#eventual magnulia

[anistarrose]

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(ask meme: send me a 📙 and i'll explain the plot of a fic i haven't written but still daydream about!)

okay, so. a very particular TAZ Balance AU idea, which is near and dear to me, is also one that I may never write, because it would just be such an undertaking — due, in part, to it kind of being told in non-chronological fashion.

it starts with Lucretia's pov, immediately post-Phandalin, welcoming a group of new recruits to the Bureau. however, two very important things are different from canon: Julia is alive and with the boys, and Magnus has a very energetic, very clearly magical dog familiar.

and like. Lucretia's thrilled to finally meet Julia, even if she can't show it; that's not the problem. the dog (I'm thinking like, a biiig reddish-brown St. Bernard) is a surprise, for sure (Lucretia can't believe she missed the years Magnus finally started learning magic!), and the situation totally going to warrant some new fencing around the edge of the moon, but the dog itself, technically, is still not the biggest problem.

the problem is that when Lucretia tells them about the Grand Relics and Red Robes, Magnus is like "but... surely not everyone who wears a red robe is a Red Robe, right?" and then, only then, does everything click together for Lucretia.

because long story short, this is a "Magnus and Barry made a warlock pact as during the Stolen Century as a joke, and (ironically) both forgot about it until Magnus accidentally summoned a familiar decades later in Raven's Roost" AU!

after the initial reveal, we get a series of flashbacks jumping back and forward in time, slowly fleshing out details of how much Magnus knows, how much Julia knows, and just the general vibes of their relationship with Barry, plus, eventually, their relationship with a Lucretia who needs their help to gather the Relics, but is paranoid about Barry's influence at basically all times to great comical effect lmao. highlights include:

Magnus manifesting magical powers and getting visited in a dream by a scary ghost, except the ghost's voice sounds like Literally Just Some Guy and he explains, seemingly honestly and kind of sheepishly, that he doesn't know how to undo the warlock pact because they made it For The Bit when they were slightly drunk

Magnus trusts the Red Robe because he doesn't want to lose his new puppy friend; Julia trusts the Red Robe because once they meet in person, she decides he's too anxious to be an effectual evil mastermind

Barry helps out the Raven's Roost rebellion, scaring Kalen so shitless that he doesn't even try to bomb the support pillars and that's why Julia lives

Magnus knows his patron sometimes goes unresponsive for months at a time, but doesn't know why, just that he always warns him in advace and it's never forever

when Phandalin comes along, Magnus knows Alive-Barry is familiar but he absolutely cannot place it, and Alive-Barry is equally as confused, and as unhelpful as humanly possible

the main focus of this AU is on Magnus and Barry as found family, and Julia and Barry as found family by proxy, with of course Magnulia running in parallel — but my absolute favorite underutilized dynamic (Lucretia and Barry oscillating between being serious archnemeses versus just being siblings with a hilarious petty rivalry) is baked into the core of the whole premise, too

idk about the details but I like the idea of Magnus getting in big trouble with Kravitz and, much like Merle, losing a hand or a limb or something — which Barry angsts about a little bit, convinced that it was all his fault for dragging Magnus into this, but it turns out Julia is a super competent artificer and Magnus winds up really loving the prosthesis she rigs up for him

Barry does not change the "show up and monologue ominously to the Reclaimers" strategy at all but there's a lot more goofy banter with Magnus sprinkled in now

Lucretia is constantly paranoid that Barry is spying on her through the eyes of a dog (except she's correct, he absolutely is)

OH and Magnus was asked by his patron to keep an eye out for the Umbra Staff, so he recognizes it when Taako finds it in the vault (he asks if Barry wants him to steal it, but Barry is weirdly insistent that no, it should stay with Taako)...

and I want to say that it's still not an immediate realization, but he does therefore give Barry a head start on figuring out that mystery, and once he tells Barry what Angus told him about that time it burnt "LUP" in the wall, it also becomes a Lup freed early AU :')

I guess lastly, and based off the "Undead Patron" warlock subclass, there's like a spectral red robe that appears around Magnus's shoulders whenever he's kicking ass

[staarblaster]

The Mystery at the edge of the Universe

“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Chapter One

It was a warm Autumn night and the smell of stale cigarette smoke lingered in the air but by the light of a lamp, one student was still awake.  A leather-bound book on his desk, filled with scrawled entries, he needed to calm down. He couldn’t prove what he was thinking so why was he so concerned? But yet everything was telling him he should be.

She would tell him that he shouldn’t be this stressed, but no offense to her. She didn’t know what he had found to make him this stressed, but he hated hiding things, but if he was right, he did not want to be right. It was just an old school legend, right? 

He sighed, his eyes darting over to the dark blue paper that was tucked underneath his leather journal. The school’s crest, an N and a W intersecting in unison, and smiled softly moving his pen to the first prompt. He had scribbled some ideas down for all three but the first one, the first one interested him.

