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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

1 year

extremely late to the party on this but !!! ms. ophelia my widowed necromancer who was once a cleric

mercy

@szachrajka_

1 year

Baldurs Gaters, please give me some spicy text of your Tavs 🙏 1. A description of a scene from their past that would appear during tadpole connection 2. A question, and an answer their corpse would provide under Speak with Dead spell 3. A [TAV-SPECIFIC] dialogue option

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

4 years

ao3 users i am BEGGING you to put minor side ships in the additional tags rather than the ship tags

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

5 months

this may not count as a load-bearing post of our time, but it’s a load-bearing post of MY time

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

7 months

remember when dorothea's sexuality was deliberately misinterpreted so much that they made her stare into a camera and say "i am bisexual" in the spinoff 😭

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

3 months

why is he in middle school 😭

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

3 months

they’ve really gotta stop telling us about things like this lmao

PC Gamer

@pcgamer

3 months

Larian nearly made Baldur's Gate 4, it was partially playable and 'something that you all would have liked', but the studio didn't want to spend another 3 years on it.

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

8 months

karlach and shadowheart vetoed the milk steak mention for sure

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

8 months

jesus christ tara

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

5 months

absolutely fascinated by the phenomenon of straight men who only romance female characters in rpgs suddenly branching out of their comfort zones for gale

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

9 months

imagine walking back to camp after nine hours on your feet, killing goblins from midmorning to dusk. you’ve almost died twice already and you’ve still got an acid burn on your arm and it really hurts, and from somewhere behind you comes a constant, inescapable stream of This

holls🪷

@urfavhollyholls

9 months

Someone needs to animate gale drunkenly giving this speech lol

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

9 months

everyone in the qrts is WRONG!! this freak would immediately call you back and, fully aware he’s on speakerphone and your friends can hear, would say he read that orgasms are supposed to be good for menstrual cramps and are you amenable to testing that theory?

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gale

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

1 year

gale: "i HAVE had lovers other than mystra, you know! i was popular at school! why does no one believe me!" also gale: "do you think anyone has a crush on me, wyll? how do you talk to your crush, karlach? lae'zel, am i attractive? can you give me some love advice, halsin?" 🥺🥺🥺

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

1 year

gale romance (act 1)

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

1 year

forever disappointed that gale doesn't have unique clothing at the beginning of the game, but good lord these concepts have such a sinister vibe lol he looks like the fantasy equivalent of an 18th century oil magnate who intends to forcibly marry my beautiful little sister

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

7 months

dare i say it… gale eating boots

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@CoaxedSnafu

7 months

which character is this?

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

8 months

stop omg he has arthritis HE CAN'T HELP IT😭

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

10 months

gale solving the chess puzzle for you in the wyrmway is some of the best voice acting in bg3 and i'm tired of pretending it's not. nothing else in that entire game has gotten such a strong emotional reaction out of me (rage) as gale smugly feeding me a series of chess moves

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

8 months

what do you mean gale doesn't have a devastatingly loud dad sneeze that makes the windows of the house rattle

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

1 year

people were so mean about this line for a while like. yeah. a big part of gale’s romance centers around his feelings of inadequacy as a person because he’s only ever been valued for his magic. telling him “you are enough” is what triggers the climax of his character arc

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

8 months

the way i said “mid-thirties noises???” out loud like a fucking cartoon character 💀

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

17 days

just realized why i'm a short lae'zel truther lol

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

9 months

i’m glad bg3 doesn’t have a “give your companions gifts to buy their affection” mechanic but like. man sometimes i just wanna give my favs a little treat 😭

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

1 year

remember a few weeks ago when someone discovered a bugged/cut conversation about gale's mom in the game files? well i dug up the individual voice lines and compiled them here (@ morena dekarios, come get your son, he calls you by your first name when you're not around)

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

4 months

the way these two just split gale fandom STRAIGHT down the middle... the great galemancer schism

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

11 months

my favorite bug (so far) is the one where companions make this horrific grimace before/after kissing the player

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

7 months

bg3 partying alignment chart let's goooo

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

1 year

astarion when you let him take you out into the woods in act 1

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

1 month

i think if you’re going to play a key role in developing a story-based game, you should be required to play its predecessors maybe like once every five years of development time, especially if there are only three 💀

king of antiva

@kingofantiva

1 month

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

9 months

someone on tiktok was posting about the spooky flashlight-under-chin portrait lighting level up bug but my stomach LURCHED when i saw astarion 💀

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

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Rachel Lapides

@rachellapides

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threatening to kill myself when my students don't participate

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

9 months

i’m always shocked when i see people depicting gale’s tent as an actual tent bc there seems to be this collective agreement in fics that his tent only exists to hide the entrance to a secret pocket dimension consisting of a very bougie bedroom and a bathroom with running water

