slithering wet malice-compliant

unfortunately, durgetash. mostly a repository for Obsi's Specific Personal Durge/Durgetash Stuff. here there be gort. dark urge: do not eat, etc.

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hey y'all please look at my absolutely beautiful dt commission from @juspeczykdraws that im also going to sit here and look at unblinkingly until my eyes dry out

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Please Look At My Creature :)

[synchodai]

Just to clarify, this post wasn't about whether YOU personally find Gort attractive. I do not want to convince anyone Gortash is hot — feel free to be disgusted by him.

This is about the game throwing every indicator that this man is sexy and people doing mental somersaults to say that we're not supposed to take those cues at face value.

Take another character who the narrator, dialogue, and miscellaneous items beat you over the head over how much of a smokeshow they are — Astarion. I personally don't find Astarion attractive, but I don't go around saying, "Oh, he's using magic or his vampire powers to trick people into believing he's sexy" and I haven't seen anyone who does. I just accept that in this world, in this environment, that he fits widely accepted conventions of beauty.

Compare that to Gortash whose description of handsomeness is frequently questioned by making headcanons that "It's propaganda. He's tricking the people of Baldur's Gate (and the narrator) into seeing him as hot." Or "He must have let himself go or looked different before, and that younger Gort is who people are calling handsome."

You can say this discrepancy comes from Gort being evil and people are conditioned to equate attractiveness to goodness, but Astarion very much does evil things as well and never gets dinged on his hotness for it. People understand that it's BECAUSE Astarion's hot that he's capable of doing horrific acts like human trafficking, and Gort pretty much weaponizes his looks in the same way.

tl;dr: How come the game's claims of Astarion being hot are accepted at face value but the narrated lines and posters and notes and environmental conversations of Gortash being seen as dreamy get treated like a joke?

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brief peek at my post-tadpole Creature. in my heart w/all actual dnd5e options available, he was a blood cleric/storm sorcerer as The Dark Urge (tm) and after respawning as an amnesiac Pathetic Sad Wet Cat and taking the resist/redeem path over the course of the game, ends up as a grave cleric/wild magic sorcerer (the wild magic chaos is his Innate Abilities glitching due to the brain damage). that makes his starting class in the game wild magic sorcerer. so he accidentally turns himself into a sheep sometimes. at the most inopportune moments imaginable. ft. bonus: creature evolution/holy trinity and Good Ending where he gets to keep gort

[sandushengshou]

The Addams Family (1991) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

[thebirdsaresweetlysinging]

mutually abusive power dynamic durgetash/gortash gets his dick stepped on durgetash will always be great, but i also just love like. them being two lonely people who genuinely bring out something in each other that no one else can. the carnage & gore & general rancidity that comes w being an evil god’s chosen are all still there, but there’s also the genuine softness of two people who have never been loved in the way they need figuring it out together. i also just love the idea of the two most fucked up people ever being in a genuinely healthy relationship bc it’s funny to me. so bad together, but so good for each other.

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sharing my n*tion board b/c im super proud of it <3

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a lil snapshot of a fic i may or may not post someday... art cred to @gornyhoat on bsky!!!

[bogarielfrogariel]

@foemantic gort invented xbox so they could play the karts of mario

[feyspeaker]

ruling as equals, hmm? interesting. join my print club to get this exclusive for october!

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i can’t stop fucking laughing

[lilith-of-stardust]

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also i'm pretty proud of my playlist even though it's a wip and it's getting me through the day today so here.

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something about. "i would never have been willingly vulnerable for anyone or let anyone get to know me. i would literally rather have died. i am your equal and your rival and your foil and we are locked in stalemate. you are the only thing i have considered a legitimate threat in a very long time so you are the only thing i have looked at closely enough and with enough regard to percieve as an actual person in a very long time. i was looking for all your vulnerabilities so i would know how best to hurt you and accidentally got to know you instead. i saw things i liked. i saw that we are the same. i understand you. the only reason i can love you is because i was so expressly not supposed to. the only reason i got this close was so that i could stab you in the back."

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christening this by breaking down the url i picked: you know how it's implied in a few different places that durge whose task was to kill absolutely everyone and then themselves told gortash that they were going to save him for last? that they would kill him on the altar at the very end of the world, right before they cut their own throat? and then you can find this/the aftermath of a "bhaalist marriage rite" in the temple? man.........