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In response to this post, incognitajones said:

I like the sound of Azruphel! Is she in any of the Silm fic you’ve published?

I replied:

Thanks! She’s in the first of my Númenórean lady academics fics here, in the sequel here, in a brief fic with @kareenvorbarra’s Catairë here, in Longing is upon us (an actual title appears!), and in a post-Downfall fic here. So it’s pretty scattered, but there’s a sort of arc.

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I’m watching SW+This is War vids again (I…used to have a spreadsheet for these) and it’s just such a good match up!

#however i stand by my opinion that luke is 'the victor' and ANAKIN is 'the messiah' #but still!!! nearly all of them are just distilled AHHHHH STAR WARS!!!! feelings #i just watched one that actually had a ton of rogue one clips and :') #saw gerrera as 'the soldier' was perfect! #and another that was just for the prequels (it works best with ot+pt imo) but it was really beautiful #and multiple ones used jyn and cassian for 'to the edge of the earth' :( #(but rightly!!!)

BG3: headcanon for Larissa's cleric of Mystra deal

I guess my BG3 custom character headcanons could be de-canonized in-game, but I doubt it, so here's one for Larissa:

She loves magic. She always has. Her parents are both spellcasters (her father a less-obnoxious-than-usual sun elf, her mother a human sorcerer) and she grew up with magic all around her. She's longed to have magical power for as long as she can remember.

...but she's also always been bad at it. Really bad. After years of practice with her father, she managed to learn exactly one(1) cantrip—and while the ability to summon fire felt like a great achievement at the time, she couldn't do anything else no matter how hard she studied, how much she learned, how much she practiced.

But her fascinated study of magic and its lore took on an increasingly spiritual awe, and she developed an intense devotion to Mystra, goddess of magic. She swore herself to Mystra's service and as one of her priests, worked steadily towards greater knowledge, greater understanding of the mysteries of the world, greater preservation of magical lore, and over time, Larissa became one of the sages at her temple.

And she still sucked at magic.

She's personally kind and caring, if a little abrupt, but at heart, she longed to be acknowledged as one of the most devoted, most respected, most learned, most favored of Mystra's priests. Yet her near-total lack of facility with magic made it clear to her that she was not particularly favored.

Still, she continued to faithfully serve her goddess—and a year before the BG3 story begins, Mystra herself appeared to her in a dream and granted Larissa her blessing.

Larissa wasn't sure what that would mean until she woke to light flickering around her hands—and a distant sense of approval and power. She still can't use magic the way her parents can, can't feel the Weave properly: but when she prays, Mystra answers. In her thirty-nine years, Larissa has never felt anything to compare with the sensation of divine power flowing through her, and her devotion to Mystra has never been stronger.

what could go wrong

BG3: tagging update/woes

I switched my BG3 tag from game: baldur's gate 3 to fandom: baldur's gate 3, because it's clearly a fandom for me and I have a separate gaming tag I can tack on. But in general, I tag by the "master" fandom (Middle-earth for all Tolkien stuff rather than individual tags for LOTR, the Silm, etc, fandom: austen rather than pride and prejudice, etc) and it really is part of the wider D&D or at least Forgotten Realms material. But it'd be a pain to add a master fandom tag to all 77(!) of my BG3 posts, and it is kind of its own thing, so I went with the easy route of just renaming the tag (though the inconsistency in my system pains me!!).

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In response to this post, mirandatam at Tumblr said:

ooh I’d love to see a post that had a bunch of those on it so I could go through and give myself emotions too

I replied:

I made one back in 2014! I really should update it, though.

[ETA 10/23/2023: I did put together a cleaner version later on.]

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Another meme! Tagged by lantur :)

Three ships: Darcy/Elizabeth, peak OTP for all time; Jyn/Cassian from Rogue One, the only SW ship that matters; (bookverse) Aragorn/Faramir, and I know no one ships it but I ship it enough for multiple people.

Last song: a friend just sent me Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, which is super gorgeous and cinematic.

Last movie: TROS! Eh.

Currently reading: The Aeneid by Virgil for my exams. Definitely one of the funner pieces!

Currently watching: Nothing, really. I don’t watch a lot of TV, especially not full episodes, so I just periodically go to YT and watch clips of things I like.

Currently consuming: my morning cup of loose leaf chai :)

Currently craving: the rice pudding from yesterday.

Tagging: the usual suspects!

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I just completed a module that’s like … part of the problem with self-plagiarism is that you may not actually own your research!

That’s pretty much academia in a nutshell.

#i got a hundred percent on the module and felt vaguely dirty about it

BG3: cleric time [crosspost]

The party got to the dank crypt (...sounds delightful) and Larissa earnestly tried to persuade ( Read more... )

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Anyway, shout-out to the people responding to my old ace!Luke post. It’s now replaced some deeply irritating stuff on my activity bar, so I see the responses and appreciate them! :)

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I reblogged a gifset from mechaniicreyes, of Jyn and Cassian circling each other in the Massassi Base hangar, subtitled "Day One: Moment They Became Your OTP."

I said:

#heeeh! #i shipped them well before that but it is the Peak Moment #some very platonic looks there jkakjdakjfa