Baldur's Gate 3 - Blog Posts

My current tav :D They’re a dhampir bard (college of valor) and its still early enough that i may multiclass. They are an absolute gremlin and should be turned into goo

My first Tav by the end of the game. I love them dearly. Gonna try and get to the epilogue at some point since I couldn’t cause of mods. They do go to the Underdark with Astarion to lead the other vampire spawn. They have a very soft relationship. Also they are a fucking dumbass even though they have a 14 int stat.

This is them at the beginning of the journey.

I love this fictional man way too much

Current character I am playing as in BG3. They are a Paladin of Devotion and trying to resist The Dark Urge. They are hot but incredibly stupid and I love them for it. They have no idea what is going on 90% percent of the time and it’s wonderful.

BG3 GOTY LETS GOOO

Everyone at Larian and who was involved with the game deserves this win so much.

Elysian Fields

Inspired by ‘Elysian Fields’ by The Mechanisms

“The Elysian Fields, also called Elysium, are the final resting place of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous [in Greek mythology and religion].”

No, he doesn’t live in my brain rent free. No, i don’t think about him constantly and his stupid fangs when he smiles and how i want to THROW his 5’9” ass into the sun-

My Tav

They used to scam people with shitty magic tricks but, uh oh, wild magic, everyone around is now a cat or dog.

Literally, ive gotten that surge like 5 times and it’s so funny

Sorry for inactivity, I have been very ill and don’t have the energy to do anything but sleep or briefly yell about something then go back to sleep. Had a fever for like 4 days now :D

Curse my Victorian Child immune system.

I am feeling a bit better now, but not really enough to do anything except finish this sketch lol

Wanna go insane and draw my Tav and Astarion and Karlach, but eugh. I don’t have the energy to come up with more than a little doodle in my brain.

IM ALIVE

Baldur’s Gate has taken over my life. It has all i have been playing for the past… since I got it and have not stopped. I’m gonna play more of it after this.

Anyways, here is a portrait sketch of my Tav. Working on a full character thing rn too.

New Sketchbook

Some loose sketches and The Nightmare Beast™️ feat. my Tav from Baldurs Gate from memory

Edit: I am now just realizing it has been over 4 years since I have posted any traditional art here lmao

There is nothing that quite matches the vibe of Multiplayer options and hanging out with friends. Posted 24th August 2023

Gale got Incubus Charm-ed by Harleep, and he has a lot of good, dangerous spells, so I was understandably worried.

It gets to his turn, when everyone is standing pretty close together. He has fireball and ice storm, and is pretty set against us.

Instead of using those deadly spells, he decides, still working against the rest of the party, that he will cast globe of invulnerability, not on Harleep, but himself and Astarion, chug a potion of Glorious Vaulting, and then run away from the globe.

I just…. I choose to believe that his love for his friends and Tav (romance) stopped him from hurting them, and not just because he would be expending a high level spell slot.

Nothing in this game has upset me more than not being able to turn Cazador into a sheep and knock him off the edge anymore.

* In conversation with Wyll about his plans once the Brain is defeated *

Tav: there’s more to your plans than you’re letting on, isn’t there?

Wyll: Yes, there is. I will be hunting Mizora.

Mizora, standing next to him: …

Gale really says he isn’t comfortable sharing Tav because they won’t devote themself to him entirely, while he is planning on literally killing himself for his ex-girlfriend.

made an astarion playlist with songs that actually remind me of him because i'm mentally ill about this man

i want to write a fic for him inspired by disintegration (the cure) so bad </3

wizard question: are the undead minions subject to labor laws?

haven't paid mine since like ever and they ain't had a smoke break in centuries

ao3 is such a surreal experience

just read the tags of a fic and scrolled past it like it didn't give me 30 psychic damage and made me lose my faith in humanity

Party mean girls shit talking everyone in elvish

who do we serve here ? — anyone who seeks escapism is welcome at bar lupin. would you like your drink strong and bitter, or disgustingly sweet and light?

 what is this place ? — formiito's very own establishment of disillusioned lovers and poets. feel free to look around.

❥・my name is formiito, the writer behind these fanfics. bar lupin themed blog, though not solely restricted to bungou stray dogs. i take requests for resident evil, bg3 and may yap about other fandoms too. find me on discord as @ chococoa.a

❥・ my carrd

❥・ theme by the lovely @seldomstardom

❝ — to the stray dogs! ❞

i. MASTERLIST   ii. RULES iii. AO3

REQUESTS ARE CLOSED for all characters.

