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#Option three

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i was clearing my screenshots folder and found these baudelaire quotes i meant to use as inspiration for emelin art. hell yeah

#oh these are so cool

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one of the most challenging skills i've had to learn as an adult is the art of figuring out whether i'm proportionally annoyed with someone or just tired and overstimulated and looking for reasons to be pissed off

#oh yes #and sometimes you'll think it's the second one and it's not #and you let things slide that you shouldn't

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it's cool how these cost almost as much as my house

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i dont “have ptsd” that’s all just the wizard’s curse

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I'm seeing waves of discourse about who was in the wrong in this fight and you're free to like and identify with one guy more than the other but I think it's pretty clear that neither of them is really "wrong" but their styles of communication are incompatible

#i don't go here #but this is relatable as fuck

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They are girlfriends and they love each other.

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Figuring out how to draw again after 300+ hours of bg3

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i was left alone with my thoughts for too long

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“Why is God Gale his bad ending? That’s the only one where he stands up to his abuser!”

Well firstly I don’t think any of the endings are a binary of good or bad, they are breaking and perpetuating cycles.

And secondly, there is a lot of nuance in the relationship between mortals and gods. It’s a terrible, awful dynamic because they are not even starting on the same footing, they are so far from equals that it becomes reductive to frame it that way.

Because to meet her as an equal, to be able to address the awful thing that happened with the orb, he would have to sacrifice parts of himself (parts that she as Midnight had to sacrifice to become Mystra too) that make him human. To pursue his view of justice, which is really based in anger, shame and a desire for vengeance and recognition, he would have to let go of those things.

Sometimes the greatest victory isn’t that. Sometimes it is moving past survival into something new. Sometimes it’s looking across a room and seeing the patterns that made a person who they are, or even stopped them being a person at all, and deciding you just don’t want to lose yourself to the same things.

All of the endings where people break cycles come at a huge cost. Shadowheart and Lae’zel have nothing in the world but the clothes on their backs. Astarion loses his ability to walk in the sun. But they are able to start carving something for themselves, as imperfect as it is, and that’s the victory of this kind of choice (I won’t go into Wyll and Karlach here because I think their writing is even less defined in the binary of a good and bad choice, but that’s for another post.)

To be a cycle breaker is never the perfect neat conclusion you want it to be, and I’m glad they didn’t make it that. If Gale wants to practice magic he will always, always have to make peace with Mystra as his God, not his lover, and this is something that I think older people have probably experienced in a myriad ways in their own lives too, and that strange sadness is really profound to me.

#the endings and their complexities are good actually!

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✨ in your arms... ✨

@sinizade brought this scene from my fic, Baby You're The Devil I Know, to life and I couldn't be happier with the result! 🥰

Thank you so much and go get yourself some art from them!!!

#PHEW #Astarion x Tav #ascended baby!!! #evilllllll #the texture on this is lovely

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メデューサ

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"I could kill you like this." Her voice is tender, her touch still mercifully gentle as her thumbs stroke at his temples. He leans his head back against her shoulder as her thighs grip his body and her legs pin his own thighs open. Her breath is hot against his shoulder as her lips hover close to his skin. She bites at his flesh softly and he can’t help but gasp. He should stop her. He won’t.

A commission by the lovely @mightymizora of her Dark Urge, Manva Warhelm, and Enver Gortash.

If you'd like to see more of Manva, please check out A Jeweled and Bloody Hand over on AO3!

If you'd like to commission me, head over to my commission page for prices!

#oh on my dash!!!

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#20 + 40 and 7 + 8 #so 60 + 15

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i’m so sorry i’m with paris on this one, i haven’t known peace since i saw the new aphrodite design with the war paint and the weapons god i would also have doomed troy for her 😭😭😭 paris baby they were too hard on you 😭😭😭

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Y'all I have such a fic backlog I want to get in there I want to read

#the horrors though #vacation soon! #hopefully i can finally be a weirdo in your comments

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i adore my bloodthirsty lizard so much