#this is about my bard now

[greelin]

he lived. served cunt. died. got resurrected. served even more cunt

#this is about my bard now

[cinnabell2]

Venlumi + Namless bard Vampire AU 🩸

#Ihavnt done ship art in so long #My brain has been rtting about this au for like 2 years #AND SOME OF THESE POSES TOOK ME LIKE A WHOLE DAY TO FIGURE OUT AAA #venlumi #nameless bard #venbardlumi??? #bardvenlumi?? #yeah bardvenlumi #bard came back and is now a vampire #its how i cope with canon okay leave me alone #its 5 sm #am* #cinna-arts #genshin impact #genshin impact fanart #venti #genshin fanart #art #cinna arts

[personwholoveschocolate]

personaly I THINK that xenk should straight up put on full mr darcy suit just to walk out of the fog to edgin saying "you have bewitched me body and soul" ect ect for the sole reason of edgin standing there looking at him with teary heart eyes before breathlessly say "why are you like this" and kiss him passionatly on the lips

#xenk yendar #edgin darvis #dnd honor among thieves #dnd hat #? #I just watched the film tbh #It fucking AWESOME #laughed my ass off #now dont have any #100/10 recomend #how does it #xedgin #lllloooved these two #and the rest of the cast #Wow I loved them all #anyway #edgin x xenk #xenk the paladin #edgin the bard #you can say I have a thing or two to say about xenk #dangeons and dragons movie #dangeon and dragons honor among thieves

[sableprince]

been really struggling with art block but i had to get a couple chants of sennaar doodles out of my brain because it's a lovely game

#chants of sennaar #as a linguist this game did everything for me lmao #as an enjoyer of stories about closing linguistic gaps and friendship and love and community this game shook my brain so hard #and now i'm thinking about it a lot. #also ever since i saw the bard craftsperson in the devotee area making toy boats while a devotee and the devotee kid watch i have been like #oh my god bard craftsman and devotee kid friendship. #i think that kid is everybody's friend i love them they're my baby #i want to draw the traveller more and i have a lot of notes on drawing concepts but i havent drawn in a month and i'm rusty #and it feels weird to draw. oh well. i'm trying.

[sierradee]

Dob only dreams when he’s alone.

Dob loves women who are powerful and selfish. He loves only the most unattainable, most reviled, and the moment they seem less than impossible, he critiques them senselessly. In fact the one time some got close to loving him, he destroyed it in a way that attacked not only her feelings, but her dignity.

Not by choice, Dob’s a man who never hurts by choice.

But he’s felt the lick of it inside him, not that long ago. The goblet that grants everything gave him a taste of greed, and the greed was good.

—-

Here’s my proposal that Dob is a violently escapist lover because I’m constantly and forever on the villainess’s side.

#oxventure #fanart #oxboxtra #illustration #dob the half orc bard #lady liliana #liliana #I’m ready to get yelled at #but episode one of this season Dob was wild #the man famous for never showering cares about dishes now? #see?I’m Right #sierradeedidit #it was really hard getting back into drawing #my favourite part of this is her knees

[ofdarklands]

level 90 at last!

so! about black mage

i've been thinking how to describe playing black mage, and i think the simile i used this morning in chat works well enough:

black mage feels like trying to run with a pot full of boiling water in my hands. with other jobs i feel light and agile, but black mage plays like how seeing emet selch as solus run would feel. look at that guy go. i didn't know spines could do that! you can hear his knees crunch, also

mechanically, it's really not nearly as bad as i feared it to be, even though i don't think i'd managed to figure out a decent rotation myself on the first or even third try so, thank you internet people for the guides!

