there he is

this is such powerfully sexy art holy fuck

in the thumbnail the wrinkling of his shirtsleeves and suspenders looks like a yelling cat face

on brand

oh perfect art

whew and then I got dragged off and distracted

OKAY

starting off w this because I was boohoo the fool who leaned into Astarion's canon habit of breaking into pop culture and then had to actually write it out

but also 1: worth it 2: had way too much fun w parallels and 3:

(deffo did, tho)

buddies just learning compromise one step at a time

Mobius hasn't had a pet that he can recall, though the Circle certainly kept cats around for hunting the mice. Fickle creatures that could rub up against your ankles (inadvertently tripping you) out of affection one moment, hopping about knocking everything over the next.

ohh this header art

puts my eyes on threads also

HAHAHAH

heheheh

probabiliteej oh mobile plurk hid this how dare it but puts eyes back on

heartwarming family hours where the episode tackles important life lessons like calling your enemy-turned-ally a cunt over the network

vampire enrichment

it's vital, ok; they need to be challenged and learn to hunt for themselves

dresses a watermelon in a cravat and tosses it into the cage

yooooo holy shit what the fuck that art is so good

it IS

unprotagonist

Correct

he'll learn to enjoy having these slinky cats around again!

maybe don't steal a chapel's entire stock of candles tho

hey now, he only took what he needed

OKAY now that I'm not face down on the floor let's go

starting with this bc I've had stars in my eyes about it since I saw it this morning

ohhh cute

two of these little dudes with just a mess of charms

(the charms were Kit's idea and I honestly have never wanted anything more)

probabiliteej good and kind

camera time...

AC fully done I really need to tell myself to just get the base AC in and worry about bonuses later

SCREMS YES

can't believe astarion stole some kid's camera

time for so many photos

weird out the natives with the power of these instant realistic portraits!

pogonophile

he will use this power for evil

since they're falling out of a rift, I'll probably save tossing them in game officially until later (either during a mission or on the way to one, we'll see how things shake out), but Astarion's giving one of them to Fenris and let's be real, I have a feeling they're going to be pretty about them for a good bit

someone that actually knows modern tech wanting to lend a hand is probs not a bad thing

anyway

CURRENT TALK TIME

aslfdkjakfds

Loki at least would be like "it's a camera?"

"point at object, press button, permanent image"

"unless you burn it or something"

LMAO bless

a true hero to the rescue

who knew a god of mischief could be so helpful

(....ok everyone in Riftwatch by now, probably, but still)

meanwhile, Astarion learning they actually copy a perfect replica of whatever they see

Selfies? XD

y e s. . .

but ok ok for real, pulls the cord and settles into actual plotting since I'm two full days behind at this point after today:

SO originally my thought was I was going to put up a meme at the start of this month, spotted the truth event and then thought that meme might be better off as a network post or something like that instead while the truth event is in effect

just something small and lax

also initially I was waffling on Astarion being affected, but I think overall it'd be more fun to just have him also have 0 filter whatsoever for once, so since today ran so long I'll dig into more in depth plotting for that tomorrow

and for the ⭕️ plot, boy howdy I am late

not late at all!

also puts out hands for truth things

loki, a helpful person

no one late, people are still rollin in

its just spammy

spacewitchery purely helpful never did a thing wrong in his life

keanuleaves withpanache oh hella

I've finally caught up on reading over everything so far (and it's beautiful)

network spam chat is always Many Comments but ur very much On Time

or ... in person but yk yk

lmf I do, it's true

but ok I wanted to catch up on what's been going down before I dug in on approach, which at this point, I think local vampelf might just loiter and sort of remotely keep watch/stick to the Whatever Else zone

because as much as the idea of Circles absolutely bothers him (cannot be overstated), the current proposal just lists mages, and no matter how far he's come in terms of learning how to be a decent person, he's still carrying that residual so-long-as-it's-not-me-or-mine mentality at heart

which isn't good, but, you know, he's still himself

aka he's not for the proposal going through, but he's sticking to the background until something gives— or unless someone feels like having a sobered one-on-one about it

feeling too tired to be coherent so I'll leave this generally floating as a rough idea vacuum until tomorrow, but that's the general gist of things overall barring any cr adjustments or tweaked plans etc

oml the cameras

this motherfucker is going to deliver his beloved a dick pic

HAHAHHAHA OF COURSE HE IS

gwen and astarion should talk abt the meeting cuz it is Extremely relevant to her interests and she hasn't got an obvious in any more to actually attend

Ellie and Abby know how to use polaroid cameras! That's it

thre's gonna be so many dick pics

imagine if bc vampire he can't take a picture and it develops as just his bed w nice lighting

HAHA

LMAOOOO

true story i used to have a vampire OC who had done niche specialty porn where he fucked a human and you could only see the human on the tape

but, and i think astarion would understand him on this, he only did it a couple times before he was like "im too pretty and vain for this"

blisters also LMAO GDI that'd kill him, honestly

the one time he's glad Thedas figuratively de-fanged him

(that's not true he likes sunlight and baths those are also good)

keanuleaves he would 1000% understand him on that

deeply relatable in every way

this guy gets it

HOOTS

friendship has brought them here

can't wait for this to definitely go well

pshhh it'll be fiiiine......ish

OK Astarion at the meetin but this is mostly just me sliding my foot into the space to etch out Astarion was here since there's like, none hooks in this particular toplevel

aka if the urge or curiosity is there to tag it, come to me, and if not, dnw he's just vibin.....probably

he's there to be seen there and to hear all the juicy goss

coba1t: blows a kiss

complicated feelings all around