Before lights and filters.

the particle gizmos were an adventure. At some point, the invisibility ironically disappeared. Fine, the music notes should still be visible if I hide the gizmos out of sight. Then, they glitched in and out of existence. Then, the music turned black. And finally, they disappeared forever.

Science!

#bg3vp

I keep forgetting that I can push characters around in the game itself with LL. Then, I remember, and want to see if I can cross a chasm without them glitching out of existence. If it works, I'm like, ok, what now? I have no plan for this whatsoever...

Eh, as long as it gloooows I'm good 😁

100% something he's not supposed to do, like the feisty stray cat he is 🤨😄

but him with lasting injuries and (normal) scars, including his parents. It marked and scarred him in more than one way.

People usually mistake it for a tattoo and he doesn't correct them.

counts as a scar might be debatable. However, it appeared on his face and around his eyes after he attempted to cast a spell for the first time when he was a small child. The uncontrollable overflow of arcane power leveled a house and almost killed everyone inside, leaving everyone

#tavqotd #dylanlore

D'ylân has two scars with stories that are worth remembering, for better or worse.

The small one on his lip is a souvenir from when he was a rowdy, angsty teen committing vandalism, and a hard punch split his lip and put him back on track.

Whether his facial mark

Historians will debate forever what D figured out about Astarion first: that he was a vampire spawn outside his usual habitat or a cunt 😁

#sanguinesonata #bg3vp

July 2025 vs April 2026 (lights on/off + minor changes/edits)

You do you, Astarion, but maybe, just maybe, if you snarled less at folks you unfairly judge as evil, it'd have taken the big, scary guy five minutes longer to confirm his suspicions about what you really are 🙄

#sanguinesonata #bg3vp

I could work on that pile of ideas for new VP images.

Or I could just retake some old ones because, why not 😄

Topic: first (technically 2nd) encounter.

July 2025 vs October 2025 vs April 2026 (lights off/on)

Can't say I'm 100% satisfied with everything, but at least, I now have updated versions with the new horns and more proper hair and head tilts to go with the fic (shit, I have to update the horn description in my fics, too. Alas, the consequences of my own decisions 😩)

#sanguinesonata #bg3vp

July 2025 vs April 2026 (lights on/off + minor changes/edits)

You do you, Astarion, but maybe, just maybe, if you snarled less at folks you unfairly judge as evil, it'd have taken the big, scary guy five minutes longer to confirm his suspicions about what you really are 🙄

#sanguinesonata #bg3vp

I could work on that pile of ideas for new VP images.

Or I could just retake some old ones because, why not 😄

Topic: first (technically 2nd) encounter.

July 2025 vs October 2025 vs April 2026 (lights off/on)

Don't underestimate the raw power of a classic keyboard smashing! 😁

Quick render. Needed them having a moment ⚘️

#Thunderforge #rolan #dammon
#bg3dammon #bg3Rolan #bg3queer #baldursgate3 #bg3 #3drender #blender #blender3d #render #bg33d #3dart

Inside the House of Healing in Act 2. A tiefling stands by the bedside of Arabella's dead parents, looking at them with a sorrowful expression. In the background, the rest of the team has already moved on from the sight. Durge and Gale inspect the room together, and Astarion pilfers a chest.

"The important moral of my little story is that you live through this unique moment of absolute despair only once. It won't be the last time you feel desperate and hopeless, and maybe you wish you could just run away and die in the sun to make it all stop. But nothing is like that first time, when you learn that it is possible to feel this lost, that there can be so much crushing dread. It feels like the end of it all, and it destroys something in you that can be destroyed only once. I was there. And now, I'm here!" "That you are."

