Blue lips, blue veins

Blue, the color of our planet from far, far away. Your resident bi nonbinary Jewish twentysomething. I answer to anything, but usually people call me Bonnie or Fille. She/her or they/them, please.

[nomorecaffeineforyou]

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

Chapters: 5/? Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Astarion/Tav (Baldur's Gate), Astarion & Tav (Baldur's Gate), Astarion (Baldur's Gate)/Original Non-Binary Character(s), Astarion (Baldur's Gate)/Original Character(s), Astarion/Charname (Baldur's Gate), Alfira & Tav (Baldur's Gate), Alfira/Lakrissa (Baldur's Gate) Characters: Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Tav (Baldur's Gate), Karlach (Baldur's Gate), Shadowheart (Baldur's Gate), Wyll (Baldur's Gate), Gale (Baldur's Gate), Halsin (Baldur's Gate), Lae'zel (Baldur's Gate), Alfira (Baldur's Gate), Jaheira (Baldur's Gate), Lakrissa (Baldur's Gate) Additional Tags: Nonbinary Tav (Baldur's Gate), Unnamed Tav (Baldur's Gate), Bard Tav (Baldur's Gate), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Weaving, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Unresolved Emotional Tension, Banter, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Eventual Romance, Character Study, Vampires, Eventual Smut, Developing Relationship, Vampire Spawn Astarion (Baldur's Gate), POV Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Traumatized Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Traumatized Tav (Baldur's Gate), Half-Elf Tav (Baldur's Gate) Summary:

"I thought vampires didn’t get sick. There’s not a lot we can do for you if you have a cold.”

Astarion huffed. “You’re infuriating.”

“Who, me?” Tav’s shit eating grin disappeared as quickly as it came. “I heard this colorway disappeared. It’s a faded enchantment, isn’t it? The velvet’s held up better than I expected - short pile is easier to keep clean and you’ve brushed it out.”

“My clothes? Is that what you’ve been looking at this whole time?”

“I’ve never seen clothes that are a hundred years old, much less fifty. They’re fascinating.” Tav turned their attention to the silk. “This is original. I thought it might be. You’ve kept it out of the sun and fine spun silk lasts for centuries. Might be as old as you, depending on when the clothes were made.”

Despite himself, he sat down. “How do you know all of this?”

“Easy. I’m a weaver by choice and a bard by circumstance." -------------------------------------------------------- Astarion is interrupted by Tav one morning at camp and, after a bargain is made, discovers that after two hundred years, he is not immune to falling for his own con.

[playwrongs]

Stephen King’s Fujo

[kungfunurse]

yeah @sunderwight these tags are gold

[neenarchive]

maidens if you are going to flee dramatically from my castle in the middle of the night once i reveal my true nature to you please leave your candelabra on the little ledge by the portcullis we are running out of them

[neenarchive]

starting to think these maidens are stumbling in soaked through from the rain just to steal my beautiful gowns and homewear are any of you actually lost

[elektrashocktherapy]

At the checkout in Home Goods loading the belt with nothing but candelabras in all shapes & sizes while the cashier watches sympathetically and asks if it’s the maidens again

[robotblues]

the brothers Area

[friend-crow]

[birds-in-posts]

Kelp gull (Larus dominicanus)

[ishowdespair-deactivated2026012]

[orcboxer]

not what I thought they was talkin about

[ralfmaximus]

Years ago back when I worked in cubicle land, we were hiring junior software developers. They didn’t have to have a ton of experience, just a willingness to learn, and some demonstration of their software skills. Like: show me a program you wrote (any language) or a web site you designed. Anything.

And there was this one guy I talked with who seemed super sharp, but had virtually zero experience writing software. When it came time to do the show-n-tell part of the interview he whips out his laptop, brings up a website, and spins it around to show me what he made.

A website of tiny ceramic frogs.

Not for sale. Just… all these ceramic frogs, organized into categories. Frogs on bicycles, frogs with hats, frogs sitting on lily pads. It was a virtual museum of ceramic frogs in web form.

I scrolled through his online collection of frogs, slightly baffled.

“This is your website?” I asked finally.

“Yep!”

“You coded this yourself?” I popped into view-source mode and poked around some incredibly well-formatted, well-commented html. I nodded slowly. This guy was meticulous.

“Yep!”

“So… where’d all the frogs come from?”

“I made those too,” he says, beaming. 

And while I’m processing this he rummages in his bag and pulls out a little ceramic frog working at a computer terminal. He places it on the table before us, next to the laptop.

“And THIS one,” he says, “I made for you! As a thank you for the interview.”

