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Hey, you! Welcome to my writing blog! I’m BottomBatch (or Kal, if you prefer). I mainly write bg3 and LoL fic! Mainly Karlach/Tav or Jinx/Lux, respectively.

Surfacing is my series on AO3, its a Tav/Karlach fic which features my nonbinary drow oc, Laz. It deals with gender, cycles of violence (once i write that part :,) ), and personal growth. Check it out!

All of my writing exists on Ao3 but I occasionally post headcanons, fandom posts, or general writing posts on here!

Feel free to talk to me about anything bg3, arcane, or LoL!

I follow back on @kalcony because this is a side blog!

#pinned post #I counted this towards my daily word count btw

cymk8

something something dykes on bikes 🏍️🌈💨 (because it's not pride without some l e a t h e r)

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#bg3 #karlach #Shadowheart #auuuughhh #awooga #awa awa

demilypyro

99% of repressors give up right before they successfully don't feel anything. Don't stop shoving it down. You can get through this unscathed

#jax #you know a blorbo fixation is bad when you start seieng her everywhere

sagrogostuff

#kpdh

rattanwhip

What's in a name

#TADC #jax #this is too real #stop putting me on the jumbo-tron please

demilypyro

#tadc #love TBSkyen's analysis

mushmonarch

KENDRICK!!! DROP ANOTHER DISSTRACK! AND MY LIFE- IS YOURS!

OUTFIT CHECK!!!

#TADC #ribbit i love you

losingmymindtonight

one day I’ll finally write that ridiculously elaborate fanfiction that I’ve been carefully constructing in my daydreams for months and then you’ll be sorry. you’ll all be sorry.

fassina

“Why is God Gale his bad ending? That’s the only one where he stands up to his abuser!”

Well firstly I don’t think any of the endings are a binary of good or bad, they are breaking and perpetuating cycles.

And secondly, there is a lot of nuance in the relationship between mortals and gods. It’s a terrible, awful dynamic because they are not even starting on the same footing, they are so far from equals that it becomes reductive to frame it that way.

Because to meet her as an equal, to be able to address the awful thing that happened with the orb, he would have to sacrifice parts of himself (parts that she as Midnight had to sacrifice to become Mystra too) that make him human. To pursue his view of justice, which is really based in anger, shame and a desire for vengeance and recognition, he would have to let go of those things.

Sometimes the greatest victory isn’t that. Sometimes it is moving past survival into something new. Sometimes it’s looking across a room and seeing the patterns that made a person who they are, or even stopped them being a person at all, and deciding you just don’t want to lose yourself to the same things.

All of the endings where people break cycles come at a huge cost. Shadowheart and Lae’zel have nothing in the world but the clothes on their backs. Astarion loses his ability to walk in the sun. But they are able to start carving something for themselves, as imperfect as it is, and that’s the victory of this kind of choice (I won’t go into Wyll and Karlach here because I think their writing is even less defined in the binary of a good and bad choice, but that’s for another post.)

To be a cycle breaker is never the perfect neat conclusion you want it to be, and I’m glad they didn’t make it that. If Gale wants to practice magic he will always, always have to make peace with Mystra as his God, not his lover, and this is something that I think older people have probably experienced in a myriad ways in their own lives too, and that strange sadness is really profound to me.

fassina

Bringing this back with great tags from @the-sixth-house