Aiming For The Stars

ppl will really say shit like "astarion can't be attracted to women just look at the way he behaves" with their whole chest like they're not blatantly stereotyping gay men and erasing vast swathes of bisexual and pansexual men when they do that.

Being a little too cold: brrrr i’m a little too cold !!!

Being a little too warm: i am going to kill the next person who makes eye contact with me.

okay we've liked and reblogged each other's posts when does the gay sex happen

Astarion in act 1 after he gets his lil snacky snack from Tav/Durge, he can walk in the sun AND all of these strangers are putting up with his attitude that he’s held on a leash out of necessity for TWO (2) centuries:

(but like he’s scheming behind those sunglasses bc he is NOT helpless: he’s just not a details person.)

I had to.

Enjoy.

Honestly, it bothers me when people insist pairing Astarion with a woman, portraying him as dominant or writing him with any masculine traits somehow erases his queerness.

Because :

1. He is pan, he doesn't give two shits about his partner's sex or gender. And while doing my first run romancing him as a male I've discovered oh well what do you know he acts the fucking same.

2. HE ACTS DOMINEERING IN GAME.

He canonly does not like being told what to do during sex, mentions making his partner cry out in bed, literally jokes about penetrating Durge, literally has an ending where he makes you his slave (this is part of him, it may be the worst part but it's absolutely there), and in his 'good' ending he still pushes Tav down and climbs on top of them. The literal only times he mentions being on the bottom were in reference to his conquests or is on bottom with a taller Tav in the woods and in those two instances it is performative.

None of this is headcanon this is pulled straight from the game.

3. He has BOTH feminine and masculine traits. He's very finicky about his looks and has a very flamboyant and effeminate way of speaking, but he also loves violence, hides his feelings, wants to be stronger, and has the desire to provide for and protect his partner. And honestly getting upset that people are writing him the way he is in-game is just ridiculous.

It's really not fair to try and put him into the stereotypical feminine queer man box when he is so much more complex than that. So much of his story subverts expectations and honestly that also mixes in with his sexuality and how he expresses himself.

And literally queer guys can be masculine and dominate, I personally may not be the best person to talk about this but I'm pretty sure MANY of my followers will have something to say about it if you try to suggest otherwise.

So my point: Astarion is not a stereotype stop treating him like one.

“counterspell” or as i like to call it “Nuh uh”

wagging my finger and everything

talk to the mage hand

I love astarion but his starter leather armor is the ugliest thing i’ve ever seen it had to have been a form of punishment by cazador

hot things to say during sex

Man also is supposed to tell you not to sleep with the incubus cause it's dangerous, but unfortunately that's not in the game yet.

Edit: It is actually in the game as of the last patch. Woot woot!

i love when pets huff or sigh dramatically. like i am sorry. you're so right. you live such a laborious life. it must be so difficult to take naps and get pet and fed treats and played with all day. really a packed schedule youve got there boss. how do you manage it all. well no matter i'd say it's time for your well earned 7th afternoon nap

Oh to be a bear, eating salmon, attacking campers, eating campers

you don’t have to be a bear to do that

I want to be a fucking bear

I fucking love him.

No thoughts, head empty.

Someone make sure this man is cherished forever.

I think she deserves it

was messing around to come up with some sticker designs to hand out at my next con and created this beauty.

Long Tara.

"You starve Tara? You leave her to starve like lowly stray? Jail! Jail for one thousand years!"

Not pictured: the rest of camp waking up and all hell breaks loose.

Welp, this game has unexpectedly taken over and lives in my head rent free to the point it actually jump started the will to art lmao.

EDIT: something happened and now there's part 2 and part 3

Baldur's Gate fanartists will draw Astarion like a renaissance painting and Wyll like the cover of an adventure novel and Gale like a Leyendecker drawing and Karlach like the cover of a trashy romance novel (where she is the beefy hunk and her love interest is the swooning maiden) and Lae'zel like a knight in a manuscript and Shadowheart and Minthara like the cover of a lesbian pulp novel and Halsin coming out of a lake like the bear equivalent of the Birth of Venus and they're all so right

Do you kids know how hard it is to hyper fixate on shit as a goddamn adult?? Sorry boss I know you need those files done but I’m too busy giggling like a goddamn school girl over a fictional man