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foolish and joyful and sweet by clayre
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins
02 Jul 2020
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The Warden’s jaw was tight with something barely concealed, not unlike fury, and her body was taut like a bowstring, arrow nocked, and he suddenly felt like the archery boss in front of her. Her aim was as true now as it always was, and it cut him deeply when she said, “Of course you don’t. You want to hide from it, like you hide from all your responsibility.” He felt his mouth part in surprise, and he could see a flash of something in her eyes, like she knew she’d gone too far and she regretted it, but she closed off again a heartbeat later, brows furrowed low and her eyes alight with the look of a soldier about to deliver the killing blow ─ but in the end, she couldn’t look at him, and she focused her scrutiny on the fire. “One of us has to face it.”
The Warden and Alistair discuss the aftermath of Morrigan's dark ritual, and the aftermath of becoming the Warden.
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- Part 2 of picture it, soft
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11 Jun 2026
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The Fortress of Highever by howlsmovinglibrary
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening, Dragon Age (Video Games)
12 Jan 2021
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Ismene Cousland knows that the only way Alistair can win the throne is with her help. But after finally escaping the confines of her noblewoman’s life, is marrying him to guarantee his success at the Landsmeet a sacrifice she’s willing to make?
Particularly when she knows that, no matter how she feels, their union will never be anything more than a marriage of political convenience.
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Arranged marriage AU, slight canon divergence, an angry Cousland with extreme first world problems.
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08 Jun 2026
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Ruin the Courtship by badtooth
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
04 Mar 2026
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“Well then?” There’s a wry smile on her face. Link wonders if it doesn’t seem a little forced. “Aren’t you going to ask me if I know any nice girls?”
You're a nice girl, he wants to say.
Except she isn’t.
Because Zelda isn’t nice.
She’s perfect.
Suitors arrive in Hyrule for the chance to claim Zelda’s hand in marriage, much to the chagrin of the Princess and her chosen knight.
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14 May 2026
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In the quiet after the Netherbrain’s fall, The Dark Urge turns from saving the city to salvaging what she can of herself. She razes her father’s bloody temple, buries a man who was more tyrant than lover, and tries to lay old ghosts to rest – Bhaalspawn, Chosen, and would‑be gods alike.
When Gale prepares to depart for Waterdeep, his hard‑won freedom from divine expectations throws Mirin’s own future into stark relief. Between promises of an open door, the pull of the open road, and the stubborn weight of a past steeped in murder and prophecy, Mirin has to decide what it means to live after surviving the gods’ designs.
Post‑game epilogue featuring Mirin, Gale, Astarion, and the others as they navigate grief, gentleness, and the terrifying possibility of an ordinary life.
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- Part 2 of Root & Scroll
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18 Apr 2026
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Gale returns to Waterdeep, to the woman he barely knows but has been betrothed to for two decades, leaving behind a heartbroken Tav in Baldur's Gate.
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The parchment is expensive. Tav runs her fingertips over the wax seal and hesitates; she knows what this is. She is not surprised that it is happening, she is, however, surprised at being included in some way. Perhaps, she allows herself, she had hoped it wouldn't be so soon. (She has already put to bed the part of herself that had hoped it would not happen at all.) Gale had, after all, been very clear - and devastatingly gentle - in his explanation.
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09 Apr 2026