#garrick bg

[ratscrap]

this is the future baldurians want

[ramvur]

"& how many times have you loved me without my asking? how often have i loved a thing because you loved it? including me."

Day 1 + 2 of #PricegazWeek : smoke + shotgun

[reds-skull]

Messy Cyberknights sketches because I am tired of everything+the English and Scottish banners of the respective knighthoods

I can't choose a favorite I love them all <3

[chocolatmieux]

the full thang. i love you xan

[seluniite-archived]

the korlys siblings.

[triforceguide-archive]

MW main cast + the four cardinal directions (insp)

[mattressdemon]

Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition - Recommended Mods & Guide

updated January 21st, 2023

Essential Mods

Modmerge for STEAM or GOG users - you will need to install this to use some of the mods below, including the other essential ones.

Installation: make sure you have baldur's gate and baldur's gate 2 installed. Run them both once and then quit. Extract the file and then right click the modmerge.exe and click "Run as administrator". Click yes when windows confirms and follow the installation prompts.

The Baldur’s Gate 1 NPC Project - This mod adds tons of dialogue and content to the NPCs of Baldur’s Gate, particularly eligible party members. It adds a few romance tracks (Ajantis, Branwen, Coran, Dynaheir, Shar-Teel and Xan), and enriches the story. If you want my personal recommendations on romances added with this pack? Coran and Dynaheir.

Installation: download and extract bg1npc-v26.zip or the relevant update version to your Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition installation folder (the folder which contains the CHITIN.KEY file)(example installation path: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition”). Double click setup-bg1npc.exe. Press Y to open the readme and review the modules. Follow the prompts to install the modules. You can choose to speed up the conversations if you want them to pop more often. I get through the game really quickly, so I usually change the speed to 15 minutes, but 30 minutes might be better for the average gameplay speed. This mod will ask you about portraits - decide now if you want to use your own custom portraits or the ones the mod provides. If you don't want the custom portraits from this mod, don't install the portraits for Kivan & Deheriana, and Coran (two separate prompts). Those are the only components I don't install from the mod.

NPC Project Music Pack - trust me, you want this.

Installation: double click the bg1npcmusic-v6.exe or the relevant update version file. Confirm the install path is where your game is installed. Install option 1 for the best experience.

BG1 Unfinished Business mod - restores cut items and content, including quests, dialogue, and encounters.

Installation: extract bg1-unfinished-business-v16.4.zip or the relevant update version to your Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition installation folder (the folder which contains the CHITIN.KEY file). Double click setup-bg1ub.exe and follow the prompts to install.

Companion Mods

Ajantis BG1 Expansion - adds a friendship track and more romance content for the BG1NPC Project romance for Ajantis.

Installation: extract the ajantis-bg1-expansion-modification-17.zip or the relevant update version into your Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition installation folder (the folder which contains the CHITIN.KEY file). Double click Setup-AjantisBG1.exe. Follow the prompts.

Garrick’s Infatuation - allows Gorion's foster daughter to explore a closer acquaintance with her very first biographer through a series of 25 conversations and flirtations.

Installation: run garrick_flirt-Beta_4.exe or the relevant update version . Microsoft might confirm with you that you want to run the program because the author is unknown - click More Info and then Run anyway. It will extract to your installation path (confirm it). If it gets stuck on the black cmd box for several minutes (hangs) just X it out and double click the setup-garrick_flirt.exe in your installation folder. Follow the prompts to install.

Coran's BG Extended Friendship Talks - This mod expands Coran's Friendship talk sequence, adding up to eighteen (18) new banters with the protagonist (and one potential comment by Garrick) for a player character who is not in an active romance with him.

Installation: run coranbgfriend-v5.exe or the relevant update version . Microsoft might confirm with you that you want to run the program because the author is unknown - click More Info and then Run anyway. It will extract to your installation path (confirm it). If it gets stuck on the black cmd box for several minutes (hangs) just X it out and double click the setup-coranbgfriend.exe in your installation folder. Follow the prompts to install.

Companion Portraits

BG1 NPC Portrait Pack - I'll be transparent here; this is my pack and how I prefer the NPCs to look. If there is no replacement portrait, it's either because I've never seen one I like, or I prefer their original portrait.

If you don’t like either of those, here’s another portrait pack I recommend that is more artistically unified.

Installation: extract the desired .bmp files into "...\Documents\Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition\portraits". If you don't have a portraits folder, feel free to make one. It has to specifically be named "portraits".

Additional Mods

Romantic Encounters - BG1RE aims at populating BG1 with romantic encounters, intense dialogues, unexpected private dinners, romantic traces of long lost times, and real quests that all deal with true love, fulfilled or unfulfilled. WARNING: this mod can include adult content and triggering encounters if they are installed. They are, however, completely optional.

Installation: extract the baldurs-gate-romantic-encounters-modification-bg1re-7.0.zip or the relevant update version into your Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition installation folder (the folder which contains the CHITIN.KEY file). Double click setup-bg1re.exe. Please check the readme if you don't want to install specific encounters - some are adult in nature and some are even triggering. Follow the prompts to install.

In Closing

If you have any questions, need help or clarification, feel free to send me an ask or message me on discord if you have it.

[its-a-rat-trap]

the rats posted a tribute to Garry on facebook. thought you’d might want to share it too. :-(

https://youtu.be/x2FHy_T0NVc

Ohhhhhh... Gosh, this is such a beautiful tribute to Garry 💔

Thanks so much for sending this to me - I'm not on Facebook so I probably would've missed this otherwise.

(Image description below the cut)

ID: A screenshot of a post on the facebook page for The Boomtown Rats. The post starts with a link to the video above, and then reads:

We said goodbye to Garry yesterday at a most heartfelt, sad, beautifully funny, harmonious family and friends gathering; and followed that with The Rats, steaming proudly through their memorable tunes and covers from their original sets back in '75, in honour of their fallen comrade, with BG unveiling a new song in his honour, 'One Man Ramone'. Simon Crowe with old mates Hill and Petrie. also delivered at the ceremony a beautiful a-cappella version of Lennon's 'In My Life', a moment to treasure. The video is my personal tribute to Garry, friend, joker, smoker and fellow Rat and standard bearer of rock'n'roll guitar. We are blessed to have such a rich catalogue where we can hear him again and again banging out that rage and strumming those riffs and warm chords, filling out that Rat sound so, as Geldof put it, 'we didn't sound like Genesis'. R.I.P. Garrick Roberts 1950-2022

End ID

[ufonaut]

You’ve single-handedly made me obsessed with Alan Scott lol. For real though I love every post about him that you make- slaapkat too!! I am curious about his relationship with his kids though. We know Jade will be in season 2 of stargirl, but I haven’t seen anything about Todd/Obsidian, which sucks because he’s my favorite of the two. From what i’ve seen though Jade seems closer to Alan than Obsidian, is that accurate and do they explain why in the comics? Thanks 💕💕

THESE ARE THE SWEETEST WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. THANK YOUUUUU. @slaapkat BUDDY WE ACTUALLY GOT SOMEONE INTO ALAN CAN YOU BELIEVE IT

