#the ascended

[hyperrpg]

Hey gamers! Sarah here.

So, a quiet lil announcement: I'm not going to be running this blog anymore, as I am not going to be working for Hyper! But I didn't want to leave my tumblr babies without a little something something, so behold: Character shots of the KOllOK cast for all your fanart needs!

Gonna reblog this with a few more images since 10 is the post limit.

#kollok #cast #kollokfanart #the ascended #legacy

[sowhathoe]

Hey Jerry!

Return of the MVP

From KOIIOK EP. 1x20

#lauras face in response to this fucking kills me #jerry is an honorary ascended bc I said so #kollok #kollok 1991 #ttrpg #the ascended #jerry #syd muldoon #the way syd looks at him i love it #gifset #mine

[werewolfpdfs]

THE SUN-AT-NIGHTFALL - Viridan, It Weeps, The Sun General. War without end, he holds on to mortality longer than the others but can’t change his new nature

Patron of warriors, sellswords, and the exploited. Domain of war, conquest, honour, and tragedy.

Aligned with The Bone Matron, sometimes. Opposes The End of Ends.

#blorbo……. #his aspects are so contradictory I love him #It Weeps will be like who caused all this tragedy and destruction 😦 and The Sun General is like ✋😔 #he’s clinging to his morality!! the LAST a thing he ever would’ve wanted to be while he was alive was a warlord #he just killed monsters and saved thw world #he and The End of Ends are probably the most tragic figures and i love them so much #auri’s writing corner #oc moodboard #the ascended

[ghostaris]

WORLD OF WARCRAFT — Dungeon Spires of Ascension

#wow #wow gif #world of warcraft #world of warcraft gif #game gifs #gif #shadowlands #bastion #spires of ascension #scenery #dungeon #the ascended

[cyber-corp]

🥳🏠

#413 #happy birthday to this piece of shit webcomic that has changed my life from the moment i started reading #homestuck #john egbert #rose lalonde #(ascend descend rise up abscond) #dave strider #jade harley #gecko boy

[tsrmarina]

While finishing up the piece with the dragon spawn I made studies to catch ascended Astarion character essence ✍️ Here’s one of them:

Astarion the Ascended 🖤

Get Print

#astarion #baldursgate3 #bg3 #larianstudios

#astarion #bg3 #bg3 astarion #bg3 fanart #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate astarion #baldurs gate fanart #ascended astarion #ascension #larian studios #artwork #digital painting #digital art #digital portrait

[mstrchu]

girl help my friends keep trying to do things that will definitely make them insane

#why don't you both try ASCENDING to some THERAPY #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #gale dekarios #did not realise gale had a last name until just now when that tag popped up #is his last name not 'of waterdeep'??? #... #art tag #also perceive my little guy.. his name is tau......

[ducancela-a]

bringing this meme back, just for ascended astarion

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 astarion #astarion #astarion ancunin #ascended astarion #astarion x durge #astarion x tav #bg3 withers #bg3 memes #my art

[thatcerealkiller]

“My blood thirsty friend.”

🔥 commission by poof on twitter 🔥

#Astarion #Tav #Dark Urge #Durge #Slayer Form #Ascended #Ascended Astarion #Spawn Astarion #commission #art by #poof #poofroom_fanart #commission poof you will love it #bless this art #OC: Angelus #OC: Durge Angelus #baldur's gate 3 #bg3

[pani-artz]

✨BATSTARION BURRITO✨

He seems to like it

Drawing Batstarion gives me so much serotonin❤️❤️😭😭

#batstarion #bg3 astarion #baldurs gate 3 astarion #baldur's gate astarion #astarion bg3 #astarion #astarion ancunin #astarion baldurs gate #astarion x mc #astarion x tav #tav x astarion #ascended astarion #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #digital art #baldur's gate #artists on tumblr #digital drawing #bg3 fanart #artwork #art

[hussyknee]

i'm so confused rn, can you explain the goncharov thing?? i get off tumblr for five minutes

(Edits closed as of 28 Nov.)

Lmaoooo

Nah I getchu. So this post has been circulating for like two years:

Link to post.

