1 - 20 of 26 Bookmarks by papercuts
Navigation
List of Bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
“Let me show you,” he murmured against her hair. “Let me shatter those childish crystal dreams to dust. I can make you feel things you have never imagined. Darkness and light and power beyond compare. I could reorder time so you feel me inside you again and again. Have you cry out in pleasure until the stars rain down. Do you want me to?”
When Sarah unwittingly releases a malevolent power from an ancient isle, she must join forces with her former adversary to save the kingdom she once threw down. But an alliance with the Goblin King comes with its own dangers, and promises can be perilous...
Bookmarked by papercuts
26 Dec 2025
-
Tags
Bookmarked by papercuts
05 Jun 2025
-
Tags
Summary
A cold winter's night leads Sarah to the Underground, where she discovers the Labyrinth – and its King – are far more beautiful and perilous than she remembers. A seasonal oneshot.
Bookmarked by papercuts
07 Apr 2025
-
we color in the world and crown it by stolenglow (xlph) for Raayide
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
29 Mar 2025
Tags
Summary
Karlach only begins to see colors after she is abducted by mind flayers and gets a tadpole inserted into her eye. This is the story of how each color comes to her, and how they feature in the life she builds with Astarion.
or: a take on the soulmate trope never knew color until I knew you.
Bookmarked by papercuts
24 Mar 2025
-
Tags
Summary
"Mm," Karlach says, grabbing a whetstone as she sits beside him. "I think we should get married."
Astarion chokes. Chokes again. Sets his glass down and continues choking. "Excuse me?"
"We should get married," Karlach repeats, like he simply hadn't heard her. "Pass the wine, will ya?"
The snow will melt in Baldur's Gate.
Series
- Part 1 of a wait for the future
Bookmarked by papercuts
24 Mar 2025
-
Tags
Summary
The valentines you never send, and the ones you do.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,494
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 18
- Kudos:
- 105
- Bookmarks:
- 19
- Hits:
- 2,280
Bookmarked by papercuts
24 Mar 2025
-
Tags
Summary
After leaving Szarr Entertainment in the wake of a tumultuous - deliberately engineered - scandal, Astarion Ancunín has rebuilt his acting career, from the blacklisted ground up. Through a heavily doctored narrative of queer reclamation, he's finally making a name for himself, and hoping to claim prestige (and maybe a few awards) through the leading role in a historical biopic about the openly gay elven oracle, Aerthwyn Capaxath.
The only problem is, Aerthwyn Capaxath is the worst person that ever lived (or died). Just ask Dr. Rosalie Frostsong, a thoroughly unwilling expert on the subject.
--
(A celebrity/academic, reluctant workplace allies turned friends-to-lovers, modern AU... a.k.a. the silliest thing i've ever written. I hope people enjoy!)
Series
- Part 6 of Rat Bastard Boi (BG3)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 255,657
- Chapters:
- 32/37
- Comments:
- 3,072
- Kudos:
- 1,181
- Bookmarks:
- 210
- Hits:
- 47,747
Bookmarked by papercuts
28 Jan 2025
-
Midnight by touchandburn
Fandoms: X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Original Timeline Movies), X-Men - All Media Types
09 Oct 2024
Tags
Summary
She’s standing in the doorway of John and Bobby’s room, leaning against the frame, offering up the gift with raised eyebrows, almost challengingly, like she’s expecting he’ll reject it. Maybe sneer at her, tell her he doesn’t do Christmas, and how stupid is she?
Bookmarked by papercuts
02 Dec 2024
-
Tags
Summary
Her memories and dreams have conspired to make sure that Julie will never forget about Liz Purr.
Bookmarked by papercuts
21 Oct 2024
-
Tags
Summary
Over the centuries, Astarion has learnt to play people like a fiddle, using his dashing good looks and roguish charisma to do his master's bidding. Now, with his freedom finally within reach, the one person he needs on his side seems immune to his charm.
As a bard, Cordelia is well-trained in both performance and insight into the nature of others. She sees that walking red flag a mile away, but that doesn't mean she can resist him forever.
Bookmarked by papercuts
21 Oct 2024
-
Tags
Summary
A princess, simultaneously blessed and cursed, and a wolf dressed in sheep's clothing waiting at the door. Sarah learns that a gift from an immortal comes with a heavy price.
Bookmarked by papercuts
04 Oct 2024
-
Tags
Summary
Astarion doesn't look up from the paper he holds. He sucks in a breath, to talk, and his voice is a horror. “They knew. My parents,” he spits. “They knew what had happened to me the entire time. They knew I had been taken by Cazador.”
Series
- Part 2 of help! i'm alive
Bookmarked by papercuts
23 Jun 2024
-
it's the principle of the thing by TheEclecticLibrarian
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
07 Aug 2023
Tags
Summary
Faced with the prospect of her terrible coworker's impending departure from Sunnydale, Jenny Calendar makes an impulsive and utterly baffling proposal. In every sense of the word.
