#pls i love both these men

[underdark-dreams]

I'm finishing up a Rolan proposal fic for a very patient anon & ended up with this little scene between Rolan and Dammon that I don't think I'll use. Thought I'd post it here as a drabble! 💗

Rings

Rolan commissions a very particular piece for his beloved from the infernal blacksmith. [541 words]

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“Are you sure it’s the right size?”

Rolan turned the smooth metal over in his hand, trying to compare it against his own fingers for reference. The material gleamed luminous and silver-blue even under the shade of Dammon’s open workshop.

“It’ll fit,” Dammon told him with surety. He wiped a hand on his apron and watched with no little pride as Rolan examined his past weeks’ handiwork. “I forged a few pairs of gauntlets for them back in the day. I’d like to think I know a thing or two about Tav’s hands. Professionally,” he hastened to add, perhaps noting the way Rolan’s brow twitched.

“Maybe so, but—”

“I know, I know. Tav deserves perfection.” Dammon gave his placid smile.

“Yes.” A bit chagrined by the obvious strength of his feelings, Rolan made no other response. As he turned the band over again, his eyes caught very fine lettering engraved around the inner surface. He peered closer—the marks were Infernal.

“Ah.” Dammon shifted nervously on his feet. “I hope you don’t mind the addition. It just—came to me.”

“‘Strength in Unity’,” Rolan translated under his breath. He glanced up at Dammon. “The watchwords of Elturel?”

Dammon rubbed the back of his neck in a characteristic gesture, but a shadow passed over his face. “You know, in terms of cities and their mottos…that one always rang a bit hollow to my ear. After everything.” He exchanged a long glance with Rolan. “If anyone deserves to reclaim the words, I thought it ought to be the two of you.”

Rolan stared back down at the ring on his palm. In a rare moment, he found himself rather lost for words. Then he slipped it carefully into the pouch at his belt and began counting out gold pieces.

The smith raised a hand, but Rolan cut him off before he could start. “Dammon, whatever the hells you’re about to say, keep it to yourself. This is fine work, and I’ll be damned if you don’t take the other half of the fee.”

“Couldn’t you consider it a wedding gift? For the two people responsible for getting me to Baldur’s Gate in one piece. Or even,” Dammon proposed hastily, “a reward for letting me work with such rare material.”

“Then keep what’s left over,” Rolan told him. He tucked his coin away as the idea for a compromise sprang to mind. “Make something incredible from it.”

“That—” Dammon’s eyes grew wide for a moment. “That’s quite generous. Do I even want to know how you found such a pure chunk of mithril?”

“We have friends in the Underdark,” Rolan answered tersely. “I may have…funded a small expedition.”

Dammon only gave a low whistle. If anyone could grasp the cost of such an undertaking, it was a blacksmith. Then he extended a calloused hand, and Rolan clasped it in a wordless agreement.

Finding the matter resolved, Rolan turned toward the front gate of the forge. The gleaming ring stored at his belt had introduced a very distracting flurry of butterflies into his stomach.

“Hold on there—” Dammon stooped to fetch something from underneath his work bench. As he straightened, a small hide bag sailed through the air into Rolan’s surprised grasp.

“You’ll be needing the other one.”

#bg3 drabble #rolan bg3 #dammon bg3 #rolan x tav #underdark-dreams #pls i love both these men #bg3 rolan #bg3 dammon

[pandoramarsh]

Aaron, banging on the door: Josten, open up!

Neil: Well it all started when I was a child

Aaron: I meant the fucking door—

Matt, Nicky, Dan, Allison: LET HIM FUCKING TALK

#the foxhole court #andreil #aftg #all for the game #the raven king #the king's men #neil josten #nathaniel wesninski #aka the loml #and the looaul (love of andrews underappreciated life) #just something abt feral men with sarcastic mouths and their absolute inability to contain a situation #the foxes #nicky hemmick #allison reynolds #matt boyd #dan wilds #aaron minyard #yknow i wonder what factors playing in an alternate universe could allow neil and aaron to not only tolerate each other but trust each other #with secrets and with their lives #drop some good fics on that pls. but i want realistic neil x aaron. both r still absolute assholes #they just somehow be the right (platonic) assholes for each other #fic request

