#wyll is a lot of things but he's also a fake dude
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bogunicorn · 9 months ago
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how are we not all collectively past thinking it's ever acceptable to tell people to kill themselves over video game characters
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sorcerous-caress · 1 year ago
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Just a lil check in to say hi and see how you’re doing. So how are you doing? I hope you’re doing well! Are you itching to write anything in particular lately?
-ex lurker
I'm doing alright, I'm learning how to manage myself and emotions better.
I have been more leaning towards sfw works recently, I still like smut as the next guy, but there are so many other ideas I want to explore first.
Angst, fluff, drama, character studies especially. I want to show more attention to Laezel, Minthara and Karlach. I feel like I've been focusing on Gale, Shadowheart and Astarion too much recently.
Oh but also dragons, and alternative universes! I've been storming a couple prince Wyll ideas but haven't came up with anything yet.
Thank you for checking in anon, I saw your message too and it made me feel better. How are you doing? I hope you're doing well and all, i hope you're staying safe and healthy.
Real Life events and vent below.
I've been preparing for my niece's birthday, i got he the most beautiful cinderella dress I could afford. Which isn't much but It's something that I hope she likes. Also I never realised how hard it is to get your hands on bts merch until 5 of my nieces suddenly became hard-core fans of them.
My dude it is a major struggle, each time I want to order something then look away for a second, it's suddenly sold out.
But it's eating me up, how my niece gets a safe and happy birthday while newborn children are being taken off life support and forced out of hospitals in Gaza. That video of the kids playiny and sliding on the gaint hole in the street previously made a rocket. I don't think I have the right to call myself human anymore, it's beyond horrific what's been happening to them.
Funny thing is, I have always known about the Palestine conflict, we literally read about it in our history books in schools. I remember being in middle school and going home to ask my parents about it, i remember the teachers tearing up when bringing it up. I remember the clear discussions of the horrors happening right now there.
And all of that was softened up and watered down as much as possible for a kid to comprehend. Much like I had to learn about the major world wars, the Palestine history and the many many treaties that were broken by their colonisers took a whole chapter or more out of the school book.
I can't even begin to describe how important and how aware the middle east is of Palestine even before the current genocide intensified. It's straight up embarrassing and shameful how little the current middle east cares or sends aids for Palestine. After all that history, after all those talks and promises.
The rich ones are pandering to the west for a speck of dust of acceptance, ereasing their own culture just to become nothing more than a vacation spot for foreigners.
If you're wondering why the Palestine people have no-where safe to go to, is because all their arab neighbouring countries closed off their borders to them. So they can deep throat the coloniser's dick more I assume.
As much as my own country is corrupted and fucked up, the one right thing we did is that we never recognised Palestine's colonisers as an actual country and never will.
I learned english as a kid on my own to be able to read uncensored books, Agatha Christie ones. The arabic translations clearly had a lot of plot holes and cut content and it frustrated kid me endlessly.
But I didnt realise it would come at the cost of my own culture. I feel like It made me no better than the arabs who suck up to westerns and put english on a pedestal. The same goes for the rest of my generations, we are all young adults and we couldn't have been more disconnected from our roots.
That's why the westernisation of the middle east was barely met with any resistance from us, the young adults who were supposed to be the front line of defence against corrupt governments. The second I saw them fully celebrating Christmas and using fake snow to pander to the west is the second I realised just how doomed we are. They don't even actually celebrate anything, they're playing dress up with someone else's religion and history.
We have our own celebrations, even our own calander with our own new year yet it's forgotten just for us to act out what we saw in Hollywood and Disney movies.
Our own princess, fairytales and folklore. Yet I still bought that Cindrella dress for my niece.
To add insult to injury, the closet thing to a traditional arab princess dress in that store was akin to a caricature of a bellydancer dress.
I'm not better than them. Indirectly or not, all of our combined actions had a hand in dooming Palestine, in dooming our brothers and sisters.
And Christmas will come, and the same arab countries who didn't allow women the legal right to drive a car until 2017-2018, would celebrate it alongside the world. Pretending it's one of them, pretending it's not like its "terrorist" sister countries so please please pick me up foreigners!!
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thessalian · 1 year ago
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Faerun!Alisaie vs Minsc (and Boo)
Heading for the docks
Jaheira: Thank you for not stopping to rob the Counting House. Just by the way.
Alisaie: Eh, not a problem. I'm basically swimming in money right now and the last thing I needed was more stuff. Now, there's one more potential entry to the sewers and undercity that I want to try.
Wyll: I am a little afraid to ask how you know about any of this.
Alisaie: Wyll ... how long have we travelled together. It's ... what, a month now? And you're still shaky on what 'bard' actually means.
Wyll: Right. Sorry. I suppose I'm not used to this 'combination of rogue, fighter, and wizard who also sings' ... thing you've got going these days. So ... there's an entrance in the docks?
Alisaie: There's an entrance in that warehouse basement.
