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you only feel it when it’s lost (gettin’ through still has a cost) by FlowerCitti
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
06 Sep 2023
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Astarion is quiet, when all is said and done.
Casmir keeps a careful eye on him as they make their trek back to the inn, somewhere they can rest and heal. Astarion is unsteady on his feet, floaty, his ruby eyes glassy. As if he were miles and miles away from here, as if he were still in that Gods damned castle. He’s swallowed by Casmir’s undershirt, the only thing the tiefling had on hand that he could spare for him. Astarion’s pale face is stained copper with blood, clumps stuck in his hair and caught in his flickering lashes.
(Or, Casmir takes care of Astarion after Cazador’s death.)
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- Part 8 of “I feel safe with you.” (Astarion Fics)
- Part 4 of Ebony and Silver
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- English
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- 2,625
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- 1/1
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29 Aug 2024
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trail of stones by tenderest
Fandom Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: Origins
09 Aug 2023
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"Here is a story where everything goes wrong, here is a story where everyone has their back against the wall, here is a story where everyone is in pain and acting selfishly because if they don't, they'll die. Here is a story, not of good and evil, but of need against need against need, where everyone is at cross-purposes and everyone is to blame. How are you supposed to fall asleep to this?"
Or, what happens to Thedas's heroes with the passing years.
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05 Oct 2023
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suck the rot right out of my bloodstream by FlowerCitti
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
31 Aug 2023
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Astarion moves his legs just slightly to press against Casmir’s broad shoulder, a teasing point of contact. The tiefling doesn’t shift away.
But his hands still haven’t moved to tend to Astarion’s wound. “Can I touch you?”
Astarion stares at them for a few moments, meeting that burning gaze, fanned by thick lashes. People don’t often ask him that—they just do. It didn’t matter whether he wanted them to or not, only that he was a pretty thing they wanted to get their hands on.
He shakes his head before he can fade away into bad memories, blinking several times. He smirks instead, slipping into flirtation easily, eyes lidded and something like revulsion at himself bubbling in his gut, “As much as you’d like, my dear.”
(Or, Astarion has had his consent revoked for over two centuries. Then he meets Casmir.)
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- Part 5 of “I feel safe with you.” (Astarion Fics)
- Part 1 of Ebony and Silver
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- English
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- 8,015
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03 Sep 2023
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wanted to kiss your skin and your everything by FlowerCitti
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
20 Aug 2023
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Your fingers brush over the pages of the open sketchbook in your lap, a charcoal stick held in your other hand. You flick it over your knuckles, tounging at the back of your teeth as you allow your wrist to move with your flowing thoughts.
You think of Astarion’s words from the first time you had caught him gazing into that broken mirror, fresh on your mind even if it feels like it’s been ages since you’d heard them.
“I want to know what the world sees when it looks at me. What you see.”
(Or, you draw Astarion to show him what he looks like.)
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- Part 1 of “I feel safe with you.” (Astarion Fics)
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- English
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- 1,484
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- 1/1
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03 Sep 2023
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gravity, heresy, and other quiet pursuits by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
05 Dec 2020
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“Allow me to make it up to you?” Essek heard himself ask, suddenly too soft, too genuine, all without his permission.
Caleb cocked his head to the side just so, his eyes searching, lips caught parted halfway to whatever he’d been about to say before those words came tumbling out of Essek’s mouth. “How do you suggest?” he asked, that low, faintly rasping quality returning to his voice, his eyes catching the shifting light beautifully.
What had he just told Caleb about the dangers of acting on impulse? Essek swallowed, his mouth dry suddenly. He held his hand out to Caleb, not trusting himself to speak. Wordlessly, a smile flickering at his lips, Caleb took his hand. Essek pulled him up to his feet.
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24 Jul 2023
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“I would have you any way that you allow.”
“I will hold you to that, Thelyss.”Or, the years and the centuries that follow.
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- Part 1 of a distant star and a constant ember
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15 Feb 2023
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The T-Dock, 10 Minutes Later by WretchedArtifact for mixtapestar
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
04 Aug 2022
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After Caleb destroys the Aeorian technology that would allow him to manipulate time, he and Essek retreat into the dome and face the magnitude of what they've done.
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23 Nov 2022
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08 May 2021
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In that moment when Caleb squeezed his arm, something electric punched through Essek’s veins, spreading out from the point of contact - and he wanted, so badly, to believe that some part of it was real.
Now, Caleb’s hand rests warm over his heart, and Essek thinks, numbly, that this is very real indeed.
(In which Essek falls in love over a series of touches.)
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Emergency First Aid in the Pocket Workshop by Anonymous
Fandoms: The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
17 Dec 2016
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You are the goddamn king of suffering.
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Magnus and Merle tend to Taako after his run in with some bad luck. His inner monologue goes a walking.
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26 Oct 2020
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A somewhat unfriendly biopic of Taako's mind when he realizes he's falling in love
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19 Jul 2020
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They're not okay, but it's okay.
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19 Jul 2020
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They make quite a pair: the middle-aged woman with the hard mouth and a death-grip on her staff, and the quiet, haunted gnome at her side. They're both broken, but they make it work.
Scenes and moments from ten years alone together, where Davenport and Lucretia re-learn how to understand each other, how to care for one another, how to be something like a family again.
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10 May 2020
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starting to sound like a friendship thing by Psilent (HereThereBeFic)
Fandoms: The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
04 Oct 2016
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"You don't owe me anything," Magnus says quickly. "You're my friend and you were in trouble and protecting that button clearly wasn't working – really sorry about that, by the way – and I couldn't just stand there and do nothing!"
Taako is staring at him. He doesn't quite slump, just holds himself at different angles as the indignation slinks out of his posture to be replaced by bewilderment. "I'm your what?"
[Set between Moonlighting and Rockport Limited but contains mostly vague spoilers for events revealed as late as The Eleventh Hour.]
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- English
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16 Apr 2020
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The second of seven character studies. This one: Taako.
Taako grapples with what just happened at Glamour Springs.
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- Part 2 of There is seven birds
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through the days you will dream of losing me and losing you by androids_fighting93
Fandoms: The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
30 Sep 2017
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There is a version of Taako who rarely stopped holding his sister's hand for the first ten or so years of his life, and a second version of Taako who couldn't look in a mirror sometimes because he looked at his own face and saw static and everything felt wrong and he never knew why. They exist impossibly in the same space, fractured pieces that don't quite form a whole person.
Bookmarked by rainingmuses
07 Sep 2019
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finally the lucretia taako sadstuck i have been seeking
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safe in the ache of soul decay by tardigradeschool
Fandoms: The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
02 Aug 2017
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The first time Lucretia hears Taako refer to himself as stupid, she is all but floored. He says it so blithely, as though this cheerful admission would not have cost him every inch of his pride if he were still the elf she knew a decade ago.
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- Part 1 of weather-beaten in a losing battle
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07 Sep 2019
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The most powerful person in the multiverse was once a literature major.
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07 Sep 2019
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As the years went on, deliberate actions morphed into more of a habit; Taako braids and unbraids his hair, Taako bites his nails at night, Taako swings his feet when he sits, Taako doesn’t eat.
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04 Sep 2019
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five times taako doesn't listen, and one time he does by nauticalwarrior
Fandoms: The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
19 Aug 2017
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ever since glamour springs, taako can't eat. he does, sometimes, because he has to be lucid enough to save the world.
but he can't
Bookmarked by rainingmuses
04 Sep 2019