ThePioden
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Law of the Conservation of Magic by Markasite (ThePioden)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
27 Jan 2024
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Searching abandoned dungeons for solutions to his little Netherese problem, Gale finds a dungeon that is very much not abandoned, and gets a little more than he bargained for.
Written for Baldurskink on Dreamwidth.
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Tipping the Scales by Markasite (ThePioden) for therealmnemo
Fandoms: Dragon Age II, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
09 Dec 2017
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Anders can turn into a drake. Hawke is... kinda very into that.
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- Part 2 of Laugh at Live Dragons
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Within My creation, none are alone by Markasite (ThePioden)
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
07 Feb 2017
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Mages had birds, everyone knew, like servants had dogs and chevaliers had lions and elves had vermin.
A series of character studies ft. soul-animals.
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Like Seafoam, Like Starlight by Markasite (ThePioden)
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
16 Jan 2017
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Taashathari. It’s not a thing, not an emotion, it’s something you do, something you are. It’s hard to explain exactly what it means if you don’t already know what it means, or don’t know how to think like a Qunari, although plenty of bas have tried. They try ‘love without desire,’ but that’s not right, there is desire there, for touch and trust and closeness if not for sex. ‘Familial’ isn’t right either, or ‘brotherhood’. It’s... being an anchor, a rock, a calm place. It’s bringing someone back from their own heads, giving them the control to keep going. It’s like being the Qun, but the whole thing wrapped up in a person.
Or: The Adoribull Moirallegiance AU
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A Beginner's Guide to Fairytale Romance by Markasite (ThePioden)
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age (Video Games)
14 Jan 2017
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Hawke's been turned into a dragon. Anders doesn't really mind.
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- Part 1 of Laugh at Live Dragons
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Laugh at Live Dragons by Markasite (ThePioden)
Fandom Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II
09 Dec 2017
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The one where they bang the dragon: a series of unrelated shorts.
AKA Dragonfuckers Anonymous.
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I wrote an ironic one-shot about the Homestuck characters being centaurs. It kind of got out of hand. I write, Pi draws (and is the mastermind behind the worldbuilding).
I highly recommend going through these tags on tumblr for worldbuilding goodness and/or art:
Everlind's tumblr (mostly worlbuilding asks and actual ficlets)
Thepioden's tumblr (gorgeous art)- Words:
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He thinks maybe it should make him more frightened, that he should worry about the liabilities he has allowed these people to become. It does nothing to temper the joy of being trusted, of being someone worthy of friend. It does nothing to diminish the memory of Caleb’s spellbook in his lap this morning, its owner sound asleep before him; the sweet press of concern behind Jester’s words in his mind the night before as she reached out with sending.
A rabbit walks into a snare. The snare closes around its throat, killing it. What is responsible for its death, the stupidity of the rabbit or the viciousness of the snare’s purpose?
The Shadowhand of the Bright Queen walks into the T-Dock, he thinks, and feels sick.Two months after surviving the ruin of Aeor, Caleb and Essek return to tie up loose ends.
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Bookmarked by ThePioden
10 Dec 2025
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Essek tore his gaze away from those red eyes, seeking desperately something safer, softer. He was among friends. Cognouza was seconds ago and a timeline away. It hadn't happened — it wouldn't happen.
He settled on Jester, who beamed.
"Hi," she said, kindly, "I'm Jester. I like your weasel."
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In another timeline, the Mighty Nein fall to Lucien. Essek, with Artagan-the-weasel's help, travels back in time to save them.
Bookmarked by ThePioden
12 Jun 2022
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there's a ghost in my lungs by QueenWithABeeThrone for words-writ-in-starlight (WordsWritInStarlight), sockablock
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
07 Apr 2020
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Silence falls over the battleground. A mage lies dead on the ground, and Jester’s already propping him up onto a rock and prodding his cheek with her holy symbol. She’d be here with Molly too, if Caleb hadn’t shouted at her to stay back verdammt Jester stay back and shot off a firebolt to keep a snarling tiefling from trying to kill them.
Ikithon, he thinks, sick to his stomach at the thought. This is Ikithon’s work, it has his signature written all over it. He doesn’t dare ask Jester to undo it. He doesn’t even know where she can start, with undoing whatever’s been done to Molly.
or: The Winter Soldier, Wildemount edition.
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Bookmarked by ThePioden
30 Jul 2019
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Comes Around Again by scarletjedi
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Hobbit - All Media Types
08 Aug 2016
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Gimli closes his eyes, an old Dwarf on the brink of death in the home he had built with his husband in the Undying Lands, and opens them again as a young Dwarf in his childhood home in Ered Luin. He's returned to the tumultuous week before The Company set out to recruit their Burglar from his cosy hobbit hole. Gimli, once again a impetuous teen in the eyes of his family, must get into that Company--the lives of his loved ones, and the very fate of Middle Earth--depends on it.
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- Part 1 of Third by Experience
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Bookmarked by ThePioden
30 Dec 2014
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Dorian is not returning to Tevinter, as such. He just happens to be the best person to pop over the border and chase down a few leftover Venatori, that's all. He'll be back to Skyhold in no time.
Turns out the road to starting a revolution is paved with good intentions.
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- Part 1 of Redeemer
Bookmarked by ThePioden
28 Jun 2015