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

23 days

ngl i feel like fans would be a lot more sympathetic to the world state decision if the writers just came out and said “listen, this game was in development hell for so long it’s a miracle you’re even getting it. we didn’t have the time/resources to do what we all wanted, sorry”

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

4 years

“fiction has no effect on ppl’s behavior!!” —someone who clearly never got fucking glomped in the mid 00’s

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

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galemancers:

amelia

@heavensdevotion

1 month

me when i see nerdy autistic guy

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

5 months

it’s gonna be so funny when dreadwolf is released and everyone starts blaming bg3 players for “making the dragon age fandom toxic” as though da’s fanbase hasn’t been hostile to human life all along

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

7 months

hey actually what the fuck 😭

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

9 months

okay for real am i gaslighting myself into thinking the description of gale’s camp clothes used to mention him being horny for books or does anyone else remember that

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

7 months

this description is like.. how do i say this. i think whoever wrote this in the bg3 wiki is a little smitten lol

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

7 months

i have to confess something very unpopular. these lines never registered as veins in my mind, i just assumed they’re what the orb mark tendrils look like when they’re deeper under the skin

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

6 months

gale is NOT 35 and has not been 35 for a very long time

Smitty

@osazethepoet

7 months

What's your bg3 opinion that will get you like this? 👀

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

1 year

the implication that gale intends to refuse whatever place mystra has for him in the afterlife in order to wait for tav on the fugue plane.. *chef kiss* like he REALLY meant it when he said “with you, i forget my goddess”

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

4 months

all those "[bg3] character is [sexuality]-coded!!" takes are just based on stereotypes so tell me HOW people watch gale conjure a bed like this with throw pillows and decorative feathers and a 20-foot tall canopy and think "oh yeah he's definitely straight" lmao

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

10 months

help i’m so unbearably slow 💀 it JUST occurred to me that elminster didn’t meet gale by chance and that mystra set her sights on an eight year old

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

3 months

people doing this with gale is the only reason i’m still alive at this point

marvin

@margarinefan1

3 months

i think more people should do this

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

11 months

i end up watching this video at least once a week and every time i feel like i’m going to suffocate myself laughing. this is the most miserable and pathetic i’ve ever seen a character in this game look. he’s like the sad ant with the stick bag but on steroids 😭

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

4 months

gale eyeball texture because i still have nightmares about people saying his eyes are blue or hazel

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

8 months

PLEASE not on valentine's day

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

1 year

i would be wading furiously back out to sea if a man said this to me lmao

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

9 months

he wasn’t even tagged fhwkrbskdbdjd 😭😭😭

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

1 year

sorry i guess 😭

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

8 months

oh nooooo 😭😭😭

Hannah

@amazingspidrhan

8 months

I had the absolute pleasure of speaking with @TimDownie1 about Gale of Waterdeep in #BaldursGate3 , dives into Tim’s love of folklore and what shaped it, additional career moments, and more. Now on @nerdsandbeyond :

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

1 year

everyone else got really surface-level personality descriptions on their official character sheets but gale's really says "l-look, he's sensitive... 🥺"

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

23 days

do you guys think the inquisitor still walks like this lmao

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

4 months

never ever forgiving dragon age inquisition for locking the cunty mage gear appearances to dorian and vivienne

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

1 month

on my hands and knees begging someone to recreate gale’s “dying romantically of consumption in the back room of a parisian cabaret in the spring of 1900” look from EA now that modding is more widely available

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

9 months

“gale’s astral sea boat scene in act 3 was partially inspired by the ‘i see the light’ sequence in tangled” BIG day for millennial galemancers with abusive mothers

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

8 months

“why is larian so mean about gale” it’s a very calculated bit of characterization that makes him infinitely more appealing to a specific audience, i.e. me

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

5 years

we were completely robbed by the lack of dorothea+annette supports

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

1 year

gale's reaction to kar'niss lmao i can see why tav licking the dead spider gets such a rise out of him💀

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

4 months

this was galemancers’ 9/11

AARON

@lidolmix

5 months

share a photo or clip that has traumatized your fandom

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

4 years

it kinda sucks trying to find content for your little rarepair when three quarters of what ends up in its ship tag is longfic abt juggernaut fandom otp #3 that only mentions said rarepair in passing 😭😭

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

9 months

i was almost starting to think the "minsc talks about rashemen's anti-mystra measures" conversation was something of an urban legend bc i never see screenshots/videos of it posted anywhere

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

5 months

every day i open this stupid app and i’m met with a solid wall of gale hornyposting and i think about this screenshot

