16 Bookmarks by PyroManicCryptid
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Charon is privy to the vast amount of knowledge pertaining to the denizens of the Underworld. But very few know anything regarding him. That is until, of course, he meets a certain someone.
Alternatively: a series of loosely connected vignettes following Charon through several moments leading up to the events of the game.
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08 Apr 2026
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There's a lot to learn about the tourist trap that is Styx Beach; that it's a dry town, that it's made up of strange and interesting people, that its beholden to the only hotel generating any kind of tourism and it's stubborn owner, but there's one thing Hermes only starts to figure out five months into his time there:
He might be falling for that boat guy.
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- Part 1 of Styx Beach
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08 Apr 2026
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After an impossibly long three days, most choose the privacy of their tents over a group dinner. It doesn't escape Astarion what effect this seems to have on Gale. However, the effect Gale has on him escapes Astarion entirely.
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or: Astarion dodges ten million mental hoops to admit he cares and then gets walloped by ten BILLION bats when someone else cares about him so very much.
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- Part 1 of dalgur's bate
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22 Jul 2025
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Hob is, once again, having an oddly lucid dream
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09 Jul 2025
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Dream wants his reunion with Hob to go perfectly after their big fight so he visits Hob’s dreams to rehearse the moment. During one of those practice dreams, Hob suddenly kisses him.
Or: HBO’s The Rehearsal but make it dreamling.
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05 Jul 2025
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Like most of Gale’s problems since the Nautiloid, this whole mess is Tav’s fault. He doesn’t know exactly what Tav told Astarion when Gale was out of the room, but he trusts that they didn’t betray his confidence. Probably.
Whatever it is has made Astarion act even stranger than normal and it is threatening Gale’s very carefully curated compartmentalization of his feelings for the man.
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30 Jun 2025
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“So is the Great Gale of Waterdeep admitting that he has a vampire fetish?”
He forces him a step backward with a strategic leg in between, hurried and fissured. The main objective is, of course, that they manage to inch ever closer towards the bed.
“I’ve been known to ah, carouse salaciously sanguine novelettes, if you will,” Gale blushes, then leans back in towards Astarion as if he can steal a kiss in between the points of his attempt at explanation. And he does. “But I’d like to think it indicates more of a, ah, attraction to a little bit of danger, if I’m being honest?”
Well. Quite.
“Oh, how felicitous it has been for you then—to find yourself in the company of the indubitable embodiment of your fiction fantasies, hmm?” He turns his index finger into a hook, then crooks it to skim along the curve of his collar; a sluice of a thing. “Does that make you my little monster-fucker?”
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post-game, (best) friends to lovers || 'danger kink' dekarios meets 'absolutely can't wait to fuck your thighs' ancunínBookmarked by PyroManicCryptid
22 Jun 2025
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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.
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05 Jun 2025
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so shut your mouth (and run me like a river) by cweepa
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
12 Mar 2025
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Wyll looks amused. “But to answer your question: I don’t see anything, I’m afraid. Save for impressive craftsmanship.”
“Exactly!” Astarion snaps his fingers, triumphant. “But here’s the thing – there’s no need for us to see Gale’s – ah, craftsmanship, it’s inappropriate, borderline obscene –”
“What?” Now, Wyll seems truly tickled. “Astarion, I was referring to the robe. Don’t you wonder where those scales came from?” He pauses. Tilts his head to the side, swirls his stupid wine in his stupid glass. “What were you talking about?”
In which one Wavemother’s robe helps Astarion discovers the true – hah – scale of the problem at hand. Specifically: the one in his pants.
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05 Jun 2025
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He could say later that he stepped forward because of the silence spell. His arsenal smothered. He had no choice.
But Gale knows that even if he had the entire Weave at his fingertips, for once in his miserable life, he’d go without.
He’ll use his hands.
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05 Jun 2025
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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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- 3/3
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26 Feb 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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- 4/4
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26 Feb 2024
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Will knew what had happened. He knew exactly how Abigail's ear had gotten into him, who had shoved it down his throat. He also knew that trying to indicate Hannibal as a killer again was futile. Jack seemed to want to believe him, going by the conversation in the BSHCI's visitor hall, but Jack needed something concrete, evidence. Hannibal had eluded capture for so long, he wasn't going to start leaving fingerprints or hairs at his crime scenes now.
No, Will was going to deal with Hannibal Lecter on his own terms. The man deserved to reap what he'd so carefully sowed, didn't he? He deserved to experience what he'd coaxed forth from the bottom of Will's soul, to see the result of his machinations.
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After his release from the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Will doesn't return to work for the FBI.
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- 14/14
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13 Sep 2020
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Hannibal can't take Will with him when he runs away, so Will has to play innocent when the FBI finds him half-dead. And then he has to go on playing normal for a long time afterwards. Hannibal and Will spin out the days until they can meet up again however they can manage to stay in touch under the radar. A long-distance slow-burn Scheherazade love story of sorts.
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- Part 1 of Averno
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- English
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- 43,490
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- 21/21
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14 May 2017
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Clarice Starling needs help with a case, so she pays a visit to Will Graham, who's incarcerated in the Baltimore Sate Hospital with his partner.
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- Part 1 of Forcing Our Darkest Souls to Unfold
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- 16,538
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- 6/6
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20 Oct 2015
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Bilbo Baggins led a rather peaceful life, thank you very much, until an old acquaintance decided to turn it upside down, and he found himself agreeing to take a job that’s… let’s say not exactly up his alley, and might eventually cost him a little more than his treasured cozy lifestyle. Who would have thought tutoring a slightly menacing monarch’s more than slightly overbearing nephew could prove to be such an adventure?
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- Part 1 of Nothing Gold Can Stay
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- Chapters:
- 26/26
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28 Apr 2015