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Just Ma 🦑 @inemperorsname.bsky.social · Jul 24

That's great, thank you so much, @scottjosephuk.bsky.social😭
I never thought I would be able to get your autograph, but wonders sometimes happen.
@ashlynnaska.bsky.social, you are my greatest ally. Without you, I would not have this autograph. Thank you.
And you too, @justanorart.bsky.social

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Just Ma 🦑 @inemperorsname.bsky.social · 8h

Sometimes he starts talking to objects just to drown out another voice in his head. Loud and furious. Not Illithidian, more like a childish one.

Xal hates being alone with himself. He needs a partner.

Just Ma 🦑 @inemperorsname.bsky.social · 8h

#TavQOTD

When no one is looking, he can take off all his masks. But when he takes off all his masks, his past begins to haunt him, filling every spare space in his mind. It's... painful, exhausting. This is not the kind of pain he likes. Once again, he begins to regret not having lost his memories.

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Just Ma 🦑 @inemperorsname.bsky.social · 10h

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AY YOLA - Homay (Премьера клипа 2025). Официальный клип / Official music video

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Just Ma 🦑 @inemperorsname.bsky.social · 10h

Now the light is flashing, and I can hear distant bangs from drones being shot down, and once again I don't care.
When you live in complete uncertainty about the next day for years, your psyche goes into complete stupor.

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Just Ma 🦑 @inemperorsname.bsky.social · 10h

I never thought I would get used to drones exploding above my roof, but it seems I've become indifferent to it lately.
A drone that had recently been shot down crashed into a boiler house near my house. I didn't even feel anything when I saw it.

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Just Ma 🦑 @inemperorsname.bsky.social · 11h

Their common lore, how their canons intertwine, is simply a reflection of the wonders that have been happening to me this year thanks to @ashlynnaska.bsky.social.
It's a wonder, you're a wonder, Ash ❤️

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Just Ma 🦑 @inemperorsname.bsky.social · 11h

It is surprisingly easy for you two to communicate with each other and find common interests.
That's us. That's our story.
Xal and Ayumu just made this process even more enjoyable.

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Just Ma 🦑 @inemperorsname.bsky.social · 11h

And then suddenly a complete unknown person enters your life, a person with whom you are separated by miles, other countries and a language barrier. This person LIKES your character and specifically you as a person.

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Just Ma 🦑 @inemperorsname.bsky.social · 11h

#tavqotd

Ayumu, of course. Ayumu and her creator.
Actually, it's not even about Xal.

Imagine that you are writing some nonsense about your character for tavqotd.
Not for anyone else, but for yourself. It is your therapy. You are not expecting anyone to like your character.

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Just Ma 🦑 @inemperorsname.bsky.social · 12h

I was so hoping that Secret Level would be as interesting a project as RIR & LD&R, but it turned out to be beautiful but boring crap. What a shame.
But The Outer Worlds is actually quite good. Forgotten Realms maybe too.

Just Ma 🦑 @inemperorsname.bsky.social · 12h

Time to rewatch 💥

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Just Ma 🦑 @inemperorsname.bsky.social · 12h

I'm still waiting for something like this:

a cat is laying on top of a person in a bed .

ALT: a cat is laying on top of a person in a bed .

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Just Ma 🦑 @inemperorsname.bsky.social · 13h

Same. I was absolutely certain that I would never find anyone who would like Xal, because he is... peculiar. More than peculiar.
I have never written anything for the sake of having someone appreciate my writing, because my writing is my therapy. It is quite personal.
But... here we are.

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Flowlithid @sunaiadarts.bsky.social · 22h

Hi #PortfolioDay! Flowlithid here, a digital artist passionate about dramatic scenes, moody narratives & comic art styles; Focus on Illithid/monster-leaning characters & BG3 fanart.

Portfolio: cara.app/sunaiadarts/...

#BG3 #illithid #illithidoc #mindflayer #mindflayeroc #ocsky #D&D #digitalart

Digital comic style drawing of the Emperor from BG3 floating over a cobblestone ledge; portals around him open as versions of him from cyberpunk, steampunk, desert apocalypse and Lovecraftian universes join his side. The sky is overcast in red with the silhouettes of nautiloids in the clouds, and ember sparks float in the air.