Neverwinter Academy’s Practice Debate Topics

[X] Do personal demons lead to growth or can you make your growth?

[] Are private schools better than public schools?

[] Is the LGBT community forced upon our children?

He paused, scanning the brief three prompts he had chosen the first one in terms of a challenge for tryouts. The margins of the blue paper that advertised the event. He and Lucretia would have to talk about a strategy, while they were both co-captains they were also the star debaters of their school. But what would she say if he was investigating some pointless story? He sighed getting up from his seat. His legs, not quite asleep, gave some resistance but he casually began walking close towards his closet. He stared for a moment looking into the closet, not too surprised by its contents,  white-collared shirts, several pairs of denim jeans, and tucked away was his jersey from last season embossed on the right side underneath a small pocket, his nickname in silver embroidery floss B.Bluejeans.  Leave it to Magnus to give him the most memorable nickname freshman year and have it catch on like wildfire.

The school’s mascot, an owl embroidered on the sleeves. He sighed again, what was he doing? A drive would steady his nerves, probably. 

Before he left, he made sure to put on the varsity jacket, and made sure that he had his keys. The Camaro he owned was a decent one, vintage his father Gregor would say in an all too familiar overly enthusiastic voice, but as he exited his dorm grabbing the leatherbound book, for right now he didn’t want this book behind. 

Not until he at least talked to someone about his theory even if it did sound preposterous, he entered his Camaro and proceeded to drive off the campus, he knew it was past curfew, but he would be back soon.

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For an Autumn night, she never expected it to be so cold,  well to be fair she was soaking wet.

 Her blonde hair soaking wet, a leather jacket, semi-stiff because of the water that seeped into it, a band tee sticking to her chest. But the worst was her combat boots sloshing and filled with water, and her socks were soaked.

 Gods this was uncomfortable,  that was the last time she was going to go to a party (she would say for now) even if it was a nice distraction from her latest string of foster homes. 

But right now, she was slightly buzzed and walking down the familiar streets. She could hear the wind up against her back. Fuck it was only going the night had to get worse huh?

She ran a hand through her hair, 

“Okay, Lup... you’ve been in worse scrapes. Remember the Hammerheads... you can call Hurley and Sloane and the- ”

She started the statement and pulled out her phone. Waterlogged. Fuck.  She let out another sigh, okay, let’s think this through. She proceeded to walk across the street, not entirely paying attention you need to call someone, Hurley, Sloane, Carey... would Noelle be up? Probably. Could she guarantee that the weasel Lucas wouldn’t answer the phone? No, she couldn’t. But first, she would need to find a phone. 

As luck would have it, illuminated by the streetlights was a payphone across the street. As she approached to cross the street, a car zipped past her, its windows partially rolled down,

“HEY WATCH IT!���  she shouted angrily at the driver. 

She sighed before her eyes widened, the car slowing down next to her. Great thinking Lup. Next time keep your mouth shut. She stared at the navy blue Camaro. It was a nice car what could she say. It was certainly nicer than most of the cars in Neverwinter Highschool’s parking lot. But she couldn’t shake the feeling there was something off.

The driver turned to look at her, Lup’s teeth still chattering. But he had kind eyes, shielded by his glasses, he was wearing a dark blue varsity jacket. His brown hair was a bit scattered, he looked even worse than her but something told her he didn’t drink tonight so what had him so frazzled?

“Shit, um... Did I hit you?” he even sounded dorky. 

Lup shook her head, it wasn’t in a condescending way, but she wasn’t going to let him off the hook. 

“I-I...d-don’t suppose you have a phone.”

Her teeth chattered as she enunciated each syllable.

Classy. She looked desperate. Pleading for this probable Richie Rich to be her knight in shining armor.  

He took a moment pausing and a faint click was heard, unlocking the passenger side of the car.

“You should warm-up, and then you can use my phone. If that’s okay... you just looked really cold an- ”

Lup looked him over, she could trust him and his words seemed believable enough, plus his face was memorable enough that if he tried anything weird.  She entered the car and gave him a curt smile.

“Lup.” 

Her teeth chattering had slowed down a bit, and before he started the car again, he took off the varsity jacket extending it to her.

“I’m Barry...” 

She paused, reading the name on the coat, as she took off her coat and put his on.

“Bluejeans?” she chuckled reading the silver writing on the coat.

He smiled, before watching her buckle her seatbelt and turning to focus on the road.

“It’s kinda a nickname... It’s kinda embarrassing” he chuckled

She rolled her eyes but smiled anyway,  her eyes looking around the car, before looking at the glove compartment.

“So Bluejeans... what’s got you worried?”

He cocked his head to the side, his eyes were on the road but he noticed her going towards the glove compartment. Chances are if she read his journal, she’d think he was crazy.

