#I like Astarion too
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My personal hot take for BG3 is that I see the appeal that Astarion has but personally he’s far too mean for me to get into him and the fan base surrounding him makes turns me off from him so much.
#I could go into detail#about how a lot of a station fans#put gal and wyll characteristics#onto Astarion#just because they like that he’s their sexy little vampire bf#but I won’t#I just can’t get into him#especially when I have to be mean#and evil#much prefer just going through his story#as a friend#but more power to everyone else I guess#also side not#I saw earlier this morning about how people call Gale#an abuser and manipulator and narcissist#but then sign praises for Astarion who manipulated Tav#but also become an abuser and narcissist when you let him ascend#(which btw a lot of people like and romanticize the abusive relationship)#(he has with tab after that)#anyway#what do I know#I haven’t even finished the game#I love Gale and Wyll tho#I like Astarion too#does this count as#fandom discourse#probably#but it’s honestly my opinion#that means nothing to anyone else#and shouldn’t mean anything to anyone else
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not caring too much about a fandom’s favourite guy is the worst. you’ll think “oh i’ll look into the tag see if anything new and cool’s there” and it’s just that fucking guy again
#this is about astarion. gale to an extent too#had this with dragonage too because 80% of the time it was just solas or cullen. who i dont care for too much#and i do LIKE astarion and gale. But my favourites are the girls and wyll#something i had less with the dao cast because i generally also like the popular guys of that one alistair and zev#but then it’s like. ‘do you guys even understand these characters’#da2 i dont care for anders dragonage all that much. Fenris i do LIKE and he’s my fav guy. but i dont care for them the most#sorry for complain posting. Went into a tag today if you couldnt tell#roscoe rambles
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sleeping arrangements (not sure tara would ever actually deign to sleep in the same 20ft radius as shovel but who can resist those big shiny insectoid black eyes 🥺)
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#gale dekarios#shadowheart#astarion#bg3#baldur's gate 3#my art#want to promote a greater shovel presence in the fanbase. where is all the shovel content. where is my beautiful daughter#she is gale's familiar. to me.#he may not necessarily *want* shovel#but it's too late now#he's her wizard it might be more apt to say#tara is not in any way shape or form a familiar she's like. his aunt.#also i have GOT to develop a faster way of making things like i have so many dumb joke ideas i can’t be rendering shit. unsustainable! 😭😭
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Really quick doodles of a few scenes from the stream yesterday. Including combat flirting taunting, gale’s magnificently distracting shoes and.. whatever you wanna call gale agreeing to give 15 gold to astarion 😐😑😐😑😐 (that’s me blinking)
#bloodweave#astarion x gale#gale x astarion#bg3#baldur's gate 3#gale dekarios#astarion ancunin#they are so funny god help. thank you to whoever sat Neil next to Tim#my roommate turning to look directly at me whenever they were interacting lik bestie please stop I am trying to be normal. don’t look at me#my roommate also said Neil acting low-key obsessed with gale and I could only say wow he’s just like me fr fr.#if I didn’t still struggle with getting shadowhearts likeness you would get a drawing of her hugging bing bong too but alas …#anyway the stream was so fun#can’t wait til tomorrow hehe
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my sister finished her first bg3 run, here's evil gang reunion photo <333 (withers invented polaroid for the occasion idc)
#bg3#baldur's gate 3#shadowheart#minthara#astarion#tav#oc: viivi @artharakka#he keeps the photo in his wallet too lol<3#they're everything to me your honor i lov them severely#i stg gang so good#not Morally lmao#but so delicious n ride and die...#it truly felt like survival simulator#and lemme tell u.. these bitches Lived💯‼���#(and yes selûnite shadowheart in evil gang it's how we roll babey🙏)#they all said fuck everyone else in their own way
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Several weeks ago, my retirement-age mother requested that I play Baldur’s Gate 3 for her because she has trouble with controllers/keyboards and wanted “to see what all the fuss is about with that cute wizard boy.” For context, my mother and I have done this sort of thing in the past with certain RPGs (dragon age, mass effect, etc.), but it’s been a few years since she’s personally requested a game like this. Basically, I control her Tav but let her make all the choices so she can determine how the story plays out without worrying about mechanics. She treats it like a choose-your-own-adventure book.
Anyway, here is a list of some of the things my mother has said and/or chosen to do throughout the course of BG3 in no particular order:
She is (obviously) romancing Gale. She is quite smitten with him and his passion for books and learning; she also thinks he’s polite and qualifies as “relationship material.” She also REALLY likes the things he’s said about his cat so far (my mom is a cat lady), so I know she’s gonna flip shit when we meet Tara in Act III.
