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“She was fun-scary!”

(happy c3 anniversary!)

#I NEVER REBLOGGED THIS?? #this is literally one of my favorite pieces of yours siv #the lighting is so WARM laudna's open hopeful expression is killing me #art #laudna #queue

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I find middle aged Percy exceedingly funny because he seems like the archetypical white haired, snobby, Victorian clothing wearing middle aged ruler of a city powerful city. It makes sense for him to be that way. But he’s actually been exactly like that since he was 21 and it’s only now starting to be normal. You look at portraits of him from 20 years ago and it’s like. Damn. He looks exactly the same. That’s weird. 

#percival de rolo #queue

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We are halfway through another week, my friends, and so we have yet another recc list for you! This week, we have twelve angsty fics! As always, you can find them below the cut and if you check any of them out, I encourage you to leave kudoes and comments to spread the rarepair love 💕

I Have Been A Fool For Lesser Things by A_Orbit (3,149 words, Teen) Pairing: Veth Brenatto/Caleb Widogast (Widobrave) Warnings: None

Trying to get a hotel room for the night leads to Caleb and Nott pretending to be married to each other. Fluff and angst.

Reccer Says: Amazing character voices!

Looking for a feeling that I can't remember by CatcherWrites (2,684 words, Teen) Pairing: Ashton Greymoore/Laudna Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Swearing, General Laudna and Ashton Trauma

Team Issylra are making camp by a river when Ashton and Laudna discuss how slow their hair grows. Angsty conversations ensue and they make a pact to cut each others hair.

Reccer Says: It's not too heavy of a fic but that doesn't take away from the tragic implications.

The Last Safe House in Rexxentrum by Operafloozy (13,266 words, Explicit) Pairing: Astrid Beck/Original Female Character Warnings: Unhappy Ending, Modify Memory, Discussion of Feeblemind

Five years before a group of misfits came together in Trostenwald, Astrid Beck asks a stranger to look into some potentially modified memories.

Reccer Says: It's a juicy and complicated look at how Astrid might have reacted to Bren's escape, from an outsider's point of view.

polishing the apple eris threw to shake the dead leaves down by grayintogreen (3,558 words, Teen) Pairing: Cree Deeproots/Lucien Tavelle Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Minor Character Death

A Locked Tomb fusion fic featuring Necromancer!Cree and Cavalier!Lucien and the horrifying implications of the Lyctor process.

Reccer Says: I enjoyed it!

though the scars remain by amateurwordbender (1,472 words, Teen) Pairing: Astrid Beck/Eadwulf Grieve (Blumenduo) Warnings: Implied/Referenced Torture

Astrid is punished for letting the Mighty Nein escape, and she and Eadwulf talk about it.

Reccer Says: So much juicy Blumentrio angst packed in one short fic! Several of the lines in this have stayed in my head since I first read it.

Victim of Convenience by se1ze (54,243 words, Explicit) Pairing: Kingsley Tealeaf/Essek Thelyss/Caleb Widogast (Shadowidoking) Warnings: Sex While Sick

Essek has been bailing Kingsley out of legal trouble in Rosohna and letting him crash at his towers for some time and the pair have grown close. When Essek falls severely ill, Kingsley with him to look after him. Things escalate between them, which both are pleased about. There's just one complication, in the form of one Caleb Widogast, who Essek has recently begun a relationship with and who Kingsley has been hopelessly pining after for months. Things get messy.

Reccer Says: A wonderful combination of fun dynamics, messy relationship angst, sickfic goodness, and hot sex. Kingsley and Essek are such a good pair, I love their banter. The absolutely disastrous state of King and Caleb's relationship at the start is the fic is so heartaching, with the shadow of past Widomauk hanging over them. And the recently established Shadowgast compliments both of those duos so well!!! I adore the different complications that crop up along the way and the way they're all resolved in the end. Highly recommend! Also, the two previous entries in the series are excellent, though they're just Shadowgast on their own.

His Last Night by Twistmalchik (2,617 words, Explicit) Pairing: Thorn/Vax'ildan Warnings: None

Set during the events of Kith & Kin, Vax's first kiss with Thorn leads to his first time with him. All the while, the shadow of the Shademaster hangs over them.