ALRIGHT SO. i’m extremely excited to see jennie in season 2 of stargirl but i sincerely hope we get to see todd as well since he’s my favourite of the two too!! i know there’s no info about him being involved but my singular theory is that they’re keeping it under wraps because they’re doing something based on geoff’s “princes of darkness” arc in jsa (1999) #46 - #55 because we’ve already got all the principal players (eclipso & shade) except todd so i think it would make sense if it’s a spoilers thing? if i’m wrong then i’ll really be mad that they split up the twins though, they’re at the best when they’re together and todd is clearly the more fascinating character at any rate

to answer your question, i’m assuming you know a little bit about their story/bg? after thorn/alyx, their birth mother, gave them up for adoption, jennie & todd ended up in very different households. the haydens treated jennie like she’s their real actual daughter (as they should!) and she had a pretty perfect upper middle class childhood, her parents were very supportive of her dreams of becoming an actress etc but! but!!!! todd ended up with an alcoholic & abusive father and a mother who walked out on him when he was sixteen. the first time todd’s powers manifest is actually in the middle of mr rice beating him up

(infinity inc #33)

besides that, as he later comes to understand, todd suffers from schizophrenia and he’s also gay. all in all, he doesn’t exactly have it easy! even after he finds jennie, he both loves her fiercely and is frequently jealous of how natural everything comes to her & the massive amounts of good luck she’s had, which is obviously a completely reasonable reaction given everything todd’s lived through up to that point

then, once they realise alan is their dad, there’s also the very very long process of alan accepting that fact. eventually, even once he comes to terms with that, the fact of the matter is that alan plays favourites because he’s just not prepared to deal with anything about todd. my interpretation of alan is, of course, that he’s always been written as gay (and there’s plenty of evidence there) but now that it’s canon, there’s also the added depth of alan -- as a man from the 1940s with massive amounts of internalised homophobia -- not being able to accept that todd is like him and not being able to accept todd’s mental health issues due of his own long-standing fear of mental institutions (here’s a brief exploration of both subjects and alan practically saying that todd wasn’t supposed to be like this). in fact, jsa 1999 emphasises that a lot with jay garrick, of all people, saying that todd was “born bad” (#9, darkness falls arc) and alan’s ever-present guilt over never having the courage to be there for todd

it’s pretty clear that alan loves both kids as much as he can but one of my favourite things about alan is that he’s undeniably an asshole and it’s always been handled realistically. he’s closer to jennie because it’s easy to be close to her and as much as his relationship with todd has improved over the years, it’s always going to be tense on either side because todd rightfully blames alan for A Lot. so, that’s really it! it’s worth nothing the last time we saw any part of todd’s life he was keeping up with therapy & in a loving relationship with damon matthews so he’s like. fine. and mostly keeps his distance from alan

hope that cleared up some things & REALLY hope you don’t mind the essay!! feel free to ask me and/or @slaapkat anything u wanna at any point!! 💕💕💕

[shadowcutie]

Baldur’s Gate Modding

The list of Baldur's Gate I, II, & III mods I personally like and use!

BG I & II

I'm really only interested in male romanceable companion mods, but there are gameplay, combat oriented, and miscellaneous mods out there too.  You can look on gibberlings3, giberrlings3 github, pocket plane, spellhold studios, spellhold studios github, and the beamdog forums.

I decided to add all other companion mods I’ve found (female, non-romanceable male, and animal companions).  I dug through their crossmod info, but I'm only 70% confident in their installation order since I don't use them myself.

BG III

The game is out now so I’ll be going through and updating/editing the list (this text will change once I’m done), just be aware there still may be updates that break mods--at least for a little while.

Note: Mooooom!!!  Tumblr is messing with the links again!! The mods shouldn’t be impossible to search for, but sorry for any inconvenience.

Full list below:

Baldur’s Gate I

!!!!!Mod order is by installation order (maximizing crossmod content)!!!!!

Modmerge - [download]

IF YOU HAVE SIEGE OF DRAGONSPEAR YOU NEED THIS!!!

Apparently if you have Siege of Dragonspear (through GoG or Steam) you need to install this before it’ll even let you install mods.

How to install and info on modmerge is [here].

I can’t get my mods to work with SoD, so...I’m just gonna delete all sod-dlc files and play BG normally.  lmaoooo

Gavin - [download] - A Human Lathander cleric.

Gavin isn’t really appealing to my personal taste; I’m not a good-alignment or cleric/paladin lover, but I can’t deny it’s pretty extensive and a great mod.

Garrick’s Infatuation - [download] - Adds a romance for Garrick.

It’s a really cute romance though it’s not that deep.

BG1 Romantic Encounters - [download] - Adds ‘romantic’ encounters throughout the game.

I basically only use a small handful of the encounters, but in general it’s a great mod.  Both teen and adult rated content.

If nothing else download the Girdle and Childhood Friend parts, they’re the best.

BG1 NPC Project - [download] - Adds romance for Ajantis, Xan, Coran, Dynaheir, Shar-teel, and Branwen; as well as banters, quests, and interjections.

My favorite BG1 mod.  Xan and Coran’s romances are the absolute best, but overall this mod just adds so much life to the game.  It’s all the stuff that should have been in the game from the start.

Glam’s NPC Pack - [download] - 5 companions, no romance.

I’m here for [Vynd], here’s the standalone mod for him.

I haven’t tried the mod since the other NPCs were added.

White - [download] - A Human barbarian

Never really clicked for me, but a decently good mod.

Verr’Sza - [download] - A Rakshasa ranger

A favorite!  An interesting companion and romance, but to be fair I prefer him in BG II.

Drake - [download] [forum] - A Human priest

A fun character, has a little romance in SoD (which I don’t have, but I went ahead and just read the dialogue files).

Zakrion - [download] - A Human duelist

Pretty good, I like Zakrion as a character, so I’m looking forward to his BG2 appearance (in development).

The ‘semi-romance path’ was kinda lackluster, speaking as someone playing specifically for the romance.  If the BG2 Zakrion has romance, I imagine it might play out like ‘I was being silly, let’s try this again’.  (that’s just my speculation/hope of course)

Aura - [download] - A gnome artificer

Romance for female PCs

Sirene - [download] - A tiefling paladin

Romance for male/female PCs

Emily - [download] - A half-elf archer

SoD romance for male PCs (no gender restrictions for her BG2 appearance)

Helga - [download] - A dwarf priest

No romance

Vienxay - [download] - A elf shadowmage

SoD romance for male PCs

Kale - [download] - A halfling barbarian

SoD romance for female PCs

Recorder - [download] - A gnome bard

SoD romance for male PCs

Ishlilka - [download] - A half-orc wizard slayer

Romance for PCs

Isra - [download] - A human paladin

Romance for PCs

The Sandrah Saga - [forum] [download]

Romance for PCs

Corwin - [download] - A human archer

SoD romance for PCs

Sharteel for SoD - [download] - A human fighter

Unsure if romance from BG1 NPC Project continues

Neera Expansion - [download]

Neera romance for female PCs

Rasaad romance for male PCs

Skie The cost of One Girl’s Soul (SoD) - [download]

No romance

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Baldur’s Gate II

!!!!!Mod order is by installation order (maximizing crossmod content)!!!!!

Ajantis - [download] - Adds Ajantis with new and rekindleable romance.

If you liked Ajantis from the BG1 NPC Project, you’ll want this mod.

Kivan and Deheriana - [download] - Adds Kivan with romance.

