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  1. Rec 63

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    The first thing that happens is that Gawain cuts someone's head off. You know who it is, and you know why.

    What you don't know is that his blood was red, red like berries, and it spurted from his neck and splattered onto the ground and the dried apples laid in their platters and the dead pig on hers and the white linen of Gawain's tunic. That's why this is a Christmas story: because the knight's blood was red, but his eyes were green, and his clothes were green, and his skin was green, too, and because he had tracked snow into the hall, and because even after he put his head back on and got on his horse and left - even after they couldn't hear his hoofbeats, out on the stone path the Romans had built - the snow stayed, and stayed.

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    11 Feb 2025

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    “Do you remember the last time we rode like this?” Alec asked without thinking, and then blushed.

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    30 Aug 2024

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    After two centuries of torment, Astarion has given up hope of escaping Cazador's clutches, until a chance encounter with a stolen book introduces him to the disembodied voice of a wizard named Gale of Waterdeep. With the fate of Baldur's Gate in the balance, they must confront their demons and win their freedom - together.

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    08 Nov 2023

  4. Rec 99

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    In which Astarion decides he needs to seduce one of the party members for safety and clearly the best choice for that is Wyll.

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    19 Oct 2023

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    Astarion fast-talks an abnormal number of enemies into killing themselves in the shadow-cursed lands and the team makes idle (then less idle) conversation about it. It’s completely fine and doesn’t bother him at all and it absolutely doesn’t draw additional questions about why he does what he does for the team... and what they in turn would do for him.

    IE: Origin-run Astarion fic because its interesting to me how the party reacts to their vampire buddy if he doesn’t have Tav to be a social buffer for him. Act 2 content and spoilers.

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    19 Oct 2023

  6. Rec 55

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    07 Oct 2023

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    12 Jun 2023

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    Jarlaxle is still watching him intently, still smiling like a panther about to pounce. "Exploring the surface is wonderful. Following you is—" He cuts himself off, afraid he's about to say too much.

    Perhaps he already has. Or perhaps he's said just enough.

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    09 May 2023

  9. Rec 80

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    “Is this your way of trying to work through something?" Jarlaxle asks thoughtfully, "Because I will not be pulled into some elaborate personal experiment.”

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    05 May 2023

  10. Rec 92

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    Fifteen years after their last meeting, Jarlaxle has been thriving in Waterdeep when he learns that Artemis Entreri is in the city. Entreri has a contract to kill a corrupt Masked Lord, and Jarlaxle is only too pleased to offer his assistance.

    But Jarlaxle's feelings for his former partner remain unresolved, and as they navigate political intrigue and high society, he may ruin the relationship he is trying to rekindle. [Complete]

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    05 May 2023

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    While he's waiting for the men with the guns to decide what to do with him, Alec thinks about what he'll do if he gets home.

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    30 Mar 2023

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    I’ve been a research assistant at one of the Area 11 labs for years now, but today, I was finally assigned to a serious project. No longer will I be stuck handing tools to or fetching rations for the scientists working on dull tasks like vitamin synthesis and hormonal distillation! No, this is a Real Research Project with a Real Title and everything. Even though I’m not a fully-qualified scientist myself, even being assigned to this project as an assistant has given me expanded security clearance, and I’ve already had a chance to peruse the documentation for this project.

    They’re calling it “Project Fluegel.”

    After their father's death, Byleth Eisner found a diary that explained everything, as he knew it. When Shez's mother passed away, they would find no such closure. But that doesn't mean she never kept one. And unlike her counterpart, she never wanted her own impossible child to find it at all.

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    08 Aug 2022

  13. Rec 93

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    The Rhea who died in Crimson Flower and the Edelgard who died in Silver Snow meet in what seems like a temporary purgatory. There they are told that because of their actions, Byleth -who cared deeply for both of them- felt so torn as to who to follow she inadvertently tore both herself and time apart, splitting the timeline in two.

    Now it's up to both Edelgard and Rhea, who are still hurt by the memories of their own failure, downfall and death, to look back at their past and somehow find a way to create a future where Byleth is spared the agony of watching them go to war with one another.

    This utterly displeases both of them, and they're still very angry with each other.
    Luckily their bodies are invincible...

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    15 Jul 2022

  14. Rec 51

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    Felix's hair gleams a deep blue in the candlelight, thick as a rope that Felix winds through his fingers. He has brought it over his shoulder and turned his face aside to give himself room to work. In perfect profile, he has features like the silhouette of a Gautier mountain range - beautiful from a distance and deadly up close, even to those who have known it all their lives and grew up in its shadow.
    "Are you going to stare all night?" Felix flicks his gaze at Sylvain, his head still turned to the side. On anyone else, it would be coy. On Felix, it just feels like being looked at.
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    In the midst of war, Sylvain and Felix play a game of pretend.

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    03 Jul 2022

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    "She said—” Sylvain gags a little on the taste of his own exhale. “She said it didn’t have to be like this.” His limp gesturing encompasses the whole, the entirety. “Any of it. She wasn’t just asking if I wanted to join them for lectures.”

    Felix is back looking out the window, eyes level to the waning moon.

    Sylvain looks at his upturned hands on his knees. “She was asking if I want to defect.”

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    01 Jul 2022

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    The final scene of ExU: Calamity, converted into Shakespearean verse. It is, after all, a tragedy.

    Now all is fire, at this age’s end
    And as the city falls into its place
    So falls the Ring of Brass.

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    23 Jun 2022

  17. Rec 21

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    A rainbow of assorted memories for the life of one Agent Curt Mega.

     

    (also available in "Fanzines are Forever: A Spies are Forever Fanzine" https://issuu.com/tardisgrump/docs/fanzine_draft_2.pptx)

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    09 Sep 2021

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    Owen has a habit, he’s coming to learn, of realizing things about Curt just a bit later than he should have.

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    27 Aug 2021

  19. Rec 64

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    There was never going to be enough time. Caleb was always going to die while Essek was still young. Essek knows that, he knew that from the start, but understanding death and knowing it are two different things. He simply thought this would be easier.

    “You have time. Take as much of it as you like. We’ll be inside when you’re ready.”

    This is the story of a death, of a lifetime, and of coming to terms with loss. This is a story about time, and making the very best of it.

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    04 Aug 2021

  20. Rec 21

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    Orym remembers every time. Ted remembered, until she wasn't Ted anymore. The rain in Emon is always cold in the mornings.

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    29 Jul 2021

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