15 Bookmarks by KittenWithACookie
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Bookmarked by KittenWithACookie
20 May 2025
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Peppermint-Scented Apologies by Lunarwench for TrashPandaSaga
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
04 Jan 2025
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“Watch out, Astarion, there’s mistletoe above your head.”
He glances up in the same moment that Gale stumbles gracelessly into him, Astarion’s arms coming up automatically to catch Gale without even thinking. There’s indeed mistletoe above them, held in Shadowheart’s wiggling fingers, her wretched face smirking down at them from the stairway with both her brows raised.
A challenge, it seems.
Bookmarked by OddAudreyLeeReally (KittenWithACookie)
04 Jan 2025
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Read again during Christmas holiday period
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any beat from your heart (gets me through the night) by cweepa
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
25 Dec 2024
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“I’ve made my choice,” he says, perhaps a bit snappishly. “My affliction is an outcome of my own thoughtlessness – for the second time in my life, I might add. I may have been given a second chance, but the Gods will argue that I am not deserving of a third.”
“If there is one thing I have learnt about faith,” Lae’zel says. “It is that we mustn’t allow fervent belief to cloud our judgement.”
“I do not possess fervent belief.”
Lae’zel lifts up her chin. “A dangerous combination. You don’t believe in the Gods, neither do you believe in yourself.”
With the clock ticking down on the last month of his life, one Gale Dekarios sets out to bring some holiday cheer to the rest of his friends for the last time.
Bookmarked by OddAudreyLeeReally (KittenWithACookie)
27 Dec 2024
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Read during December.
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The hand removed itself from his forehead. “Temperature is normal,” Gale announced, before using its fingers to gather some stray drool that had trailed down Astarion’s jaw. Before Astarion could register the pitiful jolt of arousal at the sudden skin contact or the sheer absurdity of what Gale was doing, Gale had stuck its fingers in its mouth.
“What the —”
“No new bacteria detected,” Gale went on, “Ruling out food poisoning.”
“Oh, Gods,” Astarion groaned. “And to think that these things are what’s sending our workforce into a tizzy. What next, 'droid? Are you about to give me a rectal examination too?”
“There is no need for one at the moment,” Gale said, confused. “Unless you are seeking prostate stimulation—”
“No!”
Amidst the softly thrumming melancholy of a dystopian, cyber-punk city, former corporate-rat Astarion Ancunín, who has long since lost the will to live, finds himself in possession of a G-413 or "Gale" - an amnesiac android who, strangely enough, enjoys living.
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Bookmarked by OddAudreyLeeReally (KittenWithACookie)
11 Nov 2024
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Several months had passed since Gale’s marriage to Mystra ended, and the idea of diving back into the dating world held little appeal. After a series of disastrous first dates arranged by well-meaning friends, Gale reluctantly agreed to try out a new dating app, only to discover it was more geared toward casual hook-ups than finding a meaningful relationship.
Despite his initial reservations, Gale spent an evening testing the app, scrolling through profiles until he paused on one that caught his eye - a stunning, pale elf with the username Starlight69. On impulse, he marked the profile as a favourite and decided to call it a night. But just as he was about to put his phone away, a message from Starlight69 appeared on his screen…
Starlight69: Hello, darling~ 😈
Without hesitation, Astarion attached a rather flattering photo of himself - nude, of course.
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27 Sep 2024
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2024, England.
When a portal appears in your living room and Gale Dekarios tumbles out of it, you think you are going insane. But truth is stranger than fiction, and things are rarely what they seem.
A story of love and its complications, the boundaries between reality and fiction, and the cages we build for ourselves.
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22 Sep 2024
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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 KittenWithACookie
18 Sep 2024
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When he wakes up, he's not himself. Not that he can remember what being 'himself' even means. All he has is a pounding headache and a name, 'The Dark Urge'.
Oh, and memories of the real world and over 500 plus hours of playtime in Baldur's Gate 3.
Now he's stuck inside the game, with no idea how he got there or what the fuck is going on. And very quickly, he'll realise that the real world of Faerun is nothing like the game. Shit hurts, there's no maps, fast travel, or save scumming. And people are far more complicated than simple video game characters.
If he can keep himself alive and make it through this, perhaps there's something waiting for him in Faerun, a life he can build for himself. But the urge is just as real as everything else, and it's out for blood.
All he wants is to find his freedom before the game kills him or the urge overtakes him.
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On an indefinite hiatus until I figure out how to write again. You can follow me on tumblr here- Language:
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13 Aug 2024
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02 Aug 2024
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Gale accidentally texts Astarion instead of his coworker. Shenanigans, romance and sex ensue.
Ft. Art by Calolily and voiceacting by Wave!
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Bookmarked by KittenWithACookie
01 Aug 2024
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When Astarion awakens in the aftermath of the Nautiloid crash, it is not to a friendly face but the press of goblin steel against his cheek.
Now a captive of the Absolute, he is left starving and huddled in the corner, waiting for the beast that shares his cell to finally strike.
Bears, after all, are not known to be the most gracious killers.
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Bookmarked by KittenWithACookie
15 Feb 2024
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When Astarion is assaulted on their way to Baldur's Gate, he is not even surprised. Yet another day in his miserable life. He could have done without his party hearing about it, but it isn't as if they don't already know how depraved he is.
That they care enough to rescue him is... unexpected.
That they insist on not brushing it off and on giving him time to heal is downright ridiculous.What is he supposed to heal from exactly?
His entire existence?***
Or, Astarion is raped and his traumas are catching up with him. But now he has a whole party behind him and, for the very first time, he has the luxury to break down.
Complete list of Trigger Warnings in the Author's Note
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- Part 1 of What Is Left Of Him
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Bookmarked by KittenWithACookie
07 Feb 2024
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Maybe I'll be in a better headspace for this later
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“How old are you, Astarion?”
Astarion is not expecting the question, Halsin can tell by the way he jerks upright, spine straight, shoulders strong.
“Two-hundred-and-forty,” he answers without hesitation. “Give or take a few years.”
Halsin swallows, rewords his question. “How old were you when you were turned?”
Astarion goes quiet. Extremely, cacophonously quiet.
“Thirty-nine,” he finally says, a bolt straight into Halsin’s heart.
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Halsin discovers Astarion was turned before his maturity and all the sacred elven rites that come along with it. Including the sex one.
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04 Dec 2023
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cutting through the cracks of the concrete by tuffgreg
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
18 Nov 2023
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It's been so long since Astarion had to make a life for himself anywhere that he doesn't remember how. Unfortunately, when he disembarks in the City of Splendors, at midnight, in the rain, he finds his hospitable host Gale of Waterdeep doesn't know how to make a life with someone else.
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- Part 1 of by the sea, that's the life i covet
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Bookmarked by KittenWithACookie
03 Dec 2023
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After they arrive in Baldur's Gate and Gale has another particularly unpleasant conversation with Mystra, he just wants to go out, have fun and get drunk enough to forget about it all for a night. And who better to ask for company than local hedonist and complete mess of a man, Astarion?
Inspired by that one line of banter where Astarion says that he pictured his return to Baldur's Gate to include days of hedonistic debauchery and Gale says that it sounds like a recipe for disaster but he is starting to enjoy the taste of chaos.
Bookmarked by KittenWithACookie
27 Oct 2023