my cat. Lily. Im her favorite. And shes only clingy when she knows im not feeling good. Rn im sick so shes right next to me as much as possible. But i was really friggin depressed for a while (as in will not leave bed until dinner. Not usually crying but completely unmotivated and hopeless) and she made me so happy cuz she was by me. THIS CAT. SHE. SHE KNEW I WAS HELLA DEPRESSED. she was clingy cuz she knew i was sad. Shes alwayd around when she knows im not feeling good including when im depressed thats so sweet. I didnt know she was smart enough too because shes usually very stupid (/affectionate) i love her sm!! So silly
Happy bi/pan visibility day (it's everyday for me). Also a sprinkle of ace and a dash of survivor and to top it all off- other expressions of intimacy, affection & connection taken seriously. I'm doing an Astarion origin playthrough and I ship him with Karlach like FedEx, your honor.
the way that one line from the new epilogue in an astarion romance is going to HAUNT me
just. what a profoundly intense thing to confess to someone.
like, just these six months of newfound happiness with you exerts a force on his heart equal and in direct opposition to two centuries of endless torment, the gnawing hunger and exploitation. this flashbulb-bright fraction of his long life holds the same gravity to him as years upon years of darkness and suffering.
in all likelihood, he hasn’t even known his lover for as long as his worst memory lasted, that year sealed away to go mad from starvation and sensory deprivation, yet he still tells them this brief time has been so fundamentally and powerfully important that the weight of even that unimaginable hell is vanishingly small compared to this present he has now and the future ahead of them both.