#oathtorn

[silksworn]

❝ i make you uneasy. ❞

❛ —— ☾ ₊ ⊹ @oathtorn

𝐀 𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐔𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐂𝐄 has been called between the two of them. Iraestra has swallowed her tongue so frequently this past fortnight that she knows the taste of it, has choked on acrid outrage. Fragile as egg membrane, the peace exists only for the benefit of the whole. She has been forced to allow the lesser of two evils: the Absolute, or a Baenre in her presence?

Uneasy is not the word for it. Furious, maybe. Disgusted. Maddened nearly beyond reason. Iraestra's very blood threatens to boil over whenever she turns and sees that Minthara still draws breath.

She bristles; unease implies trepidation, or even worse — fear. A heinous accusation either way. "You make me itch for a blade in my hand and your heart in the other," too much of truth, too much poison dripping from her lips. At the best of times she considers herself to be rational. Guided ever more by reason than her emotions.

But there is no sense in this charade.

[swordpact]

🕯️ from fal and minthara

fallahan.

there are loose pages slipping from the journal. oriax had been sewing them into the old book when the night had grown dark and he had slipped away to hide beneath the heavy blankets provided here by fallahan. looking at it, one can see oriax's clean and practiced script.

a peek wouldn't hurt, would it?

The last time I glimpsed Fallahan had been from the balcony of my home, when my father had been dealing with him for materials that only an ex-adventurer could get their hands on. I don't remember being seen -- but he responded with familiarity when we finally made the acquaintance of him and those he works alongside.

I must admit I find his company agreeable, even preferable to many of the people we have met on this journey yet. The others think I am losing myself to naivety once again, but I am simply glad for some of the comforts of home.

Perhaps I will make time to dine with our current benefactor on the morrow.

minthara.

there are diagrams on this page - half-sketched images of the sigil of the absolute tucked beside the skulls of myrkul, bane and bhaal. he's had a lot on his mind recently.

the writing on the page is neat and tidy, though it smudges in a few places where he's grown careless with the ink.

Minthara walks into the city with us. I can't stop thinking about seeing her in the camp, a tactician surrounded by stolen text, before we turned on her. I think there's still a crack in my skull from her mace. There's certainly a scar on my horn on the right side.

She swears vengeance on the things trying to guide her fate against her will, and I have grown to. . .trust her in some measure. Her rage is something comforting in the chaos of the city.

I need to meet with her and discuss our plans for taking the temple beneath the city. I'll deal with that in the morning.

inner thoughts.

[bhaalswn-arch]

🙌

send 🙌 to grab my muse by the throat. ( accepting !! )

Fuck. You were caught off guard, and the drow had grabbed you by the neck. Minthara's hand pressed to your throat. She presses her palm right against your throat and made you lift your head up as if examining you. Like she's examining every angle of your face; the curves of your cheeks and the sharp edges of your jaw. Perhaps even the tattoos and the lip scar. She squeezed your throat and a soft groan escapes by accident. "Minthara, what do you want?"

[herspawn]

"you're unique. in a good way."

She was unique? That wouldn’t be the first time someone had said that about her since being in the goblin camp. Though something about how she said it had Ivy’s brain short circuiting. She stood next to Minthara with a head tilt before looking back down at the map on the stone table. Her cheeks turning a bright red hue from being flustered by the compliment. “ I don’t know if I would use unique but thank you. “ She said as she looked toward the map. Eyes trying to keep from looking at the drow. Trying to open her brain up to remember how to get to the grove, she could’ve sworn she passed it. Just where could it have been? She didn’t want to disappoint the other in this.

She spoke once more, trying to deflect the attention on her. “ I might go poking around to find the entrance once again… I just can’t remember where it is on this map. “

"𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄'𝐒 𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔" 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒 [ x ]

[thiefcant]

🙌 I wanted to send this so much that I aggressively liked the post instead of sending it

" hey, hey, hey -- come on, hey, let me go. "

he throws his hands up when he feels the curl of minthara's fingers. he had been expecting her to scruff him like anyone else, but her sharp nailed hands had come around the side of his throat to pin him to one of the bookshelves in her corner of the shattered sanctum.

on the other side of the wall, he hears the bellowing of dror ragzlin's men in celebration. this place was noisy, messy and annoying to be in -- of course he was bored.