The small graveyard next to the Last Light Inn. Two fresh graves have joined the soil. They're piles of rubble, each with a roughly cut piece of wood as a gravemarker. A lantern stands between the markers, illuminating the spot. Between the two graves sits a teddy bear holding a bouquet of wilted flowers. Across the yard, Dylan sits on a ledge, elbows on his knees, head on his hands. He stares at the two graves. His hair is undone and falls over his back and shoulders and into his face. Behind him stands Astarion, in his camp pants and wearing Dylan's camp shirt. He has his arms crossed and looks at Dylan with a light frown. He also carries Dylan's violin that he had 'stolen' from Dylan's deserted tent. The scenery is dark and rather bleak, with the lantern and a torch being the only small sources of warm light. The background shows the dome that protects the Last Light Inn.

#bg3fic #sanguinesonata #bg3queer
3,543 words
cw: canonical character death

archiveofourown.org/works/81954386

The deaths of Arabella's parents out of their control finally shatter D'ylân's seemingly unbreakable optimism.

Since sad bards are depressing, Astarion talks him through his feelings.

#dylanlore #tavqotd

Aesthetics was tough, as searching for 'soft cosy bdsm aesthetic' didn't yield the results I had hoped for 😩 But, a cosy, clean tent will also do 😁

Artwork of our OC Dylan Newman by my friend, blastedking.tumblr.com/ (or universelawoffire.com)

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Thank you 😄Still funny to me how well that one turned out when it was just a spontaneous idea that happened while strolling through a new map.

Another funny thing to me is the last image, and how much better the ghostly parents come across as ghostly in black and white, compared to the original 😁

#tavqotd #AvariceOC #BG3 #Tav #Durge

Avarice has so many outfits, usually over accessorized since he is a greedy guts. He runs hot, so it isn't usual for him to wear anything too heavy or bulky, unless he absolutely loves how it looks on him.

𝐌𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬 🫶🏼

Rolan wearing fancy tail accessories is 🤌🏼

#Thunderforge #rolan #dammon
#bg3dammon #bg3Rolan #bg3queer #baldursgate3 #bg3 #bg3vp #bg3virtualphotography #virtualphotography

Weird night. I fell asleep at 8:30pm (not like me at all) & woke up at 2:30am, couldn't get back to sleep so I sketched a pose reference for an artist I'm commissioning.

I know I'm ovulating when have 1000 ideas for NSFW comms out of nowhere 🫠

Have a great Friday 💜

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐦 💜

These will probably get compressed here, but I love them and flowers 🥺 needed something romantic today.

#Thunderforge #rolan #dammon
#bg3dammon #bg3Rolan #bg3queer #baldursgate3 #bg3 #bg3vp #bg3virtualphotography #virtualphotography

Value check!

Let's see some of your favourite VP in black and white 🖤🤍

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Could be worse, I suppose 😄

#bg3vp #sanguinesonata #bg3queer

Value check! 😬

Let's see some of your favourite VP in black and white 🖤🤍

I usually end up editing most of my VP in black and white, but added a couple that I edited in colour originally 😬🤷‍♀️

#bg3 #bg3vp #virtualphotography #rolan #dammon #thunderforge

It's been a couple of days, and I still don't know for sure if this moment happened after they did ✦*͙*𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼~♥, before they did ✦*͙*𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼~♥, or both 😏

#tavqotd #bg3vp #dylanlore

D'ylân had caught glimpses of the Underdark before and wished his first long stay with strong companions had been under different circumstances.

He respects its dangers, but mostly, he's fascinated by its magical, often haunting, always inspiring beauty.

He'll return.

I bring a sort of Forbidden Vibe to InternalServerError that Rate Limit Exceeded don't really like

trying to post through it rn

... no idea why the preview pulls my previous fandom info, when I changed it to BG3 in all possible ways I can think of a bit ago oO

Eh, not a big deal, just one of those weird things today.

Fics & Mayhem HQ fan account, mostly but not limited to krtsk, ushiten, bokuaka, kghn AO3

Bsky keeps misbehaving today, and maybe nobody will see it thanks to that, but here's my tumblr!

Currently not super active, but I've made it a habit lately to check it daily. So, it's a way to stay in contact when things over here are slow or crash completely 😄

bluewhispersandabsinth.tumblr.com

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