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I can totally see this! @alucarddear
I can also see him trying to like minimize his looks because he's so otherworldly/ethereal that he stands out but no matter how he grunges himself down, everyone always stares/flocks to him when he goes out lol.
Poor babey can't help that he looks like a living greek sculpture / supermodel
okay but i've been dying to ask someone this... thoughts on 2010s alucard fashion/hairstyle.
Does he get an undercut, and keep the top long so he can manbun? does he get really into hipster core? Does he dream about moving to Seattle and staring a microbrewery with his partner?
Does he go full punk? Does he see this as a mature kind of emo since he went full emo in the early 2000s?
I just have a LOT of feelings/thoughts on 2010s Alucard.
My intuition tells me heād either go all out on the trendāfull commitment, manbun and allāafter all, watching the time go by and trends come and go is some of the exciting parts of living a long lifeā¦
OR heād be a total snob about it as if itās beneath him. Like, scoff. Heās seen all sorts of trends before pass him by. This is no different. š
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Ahhh! Thanks for the tag @allthegoodbobdylanlyricsaretaken š
List 5 topics you can talk about for an hour without preparing any material:
A verbal retelling of Steven Universe (along with its surrounding discourse)
Character Analysis of the Main Grey's Anatomy cast (Past Seasons up to like 11?? don't ask me about the newest interns okay, its only been like two seasons with them and I've only watched every other episode. i literally will have no clue)
The history of the invention of film (and how film was utilized during the silent era- 20s/30s)
The science behind gluten-free baking (it really is all chemistry)
And like @allthegoodbobdylanlyricsaretaken said, all about musical theater (like the plot summaries of my favorites complete with singing and reenactment of my favorite scenes; yes, I WILL run back and forth trying to sign both parts!)
I tag (if you're up for it): @nathscalet and @ssimpatico and @nobodiesheartlessshitblog45 and @mooshywrites
got tagged by @kookaburrito - thank you!!
List 5 topics you can talk on for an hour without preparing any material.
oc lore. all of the stuff me and my friend have in our shared universe and a shitton of aus on top of it, as well as all the other assorted ocs i have, and also another world me and @allthegoodbobdylanlyricsaretaken have made. please ask me about my ocs
not for broadcast lore and characters and soundtrack. i still have a few big analyses in the drafts that i must revisit once i get back to this game. it's sooo underrated and i love everything about it
stretching the definition of "without preparation" here, but 17th century ukrainian history. innacuracies may arise but otherwise it's a very interesting time period. in a similar vein that i don't feel like separating into a separate point - polish-ukrainian relationship over the centuries
just. the uk in general i guess. thanks to years and years of Brainrot i've learnt entirely too much about this country
cool places in my hometown of [redacted] and my current place of living in [redacted]. i do daydream a lot abt showing those off to my internet friends and if i was more comfortable disclosing my location you'd see me talking about them already
tagging @loveaetingkids @allthegoodbobdylanlyricsaretaken @vonlipvig @wigilda @kurhanchyk @ne-hny-patyk
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@allthegoodbobdylanlyricsaretaken Thanks so much for the tag! šø
*tom hanks voice* WILSON!!!!
Aw man, he'd be a great spouse! [Except for the fact his best friend is lowkey a jealous psychopath with an agenda against all Wilson's partners... And the whole ironically dying of cancer thing. But other than that, I have no complaints whatsoever lol!]
I tag: @loverofdeath666 ; @grandesteartherquakedreamer ; @alucarddear (although i'm pretty sure we all know who's the last fictional char in your camera roll) ; @metkapop ; @sailingcartoonist ; and @jojo-javabean24
Doing one of these but with my mutuals after seeing this image on my dash today!!
..Y'know he may be the god of war but.. I'm not mad. No, no not at all. :)
@xxgalacticambitionsxx @hatbox-apologist @ghostingyourass79 @kittieshauntedourfantasy @emerald194 @thatonerabbit @comical-icicle
#tag game#not writing#fun stuff#mutuals#man it's been forever since i've done a tag game#these are fun#tumblr stuff#tumblr culture
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These are gorgeous!!! @daeyumi
Coming soon!! Castlevania Nocturne acrylic charms! ā°ļøš¦š
The charms will be 4 inches tall, double sided with a gold foil border on the front. Preorders open in a few weeks when I get the samples in from my manu!!
