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NWN2 Cut Content: Summary with Links

Links to each instalment:

NWN2 Cut Content: West Harbour

NWN2 Cut Content: The Hollows – the base that wasn't

NWN2 Cut Content: Shandra as priest or paladin?

NWN2 Cut Content: Kendrick Savis

NWN2 Cut Content: Red Fallow's Watch

NWN2 Cut Content: Casavir

NWN2 Cut Content: Qara

NWN2 Cut Content: Privy Man

NWN2 Cut Content: Neverwinter Wood – the bloody enormous quest that wasn't

NWN2 Cut Content: The Rattlebag (part 1)

NWN2 Cut Content: The Rattlebag (part 2)

MotB Cut Content: Patron of the Arts

Bonus Post: How your Adventure Should Really Have Ended

In other news, I've just signed up for Yuletide 2022. My first ever Yuletide. I'm not scared at all!! 😰

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Height comparison chart based on the in-game models

Dragonborn Durge is 6'8" or 204cm. Halsin and Minsc are 6'7" or 200cm. Karlach is 6'4" or 192cm. Devil form Wyll is 6'1" or 185cm (the horns net him ~2 in / ~5cm!) Human form Wyll, Astarion, and Gale are 5'11" or 180 cm. Jaheira, Shadowheart, Minthara, and Lae'zel are 5'7" or 170cm.

The models are a little bigger in Blender than they would be in the real world. Devil Wyll was 6'7" going by his model in blender, which is just...Not Correct.

This could be because my extracts scaled slightly wrong when i imported them into blender, or the in-game scale is slightly larger than the real world, or they're just modeled a little taller than they're meant to be to make them look biggg. (my vote is that i fucked the scale. rip y'all's estimation of my intelligence.)

Whatever the reason, I knew that they were all scaled wrong in the same way. This means that instead of giving up a futile pursuit, I could do math to figure out something more reasonable.

We happen to know that Astarion is "approximately 5'11"."

I used that as a baseline. So, with our scale established, we get something like this:

Other notes:

Shadowheart/Jahiera/Minthara, Minsc/Halsin, and Gale/Astarion/Wyll share the same heights because they use the same body model.

I'm decently certain that githyanki share an armature with elves/half-elves/drow/humans, so even though the gith body model looks different, Lae'zel is the same height as the other gals to line up with their armature's bones.

I didn't include hair or head accessories (like Shadowheart's) in the total height (that's cheating).

I did include Durge's and Karlach's horns in their overall height, but Karlach's really don't add much (maybe a cm or 2).

Average height worldwide (on Earth) for men is 5'9"/ 175 cm, and for women is 5'4" / 161 cm, so they're all quite tall, but mostly still within a standard deviation of the average.

Except for Karlach, Halsin, and Minsc, who are in the 99.9th percentile for height! They're not tall, they're huge.

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Friendly reminder that while Luke has been alive for seven years, he is NOT mentally seven.

Friendly reminder that Guy actually ditched his revenge plan prior to the events of the game, and while Van did try to tempt him to join his side, there is no canonical confirmation that he had anything to do with how close Van became to Luke.

Friendly reminder that Jade, underneath his unperturbed mask, carries the burden of his sin 24/7 and feels horribly guilty about coming up with fomicry and its corresponding consequences. And no, I’m not inventing this, because it’s heavily implied in-game and corroborated by side material told in his point of view.

Friendly reminder that Anise knows she’s responsible for a lot of bad things that happened to the party (especially Ion’s death) and feels incredibly guilty about it, despite the fact that she had practically no choice on the matter and was being blackmailed by her superior to do it.

The reason why the party snaps at Luke post-Akzeriuth is NOT because of him destroying Akzeriuth, but because of his attitude regarding it. The difference between Luke shortly after Akzeriuth’s collapse and Jade and Anise’s situations is that Luke quickly denies his responsibility, whereas Jade and Anise immediately acknowledge their responsibility in their corresponding matters when confronted with it. Luke’s denial of responsibility with regard to Akzeriuth is what causes the party to snap at him, and even then, the blame was all in his head. The party scolds Luke because of the way he was washing his hands off the matter, and while it can be seen as harsh, there was no malice whatsoever in their intentions, which, in fact, is something Luke realizes and acknowledges later on.

