#boghermit

[imoanurparentsnames]

JK Rowling has done more damage to feminism than any other person in modern history and I'm not joking.

[paperwick]

Do you have any vampire OCs? :3c

U//w//U Well... I don't have the vampire character, but you might think this is funny. @bravebirdart and I have a story... set in ww1, with an immortal Indian-Irish lad and a gay American vampire, who bond over both wanting to die. One is unable to die at all (Dev, the immortal) and the other (Isaac, the Vampire) is afraid to pull the trigger... and they fall in love. This is them by the 1950's having both found a reason to live in each other. ♥ (Dev on the left, Isaac on the right).

Dev is my lad, and Isaac/Gamma is @bravebirdart's.

[faerieenthusiast]

Tagged by @boghermit. Make a poll of your favorite female characters and see which your followers like the most! I tag @caesarius3 @lovelyknjs @petrichorpetals @wulcanbiology

@doctorsoup

[bosspigeon]

this isn't anon but who cares, top five favorite albums, GO

Hozier (Expanded Edition) - Hozier

Splendor & Misery - clipping.

Bloodmoon: I - Converge & Chelsea Wolfe

The Normal Album - Will Wood

Nova Twins EP - Nova Twins

[wrenhavenriver]

top 5 books for you too! also, top 5 video games and top 5 movies, if you would like :3c

heeell yeah! top 5 books:

Salvage The Bones by Jesmyn Ward - an incredibly lyrical and deeply sad story of a family in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina. i read it for the first time at a very shitty time in my life and the sibling relationships especially punched me directly in the heart. a tough read on many fronts (definitely look up/mind the content warnings if you have any "hard no" topics in your books) but the power and beauty of jesmyn ward's writing is something else.

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - one of those rare high school assigned books that actually made an incredibly lasting impression. i'm glad 17-year-old me got all those reality checks about *checks notes* the horrors of war, the hollow uselessness of nationalism and being convinced to die for it, the absurdly circular reasoning that props up systems of power and the incompetence of the people at the top of them, the ability of bureaucracy to drive you to sheer sobbing madness, financial systems being wildly arbitrary at best and a fucking scam at worst, *takes breath*,

The Long Walk by Stephen King - look, I find most of Stephen King's work deeply annoying, but this one fucking hits. A Hunger Games-esque premise that's about self-destructive urges and toxic masculinity as much as it as about the actual, you know, ritualized dystopian death march. also the camaraderie that forms between these teenagers even in the most hideous of circumstances is so charming and funny and sweet. also also it's just, like, really gay (peter mcvries you mad bisexual disaster).

The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Sorry.

Anything by Octavia Butler really, but Dawn has a special place in my heart. The detail Butler put into all the different ways an alien species would be, well, alien to us--biological, linguistic, the makeup of family units, understandings of gender and sex, etc--and her description of humans as intelligent but highly hierarchical, and how these conflicting qualities could very well lead to our destruction...the hugely messy power dynamics not only between aliens and humans but among humans themselves...there's just so much to sink your teeth into, and it's only the first fucking book in the trilogy!

much more briefly because i'm giving myself eye strain, top 5 video games:

this is another one of those things that seems to shift every time i'm asked it but there are two (2) that will very likely never be budged from the list and those would be: have i mentioned this game called dishonored 2012 dev. arkane studios maybe one or eighteen hundred times over the last ten years; and bloodborne babey!!!

feeling like i need a zelda entry on here rn but i can't decide between majora's mask or twilight princess

fire emblem: awakening set me on the terrible path of anime chess obsession and i'm much less mad about it than i should be

also need a sengoku jidai media entry on here but i can't decide (x2) between sengoku basara or nioh which is hilarious because they are WILDLY different in tone. the duality of man

oh shit that's at least five? ask me again in a week and i'll have at least three different substitutions lmao

favorite movies:

the handmaiden. adapting fingersmith to 1930s korea is galaxy brain levels of genius and hideko and sook-hee are peak romance

saw pan's labyrinth for the first time at like. age 14? and it chemically altered my brain and introduced me to guillermo del toro's work and made me feel a lot of horrifying things. 10/10

need a ghibli entry on here but can't decide (x3) between princess mononoke and howl's moving castle, vote now on your phones

lord of the rings: the two towers. saw it six times in theaters when it originally came out and it's still my favorite of the series. can pretty much watch it by just closing my eyes at this point.

favorite disney/pixar is tangled. "i see the light" is also peak romance. wait what if hideko and sook-hee sang i see the light to each other

[blighted-elf]

1, 2, 10, 17, 37 !

Thank you!! BG3 Act 1 Asks

1 - Tell us about your Tav! Name, class and subclass, race, pronouns. Do you have a headcanon for where they're from? Their family? Are they a Dark Urge? Or did you choose an Origin Character? Was it an easy decision?

