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[fraustian]

I love green Tavs with light swoopy hair and I cannot lie 😭 backstory under the fold

Lathlaeril — Wood elf, 135 y/o, Open Hand Monk

As a child, his nightmares of being murdered in his past life rendered him too scared to trance. Hailing from Shilmista, he was sent to Spirit Soaring to make sense of his visions under the tutelage of the clergy of Deneir. This was also where he met Danica Maupoissant, who set him on a path to become a monk.

A century later, Lathlaeril is without purpose. Spirit Soaring was destroyed, Deneir has long stopped answering his followers' prayers. He's fallen in love and subsequently killed the man of his dreams when a curse twisted his husband beyond recognition.

All he has left is his childhood nightmare, the meaning of which may be waiting for him to uncover in Baldur's Gate.

(yeahhhhh maybe I'm writing a fic on this shhhh)

Azorla — Half-orc, 26 y/o, Oath of Vengeance Paladin

Born to enslavement in Menzoberranzan, hardship is all Azorla has ever known. As soon as she came of age, she was thrown in the fighting pits for the drow's entertainment. Losing meant punishment for her mother. One day after a defeat, the punishment proved too great for her mother, who died from her injuries.

Enraged and grief-stricken, Azorla revolted alongside the other slave fighters until they managed to claw their way to the surface. It was then that she took an oath to exact revenge on all drow, to free all slaves within her power.

(needless to say minthara and nere didn't make it out alive on her run oop)

[fraustian]

um i just feel like the fandom should know that cazador's concept art references tony thornburg because i used to spend too much time obsessing over male models so this knowledge cannot go to waste

in my head CAZADOR has TONY THORNBURG'S FACE okay!!!! look at him he is cazador and it's canon no one can tell me otherwise

[silverformymonsters]

Astarion | High Elf | Rogue | Vampire Spawn

[tombware]

for either way you choose you cannot win

[dniudsnf]

trans people shouldn’t have to look cis to be respected

[americanfootball1999-deactivate]

the comments on this are gross y’all clearly dont understand how this works. transitioning is not that easy nor is it affordable. and it is a transition aka it’s not instantaneous aka it takes time. years and years, in fact, to get to the point where you could pass for cis and even then some people may never fully pass. surgery is expensive and getting medical treatment is a nightmare in and of itself. some people can’t fully transition or pass for various reason such as age, health, money, location, family, not being completely out, body type, etc. and they are still worthy of respect and dignity. so yeah, passing may be “the goal” but if you only respect trans people when they pass, news flash: you’re trash. 

trans people shouldn’t have to look cis to be respected.

[skyeward-otp]

Me throughout the entirety of Wonder Woman

[virginiawoclf]

[hughjackmandaily]

Hugh Jackman in Logan (James Mangold, 2017)

[mto-art]

This place was a shelter.

I have several ideas on what kind of prison Percival would be kept in and I keep thinking about some sort of icy underwater place. I like to imagine Grindelwald being a water based wizard as Dumbledore clearly had a thing for fire. So ice cold winter water and shadows in the deep are ideas I like to play with regarding the things Percival had to fight or place he was kept.

Previous Percival vs water pic.

[sobeitjayt]

When you joking with ya mom and then she turns it into a lecture

[novellaqueen]

do older generations not get fatalistic humor?? like the other day my friend’s parents were hanging around and we were joking and i was like “well no matter what i can always fling myself off the nearest cliff” and they didn’t laugh then later the mom pulled me aside and was like “maybe you should get some help, sweetie” like stfu?? help? in this economy? i don’t think so, debra

[chazzaroo47]

I honestly don’t think they get it as a coping mechanism, they think it’s a cry for help rather than actually helping.

[kingloptr]

i’d even say it’s past just coping and is also now a category of Stuff Kids Got Used To When No One Was Looking; not everyone using that humor is even covering up something bigger, we just stopped thinking fatalistic = taboo/unspeakable somewhere along the line, and most parents don’t seem to know why or how ~

[chainerstorment]

My boss opened a door and missed me by inches, he said “whoops, almost killed you there!” My result of “Oh, if only.” Led to an awkward end of shift debrief.

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

This generation shares the same humor as the goddamn Addams Family and the previous generation is the White Sixties Family™ that lives next door and runs away screaming at the end of the episode

[prof-grace-aspen]

I will say that it’s interesting because this kind of humor is very, very prevalent somewhere else…

the military.

Which is honestly a place you would expect fatalistic humor to be common and used as a coping method. You’re one “oops” away from death on the flight deck, one inch to the left and you don’t have a head anymore because the jet that just landed now owns it as a wing-tip decoration. So you joke about it because lowkey you’re fucking terrified it’ll happen, but you’re also desensitized to the danger itself because you face it every single day for 12 hours at a time.

Anyway so we all know the mindset you adopt in the military because of the danger, so to realise that an identical sense of humor has been adopted by normal people should probably tell you something very important about the amount of stress modern young folks experience in daily life.

[erisis]

I’m not sure fatalistic humour is as much a generationally divided thing as it is a culturally divided thing. I mean, someone already mentioned The Addams Family here. That was super popular with not just the generation that watched the movies, but the generation before that, that watched the TV show, and the generation before that, that read the comic strip. Also, I come from a very Irish family and I can tell you that Irish humour generally tends to be incredibly fatalistic. Also, a lot of Jewish humour. In fact, the humour of oppressed peoples generally, tends to go pretty dark and fatalistic. For many of the same reasons the person above was mentioning about military humour. The final note I’ll make is that he specific examples above of people not getting fatalistic humour are both authority figures of some sort. A boss and a friend’s parents. Authority figures generally tend not to react well to fatalistic humour. Possibly because it can be indicative of some perceived failure on their part.

[fraustian]

My heart....I just finished soft epilogue, and I can't even....

shhh no tears only sweet gravebone dreams now <3

[iriswestallens]

Every time La La Land doesn’t win an Oscar. 

[iriswestallens]

NOW THAT LA LA LAND WAS MISTAKEN FOR BEST PICTURE, THIS IS EVEN MORE HILARIOUS I AM CACKLING!

[fraustian]

for real though can we talk about how cute it is when writers keep what happened to graves and his injuries the same throughout their fics even if they're in completely different universes

[feredir]

obscurial

[lotuslate]

GET YOU A SQUAD

[fraustian]

Theseus may not always understand Newt, but heavens if he doesn't try.