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Astarion leaned against the railing of the balcony, sipping blood from a wine flute while watching the sunlight sparkle and shimmer across the surface of Deepwater Harbour.
He fiddled idly with the ring on his finger, the sole reason he was able to stand out here completely unharmed, enjoying the cool spring breeze as golden light warmed his skin.
Astarion (now with the ability to walk in the sun) is faced with the difficult task of figuring out what to do with himself now. Gale on the other hand, finds himself dealing with unexpected echoes of the past, needing to confront things he’d really have rather left alone.
Updates every other Friday, alternating with my other fic: Sunlight Through the Curtains.
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- Part 3 of 'Bat'tered
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21 Aug 2026
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After curing themselves of ceremorphosis and tying up loose ends in the Material Planes, Astarion and his shapeshifting companion, Wren, must go into the Feywild to break the bonds that have ensnared them both in a web of lies, fate, and despair. Perhaps there's hope yet for the two of them, or perhaps they'll both fall to the plan that's been in place far longer than anyone's known. But who's really pulling the strings?
(Part 2 of This Is What We Get)
An established romance story full of juicy post-game content, with me as your humble Dungeon Master taking you and these beloved blorbos into the wild and weird world of the Forgotten Realm's fairy realm (deeply homebrewed, of course). So sit back, relax, keep your hands and fangs in the car at all times, and enjoy the show!Series
- Part 2 of This Is What We Get
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08 Jul 2026
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And more than anything, she wanted him to learn to truly trust himself. To help him see that he was more than the monster he thought he was.
She didn't let herself dwell on the realization that maybe she wanted the same for herself.
Haunted by a past she remembers only in fragments, Tahlianna is determined to resist the darkness inside her—to become more than the weapon she was born to be. Alongside a certain vampire rogue, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery, falls hopelessly in love, and learns that even the cursed deserve a second chance.
An Astarion x Dark Urge story that loosely follows in-game events, with a focus on the more intimate moments in between. Contains angst, sex, violence, occasional fluff, and major spoilers. POV alternates each chapter.
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- English
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- 62,686
- Chapters:
- 10/30
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27 Jun 2026
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After being a little too trusting towards a hag, Gale of Waterdeep has been reduced to a small, fuzzy, frankly adorable plushie version of himself. While the rest of the party assumes him kidnapped and plan for his rescue, Astarion finds himself getting quite attached. And Gale realizes just how touch-starved he has been this whole time.
Inspired by the adorable Gale plushie by raintides on Etsy!
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25 Jun 2026
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Something other than a giant, alien brain festers in the city of Baldur's Gate. From dead men wandering the sewers, to soulless patriars scheming from their gilded palaces, something vile has taken root to consume all it touches.
To save a city that's deemed them criminals (and to save their own asses), these two losers must cheat, stab, and flirt their way to the heart of the rot and carve it out, piece by festering piece. And figure out what, exactly, they mean to each other.
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- Part 4 of these two shitheads
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28 Mar 2026
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Amaya Hisakawa has been friends with Yugi since they were kids, and until now she's always been happy on the sidelines, cheering her friend on as he dueled his way to victory. That is, until she agrees to go on a date with his other self and a mysterious package shows up at her doorstep. Now Amaya has found herself in possession of a millennium item, one that allows her to merge a portion of her soul with another body. Her past and her fate may be more entwined with the spirit in the millennium puzzle than she could ever have imagined. And with Battle City drawing nearer and Marik after Yugi's life, Amaya can't afford to stay on the sidelines any longer. She'll have to duel if she wants to unravel the secrets of her past and save her friends.
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05 Feb 2026
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It's been half a year since Astarion returned to Baldur's Gate with his rediscovered love, Jen, Tav in her next life. Nevermind the fact that he had to make a deal with Baba Yaga and travel to an entirely different plane of existence called "Texas" to find her and fall in love with each other all over again. That's history now! He has his little mud mephit back, and they're just as happy as they can be at their estate in Baldur's Gate.
True, Jen may be struggling to learn magic. But he's certain she'll get there. She is an elf, after all. Or was. Anyway, bodies are changeable things, so he's certain her human form is temporary.
Jen, however, is less certain and feels more and more like an alien as days turn to weeks turn to months. She's no closer to learning where she fits in this wildly different new world. Her chronic conditions aren't getting any better, she can't seem to pick up magic, she's trapped away from everything she used to love, and she can't help but feel like it's all going to destroy the happiness she and Astarion found together before she left her life behind to be a part of his.
