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Rolan! Because I really needed to draw my favorite grumpy wizard.
Have a close up and process video too because I love you. 😘

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Mermay
Rolan! Because I really needed to draw my favorite grumpy wizard.
Have a close up and process video too because I love you. 😘
Happy Valentine’s Day
Updates!
Finally got around to drawing my Tav. She is a Seldarine Drow singing and dancing College of Glamour Bard
In game… there are some mods I need to download to get her closer to my HC
She has a different appearance in the Underdark due to phosphorescent tattoos. The tattoo ink is made of Myconid, and like Myconid cannot survive on the surface: her tattoos disappear.
Also news! I created a Patreon! To support my Patreon habit. (“It could be drugs” I tell myself as I subscribe to yet another amazing artist)
Mostly digital character illustrations
Please consider subscribing, where all proceeds will be put right back into supporting other artists! I’ll be posting some Patreon exclusive things like WiP and my more salacious art 😘
Okay I love you, bye 💜
I was inspired
@honeybummer wrote an AU of her incredible fic. I had to draw one of the scenes. Had to. Compelled.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/78072201/chapters/204601536
Definitely go read Saintless Sinners.
Happy Holidays
Wow when is the last time I posted? Anyway, I was inspired by a pose drawing challenge I saw on the BlueSky and also wanted to draw some cake 😉
Pose reference from The Pose Archives
Hope everyone has a sweet, gentle, and warm holiday season. Love you, byeee 😘
Calm thy tittays, Astarionistas
A reminder that fan-work remains in the domain of the collective nerddom and cannot be personally copyrighted. Everyone’s ideas build upon one another. Nobody is truly unique.
Everyone is sharing the base codes, the lore, the ideas, the worldbuilding, the aesthetics, the poses, the writing and art.
Once we can all agree to work together and prop each other up instead of trying to “one up” each other, the collective fandom can finally be at peace.
Scenario 1: So-and-so stole my aesthetic/my idea/pose/story/drawing whatever.
Option 1: Dogpile them and sic your friends on them, creating enemies in the process and causing mental health problems for yourself and others, some of which will now resent the game and develop deep trust issues with fandoms in general. This also makes you a fucking asshole and no it’s not cute.
Option 2: Be like, “I’m so happy that I found someone with similar idea to my own! I love that we share a brain cell, wanna be friends?!” And then proceed to DM them everyday with your cool similar ideas which are fuelled by a game that you both play.
When presented with these two example choices, Do you now see how it is a deliberate choice to be an asshole? Make it option 2 and stop being a fucking twat. Also get some therapy if you have nothing better to do than dogpile people on the internet. God dammngggg people can be dumb sometimes.
Milestones
My daughter was born a year ago today. It’s her birthday and I’m thrilled. I love her with my entire heart.
It has me reflecting over the past year. She was born incredibly early due to my having severe preeclampsia. I was hospitalized for ten days and she arrived 12 weeks premature, delivered via C-section. She was so, so small. She spent 57 days in the NICU, and I was with her every single day, except her first 24 hours because I was on mandatory bed rest and being pumped with magnesium to keep my BP from spiking. I hated my body for not being able to take care of my baby. I felt like the world ripped her from me. That first 24 hours not being able to see her, isolated but for the nurses who monitored my health, was possibly the most difficult day of my life (magnesium did not help my mental state). But she was alive, and growing, and so strong. I made the effort to be there, by her side, every day. Throughout my own body recovering from major surgery, and the hormone fluctuations, and the stress and grief. Through having to ask another person if I could hold my baby. Through the understanding that for those 57 days I was not my daughter’s primary care taker.
I think I’m still processing the experience. It was a lot and took an insane toll on my mental health. There are many sleepless nights where I just stare at her and am overwhelmed by gratitude that she’s with me.
I don’t really know why I’m posting. I think I just need to put it out into the universe. Everyone keeps saying “I can’t believe it’s been a year!” It has honestly been the longest, and also fastest, and most emotional year of my life.
