Behold! It’s a bit early, but better be ready beforehand. Batstarion December Event! Help him steal Christmas ✨
And find the Christmas spirit eventually! Use the tag #BatOnTheShelf when creating for this!
Knowing Astarion’s Grinch tendencies it was about right to make an event where he tries to steal Christmas in his bat form. Also.. you get this? “Bat on the Shelf” vs. “Elf on the Shelf” parallels? 🦇
also, spot Batstarion on the art haha
this announcement on twitter to help me share it with all Batstarion lovers: https://x.com/skeptical_lynx/status/1844699757446320452?s=46&t=EuBiJuFrpmM7JiLiuDbaCA
I find it kind of funny that human babies are so fragile and helpless and useless that natural selection went like HARD-hard on humans finding babies cute. This thing is a wailing messy resource sinkhole so please find other reason to enjoy it. And the humans that did find baby cute and invest time in them, the crazy bastards?? Lived!!
And now there’s so much spill-over from “baby cute” gene that humans see literally any “baby” creature that even slightly resembles us, like
and we’re like 😍🥰🤩🥺🥺🥺 I wanna love you so bad. I wanna make so many images of you, you are so small, just baby. I’m inventing new emotions as we speak bc I love you so much.
Like, I’m almost convinced humans didn’t even domesticate dogs bc we thought they’d be useful, we saw some puppies and it activated our Big Boi Primate Baby buttons, it wasn’t even logic time baby, it was 🥺 time.
Tumblr is so funny because you think all ur mutuals/sometimes rando people are Insanely Famous and Super Talented and Good and Better than You and they intimidate you 5million because of that. But they're just like. Some normal ass guy. Not even close to famous. And it turns out they've felt the same way about you the entire time. And you're also just some normal ass guy. Like what the fuck
i love that
A very silly comic that was supposed to just be a little sketch but then I hyperfixated and made it a whole thing, so here we are. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Seriously though, I love DU Drow made by @meanbossart ! All of the original art and fanart of him is amazing. His lore inspired me to dig deeper into my own Durge's backstory. I think this fandom could easily make its own multiverse starring him at this point! Anyways, hopefully this isn't too self-indulgent. Thanks for reading!!
Sorry I am procrastinating. 😅
I am very distracted lately. I got the watercolor brushes for procreate and just needed to try it out. This is the first installment of the "Dancing Across Faerûn" set.
weird anon being summoned here.
So I recently watched Bones and All (hope you’re familiar with it, I’d feel bad spoiling it in case you aren’t but are interested in it!) - and I’ve been unable to stop thinking about the ending. Do you think that, when Tav‘s life was coming to an end and they’d ask Astarion for it, would he do a bones and all on them and feed from them one last time, draining them dry? Personally, I think my Tav would see it as a last goodbye, giving him a chance at savoring their blood/the memory of feeding on them one last time while also slipping away rather peacefully (judging by how the narrator frames it during bite night when you don’t stop him, it isn’t very painful and you just drift off.). I’ve been torturing myself with the mental image of Astarion being extremely emotional while trying to honor Tav‘s last wish, trying to savor that connection one last time while also grieving immensely and maybe struggling with a sense of guilt for a few days now.
anon you're going to kill me. i've never seen that movie but this is so fucking sad
i know in my heart that astarion would absolutely hate doing it, but if tav asked i think he would.
another funeral rite i can see him doing is keeping a vial of tav's blood somewhere, like in a pendant or something. the vampire version of keeping a lock of someone's hair. or have it preserved as a gem for a ring
Tav: I will now torture you.
Astarion: Kinky.
Tav: I think you are sweet and handsome.
Astarion: …Wait.
Tav: You deserve to be cared for as much as you care for others.
Astarion: N-no!
Tav: Your feelings and needs are valid and deserve to be heard.
Astarion: I need a safe word!
Gale having a one-sided conversation with Tara about how he can't/won't confess his feelings to Tav.
I just have to say something, I hate apple, apart from the fact that it's unnecessarily expensive and you could buy a good gaming PC for the money, it's just a status symbol, according to the motto "hey guys I have enough money to put a penis extension in my pocket", filled every 3 months a new Iphone comes out which has just as few new functions as the old one, but has become even more expensive. I don't know any self-respecting IT supporter who is seen with an iPhone, and there's a reason for that: Apple makes you pay to repair their devices, also overpriced, unlike Android, remote access for support is not possible unless you are an Apple customer and pay 10 dollars per minute. So I ask you before you buy the next overpriced piece of plastic, think about what you can do better with the money… more useful things you could buy.
It’s no secret Astarion hates himself. Like he deals with a lot of insecurities and self loathing. He just puts on an act of self confidence and narcissism to properly play the role of sexy vampire.
But I think a lot of people miss when he Ascends this gets so much worse. Not only does he still think he’s only good for sex and has nothing to offer beyond that. Now he’s a monster, not by force but by choice. He choose to become a monster. Now he’s expanded his act from sexy vampire to evil sexy vampire. He’s playing the villain because that’s what he thinks he is. And as we know he’s really not that great at acting.
I think it’s interesting everyone always talks about seeing through Astarion’s facade but when it comes to him ascending they’re so quick to fall for his act all over again.
There’s the line “if you stay with him he will always see you as degrading yourself” in his post ascension romance scene. A lot of people interpret it at face value as he hates and looks down on Tav. But I think it’s miss understood because he could never hate Tav as much as he hates himself. Infact I’d say he has Tav put up on the highest pedestal. He sees them as the kindest most caring person in the whole world. He adores them and holds them in the highest regard. That’s why them wanting to be with him so much they would even put themselves beneath him is the ultimate degradation. It’s also why he feels he has to turn them because he doesn’t believe there’s any reason they’d choose to stay with him of their own free will while at the same time he can’t bare to loose them. He can’t wrap his head around the idea that you could actually love a monster like him.
If you say you want freedom in the reunion party he panics. Why would you want freedom? To leave him? You want to leave him? Why? When he’s given you the only things he’s good for; luxury and sex. That’s the only reason you choose him in the first place. He’s desperate to make Tav happy. With out Tav he has nothing. He is nothing.
He hides his hurt and insecurities behind that mask of the villain, behind his facade of power and dominance. Under it all he’s still the frightened spawn cowering in the kennels. And there’s no one he’s more desperate to hide this from than Tav lest they realize their mistake of caring for him and leave.
Hi I'm Mona, I'm 35 years old and live in Switzerland, I have a small Twitch stream under Vio_Wolf where I show a lot of DND and also play other games. Baldurs Gate is my absolute favourite at the moment. I hope you forgive my bad English as it is not my native language. You'll see, I love Astarion more than anything, I don't care if Spawn or Ascended, I liked the guy even before I knew his backstory and even more afterwards. .
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