like ‘magic is night' and still try to subjugate witches and wizards, as if the fresh magic in their veins is poisoned by the muggles they're born to. I defy you, Lord Voldemort, because you decided your best course was killing a baby over a half-heard prophecy, and still try to kill me to this day. I am not going to stand here and let you. I don't believe ‘magic is might’. I've already killed many of your people tonight… but that—that wasn’t over ideology. That is because I will kill as many as it takes to keep your grasping, greedy fucking hands out of my school.”

#ruthless Harry Potter #anything in protection of our lady love of the millennium Hogwarts #Voldemort literally staring instead of enacting his evil plans #he's just kinda flabbergasted by when tf this happened #and his followers are dying and he's just like... #those are hard to find #not easily replacable #and yet #Imma let this play out #my writing #how did this devolve so quickly #Harry is just extremely protective of his home you know #he's in a weird place right now #he's really tired of children getting hurt #even though he himself is #you guessed it #a child #it's hard out here #tw: violence #tw: death #tw: murder

[godblooded]

gale has a blue μάτι (evil eye) embroidered by his mother on the left sleeve of his robe. when he was a baby, he was gifted a gold bracelet with a simple μάτι in white enamel by his godfather. it’s traditional for the godparents to buy a μάτι baby bracelet for their godchild and it must always be worn on your left wrist. it’s not to be taken off, and if it breaks it means it protected you from ill intent and must be replaced. the μάτι wards off all evil and must be a gift bought by someone else. the reasoning for this is the μάτι is imbued with the good energy and love of the giver (this goes for all jewelry too) and therefore cannot be acquired by you, as is also tradition for any μάτι one purchases or acquires. his baby bracelet no longer fits him, and he’s never acquired an ‘adult’ μάτι, as he hasn’t yet found the perfect one that’s caught his eye.

all the trouble and crisis and mystra took him away from the possibility of such a mundanity, the simple promise of an imperative touch of memory, self. he wants his mother to buy him his adult μάτι, the one he will always wear on his left wrist. she embroidered the one in his robe. when he can, when it’s right, he wants to find her one fitting of one so spectacular as herself to craft for her. by his own hands or the meticulous hands of another, any mastery will do, but the beauty must be immaculate. perhaps an enchantment.

he still has his baby bracelet, which he cherishes as it has never broken. gale often makes sure to keep it tucked away on his person (always in the left pocket of a rucksack, always in the left inseam of his robe). he keeps it close, as its enchantment is all its own. he thinks of it as a talisman, a shield, as a boon to his courage; the strength of his family and all that came before them remembered in a trinket.

#headcanon. gale dekarios. #[disclaimer: I’m 🇬🇷 and this is all 💯 facts. my adult μάτι (mah-tee) was purchased for me by my aunt who picked it out me had it made for me #at a ridiculously good jeweler in Brooklyn who’s been there since the 20s. I love it very much and I never take it off. her best friend #bought her hers (ours match) and HERS matches ours too (she’s Italian and hers is red!) I still have my baby bracelet as well. and my #necklace. my aunt and I are planning matching μάτι tattoos on our left wrists in traditional blue. the red version is Italian which is also #awesome (I grew up with Italians lmfao) and the devil horns are also warding off evil. red is also representative of Christ in greek #orthodoxy so its still loosely similar. I grew up with a creepy red light I remember glowing in the corner of our room because my γιαγιά #left it on and it was so fuckin eerie I loved it and hated it at once. anyway. gales μάτι is very personal to me and now the more you know!! #🌈]

[guritahitam]

Anyway, another AU where Doflamingo is adopted with Rocinante by Sengoku.

Except it wasn't an happy adoption but Doflamingo was kidnapped by Sengoku (after a few months Sengoku found Rocinante) and nobody is happy about the situation. Sengoku doesn't want to keep him and he's enough desperate to ask Garp and Tsuru to re-home get rid the little devil, but they say "lmao, you brought him here, now he's your problem."

Jokes on them.

Three old idiots with two traumatized kids, while Doflamingo plays a 3D chess game trying to take his brother away from the marines, passing as one, keeping his baby evil empire afloat on the other side of the world (he still has this dictatorship dream), meanwhile meeting Dragon by mistake deciding to be a sugar daddy (at 13yo) for the Revolutionaries, because he has a big bone to pick with the World Government and surprising being in the marine headquarters worsened his hate.

