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Hob's beloved stranger comes back to him, but he seems... changed. Damaged. Hob wants to help, but it's hard when his friend can barely even admit that he's hurting.
It's hard to come home and find home destroyed, everything you created gone, the pieces you crafted of your own soul turned against you. Dream barely wants to think about it. But if he is ever to create again, he's going to have to let that pain in.
Bookmarked by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
08 Mar 2025
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Returning to Hob felt like a formality, right until Dream stopped outside the crumpled skeleton of the White Horse Inn.
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Bookmarked by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
27 Oct 2024
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All time H/C Dreamling favs
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“You accused me of treating this like a game. I am sorry if I’ve led you to believe that it is only a game—though I won't deny that part of it is.” Bren gives a disarming smile. “My life is either games or murder, after all.”
“Or mail fraud,” Thelyss says dryly, not even a little disarmed.
“The mail fraud is a sort of game as well.”
A sigh. “Is this your way of telling me that you intend to continue playing?”
Bren smiles again, sharper. “If you would let me.”(In which Bren Aldric Ermendrud decides to seduce the Shadowhand and finds that the best way to convince someone to be vulnerable with you is to be vulnerable in turn.)
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- Part 1 of aBiA
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- English
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- 103,603
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- 20/20
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Bookmarked by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
07 Nov 2023
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What Magic Art Is This? by aWordyBody
Fandom: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
16 Jan 2023
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“It never happened; yet it is still true. What magic art is this?” – From Sandman, Vol 3: Dream Country, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Morpheus is a prolific theatre director who possibly cares way too much about art. Hob is a stagehand who just wants steady work at the same theatre, year after year.
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Bookmarked by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
17 Jan 2023
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Cat's Paw by mllekurtz (TheKnittingJedi)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series), Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game), Wiedźmin | The Witcher Series - Andrzej Sapkowski
21 May 2022
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For better or worse, Caleb Widogast was a witcher. He didn’t know if his affinity for magic would have made him a sorcerer in another life; he only had this one. His former masters had taught him to channel his gifts towards one thing and one thing only, and he had spent the better part of his life trying to unlearn that lesson, trying to be a protector instead of a murderer—and sometimes being a protector only meant he got to choose who would live and who would die.
Sometimes it was a hard choice. Other times, however, it was very easy.🟍
Or: a Shadowgast Witcher AU in three parts, with art by @Kurocyou.
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- Part 1 of shadowgast witcher au
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- English
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- 20,628
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- 3/3
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Bookmarked by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
25 Dec 2022
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“This is not a negotiation.” Deirta Thelyss’s voice cracked the air like a thunderclap, sharp enough that even her ever-bustling flock of attendants twitched. “You will agree to this marriage, or I will have you cast from Den Thelyss for dereliction of duty. Is that clear?”
Essek held himself stiffly, his shoulders rising in affront. A dangerous lapse of control, considering the woman standing before him, and one he would berate himself for later in the privacy of his tower, but he couldn’t help it. To be bartered off as—as a diplomatic representative of all things. It was absurd, insulting. Was the prestige his accomplishments brought to the den not enough? The Bright Queen herself had awarded him the title of Shadowhand for the advancements he’d made to the field of dunamancy, advancements that had secured countless victories in the war. Why should he have to upend his entire life to accommodate some human he’d never even met?
Or: A Shadowgast Arranged Marriage AU in Space~
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- English
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- 50/60
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Bookmarked by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
05 Sep 2021
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i sense we loved each other without knowing by Anonymous
Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series)
02 Sep 2021
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A collection of fics in chronological order detailing Caleb and Essek's developing relationship post-canon.
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- 41,523
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Bookmarked by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
23 Aug 2021
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Maybe it was the way his eyes sharpened as he looked around, mostly towards the ceiling, or how he stood taller, the way he squared his shoulders. Whatever it had been, it instantly worried him. He stood from his chair, just as the man zeroed in on something and began to walk, gait too long and hurried to be natural, one hand deep inside his coat, completely concealed.
Something deep inside Fjord, roiling in his gut, screamed at him to move.
In a single, fluid, practiced movement, the man lifted his hand. It blackened and flaked and ignited with a snap, bright with arcane flame and energy Fjord had only ever heard about in stories and urban legends.
And then an alarm went off. And the sprinklers began raining down.
Bookmarked by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
22 Jun 2021
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(your face in my hands is) everything good i need by mllekurtz (TheKnittingJedi)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
04 May 2021
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The last person Caleb Widogast, Professor of Modern History, expects to find as he walks in a random pub in a foreign city at the end of a long conference is Dr. Essek Thelyss, eminent Latinist and his sort-of intellectual crush.
Things rapidly evolve from there, in rather unexpected ways.
