she/her Sewist, Dork, Leftist, Cat Lady, and Leaking Blood Bag. Probably old enough to be your mum. Everything is Baldur's Gate 3, with the occasional garnish of Bagginshield and Disco Elysium. Yes that is my cat in my icon, his name is Beetle. The header image is my bg3 Durge Lilith and her Vampire boyfriend.
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ladies… has anyone ever told you it’s okay to be feminine 🩷 i’m sure no one has ever ever ever reinforced this deeply held secret, that’s it’s okay for you to be feminine. 🩷 i know the world totally tries to tell you that you have to be manly and masculine and grow your body hair and eat as much as you want and get strong and stand up for yourself and make waves and take up space and show your bare face and show your anger. but it’s okay to do the exact opposite actually. 🩷 it’s okay to shrink yourself down to the exact same mold every other woman is expected to conform to. 🩷 did you know that it’s okay to be feminine. 🩷 did you know it’s okay to be feminine. 🩷 did you know it’s okay to be feminine. 🩷 has anyone ever told you it’s okay to be feminine. 🩷 will you be feminine. 🩷 will you be feminine. 🩷 will you be feminine. 🩷 will you just be feminine already. 🩷🩷🩷
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The whole metaverse can no longer be properly viewed without an account and I am definitely not making one just to see your contact info or opening hours.
Get a fucking WEBSITE. It can be just a static landing page with the relevant information. But get off the metaverse!
researching the history of education in japan and learning that, pre–Meiji Restoration, peasants/commoners formed their own schools to become educated because it was the best way of fighting tax fraud.
That is, when an official told you, a rice farmer, that you owed more taxes than you really did, it was very useful if you were good enough at math to know he was lying (and could prove it) and if you were good enough at writing to write a letter to your government defending your case.
all of which is to say it's crazy that mega-corporations are now pushing education to be "what if you paid us whatever we tell you to for the rest of your life and never do math or write anything ever again"
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The key to writing good fanfiction is to harbor a deeply humiliating desire, and the trick there is that even pretty basic and societally-accepted desires like “being held” and “being wanted” CAN and WILL be humiliating if they’re intense enough. Become so estranged from human connection that the idea of someone playing with your hair fills you with yearning so deep you feel like you’re going to throw up and you will write some banger fanfiction. It might have some other consequences too but idrk about that.
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often you will see things online where you just have to be like "what a strange thing to say" or "i don't think that's true :)" to yourself and try to move on or you will lose your mind
Astarion’s sexual history under Cazador, his outlook on it and comparisons to his relationship with Tav
A short character study and a gathering of mentions.
Most of you probably have seen these, but I figured I'd put them together to have. To maybe get into Astarion’s headspace regarding sex during his enslavement, a deeper understanding of his character, and as a helpful thing for writing fics.
We can first look at his interaction with Tav after Haarlep. He is the only one who shows compassion to Tav after the deal they made saying :
"I know what it's like to lose control over your own body. It's a wretched thing."
This is one of the many windows into his past and experiences.
Astarion tried to enjoy sex in the beginning, but failed:
I thought the same,once. It didn't last.
This is said after Tav says they will try to enjoy their time while Haarlep uses their body.
From very early on, he didn't want to sleep with any of his conquests. I'd go as far as to say he never did.
I truly wanted you - is the ony lie in this sentence.
This is from his conversation with Sebastian who he slept with around 170 years ago .
He also says enjoyment didn't come into it.
Enjoyment? That didn't come into it. I never had a choice.
Now, that lack of enjoyment came from many factors. Here are some that he himself has mentioned :
1) Guilt
He felt guilt when sleeping with someone because he knew they'd die.
As much as we see him talk about enjoying killing and murder in act 1, there are traces there that show he feels deeply wrong about his victims.
I found a darling boy who I couldn't bear to bring back to him. So I ran, instead of hurting that sweet man.
Your seething passions lead only to pleasure. - As opposed to pain, death, and misery I assume.
2) Lack of connection
Astarion was deeply lonely from not being able to connect with anyone.
Tell her about the years of loneliness and fear you felt living under Cazador.
3) Emotional numbing
Astarion talks of his encounters as pleasurable but emotionally numbing. He is also pretty clearly dissociating during sex.
- But I always felt nothing.
I know that dance better than anyone. But I always felt nothing.
I already lived an eternity devoted to pleasure, and it was rather dull.
- Astarion to Haarlep.
Probably his emotional numbing made it harder for him to reach the climax of things.
Most of them didn't even grant me temporary bliss.
4) Some even turned violent.
When asked "Did Sebastian hurt you in any way?" he responds with "He didn't do anything at all. I can't say the same of all of my victims."
Afterwards you felt empty? Alone? Ashamed?
Even though he is talking to Tav here, I see it as him directly referencing how he felt after a conquest.
Immediately after he gives his advice that it’s best not to dwell on it. When asked if that works, he continues with :
Well..."works" might be putting it a little strong but...makes it feel less terrible,at least.
- makes it feel less terrible,at least.
Which to me suggests he felt terrible after most of his encounters as well.
And this part gets interesting. It is clear in the beginning of his relationship with Tav that he still struggles with wanting and enjoying sex. But he talks about how it felt different for him from the start.
That time was special to me.
For him, the enjoyment was not there with his victims mostly because of the lack of choice.
With Tav it's different, probably because while still not romantic in the beginning, it was the first time he had a choice.
When asked if the nights together meant anything to him:
Of course they did- that's the problem.
When Tav coerces him into sex, it's the first time they take away his choice in the bedroom.
Which imo, is why he feels the way that he does after.
Despite his feelings and his choice, he still struggles with emotional numbing during sex, even with Tav.
