Stuff and things

AKA "The one who got that phrase tattooed on themselves" - Some reddit user 2024

[tsrmarina]

First artwork of the new year ☺️🖤

[valentineodium]

[rhiaden]

Ascended Astarion set to Shinedown "What a shame"

I love this song, and last time I listened to it the chorus inspired me and I just had to throw this together. The lines in the chorus of "What a shame to have to beg you to see we're not all the same" and "What a shame to judge a life that you can't change" and obviously "Won't you give this man his wings"

[movie-gifs]

THE CROW (1994) dr. James O'Barr

[rhiaden]

I am a simple woman, I see the crow, I reblog!

[tsrmarina]

Quick winter scene study ❄️✍️

[rhiaden]

What were you trying to convey with the star spangled banner video? Cause there are some strange vibes to setting the American national anthem to a man exploding people with dark magic.

Thanks for the question! Multiple options for the answer. 1) It really is not that deep. It was made for a reddit thing last year which was an Independence Day event, so the challenge was to post Independence Day related Astarion things. So, I whacked this together to go with it. If we were to pretend it is deeper than that (It really is not, but we can always find things to make it sound like it is) 2) If you check the lyric alignment, the song is from Tavs perspective watching to see if Astarion survives the ritual. 3) Freedom isn't free.

[rhiaden]

Happy Independence Day - Ascended Astarion set to "Star spangled banner"

I made this last year, and it is that time of year again, so happy Independence Day to those who celebrate!

[tsrmarina]

New winter armor concept for Ascended Astarion ✍️

[tsrmarina]

Vampire Army Cavalry Charge 🗡️🩸

Finished another scene of the sequence ✍️

[rhiaden]

Aaaaah...always love these!

[rhiaden]

As it is Ascension Day - AA x F!Tav "Abide with me"

I have wanted to set AA and Tav to this hymn forever, and today seemed the perfect day to do it. It is just a perfect hymn from Tav's PoV Contains F!Tav turning scene. This version of Abide with me is by Audrey Assad.

[a-cabin-in-midgard]

Working on porting Skyrim's Daedric armor set and weapons for Daz Studio and had some fun with Daz's Horse model as well. Render is also heavily inspired by @/marina.tsareva.art's concept art for an Ascended Astarion vampire armor.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

“you can write non-con and dark fics as long as you’re not romanticizing it”

“you can write non-con and dark fics as long as it’s your way of coping with your trauma”

“you can write non-con and dark fics as long as —”

actually, anybody — including you — can write non-con and dark fics, and any other fucked up things, however they want, for whatever reasons.

wanna romanticize the fuck out of your non-con / dead dove do not eat fic? go ahead. don’t let anybody stop you from creating the art you want to create.

wanna write non-con fic even if you were never a victim? go ahead. you don’t have to meet any specific criteria in order to create the art you want to create.

just tag your works properly so that you don’t accidentally expose those who might not want to be exposed to such topics to the topics, and you’re all good.

art does not have to be for everybody.

art has never been strictly about rainbow and sunshine. art can also be about the horror and the macabre.

art can be outright disgusting and messed up, and being disgusting and messed up can be just what makes the art a masterpiece.

write whatever you want to write and say fuck you to censorship.

[tsrmarina]

The dragonrider 🗡️

[rhiaden]

Our favourite monster - just a monster, making monsters!

So we know that Astarion is a monster, right? After all he tells Wyll that "I am barely a monster" with the tadpole....Anyway, here is Astarion and Ascension set to Five Finger Death Punch "Making Monsters" (Contains very brief F!Tav Turning scene)

[nocturnafterdark]

“Live and let live.” I say to myself as I begrudgingly click away from the most dogshit opinion known to mankind

[rhiaden]

I test my self-restraint daily!

[urdadssugarbabie]

ascended astarion lovers confuse me sooo bad. fym youd rather astarion become his abuser than allow him to be happy and free, even if it comes at the cost of staying out of the sun??

[vorestarr]

bro he's not real

[rhiaden]

bro why you gotta ruin my Sunday by telling me he isn't real? I am gonna have to go make another AA video to cheer myself up!

[romantic-bloodless-nights]

Regarding the Anti-AA stuff, and I'm going to be blunt:

If fans of Astarion have to admit that he's toxic, manipulative, blah, blah, blah, then anyone who pushes for people to acknowledge it must acknowledge that they are control freaks who have nothing better to do with their time.

Seriously, you claim to be an Astarion fan, but you're here arguing with people about what they are doing with fantasy and their PERSONAL interpretations? In a medium with multiple endings and dialogue and allows you some freedom in how you play your character? You can't "debunk misinformation" with your perspective or interpretation. We are already fighting misinformation in reality, don't bring that in over a damn video game.

There's absolutely nothing else you'd rather be doing with that time? Like... playing another run-through or being creative with him and your Tav? Oogling the spicy scenes with the vampire? Nothing at all comes to mind?

Agree to disagree with your interpretations and move along. It literally doesn't matter if you disagree. If you can't do that, you deserve to be blocked for wasting others' creative energy while defending themselves from this BS. (that being said, don't interact with people looking to distract you from more important things, guys. Astarion needs your full attention or he gets cranky)

Also, you can't go, "I'm all for fans liking AA/support AA fans BUUUUT," and try to invalidate them with some BS excuse. You either support them or you don't. Anything you're "tired of seeing" stems from personal interpretations and headcanons that don't include you. It isn't for you. It's for them. It's their escapism and trying to use reality to excuse your criticism of that is ridiculous. It's why I refer to anyone who "shows concern" for fans who are delving into escapism while not knowing them personally as "Helen Lovejoys." Trying to use "concern" as a keyword toward people who are trying to distract themselves from the shit going on in reality is pretty shitty.