“Worried? Did I seem that way?”

Lup gave him a seemingly sarcastic deadpan expression.

“I’ve seen calmer expressions on a tightrope walker.”

Barry sighed,

“You’d think I’m crazy...”

She looked at him, his kind eyes seemed serious,

“Try me..”

As Barry opened his mouth, a car engine revved behind them.

“I’m sorry what did you say?!”

Lup turned her head and noticed a set of headlights close behind them.

“Someone’s uh following us...” 

Barry nodded,

“Hold on!”

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He wouldn’t get away, not before they found out what he had written down in that journal. He had seen him scribbling away incessantly if he knew... no. Halwinter wasn’t that clever. Sure he had been aligned with some brilliant minds around the campus. But that journal, that journal had everything he needed to regain it. It wasn’t just a story. It was power, it could ascend them from what they were to what they could become. 

They said a small prayer under their breath as they collided with the car. Then time stood still. The cars were damaged, and the sound of the collision caused their ears to ring. It was fine, a mild inconvenience yes, but worth the reward.

Would he be forgiven?

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Lup groaned, still being covered by the blue letterman coat, touched her head in confusion. She was bleeding? In her other hand, however, was a leather-bound book. But where was Barry?

[nuckdewton]

Tribute piece to the adventure zone! This show has meant a lot to me over the six months and I really wanted to do a piece to show it Thank you Griffin for this amazing show!! (Please reblog!)

[grasslandgirl]

“Look at me–you’re safe.” with magnulia perhaps?? :0 maybe taakitz if you're Feelin It but honestly i thought it'd be perfect w mags n julia

matt i am ALWAYS feeling magnulia and i love that you know that about me xox

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He had him. That was all Julia could think.

Kalen had Magnus; and everything inside her was rioting. She clenched her hands, her blunt nails just long enough to dig into the meat of her palms, and she focused on that. The tiny, singular pain. She made her world narrow down to those eight sharp pinpricks on her body, blinded herself to everything but that grounding pain until she felt like she could breathe again. 

Rationally, Julia knew this was a possibility. It was always a possibility, whenever any of them snuck into Kalen’s mansion for reconnaissance. This wasn’t even Magnus’s first time; but it was the first time any of them had gotten caught. 

Julia opened her eyes, and Kayla, the lieutenant who had reported Magnus’s capture to her, was watching Julia closely, carefully. Julia forced herself to smile at the younger woman, even though it felt stretched and weak on her face. Kayla relaxed slightly and nodded. “Thank you for the update,” Julia said, realizing belatedly that she hadn’t yet responded to Kayla’s report. Kayla nodded again, and hesitated before placing her hand on Julia’s upper arm and squeezing gently. It wasn’t much, but it was something. 

When Kayla left, ducking out of the shop with her hood over her head and not looking back, Julia collapsed into a chair. She wanted to scream, wanted to cry, wanted to storm Kalen’s fortress as a one-woman army and destroy anything between her and Magnus. But she didn’t do any of those things, she couldn’t afford to. Getting Magnus out would take intricate planning, organization, and focus. And Julia didn’t have a second to waste.

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They were in, Julia and two other members of the revolution- an older half-elf man named Jonah, and a dwarven woman named Lysa that Julia had gone to school with. The two of them had on the uniforms of Kalen’s guard and were escorting Julia down to the dungeons where they suspected Magnus was being kept, under the pretenses that they had caught her loitering near Kalen’s manor. They were hoping that the surprise of Julia- a major leader of the revolution-’s arrest would be enough to distract any other guards they came across from the fact that she was being escorted by two guards that none of them would recognize. 

They had just made it to the dungeon entrance when someone called for them to halt. It was a tall, scragly old man with a cruel look in his eye, who scowled down at Julia for a moment before turning his glare on her supposed captors. “What’s going on here?” 

“We caught her outside the manor, sir, and arrested her for threatening the well-being of the Governor.” Jonah replies smoothly. “Given her her history in town, we thought she’d be better off in here.”

“History?” The guard echoes, scrutinizing Julia again. She felt his gaze rake up and down her body, and bit the inside of her cheek to keep from breaking open her cuffs and knocking the guard down. Magnus, she reminded herself, this is for Magnus. 

“This is Julia Waxmen,” Jonah responded, and the old guard’s eyebrows raise in recognition of her name. Julia bites down on the proud grin that threatens to bloom on her face. It wouldn’t do to see insubordinate. Especially not with her reputation.

“Oh,” the guard says, “I’ve heard about you, Miss Waxmen. Your little revolution’s gonna fail, you know that?” He said, leaning down to spit the words in her face. “The Governor’s gonna smash you all under his boot like the bugs you are, just you wait.” He straightened, and jerked his head towards the dungeons. “Take her on in,” he told Jonah and Lysa, “and make sure to throw her into one of the dirty ones.”

