#Fandom: BG3

[jaguarys]

Every time someone draws Halsin like a twink an angel dies

#sent this to a friend but tumblr deserves it too #anyways. #type: other #fandom: bg3 #bg3 #halsin #baldurs gate #baldurs gate 3 #halsin bg3

[jb-nonsense]

Why the fuck you lyin'

#Baldur's Gate 3 #BG3 #Astarion #Character: Talilah Bluethorn #Media: Gifs #Fandom: BG3 #Baldur's Gate 3 spoilers #BG3 spoilers #Casually judging Tali's choices in this game nbd #yes I am reusing gifs from another gifset because #the bang scene made it even funnier

[callmegaith]

The guardian/emperor is a character you can say "lives rent free in my head" in a literal sense

#baldur's gate 3 #the emperor bg3 #dream visitor #fandom: bg3

[problematiquefics]

ok so one of the things that's occurred to me reading the old Gortash/Peachtree letters is how much like Raphael Gortash sounds in those letters.

The word choice, the metaphor, the imagery... And it makes sense! It's an interesting parallel considering there's actually so little relevance otherwise to Gortash having spent his formative years in the House of Hope.

He learned how to be effective dealmaker, politician, and tyrant from the one example he witnessed first hand. Of course he did! But that means he also absorbed some of Raphael's flourishes! It reinforces BG3's major theme of cycles of abuse, of breaking them or continuing them. Like Astarion becomes Cazador 2.0 when you ascend him complete with possessive language, Gortash uses words and flirtation to effectively tempt his targets towards his own ends ie Raphael.

Otherwise, what's the fucking point of his backstory if Gortash is generic politician-archetype bbeg #45357?

#enver gortash #bg3 #bg3 meta #bg3 spoilers #raphael bg3 #im not a meta writer but its too cold for my normal after lunch walk #im sitting in a mcdonalds writing about my gortash brainrot #pan.txt #fandom: bg3 #char: enver gortash

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💕Oc Valentines Day Challenge 2024 💕 Day Four: Friends to Lovers

My personal favorite, when they go from friends to lovers. Their enemies know their worst sides, and the heroes know their best, but their friends know both and fall in love with them anyway. Show off an oc ship that was friends before lovers.

"The longer the wait, the sweeter the kiss."

Lilith was lost. Literally and figuratively, she somehow survived the crash of a mind-flayer ship. Now she was lost and alone, in the middle of a forest she knew nothing about. Not only that but she had also been infected with a mind flayer's tadpole. But then everything changed when she stumbled upon a fiery tiefling woman named Karlach. As the two adventure together, they become fast friends. Then they get even closer, wanting to be more than just close friends, lovers are what they wanted to be. But the two had to wait until they could find a way to cool Karlach down first and when it happened...the wait had been worth it.

💕 Everything Taglist: @bravelittleflower @sunlitscribe​​​ @eddysocs @raith-way​​ @waterloou @decennia​​ @hiddenqveendom @aaronhotchstuff @foxesandmagic @nejires-hado  @asirensrage  @lucys-chen @arrthurpendragon @daughter-of-melpomene @thatmagickjuju @ginevrastilinski  @oneirataxia-girl @ginger-grimm💕

#ovc24 #oc: lilith chrysanth #lilith chrysanth #fandom: bg3 #bg3 #bg3 tav #bg3 karlach #karlach #baldur's gate 3 ocs #fandom: baldurs gate 3 #bg3 ocs #bg3 tiefling #bg3 tag #ship: lilach #OTP: Take It All{Lilith x Karlach} #ch: karlach #video game ocs #ocappreciation #allaboutocs #ochub #occentral #toalltheocsivelovedbefore #my edits #my ocs #mimi edits #type: gif set #just your friendly scheduled post #queerocs

[tadfools]

You guys are commenting on the fics you read right? You’re at least leaving kudos on the Astarion smut and the pairs that have less than 20 fics for them too? You’re bookmarking stories you really like that are still being updated and ones that haven’t been touched in over a year right?

You know that even the smallest interactions are like cocaine to fic writers right? You understand how important a string of emoji hearts left behind on chapter at three am is right?? Right????

You’re treating AO3 like a community and not a content factory….right?

