LOREM MARADEUR

My artblog she/they | 20s | my personal shitpost-blog | vampire lover & AA's unhinged bride | elder scrolls fan (obviously Hermaeus Mora's cultist) Occasionally traumadamping on everyone

[loremmaradeur]

Master post

DNI: AA-anti, Astarion's haters, "fixers" (sorry I have an allergy on "I can fix him"), all kinds of -phobes etc, minors

I've wrote quite a bit of the posts about Astarion, his analysises, some snippets of vampire's DnD lore, and also the criticizm of commonly believed stuff around him and vampires in general. So I think it's time to collect them all in one post (and update it once the new things will come up)

My main standpoint about all the headcanons about Astarion and AA I do not support (from my main art blog)

My headcanons New!❤️AA is dangerous because he knows you like it New!❤️AA and his consort - sun & moon ❤️Hiding his vampirism would be incredibly easy for AA ❤️Ascended Astarion's future in the city would be great, because the city is full of another many different dangerous creatures and it's no news ❤️Legit ongoing relationship between AA and mortal Tav/DU must be in game ❤️My perception of Astarion's both endings ❤️AA and his consort are only busy with each other forgetting even about taxes (literally the whole post lol) ❤️Concerns over why UA wears in epilogue such outfit

DnD vampire lore 🦇Astarion's alignment 🦇Comparison of AA and Strahd and how they are different with their "love interest" 🦇Large post about the relationship between vampires of all kinds 🦇The nature of vampire's souls, they don't have a "normal afterlife", +thoughts about vampire gur children 🦇Ascended Astarion does not loses his soul - all the info about vampires and devils and deals

Debunking the Myths 🖤Patch 6 kisses were NOT an "an original intent" 🖤Mind-reading scene with "degrading line" that is actually not really an arcane mind-reading 🖤Ascended Astarion is NOT a "control obsessed" partner 🖤Ascended Astarion is NOT "trapped in fear of Cazador", not "not actually free", and Unascended Astarion is NOT "free of the same fear" (basically debunking this still ongoing false idea of "healed UA / unhealed and doomed AA) 🖤Ascended Astarion is actually loving partner and it pisses antis off 🖤Old edition's of DnD roolbooks doesn't mean that their lore is "irrelevant" 🖤The fact that AA treats Karlach awfully doesn't mean that he treats Tav/DU the same way, because Tav/DU aren't Karlach 🖤AA as "Vampire lord" is totally mild 🖤Astarion wasn't ever "changing his personality" 🖤About the (un)importance of a concept of "healthy" relationship with Astarion (they were never "healthy" in the first place but it matters not) 🖤"People ascend Astarion only for sex/kinks!" is frankly stupid and narrow-minded 🖤All in-game facts that turned into vampire Tav/DU aren't the "mere spawn" as Astarion was 🖤Astarion is an "imperfect" victim of abuse and that is perfect 🖤Astarion isn't "drunk in the moment from the potential" in the Ascension Ritual scene 🖤Mephistopheles would less likely be interested further in Ascended Astarion 🖤AA isn't Cazador 2.0 in simplest said way possible 🖤The simple opposite between his AA and UA endings with no hidden meanings 🖤UA ending is depriving Astarion from many different important for him things

