#ushauz

[odessa-castle]

you know i want to hear about 'tonight on jerry springer: my son wants to marry a vampire spawn!'

I got a lot of asks about this one! Which, in retrospect, shouldn’t have come as much of a surprise.

tonight on jerry springer: my son wants to marry a vampire spawn! is, as more than one person guessed, about Astarion and Ulder throwing down, primarily over Ulder’s treatment of Wyll. It starts as a meet-the-parents dinner and, uh, devolves from there. And then Wyll is forced to actually talk about his feelings! The idea sprung from my dissatisfaction at how Ulder and Wyll’s reconciliation plays out in the game proper, followed by me getting into wyllstarion and being like “you know, Astarion would have some fucking Opinions about how Ulder treated Wyll.” When I started it back in like…oh god, October or November of last year, there were only a handful of wyllstarion fics out there, and none of them had really tackled this yet.

I may or may not finish it! I kind of wrote a version of this into NLTS already, and spoiler-not-spoiler, Astarion’s going to have even more words for Ulder when he enters the picture again.

Here’s an excerpt of what I’ve got so far:

Astarion’s posture is flawless, shoulders back, head high, but his hands don’t match the rest of the picture. He plays with the lace of his cuffs, rolling their hems between his fingers and palms. A small gesture, easily ignored, but Wyll knows by now to watch for such things. (And he cherishes them – the slight crease at the corner of Astarion’s mouth when, against his better judgment, something charms him; the release of his shoulders when he’s well and truly sated; the deft curiosity of his hands when he encounters a particularly challenging lock.)

Not that Wyll is fully at ease himself. The foyer is arranged just as it was seven years ago, when he last graced the halls of his father’s house, but surely the chandelier was not so bright before. He remembers the mingled scents of incense and horse musk, but now he nearly tastes the metal tang of blood beneath both. Part of him still expects his sword master to round the corner any minute now, barking at him to practice his forms one more time.

Astarion glances at the portrait to his right and does a double-take. “Wyll,” he says, “is that your father? With – hair?”

“My grandfather,” Wyll says, “but I can’t vouch for the likeness. I never met the man. This was painted after he died, based on Father’s descriptions. I always wondered how much the painter just substituted Father’s own features, though.”

“Well, the duke either described his haircut badly, or described a very bad haircut.”

#the ask and the answer #ushauz #wyllstarion

[anonyhex]

Just a trick of the light?

Okay so this is a fun one--it started with me becoming obsessed with Amalee's English cover of "Idol", the theme song for an anime called Oshi no Ko. (flashing warning, but the video for it is here!)

In the context of the original anime, it's from the viewpoint of a key character that's a teenaged girl in the "pop idol" industry of Japan. Due to her background as a kid that grew up in the foster system because of an uncaring mother, she doesn't have a good understanding of what an actual caring relationship of any sort looks like--so she throws herself into lying about "loving" her fans in the way that idol culture tends to create unhealthy parasocial relationships. She ends up secretly becoming a teen mom, but through her relationship with her kids she slowly begins to understand what it feels like to ACTUALLY love someone. (and then PLOT happens from there but it's a pretty big spoiler, so...yeah.)

...So what does this have to do with BG3?

Well, uh, as I was looping this song over and over again in 2023 (starting before I even knew much about the anime the song is from), I started to pick up on lines that reminded me of Astarion having to fake attraction or affection for people to find prey for Cazador (and later on protection during the game events), and then stumbling into actually loving the person he's in a romance with.

And then I also was reminded of Wyll pretending to be this grand hero despite the much darker things going on privately in his life.

And next thing you know I have essentially an entire animatic to the song plotted out in my head of Astarion seducing Wyll, only to realize how much they're both performing a role and then realizing he has genuine feelings for Wyll.

The PROBLEM is that I've never learned how to draw, but I DO know how to write, so...! I started writing a fic on the idea, and titled it after a line from the song. The basic idea was brief scenes of Astarion and Wyll having to play a role in their previous lives, building up to their eventual meeting and slowly recognizing the people behind the masks they wear. Here's a couple snippets from the first scenes for Astarion and Wyll:

He [Astarion] takes a seat at the bar, leaning back onto an arm to try to emphasize graceful lines, his long legs crossed just so. He orders himself a drink–the cheapest he thinks he can get away with while still seeming like he has good taste–and looks back at the pub, his smile perfectly performed. When a tipsy woman is the first to take the bait, he pretends to not see her at first, and then lets his eyebrows raise and shapes his eyes to look pleasantly surprised. “Oh? And how did I catch the attention of such a beauty?”

[...]

