1 - 20 of 130 Bookmarks by Spectrospecs
Navigation
List of Bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
Li's scar is suddenly all Jet can think about. The scar, the scar, the old man’s hot hands warming his tea like he thought he could get away with firebending in the middle of a crowd.
or: After getting to know Li on the ferry, Jet sees Mushi heat his tea. Instead of assuming Li is also a firebender, Jet assess the situation and comes to a rather different conclusion.
Series
- Part 1 of i'll come crashing
-
Tags
Summary
What a terrible injustice; that the whole world should end, and flowers would still dare to bloom.
Five times Laudna gets flowers on her (un)birthday, and one time when they are given to her.
Bookmarked by Spectrospecs
28 Dec 2022
-
Tags
Summary
Five perspectives on Thanatos and Zagreus as they fall, and in the aftermath.
“He's not leaving,” Thanatos bites back. “There's nowhere to go.”
Ah, the words of a god. To Achilles’ once-mortal eyes, there are cracks and open windows and doors with just the right key and escape routes aplenty from the House. “So you'd think. I guess wherever he goes, you'll be seeing him either way.”
Thanatos turns to him and it's as if this had never occurred to him. “What do you mean?”
“Didn't you tell him? It's a hard world out there. I’m sure he'll find out, and I don't know anything that can bleed that doesn't wash up here eventually.”
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 8,612
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Comments:
- 301
- Kudos:
- 7,819
- Bookmarks:
- 1,568
- Hits:
- 69,700
Bookmarked by Spectrospecs
22 Dec 2022
-
Tags
Summary
Even after getting his Achilles back, Patroclus could still not help but want more. And thus began his employment as a parchment pusher in the House of Hades, and his interactions with the various colorful entities that inhabited the abode. They probably should not have told him about the betting pool.
Bookmarked by Spectrospecs
20 Dec 2022
-
The Steps We Took, We Took Them Here by stardustedknuckles
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
11 Feb 2022
Tags
Summary
They found Beau and it's gonna be okay, but not immediately. Major whump, basically just a clump of excuses to treat Beau nicely after the first part. Relatively speaking.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 53,679
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 286
- Kudos:
- 1,067
- Bookmarks:
- 205
- Hits:
- 23,801
Bookmarked by Spectrospecs
27 Apr 2022
-
Tags
Summary
A routine evening goes catastrophically wrong. Orym wakes up with another chance to get it right, if he can figure out how.
-
Tags
Summary
It started as a quest for a cup of tea. Then became an utter failure to make an omelet. Ashton, of course, was no help at all.
(Little team-as-family oneshot, set sometime after episode 7, minor spoiler for that episode)
Series
- Part 1 of Twelve Days of Fictmas 2021
Bookmarked by Spectrospecs
05 Jan 2022
-
Tags
Summary
You are alone, until you aren't. Just you, rattling around in the empty cavern of your skull out here in the wilds, it should catch you by surprise. But, the novel tune that takes the shape of echoes emerges so gently, you’re already humming along, already picking up the coming verse before you notice its presence at all.
Bookmarked by Spectrospecs
05 Jan 2022
-
at last, and too soon by Chrome
Fandoms: Critical Role: Campaign 2 - The Mighty Nein (Web Series), Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
23 Feb 2021
Tags
Summary
A city built to fight the gods, even buried beneath the snow, is still a danger to their servants. When one of the hidden dangers of Eiselcross makes itself known almost too late, Mighty Nein race against the clock to find the cure--or come to terms with the loss of one of their own.
---
“Only a matter of life or death,” Beau said.
“Isn’t everything?”
Bookmarked by Spectrospecs
27 Nov 2021
-
proof by contradiction by Chrome for venndaai
Fandoms: Critical Role: Campaign 2 - The Mighty Nein (Web Series), Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
01 Jun 2021
Tags
Summary
When Beauregard asks for Dairon's help freeing a friend held captive by the Cerberus Assembly, they agree, expecting a rescue mission to clear the way to bring down Trent Ikithon for good. But when they meet Essek Thelyss in the depths of the Vergesson Sanatorium, they discover that Beauregard hasn't told them everything.
As the clock runs down and Dairon and Essek find themselves in a game of wits not only with the Assembly but with each other, they must find a way to trust each other--or risk neither of them making it out alive.
