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Shelter In Place by ICanFixHim (pixel7777) for Elwing42
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
15 Jan 2026
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Gale is a survivalist romance author who writes about love after the end of the world. He's a divorcee who has plans B through G for power failure, but no Plan A for getting laid. Astarion is a former artist who decided to winter in the northern Michigan lake house he got in his divorce. He's not exactly rural-winter ready. When a massive blizzard knocks out power across the community, Gale—seeing Astarion's dark McMansion—trudges through the blizzard to prevent his idiot neighbor from freezing to death, but they'll both keep each other warm in the end.
This low-stakes, cozy, modern, the-Ant-and-the-Grasshopper AU softens both Astarion's and Gale's traumatic pasts to gaslighting, controlling exes who leave them lonely until they discover their strange neighbor is a better fit than they had imagined.
Note: In case you are unfamiliar with the fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper, the Ant prepares for winter by working all summer, while the Grasshopper wastes the summer singing and having fun. In the oldest tellings, the Grasshopper gets cold and hungry in the winter and goes to the Ant for food and shelter, but the Ant scolds him and turns him away. In our version, of course, the Ant is a bit kinder 😉
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- English
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- 29,660
- Chapters:
- 8/8
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Bookmarked by KimmieSue
16 Jun 2026
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After getting broken up with and going broke at 26 years old, Gale finds himself working part time at the Harper Cleaning Co as he works on completing his master's degree at Blackstaff Academy. His first job? Working for one Astarion Ancunin.
Astarion Ancunin, family lawyer at Ravengard Associates, has gone through four housekeepers in the span of a year and is expecting Gale to make number 5.
Two people from two different places, living totally separate lives, there's no way they could really get along...right?
Written in the style of a romcom-drama, follow Gale, Astarion and their friends as they get to know each other, overcome their personal struggles and trauma and most of all. Fall in love.
Bookmarked by KimmieSue
13 Jun 2026
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After a year spent in seclusion, former professor Gale Dekarios is convinced by his tressym to travel to Ioma. Not just to research the magical crystals there, mind, but to pick himself back up following a string of failures.
Suddenly freed by the death of his master Cazador, Astarion has fled as far as possible from Baldur’s Gate to seek solace for the first time in two hundred years, armed with nothing more than a broken sunwalking ring.
At a romantic seaside getaway, the last thing either of them expect to find is love.
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- English
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- 15/15
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Bookmarked by KimmieSue
11 Jun 2026
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Snatching up the apartment in the Upper-Lower City had been a stroke of luck, to be sure. It has somewhat fewer bookshelves than Gale is used to, but it’s light, airy, clean and seems to have been recently redecorated. It’s also a pleasant stroll from the Balduran University campus, an even shorter stroll to a very reasonably priced coffee shop and, best of all, the mini supermarket nearby doesn't shut until 2am. This suits his own particular brand of insomnia extremely well.
The only fly in the ointment, as it were, is that the delivery guy appears to be stalking him.
Bookmarked by KimmieSue
11 Jun 2026
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”’1000 gold pieces for the former Archmage Gale Dekarios of Waterdeep, dead or alive’
Hot adrenaline shoots in Astarion’s veins like a firebolt. His heart doesn’t beat, but the second later the blood that is left in his body is replaced by a sickening rush of ice-water.
’What in the hells have you gotten yourself into, Gale?’”
In which Astarion finds a bounty for Gale and makes his way to Waterdeep as fast as he can. Includes protectiveness, anger born from worry, squishy wizards and love confessions.
Bookmarked by KimmieSue
08 Jun 2026