#and the tenderness

[miradelletarot]

So, I requested from Tim if he would write wedding vows from Gale to Sagora, and I woke up to this cute and funny little thing this morning. 🥰

If you're reading my series, you'll notice something Gale said at the end. 😉 He did such a lovely job, and really did a wonderful job following the notes I sent him 🥹

Though if this were *actually* Gale, his vows would likely be 30 minutes long 😂

#gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 gale #gale #baldur's gate gale #baldurs gate #gale romance #gale x tav #gale x oc #oc x gale #sagora x gale #sagora #sagora crefort #cameo #Tim Downie #i love the awkwardness #and the humor #and the tenderness #yes #Tara will be their ring bearer 💍 #ch: tara the tressym #ch: gale dekarios

[hello-eeveev]

Eve’s Big List of Fanfic

Hello all! I decided that even if Twitter doesn’t die, I want to keep this as a writing blog, of sorts. So here’s a list of my Critical Role/Shadowgast fics, for your reference and reading pleasure.

CURRENT FIC:

“How To Rest”

COMPLETE!

Shadowgast

Rated T

17.7k words (6/6 chapters)

Six snapshots across six months in the lives of two wizards falling in love. Each chapter can be read on its own, but all contribute to the broader narrative.

Last updated: March 3, 2024

Chapter 6 (3.3k words): Caleb gets some good news, then some great news.

COMPLETED FICS:

“On the Nature of Love” series, or Eve’s acespec shadowgast cinematic universe:

“Miss You Dearly”

Shadowgast

Rated G

4.6k words (3/3 chapters)

My rom-com era 💕

At the close of Trent Ikithon’s trial, Essek is invited to a Mighty Nein reunion party on the Nein Heroez, and the wizards spend a fair bit of that time pining.

“All Things End, All Things Change”

Shadowgast

Rated T

2.8k words (2/2 chapters)

The wizards make a decision at the T-Dock, and Caleb gets a moment to grieve.

“On the Nature of Attraction”

Shadowgast

Rated T

7.5k words

My magnum opus. My beloved.

The wizards are ace (both of them!!!) and very in love. Boundaries are set and respected.

Fics, not otherwise specified:

“admonition, admission”

Essek Thelyss & Leylas Kryn, background Shadowgast

Rated G

1.6k words

An examination of the Bright Queen’s feelings towards and relationship to Essek, before and after his betrayal.

“oh, by the way”

Beau & Caleb, background Shadowgast

Rated G

932 words

Caleb drops the “Essek-and-I-are-dating” bomb on Beauregard, and his timing is, as always, impeccable.

“The Shadowhand Becomes a Baker”

Shadowgast

Rated G

2.1k words

Essek bakes pastries and Caleb is soft about it.

First critrole fic. Inspired by the theory that the Shadow Baker from Campaign 3 is Essek in disguise.

WORK IN PROGRESS FICS:

—A fic that is currently in the outlining phase, affectionately titled “kissy kissy uwu”, or the Shadowgast get-together fic. Takes place shortly after the wizards’ solo Aeor trip, featuring a BeauYasha wedding and “the joyful yet agonizing state of being in the same vicinity as your crush and knowing that there’s something there but being too scared to make any moves.”

I was originally planning on this being a fairly chunky one shot, but it has gotten much bigger during the planning stages, so it may end up being multi-chapter. We’ll see.

I am very excited to work on this one!

—A silly AU/crack treated seriously fic focused on the Thelyss brothers and their relationship. Maybe a hint of background Shadowgast if there is a place for it. Outlined fairly well, but on the back-burner while I work on “On the Nature of Love”.

#critical role #shadowgast #caleb widogast #essek thelyss #fanfic #eve’s writing #acespec wizards my beloved #author is extremely ace and will not write anything else #it’s about the care #and the tenderness #Caleb is grey ace I will not be taking notes at this time #and Essek is demiromantic asexual bc I said so :)

[trashy-greyjoy]

really love dynamics that are like 'it honestly doesn't matter if you view them as romantic or platonic, the point is that they love each other. the type of love is inconsequential, all that matters is that it's there'. gotta be one of my favorite genders.

