pixel_the_alien
Fandoms
- Hermitcraft SMP (41)
- Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series (35)
- New Life SMP (15)
- Empires SMP (12)
- Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series) (5)
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“Pearl.” Gem giggles and rests her chin on Pearl’s shoulder. “C’mon, I’ve seen you play this game! Get in the spirit with me!”
“Gem, I’m not in the mood.” Scarlet Pearl’s knife has become somewhat of a carrot murder weapon.
“See, that’s the spirit I’m talking about–”
“Gem, I told you to leave me alone!”
Definitely-Not-Scarlet Pearl whirls around to face Gem, still holding the knife tight in her hand. Gem notices for the first time that her eyes are red-rimmed and puffy. “Please just let me make my soup. I don’t want to play along.”
or: Pearl's Past Life is haunted by her past life. Gem doesn't know what to make of that.
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creature, you're part of this loving game by pixel_the_alien
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
05 Nov 2025
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Gem throws an arm around Pearl’s shoulders. “Your task is no longer important.” She takes her secret book out of her inventory and tries to balance it on Pearl’s head, only to be thwarted by her antennae. “Please take this in. And then give it back to me after you’ve read three pages.”
Pearl pokes Gem’s antler in return. “Y’know what, that’s fine. I was failing at it anyway.” The universe can wait to hear her problems some other time. “Wait, three pages? Why’s everything got to be three pages these days?”
“I’m sorry,” Gem giggles again. (Curse that darn laughter. Pearl went too long without hearing it before, and now that it’s back, it’s doing its same old excellent job at putting her at ease. Pearl can’t resist it.) “It had to be very specific.”
So Pearl takes the book, and she reads it. And then she slams it shut and stares at Gem with something between exasperation and stunned shock.
or: Gem leads a boogeyman army, and for once, everything on the Secret Life server is completely normal and fine. Completely.
Series
- Part 18 of it's killing me to love you
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even under any other name by pixel_the_alien
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
22 Oct 2025
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Across the room, the Orphanmaker continues her uneasy rest. The Inevitable End is surprised she isn’t asleep by now. She’s watched her take some heavy hits today, even the same ones that she herself managed to shake off. Maybe that’s what Obann has chosen the Orphanmaker for – her resilience. Her ability to withstand a barrage of attacks and not flinch about it. The fact that she can keep getting back up, never truly harmed.
She is harmed, though. That’s why she’s resting. No explanation quite makes sense.
The Inevitable End pushes away the thought. No matter. Obann has chosen them both for a reason, and as long as they are both under his command, she supposes it is not her place to question it. She tries to return to her meditation, but her focus wanes. Something is off. It takes her a moment to recognize the sensation as hunger. It’s lucky, then, that they are at ease for the night.
or: For the first time in centuries, the Caedogeist begins to realize that living weapons have personhood, too.
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Pearl’s tears fall suddenly, without much hope of holding them back. “The bottles were supposed to despawn.”
This time, Cleo doesn’t argue. “Do you want to tell X?”
“I’ll put in a bug report. It’s not big.” Pearl reaches a hand out to take the note back. “It’s just… it felt like it. Just for a tick.”
or: After coming home from Limited Life, Pearl accidentally stumbles into some painful memories. Cleo gets it.
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The word for Santa Perla’s domain is translated from old Gilded Helianthian texts as “purity.”
It’s odd, Gem thinks. Worshippers of the saint are known for vibrant colors, dirt under fingernails, laughter and paint and shouted song. The Farmer Queen was benevolent and loving, but nothing about her seemed quite pure, not in all the old stories. It’s a mystery Gem can’t quite make sense of when she arrives in the kingdom she will call Dawn. And that’s after she finally wraps her head around the fact that in this world,
her best friendher partner in crimeher something-more-than-friendher Pearl has ascended to godhood. Even in this new world, everything about her is a little weird. At least that’s familiar.or: Gem has discovered Empires, and Pearl is a goddess, and it is far too easy to pray to her.
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it's killing me to love you by pixel_the_alien
Fandom: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP, Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
05 Nov 2025
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Gem has seen her friends disappear into death games and return broken and scarred too many times. When she discovers Pearl is about to be sent into another, she knows what she has to do – she will follow Pearl into hell and get her through it safely.
Unfortunately, the Watchers have different ideas for everyone. They've had enough of standing by and observing. Now, they want control. When Gem's arrival ruins every plan, there's only one thing for them to do: erase her memory of why she's there.
