#baldur's date

[tavyliasin]

Baldur's Date Open Creative Challenge!

Artists, Writers, Creators of All Kinds!

You are cordially invited to join a creative challenge!

You must be 18 years old or over to join, but there will be 2 categories, one for SFW works and one for NSFW works!

Accepted Submission Types

Please note all works must be your own and not made using any AI, including AI RP bots for writing.

Art

Comics

Valentine's Card

Fiction

Drabble collection (series of short fic, 1-5 paragraphs each)

Poetry

Song lyrics

Full songs/music

Podfic (With agreement from the fic writer)

Cosplay (No Nudes/NSFW/Explicit please)

Other Crafts (Puppets, embroidery, paper figure cut outs - whatever you like!)

For the Rules and More Details, please see below! Credit to Morb for the new event banner!

Welcome to the Baldur's Date Challenge!

Please be aware this event will include spoilers to characters, storylines, and endings, as well as NSFW content. Proceed with care!

The idea is to create something themed around a Date or Valentine Event. It doesn't even have to be romantic or positive, there are lots of ways to take this from Valentine's Cards from characters to slow burn romance to fully brutal heartbreak and violence. The choices are yours!

The Rules

By participating, even in the SFW version, you agree and confirm you are 18 years old or over.

All creators retain full rights to their works, subject only to the conditions of the platforms they share them on (ie, AO3)

Submissions must contain at least one named character from Baldur's Gate 3

Submissions must also be based around a date, valentine-type event, or similar

AUs, non-canon, alternate versions of characters are all WELCOME

You may choose your own prompt, or use the quiz to help you decide!

Poly Romance Welcome

Characters only, no actors or real people, other than using "Reader Insert" with 2nd person writing styles.

All works must be tagged appropriately for any CWs (please ask TavyliaSin for a list if required)

All characters must be 18 or over in the game as well as in the work you create

No characters in romantic relationships are to be related to each other.

Trans and gender-swapped characters are welcomed, unless it is only for the explicit purpose of making a canon homosexual couple into a heterosexual couple (eg, making Aylin a man so that the relationship with Isobel is straight) 

Deadline is 10th Feb to allow for time to check entries

Collections will go live just before midnight on 13th Feb so they are ready to be viewed on Valentine's Day

If you would like to help with the event running, please contact TavyliaSin on Twitter, Discord, or anywhere else you can hunt her down~

Dead Dove and controversial topics, kinks, and characters are allowed but must be properly tagged to give people a choice of what they engage with. This also means there is to be no shaming - Tavylia would like to support all creative works even ones she isn't personally fond of or would avoid.

How Do I Join?

You can either send your submissions directly to the AO3 Collections, or if you don't have AO3 you can wait until 14th Feb and reblog/retweet the posts I'll make for the collections on the day to add your contributions. It's open to EVERYONE who is 18+! Join in, give it a try! Submissions on AO3 close on 10th Feb 2024 (just before midnight GMT/UTC 0) so please try to get things in on time to be on AO3 so we have a few days to accept and check submissions. The collections will go live on 14th February for Valentine's just around midnight UTC0/GMT

Select "Post to Collection" to add your work! All works will be hidden until the collection releases on 14th.

Are there any Prompts?

Yes! Aside from the general theme there are prompts for art and writing (and anything else) on the following google form. You can roll dice to decide for you as each question has numbered answers and instructions on the dice to use! But you don't have to stick to the result you get - choose what you like. You don't even have to roll dice at all if you don't want to, just take a look at the selection for some ideas and choose what's interesting in it.

You can enter as many pieces as you like, so please use this to have fun and enjoy yourselves~

If you have any questions please drop them in comments, or contact me anywhere you can find me~

[xelina]

Steal his look! Get into Astarion's pants! By popular demand, I've made a version that includes his cheeky little note. These, the other versions without the note, and a bunch more designs, are available in my Shop! Reblogs are very much appreciated! I'd love to be able to make more Baldur's Gate designs.

[botanicalbard]

[blorbopolis]

starting to understand one another

[pinacoladamatata]

[fullofbees]

Fanon pet peeve is when u see a man that is a submissive and breedable brat but everyone writes him as a sadistic daddy dom. I'm so sorry king u deserve better and as many fingers as u want in ur ass 😔

[thechaoticdruid]

Tav: *breaks up with Astarion or Gale for someone else*

Astarion and Gale:

Tav: *Breaks up with Wyll for someone else.*

Wyll: Understandable have a nice day.

We don't deserve Wyll. He's just too good. Fucking takes it like a champ. What an absolute Chad.

[orkbutch]

Time off in Baldurs Gate

[scalycat]

most normal bhaalspawn interaction

[itsanambush]

Wyll and his lizard boyfriend Arley

[lunian]

still thinking this moment in the morning after Astarion tried to bite Gale for the first time was so damn funny

[tavyliasin]

Baldur's Date NSFW Collection!

Welcome to the NSFW Baldur's Date Collection!

