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Spinning around fast enough to give himself whiplash, Viktor turns towards the figure closest to him that vaguely resembles an age-appropriate male-identifying person, and grabs their arm, leaning in to whisper-yell between gritted teeth.
“Please go along with this and I promise to repay you in any way I can.”
Option 3, the grand winner. Bribe a total stranger into helping him look like he’s not a sad single loser in front of his ex boyfriend.
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23 Jan 2026
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13 Sep 2025
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When loyal Piltovian knight Jayce Talis gets severely injured in a fall, he's rushed to the infirmary and stripped of his duties. While recovering, he develops an infatuation with the Royal Apothecary in charge of his care, Viktor. He soon learns that Viktor has a dangerous secret, one that may test Jayce's loyalties to his friends, his family, and the very kingdom he's sworn to.
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23 Feb 2025
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From the First by Mysecretfanmoments for Nanali
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
05 Mar 2025
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The hands—the suggestion of hands and fingers in a play of light and shadow—clenched for a moment before going slack again. In the long silence that followed, Jayce tried to get his bearings. They were in a cave, but the entrance was close enough for the moon and stars to cast their pale light inside. He stood slowly, using the wall Viktor sat against to balance without his leg brace. One shuffling step towards the entrance; another. The air was clear and cold, sapping all warmth from his body.
"We are a tad underdressed for the weather," Viktor said dryly, seeing him shiver.
Jayce laughed. "We're underdressed for everything except one of Count Azika's famous parties."
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A post-canon fic of Jayce and Viktor getting to talk... and not talk.
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22 Feb 2025
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Me [28M] with my roommate of 1 year [31M], I'm worried I might be homophobic towards him? by ivypool
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
13 Jul 2025
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"So this whole roommate thing. I just wanted to ask, like… what are you looking for? Should I totally leave you alone?” (God, please say no.) “Should we just be, like, cordial coworkers?” (Please, please, please say no.) “Or do you want to be more like… friends?”
Viktor snorted. It was a sound Jayce was starting to crave. His heart squeezed.
“Yes, Jayce.” Viktor stood, leaning on his cane. “I think we should be friends."
(or: the one where jayce can't figure out why he cares so much about the guys his new roommate brings home... and doesn't realize he's fallen in love until he's completely and totally fucked.)
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- Part 1 of reddit au
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22 Feb 2025
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Drunk at a party he is forced to attend, Viktor encounters Councilor Salo, who has a proposition too good to turn down - Make me a shock collar for my pet, and I will fund your next project.
Jayce finds out.
Jayce isn't happy.
... Jayce becomes Test Subject #1 (and likes it far more than either of them expected).
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02 Feb 2025
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After a gruesome war finally comes to treaty, it is decided that the King of Piltover will take a bride from Zaun.
Viktor isn't expecting to be a candidate.
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22 Jan 2025
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21 Jan 2025
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the line is covered in jellyfish by staroverlord
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
10 May 2026
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When Viktor finally asks why Jayce stayed behind inside the Anomaly with him, Jayce stares at him as though he’s supremely disappointed by the question— as if Viktor has betrayed his own brilliance by asking something so irredeemably stupid. “How could I not? We’re partners.”
Partners, Jayce calls them. Not for the first time, Viktor wonders: Partners in what?
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Or: Jayce and Viktor survive the Hexcore, a blizzard, their own bodies, sharing a bed and all the things they’re too afraid to say. Slowly, they put themselves back together— piece by stubborn piece.
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- Part 1 of the thin semantic line
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17 Jan 2025
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It is January 15th 1992, the forecast calls for heavy rain this evening, and Viktor does not know the man who stands in the doorway.
Chronic closet case Jayce meets prolific sexual deviant Viktor. A double dose of self-discovery ensues.
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28 Dec 2024
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Coming Home (But Not to You) by queercatfan
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
24 Dec 2024
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When Viktor makes the reluctant decision to move back to Piltover after six years to be a professor at The Academy, he's forced to share an office with none other than his former lab partner Jayce Talis, the very man who caused him to leave Piltover in the first place.
(modern professors AU)
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- Part 1 of Coming Home (But Not to You)
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21 Dec 2024
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Everything by Pikapeppa
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age - Various Authors
19 Jun 2024
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Teia stopped in front of her closed bedroom door and gave Viago a serious look. “You are going to take off those gloves tonight, aren’t you?”