Reccer Says: I adore Kith & Kin to no end and I loved Vax and Thorn's relationship. This is a fun expansion of what they were able to have together during the events of the book!

Time Will Tell by DEV0URMOUS (25,639 words, Mature) Pairing: Yussa Errenis/Original Male Character Warnings: None

Yussa invites Iskamyr, a long-time friend of his from the Dynasty, on a trip into the Happy Fun Ball with him. Both are oblivious to the other's long-standing feelings for them. Pining ensues.

Reccer Says: There is no fic that demonstrates the absurdity of wizards better than this. Two hundred years!!! These idiots pined over each other for two hundred years!!! Oh my god! It's great, it's so great. They're both 1200 years old (Yussa is a dragon and Iskamyr is consecuted) and they're still terrible at feelings. But also! A lot of it comes down to cultural misunderstandings, like Iska doesn't know until the fic ends that Yussa is a dragon and if he did, maybe he would've caught on to Yussa's affection sooner. But he didn't and it took the two of the forever and honestly I love that for them.

woven of (moon)light by viciousmollymaukery (2,315 words, Teen) Pairing: Mollymauk Tealeaf/Essek Thelyss/Caleb Widogast (Shadowidomauk) Warnings: References to severe injury

After his wizards Teleport into the middle of the Blooming Grove, nearly dead at the hands of an Aeorian creature, Molly has a lot of feelings about his partners and their mysterious city in the north. Luckily, he has a simple solution in mind.

Reccer Says: It's the perfect balance between sweet and angsty. I love Shadowidomauk so much and it's fun to see someone look at how the wizards Aeor expeditions might look in a world where they're dating Molly too! Also, Moonweaver cleric Molly is too damn perfect, I love it so much.

it's 3 am (I must be lonely) by Meridas (1,024 words, Teen) Pairing: Queerplatonic Mollymauk Tealeaf/Yasha Nydoorin Warnings: None

Yasha has a nightmare while out camping alone. She calls Molly in her panic and he comforts her.

Reccer Says: I love this series so much and this entry in particular has stuck with me since I first read it!! QPP circus kids are kind of everything to me and this is just such a perfect little snippet of them; they’re hurting but they love and take care of each other above anything.

I blame it on my own sick pride by MarsBar2019 (11,918 words, Explicit) Pairing: Fjord/Mollymauk Tealeaf/Caleb Widogast (Widofjolly) Warnings: Non-Consensual Voyeurism

Fjord overheard Molly and Caleb having sex one night and gets off on it. But paper thin inn walls work both ways, Molly and Caleb know Fjord heard them, and they take the opportunity to invite him into their bed.

Reccer Says: It’s very very hot and Fjord’s self-loathing (which is only amplified by him getting off on listening to the two of them) is such a fun complimentary pairing to the overall horniness of the fic.

I'll crawl home to him by BananasofThorns (20,262 words, Teen) Pairing: Queerplatonic Fjord/Caleb Widogast (Widofjord) Warnings: None

AU where Caleb and Fjord met a few years pre-nein. Now Fjord has been taken by the Iron Shepherds, and Caleb has to team up with the "Mighty Five" to have a chance to get him back.

Reccer Says: Looove that Iron Shepherds arc angst. Plus queerplatonic widofjord, and the *devotion,* like Caleb was willing to go in there after him *alone,* aaaaa

Thank you for joining us this week’s recc list! All the love to everyone who submitted a fic 💕 All enclosed recommendations were submitted by the community via our submissions form, which you can find here. All fic information is as it was provided by the reccer, so it may not be accurate to the author’s intent or the precise contents of the fic itself. Please assume good intent from all parties 💕

Submissions for next week’s list are already open! We’ll be featuring Spring. If you have any you’d like to highlight, you can send them in here. The week after that, the theme is Jester Rarepairs and the weeks after that we’re taking recommendations for Alternate Universes and Hurt/Comfort! Submissions for all of these themes are currently open.