They nodded silently to the dungeon guard and shuffled her down the dark corridor. The dungeons were rank with the smell of sweat and rancid food. Lysa walked the perimeter of the cells, scanning for the one that held Magnus, eventually stopping and turning to nod at Julia and Jonah. She’d found him.

As the approached, Julia’s heart sped up as her mind raced with all the possibilities; what if he was gravely injured? What if their escape plan didn’t work? What if-

The screech of the metal door to the cell forced Julia out of her thoughts, and she squinted into the darkness of the cell. And oh- there he was. Curled up in the back corner, head turned away from the door. To anyone else, Magnus would have looked the picture perfect submissive inmate; hiding from the guards, covering his face, curled in on himself. But Julia knew him well enough to see his face, carefully angled to always keep an eye and an ear on the door, to see the tension in his shoulders and legs, ready to spring up at a moment’s notice. 

She let herself be carefully pushed into the cell, and glanced up to see Jonah firmly close the cell door. Lysa gave her a single, surrupticious nod before they both turned away and left her; sitting in a cell in Mad Governor Kalen’s dungeons. 

But she wasn’t alone, and she had a plan. 

Quietly, she crept towards Magus’s corner, hands outstretched, head down. He didn’t move until she was only a few feet away, and whispered, “Maggie?” 

Immediately, he unfroze and sat up straight, leaning forward and squinting to see her in the dim light. A single, heartwrenching beat passed, and then Julia heard him exhale, a rushed sound of shock and joy, and then he tackled her to the ground. 

His head was tucked securely in her shoulder, his face pressed against her neck, and she could feel his breathing, heavy and unsteady, against her collarbone. Instinctively, she wrapped her arms around him, taking comfort in the familiar expanse of his back. “Gods, Jules,” he whispered, and Julia heard, more than felt his tears. 

“I’ve got you, Mags,” She murmured, tucking his head under her chin and breathing in the scent of his hair. It was dirty, and smelled like mildew and old water and deep below that, the wood stain her father used in the shop. “You’re going to be ok,” she told him gently, and let him cry into her shoulder, let him fall apart for the first time since he was thrown in there. “Look at me-” She said once he’d quieted again, and guided his head up so she could look him in the eye, “you’re safe. I’ve got you, and we’re going to get out of here, ok? I’ve got a plan.” She ran her hand through his knotted, dirty hair and smiled. He was here, she was holding him, and they were going to be ok. “Do you trust me?”

Magnus smiled back, small and watery and tired, but a smile nonetheless, “Always, Jules.”

And then they got to business. 

send me a not-doing-so-good prompt and a pairing/ fandom!!

[charmandhex]

Master Post Part 3

So tumblr is a massive nuisance and apparently limits the number of links you can put in a post! So this is probably going to get a little recursive; this post will just deal with 

Tumblr Writing and The Bonds Between Us

So most of the ficlets I put up on tumblr do not have names, which is gonna make this more challenging, so we’ll see how it goes. The Bonds Between Us is an ao3 fic containing a number of canon compliant ficlets centered around the relationships between characters.

The aforementioned Blupjeans spinoff of Pas de Deux. You think enemies to lovers Taakitz is fun; wait until you see enemies to lovers but still very much enemies right now Blupjeans. 

Snow Day. Taako-centric Taakitz fluff with bonus adopted son Ango centered around... a snow day. It should be part of The Bonds Between Us, but apparently is not. I should remedy that.

A Day Off. Blupjeans post canon, just coming off a long day of Reaper shenanigans. It’s pretty fluffy and is in The Bonds Between Us.

What is Left Unsaid. Magnulia, definitely on the angsty side, but I at least think it ends on a happy note. Basically covers first meeting and beyond. Also in The Bonds Between Us; this is going to be a recurring theme.

Sculpture of Flame. SC era Blupjeans pre-Legato. Barry (POV) and Lup go after the Light and shit goes sideways, as it is wont to do. Basically prompted by me thinking Spell Sculpting is the best thing since Fireball. Ditto on The Bonds Between Us; I need an acronym at this point.

Questions and Answers. Ango-centric post canon fun! Basically, people are nosy and ask Angus all the questions, and Taako is basically adopting Angus now. Yes, TBBU.

Fox in the Henhouse. Hurloane! Surprise! Pre-pttm, based around a post (which I linked in a reblog; I don’t want to tag people and subject them to this laundry list.) Basically, Sloane shows up to Hurley’s office. I’m mean and this ends on a fairly angsty, yell-inducing note. TBBU.

The Little Things. Lup-centric fluff, post-canon, centered around her getting her body back. Yes, TBBU.

Takeout in the Astral Plane. Taako POV, about how much Taako loves Kravitz and Taako and Kravitz’s vacation to the Astral Plane. TBBU ficlet.