[mueritos]

two gay furries from a patreon request who became my ocs...theyre on a date :) the deer is named griffin and im still trying to figure out a name for the rabbit lol...name suggestions welcome ^-^

patreon

#muertodraws #furry #gay furry #furry art #furry oc #the deer is transmasc and the rabbit is cis #yes i already drew them fucking you can find it on my patreon lol #they both love grunge music and uhh are super gay in love with each other #but yeah if anyone has name suggestions for the rabbit pls send them my way! #i was considering layne but thats like my fucking brain rot from listening to alice in chains daily kicking in #i almost named the deer eddie too after months of only listening to pearl jam bro #someone save me my brain has been grunge men for like 6 months now #actually dont save me i love men

[luuxxart]

almost forgot to post my comic for the @onedayakeshuake here !!!!

leftover sales end Sept. 30th, so if you want to hold our old man art in your hands, grab your copies today!!!

#persona 5 #uncle Adachi au #goro akechi #akira kurusu #shuake #akeshu #old man shuake #VIVA LA OLD MEN!!!! #i mentioned on Twitter that I’m really happy to be able now to draw old man Akira without zine spoilers #and i haven’t drawn him yet #but It’s coming trust me #y’all are gonna see so much old man Akira I love him sm #his design is based both on Magnum PI and on Zenkichi while Akechi is just. Adachi #oh and a little bit of Spencer Reid ofc #Akechi also has crows feet bc . haha crows #valu said Akira reminds her of Greg universe which. yeah valid #i should give them a kid #i honestly still can’t believe the mods let me throw the uncle Adachi au in this zine lmao #anyway pls enjoy I had a lot of fun with this and y’all should hold this physically. eyeball these old men in the real life #we’ve got so many good artists and writers in here who had a lot of fun #and the charity is fantastic #so pls. im begging. Buy

[seokmatthewz]

TAESEON ✧ SUGAR RUSH RIDE ✧ FANTASY BOYS EP.7

#fantasy boys #yang taeseon #trcng #ultkpop #kflops #kpopccc #underratedidolsedit #iri.gifs #flashing tw #kazlook #dearestmillie #u both let me tag u in my random men so pls enjoy: some guy KLDSLK #i love him he looks so princely all the time hes genuinely soooooooo gorgeous #i wish this song suited his voice more but i think he did well #his eye makeup............like hes my bf #truly my most self indulgent set of the year LKSDKLD to the like 4 people who follow me who watch fantasy boys i hope u enjoydsklkfld #vote 4 taeseon !!!!!!!! #ignore both the colouring and the quality this lighting was weird so i just. made it colourful FLKDSKFD and i had no ts file </3

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

crazy how any mlm gojo ship is perfect actually

#stsg? classic. i dont need to say anything theyve ruined me for life #nanago? sweet n cute <33 classic grumpy x sunshine except theyre both repressed men in their late twenties what more could u want #sukugo? hunger as a metaphor for love <33 incredibly homoerotic <3333 just two men teaching each other abt love through violence <333333 #goken? … the forbidden option but im sooo weak for it ok. the longing the hatred the animosity #kenny killing the two six eyes havers before gojo … ending up in the body of the man he loves most …. being forced to feel that love #and gojo being forced to see his one and only’s body being manipulated. being forced to hear kenjaku speak in suguru’s voice #there’s just sooooo much there like im obsessed . peaked divorced couple energy #also throwing in ijichi x gojo for the lols but i do think theyre cute i just need gojo to start treating him well 😭😭😭 #“you’re the man i trust most.” <- gojo pls come out of the closet im so tired of your shit #also if u want crackships pls consider; higuruma x gojo / choso x gojo ….. theyre sooooo his type #ari noises ✩

[josten4exy]

andrew and aaron both being assholes is hilarious to me because with siblings there's like a 20 percent chance of you ends up being like a total sweetheart while the others are extreme bitches but these guys are both out here being dicks 24/7 if i was trapped in a room with them i'd take the riko ending because there's no way i'm getting out of that without life lasting trauma

#we know andrew on his meds is like the most annoying ass mf ever #but andrew off his meds is no better #hes not directly antagonistic #but man has never given a straight answer in his life #he serves to make teammates' life difficult #also we talk so much about neil being the little shit he is #but did we miss aaron being the instigator of all time #man has never seen a fight he cannot stick his face into #hes all of five feet with a bitch ass attitude that drags behind him #hes insane #theyre both so insane #i love them #but pls no #aftg #all for the game #andrew minyard #aaron minyard #the raven king #the kings men #tkm #the foxhole court #tfc #trk

[citrine-elephant]

good morning i'm just thinking about how dope it would've been if somehow piers managed to survive after saving chris

somehow his mutations kept him from, yknow, drowning, exploding whatever. after yeeting chris out of the facility thingie.

his lightning abilities are so fucking cool man. sherry can have her regen powers right?? why not piers be cured and get to be a shocky shock friend???