#Yeah Dragon hates him but he needs founds #Also they have this accord to be ally till they get down the world nobles than it's fair game on who kills who #You know when an anarchic and a 13yo-planning-to-be-dictator are forced to collaborate #Doflamingo is somehow less stable and at the same time the most sane he's ever been #Helps when you are far away from your cult and stay the fuck away from them communicating by telegrams #Tsuru is forced to take a feral 10yo Doflamingo under her protection otherwise the little shit would've literally burned down the world fr #Tsuru is stuck beetwen “This is my shitty adopted nephew he's a bit angry at the whole world but I think I can make him change his mind” #And scream at Sengoku “Put him back where you find him - Now! I'll hunt him down when he'll inevitably become a pirate!” #Somehow in all this Tsuru is the most fond of the little shit and the feeling is reciprocate #You know when you treat people like people and not like evil incarnate monster since birth #one piece sengoku #donquixote doflamingo #donquixote rosinante #One piece Tsuru

[unopenablebox]

doing evil behaviors (looking up different methods of engagement ring sourcing to try to identify the most ethical one)

#as far as i can tell it's 'a vintage ring' followed closely by 'a vintage ring you have melted down into a different ring' #but that means i have to find a vintage ring and vintage [anything] hunting rapidly becomes a task of fractal complexity #that exhausts me until i give up #lab gems ... seem ... fine but i'm not sure how the labor conditions are for workers in them and not making a lot of research progress #'ethically sourced' gold seems nice but is hard to verify effectively and 'ethically sourced' silver might... not exist? unclear #now of course my girlfriend is a biosafety level 3 infectious diseases researcher who handwashes and adds and removes #gloves hundreds of times a day #and so this is going to be a not-actually-very-frequently-worn item #which only makes me feel more evil about it all. #we're‚ like‚ engaged in the sense that we have agreed we want to get married and my whole family knows we're planning on it #we're not engaged in the sense that their family doesn't know we're planning on it and we're not making it public or actually #planning a wedding. so. #acquiring a ring is like the least relevant part of this whole exercise and as mentioned will almost never even be used. so im fixating

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

oh callahan is giving lonan “I’ve lived long enough to love you” clark a run for his money when he comforts harrison by saying “find peace in me.”

#battle of the bisexual long haired men STARTS NOW #my new favourite tv show omg #BACHELORETTE NUMBERRR ONE!!! BACHELORETTE NUMBER TWOOO!! (mirror voice from shrek) #like cal is evil & this is allegedly all an act (just wait until I like him so much I can’t follow thru with my plans) #harrison really is the belle of the fostered ball everyone wants him like you got lonan jeremiah and cal all head to head #wait I was gonna post this on the side blog but then realized this is peak writeblr comtent #so if u don’t know callahan is the new sunless ground antagonist & also a harrison Boo <3 #for a lil bit when loner and harry are not together #this is peak just saying shit on writeblr without context in hopes ppl catch on bear with me

[jibunwo]

dream last night was weird bc sometimes i was a boy and sometimes i was a girl and nobody questioned it but also i was definitely closeted bc if i had been out then stella (dream bestie) wouldve just come out to me instead of making an evil alter ego (long story but i forgot most of it tbh) also we were in high school and i was in love with her. and there was scary monsters

#and stella was being SOOOOO stupid i was very mad at her. #for the whole evil alter ego thing. i was like YOU COULDVE JUST TOLD ME ABT YOUR ‘EVIL’ PLAN YOU DIDNT EVEN HAVE TO TELL ME YOU AND STELLA #WERE THE SAME PERSON which like. ok if shed been like ‘yeah stellas actually not evil. dont ask why i know this or why youve never seen us #in a room together’ i woulda figured it out. BUT I FIGURED IT OUT ANYWAY SO. #OH also she had a sword. stella my friend stella <3 #also at some point we were like huh everyones gonna think were a straight couple so we dont actually have to come out to anyone else if we #dont wanna thats convenient… LIKE. WHAT? DREAM ME YOU WERE A DUDE EARLIER HOW DOES YOUR GENDER WORK #worlds first cisgender genderfluid person #mine #oc #<- brain gave me stella n shes mine forever now.

