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My BloodWeave Fics

I'm really not good at self-promoting, but I thought I would put the links all in one place in case anyone is ever looking for that sort of thing. I have also changed my AO3 username to Viela!

UNRAVELING SERIES (4/6 IN PROGRESS)

Early Access Canon exploring Gale's growing obsession with Astarion and the undernegotiated dom/sub relationship they embark on.

Unraveling (7767 words) by chogiwonderful_you

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Baldur's Gate

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Astarion/Gale (Baldur's Gate)

Characters: Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Gale (Baldur's Gate), Tav (Baldur's Gate), Shadowheart (Baldur's Gate)

Additional Tags: Explicit Sexual Content, Character Study, Dom/sub, Obsession, Possessive Behavior, Gale's massive ego, Dom Gale, sub Astarion, Painplay, Light Choking, Undernegotiated Kink, poor bdsm etiqutte, Early Access Canon

Series: Part 1 of Unraveling

Summary:

'Astarion was a half-drowned cat backed into a corner, clawing indiscriminately. But Gale knew how to coax a cat, let it give him pieces of its trust one by one until it might lay its head in his lap.'

Abyss (2840 words) by chogiwonderful_you

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Baldur's Gate

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Astarion/Gale (Baldur's Gate)

Characters: Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Gale (Baldur's Gate)

Additional Tags: established D/s relationship, Gale's massive ego, semi-detailed discussion of past rape/non-con, Trauma, Threats of Bodily Harm, Astarion as a content warning, Canon Divergence, very unhealthy relationships, Obsession, Possessive Behavior, Early Access

Series: Part 2 of Unraveling

Summary:

Gale made to stand up. Astarion would need time to glower and ruminate, to despise Gale and crave him in turns. Besides, Gale wasn’t above making a dramatic exit.

 

“Is it my turn now?” Astarion asked.

 

Gale stilled. How could he not be intrigued by that?

 

The book reads you as much as you read it. Gale really should have remembered that.

You Can Call Me Monster (6715 words) by chogiwonderful_you

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Baldur's Gate

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Relationships: Astarion/Gale (Baldur's Gate)

Characters: Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Gale (Baldur's Gate), Shadowheart (Baldur's Gate)

Additional Tags: Explicit Sexual Content, Established Dom/Sub relationship, Dom Gale, sub Astarion, Consensual Non-Consent, Safeword Use, rape fantasy (initiated by Astarion), Very rough sex, No Aftercare, Top Drop, Panic Attacks, very toxic relationshops, Obsession, Posessive Behavior, Canon Divergence, Early Access

Series: Part 3 of Unraveling

Summary:

There was a horrible, breathtaking truth that even Gale couldn’t bury.

Gale didn’t want Cazador to have Astarion in any way he couldn’t.

Will-o'-wisp (4866 words) by chogiwonderful_you

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Astarion/Gale (Baldur's Gate)

Characters: Gale (Baldur's Gate), Astarion (Baldur's Gate)

Additional Tags: Explicit Sexual Content, Gale's Canonical Temporary Character Death, Gale has an existential crisis and fucks Astarion about it, banter(?), Astarion doms a little, Astarion's love language is death threats, sex as a character study you all know the drill, Possessive Behavior, Established Dom/sub, Canon Divergence-ish, they don't talk about their issues even a little

Series: Part 4 of Unraveling

Summary:

“What was it like? When you died?”

 

“Well, seeing as I was bleeding out in a filthy alley, I’m going to go with…unpleasant. But that’s not really what you’re asking, is it?”

OTHER FICS

Altruism and Other Loosely Defined Terms (3905 words) by chogiwonderful_you

Chapters: 2/2

Fandom: Baldur's Gate

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Relationships: Astarion/Gale (Baldur's Gate)

Characters: Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Gale (Baldur's Gate)

Additional Tags: Dark Comedy, Domestic Fluff (?), post-game? au? who knows?, Crack, i can conceive of no universe in which Gale and Astarion are not kinky af, some sexual content but mostly fade to black, descriptions of violence, briefly referenced domestic violence toward OC by OC, very brief attempted rape of OC by OC, Astarion as a content warning

Summary:

"Me? A vigilante? That's your grand solution?"

Five Stars (9913 words) by Viela Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Astarion/Gale (Baldur's Gate) Characters: Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Gale (Baldur's Gate) Additional Tags: silly modern au, rating changed to reflect new chapter, assholes flirting, meet ugly, courthouse public bathroom blowjobs, a series of vignettes with sporadic updates, very mild brat/brat tamer vibes(for now), Astarion is a Little shit, astarion is allergic to feelings, Explicit Sexual Content, Non-Linear Narrative, exclusivity negotiations but make it two assholes, First Fight, actual communication, gale is ludicrously rich Summary: “A more suspicious man might think you’re dating me for my Uber rating.”   In which Astarion is a smug, asshole lawyer, and Gale is the rich jerk who falls for him.

