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"Have you ever wanted something
So badly you cannot breathe?
Have you ever loved someone
Madly?"
- CyranoSnapshots of the journey between Astarion and Tavali
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15 Jun 2026
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Feign death is only supposed to last an hour.
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Tav goes down in a fight.
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- Part 20 of Madly
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- English
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- 5/5
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20 May 2026
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After leaving Szarr Entertainment in the wake of a tumultuous - deliberately engineered - scandal, Astarion Ancunín has rebuilt his acting career, from the blacklisted ground up. Through a heavily doctored narrative of queer reclamation, he's finally making a name for himself, and hoping to claim prestige (and maybe a few awards) through the leading role in a historical biopic about the openly gay elven oracle, Aerthwyn Capaxath.
The only problem is, Aerthwyn Capaxath is the worst person that ever lived (or died). Just ask Dr. Rosalie Frostsong, a thoroughly unwilling expert on the subject.
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(A celebrity/academic, reluctant workplace allies turned friends-to-lovers, modern AU... a.k.a. the silliest thing i've ever written. I hope people enjoy!)
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- Part 6 of Rat Bastard Boi (BG3)
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- English
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- 246,259
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- 31/?
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10 Apr 2026
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'Who is going to believe a con artist?'
'Everyone, if she is good.'
Newly ascended Lord Ancunín is still learning the role of Lord of Crimson Palace.
Mauria is still learning her role, too.
However, she isn't going to let a little thing like being the lover of the Vampire Ascendant get in the way of her recreation. The girl just loves to steal.- Words:
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31 Mar 2026
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Tonight I can write the saddest lines by readingbcilovecrying
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
07 Apr 2025
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He isn’t much of a partygoer, but he’s fairly certain that this—Tav, on her knees in front of a postdoc, with his cock buried in her mouth—is not how these things usually go.
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Gale’s only concerns are pleasing his advisor and setting himself up well for an elusive tenure-track job… and then Tav transfers into his doctoral program.
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31 Mar 2026
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Almost 30 years ago Astarion told her to leave the city. He warned that if she ever showed her face in Baldur's Gate again, he would kill her himself. And for almost 30 years he has lived with that decision, growing a power and authority that he never had before.
When the Lord Ascendant, Don Ancunín hears details of a new player gaining power in the Gate he has little doubt who that player is.The best player he knows. And possibly the only one able to take him down.
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- Part 6 of Pros and Cons
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- English
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- 49,198
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- 16/16
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18 Sep 2025
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A Man's Word is His Bond by howlsmovinglibrary
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
20 Aug 2020
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The Antivan Crows burned away Zevran’s soulmark long before he was old enough to read it.
What Zevran didn’t realise - until much later - was that the Crows did not invent this technique. It was a practice originally cultivated by the Circles. Mages had their soulmates erased, lest the connection make them yearn too much for the world outside tower walls.
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A soulmates AU featuring a disaster bisexual hot assassin boi, and his hypercompetent nerd wife (who is bad at feelings).
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09 Jul 2025
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05 May 2025
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The Last Will and Testament of Cazador Szarr by AbigailMoment
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
16 Feb 2026
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"First," said Gale. "Do not kill any thinking creatures in Waterdeep unless you must to protect yourself or you have my express permission."
As Gale spoke, he could feel the weight of his words sinking into the person sitting across from him. It was like casting a spell, but took no effort. Astarion had been staring hollowly into his goblet of blood, but at this he made a faintly interested noise. As if the rule were novel and he was considering the shape of it.
"Second, you will obey me in all things," said Gale. There didn't feel like there was any honest way of softening that. Astarion didn't make any sound at all.
"Third, do not leave the tower without permission." Astarion made another speculative noise, considering this one too. But then his shoulders hunched and his eyes skittered down, as if he didn't want to look at what was about to happen.
"Fourth," Gale said, and paused. He started with some context: "There is a tressym upstairs."
Astarion's head twitched. He looked up at Gale, blinking, startled. He had the air of someone who had been bracing for a blow and instead had just been handed a balloon animal.
"A what?" he asked.
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- Part 1 of Will & Testament
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- English
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- 61/61
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11 Apr 2025
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Yesterday, Linda was on her way to Target to buy a birthday present for her granddaughter.
Today, Linda is infected with some parasite in the most horrifying environment imaginable. Even worse, she's surrounded by a band of misfits: a magical bearded man who talks too much, an odd little Goth girl with bangs that desperately need a trim, an angry alien lady who won't quit sharpening her sword, a disturbingly pale elf who needs some bronzer, and a heroic young man with one eye.
This can't be real... can it? Surely she's having a psychotic break.
Tomorrow, she'll wake up and this will all be some kind of nightmare. She's sure of it.
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- Part 1 of Back to Yesterday
- Language:
- English
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- 223,598
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- 42/?
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12 Mar 2025
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The Weave is unraveling. A deadly blight is spreading across Faerûn, siphoning magic from those who wield it, leaving them comatose husks trapped in a lifeless stasis. With the threat growing unchecked, Novalie—an enigmatic tiefling warlock under the tutelage of Elminster—has been sent to Waterdeep to seek the aid of Gale Dekarios, a once-great wizard now drowning in grief and self-destruction.
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04 Mar 2025
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Isleen never believed in fate—until she met Gale of Waterdeep. He is brilliant, powerful, and doomed to die. And she refuses to let that happen.
