Tea Time with the ladies in Jaheira’s house is a post-BG3 HC I had in my head.
It’s basically just Shadowheart being dropped by Balehrys in Jaheira’s house for tea. This is probably years after and Karlach is fixed and all, Jaheira’s retired, Lae’zel coming as some astral projection and Minthara as I said before is a thriving political figure in Baldur’s Gate
You know what I fucking eat up every time? The thing where one character is an optimist and the other is a pessimist, and something happens that just, snuffs the hope right out of the optimist, and the pessimist has to desperately try to do what the other has always done for them, cheer them up. I live for that shit omg.
If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.
1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.
2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.
3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.
4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.
5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.
Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.
Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.
Thank you, @thesanguinesonnet , what a delightfully debauched idea *rubs hands like a greedy racoon*
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uno-reverse for all of you, if you have something you'd like to share!
In case you are waiting for the continuous story I started two weeks ago, you can find the parts here: One, two, three, four, five. Will continue on Wednesday.
Let's have at it.
The usual Celeste-NSFW-warnings apply here: adult content, BDSM and debauchery
"Bear—" her voice broke, the word dissolving somewhere between want and helplessness.
His chuckle rumbled through her entire body, low and unhurried, setting her spine alight as he pressed closer, his massive chest warm and solid against her back. One hand slipped slowly between her thighs, legs parting under his command. The other cradled her throat with a gentleness that was more devastating than force, tilting her head back until she had no choice but to surrender the angle entirely.
"Stay still, duckling."
1. What’s an idea, dynamic, or trope in your current work that feels naughty or self-indulgent? (Spicy answers 100% encouraged.)
Dude (gn), listen: 2026 is the year of self-indulgence, and Celeste has never met an opportunity for self-indulgence she didn't enthusiastically embrace.
She is a hedonist through and through and, tragically (cough), considerate enough to spare Gale's feelings when recounting her life. Left entirely to her own devices, her memoir would mostly consist of increasingly unhinged anecdotes about everyone she's ever slept with, interrupted only occasionally by world-ending catastrophes and the odd existential crisis.
For me, writing a Gale who struggles with polyamory and takes years to come to terms with it (not by becoming polyamorous himself, but by accepting that this is simply who Celeste is and how she loves) is, if nothing else, an exercise in pure self-indulgence. (And torture. Lots and lots of torture).
2. Is your oc a virgin, blushing maiden, or sexual fiend? or aro/ace? or something in between?
Fiend. All the fiendish things.
Celeste is a hedonist who enjoys the good sides of life. That inlcudes sex. Lots and lots of sex.
by the one and only obsessedwhyyes, obviously (not canon, but you know)
3. What’s your OC’s “I shouldn’t be this turned on by this” trigger?
Competence. People with a deep understanding of something who are genuinely happy to share their knowledge. Arousal at the most inconvenient times.
Also, Gale's uncanny love for choosing the strangest places and most inconvenient moments, especially immediately after a battle. Celeste would much rather take the time to come down from the adrenaline, clean the blood and grime off herself, and only then entertain whatever thought or idea has suddenly seized him.
4. What is your OC's hard NO?
Celeste has no interest in non-con anything that involves another person not genuinely enjoying themselves. She has little interest in seducing someone who isn't already willing. What she finds truly appealing is mutual enthusiasm, genuine desire, and the certainty that everyone involved wants to be there just as much as she does.
5. What is the most debauched VP/Art you have ever created?
Well, i do have a smut collection. Choose.
a threesome not actually canon, just very self-indulgent art aga took for me
6. What is the wildest NSFW smut you have ever thought up? Did you write it?
You will have to wait for that one, it's not yet done. We shall see if I ever finish it. Maybe it's a threesome. Maybe it is not. Who knows?
7. Do you have any crazy projects for the future?
Running this blog? Maybe a little crazy.
Writing these stories? Also arguably crazy.
Writing the memoirs of an OC for a game that's nearly three years old? Definitely a little unhinged.
I don't mind.
The memoir is planned as a trilogy, so I've still got a long road ahead of me and I couldn't be happier about it :)
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It has been a while since we have done these, right? Let's do an updated version.
featuring the incredible shots obsessedwhyyes took for me. LOOK AT HER! 🫠😭
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Name: Celeste Dekarios
Alias: Kell, Celestia, Celestia The White, High Primistress, The White Queen
Background: Haunted One
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Bisexual
Pronouns: she/her
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Family: Celeste is a child of Bhaal. In her youth, she killed her mother, and after arriving in Baldur's Gate, she also murdered her step-parents before being drawn into Bhaal's cult.
Years later, she is the wife of two men, the adoptive mother of a small horde of orphaned children, and godmother to more than she can easily count.
Birthplace: unknown
Job: trained surgeon, can also sing/perform a little (two levels of bard).
Phobias/Fears: Celeste struggles with a profound loss of identity, both after Jergal's resurrection and after the memories of her former life return. Her greatest fear is hurting the people she loves and ultimately losing them. Ironically, in her desperate attempts to protect them, she often ends up pushing them away, doing a spectacularly poor job of keeping them close.
Hobbies: Accidentally took over Waterdeep's criminal underworld (oops). Later left it all behind to become a healer and official representative in Reithwin/Haven. She likes to bake, though.
by the unbelievable obsessedwhyyes
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Alignment: (deep sigh) Lawful Evil, I am afraid. Might lean into the more chaotic side.
Flaws: Celeste is calculated, cunning, and intelligent, and she works tirelessly to achieve whatever goal she sets her mind to. Unfortunately, she also has a pretty face, a beautiful voice and knows exactly how to use both to her advantage.
She is recklessly self-sacrificial and will throw herself into danger without a second thought if she believes it will protect someone else.
