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/ She/Her / 23 / I use my degree to bitch about discourse & analyze fictional characters (DNI if you're a minor, sorry lol)

[mimi-maru]

[teathattast]

💯🙏💛🟨👍

[teathattast]

Worst part about this is I've only ever used that yellow square emoji once and it was just to see how it looked. This isn't who I am. However, in retrospect, I suppose it is

[teathattast]

Reading through the notes is a surreal experience please keep adding more to fuel my effervescent consumption of non descriptive emojis

[teathattast]

💞✌💋🌈🌜

That's what I call character development

[goblinofthelaboratory]

👍🫂🦎🌵🐀

huh. yknow it's not entirely wrong

[poupon]

🐸🌽🙃🇲🇦❓❓

[ragtimelime]

🤏🎉🫵✅🐦‍⬛

I don’t remember using the checkmark…

[ceeberoni]

💖🧚🎁🙌👋

pretty much

[chaosroid]

I am once again lamenting how neglected resist!Durge has been for months. The final climactic scene to their arc is met with some of the most milquetoast companion reactions I've ever seen.

We literally die.

Like Durge just stops being alive. Where's the angst? The emotion? None of this half-assing shit, give us the shock and denial. Hell, give us weeping! Make it unflattering, because loss can be ugly.

I wouldn't even be opposed to Withers not showing up immediately? Maybe they have to physically drag Durge's dead body back to camp. Show us Gale using the only revival scroll he has and his face falling when it doesn't work. Shadowheart being the healer, desperately expending all her energy to bring you back to life as a last hail mary. Minthara not caring that Bhaal is a god, vowing to make him pay. Lae'zel threatening you to wake up, and the devastation that follows when she realizes you won't. Wyll thinking of bargaining his very soul to Mizora just for the chance she could bring Durge back. Astarion and Karlach praying to whatever gods they can think of even though they don't believe in them anymore.

Show the grief, the exhaustion. Then Withers appears.

As it stands, the emotional weight of what happens to Durge gets resolved so quickly, there's never a moment for any of us to really react to it.

It's an issue all across the game tbh. Why do the companions have no reaction to Kressa's reveal that she tortured Durge? Why are there no consequences to your relationships when they find out you were behind the Absolute plan? Outside of Astarion, the other romanceable companions have very little unique interactions with Durge, which is a shame because there are plenty of them who share many parallels to Durge's experience of being used by a god/higher-power.

I feel like I'm playing the world's smallest violin when I complain about the lack of resist!Durge content because good god, Wyll and Minthara are fighting for their lives over here. But man, it really sucks knowing that patch 7 is allegedly Larian's last big content patch. Like if there was ever going to be an update where this sort of thing was added, it had to be this one. But it doesn't seem like Larian has any intention of closing the content disparity gap.

[wuika]

Astarion and Miss Dark Urge.🖤 A commission from nubesrosas

Thanks a lot to her for commissioning it for me. :)

[gio-utti]

Astarion doodles~

[pastel-starr-bitch]

So patch 7 definitely doesn’t work if you heavily modded your game

[rooji-r]

[lady-sapphyre]

[summerwarlock]

commission for What Could Have Been by @bellasmumblingsandmusings. check it out if gothic romance/dark fantasy is your jam 🧛

my comm info here

[bellasmumblingsandmusings]

Thank you for such an amazing and beautiful piece!

[dailyastarionpics]

[youremyvioleta]

"How dare you! I thought we had something special. Still. You're nice too."

[jerichoes]

Baldur’s Gate 3 (dev. Larian Studios)

[asphodelles]

dark urge run so far’s pretty fun

[hellothisisangle]

Lae’zel thinks Caelum is a weenie and she’s not wrong. Though they kind of get along as the two most immature people of the group

[romantic-bloodless-nights]

So what I’ve seen from the patch 7 leaks they’re thankfully not doubling down on the abuse angle. How do you feel about the impending wave of criticism that’ll come w the update? I’ve already seen it starting after a particular writer left the company. I know that this patch is gonna reopen the floodgates for the AA hate.

It just feels hypocritical of them to be upset Larian changed the kisses. So when they were negative we were expected to shut up bc “it’s Larian’s decision” but now that they’ve altered the expression it’s “Larian caving to criticism/fan demand”. We can never win with them.

Meh, I'm pretty numb to it, to be honest. Can't really take people who don't value the run enough to actually play it and give constructive, well-needed feedback for Larian to go by outside of pushing the "AA ABUSIVE/ CONTINUES THE CYCLE OF ABUSE!!!" narrative all that seriously.

Those complaining about the change aren't interested in fairness or immersion or role-playing past being AA's self-made victim and damsel in distress. All they want is for their headcanons to be validated by Larian in all aspects of the game, even paths they rarely or won't ever take. They want control and to rub it in other people's faces. Why else go on about the kiss expressions when there are multiple paths available that call for more neutral faces?

With how big Patch 7 is, there should be plenty of content to keep them busy.

[trouvaillecats]

[sacred-portal]