Scones and Song. Kravitz POV, about how much Kravitz loves Taako. Arguably the counterpart to Takeout in the Astral Plane. TBBU ficlet; are you even surprised at this point?

Cooking Quiche Lorraine. Ren time! Yay Ren! Featuring Ren at Taako’s show and a little bit of her venturing out afterward. There are some Paloma shenanigans, and fuck I forgot how much I love Paloma with a warhammer. TBBU ficlet.

Untitled Lucretia ficlet. Second person POV, centered around the moment she fed her journals to Fisher. It’s more experimental as far as my ficlets go and definitely not TBBU for that reason.

Late Night Research. More Blupjeans pining! Lup POV this time, and Lup finds Barry up sciencing in the middle of the night. TBBU ficlet.

Untitled Taakitz ficlet. This one was inspired from some art by herbgerblin (again, no tagging here, but the art is tagged in the ficlet). Kravitz gets called in the middle of the night, and Taako is groggy but supportive. This one should probably be a TBBU chapter too but isn’t.

Untitled twins ficlet. Going way, WAY back to when the twins were applying into the IPRE mission. Not TBBU, probably will be eventually when I remember to update it again.

Dogs on the Moon. Magnus rushes in! Magnus goes up to talk to Lucretia about a certain infamous policy. Yes, TBBU.

Untitled Lup and Umbra Staff ficlet. Just about how Lup might have come up with the concept for the Umbra Staff. Not a TBBU ficlet.

Pocket pudding fluid mechanics ficlet. Yeah, you read that right. I’m gonna teach you fuckers fluid mechanics whether you like it or not. Taako-centric, majorly sciencey, mildly angsty.

Untitled canon divergent AU part one. Taako inadvertently breaks Lup out of the Umbra Staff early!

Untitled canon divergent AU part two. Lup possesses her brother to start a family reunion! I’m tempted to continue this if there’s interest.

SURPRISE! It’s my one and only Graduation ficlet. Centered around the Firbolg, and it’s nostalgic but sad. Firbolgs live long lives and Druids... Druid.

Redundant master post link.

[avatarofthepining]

okay so i stumbled across this post of soulmate au’s and i started imagining taz:b couples in some of these situations. so... whoops here take them. (*disclaimer its just taakitz, blupjeans, and magnulia)

Something Written/Drawn

Names on both wrist, one soulmate other enemy, can’t tell which one is which.The IPRE all has different names, obvi, and they all have a set when they leave their homeworld. One of Lup’s wrists says “Greg Grimaldis” the other say Barry Bluejeans. Barry and Lup go through A LOT to keep their wrists hidden at first. When they leave everyone’s names fade (including Lup’s and Barry’s.) That first cycle they all only one: John. It’s there every cycle after that, always on the same wrist. Each new world they land on a new name appears. Eventually, Lup fades back into view on Barry’s wrist. Barry fades back into view on Lup’s. After the first Parley, Merle notices both of his wrists say John.

Each others’ last words (to one another). The first time “I love you Jules” slips from Magnus’ mouth he’s frozen with panic. He shrugs it off, though. Because he’s not going to stop telling his soulmate he loves her. Instead he says it every chance he gets thinking he still has his entire life with her. There’s no need to worry.

A timer for when the other dies. This gets hazy for Lup and Barry during TSC. There’s quite a few different timers, but then the “final” timer has the same time they both die. They’re both fairly confused until they’ve decided to become liches. It’s late at night and they just finalized the plan and “...oh. That makes sense” Taako’s is all kinds of fucked up. When they land in Faerun it says “-400 years”

Writing that says how old your soulmate will be when you meet. It takes a WHILE for Julia to become convinced Magnus is her soulmate bc the writing says 121, but Magnus is just 21 and a human???

Your soulmates first impression/thoughts about you is written on your body. Taako’s just says “What the fuck? I hate death criminals.” When Kravitz showed up things suddenly made much more sense. That’s why Taako was insistent about tentacling his dick.

Each day on your arm is a particular event your soulmate will face today. Julia continues to be confused about how he soulmate keeps dying but coming back.

Meter of how in danger your soulmate is. This is especially alarming for Julia and Kravitz for a while. The meter is always on max. Then, one day it drops to nothing. They’re perfectly fine. Then for Kravitz it waxes and wanes for a while but its still never dire.

Sharing

Soulmates share the same handwriting. Magnus and Julia don’t realize their soulmates for A WHILE. Stephen figures it out immediately when he ends up with order forms from both of them on his desk but can’t figure out who took what order.