If you want more rarepair fic, check out @cr-summer-wildflowers and their event collections on ao3! If you want some friendship after all this romance, take a look at @critter-genfic-events and their recc lists! And if you’re interested in everyone’s favorite wizards, you can’t go wrong with the lists at @aeor-is-for-reccing !

Thanks all and have a lovely day/night/timezone! 💕

#wait i'm so honored 🥺 #ty for the rec!! #the timing of this feels kind of like a welcome back to tumblr for me fsdklj #and oooooh i gotta check out that other astrid fic sometime #cr fanfic

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Smiley Day and Happy Halloween to you all! My pumpkin carving for 2021. 

Had to go with Fresh Cut Grass. Critical role two years in a row now. Did Jester last year too.

#dkfjls i've scrolled so far down my likes that i'm reblogging this uhh three years late? but HOW #THIS IS SO COOL #fcg #art #queue

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my fav interpretation of “Fjord doesn’t know how to sail despite being a sailor because Travis Willingham did not prepare for the sailing part of Fjord’s backstory” is that Fjord is an exceptionally competent sailor. He just sucks at trying to explain it out loud. In his head, in his bones even, he knows what to do. Can tie all sorts of knots without blinking, can scampering up the rigging without breaking a sweat. He learned from doing, from being given an instruction without explanation and having to figure it out himself, over and over until he just started doing it right. He was Vandran’s Quartermaster, he has experience commanding sailors and running a ship. He just doesn’t know how to command his friends who had never really seen the ocean before.

#the homeschool vibes are immaculate in this way lol #<-siv you're so fucking right sdflkj #fjord #cr meta #queue

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And I wish… I had Wish.

#never ever recovering #cast appreciation #gifset #veth brenatto #caleb widogast #widobrave #c1e114 #c2e141 #queue

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deeply believe that caleb, jester and beau have a book club where they gather once a month in the salon in the tower, dress up nice, pour some fine wine by the fire, and take it in turns to read each other the worst erotica they could find that month and then vote on whose was worst

#c2 epilogue #caleb widogast #jester lavorre #beauregard lionett #queue

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it’s very important to me that fjord is stupid hot. 20 charisma at level 4 hot. because he has No Fucking Clue the true extent of it. in fjord’s mind he’s like “yeah. I’ve gotten good at projecting an image. I can get people to like me or better yet, fear me. I’m good at this.” But what he doesn’t realize is that most people in a 60 foot radius want to sexually obliterate him. Fjord in a Trader Joe’s silently sweating over whether or not which bunch of bananas is the perfect level of underripe oblivious to the fact that he’s coming across as Sexy and Contemplative to everyone else while jester is standing by the cart and smugly preening because he’s HER hot anxiety ridden hunk

#sdflkj no exactly this is how we get the disaster comic relief fjord we all know and love and also most suave captain ever on the high seas #who gets eadwulf to thirst after him mid-battle #c2 epilogue #fjord #queue

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VII. The Things We Do For Love

Loquatius uses his considerable network and clout to aid his ex-wife in her goals, not for the first time either...

#ouch ouch ouch #loquatius seelie #laerryn coramar seelie #art #exu3 #queue

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ok not to lifespan angst all over the place but osysa's taunting specifically at keyleth is going to make me scream and die and explode, like

not to say that everyone else's plotlines get resolved perfectly or that they don't still hurt or that there isn't further growth that happens post campaign, but...vex gets her lady vex'ahlia moment. vax necessarily learns to let go of vex, both in a physical, permanent way, and in accepting percy's place in her life. scanlan will get his "what's my mother's name" moment. pike gets to fight side by side with sarenrae before all this is over. and percy, against all odds, gets his quiet life.

and keyleth completes the aramente, sure, and everyone is proud as fuck...and then she proceeds to haunt the narrative forever. lineage in a lifetime. idk, man, there's just something extra bittersweet to me in her contending with this forever. keyleth will literally live to see vox machina become legends, and perhaps her fate is the only one that osysa pronounces with a little bit of sympathy. perhaps for a moment she thought of her mate and the indefinite distance between them, and she saw something she recognized.

