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I reread Five Stars today and thought I’d pop in to tell you I love your bg3 fics! If you updated them in two years I think I’d still be hyped to read them.

Thank you so much!! I hope it will be significantly less than two years though! But your patience means more than I can even express because falling behind on updates stresses me out so much. I have chapters for each of them in the works, so hopefully soonish!

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Astarion wants you to think he's a sophisticated iced coffee bisexual when he's actually hitting up Dunkin every morning for an exta-large, seven-sugar iced coffee that he's shoving into a styrofoam cup regardless of the season

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Only true Early Acessers remember needing to kill Shadowheart before the second tadpole dream so that her dialogue didn't have priority over Astarion's nightmare.

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It feels super presumptuous to even write this (like the idea that people would care enough about my fics to be waiting around for updates for them), but I just wanted to say that I haven't given up on them, nor will I ever - particularly my Unraveling series. I've been dealing with a lot of health issues over the past six months (as well as getting diagnosed with ADHD at 33, which explains *a lot*), and it's made it difficult to write. These fics mean so much to me, and I never want to put anything out I'm not happy with just for the sake of content. The BG3 fandom has been so unbelievably kind to me, and it's been such a a mood-booster. Sorry for over-sharing, or anything!

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My most toxic BG3 trait is that I gatekeep Honour Mode more than anyone you will ever meet

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of course I'd take a break from wow to play FFXIV and immediately pick up a new ship to obsess over

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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.

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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.

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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™️.

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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.

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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:

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.