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chapter nine! wherein Astarion does something that could vaguely be considered nice and immediately gets punished for it

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are you still marking time?

Beneath the headstone is a body that will not rot. One day, after the grave has been filled, after a long, long time, you get up.

Astarion: between, around, and before.

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my fiftieth fic on ao3! so i decided to be terribly self-indulgent and beat the shit out of pre-canon astarion. sorry man you're just so Shape

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i'm sort of between graves right now

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music poll!

hello!! got tagged by @essayofthoughts and thought i'd give it a whirl lmao

Rules: put your music library on shuffle, then list the first five songs that come up in a poll to let people vote for which one they like the most.

i make no apologies for what songs are here. my musical taste is but wheat in a field for how little it makes sense

1 - Ain't No Thing But To Swing - Jules Gaia

2 - Pirates - Caravan Palace

3 - Rodopiado - Patrícia Bastos

4 - Way It Goes - Hippo Campus

5 - Okinimesumama - Eve

genuinely wild to me that a kiltro song didn't end up on here. what conspiracy is this

@stolenglow @megacharicific @verassi lemme hear your tracks you're the first targets

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chapter eight! wherein we get to see the shadowlands and astarion do some perfectly normal counting

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chapter seven! wherein Astarion makes a bad choice and comes face-to-face with a dragon, only in a more surprising order than you'd think

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also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

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Panels 1 - 10

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all that wanting, right? by Devin Kelly

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chapter six! where i am mean to Karlach and feel like shit because of it

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says it will destroy you

The first—a closed door, impenetrable. The kennel is a greedy beast, and it does not release that which is locked within it. Years could Astarion claw at the knob and never free himself, though little doubt he would try. He always tries. It is one of his more endearing characteristics. The second and third—simple sentences, laced through with the weight of commands. Thou shalt not see. Thou shalt not hear.

Cazador visits Astarion on the seventh day of his punishment.

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hey gang come and get your entirely plotless torture session here i've got no excuse for myself

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Astarion, and other rats.

This poem explores the mental state Astarion and his 'siblings' had to adopt in order to survive. Some thought if they were loyal enough, if they jumped high enough, Cazador would like them enough to have mercy. Others knew they would never be more than rats to the rat king. They became just as dirty and vicious. In the end, they were all victims to their situation; Cazador wanted them to be monsters.

And yeah the last three lines in this poem imply the rats ate the dog/the dead sibling at the funeral.

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chapter five! wherein the goblin camp goes Great and Wonderful and Nothing Bad At All Happens

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hi! i only just went through your fics in the fandoms im in and im a big fan of your work! i was just wondering whether i should consider the ongoing fics you wrote for mha abandoned or if you had any plans to come back to them in the future. your writing is amazing and has really inspired me (:

ahh thank you for the kind words! i tend to write in hyperfixations, which are unfortunately very difficult to predict and manage lol, but if you're referring to undo, underdog, then I do want to return to that one day and have been chipping away at the next chapter in the background! but unfortunately i can't give any timeline on when my hyperfixation will come back for it haha

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light through the windowpane

If Astarion is counting the imp corpses in their basement right, this can only mean the worst case scenario. He lost the bet. Again. Karlach is going to laugh herself stupid, he can already tell.

A lazy day in a good life.

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in an exceptional contrast to my other current work, enjoy a soft fluffy piece about an established relationship and long healing :)

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chapter four! wherein Astarion is given the perfect set-up for a slam dunk and somehow manages to punt it directly into his own face

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chapter three! wherein Gandrel has a choice to make and Astarion finds a new pit that he calls freedom but will take him very far down in the process

next chapter is going to kick up the plot :)