#this isnt bg3 specific btw im seeing a lot of fandoms rotting cause of this #ao3 #archive of our own #bg3 fanfiction #bg3 #PLEASE YOU GUYS INTERACT WITH THE THINGS YOU READ #you’re not being weird or annoying!!! it doesn’t matter how old the fic is!!! #you can just say ‘I love this’ or ‘it’s three am and I haven’t slept yet cause I was reading this’ #you can copy and paste a paragraph you like and add ‘!!!!!!’ after it #theories in the comments! mention when you think you’ve found foreshadowing!!! #if there’s a part where you have to physically put your phone down and smile off into the distantce? TELL THE AUTHOR #you can leave comments every chapter too!!! ITS NOT ANNOYING

[razumdars]

Anyways while racism in the writer's room is definitely a thing and does affect how black characters are written and portrayed, to say "well this character wasn't written well (because of racism) so THAT'S why I find them boring!" is just disingenuous and trying to shove blame elsewhere.

Wyll may have been shafted in terms of writing, but he still clearly had more effort and time put into him than Halsin. And yet out of those two characters, which one is more popular in the fandom?

Dragon Age: Inquisition may bend over backwards to make Vivienne seem like a villain at times, and her opinion on the Circles is a bit complex, but that game also has Cullen in it - who was an antagonist for two previous games, and also has even stricter views on mages and the Circles. And out of the two of them, who's the one people are more forgiving to?

Preston Garvey might have a bugged radiant quest that means he says the same thing over and over and over again, but why is it annoying when he does it and endearing when it's characters in other games? (Brynjolf's "Sorry lass, I've got important things to do" comes to mind)

While yes, we should hold writers and developers accountable for the racism they bake into their games, this does not change that fandom is a transformative space. Fandoms will regularly take characters who were underwritten, who were treated poorly by their source material, or who were overlooked, and create beautiful works of art and fiction surrounding them.

So it's quite telling when they refuse to do this with the black characters.

#sophie.txt #fandom racism #baldur's gate #bg3 #wyll ravengard #preston garvey #vivienne de fer #dragon age #dai #fallout #fo4

[asharaks]

it is, i think, symptomatic of the way larian has built this brand: bg3 was always marketed as being mature (read: sexual), and that was one of the big draws for players - myself included! especially as media pulls more towards extremes, with mainstream video games starting to get increasingly graphically sexual, graphically violent, and the vogue for 'grey morality' becomes the norm, those boundaries get pushed, and it becomes more and more of a selling point.

larian obviously focused on this, along with the How Do You Do, Fellow Kids brand, the increased accessibility of game devs on twitter, and adopted it heavily into their marketing strategy, and are now pretty reliant on the horny gamer crowd for a lot of their audience, and more importantly, they're doing this on purpose.

which is how you end up in situations like this.

characters (white men) the players want to fuck get centred: they get updates, they get more content, they get favoured. halsin's gone from a side character in EA to a half-fledged romance option, to a full romance option: he shows up in the promotional material, is larian's poster boy for the sex scenes, he gets more content with every update.

now gortash gets more heavily implied situationship lines with the dark urge, because players are horny for him. nevermind that some people aren't playing that way, or that he was originally set up to be a lower-level antagonist; nevermind that if the durge's storyline needed expansion, it should've been with orin and sarevok and bhaal, or that it muddies the writing for the rest of gortash's arc + characterisation: people want to fuck him, so it gets put in the game. it's not even to do with karlach, whose quest so desperately needs expansion! it's specifically catering to the people who want their character to have a Relationship with the slaver, because they're either not interested in or not able to focus on strengthening the weak spots in the narrative: they're just doing things that will net the 'my favourite dating sim' people lmfao.

meanwhile, literal main character wyll gets his quest demoted to a subquest, doesn't get bugfixes, doesn't get a single unique romance greeting after 6 patches and months of requests. he's not a Horny character, so he doesn't get the focus: he's not a player favourite, so he gets nothing. it's just... so unbelievably, indisputably racist, and it's incredibly grim and disappointing to watch it happen in real-time.

#also #and I can't believe I'm saying this #it feels like character assassination against enver 'can't be in a room with you without 5 robocops for protection' gortash. like come on. #stop trying to make him sexy he'll never be sexy #he's a slaver. #i feel like larian have backed themselves into a corner where they have to pander to this side of the fanbase #because they've encouraged it so strongly that now it feels like a majority share of their audience are here for the sex #bg3 #larian critical #bg3 fandom critical #to be clear. Yes i am being a hater #baldur's gate 3

[paarthursass]

"wyll's too nice i'd like him more if he were a little meaner and angrier" you guys couldn't handle vivienne de fer having a complicated relationship with the oppressive system she was raised in. you couldn't handle liam costa making a minor but well-intentioned mistake. you couldn't handle preston garvey having a recurring fetch quest.

you couldn't even handle early access wyll who was angrier and grappled with moral quandaries more. and you can't handle wyll as he is now when he playfully teases astarion.

