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Relationship: Female Captain / Maximillian DeSoto

Fandom: The Outer Worlds (Video Game)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence

Additional Tags: Eventual Romance, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Manipulation, Slow Burn, Angst and Romance, Feelings Realization, Denial of Feelings, Unhealthy Relationships, Obsessive Behavior, Blood and Violence, Introspection, Murder, Canon-Typical Violence, Character Study, Max is an asshole, This is a love story, Also a theological semi-essay on Scientism, learning to live; accepting we die, Sexual Tension, Mock Apple Pie

Summary:

She hums, humored, “You've never made a mock-apple pie, have you?”

“Once or twice,” he glibly counters, scoffing to ensure his distaste is apparent. “I didn't particularly enjoy it. Neither the process nor the result.”

“That’s unfortunate,” she says, wistful, and doesn't look from the rain, “apple pie's a favorite of mine.”

[Chapter 1 of 10]

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postarcadian

look I know it’s supposed to be a joke but that “irradiated wasteland” is the unceded homeland of the Paiute and Shoshone peoples and consists of fragile Mojave and Great Basin desert ecosystems that are actively being exploited and destroyed by mining interests who utilize the perception of desert as wasteland to justify their destruction of indigenous lands and communities. the joke's not funny. fuck off with this.

postarcadian

also, as to the "irridiated" part of this - here's an article by High Country News on cancer clusters in indigenous communities in the Southwest resulting from nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site (itself located on the ancestral homeland of the Western Shoshone and Southern Paiute) and the US government's continuing failure to compensate affected families. it's a horrific crime that the US government committed against its own citizens and the joke's not fucking funny.

postarcadian

wasn’t expecting this to take off but shoutout to the Australians in the notes - getting fed up with this kind of shitty rhetoric about desert landscapes and erasure of the indigenous peoples that have lived in them for millennia is Australian-Southwestern US solidarity

titania-saturnine

@etrujii idk if you'll see this but this reminded me of you

etrujii

@titania-saturnine I miss and I thank you. As someone who was born and lives still in Nevada and of indigenous blood, the fight continues. I hope you're well, dearest.

“You're tired,” she mumbles, beneath her breath. Aware of his pedantic diligence, the hours he spends in pursuit of mastery. Does not answer him, still. Instead scrutinizes the tells of his weariness, as though he were a cherished responsibility. Hesitant, for just a moment, before her hand moves to cosset his cheek, where her fingers ghost deliberately about the warmed tension of his jaw, leading her palm to settle. She robs him of his anger for only a breath, as her affections can so easily leave him unguarded.

Chapters: 3/4 Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Relationships: Rolan/Tav (Baldur's Gate)

Characters: Rolan (Baldur's Gate), Tav (Baldur's Gate), Cal (Baldur's Gate), Lia (Baldur's Gate), Dammon (Baldur's Gate), Astarion (Baldur's Gate)

Additional Tags: Romance, Grief/Mourning, Survivor Guilt, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Unnamed Tav (Baldur's Gate), Half-Elf Tav (Baldur's Gate), Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Slow Burn, Angst and Romance, Feelings Realization, Denial of Feelings, Regret, Romance, Blood and Violence, Introspection, Spoilers, He's a tsundere your honor, Post Game's End

Chapter One | Chapter Two | Chapter Three | Chapter Four WIP

#fanfic #rolan #rolan x tav #bg3 #bg3 rolan #bg3 tav #tav #fanfiction #bg #baldur's gate 3 #tiefling

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Relationship: Rolan/Tav (Baldur's Gate)

Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence, Implied/Referenced Suicide

Additional Tags: Eventual Romance, Grief/Mourning, Psychological Trauma, Survivor Guilt, Unnamed Tav, Half-Elf Tav, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Slow Burn, Angst and Romance, Feelings Realization, Denial of Feelings, Letters, Regret, Romance, Eventual Happy Ending, Blood and Violence, Introspection, Aftermath, Spoilers

Summary: Something beyond the gate still calls to her, he's certain. Something always where she is not. Leaving an unrest to settle in her blood and marrow, all discomfort and wayward ache. But he's never inquired, as a part of him is spineless in the supposition of what she might say. And she would confide in at least Lia, he reasons, should it be something inexorably dire. She's not so senseless to shoulder her aches alone.

Or is she, Rolan wonders.

Chapter One | Chapter Two | Three in Progress

#fanfic #rolan x tav #bg3 rolan #rolan #bg3 tav #tav #bg3 fanfiction #bg3 #bg3 fic #baldurs gate #baldur's gate 3 #tiefling

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

Relationship: Rolan/Tav (Baldur's Gate)

Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence, Implied/Referenced Suicide

Additional Tags: Eventual Romance, Grief/Mourning, Psychological Trauma, Survivor Guilt, Unnamed Tav, Half-Elf Tav, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Slow Burn, Angst and Romance, Feelings Realization, Denial of Feelings, Letters, Regret, Romance, Eventual Happy Ending, Blood and Violence, Introspection, Aftermath, Spoilers

Summary: Something beyond the gate still calls to her, he's certain. Something always where she is not. Leaving an unrest to settle in her blood and marrow, all discomfort and wayward ache. But he's never inquired, as a part of him is spineless in the supposition of what she might say. And she would confide in at least Lia, he reasons, should it be something inexorably dire. She's not so senseless to shoulder her aches alone. Or is she, Rolan wonders.

[Chapters 1 of 3]

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 tav #baldurs gate #bg3 rolan #rolan x tav #rolan #cal bg3 #lia bg3 #dnd #fanfic #bg3 fanfiction #tiefling #half elf

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Relationship: Ganondorf/Link

Fandom: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death

Additional Tags: Twilight Princess References, Windwaker References, Reincarnation, During End of Games, Mute Link, But Ganon doesn't shut up, Multiple Lifetimes, Sign Language, Spoilers, Angst, Romance

Summary: He's felt this before, he's certain. It's typically momentary, the sense of familiarity. Present in the artworks, in the shrines and murals depicting the Calamity's likeness. So kindred to that first instance of consciousness — displacement, as if Link had forgotten something set upon the very tip of his tongue.

[5.5k One-shot, Canon Divergence AU]