My favorite BG2 mod.  Kivan’s romance is so sweet and well written!  My canon Bhaalspawn Ales’elle romances Kivan.

To be fair I’ve never played this mod without romancing Kivan, but I’m sure Deheriana is lovely.

Xan - [download] - Adds Xan with new and rekindleable romance.

Another favorite!  I love Xan a lot, but then again who doesn’t?  Give this poor man some love.

Spoiler the new romance is 1000% angst bad ending only, now I’m sad...

Angelo - [download] - Adds Angelo (yes that Angelo).

I know what you’re thinking: Angelo?  Romance?  Yes and yes.  It’s well written, though I understand it’ll only truly appeal to a special kind of person.  (me)

Arath - [download] [github dl] - A Human druid.

An interesting NPC and romance.  A rollercoaster of emotions.

Keldorn Romance - [download] - Adds a romance for Keldorn.

A patience required romance path for dear ol’ Keldorn.  It’s well written, but again not really to my taste.

Gavin - [download] - Adds Gavin with new and rekindleable romance.

I found myself liking Gavin’s BG2 romance more than his BG1 romance.  Maybe because it’s more adult rated?

Banter Pack - [download] - Adds banters.

I tend to have the same companions so I doubt I’ve seen more than 5% of the banters.  lol…

IEP Banters - [download] - Adds banters.

Again, I probably don’t even see most of the banters!  hahaha

Tsujatha - [download] - A necromancer Elf.

In my modding journeys it’s probably the go to mod to make fun of, with reason I suppose.  The writing and romance aren’t award winning quality, but I still enjoy this mod a bit.

Yoshimo Friendship - [download] - Adds friendship with Yoshimo.

I don’t like angst, but if you like to suffer…

Yoshimo Romance - [download] - Adds romance with Yoshimo.

I don’t like angst, but if you like to suffer…

Edwin Romance - [download] - Adds romance with Edwin.

A favorite!  Oh boy.  This stupid arrogant wizard definitely needs some love.

Imoen Friendship - [download] - Adds friendship with Imoen.

Imoen is a must for my party!

Sarevok Friendship - [download] - Adds friendship with Sarevok.

Friendship you say…will there be romance as well?  Patience…

Solaufein - [download] - Adds Solaufein with romance.

I would put this in the same category as Tsujatha, lots of mixed reviews I’ve seen.  I do like the mod, but it’s not the direction I would have taken Solaufein in personally.

Kelsey - [download] - A Human sorcerer.

I think I read somewhere he set the standard for future romancable mod companions, so I’d say try this mod for that reason, but more importantly because it’s a great mod.

Adrian - [download] - A half-Elven mage.

A favorite!  A sweet and romantic companion mod.

Darian - [download] - An Avarial.

It’s interesting from what I remember, kind of on the level of Tsujatha and Solaufein.  If you like angst…

Faren - [download] - A human fighter/thief.

Another favorite!  It’s sweet and funny, a winning combination.

[Installation fix] - 1) move all mods’ setup-modname files out of the installation location 2) copy Faren’s files in and install him 3) move the other mods’ setup-modname files back and continue installing

NPC Flirt Pack - [download] - Adds flirts to the original BG2 romances.

I don’t use this much because I basically just use Anomen to make other mods jealous…HAHAHAHAH

BG2 Romantic Encounters - [download] - Adds ‘romantic’ encounters throughout the game.

I basically only use a small handful of the encounters, but in general it’s a great mod.  Both teen and adult rated content.

Phaere’s Reward, A Night with Coran, Cyric’s Test, A Tryst with a Pirate Lord, Eldoth’s Exploits, are Noober Returns some of the ones I consider must haves.

Haer’Dalis Romance - [download] - Adds romance with Haer’Dalis.

A favorite!  UGH it’s soo good…. Maybe second favorite to Kivan.

Sarevok Romance - [download] - Adds romance with Sarevok.

Of course you can romance dear step-brother Sarevok!  It’s surprisingly really good!  Again it’s probably not for everyone.

Nathaniel - [download] - A human kensai.

A sweet romance (for male PCs only).  I experienced a few odd bugs around the time when you’re supposed to get the slayer form, but I have no idea if it was related to THIS mod in particular.

Saerileth - [download] - A human paladin

Romance for PCs

Amber - [download] - A tiefling fighter/thief

Romance for male PCs

Auren Aspeh - [download] - A human fighter

I think the romance is only between her and Neera, sorry PCs

Haldamir - [download] - An elf fighter

No romance

The Beaurin Legacy - [download] - An elf enchanter/thief

Romance with Edwin I think, sorry PCs

Sarah - [download] - A human ranger

Romance for female PCs

Tyris Flare - [download] - A human fighter/mage

Romance for male PCs

Dace - [download] - A human bounty hunter

Romance for PCs

Fade - [download] - A fey’ri thief

Romance for male PCs

Valerie - [download] - A human sorcerer

Romance for female PCs

Isra - [download] [github dl] - A human paladin

Romance for PCs

Evandra - [download] - An elf illusionist

Romance for male PCs

Sirene - [download] - A tiefling paladin

Romance for PCs

Pai’Na - [download] - A drow druid

No romance?

Xulaye - [download] - A drow

No romance?

Chloe - [download] - A kensai

Romance for female PCs

Tashia - [download] - An elf sorcerer

Romance for PCs

Nephele - [download] - A halfling cleric

No romance

Ninde - [download] - A necromancer

Romance for male PCs

The Luxleys - Sebastian and Andrei - [download] [github dl] - A monk and a bard

“Depends on what you term a romance” for PCs

Andrei has a romance with Imoen in ToB

Iylos - [download] - A human monk

Flirts but probably no actual romance track

Hubelpot - [download] - A druid

No romance

Keto - [download] - A human bard

Romance?

Petsy - [download] - A halfling bard

Romance for male PCs

Yasraena - [forum][download] - A drow fighter

Romance for males

Crossmod BG2 - [download] - Adds banters between mods.

There’s a lot of mods in this pack that I just don’t have…basically all the female mods.  *SIGH*

Grey the Dog - [download] - A dog...obviously...

No romance, obviously.

Corthala Romantique - [download] - Adds romance with Valygar.

A sweet romance.

Neh’taniel - [download] - A paladin wraith.

An interesting and well written companion; cute romance.

Aran Whitehand - [download] - A human fighter/scribe.

A favorite!!  Let me tell you…I love this mod.  It’s probably the most adult mod I’ve seen, but even without that stuff I do really like it.

Verr’Sza - [download] - Adds Verr’Sza with new and rekindeable romance, and Phalh too!

Another favorite!  Surprisingly sweet!

Calin - [download] - A human blade master.

A good mod with a nice romance.

Aklon - [mod page/forum] - A human monk

Currently in development!  I’m pretty excited~~

Gahesh - [download] - A half-orc sorcerer

Romance for female PCs

Indira - [download] - A half-elf fighter/mage

No romance

Finch - [download] - A gnome cleric

No romance

Mur’Neth - [download] - A ghaundan thief

No romance

Yikari - [download] - A monk

No romance?

Yeslick - [download] - A dwarf fighter/cleric

No romance

Aura - [forum] - A gnome artificer

In development.  Romance for female PCs

Ashar - [download] - A half-orc barbarian

Romance for male PCs

Varshoon - [download] - An illithid

No romance

Hephernaan - [download] - A devil

No romance?

