welcome to the menagerie

sup nerds, im Jess (35, genderqueer, will respond to whatever pronouns). this blog is mostly for reblogs and shitposts but ill occasionally drop lore on my bg3 OC here too

[meanbossart]

Jaheira Helping Durge correct his "extended puppy" form while politely turning down his latest startup idea - everyone knows that Bhaalspawn make for awful business partners!

[From Page 9 of my comic Unordinary Circumstances]

[tikvin]

Spoiling rotten @ztudiolaire 's troubled youth

Bonus my Delilah being pretty as always 😌

[imoutofsoupyo]

[meanbossart]

Jaheira Helping Durge correct his "extended puppy" form while politely turning down his latest startup idea - everyone knows that Bhaalspawn make for awful business partners!

[From Page 9 of my comic Unordinary Circumstances]

[readyforbisque]

I have no idea what I'm doing, this digital art shit is complicated 😂

But anyway, here's my new Dark Urge, Quentin. His backstory is still coming together but I had to doodle him lol

[blssmjpg]

I appreciate those people who are just genuinely nice. Like their mindset is instead of making others miserable, they give people tools to better themselves because why not. Thanks for putting that good energy out into the universe.

[dr1p]

[mistercrowbar]

When Aldiirn timidly asked if Astarion would ever bite him like how Araj wanted, life slipping away and all, Astarion knew what the man who was once fed to spiders really wanted. To be bundled up nice and tight and cozy so he cant move or worry about anything at all. 💖

My piece for the Colours of the Gate zine, which you can now grab for free! Donations to LGBT charities are still encouraged. I was very excited to have the chance to draw Aldiirn for it and had a silly idea that got out of hand haha. Enjoy the saucy squishy and Driderstarion's shiny sleek carapace!

[mistercrowbar]

For all the talk about how gruesome ceremorphosis is, I really thought the partial illithid transformation should have been a terrible time and the game didn’t really touch on the body horror aspects enough. Like imagine a few long rests into the transformation you get hit with a hunger condition, and only then does Emperor tell you you gotta feed regularly if you want to keep using your fancy new powers. And you can’t just nibble on part of a brain!

So here I make my tav, Aldiirn, suffer as I think he should, but luckily he has Astarion to help out like a cat leaving a dead mouse on your bed.

Next two pages are gorier so beware!

I wrote this when I was in the midst of Act 3 and it originally had a more somber tone, but then I finished the game and Astarion reacts so VISCERALLY like he’s gonna vomit to the sight of a mindflayer eating and well… I cannot resist dark humour lmao. He’s doing his best!

I truly believe Astarion’s the best support any tav could have in this situation, even if he can’t quite suppress the gagging. He’s been there already, has been living it for hundreds of years, and he’s shown to reach out to those in similar situations. He’s just so sweet sometimes aaa I love him.

[mistercrowbar]

Seeing fanart of Aldiirn and @ztudiolaire 's Orryx together immediately had me thinking of this meme.

[matlasaya]

the messiest, silliest, most predictable thing in the universe.

[lovrboyx]

The Last Unicorn really said “There will be times when you can’t find other people like you and there will be times where you'll wonder if you're really the only person experiencing the world as you are and others will even try to take advantage of you through commodification and exploitation to the point where it starts to dilute your own sense of self and will make you question if you were ever you to begin with but it’s important for to resist the urge to assimilate and find community because there will always be people like you who will understand and have experienced these same things and the only way to combat a dark world who wants to smother your light is to FIGHT FIGHT RAGE AGAINST THE RED BULL DO NOT GO GENTLY INTO THAT OCEAN.”

And I just think there’s something beautifully and inextricably queer about that

[catmask]

many people ask 'how do i know my art is good enough to start a comic'. this is a very common mistake. you do not make a comic to make good art you make comics because its fun and looked yummy

[catmask]

saying this very gently. how will you improve

[catmask]

me when i improve the skill by (checks notes) not doing it so no one sees me doing it badly

[tikvin]

The best catboy there ever was 😼

Imma let the gif do the talking for me

[ztudiolaire]

reminded me of astarion and orryx. what a helpful guy!

They gotta be keeping the good wine on the top shelf or somethin. What a fantastic suggestion

[meanbossart]

The return of the modesty towel 😌

[calyxestra]

White Wolf