1 - 20 of 85 Bookmarks by ghosttopiary
Navigation
List of Bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
If Essek were to kill Caleb, he would do it with a spell.
None of the intimate agony of feeling the last flutters of his heart with his own skin. He cannot even afford himself the painful honesty of knowing that if he were to do it, it would be impersonal and practiced, something Essek has done to many before and will do to many others. This knowledge is not enough to stop him imagining it.
In the months following the events of Cognouza and the Somnovem, Essek fails to come to terms with the fact that he is a dangerous man.
Bookmarked by ghosttopiary
07 Jul 2026
-
Tags
Summary
A problem shaped like seven unexpected mercenaries carrying one of the priceless artifacts he stole arrives on Essek's doorstep, but he can handle it. Is handling it. Will be able to handle it, at some point, if he can figure out how to avoid them killing him first.
(Or: time looping your way into a new alignment, one catastrophic failure at a time.)
Bookmarked by ghosttopiary
07 Jul 2026
-
Tags
Summary
‘Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.’‘I should have called it
Something you somehow haven’t to deserve.’—"The Death of a Hired Man," Robert Frost
When running stops working, the Blooming Grove is where Caleb runs to.
Series
- Part 2 of waystations
-
Bookmarked by ghosttopiary
20 Jan 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
look at my canon lawyers dawg im going to jail
-
Tags
Summary
Ikithon’s voice presses softly into his head. I’m pleased you made use of him. You were always talented at bending others to your goals. Even far from home, you make me proud.
—
Old habits are hard to break, even if you have shed the skin that formed them.
-
Tags
Summary
After a spellwork accident, Caleb slips through time. Centuries in the future, Essek Thelyss is waiting to catch him.
-
Tags
Summary
The spell Disintegrate begins with an incantation, and a somatic, and a pinch of dust. It ends with a pointed finger and magic green like bile, and the realization that everything you thought you might have fixed already in some parallel time is dead and always has been. It would have worked, Caleb had said, and he’d been right.
Adeen Tasithar was a good man.
Bookmarked by ghosttopiary
28 Nov 2025
-
When does a joke become a dad joke? When it becomes apparent by Seth_You_Know
Fandoms: Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series)
05 Nov 2025
Tags
Summary
A bard offers his skills as a healer.
Bookmarked by ghosttopiary
27 Nov 2025
-
Tags
Summary
When a house is both hungry and awake, every room becomes a mouth.
-
Nobody was okay after Cognouza. This has consequences for the Nein-Sided tower.
Bookmarked by ghosttopiary
27 Nov 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
deep red welts on Yasha’s back as she pushes her fingers
inside
of her, Jester thinks, dizzy, I wish he would fill that empty hole in my
chest
along Caleb’s back, sinking his fangs into his shoulder, hips snapping forward with the sound of wet
meat
in his mouth, meat beneath his skin, meat all the way down til the bone
-
Tags
Summary
Six months ago, Beau adopted a teenager who loves the Cobalt Soul, but can't stand her. Ten minutes ago, Caleb accidentally summoned his own teenage self into his living room. So you know, they're both going though some shit.
At least Caleb's got experience befriending novice monks with attitude problems. And Beau's got experience befriending Caleb.
-
Tags
Summary
In Exandria, the dead don't stop. They continue in the outer planes, in whatever afterlife they've earned. And from the outer planes, they can watch the living.
Una Ermendrud watches her son. She tries to understand.
Bookmarked by ghosttopiary
26 Nov 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
tfw when ur personal cosmology is casually changed by genfic on ao3 dot com
-
waystations by BeatriceEagle
Fandom Critical Role (Web Series), Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
25 May 2026
Summary
Caleb Widogast, finding his way home.
- Words:
- 84,382
- Works:
- 2
- Bookmarks:
- 16
Bookmarked by ghosttopiary
26 Nov 2025
-
Tags
Summary
As Astrid struggles to share her story with Beauregard Lionett, a Volstrucker attack strands the two of them in the middle of the Pearlbow Wilderness, relying on each other to carry an abjured-asleep Caleb to safety.
Well, it's one way to give a deposition.
Bookmarked by ghosttopiary
26 Nov 2025
-
Tags
Summary
In an unhealthy pursuit of answers about his missing years in Vergesson, Caleb asks Essek to do something terrible. Essek, well practiced at doing terrible things, agrees.
Bookmarked by ghosttopiary
25 Nov 2025
-
Summary
Beau and Caleb, fuck-or-die, and the aftermath/recovery. Dead Dove Do Not Eat.
- Words:
- 13,945
- Works:
- 2
- Bookmarks:
- 19
Bookmarked by ghosttopiary
24 Nov 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Essek finally seeks a solution for his chronic muscle aches and finds it in the talented hands of an interesting human named Caleb. The whole situation seems too good to be true. Perhaps it is.
Or, an AU where Caleb and Nott never meet the Mighty Nein.
Bookmarked by ghosttopiary
10 Sep 2025
-
Tags
Summary
relativity, noun. 1) In physics: the degree to which a phenomenon’s perception differs between observers based on their independent reference frames; 2) In philosophy: the belief that there is no absolute morality existing beyond the conditioning of the individual.
The return to Aeor is a crucible of sorts- all that they have this time is each other, which is both electrifying and terrible in near-equal quantities. Two wizards in one place is trouble, but when they're Caleb and Essek it's a match to acetylene.
(Or: how it falls apart and comes back together.)
Series
- Part 1 of cascading phenomena
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 30,812
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 161
- Kudos:
- 776
- Bookmarks:
- 189
- Hits:
- 11,919
Bookmarked by ghosttopiary
20 Aug 2025
-
Bloodletting by sinnergy
Fandoms: ヴァ二タスの手記 - 望月淳 | Vanitas no Carte | The Case Study of Vanitas - Mochizuki Jun (Manga)
15 Dec 2025
Tags
Summary
God, Vanitas had been so stupid. To say yes, when Noé had first made him that ridiculous offer. Vanitas should have known better. He had known better, and still.
Oh yeah, why don't I suck your dick, he said. It will be fun, he said.
Poppycock.
It had ruined everything. It had been the ripple that set the carefully-set trajectory of their uneasy partnership veering off course, from where it gyrated dramatically before barrelling on and crashing head-on into the nearest stone wall.
Or: Vanitas and Noé hook up and are Bad at Feelings.Series
- Part 2 of Bloodletting
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 115,146
- Chapters:
- 18/21
- Comments:
- 1,080
- Kudos:
- 2,845
- Bookmarks:
- 507
- Hits:
- 94,652
Bookmarked by ghosttopiary
20 Feb 2025
-
Tags
Summary
It is January 15th 1992, the forecast calls for heavy rain this evening, and Viktor does not know the man who stands in the doorway.
Chronic closet case Jayce meets prolific sexual deviant Viktor. A double dose of self-discovery ensues.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 18,407
- Chapters:
- 3/4
- Comments:
- 642
- Kudos:
- 3,564
- Bookmarks:
- 1,177
- Hits:
- 79,595
Bookmarked by ghosttopiary
05 Dec 2024
-
Tags
Summary
A being, a demon, sits at a door. It plays a game of skill with molecules. This one goes in, this one stays out.
Bookmarked by ghosttopiary
03 Dec 2024