#it deserved its companion

[momecat]

Know what I just realized? I married my high school sweetheart.

RoswellNM finale feels 🌈👽

still processing it, but I loved that our boys got their happy ending ❤️

#roswell new mexico #malex fanart #michael guerin #alex manes #rnm fanart #rnm spoilers #fille arts #my arts #angrycowboy #bisexualalienblast #i loved their soft teen romance #fully took the show ending for me to complete this #it deserved its companion #❤🧩 the pieces want to be together~

[zombie-bait]

CW: consent issues, bodily autonomy, SA, Astarion lore

ok so the Astarion act 2 hug scene in my playthrough was delightful but watching a vid of the other outcomes afterwards absolutely DESTROYED me!!!! I feel like I haven’t seen a lot of references to these lines of dialogue (for obvious reasons, I don’t think a lot of ppl pick that line of questioning cuz its very cruel) but maybe they are discussed frequently and I’m just not super active in the fandom on here. Either way, Neil’s delivery of this was heartbreaking and I can’t stop thinking about it

These lines really work to re-contextualize so much of his behaviour up to that point, I would argue more than some of the sweet ones do if you respond positively to him. There’s a terrifying amount of honesty in some of these lines. He’s just told you how fucked up his relationship with sexuality has been for the past 2 centuries and it’s almost like he’s battling between still trying to appease you and going “but didn’t you just hear what I said? This isn’t want I want” and trying to explain himself further because maybe then someone will finally get it.

And the scene you can possibly get afterwards where you pressure him into sex is brutal. I’m so glad the game recognizes this as a really fucked up thing to do and if you pressure him then no matter what he’ll break up with you the morning after because he’s tired of being used. It’s definitely the saddest and quietest Astarion is up to that point in the game and it’s such a huge contrast to his normal performative personality.

Astarion just sitting silently after having spent an entire night disassociating while being pressured for sex IMMEDIATELY after explaining how uncomfortable that makes him to the first person he kinda cared about in 200 years is insane and I almost can’t believe that’s a possible outcome in the game. All my screenshots were from this very helpful youtube clip btw:

I highly recommend scrolling through that video if you want extra insight on him as a character, I feel there are a lot of important and emotional pieces of dialogue for Astarion that are hidden behind cruel/shitty Tav choices so a lot of ppl may not end up seeing them. I love BG3 but this is one of the first cutscenes that’s really effected me emotionally, both the normal gentle version I got to see in my own playthrough and the cold cruel versions you can find on youtube.

#Astarion #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #baldurs gate astarion #bg3 spoilers #This is my first playthrough so no spoilers pls #bg3 analysis #vampire #cw sa mention #bg3 tav #Anyway ill be crying in a corner about this for a while #He deserves hugs #And friends #and so much therapy #Bg3 really knows how to make me care about its npcs and companions #Youtube

[arom-antix]

Happy birthday to the man, the myth, the legend, trophy husband of Yuuri Katsuki, Viktor Nikiforov!

#oh and fuck that post #HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY BOI YOU DESERVE THE WORLD #christmas ends on the 24th here so GUESS WHAT #THE 25TH IS ALL ABOUT VIKTOR BABYYY #also theyre married your honour idc what plaintiff has to say because im right they have no grounds to sue #anyway i drew this before yuuris birthday and has been sitting on it for a month now and i am SO glad to get it posted #and despite having that much time to prepare this post im sitting here on christmas eve and typing this out while hiding from festivities #also IGNORE THAT THE COAT ISNT ACCURATE I JUST DREW IT OKAY #its embarrassing as someone who lives in a cold country to draw a winter coat wrong #people from warm countries have no idea what im talking about probably and if you do or are from a cold country and know then no you dont #the coat is perfect youre just imagining things #also lemme tell you those eyelashes made me so happy to draw #i ADORE pale lashes theyre so fun #tbh i adore all colours but im particularly fond of white grey and black hair and white lashes #its just so chefs kiss #if you have pale invisible lashes that you think make you look weird no they dont they make you look incredible #also yes this is ABSOLUTELY a companion piece to the birthday piece i did for yuuri #i said i liked to imagine that piece being how viktor sees yuuri #well heres viktor looking at yuuri #yuri on ice #yuri on ice fanart #fanart #art #arom antix art #arom antix #viktor nikiforov

[gaytedlasso]

kiss me like a final meal

#HI AND HELLO #this has actually been sitting finished in my procreate folder for a week #it was gonna have companion pieces but the coloring wasn’t working so here ya go #truly it deserves its own moment to shine anyway so #❤️❤️❤️ #sketch.art #tedtrent #tedependent #Ted Lasso #Ted Lasso fanart #trent crimm

[cozylittleartblog]

things little high school me would have lost her mind about: me making a wheatley pin. available on my etsy!!

