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“Gortash, I don’t want to risk losing you.” It was the closest Durge could come to saying I love you. “I trust you,” Gortash replies. It’s the closest he can come to saying it back.
why, yes, this does come up as they discuss Durge fucking him in slayer form. and yes, I'm blushing while writing this romantic part and not the fucking part
friends!! You can read the whole fic here: the beauty of obliteration
Announcing... Schlocktober 2026!
What is this?
Schlocktober is a month-long writing and drawing event. It was established in 2025 as a response to a kink-free Kinktober calendar that became infamous for having way too many rules.
Its unconventional prompts and loose standards encourage creative freedom and reject morality policing in fandom spaces.
Who's running this thing?
Direct your complaints to patheticfangirl.
Why "schlock"?
It means trash/junk (affectionate), and that's the quality of content I'm striving for with these prompts. It's also fun to say.
But, y'know, if you want to take a prompt and turn it into a masterpiece of a whumpy longfic, go for it. That's creative freedom, baby.
What fandom is this for?
Schlocktober is fandom and ship neutral. At the time of posting, there are 218 different fandoms represented in previous works.
What if I want to combine prompts? What if I want to write or draw things out of order? What if I want to make a video? What if...
Go for it. Get weird. Do an interpretive dance. Mix in last year's prompts if you want to. Let the spirit of schlock move you.
What does [prompt] mean?
You tell me. It's all open to interpretation.
Is RPF okay?
Yes, so long as it's clearly fiction. See rule #3 below.
There are rules?
Just three.
No AI use. Having the plagiarism machine do your work for you is the opposite of creative. A typo-riddled mess is better than AI-written fanfiction. A stick figure drawn on the back of a napkin is better than soulless AI slop art. Believe in your own ability to produce trashy works.
Tag appropriately. 'Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings' means anything goes. 'No Archive Warnings Apply' means your work is guaranteed not to contain any of the major archive warnings (non-con, major character death, graphic violence, or underage sex).
No irl bigotry or crimes. Your characters can be as problematic as you'd like, but if you try to post a weird pro-JK Rowling essay or threatening manifesto or something you're not going in the collection. Don't kill the vibes.
Anything else I need to know?
Only the most important thing of all: Have fun.
But someone else is having fun wrong!
Shut the fuck up.
How do I participate?
There's an ao3 collection right here:
Schlocktober on ao3
Otherwise, just tag #schlocktober here or on Bluesky. DMs are open if you tag something and I miss it (I promise it's not intentional).
Will the collection stay open after October?
The collection is open 24/7/365, but you may not get approved as quickly in the off-season as mods don't check often.
I can't read your graphic!
Text version of the prompts under the cut.
the horror of being "god's favourite princess". literally one of my favourite horror themes. the god loves you and it's so scary.
it will always choose you. you cannot die. you'll always come back because it loves you so much. you are its right and left hand, its eternal weapon. it will drown you in its light. light as horror. darkness as horror. what if it thinks you are its best friend.
you are god's favourite princess and it's terrifying.
Announcing Orin Week
Do you love Orin the Red? Then join us from the 9th - 15th November for Orin Week, a celebration of all things Orin! (And if you don't love Orin, get on that right now!)
Orin Week will run on both tumblr and bluesky and is an opportunity to make and share all kinds of Orin creations, be that fic, art, virtual photography, meta, headcanons or anything else. I'll be sharing a list of daily prompts in the weeks before the event, but don't feel you have to follow them - we want to celebrate any work focused on Orin!
Any kind of content is allowed - no dove is too dead for Orin the Red, (though please try to include warnings, use the cut, etc, if you think you're making particularly sensitive content). And conversely, if you want to make some tooth-rotting fluff of Orin abandoning murder to pet puppies, that's okay too! OCs are welcome - whether custom Dark Urges, Tavs, or anyone else you want Orin to interact with.
Please tag your creations with #OrinWeek so we're able to reblog them, here or on BlueSky (and please make allowances for the fact that your mod is only slowly learning how BlueSky actually works!) Many thanks to @meadowbone for making me an Orin Week feed over there, which you can find here:
Orin Week
I'll also be making a collection on AO3 that people are welcome to put their creations into there too!
Let us know if you have any questions/suggestions, and otherwise, see you in November!
Ketheric seeing the dark urge again and groaning internally: One of us has to die before you see Gortash again, and I don't care which.
something i’m fascinated by creatively is the negative space of game design. how just the knowledge that a mechanic or story path exists can fundamentally change your relationship to the work even if you never experience it directly. bad endings that most people don’t get. characters in multiplayer games that dictate the meta despite never being played. a hundred secrets in a game where most players will only find five. games are the only medium where this kind of non-content can haunt and infect everything else and i love them for that
happy bg3 anniversary
I understand why Larian didn't do this, but oh my god it would have been so fucking cool if Isobel's continued state of reanimation was dependant on Ketheric keeping Myrkul's blessing.
