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25 | started this blog for reblogging nsfw stuff but now it's where most fics in general end up going, but still generally 18+

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Idk I guess I should make a pinned post

My ao3

Tolna's Vault (rare pair and char server)

Monsterfuckers of Faerun (monsterfucker server)

For low-effort snippets and drabbles I toss up here, I use the tag #cactus archive

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@acrowsrockcollection

(For Skriss and Limeleech)

This will probably be the last one, thank you everyone for sending these in, and I'm sorry to the people I didn't get to! This has been a lot of fun. For now, here's some "there was only one bed" to send you off 😂

The Lodge's dorms really weren't intended for everyone to sleep there at once, so having to share beds was a common inconvenience. Initially, Limeleech made for an appealing bedmade. She would only be there for half the time, after all.

Unfortunately, Limeleech was a couple of inches taller than Skriss. It wasn't much, but now, body contorted to keep to her side of the bed, she realized just how much it would affect the already tight fit.

"Don't bother," Limeleech laughed. "I don't mind."

Skriss hesitantly relaxed, letting her body press against Limeleech's.

She always forgot how warm mammals are.

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@unaarista

(I was originally just going to do Limeleech + weakness but EGGS made me laugh so hard I think I have to do both)

This had been a mistake. Limeleech rolled over to look at the sleeping faces next to her - her colleagues now, she supposed. Stupid. She still couldn't quite place her standing in the group, but she wasn't so naive as to think they saw her as an equal. They'd been travelling together for years, and here she was as some interloper. Hells, the invitation might have just been a formality, not something she was actually supposed to accept.

(And she hadn't, the first time. They'd offered another.)

Well. It was too late now. She would just have to prove her worth.

***

Skriss wondered, sometimes, if she was deceiving herself. Was this version of her the real one, or did she only want it to be? Perhals she was only masking an innate nature hidden even to herself. She thought of how much she had changed since meeting her colleagues, and the version of her they had somehow seen past. Was the taste of blood still part of her?

"So are you finishing that omelette or not?"

Skriss scowled, but part of her relaxed. No, if she actually had an innate blood thirst, she would have killed Y a long time ago.

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Kar’niss and Limeleech, “language”

Once again, Limeleech returned to the Lodge to find Kar'niss trembling on the floor. She didn't ask what happened in her absence. Kar'niss couldn't speak coherently in this state, and the others likely wouldn't know anyways. She pulled him aside to the closest to privacy that existed here and perched atop a bench to match his height. Predictably, he began babbling fragments of words in both Common and Drow into her shoulder as soon as they were alone. She could decipher it later. For now, she pretended to understand him and rested her chin on the top of his head.

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@lulamillay

Grazilaxx glared down at its wine glass as it swirled the contents, trying to give off the appearance of nursing it. It was capable of drinking, of course, but with the way the illusion was set up, it would look strange for a "human" to be drinking from under its chin. Besides, it was supposed to be talking to people. Its research wouldn't fund itself, after all. But even with this disguise, every time it met a patriar's gaze, they looked visibly uncomfortable and scurried away.

So this whole night was going to be a massive waste of time. Wonderful.

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Fuck it, maybe this will help break through my block. Send me a character or ship (only characters I already write about, please) and a one-word prompt, and I'll do a little drabble based on that.

(If I get a lot, I'll just pick a couple favourites)

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And while we're talking things that haven't come up in fics, here are some rapid-fire headcanons that have been informing my characterization of the characters while writing them but haven't actually been properly touched on (yet). If we've ever DMed, none of these will be new to you lol

-Sloopidoop used to be a priest of Blibdoolpoolp, and still was when the Society of Brilliance was founded, but switched to worshipping Deep Sashelas at some point during the Second Sundering (this one might be worth its own post, I have Thoughts)

-Delverdenn is the unofficial spokesperson for the Society of Brilliance, mostly because people are more likely to respond well to a surface dwarf than any of the others, but also because of his stupidly good stats. Also, his warlock patron is an arcanaloth.

-Limeleech is transfem (hence her training as an arachnomancer, as well as her decidedly un-drow-like name) and Blurg accidentally came up with the name when struggling to think of a cover name on the fly. She thought it was funny, started going by it as a bit, and it stuck.

-Blurg, like all the other founders, was born in the Underdark, so the version of hobgoblin culture he grew up in is slightly different from the surface version. This has led to misunderstandings with surface hobgoblins on more than one occasion.