#:(((( #hey wait this is a bit off topic but isn't vax still an orb in c3 #can we get a vm oneshot ab that or something please #tlovm #cr meta #keyleth #queue

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Art by Kent Davis

#ohhhh #bby jester and bluud my heart #also UKOTOA IN THE CLOUDS??? jfc #art #mighty nein #jester lavorre #yasha nydoorin #fjord #queue

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The Vestiges of Divergence. In the Great Calamity, these weapons of war were created to strike down the gods themselves. Believed too powerful for mere mortals to wield, the vestiges were scattered across the lands. Buried, lost, forgotten. Or perhaps... waiting to be found. The Deathwalker's Ward is one such vestige.

#tlovm #gifset #queue

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thinking about Vex and Vax protecting each other in their own little ways

Vax takes the physical brunt of everything. Nothing ever touches Vex if he can help it, but he often gets severely injured while shielding her

Vex stands up for Vax in arguments and shuts off her own emotions when he needs her to hold him together, stunting her own emotional development so that Vax never has to hide his tears

Vax making dodgy deals that keep Vex safe, but that puts his own life in jeopardy without a second thought

Vex running in with reckless abandon to save Vax with no thought for anyone else, endangering everyone to protect her twin

Vax redirecting Syldor's anger onto himself to protect Vex from as much of it as possible, ultimately hurting her more because she has to watch him suffer for her

Vex growing to hate their mother for letting this all happen to her kids, to Vax, and Vax being hurt by it

the twins would do anything for each other, including killing others or actually dying

Once upon a time they were somewhat carefree kids with a safe, loving home

Now they are trained hunters relearning how to live after surviving many horrors

But don't think about hurting either of them for a second

Because where one goes, the other is never far behind...

And they will do ANYTHING for their beloved twin

#hey op i WILL cry #i need to relisten to the twins novel #twinnies #vex'ahlia #vax'ildan #cr meta #queue

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do you have time for a quick survey? ✍️

#SAM PRACTICING FOR THE TIME LOOP? #not cr #dropout #video #queue

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losing my shit. one of the important powerful skills jester has learned is how to FORCIBLY YANK ARTAGAN FROM WHEREVER HE IS TO WHEREVER SHE WANTS. you thought the MESSAGES IN YOUR HEAD AT ANY TIME FROM ANYWHERE was bad. watch THIS. *jester yanks her god into a fight by the scruff of his neck like a recalcitrant kitten*

#it's what she deserves #and also what artie deserves 😌 #cr oneshot #jester lavorre #artagan #queue

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What am I “thankful” for???

#dropout #not cr #video #queue

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Underrated C2E18 Moments

Jester attempting to invent psychology

Beau drinking the leftover drinks and Nott immediately pointing out that she has an endless flask

“Yasha, do you consent to this piggyback ride?”

Fjord checking the desk of the mailroom for valuables while the lady was looking for Jester’s package

Jester tipping 2 gold

Madame Louenna trying to delicately advertise “services”

“Yasha what kind of companion are you interested in?” , “I don’t know, maybe lots?”

The Cobalt Soul Scholastic Fair (“Reading is Cool!”)

Nott complementing the Ruby of the Sea’s (Marian Levore’s) handwriting

Laura Bailey giving us a D&D character who loves their parent and is loved by their parent

Jester apologizing about the conversation she has with Caleb, and Caleb’s immediate “Oh, that’s fine.”

Fjord’s “If anyone feels like joining me” in the context of going to bed, and Molly’s “feel free to join me” in the context of going to bed

Fjord: I’ll take an apple and say “Godspeed” and leave the room

The fact that they walked into the Pillow Trove, the nicest inn in the entire city, carrying rats in cages and then asked to have them cooked

Jester listing meats that people eat and giving up after “cow” and “deer” and going straight to “owlbear”

Nott to Yasha: “If I don’t eat your rat, you can’t kill me in your sleep ‘cause you’re a Xhorhastian spy”

Nott randomly sending the message spell in different directions to try and find Caleb

Beau, about the Empire: “If they’re garbage people, then I’m their rare cousin the trash person”

#agh do i need to do a rewatch #c2e18 #mighty nein #queue