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

10 months

i know it's a completely different game but every time i see passionate hatred of wulbren bongle all i can think of is this ancient dragon age post

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

1 year

by not being awful to gale i seem to have robbed myself of some of the best dialogue in the game

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

9 months

THEN he’ll go to the store and spend over a hundred bucks on whatever he thinks will cheer you up in addition to the pads. but like. that first step is fucking crucial like we need to stop pretending gale doesn’t do weird horny shit sometimes lmao

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

1 year

@ whoever wanted six minutes of gale stepping on legos, struggling to open jars, failing to reach things on high shelves, and losing his breath after walking up a single flight of stairs this one's for u 🫡 (1/3🧵)

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

6 months

notably absent from the “can minsc consent” discourse is the fact that there’s still placeholder text in the game files from when he was planned to be an act 1 companion and you could sleep with him at the tiefling party lol

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

11 months

i’m failing to see any of these allegedly un-pretty features 😭 aylin is like the most conventionally attractive character in the game dbakdjskjddkd has the person who wrote this article just never seen another human being before

TheGamer

@thegamerwebsite

11 months

As games become more realistic, our beauty standards can broaden to include characters like Dame Aylin

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

1 year

gale normally vs. gale when you convince him not to pursue godhood without so much as a persuasion check

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

5 years

ferdithea in WAY more than five minutes lmao (pre-timeskip and post-game bc i love the take that they Kind Of Dated after chapter 7 and then got together For Real after the war)

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

7 months

every time i read a fic with a “tav awakens alone in waterdeep and goes downstairs to find gale (sexy) cooking breakfast with no shirt on” scene, all i can imagine is the faint outline of gale’s shield spell as he tries protect his bare chest from spattering bacon grease

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

1 year

god i can't take you anywhere

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

18 days

it’s time

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

9 months

oop found what they held onto when they dipped him into the vat of silver paint

leo | astarion lover

@ravarionn

9 months

HE HAS PANTS ON SO WHY IS HIS D*CK OUT???😭 just God Gale things or-...

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

5 months

i mean this in a positive way lol there’s something very cute about it and i almost never see it happen with the other male companions. like what is it about gale that captures people’s hearts and makes them want to try something new

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

23 days

their “you think you want this, but you don’t” routine is so needlessly condescending and antagonistic. even saying nothing at all would have been a better look

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

7 months

ok non-superficial explanation as to why i’ve always seen gale as like 45 or older: his storyline is far more interesting (to me) when it’s about a guy who’s no longer in the prime of his life and very abruptly becomes “washed up” in a way that you just can’t when you’re 35

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

4 years

also it’s.. a little discouraging for those of us who DO write abt rarepairs to have our work immediately buried beneath dozens of ongoing juggernaut ship fics

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

7 months

@JoelTurnbullVA clearly the fandom was NOT listening the first time😭

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

4 years

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

7 months

cannot believe larian stealth fixed the missing purple blanket and robbed gale fans of the symbol of their oppression

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

3 months

or at least wait until the game is a few years old before making these announcements 😭 the wound is still too fresh for this

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1 year

at some point wyll is going to have to explain to a middle aged man that pizza is not actually a vegetable 💀

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@alikous

5 years

do you have any idea how many “fe3h as vines” compilations i had to sit through before finding one where miklan launches a kickstarter to have sylvain put down

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3 months

choking sobbing coughing up blood etc.

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8 months

please have been found dead in miami, please have been found dead in miami

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

5 months

anyway pls look at my absolute favorite dragon age post anyone's ever made

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@alikous

1 month

i want to take 2018 me by the hand and gently tell her “six years from now” before we both start fucking crying

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

7 months

i don’t care what generic sleeping animations look like, i think gale would be like. the ugliest sleeper lmao eyes open, mouth agape, every two minutes his absolutely deafening snores pause bc he just stops breathing for a while

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@alikous

10 months

re: “your cheeks are flush,” etc. we’ve made it, gale girlies. nature has healed 😭

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@alikous

1 month

i was trying to figure out what gale's pants look like under his default starting robe, but it turns out his ass is actually bigger than the pants and clips through them in the back 😭

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katherine @🌹🐝

@alikous

8 months

he stopped writing his will after this

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@alikous

9 months

every time i see yassified companions i feel the same swirl of emotions as when i look at a french bulldog or one of those betta fish that’s been bred to have a tail so big it can’t swim properly

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@alikous

5 months

no but for real how many bisexual awakenings will the wizard be responsible for

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3 months

@LadySapphyre i was only just starting to recover from the whole “we implied very heavily there’d be dlc but we didn’t feel like making it after all teehee” thing 💀

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4 months

gale at the tiefling party

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