You share your temperature with your soulmate. Taako is always a little cold and clammy and Kravitz is always a little warmer than most reapers

Everyone has life points/years left in their life, and people can give their soulmates their own life points/years if they’re lacking. Magnus tries to do this with Julia but Istus will not let him. Taako is SUPER confused as to why his just says “dead/infinite”

Taste the things your soulmate is eating/drinking. Kravitz gets SUPER gets super fucking tired of everything tasting like Key-lime Gogurt.

Restrictions

Under a curse until you meet your soulmate. After Taako meets Kravitz the Key-lime Gogurt curse is lifted

Compasses

You can only see the string of fate when you close your eyes. Julia and Kravitz’ both drift off into another plane. Julia makes jokes to her friends that there’s a god out there that’s in love with her. When the unbelievably hot stranger moves to town, she’s convinced a god fell in love with her. Kravitz visits all of the planes trying to find his soulmate but the red string always leads Somewhere else. He tries to get an answer from Istus who just shrugs and gives some cryptic answer about his soulmate being Out There and how he’ll Know when he meets him.

Each person has a spirit animal that can lead you to your soulmate. (this probably isn’t what they meant by this. sorry.) Julia and Kravitz frequently stumble upon bears and mongeese (respectively) that just sit and stare at the stars. They never try to lead them anywhere, just look at Julia or Kravitz then back out at the stars. After the IPRE end up in Faerun and their memories are wiped. The mongeese constantly try to lead Kravitz all over the continent. Then Taako ends up bouncing between the moon and Faerun and the mongeese start staring off into the sky again.

You can feel a tug from wherever your soulmate is. These may either be automatic, or have stronger tugs whenever your soulmate is in distress. Again, Julia and Krav feel pulls to the stars. It doesn’t even register with them at first, they think it’s just the desire to be somewhere else. Kravitz also frequently mistakes the pull for the Raven Queen calling him. When he meets the THB the first time, he really tries to convince himself it’s the tug if knowing they’re dangerous death criminals and NOT because one of them is his soulmate. Then Taako threatens to tentacle his dick and none of them are afraid of him and he has to admit defeat.

Hints

The first picture you and your soulmate are in will be sent to you on a birthday. Lup gets sent a picture of the Starblaster crew. She looks at everyone and immediately rules out the gnome and the dwarf. Sorry, just not her type. Taako’s there but this is supposed to be her romantic soulmate, not platonic She supposes it could be the one other girl, she looks smart, observant, pretty, but she looks so awkward. Beefy O’Burly in the back isn’t bad looking either, but honey bunch looks dumb as a rock. The lights are on but no one’s home there. Then there’s that Tom Arnold looking motherfucker and really? A white t-shirt and bluejeans? And a studded leather belt? No fucking way. She crumples up the picture and shoves it in a drawer

Your Soulmate

If you and your soulmate possess the same item, it’ll glow. Kravitz has had the same umbrella for 200 years, then one day in starts glowing. About 8 months later, he’s hunting down about 5 bounties in a necromancer’s lab and… Well fuck. That cute elf has a glowing umbrella too. Hopefully that’s just a coincidence.

Receive piece of cloth with soulmate’s scent. Lup gets a piece of denim and it vaguely smells like mint and lavender. Barry’s is a piece of red cloth smells like cinnamon and nutmeg and smoke. Julia’s is a piece of soft, purple cotton cloth and it smells like dogs and sweat (her friends think its gross, she’s in love with it). Magnus has a piece of red bandana and it smells like pinewood and varnish and sawdust. Taako’s is a black cloth and it smells like sage and fresh dirt. Kravitz’s s pastel blue w/ stars and it smells like herbs and fresh air and expensive perfume

You can sense when your soulmate is in distress.Magnus is in the middle of the carpentry showcase, about to present his chair when he gets a sudden pain in his chest. It takes his breath and almost knocks him off his feet. He tries to tell himself that everything will be okay, the feeling only lasted about 5 minutes. Julia was probably just worried about Stephen, or another little kid almost fell off the bridge. It’s fine… Everything’s okay… Right?

Your level of talent at a hobby is determined by how close you are with your soulmate. That’s why Barry and Lup were so great at the Legato Conservatory and Magnus was so great at carpentry on Faerun. Lup was Taako’s platonic soulmate and that’s why his cooking suffered when he lost her. Those macaroons he made after finding the umbrella were the best thing he’d made in ~10 years

[ohsweetflips]

hope i’m not tired of rebuilding; a modern taz balance AU

characters: the seven birds. eventually killian, carey, and other side characters will make an appearance. julia lives in this AU

relationships: eventual taakitz, side blupjeans and magnulia

content: modern AU, teenage found family to strangers to found family again, everyone is going to catch up and talk about things that need to be talked about

A/N: okay so this is an AU that i haven’t been able to stop thinking about, so i very much needed to write at least an introductory piece to it. bc i’m a busy college student, i don’t know if i have time for an actual chaptered fic but i do have some one-shot ideas so!!

