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Signals by Anonymous
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
08 Jan 2026
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Doctor McCoy sure as hell doesn’t compromise care, confidentiality, or his goddamn conscience for anyone. He has no problem with extracting a mind-controlling slug from Uhura's sinuses, performing a blood transfusion between a human and a sentient puddle, or administering therapy to a crew-wide hallucination of a god.
But catching feelings for Spock?
Now that’s just irresponsible.
And ultimately, it's all Jim’s fault.
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15 Jan 2026
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Captain Kirk is missing, Spock is in command. Diplomatic circumstances are hampering their rescue efforts and predictably, McCoy is taking it out on Spock. It would be a lot easier for Spock to ignore McCoy's temper if he was not trying to stave off a migraine.
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12 Jan 2026
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After twelve days without rest, Spock pushes his Vulcan physiology past its limits while racing to complete a critical mission. Dr. McCoy intervenes with characteristic fury, forcibly sedating Spock when reason fails, and enlists Captain Kirk to help drag their self-destructive first officer back from the brink. What follows is less a medical procedure than an emotional reckoning: forced rest, real food, and the blunt truth that Spock’s brilliance does not exempt him from care—or from being needed. As Spock recovers under Bones’ strict supervision and Kirk’s unwavering presence, the story shifts from crisis to intimacy.
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- Part 1 of Star Trek Works
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11 Jan 2026
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What Happens in the Turbolift (Stays in the Turbolift) by treksickfic (cheeriofrog)
Fandoms: Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek
05 Jul 2021
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Spock thought he was hiding his illness well, but he didn't count on his captain's keen observation skills nor the intuition of the Chief Medical Officer. A slice-of-life sickfic that takes place on the turbolift, one of the few places on the Enterprise where a suffering Vulcan can have a little privacy.
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11 Jan 2026
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Intoxicated (Original) by orphan_account
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Star Trek: Discovery
14 Sep 2019
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Amanda sets out to make amends with Sarek for their first disastrous meeting, only the ambassador isn't quite himself.
**This is the original version I wrote in 2011**
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07 Jan 2026
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So Laurel, how did you spend your shore leave? Oh, you know, just helped hold down the CMO while his terrifying Cardassian husband stabbed him in the chest with a giant skewer – the usual.
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A shuttle trip gone awry leaves Ensign Hart and Mr. Garak to tend to a gravely injured Dr. Bashir.
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- Part 1 of The Epilogue Tales
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29 Dec 2025
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For a moment, Garak’s heart leapt. He imagined a tall, thin figure emerging, perhaps dressed in Starfleet Medical gray and blue, or perhaps wearing civilian clothing. He imagined him saying, I got your letter, and I couldn’t stay away any longer. Did you mean what you said?
The door opened. The figure that emerged was short and clad in the red of the Bajoran militia, with a bag slung across her shoulder.
“Colonel Kira,” Garak said. “This is an unexpected surprise. To what do I owe the pleasure?”
Kira didn’t return his smile. “We need to talk, Garak. It’s about Julian.”
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After the war, Section 31 comes after Julian. Someone really should have alerted Garak sooner, but now that he knows, he's not letting him go without a fight. Neither is Miles, Kira, or Jake, for that matter.
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15 Dec 2025
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A Sneaking Suspicion by aventurinebrandybuck
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV)
27 Sep 2025
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On a routine inspection trip to a colony, crew members on the Enterprise, including Spock, begin falling ill with a mysterious affliction. Set somewhere between “Subspace Rhapsody” and “Hegemony”.
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10 Dec 2025
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the place your journey started, you will recognize it by Chrome for firefright
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
23 Dec 2021
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When Yussa invites himself along on an expedition to Aeor, he expects to unravel both the mysteries of ancient mages, as well as Caleb's mysterious arcane acquaintance.
If he'd known this sort of mystery was best-relegated to the pages of a romance novel, he probably would have stayed home.
In which Caleb unpacks some feelings around trust, Essek admits some fears about family, and Yussa is a third wheel.
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10 Oct 2025
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“We ventured too far, considering our unexpectedly low number.” Essek turns his face against the light, as if to let it cleanse some unwanted quality from his expression. Instead, he looks carved in bone, immortalized in frowning marble. “There were … traps. Perfectly clever ones. Still functioning.”
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Essek tries and fails and tries to save the man he loves.
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13 Sep 2025
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What do you do when you can't do anything?