anyway, the boiling pot wheezing trot sensation is not unique to it, though it is the most noticeable of all the casting classes i've played. i'd say rdm>summoner>whm>>blm in increasing awkwardness

so, while i acknowledge that blm is an optimizer's paradise to get the Biggest Booms, probably, playing it feels like it's almost fighting against the game instead of flowing with it and due to that it's just not very enjoyable, for me. it's got the same inflexible rotation that makes dragoon my least played class despite it being very canon for mitr'a

and from a physical perspective my fingers are not very precise on the keyboard, so i tend to fuck up the routine by accident quite often and then i have to correct it or start over and eeeehhhhhh. and my can't-remember-to-click-despair situation. dunno what the problem is with that one, to be quite honest. brain said no i guess :( that one's on me

woops this got longer than i thought so have a readmore

the good:

aforementioned big damages, when i manage to keep the rotation on track. sadly not as much of a plus for me, personally, but it's relevant still

against one enemy, getting immersed in the rotation can be pretty fun, until the 5 aoes come, the boss leaves the arena, and i sigh deeply while creakily running around, not casting

lasso spell goes brrr. it's got a very funny sound effect, in my heart

the 'return to leylines' spell is also great. i've used it mostly to instantly dodge when there's more than 2 sequential aoes. you can play around with these two spells

shoutout to the simplified job gauge for letting you actually understand anything about it. sure it's 3.5 things to keep track of, but for 2 of them you get informed about their readiness with convenient sounds and flashing borders so whatever

big staff to hit people with

cone hat funny

big lb meteorites. very good very cackling

the bad:

moving feels heavy, even when using the instant cast abilities. i keep lagging behind the group even in normal content, and sometimes clicking the right person to yeet to can be a bit hard in alliances or wall to walls. this class needs to do some cardio

clicking fire IV 3 times, then 1 fire I then fire IV 3 more times is. very boring. sorry. rotation 40 years long and rigid like the brutalism. the funnest parts are the thunder procs and the ice phase before going back to fire and the occasional instant cast. oh you sneezed and misclicked and dropped your fire badge thingies on the floor? sorry idiot you get to start over from the top, but sadder this time

this one i only noticed here at the end, but i feel it's very important, maybe more than the rotation: the best and biggest animations it has are the ones for the ice spells, which you use the least. xenoglossy, foul and flare are also good. amplifier, manafont and triple cast feel nice and dramatic to use. paradox i just got but it's also nice with the color mix. the rest i don't even remember, had to go cast them on a dummy. it's fireballs and fire columns it's all fireballs! the blm animations have a lot of boom but they need more heft, if that makes sense? more flying shit going from you to the target, shit shrapneling from the target, rings of fire, fiery eldritch runes, anything. if rdm can shoot 50 explosive roses at a guy for some reason and drk can summon shields of runes, blm can do something fancy also. casting a finisher skill called 'despair' should look like i'm sucking their souls out through a straw

also more casting positions. summoner has a lot and they're pretty different! they got floating symbols and shit. blm has 'slightly crouched' and 'staff held high' in variation 1 and 2, and that's about it from what i can tell besides the selfbuff ones. add some evil runes at least. the paradox wide armed one (i think you float a little?) is a good addition though

anyway, final verdict: it's a good class, but it's very rigid and inflexible to get Big Damages, which is not an exciting exchange, for me. i prefer to be nimble and do less damage but have a more varied and forgiving rng based rotation. also more utility skills! i miss peloton or having a group shield or heal, or even rdm's rez; makes me feel actually useful instead of being just a giant cone hat that produces flamethrower on command. i don't think i'll play it too often, i'm afraid, even though it's a perfectly alright class, and i'm sure i'll get better with time

HOWEVER. if dawntrail allows blm to throw meteorites outside of lbs i might reconsider. they can be small! even magical molotov cocktails if we must. but i want physical flamming objects to hit my enemies and i want to see the animations do that with some flair. just ole fire and spite booms and a couple icicles is not enough. i want to flatten them

#if you think this was me being overly harsh i assure you i liked blm a lot more than i thought i would! #i'll play it exclusively a couple more days still #get a proper feel of the 90 rotation and all #still. this stands i think #a good class that's just not quite for *me* #play: mitr’a #now what i really have to do is think how mitr'a will include blm stuff into HIS multiclass rotation #he doesn't usually stand still much so it'll be a challenge. maybe add it to drk? that could work. tanks move less #drk has the cool evil rune animations blm lacks as well #also i need to read a bit about steppe shamanism to take my clues from that #i must say despair as a skill is particularly interesting after ew. flexing our dynamis muscles. that one might go to bard some way #not like bard is using that mp for anything #xenoglossy with it's echo implications would go to rdm? i guess? it does require charge...