#sophie.txt #if wyll said some of the shit astarion does you guys would be calling him toxic and manipulative and irredeemable #black characters never fucking win in fandoms #if they're even the SLIGHTEST bit morally grey then they're irredeemable and hated #if they're morally good then they're boring #there's no fucking winning #baldur's gate #bg3 #wyll ravengard #antiblackness

[githling]

they're kinda my favorite

#i show up. i post shadowmoonangel. i leave. #shadowheart #dame aylin #isobel thorm #i think we as a fandom need to shove shadowheart between 2 girls more often actually #selunite sandwich anyone???? #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #baldurs gate fanart #my art #running around in circles in my enclosure

[eeldritchblast]

I truly wonder if white fans are even capable of understanding how hard it is just being in a fandom space when you're not white. How alienated you feel every other day. How often you're told "it's not that big a deal" or "it's just a fantasy game get over it" or "it doesn't matter" or "go save the rainforest instead of crying over a game" or etc. etc. etc. to the point where you yourself start to question if there's something wrong with you... that it's your fault for being hurt all the time. Because it's never just about one racist mod, or one piece of whitewashed art, or one offensive post... it's all of it. Together. All the time. It's so fucking exhausting and it's why POC quit fandom spaces a lot.

#had a hard time deciding if i should post this on my main or here #ended up with this one cause i'm specifically thinking about bg3 fandom at this time #but it's certainly not unique to bg3 #anyway i'll shut up now

[jaguarys]

He's just sleepin

#just obsessed with this screenshot #type: shitpost #fandom: bg3 #bg3 #astarion #baldurs gate 3 #baldurs gate #astarion ancunin #astarion bg3

[jb-nonsense]

Gale Kisses | Don't Tease Me!

#Baldur's Gate 3 #BG3 #Baldur's Gate 3 spoilers #BG3 spoilers #Gale Dekarios #Gale of Waterdeep #BG3 Gale #Gale BG3 #BG3 Gifs #Gale x Tav #Gale x f!Tav #media: gifs #fandom: BG3 #JB's Gifs #Character: Gwenifar van Hol

[callmegaith]

Larian I'm asking, no, I'M BEGGING U to bring back the option to choke our dream guardian. Stabbing them is not enough I need them beneath me with my hands around their NECK

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #dream visitor #oc: asbeel (bg3) #the emperor #dream guardian #fandom: bg3

[layalu]

If i had a nickel for every time there was a sad bisexual lowkey (or highkey) explosive whiteboy human wizard etc etc

The similarities are v superficial but it's still funny to me xdd

#do i use the spiderman pointing meme too much? maybe but hey its fun xd #i bet other people have done this way before me lol but i had to get it out of my system #bg3 #dragon age #critical role #cr2 #my art #...goes on main bc its got 3 fandoms xD #id in alt #which of COURSE i remember after the post gains traction rip

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Mimi's Mini Plot Bunnies

Name: Asha Rhyl

Fandom: Baldurs Gate 3

Significant Other: Gale of Waterdeep

Race: Seldarine Drow

Class: Sorcerer, draconic bloodline

Mini Summary: Asha remembers living in constant darkness and fighting between kin and others. She grew to despise the war and the despair it brought to many. So, she sought help from others to try and help her bring peace to her kin, learning and getting stronger in her magical abilities to protect herself and others who were caught in the fray. But Asha doesn't remember any of that or the reason why she woke up on a mind flayer ship covered in blood. Seeing all that blood on herself made her sick, it felt wrong. The only thing she knew was of her name and in her heart, yearning for peace.

Tagging Baulder Gates mutuals who might be interested: @astarionbae @reyofluke-ocs @daughter-of-melpomene

#bg3 #bg3 tav #baulders gate 3 #video game ocs #baldur's gate 3 ocs #dark urge oc #bg3 oc #fandom: bg3 #fandom: bauldurs gate 3 #oc: Asha Rhyl #Asha Rhyl #Mini Plot Bunnies