Jaheira: This heroism requires much more breaking and entering than I expected.
Alisaie: You're a Harper, and therefore you are lying through your teeth.
Jaheira: ...True.
After a somewhat unexpected fight
Shadowheart: Why was he keeping worgs in here?
Jaheira: Because he is cruel to animals.
Wyll: I was going to say 'guard dogs', but given the size of them and the size of this room, I think I'm with you on this one, Jaheira.
Alisaie: My bet is pit fights, personally. Which leads into Jaheira's guess quite well too. Now. Down into the basement.
Jaheira: *peering down* Why does this man have a dungeon in his basement?
Alisaie: Because everyone in this city is a collection of personality disorders wrapped in skin?
Wyll: ...Harsh, but probably fair, if my father's frustration-venting at the dinner table is any indication.
Jaheira: You realise that includes yourself, yes?
Alisaie: I am a glorious collection of personality disorders wrapped in skin.
Shadowheart: Lovely skin, too.
Wyll: *tinysquee*
Jaheira: Gods save me from the romantics.
Alisaie: Aren't we going down to rescue some dude that--
Jaheira: *laughs* No, no! I prefer my partners with something resembling a brain.
And, down in the sewers
Alisaie: There are an awful lot of ways to go down here. Then again, there's an awful lot of bullshit nesting down here.
Wyll: I mean, I understand about Minsc, but ... should we maybe look for Lae'zel first? I mean, Orin has her...
Alisaie: First of all, Lae'zel's bait. Live bait works best. Second, Orin's not the kind of person who'd just present us with a corpse; she'd want to really twist the knife by killing her in front of us. And third, Lae'zel really likes the whole "enduring the trials of life" thing so honestly, while anything Orin might do to her in the meantime probably hurts, she probably also prefers it to lounging in a cushy inn suite.
Shadowheart: ...That makes more sense than I want it to, really.
Alisaie: Right. I hear the dulcet tones of cultists over that way, so...
Jaheira: It is an improvement over grease mephits, anyway.
Alisaie: At least those actually were mephits. Remind me to tell you about Lorroakan's bullshit sometime.
After some stabnation and a little bit of bullshit with sluice valves
Wyll: So that's exactly one thing you're not good at.
Alisaie: Actually, that's a bit more me not giving much of a fuck at this point. If the city survives, they can repair it. If it doesn't, no one's going to notice or care. Now let's go find Jaheira's friend, and quietly so we can eavesdrop some bonus data.
Gnome Bard: Well, that's all of it. We'll put it to good use and--
Minsc: These ones again! I will make squish of them!
Jaheira: Please ... don't ... kill him.
Fake Jaheira: *attacks real Jaheira*
Alisaie: Can I kill her?
Jaheira: No! ...I want to do it!
Alisaie: Fair enough.
Stabnation: *ensues*
After the stabnation is done
Minsc: YOU KILLED JAHEIRA!
Alisaie: Hey ... Emperor? Want to help out here?
Emperor: No. He's a fuckwit and a liability.
Alisaie: We're all fuckwits and liabilities! Just help him!
Emperor: I really don't want to--
Alisaie: And I don't really want to face certain death, but I cope with it! Just shield the man!
Emperor: I had to commune with a soft-hearted person--
Alisaie: --A person who, if she wasn't soft-hearted enough to give people chances and pragmatic enough to understand that sometimes we work with non-trusted individuals just to get shit done, wouldn't have given you the time of day!
Emperor: Oh, fine.
Minsc: AAAAAAAaaaa...? Jaheira? But ... I saw...
Jaheira: You saw me kill ... that, which looked like me, and-- Oh, never mind. You owe this one thanks.
Alisaie: You owe this one a headache remedy, is what.
Minsc: Yes! My thanks! I only willingly heed one tiny creature, and... wait. WHERE IS HE?!?
Alisaie: ...wut.
Emperor: I told you...
Alisaie: Face. Shut.
Minsc: *smashing through a wall* Ah! THERE you are, my adorable and fearsome compatriot!
Alisaie: Um...
Minsc: *holds out Boo* This is Boo! He will not harm you! He knows that you are a friend! He is a miniature giant space hamster!
Boo: *is a hamster*
Alisaie: Hey, Boo.
Boo: *is apparently not talking to the one who swigs a Speaks With Animals potion every day*
Alisaie: Okay. We ... really need to take a breath and figure out the next order of operations. I'm not facing down Orin without a rest, I tell you that much.
Minsc: I want to SMASH THINGS!
Alisaie: Don't you also want to eat things?
Minsc: ...Oh. Yes. That would be good. Come, Boo! To camp!
Shadowheart: Are we sure about this?
Alisaie: Jaheira can keep him in line if it comes to that. Plus, he doesn't seem so bad. A little volatile, but ... come on; Lae'zel.
Shadowheart: ...Fair.
