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𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘮

[ #poetry | #BellMakingThings ]
TEXT: Our dance is a blur, countless colours weaving into the steps, our prism hearts splitting the sun into a thousand bright and dancing rays. - Bellflower (@reflectingstars)
April 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
reflectingstars.bsky.social
[ #poetry | #BellMakingThings ]
reflectingstars.bsky.social Dandy Bell @reflectingstars.bsky.social · Mar 7
it is frustration
that I gird against
knowing it flits
and flies
alighting on my chest
seeking the place to
bury down
and uncover its root:

tears over
words not writ
not said
not shared

lost to that beast
o'er my head
March 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
reflectingstars.bsky.social
I wrote a gentle Samurai Warriors TakaYoshi fic about their reunion after death 2 years ago:

- 1667 words, no warnings beyond anything mentioned
- #BellMakingThings #SamuraiWarriors

AO3 - archiveofourown.org/works/36840184 (locked to users)
My site - reflectingstars.neocities.org/ocfiles/sw-y...
October 30, 2024 at 5:05 PM
reflectingstars.bsky.social
POETRY
416 words, Gale/m!Tav. Gale considers poetry, and not just in the sense of writing verse.

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/630011...

[ #BellMakingThings | #bg3fic | #bg3fanfic | #bg3queer | #galedekarios | #TomGale]
But that was appropriate for a Goddess, was it not? Did She not deserve such fervent adoration, such thick and layered poetry? He'd haughtily kept that knowledge to his chest during the courting (or, at least, what he'd thought was a courting) and conjured ever greater poems in Her name. Yet now, now... he felt less given to lavish Her with such, but felt more than capable of spinning them for a mortal man.
March 30, 2026 at 1:09 PM
reflectingstars.bsky.social
PINNED: EXTRAS
Bits I couldn't fit up there in my profile~

Artistic stuff
- #BellMakingThings | arts, writing WIPs
- @sunlitreflection.bsky.social l photography

Fandom things
- #bellOCpile | my lil OC collection, all BG3 right now
- #TomGale | my BG3 M!Tav/Gale ship
Two men stand together against the wall of a balcony. On the right, shorter and dressed in purple with a brownish waistcoat, is a smiling Gale Dekarios with his hand raised. He looks fondly at his partner. His partner is smiling, his wavy red hair loose about his shoulders as he gently reaches to grasp Gale's hand with a smile.
August 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
reflectingstars.bsky.social
𝘎𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵

[ #poetry | #queerpoetry | #BellMakingThings ]
Text image: I don't remember my first kiss swallowed by an abyss of alcohol at eighteen and I wonder if I should regret or celebrate the loss her lips on mine, euphoria between us before she ran, afraid I cried on my mother's shoulder, teen girl heartbreak but woke oblivious as did she a ghost on our lip - Bellflower
February 27, 2025 at 9:09 AM
reflectingstars.bsky.social
DAY THREE

⚡A challenge to writers. Post 1-2 sentences a day from any project for 25 days. No explanations & no judgement. ⚡

[ #bg3fic | #BellMakingThings ]
TEXT: Headstrong and resilient as she knew herself to be, Morena hadn’t really felt like getting swept up in it herself, not with how worn down the fear in her chest had left her. All she’d done was observe… until she heard the words ‘gale’ and ‘wizard’ in quick succession.
March 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
reflectingstars.bsky.social
~ PINNED ~

Artistic stuff
- #BellMakingThings | fic, writing, other arts
- @sunlitreflection.bsky.social | photography

VP things
- #Bell'sVirtualCamera | all my VP works
- #bellOCpile | OC-related VPs
- #TomGale | BG3 M!Tav/Gale ship

Other
- #dandyramble | BG3 OC yapping
A BG3 screenshot. In it we see Gale Dekarios, wearing cream and grey robes with silver detailing. He is with a human male Tav, who wears grey trousers and a blue tunic edged with pale brown details, and who has many freckles and long wavy red hair tied back into a ponytail. They stand in a sunny courtyard. Gale is on the left and the Tav on the right, the Tav having his arm around Gale's shoulder where their hands entwine. Gale is mid-talk, while his partner grins.
January 28, 2026 at 10:24 PM
reflectingstars.bsky.social
[ #bg3fanfic | #bg3queer | #BellMakingThings | #TomGale ]