[ezraphobicsoup]

i think i just crushed someone’s dreams whoops

#this is the Guy That Likes Me btw #he asked about my sexuality to which i said lots of words but summarised by saying i was basically unlabelled #then he was like ‘oh i’ve never been in a romantic relationship’ #and i responded telling him about my year 7 ‘relationship’ where i was asked if i loved the guy (not The Guy) and i said i didn’t know #(i didn’t) #then i told him he wasn’t missing out on a romantic relationship cause sometimes they suck ass #to which he didn’t really respond #and then i told him that that’s probably because of the parents divorce #i think i’ve scared him off now i feel kinda bad #he’s been messaging me every day this week and i’ve just reduced his perception of the chance of me dating him immensely #(it wasn’t going to happen anyway but like. i still feel bad he’s like weird but he’s not mean and evil) #i’m planning to ask some inside sources about this on monday #again this does not need to be a tumblr post why do i keep doing this #oh well if you see this and especially if you don’t know me irl just go with it

[princesscedar]

Trying to tell mom "hey maybe don't call j ewish people rats even unintentionally" event leaves 10 dead thousands injured

#INCREDIBLE how any time i address mom's casual antis emitism she goes into a tirade like 'oh THEY get to be treated special' like #literally me n the 19 yr old give receipts and she always flies off the handle lol lmao haha #she was referring to the tunnel thing in new york and said 'an orthodox j ewish man climbed out the sewer like a rat' #and me n 19 yr old both 😬😬 and casually lightheartedly say 'hey you probably shouldn't say that abt j ewish ppl' and she took it personal #like we said she said it w/ malice and not the same tone as 'hey don't call a black person a monkey even if you didn't mean it offensively' #and 2 hours later she STILL is on her 'well i think it's an agenda some ppl just try and SAY things are offensive and they're not' mom. #u r LITERALLY black. WHY is this hard for u to understand #she did the same when i said a o t was fascist anti semitic nationalist but she's like 'i read it and i didn't see any of that so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #'if you didn't read it you can't say anything's wrong with it' #same w/ that Witches remake a few years ago and i pointed out the witches were coded as j ewish caricatures in the book #and hopefully it wouldn't happen in the new movie #and she thought it was an agenda to cancel it because the main characters were black now #somehow transferred into talkin abt cops and th3 m ilitary and me saying both should be abolished and now she's like #and how i think it's kinda unnecessary to include blatant mil itary propaganda in a show for 6 yr olds lol #and she's like 'are you saying every cop and military person is bad and evil? should kids w/ parents in those forces never be represented?' #no i literally didn't say every individual is but the organizations need to end at least 90% in my lifetime <33 and no i also don't think #a kid w a soldier dad is the same as a kid with a black dad so no mili tary n cop rep is not the same as poc rep lol she literally said that #and mad that i didn't have THEE solution to replace them like i need to know the exact plan to fix it to point out that they shouldn't exist #anywhooooooo she raises my blood pressure lol <33333 #sentext

[silverislander]

prof said congrats for writing up a proposal so early i am going to get a good grade in. well this is literally going to be graded. but yk the meme

#i really hope its decent proposals are really hard for me to write. i never really understand how much im supposed to say #also i dont plan stuff in advance! i hate drafts and proposals why cant i just jump in and run w my topic #i dont Know exactly what im going to cover just yet can i get back to you once ive covered it #levi.txt #i spent One page just opening the two page proposal so. i know it needs some cleaning up #but the last time i wrote one of these i only got a 75 (not a bad grade but i could do significantly better) bc. and i am not kidding. #i wrote a several page intro abt the themes of a story i was super pumped to write. and forgot the /plot characters and title/ #a 75 was honestly generous. that prof already liked me and knew my work so i got very lucky #also i just think the guy im working with for my essay is so cool and i want to impress him bfhshsk #ive taken 2 classes with him before he is so smart and so enthusiastic. i was 1 of only 3 who was there for every class both times #everyone whos helped me has been so cool and very nice to me i want to do a good job and prove that im as capable as they think #and also jesus fucking christ ive worked so hard for this degree PLEASE #if i dont get honours im walking into the forest laying down and letting the fae take me as they will #side note: i have 1.5 movies left (its late and im finishing army of the dead tomorrow + watching evil dead rise)!! thats so exciting #theyve (mostly) been really fun and i feel like i have a really good general idea of where im going w my essay now #the movie eras are starting to kind of organize themselves into coherent themes in my mind #i think its smth along the lines of racism/xenophobia -> social change -> satanic panic -> action and militarism -> prejudice/bias #and i actually think were in smth of a thematic reckoning w zombies rn as a culture that im excited to discuss!! #for so long weve accepted that zombies arent people but weve really been starting to interrogate that since abt the mid 2010s #w tropes like searching for a cure (not just a vaccine) or movies like warm bodies or evil dead where you can truly turn back #and im really excited to see where the future takes the zombie genre!!