He [Wyll] accepts every request to dance that comes his way and leads his partners along the floor with carefully practiced grace, his touch around their waist gentle and chaste but just enough to maybe endear them to him, if just for the night. By the time he’s dancing with a half-elf partner his feet are starting to hurt, but he disguises it with an easy smile at the end, placing a kiss on their hand that lights up the half-elf’s blue eyes. Well, at least he could make them happy, just for a moment.

so the problem is, uh...I got up to the classic Tiefling Party Scene and...I...don't know how to take it to a conclusion from there. So it's just been sitting here for months, oops. I haven't completely abandoned it but it's sitting on the backburner while I work on stuff I have a stronger idea about!

#long post #ask meme #fanfic ramblings #baldur's gate 3 #wyll ravengard #wyllstarion #astarion #ushauz

[thepioden]

for the tav asks, 3, 4, 15, and 25?

THANKS I'D LOVE TO

Since you didn't specify, all extant Tavs' answers under the cut

3: Race and subclass?

Themistocles: Tiefling (Devil's Tongue Variant) Conjuration Wizard. He's also technically 1/4 dragon for '3rd generation adventurer' reasons but this is mechanically a nonissue because see above re: Tiefling.

Xilkalyn: Drow Twilight Cleric (thanks, Cleric Subclass Mods!) In the Vanilla game, he'd be a Light Cleric, but he's also my PC from Waterdeep Dragon Heist, where he is a Twilight Cleric of Selune.

Revka: Brass Dragonborn Open-Hand Monk. She's my only girl who wasn't a 5e PC I'm re-using and therefore she gets No Modded Special Privileges or Background.

4: If your Tav was a companion, where would they be found?

T: You probably have to rescue his dipshit tail from that adventuring party in the temple ruins. "Talk fast eat ass" does not get you very far in the wilderness, turns out.

X: Has contrived to get himself to the druid grove and is probably hanging out with Wyll and making himself insufferably useful. Doesn't feel great about the Drow cadaver on the slab in Nettie's chambers though I'll tell you what.

R: You have to break up a fight between her and Astarion, because she wandered into him first, he tried the knife thing, and they got into a STR 8 DEX-off stalemate.

15: What NPC's do they like? Which one's do they dislike?

T: Likes - He has latched on to Rolan like some sort of nerdy leech. Wants to talk Wizard shit and also smack him upside the head also maybe smooch his dumb face? (This is a problem Tim has with a lot of people, including favorite NPC number 2:) Dammon, who he wants to come live in their camp and make them cool magic items. He likes that Dammon is competent but also a fucking weirdo. Tell Tim about the Hells, Dammon. Spare no detail. Dislikes - Lorroakan. That dude is a disgrace to Wizardry, what the fuck. Headcanon that he has Professional Wizard Beef with him from before the game timeline. Raphael. You're just a Cambion, motherfucker, calm down. Same to you, Mizora. You could do better, Wyll. Enver Gortash, because he dicked over Best Girl Karlach Cliffgate.

X: Likes - Xilkalyn actually recruits Minthara (now that you can do it without committing atrocities), so Halsin is his favorite! They get along, being relatively well-adjusted. He's extremely fond of Alfira, because he has a terminal soft-spot for Bards and she's very Nice. He feels religiously obligated to like Dame Aylin but she's. Intense. He's mostly intimidated by Dame Aylin. Dislikes - Holy shit on a stick but Viconia DeVir. She is a microcosm of so much generational trauma and also so much Kalyn Is Actively A Selunite and so much This Is Why People Don't Like Us. The Emperor. Xilkalyn extended so much benefit of the doubt and for what, man. For fucking what.

R: Likes - Has big-sisterly feeling towards Mol that are probably unwarranted and are certainly unreciprocated. Simps for Nine-Fingers because her taste in women is "dangerous." Much like Tim, also think Lucretious is Neat. Blurg and Omeluum! They're chill dudes, she respects what they've got going down, calm down, Lae'zel. Dislikes - the Zhentarim. Rugan didn't deserve that, probably. Orin, because, Jesus Christ, also, give Lae'zel back >:(

25: What arcana major best represents your Tav?

T: Wheel of Fortune

X: The Hanged Man

R: The Chariot

#bg3 #tav #heistboys #ask meme #ushauz

[wufflesvetinari]

ok fine, wyllstarion rec list

the demons bade me write this. i have a lot of Thoughts and Feelings and a fabulous bookmarks list. come with me....and you'll be.......in a world of pure wyllstarion nation

note that this is like. an intermediate/advanced, 201-level list. i am trusting you, and assume you've already read asidian's body of work. you've read nothing is safe. you're reading Nothing Like the Sun &etc. Really anything that appears on the first two pages when sorting by bookmarks/kudos is disqualified due to pre-recognized excellence. (you could, however, go read them again)

are you back? good. now read:

"We Happy Few" - @geometea. listen to me. listen. i am looking deeply into your eyes. read this fucking fic. it's hard to shill without spoiling anything, BUT: wyll is a still-pacted grand duke. he used to have a bunch of unresolved romantic tension with astarion and now hasn't spoken to him for 15 years. now take that premise and add body horror, beautiful ominous surreal images, and SURPRISE BIG EMOTIONS. just trust me on this one, guys

"Crossed Blades" - @rebelontherocks. this is a...i think i have to call this a cozy sex romp. wyll and astarion are married, wyll is a busy duke, astarion needs more enrichment, astarion invents a very silly sex game by roleplaying teenage-wyll's smut books. wyll is So Deeply Into It. i love this fic for its characterization, its banter, and its commitment to paralleling character psychology to what sounds like an absolutely wild in-universe smut series (that is sketched with an impressive amount of detail and care tbh??).

