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we all have a hunger (tell me what you need) by papenathy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jun 2025
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“Looks like I bit you.” Will tilts his head to get a better look. All Mike can do is stare at him. His fluffy hair at the front, clumped pieces at the back where he’d slid his fingers in a mere few minutes before. His pretty green eyes that look hazel or even brown in this light, the dark circles he gets when he drinks framing them like intricate paintings. A satisfied, bloody smile.
Mike isn’t satisfied. He swallows thickly, choking down the words 'don’t you want more?'
Or: Will dresses as a vampire for a college halloween party, but Mike thinks his costume isn’t bloody enough. Will lets him fix it. Mike goes into a crisis.
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i am once again reinventing the wheel by anonymousAlchemist, argonautix
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
17 Mar 2025
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It takes a few more loops to learn the right way to go about things. But death is a swift teacher, and oh, darling, do you learn. You memorize speeches, you memorize character quirks. You school your expressions. You modulate your voice. Eventually you play the companions well enough that they vote you leader as soon as they pitch the next campsite. But it’s not enough. Sometimes, staring up at the roof of your tent, you find yourself wondering how much of you is left when you die.
Are you really just meat? Or is it that you’re something else?
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OR: tav in this one: im BACK IN THE FUCKING BUILDING
in this world, there is no such thing as a resurrection scroll. sorry. suffer.Bookmarked by Nowaim
14 Oct 2025
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It's all led to this. Sometimes one has to walk through the fire to see what's on the other side, and in Astarion's case, the flames are close enough to be licking at his boots.
Here be lions.
[ACT 3!! Spoilers abound!]
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- Part 5 of Tale of the Star
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30 Sep 2025
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Astarion's eyes flick to Tav. And for the first time this evening, his gaze rests. Tav's face shows nothing, carefully composed, unreadable even to Astarion's cunning. It makes his gaze linger. Voluntarily or involuntarily, Astarion isn't certain. He doesn't care. What he cares about is the aura that Tav radiates. He has seen it many times over the years, in Cazador himself as well as in his master's enemies and allies; that promise of power. It's delicious.
Astarion sees a way out of two centuries of servitude and humiliation under Cazador Szarr in Tav, a fellow victim of the mind flayers' abduction.
His next steps are instinctive. Manipulation is what he knows, what he's good at, what his master kept him around for.
His plan works—until Astarion realizes that Tav might be more than he bargained for.
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Allies with benefits turns into a sizzling slow burn. Our two idiots get to know each other by sharing good but mostly bad memories, fooling around, and making matters complicated.
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24 Sep 2025