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[Fic] This Lethal Light Falls Softly [1/1] - Complete
Rating: E
Characters/Pairings: Astarion/Tav
Word Count: 13k
Summary: Tav's visit to Avernus was supposed to last a few hours, no more. Now, a full week later, she's finally made her way home, and not even the extraordinary, magical gift she brings with her is enough to make Astarion less blazingly furious. Domesticity doesn't come easy when you've spent a lifetime just trying not to die. (Again.)
Set about a month post-game.
Notes: Tremendous thanks, again, to @thievinghippo for her wonderful beta.
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“Astarion,” Tav said, and he nearly broke her nose jolting up from a sound trance.
“You’re back,” he said stupidly, because she was, and then all the anger of the last week came roaring up so suddenly his vision went white. His hands clenched around the blankets; his chest blazed hot as Karlach had ever managed in her worst rages. “Excellent. Now I can tell you to your face that I never want to see you again. I’m leaving you now forever—goodbye.”
“You can’t leave, it’s ten in the morning.”
“Then I will sit here in furious silence until dusk, and then I’ll leave.” He threw back the covers and stalked from the bed without looking at her. She let him pass in the curtain-drawn dimness of this inn’s upper-story room, let him snatch up his shirt from the dresser and yank it over his head. He gripped the sides of the bureau a moment, trying to scrape together some nominal poise; when that utterly failed he whirled to glare at her. “Honestly—how dare you come back? A few hours, you said. A few hours—and in you walk in a week later, blithe as a lark, no knock and no note and it’s ten in the morning, Astarion.” So much for sangfroid. He took two long steps, gripped her shoulders and shook her. “Where have you been?”
She blinked up at him like a particularly dim owl. “A week?”
“Yes, dear,” he hissed through his teeth. “A week.”
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Links: FF.net, AO3
#astarion#tav#tavstarion#baldur's gate 3#i really made myself laugh writing this so i hope you enjoy it!#quark writes
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Au where Julian is a child of divorce
#disabled artist gnaws on disabled charcaters like a dog with a bone#ive been thinking about this all day guys how has nobody drawn this yet#hes a full time ambulatory wheelchair user around the station and uses crutches when on away missions that arent like just on the defiant#star trek ds9#myart#deep space nine#julian bashir#disabled julian bashir#yes hes in the exact same doctor possition btw#i should draw julian and jadzia with their t swag btw#and tgirl jadzia and quark#im a tgirl quark truther#and tgirl odo but shes tgirl in a different way#sorry off topic disabled julian swag#BTW if any wheelchair users have tips for drawing or writing (writing for drawing) charcaters using wheelchairs pls lmk!!!!!#or if you have critique or sugestions cause im only familier w canes an crutches feom the most part
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So on the topic of Bar Association: we saw that Worf crossed the picket line and O'Brien and Bashir didn't, and I assume Sisko also didn't because of what his orders were for Odo, but what about the rest of the DS9 main cast? Who crossed vs. who supported the strike?
I feel like all the Federation characters except for Worf honored the picket lines. Odo wouldn't have if left to his own devices because he can be a bit of a fascist, tbh. Nog would never have stabbed his dad in the back by crossing.
That leaves Kira. I think, being a rebel at heart, she'd never cross a picket line. If things had continued after Kira got back to the station, she might've even been tempted to do... other things to encourage Quark to fold. Things involving fire.