(Written for Essek Week 2021)
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- English
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- 25,884
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- 8/8
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Bookmarked by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
09 May 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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- English
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- 25,820
- Chapters:
- 7/7
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- 1
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- 194
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- 329
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Bookmarked by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
09 May 2021
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we never do go over (we always gotta go through) by Chrome
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
06 May 2021
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In the last fight with the Tombtakers, Essek Thelyss bends reality to keep them all alive and pays the price. As he copes with the aftereffects of his own magic and the party takes the long journey back to the surface, Essek and Caleb finally confront what they are to each other.
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Five times Essek woke up with level(s) of exhaustion and one time he didn't.
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- English
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- 17,169
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- 1/1
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Bookmarked by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
06 May 2021
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In an alternate e133, Essek learns things, takes a chance, and reaps the rewards.
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Savagely, he reminded himself that the stories of people like Caleb—men like Caleb—were tragedies for a reason. Humans were shooting stars: brilliant-blazing, burning bright, igniting the darkness wherever they went, and ultimately just as brief as they were fiery.Eventually, it would be just me again. Essek had to look away.
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- Part 1 of Field On Fire (Not the Actual Events)
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- English
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- 9,154
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- 1/1
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Bookmarked by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
24 Apr 2021
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Fundamental Forces Other Than Gravity by mllekurtz (TheKnittingJedi)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
09 Jan 2021
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Essek's tone is academic, clinical, cold. “It would be pointless to deny that I am attracted to you. And I wouldn’t object if what happened last night would happen again. But I would be grateful if we could keep it between us.”
There’s a beat, then Caleb nods. “I’m fine with keeping it quiet and casual.”
Or how cold, ruthless and lonely Essek Thelyss (a brilliant student with a secret) accidentally makes some friends and falls in love: a Shadowgast college AU.
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- 40,676
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Bookmarked by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
11 Jan 2021
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“Tilt your head back,” Fjord murmurs, voice low in the quiet room. Caleb does.
(Caleb and Fjord, a series of sharp edges.)Bookmarked by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
30 Oct 2020
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Bookmarked by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
19 Sep 2020
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In Caleb’s eyes, it is picturesque. Dark, small, and a staircase leading up the porch that looks insurmountable, it’s still maybe the most beautiful thing he’s ever seen.
He makes way for it immediately, and he hears the crunch of Fjord following after him, panting heavily and following along in the treads Caleb leaves. The snow buffets Caleb’s face, whipping his hair into his eyes and neck like little knives, and he presses harder for the unassuming little building, gritting his teeth against the cold.
When he reaches the staircase, he turns to look back. He squints through the wind and out behind them through the steady roar of snow. He can no longer hear the shrieks of the hags and sees no sign of them over Fjord’s shoulder, but that does not mean they are not still coming.
Something is always coming.
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Treating injuries is a lot more time-consuming when you're out two clerics.
Bookmarked by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
28 Aug 2020
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“When did you arrive?” Lan Zhan asks, but he’s looking at the child in Wei Wuxian's arms, and the question is clearly, whose baby is this, and maybe, should I be concerned?
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Accidental (haunted) baby acquisition
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- English
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- 23,940
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- 3/3
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Bookmarked by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
19 Jun 2020
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Ch2
Unintentional baby acquisition A++ -
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Fjord clears his throat. “This a bad time, Widogast?”
Caleb continues reading, but his lips curl into a playful smile. “Hmm… I was thinking about having a nice night in, maybe researching for our mission in the next couple days.” Now he flicks his eyes up, gleaming in the lowlit light of his room. “Did you need something?”
Fjord can tell he’s being played with, so leans back against the door, folding his arms and smirking. “Me? Nah, nah. Just thought maybe you might with the way you were practically in my lap earlier.”
The blue eyes crinkle further at the corners. “Hmm. You are very attractive when you’re strategizing a coup against multiple government agencies.”
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Prompt Fill for Widofjord Week 2019 - Insecurity/Intimacy
Bookmarked by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
29 Apr 2020
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now my charms are all o'erthrown by Eclaire-de-Lune (RoyalHeather)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
24 Jun 2020
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PART I: PROSPERO
The hold of a ship contains a mage, locked away in lead, and the power of a long-forgotten god, locked away in wood. Both come to Fjord, quartermaster of the Tide's Breath, and his pirate's life opens to a power he never knew. Caleb is no stranger both to power and to being powerless, but in Fjord he encounters something different than his vicious past, and that something is trust. As the threads of fate draw tight around them, winding through ruined temples and the depths of the sea, both men must claim what is their own or else lose it forever.
Also they bang.
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- Part 1 of The Tempest
Bookmarked by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
20 Apr 2020
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Bookmarked by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
09 Feb 2020