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Angel Dust is so Blanche duBois coded

"astarion is a traumatized abuse victim who deserves kindness" and "astarion is a mean rat bastard man who would rip out your throat for a corn chip if he felt like it" are two statements that can and should coexist

WOMP WOMP

Do you wanna know what bugs me?

The fact that Astarion, the character built on having seduced and manipulated hundreds of people for his master - who routinely disguises himself and lies to get out of situations - whose inspiration points all rely on trickery….

Has a 10 in Charisma.

He has no modifier to his charisma rolls.

He has nothing.

And yet he gets everyone to love him.

What are Withers, The Oathbreaker Knight, Dame Aylin, Scleritas Fel, and Mizora talking about in my camp when I'm not there? Wrong answers only.

As of the 19th of December, 2023, there is new transgender guidance for education in Britain. To put it bluntly, it’s awful.

(All of the screenshots and information are from the itvNews article published on this day)

The first alarming aspect comes under changing pronouns. According to this, schools are allowed to simply decline a change in pronouns. This is completely unacceptable, considering that adding or subtracting a single syllable from a sentence is not a chore. In a society, wherein female teachers can very easily go from being referred to as Miss to Mrs, it is hypocritical to deny someone the right to be referred to correctly.

Secondly, what are the ‘other options’ referenced here? Does that include denying the child of preferred pronouns, or maybe educating them on why there are not who they say they are? This non-clarity raises important questions that are conveniently ignored.

The third concern comes under the physical education and sport section, as seen here. What concerns me is the implied idea that it would be dangerous and unfair for two children of opposite sexes to interact in a sport together. At all. That a 12 year old boy and a 12 year old girl would come out of a game of football together permanently damaged is such a common idea is barbaric. At this point, it is not only an issue of transphobia, but sexism, as well, to insinuate that - most likely - a girl will be terrorised by playing with a boy. Furthermore, it suggests that they must be kept apart for their safety!

All in all, say what you really want to say; either you don’t think girls are the same as boys, or you don’t want transgender people to live happy lives.

I genuinely don’t know how to end this. It’s just insane to me that this is a society that preaches equality and freedom, and yet treats its population like we’re back in the 1900s. Get a fucking grip.

mean and violence bros

I haven’t talked about this but I need to:

So, I played BG3 when it was in pre-release for Mac, and I wasn’t very well-versed in all the characters. I was only aware of the four main (Gale, Astarion, Shadowheart and Lae’zel). I don’t even know if Karlach was around when I first started playing.

But when it fully re-leased and I could play it for real, I decided to just recreate my pre-release Tav for my full game…

Y’know.

A barbarian tiefling with an undercut on one side and red skin.

Who, I originally drew as having one horn half chipped off.

Y’know.

Exactly like Karlach?

And then when I encountered Karlach and realised, oh damn, she’d be fun to date?

I couldn’t.

Because I travel with my most important people and having two barbarian teiflings seemed like a waste.

So, I had to silently suffer as I made it through the acts, and ended up making an entire new character with the same actions as my original, just to seduce Karlach and have her on my team.

It’s just the fact that everyone talks about the youngest child being pampered - and, yeah, sure sometimes that’s true, but if you think about the implications of even that, it gets sad. Because by being ‘pampered’ you mean being given everything that you want. Oh, you want $10 to go buy something. Sure! Oh, you want a new game. Here ya go! But there are no guidelines.

You might think that’s a good thing - freedom and all that jazz. But most of the time it just makes you feel like they don’t care. This is most common when the youngest is a teen, because the middle and oldest have already moved out or gotten independence, and your parents have forgotten that they’re still parents. Give the other person who lives in their house a tenner so that they don’t have to deal with them. They can have the game because what else are they gonna do all day when we’re on holiday?

As a youngest child, this just prompts you to grow up quicker. Get more mature so you don’t have to bother them anymore, because they’re not your parents, they’re just the people you live with. As far as they’re concerned, they’re done. They’ve reared children, those children have left, so who cares about the last one?

But the problem is; you can’t grow up. Because you’re 13 or 14 or 15 or 16 - you can’t legally leave. You feel like more of a burden, not just because you’re still there, but because you’re the only one still there. Everyone else has moved on and you’re stuck looking at the bedrooms they used to have and the bedrooms that the other people sleep in. And then you wonder, do I really have it as good as people say I do?

