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got me feeling blue (as my lips and fingertips) by maycollins
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
03 Aug 2023
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“I understand having a hard time. You know that. I’m never going to be mad at you for struggling. I just don’t like to see you making it worse.” I shake my head to clear away the speech I’m already building to. Nick is too drunk for it right now, and I don’t know what good it could even do at his most sober. Nick doesn’t cope well with emotions. I know this. He knows this. We’ve been talking about it in circles for months now.
Uni's a lot harder than Nick anticipated. Assignments. Rugby. Being away from his boyfriend. Coming out to his new flatmates. For years, he's been a shoulder to cry on and a sympathetic ear, but if he's going to get through this next phase of his life, he's going to have to learn to accept the the help he's so used to giving.
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07 Aug 2023
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03 Aug 2023
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take the heart you thought you had by wytch-lyghts (flight_on_broken_wings)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
09 Aug 2021
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Archmage, Warmage, Firebringer, Dark Hand of the Cerberus Assembly: Caleb Widogast was not ignorant of his role in all this.
The Empire is nearly ten years deep into a seemingly endless Xhorhasian war, each lull in the violence leading to greater and deadlier escalation. So when the Empire initiated negotiations with the Revelry - a quiet endeavour designed the starve Xhorhas into submission, but an unlikely scheme in Caleb’s eyes - it was perhaps justifiable wartime desperation, he reasoned. Unjustifiable however was Caleb’s assignment to lead these negotiations, distracting from his work rooting out more dire threats to peace, perhaps from within the Empire’s own ranks. And this Captain sent to represent the Revelry, Fjord? He was one particular distraction that Caleb could not afford.
An Archmage, a Cobalt Expositor, a spy, three pirates and their Captain with a demigod patron that has plans for all of them find themselves in Zadash to end a war. And Caleb can’t be sure which side he’s on in more than one game of cat and mouse.
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- Part 1 of take the heart
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27 Jul 2023
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“... Well, I am hardly the entirety of the Academy,” Caleb finally seems to settle on, and gives Fjord a self-deprecating smile before continuing quickly, “but that is… not a terrible thing, all things considered. My point—” He straightens, and with only a brief hesitation, turns and grabs the left book from under his chest holster, laying it flat on his lap and placing both of his long, pale hands on it. Fjord knows he probably looks way too interested as he peers down at the leather-bound tome, tracing the various scratches and engravings where he can see them, but Caleb continues as if he isn’t being painfully obvious. “My point, being… if you were still interested in learning a little magic, mein Freund, I would be… amenable to showing you a few things.”
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Caleb offered to teach him some magic, a long time ago.
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27 Jul 2023
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If there’s one thing Caleb wants, it’s more. And he’s found a blessed little lubricant that can make sure he gets it.
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- Part 7 of Magic Lube Thursday
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27 Jul 2023
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laudna and imogen seem... awfully close. curious minds want answers, so ashton decides to make things interesting.
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14 Jul 2023
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Their hands are quite rough.
The thought comes unbidden in Orym’s mind with a suddenness that makes him blink and momentarily stop the bandaging he’s doing in Ashton’s bloodied hands.
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25 May 2023
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24 Apr 2023
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It's one thing for Ashton to nurse a crush of their own. It's more complicated to think it might be reciprocated.
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- Part 3 of Angstpril 2023
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11 Apr 2023
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backwards in time, though not in the way he had planned.
aka: caleb recounts his story to essek post t-dockSeries
- Part 3 of After The War
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31 Mar 2023
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A few nights before the Apogee Solstice, Orym and Ashton can't sleep.
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- Part 7 of On Being
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25 Mar 2023
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falling (in love) is fucking WEIRD, man by ivelostmyspectacles
Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series)
22 Jan 2023
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Ashton’s pining like a lovesick fool, which means, of course, he's a little angry and says fuck a lot. Maybe wants to fuck a lot, with a certain little halfling.
It's a lot softer than that, I promise. Mostly they just fall in love, grapple with their pasts, and forge a new way forward.