[kqluckity]

how some people can look at Zhongli and Venti's dialogue during this Lantern Rite and interpret it as beefing instead of, you know, flirting truly blows my mind? like it's not just what they're saying, but also the way they're saying it. it's flirting, they're flirting. and even if they aren't flirting, that's obviously an inside joke? look at Venti's face when Zhongli acts like they're strangers, does it look like someone who can't stand the other and isn't willing to play along with the other's dumb idea? please. I don't understand how people can still think they hate each other even tho it's established that they're friends, not only through items lore and their own character stories (I really doubt someone like Zhongli would let a guy he hates forge his sigil, let him destroy his precious vase, let him pour wine on his head, and then yearn for him for 500 years bffr), but also in the first Liyue Archon quest Zhongli talks about "a friend from Mondstadt" who used to bring him wine all the time, and Venti has a "refined gentleman friend from Liyue" he wishes he could spend more time with. a friend he still visits often, so much so that madame Ping commissioned Tubby to make a Mondstadt-inspired house for the teapot with good acoustics so he could play inside with no problem.

#oh i heard about the refined liyuean gentleman who ordered tea instead of wine and is very knowledgeable and cute #well I've heard of a bard that is truly elegant and eloquent and whose rhymes are unmatched anywhere #hope this makes sense also yes this makes no sense because it's 11pm and I can't write and and and #also sorry they are melting my brain fr I've been shipping them since 2021 but never felt like sharing here #but now I am so you better suck it up #those two are literally always talking about each other I don't blame Xiao for being a little bit homophobic during that dinner #he needed a breather because of the embarrassing old men and I respect that #xiao: right in front of my salad? what if I killed myself rn? #<- it's what he should've said anyway. it's what transpired from the way he looked at the Traveler tbh #okay I'll stop talking about them for a bit. probably. maybe. but only on here #I'll talk about them especially irl for a little bit longer probably I love them #OKAY I'M SHUTTING THE FUCK UP NOW #Zhongli #Venti #zhongven #genshin impact #gi tag

[blackjackkent]

Random little Durge moment I've been bouncing around in my head for a bit...

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Wyll pokes his head out of his tent curiously and can't immediately place the sound. Everything else around their current campsite is natural, gentle - the soft babble of a nearby mountain brook, the brush of wind through the trees. Incongruous, then, is this new sound - of a sharp, atonal twanging at irregular intervals.

Rakha is seated at the edge of the cliff where the camp is placed. Her back is to him, but he can see the head and base of a lute sticking out on either sides of her body. Her head is bowed with an air of intense concentration.

Another sharp twang splits the air.

"Is that Alfira's?" Wyll asks gently, moving over to her side and looking out over the mountain vista below.

Rakha grunts noncommittally. She plucks at the lowest string and listens to its resonance, how it echoes back off the stone face opposite them.

"Have you been carrying that all this while?" He lowers himself to the ground next to her, crossing his legs.

Another grunt, a pause, and then, "Yes." Another pause. "It was the only thing I left intact."

He nods slowly and says nothing further, but listens as she slowly plucks out various notes on the instrument. There's no structure to it; she seems to be analyzing the way the notes shift based on where she places her fingers, but it's certainly not melodic in any fashion.

"Do you know how?" she asks him abruptly, after several minutes of this have gone by.