#portal #portal 2 #wheatley #do i still have portal followers. if i do y'all deserve a fuckin award whjbdfghbj #i had to rush the backing card design but its supposed to be gels :) #enamel pins #small business #etsy #etsy shop #i was always sad that the only official portal enamel pin pack was some con exclusive #and they were marketed as Collectible Pins so they were expensive #there's been a couple fan made ones but not a lot! hopefully not from lack of market interest whjbdfbghj #i make what i want and can't find and what i want is a cute wheatley. i forgot my signature sparkles though #but that's fine i guess #im posting this at a weird time but i forgot to schedule it for noon so i'm just throwing it out whenever #i always use the profits from one pin to buy restocks and another pin so if you buy a wheatley #you are paying me to make a companion cube in the future ✌ so buy him please whbjfhjf

[glouris]

I don't understand how gow youtubers that post these “whAt iS gOiNg to HaPpEn iN tHe NexT gAmE???” vids just completely ignore Atreus. They are even more in denial about Kratos stepping down from the mc role than me about Heimdall kicking the bucket, it’s crazy. That one guy deadass went “Well maybe Atreus will die and that will lead to Kratos going to another pantheon” MISS MA’AM ATREUS HAS BEEN SET UP TO GO ON THE JOURNEY TO A DIFFERENT LAND WHILE KRATOS IS HELPING SETTLE THE MATTERS IN THE 9 REALMS??

#bros still expect gow 3 type shit in 2026 smh #its not just me right Atreus is supposed to take over the mc role thats why he left - we're gonna be following his adventures next #why are they ignoring him??????? #it makes me feel like a wife in a horror movie who's being told that everything is fine #god of war #god of war ragnarok #gow #atreus #angrboda #heimdall #honestly if atreus fucking dies (WHICH HE WON'T) i hope angrboda takes over the mc role just to spite these ppl #she deserves it and she would be 100% very fun to play as #and while im at it #angrboda is the best companion in ragnarok simply bc her moveset is the prettiest #whoever says othervise and mentions status effects stuns and other shit is wrong #aesthetics will always be most important #stop talking back you know im right #yes i am using pretty screenshots for rants again

[seaweedstarshine]

Okay so The Star Beast was fun and I'm hyped for Wild Blue Yonder and everything but I am shattered over the new episode of Eleventh Doctor Chronicles.

Broken Hearts is some of the best dark!Doctor Expanded Universe exploration I ever consumed, and that includes The Eleventh Doctor Year Two comics. I am sobbing. I am in tears. I am broken as thoroughly as the Doctor broke Valerie Lockwood.

Me when I can't find any Broken Hearts/Curiosity Shop stan posts to reblog or fic to read to get out the angsty energy...

(fic. I'm writing fic. and yes this is an open request for reading recs)

#'you can't be scared of me' 'YOU JUST SAID ITS TAKEN YOU CENTURIES OF PRACTICE NOT TO BE MURDERY! SO SCARED OF YOU? A LITTLE BIT- YEAH!' #that's my Valerie. that's my Doctor. one of the best tardis teams- audio dramas or otherwise #Valarie lockwood #eleventh doctor #eleventh doctor chronicles #where my Eleventh Doctor Chronicles peeps at?? someone help me #(I mean. im at work. but I can't stop thinking abt it since I listened. AND THERES NO BROKEN HEARTS STAN POSTS TO RB) #words by seaweed #btw I understand them not bein as popular/mainstream! they're prohibitively expensive #I bought this one because I couldn't wait. and big finish deserves more $ than bbc but I... have pirated maaaany doctor who audios #I love how horrible eleven is in his EU stuff. idk if I mentioned. it suits him really well. #he's horrible in the show too. but he doesn't get enough shit for it from his companions <3 #love Rory and River for their service buuuuut #Alice and Valerie are better than Amy and Clara sorry #(I do love Amy and Clara to DEATH) #that said Alice also forgives him reeeally easily. which is fine! but the fact that she 'trusts him implicitly' in year 3 is irrational. #at least with Valerie the Doctor had excuse of having been recovering from brain damage. #anyway eleventh doctor chronicles broken hearts is great and flawless and the perfect followup to curiosity shop

[actuallywlccan]

