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02 Feb 2024
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oh these hurt but in the best way. wyll ravengard i love u forever
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Karlach smiles at him as the sun begins to set, her eyes softening around the corners, a nervous look flickering over her features. And Astarion is already expecting what comes next, but it still feels like shards of ice blooming behind his ribs.
“Do you think I can sleep in your tent tonight? Now that I can’t hurt you or set the damn thing on fire.” She asks with a breathy chuckle, an uncharacteristic anxiety making her shift on her feet, her bottom lip caught under her teeth. He has no disillusions on what her words could mean. She’s not likely looking to do much sleeping when she is free to touch him now.
(Or, Karlach can freely touch the people she loves now. Astarion makes a few wrong assumptions.)
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- Part 8 of Flower’s Whumptober 2023 Collection
- Part 20 of “I feel safe with you.” (Astarion Fics)
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Astarion is near the docks when he feels Cazador's compulsion on him snap. He doesn't think twice. He just takes the next available ship out of Baldur's Gate. Its destination: The City of Splendors. Waterdeep.
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Gale takes back the glass, now empty, and then seems to fidget a little. “There is something I wanted to get your opinion on- but it can wait until you’ve recovered. You don’t look well at all- no offense meant, of course.”
“None taken,” Astarion says sweetly. “Please go on. Tell me exactly what it is about my appearance that you find lacking.”
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Gods, the wizard was hard as steel. Astarion smirked.
“Is this for me, or do you just get off on delivering tedious lectures?”
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A bratty vampire and a pompous wizard are trapped in a wardrobe together. It's Astarion's fault, and Gale won't let him forget it, until everything shifts in an instant and Astarion seizes the opportunity to gain the upper hand.
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Interim by starkraving
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
25 Dec 2021
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She has no throne. Girls without thrones should not have knights, but hers won’t go. Princess Zelda – the girl who killed Calamity – would love to fade into legend, but Link’s bought a house, he’s fighting off monsters, and he’s selling giant horses to strangely familiar Gerudo men. She'll never have any peace now.
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- Part 1 of Interim Stories
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12 Jan 2024
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such a cool concept! a hell of a journey, very sweet and wistful and heartwrenching and cathartic!
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Halsin sighed. “Astarion…I care for you. I care for you deeply.”
“You don’t know me,” Astarion insisted.
“Then let me.” Halsin slowly, carefully, reached for Astarion’s hands. Astarion let him. “Speak. One word from you, and I will leave you be.”
or: astarion and halsin dance carefully around affection, devotion, adoration.
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Before The First Light (Some Bright Morning Comes) by tinybabydeer
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
11 Dec 2023
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If he was the Oak Father’s scion, Wyll could understand worship. His knees ached for dirt. His tongue begged for salt.
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Five years later, Astarion is still in love with Gale. One day he finally gets the chance to demonstrate how much.
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29 Dec 2023
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WOWIE WOW 5 years of yearning from far apart but keeping in touch all the while, timelines in opposite directions, trans & fat gale...... i feel so well nourished. im flourishing
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“You have to kiss Gale,” Shadowheart tells Halsin, glittering with mischief. “It’s the rules.”
Shadowheart and Astarion start a game. It escalates quickly.
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18 Dec 2023
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doing the macarena on top of this fic. spin the bottle polycule galaxy brain. the balance of smut and character writing with such a large ensemble is AMAZING
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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. -
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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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“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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"No matter how desperate I get," Shadowheart says through gritted teeth, "I'm not that desperate."
But her body is betraying her. It's responding to Lae'zel's suggestion, rising like a well-stoked fire, and Lae'zel lowers herself to the ground near Shadowheart's feet. Shadowheart's legs shift to accommodate her in an instinct so bone-deep that she can't stop it before Lae'zel is filling the space.
"Give in to your desires, istik. Submit to me. In my experience," Lae'zel says, crawling slowly up Shadowheart's willing body, "the hatred will only make it sweeter."
And then Shadowheart is being kissed so thoroughly that she forgets her own name.
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Shadowheart doesn't know much about her past, or her future, or even who she is beyond what Shar asks of her. But she knows one thing. She hates Lae'zel. She hates her so much that the gith hardly leaves her mind, and there's nothing that could possibly change that.
A tale of misplaced hatred, building trust, and finding new purpose.
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"Wyll's the sort of prince-type I would have once dreamed of marrying. When I was about thirteen."
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- Part 1 of nothing is safe
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“Where,” Astarion gasps like he’s dying, “did you learn to do this?”
“Wizard academy,” Gale answers, like it’s terribly obvious.
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19 Nov 2023
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why arent there more docking fics this is so fucking tasty
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“Oh,” Astarion breathes, eyes drooping into glassy little crescents. Well, if this is how he dies, Astarion thinks, this is how he dies. A shame that he’ll never get to plunge a stake through Cazador’s chest. “Death is so beautiful.”
“...Precisely how much of this spider’s blood did you consume?” Gale asks, his hands brushing Astarion’s hair off his soaked forehead. The touch makes the unbearable, painful heat in his body squeeze around him like a heavy chain. “You’re scorching. You could give Karlach a run for all her gold.”
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“I am not eager to throw myself upon another altar for naught but scraps in return.” Gale steels himself with a deep breath. He speaks his peace to the wilds and the cosmos rather than his lover's face. “And yet. Marble skin, silver tongue... eyes like Moonsea rubies. Oh, you cast a fine altar, Astarion.”
With two discerning appetites, a deal to keep each other fed is the one thing that ties Astarion and Gale together. But the proverbial collar slips all too easily around Gale's throat, the lead feels right in Astarion's unchained hands, and both men think they've bested the other in a game neither should be playing.
In any case. As the greats say in lanceboard: there is no shame in losing to a stronger foe.
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15 Nov 2023
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i dont really go here but Holy Shit. Oh My God. literal huffing & puffing while reading this (in a good way. a great way. fantastic way, even)
*running back over a month later and pointing emphatically at this fic* this is it!! this is the fic that clawed open the bg3 brainworm rabbithole i have been swallowed by!!!!
hi im back again to say. genuinely crazed & unhinged over this fic. irrevocably altered. need it tattooed into my brain
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It was pretty common knowledge around the mortals that you had to be wary of tradespeople. Not that they were all malicious or anything, but when you lived next door to beings with that much power, it paid to be careful.
The problem is Dave Strider is not very careful.
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- Part 1 of the trades of clay and gold
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13 Nov 2023
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literally so fucking in love with this. oh my god
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Expatriate by thehoyden
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
01 Oct 2021
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Being sent to the Rito in the dead of winter is a punishment. Link is ostensibly relieving the longtime Hylian military attaché, so this could be construed a promotion—but for the timing.
Another birthday has come and gone, and still he has not presented. And even though everyone expects him to be appointed the Princess’s knight, one thing is for sure—the King will never select anyone but an alpha. And he certainly won’t trust his only child with someone who hasn’t even presented yet. Maybe it would be different if Link had the sword that seals the darkness, but he doesn’t.
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28 Oct 2023
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WOW!!! great read. author does really cool stuff with relating a/b/o to the hylian goddess/triforce, as well as expanding on hylian/rito customs & cultures. the romance buildup is delightful and i def want to reread at some point.
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“It’s the first heat I’ve had since…” Maxwell swallows, and his eyes find the floor. “My wife.”
Ah. Shit.
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25 Oct 2023
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never in my LIFE could i imagine coming across a fic like this but here i am. startlingly aroused. i'll never be able to look at mr sheffield the same way