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miles below the surface of the dawn by thefirstaidkit
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
31 Dec 2024
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Alone, they are like the right and left hands, which need no conversation to know which holds the knife and which the rope, to know who chops and who steadies. But you can deny your body’s instinctive response to nearly anything, she has learned, once you get into the habit of it.
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An injury, a small room and a narrow bed, a drop into the Fade; the thing that happens when the instinct for protection turns to fear.Bookmarked by Shaedan
31 Dec 2024
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tonight the heavy earth is falling by gatheringbones
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
17 Dec 2014
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Lavellan asks a favor. Solas does his best.
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23 Dec 2024
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the sun to burn by Pip (Moirail)
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
02 Jan 2025
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The Inquisitor talks just a little bit more, and Solas listens just a little bit better.
When he first meets her, he does not like her.
She is the perfect culmination of every mistake he’s ever made, quintessentially Dalish with Mythal’s vallaslin tracing her cheekbones, built on the narrow bird bones that are so common to the modern creatures that call themselves elven.
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22 Dec 2024
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Iconoclast by lilith_morgana
Fandom: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
25 Oct 2024
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She comes to him in a broken timeline.
Stories about Ellana Lavellan and Solas.
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21 Dec 2024
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Benevolence by hallahart
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
29 Nov 2024
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He is just a man who serves a woman, but he used to be more.
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01 Dec 2024
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She wants it on the record that infiltrating Solas’ organization as a nug was never a plan that they had.
Not any of them.
Not even Sera.
Not even jokingly.
She wants it on the record.
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29 Nov 2024
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Stronger Where it Breaks by theharellan
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
16 Nov 2024
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Instead, I will mind his wisdom, as time has taught me that it often outpaces my own.
Not all healing need be bloody. Upon Lavellan's advice, Solas tries to meditate upon the things he cherishes about his new life.
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29 Nov 2024
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ace of cups, king of swords, the chariot by gorgongorgeous
Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
13 Mar 2024
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The Ace of Cups in the upright: new relationships, the font of creation, unmistakable love. in the reverse: denial of feelings, a disconnect from one's emotions.
The King of Swords in the upright: clear insight, mental acuity, intellectual power, a decisive mediator. in the reverse: a tendency for manipulation, inability to express feelings, abuse of power.
The Chariot in the upright: self-actualization, freedom, adaptability, forward momentum. in the reverse: recklessness, lack of focus, an unwillingness to take responsibility for one's own decisions.
how to fake it til you make it in every respect, until maybe you stop faking it, until maybe you find a willingness to be something more.
Or: stories involving Basquiat, my non-binary tiefling draconic sorcerer-bard, and Astarion, who is very much himself. primary focus on their relationship over the course of canon game events, but plot may occur. POV alternates between Astarion and Basquiat.
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08 Mar 2024
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a crooked touch (Astarion x m!Tav) by eyes_of_the_lamb
Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
16 Nov 2024
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“Make it hurt, then. Kiss me like you want to kill me.”
“I can do that.”
Two broken stars in a decaying orbit, passing closer and closer together until the inevitable, devastating collision.
Or, Tav is fucked up and down bad for Astarion, who doesn't quite see the appeal (but he's getting there). Sexual frustration, sloppy handjobs, a heavy dose of masochism, and way too many failed Insight checks ahead. Tav falls first, Astarion falls harder (eventually).
Or, a tragic-but-hopeful romance told through a series of incredibly ill-advised sexual encounters.
If you want to read a story where Astarion is sweet from the start and Tav is here to fix him, this isn't the one. If you want to read about two terribly broken men spending a good long while making each other worse before they make each other better, this might be for you. If you thought the in-game romance was a little too easy and it should have been ten times more painful and difficult to convince Astarion he's worthy of love, this is definitely for you.
Set during the canonical events of Baldur's Gate 3.
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08 Mar 2024
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There's something in Caleb's dreams. It wants him to know that he's not alone. It wants him to know that he'll never be alone again.
Elves don't dream, so all Essek can do is watch.
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20 Nov 2023
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Stories featuring my Tav, Diina, a drow warlock and her lovers Karlach and Astarion, both in-game and post-canon.
