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Astarion is near the docks when he feels Cazador's compulsion on him snap. He doesn't think twice. He just takes the next available ship out of Baldur's Gate. Its destination: The City of Splendors. Waterdeep.
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Gale takes back the glass, now empty, and then seems to fidget a little. “There is something I wanted to get your opinion on- but it can wait until you’ve recovered. You don’t look well at all- no offense meant, of course.”
“None taken,” Astarion says sweetly. “Please go on. Tell me exactly what it is about my appearance that you find lacking.”
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20 May 2026
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The vampire's eyes are wide and round, full of amazement. They dart wildly around the sights below, as if trying to see everything at once. The lights of the city reflect upon his face, soft shadows dancing across his elegant features. The very tips of his fangs are visible from his parted lips.
The radiance of the city pales in comparison.
✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* ✧･ﾟ: *✧
Two months after the brain falls, Baldur's Gate has picked up most of the pieces. The heroes that saved Faerûn have been there through most of it, helping the city get back on its feet. But now it's time to move on. Old lives and families to return to. Gale is going back to his tower in Waterdeep, back to the quiet, back to being alone; or at least, that was the plan. But plans change.
This is a story about falling in love.
(Fanart included)
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- Part 2 of Stumble and Fall
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17 May 2026
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"No matter how desperate I get," Shadowheart says through gritted teeth, "I'm not that desperate."
But her body is betraying her. It's responding to Lae'zel's suggestion, rising like a well-stoked fire, and Lae'zel lowers herself to the ground near Shadowheart's feet. Shadowheart's legs shift to accommodate her in an instinct so bone-deep that she can't stop it before Lae'zel is filling the space.
"Give in to your desires, istik. Submit to me. In my experience," Lae'zel says, crawling slowly up Shadowheart's willing body, "the hatred will only make it sweeter."
And then Shadowheart is being kissed so thoroughly that she forgets her own name.
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Shadowheart doesn't know much about her past, or her future, or even who she is beyond what Shar asks of her. But she knows one thing. She hates Lae'zel. She hates her so much that the gith hardly leaves her mind, and there's nothing that could possibly change that.
A tale of misplaced hatred, building trust, and finding new purpose.
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14 Apr 2026
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“There are better ways to go about this if I wish to speak to someone anonymously,” Gale points out. Shadowheart shrugs, winking at him.
“Sure, but this is possibly the most satisfying one,” she says, and fine, Gale can’t argue with that. But still. Such conversations are surface level at best, and transactional at worst. Besides, it’s not in his nature to consume live internet pornography. He has no desire to share such an intimate act with a complete stranger.
“I would really rather see a therapist,” he says.
Fresh out of a messy divorce, disgraced academic Gale Dekarios finds himself biting off more than he can chew when a seemingly innocuous encounter with an enigmatic camboy, Star, leads him down a precarious path of lies, liberation and eventually—love.
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22 Mar 2026
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People don't want to be broken into pieces for Gale, and so he pretends that he doesn't hunger for it.
For knowledge.
For the power that comes with true understanding.
For the intimacy of it.
He tries not to force his companions open like a book and devour them page by page; it would break their spine in the process.Astarion needs blood and protection.
Gale just ... needs.
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08 Mar 2026
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Peter Strahm and Mark Hoffman had a steamy one-night stand with each other years before Strahm suspected him for the Jigsaw murders where feelings certainly did not blossom between them.
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16 Feb 2026
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Hoffman saves Strahm from getting crushed, but keeps him captive. Hoffman wants Strahm to understand him. Strahm just wants to escape, until he doesn't.
(aka the fic where mark conducts intricate rituals in order to touch the skin of another man by putting he and peter in wireless handcuffs set up to explode if peter walks a specific amount of feet away from him)
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20 Dec 2025
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Hoffman was weird. He was more than weird.
Strahm knew he was weird and he was going to get off his ass and prove it.
The knife he’d been jimmying around the edges of Hoffman’s apartment window jiggled a few more times and Peter prayed that it wouldn’t snap, he’d broken his last good knife not by attempting to break and enter another police officer’s place but by trying to pry a stone out of the sole of his shoe. The tip had broken clean off and the stone had remained lodged firmly in the rivets of the rubber.
It hadn’t been the worst thing to happen that day though. That would have been the biro pen sticking out the front of Strahm’s trachea.
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Strahm breaks into Hoffman's apartment. Hoffman breaks into Strahm's. Everything is perfectly balanced.
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- Part 1 of It's just what you do
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26 Nov 2025
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The Benefits of Transfenestrative Personality Disorder by viroqu
Fandoms: One Battle After Another (Movie 2025)
15 Oct 2025
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It is a well-known fact around town that Bob Ferguson doesn’t have a job, per se. And three months after the Battle of Baktan Cross, it becomes that time of the year when their resident retired revolutionary kook commits a new act of carefully planned, humiliating public disturbance to claim mental disability checks for his and Willa’s financial sake. In truth, it has become its own kind of annual, bring-your-kids, mostly family-friendly town custom where people bet what type of trick Bob “Rocket Man” Ferguson will come up with this time to appear crazy enough for another round of government money.
