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Incise by unintelligiblescreaming
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), Critical Role: Campaign 2 - The Mighty Nein (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
17 May 2026
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“It is Kryn spellcraft. Evil stuff, I’m afraid,” Ikithon tells Bren’s parents, dripping with sympathy. “One of them must have bound your son’s soul to theirs. Injuries and other ailments are transmitted through the bond. But don’t worry. We know how to take care of cases like his, here at Soltryce.”
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Exposure to dunamis has unpredictable effects. Two people can become entangled across vast distances in space, their future connection echoing backwards through time. The elite of the Dynasty call this phenomenon the soulmate bond.
Trent Ikithon calls it an excellent strategic opportunity.
(In which Bren thinks he's cursed, Astrid and Wulf think he needs protection, and Essek has never met him, but he knows Bren is in danger.)
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28 Apr 2026
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what's left if you rip the magic out of a wizard's head?
(or: essek gets seriously brain whammied, recovery eventually ensues)
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09 Apr 2026
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(from now on) in you, i put all my trust by pqq
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
17 Apr 2026
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Caleb is struck with a thought– an image really– arriving fully-formed and without warning. The pink of his own thumbs, pressed firmly into lavender skin. Pointed towards a navel, towards each other, his hands would form an arch like that of a temple.
Essek would look so lovely in Caleb’s lap, held close and admired properly.
Three hundred and forty-four seconds.
Caleb has to get out of this hug right now. Essek is trying to say "goodbye, be safe, I will see you soon." Essek’s body is not trying to tell him anything.
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The fact that Essek is staying with him in Rexxentrum is common knowledge amongst the Nein. The fact that Essek is in his bed every night— well, that is the secret part.
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06 Apr 2026
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the blumenshadow were!strucker au
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06 Apr 2026
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The Line That’s Still Holding You Spellbound by TheAverageStandard
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
11 May 2026
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Newly appointed head archivist Essek Thelyss spends his time in the basement of the Zadash division Cobalt Soul Institute, recording statements of “supernatural” and “unexplained” happenings.
Work is boring, and his coworkers are mildly insane. Not for long though! Things will absolutely get worse.
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It’s not necessary to know anything about The Magnus Archives to read, though it contains major spoilers for The Magnus Archives.
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- Part 1 of Spellbound
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30 Mar 2026
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like gold to airy thinness beat (m9 daemon au) by stoated
Fandom Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
16 Feb 2026
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28 Mar 2026
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The war between the Dwendalian Empire and the Kryn Dynasty finally comes to an end.
Peace, as delicate and tentative as it is, has been brokered and discussed.
Professor, turned Warmage, Caleb Widogast would be wed, as a political symbol, of the effort being made to extend that peace towards the Dynasty.
To whom, he has no idea, further than they would be Kryn.
He just hopes that he can keep the peace long enough to reach their wedding night.Bookmarked by Mellow_Fool
23 Mar 2026
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Essek hurts.
Essek has always hurt.
His body betrays him at every turn in life
And Essek does not wish for people to see, nor help him, when he hurts. So when the newest professor transfer starts to ask questions , Essek tries to stamp the curiosity down before things get out of hand.
He has to stop the curiosity, from both sides, before his patience wears too thin.Bookmarked by Mellow_Fool
20 Mar 2026
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Will Graham's daemon is unsettled, unspeaking, and halfway to feral, but if she's broken then isn't that because he is? She's a piece of him, and he's very certain that all of his madness hasn't been neatly excised into her body alone. She's made out of him, or he out of her; it's the same thing.
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18 Mar 2026
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The Mighty Nein look a little different when there's another half to their souls everyone can see.
Jester's still trying to figure them out; she's not sure why anyone's daemon wouldn't be their best friend.
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14 Mar 2026
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The West knows him as The Phantom. Black coat. Red eyes. A legend riding faster than fear.
Karkat Vantas has never needed anyone. Not for a duel. Not for a war. Not for the long, dust-choked miles between towns that whisper his name like a warning.
But when Pinkertons kidnap his sister and summon him to New Valor for a so-called “agreement,” pride stops mattering. The desert becomes an enemy. Rival clans draw blood. And for the first time, the Phantom rides not for reputation, but for family.
There’s just one problem.
Dave Strider.
White horse. Sharpshooter grin. Arch-nemesis with a talent for appearing exactly when he shouldn’t. What starts as another shootout turns into something far more dangerous when Dave realizes Karkat isn’t chasing ego this time, he’s running toward something that could break him.
Karkat refuses to explain. Dave refuses to leave.
Now two rival legends are riding toward a city thick with Pinkertons, secrets, and unfinished grudges. The desert is merciless. The stakes are personal. And if Karkat is going to die, it won’t be quietly, and it won’t be alone.