Posted all of a few seconds ago, here's some gentle Gale and m!Tav (my lad Thomas). All info in the image, the very lightest hints of NSFW but not a thing explicit. :)

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/66140602
TEXT Rating: Mature Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: M/M Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Relationships: Gale/Tav (Baldur's Gate), Gale (Baldur's Gate)/Original Male Character(s) Characters: Gale (Baldur's Gate), Tav (Baldur's Gate) Additional Tags: Named Tav (Baldur's Gate), Fluff, Implied Sexual Content, Weddings Language: English Stats: Published: 2025-06-02 Words: 1,469 Chapters: 1/1 Hits: 0 TITLE: Stolen Vows AUTHOR: Dandy Belle (Bellflower) SUMMARY: Despite the bliss of their wedding day, despite its perfection otherwise, Gale has one single regret to bring up to his beloved husband. One single apology he wishes to make. The matter of their vows.
June 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
reflectingstars.bsky.social
DAY SEVEN

⚡A challenge to writers. Post 1-2 sentences a day from any project for 25 days. No explanations & no judgement. ⚡

[ #bg3fic | #BellMakingThings | #bg3queer ]
TEXT: Which now left him sat in Gale’s lap (a much more comfortable chair all told) and not quite sure when he’d gotten there. He remembered the pulling back, the soft question murmured into his mouth, settling in… just not when it had happened.
March 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
reflectingstars.bsky.social
A lovely welcome to the #bg3queer tag and feed. I talked about how lovely it would be to have one earlier today... and by sheer chance it was unveiled hours later!

So it seemed like a good time to fix this one up, make it tidier, and get it closer to what I wanted it to be.

[ #BellMakingThings ]
An edit of a BG3 screenshot. A redheaded male Tav on the left, his cheek scarred and his clothing grey and white, the gay male flag behind him. Gale Dekarios on the right, wearing his classic purple casual clothin, the pansexual flag behind him. The two flags blend into one another. They are looking lovingly into one another's eyes. Little stamped crowns are on their heads!
February 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
reflectingstars.bsky.social
[ #bg3fanfic | #astarion | #BellMakingThings ]

A short solo Astarion piece. All info in the image, some light NSFW touches. This is a character study born from serious consideration of Astarion facing his Mirror Image.

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/72132366
TEXT: Rating: Mature Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: Gen Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Character: Astarion (Baldur's Gate) Additional Tags: Introspection, Implied Sexual Content, Character Study Language: English Stats: Published: 2025-10-08 Words: 512 TITLE: Celestial Body AUTHOR: Dandy Belle (Bellflower) SUMMARY: This was what he looked like. Who he was. And right in this moment, here and now, the only being who had control over Astarion was himself. A celestial body in his own hands.
October 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
reflectingstars.bsky.social
DAY SIX

⚡A challenge to writers. Post 1-2 sentences a day from any project for 25 days. No explanations & no judgement. ⚡

[ #bg3fic | #BellMakingThings ]
TEXT: Squinting into the twilight of his room, Gale searched for a beloved shadow that wasn’t there before reaching out to the empty space at his side. There was a faint lingering heat within the space, evidence of a recent occupant; a touch of comfort in the dark.
March 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
reflectingstars.bsky.social
...I used to do 'bad art' as self-given art therapy. I have many pieces from that time... it's something that got disrupted when I moved and I have struggled to pick back up again.

There'd be a big A3 sheet and I'd add a line, a touch of colour, slowly, over weeks, months.