#ask me anything#tv writing#ask me stuff#ds9#star trek ds9#star trek#deep space nine#star trek deep space nine#deep space 9#star trek deep space 9#the bar assocation#bar association#picket lines#Rom#Quark
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#im fuckin loving watching rom become a fully realized character#its fuckin crazy how ds9 writes ferengi episodes#they are always so fucking fun to watch and genuinly funny in their ridiculiousness#ridiculouisness#ridicuk#eh fuck it#ds9#deep space nine#quark#rom#sir i protest i am not a merry man
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Someone needs to make an alignment chart STAT
This is so different from my usual posts but it's keeping me up at night
These pairs belong on four corners of an alignment chart but I can't figure it out please someone help me
I will love you forever if you do this for me
#not writing#lego batman#batman#joker#dc#odo#quark#star trek deep space 9#star trek ds9#quodo#odo ds9#quark ds9#q star trek#star trek q#captain picard#jean luc picard#qcard#perry the platypus#heinz doofenshmirtz#pnf#phineas and ferb#perryshmirtz
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i'm learnin' how to draw ferengi >:}
#quark#quark ds9#star trek ds9#ds9#ferengi#alien#i wanted to make him look more alien#still might tweak it a bit#came up with so many head canons while doing this#Q is backwards because that's how this idiot writes his name lol#this is my first time in my life i've drawn star trek fan art#which is a shame with how much star trek i've seen lol
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I'm a Kai Winn apologist but not because I think she's a good person. She's a compelling tragic character
#Winn is a pawn of the prophets#they purposefully did not talk to her#even quark has an orb experience#but the Kai doesn't get one word#she is holding onto her faith by a string and the wormhole aliens put her in that position for their own gain#the prophets are like lol snip snip bitch#they put her through hell because they needed her to bring the reckoning with the pah wraiths#she's ambitious and calculating yeah but she also lived through the worst of the occupation#plenty of people come out of trauma with negative attributes#it doesn't excuse her behavior but maybe it explains some of it#she really does just want what's best for Bajor#through the worst of it she still believes#the prophets are more ambitious cold and calculating than Kai Winn is#her crisis of faith happens because she finally gets word from her gods that she has been loyal to all this time#and it ends up being the pah wraiths and she still struggles to turn to their side#she was written as a grating character and they write her so well#star trek deep space nine#before ds9 goes off my radar for 3 months#Kai Winn#meta#I could have written that as a cohesive post and not a tag essay...
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Currently in the process of retouching my old Quodo art, just to make them better for posting. He's some old doodles in the meantime though!
*"Odooo! Thank Blessed Exchequer!"
Also theres more Mosquodo/Odosquito to come, you guys are hilarious for those tags
#i think about how many times Odo left the station#almost dies or gets traumatized#and comes back to Quark#traditional art#art#ds9 fanart#odo ds9#quark ds9#Someone smart who can write Star Trek dialouge give me Quodo scenes to draw I never know what to fo with their speech bubbles
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Love it when there's a perfectly ordinary m/f couple and then comes along a horny little slutman and they just invite him into their marriage
#o'brien polycule#and like it IS about them that's why it's on the star trek blog. but also#beetlelands#originally i was gonna phrase this post slightly differently but then i realised calling julian a 'freak' was. probably not good?#so i replaced it with 'slutman'#original posts fresh from quark's pussy#Edit: if you think one thing about these tags used to be different. you're right. i watched The episode so i fixed it. i hadn't yet when#writing the original tag. and now i have the sads
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so i am fully aware that 99% of my followers are here for aurora stuff but if youve followed me long enough you know i used to be into the musical be more chill! and recently i started writing an old fic WIP i did when i was 16 because i was just having fun aaaaand then i continued to write 30k words over the course of a few weeks.
anyway if you like bmc and wanna read a canon divergence fic in which jeremy dates dustin kropp instead of brooke lohst and both of them are weird and fucked up about it you can read that here! everything past chapter 3 was written very recently. live in cringe
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[Fic] We Do Not Take Moonlight for Granted [1/1] - Complete
Rating: G
Characters/Pairings: Astarion/Tav
Word Count: 10.5k
Summary: Tav dies in the House of Grief, and Shar has no interest in letting her go. If Astarion is to have any hope of ever bringing her back, he'll need something a lot stronger than a handful of scrolls and third-level spells.
Or: the gang goes through a Critical-Role-style resurrection ritual.
Notes: For @compels, who suggested the idea. Again, my endless gratitude to @thievinghippo for the beta.
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Astarion was, by every conceivable and inconceivable metric, annoyed.
