Hi everyone, and welcome to BG3FicRecs!
We're a group of writers and fanfic authors who have decided to come together to write reviews & recommendations of/for Baldur's Gate 3 fan fiction. We aim to support fanfic authors in our community by sharing the works we love (and what we love most about them) with the BG3 community.
Happy New Year! We have good newsâWe've re-opened our fic submissions for 2025! đđ„
If you'd like us to read your fanfic, please have a look at our fic submission guidelines (below the fold), send us an ask and we'll add your work to our queue! đ
Works currently in the queue are in the BG3FicRecs queue collection on AO3. Works we've already read and posted about are in this AO3 collection here.
We'd also like to sincerely apologise for the blog's inactivity in recent months. We love supporting the BG3 fanfic community, but unfortunately, our real-life obligations got in the way for a while there. For the new year, we want to do what we can to support fellow writers by getting the blog going again. đ
Due to our long hiatus, we ask that all writers who submitted their work in 2024 please reach out to us to let us know whether they'd still like us to read their work. We'll try to reach out to writers individually, but since there are so many of you it would help us if you could send us an ask when you can.
Thank you for your support and please keep creating and sharing your incredible work!
Below the fold are our fic submission guidelines, our FAQs, and a master list of all our recs we've posted! đ
Last updated: 7 January 2025.
FIC SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
When you submit your fic, please be sure to include the following:
A link to your work & the pseud/handle you publish under (regardless of platform)
The title of your work
Any tags we should be aware of
A brief summary
Any social media you would like to be tagged in the review when we publish it (please include a link to your profile)
If you have commissioned artwork for your fic, please feel free to let us know! We would be happy to post it with the review of your work
You can submit your fic to us through our asks here. Please note that we won't respond to your ask (unless we need further information) and we'll just add it to our queue and read it as soon as we can. Please don't worry when you don't get a response to your ask! You'll know all is well as soon as you spot your work in the review collection, which you can check here.
FAQs
We've put together an FAQs master post based on questions from the community! đ We'll update the FAQs as we go, so if you have any questions that aren't there, please send us an ask! We've gone into some detail about our goals for BG3FicRecs in this post.
REVIEW MASTER LIST
Please find our AO3 collection of works we've already read here.
The Wilted Dreams of Baldur's Gate series (Published 3 April 2024)
A seven-part collection examining Astarion and Tavâs relationship across the game and post-canon. Thereâs something for everyone in this series with some fluffy slice of life here, a little angst there, and a generous portion of smut.
Thunder Reforged: Rolan x Dammon works (Published 27 March 2024)
What's hotter than a tiefling wizard with a knack for a well-timed thunderwave? Said tiefling wizard having a rendezvous with his tiefling blacksmith paramour, of course.
The Loving Master series (Published 18 March 2024)
A series based on the worst possible version of Ascended Astarion as he masters the art of creating his own vampire spawn cohort and inflicts pain and anguish on them in what he has deluded himself into believing is 'kindness'. Tags include: NSFW; dead dove; sexual trauma.
Too Many Burdens to Bear (Published 15 March 2024)
A story based on the once Archdruid of the Emerald Grove Halsin Silverbough and his lover and partner Kiaran, the author's durge OC. Tags include: NSFW; sexual trauma.
Thank you so much to everyone who's responded to our call for fic submissions, either with new submissions or to confirm that they'd still like their fics to be read!
The team is really, really excited to dig in and get reading all your wonderful works. đ
We're making some changes to our AO3 collection system, and so I hereby bring youâ
âš Our latest update! âš
I'm going to be moving all the fics submitted last year (and haven't been confirmed) to a 2024 collection on AO3, and will be starting a new collection that's for new submissions and those who confirmed they'd still like their work read by the team. That new collection will be the active queue for our 'To Be Read' list from now on, and you can check there to make sure I've put your fic through once you've submitted an ask to us. đ
It will take a couple of days for me to sort that out, so please don't stress if you don't see your work in a collection yet! I'll post another update once that's sorted and reviewers have been assigned/have chosen fics to read from those submitted. đ
Thank you so much for your patience and support! Please keep writing, creating, and having fun.