The Sandrah Saga - [forum] [download]

Romance for PCs

Skitia’s NPCs - [download] - Emily, Helga, Kale, Recorder, and Vienxay

Emily - romance for male PCs

Kale, Vienxay, Recorder - romance for any PCs

Helga - no romance

I liked it quite a bit!  I haven’t even gotten around to playing the BG1 mods yet...maybe I should do back and do that

Delainy - [mod page/forum] - A lycanthrope bard

Romance for male PCs

Plans for Durlyle, the male (romance for female PCs) counterpart

Afaaq - [download] - Djinni

No romance

Solaufein Flirt Pack - [download] [github dl]

Adds more to the Solaufein romance mod

Navarra - [download] - A human barbarian

Romance for male PCs

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Baldur’s Gate III

The game is out now so I’ll be going through and updating/editing the list (this text will change once I’m done), just be aware there still may be updates that break mods--at least for a little while.

!!!!!Mod order is by category, if there are further order restrictions with certain mods I’ll label them when I can!!!!!

Custom Companions

Companion tweaks

----- Mechanics ---------------------------------

More vampire bites - [download]

😳

Gale’s Book of Spells and Trinkets - [download]

----- Graphics ---------------------------------

The cooler Karlach - [download]

No Abs for Gale and Astarion - [download]

None or less options

Wyll’s Devil Form - [download]

Character graphics

Customizer’s Compendium - [download]

New Character Creation Presets - [download]

Tentacion - [download]

Padme’s Character Creation Added Colours - [download]

Devil Wings - [download]

Lab’s Boratory - [download]

Random selection

Astarion clawed (+optional black nails) woof woof bark I’m in love, Wyll armor, Shadow dog model, Half-orc reskin for female humans, A few custom horns, Minthrara hair from patch 5, Volo color change, Hairless male half-elves

Facial Piercings - [download]

Just Earrings - Facial Piercings Removed - [download]

Better Penises - [download]

Totally lore accurate packages - [download]

Unique Tav Custom Appearance - [download]

----- Face/heads ---------------------------------

Padme’s New Heads - [download]

Another Head 3 - [download]

Alternative Half Elf Head 4 - [download]

Other Heads for your Character - [download]

Alternative Tiefling Head 5 - [download]

Male Elf and Drow replacement heads - [download]

Faces of Faerun - [download]

Broken Hearts and Broken Heads - [download]

M Half Elf Head E for other races - [download]

Loulette Heads and Hair - [download]

Younger Elf Male Preset 1 - [download]

Male Heads - FF14 Emet-Selch - [download]

Loosey-Goosey Head and Body Edits - [download]

Sakimyuu’s Elf Head - [download]

Tiefling Head 2 for Humans-Elves-Drow-Halfelves - [download]

Weeviljester’s Ethereal Heads - [download]

Vemperen Heads for Elf Tiefling Human Drow Half Elf - [download]

More Heads for Tieflings - [download]

Tell’s Head (Tiefling Male Head B Edit) - [download]

Strong Female Heads - [download]

----- Eyes ------------------------------------------

----- Skin/Body -------------------------------------------

Tiefling de-wrinkler - [download]

Less Wrinkled Expression and Forehead for Face - [download]

Reduced Wrinkles - [download]

No elf freckle - [download]

No More Dirty and Blood - [download]

Transmasc Top Surgery for Body 3 and 1 - [download]

Top Surgery Scars - [download]

Reduced Veins - [download]

Half Orce Smooth Skin - [download]

Better Penises - [download]

Invisible Body Hair for Male Human and Half-Elf - [download]

Smooth and Muscular Githyanki F Body - [download]

Enhanced Nude Male Body - [download]

Actually Feminine Dragonborns and Lore-friendly Legs - [download]

Astralities’ Skintone Expansion - Natural Tones - [download]

----- Tattoos/Scars --------------------------------------

Simply Tats - [download]

Warpaint Tattoos Galore - [download]

Covenelf’s Tattoo and Makeup Collection - [download]

No Forehead Flame - [download]

Faded Scars - [download]

Angel Scar and Make up - [download]

----- Hair/Horns ------------------------------------------

Extra hair slot - [download]

Hair edits - [download]

Padme’s New Hairs - [download]

Tav’s Hair Salon - [download]

Honey’s Hair Kitchen - [download]

More Hair - [download]

Long Straight Hair - [download]

Horns of Faerun - [download]

P4_CC Blonde Edits - [download]

Author said they might do other colors

Astralities’ Hair color Supplement - [download]

White Hair White Lashes - EA Creation Preset Overwrite - [download]

More Horns - [download]

Half-Tiefs (Tiefling horns and tail for all) - [download]

Shibariwaluigi’s NPC Hair Edits - [download]

Vessnelle’s Hair Collection - [download]

Lara Croft Hairstyle (Ponytail) - [download]

Environment Graphics

Gleaming Sun Reshade - [download]

Serene Whispers Reshade - [download]

Rogue Reshade plus green tint removal option - [download]

Barf’s Gloomy Reshade (Glamarye GI and AO) - [download]

Custom Playable Races

Playable skeleton - [download]

Playable automaton - [download]

Fantastical multiverse - [download]

Avariel, Sea Elf, Aasimar, Genasi, Firbolg, Kobolad, Yuan-ti, Astral Elf, Dhampir, etc

Wine and Revelry Playable Satyr - [download]

Half angel (Aasimar 5E) - [download]

Custom Playable Classes

Celestial Warlock - [download]

Gameplay Tweaks

WASD Character Movement - [download]

5e Spells - [download]

More Actions - [download]

Dodge Action - [download]

Good Good berries - [download]

More short rests - [download]

Short rest tweaks - [download]

Long Rest Costs Tweak - [download]

Party Limit Begone - [download]

Fly Extended Duration - [download]

I believe I can Fly - [download]

Rituals for RP - [download]

Ritual Misty Step - [download]

AI Controls Party while in combat - [download]

AI Friends - [download]

Companions AI - [download]

Wildform Ritual Costs - [download]

Omniscient Wizards (can learn all spells) - [download]

All Spells No Concentration - [download]

Infinite Spell Casting Patch 9 - [download] or Infinite Spell Casting - [download] or Infinite Spellcasting for full release - [download]

Got yourself a bard - [download]

No inspiration cost - [download] or No inspiration cap - [download]

Unlimited Slayer Transformations - [download]

Items

Spawn any item - [download]

All items - [download]

Basket Full of Equipment NSFW Version - [download] & SFW Version - [download]

Purchasable Camp Clothes - [download]

Modular Equipment - [download]

Camp Outfits of Skill - [download]

Wearable backpacks - [download]

Wearable Quiver - [download]

Arcane Rings - [download]

Drow Priestess Robe - [download]

Noble Trickster’s Garment - [download]

Ellian’s Trinkets - [download]

More Camp Clothing - [download]

Loviatar’s Claw Thigh-High - [download]

More Mage Gear - [download]

Drow Transmog - [download]

Basket equipment to Camp Clothing - [download]

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Aether’s Black Dye - [download]

Dye dye dye - [download]

Everybody Dyes Unlimited Dyes - [download]

Infinite dyes - [download]

Extra dyes for the Fashionable folk of Faerun - [download]

