#durge talk

[angiemaniac]

This makes me happy I am not the only one who thought of what if Durge as a companion!!! I look forward to more!!

Ahhh I'm so glad to see so many people who collectively agree we need Durge as a companion.

I know it's a LOT to have Larian code him into the game, but I figured if they aren't able to, I want to make stories about the "What If's".

I'll be making more in the future!

[ghostlyremainss]

what if hellfire from hunchback of notre dame but its durge praying to their father for forgiveness and guidance because gortash awoken some unexpected feelings and bhaal, maybe for the first time ever, isnt their only priority.

i just see my durge begging for forgiveness on the altar of bhaal because hes always been faithful and always been doing what his father demanded of him and then theres this sudden burst of anger, almost look of betrayal on his face as he looks up, demanding answers "then tell me, father-", why is this man, this baneite, occupying his mind and why would bhaal allow this to begin with?

thank you for coming to my durge talk

[ribbonentrails]

Took a long time to complete my first run, so it's only right to celebrate it by doing an equally long piece of the companions 🫶

[depressedfungus]

Baldurs gate isn’t a dnd game it’s a really really really hard dress up game

[amaranthsynthesis]

First morning wake up after the nautiloid crash and there are still many questions to be answered. Not by Ballard, though! He doesn't know shit or remember fuck all! My man has the lowest possible intelligence stat without incurring a negative, and also there's holes in his brain.

Had the thought a ways back about the notes you find from Kressa in the Illithid Colony re: the dark urge strangling her with his own intestines. I'm not sure how he was healed from her experiments, if they scarred or how long the marks might last, but my policy is not to turn down shit about durge that's funny/deeply upsetting so here we are. This is the first time I've drawn Gale I think and I love him.

Also:

[javsarts]

Good End~

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Totally unrelated-ish but fic below cut if u want lol :D

https://archiveofourown.org/works/55994872/chapters/142207756

[artist-rat]

Guys do not ask how this group is still together.. I'm too afraid to ask (the answer is magic of friendship and ✨Delusion✨)

[lesbianwyllravengard]

The perfect timing of one of the brain earthquakes while at Wyrm's Rock made it sound like my Durge was fed up with Lae'zel hating on owls

Edit:

In case you saw my other post, because they both seem to be getting popular at the same time, this is in fact my same Durge

[roughlytwentytwofrogs]

There is an issue in this community with misstagged fics on AO3, specifically in the FxF tags. I don't know if it's going to reach the actual people or not but I'm still going to put this here:

A lot of MxM and FxM are tagging FxF ships in the main relationship category despite the ship itself only being written in the background.

Which is a problem because when you go into your ship tag to find fics of your ship, a ridiculous amount of them are off topic. And while yes you can lower that amount significantly by filtering and tag exclusion, AO3 has a built in feature that is made to avoid this.

I am going to use the Shadowzel tag for that because it's the most popular FxF ship on there and it's also one of the most misstagged rn. As of right now, there is 607 fics in the Shadowzel tag without filter. If you restrict the search to only include FxF, you are down to 397 fics. That is more than a third gone!

And it gets rid of some shadowzel content as well, so it's either you filter that out or you have to scroll through a tag where 1 out of 3 fics are about Astarion, Gale, Halsin, etc instead of the ship you looked up.

If your fic, let's take for example a Tav x Astarion, has either consistent mention of Shadowheart x Lae'zel, the most popular wlw ship, or has them in the background as support characters, or even just mentions them as a funny little wink and you want to make sure your readers know they are in here, you do not use the relationship tag! You go down to the additional tags and add "Minor Lae'zel/Shadowheart (Baldur's Gate)".

Unless the pairing you are tagging is the main focus or have a significant role and spotlight on them, you should not use the relationship tag! It clogs the feed for no reason, AO3 is not a website where you have to advertise your posts to the most tags possible.

Adding a visual for clarity:

[ree-duh]

This is how Gortash wished their reunion was like

[libartz]

Shadowheart 🤝 Durge

“Who the fuck am I”

Gale 🤝 Karlach 🤝 Durge

“Something inside me wants to destroy”

Shadowheart 🤝Gale 🤝Lae’zel ��Durge

"The gods are screwing with us"

Astarion🤝Wyll🤝Durge🤝Karlach

"Being a tyrant’s favourite pet/attack dog sucks"

Durge 🤝Shadowheart🤝Lae'zel🤝Minthara

"Turns out I'm in a cult"

[raeb33s-art]

Gale needs some glasses...

This did happen in this exact order and I had to step away

[ericahbrillina]

Durge and Astarion first meeting 💕

[spidehpig]

the sharp inhale raphael does when you tell him to paint you a picture cracks me up so bad. bro couldn’t wait to give his little theatrical number.

[javsarts]

No one else gets to to talk shit about Shadowheart’s Sharran worship aside from him though

[j-l-kepler]

aw for fuck sake this was supposed to be a doodle. im so sorry i cant draw dragonborn for SHIT

i restarted my gloomstalker ranger Briar (an old save and fan companion i made MONTHS ago) in the same playthrough as my Default Dark Urge, but my self-indulgent pile of worms i call a brain has been constantly thinking about @meanbossart's Drow and @barbatusart's Myialmiashkmiath Shammael. absolute delights.

my train of thought went from "hee hee drow companion" to "hey what if. what if they were in the same camp" and briar's got high wisdom but her perception and insight proficiencies are worthless garbage she doesn't sleep. no way in hell would she figure out any companion mysteries without somebody explicitly pointing them out. as far as she knows, her new camp mates are just kinda silly. unsure if she knows if shammy's a dragonborn or just thinks he's a really big kobold.

had to be a little self-indulgent when it comes to the tavs/durges of my fave artistic duo....

totally havent spent the last 48 hours making bg3 shit instead of doing my job.