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[sesanye]

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

Chapters: 12/25 Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Astarion/Tav (Baldur's Gate), Astarion (Baldur's Gate)/Original Female Character(s), Astarion/female Tav Characters: Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Tav (Baldur's Gate), Raphael (Baldur's Gate) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, POV Alternating, Canon Compliant, Vampire Ascendant Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Protective Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Ascended Astarion isn't Evil, Angst with a Happy Ending, there will be smut i promise, Beauty and the Beast Elements, Memory Loss, Alternate Universe - Reincarnation, Swearing, like a lot of swearing, Gale dies in like the first paragraph, Mentions of sexual assault (Astarion), making a deal with a devil, Soft Dom Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Dom Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Blood Drinking, updates on saturdays, Astarion is the Consent King, First Kiss, Cult, traumatic childhood, Vampire Bites, Murder, Vampire Violence, Dissociation, Hurt/Comfort, Smut, Fluff and Smut, Masturbation, Sex Toys, Sex, Mutual Masturbation, He talks her through it, Dirty Talk, Exhibitionism, Blow Jobs, Oral Sex, Praise Kink, Squirting and Vaginal Ejaculation, Aftercare, Use Your Words Summary:

Astarion turned to leave when Raphael spoke. “Yes, my dear Vampire Ascendant, you did vex me greatly throughout this deal, and I’d have slaughtered you for it were it not for the possibility of this exact outcome. You delivered to me my reign, and I will not forget it. Besides, you should be proud—you went against a devil and negotiated the most balanced contract I believe has ever been created in the history of the hells. Really, you thought of ALMOST everything.”

Astarion froze.

Raphael laughed. “Don’t worry, little vampire, you’ll get your beloved back, and you’ll have the opportunity to make her fall in love with you again. I will deliver everything that was promised. But my dear Astarion, you forgot one thing…you didn’t say when….”

Astarion turned with a snarl, but before he could take a single step, he had been transported out of the House of Hope in a haze of brimstone, and the last he heard of Raphael was the devil’s devious laughter. . . . Five hundred years later… . . .

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MY GOD THIS IS SO FUCKING GOOD.

I am breaking my no-wips rule for this shit. It is everything I wanted when I dipped my toe into bg3 fic.

Even if you don’t like ascended Astarion, you should try this. This Astarion has had 500 years of extra life experience and therapy and is not ~sadistic dark master~ red flag Astarion.

This Astarion is perfect.

Even as a WIP, I’m calling this a huge rec.

Self indulgent in all the best ways, while being well-written and paced, with what appears to be a consistent update schedule. But even if the worst happens and it’s abandoned tomorrow, it’ll still likely be one my favorite fics in the fandom.

[nipuni]

The End

because this story just screams Ragnarök to me

[beybuniki]

[pachipie]

[thememedaddy]

[thelovers-thedreamers-and-me]

also-

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And also

[casuallamppastapizza]

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[i-like-to-look-at-your-back]

*random battle thoughts*

Inspired by All You Had to Do Was Ask by bad_at_everything

[fresh-prince-of-denmark]

Listen companies releasing half-baked games that require paid DLC to feel complete is bad but can we all agree it was objectively funny for Dragon Age 2 to lock the only straight character behind a paywall.

[lelianasbong]

Fenris has two conversations with Hawke that are very similar, but one takes place in Act I and the other takes place in Act III and let me tell you: the earth's gravitational pull cannot keep me on this plane when Fenris goes from demurring when Hawke fishes for compliments ("I don't need to repeat the obvious").... to throwing himself into a public makeout session when Hawke fishes for compliments ("Let me make it clearer for you").

Fenris: You're a handsome man, Hawke. Is there no one else who has your attention?

Hawke: I didn't quite catch that first part.

Fenris: I don't need to repeat the obvious, I'm certain.

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Fenris: Promise me you won't die. I can't bear the thought of living without you.

Hawke: I didn't quite catch that. Could you speak up?

