I blame Larian

A pretty face is a nice to have. A pretty voice is a requirement.

[ohsayit]

Silly things about Me

UPDATE: I am uninstalling tumblr from my phone for a bit. If you see a sudden influx of stuff from me (from time to time) that's probably why. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I am not good at resisting checking tumblr on my phone. Worse than a toddler.

This is my main blog with all the BG3 thirst. I simp for an array of characters: Ascended/Lord Astarion, Zevlor, Raphael, Rugan, and maybe another 10 characters.

Here is my AO3. Most of them are AA/F!Tav.

Useful tags: headcanon, my fic

Pre-ascension Astarion/Tav

For Just a While

To Hells With All This

Ascended Astarion/Tav

Be Mine

In Due Time

Eat Your Growing Food

Vanity

A Gift For You

Bed The Goose

Portrait (WIP)

Zevlor/Tav

Steal His Shirt (AO3)

Steal his Shirt (Tumblr)

Zevlor, tattoos, his horse (single scene)

Siesta (single scene)

Long hair (single scene)

Quick drabble (make him bluescreen)

Caz/F!Reader

Bed the Squeaky Mouse

Note:

I don't have separate tags for short/one off scenes. They are all under the "my fic" tag.

[todaysbird]

Today's bird is the Australian Little Raven of judgement

[laceghost-art]

“I have been in love with no one, and never shall," she whispered, "unless it should be with you."

[lolthwoven]

*gasp* guys, LOOK AT THIS

I'm not even joking, this is so damn good and I haven't been able to stop staring at it 🫪

That linework, that lighting... just unreal. @yevyanko is ridiculously talented and really knocked it out of the park with this one ♥️

[ohsayit]

[acousticmalta]

Carmilla visits me tonight

[wiliecoyotegenius]

Carmilla, from the illuminated edition

[charonnyxtides]

Carmilla and Laura by Abigail Larson

Warm lips kissed me, and longer and longer and more lovingly as they reached my throat, but there the caress fixed itself.

[ohsayit]

[sanguinevisions]

the worst thing about all those dracula adaptations that recast mina as a pure wilting heroine caught in a dark romance with the sexy evil vampire who's obsessed with her, is that that story already exists. my girl my queen the sexy evil obsessive vampire of all of our dreams carmilla karnstein is RIGHT THERE!! laura, the pure sweet heroine who cannot resist the dark sexyevil allure of the vampire who won't leave her alone is RIGHT THERE. the people do not want dracula. the people yearn for carmilla.

[genocidalfetus]

Fandom Etiquette 101

If you dislike a character, DO NOT have an unhinged rant in the character tags about how much you hate them.

[politicalmamaduck]

Writing about a child rapist did not make Vladimir Nabokov a child rapist.

Writing about an authoritarian theocracy did not make Margaret Atwood an authoritarian theocrat.

Writing about adultery did not make Leo Tolstoy an adulterer.

Writing about a ghost did not make Toni Morrison a ghost.

Writing about a murderer did not make Fyodor Dostoevsky a murderer.

Writing about a teenage addict did not make Isabel Allende a teenage addict.

Writing about dragons and ice zombies did not make George R.R. Martin either of those things.

Writing about rich heiresses, socially awkward bachelors, and cougar widows did not make Jane Austen any of those things.

Writing about people who can control earthquakes did not make N.K. Jemisin able to control earthquakes.

Writing about your favorite characters and/or ships in situations that you choose does not make you a bad person.

It’s a shame that in this day and age these things need to be said.

[nyarnamaitar]

Or, in short: the narrator =/ the author.

[oblakom-deactivated20200302]

You know what else is a shame? This nowadays tendency of putting on the author the responsibility of teaching their readers morality.

Authors are allowed to write morally ambiguous characters.

Authors are allowed to write downright despicable characters - and guess what they are even allowed to make despicable characters charismatic and likeble and the protagonists of their stories if they wish - because absolute monsters exist only under the bed.

It is not up to the author to spoonfeed the readers about morality and Yes I know this character did a bad thing and I am going going to show it in the story and make other characters call them out of it and– Bullshit.

The authors should be able to write what they want without having thousands of people jumping and their throats claiming to know them, their ideas and their morality based on what they write.

It’s not up to the author to teach you about what is right and what is wrong.

[theanishimori]

It’s not up to the author to teach you about what is right and what is wrong.

[meeedeee]

brb, need to write myself back into my dragon form

[lantaniel]

how do you do, fellow Creatives™

[sepublic]

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.

[ohsayit]

A brave man's blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble.

In one time, it was natural. In another time, it makes me giggle. In a different time, it would make ma giggle in a rather different way.

[hirodraga]

Zevlor art for @duckie19! Thank you so much for commissioning me, I cant express how happy I get everytime I have the chance to draw Zev!

commission info - kofi - patreon

[morwens-lair]

[spoonybird]

creature

[aaeeden]

Jeanette x