Take her diary:
"Ever since I returned, there's been a filth in me. I feel it in my very lungs. I cannot get it out - it will never out, this death that reeks within me. There are some things even the Moonmaiden cannot heal. There are some things she would never accept in her devoted. I should never have come back."
Now of course you can interpret this as her simply having sense memories of being dead. The whole thing was traumatic! It makes sense she would feel some type of way about it.
The other way to read it, though, is that she wasn't properly resurrected. Gods in D&D certainly have the power to grant resurrections via their clerics, but I don't think that's what Myrkul did. I think he made a hostage instead.
Exhibit A: being Myrkul's chosen doesn't make Ketheric immortal. Siphoning off Dame Aylin's power does.
Exhibit B: if you've played an embrace dark urge, you might have been surprised to find Isobel up and about under Moonrise even if you've killed her at Last Light. As far as I know, no one comments on this spontaneous resurrection, which is odd, considering the first one was such a big deal. Sure, Myrkul could have raised her again, but it strikes me as odd that he wouldn't extract something out of Ketheric in the exchange. You'd think Ketheric would have some choice words for you in this case, but nah.
Which gets us to my working theory: true resurrection only works if the soul is willing. Isobel's wasn't (thinking her lover is dead, wanting to join her and her mom, whatever reason there might be), so the boon Myrkul granted his Chosen was to force her soul back into her body. Ketheric would have wanted insurance, though, and look: he already had a handy-dandy source of immortality on hand. How hard could it have been to alter Dame Aylin's soul cage enough to include Isobel in its protection? (And let's be real, Ketheric would be the kind of guy to take perverse pleasure from the fact that his daughter is unknowingly adding to the suffering of the paramour he disapproved of.)
So then what? You free Aylin. You kill Ketheric. Myrkul, either out of spite or simply lacking the tether of belief to sustain his magic, withdraw his blessing. You emerge from the mind flayer colony triumphant. Aylin runs off at the mention of an Isobel - her beloved, brought back to her!
And then there are only bones in Isobel's room at Last Light.
I dunno, I think there would have been something beautiful in this. You can meet both of them but never at the same time. Aylin quite literally sustaining her lover long enough for Isobel to be the lynchpin that will free her.
I'm very glad we got the Unbury Your Gays edition but mannnn I would be chewing on this storyline like a corgi with a bag of biscuits.
Gortash Week Day 4 -- Sacred/Blasphemous
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I am running on about two hours of sleep and the lady at the drivethru window when I picked up my coffee said I looked SO cute so I'm a bit tired and manic right now BUT!!!! I have a wildly insane headcanon idea
So Ulder Ravengard was first introduced as a part of the Murder in Baldur's Gate adventure, which established the return of Bhaal with the death of Abdel Adrian on Returning Day. He was potentially one of three people who could be Chosen by Bhaal in the coming days, depending on the actions of the players in the adventure, becoming more ruthless with the direction of the Flaming Fist, more paranoid, more bloodthirsty, until eventually the spirit of Bhaal took him and he could become the final boss of the module
(the other two potential Chosen being Rilsa Rael who I always mistake for Nine Fingers Keene (!!) and Lord Torlin Silvershield, the latter being who WotC canon deemed to be the real Chosen)
And I always thought that was a fascinating choice, for Larian to continue on with Ulder and introduce Wyll, who is so good and driven and earnest; I think having that context for Ulder explains a lot about the state of the Flaming Fist as we see them in BG3, because a man that capable of zealotry that he finds common ground with Bhaal would overlook a lot of the bigotry and brutality that's rampant amongst the Fist. That culture of cruelty and violence didn't just spring up in the five minutes since Gortash took over
But I got to thinking. How did Ulder end up like that when he was serving under Abdel Adrian for years? Abdel, who in WotC canon remained good and true and just, who was awkward about his public image, but fundamentally a good man and good leader?
(bear with me, I'm connecting dots again)
Well. Bhaalspawn are naturally drawn to one another, aren't they? What if Ulder isn't just an appealing option for Bhaal - what if he's the unknown descendent of another famous Bhaalspawn from Baldur's Gate, perhaps THE most famous Bhaalspawn...
What I'm saying is, what if Sarevok had a kid he never knew about (Ulder comes from a family of blacksmiths? When Sarevok is famously connected to the Iron Throne and the iron crisis? ) and eventually through three or four generations, we end up with Ulder and Wyll, who retain just a sliver of that potential within them, enough that Ulder can hear the call of Bhaal during the Returning Day crisis
I'M JUST SAYING. It has potential. It could be a fun headcanon to explore...
Watching Wyll grapple through the moral ramifications of killing Karach is so narratively satisfying.
When you confront Karlach he expresses doubt, but it’s so easy to convince him to push those doubts aside. You can even reassure him after her death that he did the right thing. He says something to the effect of “I’ve killed many devils, fiends, and ne’erdowells, how should this be any different?” (Heavy paraphrasing, here). It’s only after Mizora confirms Karlach was a tiefling that it really sinks in for him.