Fandom critical New! 💀Why only AA out of all other romantic options and characters is a "toxic abuser" partner when there are widely liked characters way worse than him? 💀About the hipocricy of certain AA-antis on "fandom's toxicity" 💀Those who send hateful anon asks are ususally the one and the same people and persons 💀Showing how usually AA-antis treat Astarion, infantilizing him a lot 💀The ridiculousness of antis views on vampire hunger and its nature pt.1 💀The same ongoing misunderstanding of vampire hunger in DnD pt.2 💀The panic of AA-antis how not everyone will follow their false narratives 💀Reblog from Marielle555 about Mx Welch's influence and the criticizm of their goals on Astarion's writing 💀More a venting rather than proper criticizm that to support UA path being "the best/better than AA" antis use everything unrelated to UA 💀Another rambling "if there is a non-con dead dove fanfic then it's always AA and never UA" 💀The criticizm of putting unexperienced Mx Welch as "Lead Companion Narrative writer" 💀The collection how the fandom called and recognised AA but not his actual self 💀Criticizm of "most of in-game's approvals are broken so we can't use them as proof that Astarion is always evil" 💀The damaging influence of Mx Welch on the community and fandom 💀Antis are denying the evilness in Astarion and his evil nature and project this on AA's fans 💀Haters are using the lore to spread their hateful misinformantion but don't allow AA's fans to use the same lore for having a legit "happy vampire couple with AA" 💀Apparently, only UA fans are allowed to write long essay posts 💀Antis don't hide they simply want AA to cease to exist 💀Haters project their abusive toxic headcanons on everyone else 💀Misogyny and queerphobia among haters 💀Fuck everyone who portrays him as abusive and pretends it's canon when it's not 💀UA-"fans" can almost never speak about this path without putting down Ascension path 💀Antis "created a made-up flanderized version of AA that genuinely is worse than his actual in-game self" 💀AA-antis only love Astarion from Act 2 confession scene and his UA ending 💀They say "bride theory" isn't canon but then create "spawn batstarion" 💀Them also weaponizing their own trauma to win internet arguments 💀My own case of facing how antis usually treat people like unaware folks of real life abuse and how it works pt.1 💀That case pt.2 💀Anti's saviour complex that leads to their ignorance of traumas 💀Hater in my ask - they behave like sacrificing those 7000 other spawns is like sacrificing real life people 💀Mx Welch and their fans are weirdos who project their view of "ascending Astarion for sex/kinks purposes only" 💀Those who say they will never understand why people love and choose AA are also a part of the bully crowd

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Artist: twitter.com/tanktrunk_mt

oooooh so cute :3  big kitties~

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big cattes

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MY FINGERS BARELY EVEN TOUCHED YOUR STUPID FUCKING AD STOP REDIRECTING ME TO THE APP STORE

[herpsandbirds]

Earless Monitor Lizard (Lanthanotus borneensis), family Lanthanotidae, endemic to Borneo

ENDANGERED.

Semi-aquatic.

Closely related to the true monitor lizards in the family Varanidae.

The only member of its family.

They do have inner ears, and are capable of hearing, despite the lack of ear openings and tympana.

photograph by Will Hunt

[herpsandbirds]

Because someone asked for the least skinky skink, may I please see the skinkiest skink that ever skinked in the history of skinks?

OH NO NO NO, YOU GET A DELUGE OF SKINKINESS!!!

Peter’s Banded Skink (Scincopus fasciatus), family Scincidae, Morocco

photograph via: Amphibians & Reptiles of Morocco

Müller’s Forest Skink (Sphenomorphus muelleri), family Scincidae, found in Indonesia

photographs by Roots, Scoots, & Scales

Mainland She Oak Skink (Cyclodomorphus michaeli), mother with pups, family Scincidae, eastern Australia

photograph by Ken Griffiths

Northern Blue-tongued Skink (Tiliqua scincoides intermedia), defensive display, family Scincidae, Cape York, QLD, Australia

photographs by Brother-Nature

Fire Skink (Mochlus fernandi), family Scincidae, found in West Africa

* Also known by the scientific name Riopa fernandi.

Photograph by Miniformat65

Yellow-belly Three-toed Skink (Saiphos equalis), family Scincidae, found in eastern Australia

The only species in this genus.