If I had a nickel for every time the show Doctor Who had a Black girl companion who joins a Scotsman playing the doctor right after he loses a companion who he had an especially intense relationship with ask about the butterfly effect on her first trip into past London I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that something so specific happened twice

#the first one is martha #and the second is bill #literally they both do it #what is that about?????? #i will say i think the dr treats bill a million times better than he did martha tho bill's ending is definitely way fucking sadder #and the doctor's reaction to the companion experiencing racism is MUCH improved in season 10 compared to season 3 #which i do enjoy. please punch more racists #i love martha she deserves so much better #doctor who #martha jones #bill potts #whyd i write this #bc its SO SPECIFIC #did they do that on purpose?????? #david tennant #the 10th doctor #peter capaldi #the 12th doctor

[lameow-l]

so wait… furina is the name of the archon role that “furina” had to play

wouldn’t make more sense narrative wise to give her a name of her own?? like scara gets his own epic chapter about him ridding himself of his past and adopting a new name then proceed to ignore said name in favor of “hat guy” but the actress playing “furina” doesn’t get to be known for her own name?

like people of fontain (partly maybe) know the truth so why not let her free? let her enjoy the simple human life she so so longed for? even the other furina wouldn’t want this

#i think her story is a better use of the (give character name) mechanic that wasn’t really needed in scara’s arc imo #like yeah it’s cool and all but we literally saw him throw the actual physical manifestation of his past into the fucking void!!! #i personally think it was kind of wasted on him on top of me thinking that idea was entirely stupid to begin with and hyv keeps proving tha #no one actually refers to him as wanderer or by the name they choose online.. its just scara #thats both bad marketing and confusing burying the character away from new players #and like the amount of shit u have to go through as a new player just to name ur weird huge hat angry little dude is just.. #but imagine how impactful such a mechanic would be for ‘furina’ who spent all her live acting a role she wasn’t #at the end of all that agony do u think she could endure hearing people call her by that name?? #unlike scara she did that for the people every moment of those 500 years knowing that the fate of every person is mere a breakdown away #there was nothing in that for her or for a reward she thought deserved.. just suffering on her own #it just makes more sense for her to want a different name a different identity that has nothing to do with that role #and again i think that mechanic is stupid anyway but if it had to happen i’d loved it more with ‘furina’ #or idk give her like a clueless friend she gets to meet that keeps calling her a different name for reasons and her liking the name or smth #maybe give her a different role she gets to play.. or have neuvillette give her a name #same with scara i think it would have been a lot better if he went by a name he choose when all his previous names were chosen for him #i dont see how the entirety of genshin writers and devs agreed to this mechanic being implemented honestly #like traveler is literally there waiting for a single soul to address them by their actual name (the one we choose) but every time it’s jus #traveler traveler.. even their most beloved companion calls them traveler #like that alone should've changed the writers minds bc such a name would 1. either not ever be used or replaced by a nickname #2. the hell devs had to go through to not allow certain phrases and names and 3. the hell both teams will suffer should they add a new char #tl;dr stupid dumb mechanic but they should still give furina a new name #genshin impact #furina #fontaine archon quest #scaramouche

[merlinmerlot]

I could play one of the most beautiful well crafted video games on the planet and it will never be as appealing to me as one that kind of sucks shit but has soooo much potential

#merlin.txt #just finished cyberpunk #i feel like they could have done sooo much more with the concepts they had #the game showed us a bit of everything in the world but i dont think they explored any one topic enough #and they pulled a ton of punches. the ending did not feel like this big 'grab your allies and fuck the corpos' thing it shouldve been #it was mostly just tying up johnnys loose end. one big loop. which i fuck with; but it wasnt rlly anticapitalist at all in that sense #i have a bunch of other thoughts on johnny but ill save it #but god. the beginning (act 1 and the first bits of act 2) where just soooo fucking good #and it rlly felt like it was going to gear up into this huge thing instead of just being one last hurrah for rogue and johnny #AUUUGHH theres just So Much Potential. goddamn #imo i think the major thing is that at some point it stopped being v's story. it was everyone elses #he has Very little agency. which is interesting but man this guy deserves better #when it comes down to it the game Is really shallow. whenever there is any sincerity in themes its very centrist #the fact is you dont rlly meet many characters in game who are Truly working to take down corps except for johnny and he doesnt rlly count #and if there Are its usually played for irony and laughs (looking at kerry) or theyre flat out kind of awful. #judys story is probably the best of the companions bc shes actively trying to help sex workers and its played very positively #i also think two of the main themes (letting go of the past; what it means to die) are Majorly helped by some incredible emotional beats #and w/o some just Really Really good scenes and good repetition of lines and motifs its very tropey. #ok i wasnt going to write a full thing. but let me be clear: i fucking loved this game. i would not be writing so much if i did not love it #the sun ending was Still soooo vindicating. v is still kicking and that's all that matters to me #(it helps that v is a Great protag like one of the Best voiced rpg protags next to hawke da2) #(which is kind of a funny comparison since i think both protags suffer from a lack of agency) #ok im done now