Sending you all the best creative vibes and endless inspiration! đ
@mish-adventure
Editor/Head mod & reader @ BG3FicRecs
Find me on BlueSky! đŠ
Hi everyone, and welcome to BG3FicRecs!
We're a group of writers and fanfic authors who have decided to come together to write reviews & recommendations of/for Baldur's Gate 3 fan fiction. We aim to support fanfic authors in our community by sharing the works we love (and what we love most about them) with the BG3 community.
Happy New Year! We have good newsâWe've re-opened our fic submissions for 2025! đđ„
If you'd like us to read your fanfic, please have a look at our fic submission guidelines (below the fold), send us an ask and we'll add your work to our queue! đ
Works currently in the queue are in the BG3FicRecs queue collection on AO3. Works we've already read and posted about are in this AO3 collection here.
We'd also like to sincerely apologise for the blog's inactivity in recent months. We love supporting the BG3 fanfic community, but unfortunately, our real-life obligations got in the way for a while there. For the new year, we want to do what we can to support fellow writers by getting the blog going again. đ
Due to our long hiatus, we ask that all writers who submitted their work in 2024 please reach out to us to let us know whether they'd still like us to read their work. We'll try to reach out to writers individually, but since there are so many of you it would help us if you could send us an ask when you can.
Thank you for your support and please keep creating and sharing your incredible work!
Below the fold are our fic submission guidelines, our FAQs, and a master list of all our recs we've posted! đ
Last updated: 7 January 2025.
FIC SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
When you submit your fic, please be sure to include the following:
A link to your work & the pseud/handle you publish under (regardless of platform)
The title of your work
Any tags we should be aware of
A brief summary
Any social media you would like to be tagged in the review when we publish it (please include a link to your profile)
If you have commissioned artwork for your fic, please feel free to let us know! We would be happy to post it with the review of your work
You can submit your fic to us through our asks here. Please note that we won't respond to your ask (unless we need further information) and we'll just add it to our queue and read it as soon as we can. Please don't worry when you don't get a response to your ask! You'll know all is well as soon as you spot your work in the review collection, which you can check here.
FAQs
We've put together an FAQs master post based on questions from the community! đ We'll update the FAQs as we go, so if you have any questions that aren't there, please send us an ask! We've gone into some detail about our goals for BG3FicRecs in this post.
REVIEW MASTER LIST
Please find our AO3 collection of works we've already read here.
The Wilted Dreams of Baldur's Gate series (Published 3 April 2024)
A seven-part collection examining Astarion and Tavâs relationship across the game and post-canon. Thereâs something for everyone in this series with some fluffy slice of life here, a little angst there, and a generous portion of smut.
Thunder Reforged: Rolan x Dammon works (Published 27 March 2024)
What's hotter than a tiefling wizard with a knack for a well-timed thunderwave? Said tiefling wizard having a rendezvous with his tiefling blacksmith paramour, of course.
The Loving Master series (Published 18 March 2024)
A series based on the worst possible version of Ascended Astarion as he masters the art of creating his own vampire spawn cohort and inflicts pain and anguish on them in what he has deluded himself into believing is 'kindness'. Tags include: NSFW; dead dove; sexual trauma.
Too Many Burdens to Bear (Published 15 March 2024)
A story based on the once Archdruid of the Emerald Grove Halsin Silverbough and his lover and partner Kiaran, the author's durge OC. Tags include: NSFW; sexual trauma.
Thank you so much to everyone who's responded to our call for fic submissions, either with new submissions or to confirm that they'd still like their fics to be read!
