Rather Nice May Day
May. 1st, 2026 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickThe weather was pretty good -- mostly sunny and in the 60s; Dad got a good report from the doctors today when he got his immunotherapy (the tumors have shrunk a lot...though he's got some shit going on with his neck that nobody can figure out, to everyone's frustration); and -- despite my period attempting to fuck with my brain -- I accomplished pretty much everything I wanted to get done:
Tumblr: Well, I technically had something going on on both my tumblrs today, but I wasn’t able to get to the ask over on Valice Multiverse in time – it’s just going to have to wait until tomorrow. However, over on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler), I got some stuff done – specifically, I spent the time before lunch working on the “Valicer In The Dark Meets Baldur’s Gate III Not-Incorrect Quotes/Shitpost Collection Volume 3” post in my drafts! Because, well, I’d like to finish it sometime this century. XD Today’s edits consisted of:
A) Revising the “Smiler tells Shadowheart never to tell Alice about Sharrans willingly giving up their memories in worship of their goddess” scene! Because when I watched a video showing off Shadowheart telling a Tav about Shar worship (mentioned way down below in the “YouTube” section), I discovered that Shadowheart never actually mentions Sharrans giving up their memories as worship, as I had her say in the original scene. The new version instead has Smiler spot the line about a Sharran Cleric willingly giving up her memories in the book “The Unclaimed” (which details how that same cleric was never actually claimed by Shar to join her in the afterlife when she died), ask Shadowheart about it – and, when she confirmed that some Sharrans do indeed wipe their minds as a sign of devotion, then telling her that Alice can never learn that or she’d try to kill Shar. :p (Honestly, I think we should let Alice have a crack at the goddess – badass as she is, she’d probably WIN.)
B) Writing up a scene where the Valicer trio smell something roasting in the tiefling camp, which Wyll confirms is rat – and getting super excited because they’ve missed a good rat skewer (with Alice admitting she’d started to think of Mr. Dibbler’s fare fondly). Cue an astonished Astarion being like “you ENJOY eating rat??” –
And Smiler telling him that rat is a pretty staple part of the Duskwallian diet, because “we don’t have these ‘cows’ you have, remember?” Astarion admitted he’d forgotten how weird their world was for a moment, and Alice told him, “If you think eating rat is weird, remind us to tell you about surprise loaf sometime.” XD I REALLY wanted to do a scene with the gang weirding at least one of the native BG3ers out with their love of eating rat, and this was the best way I could think of to do it! (Especially since I’m pretty sure Astarion in particular would associate having to eat – or, in his case, drink – rats with being at a low point in your life…)
C) Revising the scene where Victor ends up saving not only Mirkon, but Alice and Smiler (and the rest of the struggling party) from the Harpies’ song by unleashing his own Leviathan-summoning song on them – this one didn’t see any major changes, I just tweaked things to flow better and added in a few more lines to really sell that poor Victor was the only one who was fully unaffected by the Harpy’s magic music...and to emphasize how ANGRY he was when he decided to show the Harpies how it felt to have someone sing a deadly song at you. Because this is DEFINITELY set after he nearly got lured off a dock by a leviathan in my head. The scene ends on a funny note (with Gale asking Wyll if that was Hadar, and Wyll emphatically replying “NO IT WAS NOT”), but I can assure you Victor has a breakdown immediately afterward!
D) And making one small change to the “Smiler asks Wyll about false eye care” after confirming I’d gotten the one canonical Wyll line I slipped in wrong – he welcomes Tavs who got an eye surgery to the “League of the Lone Eye,” not the “League of the One Eye” like I originally wrote. Gotta keep things accurate!
So that was good! Still gotta write up the scene where Smiler discovers their Volo-granted false eye can see invisible creatures, and revise the one where Smiler tells the Emperor “we don’t need you to channel the power of the Netherstones – we have Us,” but some solid progress was made today, hooray.
...and I'm sorry, the rest of it is going to have to be posted tomorrow, because it is 1:45 AM here and I am tired. *shakehead* It's frustrating, sometimes, how long it takes to write everything up... Though I'm almost done with both the BG3 session (short version: Karlach recruited, but my poor sense of direction meant no Paladin fight) and the writing session (short version: Slugs taken care of, gang looking for final tripwire). Just didn't have time to finish them because I was trying to juggle other things too! At least my goals for tomorrow are simple -- clean my room and catch up on some videos I want to watch (including the OXBox list, that bartender making Nuka-Cola, and -- if it's up -- the next CaFae Latte compilation). Night all!