Gifted—or cursed—with the ability to control time, Isleen fights against destiny itself, determined to save the man she loves. Each death brings her closer to the truth, each loop unraveling more of the forces that conspire against them. But time is a cruel mistress, and no matter how many times she rewrites the past, the future refuses to change.
As she peers into the threads of time, bending them to her will, Isleen must ask herself: how many lives is she willing to lose? How much of herself can she sacrifice before she forgets who she is? And if she finally succeeds… will Gale still be the man she fell in love with, or will time itself have broken them both?
Some destinies cannot be rewritten. But that has never stopped Isleen before.
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27 Feb 2025
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In a love story for the ages, convicted felon Astarion and sad divorcé Gale get high on various drugs and have preposterous sex in preposterous locations. They will live happily ever after. Very loosely inspired by the song "I Want to Live" from BG3.
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10 Jan 2025
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A Falling Star Fell from Your Heart (and Landed in My Eyes) by thebeebard
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
13 Dec 2024
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“How old were you when you were turned?” You ask gently, hoping the push doesn’t cause him to shut down and dawn the mask once again. Every crack in his façade makes you want to peer behind those walls all the more.
“I’m…not sure, to be honest,” he says after a pause.
You stare back at the fire, contemplating. You don’t want to push too far and lose this moment, but something is dawning on you. Even the youngest elven city officials you’d heard about were old enough to have outlived most of their human colleagues twice over. Humans are notoriously bad at estimating the ages of longer-living races, often having trouble telling between even a one hundred year old and a two hundred year old. For an elf to be young enough for most humans to realize they even were young…
“Astarion is still your child name, isn’t it,” you say, more a statement of fact than a question.
Another pause.
“...yes. Yes it is.”
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- Part 1 of Starsong
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15 Dec 2024
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The Road to Baldur's Gate is a long one, made longer for Astation by the fleeting light of hope and the nagging question of just how he got here, holding Nahema in the rancid maw of Thorm's domain. Who was she, to him? How did this happen? Where did his "nice, simple" plan fall apart? Why did he just now realize that he was more than a little alright with it crumbling away to dust, while she lay dying in his arms?
Part One of Damned and Divine starts at the end of Act 2, in the Mind Flayer Colony, mid battle with the Apostle of Myrkul, and travels between the present day and memories of the past as Astarion comes to grips with freedom, decisions, and the realization that love is always in the cards. This all came to me while I was running my first playthrough of BG3 as a Cleric of Selune, and I wanted to get it down on paper. Please enjoy!
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- Part 1 of Damned and Divine
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10 Dec 2024
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Last night, Astarion ripped your throat out with his teeth. You made him do it — baited him into it, on purpose. You kind of had a death wish, and Raphael promised that in exchange, he’d set Astarion free.
Only one problem with that plan: Lae’zel doesn’t tolerate dangerous vampires in camp. And Gale is horribly, madly in love with you.
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- Part 2 of Deals with Devils
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21 Nov 2024
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His eyes trace the line of your pulse, healthy and strong after your revival. “If you need me to be that person," he says, "I could be persuaded.”
Sometimes the only way to deal with cursed blood is to remove it.
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- Part 1 of Dirgesinger
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- English
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- 128,366
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- 29/29
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14 Nov 2024
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A Tangled Weave by arquennial
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
04 May 2025
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Tara flew to his shoulder and gazed down with him, taking in the scene.
“Do you see it?” he whispered. “What…”
“I see it.” She rubbed her cheek against his, her tail curling around his hunched shoulders.
“What does it mean?”
“It means hope, Gale. It means something real.”—
Gale is a divination wizard, but a mere shadow of his former glory.
Aoife is an Oath of the Ancients paladin, haunted by the grief of her past.
A year after their fateful first meeting Aoife's path crosses the Wizard of Waterdeep's once more. But as the two are drawn together, Gale's misfortune with the orb and Aoife's long-held sorrow aren't the only dark shadows cast upon them by the past, and soon their fates become as entangled as the threads of the Weave.
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- Part 1 of Oh, what a tangled Weave we web
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- English
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- 350,492
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- 106/106
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30 Oct 2024
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Professor Gale Dekarios loves his job. Surrounded by words, he teaches his students about the most beautiful, devastating, and emotionally driven pieces of literature. So far he hasn't found his soulmate, much as the idea appeals to him. But the arrival of the bubbly, passionate Coach Bella Polaris throws his once stable routine off course, and he begins to fall in love with her. It's a shame she's engaged to someone else then...
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- Part 1 of Hammerweave in every Universe ✨
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17 Oct 2024
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They had not gotten along, at least at first.
Bal had acquaintances along the Sword Coast but none were wizards. A few fellow sorcerers but most definitely no wizards. By the nine hells did she find them arrogant and, consequently, difficult to get along with.
In her opinion, Gale embodied all the worst traits of wizardkind. The man was pompous, hubristic, and by the gods he never shut up.
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Bal hid away from the world for three years in Baldur's Gate to deal with her grief, unfortunately, that didn't save her from being snatched up by the nautiloid. Begrudgingly saddled with the title of leader, she tentatively begins to make friends again, opening her heart to her fellow tadpals, and carving out a special place for Mystra's former Chosen.
But the weight of the Sword Coast's fate rests heavily on her shoulders, and love is not always easy. When further loss and expectations take their toll, she flees from the one she cherishes most, unable to handle that he will pass long before she does.
Time and soul-searching will heal Bal's wounds, but only if she can face her fears and doubts.
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- Language:
- English
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- 156,949
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17 Oct 2024