"Comfort" - @acephalouscreature. short and sweet. wyll is injured and everyone expects astarion to take care of him. luckily, astarion has a dastardly plan to fake feelings for wyll by thinking about his feelings for wyll. you sure fooled them, astarion!! also featuring: astarion trying to figure out how to comfort someone by thinking about horses

"False Compare" - @jellyfishline. i'd recommend checking out their work generally, but i fell in love with this one first. wyll writes a sonnet! astarion is mean about it until he isn't! deeply in-character with an emphasis on how each of them communicates affection. gorgeous prose

"how to escape the torment nexus" - @ushauz. this series is incredibly unique, set in a fucked-up bad end where wyll is a lemure, astarion is still on the run from cazador, and almost everyone else is dead. where this really shines imo is wyll's POV: he's been through literal hell, doesn't remember his life, and is wading through his unconscious attachment to astarion like a foreign language. (side note also read Heart of Stone for a great lae'zel character piece)

"An Acorn in the Moonlight" - @anonyhex. this is one of the first wyllstarion fics i ever read and it has a special place in my heart!! it's particularly cathartic to read for Wyll reasons, including him actually getting to Have Emotions about what Ulder put him through. and they are so sweet with each other!!

"temporal displacement" - @purplecatghostposts. ok this came out like. yesterday but listen, i LOVE outsider pov of an astarion who's learned to show affection somewhat, seen from the eyes of someone who doesn't know his history and has no reason to suspect All Of That. and when that "outsider" is a dying 20-year-old wyll who just saw astarion step out of a time portal. well.

"nothing to make a song about" - themortal. for when you want something meaty and casefic-adjacent, set in a post-canon where wyll is the blade and not the duke (for once). contains bonding on the road, getting romantically snowed in together, and Symbolic Fetch-Quests.

i am also watching closely: "One of Those Prince-Types" by @lesbianralzarek and "sigh no more" by @tomorrowsrain. both are one chapter in and promise to be meaty, with execution that already feels very very promising

SPECIAL MENTION TO "Like Death (or Birth)" by The_Dancing_Walrus, which has some fraught implied background wyllstarion and is just generally completely baller. astarion kind-of sort-of accidentally adopts yenna, who got fucked up by her time as a potential sacrifice to bhaal. it works! i promise it works

#wyllstarion #bg3 #astarion #wyll ravengard #bloodpact #leading you gently by the hand through wyllstarion nation #fic rec

[missmacfire]

I need all of you in the BG3 fandom to go read Monster Support Group, please 🥹

I'm in awe of the latest chapter, this is amazing writing, next level.

The series is: Wyll/Astarion, background Shadowheart/Karlach and background Gale/Lea'zel, No tadpoles AU.

#Monster Support Group #bg3 #astarion #wyll ravengard #wyllstarion #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate iii

[duskdragon39]

I've had this sitting in my drafts for approximately three months now, so I'm declaring it done before it officially enters Unfinished Art Hell.

Anyways, I was re-reading @ushauz's A Herald Named Desire (which remains absolutely delightful, would recommend for the identity shenanigans alone), and was struck with the urge to draw Adaar both as a Desire demon and in his Halamshiral outfit. Fashion is Important, and Adaar's deserves some celebration. He worked hard on it.

#Dragon Age #duskarts #fanart of fanfiction #fire my utterly beloathed to draw #ngl there was a chance he would have been bald

[wangxianficfinder]

Daemons / Sentient Sword

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🧡 Song of Suibian and Bichen: Or, the Greatest (And Only) Furby Master of Demonic Cultivation by moonwaif (T, 64k, WangXian, Fix-It of Sorts, canon adjacent, The spiritual weapons are furbies, Angst with a Happy Ending, The parent trap but make it WangXian with furbies, Mutual Pining, Taking my favorite parts of every adaptation and smashing them together)

🧡 like speaking to my heart by SnowshadowAO3 (T, 613k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Daemons, Slow Burn, Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Canonical Character Death, Some people live!, additional warnings in specific chapters, if you don't know what daemons are that's ok because I explain it in the author's note, also by slow burn I VERY much mean slow burn)

