10 Bookmarks by chthonicvampire
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"What did you say?" the pale man asked, sounding almost breathless. He clenched his hands at his sides, digging what appeared to be very dark, sharp nails—almost claws—into his palms.
“You're beautiful," Gale repeated, rolling onto his side. His chest ached, and his vision was blurring again. If this was a vision before death, perhaps this was his mind's strange conjuring of an angel. Might as well make the most of it. "Like an angel....or a mermaid…? But those flippers are distinct…a pinniped?" he coughed weakly, his eyelids fluttering. He was rambling like an idiot.
"Not a bad last sight," Gale murmured, letting his eyelids droop. "The mind plays such tricks…" He reached out, gripping one clammy hand in his. His attempt to lace their hands together was restricted by a delicate web between each of Astarion's pale fingers. The other man's hand went rigid as stone, but he didn't pull away.
"Depths below, you're not dying, you imbecile," Astarion snapped. "Although perhaps it'd be better if you were." Those were the last words Gale heard before he slipped beneath the wave of unconsciousness.
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31 May 2026
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No Rest for the Winged by completelyrotten, spAceArrow
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
09 May 2026
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On instinct Astarion looked up through his lashes and winked. When he moved to uncover himself, leaving just a bit over his hips in a tease, pain shot through his little body. That’s right, he’s not in his elven form and Gale was most likely not attracted to bats. At least Astarion hoped he wasn’t.
Plan B: become utterly adorable.Bookmarked by chthonicvampire
12 Mar 2026
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Hands reach out from the audience, grasping blindly as Gale walks the perimeter of the stage. Faintly, someone shouts out their undying adoration. Another screams their need to taste his sweat. Try as he might, Astarion simply cannot reconcile this man with the buttoned-up and bookish wizard he’s known for five centuries.
“Now, this next song is a personal favourite of mine.”
Gale tosses the barely-burnt stick to the ground, grinds it beneath a boot. His voice goes sinfully low as he presses his lips up against the mic.
“Worship,” he breathes out, lids fluttering. “With me.”
Five hundred years of freedom has prepared Astarion for anything. Except, as it turns out, his old friend Gale somehow ending up as one of Faerûn's hottest rockstars.
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22 Dec 2025
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22 Oct 2025
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Gale shot him a smirk. “You’re in a bit of a killjoy mood today, huh?”
Astarion shrugged and gestured at his face. “Come kiss it better?”
Gale stood with a languid stretch that showed off the long, lean lines of their abs. Astarion’s eyes trailed down past the line of dark hair to a triple set of waistbands slung increasingly low across trim hips—the strings of a thong, the waistband of their well-worn cotton boxers, and the thick denim of Gale’s favorite JNCOs. Astarion watched the little stack of fabric shift as Gale walked closer to him, purposefully swaying their hips for Astarion’s benefit.
“Can I have a hit of that?” they asked, gesturing towards the joint with their chin.
Nodding and taking a deep drag, Astarion tipped his face up at Gale with an expectant look. Without missing a beat Gale leaned down and pressed their open mouth to Astarion’s, sucking in as Astarion blew out.
A lovely Saturday evening in which Astarion gets high and watches MTV while Gale cockwarms him.
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27 Sep 2025
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“Gods, I—” Astarion swallows visibly, throat bobbing. “I—”
“I know.” Gale bats his eyelids. Reties his scrunchie, rests his palms on Astarion’s trembling knees, then slips two sly fingers through a rip in his jeans. “Your turn?”
“Please.”
Astarion’s response comes without hesitation. Gale leans forward, catching his zipper between two teeth, before dragging it down, fishnet and denim.
“So many have used me,” Gale rasps. “But you’re all I’ve thought about tonight.”
A hitched breath.
“Darling,” Astarion murmurs, thumbing his lower lip. Gale whines, tongue darting out to lick his finger.
Darling. Oh, that’s a new one. Gale likes that.
Gale couldn't be happier with his friends, his little froyo shop, and his after-hours... ah, proclivities. That is, until a certain red-eyed elf shows up and throws a wrench in his carefully crafted plans.
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27 Sep 2025
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“There are better ways to go about this if I wish to speak to someone anonymously,” Gale points out. Shadowheart shrugs, winking at him.
“Sure, but this is possibly the most satisfying one,” she says, and fine, Gale can’t argue with that. But still. Such conversations are surface level at best, and transactional at worst. Besides, it’s not in his nature to consume live internet pornography. He has no desire to share such an intimate act with a complete stranger.
“I would really rather see a therapist,” he says.
Fresh out of a messy divorce, disgraced academic Gale Dekarios finds himself biting off more than he can chew when a seemingly innocuous encounter with an enigmatic camboy, Star, leads him down a precarious path of lies, liberation and eventually—love.
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25 Sep 2025
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“I cared about you, once,” Wyll said. “Truly.”
“A pity,” Astarion sneered, batting his eyelashes, still venomous even though he was pinned to the floor. “I thought you were smarter than that.”
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Twenty years after the fall of the Netherbrain, Wyll returns to Baldur's Gate to slay the one monster he left behind.
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25 Aug 2025
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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 chthonicvampire
18 Jul 2025
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Astarion and Gale are two sides of the same coin. They know what it's like to hunger, what it's like to be someone else's tool, both used to fulfill someone else's goals. Astarion has never been allowed to love, has only ever wanted peace and safety. Gale has searched for love his entire life, yearning to find someone who wants to be loved by him. They both want someone who sees them.
This is my take on Astarion and Gale learning what it means to find someone who sees beyond what they can offer (Astarion's body, Gale's magic). The story of what it's like to fall in love with someone who might just love you back.
Begins in the prequel, set during Act One, when they both feel drawn to one another, but there's not a time nor place for anything deeper. It continues, months later, after the brain, after Baldur's Gate, in the magnificent city of Waterdeep, a fresh start for them both, and time to heal from wounds neither knew they had.
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Bookmarked by chthonicvampire
18 Jun 2025