19 Works by nixietricks
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They pulled over for gas. This was a fight from the start: Scar announced halfway into their trip— that’s a figurative halfway, not a literal one, as traditional distances sort of break down when you’ve spent long enough in the void— that spaceships do need gas, and this one was in fact in dire need of more gas immediately.
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In between Season 8 and Season 9, a lot happens.
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The harbor won't open for another month or so— the ice has broken but it will be weeks before it thaws enough for safe passage both for coming ships and going ones, and another cold front could set them back even further. Then the first ships of the season will arrive, stocked with sugar and fruit, wine and coffee beans.
The lighthouse keeper called Etho knows better than to linger at the edge of the sea like this at night. His mother taught him better than that, and even if she hadn’t, then his father’s death would’ve surely done the job.
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christmas eve sitcom special by nixietricks, Odaigahara for just_glacier12
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP
01 Jan 2026
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The neon “open” sign is dark. All of the lights inside the store are dark as well, at seems. So are all of the lights inside of every other store in the shopping center. Even the red bows tied to the street lamps slump like they’ve taken to bed for the night.
“Ah. That’s unfortunate,” says Xisuma, confused. Every single store? Really? It’s not that late.
His breath puffs in the evening chill. It’s good he and Evil X have got jumpers on. His even has jingle bells around the wrists; Gem told him that she stitched those on herself.
“Closed,” Evil X agrees. “On— on this of all occasions. What is the free market coming to?”
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The universe loves you enough to catch you, when you die. Bring you back. Notice your breath, respawn in the long dream—
You could put a whole lot of suffering in between one respawn and the next, though. You could put an eternity there. He drinks in a gasp of air, and it’s cold enough in his lungs to hurt.
He’s on a bed, soft wool dyed black in a— alright, it’s a cell, emphasized by the fact it doesn’t even have a freaking door, but it’s decorated more like a fancy hotel room. This admin’s got a taste for luxury. Lots of the mean ones do, so that figures.
or: Bdubs gets kidnapped and tortured. Etho comes after him.
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an entirely truthful testimony by nixietricks, Odaigahara for corundumcat
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP
07 Dec 2025
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The case of Hermitcraft v. Goodtimes, McGrian's H.C. (Season 10), Bdubs' Court of Law, held at a reasonable time with reasonable, calm-minded players who certainly do not already have a verdict in mind on account of what happened to the shopping district.
The court calls GoodTimesWithScar to the stand.
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sometimes rain that's needed falls by nixietricks for faeriecrowne
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP
09 Apr 2025
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“Hey there,” says Cub, and the newcomer flinches back hard, stumbling and tripping over his own two feet and slamming back against the wall so hard that Cub winces sympathetically.
“Oh,” the newcomer squeaks, fumbling for his sewing needle and holding it up like he's going to use it as a weapon. He doesn't look like he actually knows how to do that. “Hello— er, hello. Yes. Good to— good to meet you— oh dear. Or I certainly— I certainly hope it’s good to meet you. Hello there, fellow— fellow borrower, yes. Hello.” He’s breathing hard, black eyes glittering with terror, fixated very intensely on Cub. His voice becomes still more trembly and quiet and high-pitched as he goes on, “You’re not the territorial sort, are you? Please say no.”
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or: cub meets a newcomer borrower named mumbo k jumbo. scar's not the only one between them who can pick up strays. and actually, about that...
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boatem hole 2: we are experiencing technical difficulties by nixietricks for thunderdone
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP
11 Mar 2025
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So instead he says, still a little bit weakly, “Do you remember what Gem said about— weather anomalies?” and Mumbo blinks at him blankly and he goes on, “In her lab, you know, about the hole,” and all of the color drains from Mumbo’s face.
He says, “Grian, mate.”
Grian says, “Mumbo.”
Mumbo says, “Grian, are we breaking the entire Hermitcraft server?”
“Well, I don’t think we are,” Grian says, because if the server’s breaking down, it's not the two of them technically responsible, or at least not directly— if the server's breaking down, it’s Boatem Hole 2: Less Boatem, More Hole that’s doing it.
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legend has it by nixietricks for fowlextinction
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
02 Jan 2025
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The stranger’s clothes look a little light for the weather, she’s thinking. The stranger looks— like a very skin-and-bones stranger, those deep red eyes a bit more sunken into her face than could be strictly described as healthy-looking.
“And— you did pin me to a tree,” Gem feels compelled to add.
“Wha— after you lunged at me!” the stranger says. “That’s hardly fair. I’m supposed to just let you skewer me?”
“I wasn’t gonna skewer you,” Gem says. She wasn’t. She can be nice and reasonable to trespassing strangers! She just prefers to have those nice and reasonable conversations with swords at necks, sometimes, just in case.
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There’s a flower in Phil’s hand that he tucks into Techno’s collar as he passes him, knuckles brushing the skin there for a moment, a cheeky little swagger in his step. Techno raises an eyebrow.
“Decorating me,” he says.
“It’s a present,” Phil says, and he strolls off down the hall, toward the bedroom. Carefully, delicately, Techno pinches the little flower in hand and squints at it. He’s never been much of a flower guy. Neither has— Phil? He thinks? He’s known the man a long damn time.
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Grian doesn't have Ren's storytelling gift, but he can search for memories of artifacts to taunt the pirates with. A magic mirror with three wishes to grant, a mermaid's comb in the hoard of the dragon Kyto, a flower called a never-bloom that dances round the island — perhaps most tantalizing of all, a moonstone, tucked into the heart of the fairies' own pixie dust tree.
