#elves do not sleep

[artanissnow]

I have this weird idea that my character and Astarion just sit there and pretend to sleep and decided it was the best course of action. To you know, not weird anyone else out. Until…in annoying to everyone else whispers

🧝🏻‍♀️“Hey Astarion?”

🧛“Yes darling….”

🧝🏻‍♀️“You asleep?”

🧛“No my sweet….”

🧝🏻‍♀️“Should we just pretend to make the others feel better?”

🧛“…….ugh...yes…😒”

🧝🏻‍♀️“Ok….😐zzzzzzz”

“Nope. That’s not creepy of you two at all…” -Karlach

😳😳

Narrator: She then grabs nearest chair and uses the move night night smash on the two wide ass awake elves and their heads. Thus the quest for a better option begins and they find the elvish form of melatonin. There was much rejoicing for everyone else. Karlach misses the chair option. Astarion and Tav disapprove of all of it.

Fun thing too, in Tolkien’s world elves do not sleep much either. And IF they do, it is with their eyes wide open! Can you imagine? I bet at first Pipp was having late night conversations with Legolas and Gandalf thinking they were awake when in fact they were asleep. 💤 the next day when bringing up the conversation from the night before Legolas and Gandalf were like “what?” And meanwhile Merry is like …. Because he knew. Hahaha

#astarion disapproves #disapproval #bg3 #elves do not sleep #who needs sleep anyway #bg3 ​camp #bg3 tav #lord of the rings #merry and pippin

[gh0stlymoth]

Shhh, they are resting

#halstarion #bloodbear #bg3 #bg3 astarion #bg3 halsin #batstarion #my tablet died again so traditional it is #elves don't sleep but they sure do in wild shape

[ilikedetectives]

The Absolute owns my mind. I cannot remember a time when her voice did not fill it. Except tonight...tonight the Absolute was silent. I only heard your breath and your voice.

#Minthara Baenre #Nightwarden Minthara #Tav x Minthara #Baldur's Gate 3 #bg3 #wlw #sapphic #gamingedit #video games #mine #mybg3edit #mybg3romance #mybg3minthara #mybg3gifs #mygif #Minthara x Kalius #she SMILES when she sleeps I- #elves don't sleep but the fact that she chooses to cuddle and sleep w Tav after!?!?!?!?!? #do u understand the amount of TRUST here???? #someone sedate me

[bevirspnsblmnt]

reverie, but your bf is clingy

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #bg3 astarion #khael tav #dnd #disegna e bevi #elves dont sleep so they gotta deal with those who do #otp: Warding Bond

[skyberia]

néphos/astarion stuff from... the recent past

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #astarion x tav #shadowheart #néphos #ocs #doodles #notes: 1) posters say ''wanted'' in thorass. though i trust you knew this from context clues #2) Q: how do elves sleep (literal) together given the whole trance thing. A: with neck/back pain. probably #3) in my latest run despite (accidentally) setting their gender to ''male'' astarion kept referring to néphos w/ they/them pronouns Only #don't think i actually heard a single ''he'' from that guy the whole playthrough. hashtag ally #Anyway [walks away]

[fflewddur-feanorion]

Today I watched Aragorn's speech from Return of the King three or four times, as one does. I think I've finally figured out why this speech makes me feel better, while a lot of Big Epic Fantasy Speeches just make me sad.

Aragorn doesn't tell these people that defeating Sauron will fix everything, for everyone, forever. Instead, he begins by admitting that the Men of the West have fucked up. They've made mistakes in the past. They will continue making mistakes in the future. And one day, they will undoubtedly fuck up beyond repair-- but not yet. Not this day.

I'm not saying that the messages in Lord of the Rings are flawless. They aren't. But while most fantasy books say "you have to save the world," Aragorn says "you can make it through the day." You can postpone your doom by a day, a week, a year, a decade. That's a hell of a lot more believable than "happily ever after to the end of his days."

#tolkien #lord of the rings #doing questionable film analysis instead of sleeping! #this was an art blog and look at me now (I will draw more elves soon I promise)

[lordofthemushrooms]

Not to be dark and kinky in the Dragon Age tag but Solas’s wolf symbolism should be slightly more than symbolism. He may be quiet and calm normally but I know him and Inky had weird fucked up sex in the fade. I know he chased her down I know he ripped her heart out with his hands. I know that Solas understands devouring as devotion more than anyone else usually can.

#I’m sorry but this won’t get out of my head #I want to get into this in detail so bad like!!!!!!!! #also I know (at least am 95% sure) they don’t sleep together in canon but I do. not. care. I have ideas #he either ate her heart or they ripped each other’s hearts out and traded their places #it was primal and bloody and terrifying and they are so fucking in love with each other #dragon age #solavellan #also also also this connects SO WELL to a headcanon I’ve had about elves/my warden specifically and it’s making me crazy

[lynaferns]

So I was writing down some au things and notice I can draw on my phones notes.