" i ain't taken anything. unless you're gonna be mad if i take one of the books on these shelves! "

he drops the book in hand, breathing hard around the curl of her fingers on his throat.

" come on, we aren't enemies here. "

chokehold the thief!

[moonridge]

"At first, I thought the resemblance was merely aesthetic. Now I know you share similar levels of intelligence as well."

　　　❝ is... is this about ravens? is it because i said they're as smart as toddlers with no moral compass? i promise you i am way smarter than a toddler, but the moral compass thing might be true. ❞

[poswiecenia]

@oathtorn - “ we  live  and  die  in  a  hopeless  world. ” iso! \ idk where this meme came from, sorry ;;

( 🥀 ) A FLUSTERED SOUND escaped isoolo'aims' lips as eyes flick from what had been holding their focus briefly to look the woman in the eye. gods, can she not spout pessimistic truths RIGHT NOW ?

❝ PERHAPS. BUT YOU persevere - dying does not seem to be in your future, as you allow me to HEAL YOUR WOUNDS, ❞ the cleric's words are slightly grumbled ; frustration not so much directed at the drow but the situation. letting an artificer in the camp hadn't been THE BEST IDEA

IT WAS LUCKY that the explosion didn't properly KILL anyone.

[lunarscaled]

"... ... can I hear more about the cat?"

"An insipid do-gooder traitor with an equally boring cat."

[stxrmstained]

STXRMSTAINED an independent, private, selective roleplay blog for Baldur's Gate 3 original 'Tav' character Seira — carrd, interest checker

loved by draco (she/her, 25+, UTC+1), also found on @wvrlock @vilecelium & @oathtorn

[silksworn]

🖤 i literally can't remember if i got to send you one

ehe you didn’t but that's ok! <;3

attractiveness:

repulsive / hideous / ugly / not attractive / unappealing / not unattractive / meh / no preference / ok / mildly attractive / nice looking / cute / adorable / attractive / pleasant on the eyes / good looking / hot / sexy / beautiful / gorgeous / hot damn / would tap that / perfect / godlike / holy fuck there are no words.

personality:

grating / irritating / frustrating / boring / confusing at best / awkward / unreasonable / psychotic / disturbing / interesting / engaging / affectionate / aggressive / ambitious / anxious / artistic / bad tempered / bossy / charismatic / appealing / unappealing / creative / courageous / dependable / unreliable / unpredictable / predictable / devious / dim / extroverted / introverted / egotistical / gregarious / fabulous / impulsive / intelligent / sympathetic / talkative / up beat / peaceful / calming / badass / flexible.

how likely they would have sex with them:

not if they were the last person on earth and the world was ending / fuck no! / never / no way / not likely / not sure / indifferent / I’m asexual / maybe / probably / it depends / fairly likely / likely / yeah sure / yes / would tap that / hell yes / fuck yes! / wishing that could happen right now / as many times as possible / we are already having sex.

level of friendship:

never in a million years / worst of enemies / enemies / rivals / indifferent / neutral / acquaintance / friendly toward each other / casual friends / friends / good friends / best friends / fuck buddies / bosom buddies / practically the same person / would die for them / true friends / my only friend.

first impression of them:

i hate them so much / i don’t like them / i don’t trust them / they annoy me / they’re weird / I’m indifferent / meh / they seem alright / they’re growing on me / truce / I think I like them / I like them / I’m not sure if I trust them / I trust them / they’re cool / they’re genuine / I think we’re going to get along / I really like them / I think I’m in love / oh fuck they’re hot / I love them.

current impression of them:

i hate them so much / i don’t like them / i don’t trust them / they annoy me / they’re weird / I’m indifferent / meh / they seem alright / they’re growing on me / truce / I think I like them / I like them / I’m not sure if I trust them / I trust them / they’re cool / they’re genuine / I think we’re going to get along / I really like them / I think I’m in love / oh fuck they’re hot / I love them.

send 🖤 and my character will answer about yours ! / @oathtorn

[femmeraege]

oathtorn asked: “War creates bizarre allies, peace can be divisive.”