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23 Feb 2023
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23 Feb 2023
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the isle is full of noises by Eclaire-de-Lune (RoyalHeather)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
20 Nov 2021
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PART IV: THE ISLAND
A year after his rescue of Caleb and the killing of Trent Ikithon, Fjord returns to Darktow at the bidding of Uk'atoa, ready to embark on the next stage of his journey with his leviathan patron. But the farther he pursues his quest, the more the residuum in Caleb eats away at him; Caleb knows it is only a matter of time before he succumbs to the crystals' growth, and a solution seems more elusive than ever. As forces greater than they are threaten their lives and their love, it is up to Caleb and Fjord to decide how far they will go to protect themselves and more importantly, each other, and what they will trade for that power.
Because power, as it turns out, is the only thing that can keep them safe.
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- Part 4 of The Tempest
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23 Feb 2023
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The Mighty Nine have ended a war, and been shoved into a life of politics because of it. Captain Fjord is making do, taking jobs when they can get away, and trying to get back to whatever "normal" is for them. That is, until the famed Trent Ikithon of the Cerberus Assembly shows up at their door with a "gift".
A gift that has two matching pieces, one now living with the Bright Queen and one with King Dwendal.
A gift named Caleb Widogast.---
aka: war-dog Caleb Widogast is one of three Volstrucker to survive the war, and has been given to the famous mercenary group "The Mighty Nine" as a show of peace. He expects to continue to be a tool of violence, what he doesn't expect is to find love on all side.- Language:
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23 Feb 2023
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When their first child comes into the world screaming her little green head off, Fjord's first thought is that he's never loved anyone more than this tiny person he's just met. His second; he's so sorry she looks like him.
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Caleb, Essek, and Fjord have carved out a little life for themselves in Rosohna; with Essek remaining in service to the Bright Queen for now, Fjord attending the Midnight Gardens of Melora, and Caleb becoming a primary schooling instructor of all things. It's quiet, it's peaceful, a much needed break from the chaos of previous years. Until the universe sees fit to thrust them head first into their next adventure; parenthood. And what should be a joyous time after months of stress, uncertainty, and fear, starts to cause things from Fjord's past to resurface.- Language:
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23 Feb 2023
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"Fjord isn’t sure what’s going on.
He can’t explain it but he can sense it, can see it with his own eyes – Caleb’s more relaxed, the grieving crow’s feet around his eyes have smoothed over, his smile is softer and shyer than before, curving gently on his mouth."
In which Fjord assumes things and of course gets them wrong. Followed by a misunderstanding, a mission, fake relationship, a waltz and feelings.
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23 Feb 2023
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"Unfortunately, our progress has stalled out somewhat," Ikithon says, slowly circling the beacon on its stand. Under any other circumstances, that would be the thing that drew Essek's eye.
Instead, his gaze is fixed on the man sitting in a chair at the circle's center. A picture of misery, he is bound hand and foot to the chair with thick iron cuffs. His face is mottled with bruising, his rust colored hair hangs in limp, tangled clumps, and his clothes are torn and burnt. Wide, frightened eyes the color of daylight sky whip frantically back and forth between them.
Essek knows that face. He knows it all too well. Not two months ago, that face kissed him on the forehead and told him that he was still capable of good.
The bottom drops out of Essek's stomach. Please not him.
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After the peace talks at sea, Ikithon approaches Essek with an offer he can't refuse... But dearly wishes he could.
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storm in the skies, fire in the trees by lakrisrot (enheduane)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
22 Oct 2022
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Essek’s figure fits into the landscape of his nightmares with sickening ease. Purple robes press against the tall wooden back of the chair, the silk crushed where the leather straps pull tightly against shoulders; elbows; those delicate wrists. His frame looks small, slumped, a twisted dreamscape parody of fantasies in which the sleek line of a mantle is stripped down to bare soft curves of shoulders and throat.
Yes, he is here, of course he would end here, spun into the sticky web of your past. And you were the one who tripped the wire.
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Whumptober prompt:No. 22 PICK YOUR POISON
Toxic | Withdrawal | Allergic ReactionBookmarked by vaguelyfunctioning
31 Dec 2022
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