"I did, once," Wyll says with a slight smile. "My father saw to it all the courtly skills were in good showing - dueling, dancing, music. I never did get much of a knack for it, though. And after seven years, I doubt much has stuck around." He tilts his head. "Do you... want to learn?" he asks cautiously.

She shrugs, twangs out another note. "I did not want to kill her, Wyll," she says.

The hairpin turn of the conversation makes him blink. "So you've said."

"No, I--" She pauses, makes a noise of frustration. "All the others, there was something of me. Some... anger, or fear. Even the squirrel in the grove. I was awake, at least."

"But not Alfira."

"Alfira... my body killed her while I slept." Some complicated emotion works across her face. "I find... the more I travel, the more you teach me... the more it troubles me."

He feels a little flicker of warmth despite the brutality of the subject matter. For everything that she struggles with - and there's a lot of it - she listens to him, she internalizes everything he says, rather as he listened to his father and stored away each bit of wisdom as it trickled down to him. There is a trust in that - in both directions.

"And that's why you're playing her lute?" he asks slowly.

Rakha runs her fingers high up on the fretboard, pulls the highest string and listens to it squeak. "It doesn't bring her back," she says to herself.

Not quite an answer, but close enough. "When we get to the city... there are people who can teach you." He smiles slightly again. "Perhaps I'll pick it up again myself."

A long, long pause. She strums her fingers along the lute from top to bottom, playing out a sharply dissonant chord that makes his teeth ache. "Perhaps."

#bjk plays bg3 durge #rakha the dark urge #durgewyll #wylldurge #durge x wyll #wyll x durge #durge #bg3 durge #bg3 drabble #bg3 fic #bg3 fanfic #my writing #wyll ravengard #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #rakha has been carrying around alfira's lute in her inventory for weeks now #purely bc i intended to write this at some point XD #it occurs to me that zenjestrr was suggesting a possible late-game build for rakha involving levels in bard #which didn't actually affect my plan to write this at all but does tie in nicely now that i think about it

[welcometogrouchland]

Caleb and Evelyn are hanging out in gravesfield one day (after she reveals herself as a witch to him. There's no concrete timeline but let's just say this is still a year/few years before Caleb flees the human realm, but he's been to the demon realm before on monster of the week style adventures w/ eve) when Caleb suddenly has A Responsibility to attend to w/ Philip (some kind of town meeting? Idk).

Evelyn asks to tag along in disguise but Caleb sadly tells her "sorry but this is really only a thing men do around here :( sad u can't come tho" and evelyns like no prob babe lol and just illusions herself a mustache and pants + ties her hair up and is like boom. Boy mode. And starts dragging Caleb by the hand to whatever big boy puritan conference he has to attend meanwhile Caleb is completely silent bc his inner monologue is just "WHY AM I STILL ATTRACTED TO HER. WHY IS SHE HOT. DO I LIKE MEN???"

Anyway that's how Caleb found out he was bi and after a quick (but very intense, he was a 1600s christian after all) crisis Evelyn takes him to the ye olde gay club

#ramblings of a lunatic #the owl house #toh #caleb wittebane #evelyn clawthorne #revising for my poetry test and. listen #I'm not gonna assign my blorbos to 17th century metaphysical poetry. I'm not gonna do that #but i did doodle caleb and evelyn on a lot of my annotations (bc. okay in all fairness they're either ye olde love poems- #-or ye olde poems about salvation guilt faith and a fear of death and damnation. eithet way it's befitting alright?) #and now I'm thinking about them again #going to the ye olde gay club #it's probably just a tavern with some bards fuckin it up to medieval hips don't lie #(you guys remember medieval music covers in like 2020??? the first big weird music trend before sea shanties?? sm fun)

[everyones-least-favorite-bard]

uhh happy pride month

#orv western au #making that a tag now #orv #omniscient reader #omniscient reader's viewpoint #kdj #kim dokja #yjh #yoo joonghyuk #joongdok #dokhyuk #yall dont get it im thinking about this au 24/7 now #ill make a masterpost on my thoughts later #because boy do i HAVE some #bard draws

[the-cookie-of-doom]

Me 6 hours ago: haha wouldn’t it be funny if I wrote fic for a music video of all things?