Tumblr: Well, I technically had something going on on both my tumblrs today, but I wasn’t able to get to the ask over on Valice Multiverse in time – it’s just going to have to wait until tomorrow. However, over on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler), I got some stuff done – specifically, I spent the time before lunch working on the “Valicer In The Dark Meets Baldur’s Gate III Not-Incorrect Quotes/Shitpost Collection Volume 3” post in my drafts! Because, well, I’d like to finish it sometime this century. XD Today’s edits consisted of:
A) Revising the “Smiler tells Shadowheart never to tell Alice about Sharrans willingly giving up their memories in worship of their goddess” scene! Because when I watched a video showing off Shadowheart telling a Tav about Shar worship (mentioned way down below in the “YouTube” section), I discovered that Shadowheart never actually mentions Sharrans giving up their memories as worship, as I had her say in the original scene. The new version instead has Smiler spot the line about a Sharran Cleric willingly giving up her memories in the book “The Unclaimed” (which details how that same cleric was never actually claimed by Shar to join her in the afterlife when she died), ask Shadowheart about it – and, when she confirmed that some Sharrans do indeed wipe their minds as a sign of devotion, then telling her that Alice can never learn that or she’d try to kill Shar. :p (Honestly, I think we should let Alice have a crack at the goddess – badass as she is, she’d probably WIN.)
B) Writing up a scene where the Valicer trio smell something roasting in the tiefling camp, which Wyll confirms is rat – and getting super excited because they’ve missed a good rat skewer (with Alice admitting she’d started to think of Mr. Dibbler’s fare fondly). Cue an astonished Astarion being like “you ENJOY eating rat??” –
And Smiler telling him that rat is a pretty staple part of the Duskwallian diet, because “we don’t have these ‘cows’ you have, remember?” Astarion admitted he’d forgotten how weird their world was for a moment, and Alice told him, “If you think eating rat is weird, remind us to tell you about surprise loaf sometime.” XD I REALLY wanted to do a scene with the gang weirding at least one of the native BG3ers out with their love of eating rat, and this was the best way I could think of to do it! (Especially since I’m pretty sure Astarion in particular would associate having to eat – or, in his case, drink – rats with being at a low point in your life…)
C) Revising the scene where Victor ends up saving not only Mirkon, but Alice and Smiler (and the rest of the struggling party) from the Harpies’ song by unleashing his own Leviathan-summoning song on them – this one didn’t see any major changes, I just tweaked things to flow better and added in a few more lines to really sell that poor Victor was the only one who was fully unaffected by the Harpy’s magic music...and to emphasize how ANGRY he was when he decided to show the Harpies how it felt to have someone sing a deadly song at you. Because this is DEFINITELY set after he nearly got lured off a dock by a leviathan in my head. The scene ends on a funny note (with Gale asking Wyll if that was Hadar, and Wyll emphatically replying “NO IT WAS NOT”), but I can assure you Victor has a breakdown immediately afterward!
D) And making one small change to the “Smiler asks Wyll about false eye care” after confirming I’d gotten the one canonical Wyll line I slipped in wrong – he welcomes Tavs who got an eye surgery to the “League of the Lone Eye,” not the “League of the One Eye” like I originally wrote. Gotta keep things accurate!
So that was good! Still gotta write up the scene where Smiler discovers their Volo-granted false eye can see invisible creatures, and revise the one where Smiler tells the Emperor “we don’t need you to channel the power of the Netherstones – we have Us,” but some solid progress was made today, hooray.
...and I'm sorry, the rest of it is going to have to be posted tomorrow, because it is 1:45 AM here and I am tired. *shakehead* It's frustrating, sometimes, how long it takes to write everything up... Though I'm almost done with both the BG3 session (short version: Karlach recruited, but my poor sense of direction meant no Paladin fight) and the writing session (short version: Slugs taken care of, gang looking for final tripwire). Just didn't have time to finish them because I was trying to juggle other things too! At least my goals for tomorrow are simple -- clean my room and catch up on some videos I want to watch (including the OXBox list, that bartender making Nuka-Cola, and -- if it's up -- the next CaFae Latte compilation). Night all!
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Date: 2026-05-02 03:52 pm (UTC)Also, next season is up. Remember I said about the current arc not being done? Yeah, the season stops riiiight when it gets good lol.