Walking down the crowded Balance Avenue, the handles of two grocery bags in one hand and his cellphone pressed up against his ear with the other, Taako realized with a slight jolt in his stomach and a subtle eyebrow raise, hid behind his sunglasses, that the odd familiarity of his new life was that it was nearly a perfect recreation of his life from seven years ago.

Which, when one had worked incredibly hard to get away from that particular life for the past seven years, was quite a distressing feeling, which Taako aptly expressed by breathing out a huffed sigh through his nose.

--

Merle had thought that the kids being with Hekuba for the weekend would grant him some enjoyable time to himself but, rather unfortunately, he was realizing that adjusting to a life that didn’t revolve around chasing kids twenty-four seven was difficult after being stuck in years of domesticity.

Though, he’ll admit, he did think that the first weekend officially divorced would be… something interesting. He was young, leaving a marriage where there was never any love in the first place; wasn’t he supposed to, you know, be a free man roaming the town? Getting down in clubs? Living his life as if he hasn’t spent the past twenty-seven years letting other people govern it?

--

Magnus was glad that Hammer & Tongs was finally starting to expand out of Raven’s Roost; he had been telling Stephen for years that the business he crafted with his bare hands deserved to be seen by people outside of their town. Of course, though, Magnus wasn’t surprised at all when it took Julia saying something to convince him.

Magnus couldn’t blame him, really. He trusted everything Julia said. She was the love of his life, and had yet to lead him astray in even simple things like where they got their take-out from. Stephen teased Magnus for the way his daughter had him wrapped around his finger, but he knew that Stephen was no different, either.

(finish reading on ao3, reblogs/kudos/comments are greatly appreciated <3 )

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Ohh ohh! Magnus and "Great, how are we supposed to get home now?" 💚

(Okay I tried... I really tried to keep this under 300. But I kept it under 400. That counts, right? Here you go, a little Magnulia. Haven’t written them before!)

When Magnus agreed to take the load of furniture to the next town, he hadn’t realized Stephen’s daughter would be coming along.

Not that it was a problem!

Except, it was a problem.

He hadn’t managed to say an entire coherent sentence since he’d first met her three weeks ago. Being in a wagon with her for three days while they hauled furniture was going to require him to say a sensible thought in front of her. Probably several!

Magnus had never had this problem before. But he’d never had quite so desperate a crush, either. He thought of his friend who’d had his crush for ages before he’d made a move. He didn’t want to waste time like… Huh, couldn’t remember his name.

But again, to let her know he thought she was amazing and he’d really like to take her to dinner and you know, down the aisle eventually… he was going to need to be able to speak to her.

They loaded the wagon in silence. They rode down the vehicle elevator in silence. They spent the first four hours on the trail in silence.

“Okay, so, I know you can talk. I’ve heard you and Dad going on for hours and hours in the shop,” Julia finally said.

“You heard that?” he asks. He’s not sure what specific ‘that’ he means. He and Stephen talk all the time while they work. He just hadn’t realized Julia was ever close enough to hear any of it.

“Yeah,” she answers. “Is it me?”

“Yeah,” he answers back.

“Oh. Well, uh…”

“No! No no no! Not… no! It’s just…” Magnus takes a deep breath and the words come out in a rush. “You’re just so pretty!”

“Oh!” she answers.

The trip goes better after that.

They’re coming back, wagon empty, purses full, air full of their contented chatter. Julia is sitting next to him on the wagon bench. She’d let him drive when he used the term “vehicle proficiency” for the fifteenth time.

They arrive at the foot of the main plateau pillar of Raven’s Roost and find the vehicle elevator unattended.

“Great, how are we supposed to get home now?”

“Magnus?” Julia says, taking his hand. “Who cares?”

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hope i'm not tired of rebuilding

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2BJNcrs

by prouveyrac

Walking down the crowded Balance Avenue, the handles of two grocery bags in one hand and his cellphone pressed up against his ear with the other, Taako realized with a slight jolt in his stomach and a subtle eyebrow raise, hid behind his sunglasses, that the odd familiarity of his new life was that it was nearly a perfect recreation of his life from seven years ago. -- Merle had thought that the kids being with Hekuba for the weekend would grant him some enjoyable time to himself but, rather unfortunately, he was realizing that adjusting to a life that didn’t revolve around chasing kids twenty-four seven was difficult after being stuck in years of domesticity. -- Magnus was glad that Hammer & Tongs was finally starting to expand out of Raven’s Roost; he had been telling Stephen for years that the business he crafted with his bare hands deserved to be seen by people outside of their town. Of course, though, Magnus wasn’t surprised at all when it took Julia saying something to convince him.

