pixel_the_alien
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- Hermitcraft SMP (41)
- Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series (34)
- New Life SMP (15)
- Empires SMP (12)
- Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series) (5)
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creature, you're part of this loving game by pixel_the_alien
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
05 Nov 2025
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Gem throws an arm around Pearl’s shoulders. “Your task is no longer important.” She takes her secret book out of her inventory and tries to balance it on Pearl’s head, only to be thwarted by her antennae. “Please take this in. And then give it back to me after you’ve read three pages.”
Pearl pokes Gem’s antler in return. “Y’know what, that’s fine. I was failing at it anyway.” The universe can wait to hear her problems some other time. “Wait, three pages? Why’s everything got to be three pages these days?”
“I’m sorry,” Gem giggles again. (Curse that darn laughter. Pearl went too long without hearing it before, and now that it’s back, it’s doing its same old excellent job at putting her at ease. Pearl can’t resist it.) “It had to be very specific.”
So Pearl takes the book, and she reads it. And then she slams it shut and stares at Gem with something between exasperation and stunned shock.
or: Gem leads a boogeyman army, and for once, everything on the Secret Life server is completely normal and fine. Completely.
Series
- Part 18 of it's killing me to love you
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even under any other name by pixel_the_alien
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
22 Oct 2025
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Across the room, the Orphanmaker continues her uneasy rest. The Inevitable End is surprised she isn’t asleep by now. She’s watched her take some heavy hits today, even the same ones that she herself managed to shake off. Maybe that’s what Obann has chosen the Orphanmaker for – her resilience. Her ability to withstand a barrage of attacks and not flinch about it. The fact that she can keep getting back up, never truly harmed.
She is harmed, though. That’s why she’s resting. No explanation quite makes sense.
The Inevitable End pushes away the thought. No matter. Obann has chosen them both for a reason, and as long as they are both under his command, she supposes it is not her place to question it. She tries to return to her meditation, but her focus wanes. Something is off. It takes her a moment to recognize the sensation as hunger. It’s lucky, then, that they are at ease for the night.
or: For the first time in centuries, the Caedogeist begins to realize that living weapons have personhood, too.
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Pearl’s tears fall suddenly, without much hope of holding them back. “The bottles were supposed to despawn.”
This time, Cleo doesn’t argue. “Do you want to tell X?”
“I’ll put in a bug report. It’s not big.” Pearl reaches a hand out to take the note back. “It’s just… it felt like it. Just for a tick.”
or: After coming home from Limited Life, Pearl accidentally stumbles into some painful memories. Cleo gets it.
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The word for Santa Perla’s domain is translated from old Gilded Helianthian texts as “purity.”
It’s odd, Gem thinks. Worshippers of the saint are known for vibrant colors, dirt under fingernails, laughter and paint and shouted song. The Farmer Queen was benevolent and loving, but nothing about her seemed quite pure, not in all the old stories. It’s a mystery Gem can’t quite make sense of when she arrives in the kingdom she will call Dawn. And that’s after she finally wraps her head around the fact that in this world,
her best friendher partner in crimeher something-more-than-friendher Pearl has ascended to godhood. Even in this new world, everything about her is a little weird. At least that’s familiar.or: Gem has discovered Empires, and Pearl is a goddess, and it is far too easy to pray to her.
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Normally, Gem wouldn’t care this much about technology.
Sure, knowing how to use the WorldEdit mod to speed up complicated builds will be a useful skill — that’s why she came to the WorldEdit workshop in the first place — but she didn’t mean to get invested in getting every command perfect on the first try. It shouldn’t be important to her.
It’s just that she wants to be impressive right now, because she’s standing next to the prettiest woman she’s ever seen.
or: Gem and Pearl meet for the first time at a build workshop. It goes... unexpectedly.
my piece for the gempearl zine!
Recent series
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it's killing me to love you by pixel_the_alien
Fandom: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP, Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
05 Nov 2025
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Gem has seen her friends disappear into death games and return broken and scarred too many times. When she discovers Pearl is about to be sent into another, she knows what she has to do – she will follow Pearl into hell and get her through it safely.
Unfortunately, the Watchers have different ideas for everyone. They've had enough of standing by and observing. Now, they want control. When Gem's arrival ruins every plan, there's only one thing for them to do: erase her memory of why she's there.
