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make a scene by thegoldenappleofdiscord
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)
18 Aug 2026
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oru highlights @oruhattingway • 1 clockmark ago
olruggio changed his commissions form link? tell me it isn't another hiatus
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he's going to be qifrey's WHAT.
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Watchful Eye
Trending with Olruggio of the Torch, Qifrey
or: olruggio and qifrey, through the lense of witchly social media.
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08 Sep 2026
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make a scene
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oru highlights @oruhattingway • 1 clockmark agoolruggio changed his commissions form link? tell me it isn't another hiatus
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oru highlights @oruhattingway • 1 sec ago
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he's going to be qifrey's WHAT.
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or: olruggio and qifrey, through the lense of witchly social media.
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through a circle that ever returneth in to the self-same spot
'The only component that Essek had ever used, before Caleb, was pearl. Essek’s hands look nothing like Caleb’s. And they hurt.'
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26 Aug 2026
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the conqueror worm
neinofthem (jeyneofpoole)through a circle that ever returneth in to the self-same spot
'The only component that Essek had ever used, before Caleb, was pearl. Essek’s hands look nothing like Caleb’s. And they hurt.'
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Essek has a moment to consider that gravity-based trust exercises have never worked for him, and then the spell hits. He leans back into it, falls, falls.
(In which Essek is resurrected by the Mighty Nein and framed for innocence.)
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25 Aug 2026
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sleeping in the shadow of an other self
nonwalEssek has a moment to consider that gravity-based trust exercises have never worked for him, and then the spell hits. He leans back into it, falls, falls.
(In which Essek is resurrected by the Mighty Nein and framed for innocence.)
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Essek is shaking once he’s sat there for twenty minutes. He’s thirsty. He wants to walk over to the jug of cold water on the table by the door. He needs to get up. He can’t.
He won't cry. It’s stupid to cry over this.
Verin gurgles.
“I hate you.” Essek curls his fingers around his elbows. “I hate you. I hate you.”For as long as Essek can remember, he has been cursed to obey. He has managed, in his own way, to mitigate the consequences of the curse while pursuing his academic and personal desires. It is only after being commanded to act as a guide for the Mighty Nein that it becomes a true complication.
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23 Aug 2026
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obedience
dawl_and_dappleEssek is shaking once he’s sat there for twenty minutes. He’s thirsty. He wants to walk over to the jug of cold water on the table by the door. He needs to get up. He can’t.
He won't cry. It’s stupid to cry over this.
Verin gurgles.
“I hate you.” Essek curls his fingers around his elbows. “I hate you. I hate you.”For as long as Essek can remember, he has been cursed to obey. He has managed, in his own way, to mitigate the consequences of the curse while pursuing his academic and personal desires. It is only after being commanded to act as a guide for the Mighty Nein that it becomes a true complication.
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OPERATION: HOT BOI LIBERATION (or: How I Spent My Spring Break in Rexxentrum, by Verin of Den Thelyss) by CatgirlTheCrazy
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
17 Apr 2022
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The more Verin dug into it, the more convinced he became. Essek had spent an inordinate amount of time with the Mighty Nein when they came to Rosohna. Done all sorts of strange favors for them. Ferried them all over Wildemount. Arranged visits with prisoners in the Dungeon of Penance. Let them dig up his yard. Descended into Aeor with them, unaccompanied. Accepted invitations to dinner. Let one of them hug him. In public. More than once.
Mind control. It had to be.
Verin gets it into his head that Essek has been kidnapped by the Mighty Nein (specifically Caleb), and sets out on a solo rescue mission to Rexxentrum.
Hijinks ensue.
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22 Aug 2026
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OPERATION: HOT BOI LIBERATION (or: How I Spent My Spring Break in Rexxentrum, by Verin of Den Thelyss)
CatgirlTheCrazyThe more Verin dug into it, the more convinced he became. Essek had spent an inordinate amount of time with the Mighty Nein when they came to Rosohna. Done all sorts of strange favors for them. Ferried them all over Wildemount. Arranged visits with prisoners in the Dungeon of Penance. Let them dig up his yard. Descended into Aeor with them, unaccompanied. Accepted invitations to dinner. Let one of them hug him. In public. More than once.
Mind control. It had to be.
Verin gets it into his head that Essek has been kidnapped by the Mighty Nein (specifically Caleb), and sets out on a solo rescue mission to Rexxentrum.
Hijinks ensue.
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displacement by mllekurtz (TheKnittingJedi) for saturdaysky
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
21 Aug 2021
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After the peace talks, with only silence and loneliness left where the Mighty Nein used to be, Essek thinks he's ruined everything. So why, when he's mysteriously displaced in his own future, does he find only acceptance, comfort and love?