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Smaller Lutes - [download]

----- God Items ------------------------------------------

Ring of Minor Rituals - [download]

Amulet of Ability - [download]

Legendary Items - [download]

Ring of Elder Gods - [download]

Overpowered Rings - [download]

Anti RNG Rings - [download]

Control your Rolls - [download]

Approval Cheat - [download]

Ring of Convenience - [download]

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Bags of Holding - [download]

Bags of Sorting - [download]

Customizable starting equipment - [download]

Enhanced Gear Progression - [download]

Druid armor sets - [download]

Loviatar Robes - [download]

Dream Lover Daisy Dress Recolors - [download]

Album of Artifacts - [download]

Custom Jergal robe and accessories - [download]

Circlets - [download]

Casual Clothing - [download]

Wearable Lanterns - [download]

Roleplaying/Immersion

Vampire Spawn Background - [download]

Werewolf Background - [download]

Demon Spawn Background - [download]

Deity for all - [download] or Gods Extra - [download]

Paladins Deity - [download]

Shar Unlocked - [download]

Daughter of Lolth - Minthara - Good Recruitment - [download]

Quality of life stuff

Faerun Utility - [download]

Invincibility Toggle - [download]

GodHero for full release - [download]

Choose Your Stats - [download]

Carry Weight Increased up to over 9000 - [download]

Carry Weight Extra - [download]

Carry Weight Tweaks - [download]

I’m not sure which one is best, I used ‘extra’ in early access but the others have more customization

Food and Supplies Zero Weight - [download]

Baldurian’s Save Games - [download]

Shadowheart Romance Scene - [download]

Karlach Hot Date Achievement - [download]

Leave No One Behind Achievement - [download]

BG3 Camera Mod - [download]

Camp Event Notifications - [download]

Show Approval Ratings in Dialogue Choices - [download]

Just Story - [download]

Baldur’s Gate 3 for Noobs - Simpler Terms and Clearer Descriptions - [download]

Infinite Spells - [download]

Practical Cheats Spells - [download]

Utility

BG3ModManager - [download]

Baldur’s Gate 3 Mod Fixer - [download]

Achievement enabler - [download]

ImprovedUI - [download]

Better containers - [download]

Search the Room - [download]

Increased Font - [download]

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next batch of portraits! kagain's was actually done slightly earlier than the rest, whilst the other three were done last night/this morning lol

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Hey guys! How are you doing? What'your week looking like? Personally, I can finally tick "Visit Ibadan" off my buck list.

In last weeks post here my former roommate Chidera discussed some of her experiences as a student of the Nigerian Law school. This week she shares her experience with her law school roommates, her study pattern, fellowship and so on.

Continued from last week.

...it became very necessary. We had been pre-forwarded our task for the day. After the morning session of lectures, we went on a break and came back for the afternoon session to solve the task. This session was handled by Mr Kanu, a very brilliant lecturer who added humor to his teaching. Each group came out to present and answer questions. How this process went varied. If Mr Kanu was the one asking questions, then you had to be ready to give your 100 because his questions were brain twisting. This was basically the routine for the 17 weeks of lectures. 

Tuesday was for civil litigation. Now, there are teachers and there are TEACHERS. Mrs Odukoya, that woman broke down the life out of civil litigation. During our first lecture with her, she stood for four straight hours, teaching, explaining, giving the best examples. It was always a great time in her class. Her favorite word is ''circulate.'' She always said that after making corrections to a group tasks and instructed them to circulate the answers to other groups.   

Wednesday was for Property Law Practice. Now Wednesdays were probably my most dramatic days in law school. The combination of lecturers for that course was an embodiment of perfection and at the same time trouble. They seemed to be a good fit for one another. Mrs Odusote, tall, beautiful, stern and intimidating. Mr Udemezue, jovial, intelligent and rather talkative. Mrs James, the absolute image of small but mighty. Her petite frame didn’t do justice to all the energy she had in her. It was in this class that I first heard the term ''committee of friends'' used outside the context of a social event.  If you came in late to a property law class and Mr Udemezue was there, you would come to the front of the class as a member of the committee of friends and would have to answer a question before you were permitted to go back to your seat. Everyone desperately avoided this committee but many times, we fell prey at one point. I remember the day that even the Student Representative Council Chairman, Garrick Nosa John fell a victim. On some days, Mrs Odusote would start calling random registration numbers to answer a question. My heart was always in my hands. I can’t even lie.  It was always a dramatic day because some students would refuse to own up to their numbers and answer the questions they were asked. She would then instruct Mrs James to take down the numbers. This was a mild threat to make you own up or be issued with a query. Or they would start calling hostel room numbers and tell you to call your best or worst roommate to answer the question. 

One fateful Thursday in law school, I met a young man who is arguably the most intelligent person I have met: Kenneth Okwor Ononeze. This young man was still 24 when he became our lecturer. He is tall, handsome, well spoken, with a good fashion sense (even though some people I know may disagree) and most importantly, he was willing to teach everything he knew no matter how long it took. This young man actually taught alteration of a company’s memorandum from beginning to end without any guide. He taught straight from his head with his CAMA in his hand (he didn’t open it once) and taught walking around the class not missing any section. The course didn’t thrill me one bit. It might have been my nemesis at the end of the day. Who knows? But watching him teach it was everything.

Mrs James also taught this class. You see, I’m sure in my own way, I loved Mrs James but I didn’t appreciate her lectures for one simple reason; she always asked me a question. Which meant I had to put on my microphone and talk. Have I already mentioned to you that hard as I tried, while my body was in class, my mind was hardly there. But I have been like this my whole academic life. Once it was 11am or the very maximum, 12noon, my mind shuts down for that day but law school has failed and continues to fail to understand that people have different attention spans. So rather than letting us thrive as we should, they make everyone sit in class all day whether we are learning anything or not. You can imagine that everytime Mrs James asked me a question, I fumbled and flopped. Maybe she could see what lay ahead. I always suspected that she could see something in me that wasn’t good. When we get to the end of this story, we would all know. 

It is important to explain why Mrs James bothered so much with me. I was an official in the campus recognized fellowship, CLASFON(Christian Lawyers Fellowship of Nigeria) for which she was the staff adviser. She made it a point of duty to ask as many officials questions whenever she was in class. 

Finally, Fridays. On Fridays, we had Professional ethics and skills class. I can just hear Mr Udemezue saying “Prof Ethix.” This course had two main lecturers, Dr Hameed and Mr Orimunguje but from time to time, different lecturers came in to take one topic or the other. I hated this class because I found it extremely boring but I loved one thing about it; it always ended early. That was music to my ears when by 1:30pm or 2pm we are told that we are dome for the day. It was a blissful way to begin my weekend.

My Law School Roommates, my family

The first place the weekend started was in my room. I had three very interesting roommates. Viola (who by the way was Best Graduating Student in my university and in law school), Kelechi who I met through Viola and finally Beebah. Viola and I had been friends in university. Good friends actually. But I wasn’t sure if being roommates with her was going to be a walk in the park. To cut a long story short, I had the best time with her. We would mimic lecturers all afternoon after class, sleep and gist later. Obviously we read too. I mean she was BGS back to back. We also had mutual friends from university and in law school. The closest being Marcus, Bolanle and Moyo.  