Karlach's eyebrows knit together as she considered her words. She didn't necessarily agree, but it didn't mean either of them were wrong.

"War makes people desperate," she said finally. "But it'd be pretty shit of me to hold the decisions you made against you when I did terrible things, too. So don't expect me to turn on you when things are all sorted, alright?"

[wvrlock]

That is my opinion, and has always been my position regarding callouts, so I am making this post and leaving for the time being, simply because I don't want to interact with a RPC that believes that shaming and publicly humiliating people is a mature way of dealing with things. I don't want anything to do with self-appointed saviors and protectors who enjoy being morally superior more than they are willing to make the RPC a safer space. Yes, even for the unlikable, or the clingy, or the mistaken, or the uneducated people who make harmful claims but can be corrected.

Since words will be put in my mouth after this, I would like to end addressing causality. The people most involved in this situation from the beginning have been people of color — that makes sense, since the initial claims about Bunny that started this were about racism. And they have been the most vocal about it, as they deserve to be, because a white person posing as black doesn't hurt white people remotely as much as it hurts them. Until recently, I can't think of a single white person who spoke about it with more than a vague mention like "racism is bad please don't be a racist". If you can, I don't follow them.

So, disagreeing with the way the callout was handled is, necessarily, disagreeing with the POC who made it and endorsed it. That is a fact. It isn't blaming them for raising awareness about issues that affect them, it isn't charging against them specifically for being POC or being regularly vocal about race and racism, or pointing fingers at them instead of at the white people involved (because if they exist, I don't know them).

(an aside before moving on, just to cover my back because I have seen accusations like "you blocked my muse of color but not my white muse because you are racist" and I don't want those. I used to follow raphaeni, I even wrote a bit with the muse. I unfollowed — I believe softblocked — because I ran an interest checker and they didn't fill it. I didn't like their blog that much because they reblog too many pictures for my personal liking, so I did what people do and used the chance to cut ties, as I did for many others. The character being a man of color had nothing to do with it)

I think you can defend a right cause, even one that has personally harmed you, and still be an asshole and a bully about how you do it. And I think that is precisely what has happened here. It doesn't have anything to do with "mean ethnics" as it is the expression used in the callout to create the narrative that finding grays in it instantly makes you a racist. It has to do with mean people doing things that I consider toxic, to the point where I would rather not exist in the same space as them.

I wanted to be crystal clear about where I stand, so if people choose to cut ties with me, at least I know it was due to my own words and opinions, rather than someone else's. I will be stepping back for the aforementioned reasons, in hopes that people will learn how to solve issues like adults meanwhile.

If anyone wants my discord to chat or roleplay, my DMs are open. If anyone wants to offer further context or correct me, my DMs are open. If you come to me anonymously in my inbox, please don't do that — we're all adults here.

Everyone, have a lovely day.

This post will get rather long, please bear with me while I post all three parts of it.

People have blocked me in the past few days, and I'd rather it is for my own words than by association. I owe that to my mutuals here who have not heard from me in a while, especially those who like to form their own opinions. And I owe it to myself, because I won't keep being hypocritical thinking and talking about how people should handle things like adults but not do it myself and fade without a word.

Racism isn't petty drama, but the way it is handled can be, as it works with everything. I am not here to defend Bunny, or the other person, whose name was not stated "for the sake of their privacy" but King @ anyway — I will keep their name private as for their wishes, and call them X.

The callout was initially intended as a way of raising awareness to Bunny posing as a black person, meant to protect and validate POC. Although I have had ooc contact with him, I honestly cannot tell if he was posing as black, or how they were doing that (I am not American, and what I know of black culture in my country is most likely untrue for others, especially US), so I won't question the many people who spoke of their experience. It did catch my eye, as an external observer, that a few times it was mentioned that he "never claimed to be black", only thought to be. I don't know him or any of the people affected, but I was left with the impression that these claims were a thing brewing in a different circle, and were never brought up to him until it exploded. I don't doubt it is true and harmful for the people affected, but I have yet to see proof that it was intentional and malicious. If you have it, and will be so kind as to educate me, I would want to see it.

