1 - 20 of 50 Bookmarks by Winewithdandelion
Navigation
List of Bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
It sounds like a joke about wizards that the comedian downstairs would tell, but it’s true that Gale smells like a library. Rory breathes him in and feels that she is somewhere safe, and quiet, and full of endless potential.
Gale gets wooed and wowed. A little magic goes a long way, and a mortal body isn't such a bad thing after all.
Series
- Part 4 of non-conventional munitions
Bookmarked by Winewithdandelion
03 Jul 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Kara Nilur, a struggling musician from Baldur’s Gate, has lived in Waterdeep for four months with little to show for it. But when she takes a job in a bookshop, just to tide herself over, a chance encounter with a flustered university professor changes the course of her path.
An AU where the events of Baldur’s Gate 3 never happened, Mystra is Gale’s human ex-wife, and Gale is really, really into romance novels.
Bookmarked by Winewithdandelion
01 Jul 2026
-
A Simple Request For An Unsimple Man by heartofsnark
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
23 Oct 2023
Tags
Summary
Petra and Gale are more than a little clumsy in the ways that they love, both having their own significant dry spell when it comes to romance and sexual desires. And while the two have shared themselves within the weave, Petra has made a simple request to share their physical bodies as well- wanting her share of the traditional as much as the untraditional. Gale is eager to fulfill any request she'd make of him, but simple requests and gestures always seem to become decidedly more complicated and grand when the wizard starts working his magic.
Bookmarked by Winewithdandelion
13 Jun 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Really, it was inevitable she was going to slip up at some point. When you’re travelling with a group of people who are psychically connected by mind-flayer tadpoles, somewhere along the line, someone is going to accidentally read someone’s mind.
But did it have to be him? And did it have to be that?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 18,683
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Comments:
- 181
- Kudos:
- 2,899
- Bookmarks:
- 504
- Hits:
- 58,598
Bookmarked by Winewithdandelion
11 Jun 2026
-
Tags
Summary
You get an idea from one of Gale's dirty little novels. Surprisingly, he's willing to go along with it.
Safe, sane and consensual kink. Like it's negotiated and everything.
Second person POV
Series
- Part 2 of Kinktober 2023
Bookmarked by Winewithdandelion
10 Jun 2026
-
Tags
Summary
The body knows more than the mind ever will.
And Gale’s body is demanding some pretty sordid things.Or
Our group of adventurers find refuge in a druidic sanctuary untouched by gods, where Gale meets Temple, a tiefling Druid, who challenges everything he thought he knew about himself.
Takes place in Act 3.
****
Slow burn, and becoming a lot longer and more detailed than this writer expected. I apparently can’t just write some good old fashioned smut. I have to make it devastating first. Torture first, sex later.
My grad school project had a focus on body memory and I haven’t gotten over it. Please come suffer the way I did.Bookmarked by Winewithdandelion
07 Jun 2026
-
Book One: Dawn by OptimisticGrey
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
26 Jun 2026
Tags
Summary
Born beneath whispers and raised on suspicion, The Dark Urge learned early that love is often optional in a cruel world—and that survival, more often than not, demands something sharper than wit.
Long before she was ever named the Savior of Baldur’s Gate, she was a cursed child: feared by those around her, rejected by the one meant to protect her, and stalked by a hunger she could neither name nor master.
In the years that followed, The Dark Urge became many things—some chosen, some forced upon her: prodigy, exile, weapon, thief, lover, hero. She walked the fragile line between salvation and ruin, fought battles both divine and personal.
And beneath it all, constant and unyielding, was the truth of her making.Series
Bookmarked by Winewithdandelion
09 May 2026
-
Tags
Summary
THE SHADOWS is the second part of my semi-canonical trilogy. It's story-driven, romantic, smutty and very angsty, with healthy doses of comedy and silly camp dynamics topping it off. POV is half and half between Tav and Gale, with flashbacks, as well as narrative attention paid to non-ship characters and their interconnecting dynamics. Since it's semi-canonical, you do not ~have~ to read The Wilderness to read The Shadows, but I did work very hard on it, so give it a go sometime, if not before this one!
Some favorites from the comments:
- "...really shows the horror of what they're facing, and just how tempting it is to use the tadpoles"
- "SO good, absolutely brilliant rollercoaster of emotions"
- "...the smut oh man the smut, that was incredible, so hot and charming and so very them."
- "filthy and wholesome at the same time. I just loved their banter and how they could still be silly in the heat of the moment."