Kelechi was my hissing roommate who always had a new chiker every day. She is beautiful, slender and my birthday mate to add to the mix. Three of us were already roommates and were not in need of a fourth one. 

The reason is simple. The law school made provision for four beds in the room and three wardrobes. Like, what is the plan right? Well law school is what it is. We got Beebah as a fourth roommate. We were not welcoming at first. We made it clear that we owned the room and clearly didn’t want her. With time, we got over our childish ways and mixed nicely. Beebah and Kelechi became bestfriends. They did everything together. Went to class together, studied together, bought indomie from ‘’man of god’’ together and as is the next thing, always got into an argument of some sort with each other. However, I spent the most time with Beebah. During our externship, we remained in our room. The easiest way to describe what we had going was sisterhood. We became sisters. It didn’t matter that I was Igbo and she was Yoruba or that I am Christian and she is Muslim. We learnt to love and live with each other. We had a few misunderstandings. We had to. When I decided to participate in the hallelujah challenge by Nathaniel Bassey, she made sure she woke me up to participate every time it was 12midnight and I had fallen asleep. 

My fellowship

Remember how my roommates came into this discussion, we were talking about my weekend. My weekends in law school were far from your ideal weekend. I didn’t start with “it’s Friday and we must chill” or anything like that. A good Friday night involved a good laugh with my rommates, a show on youtube and a peaceful sleep. I remember so many times in law school when this sleep was interrupted on a Saturday morning. That brings me to a part of my law school experience that will forever remain with me; my fellowship.

One lovely day after lectures, Mrs James made an announcement that if you were a CLASFON executive in your university, you should wait behind after the class to meet with her. I did as I was an executive in university and I loved CLASFON. A few of us met with her and that was the beginning of it all. We had our first fellowship the next week, filled out data forms and were eventually invited to interviews one faithful Saturday morning. The following Sunday, I was made the drama co-ordinator of the fellowship. 

That was a shocker but I could handle it, at least I thought I could. It was a big responsibility to take on with the intensity of the work load. We had fellowships on Thursday and service on Sundays. I had all kinds of fears. Would I be able to handle it? Will I serve well? Will I please God? Was it God’s will for my life? Was I good enough to have been chosen by God? 

Those were my initial troubles until I had my first executive council (exco) meeting and I was sure I didn’t want to work with a few of the people I had been appointed with. That weekend went by very quickly and we were faced with our last week of lectures for the term. It was yet another Friday and I had a lot of backlog of note forming to do. I was glad it was coming to an end today but I was met with the shock of my life, a snap test. 

See eh, nothing prepares you for it. And I certainly was not prepared for it. I was so worried that I had disgraced myself and that the results were going to be uploaded to the website for everyone to see. Later that evening, we had a meeting as excos with Mrs James. It was a prayer type of thing. She prayed and prayed with us. I saw some things go on that day that made me in awe of her in some way, yet in another way, I held a type of resentment against her. I may have been intimidated by the fact that even though she wore no earrings and make up and didn’t fit into my definition of beautiful, she had an amazing sense of confidence and what I perceived to be a strong relationship with God which I coveted. That meeting went on and another was rescheduled for the next day by 6am. I’m like “whatttt.” To cap up my misery, the next day was a Saturday. We were to have a prayer walk before our meeting. At this point, let me introduce you to my CLASFON president whom I despised in the beginning who later became one of my best friends in law school, Nonso Egbumokei. He is a perfect description of “spirooooo”. That’s where I’ll leave it. At the end of that meeting this precious “Saturday” I was drained. More often than not, as time went on, I had one meeting or program scheduled on Saturday. 

School was done for the term and boy was I grateful. My birthday was a few days away, my family and I were travelling to celebrate my aunts 50th birthday. It was an amazing time for me. But like the song writer asks “why do all good things come to an end?”. Mine came to an abrupt end and I was saddled with take home assignment that I hadn’t done. Thankfully, I had Marcus as a friend so I just dubbed his for the most part. 

My study pattern…

What is this story if I don’t tell you how I burned the proverbial midnight candle?

Before starting law school, I spent about two months with a friend in Enugu. While staying at her place, I woke up very early every morning to pray and do a little reading before stepping out for the day. This pattern seemed to work very well for me. And as the person that I am, please don’t judge me, I believed God had given me a pattern for law school. Yes. I believed it. And so I lived it out. I woke up between 4:30am and 5am prayed, got dressed and went to class to prepare for the day. 

On some days, I was great following the lecturers and all but on others I was just tired and trying to sleep. After class, I would sleep and wake up and study in my room for as many hours as I could or I would go to the library. I don’t want to deceive you into believing that I read like there was no end to it during the 17weeks of lectures. I tried my best but the truth is, it was difficult for me. After a while, I stopped waking up so early. One of the main factors was because I had to attend my compulsory group meeting by 6pm everyday which sometimes lasted till 7:30pm or 8pm. This was after ending lectures by 4pm or later every day. After that, I’m not a robot now, so I had to eat. While getting dinner, you may meet a friend or two and engage in a discussion and before you know it, all your time is gone and it’s time to go to bed and start the whole process again. I considered it wise to make a few changes. Wisdom is profitable to direct right. I stopped my morning routine and just made sure that I went through the task for the next day either the night before the class or in the morning before the class. Most of the time, I went through the already solved task which my group had submitted. 

I don’t do well just reading my textbooks. I am a note former. I tried forming most of my notes in class while the lectures were going on. This process had an appeal for two reasons. First was that it helped me stay awake and follow the class. Second was that in the evening when I was going through my textbooks, I only had to add a few things here and there. I strongly advice anyone in law school to do this. Form your notes while in class and please follow the corrections to the tasks while the lecturers are going through them. You will discover that law school is more of what you listen to and understand in class than what you read later. There was a lot to read, there was little time to read it. What I simply did was follow the lectures as much as I could, solve the tasks for the next day and read after class. There were days when I was too tired to do any of these things. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to, I was discouraged. 

One thing you need to know is that law school, at least the Lagos campus is an institution that thrives on fear. The lecturers claim to be encouraging you but the truth is, they tell you all kinds of stories about how people fail, how people who did well in university come to law school and flopped (this was my worst story), how you shouldn’t offend them, how you are to know everything because you don’t know where the questions would come from. 

On a normal day and in a reasonable environment, these things don’t seem insurmountable but the Nigerian law school has an extra twist to it. You are graded by your lowest grade. If you make all A’s and one B, you leave the institution with a 2.2. There’s no focus on all your strengths, just your weakness. 

I am one of those strongly against the law school grading system. People may think I am bitter because I was one of those affected by it. They might be right. My take on it is that, if you want the first class grade to remain as sacred as it, then to make a first class, you must make straight A’s. Anything short of that will be determined by the average into the other categories. I have always been against the grading system and the fact that I am a victim of it only gives me more standing to speak against it. The sum total of 9months in one institution should not be determined by a mistake or two in one course. Your strengths and your weaknesses should be used to judge you. Not your weaknesses alone. 

At some point, I told myself that I will start my reading afresh during the externship. I made it through the 20weeks of lectures with God on my side. I was determined to make the best out of my externship period. There were books to read, multiple choice questions to solve, past questions to answer, unformed notes to form. I chose to stay in Lagos. I believed I would study better here since I was in an academic environment. My mates were here with me so we would do a lot together. Fortunately, I didn’t have to pay to stay on the hostel. I was in the law clinic and it was free for its members. 

