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Winner gets to choose 1 of my archival quality prints from my website which will be printed in the largest size I offer, 13”x19,” as well as receiving some extra freebies! Almost every piece on my site is available to choose from. US & International shipping welcome.There will be a total of 4 giveaways: Tumblr, Twitter, IG, and Patreon. ♥

Giveaway ends on 4/12 at 5PM MDT!

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gale doodles (goodles)

first drawing references this pinterest post !

edit: pinterest links don't work if you're not signed in, i've attached the original ref image below the cut and here's the vogue link. the designer is Guo Pei and the dress is from her fall 2019 couture collection

pinterest ux my beloathed

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Snoring contest

Choose your favorite and sleep well

P.S. Shadowheart doesn't have these sounds, so I guess she's lucky

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“Are you really the hero monster you believe yourself to be?”

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Being an outlaw is tough.

(Edit: added the white background version too)

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Space Outlaw Puppycat

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there’s just something about space boys that gets me

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cat toy lookin ass

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run, baby, run, dont ever look back

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me still waiting for Bee and Puppycat to go up on Netflix like

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🌌 See you space outlaw…

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First Meeting

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One thing that is so endearing about Gale is how much he likes to take care of people. He likes to cook for others and curate magical experiences for them. This theme of wanting to help comes up with him all the time once you start looking for it. He mentions during his teifling party conversation that one of the things he regrets is being unable to help Tara in the way she has helped him. He also asks if Tav is alright and assures them that they can "Always unburden themselves with him" when romanced in act 3. The tragedy of his dynamic with Mystra is that he identifies so much as someone who is useful, and her ultimate solution for him is that he is most useful dead. He is so much more solid and nuanced than people give him credit for.

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Do not❗️❗️listen to Unreal Unearth while thinking of this man. I am unwell

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The wizard deserves a holiday! (aka reading books while Tara naps on his lap)

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I only wished to prove myself worthy

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actually i'm crazy about this now. astarion and gale are perceived by the fandom in a lot of different ways solely because astarion has been clocked as "the sexy one" and gale has been clocked as "the incel" and it is sooo fucking annoying to read about half of the time.

like people are willing to stomach the idea of astarion being rude and willing to do bad things as a survival tactic, because those things don't stop them from degrading him to the descriptor "sexy" and nothing else. people talk about his addiction to blood positively because the way you sate it is by doing something perceived as intimate. so they believe sexy elf man is sexy and nothing else and then whine when he perpetuates the cycle of abuse and doesn't actually care about them.

and then meanwhile gale, who is arrogant and a little too ambitious for his own good (but still has the common decency of "hey bad thing bad"), is treated more poorly because how are you supposed to degrade him to being attractive/sexy and nothing else when his suffering is much more impersonal?? HIS addiction is now a haha funny crack joke because it's not "sexy". HIS relationship is "haha he fumbled a goddess" because he constantly talks about his ex. because he has issues. and mystra is, while not the person who put it there directly, the reason he's got a bomb in his chest

so you have this issue where people are sooo determined to mischaracterize people to the point where they make astarion the "hot twink" or whatever (COMPLETELY ignoring that's the entire point, he wants you to think that because that's what he's been forced to behave as for survival) and gale the "annoying incel man" because there's such a difference of what they can and can't sexualize about the two of them.

this isn't a real genuine issue or anything but it makes traversing this fandom SUPER annoying when people hate one of my favorite little dudes for something they mistakenly love astarion for. like i'm sorry astarion is not your flirty little meow meow he IS putting up an act he IS dissociating throughout half of his romance scenes i hope you know that. and also gale is traumatized and not the "nice guy complex" man for wanting to win back mystra's favor. hope that helps