Hi so i saw your astarion gale post and i wanna say first of all good post op!! my dnd group literally devolved into arguments because the astarion fans were like “stinky crack wizard looks like he’d spike your drink” which is a wild thing to say. also like. astarion and gale have so many similarities- you’re gonna tell me that astarion needing to drink blood and gale needing to eat magic aren’t similar? at all?? completely ignoring that you could easily punt astarion with the same “creepy crack vampire hitting on me when i’m not interested” brush, yaknow? like. what bothers me is the lack of consistency- if it were people going “yeah i don’t like gale that much and astarion is hot” i’d understand so much more than “incel crack wizard” or whatever. anyway sorry to ramble in your askbox this argument has been bothering me for a while and your post was spot on
tysm haha.... i also have a lot of feelings about the romanticization of astarion's trauma and the idea his bad ending "would be better if he was more loving but still possessive" (which.... wtf) but i don't have the energy to make another post like my gale one lol
but ty for sharing your thoughts!! i agree with a lot of the tags that the issue is a little kinder here than on tiktok. but tiktok is a hellsite and neither groups i think have ever passed a high school english class so