But yesterday, it had inspired someone to do this:

Link to post.

Next thing I knew there were fake Letterboxed reviews.

Goncharov moodboards. Really good ones.

Link to post.

Meta analysis. So many fake meta essays. Disturbingly good ones. And of course the memes. (Edit: HAVE I SAID THIS SHIT IS DISTURBING)

As you can see, the myth just started to grow, characters and ships and tropes being added one after the other, almost bizzarely without contradiction, until there was enough of shape to the whole thing for people to start posting fanfic about it on AO3. "No beta we die like ice-pick Joe" is already a tag.

Link to post.

It was hilarious in the beginning, but the way it's developed within less than a day, kind of like it's being willed into existence, is freaking me out a bit. We're toying with powers beyond our comprehension. 😂😂😂

Link to post.

Of course, there could be an ulterior motive as well.

Link to post (tags mine).

Edit: guys, please tag these posts "unreality" so people with disassociation issues can filter them out (not this one, this is an explainer). <3

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Edit 2: Aparently the boots in the original post are actually referring to a movie called Gomorrah that came out in 2008, directed by Mateo Garrone, based on the Scampia Feud. And other people had also been making posts about the fake movie for a while before the poster took off.

found by @thepotch

Edit 3: Explainer: why did those boots have this movie on them anyway?

Edit 4: Alt text added to all images courtesy of @valentineish ❤️

Edit 5: Turns out tumblr has done this kind of thing before. Nine years in this hell place and I had to have "Squiddles" and penis smp explained in the replies.

Edit 6: This post collects the Lore so far.

Edit 7: Lynda Carter (real one)/ earns more/ Tumblr cred.

Edit 8: Holy shit y'all we have the theme music. With sheet music. And it's on Spotify!

Edit 9: THERE IS A TRAILER WITH THE THEME MUSIC

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I made this post 18 hours after the movie poster went up. Closed edits 27 hours after first posting. So all of the above happened within 45 hours of the movie poster going up.

Edit 10: Google document live-compiling all the lore so far (Day 3)

Edit 11: Masterpost of Goncharov soundtracks (Day 3)

Edit 12: Entertainment news articles covering the Gonch-posting (real) (Contd from yday)

Edit 13: The music from the masterpost all compiled into a 31-minute original score with video edits on YouTube (edit: unfortunately taken down)

Edit 14: Staff's Goncharov art showcase for Tumblr Tuesday

As of closing on Day 3 there are 371 works in the AO3 tag.

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Updating with Day 3 shenanigans I missed yesterday:

Edit 15: Goncharov TV Tropes page

Edit 16: Ethics of Gonchposting

Important PSA 1 (how to reduce harm to Tumblr's neurodivergents)

Important PSA 2 (reality affirmation, anti-bullying)

Important PSA 3 (why you should stop trying to vandalise legit information sites)

Edit 17: Character lore from beezlebub whose poster they originated from

Edit 18: What we know about/ Director Matteo JWHJ0715 (#unreality)

Edit 19: Link to post with screenshotted and described NYT article (scroll down) and this golden exerpt from BuzzFeed: 💀

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End of Day 4 there are now 485 works in the Goncharov tag on AO3

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Didn't get to update this on Day 5, so these are the Day 5 doings:

More trailers!

Trailer 1 (My favourite)

Trailer 2

Trailer 3

Trailer 4

I also just found out about the Goncharov Game Jam.

It appears this opened a day after after the meme took off.

Goncharov was first entered into Wikipedia between Day 4 and 5 (attempts to vandalise it with fake info don't count, incidentally – please knock that shit off) under List of Internet Phenomena. This was then expanded into its own Wikipedia page at the end of Day 5 because, according to the talk history: "the topic now meets the notability threshold for its own artice due to significant coverage in The New York Times and other sources cited." We're on Wikipedia, people!

And then we made The Guardian half a day later. So while the meme is definitely dying down to embers by now, it still stays winning.

YouTube channels with episodes on the meme:

InformOverlord (4:30)

Lessons in Meme Culture (2:43)

End of Day of 5 there were 511 works on AO3, and End of Day 6 (today) there are 556.