[yo9urt]

local man completely obliterated by strength of narrative and character writing in 2023 game of the year

#mine #last night after putting it off for essentially as long as i possibly could because i knew it would decimate me #i finally attacked c4z4dor and (of course) kept ast4r10n as a spawn and basically finished up his quest #FUUUUCK ME DUDE....i knew what was coming in advance but that did not make it any less impactful #i mean holy shit the writing on this guy......the fucking graveyard scene (DO NOT GET ME STARTED)... #and of course neil's performance ohhh my god he deserves every award he can possibly have #god i love asta so much i'm literally never going to be the same this game is soooo insane #the only things i have left are the house of hope and then disabling the foundry and killing gort and doing the final fight stuff #i am ... nervous lol #ive heard the raphael fight is HAAAAAAAAARD #i'll find a way... #i think in the future i may reorder my act 3 quests i think it would be interesting to tackle some (ex companion quests or raphael) #sooner in the story #shadowhearts quest was like...3rd or 4th last thing i did cause i think i did that and then ansur and then astarion #i'm actually SO excited to replay the game i think im gonna have the time of my life doing roleplay and making diff choices #plus i know i missed a TON of stuff in this run so its gonna be fun to see what else is out there #after this im planning to do my first durge run which is REALLY exciting !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #i may do another regular tav run simultaneously but not totally sure.... #anyway yeah... awesome game everyone should buy it and play it its on sale right now go buy it and play it

[forcedhesitation]

i'm going to complain for two seconds here, because people on twitch are pissing me off. I get people are fans of other games. I am too! Even if I can only play a few, I watch full gameplay of many games. that being said- I do not think it's fair to say that it's an unfortunate thing for it to be likely that bg3 will sweep the awards tomorrow. you're gonna tell me it honestly doesn't deserve to win most of the categories it's been nominated for? have you actually sat down and watched gameplay?? because the suggestion that it shouldn't win goty, or awards for narrative, direction, score, art, or performance is beyond ridiculous to me. pull your head out of nintendo's ass for just a moment and I think you will see that sometimes other games win because they are simply BETTER.

#bg3 #thoughts about media #as I said before. I do not care that much about awards when it comes to literally anything. #but I'm not going to pretend that people arguing that this game doesn't merit the praise it's getting doesn't piss me right the hell off. #it's like when people say “dbd is a dead game. who the fuck even plays it?” #as if dbd didn't have HUGE licensed chapters this year and is the only asymm horror that KEEPS its numbers. #like it or not. bg3 was fucking groundbreaking as a game. #“t0tk better win for score!” “arachnidguy 2 better win for voice acting!” wrong and wrong. sorry to you. but wrong. #ugh literally I'm just. I had to hear that “SPMN2 should win voice acting bc of peter's venom voice” #sorry mr. streamer guy. I do like you. I do. but that is a Terrible take. #IT'S REALLY NOT THAT IMPRESSIVE. ESPECIALLY NOT COMPARED TO BG3's VOICE ACTING OVERALL. #if we want to do “this game deserves to win for one performance alone” #there are MULTIPLE characters in bg3 that deserve that honour. and we don't even have to look at fandom darling astarion. #the rest of the companions are all beautifully voiced. the chosen three are AMAZING. RAPHAEL!!!!!! #and please if bg3 loses the category for score. I will actually be SHOCKED. no other game put out as incredible of a soundtrack. #not even HALF as good. be serious.

[earl-grey-love]

Ugh I had a pretty intense day. I wanna spend some time with Sim.eon, that'd make me feel better.

