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i am once again reinventing the wheel by anonymousAlchemist, argonautix
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
17 Mar 2025
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It takes a few more loops to learn the right way to go about things. But death is a swift teacher, and oh, darling, do you learn. You memorize speeches, you memorize character quirks. You school your expressions. You modulate your voice. Eventually you play the companions well enough that they vote you leader as soon as they pitch the next campsite. But it’s not enough. Sometimes, staring up at the roof of your tent, you find yourself wondering how much of you is left when you die.
Are you really just meat? Or is it that you’re something else?
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OR: tav in this one: im BACK IN THE FUCKING BUILDING
in this world, there is no such thing as a resurrection scroll. sorry. suffer.Bookmarked by Trystamine
26 Dec 2025
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Slithering From Eden. by thedrowlock
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Stardew Valley (Video Game)
23 Jun 2024
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This started a little bit as a joke, but now the dark urge is living in Stardew valley and that probably won't go well. This is not a cute or fluffy fic, please be warned!
"Sometimes there is a painful urge inside you when you stare at your new friends, at their bright laughter and brighter smiles. An urge to tear them open, peel their skin from their bones, see what makes them tick. See if their blood smells as sweet as their sweat. You swallow this down because you do not know where it comes from, this brutality. And it worries you. Concerns you. This life is so peaceful. These people are so nice."
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07 Sep 2025
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“And you know what? You are right about one thing. I don’t look back on our days together. I don’t think of you when I have my lovely consort with me. You want to know about her? I’ll tell you about her. She’s nothing like you. She doesn’t sing those insufferable songs of yours all day. She doesn’t smell of mud and cheap taverns. She doesn’t make silly jokes and puns when I’m trying to have a serious conversation with the nobles. She is beautiful, elegant and supportive, the embodiment of all the good qualities of a Vampire Ascendant’s right hand. She’ll spend an eternity by my side and never once remind me of you.”
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Astarion ascended and wanted to turn you into his bride. You refused and left him.
Fifty years later, you find yourself back in Baldur's Gate once again and decide to go to a soiree held by Lord and Lady Ancunín.Bookmarked by Trystamine
06 Sep 2025
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Tav wakes injured, in pain, and surrounded by strangers. Lucky for her, she knows the city's escape routes and hideaways like the back of her hand—if only her hand would move at all, and if only her pursuer weren't so damned persistent.
Set early in Act 3.
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- Part 4 of Something Real
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02 Sep 2025
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Smug. Tall. And, unfortunately, immaculately beautiful in his strange, alien way. Good at acrobatics too, otherwise the ringmaster wouldn't be so forgiving over his wickedly temperamental diva behavior. Nothing is good enough for the star of the show, and since you're the only one with the balls to stand up to him, everyone (everyone!!!!!!!) comes to you when he causes problems. Which is often.
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26 Jun 2025
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Unraveling Plan Meet Immeasurable Insecurity by bg_brainrot
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
02 Mar 2024
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Gods. The idea thrills you as much as it scares you: you are actually going to propose to Astarion.
After years together, you and Astarion are practically already married. This is merely a formality in your mind. But of course, for a man like Astarion, it's a formality that means only the utmost effort must be put in.
The problem you're finding is that, after weeks of preparation and secretive planning, the man is being oddly distant. Distant and dismissive. It's almost as if he knows something is afoot, and he's utterly determined to make sure it doesn't happen.
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AKA: Wherein Astarion jumps to conclusions when all Tav wants to do is drop to one knee. Alternating Astarion and Tav POVs.
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- Part 22 of Love at First Knife
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03 Mar 2025
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Feign death is only supposed to last an hour.
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Tav goes down in a fight.
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- Part 20 of Madly
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14 Feb 2025
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When Helly fucks around, Helena finds out.
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14 Feb 2025
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Hermione wakes up beside Draco Malfoy and promptly tries to get rid of him. Draco has other ideas.