[ #BellMakingThings ]
An eye at the centre of a very strange red, yellow and orange flower. It is covered by and surrounded with what looks like black roots, stems, perhaps they are more like branches?
November 29, 2024 at 10:01 PM
reflectingstars.bsky.social
DAY ONE

⚡A challenge to writers. Post 1 sentence a day from any project for 25 days. No explanations & no judgement. ⚡

[ #bg3fic | #BellMakingThings | Link in replies ]
Text: It had been wonderful to visit Gale’s mother Morena, who had thoroughly overfed her beloved visitors and delighted in showcasing the knitted cape she’d bought for Withers (who they all knew, despite it all, would wear it with the same austere air he bore in his normal rags).
March 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
reflectingstars.bsky.social
[ #BellMakingThings | WIP ]

An old WIP I am making my focus, as it'll be short. Writing is harder than getting blood out of a stone at the moment but I must and shall find a way.

Fic concept: Romanced Gale, back in his 'tower,' waking alone for the first time since his return.
TEXT: There was no solid presence in Gale's bed, no curled twist of hair between his fingers, no skin-on-skin contact soaking warmth into his body. He reached out to find where his lover ought to be and there was nothing there, like Thomas had been snatched back into whatever wondrous dream he'd been born from. Gone. Absent. The tower was silent as the grave and Gale’s bed filled only with himself. His fingers clutched at his chest and he inhaled softly, attempting to steady himself. But it burned. Tendrils spread from the tips of his fingers, burying in, old fingerprints pressing into his heart and finding an old shape. A circle, no, an orb… a haunting that felt far too real for comfort. “My love...?”
October 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
reflectingstars.bsky.social
Hey, I'm Bell, a fic writer currently focused on BG3 and some Gale/M!Named!Tav goodness. Also working on genfic and other things, slowly...

AO3: archiveofourown.org/users/Bellfl...
Site: reflectingstars.neocities.org/fic-bg3/

[ #BellMakingThings | #WIPitout | #bg3fic ]
A Baldur's Gate 3 screenshot. A young redheaded man, his curly locks tied back into a thick bun and a scar on his face, uses magic to open a glowing book. Purple light suffuses the image as his power works through his hand.
December 30, 2024 at 8:29 PM
reflectingstars.bsky.social
It took some doing, but! For the #bg3wintergala... 1984 words of very gentle Gale/M!Tav fic (as described in the image) that you can find here: archiveofourown.org/works/61364677

(Might be the 16th where I am but it's still the 15th in much of the world, ahem).

[ #BellMakingThings | #bellOCpile ]
TEXT: Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: M/M Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Relationships: Gale/Tav (Baldur's Gate)Gale (Baldur's Gate)/Original Male Character(s) Characters: Gale (Baldur's Gate)Tav (Baldur's Gate) Additional Tags: Named Tav (Baldur's Gate), Fluff Language: English TITLE: A Private Showing SUMMARY: A blizzard puts Gale's plans of a dramatic showing at the gala on hold. Fortunately, his beloved has a suggestion for a private one of their own.
December 16, 2024 at 12:42 AM
reflectingstars.bsky.social
Felt shy, but let's push through that. My third BG3 fic published on AO3, a very gentle 'blackstaff' AU involving the gift of a library and Gale getting an exciting mystery.

Also, a new boyfriend. And kisses. Important!

archiveofourown.org/works/57084829

[ #bg3fic | #BellMakingThings ]
TEXT: Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: M/M Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Relationships: Gale/Tav (Baldur's Gate)Gale (Baldur's Gate)/Original Male Character(s) Characters: Tav (Baldur's Gate)Gale (Baldur's Gate) Additional Tags: Named Tav (Baldur's Gate), Alternate Universe Language: English Published: 2024-07-02 Words: 2,914 Title: A Clever Partner Author: reflectingstars (Bellflower) Summary: His very dirty, mussed-up friend promised a new favourite distraction. On that basis alone Gale felt skipping a class was worth it. (For day 2 of GaleAUWeek, 'Blackstaff Student AU.')
February 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
reflectingstars.bsky.social
Whew. A short, sweet winter warmer of 1186 words for Galemas right here, using the 'fireplace' and 'snowed in' prompts in one. I am happy to get the one finished. :) Found here: archiveofourown.org/works/61553179