It was adorable. I hired him on the spot. I mean, why not? Worst case he’d wash out in 90 days and we’d hire somebody else. He turned out to be one of the best developers on our team. 

And yes, his cubicle was loaded with ceramic frogs.

[mikkeneko]

PSA to fan creators who don't have a lot of regular contact with children: They are almost always bigger than you think. A 1-year-old baby may already be walking. A toddler is likely already hip-high. A 10-year-old may already be taller than at least one of their parents. A 14/15 year old may already have reached their adult height.

[amarguerite]

Via @watertightvines

[wildjuniperjones]

Here's the link. It was actually not immediately easy to find, so I thought this might help.

[thehmn]

One of the most heartwarming things I’ve ever heard a dog trainer say “A pushy pet who makes small demands and communicates their needs to you is a safe pet. It means they trust you and aren’t afraid of your reaction if they misbehave and push your buttons a little”

[sashayed]

but ykw at least i'm not on mount everest. at least i'm not paying tens of thousands of dollars to slowly suffocate in a 300-person line at the gates of hell. never in my life will i have to be steered in a hypoxic stupor through the maze of poop and corpses atop mount everest. on this earth a lot of horrible things can happen to you without your permission but there are a few that you have to opt into. you can just say no thanks! and be guaranteed never to have to be on mount everest. much to be grateful for actually

[sashayed]

still not on mount everest this morning 😌 alhamdulillah

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

lie to me

[mothman-etd]

Not sure got to feel when the hobby book says this should only take an hour but it took me 5 hours.

[gallusrostromegalus]

1. Hobby books are often written by the same people who think you can caramelize onions in 5 minutes

2. Hobby books are even more often written by people who don't have or are actively neglecting their partners/full-time jobs/pets/children/household maintenance.

3. Hobby books are often written by people with ADHD, and an hour in ADHD hyperspace is like 2-7 hours for everyone else, including other ADHD people who are not currently in the zone.

4. Hobby books are written by people who, when told by an editor to add in how long it will take, just make shit up

5. If you're doing something for the first time, you're going to take way, way longer to do it than someone who's had years of practice. Maybe it does only take an hour IF YOU'VE BEEN DOING IT FOR TEN YEARS. Think about how long it took you to make idk your first excel spreadsheet vs how long it takes now

To actually answer your question: proud. You should feel proud, because you made something, AND you did so while learning a brand-new skill! Go you!!

May I ask what the Allegedly-One-Hour project was? Both because I like hearing about what my friends are doing and I want to see how wildly inaccurate the listed time scope is.

[violenceenthusiast]

what about a shapeshifter who’s bad at it. shapeshifter who can never quite get the nose right. shapeshifter who always makes flipped faces because they’re doing adjustments in the mirror. shapeshifter with same face syndrome. shapeshifter who always dips further into the uncanny valley than they want. shapeshifter who can mimic a single celebrity completely perfectly but struggles to recreate anyone else.

[anarcho-commeownism]

shapeshifter that can only do one person other than themselves and its a completely flawless tony hawk

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[ftmtftm]

Sometimes I really want to take everyone under the age of 24 (as of 2026) by the shoulders and say:

"I'm really sorry that lockdown and the ongoing pandemic interrupted pivotal educational and social/emotional development moments for you. You have an uphill battle towards adjusting to a lot of community based efforts because you experienced a mass trauma during an incredibly important time in your life where you should have physically been around your peers learning to engage in shared community. There is no "but" here, I'm genuinely really sorry. Something many of us consider key points in our interpersonal growth as youths was taken from you, not without reason but without care for its impact on you. I hope you know we are eternally allies in our struggles and if that is something you struggle to know I hope you can learn it someday."

Because so many of the angriest, most disenfranchised people I see on this website are under 24 and I often try to put younger people's behavior in the context of where they might have been 2020. I've seen the impact on my siblings and their peers+friends first hand, all ages 18-24. We've talked about how its impacted them, the isolation, the attachment to the internet, the anxieties and phobias and fears it developed in them due to the pandemic, the political unrest, and the responses to both that we've seen since. I know they're not the only ones and I know how much being marginalized also influences that impact too.

It's terrifying. I know it must be terrifying for a lot of the young people on Tumblr too. I hope one day we're able to bridge all of those complex feelings into something collective and positive so we can do our best to prevent similar traumas from happening to future generations.

[fairycosmos]

apparently youre supposed to perform. they love it when you perform. but it has to be authentic. they hate it when it's not authentic. but you have to perform.

[gt-wierdo]

Intersex fairies with wings like this

[polishkurapika]