Sometimes I wonder how much fanfic of classical/iconic literature exists because of school projects. Just floating out there. In a drive somewhere. Not to mention that nothing is more unhinged than bored middle/highschoolers being forced to liven up books they might not care about. For every deranged ao3 crossover fic there is an infinitely more deranged crackfic written for the great gatsby or antigone or to kill a mockingbird or whatever by a bored highschooler and his friends for 10th grade English. I wanna read it

immortality through not being incapable of death but by coming back to life after you die no matter what is such a cool power like it’s just so fucking metal. you can rip me apart if you want, i’ll rise from my own viscera and all you’ll have done is piss me off

i will defend to the grave that literary analysis IS enjoyable and a valid hobby but it's amazing how a hyperfixation on The Character will have you writing essays for fun

fnaftober day 26 - fav character w fav color. william afton if he slayed

I think that given the release of the FNAF movie, I will tell the tale of my most memorable dream. For context, I was 10 at the time, undiagnosed asthma (this will matter later), and had been watching the games since Markiplier first played the game.

The dream started with being in a completely blank house, myself going through the doors and finding random items inside, closing them, and going to the next one. For some reason, if I found a FNAF animatronic, they would chase me, except for Foxy and Chica. I don’t know why those two, but they were also searching doors with me. I’m pretty sure I was supposed to be looking for an exit, but that part’s pretty blurry, since the next thing I remember was being outside on the path leading to one of those roads that game devs have when they don’t want to make a whole town. The ‘enemy’ animatronics weren’t chasing us, but we started running anyway. Then, I heard footsteps coming from behind me, and I think it was phantom Bonnie (the purple, really rare one) who I saw behind me. Cue more running, until I start to get tired. This is where I think my exemplary survival instincts come into play; my legs were beginning to get tired, and Chica and Foxy were running past me (because apparently they were also scared) so you know what I did? I stopped completely, turned around and was like ‘I’m tired, you can kill me now’. Phantom Bonnie began slowly walking towards me, but it was two steps away from me when I decided suddenly, ‘Oh! Actually, I don’t want to die’ and then started running again. Made it to the end of the road and then woke up.

No clue what the moral was.

Thanks for coming to my tedtalk.

Level one warlock

transgender beam

when she says she doesn’t send nudes

Gale really says he isn’t comfortable sharing Tav because they won’t devote themself to him entirely, while he is planning on literally killing himself for his ex-girlfriend.

I need someone to animate Astarion singing ‘Lay all your love on me’ but the cover by Brian David Gilbert. I need this, carnally.

Oh no, oh no, he is seducing me with his deep passion for his field of study and his genuine joy at teaching people about it

Batman the first time that Commissioner Gordon used the Bat Signal

Saw beams of light in the sky. Investigating further.

Okay, I love Asterion. I love his personality, his pettiness, his accent, etc. (Disregard my seducing Gale in my current, first run)

But why the hell does he sleep like that?

Just- back to the ground, arms splayed at his sides, wrists up to the sky? I don’t care if it has lore importance, he looks dumb doing it (I love him even more for it)

This is a comment someone appended to a photo of two men apparently having sex in a very fancy room, but it’s also kind of an amazing two-line poem? “His Wife has filled his house with chintz” is a really elegant and beautiful counterbalancing of h, f, and s sounds, and “chintz” is a perfect word choice here—sonically pleasing and good at evoking nouveau riche tackiness. And then “to keep it real I fuck him on the floor” collapses that whole mood with short percussive sounds—but it’s still a perfect iambic pentameter line, robust and a lovely obscene contrast with the chintz in the first line. Well done, tumblr user jjbang8

Don't let your date die

The "God" we made from unethically sourced flesh and metal won't talk to us anymore so I'm gonna abandon you guys and the project and hope it doesn't remember my name or face

why did she sign off with that

Spoovy sketches

im having a moment

Is for the way you jook at me

J

so... the three of them doing the deaf, blind, mute challenge while making a cake....i feel like this could go so many ways oml

i got the idea from @itsxroxannex tweets :) (can i even call them tweets anymore,,, TT)

who gon tell nightmare what happened