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Seven years is a long time.
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18 Feb 2026
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Freddie takes his pills now.
It’s funny, because Florence used to have to bitch at him about it every other day because he’d forget, or pretend to forget. Or he’d decide they didn’t help, or that they were poisoning him, and he’d flush them down the toilet. After that stunt she kept them with her and gave him his daily dose from the palm of her hand, like a nurse or a mother with her child.
Now she’s gone, has been for four years, and he hasn’t missed a dose in three.
He's not better, but he's doing better.
Bangkok might change that.
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12 Feb 2026
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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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26 Dec 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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26 Dec 2025
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interconnect by Phierie
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
15 Apr 2019
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The snap has been undone, and Stephen and company find themselves making their way across the galaxy from Titan, back to Earth.
Stephen is running on empty and rest is hard to come by, but a new ally might be able to help.
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- Part 1 of Phierie's Stephen Strange Bingo 2019
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13 Nov 2025