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- Part 2 of Astarion and Jen
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- English
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- 117,346
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- 36/?
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31 Jan 2026
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“Then, what is it you offer?”
The barkeep slid the requested wine up beside Astarion, and the pale stranger’s knowing smile returned. He leaned forward, closer now. When he reached past Astarion to fetch the glass, Astarion caught the otherworldly scent of his skin: earthy and herbal, but blue and scorched like the astral zephyr, as though what he had said about the planes was true. As the elf straightened, he paused for a moment, lingering at Astarion’s ear. He uttered a simple word: “Pleasure.”
Ten years after the defeat of the Absolute, Astarion haunts the streets of the Sword Coast like a ghost, alone, searching desperately for a cure to his undeath. While following the trail of a shadowy rumor, he meets a dark and mysterious man who reminds him of himself. With his fate hanging in the balance, he must decide whether to take this stranger’s hand and be led to a life new and strange. But—at what cost?
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- English
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- 187,340
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- 34/45
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13 Nov 2025
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The wooden box is small and nondescript. Tied shut with a plain, blue ribbon. The both of them stare at it for a long, long moment sitting innocuously on the desk by their door.
“I’m opening it,” Astarion says and gives the ribbon a gentle tug.
It’s made of silk, judging from the texture and easy slide, and he lifts the tiny, metal latch holding it shut.
The inside is filled with more silk, the same, early-dawn blue. He admires the sooth glide of it even as he plucks that up to reveal the item nestled within.
“Huh,” his darling says. Which is her way to say many things, but in this case likely means, “That’s a tiny, metal cock.”
These two losers finally get their hands on a Greater Magic Phallus; Astarion intends to break that in. Thoroughly.
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- Part 13 of these two shitheads
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12 Nov 2025
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The world is saved, and everything is fine. Mostly. Just a few loose ends remain: a broken infernal engine, thousands of hungry spawn, a stalking eldritch horror, and the nightmare of emotional vulnerability. That’s probably all though.
What could go wrong?
This is a continuation of Rin and Astarion’s story from After the Fall.
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- Part 14 of The Parts They Won't Sing About
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- English
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- 338,802
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- 108/?
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28 Oct 2025
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10 Oct 2025
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~PART 2: After the events of GOOD THINGS COME.
Astarion and Tav have solidified their roles in the Underdark with the other spawns, as well as in Faerun. As new threats surface with new secrets, Tav, Astarion, and Gale all realize there is still much more they can do to stop another Vampire lord, and help another of their companions in the process when they stumble onto a lead for information on Karlach's infernal engine heart.
A LOOK AHEAD:Except Tav beat Astarion there and reached him first, and a wet SMACK sounded as Astarion's chest collided with her shoulder blades where she stood solidly between them.
For a moment, Astarion only saw red.
For a moment, Astarion heard nothing but the roaring, rushing sounds in his adept ears - that of the rolling sea, and Tav's blood catapulting through her arteries with her own anger.
Astarion's eyes focused and traced her form and up her extended arm, his lip twitching with the beginning of a snarl at the action that had been denied him, but the scent of Gale's blood hit his nose then. The odor was strong despite the pervading smell of salt in the surf that lapped along the shore at their feet.
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- Part 2 of All Good Things
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- English
- Words:
- 169,325
- Chapters:
- 48/?
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 139
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- 34
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- 2,368
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21 Sep 2025
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Good Luck Hermit, She Makes Good Things Happen by Radia_Alstroemeria
Fandoms: Encanto (2021)
30 Nov 2024
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"Bruno Madrigal has never done anything to deserve all the shit you spew about him," She said, her mind a hundred miles away from what's falling out her mouth. "He's always done his best for this community. He's never said a mean word about someone. He's helped rebuild alongside the town, after—after what you've all done to him. He has more goodness in his pinky finger than you have in your entire body."
"Plus, plus, he's fucking gorgeous. A hundred, no! A thousand times more than you are. He's got better hair, and, and eyes, and he looks great in green so, there!" She spat out, furiously rubbing tears away.
"Dios Mio!"
Standing beyond those awful group of men, with eyes wide in disbelief, was Bruno Madrigal.
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- Part 1 of Ermita
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- English
- Words:
- 121,679
- Chapters:
- 38/?