Name: Ry'on Ulan Class: College of Lore Bard Race: Seldarine Drow (not specified in game, but she's a Szarkai) Pronouns: She/her Origin: Custom She was born in Duthcloim, Menzoberranzan but headed for the surface with her older brother, Za'keth once they both reached adulthood. They stayed in Silverymoon until the events of BG3. I actually have an ask and write up on her whole family dynamics that I will get around to finishing soon, but this is the general gist of her backstory.

2 - Was there something about the character creator that just couldn't capture your Character? Please tell us about their hair, facial hair, tattoos, piercings, disabilities, their trans or intersex body, or anything else you're comfortable sharing.

The only things I wasn't able to get right with the character creator/mods was the body shape (I didn't picture her quite so thin) and the eye colour. The vanilla eyes look quite odd on most of the drow skintones just imo, because the white sclera are so yellow next to their grey skin. So I'll be making a mod for Ry'on next playthrough to get her just right. Her voice also glitched out and changed from voice 4 to voice 2 for some reason, which was a bit jarring.

10 - Do you have a favorite member of the Goblin Camp? Is it the same as your Character's?

Minthara for me, definitely. Do Volo and the Owlbear Cub count for Ry'on? 😅

17 - What does your Character think of Withers?

She didn't think all that much of him initially. Drow are pretty used to the undead and necromancy in general. But over time, she definitely started to wonder more about who he actually was amidst all his cryptic dialogue.

37 - Did your Character find the Necromancy of Thay? How are they handling it / planning to handle it?

She would have let Gale open it, but my dumbass accidentally sold the dark amethyst and didn't notice until the next act so I couldn't even go back to the vendors and buy it back 🥴

[iamjaydenstrest]

🎵

Using one of my most listened to playlists on Spotify!! It's titled "Songs to Draw To" Your song is "The Good in Me" by Jon Bellion. You get two lines bc one doesn't make sense without the other lol "All of me you take now, like criminals and shakedowns / Yeah, you make me forget who I am"

[a-la-faemo]

whenever people find out I don't use social media they say something along the lines of oh so cool you're kinda living off the grid

Nah bro I don't have any friends

[amygdalae]

Is Evanescence goth or emo? I always forget.

(Im not into Evanescence or emo and I'm still relatively (just a couple years now) new to goth so do not treat me as an authority on this)

But generally I associate them much more with emo than with goth (though some say they aren't emo either so. I dunno)

[rhysnolastname]

@boghermit

[tadpole-apocalypse]

Wanted to do some quick portraits as my warmup today, borrowed some ocs from some moots 🤭

@boghermit @mercymaker @vspin @phasebun

[faerieenthusiast]

Tagged by @boghermit to post five songs I've been listening to! Thank you for the tag. I tag @gateato @petrichorpetals @doctorsoup @caesarius3 @thequeervampiric if would like to do this!

[bosspigeon]

5 and 7 for the Green King Moss

5. How does your Dark Urge react to their urges in general? Are there specific urges that they have a strong reaction to?

The way Moss thinks is completely influenced by the Urges, in a way. Not so much in the BLOOD, DEATH, VIOLENCE, MURDER!! way but more like... he is deeply aware of the Mortality of those around him, and how easy it would be to return them all to meat and dust. But it's just so deeply ingrained he just sort of thinks that Everyone Has Thoughts Like That, until he starts fumbling his way through conversations and realizing... hm... maybe not?

I don't think he's even so much disgusted by them so much as faintly bothered by the fact that he has to fight them off to make decisions that would actually benefit his safety? The more Intense ones are annoying rather than Distressing.

What really makes him start to question and push back beyond going "Hey maybe it's not a good idea to rip apart every warm body in my path if I would like to continue surviving this Predicament" was Alfira, honestly. I like to think that he's been building up bonds with people, slowly but surely, even while there's that persistent buzz in the back of his mind wondering what their insides would look like, and with Alfira I pictured him spending time with her and talking to her. Fascinated by the music and wanting to know how to create something rather than destroy, even something as ephemeral and impermanent as a song.

So when he wakes up covered in her blood and gore, and realizing that he would never talk to her again, she'd never be able to teach him anything more, and she'd never be able to share the things she made with her heart and soul with the world, it really sets in that there is something deeply wrong with him and he has no idea if he can fix it.

7. Does your character try to confide in any of their allies about their urges? Which ones?

Oh, he Absolutely Just Says Some Off The Wall Shit without thinking it's all that weird bc he has no idea that it is!!! Starts to have conversations and realizes maybe he is a bit Not Normal. Asks pretty much all of his companions about it, and all of them seem to SEVERELY underestimate the level of Bloodthirsty his thoughts are, so he's just sort of left in the same position he was in the beginning.

[ineed-to-sleep]

Tagged by @seldaryne <3

I'm tagging @alongtidesoflight , @peachshroom , @boghermit to share some BG3 oc info if you'd like! ^^

And anyone who wants to do this, pls consider yourself tagged and feel free to tag me so I can see your oc!