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21 Aug 2026
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displacement
mllekurtz (TheKnittingJedi)After the peace talks, with only silence and loneliness left where the Mighty Nein used to be, Essek thinks he's ruined everything. So why, when he's mysteriously displaced in his own future, does he find only acceptance, comfort and love?
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Fundamental Forces Other Than Gravity by mllekurtz (TheKnittingJedi)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
09 Jan 2021
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Essek's tone is academic, clinical, cold. “It would be pointless to deny that I am attracted to you. And I wouldn’t object if what happened last night would happen again. But I would be grateful if we could keep it between us.”
There’s a beat, then Caleb nods. “I’m fine with keeping it quiet and casual.”
Or how cold, ruthless and lonely Essek Thelyss (a brilliant student with a secret) accidentally makes some friends and falls in love: a Shadowgast college AU.
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19 Aug 2026
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Fundamental Forces Other Than Gravity
mllekurtz (TheKnittingJedi)Essek's tone is academic, clinical, cold. “It would be pointless to deny that I am attracted to you. And I wouldn’t object if what happened last night would happen again. But I would be grateful if we could keep it between us.”
There’s a beat, then Caleb nods. “I’m fine with keeping it quiet and casual.”
Or how cold, ruthless and lonely Essek Thelyss (a brilliant student with a secret) accidentally makes some friends and falls in love: a Shadowgast college AU.
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It's been a week since Essek disappeared. So far they've gotten nowhere.
But if she can't do anything else, Jester can watch.
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13 Aug 2026
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Witness
LiseIt's been a week since Essek disappeared. So far they've gotten nowhere.
But if she can't do anything else, Jester can watch.
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something you somehow haven’t to deserve by Lise
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
27 Apr 2026
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Sometimes when you're on the run, scared, lonely, and missing friends, desperate measures are called for. Or so Essek keeps telling himself, every time he shows up at Caleb's in a shape other than his own, that can come and go without questions.
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13 Aug 2026
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something you somehow haven’t to deserve
LiseSometimes when you're on the run, scared, lonely, and missing friends, desperate measures are called for. Or so Essek keeps telling himself, every time he shows up at Caleb's in a shape other than his own, that can come and go without questions.
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only code it knows is rote survival by Chrome
Fandoms: Critical Role: Campaign 2 - The Mighty Nein (Web Series), Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
01 Apr 2021
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Essek clung to her; his fingers gripped the front of her coat. He looked small in a way he never had before, frightened in a way that Caleb hadn’t fully processed he could be. It wasn’t Essek’s nervousness, the anxiety of a brilliant man who could see danger all around him, who could see the falling dominoes and the way the web he had woven had entangled him. It was the fear of a small child, or indeed, a stray cat—the fear of a creature trapped in a terrifying world it did not understand.
Essek, brilliant Essek, Essek who believed he could find the answers to everything, unable to understand a thing—the thought of it stabbed at Caleb’s heart.
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In a world where Trent makes it back to Eiselcross before the Nein do, Essek spends a night under the effects of the Feeblemind spell. Caleb undertakes a duty of care, and the Nein learn how Essek feels about them beneath everything.
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30 Jul 2026
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only code it knows is rote survival
ChromeEssek clung to her; his fingers gripped the front of her coat. He looked small in a way he never had before, frightened in a way that Caleb hadn’t fully processed he could be. It wasn’t Essek’s nervousness, the anxiety of a brilliant man who could see danger all around him, who could see the falling dominoes and the way the web he had woven had entangled him. It was the fear of a small child, or indeed, a stray cat—the fear of a creature trapped in a terrifying world it did not understand.
Essek, brilliant Essek, Essek who believed he could find the answers to everything, unable to understand a thing—the thought of it stabbed at Caleb’s heart.
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In a world where Trent makes it back to Eiselcross before the Nein do, Essek spends a night under the effects of the Feeblemind spell. Caleb undertakes a duty of care, and the Nein learn how Essek feels about them beneath everything.
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Reports of my safety have been greatly exaggerated by ghosttopiary
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
03 Dec 2024
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Something sharp and cold burrows between his shoulder blades and settles along his spine. The Shadowhand straightens his back, spits the blood from his mouth and steels himself for the second betrayal of the only friendship he’s ever had. The lie coats his tongue like quicksilver – it tastes a little like grief, and a little like victory.
»Hello Jester. My apologies, I could not contact you earlier. Sudden circumstances disallowed me the visit at last minute, but I am quite hale.«
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27 Jul 2026
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Reports of my safety have been greatly exaggerated
ghosttopiarySomething sharp and cold burrows between his shoulder blades and settles along his spine. The Shadowhand straightens his back, spits the blood from his mouth and steels himself for the second betrayal of the only friendship he’s ever had. The lie coats his tongue like quicksilver – it tastes a little like grief, and a little like victory.
