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Wait sorry me again. This is mostly a ramble for myself.

Gale admires Astarion from afar - he is a virtuoso violinist in his own right, and after a particularly moving performance, Gale can't help but compliment him on all the intricate details he noticed, while Astarion is kind of stuck between a rock (all the elitist violinists around him who are trying to sleep with him [depending on age of orchestra in question?]) and a hard place (Cazador being the awful abusive perfectionist instructor and/or parental figure). Astarion is honestly moved by Gale's words and they strike up an unlikely friendship that has to be kept mostly private for the sake of Astarion's social standing within the catty violin section (sorry if you're a violinist, I've known many lovely violinists but as a group they've always been like the mean popular kids of orchestra lmao) and pressures from Cazador not to form attachments when he should be focusing on his career.

Lots of awful behind the scenes. Astarion playing until his fingers bleed and being punished for messing up even a little bit anyway. Gale finally twigging that he was groomed by the head of the conservatory (Mystra when I catch you) and trying to cope with all the fallout that entails.

Honestly I love these two no matter what setting (my current favourite fic is a dancing on ice AU) but this is a setting I'm at least somewhat familiar with and think I could do some level of justice?

Now I just need to work out how to exit Final Fantasy XIV help

Coughs I think if they were in a band Gale would play the Cello and Astarion would play violin I’m just saying

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I like your style of thinking but Gale definitely strikes me as a woodwind kinda guy (practiced tongue!) In my head he gets promoted to first clarinet way before any of the more experienced players and they all hate him for it. Poor Gale. At least he nails the solos.

Coughs I think if they were in a band Gale would play the Cello and Astarion would play violin I’m just saying

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Confession: King Arthur himself wouldn’t be able to pull me out of Halsin’s armpits. I need to shove my nose in there until I pass out.

#nsft #i will not apologise #same same same same same

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Midnight question for the wizard

I wish there was more about the SUDDEN LIFE CHANGE that Wyll dealt with when he got a +2 to horns he has, all there was pointing to his feelins about it was his sulkin in the act 1 party time. But that’s when we artsy peeps come I say and get to have our idea fun, not just for Wyll(which does have the least) but many of them and their dilemmas ,children get loves.

Later that night:

Confused vampire doodle for fun XD

#oh god my heart this is wonderful

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Comic for the Fanfic Midnight Masquerade

#oh my gosh yes #i love that fic and this interaction was the best #and this comic of it? perfect!

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Marks and Rec: Misc #2632

Spirits, where did you get all these pictures of Astarion? (Dialogue from tumblr.)

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CreamyGhost on Twitter

https://x.com/CreamyGhost/status/1714190787863613443?s=20

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I was paying attention enough during my second play through to give the quasit scroll to Gale, so we now permanently enjoy the company of our filthy-mouthed and murder-hungry little demon familiar. I love her.

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It's just weird that it happened twice.

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So I've been digging through various dialogue things, and I came upon a devnote that is so fucking funny to me.

The idea that during the first romance scene Astarion is trying to portray sexy and confident, but then in his mind he's like "Yesss I'm so good at this." is so infinitely funny to me lol. He's so silly.

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Daily camp talks. Bonus:

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Silvanus coming by to make sure you’re treating Halsin the way he deserves (which is with the utmost love and care)

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What were you studying in your tower, Gale?!

#holy shit

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i think two weird freak bisexuals can do whatever. Save the world, even

#literally any bg3 pairing

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Nothing about Gale screams “I want to be a dad”. He is so male wife coded and I think people just confuse wife energy with mother energy. I don’t think the bg3 community is ready for that conversation yet though.

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camp but if there’s only one bedroll…