#they have nice banter

[arcades-n-academia]

[ratatatastic]

more shenanigans from the vanha kauppahalli date!!! i.e how quickly can maffhew offend an entire nation and getting deported because he somehow manages to butcher everything

man who desperately seeks approval and very wary to not offend his husband's teammates language he needs to excel at this and not make a fool of himself (spoiler alert he makes a fool of himself anyways)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Custody Battle: START

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[forcedhesitation]

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

[recurring-polynya]

He's like when your dog sees you're sad and bonks you with his big square head to make you feel better.

[quikyu]

I think I’ve become jaded to twitter likes. I get 3 thousand likes on a post and I’m like “ok”

But then I look on my 150 note post on tumblr dot com, and see someone keysmash in the tags of their reblog, and I go “Yippeeee!! 🥹”

[mintjeru]

i am neither easy nor immune o(-(

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my shop is open!!

[what-is-it-to-be-pk-esque]

Ok I know I'm heavily biased here but like I kinda love that Astarion's romance is one of the few in this type of video game where you basically end up canonically unmarried and childfree in his "good" ending? Just travelling the world??

Like it's honestly the millennial dream lmfaoo cannot believe i chose what would undoubtedly be my favorite option, first try

[fictionadventurer]

My desire to support a Biblical sitcom done in a respectful way vs. my hatred of the mockumentary style, FIGHT!

[petrichormore]

I think today’s encounter with Ron could be a hallucination but the only thing that makes me hesitate to agree is Ron’s info on the federation. Info that we as an audience know is probably accurate but that q!Bad would have no actual way of knowing. He can’t hallucinate new information. Also, said information was exactly what he didn’t want to hear. If he was hallucinating a fantasy world where he didn’t accidentally kill/eat Ron, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me for his brain to include made-up federation info that actively upsets him. If it was a scary, negative hallucination maybe - it wasn’t though. Buuuut you never know I suppose. Either way I’ll enjoy it.

[cuerue]

i usually like doing this but i regret getting companions together atm

i must’ve gotten like 15 banters about taash/harding and lucanis/neve each at this point but only one for rook/davrin….

[ratatatastic]

worlds most annoying dpair continue to prove theyre terribly annoying [successfully defends against sasha] "HAha!! HahaHAA!!! WOOHOOHOOOO!!" "good job bobby!" "look we have tons of salt [points stick at the bench suggesting erod needs to wake up]"

[moeblob]

There was a post I saw about someone who mutually ghosted a guy after a date and kept matching with him and they're not interested but it's the longest "relationship" the person had been in at that point and I'm like. Karen would mutually ghost someone.

She doesn't really tell Brent/Right/Evelyn/Chris his name (he has a double first name, Patrick is not his last name) and just refers to him as "My Guy". Like "Ah damn, My Guy matched again. End my suffering." And when she tries to explain it to Right who does NOT understand how it's different, her logical answer is "it's my God given right to ghost a polite man!"

Also I just imagine her confiding in Paul about Rick and he's like "is his name Patrick" and she's like "kinda". And after that, Paul calls him "Pattycakes" cause he's never even seen the guy so why not give him a funny little nickname. He's allowed to do so at this point probably.

[emry-stars-art]

Also while I'm here:

YES you can call me Emry as casually as you like, we are FRIENDS now and I will do my best to get your names (just pls stay respectful, I've been extremely lucky to only have wonderful people in my anons)

And I will take any honorific or descriptor you think fits/is funny, I've been called miss emry and I've been called mr stars and I did a happy little laugh at both

I don't offend easily at all and i love talking to you all, so in case you've been wondering about approaching me: here u go, please do 💕

[blackjackkent]

Rakha steps with an expression of distaste back out of the House of Healing, feeling the slight shift in strain as the smell of blood fades and is again replaced by the stinging wrongness of the curse magic. Wyll is moving slightly ahead of her, drawn by the sound of the girl's frightened shouts.

"Mum? Pops?!" she cries, with pitiable terror. "Can you hear me? It's me... Arabella!"

Wyll shoulders through the iron gate near the girl and Rakha follows him - and Arabella, spotting them, brightens and waves vigorously.

"Hey, I know you!" she cries eagerly. "You're--"

There's a sudden horrific screeching noise. As if prompted by Rakha's arrival, new shadowy forms surge out of the darkness, like those they fought alongside the Harpers when they first arrived.

Rakha drops backward a step, her hands lifting with flame in each palm -- but the girl moves faster.

"Twist 'em up!" she yells.

And Rakha watches, wondering, as the Weave surges in a bright burst around them. Pure, clean magic against the corrupted darkness - this is a spell like the one Jaheira used at Last Light to bind Rakha into the ground. Living plants surge up from the soil among the dead ones, great crawling vines with inch-thick spikes that stab through the shadows and drag them bound downwards.

Arabella's arms drop to her sides. Her whole body sags and she stumbles almost to her knees.

"Impressive," Lae'zel murmurs. "Last I saw this child, she was cowed to Kagha's snake."

