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[elyareaasta]

Another scene that I really love from @prackspoor 's Silvergifting fic Acing This Thing Called Romance

— the golden octopus Annatar!

[prackspoor]

This is so pretty, thank you so much!

[aisatsaa]

we'll meet again don't know where, don't know when

[ymutate]

Friedrich Kunath (b. 1974, German artist)

“Storms Never Last”, 2023

Oil on canvas, 121.9 x 97.8 cm.; 48 x 38 1/2 in.

Private collection

[soymoss]

emo heron in boots

[kritzenkriegen]

*thinks up an idea for a silly quick piece* okay haha let's whip something up real quick

*idea gets more complicated*

*idea gets more complicated*

*idea gets more complicated*

*idea gets more complicated*

oh no

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[parkayquarts]

now im imagining what pride events in ankh morpork are like

[parkayquarts]

there will EXCLUSIVELY be kink at the ankh morpork pride parade

[wondersmith-and-sons]

(via @takiki16)

[just7frogsinapeoplesuit]

(Tags via @romanceyourdemons)

Extremely correct response, leaving out the inevitable debacle over citizens declaring counterfeit genders in order to have rarer pronoun pins to sell to collectors in the underground pronoun market.

Dibbler, only mildly discouraged, eventually realizes he can sell embellishments for your pronoun pin, which he claims will upgrade your gender.

Also of note is that there are no cops present at Ankh-Morpork Pride. This is not because they aren't welcome (everyone knows Nobby is as kinky as they come), but because the festivities include throwing bricks at the City Watch building and they are busy trying to make sure they still have a place to work the next day. The Night Watch prepares each year with a barricade, and pre-marriage Vimes always collects the good bricks so he can save for a house. Nobody is really sure where the tradition came from, but it's good fun and usually nobody gets hurt too badly.

The bricks are provided by Vetinari, who considers it a good test of city infrastructure and training for the Watch.

[skarabrae-stone]

Cheery would 100% march in the parade. She'd get Nobby to go with her, but Nobby would be completely oblivious as to why (he assumed she just wants company).

Moist von lipwig would have pride-themed stamps made; these would inevitably have some kind of issue, which would create some outrage and ultimately make the stamps more valuable as collectors' items.

I don't get the impression that Ankh Morpork ever had anti-sodomy or crossdressing laws, so I don't think the queer community's history with the police would be the same as it is in the real world. Especially because Cheery Littlebottom literally started the Dwarf trans/feminism movement as an officer of the Watch, with the Watch's support.

Dibbler would totally sell pride flags with the wrong colors (and then insist it was the "new, updated version" if anyone questioned him)

The nobility are all scandalized, meanwhile the Seamstresses Guild has a float in the parade

Adora Belle Dearheart is deeply involved with at least one queer organization and is one of the main organizers of the Pride festival, but refuses to answer any questions about why

Ridcully decides the wizards should be involved, and Ponder Stibbons should make a float and organize the refreshments for them to eat while riding on the float. Ridcully's concept of allyship is loudly saying, "Well done, that man!" and pointing at anyone he thinks is exhibiting particularly queer behavior.

Madam Sharn and Pepe release a whole new line of Pride-themed chainmail

Bengo Macarona is embraced as a gay icon

Reg Shoe decides the main pride event is too corporate, and organizes an alternative pride parade for the same time and place; this immediately gets subsumed by the main pride event. Some Omnians show up to Pride to protest and Reg is delighted to have someone to fight with.

[just7frogsinapeoplesuit]

More from the tags, I love all of you

[jennydolfen]

I had the incredible privilege to design this year’s Pride Shirt from Critical Role! It features our beloved Blue Boi Dorian Storm on hos steed Coriolis. I snuck in a little favour of his lover, tied to his arm, and some sneaky Latin: “Amore fiunt homines” is Latin for “It’s love that makes people.”

You can find it in all the CR shops! I’ll be offering prints, too. https://shop.critrole.com/collections/new-products/products/how-do-you-want-to-slay-this-t-shirt

AD: Adrienne Cho

[prackspoor]

The Lords of the Rings

[goth-queen]

[zookie-art]

I genuinely can't stop thinking about these two. Help

(Prints in bio if anyone wants!)

[prackspoor]

Two weeks later, everyone miraculously still had their heads on their shoulders.

Yule preparations were in full swing across the entirety of the city. Not a street that wasn’t strung with fairy lights, not a square that did not have its trees and fountains and statues decorated and braziers put up for people to gather around. The days had been clear and sunny, but the air was bitingly cold, which was why people were grateful for any source of heat to have their mulled wine around.

It was into this relative peace and quiet that the announcement of Daeror’s newest stage play dropped like a bombshell.

[prackspoor]

Two weeks later, everyone miraculously still had their heads on their shoulders.

Yule preparations were in full swing across the entirety of the city. Not a street that wasn’t strung with fairy lights, not a square that did not have its trees and fountains and statues decorated and braziers put up for people to gather around. The days had been clear and sunny, but the air was bitingly cold, which was why people were grateful for any source of heat to have their mulled wine around.

It was into this relative peace and quiet that the announcement of Daeror’s newest stage play dropped like a bombshell.

[sunsetagain]

Baldur's Gate 3: Tabula Rasa (blank slate/empty sheet)

22 page comic.

Ship: Karlach/Sebastian/Haarlep + Ascendant Astarion.

Inspired by the bug of Raphael's resurrection after patch 5 and based on this ending.

→ 中文版 ←

[sunsetagain]

WIP of a finished BG3 comic:

Tabula Rasa

back on track temporarily.

ive posted the 3rd slide before but as the previous panels were freshly done i don't mind posting it once again.

[prackspoor]

“He said, ‘worry not’,” Celebrimbor repeated slowly.

“He did.” Annatar kept staring after the bard.

“I am very worried.”

The Maia did not respond immediately. “It can’t be too bad,” he said after some moments of thinking. “He’s probably going to spread some tall tale about eternal love, and spin it in a way that makes him win all the bets that he mentioned.” He tapped his chin pensively, thinking about this for a few seconds. “We could blackmail his winnings out of him.”

Celebrimbor sighed. “I know you’re a lot older than me, but at some point, you will learn not to say ‘what’s the worst that could happen?’ It never ends well.”

Annatar threw him a side glance. “I didn’t take you for someone to fall prey to superstition.”

“The word you’re looking for is ‘empirical evidence’.”

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