#friend fics

[obsessedwhyyes]

6 Astarions, 6 women, a bat, and a dragon walk into a bar...

Alternatively, what happens when a portal opens up, allowing the Astarion fanfiction multiverses to collide 😁

The absolutely amazing artist, @deannamb, was kind enough to indulge our little AU writers group's fantasy of getting all our versions of Astarion and our OCs together!

Character and fic list under the cut!

From left to right, we have:

Bartender Astarion and Tav'ara from High-Heeled Heroes and Reluctantly Righteous Rogues by @karinamay.

Magistrate Astarion #1 (in the blinged up blue) and Zoraya (in black and white) from Magistrate's Advocate, by @cinnamontails-ff.

Magistrate Astarion #2 (in the formal garb) and Chariot (in yellow) from The Devil's Ledger, by @wobblyweasels.

Ringmaster Astarion (with the cane) and Elysia (with the red and white dress) from A Tale of Fools and Tricksters, by @obsessedwhyyes.

Rockstarion and Estellé (both sitting down) from The Rockstar and the Groupie, by @davenswitcher.

Tailor Astarion and Selene on the right from Portrait of the Pale Elf, by @larvasmoon.

Crystal the Dragon from Small Crystal, by Gothic_Bloodstain on AO3.

And the setting is The Sweet Release tavern from Fool's Copper, by @vyjuarts.

[olruggioofthetorch]

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

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Olruggio/Qifrey (Tongari Boushi no Atelier) Additional Tags: Blow Jobs, Memory Erasure, Consensual Memory Erasure, When I am in a Yearning Contest and my Opponent is Olruggio Hat-Atelier Summary:

Exploring how Olruggio may feel it freeing to have the safety net of memory erasure in order for him to show Qifrey truly how vulnerable he can be with him.

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Hey. You should read my friend’s fic because it made me feel the most intense shrimp emotions imaginable. 

[aphyllon]

have you read any good sev fics recently?

literally constantly I am doing this

i'm a bit behind on reading rn because i've been writing so much (two works in 3 months?? who even am i) and trying to get something together for markhelly week. but this is some great stuff i've read lately:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/81330881 <- No Provenance by @spareham -- A really cool Coghabi fic. Love the first person limited past tense (I feel like we rarely get that) and all the background science, the world felt so fully realized. Some very haunting and interesting implications. Most original fic I've read in a while!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/80756401 <- Woe by @madamdarcy and PurpleCadet -- imarkhelly, except Helly is one of the Tempers instead of in MDR and it's like a Taxi Driver situation?? Amazing premise I am constantly drooling for more

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82860276 <- house rules by fractions -- rmark/rhelena WIP sex comedy we are so blessed

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83979226 <- stalemate by @hellycrying (i think?) -- please note the tags. Some really sad and pretty writing about Helly's relationship with sex.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66772309 <- Steel and Lace by @damejudyhench -- the ultimate helly/mark/petey thinker continuing to have powerful thoughts

https://archiveofourown.org/works/67019143 <- making forts by purifyinglight -- omg i can't believe this was a markhelly week 2025 fic... parent trap shenanigans by the emotional hurt/comfort princess

[tarasmom]

Sharing Saturdays

Reminder! This is not a fandom specific game - you can play with any fandom you're reading from or original works!

Rules: Choose 1 or More fics you read this week and give a recommendation on why others should read them! All fandoms welcome!

Want to be tagged in this game? Comment here

You'll be my reason to carry on by @rook-de-rivas

I love letters and codexes - stories told by the perspectives and little moments - and this is a really interesting retelling of essentially most of veilguard utilizing just that. Fantastic blend of short stories, letters, and descriptions :3

Sweet upon the Tongue by @queenofairandsnarkness

this is a fantastic (NSFW) piece for rookanis and spookanis lovers. There's monster fucking, role reversal, and just so many gooey feelings to play with

A Sorceress Comes to Call by T Kingfisher

I'm always a big fan of this author but I loved this book. It doesn't fall into a lot of the same romance plots, more focus on intergenerational trauma and friendships. The evil horse man .... evil horses

Tag list under the cut

@serialsforbellara @zennihilation @necromanticsoul @trash-nerd @kaleido-moon @iicaru2 @woundedsoul12 @juniper-and-dragonthorn @casa-dei-corvei @sleepystarsapphire @mushrooms-x-moss @wolfmoonwildflowers @ohimjustabard @davrinsleftpectoral @handsignals @aetherflowers @elishnord @flowersforthemachines @kai-dimir @tiredtruffle @rookstormblessed @nyx-de-riva

[st0rmyskies]

HEY did you know my friend wrote some Twark???

domestication - by ok_poppy

This is partially a retelling of the events that sparked the Twark relationship in LMTCOY, but mostly Poppy's incredible brainchild involving sex and intrigue and a unique threat that Dark and Time will need to deal with at some point. Dark is transmasc in this story. I'm halfway through this mammoth story, and so far it is FUN. You've gotta mind the tags, though.

As the summary says:

"You hate the Crown," Shadow says plainly. "I dunno what the fuck you've been up to, and I don't wanna know, but you only ever got like this when you gave all of yourself to them. So, tell me: why are you doing that for the Crown?" "I'm not doing anything for anyone," Dark snaps. "There's a job that needs to be done and I'd like to stay outta fuckin' jail, thank you very much." Shadow hums. "And the truth?" --- Nothing comes easy in Dark's life. Not freedom, not work, not a life, not love. So when Twilight shows up and starts to create a home around Dark... well, he handles it about as well as one might expect.

[stygiansauce]

🦃 morning / afternoon / evening!

Scarian is the classic <3 ive only written them once for a friend and it took me… months… got stuck on one scene and avoided it for ages (and then got into taurtis x grian but that’s another story)

Cub and Scar being brotherly and inseparable is soo <3333 everything to me. Have you read “closer to another shore”? Oh my god. Changed my life. And scar and Cub within that book… absolute peak. Devoured it twice over and once more on top of that. Very much recommend if you want to tear your own heart out and crush grian like a bug!

ooo! I'll have to give that one a lookie!

I have this whole scale AU for Scarian that I'll write one day. it's bound to be my hardst work yet (yeah including the historial research and mapping nightmare that is Dealing Despair), because Splinter is one of those fics you have to plan every single scene out to make it all come together in the end.

My goal with Splinter) whenever I get around to writing it, it is to have like a fraction of coolness Birrdie's as above, so below has?? It's still one of my favorite fics of all time and I strive to write an AU like that one day. Splinter isnt the same thing? it's like a past life kind of thing, but the part im trying to emulate from aasb is the "oh something is happening here...I am scared of it" vibe.

Eitherway, if you want a good Grian fic (with some Scarian) THATS the fic. This is the fic I give to all my friends new to the fandom/to fanfiction. I shove aasb and Dirges in the Dark at them because those are the two fanfics I want on my shelf YESTERDAY. Like physical copies. (I am working on that actually....)

OKAY I'VE YAPPED ENOUGH! Time to clock in for the writing shift today <3

[the-boundless-dark]

𝐼'𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑎 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑒, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼'𝑚 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝐼'𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝐼 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝐽𝑢𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑚𝑒

So I've been reading @azems-familiar's EmetRaha fics lately and This One got me directly in the feels. :3 So I had to make some poses for it. Y'all should all go read it.

Edit because I am a potato it's also @sunderedazem's fic too. ^-^