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Chosen by spacesunderstairs
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
23 Dec 2025
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Gale is a former wizard prodigy searching for the perfect place to die. Simultaneously arrogant and emotionally isolated, he finds himself cursed and infected, left bloodied and penniless on the edge of nowhere. His unlikely salvation is a group of raiders: drow from Menzoberranzan with little use for maimed men or mages. Resigned to his grim fate, he's surprised to find himself spared once more on his arrival to the Underdark— this time by Minthara, a woman as clever as she is cruel, as she seeks a servant for her own mysterious ends in the City of Spiders and beyond.
An alternate universe where Gale is captured post-tadpoling, Minthara isn't a leader in the Absolute's army, but the plot of the game is still (mostly) in tact.
This story is a tragedy. Mind the tags.
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- English
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- 18,763
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- 5/8
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Bookmarked by pondintheforest
23 Dec 2025
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"…I am pleased to see you again, wizard."
The look he gave her was one of faint surprise— lips parted, eyes widened and rimmed with heavy dark circles. His beard, usually so meticulously groomed, was unkempt. For once he seemed at a loss for words.
"I…I'm pleased to see you too, Minthara."
Minthara Baenre was never a woman of many words.
Gale Dekarios was desperate for them.
(A look into their relationship: post-kidnapping and return)
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- English
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- 1/1
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Bookmarked by pondintheforest
23 Dec 2025
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Hermione is familiar with fighting: for respect, for attention, for justice. She’s even made a career of it; working on behalf of creatures and beings. But her battle against the Ministry’s marriage law is one she loses. Badly. And now, she has to contend with not only public derision and patriarchal politics, but her growing feelings for her government-mandated spouse.
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Bookmarked by pondintheforest
01 Aug 2025
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Sub-Zero Venom by maximumtrash
Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
07 Jul 2025
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Threat, threat, threat—
He inhales, and goes still.
He’s beyond cold, like a frozen star, but Yelena wraps her arms at his back and crushes herself to him because he’s still Bob, and she wants him to know that she’s here even if he’s about to tear her throat out.
An Avengers mission to contain the outbreak of a virus on a fleet of cargo ships goes fine.
Until it goes wrong.
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- Part 2 of Boblena Week '25
Bookmarked by pondintheforest
01 Aug 2025
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Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love by isthisselfcare
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
08 Apr 2022
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Hermione straddles the Muggle and Magical worlds as a medical researcher and Healer about to make a big discovery. Draco is an Auror assigned to protect her from forces unknown – to both of their displeasure.
Features hyper-competent, fiery Hermione and lazy, yet dangerous, Draco. Slow burn.
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- English
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- 199,548
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- 36/36
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Bookmarked by pondintheforest
20 Jul 2025