The team is really, really excited to dig in and get reading all your wonderful works. đ
We're making some changes to our AO3 collection system, and so I hereby bring youâ
âš Our latest update! âš
I'm going to be moving all the fics submitted last year (and haven't been confirmed) to a 2024 collection on AO3, and will be starting a new collection that's for new submissions and those who confirmed they'd still like their work read by the team. That new collection will be the active queue for our 'To Be Read' list from now on, and you can check there to make sure I've put your fic through once you've submitted an ask to us. đ
It will take a couple of days for me to sort that out, so please don't stress if you don't see your work in a collection yet! I'll post another update once that's sorted and reviewers have been assigned/have chosen fics to read from those submitted. đ
Thank you so much for your patience and support! Please keep writing, creating, and having fun.
Sending you all the best creative vibes and endless inspiration! đ
@mish-adventure
Editor/Head mod & reader @ BG3FicRecs
Find me on BlueSky! đŠ
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The Policy and Abuse Committee (PAC) has gotten several tickets where folks have lost access to their AO3 account because someone else has logged in and changed the email/password.
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Send me your Dragon Age fanfics to read & rec/review!
Hi everyone, and welcome to DAFicRecs! đđ
My goal is to support fanfic authors in our community by sharing the works I love (and what I love most about them) with the Dragon Age fandom.
I co-founded a similar blog for the Baldur's Gate 3 fandom almost a year agoâ you can check it out here at BG3 Fic Recs. đ
If you'd like me to read your fanfic, please read the fic submission guidelines, send me an ask and I'll add your work to my reading queue!
Thank you for your support and please keep creating and sharing your incredible work! And readers, please remember to leave kudos on your fav fanfic authors' work!
If you have any questions please feel free to send an ask and I'll do my best to help!
Happy New Year and I hope you'll join me for this project in 2025! đ
Below the fold are the blog's fic submission guidelines.
A master list of all the recs I've posted will also be there in future!
FIC SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
When you submit your fic, please be sure to include the following:
A link to your work & the pseud/handle you publish under (regardless of platform)
The title of your work
Any tags I should be aware of
A brief summary
Any social media you would like to be tagged in the rec/review when we publish it (please include a link to your profile)
If you have commissioned artwork for your fic, please feel free to let us know! We would be happy to post it with the rec/review of your work (with the artist's permission)
"What kind of work can I submit?"
Anything and everything. Long fics in progress, short NSFW fics, dark fics, angst fics, fluffy fics. Everything is welcome. If there's something in the tags I really can't handle, I'll reach out to you and let you know. In the rare cases where that does happen, please know it is not a reflection on your workâall it means is that I'll need to hold it until I find a reviewer who's comfortable reading those themes.
Please note: this blog is firmly profiction and therefore supports and celebrates creative/artistic freedom in fiction.
You can submit your fic to me through the DAFicRecs asks. Please know that I won't respond to your ask (unless I need further information) and I'll just add it to my queue and read it as soon as I can. đ Please don't worry when you don't get a response to your ask! You can check my reading queue at this AO3 collection here and if you see your work there, you'll know everything is a-okay. đ
Please don't hesitate to send me an ask if you have any questions! đ
Hi everyone, and welcome to BG3FicRecs!
We're a group of writers and fanfic authors who have decided to come together to write reviews & recommendations of/for Baldur's Gate 3 fan fiction. We aim to support fanfic authors in our community by sharing the works we love (and what we love most about them) with the BG3 community.
Happy New Year! We have good newsâWe've re-opened our fic submissions for 2025! đđ„
If you'd like us to read your fanfic, please have a look at our fic submission guidelines (below the fold), send us an ask and we'll add your work to our queue! đ
Works currently in the queue are in the BG3FicRecs queue collection on AO3. Works we've already read and posted about are in this AO3 collection here.
We'd also like to sincerely apologise for the blog's inactivity in recent months. We love supporting the BG3 fanfic community, but unfortunately, our real-life obligations got in the way for a while there. For the new year, we want to do what we can to support fellow writers by getting the blog going again. đ
Due to our long hiatus, we ask that all writers who submitted their work in 2024 please reach out to us to let us know whether they'd still like us to read their work. We'll try to reach out to writers individually, but since there are so many of you it would help us if you could send us an ask when you can.