Digital drawings with 4 mind flayers, one looking futuristic and cybernetic, another in a suit, top hat and brassy mantle. A mechanical intellect devourer flies out with him. Another one looking like someone out of the Mad Max series, and the other in a disheveled suit, a mad, haunted look, a ghostly crest and shadowy hands. Behind him is an ominous city with Lovecraftian motifs.

3 digital drawings: left is a brown-skinned mind flayer in elaborate orange robe and messenger pigeons; middle is a dragonborn ink drawing, right is a pirate tiefling with their illithid form.

Image collage of three illustrated scenes.

Left is a low angle POV of a towering, fearsome ulitharid in black and purple armor strides towards a barricade, flanked by armored ulitharids. Two are about to cast something, and the bezerker is charging forward. Behind them are silhouettes of countless illithids. They are all getting shot at, but the bullets/blasts have no effect. Behind them, a lightning storm forms an ominous circle in the sky.

Middle is two illithids composed like Bouguereau's "Abduction of Psyche."

Right is a green skinned mind flayer in an elaborate dress.

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Ash @ashlynnaska.bsky.social · 16h

#TavQOTD

My Ayumu meeting @inemperorsname.bsky.social's Xal in a dream earlier this year and all that was born from it (like Ma's renders of them ❤️🤍)
I didn't expect the remarkable natural synergy these two have together, nor our two universes becoming one. It was unexpected, but so very welcome.

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Ash @ashlynnaska.bsky.social · 1d

#TavQOTD

No, no mercy. Orin's betrayal caused Ayumu to lose most memories; it's why she still has to painstakingly recover fragments of her past bit by bit now that she can do so as an Illithid.
Besides, Orin was an obstacle between Ayumu's and the Emperor’s chance at freedom, so Ayumu killed her.

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Just Ma 🦑 @inemperorsname.bsky.social · 22h

update

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Just Ma 🦑 @inemperorsname.bsky.social · 23h

Somehow, my Emperor meme gained 1.3 upvotes, this is only possible on okbuddybaldur though

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해유/하늘🦑 @dlruddp1.bsky.social · 1d

뽀뽀

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Scott Joseph (VO Studio) @scottjosephuk.bsky.social · 1d

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#baldursgate3 #baldursgate3fanart #mindflayer #illithid

A detailed illustration in black and white by artist Will Stanley of The Emperor, a character from the RPG game Baldur's Gate 3. The Emperor's skin is dark grey, their head resembles a squid; it's pointed at the top, has soft bulbous sides. Their brow is prominent above the eyes which stare out intensely. The lower half of their face is predominantly 4 long tentacles. The Emperor is wearing impressive spiky armour that is detailed with grey ridging and fans out behind their head and shoulders. This artwork, depicts The Emperor looming over a darkly hooded human figure bottom left and the artist's Tav for the game, an elven-looking figure with long flowing light hair, pointed ear and intricate armour.

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Just Ma 🦑 @inemperorsname.bsky.social · 1d

This is what a nervous breakdown looks like 💊

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Ash @ashlynnaska.bsky.social · 1d

#TavQOTD

This shot is very Ayumu. Beautiful, but in a dark, otherworldly, unsettling way. Something surreal, crazy, maybe off-putting that you don’t quite know what to do with, but can’t stop staring at.
At least that's the madness I feel when I write Ayumu and part of why she remains on my mind 🖤

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Ash @ashlynnaska.bsky.social · 1d

#TavQOTD

To forever exist in a state of consciousness or be trapped in a reality where everything and everyone dear to her has ceased to exist, only she remains. Where there is nothing and will never be anything again, just despair and loneliness gradually eating away at what remains of Ayumu.

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Ash @ashlynnaska.bsky.social · 1d

#TavQOTD

Ayumu is an "I sleep and wake whenever the fuck my chronically restless mind and busy schedule let me"-person. Her sleep pattern, if it can even be called that, is just chaos and all over the place. Always has been. She's very used sleeping little and has learned to function well this way.

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Ash @ashlynnaska.bsky.social · 1d

#TavQOTD

Bhaal was a special case of creationary fuckery that made Ayumu near unable to resist his possessions. Other than that, as a Gith, she was innately very resistant to general mind control, even moreso after being tadpoled and the more her aberrant side manifested. Not fully immune, though.

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