The Grandmaster of Daemonic Cultivation by CaptainJojo (E, 104k, WangXian, ChengQing, XuanLi, Daemons, Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, a lil bit of sexy in later chapters, Wangxian figures it out quicker, gratuitous bending of the rules of cultivation, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Angst with a Happy Ending, Metaphysical Sex, Daemon Touching, Canon Divergence, Eventual Happy Ending)

a shattering of souls by coffee_and_cardamom (M, 42k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Canon Compliant, Pre-Canon, Post-Canon, Canon Rewrite, Canon Temporary Character Death, Major Character Undeath, Angst with a Happy Ending, Heavy Angst, Comfort/Angst, Blood and Gore, Hurt/Comfort, Mildly Dubious Consent, Dubious Consent Due To Identity Issues, WWX in WWX's Body, YLLZ WWX, Oblivious WWX, BAMF WWX, POV LWJ, Protective LWJ, LWJ Character Study, Daemon Touching, Daemon Separation, Daemon Feels, Everyone Needs A Hug)

The Grand Master of Daemonic Cultivation by FayJay (G, 3k, wangxian, daemons au)

Kind of Evil by nirejseki (G, 1k, canon divergence, sentient swords, sentient sabers, BAMFs)

Crowded by nirejseki (G, 1k, NHS & WWX, wangxian, LWJ/NHS/WWX, canon divergence, different body offering ritual, atypical relationship dynamics, sentient sabers)

Close by nirejseki (Not rated, 11k, NMJ & Baxia, NMJ & NHS, body swap, sentient sabers)

Ch 25 & 33 of The Tales of Despereaux by stiltonbasket (T, 39k, wangxian, canon divergence, WWX summoned by QS, additional warnings in author's note when applicable)

the world passes by but for me there is only you by beeswaxing (E, 82k, wangxian, canon divergence, fix-it of sorts, accidental marriage, love confessions, first kiss, first time, horny teenagers, pining, fluff, everyone lives au, wedding night, emotional sex, golden core reveal) this one has sentient swords

Chenqing and Wangji Takes Matters Into Their Own Hands by HelloKitten (Not rated, 11k, wangxian, Bichen/Chenqin, fix-it of sorts, glimpse of future, time travel?)

If You Give a Cultivator a Daemon Series by ushauz (T, 23k, WangXian, XianNing, JC & WWX, Daemons, Yunmeng Bros Reconciliation, Polyamory Negotiations)

@zeldacw seems to be this fandom’s originator of the Anthromorphic Weapons trope; those comics can be found under the tag 忘情隨塵 (WangQingSuiChen) and post on her Tumblr and on her Twitter @/zeldacw; inspired Kindred Spirits by EstelweNadia (Not Rated, 2k, WIP, Bìchén/Suíbiàn, Chénqíng/Wangji, Humor, Angst, Eventual Romance, Drama, Slow Build, Slow Burn)

Spiritual Weapons Have Feelings Too Series by meicairoubingfan (kiradyn) (T, 10k, Suíbiàn/Chénqíng, Anthropomorphic Spiritual Weapons, Pining, Weapons As People, Angst, Separation, Grief/Mourning, Loss, Romantic Relationships Between Weapons, But Also Platonic Relationships, Brotherhood, commiserating, Reminiscing, Good Guy JC, Good Brother JC, Established Relationship, Between A Sword And A Flute, Canon Compliant, Foreshadowing of Bichen x Suibian, Foreshadowing Of Wangji x Chenqing)

A somewhat unconventional family by DamieMontclair (T, 1k, Bìchén/Suíbiàn, sentient sword spirits, sentient first class spiritual tools, Little bit of angst, Recovery, Getting Together, Fluff, and dare I say...., Domestic Fluff) crackfic where the weapon and instrument spirits are a family in their own right

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#Wangxian Fic Rec #The Untamed #wangxian #MDZS #wangxianficfinder compilation post #long post #daemons #daemon au #daemons au #sentient swords #sentient swords au

[mikkeneko]

Tagged by @veliseraptor!

Post 6 sentences from a WIP and then tag 6 people.

Of course, he wasn't actually going to Lotus Pier. Of course not. He just thought -- as long as he was in the neighborhood, wouldn't it be nice to take care of this troublesome yao before anyone else was bothered? Wouldn't that just be a load off Jiang Cheng's plate? After all, if he was too busy to go night-hunting because he was too absorbed in his new wife and daughter -- Anyway, night-hunting!

Hmm, who haven't I annoyed tagged recently? How about @faux-fires, @stiltonbasket, @fortune-maiden, @asukaskerian, @ushauz, and @asidian?

#mikke memes #mikke fics

[jellyfishline]

For the WIP meme - I am VERY intrigued by Resting Place 👀👀👀

Both you and @ushauz asked me about Resting Place! It is one of my more, uh, unexpectedly ambitious projects.