In past playthroughs where I’ve spared Karlach, it was easier to believe Wyll when he says he’s only used his warlock powers for good. But watching him struggle with the self-doubt he feels after killing Karlach? Suddenly it recasts all of his previous kills in a new light.
How many others were like Karlach? How many were good people caught in bad circumstances, except they didn’t have a tadpole connection to demonstrate their goodness?
There’s a strong parallel, too, with Resist Durge’s own guilt over Alfira. Resist Durge questions themself: who am I that I would kill an innocent like this? And after killing Karlach, Wyll is forced to ask himself the same question. The visit by Mizora and the visit from the butler add further resonance to the two’s struggles. Both visitors provide their charge’s with boons as rewards for carrying out the will of greater malevolent forces.
I love Karlach to bits, but in many ways her death gives our Very Heroic Wyll a much needed moment of introspection.
One of the few things Wyll mentions about his past is that when he was fourteen he got so drunk he puked in Dillard Portyr's bushes. This is meant to be just a funny throwaway line, that's it.
But this line haunts me.
First, Dillard Portyr is a Duke of Baldur's Gate. In fact, Portyr is one of the longest running Dukes of Baldur's Gate (for some strange reason Dukes tend to die often under horrible and/or mysterious circumstances in Baldur's Gate). Portyr was Grand Duke before Ulder Ravengard, until (for some inexplicable reason) he abdicated that position. So any party Wyll is attending at the Portyr's house is probably for good reason.
But surely there's no important event that occurred when Wyll was fourteen that we know of—
Just kidding, there absolutely is. Arguably one of, if not the most important event of Wyll's childhood.
You see, Wyll would have been around fourteen when his father, Ulder Ravengard, was elected to Duke.
An election that only happened because the prior head of the Flaming Fist—Abdel Adrian—was assassinated.
Now Abdel Adrian was a beloved member of Baldur's Gate. He was a retired adventurer, who had gone on to lead the Flaming Fist and then become Duke. One of his nicknames is literally The Hero of Baldur's Gate. As Blaze of the Flaming Fist, Ulder Ravengard was his second in command. There is no world in which Abdel Adrian and Wyll are not familiar with one another. It is likely that they were close and probable that Wyll regarded him as one of his personal heroes. And then Abdel Adrian was assassinated on returning day in 1482 DR, in front of a large crowd of Baldurians. Except assassinated isn't quite right. You see Abdel Adrian was a Bhaalspawn, overcoming his parentage to become a hero of Baldur's Gate. Bhaalspawns are compelled to seek out other spawn destroy them and it was a fellow Bhaalspawn who attacked him. Eventually one of them emerged victorious from the fight but we do not know which one. The other turned into a Bhaalspawn Slayer and attacked the crowd before eventually being slain by the Flaming Fist and a nearby group of Adventurers.
Let that sink in.
Wyll was almost certainly in said crowd on that day. His father would have most likely ushered him away, perhaps into the care of someone he trusted, before going to join the fight himself. Many people were killed in the ensuing fight, including many of the Flaming Fist. It is very likely Wyll knew several of the people who died, he definitely knew Abdel Adrian.
And there would be no time to mourn. As soon as Abdel Adrian's death was confirmed, Ulder Ravengard would be acting Marshall of the Flaming Fist and on his way to being voted in as Duke. Suddenly everyone and anyone would be interested in getting to know Wyll, pegging him as an easy ticket to get at his father. And meanwhile Wyll is suffering the loss of some of the most important people in his life.
Likely a celebration would be held in honor of his father's new position. It would make sense for it to be held by the Portyrs. And then Wyll is suddenly thrust into a celebration with little supervision, his father being dragged off to play politics. And so maybe he has a little too much to drink, because everyone wants to talk to him and Wyll just wants to mourn in peace.
And in the end he throws up in Dillard Portyr's bushes. And now, years later, Wyll plays it off for laughs. It's funny, really, when you think about it. His father's big day and Wyll's just off puking in the bushes.
Wyll is always playing his suffering off for laughs.
Maybe it's a silly throwaway line.
Or maybe it's not.
Gortash: I know you think my judgement is clouded because I like Durge a little bit
Ketheric: You doodled your wedding invitation
Gortash: That's our joint tombstone
Ketheric: My mistake
Rainer Maria Rilke, “Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”
something that is paramount for my enjoyment of durgetash is that durge needs to be able to smash gortash like a watermelon between their thighs and gortash needs to be this physically weak waif who gets bricked the fuck up at the thought, but nonetheless use his wits to survive. in short:
"Gods, you're a sight for sore eyes."
Lord Enver Gortash in all his glory. IDC what some people say, he's kinda hot, guys. This piece was sponsored by one of my patrons. prints | high res on patreon
Astarion, meeting durge: i am saving them for a snack for later :)
Durge, meeting astarion: i am saving him for a snack for later :)
My favorite romance dynamic: emergency rations.