He addressed it in his own blog, all of the claims from the callout blog, so they weren't a secret even to his followers outside the bg3 rpc. He mentioned the past callouts, the sexualization of his character and pretending to be black. I think people are smart enough to make their own minds after seeing it there — if they thought he was black, now they knew for sure he wasn't, if they had sensed something odd with the sexualization they knew they weren't alone, and for the past callouts… I had been following Bunny for a while, and it isn't the first time I have heard about them from him. They were not public, but they weren't a secret either.

When I asked for the callout blog, I wanted to see proof of the things he had said, to cut ties with him after reading the testimonies of the affected people and forming my educated opinion. But I found nothing. All of it was telling me that what Bunny said was true: people saying they believed him to be black, people uncomfortable by the sexualization of his muse, and victims of his past. It gave me exactly nothing, except the word of strangers. Sure, I can trust POC's word about this or that being racist, because they know better. But I want to know what 'that' is. As a person who interacted with Bunny, and as a white person who writes some POC and highly sexual characters, I am not interested in "the drama", I want to know what they did wrong so I can learn from it: make sure I don't do it myself, educate my friends, stay away from others who replicate that behavior.

I thought at that point the deed of "keeping the rpc safe" was done. People had their thoughts validated, the person in question had addressed the issue, and most importantly he had added it to his rules. If it was indeed a malicious, intentional racist move, it had no room to ever happen again, and even followers from other rpcs knew of the claims and could form their opinion.

I positioned myself after Bunny's last post, when the issue of misgendering was mentioned, in his tags. I cannot possibly believe that none of the many people publicly or privately involved with the callout read this post. Be said he uses he/they pronouns (and those who follow him know that he's been using he more prominently as of late), and she is reserved for close friends. All over the callout blog he is referred to by the wrong pronouns, not just by people in screenshots, but for OP as well — recently for the excuse that "he has used them in the past, and it is what everyone else is using", but never once correcting it or addressing it. Perhaps people will call this a stretch, or a "desperate excuse to defend a racist", especially coming from a cis woman like myself, but this is a hard line for me, so I don't care. No matter the claims, no one deserves to be misgendered over and over again by dozens of people on a viral blog. It is cruel and dehumanizing. Even if there wasn't a conscious, malicious reasoning by OP, I can't possibly believe no one involved knew he was being misgendered — no one knew beforehand, or read his post, or got anons mentioning it? I don't know if they didn't speak up, or if someone did and wasn't listened to. I don't care. This alone makes me sick, and I don't wish to keep interacting with people who have seen this and did nothing about it.

[vilecelium]

VILECELIUM an independent, private, selective roleplay blog for Baldur's Gate 3 original 'companion' character Xarzzas — carrd, interest checker

loved by draco (she/her, 25+, UTC+1), also found on @wvrlock @stxrmstained & @oathtorn (please make sure to read my rules on this blog!)

[moonridge]

❝ they say madness and genius are separated by but a hair’s breadth. perhaps the same is true of madness and stupidity. ❞

( i lost it lol )

　　　　　　　　　*

　　　how needlessly philosophical. normally, ozus likes that — needlessly philosophical. there's no reason for it, and yet it stirs the brain anyways. though perhaps this time it did have at least a little bit of a meaning. ❝ you know, minthara, i can't tell if that's just to be wise or if you're trying to very subtly, very vaguely insult me? ❞

[poswiecenia]

MUSE AESTHETICS: HORROR EDITION.

bold whatever applies | italics what sometimes applies [ both if it's perfect for your muse ] | strikethrough what doesn't apply & tag people. repost; don’t reblog!

