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Toad -est. 1996-
Welcome to the ✨treasure trove✨Little blog that writes and draws sometimes. I love Wyll Ravengard, pretty art and getting far too sentimental.

Hello and welcome to my home!

You can call me Toad! This is a place for ramblings, pretty art, and descents into madness over fictional characters ✨ right now, almost exclusively Baldur’s Gate characters, but I’m sure others will make an appearance.

Meet my Tavs!

🌸Leda🌸

My first ever Tav and the most specialist most interesting girl in the world (sorry shadowheart). She’s romancing Wyll, and you can find more about her if you so desire under her tag, oc: Leda (very original I know)

🪻Cori🪻

My second, still unfinished play through where I strove to make the baddiest bitch in all the land and I think I have succeeded 😌 she likes long walks on the beach, and giving Gale even more grey hairs. Read more about her under the oc:Cori tag

hey it’s ok if you lost your ai virginity back when you were uneducated. a lot of posts go like “reblog if you have never ever used generative ai and never ever will!!!” but it’s ok if you have used gen ai before and it’s even ok if you used to think it was cool, back before you understood what it really was and how it worked, either because no one had taught you about it and you discovered it on your own or because the only education you had received about it was from the tech bros. you’re not a burger with a bite out of it for having used ai. ok

It is 100 percent okay to stop using it today and join the "boo AI" club.

This isn't a purity thing. This is a "everyone stand with us against destroying the environment and giving asthma to poor people" thing.

Did you know that when one community says no to an AI data center, they specifically search out communities with fewer resources? Communities that can't defend themselves? And the pollution 100 percent affects their health and wellbeing, in addition to burning through our already scarce drinking water.

You can stop using character.ai today. You can say "I listened to the facts and stopped." And another thing: don't you think it's a bit more impactful to have used it, stopped, and then you're in a position to say how little it helped? How doing things for yourself improved your life?

also posts in the spirit of "if you've used AI even ONCE your soul is tainted!!!!" can't be great to those with OCD

So true. People Gold Star Lesbianning ai makes me so tired.

A while ago I bought an adorable print from the artist Harl Jones on etsy and I was thinking, man I sure would like a little postcard sized BG3 print to put in my new planner, so I may receive strength from my beloved Wyll Ravengard in times of need.

I hope everyone selling art of bg3 companions WITHOUT WYLL go to hell no matter what.

why the fuck is RAPHAEL THERE BUT NOT WYLL. WHERE IS HE. WHERE IS MY BELOVED.

Also I'm coming to realize I'm picky as hell so I'm just gonna have to do it myself anyway, BUT MY POINT STILL STANDS.

A while ago I bought an adorable print from the artist Harl Jones on etsy and I was thinking, man I sure would like a little postcard sized BG3 print to put in my new planner, so I may receive strength from my beloved Wyll Ravengard in times of need.

I hope everyone selling art of bg3 companions WITHOUT WYLL go to hell no matter what.

why the fuck is RAPHAEL THERE BUT NOT WYLL. WHERE IS HE. WHERE IS MY BELOVED.

the thing is that trans women are the best and deserve everything in the world

the thing is that trans women are some of the most beautiful women in existence and trans women have some of the most beautiful unique relationships with femininity. the thing is that trans women are unequivocally women, not "only" in the social sense but every sense of the word, women in body and mind and spirit and women in whatever shape and form they like. the thing is that trans women deserve so so so so much more than what the world shoves onto them, the thing is that trans women deserve so so much love and appreciation for just existing. not for being shining models or pioneers but just living and loving and being here in this day and age. the thing is that transfemininity is uniquely beautiful and rare, we are so lucky and we all should be so grateful to live in a world with trans women. the thing is that trans women out there deserve more than just words of solidarity, the thing is that there will never not be a time when you should give a trans woman flowers or money or words of support or encouragement or a hug or new clothes. there will never be a time where you should not embrace trans women and support them no fucking matter what. no matter what. the thing is that trans women deserve everything in the fucking world. all the good things, every single last one

I love thinking I'm a hater and then meeting a real hater and going wow that does not look fun actually. Going back to my lukewarm hater ways. Performative haterdom. I couldn't name five hater bands.

Round 2 — Match 3 / 38 — Raphael vs. Barcus Wroot

Raphael is a cambion / devil who first appears disguised as an enigmatic human, but quickly reveals his true form and intentions.

"i’m sorry but the HOUSE OF HOPE sequence is insane: the vibes, the audacity, the fact you can break in and he shows up like you scratched his car. and then he has the nerve to have a boss fight where he sings his own theme song. that’s commitment to the bit. i don’t want him redeemed, i want him to keep losing in increasingly theatrical ways."

vs.

Barcus Wroot is an unfortunate deep gnome searching for his friend,  Wulbren Bongle. He can be first be found tied to a windmill in the Blighted Village and can later become a Camp Follower.

"every playthrough i walk into that windmill like it’s a bomb diffusal because barcus does NOT deserve to get yeeted into low orbit"
"The amount of persistence in that little deep gnome is unreal"
"Barcus is one of those characters where the more you see him, the more he sneaks up on you. At first he’s just “gnome tied to windmill, classic RPG nonsense”, but then he keeps reappearing and you realise his entire plotline is basically stubborn loyalty under terrible conditions. He’s been knocked around by goblins, by duergar, by the general vibe of the Sword Coast, and he still puts one foot in front of the other because Wulbren matters to him. And I love that the game doesn’t reward him with a sweet reunion, it gives him something more interesting - either he keeps orbiting around someone who doesn’t treat him well, or you can help him finally step out of that shadow and take charge when the gnomes need someone sane. It’s such a small arc, but it’s a really "human" one: stop chasing the person who keeps burning you, start backing yourself."
"Barcus Wroot has my heart. What a wonderfully loyal friend who deserves far better. I’m sorry for flinging you through the stratosphere I promise I reloaded"
"I will rescue him all the times. Love a guy in adventures who is 0 prepared for adventures. "If we meet again... we will meet again" and his tragic toxic gay adventures..."
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