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A Cat May Look at a King by partingxshot for thecheeseburgercat
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
14 Mar 2025
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Marta learns that being maid to the Grand Duke occasionally requires attending to distressed midnight callers hiding kittens under their cloaks.
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The young acolyte learns three things about Astarion very quickly.
Firstly, he’s not a cleric—if there’s such a thing as the opposite of a cleric, Astarion is probably that.
Secondly, he knows a startling number of Ilmatari clerics anyway. He claims Brother Kycus owes him money.
Thirdly, and perhaps most pertinently, he knows how to pick a lock.
“That’s the value of an independent contractor,” he says breezily, tinkering with a back-alley door. “Your Revered Mother is a practical sort. Likes to use the tools she has.”
(Or: Astarion romanced a cleric. After, they live in the space between absolutes.)
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- Part 5 of still the river
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god left the ground to circle the world by partingxshot
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
26 Nov 2024
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You can't throw a rock in the Shadow-Cursed Lands without hitting a ghost with a tragic backstory. Fertile ground for a cleric of compassion. How tedious, then, that Lash keeps fucking it up.
(Or: Tav is a cleric. Astarion once prayed to every god and received no reply. The Shadowlands are something of a trial.)
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- Part 3 of still the river
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Wyll’s leaned up against the farm fence in the distance, watching Astarion flutter and flirt. His mouth is a thin line.
“We’ll give lust a try,” Dorothea says blandly. “Let’s see what you do with it.”
(Or: Astarion seduces the Dark Urge. Wyll watches with increasing concern.)
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Be My Mirror by Acephalous, Aeona, anonyhex, GlassThreads, jellyfishline, karlachian, leyside, new_space, not_whelmed_yet, odessacastle, partingxshot, PopcornCrimes (Emi1y_Rose), shadowfell, SophiaMancer, stygius, thecheeseburgercat, ushauz
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
27 Sep 2024
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Wyll, that sanctimonious bastard, refuses to help Astarion ascend. Astarion leaves the party, hoping they all die screaming.
Ah, but Raphael has an offer: a mirror allowing travel between worlds. Surely there must be a universe where ascension is still on the table? There’s nothing left for Astarion in Baldur’s Gate, after all.
It doesn’t matter that Wyll’s come looking for him. And it certainly doesn’t matter that Wyll follows through the glass, through boundless universes, through their myriad other lives—searching, chasing, never giving up.
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He chokes on her first blessing. Motes of god-light rise from his skin like dust in a rotting house. Like pious little fungal spores.
Tavstarion wherein Tav is a half-orc cleric of Ilmater named Lash. Heavy emphasis on how Astarion interacts with the cleric bit specifically. Contains h/c, overbearing religious symbolism, and (potentially) facing God to walk backwards into hell.
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3:16 by partingxshot
Fandom: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman and Robin (Comics)
29 Jan 2023
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A series of interconnected vignettes that begin with Grant Morrison's run on Batman and Robin and then break out into canon divergence territory eventually.
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How Gaby and Napoleon Ruined Illya's Perfectly Practical Plan: A Story of Friendship and Strategic Hostage Negotiation by schweinsty
Fandoms: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
11 Sep 2015
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Caught between a rock and a hard place, Illya believes that the only way to protect those he loves is to take his own life. There are just two problems with his plan: Gaby Teller and Napoleon Solo.
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- Part 1 of The Friendship from U.N.C.L.E.
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25 Sep 2025
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No Water Is Enough by Boomchick
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
06 Sep 2021
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[Book 5 Spoilers Within]
Once, the emperor of heaven saw that his troublesome successor had what he had always desired so dearly. To teach him a priceless lesson, he took it for himself.
Hua Cheng faithfully serves the god who saved him as a child— the one he has worshiped for 800 years— the one to whom he gifted his ashes: The Heavenly Emperor, Jun Wu.
Xie Lian just wants his beloved back, no matter what it costs him.
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19 May 2025
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The Obliterated Place by waterunderthebridge12
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
13 Mar 2024
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Damian was looking at Dick, now, meeting his gaze with ferocity. Dick should say something. Something like I love you, Damian. Or I love you, Damian, because you're Bruce's son, and because I have to. Or even I don't love you, Damian, but I'm getting there.
They reached the third floor in silence.
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Bruce is dead.
Dick takes Damian to the museum.
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31 Jul 2025
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Thousand Gold Come-And-Go Stew by VampireFaun
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
09 Sep 2022
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When Hua Cheng loses all his memories of Xie Lian, afflicted by a tricky curse, there’s only one way to get them back: Xie Lian has to get Hua Cheng to kiss him.
It shouldn’t be too difficult, right?
Xie Lian has a plan.
“Greetings, Chengzhu,” Xie Lian said. “Apologies for the intrusion. Actually, I’ve been gifted to you by the heavens as a…”
His voice caught.
“I mean, to—”
Xie Lian’s cheeks suddenly felt hot, and his palms grew damp under the rope binding his arms together. Beneath Hua Cheng’s piercing stare from above, he lost his cool.
“As your,” he stammered. “Um, as—well—if you want, I’ve been sent to you as—I’m here to be your—”- Language:
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Bookmarked by partingxshot
26 Jul 2025
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Lan Zhan’s features are smooth. He has a hand behind his back, as usual, and when he’s a few paces away he stops. He always could execute a perfect bow, the angles of his body textbook.
“Hi,” Wei Wuxian says stupidly.
Lan Zhan straightens. He doesn’t blink as he says, “Wei Wuxian.” His eyebrows make the barest arc upward. “What is the nature of your visit?”
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09 Jul 2025