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After months of lounging around Gale’s tower like the realm’s most flirtatious houseguest, Astarion is starting to become frustrated that the wizard can’t seem to take a hint.
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A journey of trauma-induced self-doubt, miscommunication, and being horrifically, unequivocally in love.
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15 Aug 2025
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Astarion's a slightly nomadic ethics professor taking up his new post at the storied Blackstaff Academy in Waterdeep. While exploring everything the city has to offer, he tests out a much-lauded dive bar glory hole and has the time of his life. It's impossible to get that sweet, soft voice and that skilled tongue out of his head, but the anonymous person on the other side wishes to remain unknown.
Oh well.
Maybe Astarion's burgeoning crush on his distinguished, older colleague, Professor Dekarios, will keep his mind from wandering towards the unattainable.
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10 Aug 2025
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Being forced to sit while Gale spits therapy lingo at him doesn’t compel him to open up anymore than Halsin’s sad eyes or Raphael’s stony silences did—rather, he feels like screaming, breaking the first thing he can get his hands on: perhaps that shiny Therapist of the Year award that keeps hitting the light coming through the office window as if it’s begging for attention.
Whatever Dr. Gale Dekarios might think, there’s nothing to say.
But later... he watches with unease as Halsin begins to unfold the previously crumpled up paper he left on the floor of Halsin's truck all those weeks ago, fingers still decorated with pinpricks of blood leftover from removing splintered glass from his skin. Halsin offers him the paper: a cartoon sun with sunglasses smiles up at him, Comic Sans makes up the entire document—it is as if he’s being mocked by Gale, even outside of the office.
No words are exchanged. The meaning behind the paper isn’t hard to understand.
It is a monumental effort to snatch it from Halsin’s hands, to reply:
“Fine. Fine.”
No one ever said healing wasn't a messy, chaotic affair.
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- English
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- 16,830
- Chapters:
- 7/10
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07 Aug 2025
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Freshly divorced from Mystra, Gale moves to Baldur's Gate and stumbles upon a games café that hosts Papers and Paychecks, a tabletop role playing game that just so happens to be Gale's special interest.
The owner of the café is Halsin, who is in dire need of someone to run those sessions.
Gale jumps at the opportunity, which definitely has nothing at all to do with the fact that Halsin is the most handsome man he's ever seen. A shame he's married, then... or is it?
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07 Aug 2025
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Six months ago, Astarion would’ve had the power to cross that border. Six months ago, he had all the freedom in the world to cross that boundary and walk right onto the balcony. All it took was one day. One day and that power was gone. Sixteen words later and they were off to live together in Waterdeep. Settling down while their companions set off to find adventure in the Hells and the Astral Plane.
One day. Sixteen words. Six months. Now, there were no more adventures. No more sunlight to kiss his face each morning. Just Astarion and Gale. Settled in Waterdeep. Suffocating in salt and monotony.
TL;DR: Astarion struggles with returning to a life of normalcy in Waterdeep with Gale. Without the ability to walk freely in the sun, he feels trapped inside the tower. Gale devises a plan to give Astarion freedom from his affliction.
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07 Aug 2025
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Astarion has spent more than his fair share of time in and out of hospitals and emergency rooms, and one thing is always guaranteed : no one knows what to do with him. He's used to being misunderstood, questioned, and flat-out accused of lying or exaggerating.
But he's sick. He knows he is. He just doesn't know why.
Dr. Gale Dekarios has always loved a challenge. A chance encounter with a beautiful - and mysterious - patient leaves him thinking about the man for days, and when the man appears in his office a week later, Gale is determined to find the answers he deserves.
A story about being seen, being cared for, and falling in love.
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- English
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- 150,158
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06 Aug 2025
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Astarion and Gale both end up being hospitalized in intensive care, having to share a room.
Here, they need to learn again how to trust and love.
As they help each other overcome their traumas, one question lingers...
Was this ever about the mint?Bookmarked by Micchikins
05 Aug 2025
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After a long year of rebuilding from rock bottom and crashing on Karlach’s couch, Astarion has finally saved enough from tattooing to afford a place of his own. It’s small, but all he really needs is a mirror, a locking door, and a housemate who won’t mind how he dresses—or that he sometimes screams in his sleep. When Shadowheart convinces Gale to rent out his spare room, he’s just hoping to ease the mortgage and maybe partake in some conversations more stimulating than what his aloof cat offers. But Astarion may turn out to be far more than Gale bargained for—and exactly what he needs.
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05 Aug 2025
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"I don't want you to touch me," he began, and her eyes widened at his request. "But I want to touch you. I want you to show me exactly what feels good for you, and I don't want you to fake it. If I do anything that isn't going to bring you to your release, I want to know. And if I make you come tonight, it will be real. Any cry that falls from your lips will be genuine, and I will know if it's not."
"You... just want to please me?"
"Yes," he agreed. "I just want to please you.
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When Talia left the Underdark, she had many expectations of what the surface would bring. Making her living in a brothel wasn't one of them—but the coin is steady, the clients are predictable, and she keeps her emotions out of her work.
And then a pale elf walks in, uninterested and intriguing.
The first night? They only talk.
The second? He asks her for something no client ever has: honesty.
As their meetings grow more frequent, keeping her emotions out of her work becomes harder than she ever imagined.
And when she stumbles upon a darker side of him, she's left with two questions:
Should she let him go?
Does she even want to?
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Set after the events of the game
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02 Aug 2025
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SERIES SPOILERS
See summary inside.
SERIES SPOILERS
Small break, dispatch got me but I’ll be back for the last 2 chapters!!
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- Part 4 of In the Name Of
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- English
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31 Jul 2025
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Astarion does Raphael a favor and is given a gift in exchange: the chance to explore his complicated feelings about sex without the fear of anyone touching him in return. Gale is starting to act strange however...
TL;DR: Raphael gives Astarion a magical pocket pussy and he doesn't know it's connected to Gale.
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26 Jul 2025
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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.
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26 Jul 2025
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Claiming Corrupted Coronation's Contracted Compensation (Or The Trials and Tribulations of Heroics and Hubris) by Tavylia_Sin
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
18 Aug 2025
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Gale made the ultimate sacrifice - to save everyone he loved, and to earn redemption in the eyes of his beloved goddess. There was one small detail, however, that he had forgotten in his rush to play the hero. A contract had ensured a path to this victory, the Orphic Hammer freeing a vital ally that opened Death's Door wide for the wizard to triumph over their shared enemy...but by this single selfless act of destruction, he had also broken the deal by destroying the promised artifact.
And now Raphael wants his dues.
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“Have you nothing to say for yourself, Gale of Waterdeep?” Raphael growled, his impatience with the silence becoming more than he could contain.
Patience was the centuries of preparation, of planning.
Patience was the horde of souls manipulated into his bidding over countless generations.
Patience was the precise timing, finally moving his pieces across the board.
Patience had disappeared along with the Crown.
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25 Jul 2025
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25 Jul 2025
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Astarion wants the sun. He wants to bask in the light of dawn, unafraid and unharmed; let it kiss him and not burn; let its light be his private joy, not his fear. How exhausting it is, to be afraid of something he loves so desperately.
It turns out the feeling is mutual.
Astarion's quest to see the sun again triggers multiple religious (and romantic) crises.
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Note on romantic content (setting expectations): Bloodweave takes center-stage in terms of screen time, and the Astarion/Lathander relationship tag is the stage the boys are struggling to survive on. Shadowheart often mediates everyone's experience with love and the gods, for better or worse.
Series
- Part 1 of The Dawn Cataclysm
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20 Jul 2025