My Court-Mandated BG3 Sideblog

Katie | 30 | She/Her | main blog and ao3: luckybottlecap Gale is my wife but I love them all.

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Writing Masterpost

(Not much to see at the moment, but I'll add as I publish!)

Fanfics

Fun Facts - [post] [Ao3]

Gale/Cerela (my tav) | NSFW | Fluff | 6,184 Words | Completed

For You - [post] [Ao3]

Gale/Reader (unnamed, gender neutral) | SFW | Angst | 2,338 Words | Completed

Blackstaff Ball - [gale/reader sample passage] [Ao3]

Gale/Cerela (my tav) | NSFW | Fluff; Very Mild Angst | 11,547 Words | Completed

Born Again - [post]

Gale/Lia (my tav) | SFW | Angst | 1,340 Words | Sample Chapter, WIP

Headcannons & Musings

Troubling Thoughts on Wyllstarion from my Wyll Origin Playthrough

"Illusion is my Language": Narrative Comparisons Between Gale, Astarion & The Emperor

Gale, Karlach, and Feelings of Impending Doom

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dj shart ♟️

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Gale - The Evening Star

Well. I am rather pleased with him. Hope you'll like him as well, folks 🩶

Gale as the Evening Start from Alphonse Mucha ✨

Yes I know, I know, Mystryl is technically dead at this time, but she was still (as Mystra is now) the embodiment of the Weave, so I put her old symbol instead of the newest Mystra one, as a marker of Gale's love for magic, rather than Mystra herself. And I've swapped the original design from Mucha to have a good view of the orb.

Others in the series can be found here :

Astarion as 'The North Star' Shadowheart as 'The Moon' Wyll as 'The Morningstar' Lae'zel as 'The Comet'

Next (and last, for now), Karlach ❤️‍🔥 No idea when I'll get to her though ^^

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Hello, and welcome to my quick guide about how breasts-do in relation to arm + shoulder movement feat. scantily clad Jaheira. Who asked for this, you may ask? My conscience, mostly.

This is something I occasionally see misunderstood in artistic depictions of women - dreadfully leading to some core misconceptions about where breasts are supposed to sit at all times - and resulting in some truly head-scratching situations where the same woman's chest may seem droopier😱 depending on🤔 the way she's positioned🫨??? Well, fear no more! The mystery has been solved! You're welcome.

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Some people blame solely the racism (specifically against people with darker skin) and misogyny in fandom and the prioritizing of white guys on the Source Material. Then in Sinners the most popular guy is the white guy thats the personification of racism assimilation that doesn't appear in half the movie, a movie with 2 michael b jordans and increible black characters. In the locked tomb (book with mostly women) Silas and Colum, 2 white charas who are family and don't appear that much in the first book, have more fics than Coronabeth and Judith, a white woman and a black woman who keep appearing in the story and one of them canonically confessed her love to the other. In BG3 there is more fics with MC X Gortash (light skin bad guy that makes a tiny appearance in act 2 and then appears more in act 3) than MC X Wyll (Black guy who is literally one of the main characters in the game that is also impossible to skip, while you can completelly miss Astarion or Gale on accident). In Dragon Age: The Veilguard Davrin (the black guy) was the guy with less fics before the game was out when no one knew the characters so you couldn't judge in writing or content. In the Bridgerton show the most popular ship is the only main one who features 2 white people, etc etc like it just keeps happening and saying "its the source material, fandom just works with what it has" is just not true. And finding excuses why Every Time Actually It Makes Sense that the fandom would focus in the white guys no matter what show is justs doing mental gymnastic instead of admiting racism and misogyny exist everywhere, including fandom.

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god has her favorites ig

(feb art for patreon)

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Galemance

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if you’re a bard you should be able to challenge Raphael for the Orphic hammer Devil Went Down to Georgia style

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"Battle in the darkness of Shar"

соmm for @bladesingerlily

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Flowers from Mama K!

