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Mina arrives in Stardew Valley with Zuzu City dust in her soles and a letter folded too many times. The farm is overgrown. The town watches with the kind of caution that comes from knowing how things fall apart. And Sebastian—quiet, sharp-edged, half-shadow—barely looks up when she passes.
But something about the valley holds. Maybe it’s the soil under her nails. Maybe it’s the way the stars sit heavier here. Maybe it’s the old tractor out back that everyone talks about like it’s a ghost with unfinished business.
She digs—into earth, into silence, into the space her grandfather left behind. The tractor is more than rust and ruin. It’s memory. It’s legacy. It’s the weight of something that refuses to be forgotten. When she asks for help, it sparks a storm she didn’t see coming—and wasn’t ready for.
Still, the valley doesn’t let people stay strangers for long.
Sashimi left on a dock. A conversation that doesn’t happen. A pain that lingers longer than it should. Somewhere between all of it, something shifts. Slowly. Unevenly. With splinters.
As the seasons turn, so do they—weathered by guilt and kindness, by mistakes and moments. The past—like the valley—never stays buried.
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Sebastian wakes up early and decides to make coffee for him and the farmer, after a long and eventful night.
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Knightfall | Sebastian Sallow by Striderwitch
Fandoms: Hogwarts Legacy (Video Game), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
02 Dec 2025
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After two years in Azkaban, Sebastian Sallow returns to start his seventh year at Hogwarts quieter, colder, and determined to keep his distance from everyone. Especially Valeria Velkan—the bright girl he knew from fifth year who still believes in fairytales and happy endings. She longs for a knight to save her and is convinced she’s found one in Sebastian. Yet knights save people, and Sebastian only knows how to destroy.
Grumpy x Sunshine
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12 Apr 2026
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In The Silence Where Hope Waits by SorchaTaylyl
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
25 Jun 2026
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"The Vampire Ascendant and the Chosen of Bhaal. I can't imagine a more powerful—or more terrifying—pair in all of Faerûn.”Astarion finds Dagne—but the woman waiting for him isn't the one he lost. To save her, he'll have to face a darkness neither of them can escape alone.
NOW IN ACT III
Dagne (The Dark Urge) wakes with no past—only a parasite in her skull and a voice urging her toward blood and ruin.
With every breath, the compulsion to kill threatens to break her, but she fights with a desperate hope that she can be saved. From the tadpole. From the forces that hunt her. And from the monster she fears she is destined to be.
My take on the BG3 story featuring a Dark Urge protagonist and an Astarion romance. A blend of in-game events, mixed with original content, and character-driven development for everyone in the party!
Not interested in commissions
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30 Mar 2026
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"...What you need is a friend..."
Baldur's Gate is rebuilding, the companions are drifting back to their own lives, and Astarion is left with a victory he can't stand in the sunlight to enjoy. Elowen chooses not to move on. Instead, she walks the road with him as another traveling companion, sharing tents, watch shifts, and late-night honesty.
What follows isn't a grand prophetic quest, but a quieter, stubborn one: Elowen begins chasing half-whispers and forgotten lore about why the sun burns a vampire spawn who refused ascension. Ruins, odd priests, strange books, wrong questions in the wrong temples—little threads she calls "research" and he calls "madness," even as he continues to follow her lead.
Afterdawn is the stretch of road where nothing huge seems to happen from the outside: campfires, small jobs, detours, close calls, and two people circling something they have no words for yet. Underneath, Elowen is pulling on something old and bright and dangerous.
Eventually the thread catches and by the end, the road looks nothing like it did at the start.
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- Part 1 of the after
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24 Mar 2026
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
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