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Zevlor: An Angsty Character Analysis
Hey, Zevlor simps. Can I interest anyone in 4,000 words about our favorite disaster tiefling? š
āWe canāt stay, but weāll be slaughtered if we leaveāweāre no fighters.ā
Back during my first play-through this is the line that turned Zevlor from another dime-a-dozen, exposition spouting NPC to a character I was legitimately interested in. āWeāre no fighters.ā My DnD ignorance abounds, but even I could see that wasnāt an accurate statement. Hereās a mountain of a man sporting fancier armor than my level 2 Tav knows exists yet, having wrecked half the goblin hoard with his crossbow and, if you let him, he'll happily turn to punching as a solution to verbal disagreements. Plus, heās clearly the one giving the orders, so what do you mean youāre not a fighter?
Having explored the Grove a bit I chalked it up to a generalized assessment of the refugees as a whole. Theyāre mostly kids, civilians, and would-be protectors who only look the part of fighters in cobbled-together armor. One woman is grappling with the guilt of killing someone for the first time, even an enemy. Lakrissa is sure theyāre all going to get slaughtered and is willing to put money on that fact. Meanwhile, the couple you meet are more concerned with what pet theyāll get when they somehow, someway, make it to the city. Don't worry about how that'll happen. You learn later that even those like Ronan are small potatoes compared to most of the baddies youāll face. On paper he looks and sounds like the real dealādressed in robes, talking up an apprenticeship with the famous Lorroakanābut scenes like the celebration light show and his own fury at needing to be saved, again, highlight how far he still has to go. The point is that Zevlor is right: these arenāt fighters and he at 18 strength, paladin, former commander, is definitely the exception.
However, BG3 is the sort of detail-heavy game where Iād expect them to include that exception in the dialogue. āWe canāt stay, but weāll be slaughtered if we leaveāthese people arenāt fighters.ā Zevlorās inclusion of himself in this assessment continued to nag at me and it didnāt start to make sense until I delved into his tag here on tumblr, with more patient players than myself posting everything there is to know about the tiefling. (Thanks, all.) Zevlor is fascinating to me in part because he has this contradictory nature, one example of which is that heās a very talented fighter who desperately doesnāt want to be a fighter anymore.
ā¦but also he totally does.
We overhear in his dialogue to Tilses that Zevlor is adamant about shedding the titles heās earned through combat: Hellrider, Commander, Sir. He insists that theyāre just civilians now and itās not like heās being disingenuous hereānote that he introduces himself as just āZevlorā to Tav. Zevlor means what he says to Tilses and we can see that heās trying to both reinforce his point and lesson the blow by referring to her as āTilly.ā The nickname is a sweet one, hinting at their close bond in just a single word, reminding her that heās not saying this to hurt her, he cares for herā¦ but the nickname is simultaneously something he never would have used as her commander. The intimacy meant to comfort is also a hard blow to weather. They're now people who use nicknames inappropriate for the hierarchy of battle.
So Zevlor means what he says here, means it enough that Tilses is convinced and drops her use of āCommander,ā but thereās definitely a hint of bitterness in his voice. At least, Iāve always heard it. Zevlor is steadfast in his conviction here, even going so far as to say, āIām done soldiering, Tillyā when discussing what will come next at Baldurās Gate. Yet for all of that his tone conveys (understandable) anger and disappointment that itās come to this. Zevlor doesnāt act like someone who truly wants this change, but rather someone whoās been forced to accept it.
Is it outside forces unwillingly influencing him then? Did Avernus truly change things irrevocably? No, not really. At least, not in the way Zevlor likes to claim. Tilses herself states that being a Hellrider is for life; nothing can take away that title. You lost your post? Your whole city? Most of the people under your protection? Doesnāt matter! Youāre a Hellrider forever, no matter the circumstances. I can easily picture a time in Zevlor's life where he would have agreed with Tilses wholeheartedly. They are Hellriders, dammit, and so long as thereās one person looking for their help they will wield that title alongside their blades. And right now, Zevlor has a lot more than just one person in need of his assistance.