-Skriss does not currently know about Havkelaag's plans for the egg experiment, and when/if she finds out, shit will hit the fan because oh boy does it ever pierce right into her own Complexes regarding her relationship with her culture

-By mind flayer standards, Omeluum is really weak, since it dedicated so much of its focus to its arcane abilities rather than honing its psionic ones. It knows this well, and will almost always defer to Grazilaxx on the subject whenever it comes up.

I think that'll do for now. All of these are the result of three years of obsessing over them, so if you want me to elaborate on any of them or cite the lore behind them, let me know and I'll be happy to 😂

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Okay this is a concept I originally planned on touching on eventually in The Underdark's Problems but ngl I don't think it will really fit the tone I'm going for, so I'm making a post about it instead.

But ever since writing that orgy kinktober entry, I've been thinking a lot about the SoB founders' relationships with physical touch. Like, even though that particular ficlet isn't part of my main timeline, I 100% believe that they've all had sex with each other on multiple occasions, especially early on. Not even necessarily because of attraction per se, but just. They've all gone so long feeling disconnected from everyone around them and being completely alone (whether physically or socially). And now suddenly, a good chunk of the way through their lives, they're thrown into this group where they are understood and need to latch onto each other and be closer, closer, closer.

(And from an Omelurg perspective, because I am very predictable, this also makes Blurg and Omeluum's romantic feelings for each other even harder for them to parse because it's already bad enough figuring out how an illithid approaches romantic love when you don't have a history of having otherwise platonic sex)

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Pairing: None

Warnings: Light angst, awkward hurt/comfort

Summary:

Just a few decades ago, if one of her colleagues had dragged an unconscious stranger inside to tend to him, she would have been wary at best. It would be a stupid move in the Underdark (not that that had ever stopped these people), and in truth, wasn’t a much safer one in Baldur’s Gate.

Very excited that I can finally post this here! Written for @kaluawoo for the Baldur's Gate Gift Exchange (I know, huge surprise, it was me all along)

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Ngl I think we're more or less the only people who have written limeleech-focused fics. And even if I've technically written a greater number of them than you, the effect of your enabling really can't be understated 😂 Having someone else in this hell with me has been delightful

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Pairing: None

Warnings: Light angst, awkward hurt/comfort

Summary:

Just a few decades ago, if one of her colleagues had dragged an unconscious stranger inside to tend to him, she would have been wary at best. It would be a stupid move in the Underdark (not that that had ever stopped these people), and in truth, wasn’t a much safer one in Baldur’s Gate.

Very excited that I can finally post this here! Written for @kaluawoo for the Baldur's Gate Gift Exchange (I know, huge surprise, it was me all along)

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I am once again doing artfight! Drop your usernames so I have more people to attack 👀

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Pairing: None

Warnings: Some violence, hallucinations, briefly implied vomiting

Summary:

We check in on Skriss years after the first chapter, and see how Omeluum and Sloopidoop are doing, respectively. Spoilers: it's not ideal.

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Out of curiosity, if you read a fic that describes a character as having two penises with no additional information, do you assume that the penises are positioned...

horizontally (perpendicular to the spine)

vertically (parallel to the spine)

diagonally i guess??

other???

Voting ended onMay 17

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Pairing: None

Warnings: Some violence (worse to come), light angst (again, worse to come), general trauma

Summary:

How a handful of scholars fled the communities they had always known, found each other, and created the Society of Brilliance.

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Once again wheezing imagining interactions between Blurg and Toadbreath bc Blurg is going into it thinking "yes, I understand this person, I too was deemed a failure by my culture because I didn't have a specific skillset that was valued, but I learned to value the things that I AM good at! All I have to do is help him do the same for himself!"

And the realization slowly dawning on him that no. Toadbreath genuinely is just bad at everything.

(And also realizing that he does, in fact, still have some baggage from his upbringing about your value coming from how useful you are that he still hasn't fully unpacked)

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These two outfits took me out when I saw them on my tomodachi life island, so I had to draw them

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More Tomodachi Life screenshots (consolidated into one post so your dash doesn't get spammed)

Apparently Omeluum is just irresistible to hobgoblins in particular

What the fuck, Lorlarrio

I cannot stress enough that this happens every time I open the game

....babe I have some bad news for you

I really don't think Makos is the target audience for this

Okay this one is actually really sweet, I felt very soft about this

Moorcombe you can't just SAY that 😭

Note to self: draw this later

I don't have anything to say about these, they're just canon

(Characters included, in order of appearance: Toadbreath, Omeluum, Lorlarrio, Grazilaxx, Popper, Makos, Sloopidoop, Moorcombe, Limeleech, Delverdenn, Pritt Yellowbreath)