Blackprose



Recent works

Recent series

  1. Words:
    96,337
    Works:
    2
    Bookmarks:
    2
  2. Words:
    76,639
    Works:
    2
    Bookmarks:
    3

Recent bookmarks

  1. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    Meditation is not sleep, and reverie is not quite dreaming. Fever can shunt humans into a horrible half-sleep. Elves, instead, get one foot caught in memory.

    Memory can be unkind.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    4,309
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    57
    Kudos:
    584
    Bookmarks:
    128
    Hits:
    2,599

    07 Mar 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 50

    Tags
    Summary

    “Darling, don’t be daft, you know what’s happening.” He pulled his jerkin and undershirt off over his head in one single movement. “I reckon it’s the mushrooms, I don’t recognize them, but they must be used to brew love potions.” He started working on his trousers under Wyll’s heavy, hot gaze.

    “That’s…” Wyll cursed under his breath. “What do we do now?”

    He couldn’t be that clueless. Astarion glared at him. “What else? We fuck about it."
    ---
    Astarion gets everything he wants in the worst possible way...or so it seems.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    7,604
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    25
    Kudos:
    279
    Bookmarks:
    50
    Hits:
    1,807

    01 Mar 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 62

    Tags
    Summary

    Wyll Ravenguard is familiar with monsters. Monsters give him purpose: something to fight, a reason to keep moving forward, to avoid looking over his shoulder at the city and the home that he will never be welcome in again.

    Then, he leaves Avernus with a mindflayer’s tadpole writhing through his brain. Then, he learns that the fiend he’d sworn to kill is an innocent tiefling. Then, his own personal devil tears the flesh from his bones and warps his body permanently, beyond his recognition.

    Then, he wakes up in the calm of an otherwise quiet night to a vampire spawn’s teeth in his neck.

    (Or: Wyll Ravenguard reshapes his definition of monsters. And maybe falls in love.)

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    11,979
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    42
    Kudos:
    299
    Bookmarks:
    62
    Hits:
    1,451

    25 Feb 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 62

    Tags
    Summary

    This isn't the first dance they've shared – no, that was beside a campfire, the only music the tinkling chimes of a music box to accompany them.

    It isn't the second – that was at the grand affair held just after they'd saved Baldur's Gate, the eyes of what felt like half the city upon them.

    There have been others, after those: at a Midwinter feast when Astarion had made his way back to visit, and at a tavern in the Lower City, serenaded by a particularly talented fiddler, and in the quiet closeness of Gale's tower, when they'd stolen a moment alone during the handful of days they'd gone to call on him.

    It's different every time; it's entrancing every time.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    5,994
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    36
    Kudos:
    385
    Bookmarks:
    62
    Hits:
    1,720

    15 Feb 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 71

    Tags
    Summary

    Astarion interrupts him, waving off the explanation. "About the horns, darling. The eyes. The whole look."

    Wyll feels his brows drawing down – can't quite keep the scowl from creeping onto his features. Since they've begun traveling together, Astarion has grown on him, but the man has a wicked tongue and a penchant to dig needled barbs in where they'll sting the most. They're bearable, for the most part – amusing even, when Astarion is at his best, skewering any unfortunate ne'er-do-well who dares to stumble into the path of those cutting words.

    But there's a time and a place, Wyll finds, and this is neither.

    "I scarcely need help drawing more attention," Wyll says, rather more bitter than he intends.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    1,884
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    81
    Kudos:
    1,103
    Bookmarks:
    71
    Hits:
    4,764

    06 Feb 2024