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Astarion found himself watching Gale more than he was watching Dirty Dancing. He looked quite young to be getting divorced, he thought to himself. The gossip in him was dying to know the full story, but he knew full well that it would be really stupid to start prying into a practical stranger’s personal life.
As he was about to ask, because fuck it, he was probably never seeing this man again, Gale reached below his seat and grabbed a notebook and pen from a satchel. A satchel. The man was going on what amounted to a mid life crisis of a holiday (or, to be fairer to him, a third of a life crisis, because he looked to be about Astarion’s age), and he’d brought a satchel?!
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Lawyer Astarion Ancunín had a chance encounter with film professor Gale Dekarios on a flight to New York. And then another chance encounter at a bar. And when he found out he’s in the middle of a messy divorce, well, what was Astarion to do? Aside from sleep with him, which was obviously a given.
Astarion didn’t believe in love stories. But life had accidentally thrown him into one of his own.
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24 Nov 2025
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Astarion Ancunin works hard on his YouTube channel, sometimes spending weeks on the beautiful fashion films that show off his handcrafted gowns. His audience may be small but he's proud of his content. Which is why it's so godsdamned irritating when the self-named 'Wizard Of Waterdeep' starts posting hideous videos of his endless rambling and gets two million subscribers almost overnight.
Meanwhile, Gale Dekarios is selling his soul to make 'content' (ugh), just to try to get people to love magic again. He hates his channel and he hates himself, so he seeks solace in his favorite corner of the internet: r/galehaters — with his new online BFF, WhiteBat.
~ The fic formerly known as 'You've Got Gale' ~
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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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Under a Dark Star by Anonymous
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Star Wars - All Media Types
17 May 2024
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"Resist all you can, pup. It will only make your inevitable surrender all the sweeter."
Foolhardy and desperate to prove yourself to the Jedi Council, you face the Sith lord Astarion Ancunín to bring him to justice. But can you resist the power of the Dark Side, or will you submit?
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How You Need To Be Loved by dancinbutterfly for eatingcroutons
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
14 Feb 2024
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"Lift your head and look at me, Astarion. I need to see your eyes."
Astarion lifts his head and finds Halsin on the ground in front of him, tears on his broad face.
"Is this what you want? For me to hurt you? Like he did? Tell me the truth."
Astarion wishes he had compulsion. That made telling the truth so much easier.
"No, I hate it." He says, shakily because he doesn't want Halsin to cry over him and the truth is he hates this. He hates it with every fiber of his being.
But there's something more important than want. Astarion already hated Cazador but he will curse him to the Hells for eternity for this truth Cazador bred in him.
"But gods help me..." Astarion sobs because they haven't. They would never ever help Astarion Ancunín. "I need it."
Over the centuries of unrelenting abuse, Cazador changed something in Astarion, irrevocably. But Astarion will not allow any part of himself to belong to Cazador. Not even the parts Cazador created. Not anymore.
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