Fandom Blog

Just a place for me to post about my various fandoms including (but not limited to): BG3, Our Flag Means Death, Percy Jackson, Adventure Time, and Steven Universe ~I’m over 21 and post lewd fandom stuff too~ *I often forget to tag things sorry in advance*

[wicked-watering-can]

I think a lot of people's frustrations with the CCOD finale (and the ensuing 'discourse' around it) can be solved by one simple answer.

This season was an experiment. This is the IH first time playing a game that is ENTIRELY improvised. There is no battle sets (i.e. no direct plot threads the IH KNOW that have to follow), there was no set BBEG, there was probably no set idea of what the finale would even look like.

The results of said experiment was that to have a cohesive story, you need to have some structure. I think the people arguing for a more cohesive through line remember that a lot of our favorite bits/side charas were improvised in prior seasons, but with this season basically the ENTIRE plot is cobbled together based on the characters actions. We all laugh and have good fun, but behind the scenes of prior seasons is Brennan and the rest of the team doing a lot of work to keep things on track. And the IH did as well, because they knew there were story beats their wonderful team and fellow creatives had set out for them! This season there was way less pressure to stay on track because there was no set story points, only a million different options in this sandbox for them to explore and have fun with. So of course this group of improv comedians, having fun with their friends and basically NO limitations, are gonna go off the rails.

All in all, I think everyone needs a reminder that this is not a typical season that 'went off the rails'; this was a season that was intentionally a hands off story, and consequently you're gonna get wilder misadventures and less time/ability to tie every single one of them together. This is not the death of powerful, thoughtful and wacky d20 seasons. Its just a small snippet in the large d20 catalogue, literally meant as a tester to see if it would work at all. It was never going to be wrapped up in a tight little bow, because it was never designed to be that way. You can say "meh I don't think I like this style" and be content with that!

(I personally love the idea of shorter, wackier IH seasons in between larger more emotionally intense ones. The crew has fun, I had fun, it was a blast!)

[queerfandomunlimited]

It’s all well and good if the CCOD finale wasn’t your thing but also I feel we are all forgetting something: this season was directly inspired by WWDITS. Ya know, the show that brought us “I drank the blood of some people and the people were on drugs and now I am a wizard.”? The one that had some good throughline emotional beats but was mostly Bit fuckin City? I mean Zac’s character was based on Zoolander!! Murph was a vampire who thinks he’s some sort of Batman!! THERE WAS A GHOUL HORSE NAMED GHORSE. Batchild swallowed a missile in the first episode! They wrote off multiple shit shows as “Banksy’s”!! If you wanted a serious season and got a silly one I get it. But you can’t pretend this was ever all that serious outside of Brennan’s signature capitalism and fascism sucks tropes. You can’t criticize something on criteria it never met (or really even intended to meet) in the first place.

[merulaturdus]

I'm very sorry but it was super fun to draw, EXTRA FUN :^)

One of the biggest things I've ever drawn!!! Damn these backgrounds 💀 And detailing 💀💀 But I really enjoyed drawing this! Learnt a lot from this comic of what style I'd like to have, the pipeline and so on.

firstly drawn in may '25

[pipermca]

I got another spam comment today on AO3, and I want to share it as a PSA. But before I do, I want you to understand that you SHOULD NOT DO what this comment is asking. Ok? Ok.

See that bit at the bottom? Don't do that. Insert ParamedicGuy.gif going "Don't."

Other malicious spam comments I've gotten seemed designed to make an author question their writing, or outright encourage them to delete their stories from AO3. This one is different, in that it tries to get you to destroy the work on your own computer.

If you ran that command, it basically locates your Documents folder, then deletes everything in it, including all subfolders. It also does it without any prompt, so you have no chance to second guess your actions.

This is just fucking trolling.

Coincidentally, we just did training on a cyberattack similar to this, called a ClickFix attack. You can read about how that works here.

As a general rule, if ANYONE or ANY WEBSITE tells you unsolicited* to do anything in Powershell, CMD RUN, command prompt, shell command, or something similar, DON'T.

*There are legit reasons for running commands in PowerShell or the command prompt, but in those cases you are likely seeking out a solution to a problem you are already experiencing. Don't just run random commands on your computer as recommended by some unlogged-in guest on a fan fiction site.

Always think and consider before taking action, and get a second opinion from a trusted source. When I got this comment I was pretty sure what the command would do, and it took me about three seconds of googling to confirm it.

Be safe out there!

[fowo]

as an IT guy I can confirm that this command WILL delete all your shit. DO NOT DO IT.

Here's a bit of a further breakdown for the ones curious about what the hell this command does.

What you're basically telling your PC if you ran this is "go into this folder (Documents) and then Recursively (for all sub-folders) Remove (delete) all files therein Forcefully (without any user input and also if a file was locked)."

