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who are you, really, that you could be guilty of such bitter business?

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saw people making these and got reallyreallyreally excited. the real challenge was narrowing my textpost collections down

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had to jump on the text post bandwagon for these two

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How would Shart's storyline have changed if it was revealed that Shar and Selune are the same god?

That's actually a really good idea for a campaign.

See, the thing that kind of bores me about my least favorite fantasy cosmologies is anthropomorphized deities. In Forgotten Realms lore, a lot of gods ARE just mortals who got so powerful that they ascended to having their own domain, so you can imagine gods like Cyric or the Dead Three or god!Gale acting as if they had petty mortal concerns and attachments.

But Shar and Selûne are primordial deities. They've never been any sort of mortal so concepts like family drama and lineages should be wildly different for them, which can lead to all interesting conceptions of "sisterhood."

I'm not a fan of BG3's characterization of Shar, but it's not entirely baseless either. They wouldn't be the first to take that route with Shar and Selûne's cosmic tug-of-war being a black-and-white evil dark sister jealous of her prettier light sister (boring, passé, baby's Zoroastrianism).

But imagine if Shar and Selûne were two aspects of the same god, the same night sky? It would be like the Christian trinity but if Father, Son, and Holy Spirit were feuding. That would explain why one can never truly triumph over the other — darkness and loss can't exist without light and love and vice versa.

It would tie in so well to Shadowheart's deepest desire in wanting to be "whole." If it's revealed that the two entities she thought were irreconcilable were actually two facets of the same existence, it's a realization that the holy wars they're waging are patently absurd. You cannot kill a part of yourself to be complete — in the same way you can't erase your childhood to be a complete adult, you can't discard your "darkness" to claim only the light side of you as your true self, and that the very nature of existence IS contradiction.

Shart's choice at the end wouldn't be to either stay a Sharran or become a Selûnite. It would be to embrace her full self including her scars, sins, and trauma — realizing that loss only has meaning if there's is something you value enough to lose and that to love something does mean inevitable loss.

She earns her title as god's favorite princess because she's the only cleric in history to be BOTH Sharran and Selûnite. She's branded a heretic by both sects, but in doing so, she is closer to their god than anyone living ever was.

Shar and Selûne being the same god also explains why no one has ever seen them in the same room.

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Astarion mixed media experiment (っ˘ω˘ς )

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Ssz'intra gets beamed up to the Nautiloid moments after entering the surface world, or "You just had to go and say that"

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the look minthara hits you with before asking why the refugees aren't being exploited for labor is diabolical

what do you mean '🥺'. put those away

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lying across the autopsy table all by yourself, gorgeous?

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Final Round of Artfight attacks!

Maeleth for @cayemm

Row for @ehlnofay

Joan for @wouldntyoulichentoknow

Mikal for @ulenehlervu

Kazamir for @songteller

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i had so much fun making the text-picture things that I fear I may now never stop. i will flood everyone's feed. the world will be inundated

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saw people making these and got reallyreallyreally excited. the real challenge was narrowing my textpost collections down

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anyone else get really pissed off when astarion looks at the camera with the biggest wettest eyes known to creation. like GIRL we see them!!!

(inspired by this post:)

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had to jump on the text post bandwagon for these two

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bandwagoning

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gnomish characters have this "what's in this? oats? honey?" dialogue option with okta when she's ladling out porridge in the tieflings' camp. this has stuck with me. what's in the porridge if NOT oats