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BG3 Dialogue You've Never Heard: Gale's Mystery Dialogue

In poking around the parser I discovered a bunch of audio in Gale's topical greeting file that does not exist in the HTML file of text. I think I can correctly assume this means the dialogue was never implemented (or perhaps is left over from Early Access? But even EA stuff is in the HTML files). I suspect other companions may have the same; I'm going to check Halsin next, but if you have a request for a companion, lmk!

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Ahh~, I see something else preoccupies you. Care to talk about it?

I can just seem him bouncing on the balls of his feet, hands clasped behind his back for this one :3

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You aren't here to hear me ramble. What do you need of me?

Gale, that is exactly why I'm here 🥰

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You wish for my opinion on some other matter, though. What is it?

That terse "what is it" is SENDING ME

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The world is full of oddities, but even so, that was unexpected.

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That was truly remarkable!

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Few things in this world leave me speechless, but after what just happened...I'm lost for words.

WHAT WAS THE CONTEXTTTTTT?!??!?!!

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Over far too soon. I was rather enjoying that~

coming soon to 1 million "5 times Gale and Tav were interrupted and 1 time they weren't" smut fics on an AO3 near you

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Oh! Thank goodness that's over!

Again I am DYING to know the context

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Ugh. It'll take me some time to get that image out of my head.

SCREAMING

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I diiid...but, our situation warrants we explore every opportunity presented to us. However grim.

This one really sounds to me like an unwilling to die Gale reconsidering the orb 😭

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A tasteful (you know where to find the tasteless version) Jaheira pin-up to console you on this lazy sunday.

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my dwarf tav and Gale 💜💜💜

here we go again..

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SO I was thinking about how strongly Tara dislikes Gale's in-game hair and beard and it made me wonder if it was originally a result of him locking himself away from everyone but then sort of became intentional later. Also brace yourselves for some character analysis which seems to be unpopular in fan works but is interesting to me:

Gale knows he's handsome.

There always seemed to be a bit of a mismatch between how people depict Gale's confidence in fanworks and how he presents himself in-game to me?

One of his very first interactions at camp he does, admittedly cheekily, play off his Mirror Image as fastidious grooming habits, and dismisses the spell with a sly little "Handsome devil, isn't he?" It's playful and could be read as a bluff, but it does exist and doesn't feel particularly misplaced. This is a man that fucked God. I think that is great assurance that you must on some level be looking pretty good on the regular.

He also thinks he's charming, which he is! He has a line somewhere about having a dazzling smile. He calls Karlach "rough around the edges" but that he supposed he could be "smooth enough for the both of them." He is entirely confident that he can befriend Minthara and is the only one to even think to attempt it.

He is not a shy lover, either, once you are in private. Some of his lines are straight up scandalous. He may be a bit shy and bluster when you're the one to bring it up, but later on he is shameless. The "For now, I'll keep my mouth shut. Unless you have use for it, of course" line made my jaw drop. ALSO when you ask Gale if you were his first aside from Mystra, he says no, you are not. But you are the first AFTER Mystra. In fact, Loroakkan insults Gale by implying it was NOT by magical merit that he gained her favor, and all that merit did was insure he lost it.

Gale's insecurity is about his sense of self worth, and how the metric he judges his own worthiness is by what he can do, not who he is.

I think the reason it bothers me to see this TYPE of insecurity attributed to Gale is that he is our token "bookish nerd" character, and it feels too easy to just assign the one "nerd" character the traits "inexperienced virgin who wishes he looked more like the leading man but actually the lead romance thinks he is sweet despite all his shortcomings." Especially when there's almost nothing in game to draw this conclusion from. And I dunno, maybe some people think that formula is still satisfying as a story but I think its boring. This dude is an absolute dweeb who is also handsome as all hell which is one of the many reasons you are able to pay attention to his forty-five minute long speech about the history of gnolls. He does that and then shoots Astarion down in the same breath. Let autistic people be hot. That's allowed.

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(in the voice of a guy that will defy fate to save you) i don't care