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- 4
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31 Aug 2025
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Picking up the Pieces by DesertFeather
Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga)
07 Sep 2023
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Yugi is forced to confront Yami's inevitable departure to the Afterlife. The strain this puts on their relationship may prove to be too much.
If Atem finds a way to come back to Yugi can things go back to how it used to be?
Atem struggles with his choices, some he wishes he never made.
Puzzle/Blindshipping
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- English
- Words:
- 145,263
- Chapters:
- 31/?
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- 426
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- 17,160
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31 Aug 2025
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"I know Mielikki is with me because I sense her. I feel her touch as the wind. I hear her voice in the whisper of leaves. I see her beauty in the scene around us. Her presence is as real as yours. She embraces us with every reverent step we take in the wilderness."
-The words of a favored of MielikkiThe main story revolves around Astarion’s relationship with Tavennia, a kind-hearted Cleric of Mielikki. Tav is on the run from an abusive marriage and quickly learns that she and Astarion have far more in common than she would ever have imagined.
This work is canon adjacent and includes some canon dialogue and spoilers, but it is not always fully canon compliant. It it intended to be a "what if". Not something that did happen, but something that could have happened in between the lines. In canon, Astarion prayed to the gods for help and was never answered. But what if one goddess heard him and it just took him a while to figure that out?
This is a story about love’s ability to mend even the most tortured of hearts.
I hope you enjoy it.
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- Part 2 of Mielikki's Grace
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 94,509
- Chapters:
- 18/30
- Collections:
- 1
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- 124
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- 32
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- 3,464
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31 Aug 2025
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Bruno Madrigal is a shy man. A few months outside of Casita's walls hasn't changed that. In an effort to slowly integrate back into the community of Encanto, he returns to one of his pre-hiding habits, reading at Café de Libros, a combination shop, café, and bibliotheca for the town run by Elena Pascual, an assertive 30 something with an adventurous streak, a deep love for books and her inherited businesses, and an unfiltered temper. The two strike up a long suspected romance thanks to the interference a butcher and a parrot, but soon Alma's dislike of Elena starts trouble for the lovers. Things only get worse when the cruelty of a jilted suitor brings violence to the community the likes of which haven't been seen for fifty years.
Art added to chapters 3 and 12
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- English
- Words:
- 549,907
- Chapters:
- 37/48
- Comments:
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31 Aug 2025
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"It's not just a phase, mom!" or the life and struggles of Maximilian Ancunin by vixstarria
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
09 Jul 2025
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Maximilian (Max) Ancunin is Astarion's unlikely, unforeseen and unintentional child. He is not a dhampir. He is as likely to accidentally stab himself as he is to harm anyone else when he wields a blade. He has no magical talent. Hells, he can't even sing or juggle, and he is perpetually shit out of luck. And by the gods, is he going to make that everyone else's problem.
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- Part 23 of Vixstarria's bardlock Tav
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31 Aug 2025
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SERIES SPOILERS
See summary inside.
SERIES SPOILERS
Small break, dispatch got me but I’ll be back for the last 2 chapters!!
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- Part 4 of In the Name Of
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 130,386
- Chapters:
- 19/21
- Comments:
- 477
- Kudos:
- 305
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- 41
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31 Aug 2025
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I always loved taking care of the shrines, as the Madrgials protected our village. But there was one Madrigal who was not spoken about and his shrine laid forgotten. That wasn't fair to him, so why should I pretend as if it were? In fact I will do everything in my power to make him feel included as well.
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The Reader is a shrine maiden, stumbling across the abandoned shrine of the youngest triplet, Bruno Madrigal, and determined to show appreciation to all of the Madrigals, so they do what no one else dares. They want to restore the shrine and a certain someones notices.Bookmarked by dbzcat
31 Aug 2025
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Chained to You by SaijSpellhart
Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga), Yu-Gi-Oh! - All Media Types
18 Jun 2024
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Taking place after the events of Season Zero, all the shadow games happened but Yugi never found out he was possessed by the spirit of the puzzle. Now he's an adult, living on his own, and he starts to notice strange and spooky things happening around his apartment. When he sees his own shadow moving Yugi begins to suspect his new place is haunted. But is this shadow spirit malicious or... kinda sweet?
Yami does a bunch of stupidly sweet domestic shit for Yugi to help take care of him. Expect romance, fluff, self-care, and Puzzleshipping shenanigans.
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- English
- Words:
- 103,766
- Chapters:
- 23/?
- Comments:
- 2,088
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- 3,018
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- 736
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31 Aug 2025