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Heya, you can call me opti (she/her). If you're visiting for fic reasons, I post everything on AO3 where I mostly write femslash 💜

My writing tag here on tumblr is opti writes. I also occasionally do ask game ficlets, which I post under anotheropti prompt fics.

For BG3, I've written quite a few Shadowheart/f!Tav works with my Tav, Asheera. I write a lot of other ships, but my fave is very clearly my beloved trans woman half-orc paladin. Here's all those links:

Light Casts a Shadow is the core series of Shadowheart/Asheera fics. The ship name "Forgeheart" seems to have stuck for them :)

oc: asheera is my tumblr tag for all sorts of posts about my bbygrl.

art of asheera for others' amazing renditions of Asheera.

Blades in the Night is my completed longfic in Light Casts a Shadow. It covers the immediate aftermath of BG3 as Shadowheart and Asheera deal with a group of Sharran assassins, an old enemy, and eventually (hopefully?) find their happily ever after.

Nightsongs is my completed modern/band AU. Shadowheart is in a metal band with a humanized Shar, featuring a modern version of Asheera who works as a mechanic.

I'm very much against gen AI in art, so let me know if I've accidentally reblogged something that's AI generated. Not really interested in having that on my blog.

Fash and bigots of all stripes should not-so-kindly fuck off.

#opti writes #mix of fic links and tags I use here

moonshine-out-of-shield

My Nocturne/Shadowheart piece for the @coloursofthegate zine :)

#bg3 #shadowheart #bg3 nocturne #nocturne x shadowheart #💜

arach-tinilith

Battlefield Bruises

my fic for @coloursofthegate zine!!

Pairing: Minthara Baenre/Lae'zel

Summary: Training to hone her skill, Lae'zel of crèche K'liir brandishes her blade. Focused on her training, Lae'zel does not notice the observer in the shadows, waiting for her chance to put Lae'zel in her place, besting her through combat.

Warnings: Fight sex, smut, dominance, biting, submission, the thigh thing, dry humping

READ HERE

#fanfic recs #minthara x lae'zel #laethara #!!!#I adore their dynamic and this captures it so well

sisterdomina

they should have let us recruit Sazza and Barcus 😞

#bg3 #and Z'rell #imagine playing a run with Minthara Sazza and Z'rell #you *know* this would rule #and since I know you're a true Bonglehead the Barcus recruitment would also be fuel for the fire

dionysus2210

One-page comic AU Shadowheart as the "Doom Slayer" or "Moon Slayer" in my interpretation. 2/? (More in profile)

I really surprised that I'm not the only one who find this idea "interesting", wow ty)

About wolves, ah yes I did it! And it actually looks familiar to the idea in my head, like it.

But there is still a lot of work, so keep cooking! (Especially with the tone, but light colors will help me, thank God I started from dark one)

#bg3 #shadowheart #non-spooky scheduled posting #this is really cool!

kenmoos

Paint me like one of your Sharran girls

#bg3 #shadowheart #non-spooky scheduled posting #beloved

xiaonme

everyone have higher opinion of themselves and their fanwork NOW!!!!!!!!! no fanwork produced is ever a given!!! they are passion projects made by people who love something so much that it drives them to create!! I think everyone who makes things themselves in their own time should be so deeply proud of what they do and the skills they have!!! be proud of the skills you have acquired from creating, because you gain skills anytime you have created something!!!

#you must always remember this. yes you.#random fandom thoughts

luna-azzurra

What helped me write trauma better is remembering that the nervous system learns predictions. If danger used to come after quiet, calm can feel threatening. If kindness used to come with a price, kindness can feel suspicious. So healing is not just “they know they’re safe now.” Healing is the slow, annoying, deeply unfair process of teaching the body that the old prediction is not always the present truth.

kelvnn

My contribution piece for the Baldur's Flora Fan Zine, a zine inspired by the BG3 companions and flowers! I was assigned Lae'zel and Amaryllis, a flower that represents pride, success won after a struggle, and true beauty. I think it really suits her well!

#bg3 #lae'zel

pixeljade

more than anything i want a world where a trans girl realizing she is a trans girl faces zero fear from that realization and subsequent coming out. Where she can say "Oh sweet, I can just be a girl? Sign me up!", no worrying if shes girl enough, no worrying if society will accept her, no worrying if she'll be an attractive girl as she transitions, no worrying at all in any way shape or form.