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Temporal Shunt (The Art of Vanishing in Place) by Inanerial
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
15 May 2025
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Essek's stomach whined at him like it too had been cast back into the memories where a grumble would have been too forward. The aching hollowness felt somehow reassuring, even though it was unpleasant. It was a little bit of home—and what has home been for him in recent years but a dull ache?
Essek tries to undo the tangled web of ambition, guilt, and alienation that brought him to steal the beacons. He is, after all, his own punishment.
(Detailed ED warnings in the notes of the first chapter)
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31 May 2025
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Caleb asked, “Are you in there, friend? Did the Wild Magic do something?” Stupid question. Of course it did.
It was stupid to ask Essek to come here in the first place, to fight an enemy with an anti magic cone in the Wild Magic of Aeor. Caleb might have pointed that out, if they had any allies who weren’t wizards, or if he wasn’t so selfish. They’d put one of their greatest allies, one of their only allies, in horrible danger and now, now…
“You’re from the Empire,” a quiet voice said, a much smaller head poking through the layers of white fur. The Undercommon accent was a bit thicker than usual, and Essek’s carefully cropped, coiffed hair was now long and mussed up, brushing his shoulders in soft white waves. There was also the fact that this Essek was only just about four feet tall, barely even that, and appeared to be maybe about eight or nine, or perhaps more like thirty if Caleb took into account elf maturity levels.
He also didn’t seem to have any memory of where they were or why they were here.
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- Part 2 of Wild Magic Surges
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16 May 2025
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Urban fantasy Nicodranas where most of the MN escaped to, after dealing with whatever trauma they have, and many of them have gotten some well needed help at Pumat Sol's trauma group therapy sessions. Caleb and Nott found Yussa, Jester, Yasha, and Caduceus in Nicodranas and everything is softer (and in firm denial of ep 26, even with recent events in ep 111). Found family is the best family, especially when you think you murdered your birth family.
Basically, my otp is Caleb Widogast and therapy, and in this essay I will...
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15 May 2025
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The last forest in the Zemni Fields burns when Caleb is seventeen years old.
or: Caleb and the Old Gods
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02 May 2025
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But I'm keeping hope alive by 14CombatGeishas, thought
Fandom Critical Role (Web Series)
05 Dec 2021
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24 Apr 2025
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It's Christmas Even and Jester finds herself snowed in at the airport, but fortunately there's a cute cat with a cuter owner nearby.
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06 Apr 2025
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we never do go over (we always gotta go through) by Chrome
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
06 May 2021
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In the last fight with the Tombtakers, Essek Thelyss bends reality to keep them all alive and pays the price. As he copes with the aftereffects of his own magic and the party takes the long journey back to the surface, Essek and Caleb finally confront what they are to each other.
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Five times Essek woke up with level(s) of exhaustion and one time he didn't.
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30 Mar 2025
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Sequel to "More Than This".
Though the Mighty Nein were able to restore Caleb's mind, the brand on his forehead betrays the other scars he still carries from his ordeal. As the Empire's policy of punishing "unauthorized mages" by branding their flesh and breaking their minds becomes more widespread, Caleb finds himself struggling beneath the feelings of fear and violation that he was never truly able to address before.
He turned aside from retribution once already in the hopes of keeping his friends safe from the falling hammer, but the Mighty Nein have grown stronger since the tower fell. Mollymauk seeks to encourage him towards the idea that the time to strike back might be fast approaching. And perhaps, in the light of a corrupt institution burning down, Molly and Caleb might finally find their way together.
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- Part 2 of The Branding of Caleb Widogast
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25 Mar 2025
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“Caleb,” he whispers, voice breaking. “I have been caught. I am so sorry.” He swallows hard around the lump in his throat. The blade at his back is almost superfluous; he’s losing blood too fast to survive anyway, and he can feel his mind fogging over. “If you find my body, take me to the Blooming Grove. Please.” Essek closes his eyes. “I love you.”
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09 Mar 2025
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Molly can’t remember the first time he noticed Caleb’s hands.
Now, after the months of traveling together, the only thing he knows is that he can’t stop thinking about them.
