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Tidal Memories by magmethius
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
01 Oct 2025
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It's been five years since Moss became a mind flayer and defeated the Absolute, and they've settled into a comfortable routine of keeping Baldur's Gate safe from the shadows with the Emperor. Comfortable enough that their combined itch to go adventuring aboard The Wandering Mind can no longer be ignored.
But there are things that must be taken care of before they can do any traveling. Loose ends to tie up, a missing Shield of Silvam to retrieve, and - and that little voice in the back of their brain stem, why does it sound so familiar?A
roadboat trip story about identity, duality, and flotsam that refuses to sink. Both squids have some growth to do.
Established post-game Emps/illithid genderless Tav, second-person POV via Tav, NOT a reader/self-insert/blank slate Tav story.Series
- Part 2 of Seafoam & Stardust
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A pair of druids work to heal a blighted tree, discussing the differences of their patron deities while they're at it.
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Normal illithids do not celebrate birthdays, but the Emperor and his partner are not normal illithids.
Indulgent distant future squid smut, happy and sappy and appreciative.
Established post-game Emps/illithid genderless Tav, second-person POV via Tav, NOT a reader/self-insert/blank slate Tav story.Series
- Part 4 of Seafoam & Stardust
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Seven years after the defeat of the Netherbrain, Moss finally gets their spelljammer's interplanetary travel functions working.
The Emperor is pent-up with happiness about this new level of freedom and asks if they want to make out about it.Indulgent squid smut, happy and sappy and appreciative.
Established post-game Emps/illithid genderless Tav, second-person POV via Tav, NOT a reader/self-insert/blank slate Tav story.Series
- Part 3 of Seafoam & Stardust
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Surround Sound by magmethius
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
30 Jun 2024
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Adjusting to life as a mind flayer is difficult, especially when Moss feels emotions with their entire body, and the thoughts of strangers keep physically bumping into them. The mixed opinions of the public - and of their companions - certainly aren't helping, either. But the battle is won, and at least the Emperor is here to mentor them as they help him rebuild the city.
Maybe he'll even hold their hand.A post-game fix-it story about learning to be illithid, but also rebuilding, reconnecting, and rediscovery. Everyone deserves to be happy, the Emperor most of all. Grab a page of acrostics, a bowl of soup, and maybe a toothbrush for the nauseatingly teeth-rotting fluff of this absolute character worship novel I've written for you.
Established post-game Emps/illithid genderless Tav, second-person POV via Tav, NOT a reader/self-insert/blank slate Tav story.
M rating is only for chapter 11. Updated with better formatting and a bunch of art! Complete. <3Series
- Part 1 of Seafoam & Stardust
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Seafoam & Stardust by magmethius
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
01 Oct 2025
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This is the series for Surround Sound and related works. They are in chronological order, but can all be read stand-alone.
SS is a directly-post-game slice-of-life series of vignettes about a Tavflayer (named Moss) and the Emperor. It focuses on character development for the pair and their companions as they work on rebuilding the city, with Moss learning how to be a proper illithid and the Emperor learning that he doesn't need to be such a guarded self-sufficient loner all the time. A little bit of drama and hurt/comfort, but mostly fluff, as the point of it was to give the Emperor a happy ending.
TM takes place 5 years later, and has a more serious long-form/plot-focused storyline. It involves the squids and a selection of their companions journeying to the country of Tethyr as they attempt to reclaim the Shield of Silvam for the Knights. Heavy on the hurt, but there will be a happy ending. If you prefer the Emperor's more detached, pragmatic, 'gaslighting girlboss' side, he resumes those shenanigans in this one.
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The Fruiting of Impossible Stars by GinaTeeth for magmethius
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
30 Dec 2025
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After six failed attempts and one quiet truth in the Underdark, Gale Dekarios finally hears the yes he's longed for. On Simril, the longest night, when stars burn brightest, a wizard and a rogue illithid celebrate their union beneath watching stars and drifting spores. A story of proposals, autonomy, and love that fruits slowly, like mycelium through soil.
Created from the prompt: A Gale and illithid wedding!!! I want to see Gale's grand romantic gestures for his squiddy beloved!
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Bookmarked by magmethius
31 Dec 2025
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"Visions flooded you ... quiet nights debating the taxonomy of stars versus fungal spores – how constellations bloom once and burn out, while mycelial networks fruit again and again, patient and perennial beneath the earth;
futures of joint research, peaceful retreats to both tower and Underdark, exploration of Faerun and beyond, growth unhurried and mutual."absolutely stunning <3 <3 <3
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Moss shares their favourite holiday comforts with Emperor
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Bookmarked by magmethius
30 Dec 2025
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"You feel those things too, you feel them even without the glow of a fire, or the sweet sting of candy.
You feel surrounded by home, and the joy that fills you has nothing to do with the warm chocolate flooding over your consciousness."heart-meltingly sweet <3 <3 <3
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weight on my soul, undone by your hand by ballofbitter for magmethius
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
28 Dec 2025
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"The thing about safety however, the Emperor now realized: is that you could be as safe as a babe wrapped tight and bundled against it's mother's breast, but if you were also alone — the void would always find its way back in to the very corners of your mind, slithering and making it through the smallest of hairline cracks that formed in the silence that being completely safe promised."
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The Emperor has had a lot of places to hide over the passing years, but much prefers to be found.
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Bookmarked by magmethius
29 Dec 2025
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"He may have once spent a long time crushed under the weight the stifling security that loneliness offered, but at the end of the eve: he never had been truly safe.
Safety was trusting someone with yourself even if you knew it could shatter to pieces at any moment."so beautiful and hopeful. ; _; tears of joy explode from meee.
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The Emperor and Moss enjoy the snow together.
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Stardust in the Snow by dramatic_chipmunk for magmethius
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
19 Nov 2025
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Snow interrupts your solstice work, and in your husband's thoughts, there lurks the same desire to explore what waits beyond the office door. You take his hand and find the snow can show so much: how joy feels, how gifts can hold time and space, how perfect quiet has its place in hearts that beat the same.
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Bookmarked by magmethius
20 Nov 2025
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"Words dissolve in the expanse. You press your forehead to his instead at once, letting the gesture speak its sense: thank you, I'm fed by your affection's fence, I love you."
i'm crying. you're also crying. please read this.