This whole pointing fingers issue is, in fact, a moot point when one considers that a key point of Abyss is that there’s no point in dwelling in the past, and what matters more is what you choose to do with your life in the present.

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Whenever I see discussions about Luke and Akzeriuth, they tend to revolve around who is to be held accountable for what transpired. It’s always about who’s responsible (i.e. Luke, Van, the party, or all of the above), and from there, a lot of arguments are raised, and things get heated up as a result, as this is generally a question of morals, wherein there’s no such thing as a right or wrong answer.

But I think that a better question to raise is “why” rather than “who”. Why did Luke act the way he did and why did the party act the way they did?

To answer the first question, Luke acted they way he did because at that point, Master Van was the most reasonable authority figure to him, and in his eyes, there was nothing he could do wrong. The party’s dismissive treatment of him (and keeping of secrets from him) in Deo Pass did not help matters, and only served to further drive him into Van’s clutches.

So they reach Akzeriuth and Luke makes it collapse by accident, resulting in the deaths of thousands of people. At the moment, I can only provide my personal speculation on the matter, but I think Luke’s denial of his responsibility was a coping mechanism of sorts. I mean, he was just betrayed by the most important person in his life and basically killed off a whole city as a result. I won’t be surprised if he wanted to just withdraw from reality and curl up in a ball, forgetting it ever happened and maybe wish that everything that happened was just a bad dream.

And that’s what the party did not take well. After explaining the situation to Luke and what just happened, all they get for it is a whole lot of “it’s not my fault”. The “blame” was all in Luke’s head at that point and when he lashes out at them and accuses them of blaming him for what happened, that’s when they finally snap at him.

What I want to say that it’s not what Luke did that made the party say all those things. It was his attitude that they had a problem with—his denial of responsibility—and not the idea of him making Akzeriuth collapse. They were “all in this together” in a manner of speaking, and were in the middle of finding a way out of this sticky situation together (i.e. getting back to the Outer Lands and informing relevant parties about what Van is up to), when Luke just decides to wash his hands off his responsibility on the matter, when just a few moments ago back in Deo Pass, he wanted to be taken seriously and in a way, be treated like an adult. It’s one of the most childish things one could do about the situation, and as I said, the party doesn’t take it well and takes it upon themselves to criticize Luke for his attitude towards it.

On the subject of the party “abandoning” Luke in Yulia City, all I have to say that it was a consequence of what they had to do in the way of damage control, post-Akzeriuth. Let’s see, so Akzeriuth collapsed, there are no survivors, and no one really knows what caused the whole thing save Van and company, who are likely to tell the truth about the situation as likely as a rappig is about to sprout wings. The following people are supposedly dead: an important Malkuth military officer who is unofficially the Malkuth emperor’s righthand man, the world’s equivalent of the Pope, and the first-in-line to the throne of Kimlasca. And since Malkuth and Kimlasca aren’t exactly on the best of terms, it’s practically the fuel they need in order to start a war. Of course, the party needed to hurry back to the Outer Lands and tell people they were alive, not to mention tell what happened. They had no time to wait for Luke to get his act back together, as time was of essence. It just so happened that Asch ended up joining the party at around that time and started feeding all sorts of ideas to Luke. So while this could be seen as the party “abandoning” Luke, I think it’s more of an act of practicality rather than that.

But yes, it’s not an issue about what he did. Rather, what he should do afterwards. Which ties in to the game’s characteristic RPG genre name, “to know the meaning of one’s birth RPG”. It’s not about why you were born (or what you did in this case), but rather, what you do with the life given to you (or what you do afterwards). This is what Luke realizes later on, and turns into his resolve to change for the better. And I think that’s what makes him and the party such wonderful characters, as they grow past that incident and learn from it, among many, many other things.

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i would say that, mentally speaking, i'm in a good place right now! physically of course, the crows continue their chanting,

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créteil 2024

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When you are considering fashion or beauty standards in the world that you're writing, remember that beauty and fashion standards are totally context-dependent, change quickly, and are often fairly arbitrary.

I think about eyebrows. We went in the U.S. from wanting pencil thin eyebrows to wanting thick eyebrows in my lifetime--which means that I went from my eyebrows being "manly" to them not being without actually doing anything.