---
Written for Hurt/Comfort Exchange 2021.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 19,620
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 128
- Kudos:
- 1,216
- Bookmarks:
- 392
- Hits:
- 9,091
Bookmarked by Spectrospecs
27 Nov 2021
-
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
Tags
Summary
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.
or,
Five times Essek woke up with level(s) of exhaustion and one time he didn't.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 17,169
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Comments:
- 228
- Kudos:
- 2,901
- Bookmarks:
- 746
- Hits:
- 27,997
Bookmarked by Spectrospecs
01 Nov 2021
-
The Terribly Sad and Tragic Affair that Is the Fake Funeral of Shadowhand Essek Thelyss by dhwty_writes for Anne_O_Nyme_913
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
03 Oct 2021
Tags
Summary
There were eight strangers in the foyer of his dead brother's towers and Verin Thelyss was slowly losing his patience.
After the sudden "death" of Shadowhand Essek Thelyss, it is his brother Verin's job to empty out his towers. The Mighty Nein show up to help (and maybe steal a few things).
OR: Verin is grieving, Essek just wants his stuff back, and the Mighty Nein are the Mighty Nein.
Bookmarked by Spectrospecs
04 Oct 2021
-
Tags
Summary
He’s no cleric, no pious man at all, and certainly no follower of the Wildmother. He cannot imagine what himself and this vast, amorphous godly abstraction could even begin to talk about.
In which Essek communes with the Wildmother, eats soup, and is in love with Caleb Widogast.
Bookmarked by Spectrospecs
26 Sep 2021
-
I shine only with the light you gave me by SkyScribbles
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
10 Jul 2020
Tags
Summary
There are certain things that an Umavi's son should not do, if he wishes to avoid his mother's rage and the disgust of his Den.
Dancing with a human is most certainly among them.
Series
Bookmarked by Spectrospecs
26 Sep 2021
-
The weight of family and the pull of gravity by SkyScribbles
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
07 Aug 2020
Tags
Summary
Verin Thelyss has spent a lifetime in the shadow of the Shadowhand. If he and Essek ever had a chance to be brothers, it died almost a century ago.
So he isn't entirely sure why Essek has invited him to dinner with some friends of his. Some group of foreign mercenaries called the Mighty Nein.
Series
Bookmarked by Spectrospecs
26 Sep 2021
-
The chasm of the night and a matter of time by SkyScribbles
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
09 May 2021
Tags
Summary
Essek loops the silver cord around his own wrist, like half of a handfast. ‘What I mean to express,’ he says softly, ‘is that this spell requires a degree of trust.’
Ah, Caleb thinks. Yes, that is always the issue, between the two of them.
(In which Lucien takes Caleb's mind, and in the aftermath, two wizards confront questions of trust and time.)
Bookmarked by Spectrospecs
26 Sep 2021
-
Tags
Summary
Essek Thelyss has never heard anyone tell him that they love him.
Until now. Until every member of the Mighty Nein says it, one by one, each in their own strange way.
Series
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 8,263
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 119
- Kudos:
- 2,013
- Bookmarks:
- 378
- Hits:
- 16,051
Bookmarked by Spectrospecs
26 Sep 2021
-
one way or another (i'm gonna get you) by floralprintshark
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
17 Jul 2021
Tags
Summary
Dariax pesters Dorian about what his type is. Dorian doesn't want to tell him because the person he's crushing on is Dariax.
Bookmarked by Spectrospecs
20 Jul 2021
-
Tags
Summary
Akira gave Ryuji his ‘sorry’ smile. “This is Shinya-kun. He’s going to join us for dinner.”
“Uh…okay…Hi. I’m Sakamoto.”
“…hi.” The kid crossed his arms and looked away.
Ryuji scratched the back of his head. How was he supposed to talk to a kid? “Uh, cool.”Bookmarked by Spectrospecs
22 Jun 2021
-
Tags
Summary
He was already waiting for her at the entrance of the Kosei dorms, standing in his long-sleeved shirt and pants as though he couldn’t feel the heat. She had not told him she was bringing food, so when she asked to come up, he reacted with his typical blinkered surprise. “For me? I’m honored, Makoto. But I cannot accept this. I’ve already done my groceries for the month. The expiration date on the meat is always a week beyond the printed label.”
“Make way,” she said, and pushed him aside.
Bookmarked by Spectrospecs
22 Jun 2021