#shut up about bg3.

[swordmaid]

"you and the white boy"

[gift-of-prophecy]

people who complain about gale yapping too much don’t understand the sixth secret love language: infodumping

[eeldritchblast]

I truly wonder if white fans are even capable of understanding how hard it is just being in a fandom space when you're not white. How alienated you feel every other day. How often you're told "it's not that big a deal" or "it's just a fantasy game get over it" or "it doesn't matter" or "go save the rainforest instead of crying over a game" or etc. etc. etc. to the point where you yourself start to question if there's something wrong with you... that it's your fault for being hurt all the time. Because it's never just about one racist mod, or one piece of whitewashed art, or one offensive post... it's all of it. Together. All the time. It's so fucking exhausting and it's why POC quit fandom spaces a lot.

[artist-rat]

u will always be famous, to me..... (the convo on the right is from this lol)

[lunian]

Gale: *practices shadow magic*

Lae'zel and Shadowheart: wtf

Astarion: TWIRLING HAIR GIGGLING KICKING FEET

[trappedinafantasy37]

Larian statistics got us like:

[niku30]

Craziest thing that ever happened to me I’m ngl

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[a2zillustration]

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[ohpassenger]

someone really liked gale in the animation team i feel like

[recents]

so we all know astarion was named after the minotaur of greek myth, who, despite widely known as the minotaur (“bull of minos”), was named astarion/asterion (“starry one”) by his mother at birth. asterion the minotaur was trapped in a labyrinth and cursed to devour virginal men and women thrown in there as sacrifices.

”The House of Asterion�� is a 1947 short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges that retells the story of the minotaur from the minotaur’s point of view. it’s one of his best early short stories and it’s very short, only 3 pages long. you can read it here.

borges is in my top 3 favorite writers of all time, and “The House of Asterion” obviously deserves to be considered on its own merits, so i feel slightly irreverent connecting this text to a recent video game. but i reread this short story today and there was much to think about, there were many more seeds planted in my mind in terms of interpretations of the minotaur myth and how asterion the minotaur relates to the story of astarion the vampire. i think it will for you, too.

anyway. if you don’t click through and read it, please at least read how it ends, remembering, of course, that the speaker is asterion the minotaur:

:)

[dragkingandreweldritch]

so let me get this straight. one of the main bad guys in bg3 is a burly goth with his tits out, who is voiced by Jason Isaacs, and who offers you an alliance that sounds an awful lot like a marriage proposal if you don't immediately try to fight him, AND also implies the two of you were *very* close pre-amnesia and just generally gets a big smile on his face when other npcs talk about you if you play as a specific premade character...and you CAN'T fuck him???

the Larian exec I've tied to a chair: how did you get into my house

[swordmaid]

this face with that dialogue line is sending me

[lesbianwyllravengard]

Everyone whines ab Wyll's rat diet comment because how dare he snipe at Astarion when they barely know each other, but no one fucking cares when Astarion claims gortash is to thank for Karlach's existence in act 3 when he damn well knows better. Cause it's not your favourite white boy getting his wittol feewings huwt. Y'all are so quick to see Wyll as an agitator here, and I need you to think about why that is. And shut the fuck up about it.

[beaft]

every time i think i've made progress in teaching astarion how to behave like a regular person he does something absolutely unhinged and i have to get out the water spritzer again. truly one step forward five steps back

[forcedhesitation]

astarion origin playthrough worth it just for all the extra moments where he does the "sad wet cat" face

[glyphes]

they added new dialogue in astarions origin for when gale talks about the sunrise and his response is so 😭