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[slowspinningredemption]

lemony snicket's a series of unfortunate events (for adult readers)

the cavernous conference room

the terrible teams call

the sinister spreadsheet

the barbarous bank balance

the eerie emails

the belated bills

the gruesome grocery shop

the malicious meal plan

the woeful website

the mysterious malaise

the dreadful deadline

the perilous prices

the nefarious newsfeed

[thecryptkeeper]

i know the way people talk about their pets now is probably how we’ve been doing it for all of history. a cat owner in ancient rome saw their cat lounging on the dining pillows and commented “he thinks himself to be the senator claudius 🤣”

[killhitleragain]

conversations i think about a lot

[kaibacorpintern]

Not OTP nor NOTP but a magical third thing: I’m indifferent to your ship but your fanart fucking slaps

[disarmd]

i get the vibe that people are reading less fic these days. confirm/deny?

in terms of reading fanfiction in the last six+ months...

i have been reading less fic lately for various reasons

i have been reading less fic and i'll tell you right now it's because of AI

i would like to read more but i'm in a fic reading slump

i never read all that much fic (less than one story per week)

i almost never read fic (less than once a month)

i read the same amount of fic as ever

i have been reading more fic lately

nuance/bald/i'll tell you in comments

Remaining time: 3 days 3 hours

"because of AI" i mean because of the number of fics that are written using AI.

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[artmagine]

The beautiful art of Thomas Blackshear II

[kingfucko]

i went to his website and saw even more great art! sharing some more which i particularly appreciated

[coyote-mint]

Not me rereading through The Pale Elf and FINALLY getting everyone's hands and outfit statuses correct in chapter 19. I deserve an award

[coyote-mint]

got everything in act one done, made it to level 5, just HAD to go back and fight Ethel and oopsie end of campaign 😭

[tragedybunny]

Bunny's Bi-Weekly Fic Recs - 05-25-2026 - AU's

Greetings!!!

A little late due to a busy day yesterday but I am here with the fic recs!

First set from @vividiana

hi! I have some recommendations for AU fics:

ceremony by @eraserspiral (Gale/Astarion, explicit, no archive warnings, complete)

a modern AU in which Astarion asks his long-time friend, Gale, to pretend to be his boyfriend for his sister's wedding (what could go wrong?). great writing with copious amounts of pining.

Catch Me If You Can by @dramatiquechipmunk (Astarion/female Tav, explicit, graphic depictions of violence, complete)

set in 1950s new york city, featuring detective Astarion and jewel thief Tav coming together to bring down a common enemy. an emotional rollercoaster with lots of twists and turns and, again, lots of pining.

Murder at Moonrise by @avantegarda (Halsin/female Tav, mature, major character death, WIP)

an Agatha Christe–esque tale set in 1930s England that features a party with a mysterious host, a body in the library, and a mystery that gets more complicated with every chapter.

I Think I Might Push My Luck With You by @andromedaancunin (Astarion/female Tav, explicit, no archive warnings, WIP)

an emotional friends-to-lovers slowburn set in modern-age Baldur's Gate about two people who have suffered immense trauma growing to find comfort and safety in one another.

Second from @morose-idealist

AU fic recs- No doubt these have been mentioned before, but:

The Pale Elf by @coyote-mint

The Accountant’s Guide to Taking Down an Evil Vampire Lord (and maybe bagging Astarion while you are at it) by @cinnamontails-ff

A self-rec from the lovely @core-ene

Oh hey I have an AU I can self-rec! @coreene

What if they were never kidnapped? - https://archiveofourown.org/works/66267313/chapters/170840920

Looking at Astarion and Lorelei (Tav) and how they could meet if they were not kidnapped and there was no Absolute plot.

Warnings: graphic violence and nothing else yet

Finally from @ancuninbrainrot

@linnetagain 's The Season https://archiveofourown.org/works/52493239

Thanks everyone for the recs and I'll post the next category in a bit!

[plain-flavoured-english]

As a Greek, in response to the current controversy about Matt Damon being cast as Odysseus, I'd just like to share that one of the moments that changed my brain chemistry as a kid was reading a novelized version of the Odyssey and coming across the following description of Odysseus when Circe sees him for the first time and thinks he's hot: "his hair curled like a clematis and his eyes were very brown".

So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:

[plain-flavoured-english]

Excuse me???

[ruffboi-mags]

you are right and you should say it.

[instantduckninja]

Is this the face of a man who would put his own infant in front of a plow to avoid going to war?

Absolutely not

You know who would try that shit?

Is this the face of a man who would defy the very gods to get home to his wife?

You know who would defy the gods just to show he could get away with it?

[fluffmugger]

The last thing Penelope's suitors ever see:

[coyote-mint]

did anyone else know you can use a salami as a weapon in bg3

[goth-queen]

[lamorchemoveilsoleelaltrestelle]

Mia Wasikowska in Crimson Peak (2015)

[hyydraworks]

When making owlbears for the last drop, realized it was high time to try some just owls again.

[marian-devotee]

I took my little brother (autistic, mostly non verbal) out and he was using his voice keyboard to tell me something, and this little boy (maybe 4 or 5?) heard him and asked me "Is he a robot??" I tried to explain to him that no, he isn't a robot, he just communicates differently, but my darling brother was in the background max volume "I am robot I am robot I am robot I am robot"

[marian-devotee]

My little brother insisted if I was going to post about him, he wanted a cut of the "profits". When I explained to him that Tumblr isn't monetized, and is pretty pointless, he and my older brother pointed out that he'd still be bringing me "fame and notoriety" if the post got "big". So we agreed, if the post hit 10k notes, which seemed extremely farfetched and silly at the time, I'd take my little brother out for sushi (his favorite food) and let him eat as much as he wants.

I guess God wanted the little robot to enjoy some sushi 🍣 🥲

[thetruerarkher]