#Good Gate Media

[astraltea]

i am not immune to the silly wizard man

[telumendils]

ppl will really say shit like "astarion can't be attracted to women just look at the way he behaves" with their whole chest like they're not blatantly stereotyping gay men and erasing vast swathes of bisexual and pansexual men when they do that.

[maranull]

still insane about how Lae reacts if you fail to win your love-duel with her btw

she's raised in a culture where combat and being "worthy" is everything, in one where romantic partners "claim" each other in battle to see if they are worthy to be together

YET SHE DOES THIS!! SAYS THIS WHEN HER LOVE INTEREST ACTUALLY FAILS IN FRONT OF HER! WHEN THEY FAIL THE EXPECTATIONS HER CULTURE PUTS ON THEM

I'M GONNA BITE

[messiahzzz]

i do wonder why fandom is so insistent on proving that "gale could eventually change his mind" when it comes to fatherhood.

if children are something you ideally want in your romance - that is completely valid and luckily for you, there are several romance options in the game that can provide just that. wyll, lae'zel, and halsin. even shadowheart briefly mentions that children might be a possibility for her in the future. 4 options total that either already have entire adoption subplots or are open to the idea.

meanwhile, fandom is bending over backwards, bringing up aspects of gale's arc that are completely irrelevant to the topic at hand and claiming that any statement coming from gale or any boundary he sets should forever be questioned because... "he has been known to have inferiority issues"?!

gale is a character who is very likely in his 40s. he isn't some 20-something college boy who is still trying to figure everything out. i personally never felt like there was any point in the context of gale's relationship with tav where he was unsure about his desires. quite the contrary.

gale is also very vocal about what he wants. not wasting any time in proposing to tav after the big bad had been defeated. i am pretty sure there would have been instances where gale expressed his desire to have children (whether that may mean immediate or somewhere down the line) if larian had intended to include this aspect in his romance as well.

...but instead all we have to go on when it comes to the subject of children in general are lines like these:

player: gale... how would you feel about having another person in our relationship?

gale: what, like a child? i'm not quite sure i'd consider myself father material, plus our current lifestyle isn't exactly what i'd call settled...

tara: this is why mrs. dekarios and i will be waiting an eternity more for grandchildren.

gale: psst! shoo, tara.

nodecontext: shooing away tara like one would a naughty cat.

gale, upon spotting oliver during their game of hide and seek: ah, i have you! just a shame i don't want you.

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adding for clarification

[wizardsix]

i guess i have to say it a million times since people insist on being dense: gale is just as much of a victim as the other companions. this isn't the trauma olympics. everyone has been through shit and deserves healing and redemption.

gale is not the self entitled, manipulative abuser people are painting him as. he's a lot of things, but nothing so heinous. he was groomed by a goddess who has a history of preying on wizards that threaten her power, and as a result, gale's ambition and faith was what drove him to discover the netherese orb. what he did was for mystra - in his mind, it was to prove his love by restoring her missing power - and by extension for the betterment of mortals. his actions were never malicious or selfish, in fact he puts himself so low on the priority list it's pretty much non existent. he was never going to use that power to usurp her, but mystra definitely saw it like that, which is why she didn't hesitate to present suicide as his only solution. he never crossed her personal boundaries in the way people are twisting it, he only wanted to cross the boundaries she put on wizards and their power.

people who insist he's all of these things and more clearly only spoke to him once or lack the reading comprehension to see past how much of an unreliable narrator he is. i can understand first impressions might put some people off, but you can say the same about the other companion introductions. i don't like comparing but since people insist on doing it; gale is one of the easiest companions to get along with just by being a good person, yet his honesty and selflessness makes people think he's secretly evil? while the companions with the capacity to be evil don't even try to hide it? how are people being so backwards about this? it's genuinely baffling and tiring to see people continuously spit out incorrect takes all too confidently.

no one is forcing anyone to like him, but it's unfair to completely mischaracterize him because you refuse to learn critical thinking. i promise using your brain is not as scary as it seems, or you can just. not talk about things you don't understand.

