Real Angela’s playthrough 11 – Euterpe

Character I wasn’t originally going to write this post, because how many playthroughs can one actually make a whole blog post about? But I went through all my screenshots to name them (since I use them in my worldbuilding posts or other critiques) and found myself laughing at some of them, so I figured I’d write a…

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Baldur’s Gate 3 – Playthrough 18 – Introduction

TL;DR: Go straight to part one. As Tolkien put it, "This tale grew in the telling." This is an introduction to my pictorial fanfic in general, and to the story I've prepared based on my eighteenth playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3. It consists of about 830 images, selected out of a pool of over 7500, with captions…

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Devora Wilde cameo

Last year, for Real Angela's birthday, I got her a cameo from Neil Newbon, the actor behind the character of Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3. This year (why mess with success?) I arranged for a cameo from Devora Wilde, the actor who supplied the voice and motion-capture for the character of Lae'zel. She provided a bright, cheery…

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More stuffed animal locations in BG3

Both Real Angela and I have continued to revised our stuffed-toy essays. For this post, please check the section "The task never ends!" for substantive edits I've made. Even before the fanfic, let's get this disclaimer out of the way: This essay is a supplement to Real Angela's excellent essay on stuffed bear locations in Baldur's Gate…

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A Windows hater buys a Windows machine

... or the origin of Jarvis. This is the follow-up post to the teaser I posted about three months ago. Why? Let's deal with the obvious question: I have a long-documented antipathy towards the Windows operating system. Why did I buy a Windows machine? If you've followed my blog posts, or looked at the tag cloud, or…

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