Virtues: Celeste is loyal, loving and incredibly patient with the people she loves and believes worthy. She will always fight for what she believes is right, which sounds admirable until you remember that her moral compass is, at best, deeply questionable.
I want to talk about policing the use of AI in creative writing fan spaces any why attempting to investigate and punish people this is a terrible idea.
Now let me be clear - Gen AI is awful and most people agree that it has no place in creative spaces, but that's besides the point. I'm not here to debate AI in creative spaces, I'm here to talk about the moderators who feel the need to investigate and punish writers who they believe use AI.
I'm going to start by reminding people of two important things:
There is no way for anyone to know for certain if someone is using AI to write - unless they tell you they are. The common "tells" that are cited online are found in the work of people who have excellent control of functional grammar, good vocabularies, and an excellent control of sentence structure. AI is trained on the work of talented writers.
There is no way for an author to defend themselves against a claim that they are using AI, especially in an online environment. Nor should an author have to. The rule should not be "prove you are innocent or we will find you guilty!"
I feel very passionately about this and have for quite some time. I've seen fandom witch hunts before, and I know how easy it is for some people to climb to moral high ground and punish those they believe are doing the wrong thing.
My friend recently chose to leave a discord server after the mod team contacted them to announce that there had been reports made by people who wished to be anonymous who suspected their work was AI generated. The mods explained that they had investigated these claims by looking over their writing, and although they admitted they could not be 100% certain the work contained AI, they were issuing a strike/warning to them in accordance with their discord rules because they believed they might have.
The investigation involved them reading some of their work.
That was it.
They read their work and decided that, in their own words, they thought it might be AI so they were issuing a strike. They then proceeded to delete the writing they had shared on the server without any opportunity for this person to retrieve it.
There was no communication prior to them issuing a strike. My friend was not told about these accusations ahead of time, the moderators did not talk to them about the accusations or raise concerns, and did not stop to ask themselves why the people making these claims wished to do so anonymously.
Perhaps if they had, they would have learned that members of their discord had been harassing this person via Tumblr anons about this issue. Instead they chose to give the bullies anonymity, to deny a writer a chance to have open communication, and issued a punishment for a rule infraction that they themselves admitted they could not be certain had been broken.
When my friend gave the names of beta readers and editors who had worked with her in real time, these moderators chose not to engage with them or seek clarification, and instead doubled down and tried to justify their decision.
My friend asked for the evidence they had that their work contained AI content, and it was not provided to them. Instead they supplied a generic statement about how they had made their decision based on their use of syntax, grammar, tone, and word choice was rolled out. But again, they did not give examples or explain this.
As someone who admins and mods several creative spaces, this kind of behaviour worries me. Actually, it terrifies me. Because anyone can be next: you, me, the brand new writer eager to share their work, or the fandom oldie.
It sets a dangerous precedent for fan spaces and the policing of creative works, because it leaves writers in these spaces open to harassment, bullying, intimidation, and censorship under the guise of keeping fan spaces "AI Free". Anyone can accuse someone of using AI to write, and this can be used to bully people out of fan spaces.
Moderators are supposed to keep fan spaces safe for members, not take it upon themselves to play detective and police creative works in case someone is using AI. In fact, mods taking it upon themselves to police writers in fan spaces by handing out warnings and bans are making fan spaces unsafe and encouraging social exclusion. This kind of behaviour will actively scare and intimidate writers into simply walking away - because who wants to hear an accusation that their work is AI?
Facilitating AI witch hunts is killing fan spaces.
Attempting to police the writing of others is alienating writers.
And if you think someone is using AI to write, don't try to be a detective, just click away and stop reading their work.
This is such an important topic — and I want to help recontextualize it in a way that might make why this behavior is so problematic really hit home for people. Because I've seen a lot of these same arguments on reddit and other creative spaces of "guilty until proven innocent."
So putting aside the not-so-gentle slide the argument of "guilty until proven innocent" is into fascist thinking (which is honestly another good reason to sit and re-evaluate this position if you have it), here we go.
I'm a labor organizer. I've not been terribly vocal about that on tumblr, but that's been my job for the last 10 years, and so I'm approaching this through a lens of workplace justice to highlight just how fucked up it is to "do an investigation" that never involves asking the accused a single goddamn question.
Just imagine for me showing up to work one day, and your boss pulls you into their office. You sit down, maybe a little nervous, and your boss slides a piece of paper across the desk stating you have been formally written up and this is your first of three strikes. Three strikes and you're fired.
The offense? A coworker claimed they felt like you were eating someone else's lunch.
No one ever stopped to ask you, "are you eating coworker's lunch?" The person who's lunch was being eaten was also never asked if their lunch was being eaten. All the mattered was the feelings of the person who reported it, and the boss who decided well, you could have done it and so they issued you formal discipline, and now you are that much closer to being out of a job.
But the thing is, you never ate anyone's lunch. You make your own lunch, it's clearly labeled "my own fucking lunch" — yet none of that mattered, and no one even bothered to ask.
You'd be furious, right? That's not what a proper investigation is. The standard in any space should not be: we are presumed guilty and must, therefore, prove our innocence. But in my fictional scenario — and in the real life scenario above — the accused was never even granted the chance to prove their innocence. In my fictional scenario, I'd be writing up the grievance yesterday and I would fight that case all the way to arbitration and I'd fucking win in five minutes.
The notion that we must police other people's creative works in creative spaces and issue strikes (especially without doing any actual fucking investigation that is an actual fucking investigation) is harmful and you know what, fuck it, I'm not gonna go soft on anyone's ass — it promotes fascist thinking. If you engage in this type of behavior, if you believe that people must prove their innocence to you (while denying them the opportunity to do so), you are that much closer to being a fascist. You're not saving creativity, you're not a champion of what is just and good in this world.
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