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Pick A Song For Every Letter Of Your URL

RULES: Pick a song for every letter in your tumblr url. Tag at least as many people as there are letters in your url.

Thanks for the tag @tynithia!

R - Radiate - Enter Shikari

D - Dance Me to the End of Love - The Civil Wars

E - Everything Matters - Aurora

K - Kiss & Swallow (Acoustic) - IAMX

A - As I Sat Sadly By Her Side - Nick Cave

R - Real World - Queensrÿche

I - I Gave You All - Mumford & Sons

O - Over The Love - Florence + The Machine

S - Someone Somewhere (In Summertime) - Simple Minds

My taste in music is all over the place! Please enjoy this random selection from my long, unstructured playlist, aptly and unhelpfully titled ‘Everything’.

No pressure tags: @riddlerosehearts, @defira85, @worfs-glorious-hair, @tragedysorbet, @justdebzong, @foxtatodreams, @synnevp, @velocitross, @babydinosaur930 ❤️

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Up late thinking about Gale/Minthara banter and how she can say the most insane, out of place thing and Gale just makes a playful remark to banter with her.

This man loves playing with fire and by god I'd love to be the flame.

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Today is my 34th birthday and it's time to post my birthday project 💖! Thanks to everyone for joining to the Aristen and Saulus' party🥳. It was very time-consuming and difficult to do, but it's done! I just hope I didn't miss anyone 🙏. All OCs' names and link to download shots are below the "Agata’s Birthday Song" by @bhaal-battle-beer-bard - check it out and enjoy ! ✨.

Birthday song from my lovely @judasiskariot aka @bhaal-battle-beer-bard - thank you Love 💖. Bhaalspawn Baldur’s Birthday Style – Agata’s Birthday Song by Saulus: [Verse 1] We drank a cask of Frostkiss Ale, Karlach made sure it would not go stale To the mix Evermead with Thisobald beer blue, Made Aristen understand even Boo Shadowheart played truth or dare With poison wine and a wildshaped archdruid bear Astarion flirted with a wall, He swears he never saw the poster of Drizzt Do'Urden hanging there at all

[Chorus] We won't be going off to bed, We'll drink until we wake the dead! And if we ride to the Hells once more, We've danced with devils twice before! And when the Gate’s last bell does ring, We still will dance and sing!

[Verse 2] Gale once drank a wizard’s brew, But it was Auntie Ethel’s potions stew Made him fly a few meters high, And us carry him along with a ballon line on his thigh, Lae'zel dared a bugbearbeer-shot, Then challenged Minsc to kiss the pot We found some Firewine in a cave, Made Wyll forget to gallantly behave

[Chorus] We won't be going off to bed, We'll drink until we wake the dead! And if we ride to the Hells once more, We've danced with devils twice before! And when the Gate’s last bell does ring, We still will dance and sing!

[Verse 3] Bhaalspawn’s Bloodwine, sticky-sweet and almost gone, what a bummer! Aristen&Saulus mixed it with Thisobald’s Bellyglummer Minthara brought into the Underdark booze, After that Halsin kissed a drunken moose Sipping Arabellan Dry after Baldur’s Grape was rough, Even Jaheira said, "Cub, slowly enough!" But Saulus played her wicked spider lyre’s night, And made the whole damn inn go wild

[Final Chorus] We won't be going off to bed, We'll drink until we wake the dead! And if we ride to the Hells once more, We've danced with devils twice before! And when the Gate’s last bell does ring, We still will dance and sing! And if we go to hell, we’ll be drinking to Baldur’s final bell! We’ll be drinking to Baldur’s final bell! Even if we go to hell, we’ll be drinking to Baldur’s final ringing bell!

⭐️Shot 1:

Musicians:

@/kei2023.bsky.social‬ - Minfilia

@/marychronicler.bsky.social‬ - Brialla

Dancers:

@gcolquhoun - Vera

@arzen9 - Lark

@kl4ptrap - Morinth.

@obsessedwhyyes - Elysia

@thedaffodilsbard - Rajiyah

@/hennaa2.bsky.social‬ - Tavrieth

The rest of the guests:

@/bldsprks.bsky.social‬ - Malis

@gnarlyskihazard - Claire

@/hennaa2.bsky.social‬ - Lilith

@yennefer-of-vengerbergs - Syanna

⭐️Shot 2

shot was made on map by @/sp4rr0wsw3nch.bsky.social

Musicians:

@/astra-ancunin.bsky.social‬ - Astra

@somniatica - Mint

@/starisky.bsky.social- Kelari

@optimisticgrey - Celeste

@bhaal-battle-beer-bard - Saulus

@/sandpiper-paradise.bsky.social‬ - Emmeryn

Star of the stage:

@/sp4rr0wsw3nch.bsky.social‬ - Rav

Dancers:

