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Three times Caleb goes without sleep and one time he actually gets rest.
Lets admit it, this boy looks and sound exhausted the whole series so far.
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21 Dec 2025
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Jaskier gets jumped by a bunch of bandits, who happen to be so dumb as to stab him with an ancient artifact. When he wakes up, the bandits are slaughtered, and Jaskier has a new hunger. He decides he can't and won't live like this, and searches out a witcher to kill him when he's unsuccessful himself. Of course......he finds Geralt, or does Geralt find him?
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When Jaskier wakes up, the light is uncommonly bright to his eyes, and he has to squint against it. He’s not sure he remembers going to sleep the previous night, and briefly accuses himself of gulping down the bottle of Toussainti wine he’d filched from the inn, leaving a few crowns in its place.He rubs his hands over his face, and realises that as he does so, the strange metallic scent that hangs in the air gets stronger. When he pulls his hands away to look at his palms, he stiffens. There are red stains on the skin, some of it dried and flaking in the creases.
It’s very definitely not wine.
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21 Dec 2025
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we'll make it all right to come undone by brasskass
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
19 Nov 2025
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In the day and a half they have known each other, Nott the Brave has come up with many words to describe Caleb Widogast.
Stinky. Shit-covered (technically two words, but she doesn't care—it's true). Clumsy. Nervous. Pathetic. Downtrodden. Lonely.
Sad.
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Nott and Caleb are both broken people who just might make each other a little better. Takes place just after The Mighty Nein Episode 1: A Mote of Possibility.
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Whumptober No. 9: "We'll make it all right to come undone."
Touch | Flashbacks | ScaldingSeries
- Part 1 of whumpin 2025 and beyond
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21 Dec 2025
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In the Eye of the Firestorm by LessAttitudeMoreAltitude
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
11 Dec 2025
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In the aftermath of Owelia's death, Beauregard helps carry Caleb back to the house. And Nott rewraps his arm.
They both have some private thoughts about Caleb
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20 Dec 2025
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carry you home by LittleMissBookWitch
Fandoms: The Mighty Nein (Cartoon), Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
11 Dec 2025
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set between the clearing scene and Caleb waking up in ep 5 of the Mighty Nein Animated. Beau is an asshole, but she’s not enough of an asshole to just leave him there. Basically just Empire Siblings feels that seized me during this episode and wouldn’t leave until I wrote them down 😊
Spoilers for ep 5 of The Mighty Nein Animated.
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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.
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20 Dec 2025
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When Jaskier is young, he is sold to a slaver to solve his parents' problems with money.
He ends up at the royal court of Tretogor, a gold-collared bedslave, reserved for the royal line. Unlike the others, Jaskier doesn't settle into his fate, but rebels in what little ways he can.
It's no wonder then, that when the warlord of the north visits Tretogor for negotiations, Jaskier finds himself in the middle of it all.---000---
His mother's face is sad, and Julian wishes more than anything he could change that. She tucks a lock of his soft brown hair behind his ear.
“Remember how you said you wanted to help?”
Julian nods.
“There’s someone who… is coming to take a look at you. If you do well, we’ll get enough to pay the rent that’s still due. If we’re very lucky, we’ll get enough to buy back the farm.”
“What do I have to do?” Julian asks.
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16 Dec 2025
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The Reckless Song of Life and Death by phiaura
Fandoms: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
26 Oct 2025
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Where witchers are death, and Jaskier is a bard with a flare for the dramatic who keeps saying he wants to “just die” in any given situation.
To Jaskier, this is just a figure of speech. To Geralt, it is very definitely flirting.
When he decides to finally court the bard, it doesn't quite go as expected, and he finds out just why it is so easy for Jaskier to flirt with death.---000---
Geralt tilts his head to listen, the corner of his mouth twitching upward. The bard has been flirting with him for weeks now, exclaiming he could just die, all over Oxenfurt. At first, Geralt thought the man was being dramatic and didn’t know what he was doing, but no one is that theatrical.
“Little shit at it again?” Lambert grouses. “Just fucking court him already, pretty boy. Or I might just do it for you.”
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15 Dec 2025
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"Let's go to Kaer Morhen for the winter," Jaskier mocks breathlessly. "It won't be as exciting as last year. We'll rest and recuperate, you said. A moment of peace, you said." Passed out against Jaskier's shoulder, Geralt does not answer. "We could have portaled in. Yennefer and Ciri are portaling to Kaer Morhen in a few weeks time but no. Geralt, oh Geralt hates portals! So we're going to walk up the fucking mountain during a fucking snowstorm."