He was hot. He was sticky. He was covered in goo and ichor and the corrupted, inedible blood of a dozen Sharran priests, and he would have happily maimed a man for a very hot bath. Even worse, none of their party seemed willing to listen to his voluble complaints. Karlach was lying on her back in the middle of the stone floor, breathing hard, bits of magical darkness still clinging to her horns; Shadowheart was talking very tearfully with the thin, disheveled remnants of her parents up the altar stairs. Tav was nowhere to be seen.
He went to stand over Karlach’s head, hands on his hips, and tried to ignore the way his fingers slipped and slid on his filthy armor. “Are you quite finished?” he asked, restraining himself to bare petulance. “Any interest in carrying those living ghosts out of here so we could return to camp?”
Karlach blew a bit of blood-matted hair from her face and looked up at him. “Come on, Astarion, give her a minute. She’s had her whole world turned upside down in a few hours. I’m sure you can find a way to entertain yourself until they’re ready.”
“Given the absence of any living soul here to fight, bite, or delight—” he waved an expressive hand at the bodies arrayed around them “—how would you suggest I go about such a thing?”
“You’re a bright young vampire,” Karlach said, and closed her eyes, folding her hands over her stomach in a picture of perfect—if steaming—patience. “You’ll figure something out.”
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Links: FF.net, AO3
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she is writing a poem about flowers to send to quark 💖
Quark reading said poem about flowers:
#art#ask#quark#He would definitely write a small little poem or letter back.#Quark is the type of person to treasure every written letter/poem/etc he gets - and he appreciates it a lot when omnics write to him.#Most omnics he's met kind of feel tense around him if they know he's worked for Omnica (other than the height thing lmao)
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so like was quark actually into pel before he found out she was a girl, cause from what I can tell he definitely was.
if so, great bisexual rep for me ♥️
I mean... it's entirely possible.
#ds9#star trek deep space nine#star trek ds9#star trek deep space 9#deep space 9#deep space nine#tvwriting#tv writing#ask me stuff#ask me anything#emphasis on the anything I guess#quark#star trek#pel#quel
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I don't know how to make gifs, but I've just discovered that you can take screenshots from netflix if you use firefox lol and I tested it taking some prints of a ds9 episode that is great all alone but that also has a quodo moment that just makes me insane, The Circle s02e02.
I mean, things aren't looking good and being at the station is unsafe, of couse Quark being the self centered little shit he is would want to leave.
What amazes me is that he comes to Odo, his supposedly nemeses, the person he oh so hates, to run away too 😭
I know the purpose of the scene is for Quark to reveal what he knows about the Cardassian influence in the Circle, but still.
He wanted to know if Odo was aware of the seriousness of the situation and he cared if Odo was going to be okay 🥺
#don't look at me#I'm itching to write fanfic for them#but i don't have time yet 😭#quodo#quark ds9#odo ds9
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Virtue's Last Record: Truancy
Would Quark have been happier living in the past?
Title from the Evergate OST
CWs: None
AO3
Grandpa showed Quark how to read and write. Starting when he was six, with a little bit of practice every week, it took almost four years for Quark to be any good at it. And that was mostly because Grandpa got frustrated.
“That’s a B, not a D!”
“What are you saying? Have you ever heard someone make that sound while speaking English?”
“God, why are you so –”
He would stop himself and go mutter in his chair for a long time, a balled fist pressed against his forehead. Then, he would grab a bottle of alcohol from the shelf. When Quark went over to apologize for being so stupid, Grandpa would shake his head.
“I should be the one saying sorry, buddy,” he said once. “I don’t know how to do this. I never studied how to work with kids.”
“That’s something you have to study for?” Quark said, tilting his head in confusion.
Grandpa nodded. “Back in my day, there were experts in this kind of thing. Teachers. It was their entire job to just sit with kids in a room all day and show them how to do things, because they knew how kids worked better than anybody.”
Quark’s eyes widened. “And that’s what the kids would do? Sit in a room and learn how to read and write?”
