Ariadne @ariadne45.bsky.social · 15/10/2026It’s the people who jump onto any post about Astarion in a fan forum to say, “I kill him on every run” like how a certain kind of asshole reacts to pictures of a pet snake or spider. 300
Ariadne @ariadne45.bsky.social · 14/10/2026As a fan, I assume that you did this accidentally. WoTC did you dirty here. You missed some very important stuff in casual play. Please stop mocking legit criticism as just crazy fangirls and their headcannon. Ignore it or engage authentically with how you botched this. We’re in our 40s, come on. 1530
Ariadne @ariadne45.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Morning. WoTC seem to have decided a queer, male, sex-trafficking survivor is more marketable as a perpetrator than a victim in the established hunting dynamic. They appear to be right bcs #rapeculture They used you to do it. I’m protecting my joy be entreating you to stop caping so hard for them. 1230
Ariadne @ariadne45.bsky.social · 13/10/2026@tkingfisher.com see, this is the kind of DARVO behavior being encouraged in your mentions. 110
Ariadne @ariadne45.bsky.social · 13/10/2026BlueSky is straw-manning and bringing you cherry-picked, out-of-context criticism to paint fans as crazy fangirls. Misogynistic “Stake Bros” are doubling down on framing fans as being too stupid to recognize when an abuser is lying to them.The book directly contradicts most of what is shown in-game 930
Ariadne @ariadne45.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I think a lot of the confusion is about why the only indication that Cazador has a preference for hunting by seduction is in the context of Astarion losing Cazador’s sexual interest when he stops doing it. Which is a desirable outcome from his perspective. 010
Ariadne @ariadne45.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Thank you for engaging and I’m sorry you’re being attacked. You deserve full context. These replies where you’re filling in your own headcannon for major things established in the game make it hard to defend you here.The discourse is fueling the already toxic attitude towards fans of the character. 830
Ariadne @ariadne45.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The book would not be recognizable as a BG3 tie-in if you changed the names. I found it extremely difficult to read because of the sheer number and scale of inconsistencies. And I was really trying. youtu.be/ogJlX8v9Bps?...youtu.beEvery Single Thing The Astarion Book Gets Wrong (it's a lot)YouTube video by Vating 211
Ariadne @ariadne45.bsky.social · 13/10/2026He’s not the only source of that information. Forced mind reading and the omniscient narrator in the game are lying now? The rats are lying?I’m tired of this condescending misogynistic BS towards Astarion fans (sorry “Astarion girlies”) I’m just sad that one of my fav authors has fueled it so much. 410
Ariadne @ariadne45.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It is not fannon that the spawn were required to seduce and fuck their victims.It is in dialogue with multiple characters as well as written documents, skill checks and from the omniscient narrator. It is fannon that Cazador raped them and gifted them to allies.The reason is left for interpretation. 100
Ariadne @ariadne45.bsky.social · 13/10/2026WoTC really fucked you over by leaving you to invent character motivations where they are already clearly established and central to Astarion’s trauma. I understand you are legally bound not to disparage them. I’m begging you to engage with the fan grievances with more empathy and sincerity. 240
Ariadne @ariadne45.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I’m sorry, if that’s what you intended to write. Why did your Astarion choose seduction? Dufay isn’t their servant. He is their pimp. He instructs them all on who and how to hunt. They are fed only vermin and live together in the spawn dormitory. This is all explicit from multiple sources in game. 340
Ariadne @ariadne45.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Do you understand why changing the forced prostitution dynamic, in the way that you did, is upsetting people? In-game, being made to seduce Cazador’s victims is hugely traumatic. He has to role deception to tell Sebastian he found him attractive. Cazador raping him and giving him to allies is fannon 160
Ariadne @ariadne45.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I’m talking about direct, glaring contradictions with things the player is explicitly shown in the game over hundreds of lines of dialogue with multiple characters as well as in the physical environment and interactive items. Not “how I imagined it”. 300
Ariadne @ariadne45.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Yeah, that’s why I didn’t believe early ARC reviewers. And had to make a BlueSky account to see these replies for myself. WoTC has a long history of mishandling tie-ins but I thought Ursula was better than this. 100
Ariadne @ariadne45.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I don’t know who this is intended for. I believe she played. But I can’t make a case that she ever played his questline. It is not credible. There are too many direct contradictions with what we see in the game. Whatever continuity editors saw this, they didn’t care about BG3 continuity. 400
Ariadne @ariadne45.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Ursula, respectfully, the fact that Cazador’s spawn were required to seduce and fuck most, if not all, of his victims is not about “my expectations”. It is impossible to miss. Changing Astarion from an unwilling perpetrator of Cazador’s sexual violence into a willing agent of it is grotesque. 9120
Ariadne @ariadne45.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Look, I literally could not believe the screenshots without creating a BlueSky acct and seeing for myself. I could rationalize the book itself. You trusted WoTC to give you appropriate guardrails. But why are you doubling down and mocking legitimate backlash? I can’t defend this. We trusted you. 860
Ariadne @ariadne45.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Are you this committed to baiting Ursula into publicly humiliating herself? No one who played the game believes she played it after reading that book. But these replies? My god. I’ll grant she just skipped his quest. But it’s hard to defend at this point. What do you get out of this troll behavior? 910
Ariadne @ariadne45.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Ursula, as a fan, PLEASE listen to what fans are actually saying and not these cherry-picked strawman arguments. Your reputation will not recover from this. WoTC do not GAF about the character lore. You did not learn the basics of this character & it shows. The hedonistic, charming rake is a mask. 1570
