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1. Public Bookmark 3

   Where the Armor Yields by astral_potato

   Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Other
   • Complete Work

   26 Aug 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • The Emperor/Tav (Baldur's Gate)
   • The Emperor (Baldur's Gate)/Reader
   • The Emperor (Baldur's Gate)
   • Character Study
   • Reader-Insert
   • POV Second Person
   • Telepathic Sex
   • Mind Meld
   • Canon Compliant
   • Gentle tentacle
   • It's mind porn not tentacle porn
   • Is he manipulating is he not let's find out
   • this is not a love song

   Summary

   The Emperor has a track record of deceiving you. So when he offers “mutual exploration”, you can’t help but wonder what he wants from you this time.

   But your curiosity wins out.

   If only you knew how deep this exploration could go — two minds and two bodies connecting in ways neither of you had anticipated.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   4,863

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   6

   Kudos:

   12

   Bookmarks:

   3

   Hits:

   149

   Bookmarked by Synthyme

   07 Sep 2026

2. Public Bookmark 28

   The sword, the shield (the wind, the waves) by SnowKiter

   Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)

   • Teen And Up Audiences, Mature, Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gen, M/M, Multi
   • Series in Progress

   07 Apr 2025

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • The Emperor & Tav (Baldur's Gate)
   • The Emperor/Tav (Baldur's Gate)
   • The Emperor & Omeluum
   • Blurg & Omeluum (Baldur's Gate)
   • Blurg/Omeluum (Baldur's Gate)
   • the Emperor & Jaheira
   • Balduran & The Emperor (Baldur's Gate)
   • Illithid | Mind Flayer Characters (Dungeons & Dragons) & Balduran (Baldur's Gate)
   • Us & Tav
   • Us & The Emperor
   • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
   • The Emperor (Baldur's Gate)
   • Tav (Baldur's Gate)
   • Balduran (Baldur's Gate)
   • Wyll (Baldur's Gate)
   • Gale (Baldur's Gate)
   • Karlach (Baldur's Gate)
   • Shadowheart (Baldur's Gate)
   • Halsin (Baldur's Gate)
   • Jaheira (Baldur's Gate)
   • Minthara Baenre
   • Astarion (Baldur's Gate)
   • Lae'zel (Baldur's Gate)
   • Omeluum (Baldur's Gate)
   • Illithid | Mind Flayer Characters (Dungeons & Dragons)
   • Ansur (mentioned)
   • Belynne Stelmane (haunts narrative)
   • Us (Baldur's Gate)
   • Blurg (Baldur's Gate)
   • Lenore De Hurst
   • Tara (Baldur's Gate)
   • Grub (Baldur's Gate)
   • Shadow-Whiskers (Baldur's Gate)
   • Malta - Character
   • Kira
   • Barsik
   • Myshka (Baldur's Gate)
   • Post-Canon
   • One Shot
   • Baldur's Gate 3 Spoilers
   • Character Study
   • Introspection
   • Good Ending | The Netherbrain is Destroyed (Baldur's Gate)
   • Implied Relationships
   • Comedy
   • This one is just about the vibes
   • Just an illithid chilling in the city
   • With incidental comedy
   • Baldur's Gate consistently voted worst city on Sword Coast
   • If I founded Baldur's Gate and had to live in it I would also feel shame
   • would you love such a place anyways with all that remains of yourself that is able?
   • Anyhow happy emperor appreciation week
   • they're just going to argue the entire time
   • unstoppable CHA meets immovable INT
   • Slow Burn
   • Tav min-maxes for 24 Charisma & he’s gonna romance the Emperor with it
   • Longing?
   • idiots in love?
   • Mutual Pining
   • Eventual Romance
   • Ambiguous Relationships
   • Morally Ambiguous Character
   • Ambiguous Romance!
   • Romantic Comedy
   • Unresolved Tension
   • Mild Hurt/Comfort
   • local bard ropes the narratively tragic illithid into rom com instead (eventually)
   • Eventual Happy Ending
   • Light Angst
   • Translation Available
   • Interspecies Romance
   • Illustrations
   • Established Relationship
   • but when it's still in that new phase
   • Porn with Feelings
   • Porn with Philosophy?
   • Sex with Illithids | Mind Flayers (Dungeons & Dragons)
   • Oral Sex
   • Biting
   • Brief mention of body horror
   • Light Dom/sub
   • Body Worship
   • Orgasm Denial
   • Multiple Orgasms
   • Coming Untouched
   • Temperature Play
   • Blatant Metaphors
   • The great mystery of illithid anatomy
   • Tav attempts to achieve a good grade in fucking the mind flayer
   • Local bard uses mouth to tell corny sex jokes and also for other things
   • Tentacles
   • Tentacle kissing :)
   • Intercrural Sex
   • Mindlink
   • Orgasm Edging
   • Edging your partner by edging yourself
   • Stand Alone
   • But part of a series
   • Alien Sex
   • Alien Biology
   • Illithids | Mind Flayers (Dungeons & Dragons)
   • Sex Magic
   • The Emperor gets to bottom
   • Balduring His Gate
   • Inappropriate Use of Mage Hand Spell (Dungeons & Dragons)
   • Very Thorough Use of Command Spell
   • Adventure
   • Fluff and Humor
   • Dark Comedy
   • Consensual Mind Control
   • Bothering the local mind flayer while he's trying to save the city
   • Once again they are going to argue the entire time
   • I have decided that ice cream exists in the Forgotten Realms
   • If you squint hard it has elements of dub-con but this one is about weird ethical questions anyways
   • Existentialism
   • Moral Dilemmas
   • Bickering
   • Action/Adventure
   • Friendship
   • Developing Friendships
   • Awkward Conversations
   • Telepathy
   • The Emperor third-wheels and is in disbelief about it
   • Local mind flayer leaves basement to make friends
   • This one is sentimental
   • the Emperor and Jaheira grouse at each other about old age
   • The emperor chills out I guess lol
   • Standalone short story chapters (so far)
   • Tragedy/Comedy
   • Implied/Referenced Torture
   • Body Horror
   • Sad and Happy
   • Domestic Fluff
   • stageplay
   • Vacation
   • Mental Coercion
   • Angst and Tragedy
   • Slice of Life
   • Comfort
   • Doomed by the Narrative
   • Intimacy
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • The Emperor Week
   • Are these wildly contradicting tags? Yeah it's like that sometimes
   • Ceremorphosis (Dungeons & Dragons)
   • I decided to write a play because my brain demanded it
   • Tentacle Sex
   • Yapping - Freeform
   • Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot
   • Porn With Philosophy
   • Porn with lore discussion?
   • Tav and the Emperor go on a date and then chill afterwards basically
   • Extremely meandering yapping followed by meandering smut
   • Fluff and Smut
   • Appreciation of the Emperor's mouth
   • inappropriate use of the animate objects spell
   • Oral Fisting
   • like an entire arm lol
   • porn with a mild amount of plot and/or a date beforehand
   • Cats
   • Humor
   • Intellect Devourers (Dungeons & Dragons)
   • Displacer Beasts (Dungeons & Dragons)
   • Flumphs
   • the brain kitty goes on adventures
   • Us is the best kitty
   • Tav and the Emperor share custody of their cat
   • There aren't enough Us centric stories so here I am
   • The cats of Baldur's Gate
   • Slaps fic This bad boy can fit so many Little Critters
   • it pretends to have a plot but
   • sexy sparring
   • BDSM
   • Mild Gore
   • Trust Kink
   • Mind Sex
   • tentacle goes into ear
   • tentacles goes into all sorts of places
   • woundfucking
   • brain eating (sexual)
   • despite this it's pretty chill
   • Safeword Use
   • The Emperor gets to top
   • local bard introspects about having tastes in bed considered moderately extreme