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19 Oct 2023
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sunrise, with hope its arrogant rider by edelgarfield
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
07 Oct 2023
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Astarion stares down his nose with that familiar haughty glare. “I suppose that makes us even, now.”
You search his face, trying to find the missing piece that will make the puzzle take shape. You think of what little he’s told you about his life before this strange journey of yours. A cruel master that delighted in his pain and two hundred years of being brought to heel.
It comes to you in a dizzying rush. “You think I left you there as punishment.”
Astarion accidentally, kinda-sorta drains your blood and leaves you for dead. Three weeks later, you drop a monastery on him. You refuse to let the story end there.
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- Part 2 of cardinal, sunrise, morning star
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14 Oct 2023
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feeding on fever (down on all fours) by nikomedes for sprinkles
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
11 Oct 2023
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Astarion doesn’t know how to do this. He doesn’t know how to make himself say ‘I love you,’ yet. But he does know how to bind with blood.
It’s enough for Shrike.
(A reluctant Dark Urge seeks advice from Jaheira, and stops offering himself to Astarion. Astarion objects.)
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- Part 2 of predator song (shrike/astarion)
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14 Oct 2023
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The realm is safe and the story is over.
Wren and Astarion descend into the Underdark in search of a new purpose, and learn a few things along the way. Namely, that healing isn't linear and sometimes love takes the long way round.
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- Part 1 of hold me like a knife
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- 7/7
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11 Oct 2023
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When one’s survival depends largely on their beauty, it stands to reason that losing control over his appearance was possibly one of the most terrifying things that could have ever happened to him.
Or; how Astarion falls ill, and learns that he is allowed to be less than perfect.
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03 Oct 2023
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as long as it is day by liesmyth for darlingargents
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
02 Apr 2023
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Nonagesimus, you owed me so big. You spat on my gift of a perfectly good soul, you trapped me in the back of your head like a bad dream to be forgotten and brought me back to fight disgusting bloody wasps, and then you got me stuck in a nightmare whirl of the worst fucking night of my life.
Which, you know. That’s really saying something.
(Or: Gideon is stuck in a time loop. She's not the only one.)
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- 18,339
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03 Apr 2023
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“I’ve been wondering about something,” Sam says.
Castiel has his eyes closed, but they snap open immediately. “Oh?”
Sam adjusts his grip on the steering wheel. “So…the other angels. They call you he, right?”
“They normally call me Castiel.”____
Dean is AWOL, so Cas rides shotgun. Sam does his best to fill the silence with an entirely academic inquiry into the nature of Enochian pronouns and their relation, or lack thereof, to the gender of human vessels.
...it's more fun than it sounds.
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27 Nov 2020
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Dean couldn’t really explain why he’d assumed Cas would suck at mornings. Maybe the 24/7 bedhead and the “it’s always 5 o’clock somewhere” shadow; maybe just the way he veers into grouchy asshole territory whenever the world takes a dump on his shoes, which is kind of the definition of mornings.
Whatever: Cas just seems like the kind of guy who’d need forty minutes of silence and three cups of coffee before he’d count as human. Hey, well, joke’s on Dean, ‘cuz the guy definitely (currently) counts as human, and he’s awake at five fucking thirty in the morning, every morning, bright-tailed and bushy-eyed and talking a mile a minute. A mile a second. He’s breaking the sound barrier and exerting serious G-forces.
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A quiet little clapback to the fandom trope that Human Castiel Is Not A Morning Person.
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27 Nov 2020
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“This is the Bad Place!” she says. And just like that, the concert he’s spent ages setting up comes crashing down; the violins screech to a halt, the soprano sings, the curtain comes down, and Michael’s hand goes up. First, he was pissed, then he was maudlin.
Now, he’s almost amused by his part in this whole, doomed concerto.
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12 Oct 2020
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An absence which could not be more there by aesc
Fandoms: X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom
14 Apr 2012
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He prepared to shift another half-step over to the Current Events section (which would, of course, enrage him) when the teaser positioned by the model's left elbow caught his eye: DATING WHILE TELEPATHIC: WHY I DON'T DO IT.
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- 2/2
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19 Jul 2020