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  1. Public Bookmark 34

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    All Tav wanted was a quiet research position and a chance to finish her thesis. What she got was Dr. Gale Dekarios: brilliant, composed, far too attractive for her sanity, and somehow the oblivious star of her deeply private fantasies.

    And when a certain private notebook ends up in his hands, the boundary between fiction and reality begins to blur in ways neither of them are ready for.

    It was just a little fantasy. A harmless indulgence.

    Until he read it.

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    Set in a slightly alternate modern world where magic is part of history and academic departments still chase relics of it.

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    27 Aug 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 13

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    During act 1, after enduring starvation and inner torment, Astarion finds himself pushed beyond his limits. When he approaches Eirwen in the dead of night, desperate for blood, she does something he doesn’t expect—she offers. What begins as a consensual feeding quickly devolves into something darker as Astarion loses control, overcome by hunger, lust, and centuries of repression, killing her. Horrified by Eirwen’s death, he flees, spiraling into grief, guilt, and self-loathing—and a brutal realization that he’s aroused by the memory of her submission. But when Eirwen is resurrected by Shadowheart and confronts him, the truth of their bond begins to take root: dangerous, intimate, and irreversible.

    (summery is of the first three chapters, the story continues on into the beginnings of their relationship, leading to Astarion's eventual Ascension, and Eirwen taking her place as his dark consort.)

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    27 Aug 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 52

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    Fate, destiny - none of it seems to matter much when you're under the yoke of an endless infernal debt. Finally free, Niamh sets out to begin a new life. She will find out just how much it matters when she's abducted by mindflayers and thrown into an uneasy alliance with a group of strangers.

    Gale isn't a big believer in fate, but he does believe his death is close to hand when the illithid ship takes him. He'll learn just how wrong he is - and just how much life can offer - when he meets Niamh.

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    Slowburn friend-to-lovers romance, heaps and heaps of pining, eventual smut (check my oneshots if you'd like a sample) and a bonus minor Bloodpact on the side.

    This fic is intended as a semi-novelization of the game, with some expansions to canon, some filler for plot holes, and a lot of Forgotten Realms/tabletop lore with a big focus on bards and artificers.

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    27 Aug 2025

  4. Public Bookmark *

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    Astarion discovers Gale's secret kink and decides, apparently on a whim, to indulge him in it. Even though Gale doesn't trust Astarion, he finds the rogue quite impossible to resist.

    Immediate smut, slow burn romance
    Chapter-specific tags in notes

    Now includes cover art!

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    21 Aug 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 9

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    A recently divorced Gale was convinced a bit of personal grooming would help boost his confidence. Help him get out there for the first time since Mystra came into his life as a teenager. Except he arrives to find the rather matronly older woman he'd booked with has been replaced with the most beautiful man he's ever seen.

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    21 Aug 2025