I'm proud to reveal that the Baldur's Gate stickers are for sale on my shop (please don't laugh at it, I'm still new at Big Cartel). I have about 20 stickers for each companion at the moment!

You can buy yours here

There was an attempt with these product images orz

Companion stickers coming soon!

Today I saw it in the store and couldn't help but buy it lol

y'all imma say something for my fellow bg3 and arcane lovers

did the scene with viktor and jayce at the end resemble the gale sex scene for you too or am i delusional

cause

I mean...

>rises from my grave<

Hey did you guys know I still draw sometimes? Anyway. Have my durge from BG3 (uncolored bc fuck that); the Great Old One Warlock named Chorus. They are a tiefling in game but I like to think of them as a unicorn. Them in game under the cut (I do use a few appearance mods):

And then while I'm stuttering and panicking, Astarion just waltzes up, stands next to them with his arms also crossed, and with the biggest smarmiest grin says "Yes, darling, tell us. Who is Astarion?"

All I can think about is Fenris and Solas glaring at me, arms crossed, demanding that I explain exactly who this "Astarion" is that they've heard so much about

All I can think about is Fenris and Solas glaring at me, arms crossed, demanding that I explain exactly who this "Astarion" is that they've heard so much about

All of the above.

I also want to add that it is extremely unnecessary to tag your main character as being in a relationship with every other character if it's not a massive poly situation.

For example: if your fic is Tav/Astarion, you don't need to also tag it as Tav/Shadowheart Tav/Gale Tav/Wyll Tav/Karlach etc etc. If you want to indicate that those characters will be in the fic, you can tag with just their names or with Tav & [character].

There is an issue in this community with misstagged fics on AO3, specifically in the FxF tags. I don't know if it's going to reach the actual people or not but I'm still going to put this here:

A lot of MxM and FxM are tagging FxF ships in the main relationship category despite the ship itself only being written in the background.

Which is a problem because when you go into your ship tag to find fics of your ship, a ridiculous amount of them are off topic. And while yes you can lower that amount significantly by filtering and tag exclusion, AO3 has a built in feature that is made to avoid this.

I am going to use the Shadowzel tag for that because it's the most popular FxF ship on there and it's also one of the most misstagged rn. As of right now, there is 607 fics in the Shadowzel tag without filter. If you restrict the search to only include FxF, you are down to 397 fics. That is more than a third gone!

And it gets rid of some shadowzel content as well, so it's either you filter that out or you have to scroll through a tag where 1 out of 3 fics are about Astarion, Gale, Halsin, etc instead of the ship you looked up.

If your fic, let's take for example a Tav x Astarion, has either consistent mention of Shadowheart x Lae'zel, the most popular wlw ship, or has them in the background as support characters, or even just mentions them as a funny little wink and you want to make sure your readers know they are in here, you do not use the relationship tag! You go down to the additional tags and add "Minor Lae'zel/Shadowheart (Baldur's Gate)".

Unless the pairing you are tagging is the main focus or have a significant role and spotlight on them, you should not use the relationship tag! It clogs the feed for no reason, AO3 is not a website where you have to advertise your posts to the most tags possible.

Adding a visual for clarity:

Baldur's Gate 3 has me in its unrelenting grip. I am obsessed.

Especially with the problematic king himself, Enver Gortash.

I love him. I want him as a romance option for both Durge and Tav. I want my Durge to reunite with the lover she can't remember. I want Tav to drag that man kicking and screaming through his redemption arc.

Tavtash is definitely my preference out of the two. Because god forbid I just have a normal ship with an abundance of fic. No, of course not. My dumbass has to go running for a rare pair.

And on that note, I really need fic writers to remember that Durge is not Tav!! They are not the same. Durge can be evil or good. Tav can also be evil or good. But they are fundamentally different characters regardless of how you play or write them.

So, please, please please please stop using Tavtash tags for Durgetash. I keep getting so excited that there's finally another piece of Tavtash content, only to find that it's actually Durge.

I like Durge, and I like Durgetash, and I will still enjoy Durgetash content. But y'all are getting my hopes up and then crushing them. So please stop using Tavtash tags for Durgetash content.