As the secret tasks become more terrifying and twisted, Gem and Pearl are forced to survive the new world manipulating them – all while figuring out what they want their relationship to become.
or: a canon-compliant retelling of Secret Life, complete with a queerplatonic GeminiTay/PearlescentMoon relationship
*updates are often sporadic, but i promise the series is still active!*
- Words:
- 85,927
- Works:
- 18
- Bookmarks:
- 60
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in any and every universe (mcyt yuri week 2025) by pixel_the_alien
Fandom: Hermitcraft SMP, X Life SMP
16 Jul 2025
- Words:
- 1,805
- Works:
- 2
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i've seen you a lot (beauyasha week 2025) by pixel_the_alien
Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series)
02 Jun 2025
- Words:
- 5,221
- Works:
- 4
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blankets and bandages (whumptober 2024) by pixel_the_alien
Fandom: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, New Life SMP, X Life SMP
05 Oct 2024
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a few scattered entries for whumptober 2024
- Words:
- 2,808
- Works:
- 3
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you reflect all your light into me (gempearl week 2024) by pixel_the_alien
Fandom: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Empires SMP, Hermitcraft SMP
08 Jul 2024
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series title from “love song” by beach bunny!
this is for @gem-pearl-week’s 2024 tumblr challenge! seven days, seven fics, all with different prompts :D
fics:
-lost and found (duality)
-falling for you (soar)
-speak a charm, take the weather from your heart (flowers/decay)
-painted songs of heroes or the moon (godhood)
-her dirty paws and furry coat (death/reincarnation)
-spinning out about things that haven’t happened (devotion/betrayal)
-dancing’s what clears my soul, dancing’s what makes me whole (dancing)- Words:
- 10,304
- Works:
- 7
- Bookmarks:
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the longest night by TaraLaurel
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
04 Jan 2026
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“Caduceus,” he says, voice clipped and precise. “Caleb is critically injured. Magical contamination. We need you. Rexxentrum. His home. Now.”
The silence that follows is unbearable.
Then the answer comes - quiet, steady.
"I'm on my way."
Essek begins counting.
Not seconds. He is not that optimistic.
Heartbeats.
If there is no arrival by sixty, he will tear open space and bring the healer here himself.
Essek watches Caleb’s chest rise and fall and feels the night expand around them, vast and patient.
This is not the vigil he prepared.
This is something else.On the longest night of the year, Essek plans a quiet surprise: a Zemni Long Night Vigil, researched and arranged down to the last candlewick. Caleb comes home late, as he always does - just not under his own power.
With an artifact’s hungry remnants still tangled in Caleb’s magic, healing becomes dangerous, and the only thing left to do is keep watch until morning.
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Bookmarked by pixel_the_alien
07 Jan 2026
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Some Feelings, They Can Travel Too by thetickingclock
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
02 Jan 2026
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Beau kisses her.
Veth yelps. Yasha laughs. Jester shrieks.
Astrid arches her back, deepening the kiss. She reaches behind her and catches at Beau’s shoulders, anchoring herself with too-sharp nails and blood. Beau bites her lip.
They pull apart with a gasp and a laugh, swallowing each other’s air.
Yasha wraps an arm around Beau’s neck, half head lock, half embrace. She kisses Beau’s bloody mouth.
“Now it’s a party!” Veth shouts.
(The women of the M9 have a Girls Night)
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02 Jan 2026
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Pearl knows a few things.
- She is alone.
- Winter is coming.
- She is not ready.
After Double Life ends, Pearl finds herself trapped on the server. She is forced to survive alone, with only a few wolves remaining from her pack, as winter approaches.
Bookmarked by pixel_the_alien
20 Dec 2025
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the dream within a dream (aka: the truth doesn't set you free, it just hurts) by TaraLaurel
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
11 Dec 2025
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**MAJOR SPOILERS FOR 1x05 AND CALEB'S BACKSTORY (do not read below)**
the dream within a dream (aka: once upon a time, i murdered my parents) - but I couldn't call it that without spoilers, obviously.
“Let me tell you a story.”
Caleb never meant to tell the Mighty Nein the truth - not this soon, not like this, and probably not at all. But with his amulet shattered and the past closing in, silence is no longer protection.
In the clear, unforgiving morning light of a different farmhouse, he unravels the story of Bren Aldric Ermendrud: the dream he lived, the fire he cast, and the truth that broke him open.
What the Nein do with that truth will change everything.
This is the missing scene of how Caleb tells them his truth - and how they react to it.
Bookmarked by pixel_the_alien
19 Dec 2025
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pretending to be myself by navpike
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
04 Dec 2025
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When the devil toad breaks free of Toya’s control, Mollymauk feels ice creep through his veins. Not in a metaphorical sense. There is the distinct feeling of ice in his blood, freezing him from the inside out, curling around his lungs, stealing his breath and stilling his heart. Everything in him is cold. He feels as though he may never know warmth again.
It’s his doing, these people being here. He’s the one who gathered most of this audience, he drew this crowd here. He convinced Toya and her accursed fucking beast to join up with them. Anyone who gets hurt here will have been hurt because of him.OR
Mollymauk Tealeaf is having a very bad day. He does not understand his magic, or his body, and everything is burning around him.
Bookmarked by pixel_the_alien
08 Dec 2025