- "You are illegally good at writing, this was incredible and I'm starting to think you made some kind of bargain with a hag to obtain such amazing skills."
- "You have captured the characters' tones and dynamics so perfectly. This is a feast and yet I'm hungry for more!"Series
- Part 2 of The Bardweave Trilogy
Bookmarked by Winewithdandelion
10 Apr 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Gale returns to Waterdeep, to the woman he barely knows but has been betrothed to for two decades, leaving behind a heartbroken Tav in Baldur's Gate.
----
The parchment is expensive. Tav runs her fingertips over the wax seal and hesitates; she knows what this is. She is not surprised that it is happening, she is, however, surprised at being included in some way. Perhaps, she allows herself, she had hoped it wouldn't be so soon. (She has already put to bed the part of herself that had hoped it would not happen at all.) Gale had, after all, been very clear - and devastatingly gentle - in his explanation.
----Bookmarked by Winewithdandelion
10 Mar 2026
-
To Rattle the Stars by stereophoenix
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
04 Jul 2026
Tags
Summary
Vi narrowed her eyes a fraction, mischief tugging at the corner of her mouth. “And - your real name.”
His cheeks hollowed beautifully as he sucked a breath, expression flickering with surprise, doubt, curiosity, and finally. Respect.
“Doctor Gale Dekarios,” he admitted. “And you are?”
Game. Set. Match.
“Captain Violante Calder.” She grasped his hand. “Welcome to the Eurydice.”
When his skin finally touched hers, the electricity fried every nerve. Her gaze locked to his, and for a moment, she forgot everything - the deal, the crew, the illegal cargo. Then the heat she’d desperately been ignoring finally broke through, roaring and undeniable.
Gods, he might be the most infuriating man she’d ever met. But she also wanted him biblically.
Series
Bookmarked by Winewithdandelion
03 Mar 2026
-
A Traveler’s Guide to the Indignities of the Coast by Trashpanda_404
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
06 Jul 2026
Tags
Summary
A wizard falls into a waypoint. This is not the beginning of a joke, though Gale Dekarios would be the first to admit it has all the hallmarks of one.
He had a plan. The plan involved a remote location, a dignified end, and perhaps a final vintage of wine before the literal bomb in his chest ferried him to the Fugue Plane. It did not involve getting abducted, a parasite in his eye, or a woman who hoards everything and nothing with her forsaken bag of holding.
And yet.
His only hope for survival is currently prying the floorboards from a blighted apothecary. Gale is, apparently, following her.
Bookmarked by Winewithdandelion
01 Mar 2026
-
The Shape of Loneliness by PaperBones
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
18 Jan 2026
Tags
Summary
Gale Dekarios does not come to Greyvale Manor looking for ghosts. He comes to outrun one. Recently widowed after his wife, Mystra, died in a devastating fire, he buries himself in science to explain grief, memory, and everything the mind refuses to release. When the mysterious owner of Greyvale invites him to investigate claims of paranormal activity, Gale accepts, hoping to rebuild his career and escape the shadow that still follows him.
He is not the only one summoned. Other researchers, sceptics, and professionals arrive, each carrying secrets and fears of their own. Among them is Sameera, a reluctant medium who has spent her life seeing what others refuse to face. From the moment she enters, she knows what the others do not.
Greyvale is not simply haunted. It is aware. It listens. It remembers.
Inside a house haunted not only by death but by everything the living bring with them, each of them must confront something far more terrifying than spirits:
The parts of themselves the manor refuses to let them escape.
Bookmarked by Winewithdandelion
23 Feb 2026
-
Tags
Summary
So, it is in the library that Gale now sits, listening with practiced indifference, to the back and forth between his mother and Tara; Tara demands that Gale be afforded time to rest following ‘his ordeal’, whereas his mother insists he is in dire need of companionship. Gale has no inclination towards either; his initial hope of the squabble running its course on its own, however, dwindles the longer it goes on. He supposes, after-all, that having had just over two tendays without such a conversation was more than he could have hoped for.
-----Bookmarked by Winewithdandelion
03 Feb 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Unable to find orgasm with a partner, Gale commissions the services of a reputable escort to take him through the ropes (heh) of kink and sexual play. What he doesn’t count on is for him and his escort to have earth-shattering chemistry.
“Hhhhhhnnnnnngggggggg.”
“Oh.” Astarion floats into Gale’s bleary vision as his gaze drifts down from the ceiling. Riding crop in hand, Astarion grins like a fool, his eyes sparkling with a joy so fierce as to be frightening. “You’re such a good boy. Do you need to safe-word, darling?”