Me 3 hours ago: well fuck

Me now: anyway the series is called Placeholder, coming to a fic-hosting platform near you!

#cookie writes #I HATE MYSELF #AND MY FRIENDS #other cookie & shu & bard #look what you’ve done #I’m writing a SERIES NOW #and I still have that damn wuju bakery fic!!! #what is it about this man that makes me want to write the most unreasonable things

[oaksapling]

Ilyamaris 'Ilya' Iltii

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #everyone look at my bard RIGHT NOW #obsessed with him ive made like 10 characters and played the game for 120 hrs and have yet to get through act one on any of them.... #perhaps he will be The One #i actually love him so much he's silly and also beautiful...the perfect man #you can tell i like him bc im posting him idgaf about my other characters #idk if hes smooching wyll or karlach or halsin...wish he could do all 3

[meadowsofmay]

today my emoticonal coping mechanism stumbled me upon thinking about middle earth's father figures, found fathers and real fathers. me, who have always wanted my father back to my family which was not possible due to my parents splitting and who could only see him at weekends because of work and school, is thinking about elrond and thranduil and bard and thorin and theoden and even aragorn and boromir who clearly became father/uncle figures for hobbits. i am thinking about them.

about elrond who went through so much and yet, he raised elladan and elrohir into great and proud, stong elves, who cared for estel even though he was his adopted son and was ready to sacrifice alot for his only daughter. he just wanted a happy family, he wanted to protect them all under the roof of the last homely house but wasn't able as they all picked their own fates.

about thranduil who really wanted to protect his son after losing every other dear to his heart in the battle. but he got so overwhelmed with the grief that he almost lost legolas in the worst way possible — he lost the trust his son had in him as in his parent.

i am thinking about bard who raised his daughters and a son alone in the cold, damp town, carrying a burden of a failed hero in the heart and people's hero on the face. but all he ever wanted is to keep his children in his arms safe and sound.

and about thorin who became fili and kili's big, strong, role model father-figure that they looked up to and followed almost blindly because they believed in what thorin believed. they wanted to stand on the same ground thorin stood. they wanted to be by his side when thorin achieved what he set his mind to because thorin raised them well. he raised them as warriors and good, proud dwarves. even in the exile they should have known that they are powerful and thorin did his best to implant that.

about theoden too — who lost his son but still kept love for his nephew and niece. he fostered them under his wing, trusted them unconditionally and these kids loved him to the ends of the earth. he was ready to give eowyn the throne — she was ready to sacrifice herself to protect him in battle. they were one of the biggest joys to his heart. they loved him.

boromir got to experience what it is like to be a father he and his younger brother never had — he watched for years as his father was picking favourites and being dishearteningly rude towards the one he loved the most in this world. boromir saw these young, small, unprepared for war hobbits and wanted to give them at least a piece of good memory from the trip that was about to become terrible and fateful.

and aragorn. sweet, soft-spoken, kind aragorn who was raised by elves and had a heart of a human. he was such a protective, caring character — the way he treated frodo like he is his son that aragorn wanted to save from the burden, — i was convinced from the moment he started talking he is going to be an amazing father one day. i fucking trusted him.

i am thinking about them tonight. it's not a good night but these thoughts help to get through.

#middle earth fathers are my fathers now #they bring me comfort #unconditional comfort #i feel safe thinking about them #not all of them are greath (cough denethor) but we don't talk about assholes #because i miss my father and they help me cope #elrond peredhel #thranduil oropherion #bard the bowman #thorin oakenshield #theoden #boromir #aragorn son of arathorn #elladan #elrohir #estel #arwen #legolas #fili #kili #eomer #eowyn #lord of the rings #the hobbit #it's just one of those nights #may thinks thoughts

[vv-ispy]

something something samsara cycles I don't think it's a coincidence that the overthrow of Decarabian involved Jean and Diluc's ancestor + Venti's lookalike friend -> Mondstadt archon quest the key players taking down Dvalin were Jean and Diluc + Venti

Is. Traveler Amos?