Name: Nawen Farlong

Nickname(s): No specific nicknames, though she does get "darling" from Astarion and "soldier" from Karlach. She's generally more often the one that gives people nicknames instead of receiving them skdhakd Astarion gets "angel" and "kitten" a lot, Shadowheart gets "my heart" and "my love" and Karlach usually gets "general"(a lot of the nicknames she gives were initially meant with sarcasm, but after a while became actual terms of endearment).

Pronouns: She/her

Star sign: Whatever the in-universe equivalent of a scorpio is

Height: 5'3" with the attitude of 6'4"

Orientation: Everyone is game. If she were a romance option, rest assured you could probably romance her, as long as you're being a cunt ♡

Race: Half-drow

Romancing: Astarion, but it's kinda hard to tell unless you spend a long time with them. Astarion isn't 100% comfortable with touching and she's not fond of PDA(she gets all light headed and giggly with physical affection and she hates being seen like that by most people. it breaks the bad bitch fantasy). You could see them occasionally flirting or teasing each other but they're also just Like That with most people, so it's hard to tell if they're really an item. They mostly look like coworkers. Partners in crime if you will.

Favorite fruit: She doesn't really have a particular favorite. She likes melon pies and cranberry wine, so by association she might feel more inclined to like those fruits, but nothing she's too crazy about.

Favorite season: She generally likes fall and spring, when it's not too hot out but not too cold either. Wearing too many layers of clothing makes her feel trapped and constrained, and as much as she likes showing skin, warmer temperatures make wearing armor extra uncomfortable, so middle of the road is her favorite.

Favorite flower: It's a tie between lavender and jasmine- lavender providing one of her favorite scents and jasmine one of her favorite teas. She's also fond of water lilies, graceful reminders of the wetlands she grew up in.

Favorite scent: She's never been one for dedicated worship but loves the smell of incense you usually find in temples. She rarely gets inside temples, but when she does she usually comes out with at least a couple "borrowed" incense sticks. Her favorite varieties are lavender and rosemary scents. Other than that, she likes very subtle perfumes that you can only really smell if you get your nose right up on her neck.

Coffee, tea or hot chocolate: Tea. Coffee tends to make her shaky and more anxious, and hot chocolate tends to be a bit too sweet for her tastes. Tea usually helps calm her nerves, so she feels encouraged to drink it quite often.

Average sleep hours: This woman is paranoid and right after popping out of the nautiloid she gets maybe a total of 2-4 hrs of sleep a night. She knows she needs to sleep to function like a human being the next day, but because of a constant fear of attack and distrust for her companions, her sleep time is sectioned and she wakes up several times during the night because there was a weird noise or her internal clock said "ok you've had enough, get up and do the rounds for the 100th time". She always gets up earlier than everyone else. She gets a bit more comfortable as she starts to trust the people around her, but bad habits die hard and it'll be years before she can get an actual full night of rest.

Dogs or cats: She likes animals in general, and her favorites are little mice(quick, can get in and out of places really easily, make for great messengers and easy-to-hide-in-your-pocket pets), but if she had to choose between cats and dogs, cats would probably win, just because they're usually quieter companions and she feels she has more in common with them than with dogs.

Dream trip: She's been to most major cities along the sword coast and is honestly a little bit sick of the place by now. She also has a bit of an aversion to the underdark due to having her differences with some of the locals. Overall, she would love to visit other places in Faerun, maybe farther up north. She's also always been curious about Candlekeep, not because of the endless book collection, but because of rumors of hidden magic and strange creatures living beneath its halls.

Amount of blankets: None at all, if she can help it. Blankets can get in the way if you need to get up quickly in the middle of the night or struggle with an attacker- not that it's happened to her before, noo, nothing embarrassing like that. But she'd rather prevent any mishaps.

Random fact(s):

She gets new piercings on her ears by the beginning of act 3, courtesy of Shadowheart, and helps her change her hair in return.

She and Karlach have the most unexpected friendship and she would probably die for Karlach while Karlach really believes she could fix her.

She's a magic nerd and can often keep up with Gale when discussing the arcane(usually alienating everyone else in the party from the conversation).

She fights with double rapiers instead of double daggers or swords because she understood, from a very early age, how to serve cunt.

[omgkalyppso]

Happy BG3 One Year Releasiversary!

Annoy and delight your followers by posting 10 screenshots you haven't posted before. Tag your friends and tag me! dgfhdfghdfg

@razrogue, @boghermit, @bhaalbaaby, @thetavolution, @peachiehambo

@lucius-the-sinful, @bladesandbhaalspawn, @bladesandstars, @silvercrucifixes, @ghostwise

@eeldritchblast, @toucansafari, @the-eldritch-it-gay, @thedragonagelesbian, @klkirbles

And YOU.

Have some Act 3 Étoile from before I was using mods or reshade.

[beirarowling]

"I'm happy to read works that scare or challenge me, just not the books by the terrifying real feminists who say penises belong in the mens room!!!"

So what is the truth @boghermit ?