When a sabotaged lesson plan infects Caleb, his colleagues, and their students with a rare and deadly disease, there is little to do but wait for a team of researchers to try and find a cure. But then, each moment seems an insurmountable task--avoid panic, take care of one another, manage their worsening symptoms, figure out who or what may have caused it, and stay alive long enough for medicine to be created.
There is something all too familiar about being locked in a Soltryce tower, trusting people who can't be trusted, and hoping death won't find you before morning.
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04 Jun 2025
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“Ah, dove,” said the umavi, using the Old Drow word for dove that also meant dear, also meant, less flatteringly, game pigeon. As a child, Essek had found the very existence of a word for a surface bird in Old Drow amusing, perplexing, until Deirta had informed him that in her youth the high houses had reared doves by hand in the Underdark, and fed them to their matriarchs. “What is to be done about you?”
-Essek has always been hungry. It is fitting then, that hungry is how he will die.
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04 May 2025
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Essek has a moment to consider that gravity-based trust exercises have never worked for him, and then the spell hits. He leans back into it, falls, falls.
(In which Essek is resurrected by the Mighty Nein and framed for innocence.)
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19 Mar 2025
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He thinks maybe it should make him more frightened, that he should worry about the liabilities he has allowed these people to become. It does nothing to temper the joy of being trusted, of being someone worthy of friend. It does nothing to diminish the memory of Caleb’s spellbook in his lap this morning, its owner sound asleep before him; the sweet press of concern behind Jester’s words in his mind the night before as she reached out with sending.
A rabbit walks into a snare. The snare closes around its throat, killing it. What is responsible for its death, the stupidity of the rabbit or the viciousness of the snare’s purpose?
The Shadowhand of the Bright Queen walks into the T-Dock, he thinks, and feels sick.Two months after surviving the ruin of Aeor, Caleb and Essek return to tie up loose ends.
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17 Feb 2025
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Suddenly There's Sunlight All Around by Oliphaunt1089
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
22 Aug 2021
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Essek always knew his crimes would catch up to him, but he always thought he'd have more time.
When the Dynasty comes after him, Essek runs to Uthodurn. He never expected them to be waiting for him there.
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10 Jan 2025
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When I find you at the foot of the stairs, my first thought is that a stranger is wearing my son’s face, because there is a standing call for Essek Thelyss's arrest the moment he is seen this side of the Ashkeepers.
(Because your soles are flat on the floor.)
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30 Dec 2024
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may your princes understand you (may your wolves get out alive) by grayintogreen
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
29 Jul 2021
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“I think she was trying to play an angle, of course. You taught her well. I had just been whispering to her in the shadows about how dangerous it was that she brought you here. And she just got so guilty and she wanted to do something about it. You teach a mortal to kill a god, and suddenly she thinks she is a god.” He laughed cruelly.
All Artagan wanted in the world was to put his fucking hands around the bastard’s throat, but then he’d never find Jester. He would end up following her magic to a dead end. “Where is she?”
“Not so fast. Why would you want to ruin her happiness, Lord Artagan? She’s just getting to the good part.”
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Jester's first trip to the Feywild does not go as planned.
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05 Nov 2024
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Essek is shaking once he’s sat there for twenty minutes. He’s thirsty. He wants to walk over to the jug of cold water on the table by the door. He needs to get up. He can’t.
He won't cry. It’s stupid to cry over this.
Verin gurgles.
“I hate you.” Essek curls his fingers around his elbows. “I hate you. I hate you.”For as long as Essek can remember, he has been cursed to obey. He has managed, in his own way, to mitigate the consequences of the curse while pursuing his academic and personal desires. It is only after being commanded to act as a guide for the Mighty Nein that it becomes a true complication.
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28 Oct 2024
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After a spellwork accident, Caleb slips through time. Centuries in the future, Essek Thelyss is waiting to catch him.
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26 Oct 2024
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It’s... the stupidest thing.
Essek grits his teeth. It’s a trained habit - a way to redirect some of the pain without showing any symptoms. A Shadowhand never shows his hand, and it is this he excels at - a poker face, a well-concealed illusion of poise and grandeur and tolerance.
But today, he is unlucky.
Because there is little that escapes the keen mind of Widogast - and here he has quite the disadvantage.
It is, quite literally, his least favored terrain.
Stairs.
---When keeping mages in an enclosed terrarium, please keep in mind the following: They need lots of places to hide and explore. Provide enrichment opportunities for them to keep them from getting bored - plenty of books, hidden treasures, and secret chambers. And if you're feeling bold, think about including an Anti-Magic staircase just to challenge them. See what they do with it.
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- Part 1 of Enrichment for Wizards
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25 Oct 2024