I happened across a kinkmeme prompt (that someone else already wrote a wonderful fic for) that kicked me so hard in the head that I wrote 2k words of fic about it at like 1am and I've continued to add to it since. The fic is now over 12k and I'm guessing/hoping it'll be about 15k if/when I actually manage to finish the dang thing.

It's basically ten thousand words of Astarion processing trauma via fantasizing about Wyll + Astarion being convinced that he and Wyll have a mutual frenemies thing going on while Wyll is, uh.... completely oblivious to all of it.

Excerpt under the cut:

At night, alone in his bedroll, Astarion’s mind wanders. Away from himself, his body, his own recursive and increasingly irritating patterns of thought—it wanders and it wanders until it, eventually, ends up back where it started. Astarion on his knees, entertaining someone else.

He has spent two hundred years fantasizing about freedom—ludicrous dreams, where he is fed, where is warm, where he parts Cazador’s head from his neck with his fangs—the stupidest, most basic, crudest ideas of what he might do if only he had the power to control himself. And now that he has that control, he fantasizes about someone taking it away again.

Specifically, he fantasizes about Wyll.

#ask meme #apparently all I want to write at the current moment is characters processing trauma via dubiously healthy coping methods #thankfully there's a lot of very good fodder for that in bg3 #and wyllstarion in particular

[kiastirling-fanfic]

Fan Work Friday

Rules: If you’re tagged, MAKE A NEW POST to showcase one fanartist and/or fanfic for any fandom you recommend (with links), and tag someone to give their recs next! Don’t forget to reblog the rec you were tagged in, and include these rules! :)

Bonus: Choose works by people you aren’t super tight with, or choose older works that maybe haven’t gotten some love in a while. :)

This week I'm recommending:

A Herald Named Desire by ushauz

Summary:

In which 'Adaar' is totally not a desire demon from the Fade, because Haven is a camp filled with Templars. Also morals and mortals are both confusing, and he would really just like to go home now please.

This fic is a delight honestly. I've been meaning to do a reread, but it's got a crackfic concept that it executes really well! And it's got a lot of interesting lore interpretations. I just love where the author took this and I think it's super cool and anyone who likes spirit lore and mages should absolutely give it a shot.

I guess keep in mind that the main pairing is Adaar(Desire)/Bull/Dorian so I guess if you aren't into that it might not be your scene but honestly the writing is so fun and the lore is so cool that I think it's worth giving a shot regardless of your shipping preferences.

oh right and tags @theluckywizard | @inquisimer | @plisuu | @ammoniteflesh | @warpedlegacywrites

#fan work friday #dragon age fanfic #a herald named desire #fic rec

[heavenbat]

Vote for Disaster Dragonborn

After much deliberation, I decided to enter my dragonborn barbarian to @the-ultimate-oc-tournament :3 so here's a bit of propaganda for her hehe

I played her in a homebrew campaign one of my friends ran, titled The Drowned Archipelago.

She started out as a blacksmith in a small village; for the most part, she was content to just tolerate how life was, despite the Lord of the town being an absolute shitheel who constantly took advantage of the commoners. She and her family were of the opinion that if you kept your head down and didn’t get involved in things, you’d survive just fine.

But then she met Epiket (owned by @ushauz​), an air genasi gardener, who was much more opinionated and much less willing to accept things the way they were. She fell head over heels in love with him, and slowly began to agree with him. It wasn’t Fair that the Lord could sit so high and mighty on the backs of the working class. And so she began to get angry.

Eventually, she and Epiket began to conspire against the Lord. They settled on a plan to poison him at a banquet and, surprisingly, pulled it off. In the aftermath, though, they were forced to flee; Crista drew the most attention to herself, knowing that because Epiket had a lung condition she’d be able to handle any pursuers better, she tried to make the law come after her and give Epiket the best chance to escape.

Her travels took her to an area of the world known as the Drowned Archipelago, a cold, forsaken pirate-riddled series of islands in the southern sea. And that’s where she began to unlock her barbarian abilities, tapping into the sea’s storms themselves to fuel her rages. Eventually she even develops wings, a gift from a storm god:

For the most part, she still tends to be rather laid-back, very go-with-the-flow. She tends to not get involved in things... unless the situation involves commoners getting taken advantage of. She’s quick to stand up for the little guy, because in many ways she still considers herself one. Loud, crass, and pretty straightforward, she tends to face things with humor up until the point where she starts getting angry. And though she’s not technically educated, she’s still fairly clever, and loves coming up with wacky inventions and weird solutions to problems.

also she's polyamorous and ended up in a relationship with a half-orc tailor:

Fun Facts:

She speaks with an Australian-esque accent

She once stole a special harpoon from the Big Bad (Naga Tor) and then engraved "Naga Tor is a weenie" on it (with help from the party's bard)

Speaking of, at the very beginning of the campaign, before she'd even gotten a level of barbarian, she successfully out-rowed Naga Tor's ship, a notoriously dangerous pirate ship, on just a rowboat. She refuses to let him live it down.