She’s playing a normal druid Tav with a generally good alignment. Her favorite spell is Spike Growth because she thinks it’s hilarious whenever enemies walk into the AOE and die. I usually end up having to cast it at least once per battle per her request. Sometimes twice.
Contrary to her alignment, my mother tasks me with robbing every single chest, crate, barrel, and burlap sack we come across; this also includes people and their pockets. The party is always at max carrying capacity. ALWAYS. She doesn’t like selling things because “what if I need them.” The camp stash is in literal shambles. There is no hope of organizing it. She’s got like fifty seven sets of rags and a billion pieces of random silverware.
She MUST talk to every animal and corpse in the game. I think five hours of her total playtime so far (47ish) has been spent speaking to animals as many times as humanly possible. Like, I was thorough in my own playthroughs, but this is on a whole other level.
She did NOT get Volo’s lobotomy, but she did let Auntie Ethel take her eye in hopes of a cure for the tadpole. I did not understand the logic then. I still do not understand it now.
She is far more interested in fashion than equipment stats. Do you have any idea how much gold I’ve had to spend on dyes just to make things match? SO much. Same vibe as that “please someone help me balance my finances my family is starving” tweet but instead of candles it’s thirty thousand fucking bottles of black and furnace red dye.
We broke the prisoners out of Moonrise, but they got on the boat too early and bugged the fight by leaving Astarion and Karlach behind. Wulbren Bongle somehow got stuck in combat mode even after engaging the cutscene on the docks below Last Light; he he kept trying to run ALL THE WAY BACK TO MOONRISE nine fucking meters at a time while I frantically tried to finish the fight with the Warden, otherwise Wulbren would have run straight into the shadow curse. (I would’ve let him go; fuck Wulbren Bongle, all my homies hate Wulbren Bongle. But my mom didn’t know that, and she wanted to keep him safe. So.)
She had me reload a save like eighteen times to save the giant eagles on top of Rosymorn Monastery. Wouldn’t even let me do non-lethal damage just to get past things. I think getting that warhammer for the dawnmaster puzzle took us like an hour and a half alone. (Yes, I know you can use any warhammer, but SHE didn’t.)
She’s started keeping an irl notebook to keep track of her quests between play sessions. She writes down ideas and strategies when she thinks of them during the week, then brings them to her next game session at my house. I think she wrote about three pages on possible approaches to the goblin fortress alone.
She insists that I pet Scratch and the owlbear cub before every single long rest, no exceptions. Sometimes I have to do it multiple times until she is absolutely sure that the animals know exactly how much she loves and cherishes them. She has also commissioned a crocheted owlbear plush from a friend of hers and is very excited.
I’m sure there’s a bunch of stuff I’m forgetting, but those are some fun things I thought of. She’s enjoying the game and is telling all of her retired friends to get it and play it for themselves. She asked me “what is Discord” yesterday and I think my life flashed before my eyes.
anyway shout out to my mom for being neat
Part 2 — Part 3 — Part 4 — Part 5
#bg3#baldur's gate 3#gale#gale of waterdeep#astarion#gale dekarios#laq talks#I talk#she stares at me real hard after she makes a choice too#like squinting to see if my expression gives anything away#if it was a good or bad call#I keep my face blank as shit it’s hilarious#I have not told her I’m writing fanfic for this game#nor will I ever#jesus christ
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Uh Oh....the ladies have entered their 4th pint stage
#GUYS HELPP ive been looking at this too long i cant tell anymore if its even good#as usual i kinda like the sketch better ripppppp but it was nice to finish something#anyways my previous point still stands: whoever wins does get to fuck shadowheart in the bathroom#some details i want ppl to notice: lae'zels dogtags and army pants#karlachs cigarette pack sleeve. bc shes a handsome guy:)#also astarions cunty earring anddd i replaced shaddys hair accessory with a punky spikey one#and ummm my Tav is wearing a rainbow bracelet:) bc theyre gay#bg3#bg3 fanart#baldur's gate 3#astarion#gale dekarios#gale of waterdeep#wyll ravengard#bg3 wyll#lae'zel#karlach#karlach cliffgate#shadowheart#bg3 tav#ren#tadfools#the tadfools#i rly think i fucked up laezels face shape but by the time i realised it was too late#wow mayb ill use a ref next time?? whaaaat??