If thin is beautiful in the world you're writing--why? If lighter skin is beautiful in the world you're writing--why? If straight hair is beautiful in the world you're writing--why? If showing more or less skin is beautiful in the world you're writing--why?

So consider the rest of the world that you're writing in. If certain fabrics are rare, those might be seen as more fashionable simply becuase there is a scarcity of them. If it's a world where being a farmer or outdoor laborer is seen as patriotic or virtuous, maybe being tanned, callused, or muscular is seen as beautiful for everyone.

But also a lot of our beauty standards have racist origins. Colorism in a lot of countries is a direct result of European imperialism. In some Western countries there is a preference for small noses and a dislike of larger noses that are often associated with, among other groups, the Jewish community. Enemy groups are often viewed as less desirable, and so people with associated features are often viewed as less beautiful.

At the same time, you have views on things like eyebrows and blush placement and bangs and peplums and high-waisted pants and jewelry and piercings and tattoos that are frequently changing based on a whole host of cultural reasons.

There are a lot of ways that you can go with fashion and beauty in your worldbuilding, but sticking with the beauty standards of the world you're writing in often ends up feeling out of place in the story.

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toh-styled headshots of the fankids just 2 practice :]

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u can call ur skull-head deer oc literally anything else u don't even have to change the design

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Gravity Falls Thirty More Years AU and Art Masterlist

Here's all the pages of the comic in order plus some of the other GF stuff I've made. I'll keep updating this list to make it easy on y'all.

Edit: I have a new tagging system! All asks will be tagged #thirtymoreyearsau without spaces, and all comics and fic updates will be tagged #thirty more years au with spaces. If you want the whole story together, then you can filter using this tag on my account! Filtered link here.

If you like the comic and would like to support it, here’s my tip jar!

Thirty More Years AU Comic:

Page 1

Pages 2 and 3

Page 4

Page 5

Page 6

Page 7

Pages 8 and 9

Epistolary Prequel Companion/ Dipper's Diary Entries:

"Dear Mabel, I Miss You"

Answers to Common Questions:

What is the Thirty Years AU?

A Gravity Falls fan story and comic about what would happen if Mabel and Ford both fall into a leftover multiverse rift at the end of summer. They experience a week of silly adventures but return to a world where 30 years have passed and Dipper + co have aged without them. Told as both a comic and a companion fic.

2. How old are the characters?

Answer

3. When does the story take place relative to the show?

Answer

4. Where's Bill?

Answer

5. Where else can I read the comic? Will you distribute it on a site?

Releasing it on my Instagram (but Tumblr gets the pages earlier cause y'all are special). As for releasing it on a site, answer here.

6. How many pages/ how long will the comic approximately be?

Subject to change, but here's my answer for now.

7. How often will you post/ when will you post again?

Here's my answer for now, but if there's delays between posts please don't spam me with questions on when I'll post again. The updates will come when they come and I'm trying to keep this flexible.

8. Is this Drifting Stars AU/ Other Similar AU?

Answer

9. Someone's reposting on TikTok/ Other social media! Are you okay with this?

No, and please report them if you can. Answer here.

11. Will you tag me/ make a tag list?

Answer

12. Why haven't you answered my question?

Answer

13. What art program/ brushes do you use?

Answer

Other Fanart

Twin Glare^2

Kitten Sweater

Pines Pines Pines

Happy Birthday Twins

Gravity Falls The Odyssey AU

Sona Shenanigans

Fiddleford to the rescue

Stan Pines Mini Character Analysis Essays

Apparently I do this a lot, so collecting them in one place:

Poll thots

Rough and tumble little Stanley

Stan Appreciation

that magic 8 ball man…

off topic Billford thots

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ffxv fateswap AU!

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(some) ffxv swaps! they’re really rough but it was a fun mini design challenge all the same c:

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Fire Emblem Awakening Master Post - All Not-Support Translations

A master post of all my translations and posts about localization changes that are related to Fire Emblem Awakening.

Since having too many links in one post seems to be the reason why the links broke in the first post, I split the Awakening master post into two posts. This original one is for all main script, battle, DLC, etc. posts, whereas the new one is for supports only.

Keep reading

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Golfer Virion & Cabbie Cherche!!!

and a drawing of Virion with scars, he has this big ol confident energy to him to have his opponets go easier on him, shshhs

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hector with different weapons

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it’s his final form

have some memes