#i’m still mad about it

[blahblahbih]

Oscar’s penalty leaving him next to Carlos on the grid feels like when a teacher thinks two students have a crush on each other and “randomly assigns seats”

[indigospyder]

Hylas

Been talking a lot about my Tav Hylas and uh. I still haven’t. Shared them on here??

So here’s a post dedicated to my darling Hylas (they/them)!

(Under the cut is their lore/backstory and some doodles of them and Gale, so if you just wanna see the screenshots you don’t gotta go any deeper)

Hylas Lore

Hylas was born in Baldur’s Gate to a Human mother and Wood Elf father (side note: I think more Wood Elves should be green. It’s my reality, so Hylas is tinted green bc of their dad’s genes).

Dad bailed pretty early on, and because mom couldn’t afford to be a single mom, she gave custody of Hylas to a nearby Monastery of Lathander.

Hylas didn’t have to become a member of the clergy/monk, but they liked the teachings of Lathander and decided to dedicate their life to him as a monk. They started studying and archiving at 13, and didn’t start martial arts training until 15.

They trained as an Open Hand monk (I like to think their specific style is a mix of Shanghai- and Southern-Tiger Kung Fu style; I tried to draw them in a Tiger stance above) and they perfected their speed and placement of attacks.

At 25, the monastery was attacked, and Hylas was put in charge of getting the younger students to safety with another monk. They were attacked, and Hylas fought tooth and claw to protect the kids and the fellow monk, who was critically injured. The ordeal nearly killed them, and it left them with long-lasting scars, but if given the chance they’d do it all over again. Defending the people they love is the most important thing to them, and the monastery is their family.

A stereotypical “monk” pose from when I first drew Hylas—way before I actually put thought into their martial stylings. See it as a show of their flexibility, I guess!

At 31, they left the monastery to travel Faêrun on their own for the first time—they’d only ever known brief glimpses of Baldur’s Gate and the monastery. They traveled up and down the Sword Coast, meeting with other temples of Lathander (they even met Gideon Lightward from Elturel; they felt he was a little too ‘fire and brimstone’ to be a true priest of the Dawn Father, but they enjoyed his company and tutelage nonetheless).

After years of studying being an archivist, Hylas has a borderline unhealthy fixation on collecting books/missives/texts. It is, in fact, a problem. They read the Tome of Thay because of it. They don’t know they have a problem, and the fact that they’re romancing Gale doesn’t do them any favors.

And 10 years after they left—Baldur’s Gate 3 happened! So Hylas is 41 during the game; 20-25 in Human years! They got set back to Level 1 like the rest of the gang (and they were VERY mad they had to rely on a staff again. They spent a DECADE breaking their fingers to punch things into dust, dammit!/hjk).

Some fun facts about Hylas:

When their dad was still around, he took them to see a ballet performance (this is my reality, and in my reality Elves invented ballet, huff my jorts) and they wanted to be a ballerina SO BAD

Since they DIDN’T get to be a ballerina, they spent some of their 10 years traveling Faêrun learning some dances! It was fun to do, connected them to their past, and helped them keep in shape when they weren’t training.

They’ve had their vitiligo since childhood, though it’s grown over time.

Hylas’s non-binary/transmasc identity is loosely based on my own experiences as a demiboy! They actually made me feel more comfortable with my own they/them pronouns and I’m toying around with using them over he/him.

They’re very much romancing Gale—they find his intelligence and passion for knowledge and teaching very sexy.

Gale was also their first… well, almost everything relationship wise! First significant other, first hand hold, first time.

The only first Gale didn’t get was kissing, and that’s because when Hylas was young, they and another monk-in-training kissed each other to see what all the fuss was about. They both swore to keep it secret (intimacy was a no-no for monks at the monastery), but they both caved due to guilt and separately fessed up to the same monk. They had a LOT of extra chores that month.

(Hylas never sought out a relationship after the monastery simply because they didn’t really… see the point. The monks had drilled celibacy into their head for so long they just kinda. Didn’t seek it out. And then they pulled the wizard from the rock and everything changed…)

Spoilers for Act 3 for this one: in my play through, Hylas drowned in the Iron Throne along with… a lot of the hostages. They made sure Wyll’s dad got out safe, and kept the Sahuagin from getting to the sub while everyone else escaped, but they went down with the prison and have a phobia of water/drowning now (as well as a LOT of guilt over all the dead Gondians—they probably won’t ever forgive themselves for that).

Post-game, I think Hylas would become a priest of Lathander or a scholar/archivist—they’re done fighting for a nice long while. (They still train regularly though—gotta keep the mind and body sharp!)

Karlach is their bff. The SECOND Karlach could touch others, they JUMPED to hug her.

Hylas’s favorite stuffed animal growing up was a sabertooth tiger—and in my play through, Halsin became a sabertooth tiger a LOT :3

They let Volo take their eye. They. They did that. Volo they trusted you. Do you know what an honor it was for them to meet you, Volo? VOLO—

Between Hylas’s open hand attacks and Gale casting Disintegrate, these two are fucking lethal as hell. Lucky for you they just want to study and talk about books with Tara.

