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“You know what? Nevermind. It’s not worth it.” Occtis starts folding himself into bed, prompting Julien to sit up, aggravated by the principle of the thing.
“Just ask me the fucking question.”
“I don’t just want to ask one, I want to—gh—do you know how a conversation works?”
“You want to get to know me?” Julien says with horror.
— On the road to the Golden Orchard, after the second-worst week of their lives, Occtis and Julien play stupid games.
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11 Oct 2026
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Jester says, “You made a greenhouse,” and Essek looks up.
Palms and figs and mangroves and tree ferns reach up for the ceiling, and a sourceless waterfall spills through them. The walkway spirals upward, clinging impossibly to the dangling roots of a banyan tree, and vanishes into the greenery. Everywhere there are flowers — dusky pink orchids and brilliant bromeliads, violet and yellow and red.
Essek takes a shaky breath. “I’ll show you your rooms.”
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03 Oct 2026
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strange how certain the journey by Chrome
Fandoms: Critical Role: Campaign 2 - The Mighty Nein (Web Series), Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
12 Mar 2021
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"Traces of dunamancy left in his wake...I have my theories on where you might have learned this."
Trent Ikithon baits a trap. Essek and Astrid disarm it, and live on borrowed time.
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29 Sep 2026
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and have you changed your life? by neinofthem (jeyneofpoole)
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
13 Nov 2025
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It is a mild night in Nicodranas, and Veth is considering slamming the door in Essek’s face.
He’s wearing a Disguise that she hasn’t seen before and an expression that warns of future vomit. He says, shivering, “Um. Hello. Please help me?”
Veth, who is beginning to wish that she hadn’t answered the door in her skimpiest robe, attempts to surreptitiously cross her arms over her cleavage. She says, remarkably pleasantly, “Are you fucking insane?”
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23 Sep 2026
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the place your journey started, you will recognize it by Chrome for firefright
Fandoms: Critical Role: Campaign 2 - The Mighty Nein (Web Series), Critical Role: Exandria (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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22 Sep 2026
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the other things that make us by saturdaysky for LadyOrpheus
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
22 Aug 2021
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Essek returns, when he can, to the sanctuary of Caleb's home. The peace of it is a balm against the tedious peril of the road, which has more misery to share than Essek had ever thought. It's nice to have a place where he can lose himself: in a book, in arcane study, in the confusing allure of Caleb's smile.
It's nice. And the cats miss him, Caleb says.
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- Part 1 of the other things that make us
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22 Sep 2026
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into the dust of what you want by neinofthem (jeyneofpoole)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
01 Jan 2025
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Essek Thelyss is in Astrid’s office.
She enters brusquely, holding up a hand like it will keep him at bay, and says, “I am not doing this with you right now.”
He’s sitting in her desk chair, folding his hands smugly up at her, eyes wide and serene as a doe’s. He says, “Hello, Archmage,” and Astrid says, “Get out.”
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21 Sep 2026
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“Beauregard – you said she is outside?” Essek half-turns in the direction of the front door. “Should we invite her in?”
It feels like there is something stuck in his throat. “In a moment. She is, ah – giving us some space.”
Essek turns back to stare at him. Repeats quietly, dangerously, “Space.”
Caleb forces himself to swallow. “Yes.”
Essek’s attention is a palpable thing now, sharp like a knife’s edge against his cheek. “Explain.”
One moment makes all the difference during the battle at Blumenthal. In the aftermath, the Nein grapple with what comes next.
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14 Sep 2026
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Molly groans behind her softly, “Really? Did you really have to—oh, alright then—,” but he doesn’t step in, and he doesn’t stop her.
“Stay down,” Beau growls, and the guy—did she ever get his name? She doesn’t think so—presses a hand to his face and swears, but doesn’t rise up off the floor.
Caleb, half-turned on the bench where Beau had been sitting a moment before, takes a slow sip of his drink. “Tonight is not the night to fuck with us, friend,” he says.
(Or: team assholes blasting off at the speed of light.)Bookmarked by opalamber
11 Sep 2026
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room to grow by firefright, kmackatie, lakrisrot (enheduane), mllekurtz (TheKnittingJedi), VillainIHaveDoneThyMother
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
15 Dec 2025
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"Every room is the sex room."
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10 Sep 2026
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The answer, he realizes, now that he's solved it, is so obvious that he would call it hitsuzen if he still believed in fate.
