kim, the internet's primary consumer of blonde vampires since 1992. did i make a secret blog for my descent back into fanfic? yeah ok maybe. ♡ likes/follows will come from again-pls ♡ again_please on AO3
it occurred to me recently that I don't really have my stories and tags folks may be interested in collected anywhere for convenience...so, here!
likes/follows will come from again-pls, but I don't really post there! follow here for actual content/updates
links and tags below!
Ongoing
Dancing With My Demons (Mercurial World)
BG3, Astarion x f!Tav (Neve), started in early access, longfic continuation of events in A Little Further that roughly follows the plot of the game. Rated E.
midnight call (divinations)
BG3, Ascended Astarion x f!Tav (Neve), a Dracula-inspired Mercurial World AU in which a Neve who never experienced the events of the game finds she has a strange connection to the mysterious new lord of the Crimson Palace. Rated E.
Completed
A Little Further (Mercurial World)
BG3, Astarion xf!Tav (Neve), written and completed in early access. Three-shot following another take on how things unfold post bite scene. Rated E.
Moderation (Mercurial World)
BG3, Astarion xf!Tav (Neve). One shot: Neve and Astarion's bite night. Chronologically first in the Mercurial World series, but maybe best read after A Little Further. Rated E.
Sitting Out Dances on the Wall
BG3, f!Tav x f!Tav (Neve and Auri). A pre-canon Mercurial World prequel feat. @aevallare's girl Auri for Apprecimaytion!
Tags
I have a few tags you might be interested in if you follow DWMD:
fanart!! for me?? | ask and ye shall receive | my fics: dwmd | oc: neve | self-indulgent neveposting | my fics: a little further
having bangs really is a great revealer of human dishonesty because you will come in from a windy day and ask someone if they look ok and they will look you dead in the eyes and say yeah when you have one completely horizontal piece very obviously going the wrong direction
like ok you worm. you villain. you treacherous slime.
ads these days are so sensitive to being tapped like darling my fingers barely brushed you and youre already opening yourself for me... well close those damn legs. dont make me get the taser
I go through obsessive streaks where I'll re-read a book or series several times, and I've read a LOT of Astarion fics. I came across DWMD a little over a year ago.
No doubt you've heard this dozens of times before, but it is one of a very fics I've found set during the events of the game that don't feel like they're rehashing the plot ad nauseum.
In a community where everyone gives their Tavs a BIG epic backstory, Neve is refreshing because she is so very ordinary. She's a regular person with regular-person problems and then she's thrust into An Epic Narrative to Save The World and even though NOTHING in her life has prepared her for this kind of danger, she's stepping up bc she's just that awesome.
My favorite trope of bravery is the Ordinary Citizen doing Extraordinary Things and you've nailed it with Neve. I love her, and I love your take on her relationship with Astarion. She is EXACTLY what he needs.
thank you so, so much! neve's ordinariness has always been something i'm a little self-conscious of but is deeply important to who she is, so it means a lot to me to hear how that resonates. her "unimpressiveness" at first glance was very purposeful when i was first drafting her - both to contrast with a cast of extremely complex, heroic-scale backstories as well as to sort of champion this feeling of rediscovering what you are capable of.
i'm also a big fan of practical gal x dramatic flamboyant man so i knew i had to torture that vampire with the most beautiful nerd in the world
get it done the weird way. do it in parts. do it “wrong”. do it “late”. do it scared. it’s just better to do it differently than everyone else rather than never do it.
omg hiiiiiiii it’s the anon who sent the ask about the barn doors a while back!! 🥺 i meant to send a message eons ago but i just wanted to say i loved the fic so much and that u totally knocked it out of the park as always!!! i adore your writing and nevestarion so much and can’t wait to see what’s next for them :) i hope 2026 has been treating u well so far! p.s. naturally my next question is did neve lick the spider in act 2 🤔
sorry this sat for so long, i haven't been on tumblr in a minute myself - i'm so glad you liked it!! it was really nice to revisit that period of time in their story and i had a lot of fun, so thank you for sparking that fire for me :)
while i must report that under no circumstances would neve lick the dead spider, given proper hazmat gear, she would not hesitate to dissect the spider for research purposes and extract all materials of interest for experimentation in a controlled lab environment