Thank you for your support and please keep creating and sharing your incredible work!
Below the fold are our fic submission guidelines, our FAQs, and a master list of all our recs we've posted! đ
Last updated: 7 January 2025.
FIC SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
When you submit your fic, please be sure to include the following:
A link to your work & the pseud/handle you publish under (regardless of platform)
The title of your work
Any tags we should be aware of
A brief summary
Any social media you would like to be tagged in the review when we publish it (please include a link to your profile)
If you have commissioned artwork for your fic, please feel free to let us know! We would be happy to post it with the review of your work
You can submit your fic to us through our asks here. Please note that we won't respond to your ask (unless we need further information) and we'll just add it to our queue and read it as soon as we can. Please don't worry when you don't get a response to your ask! You'll know all is well as soon as you spot your work in the review collection, which you can check here.
FAQs
We've put together an FAQs master post based on questions from the community! đ We'll update the FAQs as we go, so if you have any questions that aren't there, please send us an ask! We've gone into some detail about our goals for BG3FicRecs in this post.
REVIEW MASTER LIST
Please find our AO3 collection of works we've already read here.
The Wilted Dreams of Baldur's Gate series (Published 3 April 2024)
A seven-part collection examining Astarion and Tavâs relationship across the game and post-canon. Thereâs something for everyone in this series with some fluffy slice of life here, a little angst there, and a generous portion of smut.
Thunder Reforged: Rolan x Dammon works (Published 27 March 2024)
What's hotter than a tiefling wizard with a knack for a well-timed thunderwave? Said tiefling wizard having a rendezvous with his tiefling blacksmith paramour, of course.
The Loving Master series (Published 18 March 2024)
A series based on the worst possible version of Ascended Astarion as he masters the art of creating his own vampire spawn cohort and inflicts pain and anguish on them in what he has deluded himself into believing is 'kindness'. Tags include: NSFW; dead dove; sexual trauma.
Too Many Burdens to Bear (Published 15 March 2024)
A story based on the once Archdruid of the Emerald Grove Halsin Silverbough and his lover and partner Kiaran, the author's durge OC. Tags include: NSFW; sexual trauma.
Thunder reforged: Rolan x Dammon - #BG3 FanFic Review
Review by Aivu (@aivuthedragon)
Happy timezone, dear readers! Today I'm happy to bring you this incredible series of works by velocitross on AO3. What's hotter than a tiefling wizard with a knack for a well-timed thunderwave? Said tiefling wizard having a rendezvous with his tiefling blacksmith paramour, of course.
A note from the BG3FicReviews team:
The entire BG3 community was been rocked by the recent controversy surrounding Dammon's VA, including the various fanwork creators who've fallen in love with Dammon, included him in their work, and are part of the LGBTQAI+ community themselves. We want to express our support and love to Dammon fans, Dammon fan work creators, the LGBTQAI+ community generally and all those adversely affected by what's happened. As such, we have decided to feature such works in our reviews this week. Make your love louder than the hate. đ
As always, mind the tags! Our review is continued below the fold due to the NSFW nature of the content in these works.
This incredible artwork by @arczism was inspired by velocitross's Rolan x Dammon fic Working Steel, which is included in today's review.
Working Steel, the first of velocitrossâ three works that include this rare pair, is a masterwork in character portrayal. The author adeptly captures the at-a-glance somewhat incompatible personalities of the two tiefling refugees who fled Elturel together and now reside in Baldurâs Gate. In this work, the relationship between Rolan, the ever-surly wizard and the newly âappointedâ master of Ramazith Tower, and Dammon, the gentle yet infernally talented blacksmith of the Forge of the Nine, has grown far beyond mere friendship.
Rolan, frustrated by his attempts to catalogue the mindless chaos remaining after the untimely death of the towerâs former owner, approaches Dammon to ask for his help and visits him at his forge. But what could a blacksmith possibly offer a wizard?
Well, a good fuck, for one thing.
