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Nether Years

Fan art by me, digital painting and photobash

It's no secret that Gale's story is still one of my favorites in Baldur's Gate 3. A genius choosing between a great destiny and idea, and a quiet, happy life. What went through his mind when he picked up Ketheric's netherstone? At what cost could he decide not to retrieve the crown from the riverbed?

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Ice Storm

Ice mage is fun and cool, but also very accident-prone (heh)

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Your favorite Valentine

Serving you Astarion for Valentine’s Day this year again!

My other socials

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ok, because i just saw a terrible take, i feel compelled to say that there is no "fic market" to "oversaturate" in fandom. good gravy.

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My first fan art ever as well as my first tumblr post since my childhood days on tumblr. Watch out world, I like Gale Dekarios!

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He folded his arms so funny that I wanted to think of something to go with it

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If you ever tagged me to do one of those tag game thingies and I never did it:

1) Thank you, seriously. Those are fun and being included shows that my followers care enough to want to learn more about me.

2) Very sorry about that, it’s extremely likely that I said to myself “Cool! But I’m busy at the moment, I’ll have to do this later today or tomorrow” before proceeding to just straight-up forget, now it’s too far back in my notifications and/or your blog to find again.

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Them!

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Wip Wednesday

Woo! Let's share some stuff! Thanks for the tags @khywren, @deadly-diminuendo, @xxnashiraxx, @busy-baker, and anyone else I may have missed since my last Wip Whursday!

Here's a little peak into Part 8 of Beauty and the Bard so far 👀

“Hmm…” You looked around, searching for any sign of this devil Raphael had mentioned. “Do you really think Raphael will keep his word if we kill this orthon?” Astarion stiffened. “I’d trust a devil over a vampire any day.”  “That doesn’t bode well for me,” you joked. He chuckled. “I think he likes us.” “Do you think he loves-” “Don’t start,” Astarion snapped with minimal bite. You laughed. “Unfortunately he can be pretty entertaining. But I’d never say that to his smarmy face.” “He is rather smarmy, isn’t he?” Astarion smiled. “Perhaps if we kill this orthon extra bloody, he’ll invite us for tea and brandy back in his House.” “An invitation I eagerly await,” you said in your snootiest voice and mimed holding a tea cup on a saucer.  Astarion mimicked your snootiness and the two of you “clinked” your imaginary cups together while laughing airily. “Wait,” you paused in walking along the corridor, suddenly catching a glint of red on the floor.  Astarion halted at your side. “What?”  You pointed at the ground. “You tell me, vampire.” The vampire in question pursed his lips. “I’ve said before that I’m not some bloodhound,” he argued. He took a deep inhale and sagged. “But yes, that is blood.” “Any idea how fresh?” He considered. “Not very fresh, but not completely stale either.” “Well,” you said, wrapping your arm around his bicep, “where there is blood, there are monsters.” Astarion humphed as you both walked forward, following the tiny speckled trail of blood towards a set of stairs. “Is that what you think of me?” “Noooo,” you said, reassuringly nuzzling your head against his shoulder, “you’re too full of love to be a monster.” Astarion shoved you away and you laughed. “You’re ridiculous.”

Will these two EVER talk about important stuff? Who can say! Tune into part 8 (once she's done) to find out!

No pressure tagging: @arzen9, @clericblood, @decadentpaperduck, @astarioffsimpmain, @obsessedwhyyes, @hellethil, and anyone else who feels like sharing!!!

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WIP Wednesday

I know I've been tagged a few times throughout the week but I am simply too lazy to go back and check so a big thank you to everybody <3

I'm on draft three of my eventual Gale longfic, and right now I'm working on improvements to the third chapter, which is the first smut of the fic. It's NSFW (featuring tiefling infernal ridges!) and thus will be below the cut.

He slowly trails the hand beneath her shirt behind her, fingertips teasing her skin ever so lightly as they dance closer to her tail. She makes an adorable sound of impatience before grabbing his hand and shifting it to wrap around her tail. He rubs his thumb along the ridges on the underside of it and she whines, sending a white-hot jolt of heat through his veins that goes straight to his cock. “Upstairs,” she says breathlessly. “Bed.” “So demanding,” he teases, rubbing a torturously slow circle over the ridges. The sound she makes can be described as nothing less than a growl, low and guttural and just a tad bit feral. He takes the hint and lets go of her, allowing her to stand and willing his heart not to beat right out of his chest as she drags him by the hand to her bedroom. “Take this off,” she demands as she shuts the door behind them, tugging at his shirt before making quick work of her own. Gale means to follow her instructions, but he finds that all he can do is stare at her bare chest as if he’s no more than an inexperienced youth faced with a naked woman for the first time. Her torso is decorated by ridges not dissimilar to those on the underside of her tail, lines of cartilage just beneath the skin decorating her body. He imagines tracing them with his fingertips, with his tongue…Yavari laughs softly and shakes her head. “Gale Dekarios, Archmage of Waterdeep, stunned into silence by a pair of breasts,” she teases. “You don’t have to just stare, you know. You can touch me, if you’d like.”

Yavari my beloved..........................

No-pressure tags: @kalmiaphlox @khywren @marlowethebard @nyx-knox @locallegume

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I started a Gale origin run recently and I LOVE playing with him so much, it's fun!! I got really inspired, so I drew the team. <3

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I'm ngl. I feel like I mainly romance Astarion as a goth-horny character study, but if I had to legitimately pick one of these characters to romance in real life, I would definitely go for Gale. He's just got that neuroqueer nerdy Autism rizz that I geek over and mesh so well with IRL. The Act 1 scene where he teaches you how to use the weave with all that intense eye-contact had me giggling and kicking my feet. And while I love Gale with his own complexity and rich story, I just feel far more personally compelled by Astarion's writing so I end up spending more time with him instead.

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“I just got my nails done darling, please. Have some common sense”

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The “That’s immoral you shouldn’t write that, we need to get that taken down” discourse on tiktok right now is PISSING ME OFFF

Wdym you want censorship for a literal ARCHIVE are you fucking stupid

Ao3 was literally founded to preserve works that were largely getting taken down due to censorship

Censorship is the opposite of what Archive of Our Own stands for

The TAGS and WARNINGS are there for a REASON. Use them and stop complaining

The universal rule—don’t like, don’t read

It’s THAT simple