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the line is covered in jellyfish by staroverlord
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
28 Dec 2025
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When Viktor finally asks why Jayce stayed behind inside the Anomaly with him, Jayce stares at him as though he’s supremely disappointed by the question— as if Viktor has betrayed his own brilliance by asking something so irredeemably stupid. “How could I not? We’re partners.”
Partners, Jayce calls them. Not for the first time, Viktor wonders: Partners in what?
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Or: Jayce and Viktor survive the Hexcore, a blizzard, their own bodies, sharing a bed and all the things they’re too afraid to say. Slowly, they put themselves back together— piece by stubborn piece.
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- Part 1 of the thin semantic line
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After a gruesome war finally comes to treaty, it is decided that the King of Piltover will take a bride from Zaun.
Viktor isn't expecting to be a candidate.
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30 Jan 2025
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'I managed to make some small talk with my fellow escapees from the Nautiloid. Lae’zel is a terse woman of few words; Githyanki culture cares not for excess or expression it seems, favoring directness, clarity and precision—much like her sword work. Shadowheart is very guarded and standoff-ish, though that seems to be more directed toward Lae’zel. Gith, I imagine, also have very little use for religion, so for Shadowheart to have dedicated herself so completely and zealously to her faith must be as alien to her as she is to us. Astarion seems well-practiced in the art of casual deflection in conversation, utilizing it to put the nasty business of holding a dagger to my throat behind him. He’s not made any threatening movements in my direction since, and I’m content to let bygones be bygones in all three cases. There is just one thing that troubles me, however:
I know that there is no Magistrate Ancunín in Baldur’s Gate.'
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Lord Simon Whitelily, 6th Baron Fontdale awoke on the banks of the River Chionthar with an unwelcome visitor in his skull and a motley crew of companions in the same predicament. What is he willing to do to save the Sword Coast, his young son, and ultimately himself?Series
- Part 1 of Self-Indulgence
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04 Jun 2024
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a crooked touch (Astarion x m!Tav) by eyes_of_the_lamb
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
16 Nov 2024
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“Make it hurt, then. Kiss me like you want to kill me.”
“I can do that.”
Two broken stars in a decaying orbit, passing closer and closer together until the inevitable, devastating collision.
Or, Tav is fucked up and down bad for Astarion, who doesn't quite see the appeal (but he's getting there). Sexual frustration, sloppy handjobs, a heavy dose of masochism, and way too many failed Insight checks ahead. Tav falls first, Astarion falls harder (eventually).
Or, a tragic-but-hopeful romance told through a series of incredibly ill-advised sexual encounters.
If you want to read a story where Astarion is sweet from the start and Tav is here to fix him, this isn't the one. If you want to read about two terribly broken men spending a good long while making each other worse before they make each other better, this might be for you. If you thought the in-game romance was a little too easy and it should have been ten times more painful and difficult to convince Astarion he's worthy of love, this is definitely for you.
Set during the canonical events of Baldur's Gate 3.
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Ambrosia (or: How Gale Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) by mercurial_cool
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
04 Apr 2024
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“Why does your blood smell so strange?”
The question startled Gale, who looked up from where he sat cross-legged in front of his tent, organizing his scrolls in preparation for their upcoming “visit” to the goblin camp. He’d given Astarion a wide berth since the revelation of his vampiric condition a few days earlier, so he was surprised to see the pale elf looming over him now, a peculiar expression on his face.
“You know,” Gale offered with a smile, “in my extensive journeys across manifold realms, I do believe that is not a question that I’ve ever been asked before. I honestly can’t decide whether or not I should be offended.”
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Of the many side effects Gale has faced as a result of his whole “being physical host to an imminently destructive magical orb” problem, he somehow never anticipated his blood now apparently smelling irresistible to vampires (or at least, one particular vampire) to be one of them.
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- 9/10
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12 Oct 2023
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sunrise, with hope its arrogant rider by edelgarfield
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
08 Oct 2023
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Astarion stares down his nose with that familiar haughty glare. “I suppose that makes us even, now.”
You search his face, trying to find the missing piece that will make the puzzle take shape. You think of what little he’s told you about his life before this strange journey of yours. A cruel master that delighted in his pain and two hundred years of being brought to heel.