[vanhelsingapologist]

personally, i can see a win on the horizon.

#curse of strahd #yes my plan is to get captured. yes it's working. for now. #sometimes the only way to beat em is to let your assassin/gloomstalker get captured #and shoved into a deep DARK cave #with your invisible warlock next to you #kiril “woof woof” stoyanovich your days are numbered #im the tatyana pc btw i don't know if that changes your answer #i don't know jack about this evil guy so no one say anything #dungeons and dragons character #dungeons and dragons

[tabellae-rex-in-sui]

I don't know how but now I'm embarked on a corrupt journey to become the most powerful man in France and one by one getting rid of everyone and anyone in my way. Honestly love that for me. Fuck it up, Alexis

#i did NOT know this is where the plot was headed but love it lol #I am fully becoming the villain #the sole reason my character os going after Robespierre is because he's in my way #I tricked Danton and Hérbert into thinking I was on their side si they'd help me get here #now I'm planning to throw them under the bus and move on to dealing with Robespierre #this is evil I love it #do you know how many people Ive framed for treason already?? this is wild. is this how you're supposed to play? #or did I just make the evil choices?? #lola plays games

[classicstupid-tom]

literally what the fuck is even going on with fnaf lore at this point <3

#could they stop doing things to william please #first the mimic now this #i dont even care anymoree I DONT CAREEEE #i have a version of fnaf that exists in my head and thats the real version #whatever bullshit scott pulls out of his ass is noncanon to me now #it doesnt even fucking make sense to me #like why. why would he do that #why would he make michael kill cc #it just ruins any kind of motivation he had #like 'hes already evil but his son dying made him do something about it' #to 'yeah hes just evil and performing the fucking russian sleep experiment on kids now. fuck you' #like WHY. WHY WAS THIS NECESSARY #i could accept the lore getting all sciencey and shit when remnant and agony were introduced #but this is just getting stupid #'uuu villians with no motivation are scarier' i dont care #its like. we got to a good point a little while ago #where the theories were good and i was like yeah i like how it is now #then in the past like year theres just been wrench after wrench after retcon after 'uhu its actually been planned the whole time' thrown in #and i just hate it now gjfh #wtf do i know tho #bullshit talking

[spawnofbhaal]

I'm realizing that, as good of a game as BG3 is, the lack of narrative cohesion that comes from having a central protagonist and central villain makes it feel more like a collection of D&D side stories than a true successor to BG2. It's like, here's a sprinkle of the Bhaalspawn experience (with Durge) without the slow progression of level 1 to level 30+ where finally throwing off the shackles of Bhaal (one way or another) feels earned and such a relief. Not just because of the way Bhaal's shadow hangs over the player character (also dead!Bhaal is somehow more intimidating than alive!Bhaal, go figure. You'd never catch BG3 Bhaal saying something meaningful like the "life is strength" speech), but because of how much grief other people in the world give your character because of their heritage. People in the world are constantly trying to use your character like a tool, exile them, capture them, torture them, or kill people they love. Being a Bhaalspawn isn't just a personal problem your character has to deal with, it's the source of *all* their problems.

Granted, BG1 and BG2 had the advantage of being two long games (plus expansions) that are really focused on telling a story rather than just one that's torn between telling six/seven stories. Which isn't to say that the overall feeling and experience of playing BG2 can't change a lot depending on what companions/quests you choose, but the overall plot is about one character---yours.