Coastal populations reproduce by laying eggs (oviparity), and mountain populations reproduce through live birth (viviparity).

photograph by Rebecca Pyles

Three Toed Earless Skink (Hemiergis decresiensis), family Scincidae, found in SE Australia

Viviparous (live bearing).

photograph by Rob Valentic

African Red-sided Skink (Trachylepis perrotetii), family Scincidae, found in central Africa

photograph by Dick Bartlett

Rainbow Skink (Mabuya margaritifera), family Scincidae, Langano, Ethiopia

Photograph by Volker Sthamer

McCoy’s Elf Skink aka Highlands Forest Skink (Anepischetosia maccoyi), family Scincidae, Australia

photograph by @skinkmania__

Great Desert Skink aka Kintore’s Skink (Liopholis kintorei), family Scincidae, Kata Tjuta Nat Park, NT, Australia

These lizards live cooperatively in underground burrow systems, with siblings and offspring, as well as with unrelated individuals and pairs.

photograph by Gary Stephenson

Prairie Skink (Plestiodon septentrionalis), male, family Scincidae, Kansas, USA

photograph by Katelyn Kuhens

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[angelicguy]

just something i whipped up for pride month. youre welcome gay community

[angelicguy]

it was nothing really

[seven-winged-liar]

fuck health issues fr. i should have a little screen that tells me exactly whats wrong and whag to do about it

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Before June I have to share one of my favorite tiktoks

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if you vote me for president i vow to make everything the ocean again. no more land only ocean. this will solve all of our problems and replace them with new, far more interesting problems

[thegoodmorningman]

Good Morning!!! IS THAT A QUESTION!?!?!

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I do think it’s interesting how the novel Dracula is meant to be a modern setting from its perspective. It’s very much that genre of story about an ancient fantasy archetype finding itself in a modern setting, complete with the rules-lawyering that often comes with modern parodies (that isn’t to say the stories of Olde didn’t have fun with loopholes either though).

Except Dracula is a story that plays itself straight. The vampire himself is not stupid. He’s possibly the oldest vampire of all which means he upgraded from animal instinct and mindless echoes of past memories to someone who’s regained his critical thinking skills. The story begins because he’s already adapted to how the modern world works now by hiring a solicitor who understands modern laws.

He knows now that he doesn’t have to march into London with an army like he used to; He can just buy property and the laws of London are forced to respect that. Similarly he’s already experimented in and discovered loopholes to vampire rules and limitations; Vampires are bound by the permission of owners so he simply uses his solicitor to buy and own a bunch of properties. If he needs to be invited in, Dracula hypnotizes someone to let him in.

Vampires need to return to their grave every dusk/dawn (whichever comes sooner), which causes their coffin to act as an anchor that limits how far from it they can travel? Dracula simply rations the earth of his grave into fifty coffins and spreads them across London so his range becomes exponentially larger.

All of these things make the story almost come across as a deconstruction and it might just be! It’s just that Dracula the novel became such a trendsetter that people nowadays see it as playing things fully straight. It almost feels as if the novel is written with the idea that readers have a basic understanding of vampires and their rules, so part of the thrill comes in the revelation of how the titular vampire is working around these rules. Likewise I’ve heard it used to be a trope in English literature for a traveler to visit some foreign land with a monster and escape by going home. But here the foreign aspect of the story is just the first (and final) arc; The monster’s plan hinges on coming to the UK itself!

So yeah. Dracula isn’t stupid and he reflects the idea that people of the past had just as common sense as the rest of us, they just had access to less/inaccurate knowledge and things worked differently back then. Dracula would be like… That bit of someone showing a medieval peasant a meme as they comprehend it perfectly and aren’t even wowed by the Doritos. If Dracula was set in the 21st century he’d probably understand social media well enough to become an influencer if he wanted to, though the issue of being invisible in cameras wouldn’t help.

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[awkwardbirdsdreaming]

Bird #91 - Microraptor gui (EX)

Based on this incredible fossil. I return from the dead to bring you: my favourite dinosaur!!! Did you know powered flight/bird-like creatures likely evolved multiple times?? Modern birds are the only lineage that still persists, but many other pseudo-birds co-existed with them in the Jurassic and Cretaceous.

Also I still don't have my new ipad and apple pencil lol I'm waiting for the case to ship and it's gonna take A While.