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It is still cold, and will probably get a little bit colder through the night. It is awkward, but… from a logical standpoint… he might be used to roughing it but Essek– no matter what he says– is not. So he worries.
“Um, this might be a bit… forward,” he says shortly, “but… if we were to sleep close together, it would help us keep warm throughout the night, too.”
Essek’s hands pause in smoothing his bedding.
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04 Feb 2026
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things no ears have heard, things no eyes have seen by LittleMissBookWitch
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
23 Dec 2025
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“One thing Caleb had learned was that Essek’s moods were often sudden, and vicious, and shocking even to him— and often, nothing to do with Caleb at all, squabbling over components and a jar of orange juice in stasis aside.”
Or, Una Ermendrud and Deirta Thelyss continue to haunt the narrative even after the world has settled.
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26 Jan 2026
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i was so sure (until i wasn't) by allmadeofstardust
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
04 Dec 2025
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Father, did you know me? Mother, would you be proud?
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06 Dec 2025
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still I claim "I will retain composure" by allmadeofstardust
Fandoms: Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series)
28 Oct 2025
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Julien is still injured from the fight at the Palazzo. He has also just witnesssd a slaughter. So why should he care? Who even was he now?
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28 Oct 2025
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“I had to take precautions, you see. I lost seven men bringing him in, so best not to take risks,” Sorn said.
“Feeblemind,” Essek whispered through numb lips.A Dynasty mage with a personal vendetta imprisons Caleb to get revenge against Essek. They must escape and then unravel the damage done.
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- Part 5 of Fresh Horrors (Eternal Whumptober)
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26 Oct 2025
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we're kings among runaways (on the bus mall) by NotAFicWriter
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
07 Aug 2025
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The night before Easter break, I went with you to the clinic for your abortion, and we weren't even friends. It was the last time I saw you.
OR; Harrow Aborts That Thang.
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22 Aug 2025
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we're kings among runaways (on the bus mall) by NotAFicWriterSummary:
The night before Easter break, I went with you to the clinic for your abortion, and we weren't even friends. It was the last time I saw you.
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“Caleb,” Essek asks in an undertone, as they walk away from one window, its festive display festooned in so many colorful sparkling lights that the very sight makes Essek’s eyes water, “if there is something you want to buy, then why not just buy it?”
“Too expensive,” Caleb demurs, the denial so prompt it cannot be anything but reflexive. “Besides, I don't need it.”
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06 Aug 2025
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children have no dignity by hanapSummary:
“Caleb,” Essek asks in an undertone, as they walk away from one window, its festive display festooned in so many colorful sparkling lights that the very sight makes Essek’s eyes water, “if there is something you want to buy, then why not just buy it?”
“Too expensive,” Caleb demurs, the denial so prompt it cannot be anything but reflexive. “Besides, I don't need it.” -
whims and days colored orange by lakrisrot (enheduane)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
14 Jun 2023
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Caleb reunites with his traveling husband in a bright seaside city.
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05 Aug 2025
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whims and days colored orange by (lakrisrot) enheduaneSummary:
Caleb reunites with his traveling husband in a bright seaside city. -
with the war of the fire (my heart moves to its feet) by neinofthem (greekphilosophress)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
16 Feb 2023
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Once, when Essek was very small, he lit himself on fire.
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05 Aug 2025
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with the war of the fire (my heart moves to its feet) by (neinofthem) greekphilosophressSummary:
Once, when Essek was very small, he lit himself on fire. -
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It was still there when he made his way back to his assigned patch. And still there once he’d pulled all the low, creeping weeds from between the thick, woody stems of the lavender bushes.
“If you are dead, you realize I will pull up this weed,” he muttered to it on his fifth pass.
It, naturally, did not reply, though whether due to a lack of investment in its chosen home or a lack of vital signs was unclear.
In the aftermath of Aeor, in the Clay Family gardens, Essek encounters, speaks to, and has a mild existential crisis over, a bee.
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30 Jul 2025
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Bee!! A favourite. For emotional rereads.
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A Good Name is Hard to Find by CitizenMocha for Senor_Sparklefingers
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
15 Jul 2025
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Kingsley sighs. “Does it ever occur to you people just how bloody infuriating it is that every conversation I have with this group, I’ve got you all waiting for me to be someone other than myself? Do you have any idea what that’s like?”
Essek laughs, just a little chuckle that seems to take him just as much by surprise as the rest of them. He quiets and fixes his cloak. “I do, actually,” he says.
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20 Jul 2025
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Astrid has learned to live with one eye by now. It’s manageable, most days.
Until one evening, when the wine she’s pouring for Caleb sloshes out onto the table and directly into his lap.
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18 Mar 2025
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The first years after losing Vax, they’d had days like this one much more consistently. It was Percy’s insistence, though most of them were eager. Every few months, they would gather up their friends, pry Keyleth loose from the Tempest, and reignite that lingering spark of adventurousness that remained within them all, just for a weekend. But once Pike and Scanlan had their kids, once the Darringtons really started to hurt for money, once Vex took up her new duties in Emon, it just became impossible to keep up with it all.
Vox Machina reunite for the first time in a while to hunt down some mysterious creatures causing havoc in the woods. One by one, they fall.
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16 Mar 2025
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Essek didn't deserve his friends, but they were there for him regardless. He didn't feel worthy of the magic at his fingertips, so he strove to make something of it. Saving the world for a second time had a way of putting things in perspective.
An exploration of magic and relationships in 31 pieces, based on the 2022 Inktober prompts.
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- Part 3 of The Right Hand
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07 Mar 2025
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Misery is a Talent You can Hone by XXXandrian (themcgeek)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
03 Mar 2025
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It's been almost three hundred years. Essek visits the grove.
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04 Mar 2025
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i know several lives worth living by neinofthem (greekphilosophress)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
16 Feb 2025
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Beau begins by sighing exasperatedly, which is typically not ideal for selling a pitch, but what the fuck, right? “I wanted to ask you,” she says, carefully now, “If you would maybe be interested in working with the Cobalt Soul. In a more, uh, official capacity. Like with a salary and everything, or whatever.”
There is a silence which is somehow worse than the silence that they were sitting in before. Essek makes a small sound that must be unconscious, sort of like a death rattle. Beau didn’t know such an undignified noise was in his repertoire.
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17 Feb 2025
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speak not to me of fine things by RaisingCaiin for fullofleaves
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
11 Feb 2025
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15 Feb 2025
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Essek Thelyss is a prodigy at dancing, perhaps the best ballroom dancer in all of Xhorhas. It's his singular focus, it's all he does every day, it's all consuming.
Light, but he's tired.
Then, at a competition in Emon, he meets a man named Caleb Widogast and the world brightens for just a moment.
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15 Feb 2025
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Caleb Widogast's life is finally looking like it's on track: he's got a good job, his friends are all doing well, he remembers to take decent care of himself, and his familiar is the most popular figure in the Nicodranas library. Things are finally good. But are things ever truly quiet when your friends are The Mighty Nein?
Dr. Essek Theylss has been exiled to the worst place his mother could think of — bright, sunny Nicodranas. Luckily, unbeknownst to her, Essek has a friend there already. Unbeknownst to him, his friend has been impatient to drag him into her shenanigans for a very long time.
(also known as the peak of self indulgent fic)
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13 Feb 2025
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The first time Essek felt a wave of Dunamancy pass over him felt like freedom.
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A look on Essek's first time using Dunamancy and how it would begin to shape his life.
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13 Feb 2025