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“Oh, you’ve done it now!” Gale said. “What if it’s cursed? You can’t just pick up and wear every shiny thing you see. Consider yourself lucky we’ve not been struck by lightning outright!”
And how in the hells was Astarion supposed to know?
Astarion finds a ring. He and Gale find themselves a lot closer than anticipated.
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31 Mar 2025
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The whole mission stretches out in front of me, crystal clear and extraordinarily horrifying. I’ve been thrown into the middle of the Absolute War, among the band of adventurers who brought it to a close, and there’s only one possible explanation: I’m supposed to have a crack at fixing the timeline. Specifically, at thwarting the rise of the God of Ambition. The very same God of Ambition who was just about to crush me into a shimmering cloud of dust motes when I was rudely yanked out of my physical and temporal location, stripped of my power, and dumped on my arse in a mind flayer pod eighteen years in the past.
As Chosen of the inscrutable God of Fate, Arabella has plenty of practice at being thrown in the deep end. But she’s never been handed a mission quite like this. Faced with the task of vanquishing not one, but two apocalyptic threats – the Netherbrain masterminding the Absolute cult, and one Gale of Waterdeep, wizard prodigy, former Chosen and nascent God of Ambition – she’s prepared to keep her wits about her, her identity hidden and her dagger ready to strike. But she’s reckoned without the fact that Gale Dekarios is a very different person from the deity he’s destined to become…
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31 Mar 2025
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A year later, Gale still misses the road.
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31 Jan 2025
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“I’m used to performing, you know,” he continued, staring at the tendrils on Gale’s shoulder, because it was easier to talk to them than actually talk to him. “I didn’t know I was still capable of…of want.”
“And what is it you want?”
Well, wasn’t that the ten thousand gold question?
“You.”
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Astarion is surprised to rediscover his libido. He’s even more surprised for the target of it to be Gale.
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04 Jan 2025
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Till woke up in Ivan's body.
The prospect that Ivan was in his body and unsupervised was more horrifying than the fact that he would be taking a shit out of Ivan’s asshole if they don’t figure out how to switch back.
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13 Dec 2024
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Wyll was a monster hunter. Astarion knew this on a logical level, of course. Hells, Wyll had practically introduced himself that way. But it was quite another thing to see Wyll put the puzzle pieces together.
And gods, Astarion had no earthly idea of what he was to do, if Wyll decided to divulge what he had learned.
[Or; tips and tricks for encountering a vampire on the road]
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12 Oct 2024
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Against his better judgment, Astarion follows Gale home to Waterdeep, his mother, Hundur sauce, and a night to remember.
In which Gale cooks dinner and Astarion is hungry for something else.
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20 Sep 2024
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These days, most everybody in camp had learned to wave away Astarion’s advances with a laugh. They found the flirtation titillating, Gale figured, or a bit threatening, or some combination of the two. He wondered if anybody else found it sad.
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Good old-fashioned rumination on choice and compulsion. Gale and Astarion shake off their metaphorical shackles.- Language:
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16 Sep 2024
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Self-exiled from the Emerald Grove after the incident with the shadow druids, Kagha finds herself wandering the Shadow-Cursed Lands in wolf form. There she encounters a familiar little tiefling, one who has lost her parents somewhere in the dark.
A Kagha redemption story.
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13 Aug 2024
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What happened to Silfy in Act 2? And how did Mizora really get herself captured?
As the Tiefling refugees find themselves under attack in the shadow-cursed lands, Silfy panics and runs. But before she can fall prey to the shadow monsters, Mizora appears to drive the creatures back. The cambion then spirits Silfy back to her home in Avernus, where Silfy begins to find out more about her infernal hero and what drove a devil to become a savior.
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29 Jul 2024
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After defeating Ketheric and lifting the Shadow Curse, Astarion and Gale tentatively explore a more physical relationship.
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04 Jul 2024
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"You're spoiling the view."
"I'm hardly within your periphery, I'm sure."
Or: Astarion has been sneaking off to indulge in the sunrise each morning. He is irritated, and then less irritated, that Gale has found him out and decided to join him.
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02 May 2024
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Mystery Work
Part of ghostlygraveyard
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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03 Jan 2024
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She’s comfortable. Really.
But it's been almost a week, and she still can't sleep through the night.
She's tried everything—counting sheep, pacing to try and make herself tired, reading a book she’d snagged from Gale’s library... She’d thrown the window open, thinking maybe some cool night air and the sound of crickets would be familiar enough to lull her to sleep. She’d kept her eyes shut for a whole hour, she thinks, one time, and nothing. She figured that eventually, if nothing else would work, her exhaustion would do the trick. Which... it kind of does. She sleeps an hour or so, wakes, and the cycle continues. She can't rest like she wants.
But she doesn't know why. She’s comfortable. She likes it here. She likes Gale and Astarion, the latter having been considerably warmer to her lately.
By no means bubbly. But she imagines it’s warm for him.
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a continuation of Arabella joining our favorite boys in their tower in Waterdeep, with them all beginning to learn a little... more about each other
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- Part 4 of change, choice, and principles
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27 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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10 Nov 2023
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Gale knows, of course. Everything. Which makes deflecting so much harder than usual—annoyingly so at times. It’s all still quite new, but not so much that they have any real secrets between them anymore.
Except this. That Astarion’s still struggling with being touched by someone he loves, who loves him back. Because it feels fucking silly. He loves Gale. He trusts him. He wants this.
…Or he at least wants to want it.
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the bloodweave discord came through with a prompt I couldn't refuse: touch-starved gale and touch-averse astarion <3
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- Part 1 of two slow dancers
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10 Oct 2023
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“I was just trying to help him.” Tav says defensively.
“And, as the human’s say, isn’t the road to the Hells paved with good intentions?”
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Working under the guise of seeking a remedy for Gale's arcane hunger, Tav convinces Astarion to help see if the Sussur Blossoms has an effect on the Netherese Orb. [Set in act 1]Bookmarked by Experimental
17 Sep 2023
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“Something is wrong with you.”
“Says the walking corpse.”
“Says the bomb that fucked a goddess.”
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15 Sep 2023
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it's the animal within my blood (wouldn't stop it even if i could) by Dabberdees
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
14 Sep 2023
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It's bad enough that they know about his... little predicament, how he needs to take objects of magic to consume to keep the orb within sealed away; but even now, Gale can feel it clawing at his core. Like an insatiable beast tearing at it's cage to be free, and a darker part of him, might just want to let it free.
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15 Sep 2023
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Ambrosia (or: How Gale Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) by mercurial_cool
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
04 Apr 2024
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“Why does your blood smell so strange?”
The question startled Gale, who looked up from where he sat cross-legged in front of his tent, organizing his scrolls in preparation for their upcoming “visit” to the goblin camp. He’d given Astarion a wide berth since the revelation of his vampiric condition a few days earlier, so he was surprised to see the pale elf looming over him now, a peculiar expression on his face.
“You know,” Gale offered with a smile, “in my extensive journeys across manifold realms, I do believe that is not a question that I’ve ever been asked before. I honestly can’t decide whether or not I should be offended.”
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Of the many side effects Gale has faced as a result of his whole “being physical host to an imminently destructive magical orb” problem, he somehow never anticipated his blood now apparently smelling irresistible to vampires (or at least, one particular vampire) to be one of them.
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03 Sep 2023