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The Curious History of the House on Dusthawk Hill by pallasitedaydreams
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
18 Dec 2024
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When Nina "Tav" Tavolacchi accepted her cousin's gift of her family's ancestral home, she expected a relatively involved historical renovation project that she could possibly turn into an bed and breakfast or house museum. She didn't expect to unearth the deep and dark history of two families, a hidden arcane society, or encounter the ghostly squatter who set her family on this path over a century and a half ago.
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20 Dec 2024
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”Fascinating,” Cazador murmured, more to himself than to Astarion. “Even now, your response to pain is indistinguishable from a living person’s. Your body recoils. Your voice strains. Do you even understand why you feel it?”
Astarion clenched his teeth and snarled. ”Because you made me this way.”
“No.” Cazador’s tone was patient, almost indulgent. He leaned closer, his cold hands pressing against Astarion’s chest panel. “I gave you the capacity to simulate pain. You, somehow, turned it into suffering. Why?”
Astarion hated the question. He hated the answer even more. “I don’t know.”
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19 Dec 2024
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Perhaps he was looking a bit too comfortable, because as he pulled his laptop from his bag, the gray cat a few tables down rose into a languid stretch and began a leisurely stroll in his direction. It was a bit funny looking, its head crooked slightly to the side and its steps a bit unsure. Though Astarion was certain he was about to get a face full of tuna breath, the cat paused a short distance away, content to sit and stare.
Lovely.
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Astarion is the deeply under-appreciated social media manager for ProFang Ascension, an online media company, where he is constantly trying to put out the fires started by his terrible boss. Fortunately for him, his dear friend Shadowheart has just the thing to help him decompress- a voucher for the sleepy little cat café she works at.
Or, a slow-paced, laid-back, extremely fluffy first meeting between an Astarion who is trying really hard to have a bad time, and a very tired Gale who will ensure that does not happen.
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12 Dec 2024
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06 Dec 2024
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The things lost along the way (The things gained at the end) by ThatKorka
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
14 Oct 2023
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I can smell what’s under those bandages, Wizard, You’re all rot and ruin!
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06 Dec 2024
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Astarion is still trying to suss out how he feels about touch. Others touching him, that is. How much he likes touching her is abundantly clear. Especially when she bends over in those deliciously tight leather trousers.
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- Part 2 of The Scoundrel and His Songbird
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02 Dec 2024
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Gale expected a kid that was spoiled and wouldn’t listen to reason or sense. He expected a small version of Astarion. He expected a brat.
Not this… this child that hid behind Halsin’s legs and stared at them with thinly veiled wariness.
“What happened?” Gale asked, still staring at the child. Those wide red eyes looked at him and immediately looked away when they locked. The wizard felt something in his heart break at the scared child. Because this was a child.
Astarion was a child and had no idea who anyone was.
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01 Dec 2024
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Pissing off a djinn is a stupid idea. Lying to one to try and wriggle out of the incurred wrath is even worse. Astarion, and by extension the rest of the camp, learn this the hard way. In short, Astarion speed runs 239 birthdays.
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01 Dec 2024
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After being abandoned by both Tav and the sunlight, Astarion makes a poorly thought out wish to Djinni and finds himself in the body of a toddler. Even though he’s (mostly) mentally sound, his new situation forces him to rely on his former traveling companions until he can find a way back to his old self. That is, assuming it’s even possible.
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09 Nov 2024
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Astarion hates Autumn, and every memory it unearths of Cazador's cruelty, exploited as a vampire-for-hire during the Hallowe'en season.
Gale's determined to show his new boyfriend just what there is to love about his favourite time of year.
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08 Nov 2024
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A multi-part series chronicling the slow-burn romance between Astarion Ancunín, Associate Professor of Law and Dr. Gale Dekarios, Professor of Magic and Arcane History; modern with magic academia AU
Recommended reading in order, starting from:
1. Claw Clip Chronicles
2. May It Please the Court
3. Any Other Holiday
and tbd as they come outv sorry this is broken into different fics, i didn't have the foresight to plan accordingly...what began as a one-shot became more, and i couldn't go back wahh !!
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07 Nov 2024
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When Gale gets called out of work to deal with a stuck Tara, he is instantly smitten with the mysterious firefighter that helped her.
Surely he didn’t like him back… Did he?
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07 Nov 2024
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*Click.*
It was the sound of a camera shutter that disturbed him from his thoughts. Not one of Astarion’s own — he could recognize his equipment by sound alone — which meant…
He looked up and cocked his head curiously, finding Gale lingering in the doorway, holding a small camera and grinning.
