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let's take our time (while it's still ours to take) by stardustandswimmingpools
Fandoms: Dimension 20 (Web Series)
28 May 2025
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Zelda understood the disconnect he felt from his rage. That was Gorgug freshman year, primal rage battling gnomish positivity. But he doesn't feel that disconnect anymore. Sure, it's complicated, but Gorgug can reliably reach for the instinct that simmers low in him, and he can use it to protect his friends. He can also use it to have a fun wrestling match. It doesn't have to be separate from the part of him that supports and defends the people he cares about. In fact, he's not sure it could be separate now.
He wonders if Zelda would understand that. He knows, without question, that Ragh already does.
(Or: Gorgug and co. are in a time stop for seven days. Which is enough time to get over your breakup, make a new best friend, learn a lot about your van, have a conversation about religion, and maybe kiss that boy you like. Maybe.)
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Bookmarked by Drabble_By_Ash
10 Oct 2025
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In which Astarion is an ex-olympic figure skater and Gale is a famous musician. They get paired together as Dancing on Ice's first ever same sex couple. Shenanigans ensue.
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“How did you even get in? I very definitely remember locking up.”
“Ah,” Gale looks ever-so-slightly abashed. Only slightly, though. Mostly he looks a little proud of himself. “You know how the receptionist is always asleep?”
Astarion's eyebrows shoot up.
“Gale Dekarios, you shady thing.”
“I only borrowed it! He's never been awake enough to ask about spares, so. It was easier to just sort it out myself.”
“It would have been easier to ask me,” Astarion points out.
“Mmmm,” Gale hums, doubtfully. “I don't know if I'd ever consider you the ‘easier’ option, Astarion, I feel that would be doing your commitment to cantankerousness a great disservice.”
I'd be extremely easy if you weren't so fucking annoying, Astarion thinks.
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Bookmarked by Drabble_By_Ash
24 Mar 2024
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Astarion ascends, Tav takes control of the brain and enslaves them all, and Gale sacrifices himself to save everyone from being under Tav's control. But things can't end like that, can they?
Gale blinks and finds himself back at square one with an overwhelming amount of knowledge, a hungry Netherese blight in his chest, and friends who no longer remember him.
Or... Gale is like basically a fortune-teller.I suppose this is a slow burn. I sort of modeled it off of the game's pacing, so that's why.
Guess who has a sequel!!
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- Part 1 of Lost Light
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09 Feb 2024
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30 Dec 2023
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“Today is full of surprises,” The wizard says. “Who knows? I had to try my hand at the notion I was in the presence of the few. It seems I’ll have to find a healer the harder way. Are you all aware of the timer we are on? With the insertion of an illithid tadpole, a process known as ceremorphosis begins…”
Astarion tunes him out. He no longer doubts that Gale is just an oddly-equipped human; surely no divine entity could be this annoying.***
When an interesting mage joins their tadpole-ridden party, Astarion is bound to be curious. Vampire, angel. Snake, bird. Forsaken, divine. It would be so easy to slip.
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19 Dec 2023
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Gale yelps as Astarion's very cold fingers find his midriff. Astarion laughs, burrowing deeper under Gale's robe.
“Ah-ha, Astarion, did you take an ice bath on the way here?” Gale protests.
“Well usually I wake up to somebody very ready to warm me up.” Astarion purrs.
“You know what they say; cold hands, warm heart,” Gale says, absently.
Astarion pinches him, gently.
“Ow!” Gale protests, “What, you're allowed to come and put your hands all over me but I'm not allowed to make comments like that?”
“You can do better, love,” Astarion says, sniffily. “That was practically lazy. I'm afraid I've become accustomed to a much higher calibre of charm.”
“Are you insinuating that I have somehow spoiled you, Astarion?”
“For anyone else, absolutely,” Astarion agrees, sadly.
Shadowheart sighs.
“Glad you two are as disgusting as ever,” she says.Series
- Part 2 of First Light
Bookmarked by Drabble_By_Ash
21 Nov 2023
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The things lost along the way (The things gained at the end) by ThatKorka
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
13 Oct 2023
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I can smell what’s under those bandages, Wizard, You’re all rot and ruin!
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Bookmarked by Drabble_By_Ash
08 Nov 2023
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The vampire's eyes are wide and round, full of amazement. They dart wildly around the sights below, as if trying to see everything at once. The lights of the city reflect upon his face, soft shadows dancing across his elegant features. The very tips of his fangs are visible from his parted lips.
The radiance of the city pales in comparison.
✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* ✧･ﾟ: *✧
Two months after the brain falls, Baldur's Gate has picked up most of the pieces. The heroes that saved Faerûn have been there through most of it, helping the city get back on its feet. But now it's time to move on. Old lives and families to return to. Gale is going back to his tower in Waterdeep, back to the quiet, back to being alone; or at least, that was the plan. But plans change.
