g4le-dinur

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so glad to be fixated on this show again. 2017 me going craaazy

Сommission based on @ingiwar-evil's sketch 😊

A rainbow compilation of my bg3 tattoo designs! Happy pride!

Going into my replay of Aldiirn, one of my goals was to use Wyll more BUT HE KEEPS DISAPPROVING… It's kinda hilarious since both are community-minded and self-sacrificing but evidently have very different ideas of the Nature of Man and how to go about adventuring. I came to the conclusion that Aldiirn just doesn't like Wyll because he's too goody-goody. You can't just barge in, shove your morality in people's faces, then leave for the next adventure, that's insane!

Another goal was to act more in-character, which meant using Astarion for anything especially chaotic I wanted to do lmao. The goblins automatically accosted Aldiirn after Astarion did the toast, like YEAH Aldiirn would be running right in to cover for his ass.

Dead Rats & Bad apple

chapter 5-6

That’s all

Sketch of the Day: No Stranger to A Needle

Other people have depicted this before and better than me! Just testing out some new ink brushes.

I kinda miss the old armor description detail that Astarion was into poetry and that one of those poems spoke to him so deeply he embroidered it straight into his clothes.

I just thought it was a cool detail.

Companions dealing with the aftermath of The Waning Moon

(Yes I know Halsin wasn’t there lol)

My Love All Mine...🎔 Full Render available on my patreon (NSFW)

I wanna talk about this Epilogue letter for a hot moment.

I bet someone must've talked about this before but alas I haven’t seen it and BOI do I have feelings about this.

This letter is from the Gur to Astarion.

Not only did I find it astounding that they wrote him a letter but like...

Not only are they forgiving him but they tell him he is a ROLE MODEL to their vampiric children. They admire him for the redemption he lived through, the development he made to become the bigger man.

So not only do they tell him that they're even with him now: no! They also claim that he's helped them to accept their vampire children. Because Astarion showed them that they can be more than just undead creatures.

They voice admiration for him and tell him they're gonna keep watch of him.

(This is not to say that Astarion's actions against the Gur should be overlooked, but it shows to me that both sides have learned and moved on.)

Now: imagine Astarion reads this letter at the reunion party. Or maybe Tav hands it to him later because he couldn't be bothered to waste his time sorting through letters (is what he says but he probably thought no one would have sent him one). He reads the letter barely believing the words he's reading. Tav notices he's gone super silent and turns to find Astarion teary eyed, hand covering his mouth. When he sees you noticing he looks almost like he's going to snarl at you but then he just let's you wrap your arms around him.

"I'm so proud of you," you say.

And he might need more time to accept that, but the seed is planted.

#starry comp

Gortash In Hell

Based on this post and my love of Karlach. The Hells are beautiful this time of year.🌻

Edit: please feel free to use this as a wallpaper!lmk if you do 🫶

Got me ugly crying for real.

Mortal Astarion X F! Human Tav. Ummm, angst.👀

For decades, this manor offered him a place to call home in the truest sense. 

The hallway was a sacred gallery, adorned with paintings that were not mere canvases, but tangible echoes of their life together. Each brushstroke, lovingly rendered by her hand, captured the essence of cherished memories.

Whenever he opened the door at the end of the hallway, he was greeted by the radiant smile of his beloved, and the hearth beckoned him to surrender to its comforting embrace. Yet, it was the vast window next to it that held the greatest significance. The tender caress of sunlight danced across his skin as he lost himself in the pages of a book beside her. It was here, bathed in the golden rays, that he could truly revel in the miracle she had bestowed upon him – the cure to his vampiric curse, a gift of life, a reminder of the depths of her love and the power it held to transcend even the most insurmountable of boundaries.

Here at home, he had found everything his heart desired.

But nothing is ever truly perfect. Life simply doesn't work that way.  Even the mightiest of fortresses cannot withstand the relentless march of time.

He thought he was ready for it, but not like this.

Never like this.

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The poem cited is "When You Are Old" BY W.B. Yeats. One of my favorites.❤️

Alright, thanks for reading the second installment of my "this did not really happen to my couple". After delving into the mortality of my Tav, Amaara, I found myself confronting a fear more profound than death itself – the fear of morbidity, of life's vibrancy fading before its inevitable end. So I decided to yank my CP around this theme. Self-indulgence at its finest.😊

If Durge romances Astarion, they fell in love with a man who escaped slavery twice.

If Durge romances Gale, they fell in love with a man with ambitions of godhood twice.

If Durge romances Karlach, they fell in love with someone who was betrayed by the people they trusted and sold to a devil twice.

If Durge romances Shadowheart, they fell in love with someone bound to an evil god twice.

If Durge romances Wyll, they fell in love with a man whose family abandoned him and became bound to a devil twice.

If Durge romances Lae’zel, they fell in love with someone who grew up in a brutal environment and every day was a struggle to survive twice.

Astarion's Ascension - Traditional art (pencils, gold acrylic, PS edit). Sketch here.

You had demons to kill within you screaming With a gun loaded with guilt You opened their eyes [...] Bleed well, the soul you're about to sell For passion deranged [...] Bleed well, the heart you're about to fail For reasons insane Kill and tell Baby, we're bleeding well In hell [...] I heard you weeping And on those words, a church was built To keep the pain in

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mspaint

Works every time 😌✨

there’s context for this but.. too long to get into lol

tarot card for yor - lyss helped me pick the moon for him, w/ cyric as the moon itself, yor’s hands mimicking the dogs (?) that are usually present on the card, and plaguefire as the river

i can’t come up with a more suitable caption than “shitty twink god” so once more: shitty twink god

Karlach the SECOND you stand still lol

Volume up!

You think Dame Aylin ever prayed to her mother in the Shadowfell, while being killed over and over by Sharans seeking to prove themselves as dark justiciars, asking her how much more must she endure?

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

FInal Showdown Pt. 1

So. Orpheus is Greygold's best friend forever no take-backsies.

That prince can never undo the bond that he has wrought upon himself that day because Orph ol' buddy ol' pal has proven that-

✨Anything is possible✨

Not just githyanki and Mindflayer working together, but Orpheus and Emps, the two that fate has tried stubbornly to prevent, co-operated.

Like Minsc said at some point, everyone is capable of great good and great evil.... and proving Emps and Orph wrong that they CAN work together, suck it you two.

in that moment, no regrets saving the prince. Greygold is indeed gonna hold this over Orph and Emps head until the end of days.

(Can't believe combat mode gave me such a hollywood moment of having the only one who could save emps be orpheus with his last ki points, haaaa, IT WAS WILD GUYS- Sometimes if the story can't supply you with the ultimate pina colada alliance, combat mode's got your back \o/)

The brilliant Good Omens drunk Aziraphale and Crowley bookshop scene from the book, 5 ways: :)

The Full Cast Audiobook with David Tennant and Michael Sheen 2021 (audiobook masterpost :))

David Tennant reading the scene at the Playing in the Dark event 2019

Neil Gaiman reading the scene at the event An Evening With Neil Gaiman event at University of Washington 2015 (x)

Part of Michael Sheen reading the scene at the The Town Hall Good Omens event with Neil and Nick Offerman 2019 (x)

Part of Jon Hamm reading the scene The Art of Elysium’s Heaven Gala event 2024

Fun fact: Neil said about this scene that there there were lines by both of them but it was primarily by Terry, that he remembers this was: something that I just remember Terry phoning me up and reading it to me. And this was the point that I knew this book was going to work. ❤