pixel_the_alien
Fandoms
- Hermitcraft SMP (41)
- Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series (36)
- New Life SMP (15)
- Empires SMP (12)
- Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series) (6)
Recent works
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paint me in trust (i'll be your best friend) by pixel_the_alien
Fandoms: Legacy SMP, Minecraft (Video Game)
22 Aug 2026
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They don’t go straight home after Legacy.
Pearl says it’s a tradition: she finds a room at some extended-stay Golden Inn public server in the middle of nowhere to stay for the night after the server closes, just to get her things back in order. It’s a great idea, actually. Gem has practically two inventories’ worth of personal items in her transfer boxes, and that’s the sort of thing that takes hours to unpack. And then there’s all the adrenaline from the final server event, not to mention that it’s already the middle of the night. A quick stay at a hotel sounds perfect. But not on her own reservation, of course. Where’s the fun in that?
or: After the end of Legacy, Pearl and Gem share a hotel room for a sleepover before heading home.
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no time to think of consequences by pixel_the_alien
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), Critical Role: Campaign 2 - The Mighty Nein (Web Series)
06 Apr 2026
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Yasha’s back slams against the rain-damp earth, and it doesn’t hurt as much as she should expect it to.
It wasn’t her brightest idea to jump out of the tree. In her defense, she is nine years old and full of electric energy, and the Skyspear left her unattended. Besides, it’s her tree to climb – there are not many children among the Dolorav, and even if there were, none of them would be tall enough to reach the lowest branches. Yasha must have spent at least two whole days sitting in this tree braiding wildflower crowns in the last month. She isn’t good at talking to people. (She isn’t even very good at making flower crowns.) So it’s not like anyone was going to stop her.
Also, she needed to know if the dream was real.
or: Long before her adventures with the Mighty Nein, Yasha tries out her wings for the first time.
Critical Role Fem Fanwork Fest Day 1: pre-canon / childhood
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people eventually learn, if they know her long enough, that pearlescentmoon lived through the end of the world.
this is common knowledge of the evolutionists, a shared reality. the world broke with them all locked inside, with their admin held somewhere far away, and they barely escaped with their lives. the watchers were the ones who did it.
a select few will learn more.
or: pearl is traumatized in a way the others are not and she will not tell them why
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you'd be surprised to find how much was in your mind by pixel_the_alien
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
02 Feb 2026
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Violence leads to angst.
Pearl narrowly dodges Gem’s sword as it slashes down towards her. She ducks her whole body behind her shield and shoves it forward, pushing Gem back as hard as she can. Gem’s feet are planted to the ground with unnatural strength, but Pearl manages to drive her back a few steps, just enough to slip away and get out from against the wall. “Just hold on. I don’t wanna hurt you, okay? We’re gonna fix this. We just–” She leaps aside as Gem lunges toward her. “We gotta figure this out. You and me.”
or: The Watchers overstep their authority and try messing with fate, but the players are ready to fight back for each other.
Series
- Part 19 of it's killing me to love you
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Whatever the poor creature is, she is coded broken.
She is not a Player, nor even a spectator. She does not speak, but words leave her mouth anyway – strings of letters connected into words connected into sentences she doesn’t know how to translate. She moves unsteadily through space. Her eyes see nothing but gray fog. She does not dream.
Why is she there?
She recognizes phonemes over time, then words, clumsy but real enough. She cannot speak them, but she knows them. She tries to hold them in her mind as her mouth speaks. Hello is for the start of interactions. Thank you follows You are. When she hears name, her voice says Merl.
She is Merl. Merl is there.
or: i have been thinking about that #FreeMerl sign that a developer put in the background of the merl ai
Recent series
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we're like a strong couple of women! (cr fem fanwork fest 2026) by pixel_the_alien
Fandom Critical Role: Campaign 2 - The Mighty Nein (Web Series), Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
07 Apr 2026
- Words:
- 738
- Works:
- 1
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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
02 Feb 2026
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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!*
- Words:
- 89,394
- Works:
- 19
- Bookmarks:
- 65
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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
- Works:
- 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
- Words:
- 2,808
- Works:
- 3
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“If they take one, I’ll tell it back to you. If they make you forget my name, I’ll introduce myself again and probably punch you for being rude. If they make you think we’re the enemies, I’ll keep showing up until you get sick of trying to kill me.”
“That would be very dangerous.”
“For you, maybe.”
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Beau and Caleb are kidnapped by traffickers intending to return Caleb to the Cerberus Assembly and Trent Ikithons waiting hands. Injured, drugged, and without the rest of the Nein, they have to rely on each other to escape.
Bookmarked by pixel_the_alien
22 Aug 2026
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Ghost of You by magicandmaybes (katherinemayarchive)
Fandoms: The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon), Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
15 Aug 2026
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Dark hair, dark eyes, sharp face, effortlessly feminine, nurturing, confident. Sometimes Vex'ahlia looks like Vesper, and sometimes she looks like Delilah.
or, Cassandra gets stuck in her head, and Vex is a good big sister to project all the complicated feelings about the dead women in her life on.
Bookmarked by pixel_the_alien
17 Aug 2026
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Over My Dead Body by canufeelthemagictonight
Fandoms: Escape the Night (Web Series), Video Blogging RPF
22 Jun 2020
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"No." Rosanna shakes her head. Her voice grows clearer with every word she speaks. "You don't understand. They're alone, Matt. They're all alone out there."
As the group waits for Manny or Nikita to return from the Funhouse, Rosanna's concerns about the Sass Squad survivor's emotional well-being send Matt and Calliope out into the October night...where they discover a truth that might just be essential to saving Safiya Nygaard.
An Escape the Night AU.
Bookmarked by pixel_the_alien
13 Aug 2026
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for as long as there's light (for as long as you last) by halfdemonvash
Fandoms: Critical Role: Campaign 2 - The Mighty Nein (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
12 Aug 2026
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In the hours Essek had been in stasis over the Heirloom Sphere, he’d wanted nothing more than to have Caleb safe in his arms. But now he was the ocean, and Caleb smelled like blood, and there was a new life in the world, and Essek had long since come to terms with having to delay getting what he wanted most.
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Set right after the events of Projekt Funball, exploring how Essek comes to terms with his terror and guilt, which digs up old and ongoing wounds.
Bookmarked by pixel_the_alien
13 Aug 2026
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bring my soul to deliverance by inkietd
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), Critical Role: Campaign 2 - The Mighty Nein (Web Series)
09 Aug 2026
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Essek has known for some time that this was inevitable — him watching Caleb die. He had it in his mind it would not be for some decades.
or, caleb dies in the funball, the aftermath
Bookmarked by pixel_the_alien
11 Aug 2026