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1. Luck, Joy, and Other Bad Ideas by thelastbard

   Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   17 Apr 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Astarion (Baldur's Gate)/Original Male Character(s)
   • Astarion/Tav (Baldur's Gate)
   • Astarion (Baldur's Gate)
   • Tav (Baldur's Gate)
   • Gale (Baldur's Gate)
   • Shadowheart (Baldur's Gate)
   • Karlach (Baldur's Gate)
   • Wyll (Baldur's Gate)
   • Lae'zel (Baldur's Gate)
   • Halsin (Baldur's Gate)
   • Minthara Baenre
   • Soft Astarion (Baldur's Gate)
   • Protective Astarion (Baldur's Gate)
   • Jealous Astarion (Baldur's Gate)
   • Touch-Starved Astarion (Baldur's Gate)
   • Annoyingly Adorable Bard
   • Love as a choice
   • Astarion Needs a Hug (Baldur's Gate)
   • Astarion Gets a Hug (Baldur's Gate)
   • Astarion is Bad at Feelings (Baldur's Gate)
   • Top Astarion (Baldur's Gate)
   • Top/Bottom Versatile Astarion (Baldur's Gate)
   • Anal Sex
   • Biting Kink
   • Mutual Pining
   • Praise Kink
   • they're sickeningly in love
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Angst and Fluff and Smut
   • Astarion Learns He Doesn't Have to Earn Love
   • Bard Tav (Baldur's Gate)
   • chaos gremlin
   • Chaotic Good Seren
   • Humor
   • Idiots in Love
   • annoyance to lovers
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Charming Disaster
   • Weaponized Kindness
   • This Backfired Spectacularly
   • I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping
   • Inappropriate Use of Simulacrum Spell (Dungeons & Dragons)
   • Orgasm Denial
   • Dom Astarion (Baldur's Gate)
   • Double Penetration
   • Rough Sex

   Summary

   Seren Thatch is Astarion's perfect prey. Charming, handsome, and so achingly kind it hurts.

   But nothing goes as planned when Seren is around. Chaos follows the bard wherever he goes.

   Astarion hates that he loves it, then doesn't...eventually. Seren is a drug and the elf is addicted.

   Read this insanely chaotic canon-divergence story and laugh, cry (maybe), and watch these two idiots fall in love.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   160,732

   Chapters:

   72/100

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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