((Controller Person Note: every time I encountered Minsc was an excuse to say, "Hi, Matt". It was fun.))
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scrapsovereign · 7 months ago
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Chapters 9 and 10 (or 9 and 9.5) of The Long Way Down
Link to entire work on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54050866/chapters/136837372
Chapter 9
Wyll got did dirty, so I’m REALLY gonna fill in some of the blanks. We’re talking big male Libra energy. He’s not like the other nobles. He’s got some extremely specific likes and dislikes and some eccentricities. He’ll also cut a bitch who would hurt his friends. That’s the real reason he’s the Blade of the Frontiers.
Or maybe it’s not, I didn’t play through his story a whole lot because I was too busy being Astarion’s juicebox, I need to jack back in to the Matrix and check out more of the datamined dialogue.
I’m thinking that the “thing they came out on the other end of” was probably some kind of fake engagement/fake dating where one of them was in a situation and they had to pretend be a thing for a few months until it blew over. I haven’t really decided yet, we’ll see what I end up writing.
Either way, Wyll has some GREAT Tav stories and he’s going to tell ALL OF THEM TO EVERYONE. Tav pending to be a lady did not go well. AT. ALL.
I’m ambivalent about the last paragraph at the end, but I think I’ll leave it as is to be a warning that this is going to take a really smutty nosedive really fast for a lot of chapters.
Chapter 10
SPEAKING OF SMUT.
This is smut #2 in this fic. I was extremely happy with how chapter 3 turned out but there’s something about the way this one reads that bothers me. But I don’t know what it is? I also don’t have anyone beta-ing for me so……it be what it is until I can figure it out. I figure the more I write just in general, the more I’ll improve. TBH I find that when I start something new I have some trouble at the start but if I stick with it then I can work out some of the kinks (heheheh).
I’ve had the dialogue written for a few weeks, and when I started to work on it for the update this week I thought….. what if I made it worse? Much MUCH WORSE?
So BUT OF COURSE I have to put in some Bloodweave “Don’t neg me or I’ll cum”.
I headcanon (or maybe it’s canon compliant?) that Astarion has a lot of paradoxical beliefs in Act 1, and that with time, space, and support he begins to untangle some of it. One of those beliefs is extremely loathes treating people like property/slavery but also that if they’re weak or he sees them as inferior to him that they deserve it.
If we go deeper, it’s a distortion he uses to justify HIS OWN very recent 200 years of slavery.
Basically:
“The (insert enslaved here) deserves their situation because they are too weak or inferior to (whatever he’s comparing them against)”
IS EQUAL TO
“I deserve my enslavement and torment at Cazador’s hands because I am too weak to overcome my situation”.
In an extremely fucked up way, negging Gale while he gives him a lap dance he didn’t want is Astarion re-claiming his own personal power.
How?
1. Astarion is pissed that a) Gale called him stupid and b) that he’s trying to call dibs on Tav without her being involved, which doesn’t give her a lot of agency in what SHE wants. He’s angry on Tav’s behalf because he’s projecting himself in to her situation without a second thought because he’s not grounded in who HE is yet.
2. Astarion uses his trap card/bankai/ultimate weapon aka sex to “teach Gale a lesson“. By doing this, he is enacting a fucked up justice where he is not only showing Gale but he is showing HIMSELF that this line of thinking isn’t okay.
3. By pinning Gale down and bullying him until he cums he is reclaiming his power. It’s in a perpetuating the cycle of violence and a not very healthy manner, but here we are.
He is also doing a big magnification cog distortion on Gale. Telling your tadpole bro “Hey dude I really like Tav, can you help a wizard out and move out of the way so I can wife her up” is VERY DIFFERENT from the horrific sexual/emotional/physical/mental abuse he has suffered at Cazador’s hands.
He can’t see there is a spectrum between the two, it’s all or nothing. That’s a cognitive distortion called “all or nothing thinking”. Why does he have that, you may ask. Well, I can imagine that either he did things perfect, or he was punished. He’s so fresh outta the abuse he is still reeling from his new found freedom and cannot yet remember there are different levels/a spectrum to such things outside of the framework of his previous situation.
Astarion hasn’t gotten to the point where he has the emotional intelligence to understand the “why” behind HIS OWN actions. While I’m pretty sure that he also has the full package Courtesan training of active listening skills, he has never, ever, in his whole life thought about doing this for himself. I’m sure my CPTSD treatos who have a fawn response (like myself!!) will know that brand of BS when they see it.
Tav and the rest of the team can’t fix him. Only he can do that.
Also, can you imagine living on the Sword Coast in 1492 DR and trying to raw dog that life without therapy?
TL;dr: I wrote something sexy and problematic, and I know why it’s problematic and I’m gonna do it again.
Cognitive Distortions info: https://www.pacwrc.pitt.edu/curriculum/313_MngngImpctTrmtcStrssChldWlfrPrfssnl/hndts/HO15_ThnkngAbtThnkng.pdf
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