Externship is made up of Court placement for six weeks and law firm placement for another six weeks. I was posted to the High Court of Lagos state. Specifically to Hon Justice O.A Adamson’s court, court 52, commercial division which was also a fast track court. If you’re ever in the high court of Lagos state area, I beg you, look for his court. I promise you will learn a thing or two in his court. His assistants and registrars are also the nicest people ever. I found the first week of my court placement interesting. The cases were good, the judge was very knowledgeable. It was a wholesome experience. I also needed to fill my log book which was actually steesful. You would think that recounting what you did in a day should be easy to recollect and pen down right? Well, when you have to write out your activities and reflect on them in accordance to a rule of law or something you have learnt, it isn’t so easy after all.

 By the second week, all I wanted was to leave court early enough to study. I started reading in court sometimes with my tablet. Some of our predecessors had some lifesaving notes that I advise everyone to get. I am of the strong view that notes like that of Kenneth Okwor, Adaji Rose, Gabriella Ndu and Adaeze were better than most of our textbooks. 

Our lecturers would disagree with me but maybe one day, they should take a look at those notes for themselves. They might change them to their new lecture guides. I decided to read a course for about 6-8 days first without forming my notes. I called this just reading to understand. I did this for every course but professional ethics. By the time I was done with this, about 25days were gone out of about a 100 and I began regretting this decision. I am a planner. I am not a good executor. I struggled with my plans but God had mercy on me. I really needed help with my MCQs. A book had been introduced to us in class which contained MCQ questions, answers and the reasons for the answers done by a corporate law lecturer in Enugu. It was during my search for where to purchase this book that one of my best friendships in law school developed. I was told that the SRC chairman, Garrick Nosa John had copies he was selling. I didn’t like him very much at the time but whatever, I needed the book. After contacting him for days, I was finally able to reach him and purchase the book. He obviously noticed my keen interest in doing well at the bar exams. Later that night, I got a text message from him asking if I wanted to solve MCQ questions together. I was definitely in need of the help and so I said yes. Garrick became my reading partner. For 3 hours every day, we made sure we solved the MCQ questions and timed ourselves. We even made little shading papers to use as practice papers. After we were done, we would use the answers at the back of the question book to score ourselves. After that, we would take each question one by one and try to determine the real answer and why. We would search our textbooks, compare the laws, argue and argue till we came to a perfect conclusion. 

On some days, we were fortunate to have Oliseh with us. After this, we started drafting. I got the list of all the drafts required topic by topic and we solved as much as we could every night and made corrections. I’m not sure how long we did this for but it was a refreshing way to learn. 

At the end of May, we started law office placement. You see, you have to fill that form carefully. I got posted to a law firm not too far from law school. So did 11 other people and the law firm took only 10 persons. By my calculations and forehand information, two people were going to be left roaming the streets of Lagos looking for another firm to accept them and really that couldn’t be me. Beyond looking for another firm, you had to report to the externship coordinator who was in charge to either find you another place or approve where you had found for yourself. It doesn’t like a big deal right now, but when 10days later you still don’t have a firm but you’re to attach yourself somewhere so you can fill your logbook and stand the risk of not being called to bar because you don’t meet the criteria for portfolio assessment, you suddenly realize that you are actually in boiling soup, you are on fire, the pot is on fire and so is the gas cooker. 

The law firm is not one of the big names you know. All ten of us were kept in their conference room. It was the only place that could take us. Four out of ten of us knew each other very well. We were in the same drama family in school. 

Permit me at this point to introduce my drama family to you. Surely, you remember that I was an executive member of my fellowship and that I was the drama coordinator. Being drama coordinator meant that you had to create awareness about the fellowship. I had been told that we could even do skits in class you know. I thought this was a brilliant idea. We did a few skits in class. The first was an attempted spoken words. I didn’t go well. Someone actually put on his microphone and asked if it was a Nigerian movie. I was so hurt and discouraged. But I was encouraged because three people who I had just met in law school for the first time believed in my idea and agreed to go with it: Ife, Fiyin and Tobi Babalola. We needed to do more skits for the different departments and their different activities. Two stand out for me. First was one done for the music department and a program they had coming up. Believe it or not, the whole class broke out singing and clapping. I was thrilled, shocked and worried that we would get reported. The second was an invitation to draft day. It was done by Blessed and all I can say was, he killed it with his acting. The turnout for the event was beyond massive. On the program of events for the fellowship, the drama department had its own service. Every single member brought their A game. We had spoken words, a dance, a drama and a dialogue. It was so good we were invited to a church to minister. You’re probably wondering what type of law students we were but this was us and I loved every single one of them: Ife, Fiyin, Williams, Izunna, Vivian, Chdinma, Uche, Demola, Chike, Elizabeth, Korede and Chima. They were the best family and my greatest joy is that we all made it to the Bar.

Yes, so four of us were posted to the same law firm with six other incredible people. There’s this belief that where there are a lot of girls in a place, and less guys, it is catastrophic. Our case was different. We were seven young ladies and three young men and for the most part, we got along really well. Getting along really well had its down sides. We were always talking. We had to consciously decide to take time to stop talking and read. At this point, I still hadn’t finished making some of my notes but there was nothing I could do about that now. It was the middle of June and MCQs were close by. I decided to read and read the topics I hadn’t formed and tried to write out what I could remember instead of forming a note. That way, I was sure I had read the topic at least once. I was still solving MCQs, I had started drafting as well. A few times, I got to look at past questions. MCQs were scheduled for the 21st of July and I had to as much as possible, get 20/20 in all the courses.

To be continued next week.

For the non lawyers MCQ means multiple choice questions. It's a compulsory part of the bar part 2 examinations, and is usually administered in July/early August every year.

I hope you truly enjoyed this weeks post. Please leave a comment. 

See you here next week.

xx,

Alexandra for Lily of Nigeria.

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Weekend Planner: 20 Awesome Things to Do in Los Angeles

Here are 20 awesome events happening in L.A. this post-Thanksgiving weekend. Want the 411 on additional events and happenings in LA? Follow @christineziemba on Twitter or Instagram. And, if you like what you’re reading, consider donating to PopRadarLA.com to help defray the costs of the site. Thank you!

FRIDAY, DEC. 15

Gallery 1988 opens a new show Postcard Correspondence on Friday. | Image: Laz Marquez

POSTCARD CORRESPONDENCE (Art)

On Friday night, from 7-9 pm Gallery 1988 presents Postcard Correspondence, featuring actual postcards designed some of Gallery 1988’s fav artists. Each limited-edition card is influenced by a pop culture location and is mailable.

SILLY KARAOKE SHOWDOWN (Comedy)

Silly Karaoke Showdown! Is a comedy show at Nerdmelt on Friday at 7 pm. It’s a little bit American Idol and Weird Al with Japanese game show gimmicks thrown in for good measure. The live show features comedians singing parodies in front of "celebrity" judges. Tickets: $8. 

MIXTAPE 30 (Variety)

Mixtape 30 is at The Virgil for an early show (at 8 pm) on Friday night. Hosted by Garrick Bernard and Peter Moses, the night features standup and sketch comedy with guests Quinta Brunson, Chris Estrada, Ian Karmel, Laurie Kilmartin, Jak Knight, Teresa Lee and music by Open Mike Eagle. No Cover. 