Rolan is pent-up, impatient, and needs a good lay. And, it turns out, so does Dammon. The smut that ensues is not only blazingly hot but also beautifully captures the tender affection between the two tieflings through not only their words, but small, unique gestures of love and care. (Mind the tails. I mean, tags. No, tails.)
In Up in the Tower, itâs Dammonâs turn to visit the wizardâs domain. But the blacksmith receives a less-than-warm welcome, as the ever-grumpy Rolan becomes highly annoyed at having his work interrupted. But considering Rolan is dressed in little more than his underwear and an open robe, Iâm more than willing to forgive him for his surliness. Dammon, however, being the sweet, gentle soul that he is, insists on taking care of Rolan beyond his carnal needs alone. In this work, the relationship between the pair deepens, and the author has wonderfully captured the intimacy of the pair.
Lastly, we have Within the Storm. This work takes us back to the Shadow-Cursed Lands as the tiefling refugees attempt to cross its desolate lands on their way to Baldurâs Gate. When the Absoluteâs forces ambush the group, Rolan expertly wields his magic to stave them off. But when something happens to Zevlor, the battle takes a turn for the worse. In the chaos, Rolanâs siblings, Cal and Lia, are kidnapped and several of his friends and co-travellers are brutally murdered.
Once at Last Light Inn, Rolan is a fucking mess, devastated by his siblingsâ capture. Lost in the depths of his despair and way too much drink, the tiefling wizard finds comfort in the arms of a fellow refugee heâd known since childhood - Dammon. And thus the gentlest embers of affection between the pair begin to spark to life.
This lovely one-shot serves as a prelude to the authorâs much-anticipated long fic about the pair, their growing affection for one another and what looks to be a truly beautiful love story. If you would like to follow velocitrossâ incredible work about the love between a tiefling wizard and blacksmith, please be sure to subscribe to the author on AO3 and follow their work and the pending long fic.
We have included a snippet of Working Steel below for your enjoyment. As always, please support the writers of our incredible fandom by leaving kudos and comments on their work. đ«¶
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Working Steel
By velocitross on AO3
The ring of his hammer fills Dammonâs ears and his attention as he works. A soft frown of focus curves his lips. Itâs a simple enough repairârestoring a blade for the halfling woman standing outside the forge watching him work. Still, thereâs a satisfaction to it: the rhythm of his strikes, the heat of the day in Baldurâs Gate warming him beneath his layers of apron and clothing. The ordinary busy noise of the city goes on just outside his focus, a subtle, stabilizing comfort even months after the Netherbrainâs defeat.
When he glances up from his work, a distinct figure catches his eye amongst the passersby. Rolan, with his proud bearing and his regal blue and red robes, coming toward the smithy with a tense, bothered scowl and his tail lashing behind him. A smile touches Dammonâs lips. He knows that look.
âIâll be with you in a moment,â he says as Rolan comes to a stop an awkward few feet from the halfling waiting on her sword.
âWell, donât take too long,â Rolan snaps, and then reddens further when Dammon raises an eyebrow at him. âSorry. Iâll justâIâll wait.â
Dammon lifts the blade off his anvil to study it. He smiles at the halfling as he passes her the sword.
âGive that a try. Come back if you need anything else.â
She moves off to the side to examine the blade, allowing Rolan to step up to the forge. He stands, arms crossed, his face flushed as he fixes Dammon with his bright yellow stare.
âAnything I can help you with, Rolan?â the blacksmith prompts.
Rolan sighs. He places his hands carefully on the edge of the anvil, glances again toward the halfling woman, and leans in toward Dammon.
âI need . . . Steel.â
Dammon breathes a good-natured chuckle.
âCome on,â he says, nodding over his shoulder toward the building. âI could use a break, anyway.â
We're officially opening our doors to more reviewers!
If you love reading fanfic and want to support our community and share your favourite works, please reach out to us about joining our team!
We have recently published draft fic review guidelines and we're ready to start taking on more reviewers! Please send us an ask & tell us more about yourself. Please also send us your email address and/or Discord details so that we can reach out to you. We're very excited for the future! đ
We look forward to hearing from you! Reblogs appreciated!
