Astarion Brainrot Hell @astarionsdarkconsort - Tumblr Blog

I finally had the opportunity to meet the Neil Newbon himself this past weekend at C2E2! He's incredibly nice, and still took a good amount of time with people even though his line was always full.

My copy of Baldur's Gate 3 is ALMOST full!! I had the absolute pleasure of meeting the VAs for Gale, the Narrator, and Karlach last year at 2DCon in Minneapolis, and met the VAs for Astarion, Shadowheart (and her partner who worked on the game!!!), and Laezel this past weekend. Now I need to find a con that Wyll's VA is at and I'll have rounded out the act one companion cast!

#neil newbon #c2e2 #c2e2 con #baldurs gate astarion #bg3 Astarion #astarion #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 autographs

cher-ro

Exquisite Corpse

#fuck

meanbossart

Point of order; WOTC did not buy BG3 for money. They licensed it to Larian. WOTC own the Forgotten Realms setting and BG3 is far from the only story in that setting. Are you calling RA Salvatore books fanfiction? Where are you drawing the line? What is real and who owns stories? How can we ever know or love anything? How could a loving god allow such suffering?

You are taking what I said a little too literally, rather: consider that Larian withdrew from WOTC instead of working alongside them on more BG3 material and BG4 (something they could have done, and a lot of people would have been ecstatic if they did) for a reason.

Your further questions are super interesting and worth contemplating! I think it ultimately comes down to personal opinion (as most things do with art), but in mine: Yes! Drizzt also technically falls into the category of DnD fan fiction.

If that term (fanfiction) is for some reason insulting to you, you could also think of it as DnD campaign that he played with himself and chose to write a book about. Is everyone's personal DnD campaign canon to the lore? Honestly, I have no idea! But it is probably more practical to say that no, they aren't. The Drizzt books then proceeded to become so beloved that they started being referenced in the actual IP. That is wonderful for Salvatore and wonderful for anyone who really loves his books and characters.

Salvatore definitely owns his stories. Salvatore definitely owns Drizzt, and in my opinion he owns everything "new" the he brought into the world of DnD and drow lore (I'm not sure WOTC would feel the same way and admittedly I don't know precisely what things he changed, as I have not read the 30-something Drizzt books).

This is something about DnD in particular that some people seem to struggle to understand - it's all derivations of derivations - you choose what you keep and what to discard. Homebrew is inherently a part of the game and encouraged at the start of every single book and guide. This is a good thing. It is a good thing that T. Kingfisher can write and publish her Astarion story. It is not a good thing that people (especially those who aren't used to the way DnD works) think that whatever she decides and has the right to write about is now gospel only because WOTC stamped it. And, at least according to my personal principle it is definitely not a good thing that a company is turning a character that they did not write into a cash cow while blatantly ignoring far more neglected members of the cast.

Again, these are all great questions that you are asking, and the lack of a black-and-white answer to them should not result in anyone spiraling down an existential hole - well, not too much, at least. The fact that these concepts of ownership, inspiration and cementation are so difficult to grasp are, to me, a sign that the art in it is still alive and well and not yet completely transmuted into product. And thank fuck for that.

#good take #I'm pretty uhhhhh cautious about the book #apparently it's pretty dark in tone which I hope it is because that's all that would make sense #I hope they don't take on fandom interpretation of a poor little meow meow Astarion and I hope he's still as shitty as he should be

bareee

Midnight question for the Rogue

Part 3 of Midnight questions

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 4

No one’s gonna be snatched from this group, whether they want it or not mwuahaha

I like how over the course of the random walkin conversations in the game its clear they slowly all start gettin the fact that:

‘Well your weird/crazy/morally differently from me, but fuck it we’re all that so lets be weird/crazy/morally questionable together.’

I had the doodle ideas for the conversation with Gandrel and Haggy situations, but this idea was already done with the other two parts compared to all the Hag stuff so meh yal get the spoiler that Mark don’t let Astarion get snatched.

moetartart

#astarion #cazador szarr

katscozycomics

This took me ages to do. Not because I didn’t enjoy it, or because I didn’t want to, but because I felt so discouraged to share it. I have been pretty open about my difficulty with sharing my work, my ever evolving style, how I know that people prefer THIS over my comics.

That’s okay.

However, at the end of the day I want to get better, and I constantly feel like I am stuck in the same place. I don’t have art block, it’s..something else. Something deeper. Maybe I can figure it out one day.

Consider supporting me here, or not, it’s chill.

87000beesinapersonsuit

here, beneath my lungs, i feel your thumbs press into my skin again

🩸🩸🩸Marked🩸🩸🩸

Nothing too crazy for this one, it was more an exercise for the lighting and colors ✍️

#see him fabulous #this is such a cool piece

ichorknight

ive never played baldurs gate 3 in my life but i just woke up from a dream where astarion had a little brother named bimbles but players fucking hated bimbles bc in the game astarion would care more about bimbles than the player so ppl started uploading videos where theyd kill bimbles and a video called “900 ways to KILL bimbles in baldurs gate 3” got like 10 million views and then bc of the backlash larian studios released a patch where astarion would kill bimbles early in the game if the player asked him too but he’d do it while shaking and sobbing in total anguish and ppl started posting videos of the scene where astarion kills bimbles with titles like “baldurs gate 3’s BEST patch”

#fave