#bg3 #bg3 fanfic #bloodweave #bloodweave fic #gale/astarion #I'm so sorry if this is too much or too long or annoying! #reblogging due to updates

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Well we're back again my dudes

Five Stars (9913 words) by Viela Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Astarion/Gale (Baldur's Gate) Characters: Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Gale (Baldur's Gate) Additional Tags: silly modern au, rating changed to reflect new chapter, assholes flirting, meet ugly, courthouse public bathroom blowjobs, a series of vignettes with sporadic updates, very mild brat/brat tamer vibes(for now), Astarion is a Little shit, astarion is allergic to feelings, Explicit Sexual Content, Non-Linear Narrative, exclusivity negotiations but make it two assholes, First Fight, actual communication, gale is ludicrously rich Summary: “A more suspicious man might think you’re dating me for my Uber rating.”   In which Astarion is a smug, asshole lawyer, and Gale is the rich jerk who falls for him.

#bg3 #astarion #gale #bloodweave #bg3 fanfic #bloodweave fic #i'm so far behind with my writing that it's not even funny but have this i guess

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The nice thing about Gale being a Certified Old™️ is that when I make Certified Old™️ references in modern AUs, it's just because I'm so good at writing him in character, and certainly not because I myself am a Certified Old™️.

#like i feel like all my cultural references are from like 2004-2011 #can we still reference queer as folk in the year 2024? #i also refuse to believe that the og mean girls is 20 years old #gale gives me millennial who still thinks 2014 was 2 years ago energy #gale #bg3

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Pet peeve of mine, but I see so many posts saying you have to respec/multi-class Wyll for him to do damage and that is patently untrue. If you want to, obviously go ahead, but Pact of the Blade warlock slaps so hard. The item synergies in this game are so good, and sometimes I think those get overlooked.

Also shout-out to support cleric. Damage is fun, but Heroes' Feast and Contagion hard-carried my Honour Mode run.

#literally no one besides me cares this much i am sure #but i will hype the warlock items all day #i wanted a challenge so i left shadowheart as trickery for my honour mode run and it was fine #once again: items like the bless ring from volo are insanely powerful #bg3

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ARTISTS! Remember to protect yourself with Nightshade + Glaze!

The same team that made Glaze, a tool that prevents AI art style mimicry, has come out with an offensive tool against unwanted AI scraping:

"Nightshade [is] a tool that turns any image into a data sample that is unsuitable for model training. More precisely, Nightshade transforms images into "poison" samples, so that models training on them without consent will see their models learn unpredictable behaviors that deviate from expected norms, e.g. a prompt that asks for an image of a cow flying in space might instead get an image of a handbag floating in space."

You don't even have to be an artist to use Nightshade. Use it on your photos, your memes, screenshots, etc.

Nightshade: https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/downloads.html What is Nightshade?: https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html User Guide: https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/userguide.html Glaze: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/downloads.html What is Glaze?: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/what-is-glaze.html

And for Artists who don't have access to a desktop/powerful GPU: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/webglaze.html It's recommended to Nightshade your image first, then apply Glaze for maximum protection.

And if you haven't already, REMEMBER TO TOGGLE THIS OPTION in your blog settings:

#signal boost #the fact that this was added without a update to a tos agreement and opta you in by default is so gross #please don't make me have to use a bunch of discords i just want to post into the void

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#no idea how to tag this because it isnt fandom specific so who knows if this will get a response #i was just super curious #I'm an only child and i didn't even think about the fact that i do this until today

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Five Stars (5732 words) by Viela Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Astarion/Gale (Baldur's Gate) Characters: Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Gale (Baldur's Gate) Additional Tags: silly modern au, rating changed to reflect new chapter, assholes flirting, meet ugly, courthouse public bathroom blowjobs, a series of vignettes with sporadic updates, very mild brat/brat tamer vibes(for now), Astarion is a Little shit, astarion is allergic to feelings, Explicit Sexual Content, Non-Linear Narrative, exclusivity negotiations but make it two assholes Summary: “A more suspicious man might think you’re dating me for my Uber rating.”   In which Astarion is a smug, asshole lawyer, and Gale is the rich jerk who falls for him.

I may have written more of this sorry again

Five Stars (4085 words) by Viela Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Astarion/Gale (Baldur's Gate) Characters: Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Gale (Baldur's Gate) Additional Tags: silly modern au, rating changed to reflect new chapter, assholes flirting, meet ugly, courthouse public bathroom blowjobs, a series of vignettes with sporadic updates Summary: “A more suspicious man might think you’re dating me for my Uber rating.”   In which Astarion is a smug, asshole lawyer, and Gale is the rich jerk who falls for him.