Being a mom is hard. Being a preemie mom is hard. The constant anxiety that I wade through every day is fucking hard.
And also I’m so so so grateful that I have this life and every time I hold her in my arms I know I am lucky and in love. And it makes the hard parts worth it.
✨Disco Snails 🐌 ✨
My brain has been rotting with the idea of drawing quick change figure doing the TikTok viral Disco Snails dance … but since I don’t know animation this is the best I can do.
I had so much fun making this though. My friend has an insane vintage wardrobe and was my muse. Here I add all the images.
This was literally for no one but my self and my own amusement.
Here is the entire song which is just, so good.
✨ People I’d like to know better ✨
@amoremagnificentbastard, @honeybummer, and @chaushaus did the tagging thing. 🫶
☀️ Fun Fact: I worked as a professional cake decorator for about 7 years, specializing in wedding cakes and air-brush illustrations. 🎂
🎵 Last song on repeat: "Disco Snails" by Vulfmon & Zachary Barker
🎥 Currently watching: The Sandman Season 2 part 2
🎬 Last movie: KPop Demon Hunters
📖 Currently reading: so many fanfics, though specifically having the distinct pleasure of being a beta reader for the incredible (projected to be 3M word!) “TMD” by Ms_Fahey.
Also right now I have tabs open for “Crimson Marriage” by Lady_Alice, “Don’t Go” by Livellion, “No Saints Here” by HoneyBummer, and “Deeply and Immeasurably So” by Cometra (I have a type and it’s longfics …mostly about Astarion)
🎮 Currently playing: BG3, and Date Everything
🍫 Sweet/spicy/savory: sweet, just got some yummy danishes from Costco 😋
♥️ Relationship status: Married 💍
🧠 Current obsession: Astarion
🔍 Last google search: “Endangered Species+Gabby Diaz Tap Routine+SYTYCD” (this is the best video I could find but it’s one of those things that lives in my brain rent free:)
🎨 Currently working on: I have about 4 arts started, working slooooowly on my longfic “The Songbirds Sing at Night” and a short sample chapter for *No Saints* Discord server prompt: Lust-Gust.
🏝️ Currently looking forward to: it not being so fucking hot… and my daughter’s first birthday! 🎉
No pressure tagging: @astarionsdivacup , @dbglow, @amidtheflowers @crypticina
Look at his happy face. He’s so happy. And content. And… *happy*
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Anywaaaaay totally unrelated…. I just posted a sample chapter from my Astarion/Tav fic The Songbirds Sing at Night. If you’d like to check it out. And see a different version of the image. 👀
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Astarion in the Sun
It’s been like… over a month since I’ve drawn anything. So I wanted to try to break through the artists block / (bb won’t let me draw because sleep regression) by taking a sketch that I did based on a render of Astarion I found:
And just wanted to draw it in my style. So digital art.
Process video.
I should maybe work on doing darker darks for shadows, but … eh this is what progress looks like. Trying to create when depression hits is difficult but we persist.
Favorite Things
Tagged by @amoremagnificentbastard this looks like fun! And reminds me of old school FB lists
Favorite cold drink: Pepsi with a lot of ice
Favorite hot drink: Tea (any kind… just Tea)
Favorite sweet: depends on my mood. I have a sweet tooth so just about everything is my favorite. Maybe donuts?