So itās not that Avernus truly stripped them of that identity. Nothing can do that. Zevlor is not rejecting titles and planning retirement because the mechanisms of fate are forcing him to.
Heās doing all that because heās lost confidence in himself.
Even as someone with a shaky understanding of DnD classes, I love the parallel between a broken oath and the rejection of a lifelong title. If Zevlor can fail in his oathāor in his faith entirely, according to the memories stemming from his podāwhy-ever would he think that any other āpermanentā part of his identity was worth fighting for? If you can loose the very thing youāve built your entire life around, every important aspect of yourself, tied to your very soulā¦ whatās a bestowed title compared to that? Zevlor doesnāt believe himself worthy of being a Hellrider anymore, but I think that goes deeper than a string of horrific circumstances making him feel incompetent. As an Oathbreaker, Zevlor likely believes that if he couldnāt uphold that, he canāt uphold anything. Calling himself a Hellrider would be a lie. A fiction. A pathetic, dangerous, insulting fiction at that. Itās like calling yourself the āHeroā while continually failing those around you. Sure, others might insist itās a title youāve earned, one you will always carry with you, but you donāt believe them anymore and at a certain point calling yourself that feels worse than embracing the title of āVillain." You donāt want to be the villainā¦ but you want to pretend youāre the hero even less. Pretending is exhausting.
We see this struggle in the many ways that Zevlor fails, or almost fails, to uphold the ideals that originally guided him. I use the term āvillainā above deliberately because Zevlor is not merely a former hero-type whoās self confidence has been shattered, or who has been reduced to a civilian, or who thinks themselves useless; heās actively fighting against temptations that, under less stressful situations, heād never even consider. I donāt think he is a villain, I think heās a flawed, struggling victim who sees his own, inevitable mistakes as villainousāand the longer that warped perspective continues the easier it is to fall into bad behaviors. This cycle is perfectly summarized in the autobiography Zevlor keeps by his bed:
āWhen every passer-by thinks you a thief and a heretic, it is deeply tempting to become one.ā
We donāt know if this is Zevlorās autobiography (as far as Iām aware, anyway) but even if itās not the words have clearly resonated enough for him to keep them nearby. This particular line paints a pretty clear picture of Zevlorās struggle. If everyone you meet says youāre devil-kin, vermin, or would-be criminal, isnāt it easier to just give them what they want? If you canāt persuade them otherwise, why put in the effort of trying? If he canāt be Faithful to his God, why have faith in anything at all? If he canāt save these peopleāsetback after setback, mistake after mistakeāwhy is he even making the effort?
Zevlor obviously is trying, very, very hard, which is why such thoughts are merely temptations rather than actual, questionable actions. Still, the Grove gives us numerous examples of the precipice heās balanced onāand the ways Tav can tip him in one direction or another. You can talk Zevlor down from his anger and get him to acknowledge his disgust in nearly sinking to Aradinās level. You can also let him boil over and punch the human at a time when the last thing anyone needs is more violence. You can convince Zevlor that there are peaceful ways of stopping Kagha's ritual, or you can help him in pursuing the darker temptation to kill her. Itās a ālowā thought, but at his own admission he hasnāt been above entertaining it. Zevlorās requests for help, though always polite and humble, carry a spark of manipulation in them too. Heās not above leveraging your previously selfless good deed to his advantageā"She owes you for saving this grove"āand if you approach him before speaking with Kagha heāll claim that the ritual will ābe troubleāfor all of us.ā Except, no? Not really? Tav can make it clear that theyāre just here for a healer, theyāre only passing through, and as a fighter they are not beholden to the Groveās sanctuary as the teiflings are. Itās not trouble for everyone involved, yet Zevlor frames it as such in the hopes that (unnecessary) self-interest may motivate you if selflessness fails. Finally, if Zevlor dies in your play-through and you use Speak the Dead on him, he will admit to having āplentyā of secrets, none of which heāll share. Admittedly, this may be the result of cut content, specifically a story-line in which Zevlor knowingly betrays the tieflings rather than being tricked by the Absolute. Still, the game as it stands is the story we have and within it weāre given a man who is both fighting against these dark urges (ha) and has a past riddled with secrets. If Zevlor is anything, itās blunt when it comes to his own failings, accurate and otherwise. So how terrible must these secrets be that he outright refuses to divulge them when, generally speaking, most corpses speak freely in death?
