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Time travelers who plan to kill Superman never account for Martha Kent in their plans. She may not be the World's Finest, but she's a mother with a shotgun, and all told that might be scarier.
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- Part 4 of Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts
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24 Oct 2025
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(no) mind of your own by Chaos_Breeds for LunaSolenna
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
14 Jun 2025
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"You gonna kill me, Caleb?" Beau asked, aiming for idle curiosity and landing near enough to the right tone. "I thought you wanted to do better than that."
"That part of me is gone," he answered, solemn and honest. But there was a glint in his eye, the kind that he got when he was trying not to smile. If they weren't caked in blood, Beau thought the hairs on the back of her neck might stand on end. "Let's see what's replaced it, ja?"
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Ikithon has trained his scourgers well. Beauregard learns firsthand what Bren can do.
It's a good thing she knows how to handle wizards.
Mostly.
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13 Oct 2025
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Coping Mechanisms by Angel Ascending (angel_in_ink)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series), Daggerheart (Roleplaying Game), Age of Umbra (Critical Role Web Series)
16 Jul 2025
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August stays quiet throughout dinner, signaling that he’d like to take watch with just a simple nod. He manages a smile for Misty, a gentle reassurance that he’s fine, that his head is just too busy for sleep at the moment, as it often is, and declines her offer of staying up with him. He pretends that his coat still needs mending until everyone is asleep, then puts aside his needle and thread, placing his head in his hands.
“Do you want to talk about it?”
The words are shadow given sound, and if his time in the Hive hadn’t taught August that silence and stillness meant safety, he might have shouted and lashed out at the voice before realizing it was Skreev.
August’s moth hisses, wings fluttering.
“I wasn’t asking you, Mister Fuzzy.”
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16 Sep 2025
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“I heard you’re a fan of calculated risks,” the Gentleman says.
Caleb’s jaw sets. “That’s true,” he says. “Are we going to play poker? It’s a children’s game where I come from.”
The Gentleman laughs, just a little. "No, I was suggesting something a little more our speed.”
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10 Aug 2025
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This fic came up in conversation YEARS later as the best Russian Roulette fic I've ever read. It was that memorable. If that doesn't make a work worth Bookmarking, I don't know what does.
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"Sometimes, the greatest strength is in allowing someone else to hold you when the weight becomes too much."
Orym gave a dry, wry smile.
"I'm pretty small. Not sure I have that much weight for anyone to carry."
Essek's gaze stayed soft but steady.
"Even a pebble can cause a landslide when placed properly. Weight like that isn't measured in size, but in impact."
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The mission is far from over. Predathos still stirs, Laudna is still hurting, and Orym has no time to fall apart - not when the world might fall with him. But when the weight of Zephrah and Otahan and everything after finally cracks open in an alley in Zadash, it's not one of his friends who finds him.
It's Essek Thelyss, who knows a thing or two about carrying a weight that doesn’t fit inside you.
Later, Dorian comes. And Orym learns something he already knew, but needed to hear:
He doesn’t have to hold it alone.Series
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04 Aug 2025
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After a magic reveal, an undue amount of pining, a poorly translated sex ritual, and a requited love confession, all’s well that ends well, right?
Except…Arthur still hasn’t made a confession about the other thing. That tricky little preoccupation with Merlin’s magic and all the ways it could make a mess of him.
Now if he could just…figure out how to explain it.
(The sequel to: Under Your Spell)
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- Part 2 of Spell Chasing Series
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17 Jul 2025
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One way the battle of Camlann could have gone. On the night before the battle, Merlin only has one request for Gwaine.
"When I'm dead, I want you to remember me for *who* I was, rather than *what* I was. If you can."
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15 Jul 2025
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“Merlin, I'm the greatest swordsman in the five kingdoms.” Arthur boasted. “I’ve fought more battles than I can count.”
”I’m aware, sire.”
”And I’ve always survived.”
”Not always.” Merlin muttered.
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The day Arthur dies is the day Merlin refuses to let end. Again. And again. And again. Merlin’s stuck in a spiral—a dizzying, cruel dance of death and reset. With each attempt, his heart grows heavier, his magic darker, until all he can do is break.
And when the shards of his despair drag Arthur into the storm, the past and present shatter, leaving nothing but raw truth and fragile hope.
Now there's no more running. Just the two of them, the end of the world, and everything left unsaid.
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15 Jul 2025
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Waiting at the Crossroads by CrabbyQuill
Fandoms: The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon), Critical Role (Web Series)
09 Jul 2025
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It was supposed to be a simple job.
Get in. Free a cultist. Get out.
Vex never expected this.
She never expected to see the man she'd thought dead for five years.
And suddenly, she's transported back to the young woman she'd been all those years ago, pushed into an arranged marriage for her father's benefit.
She thought her husband had died years ago...and yet, here he is.
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A look at the arranged marriage of Percival and Vex'ahlia, years before Vox Machina crossed paths.
(Arranged Marriage AU)
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10 Jul 2025
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Everything That Was Once Hidden (Becomes Something Held) by maeven_k
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
28 Jun 2025
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“It’s my job to protect you,” Merlin whispers.