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06 Mar 2025
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all this science i don't understand by mllekurtz (TheKnittingJedi) for fortunatelypancakes
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
22 May 2021
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Caleb knew how he was with crushes, he was aware that historically they’ve brought him nothing but trouble, and vowed that he wasn’t going to develop one on his new colleague.
This resolution lasted a remarkable twenty-four hours.
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Small-town high school science teacher Caleb Widogast has his life more or less figured out, or so he thinks. Then an unexpected variable gets thrown into the equation in the form of the new addition to the teaching staff: the handsome and clever Essek Thelyss.
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24 Feb 2025
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Essek watches, transfixed by the tiefling, as he takes his hand to his lips for a brief kiss across his knuckles, the sharp talons kept away in an easy motion.
“I don’t think I’ve ever met a drow properly before,” he says, relinquishing his hand and bowing with a flourish, “It’s a pleasure, Mr. Essek. I’m Molly, but I’m sure you’ve gathered that.”
“The pleasure is all mine,” Essek replies, falling back on his manners even if he’s sure he looks bewildered. Most people from this side of the Ashkeeper Peaks don’t smile like that at the prospect of meeting someone from his folk.
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In which Mollymauk comes back to his body, minus a few memories, at the Blooming Grove. Essek is intrigued. Caleb is glad.
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14 Feb 2025
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Essek is arrested for treason.
The Dynasty severs the daemons of prisoners before executing them so they can’t be reborn.
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01 Feb 2025
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Grief in general is a difficult thing for Fjord to wrap his head around. He hasn’t truly grieved a terrible loss before; never had anything he couldn’t bear losing before. Now—he can’t imagine losing Caduceus. Can hardly imagine a day without him. “Do you think it gets easier?”
“Oh,” Caduceus says, “Everything gets easier, I think.”
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After everything, Caduceus and Fjord find a little house on a cliff by the sea, and a life follows.
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31 Jan 2025
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you know that time is all we're made of by chronocrystal
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
05 Jan 2023
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“Well then, I shall ask you a question,” said Essek, “Do you believe I should participate in conversation more than I do?”
Caleb raised his head in alarm. Did his friend think he was being criticised? Did Essek interpret Caleb’s judgement of his own silence as reflected upon him? Caleb raised his hands plaintively, “No, not at all. In fact, I think I’d be a little taken aback if you did. Please understand, it is not silence itself that I dislike and I certainly do not condemn yours, only my...lack of ability.”
“Why should you hold yourself to a standard you do not hold others to?"
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:::5 times Essek saw Caleb's unmasked self (and loved him all the same) and 1 time Caleb saw Essek's (and loved him the way he deserved).
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19 Jan 2025
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It Starts With an Ending by Gwenllian
Fandom Fitz and the Fool Trilogy - Robin Hobb, Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb
15 Feb 2023
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01 Aug 2024
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Naming by lionoftarth
Fandoms: Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb, Fitz and the Fool Trilogy - Robin Hobb, Tawny Man Trilogy - Robin Hobb, Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb
14 Aug 2020
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Slight canon divergence. Fitz, Beloved, and Bee soldier on after the events of Assassin's Fate. In the relative quiet, Fitz starts to examine his feelings.
When I turned back, the Fool leaned silently against the door frame. I managed not to drop the bottle though I could not suppress a small shudder of surprise.
“Bee’s fast asleep,” he offered by way of greeting.
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31 Jul 2024
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To the naked eye they look no different from ordinary trinkets, lucky charms perhaps, simple objects the dead often keep on them in the grave.
Maybe they are. Maybe it’s Zagreus that makes them hold power.
(concept: god's keepsakes and blessings change zagreus' appearance and behavior during an escape. thanatos takes notice.)
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31 Jul 2024
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Grant Us Some Indulgences by hi_its_ellis
Fandoms: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney
04 Jun 2020
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Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth is back in California and ready to (accidentally) strike fear into the hearts of the next generation.
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10 Jul 2024
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What Can I Do For You / That No One Else Can Do? by DesdemonaKaylose
Fandoms: ダンジョン飯 | Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon
28 Mar 2024
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It's excruciating to want something you can't have. But Kabru desperately, desperately wants to be liked by a man who doesn't particularly seem to need or want anyone.
Friendship is a kind of falling in love, only harder, because no one knows how to do it.
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29 May 2024