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When Pure Vanilla throws open the balcony doors and holds his staff aloft, the first thing he sees are the tree’s branches devoid of his feathered friends. It’s an unwelcome sight, a clear departure from their usual routine. Had something happened? Has someone drawn them away?
A flutter of movement draws his eyes upwards towards the roof; instantly, relief floods through Pure Vanilla’s jam. The flock is mercifully still here, perched above his head on a nearby rooftop. They are, however, strangely silent and still, huddled closely together while glancing between Pure Vanilla and the tree. Pure Vanilla follows their nervous gaze, peering into the branches as he holds his staff high –
Only to spy a long, lithe form curled in the shadows.
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- Part 3 of Jamma Jambound's SDVN works
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18 Oct 2025
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Compassion and empathy are not the same. One is learned, the other is innate. This is Pure Vanilla’s journey into compassion.
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Walking in the black cold of the night, Wyll found a vampire in the road.
In the road, buried up to his chest. Facing the east, where the sun would eventually roll up over the distant hill and set him alight.
Wyll fixes it.
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04 Oct 2025
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everybody loves a winner, so nobody loved me by rreckonerr
Fandoms: Superman (Movie 2025)
08 Oct 2025
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Their eyes meet. Superman appraises him silently. Tracks the emaciated planes of his face down to the sharp jut of his collarbones from under the neck of his shirt. Lex doesn’t let himself wish for a door to close, for a curtain to drop, for a blanket to pull over his head. He feels like a child. Terrified and sick about it.
“It’s Wednesday,” Superman says, voice low. Gentle, almost, as if Lex is some sort of stray animal, tense and shaking, primed to bite. Demeaning.
Lex is not shaking. He holds his breath for a moment, wills the rhythm of his lungs to slow. He concentrates the fear into disgust, into a single heated beam of hatred. There are protections in place. Contracts, laws. Lex is government property. Superman won’t — he won’t.
Nobody will touch Lex Luthor.
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03 Oct 2025
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Lex forgets everything, including Superman. Now he is just fond of him—no trace of his old envy or hatred. And Clark doesn't know how to feel about this sudden change of heart.
(Or: Krypto damages Lex’s brain while tossing him around. It changes everything.)
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- Part 1 of standalone clex fics
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03 Oct 2025
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a vow is a pact your heart makes by jellyfishline for ushauz
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
09 Sep 2025
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Or, sometimes the things you thought were lost forever come back in unexpected ways.
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27 Sep 2025
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love is being stupid together by suzukiblu
Fandom: DCU, DCU (Comics), Reign of the Supermen (2019), Superboy (Comics), Superman (Comics), Superman - All Media Types
19 Oct 2025
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“You had my baby?” Superman asks, tilting in the air and still staring at Experiment Thirteen, as if he's somehow forgotten both how much kryptonite Lex owns and how much kryptonite he keeps specifically in this office. “While I was dead. You had my baby while I was dead.”
. . . alright then, Lex thinks again, both eyebrows raising this time.
“I really wouldn’t put it that way, personally,” he says. “Also, I don’t recall saying it was in any way yours.”
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07 Sep 2025
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Beneath the headstone is a body that will not rot. One day, after the grave has been filled, after a long, long time, you get up.
Astarion: between, around, and before.
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- Part 1 of dialectics on death from the soon-to-be
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15 Jun 2025
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which I shed for you by darcylindbergh for NarumiKaiko
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
09 Apr 2023
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The cigarette burns slow between Crowley’s fingertips. The taste of smoke in his mouth drags memories from his lungs, dusty as ash and cold as. The church opposite is grey with it, too—the build-up of centuries, the soot and stain of humanity blackening its very foundations.
He would have hated this building, Crowley thinks, looking up at the spire, piercing white and imposing. He’d have liked the pub better.
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In which Astarion conceals a number of serious injuries until well into the Shadowcursed lands, at which point he chooses to make all of them Wyll's problem.
Or: Astarion is shroomed thrice (but the third time is a lie.)
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23 May 2025
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“You know what I wagered,” Wyll says. “Are you planning to collect now, or later?”
Astarion laughs at that, and to Wyll’s satisfaction, it isn’t one of those shallow, pretty laughs that he knows that the man has practiced to perfection. This one is inelegant. Genuine. If he could, Wyll would slip that laugh into a pocket and carry it with him like he used to do with pieces of beach glass as a child.
“Oh, I am going to collect immediately,” Astarion tells him.
Some months after saving the world, Wyll and Astarion play cards together. They're making up the rules as they go.
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21 May 2025
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I am the one with the world at my feet by stolenglow
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
18 May 2025
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when is a monster not a monster?
or: building a life together.
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18 May 2025
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Once upon a time, before he was heralded as a hero of Baldur's Gate, before he was even the Blade of Frontiers, Wyll Ravengard was only a young man tossed around by fate. Banished from the only world he ever knew, scared, shivering, and lost, Wyll barely survived his first years out in the wilderness. He tries not to think back to those days.
But those days, it seems, are not ready to let him go.
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The man was filthy. The beds of his nails were blackened with dirt. His pale hair was greasy and limp, his lips were dry and cracked, and his face was incredibly gaunt. He wore threadbare boxers and a tank top that hung loosely from his pallid and skeletal chest, and his feet were bare, the soles brown from walking on the street. He sat with Wyll's scratchy blanket clutched around his shoulders with one hand, and with the other he pressed the blade of a paring knife to Wyll's throat.
And so Wyll kept his eyes trained dutifully on the road.
Wyll goes for a late night drive to clear his head. Astarion needs to get as far away as possible — fast.
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22 Apr 2025
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Orin the Red wakes up on a beach; she goes to find Wyll.
or, an origin!Orin fic continuing my thesis that Wyll and Orin should be friends.
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- Part 3 of here there be dragons
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11 Apr 2025
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Hallucinations come a little more naturally to elves than other races. The vapor-thin veil between the reverie of trance and stark reality takes so little effort to pierce. An elf dreams through their memories without ever truly sleeping; thus, dreams do not always wait for consciousness to exit before stepping onto the stage. At least, that's how Astarion sees it. He's never had his assumptions checked by a second opinion.
Astarion, at Tav's request, eats something that doesn't agree with him. This has unexpected consequences.
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09 Apr 2025
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you miss 100% of the hot statues you don't kiss by not_whelmed_yet for Winifred0817
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
04 Apr 2025
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In the early hours of the morning, with the greys of night swelling into blues and pink and golden dawn, a vampire climbed through one of the broken windows to hide at Wyll’s feet.
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Wyll is a statue. Astarion is a vampire seeking a place to hide from the sun...and maybe something more.
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04 Apr 2025
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the hollow houses and vacant lots (and the shattered windows and splintered doors) by perhapsitiswitchcraft
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
13 May 2024
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Astarion scoffs, red eyes wide and pointed with panic. “Oh, don't be so sickeningly morose. They’re dead anyway. They probably died quickly and painfully and went straight to Lunia, the lucky bastards-”
He doesn't even get to finish the sentence before Wyll is hauling back and socking him in the face.
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Or, Astarion is... prickly. Especially when cornered. And there's a monster hunter in the marsh.
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A little mercy for two sad monsters.
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03 Apr 2025
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"Remind me," Mystra asks Elminster. "How long is a year? Put it in context."
Elminster sighs. "I have lived over three hundred of them."
"And Gale?"
When he speaks, it is with the weight of all those years hanging heavy in his voice. "Nineteen."
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03 Apr 2025