#honestly I really want to take a bath but I don't have a bath 😔 #its so hard being a girl.... #I'm pretty proud of myself though like you wouldn't believe what I did #I arranged a venue for my leaving party/wedding celebration #complete with the catering I want which is a classic British afternoon tea #because apparently my husband thought that only existed in Assassin's cr**d?? #so I want him to have that experience for real like he wanted #and then I had to call all my guests to double check they can attend that day + arrange travel cus its in my families hometown and not mine #then I ordered the custom celebration cake I want... #and THEN I booked two different hotel stays like one is just an overnight one in the hometown #and the other is a spa hotel for us to spend some solo time in #Im really very excited for that! #but after so much phone calls and tedium and money out of my bank Im just 😴 #getting all of this sorted has been weighing on my mind a lot lately though so Im glad its done #oh also my older brothers dryer literally exploded so now I have to buy him a new one... #and I still need to arrange with my family's church minister to bless us but he isn't available on weekends #needless to say I definitely deserve some rest and relaxation after all of that!! #sunny speaks #qpr: coffee shop companions

[gothamcityneedsme]

i would say jacobs loyalty quest is a good mission. Its a tense and terrible story, a somewhat predictable premise for an adventure story conflict, but like. Thats the problem. Its a good *sidequest*, not a good loyalty quest. We dont learn much that is unique about Jacob here. He already had problems with his father, and already wasnt speaking to him. It is terrible and Jacob reacts correctly, but there isnt really conflict or change in him here, to me? The other loyalty missions have much more changing moments and are more personal. They tell us new things or elaborate on what we know. Maybe the mission is more intense if you kill his father? I dont know.

The closest it gets to intriguing is the scene with TIM and the Miranda reveal at the end. But the game refuses to actually go into depth with Miranda and Jacobs relationship. Which sucks. Imo

#Shitpost #the mass effect novel i want is their story #How they met #their mission. Their connection. Etc. #its so weird to establish two characters in a close relationship and then just so rarely actually use it or develop it #Me2 is a great expierence but peripheries and me3 dont expand enough on a lot of what is here #esp the characters like samara miranda jacob grunt etc #they get later cameos but arent given the focus or development they deserve #jack i feel is done well and is the example of how to best handle a non companion i think #idk im just havin thoughts #shame jacobs mission is good but just doesnt give us more of what loyalty missions are meant for. You know. Him. #tbh grunts isnt that good either but grunt just isnt quite complex enough #its not his fault he was grown in a tank #also he gets enough on tuchanka where its okay. Also his quest is about spectacle #and. Again. This mission is GOOD it just. I wish we got more info about jacob actually as a man. #How he acts in this mission is how anyone including shepard acts. So he just doesn't shine

[alteredphoenix]

As glad as I am that BG3 is being positively received, I hope subsequent patches later on down the road allow you to establish friendships with your companions and allow you the option to leave them at just that while giving you to be able to pursue beyond them into consensual romance, because if I ever get around to trying it out for myself I am not going to look forward to having my PC get sexually harassed over and over and over again until the NPC finally takes no for an answer and backs off.

#like. why are the companions designed like way? #what if i just want to be friends with them #why do they double down on their advances if you keep turning down them? #it's not only obnoxious but extremely uncomfortable #like don't get me wrong i'd still like to play it #but if i want to pursue a romance with a companion in a game #i want it to be done at MY OWN PACE #make me WORK FOR IT #i remember seeing that article where the larian devs say they hope they did '90s bioware proud #with their writing #and maybe the story is good idk #but i played DAO and i'm pretty sure you can't bang your choice in under 8 minutes #w/o cheesing it that quickly #idk i think it should deserve its praise #but that same praise shouldn't overshadow the criticisms it does have #and the romancing aspects - and the lack of platonic relationships - is one of them #from what i have read up so far #like if you can put in that much effort to include a scene where you can bang the druid Like That #then i think more effort can be done to flesh out that system he is a part of #bg3

[katelynsimpsince2016]

every time i think about rose’s ending i go a little more insane

#i am just SO conflicted about it #i definitely believe her and tentoo worked it all out and got their happy ending and living their best lives #and i think its rly poetic that in the end it was THE MAN who gave up everything so he could be with the girl #instead of rose having to give up her humanity - the thing the doctor loved so much about her #and tentoo IS the doctor #but like #rose never has to face the same lesson every other companion has to that they have to leave the doctor #and idk if that’s a good or a bad thing #also that fact shes just in a different universe now not of her own fucks with me #like she considered dead in the main universe and that genuinely makes me sad #and she can never see jack or sarah ane ever again #as the first companion of the nuwho era she definitely deserves a unique and special ending #but ig cuz we never specifically get closure in the show about her and tentoo’s relationship ig that’s why i go back and fourth on it #just hope my girl is happy #doctor who #not putting this in the main rose tags no one needs to see my nonsens lol