Hope y’all love my baby as much as I do—I have so so SO many thoughts about them. Once I’m able to draw digitally again I’m gonna be doing SO much art of them and Gale 💕

ALSO if you want to ask about them, or talk Tavs/BG3 in general, please feel free to drop me a line! I love talking about this stuff, it’s incredibly fun for me and I love seeing other people’s Tavs 🥰

[justaboutsnapped]

[doodlebug-aboo]

hoping and begging that fabian in the bard classes this year and what we’ve seen of terpsichore so far means that we’ll get to see more of fabian dealing with some of his issues this season. i think brennan tried to set it up sophomore year after fabian’s No Good Very Bad Day in Leviathan, but all of the bad kids reacted SO poorly to fabian’s actual emotional state after that, that it never happened. i want a deeper dive into fabian and i want him to seek help <3 that’s all.

[swans-anime-ramblings]

Generally I’d say that yes, TotK is better than Botw which is amazing—except one thing.

No it’s not botw’s bombs (rip bombs I love you) no it’s not the Champion abilities (loved those too)

…it’s the trees. The goddam trees don’t attack you in Botw. The first time it happened in TotK it scared the shit out of me. Now I just hate it.

Because listen. Sometimes I just want to enjoy the pretty nature in Zelda, okay? I want to pick mushrooms in the forest and look for honey combs in the rustling quiet. I want to camp by a lonely lake decorated with fireflies. I want to catch fish where no one can bother me.

In the Depths? Sure. Send the creepy trees. Fits the vibe, I get it. But not on the surface. I want pick my fucking apples in peace, alright?

[femchef]

APROPOS -

Bitch how dare you look at the lesson plan YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN TEACHING THE ENTIRE TIME and go “oh I don’t think they’re capable” in four days of class time these students have RISEN TO THE FUCKING OCCASION - and they’ve done it with excitement and pride.

They can absolutely do it - they’ve already done it.

I am so fucking appalled that your attitude could have poisoned this fucking group of students - they are so excited and eager about being here and you were really just not going to teach them things that YOU KNOW are built into the curriculum.

YO - fuckin - LO honey - get thee gone.

[transgaledekarios]

Larian really does have its favorites, huh. Everyone else can just choke. Wyll gets the worst of it, for sure. Especially from fandom, but what’s wild to me is why they would even create characters they don’t even seem to like?? Gale is regularly mocked and treated like the butt of the joke in the text. And his sacrifice is supposed to be the “best ending”. Fuck right off, Larian.

You made these guys and then hate them so much you ignore them and/or treat them like shit. Do better

[emjcarr]

One thing about social anxiety is that you will do things that are “extra” to avoid people and people will point that shit out 😭😭 “you coulda just asked me” 😭 no, I couldn’t. You’re scary

[spectrum-color]

Following so many people reading or rereading RotE is amazing but it’s meant that they all get to Fools Fate eventually and I have to keep experiencing my least favorite ending of any book ever over and over again it is destroying my sanity

[fighting-for-it-to-be-okay]

Thinking about that one time in middle shcool we where given two papers on why adhd was fake and a scam and caused by video games and one about how adhd is real you fucking idiots. And we had to write an essay based of the evidence In one of the papers but I had lost two of the papers the adhd is real one and one of the adhd is fake ones. Anyways so because of a symptom of my adhd I had to write an essay on why adhd is fake. I got dignosed a year later.

[bardofavon]

not to be controversial bc I know this is like…not in line with shifting opinions on fanfic comment culture but if there’s a glaring typo in my work I will NOT be offended by pointing it out. if ao3 fucks up the formatting…I will also not be offended by having this pointed out…

‘looking forward to the next update’ and ‘I hope you update soon!’ are different vibes than a demand, and should be read in good faith because a reader is finding their way to tell you how much they love it. I will not be mad at this.

‘I don’t usually like this ship but this fic made me feel something’ is also incredibly high praise. I’m not going to get mad at this.

even ‘I love this fic but I’m curious about why you made [x] choice’ is just another way a reader is engaging in and putting thought into your work.

I just feel like a lot of authors take any comment that’s not perfectly articulated glowing praise in the exact manner they’re hoping to receive it in bad faith.

fic engagement has been dropping across the board over the last several years, and yes it’s frustrating but it isn’t as though I can’t see how it happens. comment anxiety can be a real thing. the last thing anyone wants to do is offend an author they love, and that means sometimes people default to silence.

idk where I’m going with this I guess aside from saying unless a comment is outright attacking me I’m never going to get mad at it, and I think a lot of authors should feel the same way. ESPECIALLY TYPOS PLZ GOD POINT OUT MY TYPOS.

[femmeofhearts]

i hope (know) this is how everyone who has ever fumbled me feels

[jojoeyo]

Something that also should be said is that even if you hate the source material, try to make something out of it, and not just lash out at it, like when JJ Abrams hated Star Trek, so he destroyed Vulcan, the enterprise, and coupled Spock and Uhura just to piss everyone off

To all TV and movie producers out there, a heartfelt message to you:

STOP👏ADAPTING👏ORIGINAL👏WORKS👏IF👏YOU HATE👏THE SOURCE👏MATERIAL

[saltyfilmmajor]

Spectre Could have been a good movie …

[paterday]

Meanest thing my extended family ever did to me was make fun of me for eating a lot of bread at a restaurant cuz I said I was planning on eating an embarrassing amount of bread and they said it wouldn’t be an embarrassing amount unless they made fun of me for it. Fuck you. I love bread.

[douglasfeiffel]

*daily manifestations* I will not get really fucking mad about things that happened literal years ago