Or put another way, traveler is the one with the floaty friend -> bard has the floaty friend. Venti is friends with Dvalin the terror of the tower/Amos is friends? Lovers? Something? With Decarabian the tyrant in the tower. Venti -> Amos, Traveler -> Nameless bard, Paimon -> Venti?

#i wake up. i start ramblings about whatever media i'm into at the moment #continuing on my reverse-engineering-old-mondstad-by-looking-at-current-game agenda #now i'm creating amos-was-secretly-helping-the-rebellion-early-on to paralell venti-helping-the-traveler-when-they-first-arrived headcanon #bard later running into amos: hey doesn't her voice sound familiar? #wispti who did not experience Amos Abilitites that bard did: ????????? #does amos have an eye colour? her eye colour is now the blue sky the bard always wanted to see #takes the mondstadt archon quest. stuffs it into old mondstadt #also something something venti playing multiple roles #also. incognito amos changing her looks to leave the tower and mingle with the people every once in a while #amos who wanted to save decarabian but things went wrong and he died and she died and the bard died #.........abyss corrupted decarabian? look we've got multiple corrupted gods in history already we can have another #thinking about that theory that furina/focalor did their fooling-the-heavily-principle plan over and over again until they got it right #maybe all the gods are living in time repeating over and over and over again until they get it right #maybe dvalin wasn't saved the first time around either #...........don't mind my crack theories with no canon basis this is now an exercise in creative writing #genshin talk

[bookwyrminspiration]

everyone SHUT UP and look at him. THE main character of all time. was your fav the god of the sun in a past life turned prince of destruction destined to destroy the world? i didn't think so. AND he's bisexual

#a chorus of dragons #a chorus of dragons fanart #kihrin d'mon #kihrin d'mon fanart #quil's quill #i know my mutuals. no this is not tiergan I know it looks like him but they are very different exhausted queer people #anyway! trying my hand at figuring out how to draw these guys #staring with The Guy Of All Time #he's a thief raised in a brothel he's the reincarnation of the brother of the main antagonist #he volunteered for this in a past life but forgot and now is pissed about it #he's in love with his best friend but won't admit it to himself #he blew up a volcano and destroyed and entire inhabited island to fake his death #(it was evacuated prior) #he got sold into slavery when he was 15 #he got stuck on an island for 2 years because a dragon really loved his singing voice #(that's why he had to blow it up) #he's the stupidest man alive but knows this #and is therefore the smartest man alive #he has horrible luck with brothers #he's literally a bard you have to love him #i'm doing a very shallow explanation of him here I know #guys I promise I can engage with media and charcaters better than this I swear #this is for the bit it's for fun

[killjoy-prince]

After 10+ Long Rests to clear out any event that can override this one and another Duke rescue later, I finally got Wyll's last romance scene

#prince's gaming tag #i like his second romance scene more but I still like this one a lot he's so happy when I said yes #but the shit i had to do to get it was TEDIOUS #between mizora's renewed contract scene and the emperor and halsin wanting me carnally and the flaming fist almost killing me bc of mizora #so many scenes took over this one and I had to redo it bc i needed to read a book pertaining to wylls quest and it glitched out of existence #after saving the duke again so i had to read it AND THEN save the duke #and then i got scared bc it didnt pop up after doing everything right but i just had to do another long rest and i got it #anyway now im officially done with this run and I can start playthrough number 5 #only thing is part of why I did astarion now was i didnt have to think about making my own character #but now i do... which means its gonna take a while...... i dont even know who i wanna be #i guess bard again so i can get the busker achievement #we shall see