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🚨BREAKING 🚨 from Martin Scorsese's daughter's TikTok (real actual)

tw: unreality:

We did it you guys!

Clarification: Francesca Scorcese asked her Dad about the meme and Martin played along. Please reblog this PSA to help Tumblr people with psychosis. Thanks.

Final edit: Day 8. Media reactions to Scorcese's TikTok (everyone from Forbes to Vulture). That one Tumblr user who said they'd do a screenplay if their post got notes has promised to shoot a single scene, but please don't be dicks just because you reblogged it; leave them alone until they get around to it themselves. As of end of Day 8 there are 609 works in the AO3 tag. I love all you lunatics. Peace! ❤️

#goncharov 1973 #reasons i can never leave this hellsite #we've ascended from pirating criterion movies to straight up manifesting them into existence #get on our level twits #knee of huss #goncharov #tumblr lore #tumblr memes #tumblr culture

[lotus-pear]

soukoku as one of my dearest renaissance paintings

#instead of paying attention to the lectures in ap art history i just look at the paintings my teacher puts on the slides #and decide which ones fit my fictional pairings #i wish i remembered this one i think it was by bernini but i'm not 100% :(((((( #sighhh i'll go check again if anybody wants the og #i listened to luminary by joel sunny while painting this and the vibes were ethereal i felt like i was ascending #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #dazai osamu #osamu dazai #nakahara chuuya #chuuya nakahara #soukoku #skk #lotus draws

[sowhathoe]

this episode was so intensely refreshing because we were able to finally get all of ascended together and standing with one another too FINALLY - despite all the fucked up shit they really are all each other has 

#it was everything i wanted stressful sad funny painful loving #it just felt so nice to see ascended actually supporting each other even if they still have their tensions #when clarity was losing herself and mallory was saying they should run #and ALL of them collectively started yelling that they wouldnt leave her even if it meant the tunnel would collapse on all of them? #ya i fucking cried B) #the ascended #kollok #kollok spoilers #kollok 1991 #ttrpg

[werewolfpdfs]

THE BONE MATRON - The Shifting, Mother Renewal, He-Who-Twists, The Ascendant of Change. Fragmented bones and the myth of the perfect soul, she can’t hide from her own reflection.

Patron of travelers, healers, necromancers, and change-seekers. Domain of rebirth, the soul, ruination, and metamorphosis.

Aligned with The Sun-in-Nightfall and The Feast of Vultures. Opposes The End of Ends and The Inevitability.

#the ascended #she’s kalan’s patron and she scares him but he also loves her #!!!the transer of genders ajshdjdk #anyway they live in their garden bc the flowers are distracting #which is coincidentally where the choke grew.! #your honour he’s just like me… #auri’s writing corner

[seatoss]

It's not diving underwater, but he still looks pretty good swimming and burrowing up like a mole.

#You can't convince me that this isn't the most mesmerizing new ability Link's scored by losing an arm #He's not that great at it but makes up for it by winning through his usual clever bullshit #legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom #totk link #totk bokoblin #ascend mechanic #loz #totk #link #cucco #my art #my fan art

[primopinku]

a little hc I have about Ascended Astarion cont (possible spoilers about act 3) under the cut

I've been thinking a lot about how once you ascend him about how once pure emotions get twisted by undeath. How love turns to hungry obsession (think Strahd and Tatyana). Even if you leave him, even after he coldly spouts cruel words at you in response, admits how he would have twisted your love for him (he def would). I couldn't help but think "is it really over? Just like that?", I get the sinking suspicion that it's not really over. Especially after he says you will regret leaving him so bitterly. Maybe he'll give you a couple of years of freedom, but in the end he will come for you.

Well enjoy this "supposed to be simple" sketch of Vampire Lord Astarion having a party, deciding whether or not to end it in a blood bath (nah but it's a funny thought. Being civilly minded is hard) because he doesn't like people touching his things.

#inktober #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #baldur's gate iii #bg3 astarion #baldur's gate 3 astarion #ascended astarion #baldurs gate astarion #bg3 dark urge #bg3 durge #bg3 tav #vampire #my art