WIP Wednesday!

🌑WIP Wednesday!🌑

It's still Wednesday for me, so I'm going to bother you all with my WIP and see if you'd like to participate ❤️

Behold:

“The Tears,” She lifts a brow, still skeptical, and he meets her eyes. “Legend goes that some kind of weapon struck Selune and blew pieces off her face, becoming her tears… many peoples inhabit some of the larger ones.” Ofelia stares up at them in awe, taken aback as she tries to understand the kind of might something that strong would have had to possess to do that back home. It’s a little nerve-wracking, but the beauty of the result dances eerily through the night sky, bewitching and divine.

“Selune… you just call the moon that?” Astarion nods, shrugging.

“You don’t?” Ofelia shakes her head.

“It’s just ‘the moon’, kind of pretentious since other planets have moons in our solar system, but only ours gets that honor. Still.. Mētztli, Luna, Artemis… we have lots of names for her.” Astarion regards her silently before speaking again.

“So she’s worshiped among your kind as well?” Ofelia smiles softly, shifting from foot to foot.

“In some places, still. But many of us are let's say… of a more scientific mind. I’m part of those people. It’s just a big rock to me, a pretty one, but still- just a rock.” Astarion simpers quietly, gaze thoughtful.

“You and I have that in common. I never really gave much stock to the gods. They don’t come when you call, anyway.” Ofelia nods, face stern.

“No, they do not.”

Join if you want to!! ✨️

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nothing in the world makes me more evil than just being kind of annoyed

Some sexy astarion for your dash this fine day 🤭

My heart sings every time someone buys an Astarion sticker from me, especially the ‘skin of a killer’ one bc it’s my magnum opus.

ummmm I need to know about ‘Ten Tonne Heart Ache Sitting on Your Back’ please 🥹

This is my angsty future chapter 😭❤ It's named after a line from Creatures in Heaven by Glass Animals, and it's kind of between two results, but I think I'm going to keep it sad unfortunately. Here's a little tidbit below!

Sweat slick, they remain that way, the need to breathe not a requirement, but he can’t help but pant above her with his face buried in her neck. He breathes in her scent, memorizing it, feeling a pit form inside his chest. He knows what it means, knows that it’ll consume him. Right now he can pretend it doesn’t exist. She strokes his back, another hand brushing through his hair, yet leaves her eyes closed, a smile playing over her face. She falls asleep in his arms and he takes care to disengage them, sitting up to look at her. He decides she looks ethereal like this, her skin gleaming in Selune’s light, hair cushioning her head. When he’s had his fill, and the accompanying regret, he pulls his trousers back on and stands, the faint sounds of birds chirping sounding from the forest canopy. Dim purple light bleeds into the sky and he walks out into the dawning sun, begging it to burn his sins away.

Fic writers, especially if you write popular pairings like Astarion/Tav, BloodWeave, etc.

This might be common knowledge, but I didn't realize, so I'm sure there are others who don't know.

When posting on AO3, only tag the main pairing(s) in your fic. If your main pairing is Astarion or Gale x f!Tav, but there's Lae'zel/Shadowheart in the background, only tag it M/F and not F/F. There's a space in additional tags that you can put "minor Lae'zel/Shadowheart."

The Astarion/Tav, Gale/Tav, BloodWeave, Halstarion fics absolutely dominate the tags. AO3 is overflowing with them. It can be really frustrating for someone looking for literally any other pairings, but especially sapphic pairings, since they get completely drowned out. (Source: folks in my sapphic BG3 discord server were understandably voicing their frustration with this issue.)

I personally have also stopped using generic BG3 tags here on Tumblr to post my Astarion stuff. I love him, y'all know this, but for folks who aren't obsessed the way we are, it's a lot, dude. Give the tags room to breathe and maybe let some other pairings float to the top.

Love you all, happy tagging 😘✌️