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Astarion pencil study. Traditional art
#may add things later idk#my art#astarion#bg3#I just like how he looks when he is drunk on tav's blood#astarion ancunin#astarion bg3#had a line caption planned for this but too tired#portrait study#traditional art#bg3 art
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bg3 the princess bride au ⚔️ no idea who vizzini would be
#someone said raphael but he is too tall#the good thing of art its i dont have to think of the logistic of how this would work i just do pics#this is cause my gf saw me rebloging princess bride gif and said “oh i see why you like wyll” AHAHAHA#also for the sake of transparency i did a lot of tracing screenshots#bg3#baldur's gate#baldur's gate 3#baldur's gate iii#wyllach#wyll ravengard#karlach#karlach cliffgate#astarion#astarion ancunin#minsc#minsc and boo#minsc of rashemen#withers#withers bg3#cazador szarr#enver gortash
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at least it'll be wonderful while it lasts.
(a little post-game downtime discussion, when they have the time and space to talk about these things. also in my canon, scratch gets to stay. :/)
#baldur's gate 3#bg3#bg3 tav#astarion x tav#tavstarion#oc: finch#my art#bloodoath#finch always thought his life would be short either from being a half-orc or taking up his oath#and although his former partner shook a lot of that pessimism loose#caution's death sort of flushed any hope finch had for himself of being anything but a means of vengeance#until of course he found himself surrounded by/in charge of a bunch of sad brainwormed fools#and was suddenly like oh these are people. i used to be a person too. i... i care so much about them oh holy shit#but i think even AFTER the netherbrain he sometimes can't shake the feeling#that he's expendable#that by upbringing or by profession he is the exception to the rule of being loved even if you're broken#he's got time to sort himself out. they both do#but either way immortality just isn't on the table for him. he's TIRED
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i love my puter all my friends are inside it
#SORRY for the semi-repost i really needed to improve this piece#i like it now and i hope you do too :)#artists on tumblr#baldurs gate 3#bg3#bg3 fanart#baldurs gate fanart#bg3 astarion#astarion ancunin#gale dekarios#gale of waterdeep#wyll ravengard#bg3 wyll#bg3 lae'zel#shadowheart#bg3 karlach#noah.jpg
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genuinely love how the whole gang is like "fuck this guy"
#sophie.png#sophie plays bg3#bg3#baldur's gate#baldu'rs gate 3#bg3 spoilers#wyll ravengard#gale dekarios#halsin#shadowheart#karlach#astarion#jaheira#aylin#dame aylin#larroakan#im sorry i don't have lae'zel's reaction she was still kidnapped for me at this point 😔#if anyone has her dialogue for this part pls feel free to add#minsc too#tho i'm sure they both were also like 'lmao she's gonna destroy that bastard'
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I saw someone say Astarion bg3 is "the most queer coded man ever" and yeah. Its. Its because hes queer. He has canonically slept with men. He will date women, men, and nonbinary folks. "Queer coding" you mean the literal text they coded into the fucking game?
#bg3#baldurs gate 3#astarion#astarion ancunin#i mean we know what they really meant which is#“i think he acts Too Gay so he cant into women or anything and also i dont respect Bisexuals as queer ppl obvs”#but like. cmon.#txt#q slur#hall of fame
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Wild that people think Astarion would make a good dad, cause I cannot imagine him as anything other than the family friend who is your absolute last choice of sitter even though your kids love him because every time you pick them up from his house, they'll tell you something like, "Mom! Uncle Astarion taught us how to throw knives!"
#and he'd be like “what? i supervised. no one died.”#the chaos inside him is just too strong#astarion#bg3
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i dont think he remembers what a normal meal is, nor does he care
#bg3#baldur's gate 3#bg3 astarion#bg3 tav#baldur's gate oc#aino bg3 oc#kunst huli#ainos like i love you but this is unacceptable#inspired by the auto choice function when choosing camping supplies#other gems included: 8 bottles of wine and 2 raw fish#id imagine itll happen once someone lets astarion make dinner again#and its like guys. have we learned nothing#too sleepy to draw that tho so
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Keep your distance, darling.
#bg3#baldur's gate 3#bg3 fanart#astarion#bg3 astarion#fanart#illustration#i was looking at this like hmm this kinda looks like castlevania#*googles castlevania* first image is a silhouette of a castle and a giant moon behind it#no original ideas in this brain#also he's too pretty#but i dont know how to draw him any other way
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