However, out of all of this the struggle Iām most intrigued by is the one surrounding the gate. Zevlor represents the tieflings: persecuted refugees, vulnerable civilians, people seeking to survive through cooperation, specifically by joining a community. Kagha represents the druids (or at least a vocal subset of them in Halsinās absence): bigoted individuals, powerful fighters, people seeking to survive by giving in to their fears, specifically by keeping themselves isolated. This is the moral dichotomy of the Grove and it is symbolized through the gate. Zevlor wants to open it to everyone whereas Kagha wants to close it, permanently.
So isnāt it odd that Zevlor is the one ordering it shut?
When the scene first starts Kanon shouts down that no, he wonāt open the gate. Zevlor said that no one is allowed in. Notably, heās saying this to Aradin and his crew, people that the Grove is at least passingly familiar with, given that Halsin left with them to search the temple. Itās also notable that Zevlor isnāt expecting goblins to attack the Grove. Heās shocked that this is suddenly a problem, brought about by Aradinās decisionāāYou lead them here?āā and the entire point of staying at the Grove is that itās at least comparatively safe. Yes, there have been more attacks lately, but Zevlor seems to be relying on the Groveās relatively unknown location, as well as the fact that goblins are normally disorganized. The safety is only compromised because Aradin brought a hunting party back, so Zevlor has no reason to expect any visitors, let alone ones that would be a threat.
More importantly, he should welcome such visitors even if he did expect them. After all, thatās precisely what the tieflings are: strangers with no ulterior motives other than to survive. Broadly speaking it makes perfect sense why he'd shut the gates. Zevlorās first priority is to his people, so anything that keeps them safe is, theoretically, a good thing. But through the lens of his specific characterization and this specific, moral dilemma, itās an awfully hypocritical decision. Based on everything weāve seen, our party would not have been welcomed by Zevlor if weād arrived without danger on our heels and a rescue to endear him to us. So his people should be welcomed, trusted, kept safe, given the benefit of the doubtā¦ but Zevlor isnāt necessarily willing to extend that same trust to others. At the end of the day, he and Kagha want a version of the same thing: safety for those they deem are worthy of it.
Itās precisely these flaws and temptations that make Zevlor such a great character to me, even before heās tricked by the Absolute. The fandom has leaned hard into Zevlorās self-loathing and let me tell you, I love it (kisses, hugs, and cookies for you all), but canonically I think he has more reason to fear himself than we tend to portray in the H/C fics. Iām not saying heās a bad person. Rather, itās precisely because Zevlor is such a good person that he has the capacity to fall so far. Itās his all-consuming desire to protect his family that leads Zevlor to do and consider so much that a paladin would normally balk at. Denying others the safety youāve been granted. Subtly manipulating others to do your dirty work. Considering murder.
Zevlor is someone torn between doing the Right Thing and the thing he believes will help those under his care survive. Importantly, when we first meet him he considers these to be two separate courses of action. So can you imagine what goes through his head when he first sees Tav saving everyone and doing so righteously? I think itās integral to Zevlorās characterization that the game all but forces you to play the Good Guy in that initial encounter. A cut scene starts, youāre thrown into combat immediately afterwards, and unless you plan to start attacking the Grove members alongside the goblins (which the mechanics discourage through the coloring that distinguishes enemies from allies) you will always finish this fight as Zevlorās hero. Sure, you can be an asshole afterwards and demand payment. You could already be plotting your betrayal and the slaughter of all the refugees. But in this moment you are nothing but a miracle made flesh in his eyes. Right from the start Tav is succeeding in all the ways Zevlor feels like he's failed. You're the hero.
