Starlight Rogue

Baldurs Gate 3 fan account. Starlight_Rogue on AO3 also ❤️ I follow from @Renard-Rogue Dragon Age blog is @age-of-the-dragons Header artwork by @infernaldaydreams

[starlight-rogue]

Masterlist

Descent into Baldur’s Gate

One of the main joys in Parker's life was Baldur's Gate 3. With over 400 hours of gameplay, and it still was not enough. Imagine their surprise, joy, and fear as they realize they woke up on the Nautiloid at the beginning of their favorite game. (Ongoing isekai fanfiction with a nonbinary main character!)

The Dark Urge - Eris

Eris’s Official Lore Post

Scars Remember What the Mind Doesn’t

Come for a Cuddle

The Hunter

Death by Rats

[swordmaid]

✨ first light, astarion and the star of bethlehem - a flower that represents hope and forgiveness, purity and new beginnings.

for the @bg3flowerzine

[dzierzbia]

GOD'S FAVORITE

[rooji-r]

[faustian-bargain-bin]

Haarlep at the beach 💕

Couldn't decide if they should be drinking Ultra Fantasy Ruby Red or Ultra Vice Guava so I just went with an unholy combination of both. Either way it had to be Monster Energy and a silly straw had to be involved.

Check out the (half-assed) timelapse under the cut!

[tavyliasin]

Disability Pride Month and BG3!

It’s Disability Pride Month! And you know what that means, right? No? Well it has been ages and I’ve long been casually planning a series of short (maybe) essays around the parallels to disability - and the clearer disability representation - throughout Baldur’s Gate 3 in both the characters and the story. So what better month than this to finally work on them and bring them out?

Whilst I do have some personal lived experience with disability, this doesn’t account for every type of condition or all the ways that different disabilities affect so many of us. Two people with the same condition can have quite a different lived experience, and even the condition itself can vary significantly. So what I mean to say here, loves, is that if you have a differing opinion, or there’s something I’ve missed, or you’d just like to add your thoughts - please do just that! 

I welcome hearing from all of you about how you relate to the game through your own lived experiences, and what the characters can mean to you. Representation isn’t always clear, but honestly I think when we look closer we can see parts of all kinds of experiences reflected through the characters and story. So, what I intend to do is create a series of essays, looking in depth at the potential parallels we can see in each of the main companions that I’m most familiar with (unfortunately I don’t know Minthara well enough to include her in this, but I would welcome input from others!) and then perhaps some of the other characters. (Edit - all pieces completed for now, next year I may add more!) These pieces are not meant to be diagnostic in any way, or claiming “this character has this illness”, but instead is a look at how the characters and their stories and details can be similar to real world disability and health, and how different people might find ways to relate to their experiences through this.

Links to the Disability Discussion Posts

Karlach - Terminal Illness (Completed) Wyll - Sudden Physical Change (Traumatic Incident) (Completed) Gale - Chronic Illness, Autism (Completed) Astarion - Complex Needs, Specialised Diets, and Addiction (Completed) Lae’zel - Ableism, Eugenics, and More Neurodiversity (Completed) Shadowheart - Memory Difficulties, Depression, Fluctuating Chronic Pain (Completed) Halsin - Carer Fatigue and The End Of The Path Of Healing (Completed) Gortash - Invisible Disability and Visible Mobility Aids (Completed)

--- I'm not sure how quickly I'll get through posting these as I'm having a tough time with my own physical health right now - isn't that ironic? - but I do intend to get through at least this list by the end of July in between fic writing and other projects.

If you would like to suggest other characters, storylines, or disability related topics in BG3 please let me know! I'd love to hear how you all relate to the game and the characters from these angles too, and I might be willing to add things to this list if I can.

Lia's Disability Experience

As a little peek behind the curtain (and for full disclosure that I'm not an abled person here to talk over disabled experiences) without giving you too much of myself on the single plate, my lived experience is with an unpredictable chronic pain condition as well as a few other chronic illnesses and disability issues. I'm a wheelchair user, partially ambulatory (essentially I can shamble around in my home with assistance but outside the house I rely on my wheels), and my most prevalent symptom is constant pain. I have made vague references to these things in a few works and the experience does provide me with some fic inspiration for a couple of works. I'm far too familiar with Loviatar's embrace, but I feel this is something that can be used to my advantage at times like these where I can examine the characters and storylines from angles that abled people might not consider.

Your Input!

I really would love to hear from all of you - what other characters do you feel reflect some of the lived experiences of disabled people? Are there any that you connected to? Did you find the game was accessible for you to play as a disabled person? What do you wish you saw more of in the game or in games in general? This month really is an important one for awareness and understanding, as well as finding things in ourselves to be proud of that don't fall into the categories of "inspiration porn" or the kinds of internalised ableism that can drive some of us to push too hard to work against our conditions instead of with and around them leading to more issues.

Remember - The Disabled Community is the one minority that anyone could become a part of at any time. Advocating for our rights could also be advocating for your own future or that of a loved one.

[tavyliasin]

It's that time of year again! I'd love to hear more of your disability headcanons around BG3, the stories, and characters.

Also, please show off your disabled Tavs, Durges, and OCs!

[infernaldaydreams]

Sometimes the dubious lich that hangs out in your camp gives you a hireling but he needs a little cleaning up first

[yelenhol]

[drmace]

Another little comic about the companions getting acquainted with Laezel's baby dragon x) Also, I finally gave him his own tag : D

[kawareo]

This is the only time I'm intentionally posting AI to anything but for curiosity's sake, I asked G*ok to re-make one of my own pieces, just to understand how other artists feel when it happens to them. I thought it'd be insulting at worst and funnily bad at best

Did not expect to have such a visceral reaction this feels like seeing a skinwalker I'd imagine. Genuinely twisted my stomach, I'm usually not easy to rattle but something about how it copies the colors and the axe design (wrongly btw) and all the little details i put in on purpose either interpreted wrong or not at all because it cant understand and MY FUCKING WATERMARK disgusts me on a level I have had yet to experience

(first image is mine, second is AI generated with a prompt "turn her around" on G*ok)

fuck AI so so much

[kawareo]

what getting back on his meds does to a mf

[kawareo]

him....

[kawareo]

Gym buddies

aka everyone with 10+STR doing thirst traps because I wanted to practice drawing muscle

[kawareo]

Love when I specifically include both a man and the literal pansexual flag and I still get people (mostly on t*itter) calling Shart a lesbian good job guys

[drmace]

Someone once asked: What skill would this character like to learn?Here's the answer from the most reasonable person in this organization. At least according to him x)

[dearasteria]

You have but to imagine your desire, and Gale will know it.

[bananiii-0]

[charcharbrain]

You can choose me, the one who loves you.

Slowly trying to get used to blogging. Starting with sharing my beautiful artworks of Gale and Sumi (my monk Tav) by wonderful artists.

This one is by @vireja

I found the Act 2 part where you convince Gale not to sacrifice himself (at the end of the Illithid colony) to be underwhelming, so I re-imagined it with more drama. 😩

A discord discussion inspired me to also interpret this as Sumi embracing him right as he was blowing up. One desperate final act of love before they die together. And that is an even more tragically angsty interpretation which I absolutely adore.

[kawareo]

what getting back on his meds does to a mf