#who cares if its platonic love who fucking CARES if its because they wanna kiss like the devotion and the tenderness is there no matter what #mainly brought to you by: jack and anne from black sails but also probably sydcarmy and msr #sydcarmy #msr #rackhanne #the bear #black sails #txf #the x files #mulder x scully #sydney x carmy #jack rackham x anne bonny #oh wait perhaps also theonsa if you squint #maybe not

[slavicafire]

sobbing into my plate after overhearing a conversation between a mom and her tiny daughter in this shopping centre food court

#żmija gada #I will elaborate once I get home but gods. loving conscious and tender parenthood just makes me #break down

[staygolden-ponyboy]

#aesthetic #tenderness #passion #romance #intimacy #desire #couple #lovers #couple goals #intimate #amor y deseo #intimidad #touch

[moonlipgloss]

posts that make me want to rip my heart out part 5

#mine #parallels #web weaving #tender #text post #compilations

[waitingforthesunrise]

don’t you love when you’re casually reading a random poem and suddenly come across a line that burrows into your bones and becomes the definition of your heart for the next 17 years

#poetry posting #Me with ‘lord we owe the world such tenderness’ #And ‘In the next life I’ll become something useful. like a staple gun. or in love.’ #Or ‘our great betrayal is our infinite gentleness’ #Like WHAT THE HELL #poetry #reading poetry

[swordfish-21]

#desire #affection #touch #couple goals #lovers #tenderness #relationship #intimate #b&w

[aquilaofarkham]

THE WAIT FOR PATCH 6 WAS WORTH IT OUGH LOOK AT HOW SWEET THEY ARE

#aquila talks #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #bg3 #astarion #karlach #bg3 astarion #bg3 karlach #the playfulness!! the tenderness!! the lingering stares!!!!!!!

[inkskinned]

the thing is that they're so fascinated by sex, they love sex, they can't imagine a world without sex - they need sex to sell things, they need sex to be part of their personality, they need sex to prove their power - but they hate sex. they are disgusted by it.

sex is the only thing that holds their attention, and it is also the thing that can never be discussed directly.

you can't tell a child the normal names for parts of their body, that's sexual in nature, because the body isn't a body, it's a vessel of sex. it doesn't matter that it's been proven in studies (over and over) that kids need to know the names of their genitals; that they internalize sexual shame at a very young age and know it's 'dirty' to have a body; that it overwhelmingly protects children for them to have the correct words to communicate with. what matters is that they're sexual organs. what matters is that it freaks them out to think about kids having body parts - which only exist in the context of sex.

it's gross to talk about a period or how to check for cancer in a testicle or breast. that is nasty, illicit. there will be no pain meds for harsh medical procedures, just because they feature a cervix.

but they will put out an ad of you scantily-clad. you will sell their cars for them, because you have abs, a body. you will drip sex. you will ooze it, like a goo. like you were put on this planet to secrete wealth into their open palms.

they will hit you with that same palm. it will be disgusting that you like leather or leashes, but they will put their movie characters in leather and latex. it will be wrong of you to want sexual freedom, but they will mark their success in the number of people they bed.

they will crow that it's inappropriate for children so there will be no lessons on how to properly apply a condom, even to teens. it's teaching them the wrong things. no lessons on the diversity of sexual organ growth, none on how to obtain consent properly, none on how to recognize when you feel unsafe in your body. if you are a teenager, you have probably already been sexualized at some point in your life. you will have seen someone also-your-age who is splashed across a tv screen or a magazine or married to someone three times your age. you will watch people pull their hair into pigtails so they look like you. so that they can be sexy because of youth. one of the most common pornography searches involves newly-18 young women. girls. the words "barely legal," a hiss of glass sand over your skin.

barely legal. there are bills in place that will not allow people to feel safe in their own bodies. there are people working so hard to punish any person for having sex in a way that isn't god-fearing and submissive. heteronormative. the sex has to be at their feet, on your knees, your eyes wet. when was the first time you saw another person crying in pornography and thought - okay but for real. she looks super unhappy. later, when you are unhappy, you will close your eyes and ignore the feeling and act the role you have been taught to keep playing. they will punish the sex workers, remove the places they can practice their trade safely. they will then make casual jokes about how they sexually harass their nanny.