More specifically, youāre an Every-Man Hero. We might have epic backstories for our Tavs, but within confines of the game youāre largely a nobody when not playing an Origin character. How powerful must that have been to witness then? A total stranger, someone who has no ties to the tieflings or even, depending on your class, any sworn reason to help others, putting their life on the line to save what is most precious to Zevlor? I think a lot about the fact that he never asks Wyll to step in and try to change Kaghaās mind. She owes him just as much as she does TavāWyll is an equal participant in that fight and, if your shoddy play style is anything like mine, he likely did more damageāand Wyll is clearly invested in the tieflingās survival, training the kids as he is. Now, obviously Zevlorās reticence is largely a question of assigned roles (we need to be the one engaging with Kagha because weāre the protagonist/player) but, like Zevlorās choice to include himself in the Not a Fighter group, it would have been all too easy to explain this away within the narrative. One comment about how Wyll already tried and failed, or how Kagha doesnāt trust Warlocks, or hell, maybe you donāt meet Wyll in the Grove at all. Itās an easy thing to accomplish and though this is edging more into the realm of headcanon than anything else, I canāt help but think that Wyll isnāt the kind of person that Zevlor could turn to for help right now. Because heās a folk hero. The Blade of Frontiers, known far and wide for his impressive, selfless deeds. Zevlor is struggling so hard to keep the tieflings safe, tempted by all the unsavory solutions that might achieve that, drowning in self-hatred as his past and current failings catch up with him, wanting nothing more than to be his peoplesā protector:
āI would be a paladin againāwith a godās purpose, a godās power. Everything I needed to protect my people. And all the while, the cult tortured them. They fought, and ran, and died around me, while I imagined myself their savior.ā
Three of the things Zevlor mutters while trapped in the pod are āHellriderā¦ forā¦ lifeā¦,ā āTrustā¦ in meā¦,ā and āChildrenā¦ look awayā¦ look at meā¦ā He wants to be the protector, the one children look to for reassurance, he wants his words to Tilly to be a lie and he wants a way to prove that he is a Hellrider for lifeā¦ but heās not. At least, Zevlor doesnāt believe it. He lost his titles while Wyll still proudly bears his. Wyll trains the children to fight while Zevlor can only get swept up in anger at them being threatened. The people trust Wyll, adore him, heās the hero and Zevlorā¦ is not. Not anymore.
Itās too painful to approach Wyll and admit all that. That would be a hell of a blow to Zevlor's pride. But Tav? A stranger? A nobody? The Every-man who had no reason to help or reputation pressuring them, saving them anyway? Thatās inspiring. Someone like Tav could be the answer and even, perhaps, the proof that Zevlor could redeem himself. Neither of them are folk heroes, untouchable in their assumed perfection. Tav is a living, breathing example of how the flawed, everyday adventurer can be everything Zevlor strives for.
No wonder he wonāt shut up about them in the Shadowlands.
All of this is why itās so tragic that Zevlor wasnāt given a redemption arc. Sure, you can recruit him for the final battle against the Netherbrain, but thereās no quest to change the castās opinion of himāor change Zevlorās opinion of himself. All his content at the end of Act 2 and Act 3 reinforces that self-hatred.
Letās make a list, shall we?
Nearly every line of his reunion with Tav has Zevlor painting himself in the worst light possible, from āa lie kinder than the truthā to his refusal to join you because he believes heāll stab you in the back. You cannot convince him of the Absoluteās manipulation and thereās no response to his belief that such horrors start within the person like, āOf course it does! Because weāre all flawed and equally capable of good and evil deeds! That potential doesnāt make you irredeemable, Zevlor, it makes you mortal!!ā
Heās utterly failed as his peoplesā champion and heās also deemed āunworthyā of being a True Soul. Obviously not being chosen by the Absolute is a good thing, but for a man drowning in self-loathing thatās one hell of a complicated rejection.
