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How sweet, Kibellah thinks, to be the nectar. How honored must be the bloom.
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23 Feb 2026
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Sailing in the Background: Untangling Background Ship Tagging by Cookies_and_Chaos
Fandoms: Fandom - Fandom
14 Oct 2024
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An informal examination of tagging and background tagging, with a focus on sapphic pairings and fandoms. (WIP)
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- Part 3 of Celebrating Sapphic Works Stats on AO3
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02 Feb 2026
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Lae'zel falls ill in Shadow-Cursed Lands, just as Shadowheart seems to bloom.
An audio recording of Flowers and Fire by TopoftheLighthouse.
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Shadowheart’s memories are bookmarked by thresholds. A tavern door, a shuddering cathedral, a ladder to a light unknown. Minthara’s tent is no different. She knows, she knows, if she steps into this pixie ring she will awaken the parts of herself she’s so carefully locked away.
And yet the drow's command echoes all the same.
You will come to me, Shadowheart, when you find yourself in need of a key.
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31 Jan 2026
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For the first time, the night isn’t wrapped tight around her throat. How strange to be hand in hand with the sunrise when it’s Minthara, when it’s Shar, when it’s– well.
She’s too soppy to think right now. Instead she beds down into fine furs and feathers like a princess. Minthara shines with exertion above her– carved arms like marble in the low blue light.
“Come here, nightwarden. I’d like a cuddle.”
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a story better than the real thing by not_whelmed_yet
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
08 Jun 2024
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He comes up from the dark carrying little but his sword and the story of it.
He carried phrases, moments; turned them over in his mind as he tried to find the meter of a true adventure story. Tried to find something in the misery that he might have read in the creased pages of the chapbooks and novels that had filled the shelf in his childhood bedroom.
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24 Jan 2026
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In the morning he would choose between walking on his ankle or another day of hunger before he could resupply. The next village to the south was larger and he thought he remembered a courier post. He’d pay to send off the manuscript. He didn’t like to keep them on hand for too long; Wyll couldn’t guarantee anything was safe while it was within his grasp.
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The Great Gith Resistance has to start somewhere, and Lae'zel chooses one of the crèches in the Tears as her first target. But she couldn't even begin the assault without a great mind at her side.
Or: four scenes where Minthara is overcome with her respect, love, and admiration for Lae'zel.
Written for Femslash February 2024 for the prompt "Freedom."
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- Part 13 of Femslash February 2024: Baldur's Gay Edition
- Part 8 of And the Heavens Fell
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24 Jan 2026
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"Words supplied by my lieutenant," Lae'zel whispered, turning her head to capture Minthara's mouth in a kiss. Their sweat mingled along their lips and tongues as Lae'zel spoke whenever both were spared a moment's reprieve. "The words that I would never have considered if not for you, my ilharess."
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The Fruiting of Impossible Stars by GinaTeeth for magmethius
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
30 Dec 2025
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After six failed attempts and one quiet truth in the Underdark, Gale Dekarios finally hears the yes he's longed for. On Simril, the longest night, when stars burn brightest, a wizard and a rogue illithid celebrate their union beneath watching stars and drifting spores. A story of proposals, autonomy, and love that fruits slowly, like mycelium through soil.
Created from the prompt: A Gale and illithid wedding!!! I want to see Gale's grand romantic gestures for his squiddy beloved!
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13 Jan 2026
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The highest hall of your tower had been transformed, blending worlds to honour the one you loved. Arches of imported zurkhwood towered overhead, patches of pale, frilled lichen clung artfully to their polished massive stems, blooming with illusory bioluminescent spores that drifted like slow, gentle snow, casting a soft Underdark glow. Interwoven with Waterdhavian evergreens and night-blooming cereus, they framed tables laden with deep rothé cheeses, brine-pickled (ethical) intellect devourer delicacies, and zurkhwood-spore confections alongside your favourite surface sweets. The setting sun cast hues of peaches and purples across the room, while prismatic lights reflected off crystal decanters.
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In the Shadowfell, she exists somewhere between dreams and reality.
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13 Jan 2026
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Pennants flap under a cold moon. She is resplendent on a pale grey steed. Isobel shines beside her, gilded with silver armor and astride a star-dappled horse. Soldiers stand at the ready: knights, mages, archers, foot soldiers, all glowing with blessings of the Moonmaiden.
The Sharran before her is less impressive. Her armor is battered and scraped, and the hatred in her eyes is tinged with desperation.
The Selûnite soldiers cut through wave after wave of Sharran enemies – then Dame Aylin herself draws her sword, horse rearing, wings spreading triumphantly behind her. She sinks her blade deep into the chest of Ketheric Thorm, and he dies with a wordless gutter. She is retribution, just and merciless.
The Sharran lifts her sword. She is not just – but she, too, is merciless.
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Lies of Omission by ACrowsRockCollection for totally_irritated
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
19 Dec 2025
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Three times Tara and Gale lied to Morena Dekarios.
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13 Jan 2026
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Tressyms —and cats too if you can believe it — have enchanted whiskers. Dwarfs and humans may carefully style ridiculous looking substitutes, but none hold a candle to what can be done with proper ones. Elegantly balanced locomotion, magic detection, and advanced spacial reasoning to name only a few; but ever since she'd been Gale's, they doubled as a homing device. He was always there in the back of her mind, in the same way her tail was when she wasn't using it. Proprioception via fond connection; she was certain if they were separated, she'd know which direction to go from the weave 's gentle tug at her cheek. Now that her boy was alone, frightened, and very ill, and she found that a steady ache of desperation plucked at the edges of her whiskers and down the line of her spine.
