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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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03 Sep 2026
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as the shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn by tuffgreg for kitten_combatant
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
13 Apr 2024
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Astarion's interest in soft, wealthy, foolish Gale of Waterdeep is entirely practical: make Gale want to keep Astarion safe, no matter what Astarion has to trade away to do it. Gale of Waterdeep's needs are far less carnal than Astarion expects. Somehow that only makes it more complicated.
Or: Astarion underestimates Gale's willingness to let Astarion play pretend at being a vampire lord.
(Begins in Act 1 and speedruns through post-game. Mind the tags! There will be chapter-specific tags in the notes. The Cazador mentions are fairly frequent throughout.)
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08 Aug 2026
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Astarion smiled then. Genuinely smiled. Gale had never thought his features drawn until he saw them entirely relaxed. He was struck in particular by how young he looked.
Though Gale was immune to Astarion’s feigned charm, he was coming to realize he wasn’t nearly as safe from the authenticity the vampire hid behind it.
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What starts as a tentative friendship between Gale and Astarion, bonding over a shared love of reading, turns into the alarming realization that they may just have caught feelings for each other.
Completed: 9/12/24
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- Part 1 of And I Still Hum Its Tune
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Bookmarked by louiewrites
24 Jul 2026
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Frigga smiles and squeezes his hand gently.
“Do you remember what I told you when you were little? About the Norns and how they weave the web of fate, and that sometimes the threads of two people’s fates are woven together so intricately that it’s impossible to see where one life begins and another ends?”
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- Part 1 of all we have is impossible
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11 Jun 2026
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take my hand (take my whole life too) by pissaliisa
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
16 Aug 2026
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Arthur and Charles take major steps in their personal lives and relationships; from career to health, and to saying the most important "yes" of their lives.
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"You've wanted this since we met. I offered you some crappy white wine and made some pasta you couldn't eat, and even back then I knew you would get this done."
"It was seafood," Arthur said, almost like he had forgotten about that night at Charles' old apartment. "We had some kosher tacos delivered."
"We did, and remember what I said, back then?"
"…Somethin' about bein' there for me, if I wanted this."
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- Part 18 of the shitty date saga
Bookmarked by louiewrites
24 Dec 2025