Star's Thoughts on Things

Current obsession: Baldur's Gate 3 Just a blog for random thoughts about things that don't belong on my other blogs

[starsthoughtsonthings]

Hi hello! Welcome to my little corner!

I haven't had a proper pinned post yet, so here I'm making one.

This is a sideblog, where I'm planning to throw out what thoughts or other things I have about stuff. Right now, that is pretty much solely BG3 (and mostly my chars and Astarion, tbh, but that might change once I get to runs where I romance the others), but it might at some point also turn into something else if my obsession with this wonderful game ever stops again.

My chars, as of writing this, are:

Kori, high elf, wild magic sorceress (Her tag - her info tag - her ref sheet)

Ari, high elf, shadow sorceress (Her tag - her info tag - her ref sheet)

There are two links for each of the above characters - the main tag includes like pictures or most of the times when I simply mention them or their run in my posts, the "info tag" doesn't have as many pictures and is more for quick access to like, if you want to learn more about them.

I do write little things occasionally, here's the tag where you can find all of it - and I have recently started putting my things (once I have put pictures into them) onto AO3 too, you can find that here, although it doesn't have all my writing pieces and things will be added there slowly since I only add them there when I have added pictures to them here. If you want to be tagged in the writings I'm posting, I made a post that you can like or comment or sth on for me to tag you in any new writing I post - here!

If you want a link to go through all of my own stuff, that'd be #starsthoughts which you can find below the post, or here in this link.

If you ever wanna talk or something, please feel free to reach out! I could always use more people to talk to - though I am shy and not good at social, so don’t expect too much from me.

I doubt anyone ever will, but if (for some reason) you want to draw my chars, I will probably love you and the drawing and like always feel free to do it I'll feel honored like wow.

My name in the online world is Star or Starfire, I'm too old (aka 30+, I won't get into more detail than that), I'm german, I also RP here on tumblr, and I obviously like playing video games. Not sure what else to say about myself.

Okay, I think that's everything I feel the need to put into a pinned post - thanks for reading if you did, and I'm glad to have you interested in this sideblog of mine!

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Mannnn I wanna get back to regularly having time to play. Pleaseeeee

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So, maybe that self-pressure post actually worked, or I got lucky - I managed to "dig free" an hour today for some outfitting! Still have far to go before I can take screenshots, and man do I wanna get to that point bc I wanna do all those taggamesssss, but yes. Finally opened the game again for once.

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Gale is one song away from realizing he is catastrophically in love with the pretty bard playing their lute under the stars. 💙

(I was in need of some act 1 Starweave pining and @arxiel delivered, ty for the gorgeous art! I love their expressions here.)

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I swear I'm still into this game and my girls and everything. I just need to find the time. (36-hour days please or no more need to sleep come onnnn)

Trying to push myself by saying this in a "public post": By the end of the week, I'll at least have made some progress in the outfitting again.

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Finally continuing on shoveling the space free on my main disk for bg3. Still got about 40 gigs to dig free somehow, and before I try that install I still wanna finish outfitting Ari's run and maybe take some pics for these taggames that are already waiting for an eternity for me to do them, but, progress.

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Haven't opened the game to actually play (or, like, see my chars, bc I'm currently outfitting the rest of Ari's group - only Lae remaining to do still - when I do open the game) in so long that yesterday, when I only started the game up to check something and looked at Ari I was actually stunned by her makeup. Like darn. I need to write the changes I did to the colors of it down in her reference post, too. I really need to get back into opening the game regularly.

And updating it. And installing it through the "official" version i own now. And while doing that bringing it onto my maindrive in hopes it'll make load times and stuff faster.

Don't even get me started on "and get back to writing things and doing taggames and yknow, maybe actually playing even". Sighhhhh can't days have double the hours please.

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Yknow, I think a while ago I heard of disc's age verification stuff. I skimmed over it, and it just, didn't seem that big a deal to me, since from what I understood it only blocks "unverified" ppl from using nsfw things - channels or servers. Which, sucks, sure, but also, like - just get the stuff elsewhere, it's okay, I'm p sure people are used to making censored pics and link to the actual stuff, or the likes.