As the secret tasks become more terrifying and twisted, Gem and Pearl are forced to survive the new world manipulating them – all while figuring out what they want their relationship to become.
or: a canon-compliant retelling of Secret Life, complete with a queerplatonic GeminiTay/PearlescentMoon relationship
*updates are often sporadic, but i promise the series is still active!*
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in any and every universe (mcyt yuri week 2025) by pixel_the_alien
Fandom: Hermitcraft SMP, X Life SMP
16 Jul 2025
- Words:
- 1,805
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- 2
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i've seen you a lot (beauyasha week 2025) by pixel_the_alien
Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series)
02 Jun 2025
- Words:
- 5,221
- Works:
- 4
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blankets and bandages (whumptober 2024) by pixel_the_alien
Fandom: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, New Life SMP, X Life SMP
05 Oct 2024
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a few scattered entries for whumptober 2024
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you reflect all your light into me (gempearl week 2024) by pixel_the_alien
Fandom: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Empires SMP, Hermitcraft SMP
08 Jul 2024
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series title from “love song” by beach bunny!
this is for @gem-pearl-week’s 2024 tumblr challenge! seven days, seven fics, all with different prompts :D
fics:
-lost and found (duality)
-falling for you (soar)
-speak a charm, take the weather from your heart (flowers/decay)
-painted songs of heroes or the moon (godhood)
-her dirty paws and furry coat (death/reincarnation)
-spinning out about things that haven’t happened (devotion/betrayal)
-dancing’s what clears my soul, dancing’s what makes me whole (dancing)- Words:
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wet moss (no incense, no ritual) by dragonflyface
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
30 Nov 2025
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Thoughts on post-cr3 Wildmother (and other gods) sort-of-death. A fic in which Caduceus mourns her.
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The stream is clogged with willowherb, fibrous spreading roots tangled into a thick blanket just beneath the water. Downstream, the small waterfalls are dry, the moss surrounding them unhappy, pale and crackly beneath his palm. So, it needs tending to.
Bookmarked by pixel_the_alien
01 Dec 2025
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come with me (the time is right) by lexa_lives_in_us
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types
30 Oct 2021
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“Yasha.” Obann responds, sounding annoyed at having been called out. “What do you want?”
The Champion.
Yasha Nydoorin.
Beau has only ever heard stories about her.
Champion of the League for five years in a row, as mysterious as she is powerful, Yasha Nydoorin is a sight to behold.
She ducks her head in contrition, and when she looks up again her eyes meet Beau’s.
Beau has never seen so much sadness in a person’s eyes, and the breath is knocked out of her lungs.
The Elite Four leave without a word, only glaring in Beau’s direction, until only Yasha is left in front of the group.
“I guess I will be seeing you soon.” she comments, and her voice doesn’t betray any emotion.
“You can bet on it.” Beau mutters in response. Beautiful or not, gentle spirited or not, Yasha is her enemy.or
The Pokemon League Crossover/AU no one was really asking for.
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Bookmarked by pixel_the_alien
27 Nov 2025
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“I spent so long with his godsdamn voice in my head,” she says to the ceiling. “He was my conscious. I didn’t even know what I sounded like anymore, it was just him. He was more part of me than I was.” She barks out a sound that is meant to be a laugh, but it’s a sharp, hollow thing: a knife blade in her throat that holds absolutely no humor.
Astrid and Yasha talk about Trent.
Bookmarked by pixel_the_alien
27 Nov 2025
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now I'm swimming in nothing (only blues are on my mind) by groves625
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
10 Aug 2020
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"Just - tough fight, y’know?” she stutters. “I’m sorry I wasn’t more useful.”
“Hey, no -” Beau takes a step forward, taking a seat facing Yasha on the edge of the cliff. “That wasn’t your fault. That asshole, like, hypnotized you, okay? There was nothing you could do.”
Yasha huffs out a humorless laugh. “That’s exactly the problem, isn’t it?”
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Beau and Yasha meditate.
Spoilers through episode 105.
Bookmarked by pixel_the_alien
27 Nov 2025
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let our ghost loose (let me know that you're still there) by groves625
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
20 Jul 2020
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"It's been a while since I've asked for this favor, but... will you hold me? Will you carry me?"
So briefly that Beau might have been hallucinating (which, let's be honest, after the beating she just took, she fucking might be), Yasha's eyes dart to her own feet as her pale cheeks flush pink.
"Yeah, I can hold you."
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Sometimes Beau can't believe Yasha is really back. For the first time since the Mighty Nein destroyed Obann and welcomed a scared, repentant Yasha back into their ranks, Beau allows herself to reflect on those feelings she has buried deep inside herself - feelings that won't stay buried much longer.
Insert for episode 102.
Bookmarked by pixel_the_alien
27 Nov 2025