Rakha says nothing, but looks down at Arabella with a stony expression that masks a whirl of thoughts.

It is beyond impressive. It was impressive enough when Jaheira was able to conjure magic from the land in this dead, corrupted wasteland. This girl shows a power and control that would do Jaheira credit, and she did it to two targets at once, and at such a young age, and - Rakha does not remember any sense of magic on her when they met before.

More than that, though - it is like Rakha's own.

There is something familiar to the way Arabella conjured those vines. Something chaotic, a bursting effect that Rakha knows all too well - like the moments when her magic slips her own control and acts of its own accord.

Wild Magic, Gale has called it.

Arabella looks up at her anxiously. Misreading the tightness in Rakha's expression, she hangs her head. "Sorry," she mutters. "Knocks the wind right out of me."

Rakha is no stranger to the draining exhaustion that comes from strong magic. She nods gruffly. "What are you doing out here?" she asks. "It's not safe."

"I was looking for mum and pops," she answers. "When Zevlor - when he -" Her face crumples with sudden ill-contained tears. "Well. There was an ambush," she mutters thickly. "Mum yelled 'run!' so we ran. I could hear 'em running behind me... 'til I couldn't..." She swallows. "Still can't find 'em."

She looks up at Rakha, and then her expression loosens with sudden hope. "But I bet you can!" she says eagerly. "You'll help me! I just know it!"

Narrator: [WISDOM] You notice the girl shivering in fear and anger. She is not yet ready to hear the truth of her parents' fate.

Rakha lets out a heavy breath. She can understand the girl's faith in her, on some level. After all, Rakha saved her once before, by some definitions, in telling Kagha to let her go and not allowing the druid's snake to kill her. At the time, Rakha was deep in the thrall of her own dark urges, and Arabella's survival was less about the girl at all and more about Rakha's own internal victory. But Arabella does not know that; all she knows is that Rakha stood between her and the snake.

(A/N: There's a Durge option here - "Your parents are test-fodder stuffed full of needles, little orphan." Which is pretty brutal. However, honestly, just as with Hector, I just really don't like ANY of the options through this conversation; they all feel REALLY weird. So I'm going to simply rewrite the end of this scene once again as I did with Hec. Everything below here except for the italic line is complete artistic license. XD)

"Your parents are dead," Rakha says bluntly. She is never in the habit of lying, even when the truth is harsh, and she does not choose this moment to begin. The girl will learn, sooner or later.

Arabella's expression twists. She hears the truth in the words and doesn't want to accept it; Rakha can already see the understanding in her eyes. "You LIE!" she shrieks, her fists clenching. "They're out there! And if you won't find 'em, I will!"

She lifts her hands, and again that pale green magic surges upwards, this time lashing outwards towards Rakha, intending to knock her aside. Rakha moves - more with instinct than thought; a glimmering blue shield flashes up around her body, knocking the vines backwards, and as it does so, a thunderous shock wave erupts forward in answer, taking Arabella off her feet and onto her rear with a crunching thump.

"Rakha!" Wyll shouts, darting forward to grab her by the wrist - but she is already calm again. Her eyes hood over and she turns inward, wrestling back the beast; it wants to rise, to continue the attack, to burn-bleed-tear-kill, but she squeezes her eyes shut and stands stock-still until the urge settles back to its usual background growl.

The girl looks up, dazed. With the brief sharp impact, the moment of rage has passed, and tears sprout in her eyes instead. She draws a single hoarse, sobbing breath as she climbs back to her feet.

A long, tense silence stretches. Then Rakha opens her eyes and says carefully, "You can stay at our camp. Or Last Light. Whichever you wish. But you can't stay here."

Wyll cocks his head to one side and Lae'zel makes a noise of surprise. Minthara says nothing, though she scowls with evident annoyance.

Arabella shifts awkwardly from foot to foot. "That hurt," she mutters.

Rakha lifts an eyebrow. "You struck first," she says calmly.

Arabella considers this, and then nods very slightly. She's started to tremble all over and is making a valiant effort to look brave and utterly failing. "I... guess I don't have anywhere else to go," she mumbles.

"You'll be safe with us," says Wyll gently.

Arabella nods again. "All-- all right," she says unsteadily. "Then I'll come with you... I'll go to your camp."

Minthara scoffs under her breath, but Rakha ignores her. Wyll thinks it's a good idea. That's what matters.

She waits until the girl has run on a little ahead out of earshot. Then she looks to Lae'zel. "While she is in camp," she says flatly, "there must be a guard on me. She will not be another Alfira."

Lae'zel nods. She kept vigil the whole night of the teeth-ling party, out of similar fears. "I will see to it," she says crisply. A pause, and then a grudging glance towards Wyll. "We will."

Wyll nods. Rakha knows he would like to believe that she has grown beyond the need for such precautions... but the body of the dead cat at Moonrise says all too clearly that she has not. "Don't worry," he agrees quietly. "We won't let you hurt her. Or anything else, either."

[jtownraindancer]

So anyway as far as I'm concerned, Andy Davidson and Owen Harper were boyfriends. ✌🏻