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Unfettered Thoughts: Do Drow Dream of Astral Sheep? by MinnesotaBruja
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
15 Feb 2022
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When Essek excuses himself from a classic Mighty Nein dinner in the Nein-Sided Tower, Caleb takes his chance to show Essek his new customized room in the space, complete with books...including Tusk Love... and maybe the tension between them finds a moment to finally snap. (Chapter 1 is T/M, Chapter 2 is E.)
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26 Feb 2026
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by the corner of your mouth by lakrisrot (enheduane)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
13 Jul 2022
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Caleb Widogast is going to perish right here in the warmly lit library of his own mind’s creation, and the cause will be Essek—deep in thought, pale brows furrowed —and the way he keeps touching his fucking mouth as he thinks.
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23 Feb 2026
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I don’t believe in God, but I believe that you’re my savior by unreliablestoryteller
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
01 Feb 2025
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Essek is very distracted while researching with Caleb. He tries (and fails) to keep his feelings to himself. Turns out, Caleb doesn’t mind in the way he thought he would.
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21 Feb 2026
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cat's curiosity, scholar's satisfaction by antiv3nomarts
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
12 Feb 2026
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Over time, Essek had found some of Caleb's behaviors to be quite familiar—catlike, if you will. Of course, like any good scholar, he continued to observe.
Or, 5 times Essek noticed ways in which Caleb is like a cat, and 1 time Caleb noticed the same in Essek.
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11 Feb 2026
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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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08 Feb 2026
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Seth Domade had many good qualities. He was human and, as such, could traverse Rexxentrum with ease. He had some unremarkable magical capabilities, so it was not odd that he might, say, use Comprehend Languages to read a book or cast Prestidigitation to clean the muck from his boots.
Seth Domade, however, was not a powerful wizard. He did not wield spells that could disrupt the gravity of an entire street or send his attackers flying into a wall. Seth Domade was a quiet, unassuming man. He spent most of his days editing volumes in the Cobalt Soul’s library, and he looked the part.
Around the time the silence manacles clapped around his wrists, Essek realized he should have dropped the facade of Seth Domade earlier.Series
- Part 6 of Fresh Horrors (Eternal Whumptober)
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08 Feb 2026
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Warmkeeping by Onemorestep for fjorests_of_wildemount
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
21 Dec 2022
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Essek extended an arm in invitation and caught Caleb’s eye. No turning back now. “Would you like to, um, perhaps-” Light, this was difficult, “Come here? I am warm.”
Caleb looked at him with surprise morphing into longing, teetering on the cliff’s edge of decision. Essek watched the shift in the set of his jaw as he settled.
“Ah. D-danke. No.”
“No?”
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19 Jan 2026
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Through a process of some trial and (thankfully minimal) error, Essek learns something new about Caleb's desires, and possibly his own.
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08 Jan 2026
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Of Safekeeping and Wizard Towers by ThreeGremlinsInATrenchcoat
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
31 Mar 2021
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The tower gets thrown up.
Essek gets a room.
And Caleb does what he does best - Seek out a conversation before he heads to bed.
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04 Jan 2026
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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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26 Dec 2025
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could you hold me the way i wanna be held by SpeedingCheetah
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tian Guan Ci Fu | Heaven Official's Blessing - Moxiang Tongxiu
18 Dec 2025
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Xie Lian didn’t intend to get cursed, or sick as a result. As a matter of fact, he didn’t intend to even get involved with the ghosts who were sluggishly parading themselves around Puqi Village. He just—well—what else was he supposed to do? He collected scraps, stayed in his shrine, had an exhilarating time with Hua Cheng whenever he visited, and more or less avoided going to the heavens unless absolutely necessary. What harm could helping a few ghosts do? They were sick, and sad, and dead, and unable to leave, and he was not any of those things—except the last one—so it only felt right if he tried to help, didn’t it?
Of course, getting sick was something he should have expected. After all, his bad luck did not make him immune to suffering. Only immune from dying from it. Hua Cheng would rather he didn’t get sick, and didn’t die at all! Both the real version, and the dream version said so!
(or: xie lian takes the burdens from a very sick, very dream-riddled ghost. he, by extension, becomes a very sick, very dream-riddled god. hua cheng takes care of him.)
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25 Dec 2025
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In which Beau realizes Essek is courting Caleb before Caleb even realizes he's being courted.
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- Part 1 of Courting of the Caleb
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22 Dec 2025
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In that moment when Caleb squeezed his arm, something electric punched through Essek’s veins, spreading out from the point of contact - and he wanted, so badly, to believe that some part of it was real.
Now, Caleb’s hand rests warm over his heart, and Essek thinks, numbly, that this is very real indeed.
(In which Essek falls in love over a series of touches.)
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20 Dec 2025
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Essek is in love with Caleb and has no idea how to handle this new experience. There is so much he does not know, like how to approach any possible future physical relationship, he only knows sex as a useful but unenjoyable tool. He is sure he will disappoint. He gets sound advice and support and tries not to assume and not to rush.
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14 Dec 2025
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It would have been one thing if it had looked important.
All throughout Aeor, they had found strange glowing pillars, gem encrusted instruments, and at least one obviously cursed sword. And with each one, they had practiced due diligence, spending several long minutes identifying and observing the item in question before ever daring to touch it.
Though, perhaps that was why Caleb’s guard had slipped. After weeks of seeing obvious arcane threats from a mile away, he’d forgotten how important it was to investigate everything, no matter how mundane.
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12 Dec 2025
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His body feels strange. There had been many scenarios vivid in his mind when he had woven his Teleportation spell with shaking fingers, but he finds himself realizing that somehow, all of them had included Caleb putting his hands on Essek’s shoulders.
Caleb, concerned and serious, a tenseness to his brow as he reinforces his wards and asks Essek if he was followed. Caleb, frustration in the set of his jaw, asking Essek why he had not come sooner. Caleb, soft-mouthed, guiding him to the closest chair.
When the room instead is quiet and dark, and then keeps staying quiet and dark, he finds it suddenly difficult to keep standing.
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09 Dec 2025
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wishing for rain as I stand in the desert by SweetSilentSteps for wanderingmindpalacetales
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
10 Jul 2022
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After a fight with some bandits in Tal'dorei turns sour, Essek runs to the safety of Caleb's Rexxentrum home.
He then has to deal with the reasons surrounding why that was the first place he turned to.
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04 Dec 2025
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Caleb and Essek are fleeing, separated from the Mighty Nein.
Desperate and almost beaten, Caleb grabs a trinket and his friend and Teleports them to safety. Except the destination they land in is not the one he had chosen.
And for a second he wonders whether he sent himself to hell.
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01 Dec 2025
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Essek and Caleb work on a project while the Mighty Nein are busy. Caleb’s proximity to Essek draws him into heat early and Essek lets him nest in the guest room while keeping his distance.
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28 Nov 2025
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Caleb misses Essek. Essek calls and has terrible (or maybe great) timing.
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26 Nov 2025