dame aylin's whole speech when she kills lorroakan is extremely underrated btw but the part that gets me the most is the simple

"Dame Aylin is watching. She is indomitable"

the emphasis she puts on her name and on "she" is so beautiful. after so long of being treated as an object, called an it by most, lorroakan included, of being the nightsong, a relic, she reclaims her personhood here. her name is dame aylin and you will not call her anything else. she is a woman, not an object. and no one can take that away from her. she is indomitable, and she will never be reduced to a "relic" again

and with her being a woman obviously the extra layers of this. especially since her name also denotes womanhood (dame aylin, not just aylin), both times she is drawing attention to her personhood and her womanhood at the same time. those are tied to each other; personhood, which is so often tied to manhood (mankind, etc), here is expressed in a way that cannot be dissociated from her womanhood. she is a woman, and you will treat her with respect

and she is indomitable

in a world that tries so hard to tame women, make them pretty and palatable and small, to put them in metaphorical soul cages in service of men, which in her case was quite literal, she says she is indomitable. nothing and no one will hold her down, and she will continue to be loud, violent, strong, desire unabashedly, and all the things that are looked down on women

this also makes the "you are broken by its beauty" more powerful to me. because beauty is so often everything that a woman is reduced to; a woman's entire value is often tied to looks in a man's eyes. but when dame aylin calls herself beautiful, it is not in any way a beauty meant to make her desirable and palatable to men; on the contrary, her beauty breaks them. her beauty is in her violence, in her strength, in her wild and indomitable nature. and it cannot be reclaimed to be something that belongs to a man. her beauty is her "unfeminine" traits, it's her refusal to conform, her strength. everything that makes her undesirable to all the gamer men who hate her is what she calls her "beauty" here. not for anyone to admire, but for her to yield. not to be maintained desperately, but an inherent part of her

it's a subtle yet powerful flip of misogynistic expectations of her, and makes me love her all the more

i. forgot i made this image.

sitting here. unkissed. when will it end

average thursday in waterdeep

Being a little too cold: brrrr i’m a little too cold !!!

Being a little too warm: i am going to kill the next person who makes eye contact with me.

I'm lesbian

Mystra

The oak father really guided me with this one huh

I just need everyone to know that this is what happens in my head everytime I see people shorten Dark Justiciar Shadowheart into DJ Shadowheart

(i love this dialogue)

You aided a bear without knowing if it would savage you?

Ascending all by yourself, beautiful?

Every time Minthara speaks I start uncontrollably giggling

timelessness of lovers

Check out my boy Mad Lad Edward cosplaying as Gale’s portal arm at London comic con

its starting to feel like hoa hoa hoa hoa hoa