#resident evil #i love all the aus of piers still being alive #at the time of writing i forget what happened after chris was emergency-escape-podded #thinking about how the writers made that part so fuckin heartbreaking as they were both about to die #a partially mutated piers also sounds dope i love monster men #how simmons could keep transforming maybe piers can hide his arm #maybe not all the way but enough to sorta blend in without causing panic #or how the tyrants have to wear the suits to keep from transforming maybe he needs a thing like that #i know i ship chreon but chris/piers was practically canon and poly chris is not out of the question pls let them be together #chris/piers are husbands + chreon are sorta fwb/somewhat romantic

[unmanageably]

klay’s response to draymond’s habit of getting ejected lol… something i will never get over lol sorry it’s just. draymond tried to make a joke about it but you can also tell it clearly meant a lot to him— whatever klay’s answer was going to be. to really understand klay’s stance/how it affects klay personally.

and klay answered with so much gentleness AND firmness; it’s so interesting the way klay expresses his thoughts in general but specifically his answer to draymond’s question.. it was like there were no right words to properly express his emotions but at the same time he articulated his response so well and with SO much sincerity. “when you’re not out there a piece of us is gone… you’re the heartbeat of this team… we need you we love you.”

and going along with the whole theme of nostalgia that was apparent in this podcast, where klay says after going through so much together— the three of them— climbing up the mountain, reaching the top, and falling down to their lowest, climbing up again, and fighting to stay in the mix, you can tell it means so so much to klay to go through all of this: his whole career, with the two by his side. how he feels anything is possible with them by his side. how many times this year has he said as long as he has steph and draymond by his side he will always believe in this team and what they can do?

so interesting how people never seem to understand klay and say they have no idea how he really feels when he has always been open to the things that matter to him most.. 🥹

#i really hope with as much sincerity klay gave with his answer draymond also is in his actions #no more antics please!!!! this team needs you #steph and klay need you🥹🤞 #how many grown men let alone professional athletes of their caliber do you see talking like this to the other on camera? #i mean the core 3 have always been open with how much love and care they have for each other.. but it really is very different #you can tell just how fated they feel everything is.. how they were able to find each other #draymond said it in the podcast too: how different they all are #but how somehow they fit so perfectly together? and they fill each others empty spaces on and off court #so much kindness and vulnerability from both of them it was so sweet. i wish we can get another ep w all 3 of them pls🙏

[livelaughlovefootball]

Oh crap, France and England both play at the same time but I only have one screen so

Which one should I watch? 😰😰😰

#fr #again #someone needs to tell me #I CANNOT THINK FOR MYSELF #I NEED U GUYS #SOMEONE #JUST ONE PERSON AT LEAST PLS TELL ME SHUD I WATCH FRANCE OR ENGLAND??? #i support both #😢 #im so torn #leaning towards france bc i am The Number One Griezmann Fan #but i love the silly little british men too! #😢😢😢

[cerealbishh]

"They are gonna laugh at me at school when I tell them about tonight. They laugh at me anyway, so..."

🎥: @bikinibottomdayz

#almost famous musical #daniel sovich #william miller #maybe playing him more naive and vulnerable than the others? #like he plays panicked and overwhelmed teen very well #he's very cute #i was gonna ask when i've made a gifset just for a man but i have made a gifset for two other men #lol my dad was like 'he is NOT 15' and i was like 'mhm' #i'm kind of sad he doesn't have many costumes #i love how he seems so overwhelmed with emotion in both the river and plane scenes? sort of a blubbering mess but that felt relatable to me #he is 15 and traumatized and panicking in both instances #i know he's just doing concerts right now but i need him in another musical #part of me thinks he would be a good fit for roger in rent since he's got the whole rock star thing going on but maybe his voice is too hig #pls the way i laughed every time he interacted with kevin playing one of his characters #his william is so different from both patrick's and casey's but not in a bad way?