Favorite actor: hmm genuinely not sure at the moment
Favorite singer: Lady Gaga or Stevie Nicks
Favorite movie: right now KPop Demon Hunters
Favorite song: again depends on my mood
Favorite video game: Baldur’s Gate 3 obvi
Favorite season: Autumn
Favorite flower: peony
Favorite scent: mint and lavender
Favorite animal: RED PANDA
Favorite weather: thunderstorms
Favorite tree: Weeping Willow
Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Astarion/Tav (Baldur's Gate), Astarion (Baldur's Gate)/Original Female Character(s) Characters: Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Tav (Baldur's Gate), Shadowheart (Baldur's Gate), Lae'zel (Baldur's Gate), Gale (Baldur's Gate), Wyll (Baldur's Gate), Karlach (Baldur's Gate) Additional Tags: Astarion Being a Little Shit (Baldur's Gate), Eventual Smut, Eventual Romance, Canon Compliant, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, POV Alternating, POV Astarion (Baldur's Gate), POV Tav (Baldur's Gate), Spoilers for Quest: The Pale Elf | Astarion's Companion Quest (Baldur's Gate), Astarion's Past Abuse (Baldur's Gate), Implied/Referenced Drug Use Series: Part 1 of The Songbirds Sing At Night Summary:
Astarion is on the hunt for his next victim for his Master. He finds himself at Fraygo's Flophouse and discovers a rare treat: a Drow bard drinking alone. At this point, Astarion has been a vampire spawn for nearly 200 years and has his technique down. He'd flabbergasted when things don't go his way, and naturally needs to be petty about it. He decides to take revenge on the super rude Drow woman who would dare to pass up the opportunity of his company.
I haven’t posted in foreverrrrr because BBGirl has been occupying a lot of time with sleep regression and need for constant contact. And obviously, she is my first priority in all things.
I have been writing though, and since @amoremagnificentbastard tagged me in a WiP figured I might as well share some progress work:
Here is a no context snippet of a *very* NSFW … let’s call it “moontime kink” chapter that I’m writing for my fic. And some accompanying WiP art. (TW: mention of blood drinking/ vampire doing vampire things)
Enjoy!
With one last hard kiss but no other warning, he withdrew his hand from her leggings.
Tav protested immediately at his sudden discontinuation, grabbing his wrist and attempting to guide him back.
“Patience, my love,” he murmured in her ear, “I can’t have you crying out and drawing every Flaming Fist in the area to our little alley, now can I?” He ran his tongue the full length of her pointed ear, enjoying her shudder and her nails digging into his scalp.
He couldn’t help the wide grin spreading across his face. She pouted so so prettily when denied what she wanted. His little bard was utterly charismatic, it was a rarity for her not to get her way, and he enjoyed teasing her. Besides, he had his little treat to indulge in.
Bringing his hand up, they both peered at the evidence of her cycle coating his two middle fingers, dripping down his wrist. Out of all the beautiful, colorful, interesting things he’d seen today, the sight of his love’s cycle blood glazing his hand was by far the most satisfying.
Still though, Astarion ducked his head a bit to catch Tav’s gaze, and maintained eye contact as he brought his hand to his mouth. He licked her fluids slowly, beginning at the drips on his wrist, sweeping his tongue over the palm of his hand and up toward his long fingers. He was taking the opportunity to savor the divine mixture of her arousal and menstrual blood.
In over two centuries this was by far the best thing he had ever tasted. Immensely better than any animal blood. Even more pleasurable than drinking the blood of thinking creatures. The thick liquid was richer than any fine foods he could remember eating. More decadent than the most robust and rarest wine in Cazador’s cellars. Astarion sucked his fingers individually, to draw out the experience of the first taste of her cycle. All the while staring deeply into his lover’s eyes.
“Thank you, Tav” he whispered, putting as much emotion and sincerity into his voice as he could, needing to convey the depths of his gratitude for her entire person. Her disgruntled expression melted away and she smiled up at him, apparently enjoying the sight of him tonguing out the remainder of the blood from under his nails.
He rose to his full height to gaze warmly at his little love. He kept the two fingers that had been inside her resting on his bottom lip, the tip of his tongue still searching for hints of her deliciousness, and smiled lasciviously.
“Shall we continue on our way to our room, my darling?”
“Yes, obviously, let’s fucking go!”
…They had a deal, after all. If Karlach carried Astarion for a while, he’d have to return the favor when she got tired…
This came about from the in game banter when Astarion is complaining about walking and Karlach says “aw do you want me to carry you?”
Poor Pookie only has 8 Strength
When the algorithms know you too well…
I kept getting ads for this Date Everything. They’re like “you love Astarion and Neil Newbon! Here he is as a Dryer!”
So here’s my cursed mashup of Drysdale and Astarion: Drystarion.