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03 Sep 2026
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But The Face Will Still Pursue You by Smaragdina
Fandoms: Dishonored (Video Game) - Fandom
31 Dec 2012
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"This is always the danger of a masquerade: the masks are more true than the men they represent, and she should have been tipped off by the fact that he wore a skull." The three Ladies Boyle plead for their lives in three different ways.
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27 Aug 2026
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a marvellous thread by arriviste
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
10 Jul 2019
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They called her Lúthien reborn before Arwen was old enough to understand that they were speaking a Doom, not a blessing.
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22 Aug 2026
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something pretty to wear beneath my blood-stained clothes by sashawire
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
29 Apr 2021
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Cristabel always wore the same earring—just the one. He remembers, of course, because Mercymorn would bitch and moan about the horrid asymmetry of it. And Cris would smile in that slightly-mischievous, mostly-dopey way only she could, and go, “Oh—no worries, Cee! I can get you one to wear on the other ear, then we’ll be a matched set,” and that would shut her necromancer right up.
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It’s not uncommon for Lyctors to keep tokens left behind by their cavaliers.
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21 Aug 2026
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“Three whales will beach themselves today,” the boy says one morning, and they go down to the water to see.
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09 Aug 2026
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Lay your ghosts down by vaguely_concerned
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
07 Sep 2018
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Bull tilted his face into the kiss. He reflexively pushed down the shake in his fingers, then had one of those moments of world-turned-upside-down dizziness as he realized he didn’t have to anymore. There was no one left here but the two of them and the Chargers, no Qun to be ultimately responsible to. It was the harder trick, figuring out when you didn’t have to lie.
He let himself tremble, just a little.
(A take on that excellent Roaring Rampage of Rescue from the Trespasser ending slide!)
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08 Aug 2026
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You've Got to Stand It by vaguely_concerned
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)
06 Jul 2026
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Something, equal parts wariness and weariness, stirs in Olruggio’s eyes whenever Qifrey makes some reference to the future — when he indirectly promises a tomorrow, a next week, an ‘after your commissions are done’. It’s the subtlest thing, a flicker, a spark; someone who knew him less well might not pick up on it. But Qifrey knows Olruggio as well as he knows himself, and he can hardly in good conscience begrudge him his flinch of cynicism. Not when it’s wholly his own fault for having put it there.
Fool you once, shame on me. Fool you twice, still shame on me. Fool you thrice… well, if it’s any consolation whatsoever, I was fooling myself most of all.
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The night Qifrey returns to the atelier for good after his wandering days — old promises kept, new promises made.Bookmarked by opalamber
07 Aug 2026
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the letters and lies we bestow by CalamityUnlocked
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)
06 Jul 2026
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Separated by choice and bound by immeasurable grief, Qifrey and Olruggio attempt to find the edges of themselves through a year and a half of letters, until the silence becomes too loud to bear.
OR: six seasons of letters, of lies, and of a few truths that wormed their way in.
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17 Jul 2026
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coastline by catachresis
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)
06 Oct 2026
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Qifrey knows by now not to expect anything less than an ambush when he’s summoned to an audience with Beldaruit, but there’s a tiny, ridiculous part of him that holds out hope each time. For what, he’s not entirely sure. That his old master simply wants to see him, with no ulterior motive? Would that be too much to ask?
At least today, Beldaruit wastes no time with niceties. “You need a break,” he announces the moment Qifrey crosses the threshold of the Argentgard.
“Do I?” he replies, then adds, “Hello to you as well.”
“Yes, yes, hello my dear boy.” Beldaruit waves a hand as if he can flutter clean through the niceties. “When was the last time you had a proper vacation?”
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17 Jul 2026
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Like Moths to the Flame by Downsayed
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)
26 May 2026
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“Come on, Olly.” Qifrey rolled onto his stomach to fix Olruggio squarely in his sights. The last few years of boyhood had rounded out Qifrey's sharpest edges, leaving him mostly handsome and amiable. From time to time, though, he still got this look in his eye like an impending tsunami.
Olruggio had long since given up any illusions of outrunning the destruction.
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Before the atelier and the apprentices, young Olruggio and Qifrey have recently passed the fourth, and final, test to become full-fledged witches. With their newfound freedom from the Great Hall, they decide to pay a visit to Ghodrey in the north--Olruggio's hometown.
Between dealing with his embarrassing relatives and planning for life as an adult witch, Olruggio grapples with growing desires towards his best friend. He is unsure what the future holds for them and whether he can follow Qifrey wherever it takes him.
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17 Jul 2026