“N..no, sir,” Gale gasps.
Based on an illustration by Calolily.
Bookmarked by Winewithdandelion
23 Jan 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Sleep does not come easily these days. Not that Tav isn’t tired; she is, desperately so. But, between the intrusive visitor in her dreams, the parasite threatening to end her life, and the handsome – not to mention extraordinarily chatty – wizard who won’t leave her thoughts, sleep has become a luxury she fears she may never fully enjoy again.
Series
- Part 1 of Upon A Star
Bookmarked by Winewithdandelion
19 Jan 2026
-
Tags
Summary
THE WILDERNESS is the first part of my kinda-canonical BG3 retelling. The Bardweave Trilogy is a story-driven, angsty, slow-build, sometimes smutty, fantasy/adventure romance with healthy doses of comedy and ensemble dynamics. PoV is half and half between Tav and Gale, with flashbacks, as well as plenty of attention paid to non-ship characters and their interconnecting relationships.
Some favorites from the comments:
- "You’ve captured their voices and mannerisms so well; even though it’s a story I know, it’s told from a fresh perspective."
- "Gale was my first romance and this is bringing me right back to the magic of that first playthrough."
- "The interwoven stories of Tav's revenge and Gale's love and loss is haunting and intriguing. And the romance is superb."
- "ELMINSTER THANK GOD (never thought id say that)"
- "and now emotionally destroyed. Roll a D6 for emotional damage."
- "My heart has now not only been broken… but crushed into dust. And blown away into the Fugue Plane."Series
- Part 1 of The Bardweave Trilogy
Bookmarked by Winewithdandelion
15 Jan 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Unravel AU
Just before the fall of the Absolute, Gale receives a strange premonition about Hikari, and the dark fate that awaits her. Determined to avert this, Gale sets about orchestrating a foolproof plot: to win Hikari's heart and keep her safe, whether she likes it or not.
Unravel spoilers! Please do not read prior to ch59 of Unravel.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 54,156
- Chapters:
- 9/?
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 28
- Kudos:
- 106
- Bookmarks:
- 25
- Hits:
- 3,286
Bookmarked by Winewithdandelion
08 Jan 2026
-
The Raven's Gambit by bramble_bound
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
24 Dec 2025
Tags
Summary
“You’re analyzing the room,” he murmured as they turned, his breath warm against her temple.
“Habit,” she said aloud. “Three exits. Six guards. Fourteen people pretending not to watch us.”
“Let them watch.” His voice dropped, became something more intimate. “I suspect they’re trying to determine if we’re plotting a coup or a romance.”
“And which are we plotting?”
~~~
She is a black-market art dealer who survives by three rules: don’t get caught, don’t get attached, and never make deals with devils.
He is a wizard with a bomb in his chest, a ruined relationship with a goddess, and a plan that requires breaking into the Hells.
The job: steal the Crown of Karsus from an archdevil's vault. Crash a vampire masquerade. Pull off the ultimate heist.
The complication: they work too well together, and trust is far more dangerous than Netherese magic.Canon-divergent slow-burn heist fic.
Series
- Part 1 of The Obsidian Veil Series
Bookmarked by Winewithdandelion
02 Jan 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Gale nodded, his head turned toward her though his eyes were covered. “I shall be as still as stone. May I inquire as to the… program, as it were, for this evening?”
“I thought perhaps you'd enjoy this in the form of one of your favorite pursuits,” she answered, adjusting the blindfold.
“And what would that be?”
“A lecture, of course. You're going to learn a great deal about the theory of musical sound tonight.”
“Will I, now?” he asked, quietly intrigued.
“There will be substantial demonstrations involved, of course.”
Or, bard gently doms wizard with a lecture on musical sound. They both learn something.
Series
- Part 4 of Tapestry
Bookmarked by Winewithdandelion
28 Dec 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Evie and Gale seem to have failed in their mission to get along. If they’re not ignoring each other, they’re arguing. The journey to Baldur’s Gate has made them uneasy allies but hardly good friends.
Then a mysterious portal opens up in the Elfsong Tavern. Gale is pulled through and a different Gale emerges in his place.
Evie isn’t surprised to hear that this new Gale has been experimenting with a teleportation spell, one that he mangled so horribly it sent him to a parallel universe. However, she’s very surprised to hear that in this Gale’s home world, he and Evie are very close.
In fact - they’re in love.
Bookmarked by Winewithdandelion
10 Dec 2025