#forest elves au #doodle #my art #I was not suppsed to be doing this #I was drawing something in the computer #and I should be sleeping

[bobellafofella]

girls will do anything but listen to the last episode of naddpod c1. including saying fuck it we ball and starting trinyvale instead.

#ONYX LUMIERE YOU HAVE A HIME CUT 2 ME <3333 #naddpod #trinyvale #onyx lumiere #i was so excited to try out my university scanners only for them to have shitty dpi even on the highest setting 😭crying myself to sleep #also how do we feel about the full page including the failed sketch & my silly little notes???? lmk 🙏👍 i thought it looked cute #anty way. what am i supposed to do hear 'how long to half elves live' and just MOVE ON?????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[adinafay]

They finally beat their pasts and now, even if there's still some tadpoles to evict, they are taking a moment to rest and relish in the possibility of a future.

#Elves don't need sleep #but they do need cuddles #my durge #their name is Byrche #astarion #astarion x dark urge #astarion x durge #bg3 astarion #astarion romance #I love them sm #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #I don't draw people #and suck at lighting #leave me alone #my art

[deathbydarkelves]

Realization I just had while being slightly tipsy listening to De Selby (Part 1) on repeat at 11 PM.

Since in my AU elves have weird circadian rhythms (such that they only sleep every 48-96 hours), in any majority elven settlement, there won't be a time of day or night where everyone is asleep and things have really slowed down. There's probably lulls in activity around midday and midnight, but overall, there's always gonna be a lot of people awake doing whatever.

So it's kind of a culture shock of sorts when an elf moves, willingly or not, to a settlement that's majority non-elven (i.e. has a more predictable circadian rhythm/activity cycle). And suddenly nighttime takes on a whole new meaning and feeling. What was just another time of day essentially is now this new place where you can actually be alone. Everything is actually, genuinely quiet. And especially if you're a night elf, that's probably a pretty profound feeling.

#au lore #this post is secretly about cathala on pandaria and then in stormwind. being relatively non-pious and then dealing with this mixed feeling #of nighttime feeling almost sacred because of this. but also that's when elune is out #who (post-bfa) she no longer trusts and is even slightly afraid of #this applies to d&d too since d&d elves literally do not sleep at all

[mokeonn]

I spent the last 7 hours trying out a monk in bg3 and playing it in honor mode, and Gale's stupid stinky corpse being in the camp ended up causing him to kill Scratch with his nasty aura. Since it's honor mode, I can't reload a save, so I simply blew my character and Gale up and ended the run with honor.

#simon says #bg3 #i was SO upset #i was like 'wait is Gale killing any companions nearby with his death aura?' #after I made Withers pick him up #so I went and checked and I saw Scratch walking around in the Aura with only like 6 hp left #and in my panic I didn't think to simply revive Gale asap #so I tried to think about how I would get scratch out of there and he died #i already fucked up the run earlier by argoing the goblin camp way too soon #like I tried to get priestess Gut to knock my character out so I could get Rapheal to send someone to kill her and her guard #and I could go to the underdark #because I found out that if you save the Gnomes before doing the tiefling party the gnomes will show up too #and I wanted to try that out in this run #but I FUCKED it up because I forgot that ELVES CAN'T BE MAGICALLY PUT TO SLEEP #AND I WAS PLAYING A DROW #im so upset because I was getting a lot more drow dialog than usual (like I dont remember getting a lot of this in past playthroughs) #and I was playing a non-lolth-sworn drow so I got to do new dialog options #i am so upset like I really liked this character #i ended up fucking up with Poetry's run so I was putting off playing it #because I ended up triggering the Isobel kidnapping scene and it went south instantly #so everyone in the last light inn is dead and that is a BUMMER tbh #like that shit is DEPRESSING tbh #anyways tomorrow I will probably start a new honor mode run #gonna do halfling this time since my other halfling game is so fun #i feel bad for neglecting said game but since I can't really change it to honor mode I kinda like... have been ignoring it #ive honestly been ignoring all good non-honor mode playthroughs #I've been really enjoying honor mode but im also trying to do an evil durge playthrough since I never did evil before #anyways very pissy very mad #very upset that I ruined the 2 honor mode games I enjoyed playing #like I didn't even need to see Isobel!!! i didn't need to trigger that fight!! i had the pixie's blessing!!

[hwanghyunjinenthusiast]

Thank you for the tag Elv!! (@onlyseokmins) This was very fun lol.

Tagging without pressure: @majestyjun @seo--changbin @shuadotcom @cheolhub @jmin-s @miraclewoozi (and anyone else who'd like to tbh. I'm very sleepy so, my bad if I missed anyone off the top of my head.)

I'll attach an unedited version below the cut.