[wizardsimper]

So I'm seeing a few people (mostly on Reddit) claim that Gale is evil from the start due to the fact that he doesn't immediately leave after raiding the grove

I'm so confused because he only stays after raiding the grove because he's desperate, if he leaves he dies and the orb blows, I can only imagine just how difficult of a decision that can be. If Gale is evil, it's because you as the player convinced him to be, similar to Shadowheart who can be swayed to be good or evil depending on your choices. At worst Gale is neutral, but even that's hard to say considering his approvals are mostly from carrying out good deeds. And even his misgivings (his desire for godhood) are coming from a place of wanting to be better for everyone (even if we know the power corrupts)

I think this sentiment is mostly coming from people who not only dislike his character, but don't bother to even interact with him, so they instead jump to conclusions.

An evil playthrough with Gale is fun, but he definitely does not start the game that way.

[garf-lover96]

AN INTRO!! because i never made one and i want some mutuals desperately:(

!my name is dante, floppa is an online alias, both are equally okay to use

!pronouns are he/they

!i haven't figured out if i'm pan or aro yet! (it's been years) i'm most likely aroace

!i'm slavic🥟🥟

TJINGS I'M INTERESTED IN!!:

!baldur's gate 3, the arcana (<-hyperfixations), queer media that makes you miserable, long ass video essays (on very varying topics, i consume knowledge about everything!!), animation, drawing (once every few months maybe..,.), musicals;

!and garfield..... obviously..;

!also a ton of movies and tv shows and games that i won't mention because it would be too much. for perspective, my favorite movie is a tie between 'puss in boots: the last wish' and 'across the spiderverse' (atm at least) and my favorite tv show is 'the good place'.

PLEASE interact if you like any of my interests!! i'd be grateful!

[venvellan]

i'm unironically so obsessed with rolan it's getting annoying. it was never ironic to begin with but i thought a post or two would get it out of my system. it's worse now. i been thinking about this side quest npc more than astarion lately. at the VERY LEAST i think about them equally. it's stupid. never in my career have i been down lower for a side character with < an hour of dialogue. i am so free. but at the same time. feel like dribbles. the way i'm clowning around (and in several pieces spread across the land)

[91-aquarii]

i truly can't do this anymore i can't i can't do it i'm not strong enough i am not god's strongest bisexual

am i allowed to say that i hope everyone who erases characters' bisexuality explodes into 90 billion pieces. because i hope everyone who erases characters' bisexuality explodes into 90 billion pieces

[diluc33rpm]

the romance/relationship system in bg3 is genuinely some of the worst designed shit i've ever seen in any game with that feature but at least the memes we get out of it are funny. once saw someone comment something along the lines of 'patch note: waving at gale will no longer cause him to buy a house for the two of you to retire in' and i've never recovered since

[warlenys]

need jesus to be heavily heavily involved in getting aziraphale and crowley back together. his only narrative purpose should be to reverse the gay divorce

[gender-luster]

these three pieces of media are in my brain, holding hands and dancing and making out sloppy style

[measuringbliss]

you've been such a sweetheart and supportive today haha thank you!! I hope your own ventures are going well!

Aww thank YOU, for existing <3 <3 <3 I'm always here to support my friend's debauchery!

[lildoodlenoodle]

Me who talks about a comic related special interest INCESSANTLY:

A random person/follower who’s only seen movie/tv show adaptation: Omg that’s so interesting. I should totally read the comics!

Me: no ❤️

[wizardsix]

the greeks are claiming gale as one of their own . have you Seen him?? his last name?? that man is greek im being so serious

[professionaljester]

bro i hate being autistic bc any time anything on tumblr gets popular i literally have zero interest in consuming that media so I feel left out and alienated on my dash