The thing here with the tumblr thing? I'm worried it'll also not allow to access certain blogs anymore. Like, I'm having some mutuals here (both here and on my mainblog) that I always get this popup of, idk the exact wording, "this blog might have bad topics" thingie. Idek if they do that much nsfw stuff or how exactly the setting for that happened (maybe it's their own setting in the tumblr settings? or was that only for whether or not you want to see the things? I don't recall rn) - I'm following peeps and get plenty "normal" things from them (not saying nsfw isn't normal, I just don't know how else to word it) and just, things I want to see. Obviously. I wouldn't be following otherwise. And I really worry that those blogs will be entirely unaccessible for "unverified" people with that verification thing. Plus ofc the wrongly flagged things I've seen people complain about - it never hit me before I think, but that's not the point.

Idk. I just. I mean, obviously, if such a verification thing ever reaches me, I will just, not do it, but I'm worried it would mean losing connection to some people.

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The only thing I can really say about that upcoming book? (Which, I've already said to one person in a chat with them)

I just will not be able to take that char seriously at all, that aasimar. Wanna know why?

"Hahn" - as he is called - is the word here in my language (german) for a, well, a male, grown chicken. A rooster, or, well, I won't write that other word bc I don't wanna show up in search results for it.

Just. Of course. Of course a winged being is called chicken. I'm sorry, I just will not be able to take it serious. It's simply impossible.

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Suddenly seeing someone on my dash post something in german is so startling. Like, in theory I know there are more ppl from here out in the big world of the internets, obviously, but actually seeing that I'm following someone that also speaks the language or even lives here or sth is like. So baffling. Idk. We're not even mutuals, which is like, totally fine, I'm not expecting any follows or anything, but darn that makes me feel oddly closer to the blog anyway.

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I'm seeing so much of tomodachi life around it's insane (in a good way, I don't mind seeing it, don't get me wrong, I'm certainly not complaining here!).

Thing is, the only thing what I'd be interested in that game in, is actually attempting to create my chars. And then I'd likely never play it. So uh. Not enough of a reason to get it lol.

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I looked at the number in my folder, and I realized, I uh. Have about 300 mods to update or install (doesn't mean I'm keeping all of them, some just to check out or sth, and a lot of them are pose stuff and the likes). Plus the whole thing that I wanna "officially" install bg3 onto my main drive.

I'm. Kinda terrified of updating and doing that install. Almost feeling sure that I'll break something doing so. Perhaps worse breaking than "just" having to set up the runs again.

I'll definitely take the time to take pics for the taggames I have open still before I do any of that updating. Not that I'm there yet bc I still "need" to outfit lae before I'm having Ari's run ready but uh still

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So like, I'm not tagging this so it won't exactly get seen by many ppl. But uh, those of you that are using a computer, are you sticking to that rule that I heard idk how long ago idk where, that one should always leave ~25% of a disk free for it to not break, or like for it to work best or sth?

Bc 25% feels a whole insane huge amount in a 1tb ssd.

I mean, I'm trying to stick to it, and are currently doing everything to dig the space free without touching that last quarter, but I still wonder.

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Good news is: I've managed to find a ~60gigs folder that I'm rather sure I can delete - moved it to my second drive for now to test no issues appear (though I'm not even opening the game that it's for atm).

Bad news is: I still need to free like 90gigs or so more if I want to have the space free for bg3 on my main drive.

There's one game I could move but i've heard it doesn't do well with long file paths so hmmm maybe I'll test move it and see if it still works.

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Intersting! Just opened bg3 (finally, for once again, though I'm still far from finishing outfitting Ari's run) and as I clicked on play, my spotify just... jumped to a whole different song, not part of the "playlist" (more like album) I was playing at that moment. Strange. Idk what that was.

On another note, only Lae left to outfit before I'm kinda sorta done with outfitting Ari's run (right there at the beginning, that means, will have to do more upon collecting others ofc)!

Also, I've decided I wanna get bg3 onto my ssd before I do mod updates or anything. So I hope I'll be able to somehow dig the space free.

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Thank you to @alwen-art for this gorgeous commission of Elenion as "The Star" tarot card! I love tarot-themed art so I just had to get something like this for him, and I'm in love with the idea Alwen came up with for this piece and how sparkly it is. 💙✨ And it was the first time I've gotten art with his custom lute design!

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I really should get back to at least reblogging things even if I'm not "active" here enough and still have so many things to "catch up" on.

Once again, please, can't I have double the hours per day, or like, at least not need to sleep anymore? It'd make everything a lot more doable, sighhh where is my time every day