Shadowbae, to brighten your day. Shadowheart, to her part to bring some light into the dark. 🌙
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One Nice Bug Per Day

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Love Begins

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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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we're not kids anymore.

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Shadowbae, to brighten your day. Shadowheart, to her part to bring some light into the dark. 🌙
Wyll has had enough (It's based on a screenshot from the scene when he isn't allowed into the city.) and I am still recreational portrait painting.
“Liar.”
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997-2003) - 2.07 • “Lie to Me”
@gustdekarios wanted Jaheira to be the next one, so Jaheira it became. It's nice to work on just portraits for a bit because it's just faces. No complex (ish) composition, no bodies to rotate in space, no clothing folds to consider. Just happily measuring proportions.
I felt lazy yesterday so I procrastinated in my comfort zone, Gale's hair.
Hi, I hope I am not spamming too much, but I wanted to show the gang all together along with a few close-ups and yap a little about the creation process - which you can find under the cut.
✨ Lae'zel & Wyll / Karlach & Shadowheart / Astarion & Gale ✨
my headstone is gonna say "death by trying to figure out how to paint hair"
anyways, have madame orin
Dancing picture continue with the pookiest of pookies - that's a lie, they all are the pookiest pookies. I was fairly nervous about this one because I was afraid it would look boring compared to the others because of the more limited pallet.
"to new beginnings"
a slightly late entry to week 4 of @bg3mayflowers for the prompt:
Adorned in Flora
Peonies for resilience and chrysanthemums for endings and new beginnings. This was supposed to be a quick one and then I went a little too hard on the tattoo lol
Hollowed Kings
by Experimental
Whenever I see compilations of bloodweave must-reads, I am very surprised to find this fic not on them, because to me it basically is the quintessential bloodweave fic. Set a few years after the game it follows Astarion, Gale, Gale's ward Arabella and cat-mom on an adventurous journey with a special goal. The road is filled with banter, old and new friends, dangers and dinosaurs and confronting those old monsters which still gnaw at their souls.
Now has a holiday special and a sequel that's currently in progress.
Husband materials.
why so silent good messieurs
I’m SEVERELY disappointed this post didn’t include the eye witness statement of the mirror crash incident in question
batstarion sketch🦇
*˖✦—˖ 🗡 | Wyll Ravengard | 🗡 ˖—✦˖*
My first time drawing Wyll. Enjoy :>
The main male trio of companions is done! Will I draw the girlies? Who knows....... Do you want me to?
Wyll | Asatrion | Gale | Halsin
Lae'zel | Shadowheart | Minthara | Karlach
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Commissions: Open
The wizard and the tressym
My last post about bloodweave was pretty negative (though necessarily so imo) so I wanted to talk about the little things about the bloodweave dynamic that I DO like and want to see more of in fic (under the cut).
- the orb means Astarion can't start their relationship transactionally. Gale can't give Astarion blood, and also can't have sex with him (and presumably would refuse casual sex anyway). How would the relationship develop without Astarion being able to rely on the give-and-take, forced instead to just trust Gale will watch his back? Astarion isn't a plans guy, I imagine having to come up with something on the spot (considering none of the other companions are reeaaaally an option either) would lead to a lot more emotional vulnerability as he tries to take a route he has much less experience with. Not to mention that the flirty and standoffish front isn't exactly going to endear him to Gale, who approves of the capable, loyal, and righteous. How long can Astarion pretend to be invested in Gale's wellbeing before it becomes true?
- they both have bad ascension endings, but different natural outcomes. Gale is considered the more morally upstanding one, but in their solo states (without the player's influence) Gale will go through with ascension and Astarion won't. Would they goad each other on? Gale disapproves of Astarion's ascension, using arguments that could apply to himself about the personal sacrifice and loss of the soul. Would Astarion flip them around, become defensive? Their dynamic could mean the power hungry character ending up discouraging the pursuit of godhood, or the two of them hurtling over the edge together. Or, maybe, Astarion encouraging Gale to ascend and having to trust him to return.
- they're the party members with the most life experience, and they're also both pretty well-educated (even if Astarion's law qualifications may well have expired by the events of the game). He spent his time under Cazador sewing (like Gale in his Baldur's Gate epilogue) and learning languages (of which Gale knows four). They have enduring common interests beyond their circumstances. Gale can help Astarion rediscover the latent nerd potential he lost when he died, and lord knows he would love to pick his brain for a first hand account of the mid-to-late 12th century.
- Astarion recently regained hope for his future when the tadpole freed him, Gale recently lost all of it. While act 1 is a continuous series of positive discoveries for Astarion (tadpole frees him from cazador -> ceremorphosis is held off by the dream visitor -> tadpole can be controlled), Gale's life gets worse with time as his treatment stops working. It's a dynamic that could give Gale hope, force Astarion to practise empathy, or put them completely at odds.
- Astarion's all-encompassing desire to reclaim his life could be inspiring to Gale. Moreover, I imagine seeing just how passive Gale is about his death would infuriate him. To have so little regard for his real, mortal, free life? It's a great source of angst, and also a great starting point for Gale to start wanting to live again. Because after learning about Astarion's past he would agree, he'd recognise how much value a mortal life was supposed to have. He'd think himself ungrateful or impolite for entertaining the idea of throwing it away when Astarion would give anything to have what he had. This would lead to guilt, and potentially self-loathing, unless someone was there to help pick up the pieces.
- If Astarion meets Oblodra before Gale's act 2 romance scene, (or for a fanfic plot, just before Gale is confident enough to confess) they most likely won't have sex until the graveyard scene in late act 3 (or the post-ascension equivalent). It means that rather than the fuckfest we so often see from bloodweave fics, the relationship is almost entirely a slow-burning, emotionally intimate affair. I'd really love to see that play out, the progression from semi-horny yearning on both parts as the orb keeps them apart, to two love confessions that are followed by the both of them experiencing non-sexual intimacy for the first time in years. I doubt Mystra was one to hug her chosen, after all, or hold their hands.
I just love a bg3 ship that forces the characters to take different actions than they do in canon. It makes me feel like I'm developing a broader understanding of the characters, you know?