He lashes out and diminishes what he was feeling because of the betrayal if the confession in Act 2 goes poorly or if it never happens at all.
In act 3, on his grave he feels safe enough and loved enough to try experiencing sex as a form of connection and expression of love.
I feel safe with you. Seen. And whatever the future holds for me, I don't want to lose that.
There is a strong implication that this hasn't happened to him before with anyone, as he claims no one ever showed him kindness except Tav.
Astarion doesn't use the word 'sex' if he's genuine.
With Tav, after getting in a relationship, he uses many different ways to talk around it:
"Being close to someone." ;
"Haven't done...that in a while"; "Do this again" - in the brothel and with Halsin
"Cuddle" - Durge and in act 3 pre grave scene
"A night of passion" - on his grave
"How much we enjoy each other" - to Jaheira , etc
I think this is a tactic to distance sex from what they have because sex is the thing he was forced to do. He only uses "sex" if the confession goes badly:
"There is no point to me if I won't have sex. My only talent. I'm fully aware."
He is also, in general, putting a lot of distance between Tav and his conquests before.
He can’t stand to think what would have happened if they’d met before, and his confession in the first place is because he can’t stand to keep treating Tav like a conquest.
I find this also very funny because when he talks so brazenly about sex in act 1, and the contrast with how he talks about intimacy in Act 3 is starkly different.
Astarion and his own view of his past:
On more than one occasion, he refers to himself as a prostitute, or he references that he offered "services."
You have a type, don't you? Elven prostitutes? Again? It's rather emabarassing,dear.
I like this line because it's also one of the few moments he seems quite jealous.
Here are some more, no pics, sadly, as I couldn't find clips:
"What a world. I never dreamed I'd be on the paying end in a brothel." - said if platonic Tav takes him to the drow.
Origin Astarion:
A: "I was once in your position, in a way."
Sorn Orlith: What was it like?
A: "I try not to think about it any longer." or A: : "I was forced into it, but it sounds as if you weren't."
Sorn Orlith: My... my apologies for prying.
"Now, though, I'm hardly going to give you a treat when you haven't helped me in exchange for my excellent services." - to Tav when the act 2 confession didn't happen.
And on that note in the same breakup conversation we get more context:
T: "Is that all you ever saw us as? A transaction?"
A: "But this is what I do. Those are the talents I have."
A: "I can guarantee, it stings far more to have to pay your way through the night with your own body for hundreds of years."
It further solidifies that in the beginning, his view on the relationship with Tav was transactional.
In a way, with this breakup, he is pushing the relationship in Act 3 to the way it was in Act 1 as there was no emotional intimacy achieved. At least a mutual one. I believe at this point he had developed feelings, but wasn't feeling the reciprocity, as to get here that means Tav didn't help him in his personal quest. (or meet Araj)
Last interesting detail, Origin Astarion tells this to Nym:
"Just don't tell me what to do... It brings back bad memories."
The context is in the bedroom.
Overall this is all I could find on his sexual/romantic history, and my thoughts on it. If there is anything I've missed please do link it, I'll add it in.
Some of these images are from youtube as I haven't done a lot of these choices, if you'd like a link to the videos I am putting one below :
So! This is a perfect case study in situations where you should be wary of misinformation.
Take a moment and ask yourself, a project like this requires a lot of time, money and dedication of resources, why would scientists dedicate that time to something that could just be done by a tree?
The answer is they wouldn't. So that means this claim requires further investigation!
This project is called LIQUID 3, and it's not meant for cities with wide open spaces, it's meant for cities like Belgrade in Serbia. These cities are densely populated and heavily polluted, to the point where pollution actually chokes out current trees and makes creating green spaces difficult.
Liquid 3 was a PhD scientists answer to these problems. The microalgae tank is intended for spaces where you either:
Don't have enough space to plant full trees, or
Don't have enough time to plant trees and wait for them to grow up.
The tank is extremely efficient when you consider the amount of space needed compared to the amount of CO2 turned into oxygen. The tank can operate throughout the winter. And most importantly, it can be quickly set up in areas that desperately need relief from air pollution NOW not in 10 years when trees are done growing. Children currently suffocating on polluted air can't wait for trees to grow, they need to be taken care of now, and Liquid 3 is one of the ways to take care of them. Depending on the species of microalgea used, a number have shown a pretty amazing capacity to pull heavy metals out of the air which is something trees can get choked up by.
The tanks aren't just tanks either! Liquid 3 have solar panels placed on top, they have lighting and mobile phone charging, and they work as public benches. The designers of it want to encourage green spaces where there's room, but where there isn't room or time, Liquid 3 can step in. Realistically, this isn't a replacement for trees. It's replacing boring metal city benches with new, cooler benches that also clean the air (and have at least some heating during the winter).
Not only that, but the microalgea that grows is native to Serbia and all that microalgea has a ton of great uses! It makes for great fertilizer, compost, wastewater treatment, cleaner biofuels and even for helping create new tanks for further air purification. They only require a quick algae divide once a month, and the produced algae can be carted off to where ever it's needed. This makes them effective solutions for areas that can't sustain complex installations.
So yeah, there's actually quite a lot of places that would like these. Lots of people currently breathing in terrible quality air would much rather have their boring city benches replaced with really fucking cool algae tanks that clean the air and can be used to help create + sustain future green spaces in cities. I dunno about you, but I'd take that over a dumb metal bench any day. Put these at every bus stop and I'd be delighted.
Serbian here living in Belgrade! This is all true and I've actually seen some of these around the city a few times. They're amazing at what they do and really cool to watch up close because you can see pretty swirling inside them. It's not only functional but aesthetically pretty nice as well!
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