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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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    01 Sep 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 31

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    In his reckless youth, Gale once read a book on forest fires.

    A triptych on the theme of intimacy. Necessity begets invention, after all, and there is no force quite so creative as that of lovers inventing the art anew.

    Or: two ticking time bombs make it work, and then some.

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    30 Aug 2024

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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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    03 Jun 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 37

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    Out of the two of them, Gilfoyle starts going grey first. Dinesh notices. It's funny, until he can't stop thinking about it.

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    17 May 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 17

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    When everyone else goes home after that afternoon on the roof talking about the end of Pied Piper, Dinesh and Gilfoyle stay behind.

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    17 May 2023