The little "Exclude *.archiveofourown" they tack in there is just honestly absolutely diabolical if you don't know what you're looking at.

As an inexperienced user, you'll think "oh of course, exclude ao3, that's what I want!"

*.archiveofourown is a file ending, including any file title.

There are not archiveofourown files.

This is telling your PC to ignore files that don't exist.

Honestly, the gall of these trolls is astounding.

DO NOT DO THIS.

And as a further alarm bell, even if a well-meaning anon came to your comments to warn you:

why has ao3 not put out this warning officially?

this command is for Windows users. WHAT ABOUT ALL THE PEOPLE WHO USE MAC OR LINUX?

Hope my humble knowledge was informative to someone. Stay safe, everyone.

[amuseoffyre]

Any post that is hostile or panic-inducing like this seem to go for the "username (guest)" naming style. Don't trust them.

[fandomchokehold]

“idk to me Gale is straight” oh really than why is my male tav using his big penis to rearrange the wizard’s guts every other night?

[snaillesnaille]

streets and sodium lights

[queerfandomunlimited]

Personally there is not enough Gay Gale Dekarios stuff on this app so please enjoy a selection of my Tav, Grunnr, and the Wizard of Waterdeep being gay as fuck

[veilthycanis]

“bloodweave” this and “bloodweave” that but nobody talks enough about the fact that the dynamic between Astarion and Gale is literally just:

— gale trying to explain some ancient weave theory while astarion lounges across furniture like an overfed cat, interrupting every five minutes with “you’re very pretty when you’re pretentious, you know.”

— astarion pretending he doesn’t care about magic until gale casually lights candles with a flick of his wrist and suddenly astarion is staring at him like he personally hung the stars over waterdeep.

— gale being one of the first people to compliment astarion in ways that aren’t transactional. not “beautiful,” not “seductive,” but clever. funny. observant. things attached to personhood instead of performance.

— astarion absolutely abusing prestidigitation once he learns what it can do. gale walks into camp and all his wine has been chilled perfectly and there are dramatic rose petals everywhere and astarion’s sitting there acting like he has no idea how it happened.

— gale reading aloud at night because astarion likes the sound of his voice even when he claims the books are “terminally boring.”

— astarion stealing gale’s clothes specifically because they smell like parchment, cedar, and expensive spell components.

— the first time gale sees astarion genuinely, uncontrollably laugh, he forgets what he was saying mid-sentence because he’s too busy staring.

— gale, who spent years loving a goddess who felt unreachable, falling disastrously hard for someone painfully real and sharp-edged and frightened.

— astarion acting smug whenever gale gets flustered, only to completely short-circuit the second gale starts flirting back intentionally.

“careful, my dear,” gale murmurs, leaning close enough for candlelight to catch in his earring, “you do realize wizards are capable of learning patterns.”

and astarion just. visibly bluescreens.

— they would either spend the entire evening making out dramatically over a study desk or arguing over semantics for three hours straight. sometimes both simultaneously.

— gale kissing astarion’s hands like they belong to something holy.

— astarion, who spent centuries being consumed, discovering what it feels like to be adored. slowly. reverently. without expectation.

together they become absolutely insufferable in the most romantic way imaginable.

[queerfandomunlimited]

This is it, the post that finally makes me understand bloodweave

[irondive]

this keto shit easy

[queerfandomunlimited]

Finally, the fridge that inspired all post apocalypse video game fridges

[cumonangelxo]

intelligent and weird is so hot

[queerfandomunlimited]

[queerfandomunlimited]

So I found my new favorite Gale armor….

[magical-girl-coral]

Reading discourse over Gale's part in his debacle with Mystra is driving me insane. Some people are so ready to bend themselves over on why Gale isn't much of a victim that his fans think he is because of this and this and that, yet none of them ask themselves why this thousand year old goddesses specifically chose to grab a seventeen year old kid to be her boy toy.

[queerfandomunlimited]

THANK YOU. It bothers me because if you think about it the sheer devotion you’d get out of a 17 year old you’ve given favors to and groomed his whole life would be much more pure than any other devotee when you’re a godly being. So of course she saw no issue doing this with him. And she took him trying to do what he thought was some grand gesture to her as insubordination. And punished him accordingly. She could’ve fixed him the entire time. She was just “waiting for him to learn his lesson” so to speak.

[samryx]

All the fishes are gonna get fried in that river but it was worth it

[queerfandomunlimited]

Raphael and I agree on one thing and one thing alone: design choices

[queerfandomunlimited]

My core party having some fun “pool” time before we kick Raphael’s ass. Felt only right that Karlach would huck Astarion around.

[harmanee-ee]

backgrounds aren't my thing, buuuuuut>_<... I think I was able to cope@_@ I hope it keeps you sleepy;)

[kyoshichart]

tarot cards with bg3 characters