Normally, it would be his daughter Willa who, for realism’ sake, would drive them both back home for rest after the pro forma booking and release from the police. However, her new role as part of the resistance demands her to help and transport some immigrants caught in a raid two counties over, and thus cannot pick her father up.
Kindly, Sensei Sergio decides to lend a hand.
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25 Nov 2025
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Till the Road and Sky Align by helloitsbees
Fandoms: Carol (2015), Saw (Movies), The Price of Salt - Patricia Highsmith
02 Oct 2024
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Adam's eyes met the man's in a fleeting moment, and stayed fixed there, magnetized.
He was tall, and he wore an expensive-looking coat. His eyes were a deep, crystal blue, wrinkled lightly at the corners as if someone had just told him a joke. They held Adam's gaze with a curiosity that verged on recognition. His mouth was quizzical, on a knife's edge of smiling. Adam felt suddenly as if all the breath had been knocked out of him.
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Adam Faulkner-Stanheight knew his own worth- that is to say, little-to-none. His girlfriend? Frustrated with him for wasting his life. His job? A complete dead end, working retail in December. His photography? Just a hobby, and one he was afraid to really pursue for fear of failing.And then Dr. Lawrence Gordon walked into his life, sending his world into a tailspin with his understanding smile, soft voice, incisive words, and the kindest eyes Adam had ever seen.
What Adam thought would be one more mindnumbing holiday shift brought a chance encounter that would change his life- for better or for worse.
[A Price of Salt/Carol AU of Saw, with 99% less blood and guts. Now completed.]
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- Part 1 of The Price of Saw
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19 Nov 2025
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Vincent knows driving back to the diner is a risk, but it's a risk he's willing to take.
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27 Sep 2025
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Chicago, 1977. A cop and a criminal walk into a bar. The real joke is that neither of them sees the punchline coming.
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- Part 1 of Superstition
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15 Sep 2025
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Vincent glances over his shoulder once as he pisses. He meets Neil's eyes in the mirror over the sinks. When he does, he sees it in Neil's eyes. He will know when the time is right. There will be some sign from Neil. Vincent can feel it.
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08 Sep 2025
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too much ambition, too little grace by whatiwouldnotgive for horrorlesbian
Fandoms: The Color of Money (1986)
26 Nov 2023
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“You can’t—” Vincent starts to say before abruptly stopping. Eddie watches, with detached amusement, as Vincent’s face turns a mottled pink. Staring resolutely at his socked feet, Vince finishes, “You can’t just put your hands on me like that.”
Eddie runs back through their evening. Dinner and showers and discussion of the next day’s events. Earlier, breakfast at a deli, the hall, and— oh.
Oh.
“Why?” Eddie says, giddy. Knows full well his mouth is running away from him. Dangerous, Eddie. “‘Cause it makes you want me to do it again?”Series
- Part 1 of old man paul newman bussy 'verse
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09 Aug 2025
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Andrew wonders if maybe he is going to kill him. Maybe he is going to finally end it. The humiliation didn’t work so it is time to progress to murder. He wonders about how he’ll do it—imagining Fletcher’s hands around his throat, strangling the life out of him with his muscled arms, elbows locked in place as he bears the brunt of his weight down on him.
Post Carnegie, Andrew figures out new ways to tolerate Fletcher.
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11 May 2025
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Colin can't sleep at night and things aren't exactly going the way they should. And there's nothing Colin can stand less than the loss of control.
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04 May 2025
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Maybe it was just Tom being Tom, trying to freak Greg out, trying to razz him. This is the exact fucking problem. Greg shouldn’t let all of this wash over him as easily as he does. He shouldn’t lean into it and go ‘Welp, that’s just Tom’. And he definitely shouldn’t enjoy the way Tom calls him Sporus, because ultimately it’s most likely all fucking meaningless. All of it, surely, is meaningless. Just a hollow joke Tom repeatedly returns to because he’s insane and makes no sense.
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OR: Tom and Greg play a game of truth or dare that drastically alters the trajectory of their relationship.
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28 Dec 2024
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Daniel returns to the Sunday Ranch after scouting for the pipeline with Henry. When Eli arrives for their routine meeting, he implores to know where he went.
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16 Dec 2024
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Daniel Plainview has been working to expand his prospects over the few years since he's been rid of Eli Sunday. When unforseen circumstances force the two back into each other's lives, it leads to a downward spiral as each man is made to reconcile with feelings they had long been denying.
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16 Dec 2024
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When Pierce leaves Troy his entire fortune on the condition that he get married, Abed prepares a thirty-page briefing on the attributes one would need to be Troy Barnes's soulmate. In retrospect, that should have been the first hint.
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Bookmarked by AlariShadowtree
27 Oct 2024