Nearly all the tieflings hate him now, all those people heās been sacrificing his soul to keep safe. I found it particularly devastating that this is one of the rare occasions where nailing a persuasion check doesnāt change the personās mind. Thereās at least one tiefling at Moonrise (Iām drawing a blank on her name) who will believe you when you explain how the Absolute influenced Zevlor, but that doesnāt lead to forgiveness.
Zevlor is deemed unimportant on a literal, narrative level. He is very easy to miss in the pods (I nearly did on my first play-through) and the game does incredibly little to dissuade you from that mistake. Putting aside for a moment that obviously an Origin companion is more significant than a minor NPC, compare this to Shadowheart screaming from her own pod, the game making it abundantly clear that this is someone in need of helpāsomeone worth rescuing. Sheāll even say later that you could have run past, more concerned with your own survival and the big picture heroics to bother with her. How must it feel then, if Zevlor ever learns that Tav was there and never stopped for him?
If you do miss Zevlorā¦ oh boy. Weāve probably all seen at least a recording of Orinās so-called gift. There are plenty of characters who can meet untimely and devastating ends, but very few go through this level of horror. Zevlorāafter being held captive, rememberāis tortured by Godās Favorite Torturer. He is stripped of his personhood and reduced to a mere āmessage,ā a āpet.ā Zevlor is further humiliated in death by being literally stripped of his armorānot just vulnerable in his nakedness, but denied the last symbol of his faith, his status, his powerāand itās always struck me that this is the closest we see to him 'enjoying' an intimate moment, this parody in Orinās painting. Zevlor is one of the NPCās most in need of physical comfort and instead heās forced into this torturous mockery of a sex scene. It also hits hard that when Tav first spots his body the narration says that Zevlor āmight almost be sleeping.ā Undoubtedly this is a man who isnāt taking good care of himself. He needs a good nightās rest, yet this horrifying trick is all he gets.
As if all this werenāt enough, most of your companion are VERY critical of Zevlor while commenting on his demise. Itās one thing for the tieflings to believe the worst given their ignorance and the fact that they are the ones who suffered from Zevlorās failure, but your company understands the Absolute and the ways that she gets her hooks in people. Still, Astarion calls him a āwet ragā even if he did deserve better than this. Shadowheart wouldnāt have wished this on him either, but she canāt help but slip in a āno matter his failings.ā Laeāzel, often the most blunt, straight up says that he was āalways destined to fail his peopleāand to fail us.ā Wyll shakes his head and intones that āeven good intentions can lead us down deadly paths.ā Only Gale and Karlach stick to mourning the dead rather than airing his shortcomings.
When I spoke to my allies before the final battle Zevlor didnāt have a cut scene. It became clear to me later that this must have been a bug in my play-through, but at the time it only reinforced my feelings that his story was incomplete. Looking on Youtube Iāve found recordings of him saying that he is a Hellrider once more and he would ādie a proud man if [he] were to die this dayāā¦ but that rings as terribly hollow given where we left him. Last we were together, Zevlor was saying in no uncertain terms that he could not be trusted, he would fail again, he was unworthy of forgiveness. Where did this change of heart come from? It makes perfect sense that he would help Tav in this momentāhe begs to be of some use after getting freeābut not that he would present himself with such confidence. Within the story as itās been told this feelsā¦ fake. Like Zevlor is putting on a mask to fit the mood of this lively, optimistic party. Which, in turn, gives the āI would die a proud manā line a terrifying implication to me. Does Zevlor expect to die this day? Does he intend to? What would persuade him not to lay down his life here and now? His mission is complete. The tieflings are safeāthough not by his hand. There's no hero's welcome waiting for him after this battle. They hate him. He hates himself, and by his own admission the one thing that could still make him proud would be to die at Tavās side, trying to do one last bit of good. If someone said that to me after everything Zevlor has been through I would keep them far away from the front lines.
(I did, for the record lol.)