Visual and sonic artist Ryoji Ikeda is at The Theater at Ace Hotel on Friday. | Image: Courtesy of the artist

RYOJI IKEDA (Sound + image)

UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance presents the U.S. premiere of the Paris- and Kyoto- based sound and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda’s concert pieces on Friday at the Theatre at Ace Hotel at 8 pm. It’s the second night of a two-night stint, which featured three works over two nights. Program II includes C⁴I and datamatics. Tickets are now available for $29.50–$59.50.

OCS (Music)

OCS, fka Thee Oh Sees, play the Teragram Ballroom on Friday and Saturday night. The concert is a mellow sit-down set with John Dwyer, Brigid Dawson, Tim Hellman, Paul Quattrone, Tom Dolas. Ty Segall, Shannon Lay open the all ages show. Tickets $20. (Both nights are sold out, so get your tickets through alternative methods.

TO ALL A GOODNIGHT / ELVES (Double feature)

Cinematic Void 2017 presents a holiday horror double feature on Friday night, beginning with To All a Goodnight (1980), followed by Elves (1989). The program also features an introduction by writer Kier-La Janisse, who signs the new book Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television in the Spielberg lobby at 6:30 program. Cinematic Void also includes a surprise holiday short on 16mm. Tickets: $13. 

WINTER DREAM (Pop-up exhibition)

Obscure House art collective presents the pop-up exhibition Winter Dream on Friday and Saturday from 7-11 pm at Nous Tous Gallery in Chinatown. Inside, the gallery will be transformed into Obscure House's rendition of winter in Los Angeles; the artworks explore “themes of stagnation, reflection, the necessity for growth, and weather through paintings, prints, and photos from emerging and established artists.”

SATURDAY, DEC. 16

DECK THE HALL (Holiday)

The LA Phil’s 2017 Deck the Hall Holiday Concert Series presents a Holiday Sing-Along on Saturday at 11:30 am and 2:30 pm at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Melissa Peterman hosts the sing-alongs, in which the crowd’s accompanied by the WDCH’s pipe organ, the Angeles Chorale and a jazz combo. Tickets start at $33.

Wishlist 5 closes at Gabba Gallery this weekend. | Image: Alex Achaval '49 Days Ago' 

WISHLIST 5 (Art)

Gabba Gallery hosts its annual Wishlist 5 closing event on Saturday with a reception from 7-11 pm. The show opened in November, but has changed and evolved since then. The gallery has saved some pieces for last, and everything is for sale (and under $1,000). DJ Jonathan Williams spins the beats and tacos will be served outside.

BEST FRIENDS SHOW (Storytelling)

The Best Friends Show is back at the Virgil at 8 pm on Saturday night. The show invites comedians to tell a shared story with their best friend—because sometimes friends remember better than they do. Stories by: Matt Jones, Pam Murphy, James Darling, Ify Nwadiwe and their friends. Free. Ages 21+.Free. 

RISK! LIVE (Storytelling)

The RISK! Live show is at the Bootleg Theatre on Saturday at 7:30 pm. The live show and podcast features people telling true stories they never thought they’d share in public. Hosted by Beowulf Jones, this month's storytellers are Brian Babylon, David Crabb, David William Montgomery, Jackie Monahan and Anna Seregina. The night’s theme is "The Holidays" (naturally). Tickets: $10-$12. Ages 21+. 

THE HUNT (Scavenger hunt)

The Hunt is a 12-hour scavenger hunt that takes place on Saturday. Using a smartphone app, you’ll tackle 100 riddles, which leads to a specific location in the city. Teams of up to 6 people run, walk, bike or take public transit to get to each spot and upload a photo/video once there. If the team is in the right place, the app gives instant feedback on a live leaderboard. Tickets are $37 and includes a lunch from Sweetgreen, beer from Ballast Point and swag. 

GIANT ROBOT 2 GALLERY: KATUYA TERADA (Art)

Giant Robot 2 Gallery presents the work of manga artist Katsuya Terada. With an opening reception on Saturday from 6:30-10 pm, the solo show Girls melds his manga and traditional art. The works will be on view through Jan. 10, 2018. 

FILMWEEK SCREENINGS: DIE HARD (Film + discussion)

KPCC continues its FilmWeek Screenings on Saturday at The Theatre at Ace Hotel with Die Hard. Selected and hosted by KPCC’s Larry Mantle, the films chosen are set in Southern California. Doors at 6 pm, film at 7 pm. Tickets: $16.50. Mantle holds a post-screening conversation with special guests including FilmWeek critics Christy Lemire and Amy Nicholson. 

POWER 106: CALI CHRISTMAS (Music)

Power 106 presents Cali Christmas at the Forum on Saturday night. On the bill: Chance the Rapper, Travis Scott, Joey Bada$$ and others. Tickets: $25-$175. 7:30 pm.

SANTA MONICA PUB CRAWL (Drinks for a cause)

Santa Monica's 9th annual Pub Crawl takes place on Saturday. The reverie-inducing event also raises money for the Westside Food Bank. Crawlers can get food and drink specials at 30 of the city's best bars and restaurants, along four routes. More than 6,000 party-goers are expected. The crawl includes special offerings all night, such as $5 Stella Artois, $5 well drinks, $7 Redemption Rye holiday cocktails and $3 draft beers. All routes will collide at the Santa's Secret Hideaway After Party at 1212 Santa Monica with DJs, photo booth and more holiday festivities. To participate, buy a wristband ($15 in advance) and choose a route.

The Center for the Study of Political Graphics opens a new show on Saturday. | Image via Facebook.

TO PROTECT & SERVE? FIVE DECADES OF POSTERS PROTESTING POLICE VIOLENCE (Art)

To Protect & Serve? Five Decades of Posters Protesting Police Violence is a new exhibition from the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG). Featuring 75 posters that resonate today more than ever, the show opens at the SPARC Durón Gallery, Old Venice Police Station, in Venice on Saturday. The opening reception is from 6-9 pm, with the show on view through March 2, 2018.

SUNDAY, DEC. 17

BGS CHRISTMAS SITUATION (Music)

The Bluegrass Situation’s (BGS) Christmas Situation concert is at Largo on Sunday night featuring music by Ed Helms, The Dustbowl Revival & Friends. The concert doubles as a food drive for the LA Regional Food Bank—for each can or non-perishable food item attendees bring, they'll be entered to win a BGS Prize Pack. Tickets: $30. Doors at 7 pm, show at 8 pm. 

SMORGASBURG LA: (Food)

Sunday marks the last Smorgaburg LA of 2017, so get out there to eat and shop for holiday gifts. In addition to their usual vendors, Smorgasburg welcomes NYC’s Milk Bar who teams up with The NoMad Truck. Get Milk Bar’s sweet treats to complement The NoMad’s menu, including the Cereal Milk™ soft serve sundaes and a limited-edition holiday cookie. 

LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL (Film)

The 13th annual Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival returns to LACMA on Sunday with nearly 50 films from around the world. The films run the gamut, from full-length and short animation to live action and documentary films. The festival is organized for different age groups from toddlers to teens. The screenings take place at LACMA’s Bing Theater from 10:30 am to 4 pm. Free admission.