Arthur’s brow creases. “At the cost of yourself?”
Merlin gives a crooked, painful smile. “That’s what protection is, isn’t it?”
Arthur doesn’t speak; he doesn’t know how to respond to that, how to even begin to unravel the lifetime of sacrifice tangled in those few words. Instead, he reaches out. Slowly. Gently. Fingers brushing Merlin’s forearm. Merlin flinches, not because he’s afraid, but because the touch is kind.
“Let me help,” Arthur says, voice raw. “Just this once. Let me take care of you.”
It's time for someone to hold what was once hidden.
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09 Jul 2025
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Merlin is tired and Arthur takes a joke too far.
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Merlin is tired and rants, and finally gets everything off his chest.
(Based on that one TikTok sound that goes: "You would not hold up well under torture." "I did!")
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04 Jul 2025
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Morgana has taken Prince Arthur and demanded Uther's life for his safe return. Uther will not sacrifice himself willingly, and will instead find someone else to pay the price.
There is only one person that Morgana hates as much as Uther-- the sorcerer of prophecy, Emrys. If Uther can find him, he can exchange Emrys for his son's life instead.
He begins his journey with a group of men, and Arthur's irritating servant, Merlin.
( 中文-普通话 國語 translation available by Shaloe79!)
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04 Jul 2025
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Forced to fight for their lives, the Knights of Camelot find themselves trapped in an ancient colosseum. They don’t remember getting there nor do they know where their favorite manservant is. Given three days to survive brutal battles against fierce warriors and magical beasts, they are tethered to the temple until the final match: Arthur, Leon, Gwaine, Elyan, and Percival versus an unknowable, terrifying creature. The questions pile up as they begin to feel unidentifiable pain. Why were they brought here? Where is Merlin? And what—or who—is this “Emrys” they are drawing power from?
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02 Jul 2025
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Title taken from The Script's song Written in the Scars.
[Arthur is king, didn't die at Camlann, and knows about Merlin's magic.].
After some visitors arrive at Camelot and Merlin has a bit of a day, Arthur feels the need to check on him. He really should learnt to knock before he barges into Merlin's room (or not).
No specific Merthur, but definitely hints of it if you want to read it that way ;-).
Unbeta'd, all mistakes are my own (and I apologise)!
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02 Jul 2025
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There is a beast living under Geralt’s skin. It wants too much and too little at the same time.
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27 Jun 2025
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A View from Down Here (aka Six Ways to Support a Found Family) by TaraLaurel
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
01 May 2025
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5 more times the members of Bells Hells carried Orym.
Plus another time he carried all of them.Companion fic to "Held and Holding (aka How to Train Your Party to be a Mount)" but it is not necessary to read that before this one.
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- Part 2 of Strength (Check) In Numbers
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14 May 2025
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to have it in your hands (the one thing you wanted all your life) by moonlitprincess for CoffeeAndArrows
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
08 Apr 2025
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"Winter’s Crest was in three weeks and it was occupying far too much of Caleb’s very precious brain space.
This was not something that had ever caused him issue in his life before. Now, however, he had Jester Lavorre in his life. Jester Lavorre, who upon learning about Winter’s Crest was absolutely appalled that celebrating it had been withheld from her for so long and had demanded the Nein reunite for the holiday."
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a very belated christmas* (*winter's crest) fic about the nein celebrating winter's crest, beau and caleb being best friends in their lovingly strange, emotionally stunted way (and also in a not so emotionally stunted way), and some sprinklings of plot about some long-dead dunamancy mages thrown in there too
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12 Apr 2025
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“I would like you to know me,” Caleb says.
It feels like a secret. Like the darkest part of him cracked open; all his months and years of hiding, of wrapping his arms and scratching the bindings, of not loving, not loving anything but an unkillable cat — it’s unraveling around him. He feels naked. He feels the way he did the first time Pumat Sol spelled him clean.
“I find that — I would like you to know me,” he says, again.
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09 Apr 2025
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Why, you will ask yourself, does your professor leave his book on his desk during his lessons? Why then, does he keep it open, why does he invite you to look at it, why is he so careless? Doesn't he know that only the wizard who works alone will succeed? Doesn't he know that solitude mitigates risks? Doesn't he know that that's the thing about wizards? Eventually there is only one left.
Professor Widogast, his wizard's spellbook, and the many lessons he learned from his friends.
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- Part 2 of Shadowgastober
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09 Apr 2025
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Vex’ahlia and her brother hunt monsters for gold.
Percy, a vampire, has a bounty on his head.
Vex is very good with a bow.
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Vex slowly draws her bow as she hears the sound of quick and uneven footfalls far off on dry forest floor.
She sees the creature she’s hunting at a distance. It’s dark enough that the world is melting into darkvision monochrome, but she can see that the monster wears a coat, that it’s in a terrible hurry, and that it’s limping.
Vampires generally aren’t known for holding onto wounds. It was injured in the last minute or so—Vex isn’t the only one after the bounty.
Vex nocks a holy arrow. She should take it out quick, one shot, so she doesn’t need to rush in with a silver dagger and make things messy. She’s so much better with a bow.
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08 Apr 2025