“Not just that,” said Grandpa. “They’d learn about science, history, math – you know how to add and subtract, but there’s so much more to it that I can’t even remember. We’d get time to run around in PE, and in some grades we even learned how to take care of animals.” Grandpa’s look turned wistful. Quark knew that meant he was thinking about Miss Akane. “School was where we socialized. It was where we met most of our friends.”
“And that’s why I don’t have any!”
Grandpa snapped back to attention in shock. “No, Quark, that’s not…” He stumbled over his words as he tried to reassure him, like he thought Quark was upset.
He wasn’t, though. He’d just come up with an amazing idea. Since they didn’t have these “teachers,” he was probably the only kid in the neighborhood who actually knew how to read and write at all. He could show off to the others and they’d be so impressed that they’d have to be his friend.
The next day, he scribbled out a note to Alton. The other boy received it and turned up his nose.
“I can read this, you know. My mother taught me. Your handwriting is terrible.” He laughed in Quark’s face and bounded off to play with his other cronies.
Slightly bruised but used to it, Quark came home frowning. That worried Grandpa more than it usually did, and when Quark explained what happened, he got angry. Before, Quark might have retreated and cried and started apologizing. But recently, he’d figured out that Grandpa had two kinds of anger. When he was mad at Quark, he would never clench his fists or storm off to get a drink. Those things meant that Grandpa was mad at himself.
What Quark hadn’t figured out was what he was supposed to do in these moments. Now, he just sat there at the table, smoothing out and recrumpling the note that Alton had thrown back in his face. He waited, until Grandpa marched back over to him.
“School was awful, Quark,” he said determinedly. “There were friends there, but there were just as many bullies like Alton. Maybe more. The days were long and boring, and most of what they taught us ended up being useless. And I thought it was bad in Japan. If you were born here, in America… Quark, you can’t even imagine the bullet you dodged.”
Quark frowned and knit his eyebrows. “Was it really that bad for you, Grandpa?”
“I shouldn’t have told you all that stuff in the first place,” Grandpa muttered. Quark wasn’t sure if he even wanted him to hear. “I don’t want you to feel like you missed out on life before. You might start to think that this world isn’t worth living in, and…” He collapsed into the chair next to Quark, a fist to his forehead. Quark wanted to reach out and grab his hand, but he hesitated.
“Are you going to stop teaching me, then?” he said instead. He tried to hide his disappointment, but from the concern on Grandpa’s face, it didn’t seem like he did a good job.
“You don’t really want me to…?”
“Grandpa, you know so much stuff that I don’t know,” said Quark shyly. “I know you didn’t study to teach kids, but I really liked that you were sharing that stuff with me.” He worried that maybe he was saying this selfishly. Maybe all he really wanted was to keep up with Alton and his mother so he wouldn’t feel stupid in front of them again. He reassured himself that he was telling the truth.
Grandpa laughed. It was a sad sort of laugh. “Dammit,” he said. “I can’t help it if you’re so curious.”
Quark worried again that he had done something wrong, but then Grandpa put an affectionate hand on the top of his head. It felt like a promise.
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dude… why did rules of acquisition go so hard with pel’s love story with quark??? that shit was beautiful and gut wrenching… and quark was so relieved his heterosexuality remained intact (as if)
in all seriousness though, really good, i love the ferengi society centered episodes, their writing fascinates me for so many different reasons that i’ve gotta write about sometime
#something about love in a hostile society#something about queer and feminine repression#the ferengi as a concept are flawed#because the homogenous evil aliens trope has to go and star trek is Very guilty of it#stop the lazy writing. it almost always leans on harmful real life stereotypes. and it’s just boring#but i do think ds9 did a better job at fleshing them out though definitely was not perfect#the unchallenged narrative that they’re just inherently greedy is still strong#and that’s. mmmmmgghh. disturbing implications there when star trek always uses its aliens as irl allegories…#fuck it bro i gotta write an essay#star trek#ds9#quark#rules of acquisition#ferengi#rainspeak
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