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The captain—because it must be the captain, there's no other possibility—stops directly before the straggled lines of captives. Black hair frames his angular features, the way his eyes narrow not against the sun but against them: their existence, maybe, or just the existence of all those beneath him.
There is a pause. And then he speaks.
"I am Captain Cazador Szarr of the Eternal," he says. It's a deep, almost melodic voice; too rich for the seadogs and savages that so often fill ships. Even against the better-dressed of his crew, he stands out like a noble in the East End rookeries. "And I am here to meet with your captain, pirates."
The year is 1728, and Astarion Ancunín casts across the Atlantic in hopes of reaching the Caribbean to finally make a name for himself.
He doesn't quite make it there.
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She hadn't really been his sister. He hadn't really been her brother, either.
But they had been something.
Astarion and Violet and Violet's death.
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- Part 3 of a wait for the future
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haunting out by the reeds by Raayide for stolenglow
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
12 Nov 2025
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Undead cannot become mindflayers. A living mind is required to be a host, and vampire spawns don't have one.
There's something growing inside Astarion's skull.
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Some years after saving the world, Astarion and Wyll revisit their beginning.
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When Astarion flees to the city, he spends seven bloodstained days alone, and then he is never heard from again.
The story in full has been lost. But here are some of the pieces left behind.
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Karlach and Astarion, wherein healing is neither linear nor perfect, but it will come if you try.
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Astarion as a warlock, Wyll as a vampire spawn. it changes not the world, but this small corner and its beginnings.
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six people with six perspectives on death
(or, six different walks through pre-canon and six ways in which death is the grounding element)
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The Astral Prism protects over distance, but it is not infallible.
Returning to Baldur's Gate returns Cazador's thrall.
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Phantom Pain by bossy
Fandoms: Fight Club - All Media Types, Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club (1999)
10 Oct 2014
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You realize, all this time, Tyler was loading your loyalty into the freezer next to Marla’s collagen. Test-driving his ideas on you to make sure the end result wouldn’t be Project Mayhem’s braces melted to the ashtray.
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07 Jan 2026
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goodbye to the end of the beginning by commonemergency
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Nov 2022
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Before Dustin Henderson, Robin Buckley, Interdimensional Monsters, and the world ending, there was Tommy Hagan.
You couldn’t find Steve Harrington without Tommy Hagan trailing behind him. Steve might have been the charm but Tommy Hagan had always been the brains, their eighth grade teacher would later say at Tommy’s funeral.
All Steve could really remember from that day was the way that everyone turned their head around when he had showed up to the chapel late wearing his dad’s suit because he outgrew the ones that he owned. Steve never got the job that his dad had promised him because he messed up so bad with school, so here he was wearing a hand-me-down to his ex best friend’s funeral.
A story about friendships told in a non-linear fashion.
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19 Dec 2025
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“If you could see one person one more time before the big bad Ruskies obliterate us,” Robin giggles, “who would it be?”
Steve has been feeling so wonderfully unabashedly honest for these last few minutes or months or however long they’ve been here, tied together in their Scoops uniforms and possibly dying from beating-induced brain hemorrhages or Russian poison that he says, without hesitating, “Jonathan Byers. And I’d give him a big ole kiss.”
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- Part 1 of A Catalog of Non-Definitive Acts
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19 Dec 2025
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A dead man bound to a chair, his guts spilled into his lap. An Innocence running in the rain, her silver hair stuck to her skull. A spy, his wife, her ex and his partner.
SHIVERS: SHE'S COMING BACK.
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12 Dec 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
hi! for anyone trawling through my bookmarks - if you are going to read any fic, have it be this one. you only need this one. it will feed you and gut you and string up your organs into buntings and you will thank it the whole while
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"Man turns his back on his family, he ain't no friend of mine," Steve's dad sings in the kitchen, Bruce Springsteen blasting from the record player. He always listens to records as loud as he can, and even though it bursts Steve's eardrums and makes mom disappear upstairs, Steve savors these moments. His dad winks and shimmies his shoulders, and Steve scrubs dishes as he watches his dad come alive to the music, until eventually, the tap water clicks off and Steve joins his dad, bouncing on his toes and swinging until he's numb.
Looking at this picture, you'd never know that ten years ago his dad almost killed him with a golf club.
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- Part 2 of Radio
Bookmarked by Raayide
08 Dec 2025