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“If your halfling continues to distract you during conversation he will regret it."
Orym ducked his head, but did not speak. He was expected to be silent unless directly invited to talk. Dorian ran a hand through Orym’s hair—an apology, a nervous fidget, he wasn’t sure—and replied in his stead. “Of course, it won’t happen again.”
____Chasing a lead, Dorian returns to the Silken Squall, bringing Orym along under the guise of his consort. While Dorian grapples with his identity and Orym tries to keep him grounded, what else but romance could blossom between the two?
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20 Jun 2025
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He lays supine on the floor. Essek drops his head with a dreary sigh.
“I want to paint again,” he states to the air. Caleb will hear it for sure.
“Again?”
“Yes. Again. I miss it.”
“Then it is decided. You will get to paint again.”
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28 May 2025
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There are many dangers in Aeor, some obvious, some not. Caution might preserve you, but sometimes there is nothing to do but react.
Essek makes a snap decision that saves Caleb's life, at the cost of his own.
Whumptober 2021 inspired fic for the following prompt:
No. 30 - DIGGING YOUR GRAVE (major character death)Series
- Part 10 of Whumptober 2021
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21 May 2025
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Playlist for When Your Boyfriend Stops Breathing by SunsetPlums
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
16 May 2025
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He pictures the funeral sometimes.
He pictures someone he doesn’t know saying Viktor’s name wrong. He pictures screaming in public. He pictures stealing the ashes and keeping them in a protein powder container because it’s the only vessel big enough. He pictures lying in those ashes like a widow bird. He pictures baking the ashes into bread and feeding them to pigeons in the park.
He pictures swallowing them himself.
Or: When Viktor chooses a quiet death, Jayce learns how to love him to the edge of the end and carry what’s left through the sad art of letting go.
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03 May 2025
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It starts like this: Essek, in a fit of lonely idiocy, agrees to partake in a honeypot scheme with the Mighty Nein. It goes about as smoothly as he should have expected.
It evolves to this: by decree of Deirta Thelyss, Verin is tasked with protecting his brother and his brother’s friends(??) as they parlay with the Children of Malice over the diplomatic incident they caused. Verin remembers his brother being much more of an aloof douche and much less of a floating disaster.
Or: In a reality where the Mighty Nein do a stop in Xhorhas prior to meeting up with DeRogna, Essek agrees to help with one side quest and ends up with a lover, a brother, and a fight with a god.
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28 Apr 2025
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Sirens echoed throughout the valley, warning everyone to take shelter, but still Orym climbed so he could see what lay in the fog covered valley of his home. The clouds above swirled, and Orym caught a glimpse of a long tail and sharp claws.
A thunderous roar broke the sky, and a beast dove.
Two wings, two legs.
A wyvern.
"Good luck." Orym whispered, and he watched the first of the harpoons fire.
Zephrah thrived of the slaying of dragons.
And there would be blood today.Series
- Part 1 of Here There Be Dragons
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30 Mar 2025
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12 Mar 2025
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A few things from the darker side.
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12 Mar 2025
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It is lovely to see Colton and Calliope arguing in the kitchen, and Clarabelle talking to insects, and his mother trying out new blends of tea. It doesn’t explain why, sometimes, Caduceus will start when they walk too close to him, having forgotten they were there. It doesn’t explain why when he walks into a room while they’re there, he has to pause, because his chest is sore and tight and hurts and he cannot breathe or speak.
(Sometimes, in the moments after this happens, he can name what is happening, or what he would call it if it were happening to a visitor to the Grove: That’s sadness, it’s all right to need to cry. That’s grief. But he is back here, his family is whole, the garden is thriving—so what need is there, for something like grief?)
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22 Feb 2025
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The rune chews them up and spits them out.
Jayce takes Viktor and runs.
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27 Jan 2025
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The first time Bren casts Find Familiar, his hands are shaking so much he almost wastes the spell.
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First level spells are not always for children.
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Frumpkin is summoned twice, when he's needed most.
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03 Jan 2025
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Like An Echo in the Chambers of My Chest by thetickingclock
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
18 Sep 2023
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A cemetery is a sanctuary, even one that is half-spelled and not quite finished, and the wandering always find their way.
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The never ending work of gardens and grief, and the moments while the tea steeps.
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02 Jan 2025
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Orym of the Air Ashari honors his name and lets the wind nick at his heels, gusts guide his exhales, a breeze caress and cool the blade of his sword. Seedling sings through the air when he moves. The blood on its edge is bright and terrible. Orym’s throat is raw from want of screaming.
(Orym takes out the party)
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02 Jan 2025
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In the dark Cyrus whispers, “I’m scared.”
If this were a story, this would be told in flashback. If this were a story, it might be skipped. This wouldn’t be the start. They wouldn’t linger here.
Dorian says, “I’m scared too. Go back to sleep.”
(The music is different now. Spoilers for Episode 93).
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02 Jan 2025
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I won't shut up about the de Rolo Family by CrabbyQuill
Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series), The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon)
11 Jul 2025
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Just a collection of snippets and oneshots about Percy and Vex's family because I love them. They're in no particular order, but I hope you like them!!
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01 Jan 2025
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- Part 7 of Poems for a Thursday
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30 Dec 2024
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Bring Back What Once Was Mine by CrabbyQuill
Fandoms: The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon), Critical Role (Web Series)
01 Dec 2024
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“I’m going to go after him,” Vax mumbled, not meeting Vex’s eyes, “I can’t live with leaving him there. Not after I’ve heard his voice. Not since I know he’s there.”
“And what of the Matron?” Vex posed, swallowing hard and meeting his gaze, “She’s just going to let you interfere with death?”
He looked down, his eyes darting to the side.
He didn’t need to say anything for her to know that his Patroness disapproved of this mission.
To lose him too…she couldn’t bear the thought.
But she wouldn’t abandon Percy.
She couldn’t.
Therein was the solution.
She exhaled shakily, the obvious answer burning clear in her mind.“I’ll do it.”
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What if Vex went to free Percy's soul instead of Vax?
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02 Dec 2024
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the birth of the gods (redux) by VillainIHaveDoneThyMother
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
31 Oct 2024
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Becoming something smaller, realer, and more fragile is just as hard the second time around.
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04 Nov 2024
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take my mind & take my pain by rolandtowen
Fandoms: X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
28 Aug 2024
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“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“When would I have had the time? You shot me and left with my sister.”
Charles regretted his words instantly as Erik lowered his eyes. “To be honest, Erik, I wasn’t entirely sure what happened. It took me weeks to come to terms with the fact that I felt Shaw die. No other telepath has felt another’s death, at least to my knowledge.”
“Show it to me.”***
Erik finally learns what happened to Charles during the Coin Scene.
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12 Sep 2024
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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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16 Aug 2024