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Office AU for The Mighty Nein.
Essek is a fairly new Accountant for Cerberus. He has to contend with the management who keep trying to scrimp and save while his colleagues are desperately just trying to do their jobs and survive. His main issue is the Support guy, Caleb, who seems to know more than he lets on.
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26 Jan 2026
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In a world where soulmarks appear as magical script written in the language of one’s soulmate, Caleb Widogast wakes to find drow glyphs etched into his skin—ink-dark, unfamiliar, and impossible to ignore. Across the border of empire and dynasty, Essek Thelyss bears a matching mark in harsh Zemnian script, hidden beneath glamours and politics.
Neither can read their own mark.
Both know exactly what it would mean to translate it.As war, guilt, and forbidden magic bind them closer, their soulmarks begin to react—glowing in danger, resonating in spellwork, and pulling two men together who believe themselves unworthy of destiny. With empires watching and old sins casting long shadows, Caleb and Essek must decide whether soulmarks are a sentence… or an invitation.
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19 Jan 2026
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Forged Before the Gods by Dancer612
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Percy Jackson and the Olympians (TV 2023)
23 Jan 2026
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In this darker AU of Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Percy Jackson arrives at Camp Half-Blood already shaped by violence, survival instincts, and a lifetime of learning how to endure without breaking. At fourteen, nearly fifteen, he is no wide-eyed hero—he is guarded, dangerous, and deeply suspicious of gods who arrive far too late to save anyone.
Accused of stealing Zeus’s Lightning Bolt and hunted by monsters, Percy is forced into a world that seems determined to use him as a weapon. At camp, he forms reluctant bonds—starting with Grover’s quiet loyalty and growing into something far more complicated when Percy draws the attention of Luke Castellan, an older camper who recognizes Percy’s anger, restraint, and loneliness all too well. What begins as mentorship and protection slowly turns into something warmer, sharper, and far more dangerous.
As grief, attraction, and resentment intertwine, Percy must decide who he trusts: the gods who claim him, or the people who choose him. This is a story about corrupted innocence, slow-burn romance, and the thin line between being forged into a hero—or becoming something the gods should have feared from the beginning.
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- Part 1 of Dark Percy/Luke Universe
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18 Jan 2026
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When Caleb Widogast, a guarded transmutation scholar with a talent for fire and self-restraint, enrolls in an advanced magic theory course, he expects long lectures, sharp debates, and the comfort of anonymity. What he does not expect is Essek Thelyss—a brilliant, gravity-focused arcanist whose presence bends more than just the Weave.
Their first meeting is accidental and quiet, marked by a single moment of public defense when Caleb speaks up against a prejudiced remark aimed at Essek. The act is small, but it changes everything. For Essek, it is rare and disarming to be seen as a scholar first, not a spectacle. For Caleb, it is the beginning of something dangerous: caring.
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15 Jan 2026
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Essek Thelyss comes to Soltryce to deliver guest lectures and, on the side, cultivate the brand new Archmage of Domestic Protections. He’s hoping that Caleb Widogast will oblige him by picking up his predecessor’s interest in conspiring to steal Luxon beacons, after so rudely murdering Da’leth mere weeks before the culmination of their schemes.
Essek is prepared for espionage. He is not prepared to find a love that will change the course of his life.
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15 Jan 2026
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Bookmarking to reread later. Thrilling and beautiful at every turn.
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Caleb should go back inside.
Caleb should stand up, go back inside, and forget that he saw anything curled up in the filthy alleyway behind his building. Stay out of trouble. Things die all the time.
When he lays two fingers at the vampire’s neck, its skin is chill as the wet cobblestones. He can just feel the tiny rise and fall of its ribcage.
Damnit.
(It's a Shadowgast modern-with-magic vampire!AU)
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01 Jan 2026
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Sure, maybe you knew that this was going to happen eventually, but the 'when' part of the whole thing couldn't have been dropped on you at a worse time.
The aching reality is that you’re about to be involved in a war.
An actual, all-encompassing ‘super sucks that I might not see my mid-to-late thirties’ kind of war.
And fate, relentless bitch, went ahead and decided that right now has been the perfectly appropriate time to reintroduce the colossal fucking traitor you used to be in love with back into your life.
Unbelievable.
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31 Dec 2025
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During a gala hosted for local media representatives, Vincent Whittman meets the dazzling radio star and toast of New Orleans, Alastor.
As he grapples with his own pitiless ambition and the dark secret behind his success, Vincent begins to fall for the mysterious man. But his growing obsession with the radio star leads him to find out a horrifying truth about Alastor, which could either bind them together forever or destroy their burgeoning relationship.
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My take on the human, murder media AU we all want
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26 Dec 2025
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Mollymauk Tealeaf has become the captain of an adoring pirate crew, made up of people ranging from those green behind the ears, to two incredible wizards, to one particularly overqualified quartermaster. Every day's a new adventure, life is great, and Molly couldn't be convinced otherwise.
Everything is great.
Really.
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- Part 2 of Eye in the Firestorm
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24 Dec 2025
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Essek had a problem. A human shaped, red haired, annoyingly sharp problem that had been tormenting him ever since Caleb had become a grad student at the Marble Tomes Conservatory.
