moss's bg3 sideblog @mosses-gate-3 - Tumblr Blog

obligatory pinned intro post - will probably edit a lot cuz my indecisive ass does not know when to stop adding things

hi!! i'm moss!! tboy extraordinaire, he/it. i would love to be friends!!!

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send me asks about my ocs pls they are very dear to me <3 tagged them all here!

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#i dont even know what to put here #andis #salix #reneeginald #moss does art #moss says things #monty #cesair

i know this blog has been dying a slow and painful and miserable death and is currently on its last legs BUT i have been reading more bg3 fic lately. if that's anything

#moss says things

gundamlfrith-remade

severely underrated gag imo is the one where a character turns very slowly and the sounds of stone grinding against stone is superimposed over it

#not to bring the anti-blorbo into this prev but . me whenever someone talks about fucking. dadstarion #as a guy who has him Literally In My Head for Mental Illness Reasons. he would NOT be a good parent he would abort that thang IMMEDIATELY

quail-in-red

Dead and undead are the same thing right

eviltoxicmosssauce

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thydungeongal

I think the stuff that happens to your character after character creation through organic play is almost as a rule going to be more interesting than anything player-authored. This is in part me being a hater towards the "1st level character with their entire character development in the past" phenomenon as well as "player who is a bit too precious about letting anything character-changing happen to their character," especially within the context of the traditional challenge-based adventure game.

thydungeongal

Your character at 1st level isn't Conan or Elric or Bilbo at the end of Tales of Conan and Elric and Bilbo, but they might grow into those characters. Bilbo might also get bitten by a vampire and become Bilbo Baggula.

grazztthedark

I disagree with your assessment. I mean, let's start with your examples: I'd say of the three only Bilbo meaningfully grows as a character in the way you suggest. The other two are incredibly static: Conan is always brutish, but cunning, Elric is always badass, but tragic. They start out that way, they end that way. Their stories are even published out of chronological order (Conan's first story published is last in the storyline, and Elric's are all over the place) because the author knows that when you pick it up you're not coming for character development, you're coming to see this Character get into Situations.

And I think that's fine. I mean, a character with an arc almost always produces better fiction, but RPG characters don't have to be great fiction, they just have to be fun. You can have plenty of fun with someone playing a gruff, yet caring dwarf who remains a rock in a turbulent sea of the rest of their party's character arcs. They might be fine being a bit player in the plot, so long as they get to swing an axe against the enemy of the week.

thydungeongal

Oh I do agree that RPG characters don't necessarily need to grow to be good and I think you are correct in pointing out that two of the characters I chose are very much static types of guy. The point is less that "your character isn't Conan yet because Conan went through a lot of character development," it's "your 1st level character isn't Conan because they haven't done any of that Conan shit."

This is less about "characters with arcs are better" and more that play itself is the best form of character expression within this medium and trying for a specific arc might in fact be counterproductive (due to Bilbo Baggula).

sadmishutka

best girl in whole world 😤

depsidase

spookyteeths

Butler called denying health care to trans kids "an act of cruelty."

queeranarchism

For those wondering: yes, she is saying that Democrats who abandon trans rights are using fascist logic.

bymyblackhand

I know i don't really have that much a platform or pull, but i want y'all's help.

As you know, two days ago, that nazi asshole charlie kirk was shot and killed. One of the professors at my uni posted about it and said he wouldn't mourn him and wondered where this kind of response was for the Minnesota rep assassination, school shootings, etc. He didn't even know who the bitch was.

And now he very well may lose his job.

This is such a kind man. When he saw my backpack falling apart, he gave me his old one that normally would have cost 200 dollars. When i couldn't afford the art supplies for his class, he gave me some to keep that i still use. He has been one of the most supportive and understanding professors i have ever had, and he doesn't deserve to lose a job he's had for almost 20 years just for telling the truth and not mourning a man who doesn't deserve it.

Its not my petition, and i know they rarely accomplish much of anything nowadays, but it will at least bring attention to it

Sign it. Spread it around. Reblog this post, get it out there. Please.

Protect the freedom of speech on American campuses - Reinstate Michael Hook!

leebrontide

This isn't hypothetical, folks. The professor has been put on leave because Republican lawmakers had the sheer nerve to demand he be fired for making a not actually especially inflammatory comment on his personal Facebook page. They have no legal standing at all to do that.

Trump doesn't care about petitions.

Universities do.

mosses-gate-3

when will my wife (wyll ravengard hyperfixation) return from the war

mosses-gate-3

really resonating with the wyll lovers here

#moss says things

when will my wife (wyll ravengard hyperfixation) return from the war

#moss says things #wyll ravengard #bg3 wyll

identitty-dickruption

biggest mindfuck is the fact that it can be so so difficult to tell the difference between when it's time for "do it bored/scared/stupid but by jove just do it" and when it's time for "if it sucks hit the bricks"

identitty-dickruption

this post has the most notes out of any of my posts, largely because there's an addition going around with a flow-chart that other people seem to find useful (which is fine) but that I hate with an intensity that is more powerful than the sun is hot. for obvious reasons, the flow-chart was created divorced from the disabled context, because the creator of that flow-chart had evidently not seen my original tags on the post. which again, is fine. but here I am, providing some disabled context. I made this post when I was first coming to terms with the fact that my disabilities are energy-limiting, and that I was going to have to cut back on what I spent my days doing. it had been about a year since my autism diagnosis, and about four years since I first developed chronic fatigue, and I was still finding myself unable to figure out what I Needed to do and what was just me holding myself to abled standards. that is absolutely a challenge that I still don't have an answer to, and I'm not sure I ever will

with that context, I would like to provide some unsolicited advice to my fellow disabled people (particularly newly disabled people):

if it's something you absolutely have to do, as in there will be worse consequences for not doing the thing than doing it, try learning strategies for doing it disabledly. chop your vegetables sitting down. buy a tray to prevent spillage when you eat in bed. do your cleaning in 2 minute slots instead of all at once. you don't need permission to deviate from the Normal Way Of Things

corollary to the first point: if there are no (or very small) consequences for not doing the thing, and you don't want to do it, just don't. it's literally fine. I vacuum once in a blue moon and the lord is yet to come down and smite me for it

get okay with half-assing things. or even quarter-assing. or one eighth. etc etc. if something needs to be done, it can be done poorly. the world is not going to end if you get things done shittily (within reason, and within the bounds of what is physically safe)

learn to treat your body like a valuable source of data. try and pay attention to the signals it gives you, and the trends in when those signals arise. don't push yourself for the sake of it. they don't hand out medals for Most Energy Expended Doing The Task, and they never will. if your body is telling you to sit down, do that.

for the love of god learn how to ask for help, unlearn the shame of needing help, and figure out how to accept help without beating yourself up about it. independence is not inherently a virtue and you don't have to struggle alone

okay <3 remember that you're allowed to give up forever and always. peace and love on planet disability