stay stupid, ponyboy

prides and joys:

works with emotional resonance that i’m most proud of.

❤️‍🔥 you’re fireproof (series)

105K in three parts, third part the longest, complete. bloodweave.

modern no-magic AU in which gale is a culinary school dropout and astarion is a dickhead lawyer. they meet at the dog park and start to fall for each other.

🐊 see ya later, alligator

27K, complete including epilogue. bloodweave.

modern no-magic AU, set (mostly) in orlando, in which gale works at gatorland and astarion is a henchman for greasy, terrible mobster cazador.

🗡️ o, happy dagger

4K oneshot. bloodweave.

canon-based hurt no comfort, in which gale, tav and astarion try to usurp cazador’s ritual.

🤝 hand on hand on dagger

3K oneshot. pale petras/araj oblodra.

canon-based AU in which petras usurps cazador’s ritual instead of astarion – with the help of araj oblodra.

🍷 tear you apart

4K oneshot. bloodweave.

post-canon, weave anchor gale and spawn astarion reunite. after some verbal sparring and guilt-tripping, astarion drinks gale's wine-sopped blood. FFO hate frot.

🍂 seasons, changing

<1K oneshot. bloodweave.

epistolary drabble, an in-character, post-canon letter that gale leaves for astarion to find in winter.

🟣 this time tomorrow

3K oneshot. bloodweave.

after they kill the netherbrain, and return to waterdeep, gale remembers the night astarion talked him out of using the orb.

crack and silliness:

i’m also proud of these, but in a more unhinged, fun way.

🦪 “oyster boy dringo’s”

4K gordon ramsay RPF. gen.

entry in the gatorverse, in which gordon visits one of cazador’s restaurants and dresses the mob boss down.

🫗 a case of sex pollen

2K oneshot. bloodweave.

modern no-magic AU, tooth-rotting fluff and smut in which gale and astarion remember the night they met and partake in several indulgences.

⚖️ on a technicality

1.5K oneshot. bloodweave.

modern no-magic AU, marital lawyerstarion orgasm-denial smut with light “my cousin vinny” vibes, that takes place in the o’hare plaza hotel: “where OJ stayed.”

there’s more on my ao3, but those are the main ones i wanted to highlight.