and they love sex but they hate that you're having sex. you need to have their ornamental, perfunctory, dispassionate sex. so you can't kiss your girlfriend in the bible belt because it is gross to have sex with someone of the same gender. so you can't get your tubes tied in new england because you might change your mind. so you can't admit you were sexually assaulted because real men don't get hurt, you should be grateful. you cannot handle your own body, you cannot handle the risks involved, let other people decide that for you. you aren't ready yet.

but they need you to have sex because you need to have kids. at 15, you are old enough to parent. you are not old enough to hear the word fuck too many times on television.

they are horrified by sex and they never stop talking about it, thinking about it, making everything unnecessarily preverted. the saying - a thief thinks everyone steals. they stand up at their podiums and they look out at the crowd and they sign a bill into place that makes sexwork even more unsafe and they stand up and smile and sign a bill that makes gender-affirming care illegal and they get up and they shrug their shoulders and write don't say gay and they get up, and they make the world about sex, but this horrible, plastic vision of it that they have. this wretched, emotionless thing that holds so much weight it's staggering. they put their whole spine behind it and they push and they say it's normal!

this horrible world they live in. disgusted and also obsessed.

#this shifts gender so much bc it actually affects everyone #yes it's a gendered phenomenon. i have written a LOT about how different genders experience it. that's for a different post. #writeblr #ps my comments about seeing someone cry -- this is not to shame any person #and on this blog we support workers. #at the same time it's a really hard experience to see someone that looks like you. clearly in agony. and have them forced to keep going. #when you're young it doesn't necessarily look like acting. it looks scary. and that's what this is about - the fact that teens #have likely already been exposed to that definition of things. because the internet exists #and without the context of healthy education. THAT is the image burned into their minds about what it looks like. #it's also just one of those personal nuanced biases - #at 19 i thought it was normal to be in pain. to cry. to not-like-it. that it should be perfunctory. #it was what i had seen. #and it didn't help that my religious upbringing was like . 'yeah that's what you get for premarital. but also for the reference #we do think you should never actually enjoy it lol' #so like the point im making is that ppl get exposed to that stuff without the context of something more tender #and assume .... 'oh. so it's fine i am not enjoying myself'. and i know they do because I DID. #he was my first boyfriend. how was i supposed to know any different #i didn't even have the mental wherewithal to realize im a lesbian . like THAT used to suffering.

[theeroticlover]

😊😘😊

#intimate #couple #intimacy #touch #romantic #love #kiss #kissing #romance #desire #miss you so much #i miss it #intense #sweet confessions #sweet talks #sweetheart #sweetness #romancelike #romantic couple #tenderness #cuteness #adorable #eroticlover #you and i #yessss #you and me #me and you #couple goals #kiss kiss #kissing him

[mysticfemme]

Getting railed to the point I go nonverbal, the only noise I'm making are little whimpered uh uh uh's. They notice and in between rough thrusts gently ask me if I'm doing okay, so I reach my hand up to tap their arm twice. They smile at me in recognition and praise me before pulling my hips into their lap and going even harder.

men dni

#ok yesss I'm fantasising about check ins what about it #it's hotttt #trusting someone and being so bonded with someone that you can just do that #and even through the roughness #there's still that tenderness reaching around and holding you #mysticfemme's post #lesbian nsft #femme nsft #butch nsft #butch daddy #wlw nsft #sapphic nsft

[firstfullmoon]

https://www.instagram.com/subwayhands/

#ph #tenderness is in the hands #je dois avoir des fleurs toujours et toujours

[staygolden-ponyboy]

#tenderness #intimacy #aesthetic #intimate #romance #passion #lovers #couple #desire #couple goals #wellness #self care #travel aesthetic #wonderlust

[swordfish-21]

#desire #affection #touch #lovers #couple goals #tenderness #relationship #intimate

[keychaintabithascarlet]

Spoilers for Lisa Frankenstein but the creature writing “Beloved Wife” on Lisa’s tombstone was the most romantic thing I’ve ever seen, it’s driving me crazy

#the best movie boyfriend of the last century has like one actual speaking line #he was so tender when he wasn’t committing murder #and when he was #lisa frankenstein #Lisa Frankenstein Spoilers