Iām not saying anything new then when I go, āLarian, PLEASE add more to his story.ā Give us a Zevlor side-quest to renew his oath. Let us invite him to our camp. Something to link the broken man mid-game and the confident fighter at the end so that the latter doesnāt feel like an alarm bell with two legs and a tail. I mean yeah, I get hooked on minor characters so 75% of this is simply me wanting more content of a fave, but I also I do legitimately believe that BG3ās story would benefit from tying up loose ends like this.
Zevlor is a fantastic character, someone who contains an astounding amount of complexity for so little screen time. You have to follow up on that complexity though. If heās meant to be a purely tragic figure, okay, fine, thatās the ending you get with Orin. But one where he joins you with a smile and reclaims a title he's previously rejected with such fervor requires more work in the middle; a through-line that explains how someone with so much self-loathing learns to think of himself as the hero again.
Because it does all come down to Zevlorās perception of himself. He was always a hero, flaws and all. He always was and always will be a Hellrider.
The UI knows what's up :)
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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo weāve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and itās revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.
#absolutely love this#tumblr is always been so great for creation#like unlike any other sight ive seen#not mine#keeping this for reference#reference
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Level 1: Porn with plot
Level 2: Porn with social commentary
Level 3: Porn with troubling philosophical implications
Level 4: Porn with maddening revelations of humanityās place in the cosmos
Level 5: Porn with math
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If only I had this treatment last month ... š
I love them all! @mooshywrites
Hello hello! May I request a Halsin one shot or companion headcannons of how they would react to you having the flu? I've caught the most recent bug going around and it has absolutely floored me šš¤§ thank you x
How they take care of you when youāre sick
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A/N ~ Iāve been so under the weather lately as well so I love this sm ;~;
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Astarion ~
~ Astarion was a very begrudging nurse
~ He couldnāt deny the fact that being around a sick person disgusted him on some level, but he couldnāt see you suffering alone
~ It was almost comical to watch him, grimacing as he approached your sniffling bundle of sick
~ He was so brave however, even landing a small kiss on your forehead as he situated you to be more comfortable
~ As a compromise, he settled in across the room, reading to you throughout the day to keep you company
~ In your sleepy and delirious state, you would feel him replacing the wet rag on your head, softly chiding you for having such a strong fever
~ Despite his attitude, you knew he was worried about you, rarely leaving you alone for more than a few minutes at a time
~ āPlease get better soon, darling. Iām simply not cut out for such affectionate workā
Halsin ~
~ Halsin was a little lost when you came down with a cold that his healing magic didnāt fix
~ He had no basis of what to do when his magic failed, so it was interesting seeing him try to come up with ways to help
~ At first, all he could think to do was bundle you as tight as he could in a fluffy blanket, holding you close to keep away the chills
~ When that didnāt help your stuffy nose, instead of setting you down to try something else, he simply carried you around as he thought
~ You felt like an overgrown baby, bundled up and tucked tightly against the Druidās chest
~ Finally, he decided the only remedy would be lots of affection and some very warm peppermint tea
~ He fed you the brew spoonful by spoonful, almost as if he didnāt trust you not to choke on it in your feverish state
~ āSip slowly, my heart, canāt have you dying on me so suddenlyā
Gale ~
~ When you started complaining to Gale that you were coming down with a cold, you expected the wizard to be a doting and affectionate partner
~ You did NOT expect him to become some sort of depraved mad scientist
~ After corralling you to the bed and snuggling you up in a plethora of blankets and giving you a smooch on the top of your head, he beelined it to the kichen
~ Your fever had you flitting in and out of sleep, so you didnāt quite know how much time had passed before Gale had returned
~ It took you a minute to realize what he was carrying, your eyes widening at the ray of various soups he had concocted
~ The rest of the day was spent lazily, your wizard reading to you from your favorite books as he rotated the soups for you to try
~ To your delight, most of them were delicious, though some neared the edge of all things bitter and medicinal
~ Galeās hand never left your own, squeezing appreciatively as you tried every bowl
~ āDonāt eat too much now, Iām not quite sure how those potions will mix with each other, love.ā
Wyll ~
~ Wyll was a nervous wreck when he realized you were sick
~ You had to spend most of the morning calming him down, convincing him not to wrap you up and race you to the nearest healer
~ You assured him it was a minor case of the sniffles, a minor fever that probably wouldnāt last the day
~ After he had finally relaxed, he insisted on waiting on you hand and foot
~ He was ever present, refilling your water and handkerchief before you could put it back on the table
~ The duke even poured a basin of warm water, keeping a hot towel over your feet constantly
~ It was nice being cared for so diligently, despite your hellishly progressing cold
~ When it reached evening and your cold hadnāt subsided, Wyll gently carried you to bed, tutting over you nervously
~ āWhether I have to kidnap you myself, you will be going to a healer tomorrow, my sweet.ā
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IMPORTANT: KOSA MASTERPOST
Please, don't just scroll past! Share, reblog, and check out the content on these links! I will be adding things as I find (so make sure you reblog the original post, you can do this by clicking on my name and going to the pinned post which is this!!) and/or as the situation changes, and if there are resources you want to see added, send them to me.