She's borderline illiterate; she can read and write, but she's very very bad and slow at it

Due to her being a Storm Herald barbarian (which allows her to breathe underwater) and developing wings, she was dubbed an ATB: All Terrain Barbarian

Being a Copper dragonborn, she has the ability to spit acid; she uses this in her blacksmithing to do acid washes

She once spat acid at the head of a corrupt merchant's guild because she was tired of his bullshit

When she got a lot of gold for a reward, she immediately donated all of it to repair a city's failing sewage system (and thus pissed off the merchant guild for not going through the "proper channels" aka giving them a cut of the profit)

When the party got attacked by a giant serpent made of animated silks and ribbons, Crista's solution was to let herself get eaten by it and then cast thunderwave from an item she got, thereby exploding it from the inside. It worked :P

The party once ran into a water devil trapped in a pot of boiling water. The party put out the fire under the cauldron and then Crista, wanting to see if it could talk, stuck her head underwater. While the water was still boiling hot. Not her brightest moment XD

Her solution to fighting an ancient black dragon was to pilot an airship into it. It worked, and also the party managed to (barely) survive

yes she has a mullet

she was originally a Homestuck OC and I've just exported her to several different universes. In at least two of those universes, she invented steam-powered technology

Once she got her own forge/blacksmith shop, she named it "STOrMS FOrGE". the sign reads exactly like that, and that was after she got help spelling it; that was her third attempt, and when someone pointed out the r's were lower case she said "eh fuck it I ain't makin another one, it's close enough"

also she ended up becoming a werewolf:

#Crista Stormhammer #oc #dnd #dragonborn #barbarian #dungeons and dragons #original character #bat draws #I love her lots she was so much fun to play as #my scrungly lil blacksmith #long post I'm sorry #I keep thinking about making the campaign into a webcomic....

[wufflesvetinari]

'wyllstarion long engagement' for the ask game?

ewjrlkjewr GUYS........😂 now i really wish there was more in this document than a rough outline, damn. some of this was just plopped in-doc directly from my ramblings in the wyllstarion discord, so.

for @ushauz, @jellyfishline, @silverwhittlingknife, @acephalouscreature

wyllstarion long engagement is a nebulously-planned wyll POV fic in which spawnstarion completely fucks off after running from the sun at the docks. like, Does Not Even Leave A Note. at first.

it's yenna who passes wyll a half-understood message + a Meaningful Present from astarion (i have a yenna gen agenda, say it five times fast) implying that astarion is fine, he's okay, he just needs to be very far away from baldur's gate for an undetermined period of time. wyll pieces together that he's grieving the sun and also trying to figure out who he is without cazador's yoke. he seems to be putting deliberate space between himself and his companions as well

and wyll is a bit hurt because they had been Kind Of A Thing, in a nebulous and unspoken way without specific plans, but surely astarion understood wyll wanted to stay with him...? but then, within a couple of days, astarion sends word back via another gift. and he keeps on sending little things: little treasures from his travels, increasingly far off, referencing inside jokes they'd shared and things he's learned from wyll's stories about his childhood.

eventually even the method of receiving the gifts becomes exotic: once astarion is beyond the reach of sword coast courier services he's sending shit via like. messenger hawk. a tiny portal that shows up between two books on wyll's shelf, just big enough for a poem evidently torn from a rare volume by wyll's favorite poet--then crisply and fastidiously folded--to pass through. (what the fuck kind of circumstances required him to tear a page from a rare book? did he try to steal it and fail?? what??? these are the things wyll has to consider daily.)

eventually this expands to letter-writing. it feels like a continuation of their fragile courtship, but with some of the dynamic reversed, and it makes wyll miss him very badly while also feeling Known. BUT ALSO, IN WYLL-REPRESSION-LAND, wyll has his own shit going on and a part of him really wishes astarion had just stayed with him (wyll is grand duke here) or at least explained himself first. and he manages to suppress that bit until astarion gets home. Whereupon he suddenly finds that--even though he was genuinely loving those gifts and missing astarion very much and enjoying the sweetness of Courtship Part 2--he is suddenly mad at astarion. and they have to Talk, Finally

#ask game #meme #wyllstarion #bg3

[featherbow]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Astarion/Wyll (Baldur's Gate) Characters: Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Wyll (Baldur's Gate) Additional Tags: Pre-Relationship, No Tadpoles AU, Escape, Semi-Haunted Houses, Misunderstandings through no fault of Astarion, Vampire Hunters, Devil Wyll (Baldur's Gate) Series: Part 1 of Monster Support Group Summary:

On the run from Cazador, Astarion takes shelter in an abandoned house, only to find out that the house is not so abandoned after all.