First of all I want to extend my gratitude again to everyone who participated! For those who don't have AO3, or wanted to repost their works here, please reblog and add your entry, or pop a link to it in the description!

Please take a look at the whole collection, or the links below the cut for the summaries and links to individual pieces. Mind the CWs and tags on these, they are the NSFW side! Don't forget to leave a little kudos and maybe a comment for the creators if you can~ everyone worked hard and came out with some truly wonderful pieces. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!

The NSFW Baldur's Date Collection!

On Elven Braiding Rituals by LikethelightfromOrion Summary - The stream of thoughts were enough to drive the druid to madness. He knew he should control himself, behave in a manner befitting a First Druid of the Emerald Grove. Surely he had more resolve than to ask anymore of the friend he already owed so much to. He couldn’t let her know that her glance made his heart stir in ways he had not experienced in many years. She couldn’t know how her mere presence had been a balm to his exhausted soul, leaving him feeling like a man renewed. He couldn’t share how he longed to spend his nights wrapped around her, learning every inch of her body. That even the sweetest fruit turned to ash in his mouth at the thought of the taste of honey on her thighs. How could he ever share with her that he had often wondered how her beautiful face might look in the throes of ecstasy. That he had wondered if he could ever be the one providing her ecstasy. No, Clove could never know that any of these things had even entered his mind. CWs and Tags - Halsin/Tav (Baldur's Gate), Halsin (Baldur's Gate)/Original Female Character(s), Halsin (Baldur's Gate), Tav (Baldur's Gate), Named Tav (Baldur's Gate), Oral Sex, Porn with Feelings, Love Confessions, Vaginal Sex, Mutual Pining, mild referenced size kink, mild referenced belly bulge, Soft Halsin (Baldur's Gate), POV Halsin (Baldur's Gate), Halsin pines forever

Broken Reverie by Aria_Glenrose Summary - After the fall of the netherbrain Astarion's life has found a new normalcy with a new partner to help him forget about losing Vivarra. A nice little night out to a party with his new pet ends with an unexpected guest coming home with them. (This happens in the middle of Chapter 15 in The Death of Peace of Mind) CWs and Tags - Astarion (Baldur's Gate) & Original Character(s), Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Vampire Ascendant Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Pining, References to Depression, Degradation, BDSM, Dom Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Astarion is Bad at Feelings (Baldur's Gate), POV Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Post-Quest: The Pale Elf | Astarion's Companion Quest (Baldur's Gate)

Hors-d'oeuvre by Ankheg Summary - Abdirak is expecting a pleasant but quiet dinner out, but his date decides to add an extra course to the menu - right in the middle of the tavern. CWs and Tags - Abdirak/Tav (Baldur's Gate), Abdirak (Baldur's Gate)/Original Male Character(s), Abdirak (Baldur's Gate), Tav (Baldur's Gate), Original Male Character(s), Public Sex, Oral Sex, Teasing, Biting, Exhibitionism, Blood, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot

Agony and Adoration by Tavylia_Sin Summary - Abdirak and He Who Was have arranged another meeting, one in a long series of them, wit the invitation to the House of Hope coming with a small caveat. Haarlep would like to finally and properly meet Abdirak's most enticing playmate, the Dear One he has spoken so often and fondly of. The Shadar-Kai, on the other hand, begins to realise there is another kind of green eyed monster beside his own reflection when he calls upon the dead. Still, he is determined to give his priest what he desires most this time, easing his burdens instead of only punishing the damned. And he is willing to do whatever it takes to meet that goal and satisfy his date. The Valentine Challenge for the kind of date only these two could go on together, with more emotions than I anticipated. Darlings, I think our beloveds BDSM pain pals have caught feelings… CWs and Tags - Abdirak/He Who Was (Baldur's Gate), Abdirak/He Who Was/Haarlep (Baldur's Gate), Abdirak/Haarlep (Baldur's Gate), Haarlep/He Who Was (Baldur's Gate), Abdirak (Baldur's Gate), Haarlep (Baldur's Gate), He Who Was (Baldur's Gate), They/Them Pronouns for Haarlep (Baldur's Gate), Top Haarlep (Baldur's Gate), Sub Abdirak (Baldur's Gate), Switch He Who Was (Baldur's Gate), Abdirak x He Who Was is my agenda please join me and make these beautiful freaks fuck, Heavy BDSM, Bondage, Rope Bondage, Knife Play, Posture Collar, Neck Corset, Needles, Improper Acupuncture But It's Hot, Hands, This is the hands kink fic for these two, the freaks are in love and I love them thank you for listening to my essay, Wound detail, Scars, Power Play, Gags, Edging but with pain, Anal Sex, Oral Sex, Rough Oral Sex, if I missed any tags please let me know asap to add

[nucleqr]

so, i'm going feral right now just a little.

bonus: an extremely gratifying achievement to get as karlach

[kashiomi-art]

Fem Astarion sketchdump because.., i needed this okay...

[avernusreject]

y'all im just tired at this point

[rizzy-reads]

Made my first baldur's gate 3 meme