[ #BellMakingThings | #bellOCpile | #galemas | #bg3fic ]
TEXT Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Archive Warning:vNo Archive Warnings Apply Category: M/M Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Relationships: Gale/Tav (Baldur's Gate), Gale (Baldur's Gate)/Original Male Character(s) Characters: Gale (Baldur's Gate)Tav (Baldur's Gate) Additional Tags: Named Tav (Baldur's Gate), Fluff Language: English STATS Published:2024-12-22 Words: 1,186 Chapters: 1/1 TITLE: Sensible Exceptions AUTHOR: reflectingstars (Bellflower) Summary: A winterborn sickness leads to a moment of warmth by the fireplace (and not because of its heat).
December 22, 2024 at 9:53 PM
reflectingstars.bsky.social
Short ficlet series done!

Winter-themed Gale/M!Tav fics, linked but readable on their own, set in Dekarios 'tower' and overall very gentle fluff. I wanted to write happy, quiet pieces. 💕

Here: archiveofourown.org/series/4548118

[ #bg3fic | #BellMakingThings | #galedekarios ]
TEXT Title: Winter Warmers Creator: reflectingstars (Bellflower) Series Begun: 2024-12-16 Series Updated: 2025-01-01 Description: A small collection of very gentle linked Gale/m!Tav fics, in chronological order and written in response to various wintery challenges over the December 2024 to January 2025 period. All can be read on their own, too. Words: 4,795 Works: 3 Complete: Yes
January 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
reflectingstars.bsky.social
Some Baldur's Gate 3 Tav-focus fic, hosted on my site as a bit shy posting Tav-only stuff on AO3. But! Proud of this one.

An elven smith reflects on love, loss and a long life through the rings he's made for every loved one. #BellMakingThings
#bg3fic

reflectingstars.neocities.org/ocfiles/kori...
October 27, 2024 at 8:02 PM
reflectingstars.bsky.social
DAY TWO

⚡A challenge to writers. Post 1-2 sentences a day from any project for 25 days. No explanations & no judgement. ⚡

[ #bg3fic | #BellMakingThings ]
TEXT: He obviously wanted to move, to work it out, to vent that adrenalin through something, anything, and when Tomcat was like this he was at his most beautiful. Those pretty red curls blew in an emotionally powered breeze, that strong jaw was clenched and tight, his stormy-blue eyes were narrowed and his brow was furrowed… but!
March 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
reflectingstars.bsky.social
DAY EIGHT

⚡A challenge to writers. Post 1-2 sentences a day from any project for 25 days. No explanations & no judgement. ⚡

[ #bg3fic | #BellMakingThings | #bg3queer ]
TEXT: Gale closed his eyes and reached out, grasping the storm firmly the moment he felt its shape brush against his palm; a risk it was, and he could not deny that he felt a flicker of a most primal kind of fear at the first shock of lightning, but… a truly devout heart would not yield even as the wind lashed and cut at its flesh. Somewhere in that magical maelstrom was a man who needed to be held, needed to be loved, and Gale was going to provide.
April 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
reflectingstars.bsky.social
It's New Year's Day, not NYE... has to count for something, right? I hope you like tooth-rotting romantic fluff! It's Gale/M!Tav and the final of 3 loosely linked fics from the winter season.💕

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/61881283

[ #BellMakingThings | #GalemancerNYE | #bg3fic | #TomGale ]
TEXT Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: M/M Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Relationships: Gale/Tav (Baldur's Gate), Gale (Baldur's Gate)/Original Male Character(s) Characters: Gale (Baldur's Gate)Tav (Baldur's Gate) Additional Tags: Named Tav (Baldur's Gate), Fluff Language: English Series: Part 3 of Winter Warmers Words: 1,614 Title: An Exceptional Show Author: reflectingstars (Bellflower) Summary: The Gondians set off their soundless fireworks in Waterdeep's harbour to celebrate one of the city's many festivals (hopefully without disaster). The 'magical' art of the show brings up powerful emotions for one Gale Dekarios. Notes: For #GalemancerNYE on bluesky, just a day late. Alas, the New Years experience hit me as it does so many! :') There's the very faintest of sexual suggestion in this one; nothing directly mentioned at all, only alluded to.
January 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM