noodlefrog

a cartoon frog made of pasta with a farfalle bowtie on a green background



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  3. Summary

    A Dark Urge/Astarion series featuring Tav, a ranger Durge who is interested in mitigating the risk of the Urge taking him over any way he can, even if some of those methods are not necessarily safe or sane. At current time of writing, he and Astarion are stumbling into a friends-with-benefits situation where one of the benefits is that it's harder to murder people in your sleep when you're experiencing mild-to-moderate blood loss.

    Tone-wise, expect slice of life/slow-burn pacing and camp shenanigans, with plenty of The Power of Friendship to go around and a sprinkling of self-destructive behavior and some terrible coping strategies for spice. I put more specific content notes in the chapters that need extra explanation.

    The first 2 stories are rated M for violence and discussion of past abuse. Later stories will mostly be rated E for explicit sexual content. Tav is transmasc, but that's less of a plot point and more of an anatomy situation and an excuse for me to play around with themes of identity, choice, and the horror of being in a body that doesn't always listen to you.

    Each work can be read as a standalone piece without needing to read prior stories, but they do all fit together as one story.

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  1. Rec 33

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    Astarion has found a new lease on life, all thanks to the benevolence of the Absolute. No, living in a tower filled with cultists and having to deal with superior officers who think they can order him around is not exactly his idea of paradise, but anything is heaven compared to life under Cazador. He even gets his own room all to himself.

    At least, until one Wyll Ravengard, newest member of the Absolute's ranks, is assigned to his room.

    (In which Astarion and Wyll are swept up by the cult before the intervention of a certain magical artifact.)

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    13 May 2026

  2. Rec 14

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    In which Wyll balances daddy issues, an attraction to Halsin, and the fickle whims of his many patrons.

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    30 Apr 2026

  3. Rec 10

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    Too easy, to imagine it like she’s really seen it a hundred times before, like it’s familiar to her as breathing, like there’s room for her to slip in. Like it’s anything more than a well-worn fantasy as easy to slip into as a favorite pair of shoes, perfectly broken in.

    She shuts her eyes and it unfurls before her in her mind’s eye, nearly close enough to reach out and touch.

    In which Wyll and Astarion accompany Karlach to Avernus, and she can't help wanting more.

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    24 Apr 2026

  4. Rec 22

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    Astarion did not have much in him to appreciate Cazador’s death when it happened.

    For one thing, reality had dissolved a while back, and the day Cazador died, it had only dissolved further. Those tadpole-infected weirdos showed up again. Astarion had been chased out of camp after, well, the blood drinking gone wrong incident. And from there, it had been a short trip to getting caught by that Gur. From there, to death. And from death, back to Cazador.

    Except, Cazador was now dead.

    A zombified Astarion survives and is re-recruited by the party.

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    10 Mar 2026

  5. Rec 41

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    Wyll Ravengard is in love. Unfortunately, the man he loves is only interested in something casual, preferring to stay out of the blinding spotlight that is Wyll's life now that he's taken on the mantle of Grand Duke.
     

    Astarion is in love. Unfortunately, the man he's in love with is:
    1. The Grand Duke
    2. Unaware he's a vampire
    3. Going to get him killed if Cazador finds out

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    27 Feb 2026