"We're here, we're queer, we're full of existential fear."

Beth. 28. she/her. NZ. This blog is a multi-fandom mess. Who knows what you'll find here, because I don't. I don't tag anything with any kind of consistency, so if this bothers you or you're worried about triggers, please unfollow me. Icon by makowka

[bipolyjack]

babys first gay fiction podcast my beloved

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

no more historic events this decade that is ENOUGH, i’m putting my foot down

[alettertofutureme]

History is not done with us yet my friend

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I have received all manner of threat, up to and beyond “I will play a flute carved from your femur,” and yet this is the first time I’ve felt truly threatened

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i knew posting this in 2022 was risky but holy fucking shit

[frontmansdog]

there’s a t-shirt that says “I survived a bad day and all I got was the rest of my life” and yeah I still think about it

[miraculan-draws]

SO I was thinking about how strongly Tara dislikes Gale's in-game hair and beard and it made me wonder if it was originally a result of him locking himself away from everyone but then sort of became intentional later. Also brace yourselves for some character analysis which seems to be unpopular in fan works but is interesting to me:

Gale knows he's handsome.

There always seemed to be a bit of a mismatch between how people depict Gale's confidence in fanworks and how he presents himself in-game to me?

One of his very first interactions at camp he does, admittedly cheekily, play off his Mirror Image as fastidious grooming habits, and dismisses the spell with a sly little "Handsome devil, isn't he?" It's playful and could be read as a bluff, but it does exist and doesn't feel particularly misplaced. This is a man that fucked God. I think that is great assurance that you must on some level be looking pretty good on the regular.

He also thinks he's charming, which he is! He has a line somewhere about having a dazzling smile. He calls Karlach "rough around the edges" but that he supposed he could be "smooth enough for the both of them." He is entirely confident that he can befriend Minthara and is the only one to even think to attempt it.

He is not a shy lover, either, once you are in private. Some of his lines are straight up scandalous. He may be a bit shy and bluster when you're the one to bring it up, but later on he is shameless. The "For now, I'll keep my mouth shut. Unless you have use for it, of course" line made my jaw drop. ALSO when you ask Gale if you were his first aside from Mystra, he says no, you are not. But you are the first AFTER Mystra. In fact, Loroakkan insults Gale by implying it was NOT by magical merit that he gained her favor, and all that merit did was insure he lost it.

Gale's insecurity is about his sense of self worth, and how the metric he judges his own worthiness is by what he can do, not who he is.

I think the reason it bothers me to see this TYPE of insecurity attributed to Gale is that he is our token "bookish nerd" character, and it feels too easy to just assign the one "nerd" character the traits "inexperienced virgin who wishes he looked more like the leading man but actually the lead romance thinks he is sweet despite all his shortcomings." Especially when there's almost nothing in game to draw this conclusion from. And I dunno, maybe some people think that formula is still satisfying as a story but I think its boring. This dude is an absolute dweeb who is also handsome as all hell which is one of the many reasons you are able to pay attention to his forty-five minute long speech about the history of gnolls. He does that and then shoots Astarion down in the same breath. Let autistic people be hot. That's allowed.

[mildlyartisticsuperdetective]

went to a spa the other week and thought about absolutely nothing but this the whole time. gale was a team effort so thank you @ladymurgatroid for the phrase ‘retired old lady workout regimen’.

i know shadowheart can learn to swim in the course of the game but there is no way she’s good at it. she is forcibly removed from the floatie when karlach cannonballs too close to the sun, and spends the rest of the day on a lounger insisting that she isn’t sulking.

[trashmancer]

Tara!!

[drmace]

[heyitsjaki]

When the netherese orb in your chest ruins your love life for a SECOND time 🤣

[heyitsjaki]

Astarion knows an easy mark when he sees one 🤣

Bonus Gale reaction:

[meanbossart]

Posts that have been living rent-free in my mind

[heyitsjaki]

Just Gale, rolling both a nat 1 and a nat 20 on “Impressing his crush” 🤣

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[kawareo]

2/3 of these people do not do cardio

[pippintruman]

who put all these dramatic bitches in the same room

[hellothisisangle]

[hellothisisangle]

just one of the many dark urges

[hellothisisangle]

some other colors for you all to pick your poison

[hellothisisangle]

I do like your wyll art! I do want to mention though your teenage version of him would still need the scrying eye :) he lost it in that first battle against the cultists when he was 17, and mizora gave him that eye to replace it. the scars and horns obviously come later when we meet him, when Wyll is now 24!

The teenage (middle) version here is supposed to be just before the whole Mizora incident. I wanted each model to be distinct from the last- that’s why I didn’t include his stone eye twice. I know that’s not obvious though so sorry for any confusion!