Words: 6938, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of hope i'm not tired of rebuilding (modern taz balance AU)

Fandoms: The Adventure Zone (Podcast), TAZ Balance - Fandom

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M, M/M

Characters: Taako (The Adventure Zone), The Director | Lucretia, Lup (The Adventure Zone), Magnus Burnsides, Barry Bluejeans, Merle Highchurch, Davenport (The Adventure Zone), Kravitz (The Adventure Zone), Julia Burnsides

Relationships: Kravitz/Taako (The Adventure Zone), Barry Bluejeans/Lup, Julia Burnsides/Magnus Burnsides

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Found Family, high school found family to strangers to found family, eventual taakitz, side blupjeans and magnulia

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2BJNcrs

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tag meme: fic edition

the rules: write the first sentence of the last ten stories you’ve written and look for patterns. then tag some friends.

i was tagged by the ever amazing @moonlightcanary

(im only doing my published works)

1. take the photographs (and still frames in your mind) - 6 drabbles about platonic batfam relationships i think could be interesting

Dick sat on the counter in his apartment; Steph stood next to him, staring intently at the waffle maker.

2. Who’s A Good Boy? - a kinky magnulia smutfic about puppy play

It had been a long day at work and Magnus couldn’t wait to get home to his wife.

3. Hope - a taz amnesty prompt i was given by a friend, about the day aubrey left home (written before s2 of taz started)

Today was Aubrey Little’s eighteenth birthday and her present to herself was leaving a house she had never felt was hers.

4. i got rage every day (on the inside) - a canon divergent fic where taako became a lich with lup and barry

Taako stared at Lup for a moment, completely silent, before saying, “Yeah. I get it Lup, you’re my heart too. But if you think, even for a goddamned moment, that I’m just gonna let you and Barold become fucking liches without me, then you have another thing coming.”

5. Starvation - an angsty post-s&s fic about touch-averse taako and touch starved lup

Lup has spent five years in an umbrella and gods she felt so fucking weak for needing this, but she would kill for a simple fucking hug.

6. the soft moments in between - a series of allurance drabbles

When they first met, Allura never would have thought she would eventually trust Lance with her life.

7. i absolutely love her (when she smiles) - a brooke/christine fake dating fic

Christine took a deep, calming breath before running up to Brooke, who was leaning against her locker and chatting with Michael.

8. The Apology - a post-canon fic about jeremy apologizing to michael

Jeremy was at Michael’s place for the first time since the Squipcident (as Rich had dubbed it) and was seconds away from a panic attack.

9. The (Not-Quite) Break Up - a post-canon jeremy/christine-esque fic about christine telling jeremy’s she’s aro

Lights Drama Chris - Today at 3:21 PM

hey, wanna go to the park?

10. make it easy (say i never mattered) - a marauders era fic about lily, james, marlene mckinnon, and narcissa black

"Lilybet Heulyn, you have five minutes before we leave!"

i’m tagging @phynali @nbnightwing @cursivelettering @lupcult and anyone else who wants to participate!

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List of WIPs

in no particular order, just to hurt myself

Skyrim AU pt 3/?

Gravity Falls AU pt 2/?

Absolutely no Decorum pt 3/3

Royalty/High fantasy AU (Angus is crowned king, assassination attempts ensue)

Protection pt 4/?

Marked for Death sequel

Taako adopts a stray cat AU (character study, eventual taakitz)

Forms pt 5/?

Nearly Witches pt 6/7

Taakitz babies AU (pretty much self-explanatory)

Nothing (post-canon, taako angst)

Sun’s Eyes (Modern AU, pre blupjeans, Taako & Barry friendship)

One Week (magnulia)

1 taakitz ficlet

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Chapters: 2/? Fandom: The Adventure Zone (Podcast) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Julia Burnsides/Magnus Burnsides, Kravitz/Taako (The Adventure Zone), Barry Bluejeans/Lup, Carey Fangbattle/Killian, Davenport/Merle Highchurch Characters: Taako (The Adventure Zone), Lup (The Adventure Zone), Julia Burnsides, Magnus Burnsides, Barry Bluejeans, Carey Fangbattle, Killian (The Adventure Zone), Davenport (The Adventure Zone), Merle Highchurch, Greg Grimaldis, Sazed (The Adventure Zone), Johan (The Adventure Zone), Angus McDonald Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, karaoke bar au, everyones a good singer dont fight me on this, rated teen for swearing but like really thats it, Slow Burn, Secret Identity, Secret Relationship, This thing is gonna have almost like, every ship or at least close to it, well like most canon ships cuz cant overlap on some Summary: 

The Raven's Roost Karaoke Bar was a second home for most of its patrons. When a normal Friday night brings in a stranger, the lives of our favorite seven are twisted together and reshaped into something new. Modern AU

Hi! This is my newish fic, Help Me Find You! Its based on a Karaoke Bar owned by Magnus, with the gang in various parts of bar life. Its gonna be a fun time :) Come for the alcohol stay for the AU