u/Poetsiren

I'm feeling kind of lonely in my little, niche merMay corner of BG3 ... and moody hormones are hitting hard at the moment. I'm sure there are other mer-lovers out there like me!!

I'd love for others to share their own FAVORITE Astarion-related merMay images.

Can be anything, really! All ships welcome!

Legit - I want to see it all.

(It's forcing me to pick a flair, so I will do a diff post about fics recs, but THIS one is for ART! Idk what to identify it as based on what it gives me to pick from so I guess "other fan work"??? If tags are needed, I will update later.)

(It's forcing me to pic a flair, so I will do a diff post about art, but THIS one is for FICS! If tags are needed, I will update later.)

I'm feeling kind of lonely in my little merMay corner of BG3 and moody hormones are hitting hard at the moment. I'm sure there are other mer-lovers out there like me!!

I'd love for others to share their own FAVORITE Astarion-related merMay recs.

Can be anything, really! All ships welcome!

Legit - I want to see it all.

Hello, all!

It's been so long since I caught the tail end of this movie on a hotel tv....For the longest time, I can't find out what it was....

It's a grainy b&w, 1920s to early 1930s at latest, and it's about a woman who is from the lower classes and is in a city and befriends a high class man. The problem is that his high class g/f or fiancee is digging her claws into him and his friends and family are with her.

The scene I caught was towards the end, and the g/f is holding some sort of party, maybe engagement or something. She was blond and wearing one of those stereotypical form fitting white, silk strappy gowns of the era. Everyone is around her and she sticks out cuz she was wearing one of the only white dresses. She had that typical-of-the-period really short blond hair in tight finger waves.

The guy shows up in tails and is thrown into the mix. (And idk there was like an adjacent board room meeting happening or something that flowed into the party?? I just know it was important for the guy's future. Maybe a double celebration?)

But the love interest girl - she has ear/shoulder length curly brownish hair - shows up and is terribly underdressed - like travel suit or something, I think either she was fleeing the town and decided to see him one last time or something. And the g/f sort of makes a haughty joke against the girl. It makes the party laugh at her.

So the girl flees to the stairs and collapses and lays her head on the stairs, bereft. And then the guy gets mad at her and goes after her.

I want to say when they all cried out his name to call him back, I swear it was Nicky.

I've been searching for this and thought it might have been a very young Cary Grant's face that flashed at me, but it would have been a very early film he was in and may not even have been credited or just someone who looked like him.

I've tried HOT SATURDAY and I thought that might have been it, but it wasn't. Right time period, right mood, wrong movie.

Someone suggested HOLIDAY w Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn, again, right mood, but definitely wrong time frame - that's too late in the decade. Wrong movie.

It very well could be pre-code. Not sure.

HALP

BG3 Astarion Siren AU fanfic (M/F) on AO3.... Sequel in process and posting!!

This post is 🐙🧜‍♀️ FOR MERMAY!!🧜‍♀️🐙 I'm writing a sequel focusing more on the siren aspect!!

....Last year I wrote my first ever fanfic for the BG3 community as my return to writing after 10 years. Now, it feels like the sequel is coming along nicely!

If anyone cares to read it, I think it overall needs traction within the mer fan community since BG3 fandom was the first audience I geared it towards, merging it with my love of mermaids/sirens/selkies/etc.

18y/o+ PLEASE- 🔞

{\[Good Things Come \](https://archiveofourown.org/works/62737273/chapters/160611004)\\\\- by Poetsiren}

(pt 1 of All Good Things series) \[https://archiveofourown.org/series/5156251\\\](https://archiveofourown.org/series/5156251)

Astarion lords over the Underdark:

After defeating the Absolute with Tav, Astarion is glad to have his beloved remain beside him. He didn’t expect it to be easy, living in the Underdark with his siblings and the other vampire spawn. Still, a new manuscript detailing vampire spawn has been discovered, and no one could expect to know what knowledge it reveals - about Cazador, about the other spawn.

Tav is a human Paladin, with an Oath of Devotion that has guided her and her companions through the events of Baldur’s Gate 3, saving as many beings as possible and protecting the weak and defenseless, as is her tenet. But she also has a secret that she has yet to tell anyone… That it’s time to tell Astarion …

But there is so much more to it than either of them know.

All things considered, even she doesn’t know how things will end for the two of them.

(Longfic sequel currently at chapter 30 and climbing....

{What Comes After - by Poetsiren})

BG3 Astarion Siren AU fanfic on AO3.... Sequel in process and posting!!

This post is 🐙🧜‍♀️ FOR MERMAY!!🧜‍♀️🐙 I'm writing a sequel focusing more on the siren aspect!!

....Last year I wrote my first ever fanfic for the BG3 community as my return to writing after 10 years. Now, it feels like the sequel is really doing great!

If anyone cares to read it, I think it overall needs traction within the mer fan community since BG3 fandom was the first audience I geared it towards, merging it with my love of mermaids/sirens/selkies/etc.

And now, unfortunately, a shameless self-plug.....

18y/o+ PLEASE- 🔞

{[Good Things Come ](https://archiveofourown.org/works/62737273/chapters/160611004)\\- by Poetsiren}

(pt 1 of All Good Things series) [https://archiveofourown.org/series/5156251\](https://archiveofourown.org/series/5156251)

Astarion lords over the Underdark:

After defeating the Absolute with Tav, Astarion is glad to have his beloved remain beside him. He didn’t expect it to be easy, living in the Underdark with his siblings and the other vampire spawn. Still, a new manuscript detailing vampire spawn has been discovered, and no one could expect to know what knowledge it reveals - about Cazador, about the other spawn.

Tav is a human Paladin, with an Oath of Devotion that has guided her and her companions through the events of Baldur’s Gate 3, saving as many beings as possible and protecting the weak and defenseless, as is her tenet. But she also has a secret that she has yet to tell anyone… That it’s time to tell Astarion …

But there is so much more to it than either of them know.

All things considered, even she doesn’t know how things will end for the two of them.

(Longfic sequel currently at chapter 30 and climbing....

{What Comes After - by Poetsiren})