“What’s the occasion, darling?” Astarion asked, closing the book and setting it aside. Gale typically didn’t bring home new equipment anymore unless Astarion expressed a desire for it, and he hadn’t done so in several months.
Gale’s grin widened.
“It’s the latest technology,” he explained. “Despite the size, they say it rivals some of the high end cameras in photo quality. Would you like to see what you think? I took a few photos on the way home.” He was already halfway across the room, making a beeline to Astarion’s desk.
“What is the new technology?” Astarion asked as he tabbed through Gale’s photos. “How did they make it so small?”
“Well you see,” Gale began as Astarion reached the most recent photo. And froze.
“It’s mirrorless.”
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02 Nov 2024
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“Oh, Gale said to pass on his most fervent apologies, but he drank the last of the coffee this morning.”
“He did what?” Astarion yelps. “That-”
“Now now,” Tara scolds. “I do not tolerate name-calling in my household.”
“He’s my husband, I’ll call him what I like,” Astarion hisses, flopping despondently at the table. Having to eat three times a day is such a pain. The concept of having to make breakfast without having had caffeine momentarily defeats him.- Language:
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26 Oct 2024
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In which Astarion is an ex-olympic figure skater and Gale is a famous musician. They get paired together as Dancing on Ice's first ever same sex couple. Shenanigans ensue.
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“How did you even get in? I very definitely remember locking up.”
“Ah,” Gale looks ever-so-slightly abashed. Only slightly, though. Mostly he looks a little proud of himself. “You know how the receptionist is always asleep?”
Astarion's eyebrows shoot up.
“Gale Dekarios, you shady thing.”
“I only borrowed it! He's just never been awake enough to ask about spares, so. It was easier to just sort it out myself.”
“It would have been easier to ask me,” Astarion points out.
“Mmmm,” Gale hums, doubtfully. “I don't know if I'd ever consider you the ‘easier’ option, Astarion, I feel that would be doing your commitment to cantankerousness a great disservice.”
I'd be extremely easy if you weren't so fucking annoying, Astarion thinks.
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24 Oct 2024
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Did it Hurt? When You Fell From the Heavens? by bloodweaver (QuintessentialNutcase)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
22 Oct 2024
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Following a smidge of time-line fuckery, Gale meets a handsome stranger in the Yawning Portal - a stranger who seems to know far too much about him, to be far too invested in his life and his happiness, and to be far too attractive to let slip through his fingers.
The stranger also happens to be an incredibly welcome distraction from the otherwise miserable and confusing hellscape that is Gale Dekarios's personal life. His mother worries about him constantly, his familiar won't talk to him about anything that matters, his mentor won't tell him anything useful, and his goddess is making cryptic and increasing demands.
OR: Gale meets a handsome vampire in 1487 who seems deadset on making all his problems go away, with some strings attached.
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- Part 2 of One Wish, For The Road
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22 Oct 2024
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Astarion loses his memories temporarily for a chance at a permanent cure. It makes for one hell of a post-operation recovery.
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13 Oct 2024
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Don't You Hear Me Howling? by Gewhana for thvmission
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
24 May 2024
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Glasses looked away shyly, and Astarion couldn't even bring himself to be annoyed that Karlach was right. Most of the time when he went out like this, he had only a passing interest in whoever he ended up going home with. They were a good meal. Something to occupy the long, endless nights. Maybe a little pleasure, if they knew what they were doing. Content to let potential lovers come to him, Astarion rarely pursued anyone in particular. He hadn't wanted anyone in particular.
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After several long centuries, life is easier for Astarion than it's ever been. Still, he can't help but feel like he's missing something.
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12 Oct 2024
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Consequences of Daydreaming while Performing a Ritual by aceofspades252
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
23 Oct 2023
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Professor Gale Dekarios, respected mage at Waterdeep’s leading university of magical studies, had a secret. Unbeknownst to any of his peers, students, family, or acquaintances, he studied dark magic. It had always called to him in a far more personal way than any other form of magic. Something he couldn’t quite describe, maybe a burst of adrenaline or a rush of dopamine that kept calling him back to those tomes detailing the darkest of rituals and blackest of magic. Of course, he’s never done anything illegal, no murders or torture or anything that’s truly evil, just… a bit morally ambiguous. Like the ritual he is preparing now, for instance.
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10 Oct 2024
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Astarion recognized every one of the townsfolk’s voices by now, there wasn’t a terrible amount of them in the first place so it was fairly easy to commit Arron’s kind words or Ethel’s playful lilt. So it caught him off guard when a stranger called out to them, well, not them.
“Hello, Gale.”
"Mystra."
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- Part 2 of Halloway House
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04 Oct 2024