Personally, I didn’t freak out over this. I think mostly because it was so natural on his face & the fact that I’ve seen so much art & fics of Pat with circular frames, I’m just used to it?
So, theory: does this mean these frames will be permanent soon?👀
Like if he’s aware that people will freak out about this and/or hopes that we will, does that imply longevity for these frames for the future?? Something to think about 😏
Now I know I’m becoming the conspiracy theorist in the fandom when I start skipping over excited and going straight to ‘DO YOU GUYS THINK HE’LL WEAR THIS IS SEASON THREEGDGAHAHABA???!’
i genuinely dont think logan's suggestion in the latest video was even close at all to bad
realistically speaking, logan wasn't suggesting getting rid of the toy cause it was childish, though it may seem implied. He was just kinda saying "It's there cause it's your habit to have it there, why not donate it?"
but after logan heard out everyone else he corrected himself, "Oh, so it's important to you cause it helps you. Okay!"
In a way, a part of me agrees with Logan. Yes you don't need a reason to have a stuffie, but sometimes you need to throw things out when they're just sitting there without any value to you.
But if its something that genuinely is of use and is helpful to you, why not keep it?
as we all revel in the many joyous delights of good omens 2, i'd just like to say a deeply personal and heartfelt fuck you fuck you fuck you to every single person who accused neil gaiman of queerbaiting over the last four years.
and then i'd like to wish you an extra special get kicked in the shins, because every time you said "queerbaiting" what you really meant was "nb and aspec doesn't really count as queer".
that's what you meant. you meant "gay is better". you meant "queer love only counts if they kiss". you meant "sure they might technically be ~nonbinary~, but they look like men, so they're really just men". you meant "i don't respect aspecs and i don't think they deserve representation".
seeing a post that basically confirmed the obvious disparity in content made me think more about a scene i would have liked to see with gale and that i've been thinking about for a while now.
i always felt a bit sad that his condition is so often treated as a joke by the fandom and to a lesser extent by the game itself. i always thought that this is partially down to the fact that we don't truly get so see gale actively be in pain due to his condition, other than brief glimpses and hints:
we do hear the urgency in his voice when he explains when and why he needs an artefact and the relief in his voice when the protag chooses to help him.
we see it, too, when he is afflicted by the arcane hunger condition:
we get glimpses of it when he consumes an artefact:
he mentions it, too, in his dialogues, but it's very much downplayed by gale or phrased in such a way that is meant to overplay it with humour, or perhaps even to distance himself from it by using metaphors:
that is until we actually get to see it through his eyes, if only for the briefest of moments:
*Its teeth, its claws, it's unstoppable as it digs through and becomes part of you. And gods, it is ever-hungry...*
gale also has an idle animation where he--quite often--reaches up to touch the orb, perhaps because it flares with pain, like an old wound is wont to do:
(gif by @bladeofavernus)
from the last conversation we have with gale, and after catching all of these little moments of things he says or does with how the orb affects him, we learn that consuming the magic from artefacts no longer has any effect at all. the only solution that tara and he were able to find no longer works:
it would scare him and imbalance him, and it would finally destabilise the orb, make it more volatile.
but what happens in the game after that? the orb becoming volatile enough for the artefacts to no longer have an effect has no consequences at all: you are able to do the tiefling party, all quests in the underdark, the entirety of the grymforge, and, should you choose to do so, the entirety of the mountain pass and rosymorn monastery without an incident at all or any mention of the condition itself/any discomfort or fear it might cause.
there's no urgency here, no follow-up, to what the narrative set up... and then we meet deus ex elminster and the orb is stabilised, and the urgency that came before literally is handwaved out of existence.
what i would have liked instead to happen--or at least to bridge the gap between the artefacts no longer working and elminster stabilising it to be used on mystra's behalf--is the following:
i think it would have been nice to have a scene with gale where we do get to see--on a much smaller scale--him losing control over the orb, have the protag and the companions see what he is trying desperately to keep contained within himself, what gnaws at him, what continues to haunt him.
it could happen perhaps after a particular gruelling and intense fight--and there are enough of that in the underdark and at the mountain pass. it could have been a ! conversation, providing both friendship and romance content.
have the orb act up after expending so much energy to manipulate the weave to the fullest of his abilities, have gale manage to reign it in, but barely, show that it takes a lot of power and effort for him to do so.
that it hurts, with none of gale's metaphors to hide behind or jokes to play it off.
have the audience truly see the gravity of what he is going through.