His solution to that problem, in hindsight, had been incredibly foolish. But how was he to know that after hours of searching the internet for the perfect video that he could take himself in hand to, letting himself imagine that he was the lavender skinned tiefling between the anonymous pale thighs — he would meet Mollymauk in all his ostentatious glory the next evening, wrapped around Caleb’s shoulders.
What follows is Essek’s slow descent into the chaos that is the Mighty Nein’s friend group, and the tangle of feelings that comes from having a crush on your brightest student who you have watched be thoroughly railed by a very very pretty tiefling online.
Or; A Professor, a Prodigy, and a Pornstar walk into a bar …
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22 Dec 2025
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The Peacock’s Palace, one of the most vibrant nightclubs in Nicodranas, home to the star peacock himself Mollymauk Tealeaf and owned by one Essek Thelyss. They are happy in their loving relationship and rich home atop the Palace, but maybe they’d like to try something new? Maybe that handsome Zemnian might want to join them for a night? Maybe more?
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21 Dec 2025
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It's 9:47 pm. Caleb Widogast has a research proposal due in the morning and his trusty coffee maker has unfortunately brewed his last cup. In desperate need of caffeine to make it through the night and get his proposal to an acceptable point, he is lucky enough to stumble into a little Cup of Starlight. And perhaps something more.
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21 Dec 2025
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Be A Good Boy For Me? by GrellSutcliff
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), Critical Role (Web Series)
13 Feb 2026
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Caleb confides in his friend that he's had...curiosities into his line of work.
Mollymauk is more than happy to accommodate and show Caleb the ropes.
Only figuratively (unless he strikes it lucky)
But with the complexities of online sex work, will Caleb be up for the task?Updates come every Friday ;)
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21 Dec 2025
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A love story written in late-night shopping at the gas station, discussing cat treats and applying a PhD in mechanical engineering to find a perfect design for a cat wall.
(Just two nerds in love with their cats. And maybe with each other too)
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20 Dec 2025
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Vincent Whittman has never struggled for control of his career, his reputation, or the people unfortunate enough to cross him.
Then Alastor arrives: sharp-tongued, pretty, utterly unimpressed, and far more dangerous than Vincent ever anticipated.
Their relationship spirals quickly into obsession, bloodshed, and more emotions than either of them know how to handle.
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15 Dec 2025
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“You nervous?” Dave turned to the sound of his brother’s voice, momentarily distracted from the half-folded paper in his hands.
“Nah, not really?” he replied with a shrug, partially surprised at the question. “This job seems pretty standard. Transporting a retired ship to its home planet for scrapping. Easy peasy.”
Born as a set of quadruplets, Dave and his siblings grew up attached to each others’ sides like a human monkey chain. Having each others’ backs proved more difficult once they became young adults, however. Their separate interests began pulling them in different directions, but thankfully Dave and his siblings did share the desire to leave Mars together. They had all decided to go the “interstellar traveler” route, and agreed to take multiple tracks at the Interstellar Travel Academy to become their own self-sustaining crew and eventually buy their own ship.
One morning Dave woke up to an Earth-based company looking for an individual with both engineering and pilot experience, which he was. With only one other crewmate aboard the payout would be insanely good, so Dave took it without hesitation. And now the day had finally come.
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10 Sep 2025
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The notepad feels old. The pages slightly yellowed, the cover a little frayed. This isn’t a new notebook.
Curiosity gets the better of him. It always does
Press Conference - new coach
- Arrived early. Half the room is already waiting. Anticipation thick, but not in a good way. People are ready to mock, not listen.
- This is going to be a disaster.
First sighting of Ted Lasso:
- Walks in smiling. Far too relaxed for a man about to be eaten alive. Looks surprised, doesn’t look that nervous. Should be.
- What is that mustache? (Note: Find out if it’s intentional or just unfortunate.) --
or, Ted stumbles upon a forgotten notepad, it spirals from thereBookmarked by Mellow_Fool
29 Mar 2025
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Trent Crimm has always had a bit of a thing for Ted Lasso, although ethically he certainly has not. Now that he is seated up close, that bit of a thing might be a bit bigger than he was prepared for. It’s a shame Ted is a straight man from the Midwest.
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26 Mar 2025
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Fic is now complete. I'll be honest, the first three chapters are not my finest work and I may go back and fix them, but I'm pretty happy with the rest of the fic.
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Trent runs into Ted on the streets of Liverpool after the Greyhounds defeated Everton F.C. This is not the Ted Lasso he's seen in the press room.These two men do not have their lives together and trying to do whatever this is, is a supremely bad idea. But they are going to do it anyways.
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Ted shudders at the contact and steps back, his hand running through his hair. He’s breathing hard after his outburst, his body screaming at him to do something. Fight, fuck, run, anything to get out of his head. He shouldn’t be around people right now, but the urge to feel something other than helplessness has a grip on him.“Get out of here” he rasps out. “I’m either going to hit you or kiss you if you stick around. Neither of those are headlines I need to see.”
Trent stays frozen against the wall as his brain reboots.
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20 Mar 2025
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Tim Stoker wakes up in a burning warehouse and realizes he has to save his stupid boss from the ruins. This is what happens after that.
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aka a "tim survived" au where he doesn't die and has to deal with everything while also realizing he's much more desolation-coded than anyone thought he was.Series
- Part 1 of eyepocalypse jonmartim
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10 Mar 2025
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Tim survived and somehow it fixes nothing ;-; (beautiful, heartwrenching)