#i don't know what I'm doing anymore #bloodweave #bloodweave fic #bg3 fanfic #bg3 #gale #astarion #i also don't know the best least annoying way to post this on tumblr promoting feels so self indulgent lol

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Bloodweave with a gift-of-the -magi-esque daddy kink. Neither of them are that into it, but they're both completely convinced that it's the other one's biggest turn-on, so they play it up constantly. Obviously, they've never once spoken about it. This has been going on for years

#i know that's not technically what gift of the magi is about not enough irony or the crushing depths of poverty #but I'm back (always) on my bullshit so here we are #bloodweave #gale #astarion #bg3

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In my lawyer au it's 100% canon that Astarion ends up becoming the SVU ADA who always butts heads with Olivia because he cares more about punishing criminals than helping victims and goes through a really satisfying character arc before getting written out in the last two minutes of like season 33 by announcing he's gonna go live out his never-before-mentioned dream of opening a whale sanctuary in Fiji or something. Alternatively, he gets tapped as a federal prosecutor despite his lack of qualifications (Gale's connected I guess) and comes back to guest star sometimes. Also, he definitely gets kidnapped at least once.

#is this a joke??? who knoooooows? #(it's a joke) #before anyone worries that fic is going to become an svu crossover or whatever #I'm stuck in bed with a migraine and can only open one eye right now so this is the quality of shitposts unfortunate souls must suffer

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One tip I have for writers is not giving your drafts joke titles because you will end up wanting to keep them and lose all the non-existent credibility you have. No, this obviously isn't about me.

#no one clocked me on my other joke title yet...or if they did they were too polite to say anything #I'm gonna do it again #fic

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I may have written more of this sorry again

Five Stars (4085 words) by Viela Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Astarion/Gale (Baldur's Gate) Characters: Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Gale (Baldur's Gate) Additional Tags: silly modern au, rating changed to reflect new chapter, assholes flirting, meet ugly, courthouse public bathroom blowjobs, a series of vignettes with sporadic updates Summary: “A more suspicious man might think you’re dating me for my Uber rating.”   In which Astarion is a smug, asshole lawyer, and Gale is the rich jerk who falls for him.

#astarion #gale #bloodweave #bloodweave fic #bg3 fanfic #bg3

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Wild that people think Astarion would make a good dad, cause I cannot imagine him as anything other than the family friend who is your absolute last choice of sitter even though your kids love him because every time you pick them up from his house, they'll tell you something like, "Mom! Uncle Astarion taught us how to throw knives!"

#and he'd be like “what? i supervised. no one died.” #the chaos inside him is just too strong #astarion #bg3

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actually fuck it

#apparently I'm really into polls right now. #and like obviously halsin why is he so low #he can turn into a rat he can turn into gas #i know he was trapped in the goblin camp but that was for plot reasons and doesnt actually make sense #gale and astarion are other good choices #but gale would overthink it #and even though astarion can disarm a DC 30 like it's nothing he'd spend the first 20 minutes being super indignant #the actual real answer is minsc in the stupidest most insane way possible and jigsaw would be like ???? #bg3

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again, i implore you, be serious. be honest with yourself, be true, look deep within your soul and ask:

yes they do all eat pussy

[sister poll: who is the BEST at eating pussy?]

#nsfw #this is a very important poll #look i do not care how good Astarion was at eating pussy in the past but he is getting nowhere near there now #i do not need sharp teeth snagging my labia just writing that makes me want to cry #halsin eats pussy like it's his job #bg3 #amended to add: everyone saying astarion is amazing at eating pussy cause cazador made him seduce people #that doesnt guarantee that he was giving them head cause again TEETH i cannot overstate this

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Summaries for fics I probably won't write

Astarion prides himself on three things: his stunning good looks, his unmatched brilliance with a pool cue, and his keen eye for suckers…or the nearest exit if that last one fails him.

The guy who walks into Astarion’s shitty dive bar of the week in a cashmere sweater and leather loafers that cost more than his rent looks like the easiest two hundred dollars he's ever made. But he's not counting on Gale’s photographic memory and penchant for geometry.

Or the fact that this is one wager he might not hate to lose.

#this is what I was thinking about when I made my last post #maybe one day but I take on too much already #plus I don't know how to play pool so #bloodweave #bg3

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Modern-day Astarion is either an ADA or running scams. No middle ground.

#i dont make the rules it is what it is #astarion #bg3

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Okay so if Gale and Astarion sleep next to each other in the Elfsong, which of them is the friend who asks if bread cares about what kind of sandwich it's made into when the other one is almost asleep?

#i legitimately couldn't tell you #i spend all of my time psychologically analyzing these two dudes and this question still haunts me #gale #Astarion #bg3