Bookmarked by papercuts
16 May 2024
-
Tags
Summary
Jude could never help but notice when the horror of others morphed into a kind of sick fascination when they saw the spawn for what he was. Sycophants who wondered what it would be like to not only be sampled by him, but to become what he was. It must make him sick, she thought, and yet here she was—sitting across from a vampire spawn who had openly admitted his hunger, and feeling every nerve ending in her body warm to it.
Or: Not once had she allowed Astarion to feed on her, no matter how sweetly he asked. It wasn’t until Jude and her companions passed the borders into the Shadowlands that they realised their resident vampire may have trouble feeding in the land of the dead. And when said vampire is wholly responsible for saving her life after an ambush, could she, in good conscience, deny him?
Bookmarked by papercuts
16 May 2024
-
Tags
Summary
“No!” she said immediately.
“You want to fuck me!” he said gleefully.
“No, and also we’re not even having this conversation,” she said in desperation, while her treacherous brain went right on vividly imagining every single minute of banging that smirk off his face so hard—
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,229
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 196
- Kudos:
- 7,308
- Bookmarks:
- 962
- Hits:
- 116,396
Bookmarked by papercuts
16 May 2024
-
Tags
Summary
Needy cannot deny Jennifer anything. She tries, and fails, and loves all at once.
Pre-series.
Bookmarked by papercuts
16 May 2024
-
Tags
Summary
“Every time I make love in your shape, you will know.”
There are two mistakes you regret more than anything. One, helping Astarion complete the ritual that changed him into someone you no longer recognize. Two, giving your body away to an incubus, an eternal pact from which you can never break free.
Haarlep has begun to take your form almost every night, making it impossible to forget your pact, impossible to forget the nights you shared with the man you once loved, all while a stranger ravishes you from beyond.
Only it isn’t a stranger at all.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 9,060
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 74
- Kudos:
- 628
- Bookmarks:
- 105
- Hits:
- 10,023
Bookmarked by papercuts
16 May 2024
-
Tags
Summary
Zoraya Naelgrath is gearing up to start her own legal practice when a call from her past unexpectedly places her in the offices of Astarion Ancunin, a young magistrate known for his racial prejudice and various sex scandals that have made him the laughing stock of his colleagues. Tasked with preventing his dooming expulsion from office, Zoraya has no choice but to face the man who was once her best friend in the entire world, as well as her childhood crush. A crush that is, of course, ancient history now that Astarion is a perpetually hungover, selfish bastard interested in little else than cementing his standing among the elite of Baldur’s Gate – most notably Lord Cazador Szarr, an enigmatic nobleman with pale skin and an unsettlingly keen interest in Astarion.
"Beauty and the Beast" meets "Suits"
Or: What if Magistrarion had a badass half Gur childhood bestie who's definitely not in love with him and starts working for him right as a certain pale-faced, red-eyed nobleman gets ready to make his move?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 200,000
- Chapters:
- 29/29
- Comments:
- 1,857
- Kudos:
- 1,695
- Bookmarks:
- 253
- Hits:
- 36,503
Bookmarked by papercuts
23 Apr 2024
-
Tags
Summary
There's something to be said for those moments in-between missions, the ones where you manage to hold off on worrying about the tadpoles in your brain. The brief instances of levity in which you can afford to appreciate the beauty hidden in this strange, precarious new world you find yourself navigating.
The moments where rubies sparkle in a new light behind a curtain of long lashes, the mischievous, twinkling stars casting a blue glow glossing off silvery hair. Pretty things seem suddenly far too intent to watch your mouth run away from you, especially where a particular traveling companion who you just can't seem to stay away from is concerned.
Can you merely be Astarion's mirror in all this? Can your honeyed words break through his bitter smiles? Or have your compliments doomed you both from the moment they left your lips?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 40,684
- Chapters:
- 11/14
- Comments:
- 273
- Kudos:
- 2,104
- Bookmarks:
- 471
- Hits:
- 43,929
Bookmarked by papercuts
28 Nov 2023
-
Tags
Summary
"You have no power over me." Sarah repeated hoping to manufacture the same windswept accomplishment of earlier. Instead he simply stood there.
"I'm afraid that's not entirely the truth."
Never eat the fairy food. One bite from a peach had doomed her. Now five years later Sarah must run the labyrinth again to save her and her brother from the Underground. But as always things are not all they seem...
Series
- Part 1 of The Power You Have Over Me
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 82,462
- Chapters:
- 27/27
- Comments:
- 370
- Kudos:
- 934
- Bookmarks:
- 214
- Hits:
- 26,609
Bookmarked by papercuts
28 Feb 2023