#Baldur's Gate 3 #BG3 #Wyll #Astarion #Bloodpact #BG3 Fic #Highly recommend this series #Wyllstarion

[leomonae]

Guys. Guys guys guys, it's really good, if you enjoy my illithid Tav stuff and the explorations of personal identity and corruptibility and so on you will love this, you should absolutely be reading this!

(Wyll is the devil Mizora made him, but without the party or other external factors having been in place at the time to stop her from really sinking her claws into him in the aftermath, Astarion manages to get away from Cazador long enough to try and run, they meet by chance and things go from there)

#baldur's gate 3 #hyperfixation ahoy #wyllstarion #fic rec

[doorsclosingslowly]

Ask game: Describe the creative process of writing a chapter/fic? Would you ever collaborate with another writer for a story? What’s the last fic you read and do you recommend it? Do you ever get rude reviews and how do you deal with them? Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project?

usually, my fanfics start either with 1) i have an idea while writing another fic that doesn't quite fit there 2) prompts 3) i can't sleep and so i make up a story about a guy i'm currently obsessed with. most ideas stay at that stage, but sometimes i'm really into the premise or i think of an ending that's thematically interesting, and i start making a mental or physical file for that story that i add to every time i idly think it through when i'm bored or can't sleep. then i start writing the beginning, get stuck, start adding the notes into my document or just writing full scenes that are further ahead. i fill in scenes and notes at random until i'm done, i edit, i pass my work to the beta if i'm lucky enough to get a beta interested, i post.

i've cowritten a story with @rainstormdragon and i'm worki8ing on another one with her! i love cowriting and it also forces me to be far more disciplined than i usually am

the last fic i read--- so the thing is, i apparently prefer to red in a fandom i don't write in, so i mostly read baldur's gate 3 fic rn. the last fic i read was a blade shining oh so bright by ushauz and foxflowering, last of a series wherein everything went the fuck wrong for the companions and then a while later, astarion (on the run from his vampire ascendant sire) raises wyll from lemurehood and now has to live with the unremembering shell of his former lover. definite rec, i adore ushauz.

i've never actually gotten a rude review! i write way too niche stuff for that and also got lucky i think. my recommendation for dealing is tearing the rude comment apart in the group chat with the homies, and then probably deleting it.

what i'm most looking forward to writing--- i'm so bad at picking favourites honestly, and i adore every single one of my wips or they wouldn't have become wips. narrowing it down to gríma then so i can give you an answer. i'm looking super forward to part 2 of bride of rohan, the au where saruman tries to take over rohan by marrying off his apprentice gríma into the royal family and then gríma will do some targeted assassinations. anyway in part two, and that's a spoiler, éomer and his "bride" gríma have sex and i'm looking forward to writing a sex scene with gríma's mutilated genitals. i've done my research, i've had my dysphoria meltdowns, i've plotted an emotional arc, but for me writing a scene with its details sometimes introduces fundamental change and i'm curious to see what will happen

thank you!!

[miyamorana]

February Fic Recs

A couple of days late, but here are the fics that I’ve really liked this past month. All of these are complete. Enjoy!

Fandoms: Baldur's Gate 3 (1), Boku no Hero Academia (2), DCU (1), Doctor Who/Eureka Crossover (1), Fullmetal Alchemist (1), Hades/Julie and the Phantoms(/Percy Jackson) Crossover (1), Merlin (2), Sk8 the Infinity (1), Supernatural (1), Teen Wolf (1)

Find January's Recs here or browse my fanfic recs tag.

Fandom: Baldur's Gate 3 Title: monster seeking monster  Author: ushauz Pairing: Astarion/Wyll Rating: General Audiences Word Count: 5,545 Summary:ba Wyll has met vampire spawn before, all of them monstrous, but he's always liked to think there were good spawn out there somewhere not engaging in mass murder, that maybe monster hunters didn't see good monsters because good monsters weren't the ones out killing people.

Wyll hopes Astarion will be one of the different ones.

Fandom: Boku no Hero Academia Title: Jailhouse Rock Author: RayShippouUchiha Pairing: Aizawa Shouta/Midoriya Izuku Rating: General Audiences Word Count: 7,405 Summary: “Wouldn’t mind seeing this Midoriya for myself,” Shōta presses on undeterred.

“Yes,” Sansa hisses triumphantly.

“You planned this, you traitor,” Tsukauchi rounds on Sansa for a split second before he turns back towards Shōta, face carved from resolute stone. “And as for you meeting Midoriya? Absolutely not. I forbid it. He’s a menace with a RAP sheet longer than you are tall and you’re also a menace who enjoys chaos more than you’ll ever admit outright. The two of you meeting has Bad Idea™ written all over it in lights. Mainly for me.”