“How’s this, little fairy,” says the captain, leaning forward where he sits, elbows resting on his knees. His eyes are dark and clever, fixing Grian with a stare. "Win a bet with me, and I’ll let you have your choice — any piece of treasure on this ship, any one of them at all, is yours.”
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grian makes bad decisions and gets horribly fucked up: the fic
(there will be a happy ending, dramatic rescue included, but oh my god.)Series
- Part 1 of second to the right
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They are children fighting a war. They shouldn’t have been — what an ugly cascade of death and coincidence it is, landing, at last, in the laps of four children, gathered around a little blue box, agreeing to so much more than they can possibly understand yet.
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slice of strawberry-flavored life by nixietricks
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
09 Aug 2024
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Another day, another job — this particular day is cold, a little stormy. Impulse and Bdubs stand side-by-side in the sand, hands on their hips, staring at a house that looks like the next burst of wind might topple it right over.
“Oh, this thing.” Bdubs stares. “This thing is — no way. No freakin’ way, Impulse, we are not doing this. We’re gonna get sued.”
“We’re not gonna get sued.” Impulse flicks him — flicks him! The audacity! — on the temple, then continues trudging on up the sandy property toward the stairs. “Companies like ours do renos all the time, Bdubs. We’ve done renos. Come on — let’s get a better look at the property.”
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The universe is big, and it's mostly empty, but it's somewhat not-empty, and this is where the trouble begins. See, the trouble is — Mumbo has discovered this, in his many years aboard Hermitcraft — the trouble is that anyone can do anything if they're smart enough, because it's all circuits, all the way down, and these circuits have rather exploitable rules.
It's lucky, he often thinks, that the hermits are smarter than just about anyone, and better than anyone at exploiting circuits.
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Hermitcraft But Space Pirates, featuring: an author who knows a thing or two about computers, a universe that’s literally 100% computer, and the unfortunate degree of reality-editing which naturally follows from that. And featuring, of course, the hermits, who are over-competent, ungovernable, and probably on their way to rock someone’s shit.
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- Part 1 of the art of presenting a moving target
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Some things don’t get fixes or answers or do-overs or cheat sheets or any other thing that might make it all easier. Some loads don’t lighten, even with time. Some loads aren’t supposed to lighten; some loads he’d — he’d kick and scream if anyone tried to lighten them, if even time itself tried to lighten them.
“You fill your life with other good things,” says Scar, every part of him gentle, his voice most especially. “That takes time. That’s what that means, Grian.”
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lazarus tendencies by nixietricks
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
03 Jun 2024
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“Grian,” says Scar, hesitant, and Grian whips his head to face him — Scar startles back a little — “Grian,” he repeats, uncharacteristically firm. “Tell me — tell me what I should do.”
Scar’s green eyes are bright and watery — anxious, afraid, so afraid — and Grian tears his own gaze away. He forces himself to speak, giving in to the plan that first popped into his mind, that’s formed almost fully now. It’s a good plan. It’s a horribly, horribly good plan.
“You need to stay with me,” Grian whispers, and he is a monster for it.
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it's the end of the world, kind of. grian's not going to have a great time of it.
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quality entertainment by nixietricks
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
19 May 2024
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“This is bad,” is all Grian says after that, and his wings raise a little higher, heels sliding back a little further. Scar feels — he feels tucked away, almost, like diamond ores in hidden chests, and he doesn't really know what to do with that, or what’s about to happen, so he just squeezes Grian's hand.
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Xisumavoid has been careful, toeing the line of caring for his hermits and maintaining the show that’s expected, playing the character of wrath barely restrained. That’s entertaining. It’s always been enough.
It won’t be enough this time.
The Watchers are hungry. They want to play a game, something juicier than another round of Demise, something with higher stakes—and Xisuma should know by now that the Watchers always get what they want.
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(obligatory not RPF/character!versions only)
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while you sleep I'll build a wall by nixietricks
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
05 Mar 2024
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His hands shake. He’s sweating, breaths coming in frantic stutters. This isn’t out of the ordinary for Mumbo. This is, in fact, the usual state of affairs. Mumbo is anxious and the sky is blue and ah, yes, I see the floor here is made out of floor, Grian would say.
Grian’s not saying anything like that right now, because he’s half-conscious and bleeding out all over said floor, and all over Mumbo’s nice suit jacket too.
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- Part 3 of febuwhump but i do it in MARCH!
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When he finds her she’s hugging herself, head tucked into her knees, and she looks very small.
Etho has known Gem for a long time. Admittedly she’s known him longer — she was a fan of his work long before they were friends — but now they’re close as siblings, and he knows that freckled face and those strong arms, the way she moves and jumps and swings an ax. She builds massive works of art, and she runs off on big adventures, and she teases him to no end, and she never looks small.
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or: bad things happen to gem and i write 3k words of hurt/comfort featuring the slab n stab duo (characters only/not rpf)
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- Part 2 of febuwhump but i do it in MARCH!
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a tiny prayer to father time by nixietricks
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
01 Mar 2024
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There’s a kiss pressed to the top of his sweaty forehead, feather-light. Grian whimpers despite himself, and he hates how he melts against the human contact, the warmth and the gentleness of it. “I’ve gotcha, buddy,” Scar whispers. “I’m here — you’re not gonna be alone anymore, ‘kay? I’m — it — it seems like talking’s kind of hard right now, so don’t worry about that. Just — I’m here. You’re not alone. Not anymore.”
That’s worse, Grian is thinking, that’s worse — Scar shouldn’t be here, in a place like this. Bad things have happened here.
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platonic or pre-romantic; mind the tags; characters only (not rpf)Series
- Part 1 of febuwhump but i do it in MARCH!