I Really Love How All The Origin Characters Are So Connected In Their Stories And Themes.

i really love how all the origin characters are so connected in their stories and themes.

gale and lae'zel and shadowheart all grappling with their relationship with their god, and lae'zel and shadowheart in particular grappling with losing their Identity and community when losing their religion.

karlach and astarion and wyll having their bodies permanently changed against their will, karlach and astarion dealing with or not dealing with their own deaths because of those changes, wyll and astarion feeling like they've become monsters after making a hasty deal they were backed into, wyll and karlach grappling with still trying to do good in the world despite all of this.

lae'zel and karlach learning to fight hard to survive. shadowheart and karlach holding onto soft spots in their hearts despite everything. wyll and shadowheart hopeless romantics at heart. gale and astarion desperate for power they think will fix them. lae'zel and gale defying their god who would see them dead. astarion and shadowheart trying to figure out who they are without their pasts. gale and wyll throwing themselves into doing things for others.

i just can't get enough of all of them together no matter the combinations. what a great set of characters at the core of this game.

Karlach doesn’t have time for you.

v v excited to be done with this illo! 10/10 fun to add the lil details + make BG3 illustrations as lil breaks between commissions :)

teatime between 'nobles'.

here’s to all the weird little girls growing up into even weirder men

Daily fish fact #690

Danionella translucida!

One of the smallest fish in the world, this fish is nearly completely transparent save for some melanophores on its body and its organs. This species is so small, in fact, that a part of its skull is open and it has one of the smallest brain of any known adult vertebrate!

Israel had shut off water and electricity from Gaza 110 days ago. One hundred and ten days ago. Most of us would literally not survive this long without clean water and electricity. Look around you right now and tell me how many things in your vicinity depend on electricity. Are you able to imagine a life without uninterrupted access to water? I still remember the old lady who was interviewed in a tent who said "the question you should be asking me is how long ago was the last time I showered".

To know that millions of people have their literal life spans, their movement, their access to water, when they can eat, what and how much they can eat, when and how often they can shower, how and where they sleep - to have it all be controlled and dictated for them while also, simultaneously, the mere idea of providing them with aid is "out of everyone's hands"?

There are fucking miles of aid trucks, filled with essentials, that are stopped right outside of Gaza at the Rafah border, while people inside of Gaza are freezing and starving and dreaming of clean water to drink. How does this not infuriate you?

Fuck Israel and every nation that enables and emboldens it.