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Karlach did not need to know the full extent of what Gale had written to Gortash: only that his expertise in magic might well be valuable enough to trade for the replacement of her engine. A wizard's hubris was useful, sometimes. One had to know their own talents to make the best use of them.
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- Part 1 of Tephra Year and Related Works
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26 Apr 2024
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“Show me something interesting,” Astarion insists. “Haven’t you got anything?”
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26 Apr 2024
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kill your darlings by els bloody rollerskate (regina_mary) for zombyers
Fandoms: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins
24 Dec 2023
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He hates Sejanus. He’s sure he does. Hates the way Sejanus takes everything for granted, hates the way people want to possess Sejanus – and how Sejanus lets them, so easily, so desperate to be loved; he hates the way Sejanus throws away his money like it’s nothing; hates how Sejanus is so ungrateful for everything he has done and will continue to do. Do I even exist to you, Sejanus Plinth? Am I a ghost to you? A guardian angel? Can you see me, really?
Most of all, he hates how Sejanus makes him burn...Coriolanus doesn’t even know if the burning he feels is really hatred. It isn’t love, but it’s somewhat passionate. Passionate like a punch. Skin on skin; osseous knuckle meeting soft, sensitive flesh.
Splitting open hearts or splitting open the skin on lips. What was really, truly, the difference?
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Seven times Coriolanus was a sinner and Sejanus was the saint. One time Coriolanus made sure it stayed that way.
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19 Apr 2024
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To Gale, working with Gortash is a bitter pill he must swallow, but one he can chase with the sweetness of the Crown in his capable hands.
To Astarion, it’s pure hedonism and power. It’s a section of the city in the palm of a pair of new gauntlets. It’s blood from a populace who will never tell him no again, and it's Gale at his feet.
But the aloof housecat often thinks itself a ruler on high over the loyal pup, even when they both wear the master's collar and eat his of scraps.
Enver has come to enjoy their meals together.
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04 Apr 2024
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Gale offers a rather unique proposition to help Astarion navigate his feelings about sex, and Astarion discovers that he likes when Gale talks—sometimes. In very specific situations.
So he decides to leave his marks sans-fangs, covering the orb’s trail with his own. Because this orb, the Absolute, even Mystra all be damned, Gale is his tonight.
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02 Apr 2024
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When Astarion regrets his ascension, Gale thinks it's because he's a good person who can still redeem himself. Astarion has his own theory: that Gale really is an asshole.
They struggle to prove each other wrong.
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29 Mar 2024
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“Is that so? My mistake,” Gale says amiably. Then, his posture changes, unsettles itself; he glances about the room awkwardly, reaching around to scratch the back of his neck. “So, err… are the two of you — being careful, then?”
Astarion laughs. Then, after a long, pointed pause, he says, “Oh, gods. Were you being serious?”
Gale offers a two hundred year-old vampire some tips on safe sex. This has some unintended side effects.
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27 Mar 2024
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Phantasmal Psychology by positivejam for prince_of_fics
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
14 Feb 2024
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Lord Astarion holds grand masquerades that are attended by the finest of the Gate. He samples the populace like wine; finding a taste for fat blooded noblemen and soft academics. And he kills with impunity, now– once slitting a beggar’s throat who had kicked up dust on his finest boots.
So why does sad little Professor Dekarios still elude him so?
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25 Mar 2024
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“Whatever happened here?” Astarion teases, coming face to face with Gale. He makes a show of looking him up and down, one slender finger against his own lips in faux concern.
Gale makes a growl of annoyance around his gag. He gives one pointed tug to his bound wrists and flicks his eyes upwards as if to say is it not obvious?
“Trapped? Oh, but that can’t be it. Astarion says, mouth dropping open as if he’s just noticed the binds. “I seem to recall you saying you had everything quite in hand.”
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25 Mar 2024
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The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Perceived by Gourmet
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
02 Nov 2023
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“I don’t want to hurt you, my heart.”
“Yes, and maybe that’s the problem!” Astarion snaps suddenly, yanking his hands out from under his.
Halsin stares, startled by the outburst, and Astarion frowns, first at him and then at the tree over his shoulder. When he doesn’t elaborate, Halsin carefully breaches the silence instead.
“Do you want me to hurt you?”
AKA astarion doesn't know how to ask for what he wants, but halsin can make an educated guess
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23 Mar 2024
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Gale learns what effects myconid reproductive spores have on humans—and what effects they don't have on the undead.
Just one more reason to hate Astarion.
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“You're sure you’re ready for the role?” Nyssa teases. “Studied up? I can’t imagine there are too many books about infiltrating drow temples.”
Gale fiddles with his collar and leash, pinching it between his forefingers in a way that shouldn’t be distracting but is.
“Perhaps not specifically. You see, the problem about writing on drow society is one often does not make it up from the Underdark to hand pages to publisher. Of course there are many…less researched volumes. Of hapless men and leather-clad matrons. But I told Shadowheart I would be a gentleman, so that is all I will say on the more sordid parts of my education. You’ve nothing to fear.”
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14 Mar 2024
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During a less-than-illustrious dig through Gale’s belongings Astarion uncovers some very interesting magical items that Gale neglected to consume. The spells contained within are as mundane as they are redundant, and Astarion wants to figure out why their good wizard is hiding things from them.
They both get more than they bargained for.
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13 Mar 2024
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A wizard’s magic, of course, offered the most variety: a textbook charm, as taught to young enchantment students, had a taste of saccharine sweetness to it that smoothed the edges of the mind like cough syrup. Actively resisting an experienced wizard’s Dominate Person could spur a pain so bone-deep it was nauseating; surrender, by comparison, was a glorious narcotic that slowed the conscious mind to a languid docility in service of the caster’s will.
But it wasn't enchantment magic, this.
(Prompt fill for the BG3 kinkmeme! The prompt: Gale/Gortash, dubcon/noncon brainwashing or hypnotism: Gortash has captured Gale (maybe he's doing a reverse uno and forcing the party to kill Orin for him). Unfortunately for Gale, he's far away enough from the artifacts protection that Gortash can try and take control of him.)
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11 Mar 2024
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Every God needs a Chosen. One day the greatest painters of Faerun would capture Gale with his.
The Seduction of Dekarios. The maiden in the river, bathed in holy light across underdark waters. The God whispering promises in her ear. The forging of new love, in fires of the only mortal left on this plane with ambitions as great as his once were.
Minthara Baenre with blood still on her teeth as she kissed him and, one day, said yes.
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08 Mar 2024
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"Marriage, Wyll? I thought you'd have learned not to get trapped by devious contracts."
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- Part 2 of nothing is safe
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06 Mar 2024
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The long and heavy quiet of the Underdark inspires an unexpected observation.
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21 Feb 2024
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He watches Gale for an attenuated beat.
“I like you,” he says.
“Lucky me.”
“Lucky you.”
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21 Feb 2024
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“Look,” Gale says tightly, “I don’t know how flashing around that magistrate’s chain tends to work for you, but I’m not exactly beholden to my sense of civil service.”
“Oh, darling, no.” Astarion waves a hand, disappointingly unbothered. “I just figured you the wrong side of pathetic without some company. I prefer more of a challenge.”
Gale’s gaze hardens. “Thanks,” he grunts.
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21 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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19 Feb 2024