Shōta just stares at him, deeply unimpressed.

Fandom: Boku no Hero Academia Title: The Adult Who Cried Wolf Author: katydid Pairing: None Rating: General Audiences Word Count: 2,524 Summary: Izuku Midoriya’s homeroom teacher at Aldera has been experiencing some unusual…incidents. Ever since Izuku’s father found out about the bullying.

Fandom: DCU Title: Batman is a Very Serious Scary Vigilante  Author: akcugrai Pairing: None Rating: General Audiences Word Count: 10,682 Summary: It starts when Nightwing accidentally calls Batman dad.

Barry thinks it's perhaps the funniest thing to happen in the history of ever. Then, he starts to notice that The Dark Knight actually does—kinda sorta maybe—act like a dad to the Gotham vigilantes?

It only gets weirder from there.

OR

5 times the League saw the Gotham vigilantes treating Batman as their dad, and 1 time they (kind of) admitted it.

Fandom: Doctor Who/Eureka Crossover Title: Wibbly-Wobbly Timey-Wimey Invisibling Thing, or Four Times Jack Carter Met The Doctor And One Time He Didn’t Author: galaxysoup Pairing: None Rating: General Audiences Word Count: 4,262 Summary: Eureka is a town full of geniuses. Naturally, the Doctor must poke it with a stick.

Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist Title: transposition ciphers Author: applecrumbledore Pairing: Edward Elric/Roy Mustang Rating: Mature Word Count: 36,020 Summary: “I kissed Edward,” Roy said, more quietly than he'd ever spoken to her before. Riza’s raised eyebrows asked a question all on their own.

“Edward… Hertzmann? In signal corps, on the third—”

“Elric.” The surname hung heavy between them like it had hung between so many others before them. “But thank you for trying.”

Fandom: Hades/Julie and the Phantoms(/Percy Jackson) Crossover Title: It's an Old Song Author: breakaway71 Pairing: Julie Molina/Reggie Peters Rating: Teen and Up Audiences Word Count: 16,618 Summary: Julie dies on a Wednesday. This is not the end of the story.

An Orpheus/Eurydice retelling

Fandom: Merlin Title: Albionist Author: Galauvant Pairing: None Rating: General Audiences Word Count: 1,661 Summary: The cry sounds again, and Arthur’s feet freeze, a chill sliding down his spine. There’s something hauntingly familiar about the cadence of the sound.

It’s not quite the same, but Arthur just knows. It’s impossible, but he knows.

He draws Excalibur now, quickening his pace, but his feet are light.

Minutes later, there it is:

A white dragon- a living, breathing dragon roughly the size of a stallion, crouched in front of a cave. One of its wings is held at an odd angle, and unlike the giant monstrosity that once terrorized Camelot, this one looks gaunt and weak.

Or: In a handwavey canon divergence where Arthur knows about Merlin's magic and Aithusa escapes captivity, there are two men and a young dragon.

Fandom: Merlin Title: Words I Cannot Say Out Loud Author: MayaPleiades Pairing: Gwaine/Merlin Rating: Teen and Up Audience Word Count: 1,702 Summary: A surprise letter makes its way to Merlin, and reveals Gwaine’s feelings.

A submission for the Hey, Sweetheart fest, using the prompt “letter”.

Fandom: Sk8 the Infinity Title: my heart beats so that i can hardly speak Author: akaparalian Pairing: Hasegawa Langa/Kyan Reki Rating: Explicit Word Count: 5,717 Summary: A tale as old as time: Teen party. Seven Minutes in Heaven. Reki is maybe in over his head.

Fandom: Supernatural Title: For Us, This Present Author: breakaway71 Pairing: Gabriel/Dean Winchester Rating: General Audiences Word Count: 1,975 Summary: Years ago, Dean was told that good things do happen. He’s never had much reason to believe that. Today, he’s going to try. He’s owed a good birthday, isn’t he?

Fandom: Teen Wolf Title: Bloodsport Author: akaparalian Pairing: Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski Rating: Explicit Word Count: 3,164 Summary: "Why is that so hot," Stiles half-mumbles, eyes squeezed shut tight (it's the next best thing after the ceiling for staving off the orgasm that now feels like it's charging towards him like a freight train). "Like—and—like—is it even puppy play at that point, or petplay or whatever? Or does it just mean I'm a furry? I was probably already a furry, I'm way too into your shift—"

Or: hey, no one said werewolves can't have pup play kinks, too.

#fanfiction #fanfic recs #baldurs gate 3 #wyllstarion #bnha #boku no hero academia #aideku #dcu #batman #doctor who #eureka #fullmetal alchemist #fma #royed #hades #julie and the phantoms #jatp #percy jackson #pjo #merlin #merwaine #sk8 #sk8 the infinity #renga #supernatural #spn #debriel #teen wolf #steter