»Hello Jester. My apologies, I could not contact you earlier. Sudden circumstances disallowed me the visit at last minute, but I am quite hale.«
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we never do go over (we always gotta go through) by Chrome
Fandoms: Critical Role: Campaign 2 - The Mighty Nein (Web Series), Critical Role: Exandria (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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26 Jul 2026
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we never do go over (we always gotta go through)
ChromeIn 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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by the corner of your mouth by lakrisrot (enheduane)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
13 Jul 2022
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Caleb Widogast is going to perish right here in the warmly lit library of his own mind’s creation, and the cause will be Essek—deep in thought, pale brows furrowed —and the way he keeps touching his fucking mouth as he thinks.
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22 Jul 2026
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by the corner of your mouth
lakrisrot (enheduane)Caleb Widogast is going to perish right here in the warmly lit library of his own mind’s creation, and the cause will be Essek—deep in thought, pale brows furrowed —and the way he keeps touching his fucking mouth as he thinks.
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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
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21 Jul 2026
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storm in the skies, fire in the trees
lakrisrot (enheduane)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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with the war of the fire (my heart moves to its feet) by neinofthem (jeyneofpoole)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
16 Feb 2023
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Once, when Essek was very small, he lit himself on fire.
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18 Jul 2026
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with the war of the fire (my heart moves to its feet)
neinofthem (jeyneofpoole)Once, when Essek was very small, he lit himself on fire.
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Essek and Caleb dress for a party, and become terribly waylaid in the process.
This is entirely Essek's fault.
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15 Jul 2026
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Buttoned Up and Undressed
LuddlestonEssek and Caleb dress for a party, and become terribly waylaid in the process.
This is entirely Essek's fault.
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In His Arising Is Your Return by platinum_firebird for Microscopium
Fandoms: Richard II - Shakespeare
15 Dec 2021
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"I held true to what was fair and just," Henry said, his lips brushing against Richard's skin, "And here am I, master both of England and of you, while they lie headless in shallow graves. Which of us has God rewarded?"
"Bastard," Richard growled.
Instead of imprisoning Richard in some lonely castle to wait for death, his allies suggest that Henry should consolidate his position as the new King of England by taking Richard as his partner in a political marriage.
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11 Jul 2026
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In His Arising Is Your Return
platinum_firebird"I held true to what was fair and just," Henry said, his lips brushing against Richard's skin, "And here am I, master both of England and of you, while they lie headless in shallow graves. Which of us has God rewarded?"
"Bastard," Richard growled.
Instead of imprisoning Richard in some lonely castle to wait for death, his allies suggest that Henry should consolidate his position as the new King of England by taking Richard as his partner in a political marriage.
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(pray for) Us Sinners by keesha_the_cat
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
27 Sep 2026
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His arm twists painfully behind him as he’s dragged along towards the large box, which now sits open before him. He recognizes distantly that it’s made of the soundproofing material Eridians use to make private rooms. An Eridian wouldn’t be able to see the inside.
He realizes it's just the right size for him.
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The Eridians have done their best to treat Ryland Grace well since he saved their planet. At least, most of them. A few years after his arrival, he is abducted by a group more interested in his biology than his wellbeing. Rocky and the others scramble to find him, before it's too late.
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17 Jun 2026
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(pray for) Us Sinners
keesha_the_catHis arm twists painfully behind him as he’s dragged along towards the large box, which now sits open before him. He recognizes distantly that it’s made of the soundproofing material Eridians use to make private rooms. An Eridian wouldn’t be able to see the inside.
He realizes it's just the right size for him.
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The Eridians have done their best to treat Ryland Grace well since he saved their planet. At least, most of them. A few years after his arrival, he is abducted by a group more interested in his biology than his wellbeing. Rocky and the others scramble to find him, before it's too late.
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how familiar the danger by LiterallyThePresident
Fandom Nimona (2023), Nimona (Webcomic)
09 Aug 2023
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07 Jun 2026
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Smoke and Belladonna
LiterallyThePresident“Well, well, look what the cat dragged in and pissed all over.” an irritatingly familiar accent spoke from behind him, and Ambrosius turned his head to greet his wayward informant, biting back a scoff at the provocative way he leaned against a half-rotted door frame, just waiting for him to notice.
“Ballister.” he greeted tersely, “You weren’t followed?”
“Who do you think you’re talking to?” Ballister grinned, bathed in the purple neon glow, “Your faith in me is, as ever, flattering.”
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in which Ryland Grace throws hands by LiterallyThePresident
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
07 May 2026
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A curious Eridian breaks into Grace’s biodome while he’s sleeping, and learns that a human scared out of sleep will often wake up swinging
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07 Jun 2026
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in which Ryland Grace throws hands
LiterallyThePresidentA curious Eridian breaks into Grace’s biodome while he’s sleeping, and learns that a human scared out of sleep will often wake up swinging