It comes to you in a dizzying rush. “You think I left you there as punishment.”
Astarion accidentally, kinda-sorta drains your blood and leaves you for dead. Three weeks later, you drop a monastery on him. You refuse to let the story end there.
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- Part 2 of cardinal, sunrise, morning star
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29 Sep 2023
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And All I Get Is the Gift of Growing Old by Hatigave
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
30 Sep 2023
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Astarion seems to know him as well as Gale knows his favourite books. He is something well-read to those red eyes. Something to be marked by Astarion’s fingers. Dog-eared and loved.
In his tower rests a book so often read that the spine has nearly completely separated from its pages. He has loved it to ruin. Astarion looks at him as if he wants to do the same.
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26 Sep 2023
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Gale was close enough to see Astarion’s nostrils flare as he took in a great, deep breath, chest heaving with the effort. His scarlet eyes gleamed in the moonlight, open so wide and staring with such rapt attention straight into his own. Through him. It made Gale feel small. And important, maybe.
Sometimes Gale has impossibly big feelings and the only way he knows to cope is with endless rumination and denial that basically amounts to sticking his fingers in his ears and shouting. Such a coping mechanism may prove inadequate for dealing with the walking, talking, plucked-from-his-guilty-conscience fantasy that is Astarion. And it doesn’t help that Astarion has a smile that makes his heart sing, along with being, probably, the first real friend he’s ever had. (Tressyms excluded, of course.)
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25 Sep 2023
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Tav has forgotten more lifetimes than he remembers.
OR: The excessively dramatic, self-indulgent semi-meta retelling of BG3, with a half-elf Tav who doesn’t actually know who he is anymore. After centuries of looping, what he does know are the creatures he has loved and those he has destroyed - not always mutually exclusive - and that he's very, very tired.
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21 Sep 2023
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Like instinct, Astarion finds the vein in Filraen’s wrist that connects his fingers all the way to his heart. The moment his fangs sink into the Drow’s skin, blood pools into his mouth, and Astarion feels like a man drinking water for the first time in weeks.
He sucks and pulls, lapping at every drop with his tongue to make sure none goes to waste. Filraen’s blood tastes syrupy sweet tonight from the mead, thick and warm as it works its way down his throat. It’s addicting in more ways than one—the taste is divine, but something more primal pools in the lower parts of Astarion’s stomach. The kind that makes him want to bare his fangs at anyone who dares get too close to his Drow, that might try and take this away from him.
There’s a careful hand touching the base of his skull, pulling Astarion from his degenerating thoughts at the perfect moment. The long fingers slip up the back of his scalp and thread into his wavy hair like a soft caress. It’s comforting, has Astarion sighing wistfully into Filraen’s wrist.
---Or, come read about a sad bard and a sadder vampire falling in love.
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21 Sep 2023
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During the week of his father's funeral, Sirius Black meets an unusual priest and offers to help write Orion Black's eulogy. At the same time, he's started texting a mysterious bass player from a pop-punk band that he accidentally swapped phones with. Eventually, the conversations between the two start to blur together and Sirius has trouble trying to decide which one he's falling for the hardest.
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It's been 12 years since Sirius wrenched Harry from the clutches of Dumbledore and ran all the way to California, abandoning his home, his past and the love of his life. Now Harry's beginning his third year at Hogwarts and after a few too many close calls with Voldemort, Sirius has moved back across the pond to better protect him - and become the school's first Professor of Magical Law and Ethics. What he doesn't know is that Hogwarts has welcomed another new professor this year too…
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- Part 8 of Jewish Sirius Black
- Part 2 of Bipolar Sirius Black
- Part 1 of right back where we started from
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- 90,424
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- 11/?
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16 Apr 2023
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Sirius studied Remus’ face. He was curious what he thought of all of this, the only one of them who didn’t have a mark– theoretically– and the only one with a muggle parent. Muggles didn’t get marks, he knew. If Remus’ parents were soulmates, then they wouldn’t know it. He wondered if there was a way to tell, though. If they could just feel it, somehow, even without the help of some magical fate.
Because it seemed like something you would just know, just from being near someone, from being close enough to them, from being in the same space. Like their souls would attract like magnets or like water droplets traveling down a window, waiting to merge until the last moment when they realized they were on the same path, and then they’d become one.