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Fireflies had such short lives in which to shine, and Penny refused to sacrifice them for the sake of her own small light.
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04 Jan 2026
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The years turned, like pages in an old family album. Mom went through the photos, peeling out all the pictures of Dad and leaving glue-smeared emptiness behind. Penny rescued her favorite: Dad sprawled back on the couch and smiling, his newly gifted ‘#1 Dad’ mug in one hand with the bow still on it, and his arm around a gap-toothed and smiling Penny. She buried it under a handful of lucky pennies, the ones that Dad had shined with salt and vinegar, hidden in an old coffee tin she used as a piggy bank. Mom buried the rest of the pictures in the trash under a layer of vegetable peelings.
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It's this — the terrible, pointless waste of a sparkling fountain, all the more nonsensical now against the carnage all around them — that hooks Vinny deep in her ribs. Someone shouts; gunfire rattles in the distance. The fountain sings.
"Rogue Trader," Sister Argenta says tentatively, "are you alright?"Five times the Lord Captain is haunted by water.
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30 Dec 2025
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"Official hydration rations were virtually nonexistent. The Mechanicus overseers, rather than expend effort crushing the criminal water trade, simply accounted for it in their calculations."
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The Karate Kid by mimosa-supernova (FourCatProductions)
Fandoms: Stardew Valley (Video Game)
18 May 2018
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In which Shane has hidden talents, Abigail lives like she's in an eighties movie, and Sam and Sebastian are singularly unhelpful.
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- Part 1 of Desert Rain
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10 Dec 2025
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“Aunt Marnie said that you’re sick.” He heard the door open wider, and then soft footsteps tip-toed into the room, coming to a halt at the side of his bed. Her hand rested on his cheek, blessedly cool. “I brought you Mr. Pickle. He always helps me when I’m sick.”
Shane cracked open one bleary eye to see the green Junimo plush sitting on the pillow next to him, and this time it was guilt that needled him, roiling his guts. He tried to smile. “What do you know? I feel better already.”
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And yet Shadowheart was her name, and she did not belong on another’s body. Her lips twisted into a frown at the insolent thought, the skin against her hip flaring angrily from where she had cut it, hoping the pain would cut through the cloying warmth that still lingered there. To bring her mind back to Shar.
A soulmate AU.
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08 Dec 2025
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17 Things That Made This Kobold's Day PERFECT (Number 12 Will Make You Cry) by dramatic_chipmunk for darkheartedrose
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
04 Dec 2025
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KOBOLD DAILY EXCLUSIVE
Look, we've all had good days. But has your day ever been THIS good?
Popper—Purveyor of Treats and Trinkets, licensed Entrepreneur, and Senior Shiny Correspondent—had the BEST day in the history of days. We're talking: premium grave loot, successful mystery box sales, head scritches from the Big Horned Lady, only stepping in ONE of his own traps, and the sale of a definitely-not-haunted glass eye named Gregory.For business inquiries, please leave a shiny object under the third rock from the left near Dribbles' tent.
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05 Dec 2025
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Jaheira hasn't celebrated her nameday for a long time. Her children think it's time that changed.
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- Part 13 of Jaheira Fic
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29 Nov 2025
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Jaheira doesn’t answer immediately. Her lips are drawn tight in an expression of deep concentration as she considers the drink. It’s bitter and hot and her tongue feels burnt, but in the pre-dawn chill, each mouthful sends a comforting swoop of warmth into her chest. “I think I like it,” she pronounces soberly. “Thank you, Lanya.”
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It's called a storm, Yrre remembers.
(first posted to tumblr for the prompt "catastrophic weather)
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23 Nov 2025
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And the rain comes from the sky – which is such a strange word, so sibilant – which can’t be seen right now, in the dark, but which Yrre knows is supposed to be about as blue as blue can get, except sometimes, when it’s orange or purple or black with the white dots of stars. It sounds indecisive. They like it.
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Something in the woods is killing Minthara's smugglers. She investigates.
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22 Nov 2025
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It wasn’t spectacular, no. It was nothing compared to what Menzoberranzan had offered Minthara: the delights of a city and civilization where pleasuring a woman was art, lifeline, and deadly skill all at once, but it was and she wanted it; all of it, more of it.
Oh, this insufferable darthiir – how she irritated Minthara to no end. She didn’t even have the sense to be disappointing!
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Sceleritas Fel's descent into despair as his beloved Master chooses heroism over murder, documented in ten journal entries. Featuring: eggs instead of entrails, peace negotiations, and one disturbingly alive partner.
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13 Nov 2025
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"One requires substances. Arsenic, perhaps."
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Hurt, Comfort, and What Comes After by ACrowsRockCollection
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
17 Aug 2025
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Jaheira reunites with Khalid in Elysium but has difficulty leaving her old life behind.
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30 Oct 2025
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A tired young half elf walked through the door to general excitement. Rion. Wonderful Rion. A maple, towering above all heads in only a handful of summers, that watched over the rest of the garden.
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cracks in the tile by Stomes4
Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000: Rogue Trader (Video Game), Silent Hill (Video Game Series)
20 Oct 2025
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"Don't fight," the nurse says, stepping slowly to the head of the table. She runs a hand over Katherine's forehead, less a caress than a cold imitation. "We will tread this path together. Are you prepared?"
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Katherine searches for her son in the small town of Silent Hill. Her trail leads to the hospital, where she finds more than she expected.
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21 Oct 2025
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Her breath is cool as she exhales, a strange sensation. Katherine can't stop the gasp she emits, nor the instinctive raising of her hips.
(Good Halloween read)