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Astarion was replanting weeds at midnight. His fiancé was sucking up to a childhood bully. The engagement party was in four days. Nothing was wrong. ...Except for the things that were. Starting with why he's more devastated by a pile of uprooted garden weeds than he ever was about killing people.
Or: Two idiots in love navigate polite society, academic bureaucracy, and their own insecurities to figure out what kind of life they actually want together.
Written for the BG3 Month of May Community Event Bring May Flowers 2026: Week 1 – In Bloom. “Weeds” keyword.
This is a sequel to Blind Spots but can be read as a standalone. Plausibly post-canon compliant, with some made-up magic and bending of 5e spellcasting rules.Series
- Part 2 of Shifting Perspectives
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Shelter In Place by ICanFixHim (pixel7777) for Elwing42
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
16 Jan 2026
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Gale is a survivalist romance author who writes about love after the end of the world. He's a divorcee who has plans B through G for power failure, but no Plan A for getting laid. Astarion is a former artist who decided to winter in the northern Michigan lake house he got in his divorce. He's not exactly rural-winter ready. When a massive blizzard knocks out power across the community, Gale—seeing Astarion's dark McMansion—trudges through the blizzard to prevent his idiot neighbor from freezing to death, but they'll both keep each other warm in the end.
This low-stakes, cozy, modern, the-Ant-and-the-Grasshopper AU softens both Astarion's and Gale's traumatic pasts to gaslighting, controlling exes who leave them lonely until they discover their strange neighbor is a better fit than they had imagined.
Note: In case you are unfamiliar with the fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper, the Ant prepares for winter by working all summer, while the Grasshopper wastes the summer singing and having fun. In the oldest tellings, the Grasshopper gets cold and hungry in the winter and goes to the Ant for food and shelter, but the Ant scolds him and turns him away. In our version, of course, the Ant is a bit kinder 😉
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Banished from Tav’s good graces for being insufferable, Gale and Astarion drown their sorrows, play dress-up, and discover that maybe they weren’t competing for Tav's heart so much as auditioning for each other’s. Left unsupervised, they discover that silence really is golden, lace really does flatter everyone, and love really can be this stupid.
Reasonably Canon-Compliant for Act 2 - as usual, I bend some spellcasting rules.
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- Part 1 of Shifting Perspectives
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The Shadowcurse creeps into undead flesh like frost. Gale applies the most logical solution to save Astarion: full-body contact. For science. Obviously.
Gale can cuddle Astarion warm through their first night in the Shadow-Cursed Lands—but if he thinks he gets to save someone else while planning to sacrifice himself, Astarion has a few objections to make.
Canon compliance: Takes place in Act 2 just after arriving in the Shadow-cursed Lands and is mostly compliant except for the way the shadowcurse works (see notes)
Now with incredible fan art in Chapter 2 by the amazing Minui8!
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What happens when a wizard tries so hard to be respectful that he ends up fucking a statue of his boyfriend instead of his actual boyfriend?
This. This happens.
Gale is trying to be noble. Astarion is trying to get laid. Neither of them are using their words. Contains: Animate Objects used for purposes Mystra never intended, a full and frank discussion of consent while one party is still impaled on a magical dildo, and the discovery that communication is the ultimate aphrodisiac. (But the double penetration helps.)
Written for Spooktober (Day 17 Living Statues) + Kinktober (Day 25 Double Penetration and Day 15 Object Insertion)
Canon Compliance: Happens during canon and is canon-plausible, with the exception of how Animate Objects works. Just go with it.
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Astarion’s blood stirred once more. What would it feel like to pull a mark but keep the spoils? He could choose to have a bit of fun; it seemed to be a favourite pastime for many.The minute the idea took, he found himself drifting back towards his old haunts.
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“My Gale was just a boy when she came for him. His mother and I didn’t see him for years on end. Mystra was his entire world. I am glad that now he knows people like you.”
Astarion raises an eyebrow. “What do you mean?”
“Gale was isolated for so long with only Mystra for company, and it nearly led to his destruction. He needs people in his life to remind him what true friendship and love is.”
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aka, after the events at baldur's gate, astarion and gale get together <3
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Like most of Gale’s problems since the Nautiloid, this whole mess is Tav’s fault. He doesn’t know exactly what Tav told Astarion when Gale was out of the room, but he trusts that they didn’t betray his confidence. Probably.
Whatever it is has made Astarion act even stranger than normal and it is threatening Gale’s very carefully curated compartmentalization of his feelings for the man.
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After finally gaining his freedom, Astarion took Gale to visit his grave. Unfortunately, upon discovering that he did in fact have a surname, Gale decided that the occasion would be the perfect opportunity to hyperfixate over an accent mark.
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“Do you want a heart transplant?” He didn’t know what possessed him to ask that. It seemed certifiably insane the moment it left his lips.
Gale sat back regarding Astarion with an unreadable expression. “Honestly? I don’t know,” he sighed. “I mean, obviously, it would be an incredible gift, and I am not going to turn down a match… but I also feel quite sick when I think about some old woman holding a stethoscope to my chest and weeping over her dead child.”
“That is quite a dark thought, isn’t it?”
“I know, I should be thinking about how I’m creating a bit of meaning out of a senseless tragedy, but I would rather not have someone die to make my life a little more comfortable…”
“An amazing gift can still be an immense burden,” Astarion mused. “A heart is a heavy thing to give.”
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Chronically ill Gale hires a sex worker (Astarion) to help him lose his virginity, send tweet