Was that fate, Sirius wondered?
He realized Remus was staring back at him, his eyes puzzled and curious and warm.
Sirius looked away first and didn’t look back, pushing down something heavy and impossible in his chest.
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Or, the marauders soulmates au where your soulmate shares your scars in gold, and everyone is oblivious, pining, and/or in denial. Updates every sunday :)
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- 38/70
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15 Apr 2023
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"Number Four is dead," is what their father tells them. Short; to the point. "He has failed the Academy. I trust that none of you will make the same mistake, and that you will account for his absence accordingly."
Then, several days later, Klaus comes back. The screaming fills the whole house.Or: at thirteen, Klaus dies under mysterious circumstances. It does not go over well. Days later, Klaus comes back as a shadow of himself. It goes over as well as it can, in all honesty.
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- 25/25
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26 Jun 2022
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Harry isn’t the Boy-Who-Lived, but his parents still died, and Albus Dumbledore, concerned that Death Eaters might seek the boy’s death, cast a powerful charm on him to make wizards ignore him before Harry was left with the Dursleys. Except, with the Elder Wand in play, the charm was far too powerful, and made others essentially forget Harry existed when not directly interacting with him. Sorted into Ravenclaw at Hogwarts, Harry lives a contented life with no one either loving or hating him…until the charm breaks on his seventeenth birthday, and he’s suddenly plunged directly into the middle of a living world at war.
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- Part 4 of From Litha to Lammas 2020
- Part 1 of Runemaster
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lifeless things (nothing beside remains) by sisyphusss
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
29 Jan 2026
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“Am I dead?” he asked, because he should be dead. He should be at the bottom of that lake, drowning under the bodies of decomposing inferi, but—
“Calm down, Black, you only fell off your broom."
—instead he was two years in the past. Alive. And with a whole new mess to deal with.
or; its back to time travel, baby!
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- English
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- 10/?
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10 Jun 2022
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Icing Sugar Dust (Crazy Green Flashes) by armchairsnhandcuffs
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
06 Nov 2024
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The year, 1999. Harry Potter’s nearly a year into his Auror training, recently engaged, and the proud owner of a little house in Ottery St. Catchpole that’s completely falling apart. Ron and Hermione have been married less than six months, and the Wizarding World is slowly starting to recover from all that they’ve gone through.
Harry is only just settling into adulthood, and frustrated with the world around him, when Draco Malfoy walks back into his life.
Why is Harry dreaming about prophecies again? What’s wrong with Muggle London? How wise is it to drink unidentified potions? What happens when you break all the rules?
All of these questions (and more!) may or may not have answers in this story.- Language:
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- 41/?
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04 Mar 2022
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I'd Rather Burn by clairvoyantPeach for Ahnalaura_Night
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
28 Nov 2022
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Draco’s had his fair share of hexes during his time at Hogwarts. A bat bogey hex here. A tripping hex there. It’s all very commonplace. Yes, he’s very familiar with hexes. Curses are a completely different story.
“What the fuck are you doing, Potter?”
Harry feels the heat blooming against his palm, along the side of his fingers to the tips, and slowly it starts to burn. Malfoy lets out a strangled gasp and cradles his hand to his chest.
Harry's very used to hexes and curses. He wonders, as he watches Malfoy's legs give out underneath him, how Malfoy's tolerance for them is.
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- 64,842
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- 9/?
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25 Feb 2022
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"Please consider what I’m about to say. Think of it as you return to your mother. You must put as much thought into it as you can. Will you? Please, promise me you will.”
“Yes! Whatever it is, I’ll consider it.”
“Eventually Lord Hades will have mercy upon you. He will. I know that must sound strange—the most severe of the gods showing mercy where his kindred won’t—but it’s the truth. The Olympians are more… unreliable. The only way I can see to protect the Underworld and in turn you and your mother is this: Bind yourself to me.” His hands tremble. He brushes his thumb along the crook of Zag’s throat, so very sweet, even when he’s rigid with tension. “Wed me.”
Raised by his mother far away from both Olympus and the Underworld, a strange series of events leads Zagreus to meeting a faceless, nameless Chthonic god.
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- English
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- 112/?
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20 Dec 2021