He wet his lips. His eyes glided down over her satin-veiled body to the smooth lines of her bare legs, and she had to suppress a shiver of excitement. His gaze tracing over her body was affecting her as much as if he was touching her with his hands — hands that she dearly, dearly wanted him to reveal tonight.
His eyes rose back to her face. Then, without breaking from her gaze, he stepped closer to her and lifted one hand, and her skin tingled at the thought of him placing that hand on her body. Where on her body would he touch? Her hip, her waist — her breast…?
He took hold of the doorknob and opened the bedroom door behind her. “Go and get your bath, Teia,” he whispered.
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In other words: the UST in Eight Little Talons kills me in the best way, so I resolved it with some porn-with-feelings to resurrect myself. 😂Bookmarked by salsareads
09 Dec 2024
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“I was hoping you’d come back,” Gale said without thinking. He winced internally, all too aware of how desperate he sounded.
“Were you, now?” Astarion tilted his head ever so slightly, amber eyes roaming every inch of his face.
Not trusting his voice, Gale just nodded, and Astarion ducked his head closer, so close he could smell the faint citrusy scent of his skin.
“And…what were you hoping for, darling?” His voice was nearly a whisper, lips close enough to his ear that he could feel the heat of his words.Gale swallowed hard before finally finding his voice. “I was wondering what you meant by next time,” he said, pulling back to look the other man in the eyes.
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(I lied it's no longer a one-shot I'm sorry!) Stand-alone piece of slow burn to filth to crash featuring Astarion and Gale in a modern AU. Enjoy.
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25 Mar 2024
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16 Mar 2024
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Astarion lets his eyes slip closed, the words soaking into him. “Poor little Chosen,” he teases, studying the faint lines of the orb as they trickle down from his under eye. “He doesn’t know how to do anything but worship.”
“Let me show you. Please.”
“I like it when you beg.”
“Astarion.” His name is like honey, like chocolate, like wine. Something decadent, every syllable indulged. “I’ve already availed you of one of my talents this evening—“
“Cocky.”
“—and I am eager to avail you of another.”
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07 Mar 2024
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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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07 Mar 2024
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Mosquito, Puddle, Pain and Torment (and Honey) by lavvyan for shroomonabroom
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
19 Apr 2024
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Gale shouldn’t be entirely startled to find a vampire standing in the middle of his foyer, wet clothes dripping on the carpet and hands cupped around something small and equally soaked through.
He shouldn’t be, and yet…
“I found her in a crate,” Astarion says, shifting his grip to reveal a tiny slip of a kitten, sodden and shivering. His expression is bemused as he looks down at the little creature.
For all Astarion’s readiness to stab those deserving and undeserving alike, cruelty to animals bewilders him. Something Gale finds endlessly charming, not that he would ever say as much.
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Gale likes Astarion. Astarion likes cats. Gale might have made a slight miscalculation somewhere.
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03 Mar 2024
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A week in Waterdeep for the Feast Day holiday break permits Gale and Astarion the time and space to recognize all that they’ve been missing out on with each other…of course, those revelations never come out conventionally, do they?
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Clarity’s a devilish thing, he realizes. It took fucking up the one good thing he has going for him to come to terms with that, unfortunately. Now, he’s haunted not just by what he gleaned directly from Gale himself, but by the knowledge that if only they were both a bit more intrepid, they could have been seeking warmth in each other’s arms much, much earlier. But the manner by which these secrets were revealed—and his reflexive reaction after the fact—has poisoned it, crushed by the shame of his own hedonistic appetite.And to think it all began with a bite.
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- Part 3 of Academic Love Languages
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02 Mar 2024
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Gale Dekarios is a London bookstore owner whose humdrum existence is thrown into romantic turmoil when famous actor Astarion Ancunin appears in his shop.
The Bloodweave Notting Hill AU no one asked for
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15 Feb 2024
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A multi-part series chronicling the slow-burn romance between Astarion Ancunín, Associate Professor of Law and Dr. Gale Dekarios, Professor of Magic and Arcane History; modern with magic academia AU
Recommended reading in order, starting from:
1. Claw Clip Chronicles
2. May It Please the Court
3. Any Other Holiday
and tbd as they come outv sorry this is broken into different fics, i didn't have the foresight to plan accordingly...what began as a one-shot became more, and i couldn't go back wahh !!
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13 Feb 2024