#bringmayflowers

Late Week 1 Submission by Yours Truly.

Prompt: Weeds

Every Rose Has Thorns (7100 words) by grazimesmo, ShadowViking, m00nbun Chapters: 1/1 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: Bloodweave, Post-Canon, Established Relationship, festival night, matching outfits, Vampire Spawn Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Gale Freed of Orb, Flower Theme, Flower Crowns, Jealousy, Top Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Bottom Gale (Baldur's Gate), Public Sex, Semi-Public Sex, Jealous Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Gale Has a Danger Kink (Baldur's Gate), sex in an alleyway, Gale's Blood Does Not Taste Bad (Baldur's Gate), Inappropriate Use of Dungeons & Dragons Spells, Hand Jobs, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Rough Sex, Vampire Bites, Hair-pulling

Summary:

Gale is eager to show Astarion everything Lliira's Night has to offer, but a chance encounter with an old schoolmate seems set to derail those plans before they can even begin.

As jealousy spikes high, Astarion may just have to remind Gale exactly who he married, and ensure the past remains in the past.

Can't wait to see what you guys have in store. Today and tomorrow are Wildflower days, up to you discretion on how you want to use florals in your posts!

I'll be featuring pieces for Week 1 beginning Sunday!

This cursed Astarion cracks me up. I should have done a cute chibi version, but here we are.

We’d like to thank, yet again, the incredible Johnny Parker, without whom we would have a little more than an empty shell of a home. Last week, Johnny helped us put together our rainwater collection system, in addition to all of the electrical and plumbing help he’s already done for us so far.

The rainwater we collect will be used to flush the toilet, which could save us hundreds of gallons of water usage a year.

The system works as follows:

A gutter directs rain from the north-facing roof plane into a 600-gallon cistern, which sends water through PEX into a small pump box. Once in the box, water travels through a small filter, after which a meter records the amount in cubic feet of water passing through the pump. The rainwater is then pumped through a solenoid valve, which talks to a float switch that’s inside the cistern. The solenoid valve knows when the cistern is empty and when we need city water, as well as when the cistern is full and when use collected water.

As soon as our gutter arrives this week, we will be able to finalize the system and begin our water collection process. During the next four months, we will record how much water we actually saved by recycling rainwater.

Ready for April showers,