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I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire (I just Want to Start a Flame in Your Heart) by ikarus97
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
23 Mar 2026
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"Hmm, that makes sense," the white dragonborn mused, leaning against the chair. As a sorcerer, they possessed a keener grasp of the underlying details better than most. "But we need another mind - someone more intimately familiar with these concepts. We can secure the artifact and everything, certainly, but the specific techniques required to bend it to our purpose are... beyond us."
"Oh, I have already considered that."
Gortash's fingers tapped against one of the heavy, leather-bound volumes on his desk. Its title read: A Treatise on Netherese Magic and Artifacts, What We Know and What We Still Don't Know.
"We pay a brief visit to a certain reclusive wizard in Waterdeep," Gortash said. "And borrow his expertise."
The dragonborn tilted their head. "And if he refuses?"
Gortash's lips curved into a thin smile. "No one can refuse what we are prepared to offer."
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A lawyer who escaped.
A client who hasn't.
A case that probably isn't one.
Ten minutes that stretch into something else.
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A team of Brotherhood of Steel was sent to an abandoned research facility. Their mission was to retrieve a still-active nuclear code, preventing it from getting into the wrong hands (i.e., anyone else). What they found at the facility was... an AI with a mission of its own.
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Set in Fallout4, the Commonwealth wasteland.Notes for talented artists:
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Wandering Spirits by ikarus97
Fandoms: Frankenstein - Mary Shelley, Frankenstein & Related Fandoms
27 Jan 2026
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In the frozen north, the creature leads Victor to the edge of the world.
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Two people adrift in sleepless nights. Chance draws them together, sometimes.
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because i would not stop for death (it unkindly stopped for me) by tempestandwhirlwinds
Fandoms: Frankenstein (2025)
13 Nov 2025
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The Creature is first ripped from my grasp in a circular lecture hall, the room stuffy with tobacco smoke, unwashed bodies, and disease. My thief, so proud and defiant, stands before his peers and betters, his tools of treachery flashing bright and bold in his hands. The Creature – whom I had coveted so carefully in my hands – wails with the forced rebirth, half formed and exposed to the children who gawk at him. The transition into this half-life is precarious and filled with danger and agonies, but such risks are more often borne by the women, who are trained to bear their pain much more gracefully than their cultural counterparts. This is the price of creation, and men, especially these men, are unfamiliar to being denied power. Apathy, condescension, and death: these are whips of many women’s punishment by the men who feel slighted.
But this wailing, gasping Thing is not to be ignored. This resurrected meat brought before the peanut gallery – this is not Creation. This is theft. And my hands are cruel as the Creature is ripped from them.
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An analysis of Guillermo Del Toro's "Frankenstein" told from the perspective of Death.
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09 Dec 2025
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You came to Us in Leaf-Fall, Snow-Man.
You, who walked like a pup, who smelled of the earth and the ones within.
You, who let my daughter climb your blankets, and showed teeth but didn’t eat.AKA
The little bit of the movie where The Creature has some mice friends, and what happens to them after.
Told from the perspective of the Mice
(Trust me, it's pretty wholesome)Bookmarked by ikarus97
09 Dec 2025
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Sixteen years after saving Baldur's Gate, Gale finds Astarion and his daughter at his door in Waterdeep. The two need safety after finally escaping Lyra's (tav) abusive grasp, and Gale's determined to be what they need. Though, walking down this rocky path of healing leads to an unexpected destination: love and fatherhood.
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- Part 1 of Together, Always and Forever
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29 Mar 2025
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When Astarion regrets his ascension, Gale thinks it's because he's a good person who can still redeem himself. Astarion has his own theory: that Gale really is an asshole.
They struggle to prove each other wrong.
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Bookmarked by ikarus97
18 Mar 2025
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Author's Note: This one is strange, but it's also of the most beautiful things I've ever written. If you like my other stories you should probably give it a try.
It starts very dark. Basically what happened is I tried to write a hurt-no-comfort one shot about Astarion being dragged out of his year in the crypt, immediately thrown back into hunting while barely functional, being walked home by a concerned half-orc who could tell he wasn't all right, and then delivering that half-orc to Cazador Szarr.
I then felt so sad about the situation I had created I had to write 50K to make it better.
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- Part 5 of Astarion Nonsense
Bookmarked by ikarus97
10 Sep 2024