Jamie

just a silly goose

[jbenn656]

Prophecy. Destiny. Eternity.

Her god sends her hunting for answers one cryptic word at a time; his goddess abandons him with a magical catastrophe in his chest. Sometimes survival looks less like faith and more like spite.

Tamsin and Gale have history—twenty years of misplaced anger and heartache. Now they're infected with mind flayer tadpoles, caught between old gods with agendas and a new one that promises power without abandonment.

At the end of the world, they'll be offered the ultimate reward: divine ascension. But at what cost?

When the gods you serve have designs of their own, sometimes the greatest act of faith is choosing the person next to you instead.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Come check out my first fanfic in decades! Any and all feedback is welcome!

[bamphi0]

Replaying Baldur’s Gate again as a Gale lover is so sad. Forgot that man tries to kill himself or die alone every five minutes. Pookie. Pookie, please. Chill the fuck out. We love you

[brainsanalysis-deactivated20210]

Hello please reblog this if you’re okay with people sending you random asks to get to know you better

[petrova--line]

why'd he have to be on his knees for this? to show how submissive he can be?

[moghedien]

it is so funny when you realize that by drow standards, especially drow noble house and ESPECIALLY Baenre standards, Minthara is the woke liberal

She is willing to work with men in leadership positions even post-mind control and she will actually compliment and admire their tyrannical prowess

She will argue that the refugees in Baldur’s Gate should be enslaved because it’s practical and better for them that way, not because they’re weak lesser races that deserve to be subjugated

Like she probably gets called a libtard at Spider Thanksgiving every year while all her relatives are trying to poison each other

[baldurdashe]

I apologize, I needed to draw an image to this.

[like-a-secret-in-the-night]

[fethawit]

Honestly? I wouldn't even call this pining. Pining has a tragic, poetic sort of dignity to it. This? This is just agonising.

[howtokillavampire]

but what if i read one of your fanfics and then went to your ao3 accounts and read all of your fanfics and left a comment on every single chapter of every single one and you got spam emails from all of my kudos and comments and it made you smile, what then? what if i brighten your day with my words like you did mine, what then???

[idkhowtobenormal]

marrage

[wynnyfryd]

weddning

[steviewashere]

honmoon

[himbosandhardwear]

Babby

[simplyghosting]

Fanfic update

[arcadewizard]

in that order

[asorceresswrites]

[jbenn656]

POV me starting a new tav determined to not romance Gale this time

[yayxstitch]

[yayxstitch]

I took some of your many suggestions and made it better.

[gaycatastrophe]

[yayxstitch]

You right you right

[sea-mists]

literally though if you feel like your life is slipping through your fingers and every day goes too fast… try doing hard things, not just taking the easy route, like reading and making art and exercising and cooking a meal from scratch and journaling, doing these things without distraction, without being absorbed on a screen… the time will stretch and you’ll be reminded that life is long and beautiful if you make it so.

[queriesntheories]

Reblogging this with these tags because oh my goodness

To the person I reblogged this from THANK YOU i am now going to stick this on my pinboard where I’m gonna see it every single day

“Life is long and beautiful if you make it so”

[randomcontent2019]

Tav: I'd like you to take a moment to think back to a time when you did something stupid, how you were treated, and how you wish you were treated.

Gale: What did you and Astarion do?

[alstromeri-a]

[should-be-persephone]

Gale is a human colored by a disdain for his humanity. He goes into detail multiple times about how his humanity is a dissatisfaction. He wants to go further into the Weave, to know divinity completely.

Mystra is the Weave. She is magic, full stop. This is explicitly stated.

But when Gale held her, kissed her, there was nothing there to touch. Skin more like marble in its flawlessness. Eyes more like crystal in their luminance. She always smelled of sharp rosewater, always tasted of mild sweetness. Never a hint of sweat, of saliva, of any of the unclear oils and bacterias that infest the mortal form.

Somehow, I can't imagine Mystra ever laid with him as a man. Why would she bring herself low, to get in a human's actual bed? What would even be the point, when an ocean of cosmic perfection lay above?