Jaskier drags an unconscious Geralt up the mountain towards Kaer Morhen, cursing all the while. It takes a few days, some stitches and a fever (and stealing some of Lambert's ale) but eventually they do get a few moments of peace.
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13 Dec 2025
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"My name was Julian Alfred Pankratz. I was the Viscount's youngest son."
Like he hoped, the Warlord hones in on one thing. "Was."
"Pretty sure getting arrested for treason against Emhyr var Emeris, the mighty White Flame is enough to get me officially disinherited. Especially considering my parents turned me in themselves."
Jaskier saves the Warlord's daughter. Despite his family ties, he's allowed to stay in Kaer Morhen while he recovers from his injuries. Eventually, it becomes home.
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- Part 1 of Bring Me Home
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12 Dec 2025
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This is a new one for me, folks. My first AU! (And yes, I'm aware I haven't finished Hue and Cry yet. I'm sorry. I promise I'm working on it.) I've had this idea circling around my brain for quite some time now and it's suddenly started yelling to be let out, so here we are.
Geralt, a ship's captain who commands a crew of monster-hunting sailors, rescues Jaskier from one of his rivals. Jaskier's only experience with Geralt's kind has left him with some pretty deep trauma, which he'll need to try to overcome--with Geralt's help, of course. Can they outwit and outmanuever the danger dogging their every move? And can Jaskier recover the man he used to be before his harrowing experience and learn to trust again?
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11 Dec 2025
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Piece Me Back Together, Dear Heart by aleatory_fox
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
08 Dec 2020
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Jaskier spends several years healing after Geralt turns him away on the mountainside, and his fragile heart is finally piecing itself back together. He keeps returning to Posada every year for reasons unknown even to him, but everything's fine. Who needs Geralt, right? The betrayal will fade eventually. The feelings too. The bitter, raw feelings...
And then he runs into another Witcher in the same damn tavern. He even looks like Geralt. But instead of a walking bulwark of brooding silence, he meets a man with an open smile, kind eyes and a laugh that warms his very soul. Another few chance meetings and Jaskier finds himself inextricably drawn into Eskel's orbit. I mean, they have so much in common, including a deep, relentless yearning for a tall, brooding Witcher with hair the colour of moonlight.
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- Part 1 of Piece Me Back Together, Dear Heart
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10 Dec 2025
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“Julian, you’re up,” Jaskier whipped his head up, opening his eyes again. Famora stood in front of him, looking at him with a hard gaze. For a moment, he just stared straight back, completely dumbfounded.
“B-but I just finished up with…” He gestured down his body, bruises already blooming along with dozens of angry, red marks. She sighed, a flicker of something passing through her eyes, as she pinched the bridge of her nose.
“Look, I know it’s not ideal, but it’ll have to do,” she said.
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08 Dec 2025
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Thrust into his new role as Quartermaster just as an agent resurrects from the "dead", Q hasn't got *time* for mysteries on top of running missions and dealing with mountains of paperwork. Too bad a pair of them have just landed in his lap. At least Bond is being helpful in solving them.
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06 Dec 2025
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Bond comes to Q with a request.
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- Part 4 of After Midnight
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01 Dec 2025
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“What’s wrong?”
“I’m, ah, hungry, that’s all.”
“Let’s get breakfast,” Bond says. “I know a place that’s good. They have a spicy chorizo that you’ll like.”
Q opens his mouth, then closes it. He breathes out through his nose slowly, almost like it hurts.
“I’m not that kind of hungry,” Q says quietly.
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- Part 3 of After Midnight
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30 Nov 2025
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Q makes a place for Bond in his home.
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- Part 2 of After Midnight
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29 Nov 2025
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Despite his attempts to look ordinary and unassuming--tousled hair, dark rimmed glasses, an unstylish wardrobe--it’s impossible to hide just what he is. It’s there, lurking behind the queer green-grey of his eyes, tucked into the curve of his enigmatic smile.
Vampire.
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- Part 1 of After Midnight
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29 Nov 2025
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All The Things You Tell Yourself by secondstar
Fandoms: James Bond (Craig Movies), SPECTRE (2015)
18 Dec 2015
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Life goes on. Things change, people leave; it’s a fact of life. Q was well aware of this fact, and yet he never really thought about the possibility of Bond being the one who left. Sure, he was a womaniser, had been “killed” multiple times in the line of duty. But he’d always come back.
Not this time, though. This time he’d walked away, and he’d taken Q’s pride and joy with him. Well, it had been for Bond, but still. Q wasn’t sure which he was more upset about, the loss of Bond or the loss of the redone Aston Martin.
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29 Nov 2025
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Q gets kidnapped from within MI6. It's up to James to find him before it's too late.
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28 Nov 2025