This is a story about falling in love.
(Fanart included)
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- Part 2 of Stumble and Fall
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Bookmarked by Drabble_By_Ash
01 Nov 2023
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A remix of Act 2 in which Gale gets more of a character arc resolution.
“Gods damn it Gale!”
Astarion leaps over him. The guard, poised to land an entirely excessive final blow to Gale’s skull, topples backwards with a knife in his gut. The second pierces his neck, sending him crashing to the ground. Astarion yanks his blades back, and drops to his knees beside Gale.
“Oh no no no, you are not dying on me now.”
Gale attempts to express something, but it comes out as a gurgle of bloody bubbles. The world swings to the side, black and spinning.
“I swear, if it turns out I did just watch you spend the last of your magic sending your cat back to safety instead of saving your own damn skin-”
The threat remains unfinished. A healing potion trickles between Gale’s lips.
“Tressym,” Gale says, when he can finally trust his voice.
Astarion is still crouched over him, cheeks flushed, sweat running down his brow and someone else’s blood smeared across his cheek. Gale has the sudden urge to kiss him.
“What?”
“She’s a tressym. Not a cat.”
Astarion makes a noise of such furious, pained exasperation that Gale half expects the dagger to end up in his neck next.Series
- Part 1 of First Light
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01 Nov 2023
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20 Oct 2023
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“I couldn’t protect him, Dave. Within half a year, I’ve failed him twice.” Aaron balanced his head onto his fingertips.
“You didn’t fail him, Aaron. Not now, and not when Maeve was murdered. We’re a team; no one is at any greater fault than the other for what’s happened . . .”
Aaron let out a heavy, lamenting sigh. “For this unsub—whatever the motivation was before, subjugating a law official is going to give him a transgressive high. Reid’s time with him—however short or long—is going to be unpleasant.”
Peculiarly dismembered men are unearthed in the forest, and the locals request the assistance of more experienced investigators. The profile is complex and mercurial, leaving the team without substantial evidence to work with. So they wait on their perpetrator to ignite a series of events that will supplement their data for assessment. They don’t foresee that data being one of their own. Darkness descends.And yet.
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- Part 1 of Illuminate
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Bookmarked by Drabble_By_Ash
06 Oct 2023
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Episode tag to Season 9 finale - Cleaning up and the journey home. Team dynamics, with a focus on Spencer Reid.
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Bookmarked by Drabble_By_Ash
14 Sep 2023
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In the spring, when the snow melts, all sorts of things come to light – dead leaves and twigs, misplaced mittens, lost toys, and missing BAU agents.
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13 Sep 2023
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An old woman finds a young man on her farm, injured and unsure of how he got there. Very quickly she realizes that he's worse than she thought. He doesn't even know his name.
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09 Sep 2023
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07 Sep 2023
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~COMPLETE~
Spencer meant to bring Luke a book. He didn't plan on sobbing into his shoulder on the man's couch.
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- Part 1 of Touch
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Bookmarked by Drabble_By_Ash
07 Sep 2023
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"Where is she?" Doyle asks. He glowers at Reid.
"She's dead," he whispers again, brokenly. "We buried her." His fingers tap restlessly against the chair.
Doyle smiles. "Very well, then. The hard way it is."
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After Emily Prentiss's supposed death at the hands of Ian Doyle, the team is left reeling. Only Jennifer Jareau and Aaron Hotchner know the truth of what happened that day, and when two of their team is kidnapped by the same man, what lengths will they go through to get them back.
Will they save Derek Morgan and Spencer Reid before it's too late?
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Bookmarked by Drabble_By_Ash
02 Sep 2023
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When a case goes drastically wrong, Reid is forced to put his brain to good use; helping JJ deliver her baby while FBI headquarters burns around them.
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- 10/10
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02 Sep 2023
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Counting Our Blessings, Numbering Our Prayers by a_little_chai
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV)
09 Apr 2022
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When Reid walks onto a cargo ship to save a kidnapped little girl, he doesn't expect to captured as well. He doesn't expect to be locked in a storage container with her, helpless against the wrath of their unsub.
And he certainly doesn't expect those sixteen hours on a Tuesday afternoon to change his life forever.
Bookmarked by Drabble_By_Ash
02 Sep 2023
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The Trials and Tribulations of Having a Vampire on the Team by Speedwagons_Glorious_Mane
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV)
01 May 2025
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Spencer is out of the coffin and the team are now aware of the vampire in their midst. Everyone has some getting used to the new status quo
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- Part 2 of Vampire! Spencer Reid
Bookmarked by Drabble_By_Ash
01 Sep 2023