[idonthaveabmxbike]

some people out there aren’t brave enough to ship nachojesse. but i am

#shipping two dead men (one of whom killed the other) buried in the same hole? child’s play #shipping two dog-coded babygirl characters from the main show and its prequel series? insane (apparently) #i keep imagining a world where nacho and his dad live somewhere near the Canada/Alaska border and meet Jesse #and Manuel is like ‘this sad boy needs a dad im his dad now’ and nacho is like ‘??? papa pls we are literally on the run’ #not knowing Jesse is also on the run #and nacho knows enough about having a secret past to not mention the scars but he does wonder #and then one day manuel (who is still not very good at being discreet) says something offhand about new mexico #and jesse freezes….. #all that to say eventually they get to the point where they realize they both knew mike <3 #also they are in love #bmx.txt

[helennorvilles]

i just really love how equal and compatible helen and dale come across in the show, and how they're such ~kindred spirits. i'm not actually even talking in a romantic way at all here, but they are so comfortable with each other so quickly 🥺

#i realllyyyyy love that first ep and how from the start they have the most awkward fucking meeting re: that report #like dale was one of the many men that helen was ready to murder for that fucking butterfly house suggestion #and by the end they are literally besties and they're both helping each other out #also while im already rambling can we talk about helen's fashion sense when she's not on camera??? #its the complete opposite of the hairspray and shoulder pads etc and she looks so good in it. its comfort over anything else im obsessed #i miss helen soooo much i need season 2 and her flowy white shirts again pls #my post tag #nia watches the newsreader

[onedaughterofman]

I need more titties on my dash.

#pls #asking nicely #men or women i love both #ghost band fanart

[peaceeandcoolestvibes]

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#MY FRIENDO IS BAAAAACK ♐️😍 #yo I was writing shit in my book yesterday and my friend ♐️ was like PLS LET ME READ IT ONCE YOU’RE DONE #like moving seats sometimes bc even tho we’re friends we talk about a lot of stuff and she sometimes needs emotional support #yesterday I hugged her tight bc I saw her get emotional #men be men #even tho we like men and we think they’re hot …our role as women is to be patient with these idiots lmfao #we love them but it is what it is sis lmao #they mature when they’re about 40 and most don’t have bad intentions #most bring hella issues into yalls relationship so it’s yo it choice to have patience or to tell him to fuck off and leave #both are extremely valid ❤️ #sofiii bella ❤️ #it’s possible we end up going to the same uni (in my case… again) hehehe and she was like raising her eyebrows at this #listen IT BETTER HAPPEN #amo a sonia por si no quedaba claro ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🥲 #la acucharé fuerte cuando la vea en abril posiblemente 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 #ayer aún seguían felicitándome pero porque voy a sitios todo Dios me abraza y es en plan NO DIGÁIS QUE ES MI CUMPLE #entonces ♏️ me vino corriendo a abrazar por mi cumple #que sepáis que el chocolate me hizo muy feliz #🥲 #hay gente que le ofendió que me le dijera que era mi cumple #hay mucho cachondeo entre nosotros 😂😂😂😂😂😂 javi SIEMPRE igual #al final los profes tambn se suman a meterle zascas KAJSKASJA SNANSN #me meé de la risa ayer #❤️ love living a Hannah Montana life ❤️

[sysig]

*rotates him* (Patreon)

#Doodles #Duster #Mother 3 #Pls my weakness #Soft-spoken soft-hearted extremely tired men my beloved #Technically this is Lucky but y'know what I love him too! Love both of 'em #I actually started a browser version of Earthbound - legit too if you can believe it I recommend Vimm's Lair to literally everyone #Just to see about getting into the Mother series proper so I can play as this dork lol #It's fun! I'm glad it's not super hard to begin with - I've had some kinda high floors with video games lately and I've gotten a bit shy :( #But Earthbound is friendly! I appreciate that #I hope Mother 3 continues that trend when I eventually get to it #I also rewatched the review I mentioned offhand and every time Duster was mentioned my ears pricked #Pls do check out Emcee's review if you get the chance their reviews are really good and they deserve more views than they get #I am looking forward to getting to see more of the DCMC in-game I think that'll be a lot of fun #See how close I was with certain speculations while reading haha ♪ #Smol is right the best gateway is spoilers lol