LATEST UPDATES: HERE (as of of 4/10/24)
INFORMATION
What happens if KOSA passes?
What's at stake?
KOSA isn't designed to help kids.
How will KOSA passing affect you?
KOSA is a privacy nightmare.
Banning kids from social media isn't the answer.
American Action Forum
90+ LGBTQ organizations oppose KOSA
Popular Apps affected by KOSA
Rally for the Internet Archive
KOSA changes don't make it less dangerous
Senate Schedule
Current KOSA status (sign up to get alerts from this if you're able!)
KOSA will actively target trans and LGBTQ+ content
The TikTok ban isn't about China, it's the fact that it's largely pro-palestine and has other content the government doesn't want us talking about.
KOSA applies to EVERYONE here.
Israel is revealed to be behind the infamous Tiktok ban
Read the bill itself
Call Script for KOSA
RESOURCES
Huge list of resources
Tell Congress
Tell Lizzo
Linktree
Bad Internet Bills
StopKOSA.com
Petition - we need 35k signatures and we're almost there!
Contact list
Fight for the future
Speak out against KOSA
Censorship won't make kids safe
Internet red alert
EFF Action Center
More Petitions List (check and sign as many as you can!)
Fight against the TikTok ban as well
Another petition - 123,000/130,000 signatures
Share your story of how social media has helped you
Help keep the ACP alive
Another masterpost
WHERE ELSE CAN YOU FIND MORE RESOURCES?
The Stop Internet Censorship discord server has a ton of useful resources that I pulled from some of to make this post, even. Following and looking at tags like #stop kosa will help make sure you stay informed and they stay trending, as well.
EVERYTHING HELPS!! Let's make sure this bill doesn't pass! Reblogs > likes!!
last updated: 10:52 pm EST, 4/12/24
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YES! All of this!
Like bruh we have a complicated enough relationship with ourselves/our bodies/our histories. We DON'T need other people judging us for things that aren't hurting anyone.
So much to do w/ kinks and shipping is completely self-contained. It exists in our heads/imaginations. And even when it does enter the real world, so long as everyone is safe, communicates, and everything is consensual, it shouldn't matter.
Grown-ups playing pretend KNOW they're playing pretend. If you can't fathom that, then I suggest you don't, and you leave the people that do the hell alone.
as an SA victim i could really give less of a fuck about what people's kinks are. someone likes cnc? none of your business. they're into ddlg? so what? no one is being hurt. they ship something taboo? as long as they don't try to justify that in real life idc. please for the love of god focus on real predators out there and advocate for actual SA prevention instead of focusing on random people's kinks.
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sketches from the past months, setting them free now
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@nathscalet
I may not be a vampire.... but I wanna bite the butt
It seems I traded my ability to draw faces for a painting skill. I donāt know how I feel
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Twitter LGBTs are so sanitized itās embarrassing
#the cool thing is when you meet ppl in real life and talk about sex/kinks is that literally NO ONE is like this#not writing#nsfwish
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"...You wish to share?"
#shes such a cutie!#if only she wasnt a pyscho muderer#art tag#not writng#tw: gore#tw gore#tw: blood#tw blood#gore#blood
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