Fenris: Then let me make it clearer for you. (shoves his tongue down Hawke's throat)

[calamitys-child]

I truly am obsessed with how Knives Out was like. Hello Daniel Craig, man who has spent the past two decades of his career being alternately beaten up and objectified playing an action hero with no personality. Would you like to please put on a shirt and an incomprehensible vaguely Texan accent and flex your character acting dark comedy muscles as well as your pecs for a while. And he’s like BOY WOULD I and they made a work of art. Also love that they put Chris Evans in sweaters. Get your beefcakes then dress them nice make them soft and give them some bonkers character work to do it’s what cinema needs more of

[calamitys-child]

I love that several people have responded to this with “op I forgive you cause you’re Scottish but that’s not a Texan accent” which is fair thank you I appreciate it but no two people have agreed on what accent it is which is also Absolutely fair and hilarious as a reaction to this film

[calamitys-child]

Cannot stress enough that I do not know what the fuck a foghorn leghorn is but literally a hundred people have said it to me so far so I’m assuming it’s important to, like, Americans

[peachfromcmbyn]

[tricornking]

The idea that Foghorn Leghorn,

The Rhode Island rooster from Looney Toons, is one of the Elder Gods of America, is honestly fascinating from a theological and folkloric viewpoint

[lovetheirloves]

Pardon me, but he is a LEGHORN, not a RIR. It’s in his NAME. Leghorns are an Italian breed. And yes, he is an elder god.

[tricornking]

According to Foghorn’s Tvtropes page:

Presumably, it’s less that Foghorn Leghorn is a Rhode Island Rooster and more that he’s a Rooster who lives in Rhode Island, possibly a Central Virginian Leghorn Rooster living in Rhode Island, though that implies a complicated and interesting life story that took him from Central Virginia all the way to Rhode Island

[lovetheirloves]

I would not rely on TV Tropes as an unbiased source. Wikipedia simple says his species is officially “rooster” and mentions a Leghorn being a breed of chicken. TV Tropes probably thinks the Cornflakes chicken is a RIR too.

[lovetheirloves]

I am potentially willing to concede he is a “barnyard mix” (cross between breeds) and his father, Harold Leghorn, was a leghorn and his unnamed mother was a RIR or other dark variety.

[tdhppjpurple]

I love this site.

[lovetheirloves]

Sometimes it’s 1:30 am and you own chickens and you’re drinking whiskey in the bath tub and accuracy about iconic fictional chickens is the hill to die on, ok, and that’s why I love Tumblr. 

[microwave-and-dishwasher-safe2]

Where this post started

Where it ended up

[dduane]

…Topic Drift, Divinely (ah say, DIVINELY) Undifferentiated Type, son.

[mortimermcmirestinks]

OP, the reason nobody can agree on what accent it is is because our beloved daniel craig, bless his heart, CANNOT do an American southern accent, so he does the same thing that most actors who can’t do a southern accent do when they are asked to do one: he manhandles together a half-dozen accents ranging across about 1900 miles, resulting in something that mostly sounds like a rather terrible Southern Belle accent from, like, 1875 mid-rural-Georgia, but ranges around in vowels and occasional rhotics from vaguely Arizona to vaguely Appalachian.

basically he’s doing for the American South what Americans do for Britain when they do a “British accent” that is a haphazard mashup of Estuary, RP, Scottish, Irish, Yorkshire, Australian, and a little bit of French

[annechen-melo]

And it’s weird we can’t really manage each other’s accents, when there’s linguists that have traced the various drifts all over the place.

[elfwreck]

Benoit Blanc has the southern accent of someone who moved to the US south in his young teen years but his family switched states every few years. (Maybe he had a parent in the military, someone with the kind of expertise that got them assigned to different bases for big projects, a few years at a time.) So he has the “generic southern accent” but no specific version because he picked up bits and pieces of it in different locations.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

yall i NEED to inform you that according to the commentary Rian Johnson has informed us that it’s not even just an accent, it’s an IDIOLECT.

Daniel Craig SPECIFICALLY AND PURPOSEFULLY was imitating Shelby Foote from the old civil war documentaries and how he in particular spoke

[housederiva]

Do not let anyone drive you away from fucking that old man in the coming months my brethren

[moxiepoxart]

When you finally ask out your gym crush

[baltharino]

Men in Black (1997) Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

[lupinsuniverse]

Fem Kacchan

[alythekitten]

I joined this train too 🤣💕

Congratulations Kirishima for coming out during pride month, here's your boyfriend waiting for you! ❤️🧡

Kirishima is SO FRUITY in this official merch art I can't help but drawing him as a fruit salad👌🏻

[burquillos]

POV Izuku still has a lot of unaddressed, pent-up emotions after the war and he catches you being a Kacchan hater on main

[stillhavetogoogleacronyms]

@socalledsomethingorother