#sa spoilers/

[guiiay]

the spear of longinus

[anendtopursuit]

not to gush too much abt neil newbon's performance as astarion (and stephen rooney's writing for him) but like. he's discussed on streams before how conscious the decision to make him feel like he's constantly performing is (regardless of outcome; theatrical spawn astarion & operatic ascended astarion), and how stephen rooney leaned more into the whimsy and fun of the character based on things he saw in his portrayal (hence astarion progressively getting funnier and more charismatic through game development). but the thing that drives me absolutely mad tbh is the moments where all of it drops and he's suddenly so sincere, because it hits you like a truck to the face.

his voice going all soft and quiet and brittle when he describes cazador instructing his spawn to torture themselves. his mannerisms shifting from seductive and playful to a little more nervous. but the one that always gets me is in the graveyard romance scene, talking about what cazador has taken from him, how it was taken by force; "but he did take it," in this voice that's so full of sorrow that it almost sounds hollow, muffled by none of his usual pomp and theatricality, when even in cazador's palace his admissions of upset were sandwiched between attempts to brush it all off. dear god.

[a-heart-of-kyber]

*slaps table*

Listen!

There is something super sweet and healing and hopeful about Gale, "I was groomed and still don't realize it and had 'sex' with the Goddess of Magic via mental/spiritual/astral projection regularly. Also, I'm kind of addicted to magic." Deciding to approach you first to flirt with "You being all sweaty after battle is so fucking hot."

Because it's Real. It's physical. Yeah, it's horny, but it's the realization that the mortal realm can be equal to the godly one, if not superior, despite it being different. Like, he's not Losing something by not being with a God and he can heal.

[citricacidprince]

I noticed that their dynamics were so similar… what if they swapped for a bit

As a treat (For Swansea and Daisuke) and a punishment (For Stan and Soos, but also me, because that shit hurted)

Also, bonus doodle under the cut but be wary of Mouthwashing Spoilers!

[deramin2]

The great thing about a show bursting with queer characters as a normalized part of the world is that the story can have sexy tragic queer villains without it being a homophobic trope.

Diversity win! The hot card shark antique collector demon is queer! But so are most of the heroes and the Emprix that sent them there. The middle age sapphics are having a moment, and so are the situationship bis.

[berrymuttbb]

LOOK AT THE LOVE OF MY LIFE!! LOOK AT THEM!!!

(They are voiced by Mara Junot a nonbinary voice actor who you may know as the voice of Shoola one of the Piltover council members from Arcane)

[userarmand]

All... fragments. Shackled on the boat. The brothel. My maker's purchase.

[danlous]

He was rescued from a brothel when he was 15, named Arun then, I think. I cannot be sure. The abuse in the brothel was such that he cannot be sure that is what his parents named him. The parents that sent him to work on a merchant boat in Delhi when in actuality they had sold him into slavery to the ship's captain. All... fragments. Shackled on the boat. The brothel.

[eliotlime]

just another dead pixel

[cloudyfacewithjam]

I'm not sure I can forgive myself for any of it.

SAS Rogue Heroes - Season 2 Episode 6

[teem-boo]

Too busy looking at the bigger picture.

[ca-suffit]

[sgt-dignam]

no mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells...fuck. fuck, i forgot the words.

SAS Rogue Heroes | 2.03

[emma-ofnormandy]

the sas's bestest boy SAS: Rogue Heroes 2.1

[vethbrenatto]

The Legend of Vox Machina ★ Prisoners of Ank'Harel (3x02) “You created something revolutionary, Percy.” “I have no interest in revolution.”

[20mbiez]

anya being totally horrified and nauseated at the thought of shoving curly's painkillers down his throat without consent (cause let's be real, even though they are "helping" to manage his suffering at least temporarily, he really can't consent to it in his state) and jimmy just doing it like it's nothing but a chore or an inconvenience at worst is .

whew. yeah

like throughout the game, jimmy notably does not give one (1) shit hearing curly's chokes or cries of pain as he's forced to swallow his pills, whilst anya literally can't even be in the room for it. one of the biggest, most tell-tale pieces of info ab these characters that went right over my head