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02 Dec 2024
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“In my humble opinion there’s only three things that men should be and that is bloody, slutty, and pathetic.” And, on a good day, Draco Malfoy can be all three.
When war heroine Hermione Granger and Azkaban-tattooed war criminal Draco Malfoy are forced to wed as part of Shacklebolt’s controversial Reconciliation Act, they openly fight the match and each other—their public brawls breathlessly reported by the press.
Secretly, a deeply traumatized Draco delights in Hermione’s attention and pines for a real marriage with her—even as her forced proximity to the Black family magic irritates the cursed scar Bellatrix left on her arm, reminding her why she can never truly trust or forgive him. Then Hermione discovers that Draco’s blood will soothe the scar . . . and Draco is willing to trade his blood for her body.
(With post-war blood purity politics, black market potioneers, Pansy Parkinson’s career advice, the Malfoys blackmailing Hermione’s Wizengamot opposition, BDE Neville Longbottom hunting Death Eaters, a slutty Theo Nott serving as Draco’s right-hand man, and Crookshanks loose in Malfoy Manor.)
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- Part 1 of THE BLOODY, SLUTTY, AND PATHETIC SERIES
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02 Dec 2024
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For a few moments she struggled to disentangle herself, to remember which traumas were her own and which belonged to the man to whom she had offered her heart, to recall where D’ahtlana stopped and Astarion began. Yet even as she gathered up the pieces of her scattered mind, the screams that had echoed through the now severed connection persisted...
A trap discovered too late results in the Reithwin Mason's Guild being razed to the ground, entombing a certain vampire spawn in the rubble.
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01 Nov 2024
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Zuko goes into exile with a scar, a mission, and a wife.
The girl wears ill fitted ceremonial silks. She is too thin, with jutting bones and hollowed eyes. Dirt smudges her cheek. Her lower lip has a healing split in it. Gaudy as her finery is, she wears it like prisoner’s rags.
All of this Zuko registers in the time it takes him to reach the dais and bow. Every muscle aches with the remembrance of what happened the last time he knelt before Father. This time there is no begging, no roar of the crowd, no burning. Still—Zuko’s grateful to stand once more.
Slipping into soldier’s parade rest, he waits for what will come next, all too aware of the girl’s defiant body next to his.
“I am told that this is Katara of the Southern Water Tribe,” Father says, cruel amusement oiling his words. The phrasing makes the girl sound like a thing. “The last waterbender of their pathetic tribe.” Flames conceal all but his shadow, yet Zuko knows from long experience the exacting blade of his father’s smirk. The smirk he must surely wear now. Because he has built up his insult and now he lets it fall. “Your bride.”
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09 Sep 2024
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“You lied to me,” Astarion snarled.
“I needed you safe!” Tav snapped back, and immediately knew it was a mistake.
Tav doesn't make it to the ladder in time when the party escapes the Iron Throne, and he's left behind to drown. Astarion handles this as well as could be expected-- which is to say, terribly. In which dying actually has consequences, and caring about someone means their reckless disregard for their own well-being isn't that funny anymore.
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- Part 3 of Requiems and Recitatives
- Part 20 of Blood and Music (Tavran Gregory, Bard)
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01 Jun 2024
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A cosmic fairy tale about the mystery of love.
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18 Jan 2024
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Glimpses of forever, through Miriam's eyes.
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18 Jan 2024
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She never meant to tame him - that had never been her intention. Jareth/Sarah.
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15 Jan 2024
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For the longest time, Sarah had been lucky. With the right friends, and charms, and keys, she'd slipped easily in and out of different realms. She'd forgotten what true danger was. She'd become complacent.
By the time she realised her mistake, it was already too late.
(When you stare into the abyss, don't be surprised when the abyss stares back)
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13 Jan 2024
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There are no drawbacks to eternal life until you have everything to lose.
Astarion finds out the hard way.
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04 Jan 2024
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Eve has always been older and wiser.
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06 Dec 2023
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He steps straight out of the shadows one late autumn evening, but she is not afraid.
At least not at first.
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19 Nov 2023