@serenbriar - Elowynne

@davenswitcher - Estellé

@/sea-breeze13.bsky.social‬ - Merlot

@squidgang - Hubert Pillsbury

@/kentonanamiz.bsky.social- Xiomi

@saucy-scribbler - Imara

⭐️Shot 3

Musicians:

@bhaal-battle-beer-bard - Saulus

@squidgang Makie Mayart

Devana (Dziewanna) belogs to me

Dancers:

@/ladydarkka.bsky.social- Alex & Fionntán Ó Reoánaigh

The rest of the guests:

@squidgang - Namulith Dorok

@mercymaker - Maleane

@/crispkkyu.bsky.social‬ - Eve

@davenswitcher - Ravne

In all shots I used mod Pretty Particles by @scarstarion ❤️‍

Also thank you @johnlarian for Photo Mode and amazing game ❤️‍

Link to download shots in original quality.

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I'm so glad it's inspiring to you! These are such adorable shots and a great use of this space!! ❤️

𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝒾𝓇𝓈𝓉 𝓈𝓅𝑒𝓁𝓁 𝑜𝒻 𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓉𝓁𝑒 𝐼𝒹𝑒

I finally got around to trying @rdekarios's amazing mod! It's absolutely incredible, one of those things that instantly gets your imagination going, and also brings so much to the world of virtual photography.

Honestly, I'm feeling super inspired right now!

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I love everything about this - the poses, the lighting and them slightly silhouetted 🫠✨

favourite spot.

Edit to shout out @rdekarios for snapshots, and renewing my vp interest 💜

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thanks to @rdekarios and the snapshots mod i found a little bit of sky that looked like the bi flag in-game and made my favorite bisexuals kiss in front of it 💗💜💙 (okay admittedly i edited the colors a bit but it was already pretty close)

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Chapter 8 of Starlight and Spellwork (I promise this is nearing the end) is posted. As ever, thanks to @optimisticgrey and @rdekarios for lending their OCs, with special mention to the Galmancers who beta read for me.

Dearest Readers,

It is the peculiar genius of certain guests to arrive without invitation and leave with the keys to the house. Such was the scene at Dweomerheart, where the evening’s polite intrigues were interrupted by the entrance of a gentleman in crimson—radiant as a sunset and twice as fatal.

Raphael, son of Mephistopheles, did not come merely to admire the décor. No, my darlings—he came to test the stitching on old bargains, to remind the Regent that debts are rarely private affairs, and to place before the Misses Demaris a choice gilded in equal parts temptation and threat.

Beyond the chandeliers, another stage was set: a lonely lodge on the cliffs, its wards shimmering with fey craft, holding a song that did not wish to be sung. But whether in a music room or a prison of glamour, the rules are the same—every performance ends, and every audience must pay the price of admission.

~Elmara

https://archiveofourown.org/works/68656396/chapters/179342946

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WIP Wednesday/Last Lines

tagged by @rdekarios

I’m fooling with so many things right now. Finishing my Regency piece.

At an awkward spot with Gale’s memoir, not wanting to make it a wholesale retelling of cannon events, so I’m crafting it in to a collection of letters between Lily and Gale, found by their daughter after their deaths, collected for the Keeper of Tomes at Candlekeep:

“To the world, they were legend. A Bladesinger whose moonblade split silence like song. A wizard whose ambition scorched the fabric of gods. Together, they reshaped the fate of Faerûn more times than the history books can cleanly record.

But this is not about that.

This is about the box I found, after they left us. A small thing, simply warded, tucked in the back of the Evereskan study no one had touched in decades. I opened it expecting drafts, fragments of spellwork, perhaps a treatise half-finished. What I found was something far rarer: a lifelong conversation.

Not a memoir. Not a confession. Not anything so formal.

Just love. In ink and margins. In torn paper and unfinished sentences.

Letters. Notes. Corrections. Jokes. Regrets. Reconciliations.

They had written to each other through the entirety of their shared life—across battlefields and bedtime, during council meetings and quiet cups of tea. And they answered each other not always in return letters, but in the margins. In the margins.

And somehow, across centuries and complications, they never stopped.

They didn’t write to preserve their love. They wrote through it.

Love was not a story they told. It was the language they shared.

I have chosen to preserve their words as they were found: disordered, undated, chaotic. What follows is not a record of public legacy, but a private map—each note a star by which they navigated one another.

This is not for scholars. This is for anyone who has ever loved, or been loved, or wondered if two extraordinary people might find something soft and ordinary between them and call it home.”

It is titled, of course, after my father’s phrase:

The Thunderclap and the Ivy.

And to those who would shelve this beside volumes of spellcraft and prophecy, I say—

You misunderstand.

This is the most powerful magic they ever cast.

Art by Takemi Art on IG/Bsky

Tagging @magnificentcoffeekitten @alstromeri-a @babydinosaur930 and anyone who has something they want to share

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Last Lines / WIP Wednesday

I got a lot of tags for both 'WIP Day' and 'Last Line' (thank you so much @optimisticgrey, @defira85, @bhaal-battle-beer-bard, @riddlerosehearts & @velocitross).