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12 Mar 2026
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Fics set in the universe of a body in absentia
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02 Mar 2026
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Caleb can’t sleep.
Not with the scars. Not with the itch. Not with the memories.
Not with Trent Ikithon still living somewhere in his head.
One night, he finds a Twitch stream.
The man behind the screen name ‘LogicalGhost’ is calm, brilliant, and impossible to look away from—playing horror games like they’re puzzles and speaking with a quiet certainty that makes the world feel less overwhelming.
Caleb tells himself it’s just a distraction.
But he keeps coming back.
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21 Feb 2026
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It was supposed to be simple: send Thelyss the picture he took and then move on from the encounter- no change.
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Or the one where photographer Bren only ever captures things, but ballet dancer Essek makes him want to forget about his own rule and take the shot.Bookmarked by Mellow_Fool
18 Feb 2026
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Office AU for The Mighty Nein.
Essek is a fairly new Accountant for Cerberus. He has to contend with the management who keep trying to scrimp and save while his colleagues are desperately just trying to do their jobs and survive. His main issue is the Support guy, Caleb, who seems to know more than he lets on.
Changed to Explicit and content warnings added.
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26 Jan 2026
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In a world where soulmarks appear as magical script written in the language of one’s soulmate, Caleb Widogast wakes to find drow glyphs etched into his skin—ink-dark, unfamiliar, and impossible to ignore. Across the border of empire and dynasty, Essek Thelyss bears a matching mark in harsh Zemnian script, hidden beneath glamours and politics.
Neither can read their own mark.
Both know exactly what it would mean to translate it.As war, guilt, and forbidden magic bind them closer, their soulmarks begin to react—glowing in danger, resonating in spellwork, and pulling two men together who believe themselves unworthy of destiny. With empires watching and old sins casting long shadows, Caleb and Essek must decide whether soulmarks are a sentence… or an invitation.
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19 Jan 2026
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Forged Before the Gods by Dancer612
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Percy Jackson and the Olympians (TV 2023)
20 Mar 2026
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In this darker AU of Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Percy Jackson arrives at Camp Half-Blood already shaped by violence, survival instincts, and a lifetime of learning how to endure without breaking. At fourteen, nearly fifteen, he is no wide-eyed hero—he is guarded, dangerous, and deeply suspicious of gods who arrive far too late to save anyone.
Accused of stealing Zeus’s Lightning Bolt and hunted by monsters, Percy is forced into a world that seems determined to use him as a weapon. At camp, he forms reluctant bonds—starting with Grover’s quiet loyalty and growing into something far more complicated when Percy draws the attention of Luke Castellan, an older camper who recognizes Percy’s anger, restraint, and loneliness all too well. What begins as mentorship and protection slowly turns into something warmer, sharper, and far more dangerous.
As grief, attraction, and resentment intertwine, Percy must decide who he trusts: the gods who claim him, or the people who choose him. This is a story about corrupted innocence, slow-burn romance, and the thin line between being forged into a hero—or becoming something the gods should have feared from the beginning.
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- Part 1 of Dark Percy/Luke Universe
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19 Jan 2026
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When Caleb Widogast, a guarded transmutation scholar with a talent for fire and self-restraint, enrolls in an advanced magic theory course, he expects long lectures, sharp debates, and the comfort of anonymity. What he does not expect is Essek Thelyss—a brilliant, gravity-focused arcanist whose presence bends more than just the Weave.
Their first meeting is accidental and quiet, marked by a single moment of public defense when Caleb speaks up against a prejudiced remark aimed at Essek. The act is small, but it changes everything. For Essek, it is rare and disarming to be seen as a scholar first, not a spectacle. For Caleb, it is the beginning of something dangerous: caring.
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15 Jan 2026
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Essek Thelyss comes to Soltryce to deliver guest lectures and, on the side, cultivate the brand new Archmage of Domestic Protections. He’s hoping that Caleb Widogast will oblige him by picking up his predecessor’s interest in conspiring to steal Luxon beacons, after so rudely murdering Da’leth mere weeks before the culmination of their schemes.
Essek is prepared for espionage. He is not prepared to find a love that will change the course of his life.
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15 Jan 2026
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Bookmarking to reread later. Thrilling and beautiful at every turn.
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Caleb should go back inside.
Caleb should stand up, go back inside, and forget that he saw anything curled up in the filthy alleyway behind his building. Stay out of trouble. Things die all the time.
When he lays two fingers at the vampire’s neck, its skin is chill as the wet cobblestones. He can just feel the tiny rise and fall of its ribcage.
Damnit.
(It's a Shadowgast modern-with-magic vampire!AU)
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01 Jan 2026