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rheill · 6 months

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This has been in my mind since August but I couldn't figure out which character would say it. Then I started a Karlach Origin run and realized: Karlach. Karlach has a face that knows what The Grinch is.

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #karlach #astarion #the grinch #doodle #you'd cry too if you had an image of the Grinch beamed directly into your brain #4-panel comic #fanart #artists on tumblr #this crossed 10k notes and that's more than I've ever gotten on anything and I'm scare

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may12324 · 7 months

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this is your reminder to give Shadowheart all the pretty armor

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #shadowheart #bg3 spoilers #baldurs gate #shart #my art #yes astarion looks pretty in it #but SHART #looks so hot #in this armor #it kills me #the armor is elven chainmail and you can find it in myrns corssing outside of baldurs gate #wyms crossing #wYRMS CROSSING #oh my goodness

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artistmacposts · 5 months

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Metra Evening Rush Hour Train Action Near Union Station

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cqtlatte · 2 months

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something unattainable

#fanart #genshin impact #dainsleif #lumine #kinda rough... I just wanted to turn my brain off and paint for this one ;w;#if we can't have dain in 4.5 at least let us cross the gate of everlasting mourning next ver i am on my knees-#cqtlatte (illust)

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sangpires · 8 months

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there are some visitors at your campsite...

limited time stickers!

#i drew astarion based off my cat because my also randomly bites me in the middle of the night #baldur's gate 3 #astarion ancunin #halsin #shadowheart #gale dekarios #animal crossing #art #fanart #chibi #ill get to the others soon lol

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suitetarts · 6 months

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some lucky redditor got a bug where the drow twins scene wasn't blacked out, and turns out there's most perfect snuggle pile if you brought halsin 😭

#a clip is in the reddit post but i cant get over this pose!!#here's a billion crossed fingers that larian is gonna let us have this for real. please Please please #drow twins #sharess caress #halstarion #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 spoilers

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owob · 2 months

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dead three doodles

#orin the red #ketheric thorm #enver gortash #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #lord help me im abt to cross post #my farts

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french-teapot · 19 days

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This always happens.

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#bg3 #balders gate 3 #drawings #animal crossing #acnh #lae'zel #astarion #gale of waterdeep #shadowheart #wyll ravengard #karlach #halsin #raphael the cambion #bg3 raphael #haarlep #i kinda wish I'd given human Raphael the regular AC goat horns #oh well

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petitelappin · 18 days

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Okay, let's see how long this can actually stay up over here. Cross-posting from cohost.

My laptop broke recently, so I cannot finish romancing Karlach in my Wyll origin playthrough for a while, so in the meantime, I just have to imagine them.

#my art #digital art #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #wyll ravengard #karlach cliffgate #wyllach #fingers crossed this works bc just posting the link to cohost seems to be a flop

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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 1 year

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#cemetery #Cemetery Gates #flooded #swamped #random #tombstone #graveyard #tomb #cross

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thedomesticanthropologist · 6 months

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I present to you: at no point in the game is Astarion actually ready for a romantic relationship

Tav is the first person he drank from

The first person he has consensual sex with after 200 years

And he says to them: no one is like you. You're YOU

He genuinely believes that Tav is the *only* person who would be this way, even if it isn't true. He does fall in love with you, he does want you, but I present to you the idea that if things hadn't gone down EXACTLY as they had, Astarion NEVER would have initiated a partnership/romantic relationship for YEARS after escaping Cazador for good.

The man is coded for survival, for self-preservation, and is inherently selfish by nature. It is only because Tav gives selflessly and determinedly reinforces wanting to be with him that he caves in and allows it, but if you try to leave he's thrilled. This is for the best he says, you don't deserve this facade from me he says.

"I don't know how to be with someone even if I want to. I want this to be real but I don't know what real is. I need to not have sex right now"

In act 2, if you break up with him, he agrees with you. He thinks it's the right thing for you because hes not ready. He won't say this unless you initiate a break up but how could he possibly let go of the best thing that's happened to him in his entire undead life? He wouldn't toss out the treasure of you even if he didn't feel ready.

It really does take a patient, calm, supportive Tav to get him in the end, and he DOES want you, I'm not arguing that

I'm arguing that that man is not ready for a committed relationship, doesn't know what a healthy relationship looks like, and in an ideal situation if he thought he had time and options in his life and if he felt safe he would have focused 100% on himself first for a VERY long time.

The tadpoles, the adventure, the pressures of the battles, the fighting the revenge the ascension and the ritual he has to fight or succumb to the fact that the sunlight is gonna nerf him again- all of this contributes to the perfect scene where Tav gets him right "out the gate", first by being a mark and a target and then by simply *not breaking it off with him*

And yes he's in love to the best of his ability to know what love is at this point

And yes he wants you very much

But the man is going through the biggest whiplash of his life and I can say with confidence that he's not... *Ready*. And after all is said and done, Tav will have to continue to be patient with many things with him. There are still a lot of hurdles. He may be with them for a long time before he wakes up one day and realizes, really really realizes, that he's ready.

The power dynamics are off, they're imbalanced. How could he say no to a perfect mark that gives him everything ? Blood, sex, waits when sex is off the table, never breaks up with him never leaves no matter how he rails against them? He can't. He won't, and he doesn't want to, but that doesnt make him emotionally ready for what a genuine relationship is.

He has to learn it, with you, over time, but I don't think he'd jump into learning that and going for it and seeing it as worth it if the situation were in any way different

Without the perfect storm of events, I don't see Astarion jumping into "commited relationship" to be clear, I'm not saying that he isn't capable of feelings or doesn't want tav it's just

It doesn't *seem* to match his character or his struggles to me. For a man that is completely self serving, he accidentally catches feels and then doesn't have the strength to cut you loose even though his act 2 confession is practically him asking you to leave him. If you take the Araj route in particular, he VERY plainly lays his shitty behaviour on the table as if daring you to punish him for it... Or maybe just expecting.

In his spontaneous scene it's softer, it's I love you but I don't know how to do this. And still if you say "I don't think you're ready to be in a relationship" he immediately agrees. In act 3, if you've stuck to him the whole time like glue, he never wants to let you go. Again, I think this level of connection is impossibly rare and everything had to happen as it did to get you there, but the power balance is off still. He says partner, equal, and he wants that. And he WILL get there

But he not only has to struggle with his past, his issues, his trauma, he has to struggle with the power imabalance that you're his Savior. YOU defeated Cazador. YOU protected him in camp and didn't stake him on sight. YOU fed him from thinking creatures for the first time. YOU are one of "a very few select people" who have had sex with him and not been slaughtered immediately afterwards.

You're everything to him

And by the end of the game you already see him trying to shift that power imabalance because HE SEES IT. If you say you'll protect him he WINCES and disagrees, he doesn't want that. He doesn't want to be below you, but he sees himself that way anyway. And to me, that's the sign that he wasn't ready, he still isn't ready,

But he will be, one day. And I think that makes it a better written romance than thousands I've read, because it's not perfect. There's grey areas. There's things that can make you uncomfortable. There's parts of it that aren't healthy and won't be for a while. Who knows how long until he feels like he's your equal? Until he feels like this relationship is something he ever would have chosen if things were different?

But he does choose you. He does. He wants you. He'd just never have gotten the chance to if it hadn't been "right place right time" imho

#its giving star crossed lovers #its giving grey area #its giving long term trauma #its giving good fucking writing #baldurs gate 3 #astarion #bg3 #astarion ancunin #astarion bg3 #astarion romance

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merrunzs · 3 months

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anyway does anyone ever think abt how lonely the chosen are.

how ketheric does everything for his family but he is the only one really left. everything in his home and everyone he loves are either dead or twisted by the shadow curse that kills everything there anyway. isobel, the daughter he had being doing Everything for, ran from him when she found out what he had become to save her

how gortash was always too smart for his own good that he was cast out and sold like damaged goods by his own parents . he was sold to the hells where nobody is your friend . he is the chosen of bane, representing the sphere of tyranny and subjugation, in which nobody is your friend. he has the entire city under his thumb either through fear or his charm and the brittle, tense partnership with ketheric and orin and yet he has no true allies (except the durge arguably but. theyre either gone or dont remember him) . how he Seeks Out the equal partnership with tav/amnesiac durge which to me seems So antithetical to banes sphere- i cant imagine theyre too fond of sharing- in a way that fascinates me so much

how orin is a bhaalspawn that has never been good enough. never pure enough. she has always been second best, the childish girl to durges mastery. how she does everything for sarevok and for bhaal she has nothing but her family and that temple. no matter how much she devotes herself to them she is only ever looked upon by her only loved ones with hatred and contempt. orin whos own mother attacked her on sarevoks orders. orin who is unwanted wherever she goes no matter how hard she tries to be the very best

the dark urge, too. durge who is a tool, a vessel and instrument for their fathers will. when sarevok says 'you belong to bhaal. he manifests within you' . how theyre shackled to bhaal and kept from everything else. the first people they ever killed were their family. even in the temple, with their True family, durge is alienated from orin and sarevok by virtue of being made and not born, not connected to their shared bloodline. durge who is constantly pushed onto a pedestal by those in the temple through their divinity and purity and has never had a true peer to stand beside before gortash. durge who is so so cut off from other people and intimacy and who is forced to kill everyone they get close to or love by their father and the urge. durge who is an object for bhaals use, unafforded the mortal luxury of real connection

deeply deeply interested by how they are all such powerful and influential characters and yet all have such a strong theme of isolation. :(

#the chosen being my favourite characters in this game is my cross to bear unfortunately. Who the fuck are the tadpole gang #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #ketheric thorm #enver gortash #lord enver gortash #orin the red #the dark urge #the durge #durge #the chosen #sunny speaks #sunny thinks #<- Kind of. my tagging system is beautiful and arbitrary like that #bg3 spoilers

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artistmacposts · 5 months

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Failed Trip to Videotape Metra's MD-N Holiday Train. But, Who's Complain...

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sleepyrogues · 3 months

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Bane and Bhaal x Animal Crossing

#Durge #Enver Gortash #Orin the red #my art #animal crossing #bg3 art #baldurs gate 3 fanart #bg3 #obsessed with them

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sangpires · 8 months

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more tiny villagers

limited time stickers !

#baldur's gate 3 #animal crossing #sorry everything that was hoping for something else for these but i couldnt draw ac alligators in my style and make it look good #wolves on the otherhand #also wyll goat is versatile he can be a deer too LMFAO ITS HARD TO DIFFERENTIATE IN MY STYLE....#wyll #karlach #minthara #lae'zel #art #fanart #chibi

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kiichu · 7 months

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almost an entire village!! whoa! anyway i worked ridiculously hard on these, hope you enjoy! they will be available on my redbubble as stickers very soon!

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #shadowheart #lae'zel #gale of waterdeep #karlach #wyll ravengard #minthara #halsin #animal crossing #doodle #pls pls pls appreciate these i worked so hard #i never want to look at their armor closely again

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