Of course, BG3 does some things incredibly well (or much better than unmodded BG, like giving players way more diverse romance options). And if you *want* the experience of playing through a game as separate characters who have totally different personal quests that are not intertwined with the ultimate big bad (other than the typical "save/rule the world" trope), BG3 is obviously the better game to play. But as someone who loves the whole concept of "Baldur's Gate" because BG1 and BG2 left such a lasting impression on me/literally rewired my brain . . . it doesn't hold up. I love my Durge but she feels like a shallow imitation of my Charname if I compare them.

#baldur's gate 3 critical #my rambles #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #i'm replaying the originals now so i know it's not just nostalgia #charname as a character: you have a whole backstory that's really important but a lot of choice in how you react to the plot #lots of deep thoughts and philosophical questions #the game's narrative adores your character #durge as a character: you are only one of many chosen ones and you might already be dead #also you were really gross because Bhaal is gross and you should probably feel bad about that #you were a badass but ultimately the show can go on without you #and if you want to be evil and do what Bhaal wants his plan actually makes no logical sense

[pepprs]

hi update things are fucking terrible and my eyes hurt from sobbing. lol

#purrs #delete later #not to liveblog and be tmi or whatever but i feel terribly alone and terribly miserable so this is in fact a cry for help lol. or really #comfort bc im fucking going insane. so for context last spring when i was still an intern another intern orchestrated this back channel #where everyone was supposed to talk shit about our supervisors (my dearest most belovedest mentors) and all of us hid it for months and it #all came to a head at asb 2022 because there was a lot of drama witb the asb student facilitators and our staff team. and it was sooooo ugly #and messy and horrible and probably played a direct role in one of my dearest beloved est mentors (who was the point person for asb) fucking #getting a new job and abandoning us in july lol 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃 and so i became a full time staff member and me and my remaining dearest belovedest #colleague besties fucking carried the world on oh r shoulders and put on amazing programs as just 3 of us in the core staff and we thought w #we were doing a really good job with the asb 2023 leaders and that there were no drama dynamics or whatever and guess fucking what. tonight #we found out that half of them hate us for reasons we still don’t know and all of them are at each others throats and also some of the #participants feel a type of way about us. and i know i am being a fragile sensitive crybaby over it but i have had terrible cramps all day a #and have barely slept since ive been here and feel like ive been bending over backwards to support the leaders only to find out that half of #them think we’re evil and i just… i couldn’t take it. so i cried and now im beating myself up for crying. but it’s like come ON. i know we #did a pretty imperfect job of preparing them for this. and i should just take responsibility for that and not be defensive. but it’s like… i #have NEVER seen this program in person before or been part of the planning of it. i was just a student last year like all of you. and also #HOW many fucking times did we create space for you to talk to us and invite us in. and still this shit happened. and i just feel like a #failure. and i couldn’t react to that information in any way except cry liek it’s all so over my head and out of my depth and im not as #emotionally mature as my colleagues bc im the youngest and this is my first time dealing with this and i feel so incompetent and like i #failed. failed the first time by not speaking up when i was implicated in the stupid fucking Google form back channel situation last year #and now failed the second time by not being able to prevent this stupid drama bullshit from happening again and for not catching it. and jfs #like… im in excruciating physical pain and haven’t slept and haven’t eaten well and my life is falling apart and we were ABANDONED BY THE #PERSON WHO WAS RESPONDIBLE FOR THIS (i know we weren’t abandoned she literally just got a new job i just have psychological issues) and #we’ve been running at a million miles per hour with absolutely no break and now you’re mad at us and not even telling us and it’s impacting #everyone’s experiences but you want to pretend this is fucking high school and keep secrets. i am TIRED of drama. i am TIRED of this stupid #bullshit. and not to say this bc i don’t know if asb 2022 drama factored into her decision to leave but if it did i get why * left now. i #get it. bc this shit makes me want to jump out the hotel window. i do not want to face any of them tomorrow and deal with more bullshit. i #am emotionally unstable and incompetent and not equipped to deal with this in a mature healthy way. i want this to be over NOW. im done. #ok i think that’s it um. sorry about that i just needed other people to know i am suffering and i will suppress the shame i feel about that #just this once. esp bc i denied myself the opportunity for my colleague besties to comfort me while i was crying and i regret it now lol