Hi everyone!
We're still open for applications for reviewers! Please feel free to send through an ask if you have any questions or would like to join the team!
- Aivu đđ
Breaking news! Fic author starts writing a fic thinking it will be short and it turns out to be long! It is not the first time nor will it be the last!
We're officially opening our doors to more reviewers!
If you love reading fanfic and want to support our community and share your favourite works, please reach out to us about joining our team!
We have recently published draft fic review guidelines and we're ready to start taking on more reviewers! Please send us an ask & tell us more about yourself. Please also send us your email address and/or Discord details so that we can reach out to you. We're very excited for the future! đ
We look forward to hearing from you! Reblogs appreciated!
These ships all made it into the Top 100 ships posted on AO3 in the last year!
Astarion/Tav
Gale/Tav
Astarion/Gale (Bloodweave)
Astarion/Reader
Astarion/Durge
Gortash/Durge (Durgetash)
See the full list of the Top 100 Ships of 2024 here!
I've asked the author who compiled the data whether they have a full spreadsheet for the same period so that I could rank all BG3 ships (regardless of whether they made the top 100) and will post that if I do get hold of it!
In the meantime, I looked at where BG3 ships ranked in the Top 100 Ships of All Time, which was also released this past week.
Unfortunately, none of our ships made the list just yet - but that just means we have some work to do! đđ
Happy anniversary, everyone!
May we all enjoy many more wonderful years creating in and for this fandom! đđ
We're officially opening our doors to more reviewers!
If you love reading fanfic and want to support our community and share your favourite works, please reach out to us about joining our team!
We have recently published draft fic review guidelines and we're ready to start taking on more reviewers! Please send us an ask & tell us more about yourself. Please also send us your email address and/or Discord details so that we can reach out to you. We're very excited for the future! đ
We look forward to hearing from you! Reblogs appreciated!
If posting fic online has taught me anything, itâs that I have no idea how the reader will react to anything. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Not the faintest clue.
Fics that I think I scribbled off just to get them out there get the kindest, most rapturous feedback. Fics I slaved over, agonized over, bled my soul into get a couple tepid replies. Fics I thought were me revealing the darkness and weird kink that lives in my brain, scared to even post it for fear of judgement, get, âAaaw thatâs so sweet!â replies. Baffling.
My conclusion? You just never know. You really just canât know. When I did a workshop with 20 other writers I would try to guess what their critique of my story would be and I was right maybe 1 in 20 times. Only one other writer would have the same critique for my story that I had. And it wasnât even always the same person.
The encouraging part about this is, if self recrimination, the fear that you know what people wonât like about your story, is holding you back, just say fuck it! Youâre almost certainly wrong! All you can do is make it the best story you can for the energy you have. And yeah, sometimes that means scribbling it out in an evening and kicking it out to the void of the internet before you can change your mind or worry about editing it more than once because then youâll never post it.
Itâs all chaos, man. You donât get to decide what the audience thinks. All you can do is create it and put it out there for them to decide.
We're officially opening our doors to more reviewers!
If you love reading fanfic and want to support our community and share your favourite works, please reach out to us about joining our team!
We have recently published draft fic review guidelines and we're ready to start taking on more reviewers! Please send us an ask & tell us more about yourself. Please also send us your email address and/or Discord details so that we can reach out to you. We're very excited for the future! đ
We look forward to hearing from you! Reblogs appreciated!
We're officially opening our doors to more reviewers!
If you love reading fanfic and want to support our community and share your favourite works, please reach out to us about joining our team!
We have recently published draft fic review guidelines and we're ready to start taking on more reviewers! Please send us an ask & tell us more about yourself. Please also send us your email address and/or Discord details so that we can reach out to you. We're very excited for the future! đ
We look forward to hearing from you! Reblogs appreciated!
BG3 Fic Review Guidelines - let us know what you think!