CLASSIC.

black and white. powder puffs. red lipstick. winged eyeliner. white kitten heels. black lace lingerie. icy blue eyes. rain. abandoned cars. skeletons. acid. poison. voyeurism. switchblades. strangling. overcoats. looking over your shoulder. trans-atlantic accents. private detectives. dinner parties. haunted mansions. cobwebs. perfect blonde curls. kitchen knives. shock. cellars. dust. ghosts. dark alleys. empty streets. horn-rimmed glasses. radiation. zombies. serial murder. suspicion. the city. witches. the devil. cannibalism. conspiracies. amulets. abject terror. the American South. the American Northeast. England. analog cameras.

CRYPTID & URBAN LEGEND.

aliens. blinding light. dark woods. driving at night. claw marks. bite marks. men in black. memory loss. dismembered bodies. sewers. flashlights. cell phones. video cameras. cars with tinted windows. unlabeled cassette tapes. bugs. big cities. urban crimes. clowns. something rustling outside your window. glowing light. unsolved mysteries. suburbia. mirrors. the american pacific northwest. the american midwest. hiking. backpacking.

GOTHIC.

gaslights. corsets. ballrooms. candlelight. mist. starless nights. full moons. cobbled streets. horse-drawn carriages. mysterious strangers. bogs. moors. forests. mountains. castles. velvet. silver. brass. gold. jewels. domino masks. the opera. dangerous romances. tragic romances. violins. roses. lilies. empty graves. crosses. cemeteries. snow. ice. the gallows. crows. milk-white skin. ambiguous illness. fangs. pointed nails. something howling in the night. capes. gloves. top hats. straight razors. lightning. pipe organs. underground caverns. bats. mice. rats. ravens. cats. pearls. attics. talismans. axes. wood. isolation in a room full of people. vampires. werewolves. ghosts. coffins. western europe. eastern europe. bones. churches. catacombs. mausoleums. books. stitches.

PARANORMAL.

malevolent spirits. seances. spells. missing bodies. hidden graves. white noise. static. flickering lights. rings of salt. demons. poltergeists. dark histories. old buildings. cold air. wells. urban exploration. a dog barking at unseen things. iconoclasm. black ooze. old photographs. dark bodies of water. crucifixes. priests. possession. exorcisms. dolls.

SLASHER.

bloodbaths. massacres. wanton nudity. newspapers. leather jackets. letterman jackets. converse sneakers. obscured faces. social unrest. bonfires. lakes. babysitters. high school. lockers. dead leaves in the fall. jack-o’-lanterns. passing shadows. outdated television sets. nightmares. psychiatrists. hospitals. unstoppable forces. gunfire. police. landline telephones. improvised weapons. halloween. secrets. revelations. cut wires. character masks. scrunchies. wild curls. jeering children. parties. fire. swearing. revulsion. california. the american midwest. ambulances.

THRILLER.

daylight. fluorescent lighting. morgues. unwavering eye contact. tension. lit rooms. empty rooms. killer in plain sight. a dog digging in the newly-planted flower bed. steely gazes. paperwork. anagrams. codes. convicted killers. missing persons. law enforcement. federal agents. small towns. paranoia. subdued terror. dimly-lit parking lots. a noise in the distance.

tagged by: @zorkaya ( <3 ty ) tagging: @idolsummons ( hana ), @fckurselfie ( aether or ardbert ), @torntruth ( karlach ), @ichihero, @oathtorn, @visionhcld ( worcestershire sauce ), @wornlilac + anyone else who wanna <3

[moonridge]

　　　ozus takes a step back, hands out in front of them, though eventually they decide perhaps properly presenting his hands to minthara may be a bit of an unwise idea. those hands come to quickly clasp behind him, out of her reach. "i— i promise, minthara. i promise— no, i swear that i will keep my hands to myself. you won't ever have to worry ever again! please."

　　　ooh, such a rare treat to hear the tiefling say 'please!'

"Is it? I think perhaps not." Her voice is deep and dark. Another step forward, to match his. As expected, the tiefling looks terrified already. Good.

"You seem to have a difficulty keeping them where they belong. It will bring you trouble in the future. Consider this an act of mercy."