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Phainon sighs and wearily rubs a hand over his forehead.
“I’ve been having dreams,” he mumbles. “Vivid ones. I always wake up in a panic, thinking I’m trapped in those endless cycles all over again. They won’t stop no matter what I do.”
Phainon has nightmares after the end of the Eternal Recurrences and the defeat of Irontomb. Tired of watching from afar, Anaxa finds a way to comfort him.
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05 Jun 2026
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“…I think I was born to love you.”
Wanderer blinks. He’s not sure how to respond to that, or if he should ignore it. He does hate the way it makes his chest ache despite not having anything real there to hurt.
In the end, he says, “No one’s born just to love a single person. Not even a storybook dragon.”Bookmarked by arisato
09 May 2026
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"What do you think it is to be human?” Flins asks, slow and deliberate, fingers tracing the rim of his drink.
“To be human is to feel,” Illuga says, definitively. “To be human is to hurt, to bleed, to cry. And then wake up the next day and do it again. Wake up a thousand times and do it again, knowing that the pain doesn’t stop.”
Flins’ gaze is piercing. “Why?”
“Because if we can still feel pain, we can still feel joy.”
Illuga thinks he knows what it means to be human. He has a few things to learn.
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- Part 4 of Alex’s Adventures in Nod Krai
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21 Apr 2026
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When university student Phainon accidentally temporarily revives his mysteriously murdered professor Anaxa with his finals essay, the two must uncover the truth behind Anaxa’s death before his time runs out again—while struggling to ignore the feelings growing between them.
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09 Aug 2025
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Sunday has invited Dr. Ratio and Aventurine to meet at the Dewlight Pavilion
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06 Apr 2024
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Neuvillette's High-Heeled Boots Are Too Much by CarmineQueen
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
01 Oct 2023
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Kinktober Prompt: Heel fetish.
Neuvillette was over for tea. But now he's crushing Wriothesley's balls with his golden heel.
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- Part 1 of Kinktober 2023 - HoYoVerse
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02 Oct 2023
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quiet birds in circled flight by windsgrandode
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
18 May 2021
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“They’re bitter,” he offers. “Ganyu eats them.”
Barbatos’s eyes go round. “Raw?” he says, astonished. “My word.” He pauses, studying the qingxin in deep contemplation. Then he pops a petal into his mouth and immediately gags.
Xiao concludes then and there that the Anemo Archon is an idiot. “I warned you,” he says, utterly unsympathetic.
“That’s true!” Barbatos laughs. He runs a thumb over the bloom, but (thankfully) doesn’t try to eat any more. “I think it’ll grow on me,” he muses, then smiles, as if he’s said something clever.
A selection of memories. Venti and Xiao, from the beginning to the end—and after.
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14 Feb 2023
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“It’s not that my mother didn’t love me. She did – she does. It’s just that she is Umavi.”
Or: Essek and Beau talk about mothers.
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28 Aug 2021
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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 Aug 2021
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12 Aug 2021
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Research Log: Aeor, 837 P.D. by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
04 Aug 2021
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“You and I may both be adrift in that account, mein Freund,” Caleb admitted quietly, pushing himself upright again with a sigh. “Perhaps neither of us are prepared to answer questions quite so new. With time, though,” he allowed. “With time.”
It sounded shallow even in his own ears. Time alone could hardly decide for them, ‘What next?’ ‘What now?’ ‘What about you and I?’ A few such questions came to mind.
“No,” Essek agreed, the corner of his lips twitching at a wry smile. He turned to look at Caleb properly, in a way that was beginning to grow familiar. “It’s just the millennium-old questions you’re interested in answering,” he chuckled, closer to admiration than a critique.
“If we’re able,” Caleb agreed readily. “If you’d help me. Yes.”
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A series of shadowgast (not-) dates in Aeor, to feature a great many firsts.
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03 Aug 2021
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The Somnovem have been defeated, and Trent Ikithon will rot in a cell for the rest of his days. Caleb, however, is struggling with seeing his old teacher at the trial. Memories come bubbling up as he finds himself on Essek's doorstep, desperate to get away from the past.
The wizards delve together into the Aeorian ruins to study the ancient magocracy and learn about themselves and what it means to heal.
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04 Jul 2021
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There's something in Caleb's dreams. It wants him to know that he's not alone. It wants him to know that he'll never be alone again.
Elves don't dream, so all Essek can do is watch.
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03 Jul 2021
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Caleb and Essek have been distant emotionally, physically and geographically since Caleb's growing discomfort around his age drove him to redefine the boundaries of their relationship. When the two reunite in the Imperial capital to secure the safety of an Assembly prisoner with a fractured mind, Caleb learns that distance is a difficult thing to maintain.
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03 Jul 2021
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(If One Could Be Home) They'd Be Already There by DotyTakeThisDown
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
21 Jan 2021
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When Caleb stays in the on-campus apartments, he expects to be alone for winter break. He doesn't expect to run into Essek Thelyss in the laundry room.
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17 Jun 2021
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17 Jun 2021
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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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15 Jun 2021
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faith is a bird that feels the light by solarclimes
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
30 Mar 2021
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what if aether had not passed out after signora's attack?
well, aether learns what it is to have faith.
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03 Apr 2021
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Falling feels scary. And Bennett doesn’t make Razor feel afraid. He just makes Razor feel happy. Really happy.
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26 Mar 2021
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One night, two stories and a gift.
Or: Venti wants to ask Aether about his earring.
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24 Feb 2021