Did it disgust him, then, to travel so high, lay with the very form of Magic, only to return to his meager human body? To be the owner of skin that smelled of sweat, skin that had scars and wrinkles and marks, skin that aged?

When Mystra cast his aside for his folly, did he long for the divine from the confines of his humanity? Did he hate the needs and limits of his body, the various hungers that cried out to be sated, when all his mind craved was that glittering perfection?

Mystra loved Gale's magic. Mystra loved him as a tiny expression of her own self.

Gale is his mind, certainly. His mind is where the magic is. His mind is remarkable. His mind is worthy of love. But this human thing, this temporary human thing that is a body, is not him in the same way. It's needy, and he wants so badly to escape from it into the divine.

And maybe that's what surprises him so much about being loved by a mortal. That someone would lay with him, Gale the man. Would bury their nose into his neck and breathe deeply the scent of him, would kiss the crows feet at his eyes and relish in the taste of his mouth.

Gale knows the touch of perfection, but the embrace of humanity has a deeper flavor, one that grounds him to the earth. One that makes him realize that flawless, perfect love is a distant thing, an inhumane thing.

[saylofwaterdeep]

So I was talking about this with @aerin67 before but I wanted to share with the dash one of my favorite headcanons regarding the Orb.

So like, we all know at the tiefling party, Gale's like "oh I probably shouldn't get too excited while my condition is this unstable" etc. And for a while I was like "Oh, yeah that makes sense. The items stopped working so now it's unstable. The reason he hasn't had sex in a year was cos he isolated for safety."

But then I was thinking about how if he fucking dies, it takes TWO DAYS for the Orb to blow up. He can get his heart racing in battle SO fucking much and he never claims that's a danger, even after its destabilization.

So my brain started running with that and was like:

Maybe the Orb is only a danger now because it's been horribly destabilized. Before, it was probably stable enough that he could masturbate in his tower right? Even if he was isolated from other people, if he could masturbate, then he definitely would have.

And then I kept thinkin' more like...Does that mean that he also could have had sex before the destabilization? But he didn't because he hadn't caught feelings yet and by the time he catches feelings, the Orb is destabilized and dangerous.

So I was like...maybe he didn't know for sure it would blow up if he climaxed/had sex/got aroused whatever. But because this was uncharted territory, he didn't want to take the chance. It was a risk he hadn't had time to assess.

BUT THEN...I was like...

What if he's bullshitting you? Not maliciously, but like...the man had his heart broken by a goddess. He's been traumatized by his folly. He's been alone for more than a year. Then he meets someone he starts to have feelings for. He can suppress that easy enough.

But then they start to suggest they have feelings back. And that's terrifying. He's not sure how to handle this development, and he's not sure if he's ready to try again. He needs time to think it over, to decide if it's worth the potential heartbreak, especially considering he is a ticking time bomb. Not only could he get hurt, but so could they.

So at the tiefling party when that person flirts with him, suggests they have affections for him, he makes the excuse about "his condition is too volatile for too much excitement". Not only as a way to warn/remind them of what they're getting involved in, but also...he might be running from his feelings. At least temporarily.

And maybe Elminster bestowing Mystra's charm to stabilize the Orb is what prompts him to take the risk again because he knows the Orb won't blow up. He's had feelings for a while and now he gets to indulge in them safely, and that's valid. But there's still quite a bit of time that passes between then and the Romance/Sex Scene...

I just really like the idea that the reason he finally makes a move is not because the Orb has been stabilized, but because he has. He thought it over and couldn't deny his feelings, and decided it was worth the risk of heartbreak or pain to try love again. The Orb wasn't really the factor at all.

[arastir]

GTA Minthara 🕸 I had A LOT of requests to draw Minthara and I'm gladly obeyed. I love this woman so much. It was a very fun trend to draw and I hope I'm not too late with the second piece (I'm so slow artist, sorry)

[lizlemondyke]

as it gets warmer let's all remember the two most beautiful accessories a girl can have this summer are hairy legs and a bunch of bruises from bangin around