baldur's gate sideblog

Kiana | she/her | 30 | ace lesbian

[illithidactivities]

🦑 Intro Post 🦑

name: Kiana pronouns: she/her age: 30 ethnicity: part Korean

Welcome to my Baldur's Gate sideblog!

I'm a professional writer/editor living in Canada.

important tags:

my writing baldur's gate 3 liveblogging

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oc tags:

Drow Tav -> Astarion Romance -> Miz'ri Jhalavar Tiefling Durge -> Wyll + Karlach Poly -> Aya Gith Tav -> Shadowheart Custom Romance -> Ris'a'an Tiefling Tav -> Gale (or maybe Rolan?) Romance -> Auri

other blogs

@galpalaven -> main blog @galpalavensims -> sims finds blog @vakarian-shepard -> mass effect blog @thewayhavenchronicle -> wayhaven blog @emotional-support-carbuncle -> ffxiv blog

[anarcho-karlachism]

[dekariosclan]

Reactions to Astarion’s siblings attacking the camp

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Everyone: Thank goodness we’re okay and that’s over with

Gale: This should’ve been sex :(

[virmire-archive]

Yet another mod! This time it's another head pack with 14 different options (though one head has an alternative version with different eyebrows) inspired by different artworks. They're available for BT1, BT3 (strong bodies), and short races!

Get it here!

[asphodelles]

dark urge run so far’s pretty fun

[scarebluetales]

One night, he tells you that these last six months of happy memories are the counterweight to two hundred years of misery.

[lesbianalicent]

every single word of this sent chills down my spine.

[joyflameball]

Mischaracterization getting so brutal I'm about to ask people for sources and citations on their wrong opinions

[joyflameball]

What is your source for the idea that he would fucking say that

[stdismas]

Astarion Ancunin in Baldur's Gate 3 (2023).

[elliethelurker]

Thriving off of the idea that part of the reason Astarion tells Tav the truth about his plan is that Tav constantly laughs at his jokes, comments, jabs - slowly realizing that somebody likes him for his personality and not just his body, then later on in act 3 puts extra effort into making them laugh because their smile and watching them trying to catch their breath from having so much fun is his favorite thing in the world okay thank you

[scarebluetales]

I am still here

[the-mind-of-emma]

Astarion talking with his hands - pt. 2

Baldur's Gate 3 (2023)

[the-mind-of-emma]

Astarion talking with his hands

Baldur's Gate 3 (2023)

[echoechowhiskey]

I could watch this all day.

[recents]

idk i think what is interesting about astarion to me is the fact that you have a guy who started out an asshole (normal type) and then spent two hundred years in a very carefully and specifically crafted (by the writers of the game) Become A Terrible Person Or Die nexus. like it wasn’t just a Torment Nexus, he wasn’t just in hell, i feel like this is very important not to forget, he was in hell but it was specifically a hell designed to, over time, kill the empathy of anyone trapped in it, kill their brain’s ability to prioritize other peoples’ survival, to numb one’s conscience.

and then he gets yanked directly out of that nexus and despite that the fact that he spent, again, two hundred years in a situation that was sort of a rock tumbler for the human soul, there’s still a pebble left in there. and it’s a pebble that can be grown if placed in the right environment and provided with a support network.

so i think it becomes interesting because it really does i think force you to start thinking about the limits of free will even on as basic a level as the human personality. i think the fact that he becomes such a different character based on player choice, that his end morality is so hugely dependent on player choice, is uhhh. a big part of what the devs were going for probably.

it makes a lot of people really uncomfortable to acknowledge some bad people would be good people if literally nothing changed except they had a good support network and different circumstances. especially because it means the opposite is also true. which is even more uncomfortable.

you know that part in the beginning of fellowship of the ring where gandalf is talking about how gollum is ultimately only like that because of the ring and gandalf thinks his story is sad? astarion is kinda like if they sexualized gollum.

[nikomedes]

[commander-krios]

Juniper and Rolan are EVERYTHING to me so of course, I needed some post-game romance from the wonderful @drathe for myself. Thank you thank you! I'm in awe of this beautiful art, seeing them happy makes life worth it.

[sonoftheria]

[sebille]

Some people on here openly hate bisexual ppl so much it's actually insane

[sebille]

" What if this bisexual character was just gay/lesbian instead? " what if you exploded