Hi everyone,
We've finally settled on some fic review guidelines we'd like to implement here, but we would like to share them with the community and get your feedback. It's important to us that we support our fellow writers in a collaborative space. The best way to do that is to hear your thoughts and incorporate them into our plans and strategies.
Once we have finalised our review guidelines, we plan to open up our doors to bring more reviewers on board and really get going properly. We may do this either by creating a Discord server for the team or simply allowing reviewers to submit their work to the blog directly. Regardless, our fanfic community is important to us and we want to do our best to help build a supportive, inspiring and creative environment.
But! without further ado, here are the BG3 Fic Review Guidelines as they currently are, listed below the fold. Please feel free to reply on this post, send us an ask, or email me (Aivu) directly should you have any comments or questions. My email address is aivuthedragon[at]gmail[dot]com.
Happy writing!
Aivu đđ
BG3 Fic Reviews, Editor
The BG3FicReviews review guidelines (WIP)
Please note these guidelines are a work in progress, and we may update them as we go depending on questions that arise in the community and among our team members. That said, the goals behind the BG3FicReviews blog will remain largely unchanged, and represent our underlying philosophy as a team. Weâll start there.
What are the goals of the BG3FicReviews blog and its team?
At the moment, we have four main overarching goals:Â
Help foster a kind and supportive community for fanfic writers in the BG3 fandom that helps to uplift them/us and their/our work;Â
Provide a useful resource for fanfic writers (in the BG3 fandom and more generally);Â Â
Provide a helpful guide for fanfic readers on some of the best, most interesting and most innovative BG3 fanfic currently being published; and
Create a safe space for writers to explore topics of various kinds while also supporting proactive and inclusive tagging.
With these four goals in mind, our objective is not and will never be to unduly criticise an author or write negative reviews. Fanfic authors write for free and because they love to write and share their words with the world. We donât believe in stifling that passion with negativity. We want to uplift writers and support them to continue doing what they love.Â
Review submission guidelines
Here we have some broad questions to help guide a reviewer when reading a given work, as well as what could be included in a review. These are the kinds of questions I (Aivu) ask myself when I write my reviews.Â
What are some of the dominant themes of this work?
What is unique about this work? Has a trope been approached in a fresh, innovative way? Or perhaps itâs a very good example of a well-used trope?
Feel free to be creative in your review - just as authors develop their own voice in their writing, you are free to build and develop yours. (Just please keep in mind the four goals of the BG3FicReviews blog when you do.)
Did you have any âaha!â or âwow!â moments when reading this fic? (Note: please be mindful of spoilers, and try to explain such moments in a way that doesnât spoil the work for potential readers.)
How did you feel while and after reading this work? Did it evoke any particular feelings for you?
Please include a brief list of the most important tags when submitting your review - it will help our readers skip over a review of a fic that might not be to their particular tastes (which is absolutely fine).
Please be aware that we do reserve the right to edit reviews to be in line with our standards and the formatting we use for the blog, but we will provide feedback as much as we can and discuss any revisions with the author of a given review.
What are our future plans for the BG3FicReview blog?
In order to provide more hands-on support to writers, we are currently considering starting a strictly opt-in beta reading programme for fanfic authors. We donât have a big enough team for this at the moment, but the idea would be that authors submit their work to be beta-read and can ask for help in particular areas of their writing (or their writing generally) to help them feel more confident in their work and with sharing it. Our team is too small at the moment to manage something like this, but as a long-term goal itâs something really important to us.
We are also considering opening a writing and fic review focused Discord, but that really depends on how much interest there is in such a space as there are many excellent BG3-focused writing Discords out there already.
We are always open to suggestions from the fanfiction writer (and reader) community about what kind of support and tools could be helpful and useful. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to send us an ask or an email and let us know!
Hi everyone,
We're still open for comments on these, but we're also opening up for reviewers now! Please get in touch via our asks if you would like to review fics with us!
Much love,
Aivu đđ
Editor/Reviewer
@aivuthedragon
BG3 Fic Review Guidelines - let us know what you think!
