If I fail, I'll fall apart

The thing that Baldur's Gate got right is that each companion is both extremely cool, tempered with an appropriate dose of cringe.

Gale is a powerful wizard. He uses the phrase 'pish posh' unironically.

Lae'zel is a badass. She asks you to fight her and then gets emotional because you're fighting even though that was her idea.

Karlach. Badass. But we've all seen her idle dance moves.

Wyll is this swashbuckling vigilante and he has a pose he does whenever he says his own superhero name.

Shadowheart. Dark backstory, still striving so hard for the light. Makes a joke about poisonous flowers that falls incredibly flat.

Astarion. Capable rogue and a dangerous vampire. He practises his one-liners ahead of time. Within earshot of the people he wants to use them on.

im cooking

I find middle aged Percy exceedingly funny because he seems like the archetypical white haired, snobby, Victorian clothing wearing middle aged ruler of a city powerful city. It makes sense for him to be that way. But he’s actually been exactly like that since he was 21 and it’s only now starting to be normal. You look at portraits of him from 20 years ago and it’s like. Damn. He looks exactly the same. That’s weird. 

against all odds, we all survived, together.

I am in love with Clara 😭

Transcript:

Clara trusts me enough to show me different parts of her body like her belly. show me her mouth and allow me to touch all of those teeth. —right? can you turn and show them all of your teeth? good job!— So we work really hard on being able to look over their entire bodies, and progress those behaviors to things like voluntary blood draws, ultrasounds, teeth brushing, and radiographing. —right? yeah!— But the biggest thing is we find what they find reenforcing and they show us that. and that includes hugs. —right?— And Clara has shown us that she really seems to enjoy tactile, so I give her this hand signal and she will show me what part of her body she wants rubbed. So, right now she wants a big noogie —right? good.— and sometimes what I will do is I’ll make her head a little pancake. or then I’ll rub her side and then she snuggles right in. —huh? huh! good girl thats very nice, good.— And then like I said, she would climb right on my lap and allow me to continue giving her tactile.

Huge L for Helio this episode I gotta say. Something about meeting that guy makes people want to go worship a dead lesbian

Ok here's an updated timeline of the Rat Grinders based on the new info we got this episode:

Freshman Year

Sophomore Year

Junior Year

matt: that hits! and you roll that additional damage, too, right? that's poison damage?

laura, delighted: that's right! I get poison damage!

matt: wait. don't even bother rolling it. it's immune

laura:

Oh Cassandra,

nothing will ever top c2’s moment of sam slipping in “bren” as foreshadowing for veth and liam desperately panicking thinking he’d somehow learned caleb’s backstory

I'm finally playing bg3. here's my mandatory campsite art 😇 first. alfira version

this one is with my tav instead of alfira. I call them stav (stevietav). stav is a big guy and nothing like real stevie it's delightful

'Life in the hands of Helio'

Warning for graphic description of gore + injury below

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With his throat slit, blood bubbling up into his mouth and soaking into his white collared shirt, Buddy Dawn struggles in the arms of Kristen Applebee's. His eyes are wide, unseeing, and hands come up to try and grasp onto Kristen as some kind of anchor, mutedly pleading for help.

Kristen's hand hovers above his throat, unable to help him with his death all but promised by his own party leader, Kipperlilly, and her god too far out of reach. She is panicked and resigned to only hold the kid she had hated moments ago. There is no miracle, no burst of light from the crystals in her pocket, when Buddy Dawn dies.

There is a visual parallel, with both Kristen and Buddy being dotted with freckles and something familiar in their eyes. If there had never been 'The Bad Kids', if she'd never asked to be put in detention with the intent to convert people to Helio, would she have ended up the same way?

Buddy had once said "I don't hold on tight, 'cause I'm in someones hand [...] You know Helio is holding onto us tight." but there is no Helio in sight, only Kristen. All that is left is for Buddy to go and meet his so-called-god and ask why he let him die, unaware he will not get an answer.]

okay i remember like, waaaaaay at the start of fhjy someone saying like the ratgrinders were all like the worst stereotype players, think reuben is the edgelord and mary-ann is the no roleplay all combat. i think we pegged kipperlilly as the rules lawyer (evil) but like. she’s the murder hobo. she’s the one who’s there to just kill. i don’t think she realizes she is. but she is.

brennan literally said that the ratgrinders underestimated the bad kids. they don’t know how real adventuring parties are fluid and communicative. they don’t realize that they’ve actually worked for their success, and that it wasn’t just handed to them. they’re so jealous of the bad kids that they’re blind to their genuine strength.

the best part about being an artist is making the shit you want for yourself so pls enjoy my poster sketch based on this weeks episode bc i literally cannot stop thinking about it

this is gonna take forever to render but it will be so worth it