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Escape the Silver Sun by TheDorkyMagician
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
06 Jul 2026
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Ten months after the defeat of the Netherbrain, a normal day for three mind flayers across Faerun—Omeluum, the Emperor, and Tav—is interrupted by a set of kidnappings. While Tav storms into the Underdark to search for the captives, the Emperor must join forces with unlikely allies to try to escape, none of whom is less excited to work with him than Tav's wily grandfather. All the while, a dangerous new illithid enemy bides its time, waiting for Tav to fly into a trap so it can steal her power and doom the world.
This story is one part jailbreak, one part dealing with loss present and past, one part not seeing eye-to-eye with your "in-laws," one part fighting (or befriending?) lesser known creatures from D&D's illithid lore, one part affirming the power and meaning of relationships and community, and all parts kick-ass action. One doesn't take the friends and loved ones of a D&D videogame protagonist without a fight.
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05 Jul 2026
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Of Sailors and Sirens by Tavylia_Sin for Calibri
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games)
24 Jun 2026
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A crossover story that finds Scylla, famed Siren from Oceanus, at a loss once the Lady stops coming to see her shows. Her search leads her to a very unexpected place - a strange new land, and a captain with a squid-like face...
Meanwhile, the Emperor has taken to the sea once more, leaving his beloved city behind. There's little he can do, especially with the fear of illithids still far too prevalent for the citizens to ever accept one amongst their number, let alone amongst the heroes that defeated the Absolute.
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- English
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- 17,272
- Chapters:
- 7/7
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29 Jun 2026
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Ketheric and Orin have an arrangement. She pretends to be his wife, and then she gets to have... what Orin thinks of as fun.
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- English
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- 1,274
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- 1/1
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16 May 2026
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Baldur’s Gate III and the Queer Politics of Monstrosity by LittleMonday
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
11 Apr 2026
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Would you become a monster if it would save the world? This is the central conflict of Baldur’s Gate 3, a three-act epic fantasy that continues the story of the critically acclaimed series, bringing a new threat to the city of Baldur’s Gate in the form of an illithid invasion. We, the player character, find ourselves infected with an illithid parasite and must unravel the source of the parasite’s uniqueness, and its connection to the rising Cult of the Absolute before we, too, are transformed.
While an epic fantasy in scope, our infection brings us into intimate proximity with the monstrous in a relationship best described as Gothic. But what exactly is the monstrous in a setting with both high fantasy and Lovecraftian creatures? And why is it so queer? To answer this, we need to frame our understanding of the monstrous through one of the most enduring monsters in literature and media: that of Frankenstein’s Creation. Scientific experimentation, body horror, paranoia, and the Gothic all merge in Shelley’s enigmatic monster. Unraveling the seams of this Creation, both its horror and humanity, will serve as the foundation to help us piece together the nature of the monstrous in Baldur’s Gate 3.
So, what is a monster?Bookmarked by Calibri
11 Apr 2026
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Archive of illustrations/sketches/comics.
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- Part 3 of Deicide
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10 Apr 2026