Hi everyone,
We've finally settled on some fic review guidelines we'd like to implement here, but we would like to share them with the community and get your feedback. It's important to us that we support our fellow writers in a collaborative space. The best way to do that is to hear your thoughts and incorporate them into our plans and strategies.
Once we have finalised our review guidelines, we plan to open up our doors to bring more reviewers on board and really get going properly. We may do this either by creating a Discord server for the team or simply allowing reviewers to submit their work to the blog directly. Regardless, our fanfic community is important to us and we want to do our best to help build a supportive, inspiring and creative environment.
But! without further ado, here are the BG3 Fic Review Guidelines as they currently are, listed below the fold. Please feel free to reply on this post, send us an ask, or email me (Aivu) directly should you have any comments or questions. My email address is aivuthedragon[at]gmail[dot]com.
Happy writing!
Aivu đđ
BG3 Fic Reviews, Editor
The BG3FicReviews review guidelines (WIP)
Please note these guidelines are a work in progress, and we may update them as we go depending on questions that arise in the community and among our team members. That said, the goals behind the BG3FicReviews blog will remain largely unchanged, and represent our underlying philosophy as a team. Weâll start there.
What are the goals of the BG3FicReviews blog and its team?
At the moment, we have four main overarching goals:Â
Help foster a kind and supportive community for fanfic writers in the BG3 fandom that helps to uplift them/us and their/our work;Â
Provide a useful resource for fanfic writers (in the BG3 fandom and more generally);Â Â
Provide a helpful guide for fanfic readers on some of the best, most interesting and most innovative BG3 fanfic currently being published; and
Create a safe space for writers to explore topics of various kinds while also supporting proactive and inclusive tagging.
With these four goals in mind, our objective is not and will never be to unduly criticise an author or write negative reviews. Fanfic authors write for free and because they love to write and share their words with the world. We donât believe in stifling that passion with negativity. We want to uplift writers and support them to continue doing what they love.Â
Review submission guidelines
Here we have some broad questions to help guide a reviewer when reading a given work, as well as what could be included in a review. These are the kinds of questions I (Aivu) ask myself when I write my reviews.Â
What are some of the dominant themes of this work?
What is unique about this work? Has a trope been approached in a fresh, innovative way? Or perhaps itâs a very good example of a well-used trope?
Feel free to be creative in your review - just as authors develop their own voice in their writing, you are free to build and develop yours. (Just please keep in mind the four goals of the BG3FicReviews blog when you do.)
Did you have any âaha!â or âwow!â moments when reading this fic? (Note: please be mindful of spoilers, and try to explain such moments in a way that doesnât spoil the work for potential readers.)
How did you feel while and after reading this work? Did it evoke any particular feelings for you?
Please include a brief list of the most important tags when submitting your review - it will help our readers skip over a review of a fic that might not be to their particular tastes (which is absolutely fine).
Please be aware that we do reserve the right to edit reviews to be in line with our standards and the formatting we use for the blog, but we will provide feedback as much as we can and discuss any revisions with the author of a given review.
What are our future plans for the BG3FicReview blog?
In order to provide more hands-on support to writers, we are currently considering starting a strictly opt-in beta reading programme for fanfic authors. We donât have a big enough team for this at the moment, but the idea would be that authors submit their work to be beta-read and can ask for help in particular areas of their writing (or their writing generally) to help them feel more confident in their work and with sharing it. Our team is too small at the moment to manage something like this, but as a long-term goal itâs something really important to us.
We are also considering opening a writing and fic review focused Discord, but that really depends on how much interest there is in such a space as there are many excellent BG3-focused writing Discords out there already.
We are always open to suggestions from the fanfiction writer (and reader) community about what kind of support and tools could be helpful and useful. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to send us an ask or an email and let us know!
Just a reminder that we're still open for comments on our fic review guidelines! We hope to open up applications for reviewers next week, so if you have any thoughts you'd like to add, please feel free to reach out!