   Summary

   
   The Emperor is entrusted with the Netherstones.

   These center around the longfic but stand alone and can be read in any order, and are currently listed by vibes.

   Words:

   140,568

   Works:

   9

   Bookmarks:

   28

   Bookmarked by Synthyme

   05 Aug 2026

3. Public Bookmark 13

   Set the Crown Jewel by SnowKiter

   Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   07 Apr 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • The Emperor/Tav (Baldur's Gate)
   • Tav (Baldur's Gate)
   • The Emperor (Baldur's Gate)
   • Post-Canon
   • it pretends to have a plot but
   • Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot
   • sexy sparring
   • Established Relationship
   • BDSM
   • Consensual Mind Control
   • Mild Gore
   • Trust Kink
   • Sex with Illithids | Mind Flayers (Dungeons & Dragons)
   • Mind Sex
   • Tentacle Sex
   • tentacle goes into ear
   • tentacles goes into all sorts of places
   • woundfucking
   • brain eating (sexual)
   • despite this it's pretty chill
   • Safeword Use
   • The Emperor gets to top
   • local bard introspects about having tastes in bed considered moderately extreme

   Summary

   Before embarking on a mission, Tav loses a spar and then unwinds thoroughly.
   (He gets railed)

   Series

   • Part 9 of The sword, the shield (the wind, the waves)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   6,064

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   30

   Kudos:

   105

   Bookmarks:

   13

   Hits:

   2,468

   Bookmarked by Synthyme

   04 Aug 2026

4. Public Bookmark 17

   Synaptic Needle by camaraderie

   Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Other
   • Complete Work

   22 Sep 2024

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • The Emperor/Tav (Baldur's Gate)
   • Illithid | Mind Flayer Tav (Baldur's Gate)
   • They/Them Pronouns for Tav (Baldur's Gate)
   • It/Its Pronouns for The Emperor (Baldur's Gate)
   • Post-Game: Baldur's Gate 3
   • Getting Together
   • Slice of Life
   • with a sprinkle of violence - it's Baldur's Gate after all
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • beware the tentacle action in the last chapter

   Summary

   Tav saves one more life during the battle against the Netherbrain. The rescuee is not impressed.

   *
   Entry for the Emperor Week 2024

   Series

   • Part 2 of It's not easy being a squid after saving your illithid guardian

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   25,432

   Chapters:

   7/7

   Collections:

   1

   Comments:

   39

   Kudos:

   69

   Bookmarks:

   17

   Hits:

   1,437

   Bookmarked by Synthyme

   04 Aug 2026

5. Public Bookmark 3

   虚妄之王 by caraliang212234

   Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   19 Aug 2022

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Ahzek Ahriman & Magnus the Red
   • Ahzek Ahriman
   • Magnus the Red (Warhammer 40.000)

   Summary

   大概是阿教授总受马格努斯总攻的混邪向千子关系。
   看完千子和普洛斯佩罗之焚后的一些发疯。
   没有40k阿教授，他的个人小说我还没看。
   时间线和奸奇的记忆一样混乱，情节（假如这种东西真的存在的话）扯淡，设定描述模糊，基本没有逻辑连接词。
   为了满足表达欲污染tag的产物，对作品质量有要求的别看。

   Language:

   中文-普通话 國語

   Words:

   7,404

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   6

   Kudos:

   22

   Bookmarks:

   3

   Hits:

   644

   Bookmarked by Synthyme

   03 Feb 2026