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"He still looked devastatingly attractive in every possible way and it wasn’t fair because he looked like he had just rolled out of the bed. Essek needed at least an hour in the morning to talk himself into being even vaguely pleasant.
“Oh! Guten Morgen, and welcome back to the Xhorhaus Bakery,” Caleb said, a certain pleasant crinkle to his expression. He was smiling a soft, gentle smile that caught Essek off guard. “What can I get you this morning?”
At Xhorhaus Bakery, where the Mighty Nein bake up Rosohna's most delectable treats, magic is something that is in the air. For Essek Theylss, there might just be love there too. *COMPLETED*
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09 Apr 2023
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Caleb wakes before dawn, the morning after, to find the other side of the bed empty.
Meanwhile, Essek prepares breakfast, or tries to.
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09 Apr 2023
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Eighteen months after the events at the White Chapel, Simon is struggling to move on. When Shepard tries to help by taking him to a magical well that shows your heart's desire, Simon is completely taken aback by what - or who - he sees. But it might change his life after all...
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25 Feb 2023
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Plus One by fatalfangirl, you_remind_me_of_the_babe for TheWeatherBee
Fandoms: Carry On Series - Rainbow Rowell, Simon Snow & Related Fandoms
08 Jun 2022
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Simon is doing his best to handle his massive crush on his best friend Baz while they room together for their last year of University. Baz is doing just fine pining after Simon while also studying for his final exams and fulfilling Man of Honor duties for his Aunt Fiona’s looming wedding. When Simon hears Baz hasn’t found a date to be his plus one for the big day, he volunteers. What are friends for, right? Plus, maybe this wedding will be the perfect setting to shove these two idiots together.
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21 Feb 2023
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Jelly Babies and other signs that your roommate probably isn't a demon by chen-chen-chen-again-chen (ophelietta)
Fandoms: Carry On Series - Rainbow Rowell, Simon Snow & Related Fandoms
24 Dec 2022
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Based on a prompt from ionlydrinkhotwater: "@carryonprompts can we get a fic of Swithin in Watford developing a massive crush on his roommate and calling big bro Baz for help?"
“I.” Swithin doesn’t meet Baz’s eyes directly; he never does. Rather, he looks at a point between Baz’s chin and collarbone. “I think I’ve got a crush on my roommate.”
Halfway across town, Simon Snow is sitting in a chip shop and watching his fifteen-year-old cousin Gregory Petty shred a napkin into confetti with the sheer force of his anxiety.
“I think my roommate is a demon and that he is literally trying to kill me,” Gregory blurts out.
Part of Carry On Countdown 2022, Day 5: Bloodlines and Day 30: The Beginning.
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- Part 1 of Jelly Babies
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Essek is caught thoroughly off guard the first time Caleb Widogast kisses him.
It's such an unlikely thing — Caleb with an arm slung across his shoulder in camaraderie, looking over at him with his usually downturned mouth caught in a wide smile, and leaning in to buss Essek’s temple with wind-chapped lips.
A history of Caleb and Essek's relationship told through kisses.
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08 Dec 2022
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Essek's hand settles on his belly, rubbing in small, uncertain circles. An idle gesture, but one that strikes Caleb as achingly vulnerable, though he can't quite put a finger on why.
“I would do anything,” Essek says, low and fierce, “for all of us to have a little more time.”
[In which Essek joins the Mighty Nein in the fight against Lucien--but none of the Nein know that Essek is pregnant with Ludinus's child.]
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05 Nov 2022
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you hear me (howling outside your door) by neinofthem (greekphilosophress)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
28 Oct 2022
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As Essek is ushered off of the podium, hands and heart shaking in adolescent rage, he makes eye contact with Ludinus, standing just outside of the royal box. His paper-like skin marks him as other. He raises one eyebrow.
It is a challenge.
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28 Oct 2022
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Being friends with the Mighty Nein is infuriating. They're loud and vulgar, and Essek has long since picked up the defense mechanism of smiling and laughing along to jokes he doesn't understand while he googles nasty words on urban dictionary under the table. It frustrates him though. Essek has never liked not knowing things, anything. When he confides that fact in Caleb his friend is all to quick to jump at the chance to offer Essek some...hands on lessons for anything he might not understand.
