Dear Astarion fans! Can we please take a step back and look at what's been happening in the tags lately?

If you see accounts whose main goal is to harass, target, or encourage dogpiling against other fans, please don't engage with them. Block them and move on.

The fandom exists because people want to celebrate characters they love through art, writing, edits, discussions, and creativity - not to be dragged into endless callout posts, personal vendettas, or manufactured drama.

Lately we've seen posts disguised as "neutral analysis" or "objective discussions" that are, in reality, little more than targeted harassment campaigns against members of the community. Before liking, reblogging, or endorsing that kind of content, please think carefully about what you're actually supporting - and whether that's the kind of community you want to help create.

We've also seen anonymous messages circulating with what are essentially "blacklists" of fans, encouraging people to block or target specific individuals. That is not normal. It crosses a line.

And to the one very persistent little spitz dog who keeps trying to drag the entire fandom into personal conflicts — please stop. Not every disagreement needs to become a fandom-wide crusade. Most people are here because they love Astarion, not because they want to participate in someone else's personal war.

And to the local space troll whose unhealthy obsession with other fans has gone way too far... maybe it's time to chill.

If you know, you know. Seven thousand reasons should be enough. This is supposed to be a fandom. Whether someone prefers Ascended Astarion, Spawn Astarion, or simply enjoys Baldur's Gate 3 shouldn't be an excuse for harassment, intimidation, or attempts to pit fans against one another.

Disagree with people's interpretations if you want. Discuss the writing. Debate the lore. But do not normalize harassment campaigns, blacklists, or attempts to publicly shame people for enjoying fictional content. We've already crossed the point where this stopped being "fandom drama." This is becoming targeted harassment, and it has no place in this community.

This path is self-destructive. Building your life around hatred and an unhealthy obsession with other fans will never lead anywhere good.

Let's put the focus back where it belongs: on creativity, friendship, and our shared love for Astarion.

The same devnote for mortal and immortal Tav

on AA tag even lol okey. Interesting.

Oxford Learner's Dictionaries, Merriam‑Webster

How some BG3 devnotes looks like:

Making mistakes is ok. But constantly gaslighting while making those mistakes? That’s become a classic move for a part of the Spawn community, the fixers.

Not sure what else to say here. Practice makes perfect. As always — perfect bullshit.

A great example of a fixer-style "analysis": first they come up with their very crooked conclusions about Ascended Astarion, and only then try to bend everything in the text to fit those conclusions.

Here's another one, a classic.

BULLSHIT

They look at each other lovingly. Treating Astarion on the path of Ascension as not himself instead of as "free, honest Astarion with all his feelings" kills his character far more exquisitely than any "I love killing him" stake-guy in Act 1.

By the way, I loaded the Spawn ending. Look.

Spawn Astarion avoids eye contact, hiding himself and his gaze from Tav.

He hides his true self to please others. He’s used to giving that kind of look — to shut out all the pain around him and inside. Astarion himself is once again like in a coffin.

Another post from those who hate and insult Astarion, yet call themselves his “fans”:

Of course, one can ignore such “creativity”, for someone like the creator of this post would have to say something smart to really surprise the public. Perhaps the attempts at insults born in the depths of the aphedron are necessary in order to present their favorite “path of redemption” with “I can fix him” (translation: “I can be on top, own a pretty boy”, for the encounter with a strong contradictory personality in some people causes a desire to bring this personality at least to their level, or better lower, to satisfy their instincts in a similar way). To take away Astarion's chance to live a full life, oh, he never had a chance not to feel hunger before, to enjoy the sun, so he'll get by, he doesn't need it, or you'll “make” him so bad… Now we'll “prove” how bad you'll “make” him…. To take away a person's chance to be spared from suffering for the sake of your own “moral”/immoral, but well covered by what is presented as “morality”, desires - well, doesn't this picture show who is the “freak” here?

I've long wanted to share my thoughts on the moral superiority complex of anti-AAs (I think you've noticed the presence of this complex, and this picture is a good illustration of how valuable the morality of an opponent is, with whom, if you want to talk on the same level, you might have to get down on the floor).

In other words: "The game, the writers, and Astarion himself told me I made the right choice, so I don't see why I should analyze the situation for myself."

No. The game, the writers, and Astarion told you exactly what you wanted to hear. You got exactly what you wanted - a reassuring pat on the head. Here's your cookie.