#i should go back to sleep #the half ticks are 1. i read a handful of one direction and little mix fanfic on wattpad so i don't know if that counts lol and 2. i have a #mixed relationship with research #i don't do it often because i don't need to but part of likes it and understands its importance and the other part of me finds it tedious #lol #elv <3 #tag game #oh also I'm trying to outline my fics more because it'll save me a lot of time and suffering lol but it's still a relatively new process for #me

[outeremissary]

kasander + 😴 please!

Thank you ❤️ Sleep questions about D&D elves always lead peculiar places, don't they?

hc + 😴 for a sleep-themed headcanon

Kasander seldom sleeps willingly. Their trance is already haunted by half-alien memories of blood and darkness, disorganized images they struggle to stitch together and match to their origins. It's upsetting even without any supernatural incursion causing more extreme visions, and it makes them fear resting. Sleeping, on the rare experiment trying to avoid the memories, is much worse. They always dream, and they always dream Bhaal's dreams. And it takes such a terribly long time to wake. So they avoid sleeping, and they're thankful not to have a reason to.

However, sleep is the most convenient way for the Emperor to contact them, and the Emperor has a way of pulling them under whenever he pleases. When they first met and the Emperor was still in the form of the Dream Visitor the Emperor offered to soothe their nights from the restless, terrible trance by quieting their dreams- if only they would sleep, of course. Disoriented, still largely amnesiac, and distressed by the visions, Kasander agreed eagerly (there was a lot of agreeing with the Emperor then) and committed themself to the psionic protection out of desperation for any relief from the growing fear there was something wrong with them. It did seem to work- mostly- but when Kas began to break with the Emperor they stopped sleeping nightly as well. By that point they were ready to grapple with the horrors of trance again, as painful and difficult as they were.

#any time something comes up around kasander and sleeping I have this moment of 'do elves sleep in pathfinder' #and you know what? I still don't know the answer. I should. but I don't. #I have become intimately acquainted with trance in D&D thanks to periodically being forced to fact check a bizarre and incorrect belief #that elves have to learn to trance properly and there was a cultural aspect of it. this isn't true and I don't know where I got it from. #anyway do you ever think about how fucking funny it is that trance is genuinely such a deeprooted and unique part of cross setting D&D lore #and so much shit pretends it doesn't exist. I'm guilty too it's the easy way out but god. it's such a simple alien touch #our conception of life is hard to separate from sleep huh #elves sleep an absolutely SILLY amount in bg3 despite there being flavor text and the guy scene acknowledging that they. y'know. don't. #the flavor text takes an especially hardline stance even. very silly. are we just supposed to pretend the sleeping is trance for elves #I'm about to sleep and not trance myself this was not a night of powerful focus for me #sorry you're getting my most scattered and incoherent one of the night :') #emi plays bg3 #ask me emithing #ask game #kasander #archduke-enver-gortash #hm. that feels like I'm summoning something. ominous. #anyway if I've just missed some in game explanation for what's going on every time elves appear to be sleeping please lmk

[sec0nd-breakfast]

I have this thing where I'll try to go to sleep, but in all of my dreams there's this badly edited person in the corner, doing the irish jig to the "taking the Hobbits to Isengard" remix

#dream #sleeping #jrr tolkien #the hobbit #lotr #frodo #orlando bloom #legolas #the one ring #what do your elf eyes see #isengard #gandalf #aragorn #hobbits #elves #dwarves #peter jackson

[keicordelle]

I like to think about how Astarion being an elf interacts with his being a vampire, especially when it comes to lifespan. Elves already count their lives in centuries rather than decades, so I imagine the prospect of immortality doesn't frighten him the way it does other spawn. To be a human or a tiefling or even a dwarf, with this change you're faced with eternity -- an eternity of suffering, if you're unlucky enough to remain bound to your sire throughout it all. That is... a lot to face.

But for Astarion, that prospect is no more or less bleak than it would be if he were alive. Elves are raised to think on a different time scale than the short-lived races. A year of imprisonment is still torture, to be sure, but it is far less likely to break an elf's mind than a human's.

And sure, he'll outlive any former friends and loved ones he had while he was alive -- but an elf is used to facing this prospect. By the time they reach maturity (by elven standards, which are, of course, different than those of a human), they've already outlived any human friends they might have had when they were young. Outliving your friends is nothing new for an elf -- and it will be a very long time before he has to worry about watching his elven peers age and die.

Staying young and beautiful forever? Already par for the course for an elf. No longer need to sleep? Check. Sunlight sensitivity? There's a whole (admittedly vilified) subrace of elves who deal with that.

So really. Elves and vampires, not that different.

#all of which is to say my elven Tav is going to have a long and happy life with his vampire boyfriend #wont even be that hard to explain to yhe folks #(d&d vampires do have to rest in their coffins sometimes and it seems implied that BG3 vampires sleep? #im a little unclear on the specifics there #but clearly they dont die during the day like some vamps do) #bg3 #astarion #d&d #vampire #elves #musings #baldur's gate 3 #~K