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23 Sep 2022
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The Less I Sleep, The More I Think by CherryMilkshake
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
20 Sep 2022
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Essek Thelyss has a crush, which is new. What are you supposed to do with crushes? Court them, right? But how best to court a certain wizard...
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22 Sep 2022
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Caleb Widogast was a man of simple needs. All he required to be happy was a roof over his head, the company of his best friend and roommate, and constant intellectual stimulation. So he bought an old house. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
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22 Sep 2022
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“I just really like you. Not in a weird way.”
This probably qualifies as a little weird.
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- Part 10 of Metamorphic Series
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04 Sep 2022
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It’s not like Caleb hasn’t thought about it. He’s thought about it a little too much, if anything: what would happen in a situation in which the variables were only Essek, himself, some privacy, and their mutual willingness to explore each other. In that scenario, he wasn’t even asking for a bed.
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01 Sep 2022
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Together with recommendations that inspired it
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The Wedding Date by RoyalAsstronaut for skeedelvee
Fandoms: Simon Snow & Related Fandoms, Carry On Series - Rainbow Rowell
30 Apr 2022
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With his cousin's wedding in Sicily coming up and no time to find a date, Baz is dreading having to put up yet again with his father's blatant attempts at matchmaking him to another eligible bachelorette.
Lucky for him, fate (with quite a bit of help from Dev and Mordelia) has other plans.
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20 Aug 2022
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the place your journey started, you will recognize it by Chrome for firefright
Fandoms: Critical Role (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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30 Jul 2022
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After they explore Aeor together, Caleb asks Essek to move in. It takes Essek ... A while to figure out exactly what he means.
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30 Jun 2022
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The Shadowhand has taken a liking to a human.
That’s what the gossip at Vurmas Outpost says, anyway. Entertainment is hard to find when opening a window is a safety hazard and ‘seeing some fresh faces’ is only possible in the context of unearthing yet another adventuring party that has recently perished while trying to brave the Eiselcross wilds without a guide. Endless white mountainscapes dull the mind, fray it thin, and turn it to the only possible alternative source of discovery inside bleak walls—interpersonal drama.
Caleb Widogast has a charm about him, some would agree. What is most curious, however, is the fact that this charm seems to work on Essek of Den Thelyss. This is nigh on incomprehensible, even when the evidence is right there before their very eyes.Bookmarked by innerworldsinprogress
28 Jun 2022
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the breath before the phrase by KmacKatie (kmackatie)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
17 Sep 2022
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The ringing note of a concert A is played by the oboe, echoing on its own in the space. It’s picked up by the wind section, followed rapidly by the brass, and the familiar feeling of an orchestra calibrating takes over Caleb. The tonal adjustments as each person brings their instrument into alignment sinks into him and something inside Caleb shifts in recognition as Essek leads the strings into their own tuning.
It’s like something is waking up, like something unfurling and firing across long-unused paths of memory. His hands shake slightly, as he raises his bow and joins them, fingers fumbling against the pegs and fine tuners that give him control over his instrument.
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Essek Thelyss is a leading violinist, his spot as Shadowhand of the Rosohna Philharmonic Orchestra has been uncontested for over a decade. Caleb Widogast is a recent arrival to the city, convinced by his friends to audition for one of the vacant violinist positions.
After starting off on the wrong foot, Caleb and Essek get to slowly know each other, discover what brings them joy, create while defying expectations, and find out that what they can produce together may just be better than anything they can do separately.
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a gentle warmth filling the deepest of needs by nevenne
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
14 Jun 2022
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Essek Thelyss, the illustrious Shadowhand of the Kryn Dynasty, a wizard almost unmatched in his power, the instigator of the biggest war this continent has seen in the last few decades, is rendered speechless and as purple as a beet by a peck on the lips. Him from just half a year ago would have scoffed at the thought -- and yet here he is.
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15 Jun 2022
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Essek Thelyss, lonely and ambitious prodigy, comes to Nicodranas to make a risky gamble with the Assembly. At the water’s edge, he finds himself swept up in another dangerous entanglement he can't seem to escape — and as time goes on, he's less and less sure he wants to. Will his treasonous alliance or the sea itself devour him first?
(Or, the one where Caleb is a merman.)
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- Part 1 of till human voices wake us