Elminster rockin his new outfit ✨

Thank you @lowrifaberart for that amazing tweet

@elminster-big-naturals

Just a reminder that Neil Newbon is an actor with boundaries and he has made it very clear that he doesn't want to be see *as* Astarion

He wants to ensure that all actors and writers and artists involved in development of BG3 are recognized for their work and contributions, he knows he's the "face" of popularity right now but please do watch his reactions so far and take care when you're in his chat rooms/ordering on cameo/engaging with him at conventions.

He's incredibly professional but has boundaries and has been needing to enforce them fairly strongly recently, and while I'm sure he can hold his own it's important to be a respectful fan. I get that people can get overwhelmed, they really adore his work, but he is a married man with a child and many characters he has played/will play in future and he deserves to be spoken to respectfully.

There's been a few instances where I've seen him become visibly uncomfortable during streams or Q&A at conventions and I know the people who need to hear this aren't reading this, but your feelings aren't more important than his comfort.

So reign it in, tone it down, be respectful and recognize that this human being isn't your blorbo, he is a man trying to do his job

there are people memeing about this and people posting about the true nature of war and both are correct

mutuals if this site gets deleted you can come over to my house if you want

can i be real? i think ao3 should die for doing a donation pool for themselves with everything going on

and let me say this if it isn't obvious. if youre donating, i think youre a bad person

#i was literally thinking about this today#they have a MASSIVE amount of users and... they decide they need donations. ignore the palestine thing happening theyre more important#apparently#reblog

I understand that you're 22 and corporate internet is all you've ever known, but you need to know that users COST sites money.

The sole case when users do not cost sites money is when 1) users are constantly shown ads, 2) users' private data is being harvested and sold to advertisers.

AO3 does not do either of those things. It was its mission upon being founded to not do either of those things. And thus, we have twice-yearly donation drives. Every year. Yes, every year. Even that year. Even the April and October of the pandemic, even the Aprils and the Octobers of mass BLM movements, even the April after Ukraine was invaded, and yes, even this October. It's not "failing to read the room". It's called maintenance costs and being an ad-free NGO that doesn't monetise its users.

I genuinely hops this helps.

I need young people to realize that when you say "AO3 should just make money like social media sites do rather than running donation drives" what you are actually suggesting is "AO3 should sell detailed and privacy-violating data on the porn consumption habits of its users to ad companies in order to make a quick and easy buck." That's what you're suggesting when you push for that.

This is like if you looked at Wikipedia and said "Why are they asking for donations? They could just charge people and companies money to be able to rewrite their Wikipedia pages to say whatever they want about their brands!"

I mean, yeah? They could sell out their fundamental mission and all of their core userbase in order to squeeze some money out of advertising and general enshittification. They could do that. Do you really want them to? Really? Is the little donation banner (which I assume you never bother to click on anyway) really so annoying to you that you'd rather the site just sucks forever (but without needing donations, I guess)? Call me out of touch, but somehow I doubt that any of you advocating for that sort of thing would actually want the inevitable results.

instead of killing myself i will watch documentary about the ocean

some big guys down there. Huge. they don't know about the economy

Steal his look: Gale of Waterdeep

@time-monster take your pick

You can't convince me that Astarion has never pissed off Gale by insisting he knows magic too, and performing the most dork ass slight of hand magic tricks you've ever seen.

I literally mean this btw

No fancy actual magic tricks, man's pulling coins from behind ears

#gale woudl be so fucking annoyed #just like pitching a fit like i've SEEN you do magic astarion #and astarion's like of course I can do magic darling i'm doing it right now #is this your card? (@rukafais)