Technically cheating, because this isn't the last thing I wrote, but it is the opening to what I'm about to work on (albeit, an imperfect rough draft).

I've decided it's time for me to tell Gale & Seraphina's story 🙈

If she kept her eyes shut, she could fool herself. Fool herself into thinking the lapping of waves against the shore was just the gentle flap of her curtains against the windowsill, fluttering against the open pages of half-read books. Into thinking the soft, sandy bed beneath her was just her old mattress giving out at last, the worn springs sagging and uneven, sighing beneath the weight of eleven years of use. Into thinking the acrid stench that clung to her nostrils was the smell of fish and meat at the Baldur's Gate produce markets a little way down the street, turning foul in the sunlight and ushered in on the breeze. Into thinking she was home. That the entire, awful thing had been nothing but a nightmare. But for all her many flaws, Seraphina was not a fool.

No pressure tags for: @bladesingerlily, @tynithia, @whiskeyskin, @emmy-and-the-tieflings & anybody else having fun working on stuff 😁

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that one dialogue when you meet astarion

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Thanks Gale

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Glow

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who put all these dramatic bitches in the same room

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the vast majority of fanworks are bad, and that's fine, actually. they are bad for the same reason that the average number of legs for a human person to have is less than two: statistics. like with all endeavours and especially creative ones, most people who write fanfiction or draw art of their favourite characters are bad at it. if you line up all the crochet projects in the world, most of them will be, well, bad. some are bad because they're the first thing a person ever made, or the second or third or tenth, and this kind of thing takes practice. others are bad because the person who made them is just not very good at it. maybe they just learned how to make granny squares and they're perfectly happy to never expand or improve on that. most people who dance or bake or garden or braid hair are not amazing at it! and you'd never go to your kid's dance recital or eat your friend's homemade carrot cake and expect the same experience as you'd have at a professional ballet performance or award-winning bakery. And that's if we assume there is an objective measure of Good Art, which there isn't! Some art is just "bad" because you don't like it!

I think though that specifically with fanfiction, we sometimes forget that when we read a book or watch a movie, dozens of people have looked at it and given feedback and made changes and done quality control before the final product reaches our shelves or screens, and that's not counting the original writer's learning process and past experience. A published book is not anyone's first crochet project, even if it is their debut novel. But with fanfiction, the barrier to entry is so low (on purpose! this is a good thing!) that we do get to see a lot of wonky granny squares, and on sites like AO3 they're sitting on the same shelf as the hand-made silk lace wedding dress and you can't always tell just by looking at it which is which. The consequence of this is that we encounter fic that we think is unpolished, has bad punctuation, is out of character, and we are tempted to think "well, this is awful! how dare this person put this wonky granny square on the same shelf as the lace wedding dress!" But that's not how fandom is supposed to work! That wonky granny square is somebody who is really excited about this TV show they just watched and they are reaching out into the void to share their excitement with you. To scoff at them for not making a lace wedding dress is really, really rude. Even if they did make a lace wedding dress, maybe it's just really not your style, or you think they should have used a different pattern, and it's still their wedding dress. You don't have to wear the dress and you don't have to read the fic.

We all know that there is some fanfic out there that is incredible. I think it's important to talk about that! But the vast majority of people who post their writing online are just sharing their little hobby projects that they make for fun and I also think it's important to remember that.

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So lovely! ❤️ (And Emperor Dreamscene is low key my favourite Snapshots map, I return to it way too often 🤭)

Day 7 - An offer of marriage

"I used to believe Mystra's forgiveness was worth dying for. But I was wrong. You showed me just how much I have to live for."

“To know you love me for the man I am, and not the magic I command. None have loved me so purely before.”

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Sooo ~ [sorry again] I hereby declare this to (finally) be my last post for regency week. 😄

Those lovebirds will get a small wedding ceremony and of course I'll show you what Dammon came up with for their wedding bands. ❤️

But I think I need a little break now. 😄

But for now, thank y'all for the warm welcome you gave me. I've never shared VP things with anyone before and you were so sweet about all this ~ I'm really glad, I was brave enough to give sharing these here a try. ❤️ Also big thanks to @lady-sapphyre for regency week itself.

Edit to add: Again, the location is part of @rdekarios' Snapshot mod. Emperor Dreamscene (I think?) this time. This spot is a bit hidden, kind of the far right corner of the map. 😊 I found so many rather hidden but cool spots in many of the locations. Looking around and experimenting with light and atmosphere proved to be rewarding many times for me now. 😄 Seriously, I love this mod so much.

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Gorgeous! ❤️

i took a million and one different screenshots of elenion at this same spot yesterday (again, thanks to the snapshots mod by @rdekarios!) so here's some of the first ones i did 💙